Compliance to Conducts

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

compliance, n. (6)

    MR 1.233 26 Each [lucrative profession] requires of the practitioner...a certain dapperness and compliance...
    Con 1.314 23 ...he who sets his face like a flint against every novelty...has also his gracious and relenting moments, and espouses for the time the cause of man; and even if this be a shortlived emotion, yet the remembrance of it in private hours mitigates his...compliance with custom.
    SL 2.150 25 We foolishly think in our days of sin that we must court friends by compliance to the customs of society...
    Fdsp 2.208 18 I am equally balked by antagonism and by compliance.
    Exp 3.82 5 In this our talking America we are ruined by our good nature and listening on all sides. This compliance takes away the power of being greatly useful.
    DL 7.111 2 [The citizen's] house ought to show us his honest opinion of what makes his well-being when he...forgets all affectation, compliance, and even exertion of will.

compliances, n. (3)

    Chr1 3.115 25 ...when that love...which has vowed to itself that it will be a wretch and also a fool in this world sooner than soil its white hands by any compliances, comes into our streets and houses,--only the pure and aspiring can know its face...
    NR 3.228 17 The acts which you praise, I praise not, since they are departures from [the man's] faith, and are mere compliances.
    SovE 10.210 27 ...is it quite impossible to believe that men should be drawn to each other by the simple respect which each man feels for another...the respect he feels for another who, underneath his compliances with artificial society, would dearly like to serve somebody...

complicate, v. (2)

    Wth 6.111 9 ...we have to pay, not what would have contented [the immigrants] at home, but what they have learned to think necessary here; so that opinion, fancy and all manner of moral considerations complicate the problem.
    FSLC 11.210 13 ...grant that the heart of financiers...shrinks within them at...the embarrassments which complicate the problem [abolition];...

complications, n. (1)

    ET5 5.93 13 ...in the complications of the trade and politics of their vast empire, [the English] have been equal to every exigency...

complicity, n. (2)

    ET5 5.80 27 All the steps [the English] orderly take;...keeping their eye on their aim, in all the complicity and delay incident to the several series of means they employ.
    F 6.7 11 You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughter-house is concealed...there is complicity...

complied, v. (2)

    HDC 11.57 8 The General Court, in 1647...Ordered, that every...where any town shall increase to the number of one hundred families, they shall set up a Grammar school, the masters thereof being able to instruct youth so far as they may be fitted for the University. With these requirements Concord... complied...
    MAng1 12.235 13 Michael Angelo, who...distrusted his capacity as an architect, at first refused [to build St. Peter's] and then reluctantly complied.

compliment, n. (33)

    LT 1.291 12 ...the highest compliment man ever receives from heaven is the sending to him its disguised and discredited angels.
    Con 1.322 8 What a compliment we pay to the good SPIRIT with our superserviceable zeal!
    Tran 1.346 23 There is no compliment, no smooth speech with [youths];...
    Tran 1.346 25 ...[youths] pay you only this one compliment, of insatiable expectation;...
    SL 2.164 21 I can think of nothing to fill my time with, and I find the Life of Brant. It is a very extravagant compliment to pay to Brant...
    Fdsp 2.203 6 I knew a man who under a certain religious frenzy...omitting all compliment and commonplace, spoke to the conscience of every person he encountered...
    OS 2.292 11 Deal so plainly with man and woman as to...destroy all hope of trifling with you. It is the highest compliment you can pay.
    Chr1 3.112 7 Could we not pay our friend the compliment of truth, of silence, of forbearing?
    Chr1 3.115 27 ...when that love...which has vowed to itself that it will be a wretch and also a fool in this world sooner than soil its white hands by any compliances, comes into our streets and houses,--only the pure and aspiring can know its face, and the only compliment they can pay it is to own it.
    Mrs1 3.132 2 ...the countryman at a city dinner, believes that there is a ritual according to which every act and compliment must be performed...
    Gts 3.161 8 ...our tokens of compliment and love are for the most part barbarous.
    UGM 4.16 4 Senates and sovereigns have no compliment...like the addressing to a human being thoughts out of a certain height, and presupposing his intelligence.
    PPh 4.39 2 Among secular books, Plato only is entitled to Omar's fanatical compliment to the Koran, when he said, Burn the libraries; for their value is in this book.
    ShP 4.196 8 ...some passages [in Shakespeare's Henry VIII], as the account of the coronation, are like autographs. What is odd, the compliment to Queen Elizabeth is in the bad rhythm.
    ET5 5.74 23 [The Roman] disembarked his legions [in England]...at last, he made a handsome compliment of roads and walls, and departed.
    ET8 5.136 1 [The English] have that phlegm or staidness which it is a compliment to disturb.
    ET9 5.145 23 ...when [the Englishman] wishes to pay you the highest compliment, he says, I should not know you from an Englishman.
    ET17 5.296 6 ...perhaps it is a high compliment to the cultivation of the English generally, when we find such a man [as Wordsworth] not distinguished.
    Ctr 6.137 9 It is not a compliment but a disparagement to consult a man only on horses...
    Ill 6.312 20 [the dreariest alderman] wishes the bow and compliment of some leader in the state or in society;...
    SS 7.4 15 The most agreeable compliment you could pay [my new friend] was to imply that you had not observed him in a house or a street where you had met him.
    Clbs 7.241 13 We consider those...who think it the highest compliment they can pay a man to deal with him as an intellect...
    Suc 7.302 14 This sensibility appears...when we see eyes that are a compliment to the human race...
    OA 7.332 14 We made our compliment [to John Adams]...
    Comc 8.171 24 A lady of high rank, but of lean figure, had given the Countess Dulauloy the nickname of Le Grenadier tricolore, in allusion to her tall figure, as well as to her republican opinions; the Countess retaliated by calling Madame the Venus of the Pere-Lachaise, a compliment to her skeleton which did not fail to circulate.
    PPo 8.251 17 It is told of Hafiz, that, when he had written a compliment to a handsome youth...the verses came to the ears of Timour in his palace.
    Supl 10.167 8 An eminent French journalist paid a high compliment to the Duke of Wellington...
    Supl 10.170 24 ...the great official...declared that he should remember this honor to the latest moment of his existence. He was answered again by officials. Pity, thought I, they should lie so about their keen sensibility...to the commonplace compliment of a dinner.
    AsSu 11.251 2 ...the third crime [Sumner] stands charged with, is, that his speeches were written before they were spoken; which, of course, must be true in Sumner's case, as it was true...of every first-rate speaker that ever lived. It is the high compliment he pays to the intelligence of the Senate and of the country.
    ACiv 11.302 26 [The existing administration] is to be thanked for its angelic virtue, compared with any executive experiences with which we have been familiar. But the times will not allow us to indulge in compliment.
    Milt1 12.258 25 ...in reply apparently to some compliment on his powers of conversation, [Milton] writes: Many have been celebrated for their compositions, whose common conversation and intercourse have betrayed no marks of sublimity or genius.
    ACri 12.292 26 Vulgarisms to be gazetted...considerable-it is considerable of a compliment...
    MLit 12.328 13 ...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].

compliment, v. (3)

    DSA 1.148 23 You would compliment a coxcomb doing a good act, but you would not praise an angel.
    EWI 11.123 19 The customer is the immediate jewel of our souls. Him we flatter, him we feast, compliment, vote for...
    JBB 11.272 7 If judges cannot find law enough to maintain the sovereignty of the state...it is idle to compliment them as learned and venerable.

complimentary, adj. (1)

    Wsp 6.211 21 ...the same gentlemen who agree to discountenance the private rogue will be forward to show civilities and marks of respect to the public one; and no amount of evidence of his crimes will prevent them giving him...complimentary dinners...

complimented, v. (4)

    SL 2.160 25 ...why need you torment yourself and friend by secret self-reproaches that you have not...complimented him with gifts and salutations heretofore?
    ET7 5.120 17 ...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.
    F 6.42 6 ...a man likes better to be complimented on his position...than on his merits.
    SMC 11.370 1 After Gettysburg, Colonel Prescott remarks that our [Thirty-second] regiment is highly complimented.

compliments, n. (15)

    Fdsp 2.203 1 We parry and fend the approach of our fellow-man by compliments...
    Hsm1. 2.252 13 What shall [heroism] say then...to the toilet, compliments, quarrels, cards and custard, which rack the wit of all society?
    OS 2.290 11 The ambitious vulgar...preserve their cards and compliments.
    Mrs1 3.138 6 The compliments and ceremonies of our breeding should recall...the grandeur of our destiny.
    NMW 4.255 22 ...[Napoleon]...listened after the hurrahs and the compliments of the street...
    ET7 5.118 25 An Englishman...checks himself in compliments...
    ET19 5.310 20 ...these things are not for me to say; these compliments, though true, would better come from one who felt and understood these merits more.
    Ctr 6.154 24 How can you mind diet, bed, dress, or salutes or compliments...when you think how paltry are the machinery and the workers?
    Elo1 7.71 6 ...every literature contains these high compliments to the art of the orator and the bard...
    Farm 7.138 18 ...you cannot make pretty compliments to fate and gravitation, whose minister [the farmer] is.
    OA 7.315 7 On the anniversary of the Phi Beta Kappa Society at Cambridge in 1861, the venerable President Quincy...was received at the dinner with peculiar demonstrations of respect. He replied to these compliments in a speech...
    Plu 10.307 12 These men [who revere the spiritual power]...are not the parasites of wealth. Perhaps they sometimes compromise...make and take compliments; but they keep open the source of wisdom and health.
    LS 11.18 24 ...a true disciple of Jesus will receive the light he gives most thankfully; but the thanks he offers...are not compliments, commemorations...
    EPro 11.316 14 [Movement toward liberty]...is as when an orator, having ended the compliments and pleasantries with which he conciliated attention...announces with vibrating voice the grand human principles involved;...
    AgMs 12.362 7 One would think that Mr. D. [Elias Phinney] and Major S. [Abel Moore] were the pillars of the Commonwealth. The good Commissioner [Henry Colman]...repeats his compliments as often as their names are introduced.

comply, v. (2)

    Supl 10.171 3 Men of the world value truth...not by its sacredness, but for its convenience. Of such, especially of diplomatists, one has a right to expect wit and ingenuity to avoid the lie if they must comply with the form.
    EWI 11.119 8 Sir Lionel Smith defended the poor negro girls, prey to the licentiousness of the [Jamaican] planters; they shall not be whipped with tamarind rods if they do not comply with their master's will;...

complying, v. (1)

    Prd1 2.222 5 [Prudence] is content to seek health of body by complying with physical conditions...

comport, v. (1)

    F 6.4 17 We are sure that...necessity does comport with liberty...

comports, v. (1)

    PLT 12.32 9 Teach me never so much and I hear or retain only...what comports with my experience and my desire.

compose, v. (22)

    Nat 1.15 16 ...where the particular objects are mean and unaffecting, the landscape which they compose is round and symmetrical.
    LT 1.267 13 Slowly...it steals on us, the new fact, that we who were pupils or aspirants...do compose a portion of that head and heart we are wont to think worthy of all reverence and heed.
    LT 1.269 3 The actors constitute that great army of martyrs who...compose the visible church of the existing generation.
    Con 1.318 14 ...we are bound to see that the society of which we compose a part, does not permit the formation...of views...injurious to the honor and welfare of mankind.
    Lov1 2.170 5 ...I know I incur the imputation of unnecessary hardness and stoicism from those who compose the Court and Parliament of Love.
    Exp 3.69 20 The persons who compose our company converse...and somewhat comes of it all, but an unlooked-for result.
    Mrs1 3.147 24 If the individuals who compose the purest circles of aristocracy in Europe...should pass in review...we might find no gentleman and no lady;...
    NER 3.282 6 In vain we compose our faces and our words;...
    UGM 4.11 25 Animated chlorine knows of chlorine, and incarnate zinc, of zinc. Their quality makes [man's] career; and he can variously publish their virtues, because they compose him.
    UGM 4.33 2 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!
    PPh 4.56 23 To the study of nature [Plato]...prefixes the dogma, Let us declare the cause which led the Supreme Ordainer to produce and compose the universe.
    SwM 4.118 15 ...whether it be that these things will not be intellectually learned, or that many centuries must elaborate and compose so rare and opulent a soul,--there is no comet, rock-stratum...that, for itself, does not interest more scholars and classifiers than the meaning and upshot of the frame of things.
    ShP 4.217 7 Shakspeare employed [the things of nature] as colors to compose his picture.
    ET3 5.34 11 The solidity of the structures that compose the [English] towns speaks the industry of ages.
    ET4 5.45 14 The British census proper reckons twenty-seven and a half millions in the home countries. What makes this census important is the quality of the units that compose it.
    ET10 5.160 16 A thousand million of pounds sterling are said to compose the floating money of commerce [of England].
    Wth 6.111 15 ...the subject [of economy] is tender, and we may easily have too much of it, and therein resembles the hideous animalcules of which our bodies are built up,--offensive in the particular, yet compose valuable and effective masses.
    Elo1 7.63 2 An audience is not a simple addition of the individuals that compose it.
    Elo1 7.65 12 Him we call an artist...who, seeing the people furious, shall soften and compose them...
    PerF 10.70 10 One half the avoirdupois of the rocks which compose the solid crust of the globe consists of oxygen.
    SMC 11.355 7 ...armies...lift the spirit of the soldiers who compose them to the boiling point.
    MAng1 12.219 20 The common eye is satisfied with the surface on which it rests. The wise eye knows that it is surface and, if beautiful, only the result of interior harmonies, which, to him who knows them, compose the image of higher beauty.

composed, adj. (2)

    Int 2.331 26 It seems as if we needed only the stillness and composed attitude of the library to seize the thought.
    ET8 5.128 22 [The English] are just as cold, quiet and composed, at the end, as at the beginning of dinner.

composed, v. (25)

