Como, Lake, Italy to Complexity

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

Como, Lake, Italy, n. (1)

    Nat2 3.176 4 We can find these enchantments [of the landscape] without visiting the Como Lake, or the Madeira Islands.

compact, adj. (6)

    Mrs1 3.147 7 ...as we show beyond that Heaven and Earth/ In form and shape compact and beautiful;/ .../ So on our heels a fresh perfection treads/...
    NMW 4.231 4 Such a man [as Bonaparte] was wanted, and such a man was born;...compact, instant, selfish, prudent...
    GoW 4.273 13 [Goethe] was the soul of his century. If that...had become, by population, compact organization and drill of parts, one great Exploring Expedition...this man's mind had ample chambers for the distribution of all.
    Civ 7.28 13 ...we managed...to fold up the letter in such invisible compact form as [Electricity] could carry in those invisible pockets of his...
    SA 8.80 11 The staple figure in novels is the man...who sits, among the young aspirants and desperates, quite sure and compact...
    PPo 8.255 27 Either world inhabits [the phoenix],/ Sees oft below him planets roll;/ His body is all of air compact,/ Of Allah's love his soul./

compact, n. (3)

    Bhr 6.192 20 The highest compact we can make with our fellow, is,--Let there be truth between us two forevermore.
    HDC 11.38 13 The Puritans, to keep the remembrance...of their peaceful compact with the Indians, named their forest settlement CONCORD.
    HDC 11.45 14 [The settlers of Concord] bore to John Winthrop, the Governor, a grave but hearty kindness. For the first time, men examined the powers of the chief whom they loved and revered. For the first time, the ideal social compact was real.

compacted, v. (1)

    SwM 4.114 1 The principle of all things, entrails made/ Of smallest entrails; bone, of smallest bone;/ Blood, of small sanguine drops reduced to one;/ Gold, of small grains; earth, of small sands compacted;/ Small drops to water, sparks to fire contracted./

compacter, adj. (1)

    Art1 2.352 7 What is a man but a finer and compacter landscape than the horizon figures...

companies, n. (33)

    YA 1.383 1 ...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 1.383 4 The Community is only the continuation of the same movement which made the joint-stock companies for manufactures, mining, insurance, banking, and so forth.
    YA 1.383 6 It has turned out cheaper to make calico by companies;...
    YA 1.383 7 ...it is proposed to plant corn and to bake bread by companies.
    YA 1.385 21 ...the national Post Office is likely to go into disuse before the private telegraph and the express companies.
    YA 1.394 20 Commanding worth and personal power must sit crowned in all companies...
    Chr1 3.93 25 [Character] works with most energy in the smallest companies and in private relations.
    Nat2 3.176 26 ...it is very easy to outrun the sympathy of readers on this topic, which schoolmen called natura naturata, or nature passive. One can hardly speak directly of it without excess. It is as easy to broach in mixed companies what is called the subject of religion.
    NER 3.256 18 ...if I had not that commodity [money], I should be put on my good behavior in all companies...
    PPh 4.74 4 ...Meno has discoursed a thousand times, at length, on virtue, before many companies...
    ET6 5.105 26 In mixed or in select companies [the English] do not introduce persons;...
    ET9 5.147 21 ...in all companies, each of [the English] has too good an opinion of himself to imitate anybody.
    Ctr 6.157 24 ...the poor little poet hearkens only to [praise], and rejects the censure as proving incapacity in the critic. But the poet cultivated becomes a stockholder in both companies...
    Bty 6.291 20 What a difference in effect between a battalion of troops marching to action, and one of our independent companies on a holiday!
    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.
    PC 8.233 7 [Swedenborg] saw in vision the angels and the devils; but these two companies stood not face to face and hand in hand...
    Aris 10.31 13 ...the word gentleman is gladly heard in all companies;...
    LLNE 10.358 10 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.
    LLNE 10.367 20 The children from six to eight [said Fourier], organized into companies with flags and uniforms, shall do this last function of civilization [the dirty work].
    Carl 10.490 18 They keep Carlyle as a sort of portable cathedral-bell, which they like to produce in companies where he is unknown...
    Carl 10.490 21 They keep Carlyle as a sort of portable cathedral-bell, which they like to produce in companies where he is unknown, and set a-swinging... and, as in companies here (in England) no man is named or introduced, great is the effect...
    HDC 11.71 19 It was...voted [in Concord], to raise one or more companies of minute-men...
    HDC 11.72 14 On 13th March [1775], at a general review of all the military companies [of Concord], [William Emerson] preached to a very full assembly...
    HDC 11.73 26 The British following [the minute-men] across the bridge, posted two companies...to guard the bridge...
    HDC 11.75 1 The British retreated immediately towards the village [Concord], and were joined by two companies of grenadiers...
    SMC 11.362 7 At one time [George Prescott] finds his company unfortunate in having fallen between two companies of quite another class...
    SMC 11.367 1 After the return of the three months' company to Concord, in 1861, Captain Prescott raised a new company of volunteers, and Captain Bowers another. Each of these companies included recruits from this town [Concord]...
    SMC 11.368 23 On the second of July [the Thirty-second Regiment] had to cross the famous wheat-field, under fire from the rebels in front and on both flanks. Seventy men were killed or wounded out of seven companies.
    Wom 11.420 3 ...bring together a cultivated society of both sexes, in a drawing-room, and consult and decide by voices on a question of taste or on a question of right, and is there any absurdity or any practical difficulty in obtaining their authentic opinions? If not, then there need be none in a hundred companies...
    Mem 12.109 3 In dreams a rush...of spending hours and going through a great variety of actions and companies, and when we start up and look at the watch, instead of a long night we are surprised to find it was a short nap.
    ACri 12.302 25 ...this is the game that goes on every day in all companies;...by sovereignty of thought to make facts and men obey our present humor or belief.
    EurB 12.377 17 One can distinguish the Vivians [Vivian Greys] in all companies.
    Let 12.398 20 ...companies of the best-educated young men in the Atlantic states every week take their departure for Europe;...

companion, n. (73)

    Hist 2.18 21 ...one summer day in the fields my companion pointed out to me a broad cloud...
    Fdsp 2.216 15 Let your greatness educate the crude and cold companion.
    Hsm1 2.259 4 [Many extraordinary young men] found no example and no companion...
    Exp 3.73 9 I fully understand language, [Mencius] said, and nourish well my vast-flowing vigor. I beg to ask what you call vast-flowing vigor? said his companion.
    Mrs1 3.138 1 I pray my companion, if he wishes for bread, to ask me for bread...
    Mrs1 3.145 11 What if the false gentleman contrives so to address his companion as civilly to exclude all others from his discourse, and also to make them feel excluded?
    NR 3.248 3 My companion assumes to know my mood and habit of thought...
    NER 3.281 18 Each [man] is incomparably superior to his companion in some faculty.
    UGM 4.28 3 The best discovery the discoverer makes for himself. It has something unreal for his companion until he too has substantiated it.
    PPh 4.71 10 [Socrates] was a cool fellow, adding to his humor a perfect temper and a knowledge of his man...which laid the companion open to certain defeat in any debate...
    ShP 4.199 11 Did [the bard] feel himself overmatched by any companion?
    ET1 5.3 7 ...I remember the pleasure of that first walk on English ground, with my companion...
    ET1 5.4 24 The conditions of literary success...do not leave that frolic liberty which only can encounter a companion on the best terms.
    ET1 5.14 20 [Coleridge]...could not bend to a new companion and think with him.
    ET1 5.15 17 [Carlyle's] talk playfully exalting the familiar objects, put the companion at once into an acquaintance with his Lars and Lemurs...
    ET4 5.57 12 In Norway...the actors are bonders or landholders, every one of whom is named and personally and patronymically described, as the king's friend and companion.
    ET11 5.176 27 [The Duke of Bedford's] ancestor...became the companion of a foreign prince wrecked on the Dorsetshire coast, where Mr. [John] Russell lived.
    ET16 5.273 6 It had been agreed between my friend Mr. Carlyle and me, that before I left England we should make an excursion together to Stonehenge, which neither of us had seen; and the project pleased my fancy with the double attraction of the monument and the companion.
    F 6.10 7 We sometimes see a change of expression in our companion...
    F 6.46 14 ...what their companion prepares to say to [some people], they first say to him;...
    Ctr 6.135 3 ...if a man seeks a companion who can look at objects for their own sake and without affection or self-reference, he will find the fewest who will give him that satisfaction;...
    Ctr 6.163 11 [The ancients] preferred the noble vessel...dismantled and unrigged, to her companion borne into harbor with colors flying and guns firing.
    Bhr 6.180 6 You can read in the eyes of your companion whether your argument hits him...
    Bhr 6.189 14 ...even the size of your companion seems to vary with his freedom of thought.
    Bhr 6.196 9 It is good to give a stranger...a night's lodging. It is better to be hospitable to his good meaning and thought, and give courage to a companion.
    Wsp 6.235 16 I spent, [Benedict] said, ten months in the country. Thick-starred Orion was my only companion.
    Wsp 6.241 24 ...[man] shall walk with no companion.
    CbW 6.269 14 ...a blockhead makes a blockhead of his companion.
    SS 7.8 8 [Many a philosopher] affects to be a good companion;...
    SS 7.13 2 ...[animal spirits'] feats are like the structure of a pyramid. Their result is a lord, a general, or a boon companion.
    SS 7.15 6 I find out in an instant if my companion does not want me...
    DL 7.127 14 We see on the lip of our companion the presence or absence of the great masters of thought and poetry to his mind.
    Clbs 7.223 5 But [Saadi] has no companion;/ Come ten, or come a million,/ Good Saadi dwells alone./
    Clbs 7.226 23 A man valuing himself as the organ of this or that dogma is a dull companion enough;...
    Clbs 7.228 14 What are the best days in memory? Those in which we met a companion who was truly such.
    Clbs 7.228 24 We remember the time when the best gift we could ask of fortune was to fall in with a valuable companion in a ship's cabin...
    Clbs 7.230 24 ...I seldom meet with a reading and thoughtful person but he tells me...that he has no companion.
    Clbs 7.249 26 One likes in a companion a phlegm which it is a triumph to disturb...
    Suc 7.289 26 ...[egotists] have a long education to undergo to reach simplicity and plain-dealing, which are what a wise man mainly cares for in his companion.
    Suc 7.294 8 ...I gain all points, if I can reach my companion with any statement which teaches him his own worth.
    PI 8.14 16 Our Kentuckian orator [Davy Crockett] said of his dissent from his companion, I showed him the back of my hand.
    SA 8.86 19 The attitude is the main point, assuring your companion that... you remain in good heart and good mind...
    SA 8.95 24 The great gain is...not to conquer your companion...
    SA 8.95 25 The great gain is...to find a companion who knows what you do not;...
    Elo2 8.114 6 In the folds of his brow, in the majesty of his mien, Nature has marked her son; and in that artificial and perhaps unworthy place and company [the Senate] shall remind you of the lessons taught him in earlier days...when he was the companion of the mountain cattle...
    Elo2 8.119 10 The most...thought-paralyzing companion sometimes turns out in a public assembly to be a fluent, various and effective orator.
    Elo2 8.120 4 ...a man of this talent [of eloquence] sometimes finds himself... perhaps a heavy companion;...
    Insp 8.276 11 [Inspiration] seems a semi-animal heat; as if...a genial companion, or a new thought suggested in book or conversation could fire the train...
    Insp 8.293 4 If the tone of the companion is higher than ours, we delight in rising to it.
    Insp 8.296 10 ...now one, now another landscape, form, color, or companion...strikes the electric chain with which we are darkly bound...
    Aris 10.35 15 The manners, the pretension, which annoy me so much, are... built on a real distinction in the nature of my companion.
    Aris 10.35 17 The superiority in [my companion] is inferiority in me, and if this particular companion were wiped by a sponge out of Nature, my inferiority would still be made evident to me by other persons...
    Edc1 10.144 5 Be the companion to [the child's] thought...
    LLNE 10.339 24 ...[Channing's] cold temperament made him the most unprofitable private companion;...
    MMEm 10.406 6 [Mary Moody Emerson] surprised, attracted, chided and denounced her companion by turns...
    MMEm 10.406 15 ...if [Mary Moody Emerson's] companion was dull, her impatience knew no bounds.
    MMEm 10.406 21 If [Mary Moody Emerson's] companion were a little ambitious, and asked her opinions on books or matters on which she did not wish rude hands laid, she did not hesitate to stop the intruder with How's your cat, Mrs. Tenner?
    MMEm 10.406 27 I was disappointed, [Mary Moody Emerson] writes, in finding my little Calvinist no companion...
    MMEm 10.411 14 In her solitude of twenty years...[Mary Moody Emerson] was driven to find Nature her companion and solace.
    Thor 10.455 1 A fine house, dress, the manners and talk of highly cultivated people were all thrown away on [Thoreau]. He...considered these refinements as impediments to conversation, wishing to meet his companion on the simplest terms.
    Thor 10.456 11 It seemed as if [Thoreau's] first instinct on hearing a proposition was to controvert it, so impatient was he of the limitations of our daily thought. This habit...is a little chilling to the social affections; and though the companion would in the end acquit him of any malice or untruth, yet it mars conversation.
    Thor 10.456 13 ...no equal companion stood in affectionate relations with one so pure and guileless [as Thoreau].
    Thor 10.464 26 At first glance [Thoreau] measured his companion...
    ALin 11.333 4 [Lincoln's good humor] enabled him...to mask his own purpose and sound his companion;...
    Shak1 11.450 6 ...[Shakespeare] is yet to all wise men the companion of the closet.
    PLT 12.7 25 ...[a plain man] comes to write in his tablets, Avoid the great man as one who is privileged to be an unprofitable companion.
    II 12.71 18 We brood on the words or works of our companion, and ask in vain the sources of his information.
    Mem 12.92 9 [Memory] is the companion, this the tutor, the poet, the library, with which you travel.
    CInt 12.117 21 I presently know whether my companion has more candor or less...
    CL 12.158 7 My companion and I remarked from the hilltop the prevailing sobriety of color...
    CL 12.161 14 In a water-party in which many scholars joined, I noted that the skipper of the boat was much the best companion.
    CW 12.176 3 If you use a good and skilful companion [on a tramp], you shall see through his eyes;...
    CW 12.176 17 ...it is much better to learn the elements of geology, of botany...by word of mouth from a companion than dully from a book.

companionable, adj. (1)

    LE 1.168 5 The honking of the wild geese flying by night; the thin note of the companionable titmouse in the winter day;...all, are alike unattempted [by poets].

companions, n. (84)

