Comity to Commuted

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

comity, n. (4)

    MoS 4.181 23 It is the rule of mere comity and courtesy to agree where you can...
    ET11 5.176 20 ...the virtues of pirates gave way [in England] to those of planters, merchants, senators and scholars. Comity, social talent and fine manners, no doubt, have had their part also.
    Ill 6.315 9 We must not carry comity too far...
    ChiE 11.472 10 ...China...thirty centuries before New York, had the custom of New Year's calls of comity and reconciliation.

command, n. (61)

    Nat 1.40 12 [Man] forges the...air...into...words, and gives them wing as angels of persuasion and command.
    Con 1.312 5 ...to thy industry and thrift and small condescension to the established usage,-scores of servants are swarming...to thy command;...
    Tran 1.351 12 ...I will not move until I have the highest command.
    YA 1.377 12 ...as quickly as men go to foreign parts in ships or caravans... new command takes place, new servants and new masters.
    Hist 2.6 2 ...all [laws] express more or less distinctly some command of this supreme, illimitable essence [the universal nature].
    Pt1 3.9 6 I took part in a conversation the other day concerning a recent writer of lyrics...whose skill and command of language we could not sufficiently praise.
    Exp 3.72 20 ...the question ever is, not what you have done or forborne, but at whose command you have done or forborne it.
    Chr1 3.94 11 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...
    Chr1 3.113 5 ...we are hunted by some fear or command behind us.
    Mrs1 3.119 16 If the house do not please [the inhabitants of Gournou], they walk out and enter another, as there are several hundreds at their command.
    Pol1 3.214 26 ...when a quarter of the human race assume to tell me what I must do, I may be too much disturbed by the circumstances to see so clearly the absurdity of their command.
    PPh 4.56 1 ...the experience of poetic creativeness, which is not found in staying at home, nor yet in travelling, but in transitions from one to the other, which must therefore be adroitly managed to present as much transitional surface as possible; this command of two elements must explain the power and the charm of Plato.
    PNR 4.87 13 [Plato's] thoughts, in sparkles of light, had appeared often to pious and to poetic souls; but this well-bred, all-knowing Greek geometer comes with command, gathers them all up into rank and gradation...
    ShP 4.217 13 [Shakespeare] converted the elements which waited on his command, into entertainments.
    ET1 5.15 12 [Carlyle] was...self-possessed and holding his extraordinary powers of conversation in easy command;...
    ET6 5.102 18 ...Sydney Smith had made it a proverb that little Lord John Russell, the minister, would take command of the Channel fleet to-morrow.
    ET14 5.257 15 There is no finer ear, nor more command of the keys of language [than Tennyson's].
    Pow 6.79 13 ...six hours a day at painting, only to give command of the odious materials...
    Pow 6.79 17 The masters say that they know a master in music, only by seeing the pose of the hands on the keys;--so difficult and vital an act is the command of the instrument.
    Wth 6.95 26 I have never seen a man...with an adequate command of nature.
    Wth 6.96 6 Men are urged by their ideas to acquire the command over nature.
    Ctr 6.153 27 We spawning, spawning myrmidons,/ Our turn to-day! we take command,/ Jove gives the globe into the hand/ Of myrmidons, of myrmidons./
    Bty 6.300 12 If command...exist in the most deformed person, all the accidents that usually displease, please...
    Elo1 7.91 19 ...we...might well go round the world, to see...a man who, in prosecuting great designs, has an absolute command of the means of representing his ideas...
    WD 7.163 12 Man flatters himself that his command over Nature must increase.
    Cour 7.254 27 ...here is one who, seeing the wishes of men, knows how to come at their end;...looks at all men as wax for his hands; takes command of them as the wind does of clouds...
    Cour 7.263 17 The sailor loses fear as fast as he acquires command of sails and spars and steam;...
    Cour 7.266 18 Plutarch relates that the Pythoness who tried to prophesy without command in the Temple at Delphi...fell into convulsions and died.
    PI 8.17 14 [Poetry] is a presence of mind that gives a miraculous command of all means of uttering the thought and feeling of the moment.
    PI 8.30 13 ...the moment the orator loses command of his audience, the audience commands him.
    Elo2 8.110 7 ...whose mind soever is fully possessed with a fervent desire to know good things, and with the dearest charity to infuse the knowledge of them into others, when such a man would speak, his words...like so many nimble and airy servitors, trip about him at command...
    Elo2 8.115 26 [The orator's speech] is action, as the general's word of command or chart of battle is action.
    Elo2 8.129 11 ...having recovered his spirits and the command of his faculties, [Lord Ashley] drew such an argument from his own confusion as more advantaged his cause that all the powers of eloquence could have done.
    PPo 8.241 4 When all [the troops and spirits] were in order, the east wind, at [Solomon's] command, took up the carpet and transported with all that were upon it, whither he pleased...
    Insp 8.281 20 When we...have come to believe that an image or a happy turn of expression is no longer at our command, in writing a letter to a friend we may find that we rise...to a cordial power of expression that costs no effort...
    Chr2 10.93 17 ...the sense of Right and Wrong, is alike in all. Its attributes are self-existence, eternity, intuition and command.
    Chr2 10.97 25 ...in all men is this majestic [moral] perception and command;...
    Chr2 10.102 25 Such [self-reliant] souls...oftenest appear solitary, like a general without his command...
    Chr2 10.115 20 Every exaggeration of [person and text]...inclines the manly reader to lay down the New Testament, to take up the Pagan philosophers. It is not that the Upanishads or the Maxims of Antoninus are better, but that they do not invade his freedom; because they are only suggestions, whilst the other adds the inadmissible claim...of an external command, where command cannot be.
    Chr2 10.121 10 Command is exceptional, and marks some break in the link of reason;...
    MoL 10.252 12 ...I am here to commend to you your art and profession as thinkers. It is real. It is the secret of power. It is the art of command.
    MMEm 10.428 9 The sickness of the last week was fine medicine; pain disintegrated the spirit, or became spiritual. I [Mary Moody Emerson] rose,-I felt that I...had promised [God] in youth that to be a blot on this fair world, at His command, would be acceptable.
    Thor 10.480 16 ...[Thoreau] seemed born for great enterprise and for command;...
    Carl 10.493 7 If a tory takes heart at [Carlyle's] hatred of stump-oratory and model republics, he replies, Yes, the idea of a pig-headed soldier who will obey orders, and fire on his own father at the command of his officer, is a great comfort to the aristocratic mind.
    HDC 11.57 18 In 1654, the four united New England Colonies agreed to raise 270 foot and 40 horse, to reduce Ninigret, Sachem of the Niantics, and appointed Major Simon Willard, of this town [Concord], to the command.
    HDC 11.73 11 Eight hundred British soldiers, under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel Francis Smith, had marched from Boston to Concord;...
    HDC 11.73 18 When [British troops] entered Concord, they found the militia and minute-men assembled under the command of Colonel Barrett and Major Buttrick.
    HDC 11.74 21 Major Buttrick leaped from the ground, and gave the command to fire...
    FSLC 11.192 7 Sire, said the brave Orte, governor of Bayonne, in his letter, I have communicated your majesty's command to your faithful inhabitants and warriors in the garrison, and I have found there only good citizens, and brave soldiers; not one hangman...
    HCom 11.344 14 One mother said, when her son was offered the command of the first negro regiment, If he accepts it, I shall be as proud as if I had heard that he was shot.
    SMC 11.367 10 ...[the Thirty-second Regiment] grew at last, under the command of Colonel Prescott, to an excellent reputation...
    SMC 11.370 24 Being informed that he misunderstood the order, which was only to inform him how to retire when it became necessary, [George Prescott] was satisfied, and he and his command held their ground manfully.
    SMC 11.372 17 June fourth is marked in [George Prescott's] diary as An awful day;-two hundred men lost to the command;...
    SMC 11.373 8 ...[George Prescott] was struck, in front of his command, by a musket-ball...
    Mem 12.94 24 Memory was called by the schoolmen vespertina cognitio, evening knowledge, in distinction from the command of the future which we have by the knowledge of causes, and which they called matutina cognitio, or morning knowledge.
    Mem 12.95 11 This command of old facts...is our splendid privilege.
    Bost 12.198 10 ...no habit of command...can bestow that delicacy and grandeur of bearing which belong only to a mind accustomed to celestial conversation.
    Milt1 12.262 11 ...[Milton] said...whose mind soever is fully possessed with a fervent desire to know good things, and with the dearest charity to infuse the knowledge of them into others, when such a man would speak, his words...trip about him at command...
    Milt1 12.266 22 [Milton] told the bishops that instead of showing the reason of their lowly condition from divine example and command, they seek to prove their high preeminence from human consent and authority.
    ACri 12.285 16 ...[George Borrow] had one clear perception, that the key to every country was command of the language of the common people.
    MLit 12.332 27 ...they have served [humanity] better, who assured it out of the innocent hope in their hearts that a Physician will come, than this majestic Artist [Goethe], with all the treasuries of wit, of science, and of power at his command.

command, v. (48)

    DSA 1.124 26 Wonderful is [the religious sentiment's] power to charm and to command.
    DSA 1.137 2 The test of the true faith, certainly, should be its power to charm and command the soul...
    DSA 1.141 9 What life the public worship retains, it owes to the scattered company of pious men...who...have...accepted...from their own heart, the genuine impulses of virtue, and so still command our love and awe...
    LE 1.160 7 ...neither Greece nor Rome...is to command any longer.
    Con 1.307 16 [The youth says] Like the Persian noble of old, I ask that I may neither command nor obey.
    Con 1.318 8 These considerations...must needs command the sympathy of all reasonable persons.
    YA 1.384 22 These rising grounds which command the champaign below, seem to ask for lords...
    SR 2.62 10 The picture...is not to command me...
    SR 2.65 12 ...the idlest reverie, the faintest native emotion, command my curiosity and respect.
    SL 2.145 19 All the terrors of the French Republic, which held Austria in awe, were unable to command her diplomacy.
    SL 2.158 25 The high, the generous, the self-devoted sect will always instruct and command mankind.
    Cir 2.312 3 The use of literature is to afford us a platform whence we may command a view of our present life...
    Cir 2.313 5 We have the same need to command a view of the religion of the world.
    Chr1 3.99 6 The same transport which the occurrence of the best events in the best order would occasion me, I must learn to taste purer in the perception that my position is every hour meliorated, and does already command those events I desire.
    NER 3.278 2 ...we desire to be touched with that fire which shall command this ice to stream, and make our existence a benefit.
    MoS 4.159 5 ...we ought to secure those advantages which we can command, and not risk them by clutching after the airy and unattainable.
    ET8 5.142 15 [The English] wish neither to command nor obey...
    ET11 5.186 22 [The English upper classes] have...the power to command... the presence of the most accomplished men in their festive meetings.
    ET11 5.198 l8 ...the rich Englishman goes over the world at the present day, drawing more than all the advantages which the strongest of his kings could command.
    ET16 5.287 14 ...I opened the dogma of no-government and non-resistance... and procured a kind of hearing for it. I said, it is true that I have never seen in any country a man of sufficient valor to stand for this truth, and yet it is plain to me that no less valor than this can command my respect.
    F 6.23 19 [Man's] sound relation to these facts is to use and command...
    Pow 6.57 9 [A broad, healthy, massive understanding]...anticipates everybody's discovery; and if it do not command every fact of the genius and the scholar, it is because it is large and sluggish...
    Wth 6.122 17 When a citizen...comes out and buys land in the country, his first thought is to a fine outlook from his windows; his library must command a western view;...
    Bhr 6.187 17 Friendship requires more time than poor busy men can usually command.
    Cour 7.264 12 The school-boy is daunted before his tutor by a question of arithmetic, because he does not yet command the simple steps of the solution which the boy beside him has mastered.
    Cour 7.267 15 It was told of the Prince of Conde that there not being a more furious man in the world, danger in fight never disturbs him more than just to make him civil, and to command in words of great obligation to his officers and men...
    SA 8.85 20 Keep cool, and you command everybody, said Saint-Just;...
    SA 8.95 6 Madame de Tesse said, If I were Queen, I should command Madame de Stael to talk to me every day.
    Elo2 8.124 19 The orator must command the whole scale of the language...
    Insp 8.274 6 In June the morning is noisy with birds; in August they are already getting old and silent. Hence arises the question, Are these moods in any degree within control? If we knew how to command them!
    Insp 8.276 24 ...says the man...the favorable hour will come when I can command all my powers...
    Insp 8.288 21 In the hotel...I command an astronomic leisure.
    Grts 8.308 5 It is easy for a commander to command.
    Aris 10.45 19 Men are born to command...
    PerF 10.69 24 ...I find it wholesome and invigorating to enumerate the resources we can command...
    PerF 10.84 4 Obedience alone gives the right to command.
    SovE 10.208 5 ...by obedience we command...
    MMEm 10.417 19 It is difficult, when we have no kind of barrier, to command our feelings.
    FSLC 11.187 1 ...it is not to be presumed that [laws] can so stultify themselves as to command injustice.
    SMC 11.350 10 ...the virtues we are met to honor were directed on aims which command the sympathy of every loyal American citizen...
    Shak1 11.452 26 ...there are some men so born to live well that, in whatever company they fall,-high or low,-they fit well, and lead it! but, being advanced to a higher class, they are just as much in their element as before, and easily command...
    II 12.77 19 The old law of science, Imperat parendo, we command by obeying, is forever true;...
    Mem 12.91 3 The builder of the mind found it not less needful that it should have retroaction, and command its past act and deed.
    Bost 12.205 1 [The people of Massachusetts] knew, as God knew, that command of Nature comes by obedience to Nature;...
    MAng1 12.236 1 When importuned to claim some compensation of the empire for the important services he had rendered it, [the ancient Persian] demanded that he and his should neither command nor obey, but should be free.
    MAng1 12.238 20 Michael Angelo was of that class of men who are too superior to the multitude around them to command a full and perfect sympathy.
    MLit 12.322 19 Such was [Goethe's] capacity that the magazines of the world's ancient or modern wealth, which arts and intercourse and skepticism could command,-he wanted them all.
    WSL 12.342 23 Certainly there are heights in Nature which command this;...

commanded, v. (27)

    DSA 1.130 5 Having seen that the law in us is commanding, [Jesus] would not suffer it to be commanded.
    MN 1.207 1 ...when Napoleon unrolls his map, the eye is commanded by original power.
    LT 1.260 20 A necessity not yet commanded...is the foundation on which [Conservatism] rests.
    Pt1 3.15 26 ...[the coachman or the hunter] has no definitions, but he is commanded in nature by the living power which he feels to be there present.
    Chr1 3.100 24 The wise man not only leaves out of his thought the many, but leaves out the few. Fountains, the self-moved, the absorbed, the commander because he is commanded, the assured, the primary,--they are good;...
    Nat2 3.185 25 The child...commanded by every sight and sound...lies down at night overpowered by the fatigue which this day of continual pretty madness has incurred.
    NER 3.251 8 [The observer of New England's] attention must be commanded by the signs that the Church, or religious party, is falling from the Church nominal...
    PPh 4.64 13 [Plato] secures a position not to be commanded, by his passion for reality;...
    SwM 4.95 5 All men are commanded by the saint.
    NMW 4.244 1 [Napoleon's] impatience at levity was...an oblique tribute of respect to those able persons who commanded his regard...
    ET5 5.94 27 Let India boast her palms, nor envy we/ The weeping amber, nor the spicy tree,/ While, by our oaks, those precious loads are borne,/ And realms commanded which those trees adorn./
    ET14 5.241 24 A few generalizations always circulate in the world...and these are in the world constants, like the Copernican and Newtonian theories in physics. In England these...do all have a kind of filial retrospect to Plato and the Greeks. Of this kind is Lord Bacon's sentence, that Nature is commanded by obeying her;...
    ET16 5.289 8 Just before entering Winchester we stopped at the Church of Saint Cross, and...we demanded a piece of bread and a draught of beer, which the founder, Henry de Blois, in 1136, commanded should be given to every one who should ask it at the gate.
    Elo1 7.78 8 It was said of Sir William Pepperell...that, put him where you might, he commanded, and saw what he willed come to pass.
    Elo1 7.90 13 A popular assembly...is commanded by these two powers,-- first by a fact, then by skill of statement.
    Comc 8.172 6 ...Timur...commanded that the barber should be called.
    PPo 8.240 14 Solomon had three talismans: first, the signet-ring by which he commanded the spirits...
    Insp 8.283 15 Seneca says of an almost fatal sickness that befell him, The thought of my father...restrained me; I commanded myself to live.
    Grts 8.318 26 Abraham Lincoln is perhaps the most remarkable example of this class [of great style of hero] that we have seen,-a man...with a spirit and a practical vein in the times of terror that commanded the admiration of the wisest.
    LLNE 10.351 25 The ability and earnestness of the advocate [Fourier] and his friends...commanded our attention and respect.
    SlHr 10.447 20 ...[Samuel Hoar's] sincere admiration was commanded by certain heroes of the [legal] profession...
    FRep 11.530 26 The spread eagle...must keep his wings to carry the thunderbolt when he is commanded.
    II 12.76 12 That is the quality of [the moral sense], that it commands, and is not commanded.
    CInt 12.117 19 Two men cannot converse together on any topic without presently finding where each stands in moral judgment; and each learns whether the other's view commands, or is commanded by, his own.
    MAng1 12.235 7 On the death of San Gallo...Paul III. first entreated, then commanded the aged artist [Michelangelo] to assume the charge of this great work...
    WSL 12.343 25 ...wherever freedom and justice are threatened...[Landor's] interest is sure to be commanded.
    WSL 12.347 3 ...it is not from the highest Alps or Andes but from less elevated summits that the most attractive landscape is commanded...

commander, n. (14)

    Chr1 3.100 24 The wise man not only leaves out of his thought the many, but leaves out the few. Fountains, the self-moved, the absorbed, the commander because he is commanded, the assured, the primary,--they are good;...
    Elo1 7.79 1 A supreme commander over all his passions and affections; but the secret of [Caesar's] ruling is higher than that.
    Elo1 7.79 12 [The Grecian States] did not send to Lacedaemon for troops, but they said, Send us a commander;...
    DL 7.122 17 I honor that man whose ambition it is...not to be a poet or a commander, but to be a master of living well...
    Res 8.144 5 The commander called for men in the ranks who could rebuild the road.
    Grts 8.308 4 It is easy for a commander to command.
    Dem1 10.8 6 We call the phantoms that rise [in dreams], the creation of our fancy, but they act like mutineers, and fire on their commander;...
    Edc1 10.134 10 If [a man] is jovial...if he is...a strong commander...society has need of all these.
    HDC 11.75 5 The militia and minute-men-every one from that moment being his own commander-ran over the hills opposite the battle-field...
    SMC 11.359 23 ...the [Civil] war...disclosed in [George Prescott]...the moral qualities of a commander...
    SMC 11.365 25 In the fall of 1861, the old artillery company of this town [Concord] was reorganized, and Captain Richard Barrett received a commission in March, 1862, from the state, as its commander.
    SMC 11.370 12 Let me add an extract from the official report of the brigade commander...
    SMC 11.372 25 ...from these incessant labors there was now to be rest for one head,-the honored and beloved commander [George Prescott] of the [Thirty-second] regiment.
    PPr 12.380 5 ...he is the commander who is always in the mount...

Commander, n. (2)

    CSC 10.376 16 ...[these men and women at the Chardon Street Convention] found what they sought, or the pledge of it...in...the prophetic dignity and transfiguration which accompanies...a man whose mind is made up to obey the great inward Commander...
    SMC 11.376 12 ...I do not like to omit the testimony to the character of the Commander of the Thirty-second Massachusetts Regiment [George Prescott]...

commander-in-chief, n. (1)

    NER 3.256 1 ...the country is frequently affording solitary examples of resistance to the government, solitary nullifiers...who...embarrass...the commander-in-chief of the militia by non-resistance.