    Nat 1.4 24 Philosophically considered, the universe is composed of Nature and the Soul.
    Hist 2.24 13 In [the Grecian state] existed those human forms which supplied the sculptor with his models of Hercules, Phoebus, and Jove;... wherein the face is...composed of incorrupt, sharply defined and symmetrical features...
    SR 2.87 12 The wave moves onward, but the water of which it is composed does not.
    Pol1 3.210 15 ...the conservative party, composed of the most moderate, able and cultivated part of the population, is timid...
    NER 3.251 15 ...that the Church, or religious party...is appearing...in very significant assemblies called Sabbath and Bible Conventions; composed of ultraists...
    NER 3.264 12 These new associations are composed of men and women of superior talents and sentiments;...
    ShP 4.200 12 Grotius makes the like remark in respect to the Lord's Prayer, that the single clauses of which it is composed were already in use in the time of Christ...
    NMW 4.223 10 It is Swedenborg's theory that...the lungs are composed of infinitely small lungs;...
    GoW 4.262 13 The facts do not lie in [the memory] inert; but some subside and others shine; so that we soon have a new picture, composed of the eminent experiences.
    ET1 5.22 4 [Wordsworth] led me out into his garden, and showed me the gravel walk in which thousands of his lines were composed.
    Wth 6.101 4 ...the true and only power, whether composed of money, water or men; it is all alike [said the Marseilles banker];...
    CbW 6.251 27 The mass are animal, in pupilage, and near chimpanzee. But the units whereof this mass is composed, are neuters, every one of which may be grown to a queen-bee.
    Art2 7.50 6 The first time you hear [good poetry], it sounds rather as if copied out of some invisible tablet in the Eternal mind than as if arbitrarily composed by the poet.
    Art2 7.53 12 We feel, in seeing a noble building, which rhymes well, as we do in hearing a perfect song, that it...was one of the possible forms in the Divine mind, and is now only discovered and executed by the artist, not arbitrarily composed by him.
    Elo1 7.67 8 ...all these several audiences...which successively appear to greet the variety of style and topic [of the orator], are really composed out of the same persons;...
    Suc 7.284 12 ...Evelyn writes from Rome: Bernini...gave a public opera, wherein he...invented the engines, composed the music...
    PI 8.45 6 ...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.
    SA 8.82 1 ...trying experiments, and at perfect leisure with these posture-masters and flatterers all day, [the babe] throws himself into all the attitudes that correspond to theirs. Are they humble? he is composed.
    Aris 10.41 4 An aristocracy is composed of simple and sincere men for whom Nature and ethics are strong enough...
    LLNE 10.331 21 Let [Everett] rise to speak on what occasion soever, a fact had always just transpired which composed, with some other fact well known to the audience, the most pregnant and happy coincidence.
    HDC 11.71 26 This body [the Provincial Congress] was composed of the foremost patriots...
    SMC 11.375 25 A gloom gathers on this assembly, composed as it is of kindred men and women...
    CL 12.144 14 Twenty years ago in Northern Wisconsin the pinery was composed of trees so big, and so many of them, that it was impossible to walk in the country...
    ACri 12.300 26 Pindar when the victor in a race by mules offered him a trifling present, pretended to be hurt at thought of writing on demi-asses. When, however, he offered a sufficient present, he composed the poem...
    WSL 12.349 1 Many of [Landor's sentences] will secure their own immortality in English literature; and this, rightly considered, is no mean merit. These are not plants and animals, but the genetical atoms of which both are composed.

composer, n. (6)

    Nat 1.15 18 ...as the eye is the best composer, so light is the first of painters.
    LT 1.272 26 The new voices in the wilderness...have revived a hope...that the thoughts of the mind may yet...be executed by the hands. ... For some ages, these ideas have been consigned to the poet and musical composer...
    Pt1 3.38 26 The painter, the sculptor, the composer, the epic rhapsodist, the orator, all partake one desire, namely to express themselves symmetrically and abundantly...
    SwM 4.109 10 Creative force, like a musical composer, goes on unweariedly repeating a simple air or theme...
    CInt 12.119 17 I value dearly...the composer with his score.
    MLit 12.322 23 ...radical, painter, composer,-all worked for [Goethe]...

composes, v. (2)

    F 6.22 24 On one side elemental order...and on the other part thought, the spirit which composes and decomposes nature...
    Wth 6.116 5 [The land-owner] believes he composes easily on the hills.

composing, v. (5)

    ET1 5.22 11 [Wordsworth] had just returned from a visit to Staffa, and within three days had made three sonnets on Fingal's Cave, and was composing a fourth when he was called in to see me.
    Ill 6.318 9 ...[Columbus] found the illusion of arriving from the east at the Indies more composing to his lofty spirit than any tobacco.
    LVB 11.91 7 ...out of eighteen thousand souls composing the [Cherokee] nation, fifteen thousand six hundred and sixty-eight have protested against the so-called treaty.
    Mem 12.96 2 We are told that Boileau having recited to Daguesseau one day an epistle or satire he had just been composing, Daguesseau tranquilly told him he knew it already...
    Bost 12.189 1 A capital fact distinguishing this colony [Massachusetts Bay] from all other colonies was that the persons composing it consented to come on the one condition that the charter should be transferred from the company in England to themselves;...

composite, adj. (5)

    GoW 4.290 4 Man is the most composite of all creatures;...
    ET4 5.50 20 The English composite character betrays a mixed origin.
    Elo1 7.66 2 [Eloquence] is a power...requiring a large composite man...
    WD 7.170 27 ...the treasures which Nature spent itself to amass,--the secular, refined, composite anatomy of man...are given immeasurably to all.
    MLit 12.319 18 [Shelley's] muse is uniformly imitative; all his poems composite.

composition, n. (27)

    Nat 1.70 6 A wise writer will feel that the ends of study and composition are best answered by announcing undiscovered regions of thought...
    LT 1.266 3 ...there will be fragments and hints of men, more than enough: bloated promises, which end in nothing or little. And then truly great men, but with some defect in their composition which neutralizes their whole force.
    Tran 1.329 6 The light is always identical in its composition...
    Fdsp 2.202 11 There are two elements that go to the composition of friendship...
    Int 2.337 25 ...the mystic pencil wherewith we...draw [in unconscious states]...can design well and group well; its composition is full of art...
    Mrs1 3.121 17 An element which unites all the most forcible persons of every country...must be an average result of the character and faculties universally found in men. It seems a certain permanent average; as the atmosphere is a permanent composition...
    Nat2 3.187 13 ...each [man] has a vein of folly in his composition...
    PPh 4.66 4 Such as were fit to govern, into their composition the informing Deity mingled gold;...
    SwM 4.98 21 As happens in great men, [Swedenborg] seemed...to be a composition of several persons...
    SwM 4.99 25 [Swedenborg]...from this time [1716] for the next thirty years was employed in the composition and publication of his scientific works.
    ShP 4.201 4 Vedas, Aesop's Fables, Pilpay, Arabian Nights, Cid, Iliad, Robin Hood, Scottish Minstrelsy, are not the work of single men. In the composition of such works the time thinks...
    ET5 5.88 26 I know not from which of the tribes and temperaments that went to the composition of the people [of England] this tenacity was supplied, but they clinch every nail they drive.
    CbW 6.262 10 What had been, ever since our memory, solid continent, yawns apart and discloses its composition and genesis.
    QO 8.200 4 The old forest is decomposed for the composition of the new forest.
    Insp 8.290 5 ...I remember that Thoreau, with his robust will, yet found certain trifles disturbing the delicacy of that health which composition exacted...
    Edc1 10.128 14 Here [in the household] is the sincere thing, the wondrous composition for which day and night go round.
    Edc1 10.130 27 ...what is the charm which every ore...every new fact touching...the secrets of chemical composition and decomposition possess for Humboldt?
    LLNE 10.359 7 ...if one must study all the strokes to be laid, all the faults to be shunned in a building or work of art, of its keeping, its composition... there would be no end.
    CSC 10.374 9 The composition of the assembly [at the Chardon Street Convention] was rich and various.
    Thor 10.475 1 [Thoreau] could not be deceived as to the presence or absence of the poetic element in any composition...
    EWI 11.128 23 There are causes in the composition of the British legislature...which exclude much that is pitiful and injurious in other legislative assemblies.
    ACiv 11.306 23 Neither do I doubt, is such a composition should take place, that the Southerners will come back quietly and politely...
    MAng1 12.228 20 [Michelangelo] used to make to a single figure nine, ten, or twelve heads...seeking that there should be in the composition a certain universal grace such as Nature makes...
    Milt1 12.254 20 Better than any other [Milton] has discharged the office of every great man, namely...to draw after Nature a life of man, exhibiting such a composition of grace, of strength and of virtue, as poet had not described nor hero lived.
    Milt1 12.256 11 [Milton] declared that he who would aspire to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem; a composition and pattern of the best and honorablest things...
    MLit 12.314 22 ...the criterion which discriminates these two habits [of subjectiveness] in the poet's mind is the tendency of his composition;...
    MLit 12.326 3 The fair hearers [says Wieland] were enthusiastic at the nature in this piece [Goethe's journal]; I liked the sly art in the composition...still better.

compositions, n. (15)

    DSA 1.126 10 The expressions of this [moral] sentiment affect us more than all other compositions.
    DSA 1.148 8 ...[the commanders] with you are open to the influx of the all-knowing Spirit, which annihilates...the little shades and gradations of intelligence in compositions we call wiser and wisest.
    LE 1.172 16 I by no means aim in these remarks to disparage the merit of these or of any existing compositions;...
    LE 1.182 9 If [the scholar] have this twofold goodness,-the drill and the inspiration...then...the perfection of his endowment will appear in his compositions.
    Hist 2.16 9 ...there are compositions of the same strain to be found in the books of all ages.
    OS 2.289 9 The great poet makes us feel our own wealth, and then we think less of his compositions.
    PPo 8.240 3 He who would understand the influence of the Homeric ballads in the heroic ages should witness the effect which similar compositions have upon the wild nomads of the East.
    Milt1 12.248 23 These tracts [by Milton] are remarkable compositions.
    Milt1 12.258 27 ...[Milton] writes: Many have been celebrated for their compositions, whose common conversation and intercourse have betrayed no marks of sublimity or genius.
    Milt1 12.266 16 The indifferency of a wise mind to what is called high and low, and the fact that true greatness is a perfect humility, are revelations of Christianity which Milton well understood. They give an inexhaustible truth to all his compositions.
    Milt1 12.277 22 The lover of Milton reads one sense in his prose and in his metrical compositions;...
    MLit 12.326 12 This subtle element of egotism in Goethe certainly does not seem to deform his compositions...
    MLit 12.328 22 ...what shall we think of that absence of the moral sentiment, that singular equivalence to him of good and evil in action, which discredit [Goethe's] compositions to the pure?
    EurB 12.367 8 ...Wordsworth...though setting a private and exaggerated value on his compositions;...is really a master of the English language...
    EurB 12.371 2 Tennyson's compositions are not so much poems as studies in poetry...

compost, n. (1)

    MAng1 12.222 8 ...not the most swinish compost of mud and blood that was ever misnamed philosophy, can avail to hinder us from doing involuntary reverence to any exhibition of majesty or surpassing beauty in human clay.

composure, n. (2)

    Mrs1 3.132 12 All that fashion demands is composure and self-content.
    Trag 12.416 6 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. Yet these wards are not the least remarkable for the composure and cheerfulness of their inmates.

compotes, adj. (1)

    FSLC 11.185 2 I thought none, that was not ready to go on all fours, would back this [Fugitive Slave] law. And yet here are upright men, compotes mentis...who can see nothing in this claim for bare humanity...but canting fanaticism...

compound, adj. (6)

    Nat 1.64 2 ...one and not compound [nature] does not act upon us from without...
    Comp 2.119 11 ...compound interest on compound interest is the rate and usage of this exchequer.
    Hsm1 2.249 8 The disease and deformity around us certify the infraction of natural, intellectual and moral laws, and often violation on violation to breed such compound misery.
    Mrs1 3.121 27 [Good society]...is a compound result into which every great force enters as an ingredient...
    SwM 4.114 6 It is a constant law of the organic body that large, compound, or visible forms exist and subsist from smaller, simpler and ultimately from invisible forms...
    Wth 6.126 19 The bread [a man] eats is first strength and animal spirits; it becomes...in still higher results, courage and endurance. This is the right compound interest;...

compound, n. (2)

    SwM 4.114 14 The unities of each organ are so many little organs, homogeneous with their compound...
    FRep 11.513 15 Our sleepy civilization, ever since Roger Bacon and Monk Schwartz invented gunpowder, has built its whole art of war...all drill and military education, on that one compound...

compound, v. (2)

    Nat2 3.181 3 Compound it how [nature] will, star, sand, fire, water, tree, man, it is still one stuff...
    ET10 5.165 7 An Englishman hears that the Queen Dowager wishes to establish some claim to put her park paling a rod forward into his grounds, so as to get a coachway and save her a mile to the avenue. Instantly he transforms his paling into stone-masonry...and all Europe cannot prevail on him to sell or compound for an inch of the land.

compounded, v. (1)

    ACri 12.305 10 A man of genius or a work of love or beauty...can't be compounded by the best rules...

compounding, v. (1)

    CInt 12.113 11 ...it were a compounding of all gradation and reverence to suffer the flash of swords and the boyish strife of passion and feebleness of military strength to intrude [in the college] on this sanctity and omnipotence of Intellectual Law.

comprehend, v. (10)

    Cir 2.303 17 Nature...has a cause like all the rest; and when once I comprehend that, will these fields stretch so immovably wide...
    Int 2.347 2 ...[the Greek philosophers] add thesis to thesis, without a moment's heed of the universal astonishment of the human race below, who do not comprehend their plainest argument;...
    Pt1 3.12 6 ...from the heaven of truth I shall see and comprehend my relations.
    Chr1 3.92 14 See [the man fortunate in trade] and you will know as easily why he succeeds, as, if you see Napoleon, you would comprehend his fortune.
    Chr1 3.100 20 Acquiescence in the establishment and appeal to the public, indicate...heads...which must see a house built before they can comprehend the plan of it.
    PPh 4.63 9 The essence or peculiarity of man is to comprehend a whole [said Plato];...
    Art2 7.39 24 The useful arts comprehend not only those that lie next to instinct...but also navigation, practical chemistry...
    LS 11.10 22 ...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.
    LS 11.13 18 It was only too probable that among the half-converted Pagans and Jews, any rite, any form, would find favor, whilst yet unable to comprehend the spiritual character of Christianity.
    II 12.84 18 If you speak to the man, he turns his eyes from his own scene, and, slower or faster, endeavors to comprehend what you say.

comprehended, v. (3)

    AmS 1.104 1 In self-trust all the virtues are comprehended.
    EWI 11.137 22 Every one of these [arguments against emancipation in the West Indies] was built on the narrow ground...of sordid gain, in opposition to every motive that had reference to humanity, justice, and religion, or to that great principle which comprehended them all.
    MAng1 12.220 3 The human form, says Goethe, cannot be comprehended through seeing its surface.

comprehendeth, v. (1)

    AmS 1.108 1 ...a man, rightly viewed, comprehendeth the particular natures of all men.

comprehending, v. (3)

    Edc1 10.131 22 Yonder magnificent astronomy [man] is at last to import, fetching away...solstice, period, comet and binal star, by comprehending their relation and law.
    SovE 10.200 27 You have perceived in the first fact of your conscious life here a miracle so astounding,-a miracle comprehending all the universe of miracles to which your intelligent life gives you access,-as to exhaust wonder...
    MAng1 12.216 15 Beauty...comprehending grandeur as a part, and reaching to goodness as its soul,-this to receive and this to impart, was [Michelangelo's] genius.

comprehends, v. (5)