    Nat 1.54 8 Prospero calls for music to soothe the frantic Alonzo, and his companions;...
    LE 1.174 5 ...expel companions;...
    LE 1.185 13 ...I thought that...you would not be sorry to be admonished of those primary duties of the intellect whereof you will seldom hear from the lips of your new companions.
    MN 1.220 17 Shall we not quit our companions...
    LT 1.289 20 ...in all the details of our domestic or civil life is hidden the elemental reality, which ever and anon comes to the surface, and forms the grand men, who are the leaders...rather than the companions of the race.
    Tran 1.341 26 ...it would not misbecome us to inquire nearer home, what these companions and contemporaries of ours think and do...
    Tran 1.342 19 ...[Society] saith, Whoso goes to walk alone...declares all to be unfit to be his companions;...
    SR 2.73 19 If you are true, but not in the same truth with me, cleave to your companions;...
    Comp 2.110 9 With his will or against his will [a man] draws his portrait to the eye of his companions by every word.
    Fdsp 2.210 12 I can get politics and chat and neighborly conveniences from cheaper companions [than my friend].
    Prd1 2.240 18 Every man's imagination hath its friends; and life would be dearer with such companions.
    Pt1 3.36 12 ...the same man or society of men may wear one aspect to themselves and their companions, and a different aspect to higher intelligences.
    Exp 3.61 1 ...we should...do broad justice where we are...accepting our actual companions and circumstances...as the mystic officials to whom the universe has delegated its whole pleasure for us.
    Mrs1 3.138 21 We imperatively require a perception of, and a homage to beauty in our companions.
    Pol1 3.218 3 ...[what we do] does not satisfy us, whilst we thrust it on the notice of our companions.
    NR 3.226 22 When I meet a pure intellectual force or a generosity of affection, I believe here then is man; and am presently mortified by the discovery that this individual is no more available to his own or to the general ends than his companions;...
    UGM 4.3 2 If the companions of our childhood should turn out to be heroes...it would not surprise us.
    UGM 4.14 23 ...it is hard for departed men to touch the quick like our own companions...
    UGM 4.26 10 ...it is very easy to be as wise and good as your companions.
    UGM 4.32 11 Ask the great man if there be none greater. His companions are;...
    PPh 4.41 16 ...these [great] men magnetize their contemporaries, so that their companions can do for them what they can never do for themselves;...
    ET5 5.89 12 When Thor and his companions arrive at Utgard, he is told that nobody is permitted to remain here, unless he understand some art, and excel in it all other men.
    ET8 5.133 16 It was no bad description of the Briton generically, what was said two hundred years ago of one particular Oxford scholar: He was a very bold man, uttered any thing that came into his mind, not only among his companions, but in public coffee-houses...
    ET9 5.149 22 [The English] tell you daily in London the story of the Frenchman and Englishman who quarrelled. Both were unwilling to fight, but their companions put them up to it;...
    ET11 5.191 14 Prostitutes taken from the theatres were made duchesses, their bastards dukes and earls. The young men sat uppermost, the old serious lords were out of favor. The discourse that the king's companions had with him was poor and frothy.
    ET18 5.305 6 I have sometimes seen [Englishmen] walk with my countrymen when I was forced to allow them every advantage, and their companions seemed bags of bones.
    F 6.37 23 [Man's] food is cooked when he arrives;...his companions arrived at the same hour...
    F 6.42 15 As once [man] found himself among toys, so now...his growth is declared in...his companions...
    Ctr 6.135 16 ...after a man has discovered that there are limits to the interest which his private history has for mankind, he still converses with his family, or a few companions...
    Ctr 6.142 18 ...[your boy]...refuses any companions but of his own choosing.
    Ctr 6.157 4 The more I know you [wrote Neander to his sacred friends], the more I dissatisfy and must dissatisfy all my wonted companions.
    Ctr 6.164 15 ...I observe that [scholars] lost on ruder companions those years of boyhood which alone could give imaginative literature a religious and infinite quality in their esteem.
    Bhr 6.183 19 ...if [the enthusiast] finds the scholar apart from his companions, it is then the enthusiast's turn...
    Wsp 6.226 13 There was never a man born so wise or good but one or more companions came into the world with him, who delight in his faculty and report it.
    CbW 6.263 23 I once asked a clergyman in a retired town, who were his companions?...
    CbW 6.264 4 Let us engage our companions not to spare us.
    CbW 6.270 19 How to live with unfit companions?...
    CbW 6.274 9 ...it counts much whether we have had good companions in that time [the past five years]...
    CbW 6.274 17 ...it is who lives near us of equal social degree...these, and these only, shall be your life's companions;...
    CbW 6.275 2 ...life would be twice or ten times life if spent with wise and fruitful companions.
    Clbs 7.227 1 ...a child will long for his companions, but among them plays by himself.
    Clbs 7.241 16 We consider those...who think it the highest compliment they can pay a man...to expose to him the grand and cheerful secrets perhaps never opened to their daily companions...
    Clbs 7.242 13 There are men who are great only to one or two companions of more opportunity...
    Clbs 7.250 10 ...while we look complacently at these obvious pleasures and values of good companions, I do not forget that Nature is always very much in earnest...
    Cour 7.271 21 If opportunity allowed, [Governor Wise and John Brown] would...desert their former companions.
    OA 7.325 19 When I chanced to meet the poet Wordsworth, then sixty-three years old, he told me that he had just had a fall and lost a tooth, and when his companions were much concerned for the mischance, he had replied that he was glad it had not happened forty years before.
    PI 8.62 23 You will find the king at Carduel in Wales [said Merlin]; and when you arrive there you will find there all the companions who departed with you...
    SA 8.83 3 We think a man unable and desponding. It is only that he is misplaced. Put him with new companions, and they will find in him excellent qualities...
    SA 8.89 7 Welfare requires one or two companions of intelligence...
    SA 8.90 26 ...the best society has often been spoiled to [the highly organized person] by the intrusion of bad companions.
    Elo2 8.122 11 What must have been the discourse of St. Bernard, when... companions [hid] their friends, lest they should be led by his eloquence to join the monastery.
    Comc 8.169 24 ...the painter Astley...going out of Rome one day with a party for a ramble in the Campagna and the weather proving hot, refused to take off his coat when his companions threw off theirs...
    QO 8.190 19 ...men of extraordinary genius acquire an almost absolute ascendant over their nearest companions.
    Insp 8.292 21 ...in discourse with a friend, our thought...allows itself to be seen as a thought, in a manner as new and entertaining to us as to our companions.
    Grts 8.304 7 A sensible man...avoids introducing the names of his creditable companions...
    Imtl 8.339 4 ...the man must have new motives, new companions, new condition and another term.
    Dem1 10.4 6 ...the astonishment remains that one should dream; that we should...become the theatre of delirious shows...antic comedy alternating with horrid pictures. Sometimes the forgotten companions of childhood reappear...
    Aris 10.58 22 ...I know no such unquestionable badge and ensign of a sovereign mind, as that tenacity of purpose which, through all change of companions, of parties, of fortunes,-changes never...
    Aris 10.60 13 The solitariest man who shares [a certain order of men's] spirit walks environed by them;...and happy is he who prefers these associates to profane companions.
    Chr2 10.99 17 In its companions [the soul] sees other truths honored, and successively finds their foundation also in itself.
    Plu 10.298 8 ...[Plutarch] is a chief example of the illumination of the intellect by the force of morals. Though the most amiable of boon companions, this generous religion gives him apercus like Goethe's.
    Plu 10.319 15 [Plutarch]...delighted in bringing chosen companions to the supper-table.
    Plu 10.319 22 The guests not invited to a private board by the entertainer, but introduced by a guest as his companions, the Greek called shadows;...
    LLNE 10.341 25 Margaret Fuller, George Ripley...and many others...from time to time spent an afternoon at each other's houses in a serious conversation. With them was always...a man...who...inspired his companions only in proportion as they were intellectual...
    LLNE 10.361 16 ...there was immense hope in these young people [at Brook Farm]. There was nobleness; there were self-sacrificing victims who compensated for the levity and rashness of their companions.
    MMEm 10.400 24 [Mary Moody Emerson] had no companions...
    MMEm 10.429 20 O dear worms,-how they will at some sure time take down this tedious tabernacle, most valuable companions...
    MMEm 10.430 7 I [Mary Moody Emerson] pray to die, though happier myriads and mine own companions press nearer to the throne.
    Thor 10.452 11 ...whilst all his companions were choosing their profession...it was inevitable that [Thoreau's] thoughts should be exercised on the same question...
    Thor 10.466 4 ...what accusing silences, and what searching and irresistible speeches, battering down all defences, [Thoreau's] companions can remember!
    Carl 10.493 11 It is not so much that Carlyle cares for this or that dogma, as that he likes genuineness...in his companions.
    LS 11.13 2 ...[the disciples] were bound together by the memory of Christ, and nothing could be more natural than...that what was done with peculiar propriety by them, his personal friends, with less propriety should come to be extended to their companions also.
    FSLC 11.189 23 I thought it was this fair mystersy...which made the basis of human society, and of law; and that to pretend anything else, as that the acquisition of property was the end of living, was...instead of noble motives and inspirations, and a heaven of companions and angels around and before us, to leave us in a grimacing menagerie of monkeys and idiots.
    AsSu 11.247 17 In [the slave state]...man is an animal...spending his days in hunting and practising with deadly weapons to defend himself against his slaves and against his companions brought up in the same idle and dangerous way.
    TPar 11.286 4 Theodore Parker was...upright, of a haughty independence, yet the gentlest of companions;...
    SMC 11.357 1 All sorts of men went to the [Civil] war...the village politician, who could now...amass what a stock of adventures to retail hereafter...to the well-known companions on the Mill-dam;...
    Wom 11.419 9 ...perhaps it is because these people [advocates of women's rights] have been deprived of...fine companions...that they have been stung to say, It is too late for us...but, at least, we will see that the whole race of women shall not suffer as we have suffered.
    Shak1 11.452 27 ...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 again preferred to selecter companions, find no obstacle to ruling these as they did their earlier mates;...
    CPL 11.503 16 There is no hour of vexation which on a little reflection will not find diversion and relief in the library. His companions are few: at the moment, he has none: but, year by year, these silent friends supply their place.
    Mem 12.103 21 ...confined now in populous streets you behold again the green fields, the shadows of the gray birches; by the solitary river hear again the joyful voices of early companions...
    CL 12.142 6 ...Plato said of exercise that it would almost cure a guilty conscience. For the living out of doors, and simple fare, and gymnastic exercises, and the morals of companions, produce the greatest effect on the way of virtue and of vice.
    CL 12.155 14 [Says Linnaeus] Not without admiration, I have watched my two Lap companions, in my journey to Finmark, one, my conductor, the other, my interpreter.
    CW 12.175 26 There are two companions, with one or other of whom 't is desirable to go out on a tramp.
    Bost 12.187 18 Astronomers come [to Paris] because there they can find apparatus and companions.

companion's, n. (1)

    SA 8.84 10 In Borrow's Lavengro, the gypsy instantly detects, by his companion's face and behavior, that some good fortune has befallen him...

companionship, n. (2)

    OS 2.292 5 [Simple souls] must always be a godsend to princes, for they confront them...and give a high nature the refreshment and satisfaction...of even companionship and of new ideas.
    NMW 4.241 3 ...a sort of freedom and companionship grew up between [Napoleon] and [his troops]...

Company, East India, n. (2)

    HDC 11.69 9 ...the British parliament have empowered the East India Company to export their tea into America...
    HDC 11.70 7 ...if any person or persons...shall...be factors for the East India Company, we will treat them...as enemies to their country...

Company, Hospital Life Ass (1)

    MoL 10.246 11 Bowditch translated Laplace, and when he removed to Boston, the Hospital Life Assurance Company insisted that he should make their tables of annuities.

company, n. (243)