Commanders, Great, Apothegm (1)

    Plu 10.322 7 It is a service to our Republic to publish a book that can force ambitious young men...to read...the Apothegms of Great Commanders [of Plutarch].

commanders, n. (4)

    DSA 1.147 25 ...the commanders encroach on us only...by our allowance and homage.
    Boks 7.201 23 ...we must read the Clouds of Aristophanes, and what more of that master we gain appetite for...to know the tyranny of Aristophanes, requiring more genius and sometimes not less cruelty than belonged to the official commanders.
    Clbs 7.241 8 ...it is not this class, whom the splendor of their accomplishment...makes them chancellors and commanders of council and of action...whom we now consider.
    SMC 11.367 8 ...though suffering at first some disadvantage from change of commanders, and from severe losses, [the Thirty-second Regiment] grew at last...to an excellent reputation...

Commanders, Noble, Apothegm (1)

    Plu 10.317 18 I know that the chapter of Apothegms of Noble Commanders is rejected by some critics as not a genuine work of Plutarch;...

commanding, adj. (50)

    Nat 1.30 23 ...picturesque language is at once a commanding certificate that he who employs it is a man in alliance with truth and God.
    DSA 1.137 4 The test of the true faith...should be its power to charm...the soul...so commanding that we find pleasure and honor in obeying.
    DSA 1.138 27 ...there is a commanding attraction in the moral sentiment...
    MR 1.251 3 Every great and commanding moment in the annals of the world is the triumph of some enthusiasm.
    LT 1.261 6 The fact of aristocracy...is as commanding a feature of the nineteenth century...as of old Rome...
    Tran 1.335 10 Am I in harmony with myself? my position will seem to you just and commanding.
    YA 1.370 11 ...I think we must regard the land as a commanding and increasing power on the citizen...
    YA 1.394 19 Commanding worth and personal power must sit crowned in all companies...
    Hist 2.28 12 More than once some individual has appeared to me with... such commanding contemplation...begging in the name of God, as made good to the nineteenth century Simeon the Stylite...
    Prd1 2.224 2 Cultivated men always feel and speak...as if a great fortune...a graceful and commanding address, had their value as proofs of the energy of the spirit.
    Mrs1 3.149 14 I have seen an individual whose manners, though wholly within the conventions of elegant society, were...original and commanding...
    NER 3.281 3 Let a clear, apprehensive mind...converse with the most commanding poetic genius, I think it would appear that there was no inequality such as men fancy, between them;...
    SwM 4.123 4 There is no such problem for criticism as [Swedenborg's] theological writings, their merits are so commanding...
    SwM 4.124 9 That slow but commanding influence which [Swedenborg] has acquired, like that of other religious geniuses, must be excessive also...
    NMW 4.225 18 [The man in the street] finds [Napoleon], like himself, by birth a citizen, who, by very intelligible merits, arrived as such a commanding position that he could indulge all those tastes which the common man possesses but is obliged to conceal and deny...
    NMW 4.253 6 ...the vain attempts of statists to amuse and deceive him... and the instinct of the young, ardent and active men every where, which pointed him out as the giant of the middle class, make [Napoleon's] history bright and commanding.
    GoW 4.269 6 ...the writer does not stand with us on any commanding ground.
    ET1 5.9 18 Mr. Landor carries to its height the love of freak which the English delight to indulge, as if to signalize their commanding freedom.
    ET6 5.106 26 The power and possession which surround [the English] are their own creation, and they exert the same commanding industry at this moment.
    ET14 5.252 19 [The English] have lost all commanding views in literature, philosophy and science.
    ET15 5.270 9 [The London Times] gives the argument, not of the majority, but of the commanding class.
    ET19 5.311 3 That which lures a solitary American in the woods with the wish to see England, is the moral peculiarity of the Saxon race,--its commanding sense of right and wrong...
    Ctr 6.155 19 We can ill spare the commanding social benefits of cities;...
    Wsp 6.216 6 It is certain that worship stands in some commanding relation to the health of man...
    Wsp 6.222 8 In a new nation and language, [the countryman's] sect...is lost. ... He misses...the commanding eye of his neighborhood...
    Elo1 7.80 1 He who has points to carry must hire, not a skilful attorney, but a commanding person.
    Elo1 7.80 8 A barrister in England is reputed to have made thirty or forty thousand pounds per annum in representing the claims of railroad companies before committees of the House of Commons. His clients pay not so much for legal as for manly accomplishments,--for courage, conduct and a commanding social position...
    Elo1 7.83 9 ...if one of [the debaters] have anything of commanding necessity in his heart, how speedily he will find vent for it...
    Boks 7.215 22 The question there [in Jane Eyre] answered in regard to a vicious marriage will always be treated according to the habit of the party. A person of commanding individualism will answer it as Rochester does...
    Clbs 7.231 21 [The lover of letters among the men of wit and learning] could not find that he was helped by so much as...one commanding impulse...
    PI 8.34 26 ...to convert the vivid energies acting at this hour in New York and Chicago and San Francisco, into universal symbols, requires a subtile and commanding thought.
    PI 8.65 17 In the world of letters how few commanding oracles!
    SA 8.88 2 ...a king or a general does not need a fine coat, and a commanding person may save himself all solicitude on that point.
    Elo2 8.120 5 ...give [an eloquent man] a commanding occasion...and he surprises by new and unlooked-for powers.
    Grts 8.307 7 ...none of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.
    Aris 10.40 3 I enumerate the claims by which men enter the superior class. 1. A commanding talent.
    Aris 10.55 11 What is it that makes the true knight? Loyalty to his thought. That makes...the commanding port which all men admire...
    SovE 10.209 3 ...Stoicism...has now...no commanding Zeno or Antoninus.
    SovE 10.212 4 The commanding fact which I never do not see, is the sufficiency of the moral sentiment.
    MoL 10.255 19 ...[the work of art] should have a commanding motive in the time and condition in which it was made.
    LLNE 10.332 3 [Everett's learning] was so coldly and weightily communicated from so commanding a platform...that...this learning instantly took the highest place to our imagination...
    LLNE 10.354 1 ...there is an intellectual courage and strength in [Fourierism] which is superior and commanding;...
    EWI 11.124 25 ...you could not get any poetry, any wisdom, and beauty in woman, any strong and commanding character in man, but these absurdities would still come flashing out,-these absurdities of a demand for justice, a generosity for the weak and oppressed.
    War 11.161 9 ...the fact that [the idea that there can be peace as well as war] has become so distinct to any small number of persons as to become a subject...of concert and discussion,-that is the commanding fact.
    JBB 11.267 4 This commanding event [John Brown's raid] which has brought us together, eclipses all others which have occurred for a long time in our history...
    TPar 11.289 19 [Theodore Parker's] commanding merit as a reformer is this, that he insisted beyond all men in pulpits...that the essence of Christianity is its practical morals;...
    EdAd 11.389 23 ...the laws and governors cannot possess a commanding interest for any but vacant or fanatical people;...
    CInt 12.131 25 ...it is the privilege of the moral sentiment to be every moment new and commanding...
    Milt1 12.263 1 The victories of the conscience in [Milton] are gained by the commanding charm which all the severe and restrictive virtues have for him.
    ACri 12.299 4 ...[in Carlyle's History of Frederick II] we see the eyes of the writer looking into ours, whilst he is humming and chuckling, with... shrugs, and long commanding glances...

commanding, v. (7)

    DSA 1.130 4 Having seen that the law in us is commanding, [Jesus] would not suffer it to be commanded.
    ET1 5.7 6 I found [Landor]...living in a cloud of pictures at his Villa Gherardesca, a fine house commanding a beautiful landscape.
    Bhr 6.175 19 ...perhaps the ambitious youth thinks he has got the whole secret when he has learned that disengaged manners are commanding.
    Ill 6.325 19 The mad crowd drives hither and thither, now furiously commanding this thing to be done, now that.
    Aris 10.46 20 I only point in passing to the order of the universe, which makes a rotation,-not like the coarse policy of the Greeks, ten generals, each commanding one day and then giving place to the next...
    Supl 10.173 1 The arithmetic of Newton...the inspiration of Shakspeare, are sure of commanding interest and awe in every company of men.
    Milt1 12.253 27 Milton stands erect, commanding...

commandment, n. (12)

    Tran 1.336 11 In action [the Transcendentalist] easily incurs the charge of antinomianism by his avowal that he, who has the Law-giver, may with safety not only neglect, but even contravene every written commandment.
    SR 2.74 24 If any one imagines that this law [of self-reliance] is lax, let him keep its commandment one day.
    OS 2.281 7 Every distinct apprehension of this central commandment [of the soul] agitates men with awe and delight.
    Insp 8.292 1 When the spirit chooses you for its scribe to publish some commandment, it makes you odious to men and men odious to you...
    Grts 8.309 22 As [the Quakers] express [self-respect], it might be thus: I do not pretend to any commandment or large revelation...
    SovE 10.211 20 ...the old commandment, Thou shalt not kill, holds down New York, and London, and Paris...
    Prch 10.225 13 [The moral sentiment] is a commandment at every moment...to do the duty of that moment...
    Prch 10.225 17 ...[the moral sentiment] is so near and inward and constitutional to each, that no commandment can compare with it in authority.
    LS 11.10 26 ...when the Jews on that occasion [at Capernaum] complained that they did not comprehend what [Jesus] meant, he added...that we might not think his body was to be actually eaten, that he only meant we should live by his commandment.
    LVB 11.93 20 You [Van Buren] will not do us the injustice of connecting this remonstrance [against the relocation of the Cherokees] with any sectional and party feeling. It is in our hearts the simplest commandment of brotherly love.
    FSLC 11.194 24 ...unless you can draw a sponge over those seditious Ten Commandments which are the root of our European and American civilization; and over that eleventh commandment, Do unto others as you would have them do to you, your labor [the Fugitive Slave Law] is vain.
    Bost 12.193 10 ...[the savage] goes muttering his rude ritual or mythology, which yet conceals some grand commandment;...

commandments, n. (10)

    Prd1 2.241 5 ...begin where we will, we are pretty sure in a short space to be mumbling our ten commandments.
    Pt1 3.17 7 ...we are apprised of the divineness of this superior use of things, whereby the world is a temple whose walls are covered with... commandments of the Deity,--in this, that there is no fact in nature which does not carry the whole sense of nature;...
    Exp 3.64 12 [Nature's] darlings, the great, the strong, the beautiful...do not come out of the Sunday School......nor punctually keep the commandments.
    Mrs1 3.145 4 Let the creed and commandments even have the saucy homage of parody.
    ShP 4.219 3 ...other men...beheld the same objects [as Shakespeare]: they also saw through them that which was contained. And to what purpose? The beauty straightway vanished; they read commandments...
    ET6 5.103 1 ...[the English] will let you break all the commandments, if you do it natively and with spirit.
    Wsp 6.219 3 ...to [man]...the lures of passion and the commandments of duty are opened;...
    Civ 7.23 11 The division of labor...fills the State with useful and happy laborers;...and what a police and ten commandments their work thus becomes.
    MMEm 10.408 6 [Mary Moody Emerson] is no statute-book of practical commandments...
    FSLN 11.232 18 Events roll...the result is the enforcing of some of those first commandments which we heard in the nursery.

Commandments, Ten, n. (3)

    Nat 1.41 2 ...every animal function from the sponge up to Hercules, shall... echo the Ten Commandments.
    Chr2 10.119 11 ...[the infant soul]...reads the original of the Ten Commandments...
    FSLC 11.194 21 ...unless you can draw a sponge over those seditious Ten Commandments which are the root of our European and American civilization;...your labor [the Fugitive Slave Law] is vain.

commandons, v. (1)

    Ctr 6.153 20 Mirmidons, race feconde,/ Mirmidons,/ Enfin nous commandons/...

commands, n. (5)

    Con 1.302 18 ...although the commands of the Conscience are essentially absolute, they are historically limitary.
    MMEm 10.431 20 No object of science or observation ever was pointed out to me [Mary Moody Emerson] by my poor aunt, but [God's] Being and commands;...
    FSLC 11.191 26 All authors who have any conscience or modesty agree that a person ought not to obey such commands as are evidently contrary to the laws of God.
    RBur 11.439 6 ...I do not know by what untoward accident it has chanced... that...it should fall to me, the worst Scotsman of all, to receive your commands...to respond to the sentiment just offered, and which indeed makes the occasion [the Burns Festival].
    PLT 12.64 11 [The hints of the Intellect] overcome us like perfumes from a far-off shore of sweetness, and their meaning is...that by casting ourselves on it and being its voice it rushes each moment to positive commands...

commands, v. (26)

    DSA 1.135 12 ...the man who aims to speak...as interest commands, babbles.
    MN 1.213 9 By piety alone, by conversing with the cause of nature, is [man] safe and commands it.
    Con 1.302 15 Here is the fact which men call Fate...not to be disposed of by the consideration that the Conscience commands this or that...
    SR 2.43 3 ...the soul that can/ Render an honest and a perfect man,/ Commands all light.../
    SR 2.89 14 He who knows that power is inborn...commands his limbs...
    SL 2.158 23 ...as much goodness as there is, so much reverence it commands.
    OS 2.275 27 Those who are capable of humility, of justice, of love, of aspiration, stand already on a platform that commands the sciences and arts...
    Cir 2.303 27 [A man] can only be reformed by showing him a new idea which commands his own.
    Int 2.346 19 ...[the Greek philosophers' thought] commands the entire schedule and inventory of things for its illustration.
    Wth 6.111 23 That is the good head, which serves the end and commands the means.
    PI 8.30 14 ...the moment the orator loses command of his audience, the audience commands him.
    Elo2 8.118 16 ...this power [of eloquence] which so fascinates and astonishes and commands is only the exaggeration of a talent which is universal.
    Res 8.146 26 ...one man whose eye commands the end in view and the means by which it can be attained, is...victor over all mankind who do not see the issue and the means.
    Grts 8.314 10 Napoleon commands our respect by his enormous self-trust...
    Aris 10.40 18 It only needs to look at the social aspect of England and America and France, to see the rank which original practical talent commands.
    Chr2 10.103 17 ...the acts which [the moral sentiment] suggests-as when it...sets [a man] on...some zeal to unite men to...establish some reform or charity which it commands-are the homage we render to this sentiment...
    Chr2 10.121 5 In a sensible family...nobody commands, and nobody obeys...
    EdAd 11.390 7 ...the insight which commands the laws and conditions of the true polity precludes forever all interest in the squabbles of parties.
    FRO1 11.479 23 ...as soon as every man is apprised of the Divine Presence within his own mind...then we have a religion...that commands all the social and all the private action.
    PLT 12.5 6 It is not then...animals, or globes that any longer commands us, but only man;...
    II 12.76 12 That is the quality of [the moral sense], that it commands...
    CInt 12.117 19 Two men cannot converse together on any topic without presently finding where each stands in moral judgment; and each learns whether the other's view commands, or is commanded by, his own.
    CInt 12.121 16 ...a larger angle of vision, commands centuries of facts...
    Bost 12.188 22 ...Boston commands attention as the town which was appointed in the destiny of nations to lead the civilization of North America.
    MAng1 12.224 8 [Michelangelo] visited Bologna to inspect its celebrated fortifications, and, on his return, constructed a fortification on the heights of San Miniato, which commands the city and environs of Florence.
    WSL 12.342 25 Certainly there are heights in Nature which command this; there are many more which this commands.

commas, n. (1)

    GoW 4.282 16 ...through every clause and part of speech of a right book I meet the eyes of the most determined of men;...the commas and dashes are alive;...

commemorate, v. (2)

    LS 11.23 2 ...the Almighty God was pleased to qualify and send forth a man to teach men...that sacrifice was smoke, and forms were shadows. This man lived and died true to this purpose; and now...Christians must contend that it is...really a duty, to commemorate him by a certain form [the Lord's Supper]...
    HDC 11.29 7 You have thought it becoming to commemorate the planting of the first inland town [Concord].

commemorated, v. (2)

    LS 11.5 13 In St. Matthew's Gospel...are recorded the words of Jesus in giving bread and wine on that occasion [the Last Supper] to his disciples, but no expression occurs intimating that this feast was hereafter to be commemorated.
    LS 11.11 15 I ask any person who believes the [Lord's] Supper to have been designed by Jesus to be commemorated forever, to go and read the account of it in the other Gospels...

commemorating, v. (2)

    LS 11.6 19 I have only brought these accounts [of the Last Supper] together, that you may judge whether it is likely that a solemn institution... would have been established...in a manner so slight, that the intention of commemorating it should not appear, from their narrative, to have caught the ear...of the only two among the twelve who wrote down what happened.
    LS 11.19 17 This mode of commemorating Christ [the Lord's Supper] is not suitable to me.

commemoration, n. (4)

    LS 11.4 15 In the Church of England, Archbishops Laud and Wake maintained that the elements [of the Lord's Supper] were an Eucharist, or sacrifice of Thanksgiving to God;...and Bishop Hoadley, that it was...a simple commemoration.
    LS 11.17 17 I appeal now to the convictions of communicants [in the Lord' s Supper], and ask such persons whether they have not been occasionally conscious of a painful confusion of thought between the worship due to God and the commemoration due to Christ.
    LS 11.19 22 If I believed [the Lord's Supper] was enjoined by Jesus on his disciples, and that he even contemplated making permanent this mode of commemoration...and yet on trial it was disagreeable to my own feelings, I should not adopt it.
    LS 11.20 9 ...any act or meeting which tends to awaken a pure thought, a flow of love, an original design of virtue, I call a worthy, a true commemoration [of Jesus].

Commemoration Ode [James R (2)

    ALin 11.328 28 Here [in Lincoln] was a type of the true elder race,/ And one of Plutarch's men talked with us face to face./ Lowell, Commemoration Ode.
    HCom 11.340 25 Where faith made whole with deed/ Breathes its awakening breath/ Into the lifeless creed,/ They saw [Truth] plumed and mailed,/ With sweet, stern face unveiled,/ And all-repaying eyes, look proud on them in death/ Lowell, Commemoration Ode.

commemorations, n. (1)

    LS 11.18 24 ...a true disciple of Jesus will receive the light he gives most thankfully; but the thanks he offers...are not compliments, commemorations...

commence, v. (2)

    Hsm1 2.246 18 ...[To die] is to end/ An old, stale, weary work and to commence/ A newer and a better..../
    ACri 12.292 17 Dangerous words in like kind are...circumstances, commence for begin.

commenced, v. (2)

    MAng1 12.235 8 On the death of San Gallo...Paul III. first entreated, then commanded the aged artist [Michelangelo] to assume the charge of this great work, which, though commenced forty years before, was only commenced by Bramante, and ill continued by San Gallo.
    MAng1 12.235 9 On the death of San Gallo...Paul III. first entreated, then commanded the aged artist [Michelangelo] to assume the charge of this great work, which, though commenced forty years before, was only commenced by Bramante, and ill continued by San Gallo.

Commencement, adj. (1)

    WD 7.169 7 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...