    LE 1.157 22 ...when [the scholar] comprehends his duties he above all men is a realist...
    PPh 4.46 12 The same weakness and want, on a higher plane, occurs daily in the education of ardent young men and women. ah! you don't undertand me; I have never met with any one who comprehends me...
    ET14 5.244 4 The Germans generalize: the English cannot interpret the German mind. German science comprehends the English.
    Bhr 6.184 6 ...[of every two persons who meet on any affair],--one instantly perceives ...that his will comprehends the other's will...
    PLT 12.5 1 ...[science] adopts the method of the universe as fast as it appears; and this discloses that the mind as it opens, the mind as it shall be, comprehends and works thus;...

comprehensible, adj. (2)

    PPh 4.52 25 European civility is...delight...in comprehensible results.
    GoW 4.271 5 We conceive...life in the Middle Ages, to be a simple and comprehensible affair;...

comprehension, n. (8)

    AmS 1.104 21 ...[the scholar] will...find in himself a perfect comprehension of [fear's] nature and extent;...
    DSA 1.149 9 There are...men to whom a crisis...demanding... comprehension...comes graceful and beloved as a bride.
    SwM 4.119 5 To a right perception...of the order of nature, [Swedenborg] added the comprehension of the moral laws in their widest social aspects;...
    NMW 4.232 4 [Bonaparte] had a directness of action never before combined with so much comprehension.
    ET12 5.207 18 The men [English students] have learned accuracy and comprehension, logic, and pace, or speed of working.
    ALin 11.334 17 [Lincoln's] mind mastered the problem of the day; and as the problem grew, so did his comprehension of it.
    II 12.82 3 A man of more comprehensive view can always see with good humor the seeming opposition of a powerful talent which has less comprehension.
    MLit 12.323 16 ...[Goethe] is of that comprehension which can see the value of truth.

comprehensive, adj. (8)

    LT 1.287 9 Is there not something comprehensive in the grasp of a society which to great mechanical invention and the best institutions of property adds the most daring theories;...
    GoW 4.265 20 ...let one man have the comprehensive eye that can replace this isolated prodigy in its right neighborhood and bearings...
    Boks 7.190 8 ...there are...books which are the work and the proof of faculties so comprehensive...that though one shuts them with meaner ones, he feels his exclusion from them to accuse his way of living.
    Prch 10.233 11 The author...sees the sweep of a more comprehensive tendency than others are aware of;...
    LLNE 10.349 8 The merit of [Brisbane's] plan was...that it...was coherent and comprehensive of facts to a wonderful degree.
    LLNE 10.355 2 It was easy to see what must be the fate of this fine system [of Fourier's] in any serious and comprehensive attempt to set it on foot in this country.
    Thor 10.452 25 [Thoreau] declined to give up his large ambition of knowledge and action for any narrow craft or profession, aiming at a much more comprehensive calling, the art of living well.
    II 12.82 1 A man of more comprehensive view can always see with good humor the seeming opposition of a powerful talent which has less comprehension.

comprehensively, adv. (1)

    Civ 7.20 11 In other races [than the Indian and the negro]...the like progress that is made by a boy when he cuts his eye-teeth, as we say,--childish illusions passing daily away and he seeing things really and comprehensively,--is made by tribes.

comprehensiveness, n. (1)

    LLNE 10.351 21 The ability and earnestness of the advocate [Fourier] and his friends, the comprehensiveness of their theory...commanded our attention and respect.

compression, n. (4)

    Pow 6.71 15 ...the compression and tension of these stern conditions [of war] is a training for the finest and softest arts...
    ACri 12.290 6 Dante is the professor that shall teach both the noble low style...also the sculpture of compression.
    ACri 12.290 7 The next virtue of rhetoric is compression...
    WSL 12.348 2 [Landor] knows the wide difference between compression and an obscure elliptical style.

Compression, n. (1)

    ACri 12.299 25 After Low Style and Compression what the books call Metonomy is a principal power of rhetoric.

comprise, v. (3)

    Nat 1.44 23 [Every universal truth] is like a great circle on a sphere, comprising all possible circles; which, however, may be drawn and comprise it in like manner.
    Exp 3.75 11 The new statement will comprise the scepticisms as well as the faiths of society...
    ET4 5.44 22 The British Empire is reckoned...to comprise a territory of 5, 000,000 square miles.

comprised, v. (2)

    AmS 1.100 17 [The scholar's duties] may all be comprised in self-trust.
    PPh 4.63 10 The essence or peculiarity of man [said Plato] is to comprehend...that which in the diversity of sensations can be comprised under a rational unity.

comprises, v. (3)

    FSLN 11.218 7 ...when I say the class of scholars or students,-that is a class which comprises in some sort all mankind...
    FSLN 11.218 8 ...when I say the class of scholars or students,-that is a class which...comprises every man in the best hours of his life;...
    JBB 11.270 10 ...we are here to think of relief for the family of John Brown. To my eyes, that family looks very large and very needy of relief. It comprises his brave fellow sufferers in the Charlestown Jail;...

comprising, v. (5)

    Nat 1.44 22 [Every universal truth] is like a great circle on a sphere, comprising all possible circles;...
    ET12 5.200 17 ...out of twelve hundred young men [at Oxford], comprising the most spirited of the aristocracy, a duel has never occurred.
    Insp 8.279 25 Health is the first muse, comprising the magical benefits of air, landscape and bodily exercise, on the mind.
    EWI 11.141 3 Mr. Clarkson, early in his career, made a collection of African productions and manufactures, as specimens of the arts and culture of the negro; comprising cloths and loom, weapons...
    CL 12.135 17 The avarice of real estate native to us all covers...all that is called the love of Nature, comprising the largest use and the whole beauty of a farm or landed estate.

Compromise, Missouri, n. (2)

    FSLN 11.233 17 You relied on the Missouri Compromise. That is ridden over.
    TPar 11.290 14 [Theodore Parker's] ministry fell...on the years when Southern slavery...wrung from the weakness or treachery of Northern people fatal concessions in...the repeal of the Missouri Compromise.

compromise, n. (17)

    MR 1.234 1 Each [lucrative profession] requires of the practitioner...a compromise of private opinion and lofty integrity.
    MR 1.236 8 ...when the majority shall admit the necessity of reform in all these institutions [commerce, law, state]...a man may select the fittest employment for his peculiar talent again, without compromise.
    LT 1.274 16 ...the compromise made with the slaveholder...every day appears more flagrant mischief to the American constitution.
    Con 1.313 19 You are yourself the result of this manner of living, this foul compromise...
    Tran 1.349 26 ...[Transcendentalists] have...found that from the liberal professions to the coarsest manual labor...there is a spirit of cowardly compromise...
    Fdsp 2.199 16 All association must be a compromise...
    NER 3.264 24 ...it may easily be questioned...whether the members [of associations] will not necessarily be fractions of men, because each finds that he cannot enter it without some compromise.
    ET4 5.49 14 Whatever influences add to mental or moral faculty, take men out of nationality...and make the national life a culpable compromise.
    Wth 6.97 9 Some men are born to own, and can animate all their possessions. Others cannot: their owning...seems to be a compromise of their character;...
    Wth 6.100 23 The problem [in commerce] is to combine many and remote operations with the accuracy and adherence to the facts...so as to arrive at gigantic results, without any compromise of safety.
    War 11.174 1 [The man of principle] is willing to be hanged at his own gate, rather than consent to any compromise of his freedom...
    JBS 11.279 15 [In John Brown's boyhood] was formed a romantic character...living to ideal ends, without any mixture of self-indulgence or compromise...
    ACiv 11.303 18 ...there have been days in American history, when, if the free states had done their duty, slavery had been blocked...and our recent calamities forever precluded. The free states yielded, and every compromise was surrender...
    FRep 11.543 10 Justice satisfies everybody, and justice alone. No monopoly must be foisted in...no coward compromise conceded to a strong partner.
    II 12.84 13 [Men] are not timed each to the other: they cannot keep step, and life requires too much compromise.
    CInt 12.123 6 [The Understanding] is the power which the world of men adopt and educate. He is...the worker in the useful; he works by shifts, by compromise...
    CL 12.136 13 ...in the country, Nature is always inviting to the compromise of walking as soon as we are released from severe labor.

compromise, v. (4)

    Nat 1.48 15 God...will not compromise the end of nature by permitting any inconsequence in its procession.
    UGM 4.29 19 Compromise thy egotism.
    Plu 10.307 11 These men [who revere the spiritual power]...are not the parasites of wealth. Perhaps they sometimes compromise...but they keep open the source of wisdom and health.
    FRep 11.521 2 ...the stiffest patriots falter and compromise;...

compromised, v. (3)

    Pt1 3.10 20 Society seemed to be compromised.
    PI 8.6 10 The admission, never so covertly, that this [material world] is a makeshift, sets the dullest brain in ferment: our little sir...suspects that some one is doing him, and at this alarm everything is compromised;...
    PLT 12.45 1 If we converse with low things...we are not compromised.

compromises, n. (1)

    Wsp 6.212 9 Even well-disposed, good sort of people...for brave, straightforward action, use half-measures and compromises.

compromises, v. (1)

    Elo2 8.115 27 I must feel that the speaker compromises himself to his auditory...

compulsion, n. (1)

    F 6.19 13 The force with which we resist these torrents of tendency... amounts to little more than a criticism or protest made by a minority of one, under compulsion of millions.

compulsory, adj. (2)

    Wth 6.108 18 The price of coal shows...a compulsory confinement of the miners to a certain district.
    PLT 12.27 23 An individual body is the momentary arrest or fixation of certain atoms, which, after performing compulsory duty to this enchanted statue, are released again to flow in the currents of the world.

compunction, n. (2)

    LT 1.278 13 To the youth...full of compunction at his unprofitable existence, the temptation is always great to lend himself to public movements...
    Nat2 3.178 26 We see the foaming brook with compunction...

compunctions, n. (2)

    Lov1 2.171 16 ...infinite compunctions embitter in mature life the remembrances of budding joy...
    SwM 4.138 3 No man can afford to waste his moments in compunctions.

computation, n. (3)

    YA 1.377 27 [Trade] displaces physical strength, and instals computation, combination, information, science, in its room.
    F 6.18 12 No one can read the history of astronomy without perceiving that Copernicus, Newton...are not...a new kind of men, but that Thales... Oenipodes...each had the same tense geometrical brain, apt for the same vigorous computation...
    PC 8.222 15 We are told that in posting his books, after the French had measured on the earth a degree of the meridian, when [Newton] saw that his theoretic results were approximating that empirical one...he was so agitated that he was forced to call in an assistant to finish the computation.

computations, n. (2)

    ShP 4.195 10 ...the amount of [Shakespeare's] indebtedness may be inferred from Malone's laborious computations in regard to the First, Second and Third parts of Henry VI....
    PC 8.217 22 If a man know the laws of Nature better than other men, his nation cannot spare him; nor if he know...the secret of geometry, of algebra; on which the computations of astronomy, of navigation, of machinery, rest.

compute, v. (12)

    MN 1.203 2 When we are dizzied with the arithmetic of the savant toiling to compute the length of [Nature's] line...we are steadied by the perception that a great deal is doing;...
    LT 1.270 20 The student of history will hereafter compute the singular value of our endless discussion of questions to the mind of the period.
    Cir 2.317 12 [When these waves of God flow into me] I no longer poorly compute my possible achievement by what remains to me of the month or the year;...
    Pt1 3.16 14 In our political parties, compute the power of badges and emblems.
    MoS 4.178 26 If we compute it in time, we may, in fifty years, have half a dozen reasonable hours.
    Wth 6.83 20 What smiths, and in what furnace, rolled/ (In dizzy aeons dim and mute/ The reeling brain can ill compute)/ Copper and iron, lead, and gold?/
    Wth 6.110 23 The cost of education of the posterity of this great colony [of immigrants], I will not compute.
    DL 7.108 7 It is easier to...compute the square extent of a territory...than to come to the persons and dwellings of men and read their character...
    PC 8.225 6 Look out into the July night and see the broad belt of silver flame which flashes up the half of heaven, fresh and delicate as the bonfires of the meadow-flies. Yet the powers of numbers cannot compute its enormous age...
    MoL 10.249 26 Nature says to the American: I understand mensuration and numbers; I compute...the balance of attraction and recoil. I have measured out to you by weight and tally the powers you need.
    CInt 12.122 21 [A man] looks at all men as his representatives, and is glad to see that his wit can work at that problem as it ought to be done, and better than he could do it; whether it be to build...sing, heal or compute...
    Bost 12.187 9 Of great cities you cannot compute the influences.

computed, v. (6)

    SR 2.48 5 ...that distrust of a sentiment because our arithmetic has computed the strength and means opposed to our purpose, [children, babes, and brutes] have not.
    OS 2.274 17 After its own law...is the rate of [the soul's] progress to be computed.
    ET10 5.159 18 The power of machinery in Great Britain, in mills, has been computed to be equal to 600,000,000 men...
    ET11 5.198 9 It is computed that, with titles and without, there are seventy thousand of these people coming and going in London, who make up what is called high society.
    CbW 6.265 2 ...the power of happiness of any soul is not to be computed or drained.
    Boks 7.192 9 ...your chance of hitting on the right [book] is to be computed by the arithmetical rule of Permutation and Combination...

computing, v. (5)

    MN 1.201 27 When we have spent our wonder in computing this wasteful hospitality with which boon Nature turns off new firmaments without end into her wide common...one can hardly help asking...whether it be quite worth while to...glut the innocent space with so poor an article.
    SR 2.56 26 ...the eyes of others have no other data for computing our orbit than our past acts...
    Exp 3.75 26 ...we have no means of correcting these colored and distorting lenses which we are, or of computing the amount of their errors.
    ET16 5.283 4 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].
    FSLC 11.199 18 There is...not an economist but is computing [slavery's] profit and loss...

comrade, n. (4)

    ET1 5.4 26 It is probable you left some obscure comrade at a tavern...when you crossed sea and land to play bo-peep with celebrated scribes.
    ET4 5.68 5 Lord Collingwood, [Nelson's] comrade, was of a nature the most affectionate and domestic.
    Cour 7.276 23 I do not wish to...urge [any man] to ape the courage of his comrade.
    Res 8.145 7 ...[the old forester] draws his boat ashore, turns it over in a twinkling against a clump of alders with cat-briers, which keep up the lee-side, crawls under it with his comrade, and lies there till the shower is over, happy in his stout roof.

comrades, n. (7)

    Nat 1.20 24 ...when Arnold Winkelried...gathers in his side a sheaf of Austrian spears to break the line for his comrades; are not these heroes entitled to add the beauty of the scene to the beauty of the deed?
    ShP 4.193 21 Shakspeare, in common with his comrades, esteemed the mass of old plays waste stock...
    Comc 8.169 26 ...[Astley's] comrades playfully forced off his coat...
    FSLN 11.241 16 I wish to see the instructed class here...not fire on their comrades.
    SMC 11.361 12 Always devoted...sometimes full of joy at the deportment of his comrades, [George Prescott's letters] contain the sincere praise of men whom I now see in this assembly.
    SMC 11.368 11 ...at Fredericksburg...Lieutenant-Colonel Prescott loudly expressed his satisfaction at his comrades...
    SMC 11.373 16 One of [George Prescott's] townsmen and comrades... writing to his own family, uses these words: He was one of the few men who fight for principle.