    Nat 1.16 19 To the body and mind which have been cramped by noxious work or company, nature is medicinal...
    Nat 1.57 14 No man fears age or misfortune or death in [ideas'] serene company...
    AmS 1.115 6 ...with the shades of all the good and great for company;...
    DSA 1.131 19 ...you shall not dare and live...in company with the infinite Beauty...
    DSA 1.141 3 What life the public worship retains, it owes to the scattered company of pious men, who minister here and there in the churches...
    Con 1.324 12 ...[the hero] will say, All the meanness of my progenitors shall not bereave me of the power to make this hour and company fair and fortunate.
    Tran 1.347 11 [Transcendentalists] say to themselves, It is better to be alone than in bad company.
    YA 1.394 22 Commanding worth and personal power must sit crowned in all companies, nor will extraordinary persons be slighted or affronted in any company of civilized men.
    SR 2.49 27 Society is a joint-stock company...
    SR 2.52 4 Expect me not to show cause why I seek or why I exclude company.
    SR 2.55 21 There is a mortifying experience in particular...I mean...the forced smile which we put on in company...
    SR 2.70 8 ...a man or a company of men, plastic and permeable to principles, by the law of nature must overpower and ride all cities...who are not.
    SR 2.78 15 We come to them who weep foolishly and sit down and cry for company...
    Comp 2.96 6 If a man dogmatize in a mixed company on Providence and the divine laws, he is answered by a silence which conveys well enough to an observer the dissatisfaction of the hearer, but his incapacity to make his own statement.
    SL 2.143 6 We...do not see that Paganini can extract rapture from a catgut... and the hero out of the pitiful habitation and company in which he was hidden.
    SL 2.149 13 It is with a good book as it is with good company.
    SL 2.149 16 Introduce a base person among gentlemen, it is all to no purpose; he is not their fellow. Every society protects itself. The company is perfectly safe...
    SL 2.150 14 Persons...dedicate their whole skill to the hour and the company,--with very imperfect result.
    SL 2.152 10 There is no teaching until the pupil is brought into the same state or principle in which you are;...then is a teaching, and by no unfriendly chance or bad company can he ever quite lose the benefit.
    SL 2.152 18 ...we know that these gentlemen will not communicate their own character and experience to the company.
    Lov1 2.175 17 ...no man ever forgot the visitations of that power to his heart and brain...when no place is too solitary...for him who has richer company and sweeter conversation in his new thoughts than any old friends...can give him;...
    Fdsp 2.205 19 I much prefer the company of ploughboys and tin-peddlers to the silken and perfumed amity which celebrates its days of encounter by a frivolous display...
    Fdsp 2.206 4 [Friendship] keeps company with the sallies of the wit...
    Fdsp 2.207 9 In good company there is never such discourse between two, across the table, as takes place when you leave them alone.
    Fdsp 2.207 12 In good company the individuals merge their egotism into a social soul...
    Prd1 2.240 15 Undoubtedly we can easily pick faults in our company...
    Hsm1 2.256 9 In Beaumont and Fletcher's Sea Voyage, Juletta tells the stout captain and his company,--Jul. Why, slaves, 't is in our power to hang ye./ Master. Very likely,/ 'T is in our powers, then, to be hanged, and scorn ye./
    OS 2.277 13 ...in groups where debate is earnest...the company become aware that the thought rises to an equal level in all bosoms...
    OS 2.283 6 In past oracles of the soul the understanding...undertakes to tell from God how long men shall exist...who shall be their company...
    OS 2.286 19 Neither his age...nor company...can hinder [a man] from being deferential to a higher spirit than his own.
    OS 2.295 5 He that finds God a sweet enveloping thought to him never counts his company.
    Cir 2.321 5 Character makes...a cheerful, determined hour, which fortifies all the company by making them see that much is possible and excellent that was not thought of.
    Art1 2.368 16 ...[genius] will raise to a divine use...the joint-stock company;...
    Exp 3.61 10 ...however a thoughtful man may suffer from the defects and absurdities of his company, he cannot without affectation deny to any set of men and women a sensibility to extraordinary merit.
    Exp 3.61 21 The fine young people despise life, but in me...to whom a day is a sound and solid good, it is a great excess of politeness to look scornful and cry for company.
    Exp 3.69 21 The persons who compose our company converse...and somewhat comes of it all, but an unlooked-for result.
    Chr1 3.90 4 [Character] is conceived of as a certain undemonstrable force... by whose impulses the man is guided...which is company for him...
    Chr1 3.95 3 Suppose a slaver on the coast of Guinea should take on board a gang of negroes which should contain persons of the stamp of Toussaint L' Ouverture: let us fancy, under these swarthy masks he has a gang of Washingtons in chains. When they arrive at Cuba, will the relative order of the ship's company be the same?
    Mrs1 3.124 5 In a good lord there must first be a good animal, at least to the extent of yielding the incomparable advantage of animal spirits. The ruling class must have more, but they must have these, giving in every company the sense of power...
    Mrs1 3.125 4 [My gentleman] is good company for pirates and good with academicians;...
    Mrs1 3.132 13 A circle of men perfectly well-bred would be a company of sensible persons in which every man's native manners and character appeared.
    Mrs1 3.133 1 [A man] should preserve in a new company the same attitude of mind and reality of relation which his daily associates draw him to...
    Mrs1 3.139 23 ...fashion is...not good sense private, but good sense entertaining company.
    Mrs1 3.141 9 A man who is not happy in the company cannot find any word in his memory that will fit the occasion.
    Mrs1 3.141 18 The favorites of society...are able men...who exactly fill the hour and the company;...
    Mrs1 3.144 2 ...Fashion loves lions, and points like Circe to her horned company.
    Nat2 3.174 13 ...we knew of [the rich man's] villa, his grove, his wine and his company...
    Nat2 3.191 26 [The rich] are like one who has interrupted the conversation of a company to make his speech, and now has forgotten what he went to say.
    NER 3.275 5 All that [a man] has will he give for an erect demeanor in every company and on each occasion.
    UGM 4.22 1 ...if there should appear in the company some gentle soul who...certifies me of the equity which checkmates every false player...that man liberates me;...
    UGM 4.25 11 There needs but one wise man in a company and all are wise...
    UGM 4.31 9 Men who know the same things are not long the best company for each other.
    UGM 4.31 19 ...if any appear never to assume the chair, but always to stand and serve, it is because we do not see the company in a sufficiently long period for the whole rotation of parts to come about.
    MoS 4.180 24 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.
    ShP 4.216 12 If [Shakespeare] should appear in any company of human souls, who would not march in his troop?
    GoW 4.266 13 It is believed...the running up and down to procure a company of subscribers to set a-going five or ten thousand spindles...is practical and commendable.
    GoW 4.279 14 Goethe's hero [in Wilhelm Meister]...keeps such bad company, that the sober English public...were disgusted.
    ET1 5.14 12 I was in [Coleridge's] company for about an hour...
    ET1 5.22 25 [Wordsworth's] second [sonnet on Fingal's Cave] alludes to the name of the cave, which is Cave of Music; the first to the circumstance of its being visited by the promiscuous company of the steamboat.
    ET2 5.31 14 'T is a good rule in every journey to provide some piece of liberal study to rescue the hours which bad weather, bad company and taverns steal from the best economist.
    ET4 5.71 22 Their young boiling clerks and lusty collegians [in England] like the company of horses better than the company of professors.
    ET4 5.71 23 Their young boiling clerks and lusty collegians [in England] like the company of horses better than the company of professors.
    ET4 5.71 24 Their young boiling clerks and lusty collegians [in England] like the company of horses better than the company of professors. I suppose the horses are better company for them.
    ET5 5.76 4 What signifies a pedigree of a hundred links...against a company of broad-shouldered Liverpool merchants...
    ET6 5.105 17 In a company of strangers you would think [the Englishman] deaf;...
    ET6 5.113 21 [the dinner] is reserved to the end of the day, the family-hour being generally six, in London, and if any company is expected, one or two hours later.
    ET6 5.114 2 The company [at an English dinner] sit one or two hours before the ladies leave the table.
    ET8 5.129 3 In mixed company [the English] shut their mouths.
    ET8 5.133 19 It was no bad description of the Briton generically, what was said two hundred years ago of one particular Oxford scholar: He was a very bold man...and would often speak his mind of particular persons then accidentally present, without examining the company he was in;...
    ET8 5.134 1 No man can claim...to put upon the company with the loud statement of his crotchets or personalities.
    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...
    ET10 5.165 23 [The Englishman]...keeps the best company...
    ET11 5.177 3 ...Henry VIII...liking [John Russell's] company, gave him a large share of the plundered church lands.
    ET11 5.185 21 The English nobles are high-spirited, active, educated men... who have...kept in every country the best company...
    ET11 5.190 17 I must hold Ludlow Castle an honest house, for which Milton's Comus was written, and the company nobly bred which performed it with knowledge and sympathy.
    ET11 5.194 21 When Julia Grisi and Mario sang at the houses of the Duke of Wellington and other grandees, a cord was stretched between the singer and the company.
    ET12 5.209 10 ...so eminent are the members that a glance at the calendars will show that in all the world one cannot be in better company than on the books of one of the larger Oxford or Cambridge colleges.
    ET13 5.219 16 The [English] national temperament deeply enjoys the unbroken order and tradition of its church;...the sober grace, the good company, the connection with the throne and with history, which adorn it.
    ET13 5.221 23 The torpidity on the side of religion of the vigorous English understanding shows how much wit and folly can agree in one brain. Their religion is a quotation;...and any examination is interdicted with screams of terror. In good company you expect them to laugh at the fanaticism of the vulgar; but they do not; they are the vulgar.
    ET16 5.273 9 It seemed a bringing together of extreme points, to visit the oldest religious monument in Britain in company with her latest thinker...
    ET17 5.297 14 [A London gentleman] said he once showed [Milton's watch] to Wordsworth, who took it in one hand, then drew out his own watch and held it up with the other, before the company...
    ET19 5.309 5 A few days after my arrival at Manchester, in November, 1847, the Manchester Athenaeum gave its annual Banquet in the Free-Trade Hall. With other guests, I was invited to be present and to address the company.
    ET19 5.309 21 On being introduced to the meeting [Manchester Athenaeum Banquet] I said:--Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen: It is pleasant to me to meet this great and brilliant company...
    F 6.9 23 Find the part which black eyes and which blue eyes play severally in the company.
    F 6.41 14 ...as we do in dreams, with equanimity, the most absurd acts, so a drop more of wine in our cup of life will reconcile us to strange company and work.
    Pow 6.57 25 In every company there is not only the active and passive sex...
    Pow 6.75 13 [Pericles] declined...all gay assemblies and company.
    Pow 6.77 27 John Kemble said that the worst provincial company of actors would go through a play better than the best amateur company.
    Pow 6.78 1 John Kemble said that the worst provincial company of actors would go through a play better than the best amateur company.
    Wth 6.85 2 As soon as a stranger is introduced into any company, one of the first questions which all wish to have answered, is, How does that man get his living?
    Wth 6.89 5 Wealth requires...the best culture and the best company.
    Wth 6.102 18 In California, the country where [the dollar] grew,--what would it buy? A few years since, it would buy a shanty, dysentery, hunger, bad company and crime.
    Wth 6.122 1 Of the two eminent engineers in the recent construction of railways in England, Mr. Brunel went straight...and so arriving at his end, at great pleasure to geometers, but with cost to his company.
    Ctr 6.136 10 Bring any club or company of intelligent men together again after ten years, and if the presence of some penetrating and calming genius could dispose them to frankness, what a confession of insanities would come up!
    Ctr 6.154 25 How can you mind...the figure you make in company...when you think how paltry are the machinery and the workers?
    Ctr 6.156 8 In the morning,--solitude; said Pythagoras; that nature may speak to the imagination, as she does never in company...
    Bhr 6.180 14 One comes away from a company in which, it may easily happen, he has said nothing...
    Bhr 6.184 20 ...to earnest persons...we cannot extol [dress circles] highly. A well-dressed talkative company where each is bent to amuse the other...
    Bhr 6.185 13 In the shallow company, easily excited, easily tired, here is the columnar Bernard;...
    Bhr 6.186 20 ...we sometimes dream that we are in a well-dressed company without any coat...
    Bhr 6.194 7 ...such was the contented spirit of the monk [Basle] that he found something to praise in every place and company...
    Bhr 6.197 1 The oldest and the most deserving person should come very modestly into any newly awaked company...
    Wsp 6.235 20 When I went abroad [said Benedict], I kept company with every man on the road...
    Wsp 6.235 25 [Benedict said] I could not stoop to be a circumstance, as they did who put their life into their fortune and their company.
    CbW 6.262 17 In our life and culture everything is worked up and comes in use,--passion, war, revolt, bankruptcy, and not less...insult, ennui and bad company.
    CbW 6.262 24 ...when you pay for your ticket and get into the car, you have no guess what good company you shall find there.
    CbW 6.263 26 I once asked a clergyman in a retired town...what men of ability he saw? He replied that he spent his time with the sick and the dying. I said he seemed to me to need quite other company...
    CbW 6.269 13 ...when there is sympathy, there needs but one wise man in a company and all are wise...
    CbW 6.271 27 ...if one comes who can...show [men]...what gifts they have...then...we see the zenith over and the nadir under us. Instead of the tanks and buckets of knowledge to which we are daily confined, we come down to the shore of the sea, and dip our hands in its miraculous waves. 'T is wonderful the effect on the company.
    CbW 6.274 15 ...it is who lives near us of equal social degree,--a few people at convenient distance, no matter how bad company,--these, and these only, shall be your life's companions;...
    Bty 6.287 5 ...the varied power in all that well-known company that escort us through life,--we know how these forms thrill, paralyze, provoke, inspire and enlarge us.
    Ill 6.309 1 Some years ago, in company with an agreeable party, I spent a long summer day in exploring the Mammoth Cave in Kentucky.
    Ill 6.314 26 [I knew a humorist who] shocked the company by maintaining that the attributes of God were two,--power and risibility...
    Ill 6.321 3 We fancy we have fallen into bad company and squalid condition...
    SS 7.7 19 Dante was very bad company...
    SS 7.9 14 ...though there be for heroes this moral union, yet they too are as far off as ever from an intellectual union, and the moral union is for comparatively low and external purposes, like the cooperation of a ship's company...
    SS 7.14 10 Put any company of people together with freedom for conversation, and a rapid self-distribution takes place into sets and pairs.
    SS 7.14 22 I know that my friend can talk eloquently; you know that he cannot articulate a sentence: we have seen him in different company.
    Art2 7.46 13 The effect of music belongs how much to the place...or to the company...
    Art2 7.56 27 Popular institutions...the insurance company...are the fruit of the equality and the boundless liberty of lucrative callings.
    Elo1 7.65 7 That...which eloquence ought to reach, is not a particular skill in...dexterously addressing the prejudice of the company...
    Elo1 7.84 6 Pepys says of Lord Clarendon...I did never observe how much easier a man do speak when he knows all the company to be below him, than in him;...
    Elo1 7.84 10 Pepys says of Lord Clarendon...though he spoke indeed excellent well, yet his manner and freedom of doing it, as if he played with it, and was informing only all the rest of the company, was mighty pretty.
    Elo1 7.85 13 In any knot of men conversing on any subject, the person who knows most about it will have the ear of the company if he wishes it...
    Elo1 7.86 7 In every company the man with the fact is like the guide you hire to lead your party up a mountain...
    DL 7.110 7 Do not ask [the scholar] to...join a company to build a factory or a fishing-craft.
    DL 7.112 13 If the children...are...kept in proper company...then does the hospitality of the house suffer;...
    DL 7.126 8 One is struck in every company...with the riches of Nature...
    DL 7.128 19 It has been finely added by Landor to his definition of the great man, It is he who can call together the most select company when it pleases him.
    Boks 7.190 13 A company of the wisest and wittiest men that could be picked out of all civil countries in a thousand years have [in the smallest chosen library] set in best order the results of their learning and wisdom.
    Boks 7.196 12 ...good travellers stop at the best hotels; for...there is the good company and the best information.
    Boks 7.209 24 Among the distinguished company which attended the sale [of the Duke of Roxburgh's library] were the Duke of Devonshire, Earl Spencer, and the Duke of Marlborough...
    Boks 7.221 1 ...how attractive is the whole literature of the Roman de la Rose, the Fabliaux, and the gaie science of the French Troubadours! Yet who in Boston has time for that? But one of our company shall undertake it...
    Clbs 7.225 20 ...every healthy and efficient mind passes a large part of life in the company most easy to him.
    Clbs 7.231 24 ...[the lover of letters] seeks the company of those who have convivial talent.
    Clbs 7.232 25 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;...
    Clbs 7.233 9 The greatest sufferers are often...men of a delicate sympathy, who are dumb in mixed company.
    Clbs 7.234 25 ...once in the right company, new and vast values do not fail to appear.
    Clbs 7.236 19 ...Dr. Johnson impresses his company, not only by the point of the remark, but also...because he makes it.
    Clbs 7.242 5 I have known persons of rare ability who were heavy company to good social men...
    Clbs 7.245 2 The man of thought...the man of manners and culture, whom you so much wish to find,--each of these is wishing to be found. Each wishes to open his thought, his knowledge, his social skill to the daylight in your company and affection;...
    Clbs 7.245 4 The man of thought...the man of manners and culture, whom you so much wish to find,--each of these is wishing to be found. Each wishes...to exchange his gifts for yours; and the first hint of a select and intelligent company is welcome.
    Clbs 7.246 2 A man of irreproachable behavior and excellent sense preferred on his travels taking his chance at a hotel for company...
    Clbs 7.246 4 [A man of irreproachable behavior and excellent sense] confessed he liked low company.
    Clbs 7.246 14 I knew a scholar...who said that he liked, in a barroom, to tell a few coon stories and put himself on a good footing with the company;...
    Clbs 7.246 17 The black-coats are good company only for black-coats;...
    Clbs 7.248 15 Plutarch, Xenophon and Plato, who have celebrated each a banquet of their set, have given us next to no data of the viands; and it is to be believed that an indifferent tavern dinner in such society was more relished by the convives than a much better one in worse company.
    Clbs 7.248 23 ...it was when things went prosperously, and the company was full of honor, at the banquet of the Cid, that the guests all were joyful...
    Clbs 7.250 5 There is no permanently wise man, but men capable of wisdom, who, being put into certain company, or other favorable conditions, become wise for a short time...
    Cour 7.268 2 There is...a courage which enables one man to speak masterly to a hostile company, whilst another man who can easily face a cannon's mouth dares not open his own.
    Cour 7.269 23 When a confident man comes into a company magnifying this or that author he has freshly read, the company grow silent and ashamed of their ignorance.
    Cour 7.269 25 When a confident man comes into a company magnifying this or that author he has freshly read, the company grow silent and ashamed of their ignorance.
    OA 7.335 7 [John Adams] likes to have...company talking in his room...
    PI 8.45 24 In society you have this figure [of rhyme] in a bridal company, where a choir of white-robed maidens give the charm of living statues;...
    PI 8.62 1 Ah, sir, said Merlin [to Sir Gawaine]...there is no such strong tower as this wherein I am confined;...neither can I go out, nor can any one come in, save she...who keeps me company when it pleaseth her...
    SA 8.82 26 An intellectual man...is instantly reinforced by being put into the company of scholars...
    SA 8.89 27 ...to the company I am now considering, were no terrors, no vulgarity. All topics were broached...
    SA 8.90 13 The delight in good company...doubles the value of life.
    SA 8.91 3 The hunger for company is keen...
    SA 8.94 22 Sainte-Beuve tells us of the privileged circle at Coppet, that after making an excursion one day, the party returned in two coaches from Chambery to Aix, on the way to Coppet. The first coach had many rueful accidents to relate...danger and gloom to the whole company.
    SA 8.98 1 As soon as the company give in to this enjoyment [of jokes], we shall have no Olympus.
    SA 8.98 23 Everything is unseasonable which is private to two or three or any portion of the company.
    SA 8.98 27 ...we never talk shop before company.
    SA 8.103 10 ...[the American to be proud of] was the best talker...in the company...
    SA 8.103 21 ...I said to myself, How little this man [an American to be proud of] suspects...that he is not likely, in any company, to meet a man superior to himself.
    Elo2 8.112 27 There is one of whom we took no note, but on a certain occasion it appears that he has a secret virtue never suspected,--that he can paint what has occurred and what must occur, with such clearness to a company, as if they saw it done before their eyes.
    Elo2 8.114 3 In the folds of his brow, in the majesty of his mien, Nature has marked her son; and in that artificial and perhaps unworthy place and company [the Senate] shall remind you of the lessons taught him in earlier days by the torrent in the gloom of the pine-woods...
    Elo2 8.120 4 ...a man of this talent [of eloquence] sometimes finds himself cold and slow in private company...
    Comc 8.162 21 The victim who has just received the discharge [of wit], if in a solemn company, has the air very much of a stout vessel which has just shipped a heavy sea;...
    PPo 8.244 17 He only [Hafiz] says, is fit for company, who knows how to prize earthly happiness at the value of a night-cap.
    Grts 8.304 17 I am to infer that you keep good company by your better information and manners...
    Imtl 8.332 6 Slowly [the two men] advanced towards each other as they could, through the brilliant company...
    Imtl 8.332 26 Where there is depravity there is a slaughter-house style of thinking. One argument of future life is the recoil of the mind in such company...
    Aris 10.31 6 There is an attractive topic, which...is impertinent in no community,-the permanent traits of the Aristocracy. It is...to be found in every country and in every company of men.
    Aris 10.40 3 In every company one finds the best man;...
    PerF 10.80 15 ...[the prisoner] took his flute out of his pocket and began to play, to the surprise, and, as it proved, to the delight of all the company;...
    Edc1 10.140 27 [The boy's] hunting and campings-out have given him an indispensable base: I wish to add a taste for good company through his impatience of bad.
    Edc1 10.145 17 Happy this child...with a thought which...leads him, now into deserts, now into cities, the fool of an idea. Let him follow it in good and in evil report, in good or bad company;...
    Edc1 10.145 20 In London, in a private company, I became acquainted with a gentleman, Sir Charles Fellowes...
    Supl 10.173 2 The arithmetic of Newton...the inspiration of Shakspeare, are sure of commanding interest and awe in every company of men.
    MoL 10.247 8 A scholar defending the cause...of the oppressor, is a traitor to his profession. He has ceased to be a scholar. He is not company for clean people.
    Schr 10.287 5 ...[the scholar] has bad company...
    Schr 10.287 7 ...[the scholar]...is pelted by storms of cares, untuning cares, untuning company.
    Plu 10.291 6 ...Be great, be true, and all the Scipios,/ The Catos, the wise patriots of Rome,/ Shall flock to you and tarry by your side/ And comfort you with their high company./
    LLNE 10.340 27 [Channing] found [at Warren's house] a well-chosen assembly of gentlemen variously distinguished;...they were...drawing gently towards their great expectation, when a side-door opened, the whole company streamed in to an oyster supper...
    LLNE 10.342 4 These fine conversations...were incomprehensible to some in the company...
    LLNE 10.343 19 ...the intelligence and character and varied ability of the company gave it some notoriety...
    LLNE 10.356 17 ...Thoreau gave in flesh and blood and pertinacious Saxon belief the purest ethics. He was more real and practically believing in them than any of his company...
    EzRy 10.390 25 ...[Ezra Ripley] had no studies, no occupations, which company could interrupt.
    EzRy 10.392 13 We remember the remark of a gentleman who listened with much delight to [Ezra Ripley's] conversation...that a man who could tell a story so well was company for kings and John Quincy Adams.
    EzRy 10.393 10 The usual experiences of men...[Ezra Ripley] studied them all, and sympathized so well in these that he was excellent company and counsel to all...
    MMEm 10.399 22 I report some of the thoughts and soliloquies of a country girl [Mary Moody Emerson]...growing from youth to age amid slender opportunities and usually very humble company.
    Thor 10.456 20 ...[Thoreau]...threw himself heartily and childlike into the company of young people whom he loved...
    Thor 10.458 17 [Thoreau] coldly and fully stated his opinion without affecting to believe that it was the opinion of the company.
    Thor 10.465 19 There was nothing so important to [Thoreau] as his walk; he had no walks to throw away on company.
    Carl 10.491 3 Forster of Rawdon described to me a dinner at the table d' hote of some provincial hotel where he carried Carlyle, and where an Irish canon had uttered something. Carlyle began to talk, first to the waiters, and then to the walls, and then, lastly, unmistakably to the priest, in a manner that frightened the whole company.
    HDC 11.44 12 ...each little company [in the Massachusetts Bay colonies] organized itself after the pattern of the larger town...
    HDC 11.47 23 Wrath and love came up to town-meeting in company.
    HDC 11.54 17 A military company had been organized [in Concord] in 1636.
    HDC 11.63 15 In 1689, Concord partook of the general indignation of the province against Andros. A company marched to the capital under Lieutenant Heald...
    FSLN 11.228 18 ...if the reporters say true, [Webster's] wretched atheism found some laughter in the company.
    FSLN 11.232 8 I too think the musts are a safe company to follow...
    AKan 11.255 1 I regret, with all this company, the absence of Mr. Whitman of Kansas...
    TPar 11.291 24 ...every sound heart loves a responsible person, one who does not in generous company say generous things, and in mean company base things...
    TPar 11.291 25 ...every sound heart loves a responsible person, one who does not in generous company say generous things, and in mean company base things...
    ALin 11.333 5 [Lincoln's good humor] enabled him...to catch with true instinct the temper of every company he addressed.
    HCom 11.344 6 A single company in the Forty-fourth Massachusetts Regiment contained thirty-five sons of Harvard.
    SMC 11.349 5 Fellow Citizens: The day is in Concord doubly our calendar day, as being the anniversary of the invasion of the town by the British troops in 1775, and of the departure of the company of voluteers for Washington, in 1861.
    SMC 11.357 10 I have a note of a conversation that occurred in our first company, the morning before the battle of Bull Run.
    SMC 11.358 22 Our first company was led by an officer who had grown up in this village from a boy.
    SMC 11.361 19 [George Prescott] writes, You don't know how one gets attached to a company by living with them...
    SMC 11.362 6 At one time [George Prescott] finds his company unfortunate in having fallen between two companies of quite another class...
    SMC 11.362 26 At night [George Prescott] adds: I told that officer from West Point, this morning, that he could not swear at my company as he did yesterday;...
    SMC 11.363 1 I [George Prescott] told [the West Point officer] I had a good many young men in my company...
    SMC 11.364 15 [George Prescott writes] We only had about twelve men [the rest of the company being, perhaps, on picket or other duty]...
    SMC 11.365 3 [George Prescott writes] The major had tried to discourage me;-said, perhaps, if I carried [tent-poles] over, some other company would get them;...
    SMC 11.365 8 In the disastrous battle of Bull Run this [Massachusetts] company behaved well...
    SMC 11.365 22 In the fall of 1861, the old artillery company of this town [Concord] was reorganized...
    SMC 11.365 26 This [old artillery] company, chiefly recruited here [in Concord], was later embodied in the Forty-Seventh Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteers...
    SMC 11.366 6 Captain Humphrey H. Buttrick, lieutenant in this [Forty-seventh] regiment, as he had been already lieutenant in Captain Prescott's company in 1861, went out again in August, 1864...
    SMC 11.366 25 After the return of the three months' company to Concord, in 1861, Captain Prescott raised a new company of volunteers...
    SMC 11.366 27 After the return of the three months' company to Concord, in 1861, Captain Prescott raised a new company of volunteers...
    SHC 11.429 16 ...this concourse of friendly company assures me that [the committee] have rightly interpreted your wishes.
    Shak1 11.452 23 ...there are some men so born to live well that, in whatever company they fall,-high or low,-they fit well, and lead it!...
    Shak1 11.453 4 ...there are some men so born to live well that, in whatever company they fall,-high or low,-they fit well, and lead it!...I suppose because they have more humanity than talent, whilst they have quite as much of the last as any of the company.
    Shak1 11.453 8 I could name in this very company...very good types [of men who live well in and lead any society]...
    Scot 11.466 26 ...Scott portrayed with equal strength and success every figure in his crowded company.
    Scot 11.467 18 ...[Scott]...passed all his life in the best company...
    CPL 11.498 1 The town [Concord] was settled by a pious company of non-conformists from England...
    PLT 12.26 19 In unfit company the finest powers are paralyzed.
    PLT 12.27 18 There is no permanent wise man, but men capable of wisdom, who, being put into certain company or other favorable conditions, become wise...
    PLT 12.43 7 I owe to genius always the same debt, of...showing me that gods are sitting disguised in every company.
    PLT 12.49 1 Webster naturally and always grasps, and therefore retains something from every company and circumstance.
    Mem 12.104 3 In low or bad company you fold yourself in your cloak... recall and surround yourself with the best associates and fairest hours of your life...
    CL 12.142 20 ...a vain talker profanes the river and the forest, and is nothing like so good company as a dog.
    CL 12.156 16 If you wish to know the shortcomings of poetry and language, try to reproduce the October picture to a city company...
    CW 12.176 10 ...if one is so happy as to find the company of a true artist, he is a perpetual holiday and benefactor...
    CW 12.177 7 This is my ideal of the power of wealth. Find out...when Dr. Charles Jackson or Mr. Hall would study chemistry or mines; and you secure the best company and the best teaching with every advantage.
    Bost 12.189 4 A capital fact distinguishing this colony [Massachusetts Bay] from all other colonies was that the persons composing it consented to come on the one condition that the charter should be transferred from the company in England to themselves;...
    Bost 12.192 2 In the journey of Rev. Peter Bulkeley and his company through the forest from Boston to Concord they fainted from the powerful odor of the stweefern in the sun;...
    ACri 12.286 18 Look at this forlorn caravan of travellers who wander over Europe dumb...condemned to the company of a courier and of the padrone when they cannot take refuge in the society of countrymen.
    WSL 12.339 23 Before a well-dressed company [Landor] plunges his fingers into a cesspool...
    Let 12.394 6 ...to fifteen letters on Communities, and the Prospects of Culture, and the destinies of the cultivated class,-what answer? Excellent reasons have been shown us why the writers...should be dissatisfied with the life they lead, and with their company.