Commencement Day, n. (1)

    HCom 11.339 2 Old classmate, say/ Do you remember our Commencement Day?/

commencement, n. (2)

    EzRy 10.382 13 The commencement of the Revolutionary War greatly interrupted [Ezra Ripley's] education at college.
    Milt1 12.268 15 ...the invocations of the Eternal Spirit in the commencement of [Milton's] books are not poetic forms, but are thoughts...

commences, v. (1)

    EWI 11.118 27 The child will sit in your arms contented, provided you do nothing. If you take a book and read, he commences hostile operations.

commencing, v. (1)

    Nat 1.58 3 Ethics and religion differ herein; that the one is the system of human duties commencing from man; the other, from God.

commend, v. (6)

    YA 1.393 6 One thing...the beauties of aristocracy, we commend to the study of the travelling American.
    Lov1 2.171 2 ...it is to be hoped that...we may attain to that inward view of the law which shall describe a truth...so central that it shall commend itself to the eye at whatever angle beholden.
    Hsm1 2.260 16 If you would serve your brother, because it is fit for you to serve him, do not take back your words when you find that prudent people do not commend you.
    NMW 4.248 2 I think all men...know that the institutions we so volubly commend are go-carts and baubles;...
    MoL 10.252 10 Gentlemen, I am here to commend to you your art and profession as thinkers.
    Plu 10.308 17 ...[Plutarch] wishes the philosopher...to commend himself to men of public regards and ruling genius...

commendable, adj. (4)

    AmS 1.97 23 Authors we have, in numbers...who, moved by a commendable prudence, sail for Greece...to replenish their merchantable stock.
    GoW 4.266 18 It is believed...the negotiations of a caucus and the practising on the prejudices and facility of country-people to secure their votes in November,--is practical and commendable.
    CbW 6.277 9 ...your theories and plans of life are fair and commendable:-- but will you stick?
    SovE 10.197 3 ...I have never until now dreamed that this undertaking the entire management of my own affairs was not commendable.

commendation, n. (4)

    DSA 1.147 11 Can we not leave...the virtue that glitters for the commendation of society...
    Hist 2.7 18 [The true aspirant] hears the commendation, not of himself, but, more sweet, of that character he seeks, in every word that is said concerning character...
    CbW 6.265 5 It is an old commendation of right behavior, Aliis laetus, sapiens sibi, which our English proverb translates, Be merry and wise.
    MAng1 12.239 23 It is more commendation to say, This was Michael Angelo's favorite, than to say, This was carried to Paris by Napoleon.

commendatory, n. (1)

    LT 1.273 24 To [some divine, the wealthy man] adheres...and...esteems his associating with him a sufficient evidence and commendatory of his own piety.

commended, adj. (2)

    Fdsp 2.192 7 A commended stranger is expected and announced...
    Fdsp 2.192 15 Of a commended stranger, only the good report is told by others...

commended, v. (6)

    DSA 1.138 3 [The preacher] had no one word intimating that he...had been commended, or cheated, or chagrined.
    LE 1.167 25 Further inquiry will discover...that not these chanting poets themselves, knew anything sincere of these handsome natures they so commended;...
    SL 2.133 18 ...the question is everywhere vexed when a noble nature is commended, whether the man is not better who strives with temptation.
    PNR 4.88 20 [Plato's] subtlety commended him to men of thought.
    GoW 4.263 3 Nothing so broad, so subtle, or so dear, but comes... commended to [the writer's] pen, and he will write.
    Thor 10.479 14 ...[Thoreau]...commended the wilderness for resembling Rome and Paris.

commending, v. (3)

    DSA 1.148 23 ...let us study the grand strokes of rectitude:...a certain solidity of merit...which is so essentially and manifestly virtue, that... nobody thinks of commending it.
    Thor 10.475 10 [Thoreau] admired Aeschylus and Pindar; but when some one was commending them, he said that Aeschylus and the Greeks, in describing Apollo and Orpheus, had given no song, or no good one.
    Milt1 12.278 18 ...as many poems have been written upon unfit society, commending solitude, yet have not been proceeded against...so should [Milton's plea for freedom of divorce] receive that charity which an angelic soul...is entitled to.

commends, v. (8)

    Chr1 3.88 2 Work of his hand/ He nor commends nor grieves:/ Pleads for itself the fact;/ As unrepenting Nature leaves/ Her every act./
    Mrs1 3.153 25 Are you...rich enough to make...the itinerant with his consul' s paper which commends him To the charitable...feel the noble exception f your presence and your house from the general bleakness and stoniness;...
    GoW 4.266 5 In this country, the emphasis of conversation and of public opinion commends the practical man;...
    WD 7.177 13 That is good which commends to me my country, my climate, my means and materials, my associates.
    SA 8.93 22 ...Luther commends that accomplishment of pure German speech of his wife.
    QO 8.196 1 ...Hallam...distinguishes a lyric of Edwards or Vaux, and straightway it commends itself to us...
    Thor 10.462 9 [Thoreau] had a strong common sense, like that which Rose Flammock, the weaver's daughter in Scott's romance [The Betrothed], commends in her father...
    WSL 12.348 12 ...it is not as an artist that Mr. Landor commends himself to us.

commensurability, n. (1)

    Gts 3.164 4 ...there is no commensurability between a man and any gift.

commensurate, adj. (8)

    YA 1.365 3 The task of surveying, planting, and building upon this immense tract requires an education and a sentiment commensurate thereto.
    Cir 2.317 17 ...these [divine] moments confer a sort of omnipresence and omnipotence which...sees that the energy of the mind is commensurate with the work to be done...
    Pol1 3.210 26 From neither party, when in power, has the world any benefit to expect in science, art, or humanity, at all commensurate with the resources of the nation.
    NMW 4.244 16 ...[Napoleon] could not hide his satisfaction in receiving from [his generals] a seconding and support commensurate with the grandeur of his enterprise.
    ET10 5.159 22 The power of machinery in Great Britain, in mills, has been computed to be equal to 600,000,000 men, one man being able by the aid of steam to do the work which required two hundred and fifty men to accomplish fifty years ago. The production has been commensurate.
    PC 8.228 15 Science...necessitates a faith commensurate with the grander orbits and universal laws which it discloses.
    Edc1 10.135 6 The great object of Education should be commensurate with the object of life.
    EdAd 11.386 14 ...we are persuaded that moral and material values are always commensurate.

comment, n. (4)

    ET15 5.267 7 The tone of [the London Times's] articles has often been the occasion of comment from the official organs of the continental courts...
    Clbs 7.232 24 Some men love only to talk where they are masters. ... They go rarely to thei equals, and then...listen badly or do not listen to the comment or to the thought by which the company strive to repay them;...
    MLit 12.328 1 Here was a man [Goethe] who, in the feeling that the thing itself was so admirable as to leave all comment behind, went up and down, from object to object, lifting the veil from every one, and did no more.
    MLit 12.328 25 ...we may here set down by way of comment of [Goethe's] genius the impressions recently awakened in us by the story of Wilhelm Meister.

Commentaries [Julius Caesar (1)

    CPL 11.504 11 Julius Caesar, when shipwrecked, and forced to swim for life...took his Commentaries between his teeth and swam for the shore.

commentaries, n. (1)

    LE 1.170 11 What else do these volumes of extracts and manuscript commentaries, that every scholar writes, indicate?

commentary, n. (7)

    AmS 1.102 6 Whatsoever oracles the human heart...has uttered as its commentary on the world of actions, - these [the scholar] shall receive and impart.
    Hist 2.8 3 The student is...to esteem his own life the text [of history], and books the commentary.
    ShP 4.217 6 Shakspeare, Homer, Dante, Chaucer...knew that a tree had another use than for apples...and the ball of the earth, than for tillage and roads: that these things bore a second and finer harvest to the mind... conveying in all their natural history a certain mute commentary on human life.
    Boks 7.194 2 The crowds and centuries of books are only commentary and elucidation, echoes and weakeners of these few great voices of time.
    Boks 7.201 25 Aristophanes is now very accessible, with much valuable commentary, through the labors of Mitchell and Cartwright.
    OA 7.315 11 [Josiah Quincy]...made a sort of running commentary on Cicero's chapter De Senectute.
    Milt1 12.278 25 We have offered no apology for expanding to such length our commentary on the character of John Milton;...

Commentary on Galatians [Ma (1)

    Clbs 7.236 9 ...it is not [Luther's] theologic works,--his Commentary on the Galatians, and the rest, but his Table-Talk, which is still read by men.

commentators, n. (2)

    Art2 7.47 6 We grudge to Homer the wide human circumspection his commentators ascribe to him.
    EdAd 11.385 21 We have taste, critical talent, good professors, good commentators, but a lack of male energy.

commented, v. (3)

    LE 1.156 19 ...the importunity, with which society presses its claim upon young men, tends to pervert the views of youth in respect to the culture of the intellect. Hence the historical failure, on which Europe and America have so freely commented.
    MMEm 10.412 1 I [Mary Moody Emerson] am so small in my expectations, that a week of industry delights. Rose before light every morn;...commented on the Scriptures;...
    WSL 12.347 5 [Landor] has commented on a wide variety of writers...

comments, n. (2)

    ET17 5.291 1 In these comments on an old journey [English Traits]...I have abstained from reference to persons...
    Ctr 6.157 15 Here is a new poem, which elicits a good many comments in the journals and in conversation.

Commerce, Minister of, n. (1)

    Chr1 3.92 21 Nature seems to authorize trade, as soon as you see the natural merchant, who appears not so much a private agent as her factor and Minister of Commerce.

commerce, n. (68)

    LE 1.181 11 Let [the scholar] know that...most in the reverence of the humble commerce and humble needs of life...the secret of the world is to be learned...
    MN 1.191 15 We hear something too much of the results of machinery, commerce, and the useful arts.
    MN 1.192 6 I do not wish to look with sour aspect at...the mart of commerce.
    MR 1.228 23 ...now...all things else hear the trumpet, and must rush to judgment,-Christianity...commerce...
    MR 1.230 23 The employments of commerce are not intrinsically unfit for a man...
    MR 1.231 16 ...it is only necessary to ask a few questions as to the progress of the articles of commerce from the fields where they grew, to our houses, to become aware that we eat and drink and wear perjury and fraud...
    MR 1.235 25 Who could regret to see...a purer taste...thinning the ranks of competition in the labors of commerce...
    Con 1.321 13 ...if priest and church-member should fail, the chambers of commerce...would muster with fury to [religious institutions'] support.
    YA 1.374 17 ...we repair commerce with unlimited credit, and are presently visited with unlimited bankruptcy.
    YA 1.375 13 The history of commerce is the record of this beneficent tendency.
    SR 2.70 19 Commerce, husbandry...are somewhat...
    Fdsp 2.205 24 The end of friendship is a commerce the most strict and homely that can be joined;...
    Cir 2.316 12 For me, commerce is of trivial import;...
    Art1 2.368 17 ...[genius] will raise to a divine use...our commerce...
    Pt1 3.19 26 The chief value of the new fact is to enhance the great and constant fact of Life...to which the belt of wampum and the commerce of America are alike.
    Exp 3.57 27 The plays of children are nonsense, but very educative nonsense. So it is with the largest and solemnest things, with commerce, government, church, marriage...
    Exp 3.64 21 Whilst the debate goes forward on the equity of commerce... New and Old England may keep shop.
    Chr1 3.111 15 I know nothing which life has to offer so satisfying as the profound good understanding which can subsist...between two virtuous men, each of whom is sure of himself and sure of his friend. It is a happiness which...makes politics, and commerce, and churches, cheap.
    Pol1 3.200 2 Republics abound in young civilians who believe...that commerce, education and religion may be voted in or out;...
    Pol1 3.220 14 ...when [men] are pure enough to abjure the code of force they will be wise enough to see how these public ends...of commerce and the exchange of property...can be answered.
    NER 3.263 21 ...the revolt against the spirit of commerce...did not appear possible to individuals;...
    MoS 4.172 25 [The wise skeptic's] politics are those...of Krishna, in the Bhagavat, There is none who is worthy of my love or hatred; whilst he sentences law, physic, divinity, commerce and custom.
    MoS 4.176 11 ...common sense resumes its tyranny; we say...look you,--on the whole, selfishness...makes the best commerce and the best citizen.
    NMW 4.225 3 Paris and London and New York, the spirit of commerce... were also to have their prophet;...
    ET7 5.116 9 Add to this hereditary [German] rectitude the punctuality and precise dealing which commerce creates, and you have the English truth and credit.
    ET8 5.129 17 Commerce sends abroad multitudes of different classes [of Englishmen].
    ET8 5.141 19 Does the early history of each tribe show the permanent bias, which...is masked as the tribe spreads its activity into colonies, commerce, codes, arts, letters?
    ET9 5.147 5 ...the fact that British commerce was to be re-created by the independence of America, took [the English] all by surprise.
    ET10 5.159 25 Eight hundred years ago commerce had made [England] rich...
    ET10 5.160 17 A thousand million of pounds sterling are said to compose the floating money of commerce [of England].
    ET10 5.161 16 By dint of steam and of money, war and commerce are changed.
    ET10 5.163 2 All things precious, or useful, or amusing, or intoxicating, are sucked into this commerce and floated to London.
    ET10 5.168 5 In true England all is false and forged. This too is the reaction of machinery, but of the larger machinery of commerce.
    ET13 5.225 2 The bill for the naturalization of the Jews [in England] (in 1753) was resisted...by petition from the city of London, reprobating this bill, as...extremely injurious to the interests and commerce of the kingdom in general...
    ET14 5.239 27 'T is quite certain that Spenser, Burns, Byron and Wordsworth will be Platonists, and that the dull men will be Lockists. Then politics and commerce will absorb from the educated class men of talents without genius, precisely because such have no resistance.
    ET16 5.282 19 ...as Britain was a Phoenician secret, so they kept their compass a secret, and it was lost with the Tyrian commerce.
    ET18 5.306 1 You cannot account for [Englishmen's] success by their Christianity, commerce, charter, common law, Parliament, or letters...
    F 6.16 10 We see the English, French, and Germans...monopolizing the commerce of [America and Australia].
    Pow 6.62 21 The very word 'commerce' has only an English meaning...
    Pow 6.62 23 The commerce of rivers...must add an American extension to the pond-hole of admiralty.
    Pow 6.62 24 The commerce of rivers, the commerce of railroads...must add an American extension to the pond-hole of admiralty.
    Pow 6.62 25 The commerce of rivers...and who knows but the commerce of air-balloons, must add an American extension to the pond-hole of admiralty.
    Pow 6.71 25 We say...that [success] is of main efficacy in carrying on the world, and though rarely found in the right state for an article of commerce, but oftener in the super-saturate or excess which makes it dangerous and destructive,--yet it cannot be spared...
    Wth 6.100 1 Commerce is a game of skill...
    CbW 6.276 18 ...whatever art you select...commerce, politics,--all are attainable...on the same terms of selecting that for which you are apt;...
    Civ 7.21 3 ...chiefly the seashore has been the point of departure, to knowledge, as to commerce.
    DL 7.108 3 Is it not plain that not in...chambers of commerce, but in the dwelling-house must the true character and hope of the time be consulted?
    DL 7.129 3 [Friendship] is the happiness which...makes politics and commerce and churches cheap.
    DL 7.133 10 These are the consolations,--these are the ends to which the household is instituted and the roof-tree stands. If these are sought and in any good degree attained...can commerce...yield anything better, or half as good"
    WD 7.161 21 When commerce is vastly enlarged, California and Australia expose the gold it needs.
    WD 7.162 15 ...German, Chinese, Turk, Russ and Kanaka were putting out to sea, and intermarrying race with race; and commerce took the hint...
    Res 8.142 18 We have seen China opened to European and American ambassadors and commerce;...
    Res 8.143 19 ...it turns out that [the Chinaman] has sent home to China American food and tools and luxuries...and a new market has grown up for our commerce.
    Insp 8.269 6 ...we want a finer kind [of power] than that of commerce;...
    Imtl 8.331 2 ...what is called great and powerful life-the administration of large affairs, in commerce, in the courts, in the state,-is prone to develop narrow and special talent;...
    Dem1 10.15 18 The belief that particular individuals are attended by a good fortune which makes them desirable associates in any enterprise of uncertain success...influences all joint action of commerce and affairs...
    PerF 10.79 20 ...[the manufacturer] persisted, and after many years succeeded in his production of the right article for commerce...
    Edc1 10.128 2 The necessities imposed by this most irritable and all-related texture have taught Man...agriculture, commerce...
    Supl 10.177 27 ...the Orientals excel in costly arts...things which are the poetry and superlative of commerce.
    Carl 10.492 20 The navigation laws of England made its commerce.
    War 11.162 4 ...if a foreign nation should wantonly insult or plunder our commerce, or, worse yet, should land on our shores to rob and kill, you would not have us sit, and be robbed and killed?
    War 11.170 22 The next season...an aggression on our commerce by Malays; or the party this man votes with have an appropriation to carry through Congress: instantly he wags his head the other way...
    ChiE 11.474 10 [Asian immigrants] send back to their friends, in China... new tools, machinery, new foods, etc., and are thus establishing a commerce without limit.
    PLT 12.18 27 [The perceptions of the soul] take to themselves...agriculture, trade, commerce;...
    Bost 12.197 7 As an antidote to the spirit of commerce and of economy, the religious spirit...was especially necessary to the culture of New England.
    ACri 12.301 26 Now, said [Samuel Dexter], I come to the grand charge that we have obstructed the commerce and navigation of Roxbury Ditch.
    MLit 12.317 5 A selfish commerce and government have caught the eye and usurped the hand of the masses.
    Let 12.403 20 Perhaps the adversities of our commerce have not yet been pushed to the wholesomest degree of severity.

Commerce, n. (3)

    YA 1.370 17 ...the uprise and culmination of the new and anti-feudal power of Commerce is the political fact of most significance to the American at this hour.
    Hist 2.9 19 This life of ours is stuck round with...Church, Court and Commerce, as with so many flowers...
    MLit 12.322 15 [Goethe] has owed to Commerce and to the victories of the Understanding, all their spoils.

commercial, adj. (29)

    Con 1.323 15 ...in peace and a commercial state we depend, not as we ought, on our knowledge and all men's knowledge that we are honest men...
    Tran 1.339 22 This [Transcendental] way of thinking...falling on Unitarian and commercial times, makes the peculiar shades of Idealism which we know.
    YA 1.369 25 We in the Atlantic states, by position, have been commercial...
    YA 1.382 27 ...agricultural association must, sooner or later, fix the price of bread, and drive single farmers into association in self-defence; as the great commercial and manufacturing companies had already done.
    YA 1.385 25 We have feudal governments in a commercial age.
    YA 1.385 27 It would be but an easy extension of our commercial system, to pay a private emperor a fee for services...
    YA 1.391 18 ...the development of our American internal resources, the extension to the utmost of the commercial system...are giving an aspect of greatness to the Future...
    Pol1 3.209 7 Ordinarily our parties are parties of circumstance, and not of principle; as the planting interest in conflict with the commercial;...
    SwM 4.111 13 ...[Swedenborg] has at last found a pupil in Mr. Wilkinson... who has restored his master's buried books to the day...to go round the world in our commercial and conquering tongue.
    ET3 5.41 23 ...these Britons have precisely the best commercial position in the whole planet...
    ET5 5.92 9 The commercial relations of the world are so intimately drawn to London, that every dollar on earth contributes to the strength of the English government.
    ET5 5.93 17 ...it is [Englishmen's] commercial advantage that whatever light appears in better method or happy invention, breaks out in their race.
    ET6 5.106 17 I happened to arrive in England at the moment of a commercial crisis.
    ET15 5.264 17 [TheLondon Times] has done bold and seasonable service in exposing frauds which threatened the commercial community.
    ET19 5.312 2 ...I think it just, in this time of gloom and commercial disaster...that...you should not fail to keep your literary anniversary.
    ET19 5.314 2 ...if the courage of England goes with the chances of a commercial crisis, I will go back to the capes of Massachusetts and my own Indian stream, and say to my countrymen, the old race are all gone...
    Wth 6.109 16 There is an example of the compensations in the commercial history of this country.
    Ctr 6.149 26 The head of a commercial house or a leading lawyer or politician is brought into daily contact with troops of men from all parts of the country...
    Elo1 7.95 26 Wild men...utter the savage sentiment of Nature in the heart of commercial capitals.
    Elo2 8.132 19 Here [in the United States] is room for every degree of [eloquence], on every one of its ascending stages,--that of useful speech, in our commercial, manufacturing, railroad and educational conventions; that of political advice and persuasion...
    Grts 8.304 11 You shall not tell me that your commercial house, your partners or yourself are of importance;...
    Aris 10.37 23 What is the meaning of this invincible respect for war, here in the triumphs of our commercial civilization...
    Aris 10.41 13 ...the effect of freer institutions in England and America, has robbed the title of king of all its romance, as that of our commercial consuls as compared with the ancient Roman.
    LLNE 10.358 9 One merchant to whom I described the Fourier project, thought it must not only succeed, but that agricultural association must presently fix the price of bread, and drive single farmers into association in self-defence, as the great commercial and manufacturing companies had done.
    HDC 11.70 25 On the 27th June [1774], near three hundred persons... inhabitants of Concord, entered into a covenant, solemnly engaging with each other...to suspend all commercial intercourse with Great Britain...
    EWI 11.102 6 From the earliest time, the negro has been an article of luxury to the commercial nations.
    FSLC 11.203 6 ...as the activity and growth of slavery began to be offensively felt by [Webster's] constituents, the senator became less sensitive to these evils. They were not for him to deal with: he was the commercial representative.
    EdAd 11.389 1 ...we have seen the best understandings of New England... persuaded to say, We are too old to stand for what is called a New England sentiment any longer. Rely on us for commercial representatives, but for questions of ethics,-who knows what markets may be opened?
    Wom 11.423 22 ...when I read the list of men...of social distinction, leading men of wealth and enterprise in the commercial community, and see what they have voted for and suffered to be voted for, I think no community was ever so politely and elegantly betrayed.