Comus [John Milton], n. (4)

    ET11 5.190 16 I must hold Ludlow Castle an honest house, for which Milton's Comus was written...
    PI 8.48 8 Was I deceived, or did a sable cloud/ Turn forth its silver lining on the night?/ I did not err, there does a sable cloud/ Turn forth its silver lining on the night./ Comus.
    Milt1 12.265 11 [Milton's native honor] is the spirit of Comus...
    Milt1 12.275 9 ...the Comus [is] a transcript, in charming numbers, of that philosophy of chastity, which, in the Apology for Smectymnuus, and in the Reason of Church Government, [Milton] declares to be his defence and religion.

concatenate, v. (1)

    Mem 12.100 1 An act of the understanding will marshal and concatenate a few facts;...

concave, adj. (5)

    SL 2.151 26 [The world] will certainly accept your own measure of your doing and being...whether you see your work produced to the concave sphere of the heavens...
    OS 2.273 22 ...we habitually refer the immensely sundered stars to one concave sphere.
    Exp 3.51 1 Of what use is genius, if the organ is too convex or too concave...
    UGM 4.32 2 Each is uneasy until he has produced his private ray unto the concave sphere...
    Supl 10.166 3 ...a face magnified in a concave mirror loses its expression.

conceal, v. (21)

    SL 2.146 8 If a teacher have any opinion which he wishes to conceal, his pupils will become as fully indoctrinated into that as into any which he publishes.
    SL 2.146 23 What secret can [Plato] conceal from the eyes of Bacon?...
    PNR 4.84 1 The eye attested that justice was best, as long as it was profitable; Plato affirms that...profit is intrinsic, though the just conceal his justice from gods and men;...
    NMW 4.225 20 [The man in the street] finds [Napoleon], like himself, by birth a citizen, who, by very intelligible merits, arrived as such a commanding position that he could indulge all those tastes which the common man possesses but is obliged to conceal and deny...
    ET5 5.80 7 [The English]...cannot conceal their contempt for sallies of thought...
    ET8 5.141 21 Does the early history of each tribe show the permanent bias, which...is masked as the tribe spreads its activity into colonies, commerce, codes, arts, letters? The early history shows it, as the musician plays the air which he proceeds to conceal in a tempest of variations.
    Pow 6.82 7 A day is a more magnificent cloth than any muslin...and you shall not conceal the sleezy, fraudulent, rotten hours you have slipped into the piece;...
    Wth 6.97 12 They should own who can administer, not they who hoard and conceal;...
    Ctr 6.138 4 ...here is a pedant that cannot...conceal his wrath at interruption by the best, if their conversation do not fit his impertinency...
    Bhr 6.193 8 In all the superior people I have met I notice directness, truth spoken more truly, as if everything of obstruction, of malformation, had been trained away. What have they to conceal?
    Wsp 6.223 25 If a man wish to conceal anything he carries, those whom he meets know that he conceals somewhat...
    SS 7.4 12 [My new friend] could not enough conceal himself.
    DL 7.123 11 [The women of Arthur's court]...said that the devil was in the mantle, for really the truth was in the mantle, and was exposing the ugliness which each would fain conceal.
    Clbs 7.235 10 However courteously we conceal it, it is social rank and spiritual power that are compared;...
    PI 8.56 10 I know the pride of mathematicians and materialists, but they cannot conceal from me their capital want.
    SA 8.82 13 No art can contravene [thought] or conceal it.
    Aris 10.56 4 I am acquainted with persons who go attended with this ambient cloud. ... Their manners and behavior in the house and in the field are those of men at rest: what have they to conceal? what have they to exhibit?
    Supl 10.166 7 ...I can well spare the exaggerations which appear to me screens to conceal ignorance.
    Schr 10.277 13 I like to see a man of that virtue that no obscurity or disguise can conceal...
    FSLC 11.206 2 I suppose the Union can be left to take care of itself. As much real union as there is, the statutes will be sure to express; as much disunion as there is, no statute can long conceal.
    WSL 12.337 5 We sometimes meet in a stage-coach in New England an erect, muscular man...whose nervous speech instantly betrays the English traveller;-a man nowise cautious to conceal his name or that of his native country...

concealable, adj. (1)

    Supl 10.177 19 A bag of sequins...a single horse, constitute an estate in countries where insecure institutions make every one desirous of concealable and convertible property.

concealed, adj. (3)

    ShP 4.205 27 ...[researches concerning Shakespeare's condition] can shed no light upon that infinite invention which is the concealed magnet of his attraction for us.
    OA 7.320 8 ...in the rush and uproar of Broadway, if you look into the faces of the passengers there is dejection or indignation in the seniors, a certain concealed sense of injury...
    Edc1 10.129 26 [Is it not true] That...sickness, sorrow, success, all...unlock for us the concealed faculties of the mind?

concealed, v. (29)

    Nat 1.39 2 ...in [Nature's] heaps and rubbish are concealed sure and useful results.
    DSA 1.139 14 There is poetic truth concealed in all the commonplaces of prayer and of sermons...
    LE 1.177 18 [Human life's] laws are concealed under the details of daily action.
    LT 1.289 21 The granite is curiously concealed under a thousand formations and surfaces...
    Tran 1.357 22 [The Transcendentalists'] heart is the ark in which the fire is concealed which shall burn in a broader and universal flame.
    Comp 2.103 14 Punishment is a fruit that unsuspected ripens with the flower of the pleasure which concealed it.
    SL 2.159 24 Confucius exclaimed,--How can a man be concealed? How can a man be concealed?
    SL 2.159 25 Confucius exclaimed,--How can a man be concealed? How can a man be concealed?
    Lov1 2.167 1 I was as a gem concealed;/ Me my burning ray revealed./ Koran.
    Mrs1 3.145 15 ...nor is it to be concealed that living blood and a passion of kindness does at last distinguish God's gentleman from Fashion's.
    NR 3.243 2 Whatever does not concern us is concealed from us.
    NR 3.243 4 As soon as a person is no longer related to our present well-being, he is concealed, or dies, as we say.
    PNR 4.85 20 Ethical science was new and vacant when Plato could write thus:...as respects either of them in itself...concealed both from gods and men, no one has yet sufficiently investigated...how, namely, that injustice is the greatest of all the evils that the soul has within it, and justice the greatest good.
    ET11 5.186 4 ...beneficent power...gives a majesty which cannot be concealed or resisted.
    F 6.7 9 You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughter-house is concealed...there is complicity...
    Wsp 6.224 23 To every creature is his own weapon, however skilfully concealed from himself, a good while.
    Wsp 6.229 15 To a sound constitution the defect of another is at once manifest; and the marks of it are only concealed from us by our own dislocation.
    Bty 6.288 22 Goethe said, The beautiful is a manifestation of secret laws of nature which, but for this appearance, had been forever concealed from us.
    Farm 7.136 3 [The farmer] planted where the deluge ploughed,/ His hired hands were wind and cloud;/ His eyes detect the Gods concealed/ In the hummock of the field./
    WD 7.179 22 ...him I reckon the most learned scholar...who can unfold the theory of this particular Wednesday. Can he uncover the ligaments concealed from all but piety...
    MMEm 10.424 3 In Eternity, no deceitful promises, no fantastic illusions, no riddles concealed by thy [Time's] shrouds...
    Thor 10.465 6 [Thoreau]...saw the limitations and poverty of those he talked with, so that nothing seemed concealed from such terrible eyes.
    Thor 10.481 21 [Thoreau] thought the scent a more oracular inquisition than the sight,-more oracular and trustworthy. The scent, of course, reveals what is concealed from the other senses.
    War 11.160 14 The eternal germination of the better has unfolded new powers, new instincts, which were really concealed under this rough and base rind.
    ACiv 11.300 17 Neither was anything concealed of the theory or practice of slavery.
    SMC 11.354 25 The opinions of masses of men, which the tactics of primary caucuses and the proverbial timidity of trade had concealed, the [Civil] war discovered;...
    Shak1 11.451 23 The egotism of men is immense. It concealed Shakspeare for a century.
    PLT 12.44 6 It is not to be concealed that the gods have guarded this privilege [of sensibility] with costly penalty.
    MLit 12.326 5 The fair hearers [says Wieland] were enthusiastic at the nature in this piece [Goethe's journal]; I liked the sly art in the composition...still better. It is a true poem, so concealed is the art too.

concealing, v. (5)

    NR 3.228 3 The men of fine parts protect themselves by solitude...or by an acid worldly manner; each concealing as he best can his incapacity for useful association...
    SwM 4.103 20 Our books are false by being fragmentary: their sentences are...childish expressions of surprise or pleasure in nature; or, worse, owing a brief notoriety to their petulance, or aversion from the order of nature;-- being some curiosity or oddity...purposely framed to excite surprise, as jugglers do by concealing their means.
    F 6.15 22 One leaf [Nature] lays down, a floor of granite;...a thousand ages, and a layer of marl and mud;...her first misshapen animals...rude forms... concealing under these unwieldy monsters the fine type of her coming king.
    Wth 6.108 26 One might say...that nothing is cheap or dear, and that the apparent disparities that strike us are only a shopman's trick of concealing the damage in your bargain.
    SS 7.7 8 One protects himself [from society] by solitude...and one by an acid, worldly manner,--each concealing how he can the thinness of his skin...

concealment, n. (3)

    MR 1.232 20 ...the general system of our trade...is a system...of concealment...
    SL 2.159 4 Concealment avails [a man] nothing, boasting nothing.
    Wsp 6.222 17 There is no concealment...

concealments, n. (1)

    SovE 10.195 24 Truth gathers itself spotless and unhurt after all our surrenders and concealments and partisanship...

conceals, v. (7)

    LE 1.187 4 ...Ask not...Who is the better for the philosopher who conceals his accomplishments...
    NR 3.243 20 ...the divine Providence which keeps the universe open in every direction to the soul, conceals all the furniture and all the persons that do not concern a particular soul, from the senses of that individual.
    Wsp 6.223 26 If a man wish to conceal anything he carries, those whom he meets know that he conceals somewhat...
    Wsp 6.223 27 If a man wish to conceal anything he carries, those whom he meets know that he conceals somewhat, and usually know what he conceals.
    Grts 8.312 19 ...[the great man] conceals his learning, conceals his charity.
    Prch 10.228 20 I fear that what is called religion, but is perhaps pew-holding, not obeys but conceals the moral sentiment.
    Bost 12.193 10 ...[the savage] goes muttering his rude ritual or mythology, which yet conceals some grand commandment;...

concede, v. (10)

    LE 1.164 11 Concede to [the man of letters] genius...and he is content;...
    LE 1.164 13 ...concede [the man of letters] talents never so rare, denying him genius, and he is aggrieved.
    NER 3.260 22 I readily concede that in this, as in every period of intellectual activity, there has been a noise of denial and protest;...
    ET12 5.211 12 I should readily concede these [physical] advantages...if I did not find also that [Oxford men] read better than we, and write better.
    ET16 5.275 11 I told Carlyle that I...was accustomed to concede readily all that an Englishman would ask;...
    CbW 6.249 9 I wish not to concede anything to [masses]...
    PI 8.32 2 Free trade, [men of the world] concede, is very well as a principle...
    Schr 10.271 7 I incline to concede the isolation which [wealth] asks...
    MLit 12.313 3 We can easily concede that a steadfast tendency of this sort [toward subjectiveness] appears in modern literature.
    MLit 12.317 14 Perhaps no considerable minority, no one man, leads a quite clean and lofty life. What then? We concede in sadness the fact.

conceded, v. (6)

    ShP 4.203 2 [Jonson] no doubt thought the praise he has conceded to [Shakespeare] generous...
    ShP 4.219 12 It must be conceded that these are half-views of half-men.
    Ctr 6.141 12 ...it is conceded that much of our training fails of effect;...
    Bty 6.293 19 All that is a little harshly claimed by progressive parties may easily come to be conceded without question, if this rule [of gradation] be observed.
    SovE 10.204 27 I will not now go into the metaphysics of that reaction by which in history a period of belief is followed by an age of criticism, in which...an excessive respect for forms out of which the heart has departed becomes more obvious in the least religious minds. I will not now explore the causes of the result, but the fact must be conceded as of frequent occurrence...
    FRep 11.543 10 Justice satisfies everybody, and justice alone. No monopoly must be foisted in...no coward compromise conceded to a strong partner.

concedes, v. (4)

    MN 1.200 3 In all animal and vegetable forms, the physiologist concedes that no chemistry...can account for the facts...
    Con 1.316 7 The reformer concedes that these mitigations exist...
    Con 1.319 1 The conservative party in the universe concedes that the radical would talk sufficiently to the purpose, if we were still in the garden of Eden;...
    Tran 1.330 5 [The idealist] concedes all that [the materialist] affirms...

conceding, v. (3)

    Thor 10.465 14 [Thoreau's] own dealing with [young men of sensibility] was...didactic, scorning their petty ways,-very slowly conceding, or not conceding at all, the promise of his society at their houses...
    FSLC 11.208 21 It is really the great task fit for this country to accomplish, to buy that property of the planters, as the British nation bought the West Indian slaves. I say buy,-never conceding the right of the planter to own, but that we may acknowledge the calamity of his position...
    EdAd 11.386 10 Conceding these unfavorable appearances, it would yet be a poor pedantry to read the fates of this country from these narrow data.

conceit, n. (18)

    Comp 2.118 4 When [a great man] is pushed, tormented, defeated...he...is cured of the insanity of conceit;...
    ET2 5.29 14 Look, what egg-shells are drifting all over [the sea], each one, like ours, filled with men in ecstasies of terror, alternating with cockney conceit...
    ET6 5.112 2 There is a prose in certain Englishmen which exceeds in wooden deadness all rivalry with other countrymen. There is a knell in the conceit and externality of their voice, which seems to say, Leave all hope behind.
    ET7 5.125 27 The Italian is subtle, the Spaniard treacherous: tortures, it is said, could never wrest from an Egyptian the confession of a secret. None of these traits belong to the Englishman. His choler and conceit force every thing out.
    ET9 5.150 6 [The English] have no curiosity about foreigners, and answer any information you may volunteer with Oh, Oh! until the informant makes up his mind that they shall die in their ignorance, for any help he will offer. There are really no limits to this conceit...
    F 6.47 18 ...when a man is the victim of his fate, has...a strut in his gait and a conceit in his affection;...he is to rally on his relation to the Universe...
    Ctr 6.132 19 ...nature has secured individualism by giving the private person a high conceit of his weight in the system.
    Ctr 6.137 20 Culture kills...[man's] conceit of his village or his city.
    Ctr 6.154 12 Let these triflers [who scream and bewail] put us out of conceit with petty comforts.
    Ill 6.324 15 Dispel, O Lord of all creatures! the conceit of knowledge which proceeds from ignorance.
    SA 8.95 25 The great gain is...not to conquer your companion,--then you learn nothing but conceit...
    SA 8.107 3 They only can give the key and leading to better society: those... who, by their joy and homage to these [eternal laws], are made incapable of conceit...
    Edc1 10.141 8 ...[the boy] gladly enters a school which forbids conceit, affectation, emphasis and dulness...
    ALin 11.332 5 In a host of young men that start together and promise so many brilliant leaders for the next age, each fails on trial; one by bad health, one by conceit...
    SMC 11.359 15 [George Prescott] was a man without conceit...
    PLT 12.7 22 A plain man finds [men of wit] so heavy, dull, and oppressive, with bad jokes and conceit and stupefying individualism, that he comes to write in his tablets, Avoid the great man as one who is privileged to be an unprofitable companion.
    II 12.76 15 Is it that we are such mountains of conceit that Heaven cannot enough mortify and snub us...
    CL 12.159 10 Nature kills egotism and conceit;...