Company of Massachusetts Ba (2)

    HDC 11.42 27 The charter gave to the freemen of the Company of Massachusetts Bay the election of the Governor and Council of Assistants.
    HDC 11.43 6 ...the Company [of Massachusetts Bay] removed to New England;...

Company's, East India, n. (1)

    HDC 11.69 14 ...we will not, in this town [Concord]...buy, sell, or use any of the East India Company's tea...

comparable, adj. (5)

    SwM 4.111 9 ...[Swedenborg] has at last found a pupil in Mr. Wilkinson...a philosophic critic, with a coequal vigor of understanding and imagination comparable only to Lord Bacon's...
    GoW 4.287 15 ...the charm of this portion of the book [Goethe's Thory of Colors] consists in the simplest statement of the relation betwixt these grandees of European scientific history and himself; the mere drawing of the lines from Goethe to Kepler, from Goethe to Bacon, from Goethe to Newton. The drawing of the line...gives pleasure when Iphigenia and Faust do not, without any cost of invention comparable to that of Iphigenia and Faust.
    CbW 6.272 3 ...if one comes who can...show [men]...what gifts they have... he wakes in them the feeling of worth... ... 'T is wonderful the effect on the company. They are not the men they were. ... There is no book and no pleasure in life comparable to it.
    Farm 7.153 23 [The farmer] is a person whom a poet of any clime...would appreciate as being really a piece of the old Nature, comparable to sun and moon...
    Milt1 12.253 22 ...no man can be named whose mind still acts on the cultivated intellect of England and America with an energy comparable to that of Milton.

comparable, n. (1)

    LLNE 10.331 2 There was an influence on the young people from the genius of Everett which was almost comparable to that of Pericles in Athens.

comparative, adj. (4)

    SL 2.133 9 We form no guess, at the time of receiving a thought, of its comparative value.
    Exp 3.79 10 All stealing is comparative.
    SwM 4.104 25 Unrivalled dissectors...had left nothing for scalpel or microscope to reveal in human or comparative anatomy...
    MLit 12.328 14 ...that we may not...pay a great man so ill a compliment as to praise him only in the conventional and comparative speech, let us honestly record our thought upon the total worth and influence of this genius [Goethe].

comparative, n. (2)

    LE 1.164 12 Concede to [the man of letters] genius, which is a sort of Stoical plenum annulling the comparative, and he is content;...
    Comp 2.122 23 There is no tax on the good of virtue, for that is the incoming of God himself, or absolute existence, without any comparative.

comparatively, adv. (4)

    Nat2 3.170 10 ...we see what majestic beauties daily wrap us in their bosom. How willingly we would escape the barriers which render them comparatively impotent...
    SS 7.9 13 ...though there be for heroes this moral union, yet they too are as far off as ever from an intellectual union, and the moral union is for comparatively low and external purposes...
    Thor 10.483 22 Atheism may comparatively be popular with God himself.
    ALin 11.330 26 ...when the new and comparatively unknown name of Lincoln was announced [for President]...we heard the result coldly and sadly.

compare, v. (35)

    Nat 1.75 19 It were a wise inquiry...to compare...our daily history with the rise and progress of ideas in the mind.
    LT 1.285 18 No man can compare the ideas and aspirations of the innovators of the present day with those of former periods, without feeling how great and high this criticism is.
    Tran 1.358 25 ...it may not be without its advantage that we should now and then encounter rare and gifted men, to compare the points of our spiritual compass...
    SR 2.84 24 ...compare the health of the two men [American and New Zealander]...
    SL 2.164 26 ...let me do my work so well that other idlers if they choose may compare my texture with the texture of [Brant, Schuyler, Washington] and find it identical with the best.
    Nat2 3.185 27 The child...without any power to compare and rank his sensations...lies down at night overpowered by the fatigue which this day of continual pretty madness has incurred.
    PPh 4.78 17 The way to know [Plato] is to compare him, not with nature, but with other men.
    GoW 4.266 19 If I were to compare action of a much higher strain with a life of contemplation, I should not venture to pronounce with much confidence in favor of the former.
    GoW 4.278 2 I suppose no book of this century can compare with [Goethe' s Wilhelm Meister] in its delicious sweetness...
    ET8 5.137 20 Compare the tone of the French and of the English press...
    ET12 5.207 23 When born with good constitutions, [English students] make those eupeptic studying-mills...whose powers of performance compare with ours as the steam-hammer with the music-box;...
    F 6.24 13 A man ought to compare advantageously with a river...
    Wsp 6.207 13 The religion of the early English poets is anomalous, so devout and so blasphemous, in the same breath. ... With these grossnesses, we complacently compare our own taste and decorum.
    Ill 6.310 4 The mysteries and scenery of the [Mammoth] cave had the same dignity that belongs to all natural objects, and which shames the fine things to which we foppishly compare them.
    Civ 7.20 15 In other races [than the Indian and the negro]...the like progress that is made by a boy when he cuts his eye-teeth, as we say...is made by tribes. ... It implies...power to compare...
    Elo1 7.69 4 ...neither can the Southerner in the United States, nor the Irish, compare [in eloquence] with the lively inhabitant of the south of Europe.
    Elo1 7.86 10 In every company the man with the fact is like the guide you hire to lead your party...through a difficult country. He may not compare with any of the party in mind or breeding or courage or possessions, but he is much more important to the present need than any of them.
    Clbs 7.228 16 How sweet those hours when the day was not long enough to communicate and compare our intellectual jewels...
    Clbs 7.249 1 I need only hint the value of the club for bringing masters in their several arts to compare and expand their views...
    PI 8.45 5 ...I doubt if the best poet has yet written any five-act play that can compare in thoroughness of invention with this unwritten play in fifty acts, composed by the dullest snorer on the floor of the watch-house.
    Grts 8.310 11 You are rightly fond of certain books or men that you have found to excite your reverence and emulation. But none of these can compare with the greatness of that counsel which is open to you in happy solitude.
    Grts 8.313 11 No aristocrat...can begin to compare with the self-respect of the saint.
    Chr2 10.94 23 Compare all that we call ourselves...with this deep of moral nature in which we lie...
    Edc1 10.127 6 Certain nations...have made such progress as to compare with these [savages] as these compare with the bear and the wolf.
    Edc1 10.127 7 Certain nations...have made such progress as to compare with these [savages] as these compare with the bear and the wolf.
    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.
    MoL 10.255 4 ...neither saint nor sage, can compare with that counsel which is open to you.
    Plu 10.311 9 'T is almost inevitable to compare Plutarch with Seneca...
    LS 11.11 17 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, and then compare with it the account of this transaction [Christ's washing the disciples' feet] in St. John...
    ALin 11.336 16 Only Washington can compare with [Lincoln] in fortune.
    Koss 11.397 3 Sir [Kossuth],-The fatigue of your many public visits, in such unbroken succession as may compare with the toils of a campaign, forbid us to detain you long.
    SHC 11.432 2 What work of man will compare with the plantation of a park?
    Humb 11.456 3 If a life prolonged to an advanced period bring with it several inconveniences to the individual, there is a compensation in the delight of being able to compare older states of knowledge with that which now exists...
    CInt 12.124 4 No books, no aids...can compare with [a good teacher].
    PPr 12.379 6 In its first aspect [Carlyle's Past and Present] is a political tract, and since Burke, since Milton, we have had nothing to compare with it.

compared, v. (49)

    Nat 1.37 24 ...Property, which has been well compared to snow...is the surface action of internal machinery...
    AmS 1.110 7 If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not... when the old and the new stand side by side and admit of being compared;...
    LE 1.172 25 Works of the intellect are great only by comparison with each other; Ivanhoe and Waverley compared with Castle Radcliffe and the Porter novels;...
    MN 1.202 21 None of [the eminent souls] seen by himself, and his performance compared with his promise or idea, will justify the cost of that enormous apparatus of means by which this spotted and defective person was at last procured.
    SL 2.148 15 The good, compared to the evil which [every man] sees [in the world], is as his own good to his own evil.
    Fdsp 2.197 18 I cannot deny it, O friend, that the vast shadow of the Phenomenal includes...thee also, compared with whom all else is shadow.
    Exp 3.58 25 A political orator wittily compared our party promises to western roads...
    Exp 3.61 26 I compared notes with one of my friends who expects everything of the universe...
    Mrs1 3.119 23 In the deserts of Borgoo the rock-Tibboos still dwell in caves, like cliff-swallows, and the language of these negroes is compared by their neighbors to the shrieking of bats and to the whistling of birds.
    Gts 3.164 9 The service a man renders his friend is trivial and selfish compared with the service he knows his friend stood in readiness to yield him...
    Gts 3.164 12 Compared with that good-will I bear my friend, the benefit it is in my power to render him seems small.
    Nat2 3.175 19 That [the rich] have some high-fenced grove which they call a park; that they...go in coaches...to watering-places and to distant cities,-- these make the groundwork from which [the poor young poet] has delineated estates of romance, compared with which their actual possessions are shanties and paddocks.
    Pol1 3.211 19 Fisher Ames expressed the popular security more wisely, when he compared a monarchy and a republic...
    UGM 4.8 8 The aid we have from others is mechanical compared with the discoveries of nature in us.
    PPh 4.65 13 ...God invented and bestowed sight on us for this purpose,-- that on surveying the circles of intelligence in the heavens, we might properly employ those of our own minds, which, though disturbed when compared with the others that are uniform, are still allied to their circulations;...
    MoS 4.152 13 In England...property stands for more, compared with personal ability, than in any other.
    ShP 4.208 11 Read the antique documents extricated, analyzed and compared by the assiduous Dyce and Collier, and now read one of [Shakespeare's] skyey sentences...and tell me if they match;...
    ShP 4.211 1 ...the occasion which gave the saint's meaning the form...of a code of laws, is immaterial compared with the universality of its application.
    GoW 4.289 4 ...compared with any motives on which books are written in England and America, [Goethe's work] is very truth...
    ET1 5.13 14 ...on learning that I had been in Malta and Sicily, [Coleridge] compared one island with the other...
    ET8 5.128 7 As compared with the Americans, I think [the English] cheerful and contented.
    ET16 5.274 23 ...[Carlyle]...compared the savans of Somerset House to the boy who asked Confucius how many stars in the sky? Confucius replied, he minded things near him: then said the boy, how many hairs are there in your eyebrows? Confucius said, he did n't know and did n't care.
    Wsp 6.235 11 A man, says Vishnu Sarma, who having well compared his own strength or weakness with that of others, after all doth not know the difference, is easily overcome by his enemies.
    CbW 6.256 22 What is the benefit done by a good King Alfred...compared with the involuntary blessing wrought on nations by the selfish capitalists who built the Illinois...roads;...
    Elo1 7.67 27 When each auditor...shudders...with fear lest all will heavily fail through one bad speech, mere energy and mellowness [in the orator] are then inestimable. Wisdom and learning would be harsh and unwelcome, compared with a substantial cordial man...
    Clbs 7.235 11 However courteously we conceal it, it is social rank and spiritual power that are compared;...
    Suc 7.304 23 When the event is past and remote, how insignificant the greatest compared with the piquancy of the present!
    PI 8.21 7 The poet contemplates the central identity...and, following it, can detect essential resemblances in natures never before compared.
    Comc 8.173 18 All our plans, managements, houses, poems, if compared with the wisdom and love which man represents, are equally imperfect and ridiculous.
    QO 8.184 9 When [the Earl of Strafford] met with a well-penned oration or tract upon any subject, he framed a speech upon the same argument, inventing and disposing what seemed fit to be said upon that subject, before he read the book; then, reading, compared his own with the author's...
    QO 8.187 4 Antiphanes, one of Plato's friends, laughingly compared his writings to a city where the words froze in the air as soon as they were pronounced...
    PC 8.212 13 Our towns are still rude...and the whole architecture tent-like when compared with the monumental solidity of medieval and primeval remains in Europe and Asia.
    Imtl 8.323 5 ...one of [King Edwin's] nobles said to him: The present life of man, O king, compared with that space of time beyond...reminds me of one of your winter feasts...
    Imtl 8.335 14 ...a century, when we have once made it familiar and compared it with a true antiquity, looks dwarfish and recent;...
    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.
    Chr2 10.103 18 ...the acts which [the moral sentiment] suggests...are the homage we render to this sentiment, as compared with the lower regard we pay to other thoughts...
    SovE 10.203 25 ...our later generation appears ungirt, frivolous, compared with the religions of the last or Calvinist age.
    SovE 10.204 3 There was in the last century a serious habitual reference to the spiritual world...compared with which our liberation looks a little foppish and dapper.
    Schr 10.287 1 Let those come [to scholarship]...who see that there is no choice here, no advantage and no disadvantage compared with other careers.
    Plu 10.320 13 Professor Goodwin is a silent benefactor to the book [Plutarch's Morals], wherever I have compared the editions.
    MMEm 10.423 17 ...if you tell me [Mary Moody Emerson] of the miseries of the battle-field...what of a vulture being the bier, tomb and parson of a hero, compared to the long years of sticking on a bed and wished away?
    MMEm 10.428 1 Oh how weary in youth-more so scarcely now, not whenever I [Mary Moody Emerson] can breathe, as it seems, the atmosphere of the Omnipresence: then...honors, pleasures, labors, I always refuse, compared to this divine partaking of existence;...
    Thor 10.470 17 The redstart was flying about, and presently the fine grosbeaks...whose fine clear note Thoreau compared to that of a tanager which has got rid of its hoarseness.
    EWI 11.101 2 If there be any man who thinks the ruin of a race of men a small matter, compared with the last decoration and completions of his own comfort...I think I must not hesitate to satisfy that man that also his cream and vanilla are safer and cheaper by placing the negro nation on a fair footing than by robbing them.
    FSLC 11.211 1 Europe is little compared with Asia and Africa; yet Asia and Africa are its ox and its ass.
    ACiv 11.302 23 [The existing administration] is to be thanked for its angelic virtue, compared with any executive experiences with which we have been familiar.
    ALin 11.334 7 [The Gettyburg Address] and one other American speech, that of John Brown to the court that tried him, and a part of Kossuth's speech at Birmingham, can only be compared with each other...
    Scot 11.464 21 [Scott] made no pretension to the lofty style of Spenser, or Milton, or Wordsworth. Compared with their purified songs...his were vers de societe.
    Mem 12.97 22 A knife with a good spring...a watch, the teeth or jaws of which fit and play perfectly, as compared with the same tools when badly put together, describe to us the difference between a person of quick and strong perception...and a heavy man who witnesses the same facts...