Commercial-Room, n. (1)

    ET8 5.129 24 In every [English] inn is the Commercial-Room...

Commines, Philippe de, n. (2)

    ET5 5.82 10 Philip de Commines says, Now, in my opinion, among all the sovereignties I know in the world, that in which the public good is best attended to...is that of England.
    Elo2 8.122 4 ...there are persons of natural fascination, with...winning manners, almost endearments in their style;...like Louis XI. of France, whom Comines praises for the gift of managing all minds by his accent...

commiseration, n. (2)

    ET9 5.146 17 I have found that Englishmen have such a good opinion of England that...the New Yorker or Pennsylvanian who modestly laments the disadvantage of a new country, log-huts and savages, is surprised by the instant and unfeigned commiseration of the whole company...
    Trag 12.407 6 [Fate] is the terrible meaning that...makes the Oedipus and Antigone and Orestes objects of such hopeless commiseration.

commissariat, n. (2)

    Cour 7.273 12 The meal and water that are the commissariat of the forlorn hope that stake their lives to defend the pass are sacred as the Holy Grail...
    OA 7.324 21 To perfect the commissariat, [Nature] implants in each a certain rapacity to get the supply, and a little oversupply, of his wants.

commissaries, n. (2)

    SR 2.87 6 The Emperor held it impossible to make a perfect army, says Las Casas, without abolishing our...commissaries and carriages...
    NMW 4.248 13 If [the land-commander] allows himself to be guided by the commissaries [Napoleon remarks] he will never stir...

commission, n. (9)

    DSA 1.136 1 ...any complaisance would be criminal which told you, whose hope and commission it is to preach the faith of Christ, that the faith of Christ is preached.
    LE 1.184 25 ...in the counting-room the merchant cares little whether...the transaction [be] a letter of credit or a transfer of stocks; be it what it may, his commission comes gently out of it;...
    YA 1.385 1 How gladly would each citizen pay a commission for the support and continuation of good guidance.
    Hist 2.27 22 ...men of God have from time to time...made their commission felt in the heart and soul of the commonest hearer.
    NER 3.275 12 ...a naval and military honor, a general's commission...have this lustre for each candidate that they enable him to walk erect and unashamed in the presence of some persons before whom he felt himself inferior.
    NMW 4.231 18 They charge me, [Bonaparte] said, with the commission of great crimes: men of my stamp do not commit crimes.
    HDC 11.57 25 ...Major [Simon] Willard...incurred the censure of the Commissioners, who write to their loving friend Major Willard, that they leave to his consideration the inconveniences arising from his non-attendance to his commission.
    HDC 11.78 1 ...[William Emerson] asked, and obtained of the town [Concord], leave to accept the commission of chaplain to the Northern army, at Ticonderoga...
    SMC 11.365 24 In the fall of 1861, the old artillery company of this town [Concord] was reorganized, and Captain Richard Barrett received a commission in March, 1862, from the state, as its commander.

Commission of the Philologic (1)

    Plu 10.321 7 I hope the Commission of the Philological Society in London...will not overlook these volumes [the 1718 edition of Plutarch]...

Commission, Sanitary, n. (4)

    PC 8.208 23 The war gave us...the success of the Sanitary Commission...
    Chr2 10.118 9 The power that in other times inspired...the modern revivals, flies...to the reform of convicts and harlots,-as the war created...the Sanitary Commission...
    FRO1 11.480 21 The soul of our late war...was...secondly, to abolish the mischief of the war itself, by healing and saving the sick and wounded soldiers,-and this by the sacred bands of the Sanitary Commission.
    FRep 11.538 18 ...if the spirit which...put forth such gigantic energy in the charity of the Sanitary Commission, could be waked to the conserving and creating duty of making the laws just and humane, it were to enroll a great constituency of religious...obeyers of duty...

commissioner, n. (1)

    FSLC 11.184 15 ...what is the use of constitutions, if all the guaranties provided by the jealousy of ages for the protection of liberty are made of no effect, when a bad act of Congress finds a willing commissioner?

Commissioner, n. (3)

    SlHr 10.437 21 At the time when [Samuel Hoar] went to South Carolina as the Commissioner of Massachusetts in 1844...he was repeatedly warned that it was not safe for him to appear in public...
    AgMs 12.361 14 The Commissioner [Henry Colman] advises the farmers to sell their cattle and their hay in the fall...
    AgMs 12.362 5 One would think that Mr. D. [Elias Phinney] and Major S. [Abel Moore] were the pillars of the Commonwealth. The good Commissioner [Henry Colman] takes off his hat when he approaches them...

Commissioner, Patent-Office (1)

    QO 8.179 1 The Patent-Office Commissioner knows that all machines in use have been invented and re-invented over and over;...

commissioners, n. (5)

    ET18 5.300 27 During the Australian emigration [from England], multitudes were rejected by the commissioners as being too emaciated for useful colonists.
    SlHr 10.443 12 ...in his own town, if some important end was to be gained, as, for instance, when the county commissioners refused to rebuild the burned court-house...all parties combined to send Mr. Hoar to the Legislature...
    EWI 11.113 19 The Ministers...proposed to give the [West Indian] planters...20,000,000 pounds sterling...to be distributed to the owners of slaves by commissioners...
    EWI 11.115 8 I will not repeat to you the well-known paragraph, in which Messrs, Thome and Kimball, the commissioners sent out in the year 1837... describe the occurrences of that night [of emancipation] in the island of Antigua.
    ACiv 11.308 12 A week before the two captive commissioners were surrendered to England, every one thought it could not be done...

Commissioners, n. (3)

    HDC 11.57 22 This war [with the Niantic Indians] seems to have been... eluctantly entered by Massachusetts. Accordingly, Major [Simon] Willard did the least he could, and incurred the censure of the Commissioners...
    HDC 11.58 3 Philip surrendered seventy guns to the Commissioners in Taunton Meeting-house...
    HDC 11.59 1 [King Philip] stoutly declared to the Commissioners that he would not deliver up a Wampanoag...

Commissioners, State, n. (1)

    AgMs 12.363 16 These [poor farmers] should be holden up to imitation, and their methods detailed; yet their houses are very uninviting and inconspicuous to State Commissioners.

Commissioners, Water, n. (1)

    Thor 10.466 15 The result of the recent survey of the Water Commissioners appointed by the State of Massachusetts [Thoreau] had reached by his private experiments...

commissions, n. (2)

    ShP 4.205 10 It appears...that [Shakespeare]...was intrusted by his neighbors with their commissions in London...
    ET11 5.184 22 In the army, the [English] nobility fill a large part of the high commissions...

commit, v. (14)

    LT 1.273 17 What does [the wealthy man]...but resolve...to find himself out some factor, to whose care and credit he may commit the whole managing of his religious affairs;...
    Tran 1.337 7 I, [Jacobi] says, am...that godless person who, in opposition to an imaginary doctrine of calculation...would perjure myself like Epaminondas and John de Witt;...I would commit sacrilege with David;...
    Comp 2.116 3 Commit a crime, and the earth is made of glass.
    Comp 2.116 4 Commit a crime, and it seems as if a coat of snow fell on the ground, such as reveals in the woods the track of every partridge...
    NMW 4.231 19 They charge me, [Bonaparte] said, with the commission of great crimes: men of my stamp do not commit crimes.
    Pow 6.67 5 There was no crime which [Boniface] did not or could not commit.
    Ctr 6.151 15 ...dress makes a little restraint; men will not commit themselves.
    Dem1 10.19 7 It would be easy in the political history of every time to furnish examples of this irregular success, men having a force which without virtue...yet makes them prevailing. ... The crimes they commit...are strangely overlooked...
    SovE 10.197 24 ...if I violate myself, if I commit a crime, the lightning loiters by the speed of retribution...
    FSLC 11.191 3 ...if any human law should allow or enjoin us to commit a crime ([Blackstone's] instance is murder), we are bound to transgress that human law;...
    FSLC 11.194 12 ...the womb conceives and the breasts give suck to thousands and millions of hairy babes formed not in the image of your statute, but in the image of the Universe;...necessitated to express first or last every feeling of the heart. ... You can commit no crime, for they are created in their sentiments conscious of and hostile to it;...
    ACiv 11.302 7 In this national crisis, it is not argument that we want, but that rare courage which dares commit itself to a principle...
    MAng1 12.236 25 ...[Michelangelo] replies [to the Duke of Tuscany]...that he hoped he should shortly see the execution of his plans [for St. Peter's] brought to such a point that they could no longer be interfered with...if, he adds, I do not commit a great crime by disappointing the cormorants who are daily hoping to get rid of me.
    Trag 12.411 20 A man should not commit his tranquillity to things...

commits, v. (3)

    GoW 4.267 4 What [men who have acted] have done commits and enforces them to do the same again.
    FSLN 11.237 15 A man who commits a crime defeats the end of his existence.
    EPro 11.319 15 The force of the act [the Emancipation Proclamation] is that it commits the country to this justice...

committed, adj. (1)

    SR 2.49 11 As soon as [a man] has once acted or spoken with eclat he is a committed person...

committed, v. (18)

    MoS 4.172 19 ...parties wish every one committed...
    GoW 4.268 16 It is not from men excellent in any kind that disparagement of any other is to be looked for. With such, Talleyrand's question is ever the main one; not, is he rich? is he committed?...but...does he stand for something?
    GoW 4.276 16 Goethe would have no word that does not cover a thing. The same measure will still serve [with the Devil]: I have never heard of any crime which I might not have committed.
    ET7 5.122 13 [Englishmen] like a man committed to his objects.
    ET12 5.202 2 Here [at Oxford]...John Milton's Pro Populo Anglicano Defensio and Iconoclastes were committed to the flames.
    ET19 5.313 7 Is it not true, sir, that the wise ancients did not praise the ship parting with flying colors from the port, but only that brave sailor which came back...stript of her banners, but having ridden out the storm? And so... I feel in regard to this aged England...irretrievably committed as she now is to many old customs which cannot be suddenly changed;...
    F 6.11 9 Jesus said, When he looketh on her, he hath committed adultery.
    F 6.12 25 It was a poetic attempt...to reconcile this despotism of race with liberty, which led the Hindoos to say, Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.
    Wth 6.110 18 ...it turns out that the largest proportion of crimes are committed by foreigners.
    Cour 7.259 25 When we get an advantage...it is because our adversary has committed a fault...
    Dem1 10.16 5 We do not think the young will be forsaken; but he is fast approaching the age when the sub-miraculous external protection and leading are withdrawn and he is committed to his own care.
    Edc1 10.158 21 ...to whatsoever beating heart I speak, to you it is committed to educate men.
    Schr 10.264 20 The men committed by profession as well as by bias to study...talk hard and worldly...
    Schr 10.281 21 Matter, says Plutarch, is a privation. Let the man of ideas at this hour be as direct, and as fully committed.
    Carl 10.494 6 ...[Carlyle] detects in an instant if a man stands for any cause to which he is not born and organically committed.
    EWI 11.131 15 If such a damnable outrage [kidnapping of freeborn negroes] can be committed on the person of a citizen with impunity, let the Governor break the broad seal of the State;...
    Bost 12.192 13 [The Massachusett colonists' experience] seems to have been the last outrage ever committed by the sting-rays...
    Let 12.397 15 ...there is no chance for the aesthetic village. Every one of the villagers has committed his several blunder;...

Committee, Abolitionist, n. (1)

    Thor 10.460 22 ...[Thoreau] sent notices to most houses in Concord that he would speak in a public hall on the condition and character of John Brown, on Sunday evening, and invited all people to come. The Republican Committee, the Abolitionist Committee, sent him word that it was premature, and not advisable.

committee, adj. (2)

    TPar 11.288 15 ...[it will be] in the plain lessons of Theodore Parker...in legislative committee rooms, that the true temper and the authentic record of these days will be read.
    FRO1 11.477 4 I came [to the Free Religious Association], as I supposed myself summoned, to a little committee meeting...

Committee, Hospital, n. (1)

    Con 1.319 22 ...society has resolved itself into a Hospital Committee...

Committee, Kansas, n. (1)

    AKan 11.261 11 The President told the Kansas Committee that the whole difficulty grew from the factious spirit of the Kansas people...

Committee, London, n. (2)

    EWI 11.110 5 The [English] assailants of slavery had early agreed to limit their political action on this subject to the abolition of the trade, but Granville Sharpe...whilst he acted as chairman of the London Committee, felt constrained to record his protest against the limitation...
    EWI 11.127 24 ...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.

Committee, Massachusetts St (1)

    GSt 10.502 5 ...in 1856 [George Stearns] organized the Massachusetts State Kansas Committee...

committee, n. (22)

    OS 2.285 25 In full court, or in small committee...men offer themselves to be judged.
    ET2 5.25 21 ...the proposal [to lecture in England] offered an excellent opportunity of seeing the interior of England and Scotland, by means of a home and a committee of intelligent friends awaiting me in every town.
    ET7 5.116 19 ...any slipperiness in the [English] government of political faith...would bring the whole nation to a committee of inquiry and reform.
    ET12 5.202 22 ...the committee charged with the affair [the purchase of Thomas Lawrence's art collection] had collected three thousand pounds...
    ET12 5.213 6 Genius exists there [in the college] also, but will not answer a call of a committee of the House of Commons.
    Elo1 7.75 20 In a Senate or other business committee, the solid result depends on a few men with working talent.
    Elo1 7.75 27 In a Senate or other business committee, the solid result depends on a few men with working talent. They...value men only as they can forward the work. But a new man comes there who...is insignificant, and nobody in the committee...
    WD 7.177 9 How wistfully, when we have promised to attend the working committee, we look at the distant hills and their seductions!
    Cour 7.259 18 ...the part of the leader and soul of the vigilance committee, must be taken by stout and sincere men...
    PI 8.7 7 ...as soon as once thought begins, it refuses to remember whose brain it belongs to;...and goes whirling off...in a direction self-chosen, by law of thought and not by law of kitchen clock or county committee.
    MoL 10.246 8 Dickens complained that in America, as soon as he arrived in any of the Western towns, a committee waited on him and invited him to deliver a temperance lecture.
    HDC 11.46 2 It was on doubts concerning their own power, that, in 1634, a committee repaired to [John Winthrop] for counsel...
    HDC 11.71 14 On the 26th of the month [September, 1774], the whole town [Concord] resolved itself into a committee of safety...
    EWI 11.142 19 [West Indian negroes] receive hints and advances from the whites that they will be gladly received...as members of this or that committee of trust.
    JBS 11.281 19 ...our blind statesmen go up and down...hunting for the origin of this new heresy [abolition]. They will need a very vigilant committee indeed to find its birthplace...
    SMC 11.356 8 Our farmers went to Kansas as peaceable, God-fearing men as the members of our school committee here.
    SHC 11.429 1 Citizens and Friends: The committee to whom was confided the charge of carrying out the wishes of the town [Concord] in opening the [Sleep Hollow] cemetary...have thought it fit to call the inhabitants together...
    Humb 11.457 10 ...a man's natural powers are often a sort of committee that slowly...give their attention and action;...
    FRO1 11.477 13 ...it does great honor to the sensibility of the committee [of the Free Religious Association] that they have felt the universal demand in the community for just the movement they have begun.
    FRO1 11.480 25 I wish that the various beneficent institutions which are springing up...all over this country, should all be remembered as within the sphere of this committee [of the Free Religious Association]...
    CInt 12.131 6 ...'t is very certain that an examination is yonder before us and an examining committee that cannot be escaped or deceived...
    ACri 12.292 8 A Mr. Randall, M. C., who appeared before the committee of the House of Commons on the subject of the American mode of closing a debate, said, that the one-hour rule worked well; made the debate short and graphic.

Committee, n. (1)

    LLNE 10.353 9 Could not the conceiver of [Fourier's] design have also believed...that the method of each associate might be trusted, as well as that of his particular Committee and General Office...

Committee of Investigation, (1)

    AKan 11.256 9 Do the Committee of Investigation say that the outrages [in Kansas] have been overstated?

Committee on the Harper's F (1)

    GSt 10.504 5 [George Stearns's] examination before the United States Senate Committee on the Harper's Ferry Invasion...is a chapter well worth reading...

Committee, Provincial, of S (1)

    HDC 11.72 23 A large amount of military stores had been deposited in this town [Concord], by order of the Provincial Committee of Safety.

Committee, Republican, n. (1)

    Thor 10.460 21 ...[Thoreau] sent notices to most houses in Concord that he would speak in a public hall on the condition and character of John Brown, on Sunday evening, and invited all people to come. The Republican Committee, the Abolitionist Committee, sent him word that it was premature, and not advisable.

Committee-room, n. (1)

    Ctr 6.153 3 [The English] have piqued themselves on governing the whole world in the poor, plain, dark Committee-room which the House of Commons sat in, before the fire.

committees, n. (7)

    Bhr 6.171 15 Your manners are always under examination, and by committees little suspected...
    Wsp 6.225 9 The way to conquer the foreign artisan is, not to kill him, but to beat his work. And the Crystal Palaces and World Fairs, with their committees and prizes on all kinds of industry, are the result of this feeling.
    Elo1 7.80 5 A barrister in England is reputed to have made thirty or forty thousand pounds per annum in representing the claims of railroad companies before committees of the House of Commons.
    LLNE 10.360 2 ...the work [at Brook Farm] was distributed in orderly committees to the men and women.
    HDC 11.68 7 ...in answer to letters received from the united committees of correspondence, in the vicinity of Boston, the town [of Concord] say: We cannot possibly view with indifference the...endeavors of the enemies of this...country, to rob us of those rights, that are the distinguishing glory and felicity of this land;...
    JBS 11.281 16 ...our blind statesmen go up and down, with committees of vigilance and safety, hunting for the origin of this new heresy [abolition].
    FRep 11.534 25 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...by organizing themselves into committees of vigilance.

Committees of Safety, n. (1)

    AKan 11.263 10 ...I think the towns should hold town meetings, and resolve themselves into Committees of Safety...