conceited, adj. (5)

    LT 1.277 18 Those who are urging with most ardor what are called the greatest benefits of mankind, are...conceited men...
    MoS 4.160 6 [The skeptic] is the considerer...believing...that we cannot give ourselves too many advantages in this unequal conflict, with powers so vast and unweariable ranged on one side, and this little, conceited vulnerable popinjay that a man is, bobbing up and down into every danger, on the other.
    Clbs 7.233 12 One of those conceited prigs who value Nature only as it feeds and exhibits them is equally a pest with the roysterers.
    SMC 11.355 20 ...the common people [in the South], rich or poor, were the narrowest and most conceited of mankind...
    PLT 12.61 11 Intellect...runs down into talent...conceited, ostentatious and malignant.

conceits, n. (4)

    PPh 4.74 9 This hard-headed humorist [Socrates], whose strange conceits, drollery and bonhommie diverted the young patricians...turns out...to have a probity as invincible as his logic...
    MoS 4.155 25 If you come near [the studious classes] and see what conceits they entertain,--they are abstractionists...
    F 6.24 9 Let [man] empty his breast of his windy conceits...
    PC 8.209 13 A great many full-blown conceits have burst [in America].

conceivable, adj. (5)

    Pow 6.81 3 ...we infer that all success and all conceivable benefit for man, is also, first or last, within his reach...
    Boks 7.206 7 For the Church and the Feudal Institution, Mr. Hallam's Middle Ages will furnish, if superficial, yet readable and conceivable outlines.
    Insp 8.272 16 A rush of thoughts is the only conceivable prosperity that can come to us.
    Insp 8.275 26 ...the wonderful juxtapositions, parallelisms, transfers, which [Shakespeare's] genius effected, were all to him locked together as links of a chain, and the mode precisely as conceivable and familiar to higher intelligence as the index-making of the literary hack.
    SovE 10.195 12 I hope it is conceivable that a man may go to ruin gladly, if he see that thereby no shade falls on that he loves and adores.

conceivably, adv. (1)

    ShP 4.211 26 [Shakespeare] is inconceivably wise; the others, conceivably.

conceive, v. (24)

    MN 1.209 11 I conceive a man as always spoken to from behind...
    YA 1.379 18 I conceive that the office of statute law should be to express and not to impede the mind of mankind.
    OS 2.267 8 ...the argument which is always forthcoming to silence those who conceive extraordinary hopes of man, namely the appeal to experience, is for ever invalid and vain.
    Gts 3.164 3 The reason of these discords I conceive to be that there is no commensurability between a man and any gift.
    NR 3.230 15 We conceive distinctly enough the French, the Spanish, the German genius...
    NER 3.260 16 I conceive this gradual casting off of material aids...to be the affirmative principle of the recent philosophy...
    NER 3.274 8 [Souls of great vigor] feel the poverty at the bottom of all the seeming affluence of the world. They...conceive a disgust at the indigence of nature...
    SwM 4.115 21 Was it strange that a genius so bold [as Swedenborg]... should conceive that he might attain the science of all sciences...
    GoW 4.271 3 We conceive Greek or Roman life...to be a simple and comprehensible affair;...
    Bhr 6.173 4 Society is infested with rude...persons...whom a public opinion concentrated into good manners...can reach: the contradictors and railers at public and private tables, who are like terriers, who conceive it the duty of a dog of honor to growl at any passer-by...
    Ill 6.324 11 ...the Hindoos...express the liveliest feeling, both of the essential identity and of that illusion which they conceive variety to be.
    Art2 7.48 24 [The artist] must work in the spirit in which we conceive a prophet to speak...
    Boks 7.203 1 If any one who had read with interest the Isis and Osiris of Plutarch should then read a chapter called Providence, by Synesius...he... will conceive new gratitude to his fellow men...
    PI 8.3 18 The common sense which...takes...things as they appear,-- believes in the existence of matter, not because we can touch it or conceive of it, but because it agrees with ourselves...
    PC 8.230 10 ...I conceive that, in this economical world...the transcendent powers of mind were not meant to be disused.
    Chr2 10.98 5 When I think of Reason, of Truth, of Virtue, I cannot conceive them as lodged in your soul and lodged in my soul...
    Chr2 10.108 14 The mind of this age has fallen away from theology to morals. I conceive it an advance.
    FSLC 11.207 3 ...I conceive it demonstrated,-the necessity of common sense and justice entering into the laws.
    FSLN 11.235 25 I conceive that thus to detach a man and make him feel that he is to owe all to himself is the way to make him strong and rich;...
    PLT 12.20 9 It is certain that however we may conceive of the wonderful little bricks of which the world is builded, we must suppose a similarity and fitting and identity in their frame.
    PLT 12.59 4 I cannot conceive any good in a thought which confines and stagnates.
    CInt 12.126 22 I conceive that a college should have no mean ambition...
    EurB 12.374 27 We conceive that the obvious division of modern romance is into two kinds...
    Let 12.399 25 I cannot conceive of a people more disjoined than the Germans.

conceived, v. (16)

    MN 1.201 2 Nature can only be conceived as existing to a universal and not to a particular end;...
    Cir 2.313 26 The natural world may be conceived of as a system of concentric circles...
    Art1 2.362 27 He has conceived meanly of the resources of man, who believes that the best age of production is past.
    Chr1 3.89 24 [Character] is conceived of as a certain undemonstrable force...
    MoS 4.166 5 [Montaigne] has been in courts so long as to have conceived a furious disgust at appearances;...
    Ctr 6.149 4 ...though [Thomas Hobbes] conceived he could order his thinking as well as another, yet he found a great defect.
    Wsp 6.215 7 The true meaning of spiritual is...that law...which cannot be conceived as not existing.
    Clbs 7.227 25 Thought is the child of the intellect, and this child is conceived with joy and born with joy.
    LLNE 10.332 9 [Everett's learning] was so coldly and weightily communicated...that, though nothing could be conceived beforehand less attractive or indeed less fit for green boys from Connecticut, New Hampshire and Massachusetts...this learning instantly took the highest place to our imagination...
    HDC 11.53 16 We, who see in the squalid remnants of the twenty tribes of Massachusetts...can hardly learn without emotion the earnestness with which the most sensible individuals of the copper race held on to the new hope they had conceived...
    ALin 11.331 8 The profound good opinion which the people of Illinois and of the West had conceived of [Lincoln]...was not rash...
    FRO2 11.491 1 I am glad to believe society contains a class of humble souls...who have conceived an infinite hope for mankind;...
    PLT 12.17 24 ...the sun is conceived to have made our system by hurling out from itself the outer rings of diffuse ether...
    II 12.72 12 One master could so easily be conceived as writing all the books of the world.
    MAng1 12.232 20 He alone, [Michelangelo] said, is an artist whose hands can perfectly execute what his mind has conceived;...
    Milt1 12.260 18 Michael Angelo calls him alone an artist, whose hands can execute what his mind has conceived.

conceiver, n. (1)

    LLNE 10.353 6 Could not the conceiver of [Fourier's] design have also believed that a similar model lay in every mind...

conceives, v. (5)

    MN 1.198 17 ...one who conceives the true order of nature...cannot state his thought without seeming to those who study the physical laws to do them some injustice.
    Fdsp 2.197 2 A man who stands united with his thought conceives magnificently of himself.
    Edc1 10.145 8 ...[the child] conceives that though not in this house or town, yet in some other house or town is the wise master who can put him in possession of the rules and instruments to execute his will.
    FSLC 11.194 3 ...the womb conceives and the breasts give suck to thousands and millions of hairy babes formed not in the image of your statute, but in the image of the Universe;...
    JBB 11.268 27 ...[John Brown] conceives that the only obstruction to the Union is Slavery...

conceiving, v. (2)

    PI 8.51 10 Of their living habitations they made little account, conceiving of them but as hospitia, or inns...
    LLNE 10.348 2 Fourier...has put men under the obligation...of conceiving magnificent hopes and making great demands as the right of man.

concentrate, v. (7)

    Nat 1.24 7 The poet...the architect, seek each to concentrate this radiance of the world on one point...
    Hist 2.38 16 Thus in all ways does the soul concentrate and reproduce its treasures for each pupil.
    Cir 2.316 16 For me...love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred; nor can i...concentrate my forces mechanically on the payment of moneys.
    Art1 2.354 20 Love and all the passions concentrate all existence around a single form.
    ET11 5.177 24 ...[the English aristocracy] concentrate the love and labor of many generations on the building, planting and decoration of their homesteads.
    Farm 7.148 25 ...[the farmer] will concentrate his kitchen-garden into a box of one or two rods square...
    Mem 12.102 24 ...when age and calamity have bereaved [those who have used their days well] of their limbs or organs, then they retreat on mental faculty, and concentrate on that.

concentrated, adj. (3)

    AmS 1.93 24 ...[colleges] can only highly serve us...when they gather from far every ray of various genius to their hospitable halls, and by the concentrated fires, set the hearts of their youth on flame.
    LE 1.184 27 ...you shall get your lesson out of the hour, and the object, whether it be a concentrated or a wasteful employment...
    GoW 4.270 22 [Goethe] appears at a time...when, in the absence of heroic characters, a social comfort and cooperation have come in. There is...no Columbus, but hundreds of post-captains, with...concentrated soup and pemmican;...

concentrated, v. (6)

    MR 1.256 3 It is better that joy should be spread over all the day in the form of strength, than that it should be concentrated into ecstasies...
    NMW 4.236 6 On any point of resistance [Bonaparte] concentrated squadron on squadron in overwhelming numbers...
    GoW 4.275 18 Man and the higher animals are built up through the vertebrae, the powers being concentrated in the head [wrote Goethe].
    Bhr 6.173 1 Society is infested with rude...persons...whom a public opinion concentrated into good manners...can reach...
    CL 12.145 11 ...whole zones and climates [Nature] has concentrated into apples.
    ACri 12.283 13 On the writer the choicest influences are concentrated...

concentrates, v. (5)

    SR 2.71 5 Thus all concentrates...
    Art1 2.355 11 ...each work of genius...concentrates attention on itself.
    WD 7.178 24 Life culminates and concentrates;...
    Chr2 10.95 18 [The moral sentiment] centres, it concentrates us.
    Schr 10.288 4 ...[he that would sacrifice at the Muse's altar] may live on a heath without trees; sometimes hungry, sometimes rheumatic with cold. The fire retreats and concentrates within into a pure flame...

concentrating, v. (5)

    ET4 5.56 18 Bonaparte's art of war, namely of concentrating force on the point of attack, must always be theirs who have the choice of the battle-ground.
    Pow 6.73 19 ...there are two economies which are the best succedanea which the case admits. The first is...concentrating our force on one or a few points;....
    Elo1 7.64 26 The orator sees himself the organ of a multitude, and concentrating their valors and powers...
    FSLC 11.199 12 There is not a man of thought or of feeling but is concentrating his mind on [slavery].
    Let 12.395 7 One of the [letter] writers relentingly says, What shall my uncles and aunts do without me? and desires distinctly to be understood...to propose...to begin the enterprise of concentration by concentrating all uncles and aunts in one delightful village by themselves!...

concentration, n. (29)

    MN 1.205 14 So must we admire in man...the concentration of the vast...
    MR 1.234 13 ...to earn money enough to buy [a farm] requires a sort of concentration toward money...
    Mrs1 3.147 16 ...within the ethnical circle of good society there is a narrower and higher circle, concentration of its light...
    NER 3.281 23 ...every hinderance operates as a concentration of [a man's] force.
    UGM 4.17 1 We go to the gymnasium and the swimming-school to see the power and beauty of the body; there is the like pleasure and a higher benefit from witnessing intellectual feats of all kinds; as...the transmutings of the imagination, even versatility and concentration...
    ET5 5.80 5 [The English] are jealous of minds that have much facility of association, from an instinctive fear that the seeing many relations to their thought might impair this serial continuity and lucrative concentration.
    ET5 5.86 20 Clerk of Eldin's celebrated manoeuvre of breaking the line of sea-battle, and Nelson's feat of doubling...were only translations into naval tactics of Bonaparte's rule of concentration.
    ET6 5.109 8 Nothing so much marks [Englishmen's] manners as the concentration on their household ties.
    Pow 6.73 26 The one prudence in life is concentration;...
    Pow 6.75 1 Concentration is the secret of strength in politics...
    Wth 6.116 23 Sir David Brewster gives exact instructions for microscopic observation: Lie down on your back, and hold the single lens and object over your eye, etc., etc. How much more the seeker of abstract truth, who needs periods of isolation and rapt concentration and almost a going out of the body to think!
    Ctr 6.131 19 Our efficiency depends so much on our concentration, that nature usually in the instances where a marked man is sent into the world, overloads him with bias...
    Bty 6.292 12 Beauty is the moment of transition, as if the form were just ready to flow into other forms. Any fixedness, heaping or concentration on one feature...is the reverse of flowing, and therefore deformed.
    Elo1 7.93 11 ...the main distinction between [the eloquent man] and other well-graced actors is the conviction...that his mind is contemplating a whole... Add to this concentration a certain regnant calmness...and the orator stands before the people as a demoniacal power...
    DL 7.111 13 The progress of domestic living has been...in the concentration of all the utilities of every clime in each house.
    Suc 7.289 14 Egotism is a kind of buckram that gives momentary strength and concentration to men...
    Insp 8.269 8 ...every reasonable man would give any price...for condensation, concentration and the recalling at will of high mental energy.
    Grts 8.310 23 ...if the first rule is...to accept the work for which you were inwardly formed,-the second rule is concentration...
    Supl 10.172 27 The arithmetic of Newton...the concentration of Bonaparte... are sure of commanding interest and awe in every company of men.
    SovE 10.202 3 [A man] may throw himself upon...some verbal creed, with such concentration as to hide the universe from him: but the stars roll above;...
    SovE 10.204 6 The religion of seventy years ago was an iron belt to the mind, giving it concentration and force.
    Schr 10.274 16 ...the thoughtful man needs no armor but this- concentration.
    FSLC 11.202 21 We delighted...in [Webster's] concentration...
    PLT 12.51 7 The secret of power, intellectual or physical, is concentration...
    PLT 12.51 8 ...all concentration involves of necessity a certain narrowness.
    PLT 12.52 22 Such concentration of experiences is in every great work...
    PLT 12.58 12 Present power...requires concentration on the moment...
    Let 12.394 18 [The correspondents] do not wish a township or any large expenditure or incorporated association, but simply a concentration of chosen people.
    Let 12.395 6 One of the [letter] writers relentingly says, What shall my uncles and aunts do without me? and desires distinctly to be understood...to propose...to begin the enterprise of concentration by concentrating all uncles and aunts in one delightful village by themselves!...