compares, v. (7)

    Pt1 3.31 14 ...Chaucer, in his praise of Gentilesse, compares good blood in mean condition to fire...
    NR 3.241 14 The statesman looks at many, and compares the few habitually with others, and these look less.
    Wsp 6.221 12 We owe to the Hindoo Scriptures a definition of Law, which compares well with any in our Western books.
    PI 8.24 12 [The intellect] compares, distributes, generalizes and uplifts [surface facts] into its own sphere.
    Comc 8.164 15 ...[the intellect] compares incessantly the sublime idea with the bloated nothing which pretends to be it...
    NHI 12.2 4 Power that by obedience grows,/ Knowledge that its source not knows,/ Wave which severs whom it bears/ From the things which he compares./
    Bost 12.184 8 [Howell] compares [Indian society] to the geologic phenomenon which the black soil of the Dhakkan offers,-the property, namely, of assimilating to itself every foreign substance introduced into its bosom.

comparing, v. (11)

    LE 1.179 22 [Napoleon] believed that the great captains of antiquity performed their exploits...by justly comparing the relation between means and consequences...
    SL 2.138 3 The wild fertility of nature is felt in comparing our rigid names and reputations with our fluid consciousness.
    NER 3.271 13 ...every man has at intervals the grace to scorn his performances, in comparing them with his belief of what he should do;...
    SwM 4.108 23 Here in the brain is all the process of alimentation repeated, in the acquiring, comparing, digesting and assimilating of experience.
    ET3 5.37 2 ...to resist the tyranny and prepossession of the British element, a serious man must aid himself by comparing with it the civilizations of the farthest east and west...
    ET7 5.119 13 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.
    Boks 7.220 12 In comparing the number of good books with the shortness of life, many might well be read by proxy, if we had good proxies;...
    Clbs 7.241 12 We consider those who are interested in thoughts...and who delight in comparing them;...
    PI 8.24 3 Slowly, by comparing thousands of observations, there dawned on some mind a theory of the sun...
    Comc 8.157 9 ...it is in comparing fractions with essential integers or wholes that laughter begins.
    Comc 8.158 25 The perpetual game of humor is to look with considerate good nature at every object in existence...comparing it with eternal Whole;...

comparison, n. (25)

    Nat 1.66 15 ...the best read naturalist who lends an entire and devout attention to truth, will see that there remains much to learn of his relation to the world, and that it is not to be learned by any...other comparison of known quantities...
    LE 1.172 23 Works of the intellect are great only by comparison with each other;...
    LT 1.266 24 A little while this interval of wonder and comparison is permitted us...
    LT 1.271 12 The history of reform...is the comparison of the idea with the fact.
    SL 2.138 19 ...we have been ourselves that coward and robber, and shall be again,--not in the low circumstance, but in comparison with the grandeurs possible to the soul.
    Lov1 2.174 13 ...a beauty overpowering all analysis or comparison and putting us quite beside ourselves we can seldom see after thirty years...
    Fdsp 2.210 15 Should not the society of my friend be to me...great as nature itself? Ought I to feel that our tie is profane in comparison with yonder bar of cloud...
    OS 2.270 19 All goes to show that the soul in man...is not a function...of calculation, of comparison...
    Int 2.330 15 ...the differences between men in natural endowment are insignificant in comparison with their common wealth.
    Exp 3.77 10 The subject is the receiver of Godhead, and at every comparison must feel his being enhanced by that cryptic might.
    UGM 4.34 16 Happy, if a few names remain so high that...age and comparison have not robbed them of a ray.
    PPh 4.64 9 ...[said Plato] the persuasion that we must search that which we do not know, will render us, beyond comparison, better, braver and more industrious than if we thought it impossible to discover what we do not know, and useless to search for it.
    SwM 4.124 6 The moral insight of Swedenborg...the announcement of ethical laws, take him out of comparison with any other modern writer...
    ET8 5.127 4 [The English] are sad by comparison with the singing and dancing nations...
    ET14 5.249 22 ...Carlyle was driven by his disgust at the pettiness and the cant, into the preaching of Fate. In comparison with all this rottenness [in England], any check, any cleansing, though by fire, seemed desirable and beautiful.
    Ctr 6.147 6 A foreign country is a point of comparison wherefrom to judge [a man's] own.
    DL 7.120 17 ...who can see unmoved...the cautious comparison of the attractive advertisement of the arrival of Macready, Booth or Kemble...with the expense of the entertainment;...
    Imtl 8.335 12 What lasts a century pleases us in comparison with what lasts an hour.
    Aris 10.61 15 ...all comparison with neighboring abilities and reputations, is the road to mediocrity.
    Edc1 10.135 2 We exercise [boys'] understandings to the apprehension and comparison of some facts...
    Schr 10.275 10 The hero rises out of all comparison with contemporaries and with ages of men, because he disesteems old age, and lands, and money, and power...
    Thor 10.475 9 [Thoreau] was so enamoured of the spiritual beauty that he held all actual written poems in very light esteem in the comparison.
    Carl 10.497 24 ...[Carlyle] has stood for the people...teaching the nobles their peremptory duties. His errors of opinion are as nothing in comparison with this merit...
    LVB 11.94 1 ...to us the questions upon which the government and the people have been agitated during the past year...seem but motes in comparison [with the relocation of the Cherokees].
    Milt1 12.255 26 In Germany, the greatest writers are still too recent to institute a comparison [with Milton];...

comparisons, n. (6)

    LE 1.163 8 ...in the disquieting comparisons;...behold Charles the Fifth's day;...
    Lov1 2.185 6 The lovers delight...in comparisons of their regards.
    Chr1 3.106 24 How captivating is [children's] devotion to their favorite books...as feeling that they have a stake in that book;...and especially the total solitude of the critic, the Patmos of thought from which he writes, in unconsciousness of any eyes that shall ever read this writing. Could they dream on still, as angels, and not wake to comparisons and to be flattered!
    QO 8.190 7 Each man of thought is surrounded by wiser men than he, if they cannot write as well. Cannot he and they combine? Cannot they...call their poem Beaumont and Fletcher, or the Theban Phalanx's? The city will for nine days or nine years make differences and sinister comparisons...
    EWI 11.129 13 ...in the last few days that my attention has been occupied with this history [of emancipation in the West Indies], I have not been able to read a page of it without the most painful comparisons.
    EWI 11.135 7 There are other comparisons and other imperative duties which come sadly to mind...

compartments, n. (1)

    MAng1 12.230 8 [Michelangelo's paintings are in the Sistine Chapel, of which he first covered the ceiling with the story of the Creation, in successive compartments...

compass, n. (25)

    Tran 1.358 26 ...it may not be without its advantage that we should now and then encounter rare and gifted men, to compare the points of our spiritual compass...
    Lov1 2.180 2 The statue is then beautiful...when it...can no longer be defined by compass and measuring-wand...
    PPh 4.57 8 Where there is great compass of wit, we usually find excellencies that combine easily in the living man...
    MoS 4.164 9 ...[Montaigne] loved the compass, staidness and independence of the country gentleman's life.
    MoS 4.167 22 [I seem to hear Montaigne say] Why should I vapor and play the philosopher, instead of ballasting, the best I can, this dancing balloon? So, at least, I live within compass...
    ShP 4.213 19 ...[Shakespeare] could paint...the great with compass...
    ET4 5.56 12 The men who have built a ship and invented the rig, cordage, sail, compass and pump;...have acquired much more than a ship.
    ET14 5.240 7 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 5.244 25 Burke was addicted to generalizing, but his was a shorter line [than Milton's]; as his thoughts have less depth, they have less compass.
    ET16 5.282 6 ...here is the high point of the theory: the Druids had the magnet; laid their courses by it; their cardinal points in Stonehenge, Ambresbury, and elsewhere...followed the variations of the compass.
    ET16 5.282 18 ...as Britain was a Phoenician secret, so they kept their compass a secret...
    ET16 5.282 20 The golden fleece again, of Jason, was the compass...
    ET16 5.283 5 On hints like these, Stukeley...computing backward by the known variations of the compass, bravely assigns the year 406 before Christ for the date of the temple [Stonehenge].
    ET18 5.299 8 Broad-fronted, broad-bottomed Teutons, [the English] stand in solid phalanx foursquare to the points of the compass;...
    Civ 7.24 19 The ship, in its latest complete equipment, is an abridgment and compend of a nation's arts: the ship steered by compass and chart...
    Elo1 7.62 25 Of all the musical instruments on which men play, a popular assembly is that which has the largest compass and variety...
    WD 7.158 14 Our century to be sure had inherited a tolerable apparatus. We had the compass, the printing-press, watches, the spiral spring, the barometer, the telescope.
    Res 8.140 12 The marked events in history...the discovery of the mariner's compass...each of these events electrifies the tribe to which it befalls;...
    QO 8.179 4 ...the mariner's compass, the boat, the pendulum, glass...etc., have been many times found and lost...
    PC 8.214 21 ...[The Middle Ages']...mariner's compass, gunpowder, glass, paper and clocks;...are the delight and tuition of ours.
    Grts 8.306 21 ...every mind has a new compass...
    HDC 11.33 21 Much time was lost in travelling [the pilgrims] knew not whither, when the sun was hidden by clouds; for their compass miscarried in crowding through the bushes...
    EWI 11.145 6 ...in the great anthem which we call history, a piece of many parts and vast compass...[the black race] perceive the time arrived when they can strike in with effect...
    CL 12.150 1 [The Indian] consults by way of natural compass, when he travels...
    CL 12.161 19 By what compass the geese steer, and the herring migrate, we would so gladly know.

compass, v. (2)

    GoW 4.264 4 Whatever can be thought...still rises for utterance, though to rude and stammering organs. If they cannot compass it, it waits and works...
    Shak1 11.451 1 The palaces [Englishmen] compass earth and sea to enter, the magnificence and personages of royal and imperial abodes, are shabby imitations and caricatures of [Shakespeare's]...

compass-box, n. (1)

    ET16 5.282 12 Hercules, in the legend, drew his bow at the sun, and the sun-god gave him a golden cup, with which he sailed over the ocean. What was this, but a compass-box?

compassed, v. (1)

    Fdsp 2.199 22 After interviews have been compassed with long foresight we must be tormented presently by baffled blows...in the heydey of friendship and thought.

compasses, n. (1)

    MAng1 12.228 22 [Michelangelo] used to make to a single figure nine, ten, or twelve heads...saying that he needed to have his compasses in his eye, and not in his hand, because the hands work whilst the eye judges.

compassion, n. (16)

    SR 2.76 23 Let a Stoic...tell men...that a man...should be ashamed of our compassion...
    Exp 3.82 16 In Flaxman's drawing of the Eumenides of Aeschylus, Orestes supplicates Apollo, whilst the Furies sleep on the threshold. The face of the god expresses a shade of regret and compassion, but is calm with the conviction of the irreconcilableness of the two spheres.
    NER 3.268 9 A man of good sense but of little faith, whose compassion seemed to lead him to church as often as he went there, said to me that he liked to have concerts, and fairs, and churches, and other public amusements go on.
    SwM 4.145 5 Do not rely...on compassion to folly...
    DL 7.103 19 [The nestler's] unaffected lamentations when he lifts up his voice on high...soften all hearts...to mirthful and clamorous compassion.
    Comc 8.162 17 ...with what unfeigned compassion we have seen such a person [of excessive susceptibility to the ludicrous] receiving like a willing martyr the whispers into his ear of a man of wit.
    Insp 8.270 13 They...cut off [the aboriginal man's] tail, set him on end, sent him to school and made him pay taxes, before he could begin to write his sad story for the compassion or the repudiation of his descendants...
    Dem1 10.6 17 Our thoughts in a stable or in a menagerie...may well remind us of our dreams. What compassion do these imprisoning forms awaken!
    EzRy 10.391 4 Ingratitude and meanness in [Ezra Ripley's] beneficiaries did not wear out his compassion;...
    MMEm 10.430 6 If one could choose, and without crime be gibbeted,- were it not altogether better than the long drooping away by age without mentality or devotion? The vulture and crow...would...make no grimace of affected sympathy, nor suffer any real compassion.
    HDC 11.50 21 The man of the woods might well draw on himself the compassion of the planters.
    EWI 11.138 26 The secret cannot be kept, that the seats of power are filled by underlings, ignorant, timid and selfish to a degree to destroy all claim, excepting that on compassion, to the society of the just and generous.
    EWI 11.143 18 ...[nature] saves not by compassion, but by power.
    EWI 11.144 22 ...a compassion for that which is not and cannot be useful or lovely, is degrading and futile.
    ALin 11.332 21 ...how [Lincoln's] good nature became a noble humanity, in many a tragic case which the events of the war brought to him, every one will remember; and with what increasing tenderness he dealt when a whole race was thrown on his compassion.
    ACri 12.289 4 Burns took [the Devil] into compassion and expressed a blind wish for his reformation.

compass-sight, n. (1)

    Thor 10.483 4 If I wish for a horse-hair for my compass-sight I must go to the stable;...

compatible, adj. (5)

    ShP 4.212 5 [Shakespeare] was the farthest reach of subtlety compatible with an individual self...
    ShP 4.219 20 ...love is compatible with universal wisdom.
    ET8 5.143 4 [The English] choose that welfare which is compatible with the commonwealth...
    ET9 5.144 3 Individual right is pushed [in England] to the uttermost bound compatible with public order.
    FRep 11.541 4 We want...a state of things which allows every man the largest liberty compatible with the liberty of every other man.

compatriot, n. (1)

    Shak1 11.447 14 ...it is to us [The Saturday Club] a painful disappointment...that a well-known and honored compatriot...Mr. Charles Sprague,-pleads the infirmities of age as an absolute bar to his presence with us.

compatriots, n. (5)

    Hist 2.25 2 ...[in the Grecian period] the habit of [each man's] supplying his own needs educates the body to wonderful performances. Such are the Agamemnon and Diomed of Homer, and not far different is the picture Xenophon gives of himself and his compatriots...
    ET7 5.120 18 ...the chairman [of a St. George's festival in Montreal] complimented his compatriots, by saying, they confided that wherever they met an Englishman, they found a man who would speak the truth.
    ET9 5.144 11 Every individual [in England] has his particular way of living, which he pushes to folly, and the decided sympathy of his compatriots is engaged to back up Mr. Crump's whim by statutes and chancellors and horse-guards.
    HDC 11.86 4 On the village green [of Concord] have been the steps...of Hancock, and his compatriots of the Provincial Congress;...
    Koss 11.397 6 ...[the people of Concord], like their compatriots, have been hungry to see the man whose extraordinary eloquence is seconded by the splendor and solidity of his actions [Kossuth].

compeers, n. (1)

    NMW 4.243 12 ...[Napoleon] undoubtedly felt a desire for men and compeers...

compel, v. (13)

    MR 1.247 11 I do not wish to push my criticism on the state of things around me to that extravagant mark that shall compel me to suicide...
    SL 2.145 16 That mood into which a friend can bring us is his dominion over us. To the thoughts of that state of mind he has a right. All the secrets of that state of mind he can compel.
    Pt1 3.6 11 ...in our experience, the rays or appulses have sufficient force to arrive at the senses, but not enough to...compel the reproduction of themselves in speech.
    Pol1 3.199 17 ...society is fluid;...any particle may suddenly become the centre of the movement and compel the system to gyrate round it;...
    F 6.33 27 [Steam] could be used to...chain and compel other devils far more reluctant...
    Bhr 6.172 20 We prize [manners] for their rough-plastic, abstergent force;... to slough [people's] animal husks and habits; compel them to be clean;...
    Bty 6.296 27 ...the citizens of her native city of Toulouse obtained the aid of the civil authorities to compel [Pauline de Viguier] to appear publicly on the balcony at least twice a week...
    Ill 6.320 7 One after the other we accept the mental laws, still resisting those which follow, which however must be accepted. But all our concessions only compel us to new profusion.
    Cour 7.257 17 ...[the child's] utter ignorance and weakness, and his enchanting indignation on such a small basis of capital compel every by-stander to take his part.
    SA 8.92 18 ...speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel.
    Imtl 8.350 4 Yama said, For this question [of immortality], it was inquired of old, even by the gods; for it is not easy to understand it. Subtle is its nature. Choose another boon, O Nachiketas! Do not compel me to this.
    PerF 10.84 21 [Men]...would like to have Aladdin's lamp to compel darkness, and iron-bound doors, and hostile armies, and lions and serpents to serve them like footmen.
    Milt1 12.271 24 One of [Milton's] tracts is writ to prove that no power on earth can compel in matters of religion.

compelled, v. (21)