Committees', Union, n. (1)

    FSLC 11.202 7 [Webster] must learn...that he who was their pride in the woods and mountains of New England is now their mortification...they have thrust his speeches into the chimney. No roars of New York mobs can drown this voice in Mr. Webster's ear. It will outwhisper all the salvos of the Union Committees' cannon.

committing, v. (1)

    CL 12.155 9 ...says Linnaeus...as soon as I got upon the Norway Alps I seemed to have acquired a new existence. I felt as if relieved from a heavy burden. Then, spending a few days in the low country of Norway, though without committing the least excess, my languor or heaviness returned.

commodious, adj. (1)

    Supl 10.168 1 [People of English stock's] houses are...designed...to stand as commodious, rentable tenements for a century or two.

commodities, n. (6)

    MR 1.231 19 ...we eat and drink and wear perjury and fraud in a hundred commodities.
    Gts 3.160 7 ...[fruits] are the flower of commodities...
    DL 7.111 3 [The citizen] brings home whatever commodities and ornaments have for years allured his pursuit...
    HDC 11.69 4 ...the purchasing commodities subject to such illegal taxation is an explicit, though an impious and sordid resignation of the liberties of this free and happy people.
    HDC 11.80 10 [The people of Concord] fell into a common error...that the remedy was, to forbid the great importation of foreign commodities...
    EPro 11.316 16 [Movement toward liberty]...is as when an orator...having run over the superficial fitness and commodities of the measure he urges... announces with vibrating voice the grand human principles involved;...

commodity, n. (18)

    Nat 1.12 7 Under the general name of commodity, I rank all those advantages which our senses owe to nature.
    Nat 1.16 17 The influence of the forms and actions in nature is so needful to man, that, in its lowest functions, it seems to lie on the confines of commodity and beauty.
    Nat 1.41 16 ...the use of commodity, regarded by itself, is mean and squalid.
    LE 1.171 16 ...Truth is...so untransportable and unbarrelable a commodity...
    MR 1.237 20 ...it is...the hunter, and the planter, who have intercepted...the cotton of the cotton. They have got the education, I only the commodity.
    Con 1.324 13 Whatsoever streams of power and commodity flow to me, shall of me acquire healing virtue...
    SR 2.77 16 Prayer that craves a particular commodity...is vicious.
    Fdsp 2.205 7 We chide the citizen because he makes love a commodity.
    Int 2.342 4 [He in whom the love of repose predominates] gets rest, commodity and reputation;...
    Gts 3.163 2 ...if the gift pleases me overmuch, then I should be ashamed that the donor should read my heart, and see that I love his commodity, and not him.
    Pol1 3.206 10 A cent is the representative of a certain quantity of corn or other commodity.
    NER 3.256 17 ...if I had not that commodity [money], I should be put on my good behavior in all companies...
    ET14 5.247 7 The brilliant Macaulay...explicitly teaches that good means... material commodity;
    ET14 5.248 3 The critic [in England] hides his skepticism under the English cant of practical. To convince the reason, to touch the conscience, is romantic pretension. The fine arts fall to the ground. Beauty, except as luxurious commodity, does not exist.
    Bty 6.289 3 The most useful man in the most useful world, so long as only commodity was served, would remain unsatisfied.
    Dem1 10.25 10 [Animal Magnetism] becomes...a black art. The uses of the thing, the commodity, the power, at once come to mind...
    LLNE 10.345 22 [The pilgrim] thought every one should labor at some necessary product, and as soon as he had made more than enough for himself...he should give of the commodity to any applicant...
    SlHr 10.446 3 ...so entirely was [Samuel Hoar's] respect to the ground-plan and substructure of society a natural ability...and not for tickling commodity, that it was admirable...

Commodity, n. (1)

    Nat 1.12 5 Whoever considers the final cause of the world will discern a multitude of uses that enter as parts into that result. They all admit of being thrown into one of the following classes: Commodity; Beauty; Language; and Discipline.

common, adj. (245)

    Nat 1.5 4 In enumerating the values of nature...I shall use the word...in its common and in its philosophical import.
    Nat 1.5 8 Nature, in the common sense, refers to essences unchanged by man;...
    Nat 1.22 8 ...in common life whosoever has seen a person of powerful character...will have remarked how easily he took all things along with him...
    Nat 1.23 25 A leaf, a sunbeam, a landscape, the ocean, make an analogous impression on the mind. What is common to them all...is beauty.
    Nat 1.37 7 What tedious training...to form the common sense;...
    AmS 1.107 3 [The poor and the low] are content to be brushed like flies from the path of a great person, so that justice shall be done by him to that common nature...
    DSA 1.147 9 ...let us not aim at common degrees of merit.
    LE 1.177 20 [The scholar] must bear his share of the common load.
    MN 1.191 11 ...it is a common calamity if [the scholars] neglect their post in a country where the material interest is so predominant as it is in America.
    MR 1.227 7 ...our life, as we lead it, is common and mean;...
    MR 1.247 22 ...we must clear ourselves each one by the interrogation, whether we have earned our bread to-day by the hearty contribution of our energies to the common benefit;...
    MR 1.253 11 We complain that the politics of masses of the people are... led in opposition to manifest justice and the common weal...
    Tran 1.341 1 ...many intelligent and religious persons withdraw themselves from the common labors and competitions of the market and the caucus...
    Tran 1.342 2 ...it would not misbecome us to inquire...what these companions and contemporaries of ours think and do, at least so far as these thoughts and actions appear to be...common to many...
    Tran 1.343 25 ...it is a fidelity to this sentiment [Love] which has made common association distasteful to [Transcendentalists.]
    YA 1.374 10 ...we would have a common granary for the poor;...
    YA 1.380 23 These [Communities] proceeded...from an impatience of many usages in common life...
    YA 1.384 2 Whether...the objection almost universally felt by such women in the community as were mothers, to an associate life, to a common table... will not prove insuperable, remains to be determined.
    YA 1.384 3 Whether...the objection almost universally felt by such women in the community as were mothers, to an associate life, to...a common nursery, etc....will not prove insuperable, remains to be determined.
    YA 1.389 15 ...the bold face and tardy repentance permitted to this local mischief [Repudiation] reveal a public mind so preoccupied with the love of gain that the common sentiment of indignation at fraud does not act with its natural force.
    YA 1.391 22 One thing is plain for all men of common sense and common conscience...
    YA 1.391 23 One thing is plain for all men of common sense and common conscience...
    Hist 2.3 1 There is one mind common to all individual men.
    Hist 2.17 2 In a certain state of thought is the common origin of very diverse works.
    Hist 2.17 8 ...common souls pay with what they do, nobler souls with that which they are.
    Hist 2.19 10 I have seen a snow-drift along the sides of the stone wall which obviously gave the idea of the common architectural scroll to abut a tower.
    SR 2.62 26 ...power and estate, are a gaudier vocabulary than private John and Edward in a...common day's work;...
    SR 2.64 10 In that deep force...all things find their common origin.
    SR 2.74 27 ...it demands something godlike in him who has cast off the common motives of humanity...
    Comp 2.114 5 What we buy in a broom, a mat, a wagon, a knife, is some application of good sense to a common want.
    SL 2.141 19 The pretence that [a man] has another call, a summons by... outward signs that mark him extraordinary and not in the roll of common men, is fanaticism...
    SL 2.142 5 The common experience is that the man fits himself as well as he can to the customary details of that work or trade he falls into...
    SL 2.161 1 Common men are apologies for men;...
    Fdsp 2.191 14 In poetry and in common speech the emotions of benevolence and complacency which are felt towards others are likened to the material effects of fire;...
    Fdsp 2.201 8 ...I leave, for the time, all account of subordinate social benefit [of friendship], to speak of that select and sacred relation...which even leaves the language of love suspicious and common...
    Fdsp 2.207 18 In good company the individuals merge their egotism into a social soul exactly co-extensive with the several consciousnesses there present. ... Only he may then speak who can sail on the common thought of the party...
    Prd1 2.222 27 The first class have common sense; the second, taste; and the third, spiritual perception.
    Prd1 2.232 9 [The man of talent's] art is...less for every defect of common sense.
    Prd1 2.233 5 The scholar shames us by his bifold life. Whilst something higher than prudence is active, he is admirable; when common sense is wanted, he is an encumbrance.
    Prd1 2.238 23 If you meet a sectary or a hostile partisan...meet on what common ground remains...
    Hsm1. 2.252 8 [Heroism's] jest is the littleness of common life.
    Hsm1 2.255 20 It is a height to which common duty can very well attain, to suffer and to dare with solemnity.
    Hsm1 2.258 26 ...[many extraordinary young men] enter an active profession and the forming Colossus shrinks to the common size of man.
    Hsm1 2.261 18 ...to live with some rigor of temperance, or some extremes of generosity, seems to be an asceticism which common good-nature would appoint to those who are at ease and in plenty...
    OS 2.268 24 The Supreme Critic on the errors of the past and the present... is...that common heart of which all sincere conversation is the worship...
    OS 2.273 20 In common speech we refer all things to time...
    OS 2.276 23 I am certified of a common nature;...
    OS 2.277 10 In all conversation between two persons tacit reference is made, as to a third party, to a common nature.
    OS 2.277 10 In all conversation between two persons tacit reference is made, as to a third party, to a common nature. That third party or common nature is not social;...
    OS 2.277 24 There is a certain wisdom of humanity which is common to the greatest men with the lowest...
    OS 2.282 10 What was in the case of these remarkable persons a ravishment, has, in innumerable instances in common life, been exhibited in less striking manner.
    OS 2.288 17 [Genius] is a larger imbibing of the common heart.
    OS 2.290 24 ...the soul that ascends to worship the great God...dwells...in the earnest experience of the common day...
    Cir 2.311 3 In common hours, society sits cold and statuesque.
    Cir 2.315 25 Blessed be nothing and The worse things are, the better they are are proverbs which express the transcendentalism of common life.
    Int 2.325 24 Intellect and intellection signify to the common ear consideration of abstract truth.
    Int 2.330 16 ...the differences between men in natural endowment are insignificant in comparison with their common wealth.
    Int 2.336 12 In common hours we have the same facts as in the uncommon or inspired...
    Int 2.345 12 ...you will find [your consciousness] is no recondite, but a simple, natural, common state which the writer restores to you.
    Art1 2.358 8 The reference of all production at last to an aboriginal Power explains the traits common to all works of the highest art...
    Pt1 3.5 4 [The poet]...apprises us not of his wealth, but of the common wealth.
    Pt1 3.29 13 ...the poet's habit of living should be set on a key so low that the common influences should delight him.
    Pt1 3.31 22 ...Aesop reports the whole catalogue of common daily relations through the masquerade of birds and beasts;...
    Gts 3.160 14 For common gifts, necessity makes pertinences and beauty every day...
    Nat2 3.183 25 Common sense knows its own...
    Nat2 3.183 27 The common sense of Franklin, Dalton, Davy and Black is the same common sense which made the arrangements which now it discovers.
    Nat2 3.184 1 The common sense of Franklin, Dalton, Davy and Black is the same common sense which made the arrangements which now it discovers.
    Pol1 3.212 19 ...an abstract of the codes of nations would be a transcript of the common conscience.
    Pol1 3.213 24 All forms of government symbolize an immortal government, common to all dynasties and independent of numbers...
    NER 3.278 20 Could [the proposition of depravity] be received into common belief, suicide would unpeople the planet.
    UGM 4.7 24 Our common discourse respects two kinds of use or service from superior men.
    UGM 4.31 22 As to what we call the masses, and common men,--there are no common men.
    UGM 4.32 9 Some rays escape the common observer...
    UGM 4.34 6 The vessels on which you read sacred emblems turn out to be common pottery;...
    PPh 4.78 27 ...when we praise the style, or the common sense, or arithmetic [of Plato], we speak as boys...
    SwM 4.95 17 In common parlance, what one man is said to learn by experience, a man of extraordinary sagacity is said, without experience, to divine.
    SwM 4.96 15 ...the soul having heretofore known all, nothing hinders but that any man who has recalled to mind, or according to the common phrase has learned, one thing only, should of himself recover all his ancient knowledge...
    SwM 4.101 15 There is a common portrait of [Swedenborg] in antique coat and wig...
    SwM 4.123 23 What earnestness and weightiness [in Swedenborg]... without one swell of vanity, or one look to self in any common form of literary pride!...
    SwM 4.124 16 ...what is real and universal cannot be confined to the circle of those who sympathize strictly with [Swedenborg's] genius, but will pass forth into the common stock of wise and just thinking.
    SwM 4.145 6 Do not rely...on prudence, on common sense...
    MoS 4.169 20 ...[Montaigne] says, might I have had my own will, I would not have married Wisdom herself, if she would have had me, but 't is to much purpose to evade it, the common custom and use of life will have it so.
    MoS 4.176 6 Presently a new experience gives a new turn to our thoughts: common sense resumes its tyranny;...
    MoS 4.180 23 Some minds are incapable of skepticism. The doubts they profess to entertain are rather a civility or accommodation to the common discourse of their company.
    MoS 4.182 26 [The wise and magninimous] will exult in [the spiritualist's] far-sighted good-will that can abandon to the adversary all the ground of tradition and common belief...
    ShP 4.218 14 ...had [Shakespeare] reached only the common measure of great authors...we might leave the fact in the twilight of human fate...
    NMW 4.225 19 [The man in the street] finds [Napoleon], like himself, by birth a citizen, who, by very intelligible merits, arrived as such a commanding position that he could indulge all those tastes which the common man possesses but is obliged to conceal and deny...
    NMW 4.227 20 Bonaparte was the idol of common men because he had in transcendent degree the qualities and powers of common men.
    NMW 4.227 22 Bonaparte was the idol of common men because he had in transcendent degree the qualities and powers of common men.
    NMW 4.233 16 [Napoleon] is firm, sure...not misled, like common adventurers, by the splendor of his own means.
    NMW 4.240 27 The market-place, [Napoleon] said, is the Louvre of the common people.
    NMW 4.245 4 Seventeen men in [Napoleon's] time were raised from common soldiers to the rank of king, marshal, duke, or general;...
    NMW 4.253 21 ...[Napoleon] has not the merit of common truth and honesty.
    ET1 5.6 27 Greenough brought me, through a common friend, an invitation from Mr. Landor...
    ET1 5.24 6 ...[Wordsworth] said he wished to show me what a common person in England could do...
    ET5 5.99 22 Though not military, yet every common subject [in England] by the poll is fit to make a soldier of.
    ET8 5.130 24 ...you shall find in the common [English] people a surly indifference, sometimes gruffness and ill temper;...
    ET8 5.133 23 The common Englishman is prone to forget a cardinal article in the bill of social rights, that every man has a right to his own ears.
    ET8 5.134 16 ...here [in England] exists the best stock in the world...men of...strong instincts, yet apt for culture;...abysmal temperament, hiding wells of wrath, and glooms on which no sunshine settles, alternated with a common sense and humanity which hold them fast to every piece of cheerful duty;...
    ET10 5.170 9 [England] too is in the stream of fate, one victim more in a common catastrophe.
    ET14 5.232 1 A strong common sense...marks the English mind for a thousand years;...
    ET14 5.234 23 Even in its elevations materialistic, [England's] poetry is common sense inspired;...
    ET14 5.235 22 To the images from this twin source (of Christianity and art), the mind became fruitful as by the incubation of the Holy Ghost. The English mind flowered in every faculty. The common sense was surprised and inspired.
    ET14 5.236 17 There is a hygienic simpleness...in the common style of the [English] people...
    ET14 5.240 8 Bacon, capable of ideas, yet devoted to ends, required in his map of the mind, first of all, universality, or prima philosophia; the receptacle for all such profitable observations and axioms as fall not within the compass of any of the special parts of philosophy, but are more common and of a higher stage.
    ET14 5.240 21 [Bacon] explained himself by giving various quaint examples of the summary or common laws of which each science has its own illustration.
    ET16 5.283 15 I chanced to see, a year ago, men at work...in Boston, swinging a block of granite of the size of the largest of the Stonehenge columns, with an ordinary derrick. The men were common masons, with paddies to help...
    ET18 5.306 1 You cannot account for [Englishmen's] success by their Christianity, commerce, charter, common law, Parliament, or letters...
    Wth 6.85 12 [A man] fails to make his place good in the world unless he not only pays his debt but also adds something to the common wealth.
    Ctr 6.151 8 How the imagination is piqued by anecdotes...of Goethe, who preferred trifling subjects and common expressions in intercourse with strangers...
    Ctr 6.157 5 The more I know you [wrote Neander to his sacred friends], the more I dissatisfy and must dissatisfy all my wonted companions. Their very presence stupefies me. The common understanding withdraws itself from the one centre of all existence.
    Bhr 6.176 14 The obstinate prejudice in favor of blood...has some reason in common experience.
    Bhr 6.183 24 What is the talent of that character so common--the successful man of the world--in all marts, senates and drawing-rooms?
    CbW 6.247 5 Fine society, in the common acceptation, has neither ideas nor aims.
    CbW 6.271 3 Our habit of thought...is not satisfying; in the common experience I fear it is poor and squalid.
    Bty 6.304 9 Facts which had never before left their stark common sense suddenly figure as Eleusinian mysteries.
    SS 7.3 22 There was some paralysis on [my new friend's] will, such that when he met men on common terms he spoke weakly...
    SS 7.10 10 ...this banishment to the rocks and echoes no metaphysics can make right or tolerable. This result is so against nature...that it must be corrected by a common sense and experience.
    Art2 7.43 19 ...being applied primarily to the common necessities of man, [language] is not new-created by the poet for his own ends.
    Art2 7.48 23 The artist who is to produce a work which is to be admired... by all men...must...be...one through whom the soul of all men circulates as the common air through his lungs.
    Elo1 7.88 11 The statement of the fact...sinks before the statement of the law, which...is a rarest gift, being...in lawyers nothing technical, but always some piece of common sense...
    Elo1 7.88 13 Lord Mansfield's merit is the merit of common sense.
    Elo1 7.89 23 By applying the habits of a higher style of thought to the common affairs of this world, [the orator] introduces beauty and magnificence wherever he goes.
    DL 7.132 7 The language of a ruder age has given to common law the maxim that every man's house is his castle...
    WD 7.158 26 ...our common and indispensable utensils of house and farm are new;...
    WD 7.169 19 ...in the common experience of the scholar, the weathers fit his moods.
    WD 7.175 6 ...that flexile clay of which these old brothers moulded their admirable symbols...was common lime and silex and water and sunlight...
    Boks 7.191 8 College education is the reading of certain books which the common sense of all scholars agrees will represent the science already accumulated.
    Cour 7.255 19 'T is said courage is common...
    Cour 7.255 23 Animal resistance...is no doubt common;...
    Cour 7.269 3 The judge...squarely accosts the question, and by not being afraid of it...he sees presently that common arithmetic and common methods apply to this affair.
    Cour 7.269 4 The judge...squarely accosts the question, and by not being afraid of it...he sees presently that common arithmetic and common methods apply to this affair.
    Cour 7.269 12 ...a new book astonishes for a few days, takes itself out of common jurisdiction...
    Cour 7.275 14 ...the rack, the fire...appear trials beyond the endurance of common humanity;...
    Suc 7.292 3 ...nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing...
    OA 7.318 22 ...looking at age under an aspect more conformed to the common sense, if the question be the felicity of age, I fear the first popular judgments will be unfavorable.
    PI 8.3 1 The perception of matter is made the common sense, and for cause.
    PI 8.3 8 Poverty, frost, famine, disease, debt, are the beadles and guardsmen that hold us to common sense.
    PI 8.3 11 The restraining grace of common sense is the mark of all the valid minds...
    PI 8.3 14 The common sense which does not meddle with the absolute... believes in the existence of matter...because it agrees with ourselves...
    PI 8.5 27 ...we see...that the secret cords or laws show their well-known virtue through every variety...and the interest is gradually transferred from the forms to the lurking method. This hint...upsets...the common sense side of religion and literature...
    PI 8.6 19 ...whilst the man is startled by this closer inspection of the laws of matter, his attention is called to the independent action of the mind;...a certain tyranny which springs up in his own thoughts, which have an order, method and beliefs of their own, very different from the order which this common sense uses.
    PI 8.19 7 Whilst common sense looks at things or visible Nature as real and final facts, poetry, or the imagination which dictates it, is a second sight...
    PI 8.21 21 A thought...pressed, followed, opened, dwarfs...all but itself. But this second sight does not necessarily impair the primary or common sense.
    PI 8.22 27 ...Thomson's Seasons and the best parts of many old and many new poets are simply enumerations by a person who felt the beauty of the common sights and sounds...
    PI 8.46 19 If you hum or whistle the rhythm of the common English metres...you can easily believe these metres to be organic...
    PI 8.52 2 With...the first strain of a song, we quit the world of common sense...
    PI 8.53 14 Poetry being an attempt to express, not the common sense,--as the avoirdupois of the hero...but the beauty and soul in his aspect...runs into fable, personifies every fact...
    SA 8.98 21 The law of the table is...a respect to the common soul of all the guests.
    SA 8.99 2 Lovers abstain from caresses and haters from insults whilst they sit in one parlor with common friends.
    Elo2 8.109 8 Not on its base Monadnoc surer stood,/ Than [the patriot] to common sense and common good/...
    Elo2 8.126 2 Dr. Johnson said, There is in every nation...a certain mode of phraseology so consonant to the analogy and principles of its respective language as to remain settled and unaltered. This style is to be sought in the common intercourse of life among those who speak only to be understood...
    Elo2 8.128 10 This unmanliness [lack of eloquence] is so common a result of our half-education...that I wish [a boy's] guardians to consider that they are thus preparing him to play a contemptible part when he is full-grown.
    Elo2 8.130 9 Declamation is common;...
    Res 8.143 4 America is...such a magazine of power, that at her shores all the common rules of political economy utterly fail.
    QO 8.189 2 In common prudence there is an early limit to this leaning on an original.
    PC 8.209 22 Men are now to be astonished by seeing acts of...common civility...proposed by statesmen...
    Insp 8.279 12 Aristotle said: No great genius was ever without some mixture of madness, nor can anything grand or superior to the voice of common mortals be spoken except by the agitated soul.
    Grts 8.319 13 ...a very common [illusion] is the opinion you hear expressed in every village: O yes, If I lived in New York...there might be fit society;...
    Imtl 8.345 2 Do you think that the eternal chain of cause and effect...leaves out this desire of God and men [for immortality] as...altogether cheap and common...
    Dem1 10.20 6 There is one world common to all who are awake...
    Dem1 10.22 7 A Highland chief, an Indian sachem or a feudal baron may fancy...that he is not in the roll of common men...
    Dem1 10.23 6 ...the so-called fortunate man is one...who, in actions of a low or common pitch, relies on his instincts...
    Aris 10.37 6 The common man is the victim of events.
    Aris 10.64 6 You must, for wisdom, for sanity, have some access to the mind and heart of the common humanity.
    Chr2 10.104 25 ...sometimes also [the moral sentiment] is the source, in natures less pure, of sneers and flippant jokes of common people, who feel that the forms and dogmas are not true for them...
    Edc1 10.137 25 I suffer whenever I see that common sight of a parent or senior imposing his opinion and way of thinking and being on a young soul...
    Edc1 10.148 13 Whilst we all know in our own experience and apply natural methods in our own business,-in education our common sense fails us...
    Supl 10.169 24 The common people diminish...
    Supl 10.172 7 ...the gallant skipper...complained to his owners that he had pumped the Atlantic Ocean three times through his ship on the passage, and 't was common to strike seals and porpoises in the hold.
    Supl 10.174 4 I will bask in the common sun a while longer.
    Supl 10.174 24 Nor is there in Nature itself any swell, any brag, any strain or shock, but a firm common sense through all her elephants and lions...
    SovE 10.184 5 In ignorant ages it was common to vaunt the human superiority by underrating the instinct of other animals;...
    MoL 10.256 6 Very little reliance must be put on the common stories that circulate of this great senator's or that great barrister's learning...
    Schr 10.280 8 ...there is but one defence against this principle of chaos, and that is the principle of order, or brave return at all hours to an infinite common sense...
    Plu 10.298 25 ...a good son, husband, father and friend,-[Plutarch] has a taste for common life...
    LLNE 10.333 25 [Everett] had nothing in common with vulgarity and infirmity...
    LLNE 10.343 5 As these persons became in the common chances of society acquainted with each other, there resulted certainly strong friendships...
    LLNE 10.365 8 Married women I believe uniformly decided against the community. It was to them like the brassy and lacquered life in hotels. The common school was well enough, but to the common nursery they had grave objections.
    LLNE 10.368 14 Few people can live together on their merits. There must be kindred...or a common interest in their business...
    EzRy 10.393 3 [Ezra Ripley] watched with interest...all the common objects that engage the thought of the farmer.
    EzRy 10.393 7 The usual experiences of men...the common temptations... [Ezra Ripley] studied them all...
    EzRy 10.393 8 The usual experiences of men...the common ambitions,- [Ezra Ripley] studied them all...
    MMEm 10.413 23 The feverish lust of notice perhaps in all these cases would injure the heart of common refinement and virtue.
    SlHr 10.439 26 ...[Samuel Hoar] had a strong, unaffected interest in...the common incidents of rural life.
    SlHr 10.445 11 It is singular that [Samuel Hoar's] character should make so deep an impression, standing and working as he did on so common a ground.
    SlHr 10.447 26 ...Mr. Hoar remarked that Judge Marshall could afford to lose brains enough to furnish three or four common men, before common men would find it out.
    SlHr 10.447 27 ...Mr. Hoar remarked that Judge Marshall could afford to lose brains enough to furnish three or four common men, before common men would find it out.
    Thor 10.462 7 [Thoreau] had a strong common sense...
    Thor 10.464 6 [Thoreau's] robust common sense, armed with stout hands, keen perceptions and strong will, cannot yet account for the superiority which shone in his simple and hidden life.
    LS 11.12 21 ...[the disciples] threw all their property into a common stock;...
    HDC 11.29 3 By a common consent, the people of New England, for a few years past, as the second centennial anniversary of each of its early settlements arrived, have seen fit to observe the day.
    HDC 11.80 7 [The people of Concord] fell into a common error...that the remedy was, to forbid the great importation of foreign commodities...
    HDC 11.86 17 ...I believe this town [Concord] to have been the dwelling-place, in all times since its planting, of pious and excellent persons, who walked meekly through the paths of common life...
    EWI 11.136 8 I was a slave, said the counsel of [George] Somerset, speaking for his client, for I was in America: I am now in a country where the common rights of mankind are known and regarded.
    War 11.167 12 At a still higher stage, [man] comes into the region of holiness;...being attacked, he bears it and turns the other cheek, as one engaged, throughout his being, no longer to the service of an individual but to the common soul of all men.
    War 11.167 26 ...chiefly it is said,-Either accept this principle [of peace]... and meet its absurd consequences; or else...give up the principle, and take that limit which the common sense of all mankind has set...
    FSLC 11.191 8 Lord Coke held that where an Act of Parliament is against common right and reason, the common law shall control it...
    FSLC 11.207 4 ...I conceive it demonstrated,-the necessity of common sense and justice entering into the laws.
    FSLC 11.208 12 Why in the name of common sense and the peace of mankind is not [abolition] made the subject of instant negotiation and settlement?
    AKan 11.259 1 In this country for the last few years the government has been the chief obstruction to the common weal.
    JBB 11.270 19 ...a common feeling joins the people of Massachusetts with [John Brown].
    ALin 11.333 26 ...the weight and penetration of many passages in [Lincoln' s] letters, messages and speeches...are destined hereafter to wide fame. What pregnant definitions; what unerring common sense;...
    SMC 11.349 20 ...it is a piece of nature and the common sense that the throbbing chord that holds us to our kindred, our friends and our town, is not to be denied or resisted...
    SMC 11.350 12 ...the virtues we are met to honor...were exerted for the protection of our common country...
    SMC 11.355 18 ...the common people [in the South], rich or poor, were the narrowest and most conceited of mankind...
    SMC 11.359 18 [George Prescott] was...engaged in common duties...
    RBur 11.438 2 He was the music to whose tone/ The common pulse of man keeps time/ In cot or castle's mirth or moan,/ In cold or sunny clime./
    RBur 11.440 18 [Burns's] muse and teaching was common sense...
    RBur 11.441 15 [Burns] has given voice to all the experiences of common life;...
    Shak1 11.450 5 ...Shakspeare, by his transcendant reach of thought, so unites the extremes, that, whilst he...like a street-bible, furnishes sayings to the market, courts of law, the senate, and common discourse,-he is yet to all wise men the companion of the closet.
    Scot 11.466 3 ...[Scott's] eminent humanity delighted in the sense and virtue and wit of the common people.
    FRep 11.516 27 Cant is good to provoke common sense.
    FRep 11.517 2 The trance-mediums, the rebel paradoxes, exasperate the common sense.
    FRep 11.517 7 The lodging the power in the people...has the effect of holding things closer to common sense;...
    FRep 11.540 22 [The Constitution and the law in America] should be mankind's...Royal Proclamation of the Intellect...announcing its good pleasure that now...the world shall be governed by common sense and law of morals.
    PLT 12.4 1 Could we have...the exhaustive accuracy of distribution which chemists use in their nomenclature...applied...to those laws...which are common to chemistry, anatomy...laws of the world?
    PLT 12.23 13 ...it is the common remark of the student, Could I only have begun with the same fire which I had on the last day, I should have done something.
    PLT 12.30 22 When, moved by love, a man...joins with his neighbor in any act of common benefit...it is not done for others, but to fulfil a high necessity of his proper character.
    PLT 12.34 26 Ever at intervals leaps a word or fact to light which is no man's invention, but the common instinct...
    PLT 12.36 27 In its lower function, when it deals with the apparent world, [Instinct] is common sense.
    PLT 12.43 27 We believe that certain persons add to the common vision a certain degree of control over these states of mind;...
    CInt 12.118 6 Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense and of simple justice...
    CInt 12.130 2 My friend, stretch a few threads over a common Aeolian harp, and put it in your window, and listen to what it says of times and the heart of Nature.
    CL 12.147 7 According to the common estimate of farmers, the wood-lot yields its gentle rent of six per cent....
    CW 12.175 6 ...a common spy-glass...will show the satellites of Jupiter...
    Bost 12.193 4 The common eye cannot tell what the bird will be, from the egg...
    MAng1 12.216 1 [Michelangelo] nothing common did, or mean...
    MAng1 12.219 16 The common eye is satisfied with the surface on which it rests.
    Milt1 12.258 27 ...[Milton] writes: Many have been celebrated for their compositions, whose common conversation and intercourse have betrayed no marks of sublimity or genius.
    Milt1 12.267 17 ...Milton deserved the apostrophe of Wordsworth;-Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free,/ So didst thou travel on life's common way/ In cheerful godliness;.../
    Milt1 12.277 16 What schools and epochs of common rhymers would it need to make a counterbalance to the severe oracles of [Milton's] muse...
    ACri 12.284 2 Chiefly in this country, the common school has added two or three audiences [for the writer]: once, we had only the boxes; now, the galleries and the pit.
    ACri 12.284 10 This [national] style is probably to be sought in the common intercourse of life...
    ACri 12.285 17 ...[George Borrow] had one clear perception, that the key to every country was command of the language of the common people.
    ACri 12.304 23 When I read Plutarch, or look at a Greek vase, I incline to accept the common opinion of scholars, that the Greeks had clearer wits than any other people.
    MLit 12.319 15 Nothing certifies the prevalence of this [subjective] taste in the people more than the circulation of the poems...of Coleridge, Shelley and Keats. The only unity is in the subjectiveness and the aspiration common to the three writers.
    MLit 12.321 15 There is in [Wordsworth] that property common to all great poets, a wisdom of humanity, which is superior to any talents which they exert.
    MLit 12.323 6 ...[Goethe] has a perfect propriety and taste,-a quality by no means common to the German writers.
    MLit 12.324 26 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 obelisk of Egypt, as growing out of a common natural fracture in the granite parallelopiped in Upper Egypt;...
    MLit 12.325 9 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, which one may verify in common daylight in Venice every afternoon;...
    MLit 12.332 8 That Goethe had not a moral perception proportionate to his other powers...is the cardinal fact of health or disease; since, lacking this, he...with divine endowments, drops by irreversible decree into the common history of genius.
    MLit 12.332 10 [Goethe] was content to...spend on common aims his splendid endowments...
    WSL 12.344 9 [Landor] has the common prejudices of an English landholder;...
    PPr 12.386 10 Every object [in Carlyle] attitudinizes...and instead of the common earth and sky, we have a Martin's Creation or Judgment Day.