concentrations, n. (1)

    PLT 12.58 7 The daily history of the Intellect is this alternating of expansions and concentrations.

concentrative, adj. (1)

    Wth 6.116 12 The genius of reading and of gardening are antagonistic, like resinous and vitreous electricity. One is concentrative in sparks and shocks; the other is diffuse strength;...

concentric, adj. (4)

    MN 1.195 27 ...our soils and rocks lie in strata, concentric strata...
    Cir 2.313 27 The natural world may be conceived of as a system of concentric circles...
    UGM 4.33 10 A new quality of mind travels...in concentric circles from its origin...
    SS 7.1 26 ...As if in [Seyd] the welkin walked,/ The winds took flesh, the mountains talked,/ And he the bard, a crystal soul,/ Sphered and concentric with the whole./

concentrical, adj. (1)

    MN 1.195 25 The crystal sphere of thought is as concentrical as the geological structure of the globe.

conception, n. (7)

    MN 1.204 9 With this conception of the genius or method of nature, let us go back to man.
    PPh 4.49 7 In all nations there are minds which incline to dwell in the conception of the fundamental Unity.
    MoS 4.151 3 [The genius] has a conception of beauty which the sculptor cannot embody.
    PC 8.224 5 Here stretches...out of conception even, this vast Nature...
    Dem1 10.6 10 Animals have been called the dreams of Nature. Perhaps for a conception of their consciousness we may go to our own dreams.
    Dem1 10.17 13 I believed that I discovered in nature...somewhat which manifested itself only in contradiction, and therefore could not be grasped by a conception...
    Milt1 12.254 14 ...no man in these later ages, and few men ever, possessed so great a conception of the manly character [as Milton].

conceptions, n. (8)

    Chr2 10.111 4 When the highest conceptions...are imported, the nation is not culminating...
    MAng1 12.216 4 [Michelangelo]...dying at the end of near ninety years... was engaged in executing his grand conceptions in the ineffaceable architecture of Saint Peter's.
    MAng1 12.230 18 ...[Michelangelo] aimed exclusively [in the Sistine Chapel ceiling frescoes], as a stern designer, to express the vigor and magnificence of his conceptions.
    MAng1 12.231 12 ...is there not something affecting in the spectacle of an old man [Michelangelo], on the verge of ninety years, carrying steadily onward...his poetic conceptions into progressive execution...
    MAng1 12.232 27 The things proposed to [Michelangelo] in his imagination were such that, for not being able with his hands to express so grand and terrible conceptions, he often abandoned his work.
    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.
    Milt1 12.261 23 ...[Milton] knew that this mastery of language was a secondary power, and he respected the mysterious source whence it had its spring; namely, clear conceptions and a devoted heart.
    MLit 12.318 19 The music of Beethoven is said...to labor with vaster conceptions and aspirations than music has attempted before.

concern, n. (10)

    Con 1.321 9 If you do not value the Sabbath, or other religious institutions, give yourself no concern about maintaining them.
    ET6 5.105 9 I know not where any personal eccentricity is so freely allowed [as in England], and no man gives himself any concern with it.
    OA 7.325 27 Thirty years ago it was a serious concern to [the lawyer] whether his pleading was good and effective.
    Elo2 8.129 15 ...said [Lord Ashley], if I, who had no personal concern in the question, was so overpowered with my own apprehensions that I could not find words to express myself, what must be the case of one whose life depended on his own abilities to defend it?
    QO 8.191 27 ...Poesy, drawing within its circle all that is glorious and inspiring, gave itself but little concern as to where its flowers originally grew.
    Aris 10.31 7 My concern with [Aristocracy] is that concern which all well-disposed persons will feel, that there should be model men...
    Scot 11.462 2 Our concern is only with the residue, where the man Scott was warmed with a divine ray that clad with beauty every sheet of water... he looked upon...
    II 12.74 6 Here is a famous Ode, which...lies in all memories as the high-water mark in the flood of thought in this age. What does the writer know of that? Converse with him, learn his opinions and hopes. He has long ago passed out of it, and perhaps his only concern with it is some copyright of an edition in which certain pages...are contained.
    MAng1 12.225 8 The news of [Michelangelo's] departure occasioned a general concern in Florence...
    Let 12.404 17 A literature is no man's private concern...

concern, v. (13)

    Tran 1.356 15 Grave seniors insist on [Transcendentalists'] respect...to some vocation...or morning or evening call, which they resist as what does not concern them.
    SR 2.57 21 [The great soul] may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall.
    Pt1 3.11 9 Every one has some interest in the advent of the poet, and no one knows how much it may concern him.
    Nat2 3.182 5 Flowers so strictly belong to youth that we adult men soon come to feel that their beautiful generations concern not us...
    NR 3.243 1 Whatever does not concern us is concealed from us.
    NR 3.243 21 ...the divine Providence which keeps the universe open in every direction to the soul, conceals all the furniture and all the persons that do not concern a particular soul, from the senses of that individual.
    MoS 4.175 3 [The levity of intellect] is hobgoblin the first; and though it has been the subject of much elegy in our nineteenth century...I confess it is not very affecting to my imagination; for it seems to concern the shattering of baby-houses and crockery-shops.
    F 6.8 2 Without uncovering what does not concern us...the forms of the shark...are hints of ferocity in the interiors of nature.
    Insp 8.294 3 We esteem nations important, until we discover that a few individuals much more concern us;...
    Grts 8.312 21 ...the highest wisdom does not concern itself with particular men...
    LS 11.12 6 ...the Passover was local too, and does not concern us...
    HDC 11.44 19 In 1635, the [General] Court say, whereas particular towns have many things which concern only themselves, it is Ordered, that the freemen of every town shall have power to dispose of their own lands and woods, and choose their own particular officers.
    AKan 11.261 17 A very remarkable speech from a Democratic President to his fellow citizens, that they are not to concern themselves with institutions which they alone are to create and determine.

concerned, v. (11)

    ET11 5.187 25 When a man once knows that he has done justice to himself, let him dismiss all terrors of aristocracy as superstitions, so far as he is concerned.
    ET17 5.291 7 In these comments on an old journey [English Traits]...I have abstained from reference to persons, except...in one or two cases where the fame of the parties seemed to have given the public a property in all that concerned them.
    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.
    PC 8.232 23 ...it is not by easy virtue, where the public is concerned, that heroic results are obtained.
    Aris 10.55 21 The astronomers are very eager to know whether the moon has an atmosphere; I am only concerned that every man have one.
    MoL 10.252 22 ...the man who knows any truth not yet discerned by other men, is master of all other men so far as that truth and its wide relations are concerned.
    EzRy 10.394 7 In all such passages [with people] [Ezra Ripley] justified himself to the conscience, and commonly to the love, of the persons concerned.
    MMEm 10.403 20 It was ever the will and not the phrase that concerned [Mary Moody Emerson].
    EWI 11.99 9 [Emancipation in the West Indies] was the settlement, as far as a great Empire was concerned, of a question on which almost every leading citizen in it had taken care to record his vote;...
    AKan 11.261 14 The President told the Kansas Committee that the whole difficulty grew from the factious spirit of the Kansas people respecting institutions which they need not have concerned themselves about.
    CInt 12.121 12 ...the man who knows any truth not yet discerned by other men is master of all other men, so far as that truth and its wide relations are concerned.

concerning, v. (6)

    Plu 10.313 9 [Plutarch] cites...the memorable words of Antigone, in Sophocles, concerning the moral sentiment...
    HDC 11.46 1 It was on doubts concerning their own power, that, in 1634, a committee repaired to [John Winthrop] for counsel...
    HDC 11.62 26 Randolph at this period [1666] writes to the English government, concerning the country towns; The farmers are numerous and wealthy...
    HDC 11.63 17 In 1689, Concord partook of the general indignation of the province against Andros. A company marched to the capital...forming a part of that body concerning which we are informed, the country people came armed into Boston, on the afternoon (of Thursday, 18th April)...
    HDC 11.67 26 From the appearance of the article in the Selectmen's warrant, in 1765, to see if the town will give the Representative any instructions about any important affair to be transacted by the General Court, concerning the Stamp Act, to the peace of 1783, the [Concord] Town Records breathe a resolute and warlike spirit...
    LVB 11.89 20 ...my communication respects the sinister rumors that fill this part of the country concerning the Cherokee people.

concernment, n. (2)

    SR 2.56 22 ...when the unintelligent brute force that lies at the bottom of society is made to growl and mow, it needs the habit of magnanimity and religion to treat it godlike as a trifle of no concernment.
    Exp 3.63 11 ...for nothing a school-boy can read Hamlet and can detect secrets of highest concernment yet unpublished therein.

concerns, v. (11)

    Tran 1.331 1 [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 2.53 20 What I must do is all that concerns me...
    Prd1 2.236 17 Prudence concerns the present time, persons, property and existing forms.
    Int 2.326 15 He who is immersed in what concerns person or place cannot see the problem of existence.
    Wth 6.88 18 ...every thought of every hour opens a new want to [a man] which it concerns his power and dignity to gratify.
    Wsp 6.220 4 ...look where we will...a perfect reaction, a perpetual judgment keeps watch and ward. And this appears in a class of facts which concerns all men, within and above their creeds.
    Bty 6.282 24 The human heart concerns us more than the poring into microscopes...
    Prch 10.231 5 There are always plenty of young, ignorant people...wanting peremptorily instruction; but in the usual averages of parishes, only one person that is qualified to give it. It is only that person who concerns me...
    JBB 11.273 7 I hope...that, in administering relief to John Brown's family, we shall remember all those whom his fate concerns...
    FRep 11.525 1 ...we know, all over this country, men of integrity...with the deepest sympathy in all that concerns the public...
    Milt1 12.252 6 It is the aspect which [Milton] presents to this generation, that alone concerns us.

concert, n. (29)

    NR 3.233 18 It is a greater joy to see the author's author, than himself. A higher pleasure of the same kind I found lately at a concert, where I went to hear Handel's Messiah.
    NER 3.252 5 [The Sabbath and Bible Conventions] defied each other, like a congress of kings, each of whom had...a way of his own that made concert unprofitable.
    NER 3.263 25 ...to do battle...against concert [individuals] relied on new concert.
    NER 3.263 26 ...to do battle...against concert [individuals] relied on new concert.
    NER 3.265 9 ...to [the men of less faith], concert appears the sole specific of strength.
    NER 3.265 24 The candidate my party votes for is not to be trusted with a dollar, but he will be honest in the Senate, for we can bring public opinion to bear on him. Thus concert was the specific in all cases.
    NER 3.265 25 ...concert is neither better nor worse...than individual force.
    NER 3.266 5 ...let there be one man, let there be truth in two men, in ten men, then is concert for the first time possible;...
    NER 3.266 9 What is the use of the concert of the false and the disunited?
    NER 3.266 10 There can be no concert in two, where there is no concert in one.
    NER 3.266 11 There can be no concert in two, where there is no concert in one.
    NER 3.266 17 ...when with one hand [the individual] rows and with the other backs water, what concert can be?
    NER 3.267 14 ...leave [a man] alone, to recognize in every hour and place the secret soul; he will go up and down doing the works of a true member [of a union], and, to the astonishment of all, the work will be done with concert, though no man spoke.
    SwM 4.103 4 There is beauty of a concert, as well as of a flute;...
    ET15 5.268 5 Of two men of equal ability, the one who does not write but keeps his eye on the course of public affairs, will have the higher judicial wisdom. But the parts are kept in concert...
    F 6.37 24 [Man's] food is cooked when he arrives;...his companions arrived...awaiting him with...concert...
    Pow 6.56 22 The advantage of a strong pulse is not to be supplied by any labor, art or concert.
    SS 7.11 14 Concert fires people to a certain fury of performance they can rarely reach alone.
    PI 8.57 4 ...[Newton] only shows...that the music must rise...up to the largeness of astronomy: at last that great heart will hear in the music beats like its own; the waves of melody will...set him into concert and harmony.
    PPo 8.257 9 By breath of beds of roses drawn,/ I found the grove in the morning pure,/ In the concert of the nightingales/ My drunken brain to cure./
    LLNE 10.342 14 I think there prevailed at that time a general belief in Boston that there was some concert of doctrinaires to establish certain opinions...
    LLNE 10.342 19 ...there was no concert, and only here and there two or three men or women who read and wrote, each alone, with unusual vivacity.
    LLNE 10.349 24 Society, concert, cooperation, is the secret of the coming Paradise.
    LLNE 10.349 27 By concert and the allowing each laborer to choose his own work, it becomes pleasure.
    LLNE 10.353 21 Before such a man [as Plato or Christ] the whole world becomes Fourierized or Christized or humanized, and in obedience to [a man's] most private being he finds himself...acting in strict concert with all others who followed their private light.
    War 11.161 8 ...the fact that [the idea that there can be peace as well as war] has become so distinct to any small number of persons as to become a subject...of concert and discussion,-that is the commanding fact.
    ACiv 11.306 6 We fancy that the endless debate...has brought the free states to some conviction...that by concert or by might we must put an end to [slavery].
    Let 12.394 19 By the slightest possible concert, persevered in through four or five years, [the correspondents] think that a neighborhood might be formed of friends who would provoke each other to the best activity.
    Let 12.395 20 It were fit to forbid concert and calculation in this particular, if that were our system...

concerted, adj. (1)

    Nat 1.67 1 ...a dream may let us deeper into the secret of nature than a hundred concerted experiments.

concert-rooms, n. (1)

    Elo2 8.119 24 ...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...

concerts, n. (4)

    LE 1.175 16 [Society's] foolish routine, an indefinite multiplication of... concerts...can teach you no more than a few can.
    NER 3.268 12 A man of good sense but of little faith...said to me that he liked to have concerts, and fairs, and churches, and other public amusements go on.
    Ctr 6.132 12 I saw a man who believed the principal mischiefs in the English state were derived from the devotion to musical concerts.
    LLNE 10.351 3 ...fancy the earth planted with fifties and hundreds of these [Fourierist] phalanxes side by side...what concerts, what lectures...

concession, n. (11)