    LE 1.171 22 ...truth will not be compelled in any mechanical manner.
    MR 1.241 20 ...where there is a fine organization, apt for poetry and philosophy, that individual finds himself compelled to wait on his thoughts;...
    YA 1.376 19 The king is compelled to call in the aid of his brothers and cousins and remote relations...
    Hist 2.8 3 The student is...to esteem his own life the text [of history], and books the commentary. Thus compelled, the Muse of history will utter oracles, as never to those who do not respect themselves.
    Pt1 3.36 6 The men in one of [Swedenborg's] visions, seen in heavenly light, appeared like dragons, and seemed in darkness; but to each other they appeared as men, and when the light from heaven shone into their cabin, they complained of the darkness, and were compelled to shut the window that they might see.
    Pol1 3.219 25 We must not imagine that all things are lapsing into confusion if every tender protestant be not compelled to bear his part in certain social conventions;...
    ET13 5.216 14 The [English] clergy obtained respite from labor for the boor on the Sabbath and on church festivals. The lord who compelled his boor to labor between sunset on Saturday and sunset on Sunday, forfeited him altogether.
    F 6.4 6 If we must accept Fate, we are not less compelled to affirm liberty...
    Civ 7.25 10 The skill that pervades complex details;...the very prison compelled to maintain itself...these are examples of that tendency to combine antagonisms...which is the index of high civilization.
    DL 7.113 10 ...is there any calamity...that more invokes the best good will to remove it, than this?...to be compelled to criticise;...
    PI 8.9 12 ...[all things in Nature's] growths, decays, quality and use so curiously resemble [the student], in parts and in wholes, that he is compelled to speak by means of them.
    LLNE 10.336 17 Astronomy...compelled a certain extension and uplifting of our views of the Deity and his Providence.
    LS 11.24 3 My brethren...have recommended, unanimously, an adherence to the present form [of the Lord's Supper]. I have therefore been compelled to consider whether it becomes me to administer it.
    EWI 11.119 22 Parliament was compelled to pass additional laws for the defence and security of the negro [in the West Indies]...
    EWI 11.139 2 What happened notoriously to an American ambassador in England, that he found himself compelled to palter and to disguise the fact that he was a slave-breeder, happens to men of state.
    FSLN 11.223 9 ...what [Webster] saw so well he compelled other people to see also.
    SMC 11.371 7 After Gettysburg, the Thirty-second Regiment saw hard service...crossing the Rapidan, and suffering from such extreme cold, a few days later, at Mine Run, that the men were compelled to break rank and run in circles...
    SMC 11.376 9 ...In the above Address I have been compelled to suppress more details of personal interest than I have used.
    MAng1 12.225 15 Michael Angelo is represented as having ordered his defence [of Florence] so vigorously that the Prince [of Orange] was compelled to retire.
    ACri 12.283 24 ...the transformation of the laborer into reader and writer has compelled the learned and the thinkers to address them.
    Let 12.392 11 ...we have thought that we might clear our account [of correspondence] by writing a quarterly catholic letter to all and several who have...expressed a curiosity to know our opinion. We shall be compelled to dispose very rapidly of quite miscellaneous topics.

compelling, adj. (1)

    Bty 6.294 15 There is a compelling reason in the uses of the plant for every novelty of color or form;...

compelling, v. (3)

    Chr1 3.112 2 ...if we could abstain from asking anything of [men]...and content us with compelling them through the virtue of the eldest laws!
    Elo2 8.132 22 Here [in the United States] is room for every degree of [eloquence], on every one of its ascending stages,--that of useful speech... that of political advice and persuasion...reaching...into a vast future, and so compelling the best thought and noblest administrative ability that the citizen can offer.
    PerF 10.78 12 What a power [is Imagination], when, combined with the analyzing understanding, it makes Eloquence; the art of compelling belief...

compels, v. (7)

    Hist 2.22 7 The nomads of Africa were constrained to wander, by the attacks of the gad-fly, which drives the cattle mad, and so compels the tribe to emigrate in the rainy season...
    F 6.48 8 Let us build altars to the Blessed Unity which...compels every atom to serve an universal end.
    PI 8.27 14 In some individuals this insight or second sight has an extraordinary reach which compels our wonder...
    PI 8.72 27 The inexorable rule in the muses' court, either inspiration or silence, compels the bard to report only his supreme moments.
    Chr2 10.120 3 [Character] compels right relation to every other man...
    EPro 11.319 16 The force of the act [the Emancipation Proclamation] is... that it compels the innumerable officers...of the Republic to range themselves on the line of this equity.
    PLT 12.40 17 In all healthy souls is an inborn necessity of presupposing for each particular fact a prior Being which compels it to a harmony with all other natures.

compend, n. (4)

    Hist 2.35 26 [Man] is the compend of time;...
    Comp 2.101 13 Every occupation, trade, art, transaction, is a compend of the world...
    Civ 7.24 18 The ship, in its latest complete equipment, is an abridgment and compend of a nation's arts...
    Plu 10.297 16 [Plutarch] is, among prose writers, what Chaucer is among English poets...a compend of all accepted traditions.

compendious, adj. (1)

    Plu 10.308 20 ...[Plutarch] wishes the philosopher...to commend himself to men of public regards and ruling genius: for, if he once possess such a man with principles of honor and religion, he takes a compendious method, by doing good to one, to oblige a great part of mankind.

compends, n. (1)

    Boks 7.204 23 If [the student] can read Livy, he has a good book; but one of the short English compends, some Goldsmith or Ferguson, should be used, that will place in the cycle [of Roman history] the bright stars of Plutarch.

compensate, v. (3)

    SR 2.86 14 The harm of the improved machinery may compensate its good.
    ET14 5.244 9 ...a bad general wants myriads of men and miles of redoubts to compensate the inspirations of courage and conduct.
    PerF 10.88 7 ...the cause of right for which we labor...will know how to compensate our extremest sacrifice.

compensated, adj. (1)

    MoS 4.161 4 We are...compensated or periodic errors...

compensated, v. (9)

    Nat 1.33 8 The axioms of physics translate the laws of ethics. Thus...the smallest weight may be made to lift the greatest, the difference of weight being compensated by time;...
    AmS 1.110 10 If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not...when the historic glories of the old can be compensated by the rich possibilities of the new era?
    Pow 6.71 17 ...the compression and tension of these stern conditions [of war] is a training for the finest and softest arts, and can rarely be compensated in tranquil times...
    DL 7.103 7 ...[the nestler's] tiny beseeching weakness is compensated perfectly by the happy patronizing look of the mother...
    MoL 10.244 3 The Hebrew nation compensated for the insignificance of its members and territory by its religious genius...
    Plu 10.294 18 ...this neglect by [Plutarch's] contemporaries has been compensated by an immense popularity in modern nations.
    LLNE 10.361 15 ...there was immense hope in these young people [at Brook Farm]. There was nobleness; there were self-sacrificing victims who compensated for the levity and rashness of their companions.
    Mem 12.101 9 The damages of forgetting are more than compensated by the large values which new thoughts and knowledge give to what we already know.
    Bost 12.211 5 ...the Quincy of the Revolution seems compensated for the shortness of his bright career in the son who so long lingers among the last of those bright clouds, That on the steady breeze of honor sail/ In long succession calm and beautiful./

compensates, v. (1)

    CPL 11.506 27 You say, [reading] is a languid pleasure. Yes, but its tractableness...compensates the quietness...

compensating, adj. (2)

    Comp 2.97 27 The periodic or compensating errors of the planets is another instance [of Compensation].
    CL 12.144 20 We may well enumerate what compensating advantages we have over that country [Illinois]...

compensation, n. (33)

    YA 1.393 12 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...
    Hist 2.10 11 What the former age has epitomized into a formula or rule for manipular convenience, [the mind] will lose all the good of verifying for itself, by means of the wall of that rule. Somewhere, sometime, it will demand and find compensation for that loss, by doing the work itself.
    Comp 2.94 10 [The preacher]...urged from reason and from Scripture a compensation to be made to both parties [the wicked and the good] in the next life.
    Comp 2.94 21 What did the preacher mean by saying that the good are miserable in the present life? Was it...that a compensation is to be made to these last [the good] hereafter, by giving them the like gratifications another day,--bank-stock and doubloons, venison and champagne?
    Comp 2.94 25 What did the preacher mean by saying that the good are miserable in the present life? Was it...that a compensation is to be made to these last [the good] hereafter, by giving them the like gratifications another day,--bank-stock and doubloons, venison and champagne? This must be the compensation intended; for what else?
    Comp 2.97 20 ...in the animal kingdom the physiologist has observed that... a certain compensation balances every gift and every defect.
    Comp 2.115 6 Human labor...is one immense illustration of the perfect compensation of the universe.
    Comp 2.120 16 ...the doctrine of compensation is not the doctrine of indifferency.
    Comp 2.120 23 There is a deeper fact in the soul than compensation, to wit, its own nature.
    Comp 2.120 25 The soul is not a compensation, but a life.
    Comp 2.123 8 ...there is no tax on the knowledge that the compensation exists...
    Comp 2.123 17 In the nature of the soul is the compensation for the inequalities of condition.
    Nat2 3.195 2 Wherever the impulse exceeds, the Rest or Identity insinuates its compensation.
    Pol1 3.218 18 This conspicuous chair is [senators' and presidents'] compensation to themselves for being of a poor, cold, hard nature.
    NER 3.276 20 ...the swift moments we spend with [those who love us] are a compensation for a great deal of misery;...
    NER 3.281 21 Each [man] seems to have some compensation yielded to him by his infirmity...
    ShP 4.190 26 ...[every master's] power lay...in his love of the materials he wrought in. What an economy of power! and what a compensation for the shortness of life!
    ET7 5.117 3 Nature has endowed some animals with cunning, as a compensation for strength withheld;...
    ET10 5.169 21 We estimate the wisdom of nations by seeing what they did with their surplus capital. And, in view of these injuries, some compensation has been attempted in England.
    Pow 6.54 11 A belief in causality...and, in consequence, belief in compensation...characterizes all valuable minds...
    Pow 6.62 10 The same energy in the Greek Demos drew the remark that the evils of popular government appear greater than they are; there is compensation for them in the spirit and energy it awakens.
    Wth 6.110 1 ...after the war was over, we received compensation over and above, by treaty, for all the seizures [of American ships].
    Clbs 7.244 7 Such [literary] societies are possible only in great cities, and are the compensation which these can make to their dwellers for depriving them of the free intercourse with Nature.
    Suc 7.298 6 What is it we look for...in the sea and the firmament? what but a compensation for the cramp and pettiness of human performances?
    Dem1 10.26 25 [The demonologic] is a lawless world. We have left the geometry, the compensation, and the conscience of the daily world...
    HDC 11.48 13 In 1795, several town-meetings are called [in Concord], upon the compensation to be made to a few proprietors for land taken in making a bridle-road;...
    HDC 11.59 22 The only compensation which war offers for its manifold mischiefs, is in the great personal qualities to which it gives scope and occasions.
    EWI 11.113 15 The Ministers...proposed to give the [West Indian] planters, as a compensation for so much of the slaves' time as the act [of emancipation] took from them, 20,000,000 pounds sterling...
    FSLC 11.184 2 I cannot think the most judicious tubing a compensation for metaphysical debility.
    FSLC 11.208 15 Why not end this dangerous dispute [over slavery] on some ground of fair compensation on one side, and satisfaction on the other to the conscience of the free states?
    Humb 11.456 2 If a life prolonged to an advanced period bring with it several inconveniences to the individual, there is a compensation in the delight of being able to compare older states of knowledge with that which now exists...
    PLT 12.51 13 If you ask what compensation is made for the inevitable narrowness, why, this, that in learning one thing well you learn all things.
    MAng1 12.235 25 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.

Compensation, n. (2)

    Comp 2.93 2 Ever since I was a boy I have wished to write a discourse on Compensation;...
    Comp 2.96 13 I shall attempt...to record some facts that indicate the path of the law of Compensation;...

compensations, n. (15)

    MR 1.242 23 ...if a man find in himself any strong bias to poetry...that man...respecting the compensations of the Universe, ought to ransom himself from the duties of economy by a certain rigor and privation in his habits.
    Comp 2.126 7 ...the compensations of calamity are made apparent to the understanding also...
    Hsm1 2.254 5 ...they who give time, or money, or shelter, to the stranger... do, as it were, put God under obligation to them, so perfect are the compensations of the universe.
    Art1 2.366 21 These solaces and compensations, this division of beauty from use, the laws of nature do not permit.
    NR 3.231 24 The property will be found where the labor, the wisdom and the virtue have been...in classes and (the whole life-time considered, with the compensations) in the individual also.
    GoW 4.288 13 I suppose the worldly tone of [Goethe's] tales grew out of the calculations of self-culture. It was the infirmity of an admirable scholar...who did not quite trust the compensations of poverty and nakedness.
    ET4 5.60 8 ...the reader of the Norman history must steel himself by holding fast the remote compensations which result from animal vigor.
    Wth 6.109 15 There is an example of the compensations in the commercial history of this country.
    OA 7.325 8 We learn the fatal compensations that wait on every act.
    OA 7.328 4 The compensations of Nature play in age as in youth.
    Edc1 10.128 20 ...here [in the household] the secrets of character are told... the compensations which, like angels of justice, pay every debt...
    Edc1 10.154 27 ...the familiar observation of the universal compensations might suggest the fear that so summary a stop of a bad humor [striking a bad boy] was more jeopardous than its continuance.
    FSLC 11.200 9 ...it is cheering to behold what champions the emergency [of the Fugitive Slave Law] called to this poor black boy;...above all, with what earnestness and dignity the advocates of freedom were inspired. It was one of the best compensations of this calamity.
    Mem 12.102 20 The memory is one of the compensations which Nature grants to those who have used their days well;...
    Trag 12.415 11 We fancy [suffering] is torture; the patient has his own compensations.

compensatory, adj. (4)

    Comp 2.91 13 The lonely Earth amid the balls/ That hurry through the eternal halls,/ A makeweight flying to the void,/ Supplemental asteroid,/ Or compensatory spark,/ Shoots across the neutral Dark./
    Cir 2.301 10 One moral we have already deduced in considering the circular or compensatory character of every human action.
    Farm 7.139 19 It were as false for farmers to use a wholesale and massy expense, as for states to use a minute economy. But if thus pinched on one side, he has compensatory advantages.
    PC 8.223 8 There is no use in Copernicus if the robust periodicity of the solar system does not show its equal perfection in the mental sphere...the compensatory errors...

compete, v. (4)

    ET16 5.275 23 I told Carlyle that...I like the [English] people;...but meantime, I surely know that as soon as I return to Massachusetts I shall lapse at once into the feeling...that no skill or activity can long compete with the prodigious natural advantages of that country...
    Farm 7.141 23 ...the true abolitionist is the farmer, who...stands all day in the field...making a product with which no forced labor can compete.
    SA 8.93 15 Shenstone gave no bad account of this influence [of women] in his description of the French woman: There is a quality in which no woman in the world can compete with her,--it is the power of intellectual irritation.
    FRep 11.541 23 Let [men] compete, and success to the strongest, the wisest and the best.

competence, n. (2)

    DL 7.128 8 ...the sufficient reply to the skeptic who doubts the competence of man to elevate and to be elevated is in that desire and power to stand in joyful and ennobling intercourse with individuals...
    Supl 10.168 5 All our manner of life is on a secure and moderate pattern, such as can last. Violence and extravagance are...distasteful; competence, quiet, comfort, are the agreed welfare.

competent, adj. (11)

    Int 2.338 22 ...there are many competent judges of the best book...
    ET5 5.92 14 ...if all the wealth in the planet should perish by war or deluge, [the English] know themselves competent to replace it.
    ET5 5.93 25 ...the vigilance of party criticism [in England] insures the selection of a competent person.
    Insp 8.296 23 'T is the most difficult of tasks to keep/ Heights which the soul is competent to gain./
    PerF 10.78 23 ...on the signal occasions in our career [our mental forces'] inspirations...make the selfish and protected and tenderly bred person... competent to rule...
    EzRy 10.394 8 [Ezra Ripley] was the more competent to these searching discourses from his knowledge of family history.
    Thor 10.453 9 ...[Thoreau] was very competent to live in any part of the world.
    Thor 10.462 21 [Thoreau]...would have been competent to lead a Pacific Exploring Expedition;...
    FSLC 11.182 23 ...[the crisis over the Fugitive Slave Law] showed...how competent we are to give counsel and help in a day of trial.
    PLT 12.60 14 That wonderful oracle [the divine soul] will reply when it is consulted, and there is...no rule of life or art or science, on which it is not a competent and the only competent judge.
    CInt 12.119 2 The emigration into America of British...people is the eulogy of America by the most competent and sincere arbiters.

competing, adj. (2)

    ET19 5.313 11 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...pressed upon by...new and all incalculable modes, fabrics, arts, machines and competing populations.
    Civ 7.17 24 Now speed the gay celerities of art,/ What in the desert was impossible/ Within four walls is possible again,/--Culture and libraries, mysteries of skill,/ Traditioned fame of masters, eager strife/ Of keen competing youths, joined or alone/...

competition, n. (19)

    MR 1.235 24 Who could regret to see...a purer taste...thinning the ranks of competition in the labors of commerce...
    OS 2.277 1 ...these other souls, these separated selves, draw me as nothing else can. They stir in me the new emotions we call passion;...thence come conversation, competition, persuasion, cities and war.
    Mrs1 3.123 17 The competition is transferred from war to politics and trade, but the personal force appears readily enough in these new arenas.
    Pol1 3.220 3 Are our methods now so excellent that all competition is hopeless?...
    UGM 4.22 13 Here is great competition of rich and poor.
    MoS 4.158 13 Remember the open question between the present order of competition and the friends of attractive and associated labor.
    NMW 4.224 11 [The democratic class] desires to keep open every avenue to the competition of all...
    ET3 5.43 2 I [Nature] will not grudge a competition of the roughest males.
    ET10 5.162 10 Of course [steam] draws the [English] nobility into the competition...
    ET10 5.162 14 Of course [steam] draws the [English] nobility into the competition...in the application of steam to agriculture, and sometimes into trade. But it also introduces large classes into the same competition;...
    ET10 5.168 7 It is not, I suppose, want of probity, so much as the tyranny of trade, which necessitates a perpetual competition of underselling...
    Wsp 6.225 2 Here is a low political economy plotting to cut the throat of foreign competition and establish our own;...
    CbW 6.274 26 ...a habit of union and competition brings people up and keeps them up to their highest point;...
    Clbs 7.235 2 Our fortunes in the world are as our mental equipment for this competition [in right company] is.
    Clbs 7.235 6 Yonder is a man who can answer the questions which I cannot. Is it so? Hence comes to me boundless curiosity to know his experiences and his wit. Hence competition for the stakes dearest to man.
    Clbs 7.235 15 However courteously we conceal it, it is social rank and spiritual power that are compared; whether in the parlor...or the chamber of science,--which are only less or larger theatres for this competition.
    Grts 8.302 4 What anecdotes of any man do we wish to hear or read? Only the best. Certainly...those in which he rose above all competition by obeying a light that shone to him alone.
    MoL 10.254 16 ...[the scholar] should open all the prizes of success and all the roads of Nature to free competition.
    EWI 11.140 5 ...the self-sustaining class of inventive and industrious men, fear no competition or superiority.