Common, Boston, n. (1)

    Elo2 8.127 16 ...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...

Common Law, n. (2)

    ShP 4.200 15 The nervous language of the Common Law, the impressive forms of our courts...are the contribution of all the sharp-sighted, strong-minded men who have lived in the countries where these laws govern.
    ET5 5.100 14 ...[the English people's] language seems drawn from the Bible, the Common Law and the works of Shakspeare, Bacon, Milton, Pope, Young, Cowper, Burns and Scott.

common, n. (25)

    Nat 1.9 18 Crossing a bare common...I have enjoyed a perfect exhilaration.
    Nat 1.74 27 The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.
    AmS 1.110 23 ...the near, the low, the common, was explored and poetized.
    AmS 1.111 11 ...I embrace the common...
    MN 1.202 2 When we have spent our wonder in computing this wasteful hospitality with which boon Nature turns off new firmaments without end into her wide common...one can hardly help asking...whether it be quite worth while to...glut the innocent space with so poor an article.
    Hsm1 2.260 9 The heroic cannot be the common, nor the common the heroic.
    Cir 2.310 15 In conversation we pluck up the termini which bound the common of silence on every side.
    Nat2 3.176 10 The stars at night stoop down over the brownest, homeliest common with all the spiritual magnificence which they shed on the Campagna...
    ShP 4.193 21 Shakspeare, in common with his comrades, esteemed the mass of old plays waste stock...
    NMW 4.227 25 Bonaparte wrought, in common with that great class he represented, for power and wealth...
    ET1 5.24 27 It is not very rare to find persons loving sympathy and ease, who expatiate their departure from the common in one direction, by their conformity in every other.
    ET5 5.87 22 ...if you offer to lay hand on [the Englishman's] day's wages, on...his right in common...he will fight to the Judgment.
    ET5 5.88 7 ...it must be owned [the English] are capable of larger views; but the indulgence...costs great crises, or accumulations of mental power. In common, the horse works best with blinders.
    ET13 5.221 26 The English, in common perhaps with Christendom in the nineteenth century, do not respect power, but only performance;...
    CbW 6.267 19 On experiment the horizon...leaves us on an endless common...
    WD 7.176 19 We owe to genius always the same debt, of lifting the curtain from the common...
    Suc 7.298 3 Now it costs a rare combination of clouds and lights to overcome the common and mean.
    LLNE 10.357 18 I regard these philanthropists as themselves the effects of the age in which we live, and, in common with so many other good facts, the efflorescence of the period and predicting a good fruit that ripens.
    HDC 11.39 11 ...if, in common with all the settlements, [the settlers of Concord] found the air of America very cold, they might say with Higginson...that...all Europe is not able to afford to make so great fires as New England.
    HDC 11.71 9 In September [1774], incensed at the new royal law which made the judges dependent on the crown, the inhabitants [of Concord] assembled on the common...
    HDC 11.84 13 If, at any time, in common with most of our towns, [our fathers] have carried this economy to the verge of a vice, it is to be remembered that a town is, in many respects, a financial corporation.
    LVB 11.90 9 In common with the great body of the American people, we have witnessed with sympathy the painful labors of these red men [the Cherokees] to redeem their own race from the doom of eternal inferiority...
    PLT 12.43 6 I owe to genius always the same debt, of lifting the curtain from the common...
    ACri 12.294 14 [Shakespeare's] muse is moral simply from its depth, and I value the intermixture of the common and the transcendental as in Nature.
    Let 12.392 1 ...we are very liable, in common with the letter-writing world, to fall behind-hand in our correspondence;...

Common, n. (1)

    CbW 6.277 10 ...your theories and plans of life are fair and commendable:-- but will you stick? Not one, I fear, in that Common full of people...

Common Pleas, Court of, n. (1)

    HDC 11.81 8 In 1786...a large party of armed insurgents arrived in this town [Concord]...to hinder the sitting of the Court of Common Pleas.

Common Sense, n. (1)

    LE 1.182 20 At one pole is Reason; at the other, Common Sense.

commonalty, n. (1)

    ET5 5.76 1 A nobility of soldiers cannot keep down a commonalty of shrewd scientific persons.

commoner, n. (3)

    YA 1.377 4 ...[the nobles'] frolics turn out to be insulting and degrading to the commoner.
    YA 1.393 13 It is a questionable compensation to the embittered feeling of a proud commoner, the reflection that a fop...is himself also an aspirant excluded with the same ruthlessness from higher circles...
    ET5 5.84 19 The Englishman wears a sensible coat...of rough but solid and lasting texture. If he is a lord, he dresses a little worse than a commoner.

commoners, n. (1)

    ET11 5.173 12 The hopes of the commoners [in England] take the same direction with the interest of the patricians.

commonest, adj. (7)

    Hist 2.27 23 ...men of God have from time to time...made their commission felt in the heart and soul of the commonest hearer.
    Exp 3.63 12 I think I will never read any but the commonest books...
    NR 3.246 22 We keep a running fire of sarcasm at ignorance and the life of the senses; then goes by, perchance, a fair girl...making the commonest offices beautiful...
    PPh 4.71 1 Socrates, a man...of the commonest history;...
    Bhr 6.190 1 Under the humblest roof, the commonest person in plain clothes sits there massive, cheerful, yet formidable...
    Elo1 7.82 8 ...the commonest populace is flattered by hearing its low mind returned to it with every ornament which happy talent can add.
    PLT 12.25 17 The commonest remark, if the man could only extend it a little, would make him a genius;...

commonly, adv. (36)

    Nat 1.46 21 ...when [our friend] has...become an object of thought, and...is converted in the mind into solid and sweet wisdom...he is commonly withdrawn from our sight in a short time.
    LT 1.268 12 Here is the innumerable multitude of those who accept the state and the church from the last generation, and stand on no argument but possession. They have reason also, and, as I think, better reason than is commonly stated.
    YA 1.394 6 ...in England, the fact seems to me intolerable, what is commonly affirmed, that such is the transcendent honor accorded to wealth and birth, that no man of letters...is received into the best society, except as a lion and a show.
    Hist 2.8 23 ...[each man] must transfer the point of view from which history is commonly read...to himself...
    SR 2.48 10 ...one babe commonly makes four or five out of the adults who prattle and play to it.
    Comp 2.99 12 ...the President has paid dear for his White House. It has commonly cost him all his peace...
    Comp 2.126 17 The death of a dear friend, wife, brother, lover, which seemed nothing but privation, somewhat later assumes the aspect of a guide or genius; for it commonly operates revolutions in our way of life...
    SL 2.140 8 I say, do not choose; but that is a figure of speech by which I would distinguish what is commonly called choice among men, and which is a partial act...and not a whole act of the man.
    Prd1 2.237 15 Let [a man] front the object of his worst apprehension, and his stoutness will commonly make his fear groundless.
    OS 2.271 2 What we commonly call man...does not...represent himself, but misrepresents himself.
    Mrs1 3.128 6 Great men are not commonly in [fashion's] halls;...
    Mrs1 3.153 1 For the present distress...of those who are predisposed to suffer from the tyrannies of this caprice [of society], there are easy remedies. To remove your residence a couple of miles, or at most four, will commonly relieve the most extreme susceptibility.
    Pol1 3.204 20 We are kept by better guards than the vigilance of such magistrates as we commonly elect.
    NR 3.244 24 It is commonly said by farmers that a good pear or apple costs no more time or pains to rear than a poor one;...
    ET7 5.119 14 In comparing [the English] ships' houses and public offices with the American, it is commonly said that they spend a pound where we spend a dollar.
    ET7 5.125 19 The French, it is commonly said, have greatly more influence in Europe than the English.
    ET9 5.148 13 A man's personal defects will commonly have, with the rest of the world, precisely that importance which they have to himself.
    F 6.33 4 ...whilst art draws out the venom, it commonly extorts some benefit from the vanquished enemy.
    Pow 6.65 27 Philanthropic and religious bodies do not commonly make their executive officers out of saints.
    Wth 6.118 7 It is commonly observed that a sudden wealth, like a prize drawn in a lottery or a large bequest to a poor family, does not permanently enrich.
    Wth 6.124 14 The good merchant [finds] large gains, ships, stocks and money. The good poet [finds] fame and literary credit; but not either the other. Yet there is commonly a confusion of expectations on these points.
    Farm 7.141 24 We commonly say that the rich man can speak the truth...
    Clbs 7.230 7 ...thoughts commonly go in pairs;...
    PI 8.35 25 On the stage, the farce is commonly far better given than the tragedy...
    PI 8.63 5 We are sometimes apprised that there is a mental power and creation more excellent that anything which is commonly called philosophy and literature;...
    QO 8.178 18 Our debt to tradition through reading and conversation is so massive, our protest or private addition so rare and insignificant,-and this commonly on the ground of other reading or hearing,-that...one would say there is no pure originality.
    Grts 8.302 9 What we commonly call greatness is only such in our barbarous or infant experience.
    Schr 10.279 5 Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character...
    EzRy 10.394 6 In all such passages [with people] [Ezra Ripley] justified himself to the conscience, and commonly to the love, of the persons concerned.
    Thor 10.455 13 [Thoreau] said,-I have a faint recollection of pleasure derived from smoking dried lily-stems, before I was a man. I had commonly a supply of these.
    Wom 11.410 5 We commonly say that easy circumstances seem somehow necessary to the finish of the female character...
    Wom 11.415 21 A second epoch for Woman was in France,-entirely civil; the change of sentiment from a rude to a polite character, in the age of Louis XIV,-commonly dated from the building of the Hotel de Rambouillet.
    PLT 12.50 13 ...each power is commonly at the expense of some other.
    II 12.65 13 We have a certain blind wisdom...a seminal brain...which seems to sheathe a certain omniscience; and which, in the despair of language, is commonly called Instinct.
    CL 12.136 7 ...the necessity of exercise and the nomadic instinct are always stirring the wish to travel, and in the spring and summer, it commonly gets the victory.
    MAng1 12.223 10 There is a closer relation than is commonly thought between the fine arts and the useful arts;...

commonplace, adj. (6)

    PPh 4.43 14 [Great geniuses] lived in their writings, and so their house and street life was trivial and commonplace.
    CbW 6.255 23 Some of [the people] went [to California] with honest purposes, some with very bad ones, and all of them with the very commonplace wish to find a short way to wealth.
    PC 8.212 9 ...I say, Happy is the land wherein benefits like these have grown trite and commonplace.
    Supl 10.170 24 ...the great official...declared that he should remember this honor to the latest moment of his existence. He was answered again by officials. Pity, thought I, they should lie so about their keen sensibility...to the commonplace compliment of a dinner.
    Plu 10.322 18 If over-read in this decade, so that his anecdotes and opinions become commonplace...[Plutarch's] sterling values will presently recall the eye and thought of the best minds...
    MMEm 10.413 6 I [Mary Moody Emerson] walked yesterday five or more miles...just fit for the society I went into, all mildness and the most commonplace virtue.