    MR 1.254 2 Let the amelioration in our laws of property proceed from the concession of the rich...
    Comp 2.95 8 The fallacy lay in the immense concession that the bad are successful;...
    Fdsp 2.208 23 I hate, where I looked for...at least a manly resistance, to find a mush of concession.
    OS 2.292 3 [Simple souls] must always be a godsend to princes, for they confront them, a king to a king, without ducking or concession...
    ET7 5.122 5 See [the Irish], [the English] said, one hundred and twenty-seven all voting like sheep...all but four voting the income tax,--which was an ill-judged concession of the government...
    ET7 5.122 24 [The English] love stoutness...in declining money or promotion that costs any concession.
    Aris 10.34 19 ...if primogeniture, if heraldry, if money could secure such a result as superior and finished men, it would be the interest of all mankind to see that the steps were taken, the pains incurred. No taxation, no concession...would be a price too large.
    EWI 11.142 23 I have said that this event [emancipation in the West Indies] interests us because it came mainly from the concession of the whites;...
    FSLN 11.230 2 ...where...[liberty] becomes in a degree matter of concession and protection from their stronger neighbors, the incompatibility and offensiveness of the wrong will of course be most evident to the most cultivated.
    Bost 12.210 14 This praise [of our ancestors] was a concession of unworthiness in those who had so much to say of it.
    PPr 12.389 10 That morbid temperament has given [Carlyle's] rhetoric a somewhat bloated character; a luxury to many imaginative and learned persons...and yet its offensiveness to multitudes of reluctant lovers makes us often wish some concession were possible on the part of the humorist.

concessions, n. (3)

    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.
    TPar 11.290 13 [Theodore Parker's] ministry fell...on the years when Southern slavery...wrung from the weakness or treachery of Northern people fatal concessions in the Fugitive Slave Bill...
    ACiv 11.306 19 ...what kind of peace shall at that moment be easiest attained, [the people] will make concessions for it...

concetto, n. (1)

    MAng1 12.214 1 Non ha l' ottimo artista alcun concetto,/ Ch' un marmo solo in se non circoscriva/ Col suo soverchio, e solo a quello arriva/ La man che obbedisce all' intelletto./ M. Angelo, Sonneto primo.

conchologist, n. (1)

    OA 7.329 12 The conchologist builds his cabinet whilst as yet he has few shells.

conchology, n. (1)

    Nat 1.67 18 I cannot greatly honor minuteness in details, so long as there is...no ray upon the metaphysics of conchology...to the mind...

conciliate, v. (5)

    SR 2.48 25 The nonchalance of boys who...would disdain as much as a lord to do or say aught to conciliate one, is the healthy attitude of human nature.
    ET11 5.172 20 The estates, names and manners of the [English] nobles flatter the fancy of the people and conciliate the necessary support.
    ET11 5.181 4 As [the French] do not mean to live with their tenants, they do not conciliate them...
    Wth 6.92 12 He can well afford not to conciliate, whose faithful work will answer for him.
    Milt1 12.249 6 There is [in Milton's tracts] no attempt to conciliate...

conciliated, v. (2)

    ET9 5.151 11 ...whenever an abatement of their power is felt, [the English] have not conciliated the affection on which to rely.
    EPro 11.316 15 [Movement toward liberty]...is as when an orator, having ended the compliments and pleasantries with which he conciliated attention...announces with vibrating voice the grand human principles involved;...

conciliation, n. (1)

    FSLC 11.198 24 Mr. Webster's measure [the Fugitive Slave Law] was, he told us, final. It was a pacification...a measure of conciliation and adjustment.

Concini, Concino [Marquis d (1)

    Chr1 3.94 17 What means did you employ? was the question asked of the wife of Concini, in regard to her treatment of Mary of Medici;...

conciseness, n. (1)

    ET6 5.113 7 [The English] value themselves...on conciseness and going to the point, in private affairs.

conclave, n. (1)

    NMW 4.252 26 The consternation of the dull and conservative classes, the terror of the foolish old men and old women of the Roman conclave...make [Napoleon's] history bright and commanding.

conclude, v. (4)

    Nat 1.70 11 I shall...conclude this essay with some traditions of man and nature...
    Exp 3.66 12 You who see the artist, the orator, the poet, too near...conclude very reasonably that these arts are not for man, but are disease.
    NR 3.227 4 I observe a person who makes a good public appearance, and conclude thence the perfection of his private character, on which this is based;...
    PI 8.73 12 We must not conclude against poetry from the defects of poets.

concluded, v. (2)

    ET13 5.229 22 George Borrow...reads to [the Gypsies] the Apostles' Creed in Romany. When I had concluded, he says, I looked around me. The features of the assembly were twisted...
    HDC 11.38 7 ...after the bargain [for Concord] was concluded, Mr. Simon Willard, pointing to the four corners of the world, declared that they had bought three miles from that place, east, west, north and south.

concludes, v. (3)

    Prch 10.221 8 The understanding...because it has exposed errors in a church, concludes that a church is an error;...
    Plu 10.319 24 ...[Plutarch]...concludes:...when I make an invitation...I give my guests leave to bring shadows;...
    Thor 10.482 17 The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon...and, at length the middle-aged man concludes to build a wood-shed with them.

concluding, adj. (1)

    Elo2 8.123 23 Here is the concluding paragraph [of John Quincy Adams's final lecture]...

concluding, v. (1)

    Wsp 6.236 14 ...if [Benedict] called at the door of his friend and he was not at home, he did not go again; concluding that he had misinterpreted the intimations.

conclusion, n. (17)

    Nat 1.42 12 ...the sailor, the shepherd, the miner, the merchant...have each an experience...leading to the same conclusion...
    Con 1.326 1 In conclusion...it is a happiness for mankind that innovation has got on so far and has so free a field before it.
    Exp 3.52 12 Men resist the conclusion in the morning, but adopt it as the evening wears on, that temper prevails over everything of time, place and condition...
    GoW 4.278 23 We had an English romance here...in which the only reward of virtue is a seat in Parliament and a peerage. Goethe's romance [Wilhelm Meister] has a conclusion as lame and immoral.
    Art2 7.51 3 ...we arrive at this conclusion...that the delight which a work of art affords, seems to arise from our recognizing in it the mind that formed Nature...
    Clbs 7.234 12 [Yonder man's] dissent from me is the veriest affectation. This conclusion is at once the logic of persecution and of love.
    OA 7.315 24 [Josiah Quincy's] speech led me to look over at home... Cicero's famous essay [De Senectute]...rising at the conclusion to a lofty strain.
    OA 7.335 1 [John Adams]...enters bravely into long sentences...but carries them invariably to a conclusion...
    Imtl 8.346 10 A conclusion, an inference, a grand augury [of immortality], is ever hovering...
    Aris 10.40 22 ...the conclusion which Roman Senators, Indian Brahmins... inculcate...is, that the radical and essential distinctions of every aristocracy are moral.
    Aris 10.57 25 ...amid the levity and giddiness of people one looks round... on some self-dependent mind, who...has long ago made up its conclusion that it is impossible to fail.
    Schr 10.265 13 ...[poets] sit white over their stoves, and talk themselves hoarse over the...the effeminacy of book-makers. But...at the reading in solitude of some moving image of a wise poet, this grave conclusion is blown out of memory;...
    EzRy 10.391 27 [Ezra Ripley] had a foresight, when he opened his mouth, of all that he would say, and he marched straight to the conclusion.
    LS 11.4 25 ...I was led to the conclusion that Jesus did not intend to establish an institution for perpetual observance when he ate the Passover with his disciples;...
    LS 11.15 20 We arrive, then, at this conclusion: first, that it does not appear from a careful examination of the account of the Last Supper in the Evangelists, that it was designed by Jesus to be perpetual;...
    HDC 11.38 4 ...in conclusion, the said Indians declared themselves satisfied, and told the Englishmen they were welcome.
    ALin 11.336 22 ...what if it should turn out, in the unfolding of the web, that [Lincoln] had reached the term;...that the rebellion had touched its natural conclusion, and what remained to be done required new and uncommitted hands...

conclusions, n. (15)

    AmS 1.102 3 [The scholar] is to resist the vulgar prosperity that retrogrades ever to barbarism, by preserving and communicating...the conclusions of history.
    LT 1.270 16 The political questions touching...the Congress of nations; are all pregnant with ethical conclusions;...
    Fdsp 2.199 1 Our friendships hurry to short and poor conclusions...
    Exp 3.67 10 ...presently comes a day...which discomfits the conclusions of nations and of years!
    Nat2 3.194 9 ...it also appears that our actions are seconded and disposed to greater conclusions than we designed.
    NER 3.260 22 I conceive...that [the recent philosophy]...is reaching forward at this very hour to the happiest conclusions.
    PNR 4.83 21 Whatever [Plato] looks upon discloses a second sense, and ulterior senses. ... More striking examples are his moral conclusions.
    SwM 4.102 9 It seems that [Swedenborg] anticipated much science of the nineteenth century; anticipated...in magnetism, some important experiments and conclusions of later students;...
    MoS 4.153 5 The first [men of ideas] had leaped to conclusions not yet ripe, and say more than is true;...
    MoS 4.184 18 Each man woke in the morning with...a spirit for action and passion without bounds...he could try conclusions with gravitation or chemistry;...
    F 6.16 16 Look at the unpalatable conclusions of Knox...
    Suc 7.289 22 [Egotists] will not try conclusions with you.
    PC 8.212 23 The oldest empires...now that we have true measures of duration [in Geology], show like creations of yesterday. It is yet quite too early to draw sound conclusions.
    Insp 8.271 2 In happy moments [thought]...carries out what were rude suggestions...to clear and grand conclusions.
    Imtl 8.345 26 ...one abstains from writing or printing on the immortality of the soul, because, when he comes to the end of his statement, the hungry eyes that run through it will close disappointed; the listeners say, That is not here which we desire;-and I shall be as much wronged by their hasty conclusions, as they feel themselves wronged by my omissions.

conclusive, adj. (3)

    LE 1.171 8 Take for example the French Eclecticism, which Cousin esteems so conclusive; there is an optical illusion in it.
    Mrs1 3.154 8 Are you...rich enough to make...even the poor insane or besotted wreck of man or woman, feel the noble exception of your presence and your house from the general bleakness and stoniness;... What is vulgar but to refuse the claim on acute and conclusive reasons?
    LS 11.13 22 It was only too probable that among the half-converted Pagans and Jews, any rite, any form, would find favor, whilst yet unable to comprehend the spiritual character of Christianity. The circumstance...that St. Paul adopts these views, has seemed to many persons conclusive in favor of the institution [the Lord's Supper].

concoct, v. (1)

    YA 1.374 14 We concoct eleemosynary systems, and it turns out that our charity increases pauperism.

concocting, v. (1)

    Milt1 12.264 23 In like spirit, [Milton] replies to the suspicious calumny respecting his morning haunts. Those morning haunts are where they should be, at home; not sleeping, or concocting the surfeits of an irregular feast, but up and stirring...

Concord Fight, n. (1)

    MMEm 10.400 2 When introduced to Lafayette at Portland, [Mary Moody Emerson] told him that she was in arms at the Concord Fight.

Concord Library, n. (1)

    CPL 11.497 2 ...that Concord Library makes Concord as good as Rome, Paris or London, for the hour;...

Concord, Massachusetts, adj. (6)

    HDC 11.52 9 Tahattawan, our Concord sachem, called his Indians together, and bid them not oppose the courses which the English were taking for their good;...
    HDC 11.55 22 ...the Concord people became uneasy, and looked around for new seats.
    HDC 11.67 16 In 1764, [George] Whitfield preached again at Concord, on Sunday afternoon; Mr. [Daniel] Bliss preached in the morning, and the Concord people thought their minister gave them the better sermon of the two.
    SMC 11.356 1 This [Civil War] will be a slow business, writes our Concord captain [George Prescott] home, for we have to stop and civilize people as we go along.
    SMC 11.368 4 How would Concord people, [George Prescott] asks, like to pass the night on the battle-field, and hear the dying cry for help, and not be able to go to them.
    CPL 11.501 9 ...[Hawthorne's] careful studies of Concord life and history are known wherever the English language is spoken.

Concord, Massachusetts, n. (74)