competitions, n. (2)

    Con 1.320 21 ...if [the people] are not instructed to sympathize with the intelligent, reading, trading, and governing class; inspired with a taste for the same competitions and prizes, they will upset the fair pageant of Judicature...
    Tran 1.341 1 ...many intelligent and religious persons withdraw themselves from the common labors and competitions of the market and the caucus...

competitor, n. (3)

    ET14 5.257 12 [Wordsworth] has written longer than he was inspired. But for the rest, he has no competitor.
    CbW 6.271 6 The success which will content [men] is a bargain...an advantage gained over a competitor...and the like.
    PI 8.55 1 ...the masters sometimes rise above themselves to strains...which neither any competitor could outdo, nor the bard himself again equal.

competitors, n. (11)

    Fdsp 2.202 2 He who offers himself a candidate for that covenant [of friendship] comes up, like an Olympian, to the great games where the first-born of the world are the competitors.
    Mrs1 3.128 25 [The working heroes] are the sowers, their sons shall be the reapers, and their sons...must yield the possession of the harvest to new competitors...
    UGM 4.22 23 ...a man comes to measure his greatness by the regrets, envies and hatreds of his competitors.
    ET12 5.206 15 As the number of undergraduates at Oxford is only about 1200 or 1300, and many of these are never competitors, the chance of a fellowship is very great.
    ET12 5.210 15 I looked over the Examination Papers of the year 1848, for the various scholarships and fellowships [at Oxford]...containing the tasks which many competitors had victoriously performed...
    CbW 6.270 27 Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors...
    DL 7.130 8 ...we are...competitors, each one, with Phidias and Raphael in the production of what is graceful or grand.
    Elo2 8.118 17 All men are competitors in this art [of eloquence].
    Grts 8.301 8 ...every aspirant, by his success in the pursuit [of greatness], does not hinder but helps his competitors.
    Plu 10.322 11 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.
    WSL 12.345 7 [Landor's] portraits, though mere sketches, must be valued as attempts in the very highest kind of narrative, which not only has very few examples to exhibit of any success, but very few competitors in the attempt.

compilation, n. (1)

    ShP 4.197 25 Chaucer, it seems, drew continually...from Guido di Colonna, whose Latin romance of the Trojan war was in turn a compilation from Dares Phrygius, Ovid and Statius.

compilations, n. (1)

    Milt1 12.247 6 ...new editions of [Milton's] works, and new compilations of his life, were published.

compile, v. (3)

    Exp 3.83 9 I can very confidently announce one or another law...but I am too young yet by some ages to compile a code.
    Plu 10.317 22 If [Plutarch] did not compile the piece [Apothegms of Noble Commanders], many, perhaps most of the anecdotes were already scattered in his works.
    MLit 12.323 2 ...in [Goethe] this encyclopaedia of facts, which it has been the boast of the age to compile, wrought an equal effect.

compiled, v. (1)

    Milt1 12.268 4 [Milton] compiled a logic for boys;...

compiler, n. (1)

    PC 8.216 9 The early names are too typical...Viasa, compiler;...

complacencies, n. (1)

    Suc 7.304 17 ...in complacencies nowise so strict as this of the passion [of love], the man of sensibility counts it a delight only to hear a child's voice fully addressed to him...

complacency, n. (11)

    SR 2.79 19 In proportion...to the number of objects [a thought]...brings within reach of the pupil, is his complacency.
    Lov1 2.172 18 The earliest demonstrations of complacency and kindness are nature's most winning pictures.
    Lov1 2.179 7 Who can analyze the nameless charm which glances from one and another face and form? We are touched with emotions of tenderness and complacency...
    Fdsp 2.191 15 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;...
    Hsm1 2.264 2 Who does not sometimes...await with curious complacency the speedy term of his own conversation with finite nature?
    PNR 4.80 14 Modern science...generates a feeling of complacency and hope.
    ET4 5.54 18 I found plenty of well-marked English types...a Norman type, with the complacency that belongs to that constitution.
    ET17 5.295 24 I said, if Plato's Republic were published in England as a new book to-day, do you think it would find any readers?--[Wordsworth] confessed it would not: and yet, he added after a pause, with that complacency which never deserts a true-born Englishman, and yet we have embodied it all.
    OA 7.328 11 [The veteran] beholds the feats of the juniors with complacency...
    FSLN 11.226 13 [Webster]...left, with much complacency we are told, the testament of his [7th of March] speech to the astonished State of Massachusetts...
    Trag 12.412 6 The Egyptian sphinxes...have countenances expressive of complacency and repose...

complacent, adj. (1)

    Pt1 3.19 18 A shrewd country-boy goes to the city for the first time, and the complacent citizen is not satisfied with his little wonder.

complacently, adv. (3)

    Wsp 6.207 12 The religion of the early English poets is anomalous, so devout and so blasphemous, in the same breath. ... With these grossnesses, we complacently compare our own taste and decorum.
    Clbs 7.250 9 ...while we look complacently at these obvious pleasures and values of good companions, I do not forget that Nature is always very much in earnest...
    QO 8.179 15 The highest statement of new philosophy complacently caps itself with some prophetic maxim from the oldest learning.

complain, v. (23)

    MR 1.253 8 We complain that the politics of masses of the people are controlled by designing men...
    Tran 1.356 7 [Transcendentalists] complain that everything around them must be denied;...
    YA 1.378 23 We complain of [trade's] oppression of the poor...
    YA 1.386 10 How can our young men complain of the poverty of things in New England...
    YA 1.389 8 Men complain of their suffering, and not of the crime.
    Mrs1 3.148 14 Certainly, kings and queens, nobles and great ladies, had some right to complain of the absurdity that had been put in their mouths before the days of Waverley;...
    Nat2 3.178 15 The critics who complain of the sickly separation of the beauty of nature from the thing to be done, must consider that our hunting of the picturesque is inseparable from our protest against false society.
    NER 3.262 3 Do you complain of our Marriage?
    NER 3.262 6 Do you complain of the laws of Property?
    NER 3.279 25 It is yet in all men's memory that, a few years ago, the liberal churches complained that the Calvinistic church denied to them the name of Christian. I think the complaint was confession: a religious church would not complain.
    MoS 4.182 3 It is vain to complain of the leaf or the berry;...
    GoW 4.278 17 ...those who begin [Goethe's Wilhelm Meister] with the higher hope to read in it a worthy history of genius...have also reason to complain.
    OA 7.313 23 The world has overmuch of pain,--/ If Nature give me joy again,/ Of such deceit I'll not complain./
    PI 8.71 8 The solid men complain that the idealist leaves out the fundamental facts;...
    PC 8.231 15 The great heart will no more complain of the obstructions that make success hard, than of the iron walls of the gun which hinder the shot from scattering.
    Grts 8.320 6 ...people are as those with whom they converse? And if all or any are heavy to me, that fact accuses me. Why complain, as if a man's debt to his inferiors were not at least equal to his debt to his superiors?
    Supl 10.166 1 The exaggeration of which I complain makes plain fact the more welcome and refreshing.
    MMEm 10.425 14 Not to complain of the poor old earth's chaotic state, brought so near in its long and gloomy transmutings by the geologist.
    JBS 11.281 8 Nothing is more absurd than to complain of this sympathy [with John Brown]...
    JBS 11.281 9 Nothing is more absurd than...to complain of a party of men united in opposition to slavery.
    JBS 11.281 10 Nothing is more absurd than...to complain of a party of men united in opposition to slavery. As well complain of gravity...
    FRO2 11.490 19 I am glad to hear each sect complain that they do not now hold the opinions they are charged with.
    FRep 11.536 2 [The class of which I speak] complain of the flatness of American life;...

complainants, n. (1)

    AKan 11.261 5 ...of Kansas, the President says; Let the complainants go to the courts;...

complained, v. (22)

    Nat 1.43 6 Xenophanes complained in his old age, that...all things hastened back to Unity.
    Pt1 3.36 5 The men in one of [Swedenborg's] visions, seen in heavenly light, appeared like dragons, and seemed in darkness; but to each other they appeared as men, and when the light from heaven shone into their cabin, they complained of the darkness...
    Chr1 3.89 4 It has been complained of our brilliant English historian of the French Revolution that when he has told all his facts about Mirabeau, they do not justify his estimate of his genius.
    NER 3.257 10 It was complained that an education to things was not given.
    NER 3.279 22 It is yet in all men's memory that, a few years ago, the liberal churches complained that the Calvinistic church denied to them the name of Christian.
    MoS 4.178 4 The mathematics, 't is complained, leave the mind where they find it...
    ET10 5.155 22 During the war from 1789 to 1815, whilst they complained that they were taxed within an inch of their lives...the English were growing rich every year faster than any people ever grew before.
    ET15 5.265 8 The proprietors [of the London Times], who had already complained that [John Walter's] charges for printing were excessive, found that they were in his power...
    ET16 5.275 3 Still speaking of the Americans, Carlyle complained that they dislike the coldness and exclusiveness of the English...
    Bhr 6.194 18 There is a stroke of magnanimity in the correspondence of Bonaparte with his brother Joseph, when...he complained that he missed in Napoleon's letters the affectionate tone which had marked their childish correspondence.
    Wsp 6.201 1 Some of my friends have complained...that we discussed Fate, Power and Wealth on too low a platform;...
    CbW 6.275 22 A lady complained to me that of her two maidens, one was absent-minded and the other was absent-bodied.
    Ill 6.314 11 ...a friend of mine complained that all the varieties of fancy pears in our orchard seem to have been selected by somebody who had a whim for a particular kind of pear...
    Elo2 8.119 23 ...Jenny Lind, when in this country, complained of concert-rooms and town-halls, that they did not give her room enough to unroll her voice...
    Supl 10.172 4 ...the gallant skipper...complained to his owners that he had pumped the Atlantic Ocean three times through his ship on the passage...
    MoL 10.246 6 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.
    LLNE 10.341 27 ...the men of talent complained of the want of point and precision in this abstract and religious thinker [Alcott].
    SlHr 10.442 10 ...[Samuel Hoar's] influence was...sometimes complained of as a bar to public justice.
    LS 11.10 21 ...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.
    EWI 11.117 16 It soon appeared in all the [West Indian] islands that the planters were disposed...to exert the same licentious despotism as before. The negroes complained to the magistrates and to the governor.
    TPar 11.289 3 ...it was complained that [Theodore Parker] was bitter and harsh...
    ChiE 11.473 6 ...to the governor who complained of thieves, [Confucius] said, If you, sir, were not covetous, though you should reward them for it, they would not steal.

complaining, v. (5)

    MR 1.246 27 ...the more odious [infirm people] grow, the sharper is the tone of their complaining and craving.
    SR 2.76 5 If the finest genius studies at one of our colleges and is not installed in an office within one year afterwards...it seems to his friends and to himself that he is right...in complaining the rest of his life.
    WD 7.178 11 A poor Indian chief of the Six Nations of New York made a wiser reply than any philosopher, to some one complaining that he had not enough time. Well, said Red Jacket, I suppose you have all there is.
    Cour 7.260 2 Nature has made up her mind that what cannot defend itself shall not be defended. Complaining never so loud and with never so much reason is of no use.
    Comc 8.166 11 ...The mighty Tottipottymoy/ Sent to our elders an envoy,/ Complaining loudly of the breach/ Of league held forth by Brother Patch/...

complains, v. (9)

    ET5 5.100 2 The Danish poet Oehlenschlager complains that who writes in Danish writes to two hundred readers.
    ET14 5.240 23 [Bacon] complains that he finds this part of learning [universality] very deficient...
    Wsp 6.208 3 The lover of the old religion complains that our contemporaries...succumb to a great despair...
    PI 8.51 1 St. Augustine complains to God of his friends offering him the books of the philosophers...
    PI 8.71 9 ...the poet complains that the solid men leave out the sky.
    MoL 10.254 18 The country complains loudly of the inefficiency of the army.
    SMC 11.369 14 Another incident [reported by George Prescott]: A friend of Lieutenant Barrow complains that we did not treat his body with respect...
    PLT 12.61 13 ...the clear-headed thinker complains of souls led hither and thither by affections...
    ACri 12.302 13 [Channing] complains of Nature...

complaint, n. (12)

    DSA 1.144 3 The remedy is already declared in the ground of our complaint of the Church.
    Tran 1.351 24 ...Cannot we...without complaint, or even with good-humor, await our turn of action in the Infinite Counsels?
    Lov1 2.187 8 [Lovers] resign each other without complaint to the good offices which man and woman are severally appointed to discharge in time...
    NER 3.279 24 It is yet in all men's memory that, a few years ago, the liberal churches complained that the Calvinistic church denied to them the name of Christian. I think the complaint was confession...
    ET14 5.253 6 I fear the same fault [lack of inspiration] lies in [English] science, since they have known how to make it repulsive and bereave nature of its charm;--though perhaps the complaint flies wider...
    ET15 5.267 10 The tone of [the London Times's] articles has often been the occasion of comment from the official organs of the continental courts, and sometimes the ground of diplomatic complaint.
    Farm 7.150 3 ...in this very year, a large quantity of land has been discovered and added to the town [of Concord] without a murmur of complaint from any quarter.
    Aris 10.59 12 ...I hear the complaint of the aspirant that we have no prizes offered to the ambition of virtuous young men;...
    Supl 10.166 15 I hear without sympathy the complaint of young and ardent persons that they find life no region of romance...
    HDC 11.47 26 Not a complaint occurs in all the volumes of our Records [of Concord], of any inhabitant being hindered from speaking...
    EWI 11.114 7 ...the bill [for emancipation in the West Indies] required the appointment of magistrates who should hear every complaint of the apprentice and see that justice was done him.
    Trag 12.416 3 It is my duty, says Sir Charles Bell, to visit certain wards of the hospital where there is no patient admitted but with that complaint which most fills the imagination with the idea of insupportable pain and certain death.

complaints, n. (3)

    HDC 11.45 26 The disputes between that forbearing man [John Winthrop] and the deputies are like the quarrels of girls, so much do they turn into complaints of unkindness, and end in such loving reconciliations.
    HDC 11.80 3 [Concord's] instructions to their representatives are full of loud complaints of the disgraceful state of public credit...
    ACri 12.301 23 When Samuel Dexter...argued the claims of South Boston Bridge, he had to meet loud complaints of the shutting out of the coasting-trade by the proposed improvements.

complaisance, n. (8)

    DSA 1.135 27 ...any complaisance would be criminal which told you...that the faith of Christ is preached.
    LE 1.159 19 ...a complaisance to reigning schools...must not defraud me of supreme possession of this hour.
    LE 1.160 10 Please himself with complaisance who will...
    LT 1.290 4 ...[the Moral Sentiment] is recognized...in every complaisance...
    GoW 4.263 16 ...if we knew the genesis of fine strokes of eloquence, they might recall the complaisance of Sultan Amurath, who struck off some Persian heads, that his physician, Vesalius, might see the spasms in the muscles of the neck.
    MoL 10.255 12 Our people have this levity and complaisance...
    TPar 11.290 4 ...[Theodore Parker] insisted...that the essence of Christianity is its practical morals;...and if you combine it...with ordinary city ambitions to gloze over...leaving your principles at home to follow on the high seas or in Europe a supple complaisance to tyrants,-it is a hypocrisy...
    ALin 11.337 2 Nations, like kings, are not good by facility and complaisance.

complaisances, n. (2)

    MN 1.220 16 How our friendships and the complaisances we use, shame us now!
    UGM 4.25 23 Nature abhors these complaisances which threaten to melt the world into a lump...

complaisant, adj. (3)

    AmS 1.114 14 The scholar is decent, indolent, complaisant.
    Civ 7.19 19 ...after many arts are invented or imported, as among the Turks and Moorish nations, it is often a little complaisant to call them civilized.
    PC 8.232 21 We are a complaisant, forgiving people...

complaisant, n. (1)

    AmS 1.114 18 There is no work for any but the decorous and the complaisant.

complement, n. (4)

    AmS 1.103 20 ...[the orator] finds that he is the complement of his hearers;...
    Mrs1 3.124 26 ...only that plenteous nature is rightful master which is the complement of whatever person it converses with.
    Mrs1 3.136 21 The complement of this graceful self-respect, and that of all the points of good-breeding I most require and insist upon, is deference.
    Art2 7.40 25 ...Art must be a complement to Nature...

complemental, adj. (2)

    FRep 11.537 18 The new times need a new man, the complemental man...
    PLT 12.53 25 Characters and talents are complemental and suppletory.

complete, adj. (41)