Commonplace Book [Robert S (1)

    QO 8.184 1 ...we find in Southey's Commonplace Book this said of the Earl of Strafford: I learned one rule of him, says Sir G. Radcliffe, which I think worthy to be remembered.

commonplace, n. (3)

    Fdsp 2.203 6 I knew a man who under a certain religious frenzy...omitting all compliment and commonplace, spoke to the conscience of every person he encountered...
    SA 8.82 18 It is a commonplace of romances to show the ungainly manners of the pedant who has lived too long in college.
    CL 12.144 22 ...'t is a commonplace, which I have frequently heard spoken in Illinois, that it was a manifest leading of the Divine Providence that the New England states should have been first settled before the Western country was known, or they would never have been settled at all.

commonplaces, n. (4)

    DSA 1.139 14 There is poetic truth concealed in all the commonplaces of prayer and of sermons...
    ET1 5.14 16 ...I...find it impossible to recall the largest part of [Coleridge' s] discourse, which was often like so many printed paragraphs in his book... so readily did he fall into certain commonplaces.
    Wth 6.95 27 The pulpit and the press have many commonplaces denouncing the thirst for wealth;...
    PC 8.211 1 People have in all countries been burned and stoned for saying things which are commonplaces at all our breakfast-tables.

Commons, House of, n. (32)

    Mrs1 3.142 1 Parliamentary history has few better passages than the debate in which Burke and Fox separated in the House of Commons;...
    ET4 5.64 15 In the last session (1848), the House of Commons was listening to the details of flogging and torture practised in the jails.
    ET4 5.73 24 Every [English] inn-room is lined with pictures of races;...and the House of Commons adjourns over the Derby Day.
    ET5 5.86 6 Lord Palmerston told the House of Commons that more care is taken of the health and comfort of English troops than of any other troops in the world;...
    ET5 5.90 3 Sir Samuel Romilly refused to speak in popular assemblies, confining himself to the House of Commons...
    ET5 5.90 5 The business of the House of Commons is conducted by a few persons...
    ET8 5.128 27 ...a kind of pride in bad public speaking is noted in the House of Commons...
    ET10 5.154 22 In 1809, the majority in Parliament expressed itself by the language of Mr. Fuller in the House of Commons, If you do not like the country, damn you, you can leave it.
    ET11 5.197 17 The lawyers, said Burke, are only birds of passage in this House of Commons...
    ET12 5.213 6 Genius exists there [in the college] also, but will not answer a call of a committee of the House of Commons.
    ET13 5.221 15 ...gentlemen lately testified in the House of Commons that in their lives they never saw a poor man in a ragged coat inside a church.
    ET13 5.227 4 Brougham, in a speech in the House of Commons on the Irish elective franchise, said, How will the reverend bishops of the other house be able to express their due abhorrence of the crime of perjury...
    Ctr 6.153 3 [The English] have piqued themselves on governing the whole world in the poor, plain, dark Committee-room which the House of Commons sat in, before the fire.
    CbW 6.253 22 Edward I. wanted money, armies, castles, and as much as he could get. It was necessary to call the people together by shorter, swifter ways,--and the House of Commons arose.
    CbW 6.253 26 In the twenty-fourth year of his reign [Edward I] decreed that no tax should be levied without consent of Lord and Commons;...
    CbW 6.260 10 Charles James Fox said of England, The history of this country proves that we are not to expect from men in affluent circumstances the vigilance, energy and exertion without which the House of Commons would lose its greatest force and weight.
    Elo1 7.80 6 A barrister in England is reputed to have made thirty or forty thousand pounds per annum in representing the claims of railroad companies before committees of the House of Commons.
    Elo1 7.90 12 A popular assembly, like the House of Commons...is commanded by these two powers,--first by a fact, then by skill of statement.
    Elo2 8.113 9 After Sheridan's speech in the trial of Warren Hastings, Mr. Pitt moved an adjournment, that the House might recover from the overpowering effect of Sheridan's oratory.
    Aris 10.62 21 The English House of Commons is the proudest assembly of gentlemen in the world...
    Aris 10.62 23 ...the genius of the House of Commons, its legitimate expression, is a sneer.
    MoL 10.244 18 Parliaments of Love and Poesy served [the people of the Middle Ages], instead of the House of Commons, Congress and the newspapers.
    EWI 11.109 5 Mr. Pitt and Mr. Fox were drawn into the generous enterprise [emancipation of West Indian slaves]. In 1788, the House of Commons voted Parliamentary inquiry.
    EWI 11.112 3 ...in 1833, on the 14th May, Lord Stanley, Minister of the Colonies, introduced into the House of Commons his bill for the Emancipation.
    EWI 11.120 26 The Queen, in her speech to the Lords and Commons, praised the conduct of the emancipated population [of Jamaica]...
    EWI 11.127 5 The House of Commons would destroy the protection of [West Indian] island produce...
    EWI 11.127 27 ...when, in 1789, the first privy council report of evidence on the [slave] trade...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.
    EWI 11.141 14 In 1791, Mr. Wilberforce announced to the House of Commons, We have already gained one victory: we have obtained for these poor creatures [West Indian negroes] the recognition of their human nature...
    CPL 11.505 8 Hear the testimony of Seldon, the oracle of the English House of Commons in Cromwell's time.
    ACri 12.287 23 ...the lowest classifying words outvalue arguments; as... lubber, puppy, peacock-A cocktail House of Commons.
    ACri 12.292 8 A Mr. Randall, M. C., who appeared before the committee of the House of Commons on the subject of the American mode of closing a debate, said, that the one-hour rule worked well; made the debate short and graphic.
    EurB 12.366 21 In the debates on the Copyright Bill...Mr. Sergeant Wakley, the coroner, quoted Wordsworth's poetry in derision, and asked the roaring House of Commons what that meant...

commons, n. (4)

    ET4 5.73 11 ...rich Englishmen have followed [William the Conqueror's] example...n encroaching on the tillage and commons with their game-preserves.
    ET10 5.167 16 The incessant repetition of the same hand-work dwarfs the man...to make a pin-polisher, a buckle-maker, or any other specialty; and presently...whole towns are sacrificed...when cotton takes the place of linen...or when commons are enclosed by landlords.
    HDC 11.41 27 The first record [of Concord] now remaining is that of...the appropriation of new lands as commons or pastures to some poor men.
    HDC 11.64 12 The public charity seems to have been bestowed in a manner now obsolete [in Concord]. The town lends its commons as pastures, to poor men;...

common-sense, n. (13)

    Art1 2.362 5 Nothing astonishes men so much as common-sense and plain dealing.
    Exp 3.67 13 To-morrow again every thing looks real and angular...common-sense is as rare as genius...
    NER 3.259 5 ...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.
    PPh 4.61 8 A great common-sense is [Plato's] warrant and qualification to be the world's interpreter.
    NMW 4.230 13 That common-sense which no sooner respects any end than it finds the means to effect it; the delight in the use of means;...make [Bonaparte] the natural organ and head of what I may almost call, from its extent, the modern party.
    NMW 4.247 13 [Napoleon's] power does not consist...in any...singular power of persuasion; but in the exercise of common-sense on each emergency...
    NMW 4.248 15 An example of [Napoleon's] common-sense is what he says of the passage of the Alps in winter...
    GoW 4.268 22 [A man] must be good of his kind. That is...all that the common-sense of mankind asks.
    ET3 5.36 4 The practical common-sense of modern society...is the natural genius of the British mind.
    ET5 5.82 27 Montesquieu said, No people have true common-sense but those who are born in England.
    ET5 5.83 1 This [English] common-sense is a perception of all the conditions of our earthly existence;...
    Wth 6.100 4 The right merchant is one who has the just average of faculties we call common-sense;...
    Wsp 6.218 20 The moment of your...acceptance of the lucrative standard will be marked in the pause or solstice of genius... The vulgar are sensible of the change in you, and of your descent, though they clap you on the back and congratulate you on your increased common-sense.

commonweal, n. (1)

    MN 1.201 9 There is no revolt in all the kingdoms from the commonweal...

Commonwealth, Agricultural (1)

    AgMs 12.360 5 [Edmund Hosmer] had been reading the report of the Agricultural Survey of the Commonwealth...

Commonwealth, English, n. (3)

    FSLN 11.242 7 [Scholars and literary men] are lovers of liberty in Greece and Rome and in the English Commonwealth...
    EPro 11.315 19 Such moments of expansion [of liberty] in modern history were the Confession of Augsburg...the English Commonwealth of 1648...
    Wom 11.407 18 Mrs. Lucy Hutchinson, one of the heroines of the English Commonwealth, who wrote the life of her husband, the Governor of Nottingham, says, If he esteemed her at a higher rate than she in herself could have deserved, he was the author of that virtue he doted on...

commonwealth, n. (12)

    LT 1.279 26 ...the man of ideas...judges of the commonwealth from the state of his own mind.
    Hsm1 2.249 21 Let [a man] hear in season...that the commonwealth and his own well-being require that he should not go dancing in the weeds of peace...
    Exp 3.74 26 If I am not at the meeting, my presence where I am should be as useful to the commonwealth of friendship and wisdom, as would be my presence in that place.
    Pol1 3.209 23 The vice of our leading parties in this country...is that they... lash themselves to fury in the carrying of some local and momentary measure, nowise useful to the commonwealth.
    UGM 4.33 16 ...the smallest acquisition of truth or of energy, in any quarter, is so much good to the commonwealth of souls.
    ET8 5.143 5 [The English] choose that welfare which is compatible with the commonwealth...
    Wth 6.106 2 In a free and just commonwealth, property rushes from the idle and imbecile to the industrious, brave and persevering.
    Elo1 7.86 26 I remember long ago being attracted...into the court-room. The prisoner's counsel were the strongest and cunningest lawyers in the commonwealth.
    PC 8.207 2 We meet to-day under happy omens...to the commonwealth of letters...
    SlHr 10.446 19 No person was more keenly alive to the stabs which the ambition and avarice of men inflicted on the commonwealth [than Samuel Hoar].
    HDC 11.45 20 [The settlers] were to settle the internal constitution of the towns, and, at the same time, their power in the commonwealth.
    JBB 11.270 4 It were bold to affirm that there is within that broad commonwealth, at this moment, another citizen as worthy to live, and as deserving of all public and private honor, as this poor prisoner [John Brown].

Commonwealth, n. (3)

    YA 1.380 19 Witness too the spectacle of three Communities which have within a very short time sprung up within this Commonwealth...
    Bost 12.194 11 Who can read the pious diaries of the Englishmen in the time of the Commonwealth and later, without a sigh that we write no diaries to-day?
    AgMs 12.362 4 One would think that Mr. D. [Elias Phinney] and Major S. [Abel Moore] were the pillars of the Commonwealth.

Commonwealth of Man, n. (1)

    Schr 10.275 17 The ends I have hinted at made the scholar or spiritual man indispensable to the Republic or Commonwealth of Man.

Commonwealth of Massachusett (1)

    EWI 11.130 4 ...I see...poor black men of obscure employment...in ships, yet citizens of this our Commonwealth of Massachusetts,-freeborn as we,-whom the slave-laws of the States of South Carolina and Georgia and Louisiana have arrested in the vessels in which they visited those ports...

commonwealths, n. (1)

    War 11.153 18 [Alexander's conquest of the East] had the effect of uniting into one great interest the divided commonwealths of Greece...

commune, v. (2)

    Pray 12.352 11 ...thou, O my Father, knowest I always delight to commune with thee in my lone and silent heart;...
    Pray 12.353 4 If there is no hour of solitude granted me, still I will commune with thee [My Father].

communicable, adj. (3)

    Int 2.335 18 To be communicable [the thought] must become picture or sensible object.
    UGM 4.28 6 It seems as if the Deity dressed each soul which he sends into nature in certain virtues and powers not communicable to other men...
    Bhr 6.170 2 Manners are very communicable;...

communicableness, n. (1)

    ET5 5.99 10 ...the intellectual organization of the English admits a communicableness of knowledge and ideas among them all.

communicants, n. (1)

    LS 11.17 14 I appeal now to the convictions of communicants [in the Lord' s Supper], and ask such persons whether they have not been occasionally conscious of a painful confusion of thought between the worship due to God and the commemoration due to Christ.

communicate, v. (34)

    Nat 1.29 25 A man's power to connect his thought with its proper symbol... depends...upon his love of truth and his desire to communicate it without loss.
    Nat 1.31 15 We know more from nature than we can at will communicate.
    DSA 1.130 12 Historical Christianity has fallen into the error that corrupts all attempts to communicate religion.
    LE 1.174 9 ...set your habits to a life of solitude;...you will have results, which, when you meet your fellow-men, you can communicate...
    LE 1.184 8 ...out of this superior frankness and charity you shall learn higher secrets of your nature, which gods will bend and aid you to communicate.
    MN 1.220 22 Shall we not...betake ourselves to...some unvisited recess in Moosehead Lake, to bewail our innocency and to recover it, and with it the power to communicate again with these sharers of a more sacred idea?
    LT 1.288 16 ...where but in that Thought through which we communicate with absolute nature...shall we learn the Truth?
    YA 1.383 23 One man...with [a dime]...buys...pen, ink, and paper, or a painter's brush, by which he can communicate himself to the human race as if he were fire;...
    SR 2.58 23 Men imagine that they communicate their virtue or vice only by overt actions...
    SR 2.65 27 It must be that when God speaketh he should communicate, not one thing, but all things;...
    SL 2.135 1 Could ever a man of prodigious mathematical genius convey to others any insight into his methods? If he could communicate that secret it would instantly lose its exaggerated value...
    SL 2.142 10 Until he can manage to communicate himself to others in his full stature and proportion, [a man] does not yet find his vocation.
    SL 2.142 17 ...whatever in his apprehension is worth doing, that let [a man] communicate...
    SL 2.152 3 If [a man] can communicate himself he can teach, but not by words.
    SL 2.152 17 ...we know that these gentlemen will not communicate their own character and experience to the company.
    Exp 3.74 17 [Just persons] believe that we communicate without speech and above speech...
    NER 3.266 22 Men will live and communicate...as by added ethereal power, when once they are united;...
    UGM 4.19 24 The power which [the best men] communicate is not theirs.
    PPh 4.75 12 ...the figure of Socrates by a necessity placed itself in the foreground of the scene, as the fittest dispenser of the intellectual treasures [Plato] had to communicate.
    SwM 4.116 18 [Swedenborg says] I intend hereafter to communicate a number of examples of such correspondences [between the natural and spiritual worlds]...
    NMW 4.238 20 [Bonaparte's] instructions to his secretary at the Tuileries are worth remembering. During the night, enter my chamber as seldom as possible. Do not awake me when you have any good news to communicate;...
    GoW 4.262 15 [The man] loves to communicate;...
    ET4 5.73 22 Every [English] inn-room is lined with pictures of races; telegraphs communicate, every hour, tidings of the heats from Newmarket and Ascot;...
    Elo1 7.91 2 ...the truly eloquent man is a sane man with power to communicate his sanity.
    Clbs 7.228 16 How sweet those hours when the day was not long enough to communicate and compare our intellectual jewels...
    SA 8.86 22 The attitude is the main point, assuring your companion that... you remain in good heart and good mind, which is the best news you can possibly communicate.
    Grts 8.320 12 ...the difference of level...makes eloquence, indignation, poetry, in him who finds there is much to communicate.
    Aris 10.40 14 If the finders of glass, gunpowder, printing, electricity... should keep their secrets, or only communicate them to each other, must not the whole race of mankind serve them as gods?
    Edc1 10.126 23 Those [animals] called domestic are capable of learning of man a few tricks of utility or amusement, but they cannot communicate the skill to their race.
    Schr 10.289 3 ...if I could prevail to communicate the incommunicable mysteries, you [scholars] should see the breadth of your realm;...
    Plu 10.322 8 It is a service to our Republic to publish a book that can force ambitious young men...to read...the Apothegms of Great Commanders [of Plutarch]. If we could keep the secret, and communicate it only to a few chosen aspirants, we might confide that, by this noble infiltration, they would easily carry the victory over all competitors.
    LS 11.3 22 In the Fourth Lateran Council, it was decreed that any believer should communicate at least once in a year...
    JBS 11.279 25 A shepherd and herdsman, [John Brown]...knew the secret signals by which animals communicate.
    CPL 11.508 18 It is the joy of nations that man can communicate all his thoughts, discoveries and virtues to records that may last for centuries.

communicated, v. (13)