    DSA 1.151 18 I look for the new Teacher that shall follow so far those shining laws that he...shall see their rounding complete grace;...
    LE 1.167 7 We assume that...what we say we only throw in as confirmatory of this supposed complete body of literature.
    Hist 2.14 24 We have the same national mind expressed for us again in [Greek] literature, in epic and lyric poems, drama, and philosophy; a very complete form.
    Int 2.341 1 ...the poet, whose verses are to be spheral and complete, is one whom Nature cannot deceive...
    Pt1 3.5 3 [The poet] stands among partial men for the complete man...
    Exp 3.80 23 A subject and an object,--it takes so much to make the galvanic circuit complete...
    Mrs1 3.132 18 We are such lovers of self-reliance that we excuse in a man many sins if he will show us a complete satisfaction in his position...
    NR 3.242 23 Nature keeps herself whole and her representation complete in the experience of each mind.
    UGM 4.19 12 We are tendencies, or rather, symptoms, and none of us complete.
    PPh 4.76 20 [Plato] attempted a theory of the universe, and his theory is not complete or self-evident.
    PNR 4.82 8 In ascribing to Plato the merit of announcing [the expansions of facts], we only say, Here was a more complete man, who could apply to nature the whole scale of the senses, the understanding and the reason.
    SwM 4.111 6 Swedenborg printed these scientific books in the ten years from 1734 to 1744...and now, after their century is complete, he has at last found a pupil in Mr. Wilkinson...
    ShP 4.207 4 ...I went once to see the Hamlet of a famed performer...and all I then heard and all I now remember of the tragedian was that in which the tragedian had no part; simply Hamlet's question to the ghost: What may this mean,/ That thou, dead corse, again in complete steel/ Revisit'st thus the glimpses of the moon?/
    ET6 5.107 9 A certain order and complete propriety is found in [the Englishman's] dress and in his belongings.
    ET13 5.228 19 The English Church, undermined by German criticism...was led logically back to Romanism. But that was an element which only hot heads could breathe...and the alienation of such men [the educated class] from the church became complete.
    ET15 5.268 20 The English like [the London Times] for its complete information.
    F 6.11 21 If, later, [these drones] give birth to some superior individual, with force enough to add to this animal a new aim and a complete apparatus to work it out, all the ancestors are gladly forgotten.
    Bhr 6.181 13 A complete man should need no auxiliaries to his personal presence.
    SS 7.9 2 ...we sit and muse and are serene and complete;...
    Civ 7.19 23 The Chinese and Japanese, though each complete in his way, is different from the man of Madrid...
    Civ 7.24 17 The ship, in its latest complete equipment, is an abridgment and compend of a nation's arts...
    Elo1 7.84 17 It is well with [the audience] only when [the orator's] influence is complete;...
    PI 8.30 7 The right poetic mood is or makes a more complete sensibility...
    Elo2 8.125 1 ...Lord Chesterfield thought that without being instructed in the dialect of the Halles no man could be a complete master of French.
    PPo 8.249 7 His complete intellectual emancipation [Hafiz] communicates to the reader.
    Imtl 8.343 2 ...we are always balked of a complete success...
    MoL 10.251 1 I wish the youth to be an armed and complete man;...
    Schr 10.280 27 The objection of men of the world to what they call the morbid intellectual tendency in our young men at present, is...that the idealistic views unfit their children for business in their sense, and do not qualify them for any complete life of a better kind.
    LLNE 10.350 19 It takes sixteen hundred and eighty men to make one Man, complete in all the faculties;...
    MMEm 10.419 12 ...I [Mary Moody Emerson] pass my youth, its last traces, in...complete destitution of society.
    FSLC 11.180 27 ...we must transfer our vaunt to the country, and say, with a little less confidence, no fugitive man can be arrested here; at least we can brag thus until to-morrow, when the farmers also may be corrupted. The tameness is indeed complete.
    ACiv 11.298 21 ...boys and girls find their education, this year, less liberal and complete.
    Scot 11.465 8 If the success of [Scott's] poems, however large, was partial, that of his novels was complete.
    PLT 12.18 8 There are...minds that produce their thoughts complete men...
    PLT 12.29 11 [Man's] equipment, though new, is complete;...
    II 12.76 7 ...Van Mons of Belgium, after all his experiments at crossing and refining his fruit, arrived at last at the most complete trust in the native power.
    CL 12.157 12 The landscape is vast, complete, alive.
    MLit 12.311 8 In order to any complete view of the literature of the present age, an inquiry should include what it quotes, what it writes and what it wishes to write.
    WSL 12.346 11 We do not recollect an example of more complete independence in literary history [than Landor].
    EurB 12.368 24 ...with a complete satisfaction [Wordsworth] pitied and rebuked [the dukes' and earls'] false lives, and celebrated his own with the religion of a true priest.
    EurB 12.374 3 It is implied in all superior culture that a complete man would need no auxiliaries to his personal presence.

complete, v. (15)

    NR 3.225 21 ...on seeing the smallest arc we complete the curve...
    UGM 4.33 1 No man, in all the procession of famous men, is reason or illumination or that essence we were looking for; but is an exhibition, in some quarter, of new possibilities. Could we one day complete the immense figure which these flagrant points compose!
    UGM 4.33 19 ...the disparities of talent and position vanish when the individuals are seen in the duration which is necessary to complete the career of each...
    Wth 6.93 24 [Columbus's] successors inherited his map, and inherited his fury to complete it.
    PI 8.39 5 [The poet's] inspiration is power to carry out and complete the metamorphosis...
    SA 8.77 4 When the old world is sterile/ And the ages are effete,/ He will from wrecks and sediment/ The fairer world complete./
    Insp 8.271 6 ...[the poet] is made aware of a power to carry on and complete the metamorphosis of natural into spiritual facts.
    Insp 8.273 21 A fuller inspiration...should bend the line and complete the circle.
    Plu 10.303 15 ...it is in reading the fragments [Plutarch] has saved from lost authors that I have hailed another example of...the benign Providence which...allows us to witness...the deciphering of forgotten languages, so to complete the annals of the forefathers of Asia, Africa and Europe.
    PLT 12.39 15 ...this is the measure of all intellectual power among men, the power to complete this detachment...
    II 12.70 19 If you press [those we call great men], they fly to a new topic... but they never complete their work.
    II 12.77 21 The old law of science, Imperat parendo, we command by obeying, is forever true; and by faithful serving, we shall complete our noviciate to this subtle art.
    Mem 12.110 19 Now we are halves, we see the past but not the future, but in that day [when the Great Mind enters into us] will the hemisphere complete itself...
    MAng1 12.231 7 [Michelangelo] did not live to complete the work [St. Peter's];...
    MAng1 12.236 12 The combined desire to fulfil, in everlasting stone, the conceptions of his mind, and to complete his worthy offering to Almighty God, sustained [Michelangelo] through numberless vexations with unbroken spirit.

completed, adj. (3)

    OA 7.328 24 ...the young man's year is a heap of beginnings. At the end of a twelvemonth, he has nothing to show for it,--not one completed work.
    Chr2 10.111 7 A completed nation will not import its religion.
    ALin 11.336 25 ...what if it should turn out, in the unfolding of the web... that Heaven, wishing to show the world a completed benefactor, shall make [Lincoln] serve his country even more by his death than by his life?

completed, v. (3)

    Wth 6.124 22 I have not at all completed my design.
    DL 7.120 15 ...who can see unmoved...the first solitary joys of literary vanity, when the translation or the theme has been completed...
    MAng1 12.231 20 Long after [St. Peter's dome] was completed, and often since...rumors are occasionally spread that it is giving way...

completely, adv. (5)

    Cir 2.321 15 People say sometimes, See what I have overcome;...see how completely I have triumphed over these black events.
    GoW 4.280 9 The ardent and holy Novalis characterized the book [Goethe' s Wilhelm Meister] as thoroughly modern and prosaic; the romantic is completely levelled in it;...
    Elo1 7.90 9 Condense some daily experience into a glowing symbol, and an audience is electrified. They feel as if they already possessed some new right and power over a fact which they can detach, and so completely master in thought.
    Imtl 8.339 7 [Franklin said] A man is not completely born until he has passed through death.
    PLT 12.35 25 ...what else [than Instinct] was it they represented in Pan... who was not yet completely finished in godlike form...

completeness, n. (17)

    AmS 1.88 7 In proportion to the completeness of the distillation, so will the purity and imperishableness of the product be.
    Int 2.340 6 ...year after year our tables get no completeness...
    Exp 3.83 4 I know better than to claim any completeness for my picture.
    NR 3.231 27 How wise the world appears, when...the completeness of the municipal system is considered!
    UGM 4.34 18 ...at last we shall cease to look in men for completeness...
    PPh 4.68 15 A key to the method and completeness of Plato is his twice bisected line.
    ET3 5.42 23 ...there is such an artificial completeness in this nation of artificers [England] as if there were a design from the beginning to elaborate a bigger Birmingham.
    Comc 8.158 11 ...if there be phenomena in botany which we call abortions, the abortion...assumes to the intellect the like completeness with the further function to which in different circumstances it had attained.
    Grts 8.301 9 I might call [the prize] completeness...
    Dem1 10.12 27 In the hands of poets...nothing in the line of [the occult sciences'] character and genius would surprise us. But we should look for the style of the great artist in it, look for completeness and harmony.
    SovE 10.189 11 The excellence of men consists in the completeness with which the lower system is taken up into the higher...
    LLNE 10.335 2 ...[works of talent] are more or less matured in every degree of completeness according to the time bestowed on them...
    Thor 10.479 27 ...[Thoreau] seemed haunted by a certain chronic assumption that the science of the day pretended completeness, and he had just found out that the savans had neglected to discriminate a particular botanical variety...
    FSLC 11.204 6 [Webster] looks at the Union as...a large farm, and is excellent in the completeness of his defence of it so far.
    HCom 11.340 11 Many in sad faith sought for [Truth],/ Many with crossed hands sighed for her;/ But these, our brothers, fought for her,/ At life's dear peril wrought for her,/ So loved her that they died for her,/ Tasting the raptured fleetness/ Of her divine completeness/...
    PLT 12.12 9 I confess to a little distrust of that completeness of system which metaphysicians are apt to affect.
    MAng1 12.229 7 It does not fall within our design to give an account of [Michelangelo's] works, yet for the sake of the completeness of our sketch we will name the principle ones.

completest, adj. (1)

    ET15 5.263 13 [The London Times] has ears everywhere, and its information is earliest, completest and surest.

completing, v. (4)

    OA 7.330 22 We remember our old Greek Professor at Cambridge... possessed by this hope of completing a task...
    OA 7.331 14 Much wider is spread the pleasure which old men take in completing their secular affairs...
    Plu 10.304 1 ...in reading [Plutarch], I embrace the particulars, and carry a faint memory of the argument or general design of the chapter; but...he leaves the reader with a relish and a necessity for completing his studies.
    Thor 10.451 19 After completing his experiments [on lead-pencils], [Thoreau] exhibited his work to chemists and artists in Boston...

completion, n. (11)

    Tran 1.330 27 [The idealist] does not deny the presence of this table, this chair...but he looks at these things...as...each being a sequel or completion of a spiritual fact which nearly concerns him.
    SR 2.66 17 Is the acorn better than the oak which is its fulness and completion?
    Mrs1 3.125 16 A plentiful fortune is reckoned necessary...to the completion of this man of the world;...
    PPh 4.53 14 ...[the Greeks'] perfect works in architecture and sculpture seemed things of course, not more difficult than the completion of a new ship at the Medford yards...
    ShP 4.201 19 We have to thank the researches of antiquaries, and the Shakspeare Society, for ascertaining the steps of the English drama, from the Mysteries...and the completion of secular plays...down to the possession of the stage by the very pieces which Shakspeare altered, remodelled and finally made his own.
    ET5 5.91 1 Sir John Herschel, in completion of the work of his father... expatriated himself for years at the Cape of Good Hope...
    Wsp 6.204 23 ...the whole state of man is a state of culture; and its flowering and completion may be described as Religion...
    OA 7.331 3 Goethe himself carried this completion of studies to the highest point.
    Imtl 8.343 25 ...as soon as virtue glows, this belief [in immortality] confirms itself. It is a kind of summary or completion of man.
    PLT 12.50 2 The same functions which are perfect in our quadrupeds are seen slower performed in palaeontology. Many races it cost them to achieve the completion that is now in the life of one.
    PLT 12.59 26 The same course continues itself in the mind which we have witnessed in Nature, namely the carrying-on and completion of the metamorphosis from grub to worm, from worm to fly.

completions, n. (1)

    EWI 11.101 3 If there be any man who thinks the ruin of a race of men a small matter, compared with the last decoration and completions of his own comfort...I think I must not hesitate to satisfy that man that also his cream and vanilla are safer and cheaper by placing the negro nation on a fair footing than by robbing them.

complex, adj. (13)

    Con 1.307 17 [The youth says] I do not wish to enter into your complex social system.
    Hist 2.6 6 ...instinctively we at first hold to [property] with swords and laws and wide and complex combinations.
    Hist 2.36 23 Transport [Napoleon] to...complex interests and antagonist power, and you shall see that the man Napoleon, bounded that is by such a profile and outline, is not the virtual Napoleon.
    Exp 3.80 15 If you could look with [the kitten's] eyes you might see her surrounded with hundreds of figures performing complex dramas...
    Nat2 3.180 26 ...the addition of matter from year to year arrives at last at the most complex forms;...
    ET4 5.50 12 As the scale mounts, the organizations become complex.
    Pow 6.81 22 The world-mill is more complex than the calico-mill, and the architect stooped less.
    Ctr 6.165 12 ...Nature began with rudimental forms and rose to the more complex as fast as the earth was fit for their dwelling-place;...
    Civ 7.19 7 [Civilization] is a vague, complex name, of many degrees.
    Civ 7.25 6 The skill that pervades complex details; the man that maintains himself;...these are examples of that tendency to combine antagonisms... which is the index of high civilization.
    Civ 7.25 17 Civilization is the result of highly complex organization.
    Imtl 8.337 24 ...I have enjoyed the benefits of all this complex machinery of arts and civilization...
    FRep 11.542 17 A fruitless plant, an idle animal, does not stand in the universe. They are all toiling...to a use in the economy of the world; the higher and more complex organizations to higher and more catholic service.

complexion, n. (23)

    LE 1.171 6 This starting, this warping of the best literary works from the adamant of nature, is especially observable in philosophy. Let it take what tone of pretension it will, to this complexion must it come, at last.
    SL 2.159 20 [A man] may be a solitary eater, but he cannot keep his foolish counsel. A broken complexion, a swinish look...all blab.
    SwM 4.133 19 All [Swedenborg's] interlocutors Swedenborgize. Be they who they may, to this complexion must they come at last.
    ET1 5.10 14 ...[Coleridge] appeared, a short, thick old man, with bright blue eyes and fine clear complexion...
    ET4 5.54 15 I found plenty of well-marked English types, the ruddy complexion fair and plump...
    ET4 5.54 20 I found plenty of well-marked English types...a Norman type, with the complacency that belongs to that constitution. Others who might be Americans, for any thing that appeared in their complexion or form;...
    ET4 5.54 24 ...the Roman has implanted his dark complexion in the trinity or quaternity of bloods [in England].
    ET4 5.67 5 On the English face are combined decision and nerve with the fair complexion, blue eyes and open and florid aspect.
    ET4 5.69 8 A clear skin, a peach-bloom complexion and good teeth are found all over the island [England].
    F 6.10 16 At the corner of the street you read the possibility of each passenger...in the complexion...
    Pow 6.68 27 [Men of this surcharge of arterial blood's] friends and governors must see that some vent for their explosive complexion is provided.
    Pow 6.71 13 ...whilst the habits of the camp were still visible in the port and complexion of the gentleman, his intellectual power culminated...
    Bhr 6.196 4 There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us.
    Bty 6.290 20 It is the soundness of the bones that ultimates itself in a peach-bloom complexion;...
    Elo1 7.71 1 The more indolent and imaginative complexion of the Eastern nations makes them much more impressible by these appeals to the fancy.
    Farm 7.149 13 [Peaches and grapes]...never tell on your table whence they drew their sunset complexion or their delicate flavors.
    OA 7.328 1 In old persons...we often observe a fair, plump, perennial, waxen complexion...
    PI 8.28 26 The lover is rightly said to fancy the hair, eyes, complexion of the maid.
    Insp 8.275 16 The legends of Arabia, Persia and India are of the same complexion as the Christian.
    Thor 10.461 10 [Thoreau] was...of light complexion...
    EPro 11.325 1 ...in the Southern States, the tenure of land and the local laws, with slavery, give the social system not a democratic but an aristocratic complexion;...
    Bost 12.194 9 Who can read the fiery ejaculations of Saint Augustine...of Milton, of Bunyan even...without contrasting their immortal heat with the cold complexion of our recent wits?
    WSL 12.337 3 We sometimes meet in a stage-coach in New England an erect, muscular man, with fresh complexion and a smooth hat, whose nervous speech instantly betrays the English traveller;...

complexions, n. (4)

    PPh 4.43 15 If you would know [great geniuses'] tastes and complexions, the most admiring of their readers most resembles them.
    MoS 4.175 17 There is the power of complexions...
    ET14 5.260 4 ...the two complexions, or two styles of mind [in England]... are ever in counterpoise...
    Wom 11.418 1 There are plenty of people who believe that the world is governed by men of dark complexions...

complexities, n. (1)

    ACiv 11.311 8 More and better than the President has spoken shall, perhaps, the effect of this message [proposal for gradual abolition] be,- but...not more or better than he hoped in his heart, when, thoughtful of all the complexities of his position, he penned these cautious words.

complexity, n. (2)

    GoW 4.290 3 ...the highest simplicity of structure is produced...by the highest complexity.
    MMEm 10.421 17 Our civilization is not always mending our poetry. It is sauced and spiced with our complexity of arts and inventions...

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