    ShP 4.203 18 ...I find, among [Wotton's] correspondents and acquaintances...Paul Sarpi, Arminius, with all of whom exists some token of his having communicated...
    Bty 6.292 8 The pleasure a palace or a temple gives the eye is, that an order and method has been communicated to stones...
    Elo1 7.93 4 ...the main distinction between [the eloquent man] and other well-graced actors is the conviction, communicated by every word, that his mind is contemplating a whole...
    Clbs 7.249 8 ...in the sections of the British Association more information is mutually and effectually communicated, in a few hours, than in many months of ordinary correspondence...
    PPo 8.237 13 That for which mainly books exist is communicated in these rich extracts [from Persian poetry].
    Aris 10.62 6 ...[the true man] is to know...that there is a master grace and dignity communicated by exalted sentiments to a human form...
    LLNE 10.332 3 [Everett's learning] was so coldly and weightily communicated from so commanding a platform...that...this learning instantly took the highest place to our imagination...
    GSt 10.503 20 ...there are few men with real or supposed influence, North or South, with whom [George Stearns] has not at some time communicated.
    FSLC 11.192 7 Sire, said the brave Orte, governor of Bayonne, in his letter, I have communicated your majesty's command to your faithful inhabitants and warriors in the garrison, and I have found there only good citizens, and brave soldiers; not one hangman...
    SMC 11.370 15 ...Word was sent by General Barnes, that, when we retired, we should fall back under cover of the woods. This order was communicated to Colonel Prescott...
    MAng1 12.224 27 After an active and successful service to the city [Florence] for six months, Michael Angelo was informed of a treachery that was ripening within the walls. He communicated it to the government with his advice upon it;...
    Milt1 12.273 15 [Milton] wished that his writings should be communicated only to those who desired to see them.
    ACri 12.301 14 [The founder of New City] had transferred to that city [Chicago] the magnificent dreams which he had once communicated to me...

communicates, v. (10)

    Nat 1.51 22 In a higher manner the poet communicates the same pleasure.
    Pt1 3.32 27 ...how mean to study, when an emotion communicates to the intellect the power to sap and upheave nature;...
    Chr1 3.92 23 ...[the natural merchant] communicates to all his own faith that contracts are of no private interpretation.
    WD 7.168 19 Any holiday communicates to us its color.
    PI 8.12 7 God himself...communicates with us by hints, omens, inference...
    PC 8.229 15 ...when [a man] talks to men with the unrestrained frankness which children use with each other, he communicates himself, and not his vanity.
    PPo 8.249 8 His complete intellectual emancipation [Hafiz] communicates to the reader.
    Imtl 8.342 25 [A belief in the laws] communicates nobleness...to the loyal soul.
    MMEm 10.429 14 [God] communicates this our condition and humble waiting, or I [Mary Moody Emerson] should never perceive Him.
    Milt1 12.254 27 ...we think it impossible to recall one in those countries [England, France, Germany] who communicates the same vibration of hope, of self-reverence, of piety, of delight in beauty, which the name of Milton awakens.

communicating, v. (2)

    Nat 1.70 8 A wise writer will feel that the ends of study and composition are best answered by announcing undiscovered regions of thought, and so communicating, through hope, new activity to the torpid spirit.
    AmS 1.102 2 [The scholar] is to resist the vulgar prosperity that retrogrades ever to barbarism, by preserving and communicating heroic sentiments...

communication, n. (36)

    AmS 1.115 8 ...for work the study and the communication of principles...
    MN 1.194 17 Not thanks, not prayer seem quite the highest or truest name for our communication with the infinite...
    MN 1.224 1 [The soul] is not to be surprised by any communication.
    MR 1.227 23 ...we ought to seek to establish ourselves in such disciplines and courses as will deserve that guidance and clearer communication with the spiritual nature.
    SR 2.71 16 Man does not stand in awe of man, nor is his genius admonished to stay at home to put itself in communication with the internal ocean...
    SR 2.78 17 We come to them who weep foolishly and sit down and cry for company, instead of...putting them once more in communication with their own reason.
    SL 2.152 23 ...a public oration is...not a communication...
    OS 2.280 21 ...the soul's communication of truth is the highest event in nature...
    OS 2.281 3 These [announcements of the soul] are always attended by the emotion of the sublime. For this communication is an influx of the Divine mind into our mind.
    OS 2.289 9 [The poet's] best communication to our mind is to teach us to despise all he has done.
    Int 2.336 7 ...all [men] have some art or power of communication in their head...
    Int 2.338 11 ...when we write with ease...we seem to be assured that nothing is easier than to continue this communication at pleasure.
    Art1 2.360 10 ...through his necessity of imparting himself the adamant will be wax in [the artist's] hands, and will allow an adequate communication of himself...
    NER 3.282 7 ...[our other self] holds uncontrollable communication with the enemy...
    PPh 4.46 18 In a month or two, through the favor of their good genius, [ardent young men and women] meet some one so related as to assist their volcanic estate, and, good communication being once established, they are thenceforward good citizens.
    Bhr 6.179 9 The mysterious communication established across a house between two entire strangers, moves all the springs of wonder.
    Bhr 6.179 11 The communication by the glance is in the greatest part not subject to the control of the will.
    Art2 7.37 13 On one side in primary communication with absolute truth through thought and instinct, the human mind on the other side tends...to the publication and embodiment of its thought...
    Clbs 7.227 17 See how Nature has secured the communication of knowledge.
    Suc 7.304 6 ...it occurs to [the lover] that [he and his beloved] might somehow meet independently of time and place. How delicious the belief that he could...hold instant and sempiternal communication!
    PC 8.228 5 The inviolate soul is in perpetual telegraphic communication with the Source of events...
    Chr2 10.95 15 The moral element invites man...to find his satisfaction...not in much corn or wool, but in its communication.
    Edc1 10.129 9 No dollar of property can be created without some direct communication with Nature...
    Edc1 10.131 14 In our condition are the roots of language and communication...
    Edc1 10.149 7 Nature provided for the communication of thought...
    Supl 10.175 12 [Nature's] communication obeys the gospel rule, yea or nay.
    MoL 10.242 8 The inviolate soul is in perpetual telegraphic communication with the source of events.
    LLNE 10.344 8 Theodore Parker was...in frank and affectionate communication with the best minds of his day...
    GSt 10.505 22 These interests, which [George Stearns] passionately adopted, inevitably led him into personal communication with patriotic persons holding the same views...
    LS 11.14 14 I have received of the Lord, [St. Paul] says, that which I delivered to you. By this expression it is often thought that a miraculous communication is implied;...
    LVB 11.89 19 ...my communication respects the sinister rumors that fill this part of the country concerning the Cherokee people.
    War 11.151 4 It has been a favorite study of modern philosophy...to watch the rising of a thought in one man's mind, the communication of it to a few...
    PLT 12.27 12 These views of the source of thought and the mode of its communication lead us to a whole system of ethics...
    PLT 12.63 6 ...[identification of the Ego with the universe's] communication from one to another follows its own law...
    II 12.75 7 ...[the inner mind's] communication from one to another follows its own law...
    MLit 12.315 3 [The great man's] own affection is in Nature...and, of course, all his communication leads outward to it...

communications, n. (9)

    MR 1.256 19 The opening of the spiritual senses disposes men ever...to cast all things behind, in the insatiable thirst for divine communications.
    Fdsp 2.192 26 For long hours we can continue a series of sincere, graceful, rich communications [with a commended stranger]...
    Fdsp 2.193 12 Now, when [the stranger] comes, he may get the order, the dress and the dinner,--but the throbbing of the heart and the communications of the soul, no more.
    OS 2.281 12 In these communications [of the soul] the power to see is not separated from the will to do...
    NER 3.281 27 There is power over and behind us, and we are the channels of its communications.
    Bhr 6.197 2 The oldest and the most deserving person should come very modestly into any newly awaked company, respecting the divine communications out of which all must be presumed to have newly come.
    Boks 7.219 9 [The sacred books'] communications are not to be given or taken with the lips and the end of the tongue...
    Suc 7.306 14 ...the oracles are never silent; but the receiver must by a happy temperance be brought to...that frolic health, that he can easily take and give these fine communications.
    Chr2 10.100 8 Men appear from time to time who receive with more purity and fulness these high communications.

communion, n. (8)

    DSA 1.148 10 In such high communion let us study the grand strokes of rectitude...
    Nat2 3.189 3 Days and nights...of communion with angels of darkness and of light have engraved their shadowy characters on that tear-stained book.
    SwM 4.128 27 Heaven is not the pairing of two, but the communion of all souls.
    GoW 4.271 17 Goethe was the philosopher of this [modern] multiplicity;... a manly mind...easily able by his subtlety...to draw his strength from nature, with which he lived in full communion.
    QO 8.182 9 ...the psalms and liturgies of churches, are...of this slow growth,-a fagot of selections gathered through ages...until it is at last the work of the whole communion of worshippers.
    Insp 8.284 11 My anchorite thought it sad that atmospheric influences should bring to our dust the communion of the soul with the Infinite.
    MMEm 10.431 10 [Mary Moody Emerson] checks herself amid her passionate prayers for immediate communion with God;...
    FRO2 11.488 14 This claim [of miraculour dispensation] impairs, to my mind, the soundness of him who makes it, and indisposes us to his communion.

Communion of St. Jerome [" (1)

    Exp 3.62 27 ...the Transfiguration...the Communion of Saint Jerome...are on the walls of the Vatican, the Uffizi, or the Louvre, where every footman may see them;...

Communism, n. (1)

    YA 1.380 11 ...the swelling cry of voices for the education of the people indicates that Government has other offices than those of banker and executioner. Witness...the Communism of France, Germany, and Switzerland;...

communist, n. (1)

    YA 1.373 7 [This Genius or Destiny] may be styled...a terrible communist...

communists, n. (1)

    YA 1.381 5 These communists preferred the agricultural life as the most favorable condition for human culture;...

communities, n. (13)

    SR 2.55 6 ...most men have...attached themselves to some one of these communities of opinion.
    Comp 2.120 9 Hours of sanity and consideration are always arriving to communities...
    NER 3.264 1 Following or advancing beyond the ideas of St. Simon, of Fourier, and of Owen, three communities have already been formed in Massachusetts on kindred plans...
    Pow 6.66 1 The communities hitherto founded by socialists...are only possible by installing Judas as steward.
    Pow 6.66 3 The communities hitherto founded by socialists...the American communities at New Harmony, at Brook Farm...are only possible by installing Judas as steward.
    Pow 6.72 9 The men whom in peaceful communities we hold if we can with iron at their legs...this man [Napoleon] dealt with hand to hand...
    CbW 6.251 11 All revelations...are made, not to communities but to single persons.
    DL 7.116 10 ...this voice of communities and ages, Give us wealth and the good household shall exist, is vicious...
    Aris 10.41 16 In simple communities, in the heroic ages, a man was chosen for his knack;...
    LLNE 10.365 1 In the American social communities, the gossip found such vent and sway as to become despotic.
    LLNE 10.368 11 People cannot live together in any but necessary ways. The only candidates who will present themselves will be those who have tried the experiment of independence and ambition, and have failed; and none others will barter for the most comfortable equality the chance of superiority. Then all communities have quarrelled.
    FSLN 11.229 21 The theory of personal liberty must always appeal to the most refined communities...
    FRO2 11.485 13 I think we might now relinquish our theological controversies to communities more idle and ignorant than we.

Communities, n. (4)

    YA 1.380 17 Witness too the spectacle of three Communities which have within a very short time sprung up within this Commonwealth...
    YA 1.384 7 ...the Communities aimed at a higher success in securing to all their members an equal and thorough education.
    YA 1.384 14 This is the value of the Communities;...the revolution which they indicate as on the way.
    Let 12.393 27 ...to fifteen letters on Communities, and the Prospects of Culture, and the destinies of the cultivated class,-what answer?

community, n. (70)

    DSA 1.139 27 In a large portion of the community, the religious service gives rise to quite other thoughts and emotions.
    DSA 1.142 5 ...the soul of the community is sick and faithless.
    MN 1.191 18 The rapid wealth which hundreds in the community acquire in trade...enchants the eyes of all the rest;...
    MR 1.227 15 ...the community in which we live will hardly bear to be told that every man should be open to ecstacy or a divine illumination...
    YA 1.373 8 [This Genius or Destiny] may be styled...a terrible communist, reserving all profits to the community...
    YA 1.384 1 Whether...the objection almost universally felt by such women in the community as were mothers, to an associate life...will not prove insuperable, remains to be determined.
    YA 1.391 7 Every great and memorable community has consisted of formidable individuals...
    Pol1 3.203 4 ...so long as it comes to the owners in the direct way, no other opinion would arise in any equitable community than that property should make the law for property, and persons the law for persons.
    Pol1 3.213 12 The idea after which each community is aiming to make and mend its law, is the will of the wise man.
    NER 3.251 6 Whoever has had opportunity of acquaintance with society in New England during the last twenty-five years, with those middle and those leading sections that may constitute any just representation of the character and aim of the community, will have been struck with the great activity of thought and experimenting.
    NER 3.264 14 ...it may easily be questioned whether such a community will draw, except in its beginnings, the able and the good;...
    NER 3.265 13 Our housekeeping is not satisfactory to us, but perhaps a phalanx, a community, might be.
    PNR 4.89 11 It was a high scheme, his absolute privilege for the best (which, to make emphatic, he expressed by community of women), as the premium which [Plato] would set on grandeur.
    MoS 4.176 25 ...is no community of sentiment discoverable in distant times and places?
    NMW 4.242 5 The people [of Napoleon's France] felt that no longer the throne was occupied...by a small class of legitimates, secluded from all community with the children of the soil...
    GoW 4.265 23 ...let one man have the comprehensive eye that can replace this isolated prodigy in its right neighborhood and bearings,--the illusion vanishes, and the returning reason of the community thanks the reason of the monitor.
    GoW 4.266 6 In this country...the solid portion of the community is named with significant respect in every circle.
    ET1 5.20 11 ...I [Wordsworth] fear [the Americans] lack a class of men of leisure...to give a tone of honor to the community.
    ET3 5.36 22 ...we have the same difficulty in making a social or moral estimate of England, that the sheriff finds in drawing a jury to try some cause which has agitated the whole community...
    ET15 5.264 17 [TheLondon Times] has done bold and seasonable service in exposing frauds which threatened the commercial community.
    Wth 6.103 16 A dollar...is worth more...in a temperate, schooled, law-abiding community than in some sink of crime...
    Wth 6.104 27 If a talent is anywhere born into the world, the community of nations is enriched;...
    Wth 6.108 14 You may not see that the fine pear costs you a shilling, but it costs the community so much.
    Ctr 6.138 8 'T is incident to scholars that each of them fancies he is pointedly odious in his community.
    Ctr 6.164 24 ...in an old community a well-born proprietor is usually found, after the first heats of youth, to be a careful husband...
    Bhr 6.190 22 Another opposes [a man who is already strong] with sound argument, but the argument is scouted until by and by it gets into the mind of some weighty person; then it begins to tell on the community.
    Wsp 6.202 27 ...whether your community is made in Jerusalem or in California...it coheres in a perfect ball.
    Wsp 6.214 19 We say...that a skepticism devastates the community.
    CbW 6.246 3 The judge...hopes he has done justice and given satisfaction to the community;...
    Ill 6.315 3 ...I have known gentlemen of great stake in the community, but whose sympathies were cold...
    Art2 7.55 25 It never was in the power of any man or any community to call the arts into being.
    Cour 7.259 6 Those political parties which gather in the well-disposed portion of the community,--how infirm and ignoble!...
    Suc 7.283 23 Men are made each with some triumphant superiority, which... enriches the community with a new art;...
    Elo2 8.112 6 Our community runs through a long scale of mental power...
    PC 8.228 8 The inviolate soul is in perpetual telegraphic communication with the Source of events, has...a private despatch, which relieves him of the terror which presses on the rest of the community.
    PC 8.232 10 The community of scholars do not know their own power...
    Aris 10.31 3 There is an attractive topic, which...is impertinent in no community...
    Aris 10.49 15 I think that the community-every community, if obstructing laws and usages are removed-will be the best measure and the justest judge of the citizen...
    SovE 10.190 7 Community of property is tried...
    SovE 10.205 10 ...the mass of the community indolently follow the old forms with childish scrupulosity...
    MoL 10.242 11 The inviolate soul is in perpetual telegraphic communication with the source of events. He has...a private despatch which relieves him of the terror which presses on the rest of the community.
    Plu 10.294 13 ...[Plutarch's] name is never mentioned by any Roman writer. It would seem that the community of letters and of personal news was even more rare at that day than the want of printing...would suggest to us.
    Plu 10.297 22 [Plutarch] is...not the founder of any sect or community, like Pythagoras or Zeno;...
    LLNE 10.350 23 Your community should consist of two thousand persons, to prevent accidents of omission;...
    LLNE 10.350 25 ...each community should take up six thousand acres of land.
    LLNE 10.354 21 It is the worst of community that it must inevitably transform into charlatans the leaders...
    LLNE 10.360 11 Many persons, attracted by the beauty of the place [Brook Farm] and the culture and ambition of the community, joined them as boarders...
    LLNE 10.360 14 I think the numbers of this mixed community [at Brook Farm] soon reached eighty or ninety souls.
    LLNE 10.360 27 There was no doubt great variety of character and purpose in the members of the community [Brook Farm].
    LLNE 10.365 6 Married women I believe uniformly decided against the community.
    LLNE 10.365 14 It was a curious experience of the patrons and leaders of this noted community [Brook Farm]...that in every instance the newcomers showed themselves keenly alive to the advantages of the society...
    EzRy 10.390 14 [Ezry Ripley] was a man so kind and sympathetic...that he was very justly appreciated in this community.
    SlHr 10.442 25 [Samuel Hoar's] character made him the conscience of the community in which he lived.
    LS 11.24 22 As it is the prevailing opinion and feeling in our religious community that it is an indispensable part of the pastoral office to administer this ordinance [the Lord's Supper], I am about to resign into your hands that office which you have confided to me.
    HDC 11.75 18 In all the anecdotes of that day's [April 19, 1775] events we may discern the natural action of the people. It...might have been calculated on by any one acquainted with the spirits and habits of our community.
    HDC 11.82 17 If the community [Concord] stints its expense in small matters, it spends freely on great duties.
    HDC 11.83 22 [The Concord Town Records] exhibit a pleasing picture of a community almost exclusively agricultural...
    HDC 11.83 24 [The Concord Town Records] exhibit a pleasing picture...of a community of great simplicity of manners...
    HDC 11.84 9 The old town clerks [of Concord]...contrive to make pretty intelligible the will of a free and just community.
    War 11.164 14 Observe the ideas of the present day...see how each of these abstractions has embodied itself in an imposing apparatus in the community;...
    FSLC 11.196 17 But worse, not the officials alone are bribed [by the Fugitive Slave Law], but the whole community is solicited.
    FSLC 11.196 18 But worse, not the officials alone are bribed [by the Fugitive Slave Law], but the whole community is solicited. The scowl of the community is attempted to be averted by the mischievous whisper, Tariff and Southern market, if you will be quiet: no tariff and loss of Southern market, if you dare to murmur.
    AsSu 11.247 5 I do not see how a barbarous community and a civilized community can constitute one state.
    AsSu 11.247 6 I do not see how a barbarous community and a civilized community can constitute one state.
    AsSu 11.251 23 I wish that [Charles Sumner] may know the shudder of terror which ran through all this community on the first tidings of this brutal attack.
    Wom 11.423 22 ...when I read the list of men...of social distinction, leading men of wealth and enterprise in the commercial community, and see what they have voted for and suffered to be voted for, I think no community was ever so politely and elegantly betrayed.
    Wom 11.423 24 ...when I read the list of men of intellect, of refined pursuits...and see what they have voted for and suffered to be voted for, I think no community was ever so politely and elegantly betrayed.
    FRO1 11.477 15 ...it does great honor to the sensibility of the committee [of the Free Religious Association] that they have felt the universal demand in the community for just the movement they have begun.
    CInt 12.115 22 ...even if we had no son or friend [in college], yet the college is part of the community...
    Bost 12.208 13 ...a community, as a man, is entitled to be judged by his best.

Community, n. (1)

    YA 1.383 2 The Community is only the continuation of the same movement which made the joint-stock companies for manufactures, mining, insurance, banking, and so forth.

commuted, v. (1)

    ET4 5.63 27 Such is the ferocity of the [English] army discipline that a soldier, sentenced to flogging, sometimes prays that his sentence may be commuted to death.

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