    MN 1.219 22 ...[the Puritans' motive for settlement] was the growth and expansion of the human race, and resembled herein the sequent Revolution, which was not begun in Concord, or Lexington, or Virginia...
    Hist 2.35 9 ...all the postulates of elfin annals...I find true in Concord...
    Exp 3.62 11 In the morning I awake and find the old world...Concord and Boston...not far off.
    Farm 7.149 24 The town of Concord is one of the oldest towns in this country...
    Farm 7.150 5 By drainage we went down to a subsoil we did not know, and have found there is a Concord under old Concord...
    Farm 7.150 6 By drainage we went down to a subsoil we did not know, and have found there is a Concord under old Concord...
    EzRy 10.382 27 Mr. Ripley was ordained minister of Concord November 7, 1778.
    EzRy 10.385 27 I remember, when a boy, driving about Concord with [Ezra Ripley]...
    EzRy 10.387 15 ...the minister of Sudbury...being at the Thursday lecture in Boston, heard the officiating clergyman praying for rain. As soon as the service was over, he went to the petitioner, and said, You Boston ministers, as soon as a tulip wilts under your windows, go to church and pray for rain, until all Concord and Sudbury are under water.
    MMEm 10.400 3 [Mary Moody Emerson's] father, the minister of Concord...went as a chaplain to the American army at Ticonderoga...
    MMEm 10.400 12 ...Mary [Moody Emerson] remained at Malden with her grandmother, and after her death, with her father's sister, in whose house she grew up, rarely seeing her brothers and sisters in Concord.
    MMEm 10.401 1 [Mary Moody Emerson's] mother had married again,- married the minister who succeeded her husband in the parish at Concord...
    SlHr 10.443 14 ...in his own town, if some important end was to be gained, as, for instance, when the county commissioners refused to rebuild the burned court-house, on the belief that the courts would be transferred from Concord to Lowell,-all parties combined to send Mr. Hoar to the Legislature...
    Thor 10.451 7 [Thoreau] was born in Concord, Massachusetts, on the 12th of July, 1817.
    Thor 10.453 20 A natural skill for mensuration...and his intimate knowledge of the territory about Concord, made [Thoreau] drift into the profession of land-surveyor.
    Thor 10.460 17 Before the first friendly word had been spoken for Captain John Brown, [Thoreau] sent notices to most houses in Concord that he would speak in a public hall on the condition and character of John Brown...
    Thor 10.468 1 [Thoreau] returned Kane's Arctic Voyage to a friend of whom he had borrowed it, with the remark, that Most of the phenomena noted might be observed in Concord.
    Thor 10.468 8 [Thoreau]...told me that he expected to find yet the Victoria regia in Concord.
    Thor 10.468 24 I think [Thoreau's] fancy for referring everything to the meridian of Concord did not grow out of any ignorance or depreciation of other longitudes or latitudes...
    Thor 10.473 12 Indian relics abound in Concord...
    Thor 10.474 1 Occasionally, a small party of Penobscot Indians would visit Concord...
    Thor 10.480 5 ...[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, had failed to describe the seeds or count the sepals. That is to say, we replied, the blockheads were not born in Concord;...
    HDC 11.29 1 Fellow Citizens: The town of Concord begins, this day, the third century of its history.
    HDC 11.30 27 ...the town of Concord was settled by a party of non-conformists...
    HDC 11.38 14 The Puritans, to keep the remembrance...of their peaceful compact with the Indians, named their forest settlement CONCORD.
    HDC 11.44 17 As early as 1633, the office of townsman or selectman appears [in New England], who seems first to have been appointed by the General Court, as here, at Concord, in 1639.
    HDC 11.46 10 ...Concord and the other plantations found themselves separate and independent of Boston...
    HDC 11.50 6 Tell [the Continental nations] the Union has twenty-four States, and Massachusetts is one. Tell them, Massachusetts has three hundred towns, and Concord is one;...
    HDC 11.50 7 Tell [the Continental nations] the Union has twenty-four States, and Massachusetts is one. Tell them...that in Concord are five hundred ratable polls, and every one has an equal vote.
    HDC 11.50 9 About ten years after the planting of Concord, efforts began to be made to civilize the Indians...
    HDC 11.51 12 In 1644, Squaw Sachem, the widow of Nanepashemet, the great Sachem of Concord and Mystic, with two sachems of Wachusett... intimated their desire...to learn to read God's word and know God aright;...
    HDC 11.51 21 John Eliot, in October, 1646, preached his first sermon in the Indian language at Noonantum; Waban, Tahattawan, and their sannaps, going thither from Concord to hear him.
    HDC 11.52 22 Tahattawan and his son-in-law Waban, besought [John] Eliot to come and preach to them at Concord...
    HDC 11.52 27 [The Indians] requested to have a town given them within the bounds of Concord...
    HDC 11.54 14 ...Concord increased in territory and population.
    HDC 11.54 21 Captain Underhill, in 1638, declared, that the new plantations of Dedham and Concord do afford large accommodations...
    HDC 11.54 26 ...in 1640, when the colony rate was 1200 pounds, Concord was assessed 50 pounds.
    HDC 11.55 6 In 1643, the colony was so numerous that it became expedient to divide it into four counties, Concord being included in Middlesex.
    HDC 11.57 7 The General Court, in 1647...Ordered, that every...where any town shall increase to the number of one hundred families, they shall set up a Grammar school, the masters thereof being able to instruct youth so far as they may be fitted for the University. With these requirements Concord... complied...
    HDC 11.58 9 From Narragansett to the Connecticut River, the scene of war was shifted as fast as these red hunters could traverse the forest. Concord was a military post.
    HDC 11.58 11 [Simon Willard] marched from Concord to Brookfield, in season to save the people whose houses had been burned...
    HDC 11.58 19 John Monoco, a formidable savage, boasted that he...would burn Groton, Concord, Watertown and Boston;...
    HDC 11.60 1 The historian of Concord [Lemuel Shattuck] has preserved an instance of the resolution of one of the daughters of the town.
    HDC 11.61 1 Concord suffered little from the [King Philip's] war.
    HDC 11.61 10 ...the mantle of [Peter Bulkeley's] piety and of the people's affection fell upon his son Edward, the fame of whose prayers, it is said, once saved Concord from an attack of the Indian.
    HDC 11.61 23 It is the misfortune of Concord to have permitted a disgraceful outrage upon the friendly Indians settled within its limits...
    HDC 11.62 20 ...Concord then [in 1666] included the greater part of the towns of Bedford, Acton, Lincoln and Carlisle.
    HDC 11.62 23 In the great growth of the country, Concord participated...
    HDC 11.63 6 [Edward Bulkeley's] youngest brother, Peter, was deputy from Concord...
    HDC 11.63 14 In 1689, Concord partook of the general indignation of the province against Andros.
    HDC 11.65 9 ...in 1712, the selectmen agreed with Captain James Minott, for his son Timothy to keep the school at the school-house for the town of Concord...
    HDC 11.67 15 In 1764, [George] Whitfield preached again at Concord...
    HDC 11.70 23 On the 27th June [1774], near three hundred persons... inhabitants of Concord, entered into a covenant...
    HDC 11.71 25 In October [1774], the Provincial Congress met in Concord.
    HDC 11.73 13 Eight hundred British soldiers...had marched from Boston to Concord;...
    HDC 11.73 16 When [British troops] entered Concord, they found the militia and minute-men assembled...
    HDC 11.74 3 ...the men of Acton, Bedford, Lincoln and Carlisle, all once included in Concord...arrived [at Concord] and fell into the ranks so fast, that Major Buttrick found himself superior in number to the enemy's party at the bridge.
    HDC 11.78 22 Whilst Boston was occupied by the British troops, Concord contributed to the relief of the inhabitants...
    HDC 11.78 27 When...the poor of Boston were quartered by the Provincial Congress on the neighboring country, Concord received 82 persons to its hospitality.
    HDC 11.79 13 The numbers [of of men for the Continental army], say [the General Assembly of Massachusetts], are large, but this Court has the fullest assurance that their brethren...will...fill up the numbers proportioned to the several towns. On that occasion, Concord furnished 67 men...
    HDC 11.81 20 It was put to the town of Concord, in October, 1776, by the Legislature, whether the existing house of representatives should enact a constitution for the State?
    HDC 11.82 26 Concord has always been noted for its ministers.
    HDC 11.83 6 Such, fellow citizens, is an imperfect sketch of the history of Concord.
    HDC 11.84 25 Of late years, the growth of Concord has been slow.
    HDC 11.86 26 The acknowledgment of the Supreme Being exalts the history of this people [of Concord]. It brought the fathers hither. In a war of principle, it delivered their sons. And so long as a spark of this faith survives among the children's children so long shall the name of Concord be honest and venerable.
    SMC 11.349 2 Fellow Citizens: The day is in Concord doubly our calendar day...
    SMC 11.366 26 After the return of the three months' company to Concord, in 1861, Captain Prescott raised a new company of volunteers...
    Koss 11.397 12 ...Concord is one of the monuments of freedom;...
    CPL 11.496 13 ...I am not sure that when Boston learns the good deed of Mr. Munroe [building of Concord Library], it will not...rest until it has annexed Concord to the city.
    CPL 11.497 3 ...that Concord Library makes Concord as good as Rome, Paris or London, for the hour;...
    CPL 11.499 2 ...Concord counted fourteen graduates of Harvard in its first century...
    Mem 12.105 25 Abel Lawton knew every horse that went up and down through Concord...
    Bost 12.192 3 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 12.305 8 Once in the fields with the lowing cattle...and satisfying curves of the landscape, and I cannot tell whether this is Thessaly and Enna, or whether Concord and Acton.

Concord Monument, n. (2)

    SMC 11.351 27 The old [Concord] Monument...stands to signalize the first Revolution...
    SMC 11.352 19 This new [Concord] Monument is built to mark the arrival of the nation at the new principle...

concord, n. (2)

    NR 3.245 7 We must reconcile the contradictions [between the end and the means] as we can, but their discord and their concord introduce wild absurdities into our thinking and speech.
    Milt1 12.258 2 In the midst of London, [Milton] seems...to have been tuned in concord with the order of the world;...

Concord Ode [James Russel (1)

    SMC 11.348 25 ...manhood is the one immortal thing/ Beneath Time's changeful sky,/ And, where it lightened once, from age to age,/ Men come to learn, in grateful pilgrimage,/ That length of days is knowing when to die./ Lowell, Concord Ode.

concords, n. (2)

    Art2 7.43 26 The pulsation of a stretched string or wire gives the ear the pleasure of sweet sound, before yet the musician has enhanced this pleasure by concords and combinations.
    CW 12.170 10 The gentle deities/ Showed me the love of color and of sounds,/ The innumerable tenements of beauty,/ the miracle of generative force,/ Far-reaching concords of astronomy/...

concourse, n. (4)

    SR 2.88 20 ...the greater the concourse...the young patriot feels himself stronger than before by a new thousand of eyes and arms.
    ET12 5.209 21 Oxford...shuts up the lectureships which were made public for all men thereunto to have concourse;...
    Bty 6.297 7 Walpole says, The concourse was so great, when the Duchess of Hamilton was presented at court, on Friday, that even the noble crowd in the drawing-room clambered on chairs and tables to look at her.
    SHC 11.429 16 ...this concourse of friendly company assures me that [the committee] have rightly interpreted your wishes.

concrescere, v. (1)

    SwM 4.113 23 Ex aurique putat micis consistere posse/ Aurum, et de terris terram concrescere parvis;/...

concrete, adj. (2)

    Nat2 3.183 24 ...moon, plant, gas, crystal, are concrete geometry and numbers.
    Elo1 7.90 16 Put the argument into a concrete shape...and the cause is half won.

concrete, n. (1)

    Nat 1.75 18 Whilst the abstract question occupies your intellect, nature brings it in the concrete to be solved by your hands.

concreted, v. (1)

    SovE 10.209 5 ...Stoicism...has now...no commanding Zeno or Antoninus. It accuses us...that pure ethics is not now formulated and concreted into a cultus...

concur, v. (4)

    LE 1.158 2 The want of the times and the propriety of this anniversary concur to draw attention to the doctrine of Literary Ethics.
    YA 1.395 8 Here...the vast tendencies concur of a new order.
    WD 7.164 10 Many facts concur to show that we must look deeper for our salvation than to steam, photographs, balloons or astronomy.
    FSLC 11.189 27 All arts, customs, societies, books, and laws, are good as they foster and concur with this spiritual element...

concurred, v. (1)

    MoS 4.164 1 Other coincidences...concurred to make this old Gascon [Montaigne] still new and immortal for me.

concurrence, n. (1)

    FSLC 11.190 3 The laws especially draw their obligation only from their concurrence with [the spiritual element].

Conde, Louis II de Bourbo (2)

    Cour 7.255 17 There is a Hercules...or a Cid in the mythology of every nation; and in authentic history, a Leonidas...a Great Conde...
    Cour 7.267 12 It was told of the Prince of Conde that there not being a more furious man in the world, danger in fight never disturbs him more than just to make him civil...

Conde, Louis II de, n. (1)

    Plu 10.296 6 Saint-Evremond read Plutarch to the great Conde under a tent.

condemn, v. (4)

    LT 1.265 20 Could we indicate the indicators...we should have a series of sketches which would report to the next ages the color and quality of ours. Certainly I think if this were done there would be much to admire as well as to condemn;...
    Clbs 7.240 8 You may condemn [the eloquent man's] book, but can you fight against his thought?
    Supl 10.170 2 When [a farmer] wishes to condemn any treatment of soils or of stock, he says, It won't do any good.
    FSLN 11.243 12 ...though I [Robert Winthrop] am now to deny and condemn you, you see it is not my will but the party necessity.

condemnation, n. (3)

    Fdsp 2.201 17 In one condemnation of folly stand the whole universe of men.
    Hsm1 2.256 3 Socrates's condemnation of himself to be maintained in all honor in the Prytaneum, during his life, and Sir Thomas More's playfulness at the scaffold, are of the same strain.
    MMEm 10.408 9 [Mary Moody Emerson] is...a Bible...wherein are sentences of condemnation, promises and covenants of love that make foolish the wisdom of the world with the power of God.

condemned, v. (8)

    Cir 2.308 27 ...there is not any literary reputation...that may not be revised and condemned.
    PPh 4.74 19 When accused before the judges of subverting the popular creed, [Socrates] affirms the immortality of the soul, the future reward and punishment; and refusing to recant, in a caprice of the popular government was condemned to die...
    PNR 4.85 16 Ethical science was new and vacant when Plato could write thus:--Of all whose arguments are left to the men of the present time, no one has ever yet condemned injustice, or praised justice, otherwise than as respects the repute, honors, and emoluments arising therefrom;...
    HDC 11.81 11 In 1786...a large party of armed insurgents arrived in this town [Concord]...to hinder the sitting of the Court of Common Pleas. But they found no countenance here. The same people who had been active in a County Convention to consider grievances, condemned the rebellion...
    ACiv 11.308 11 Men reconcile themselves very fast to a bold and good measure when once it is taken, though they condemned it in advance.
    Milt1 12.250 6 We could be well content if the flames to which [Milton's Defence of the English People] was condemned at Paris, at Toulouse, and at London, had utterly consumed it.
    ACri 12.286 17 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.
    EurB 12.368 23 [Wordsworth]...wrote Helvellyn and Windermere and the dim spirits which these haunts harbored. There was not the least attempt...to show...that although London was the home for men of great parts, yet Westmoreland had these consolations for such as fate had condemned to the country life...

condemner, n. (1)

    Cir 2.301 22 This fact [that around every circle another can be drawn], as far as it symbolizes the moral fact of the Unattainable...at once the inspirer and the condemner of every success, may conveniently serve us to connect many illustrations of human power in every department.

condemns, v. (2)

    LS 11.21 9 ...every practice is Christian which praises itself, and every practice unchristian which condemns itself.
    Wom 11.420 22 If new power is here, of a character...which...tries and condemns our religion, customs, laws...you [women] can well leave voting to the old dead people.

condensation, n. (4)

    Nat2 3.195 19 They say that by electro-magnetism your salad shall be grown from the seed whilst your fowl is roasting for dinner; it is a symbol... of our condensation and acceleration of objects;...
    Insp 8.269 8 ...every reasonable man would give any price...for condensation, concentration and the recalling at will of high mental energy.
    ACri 12.290 23 There is hardly danger in America of excess of condensation;...
    WSL 12.347 27 [Landor] is a master of condensation and suppression...

condense, v. (2)

    Comp 2.97 3 To empty here, you must condense there.
    Elo1 7.90 4 Condense some daily experience into a glowing symbol, and an audience is electrified.

condensed, v. (3)

    Int 2.340 3 When we are young we spend much time and pains in filling our note-books...in the hope that in the course of a few years we shall have condensed into our encyclopaedia the net value of all the theories at which the world has yet arrived.
    Plu 10.305 7 ...here is [Plutarch's] sentiment on superstition, somewhat condensed in Lord Bacon's citation of it...
    PLT 12.17 26 ...the sun is conceived to have made our system by hurling out from itself the outer rings of diffuse ether which slowly condensed into earths and moons...

condenses, v. (2)

    Nat 1.13 13 ...the ice, on the other side of the planet, condenses rain on this;...
    MN 1.193 24 ...the sturdiest defender of existing institutions feels the terrific inflammability of this air which condenses heat in every corner...

condensing, v. (1)

    Pow 6.77 15 ...in human action, against the spasm of energy we offset the continuity of drill. We spread the same amount of force over much time, instead of condensing it into a moment.

condescend, v. (4)

    LE 1.172 13 ...the first word [a man of genius] utters, sets all your so-called knowledge afloat and at large. Then Plato, Bacon, Kant, and the Eclectic Cousin condescend instantly to be men and mere facts.
    Hsm1 2.256 15 The great will not condescend to take any thing seriously;...
    CInt 12.114 4 ...[Archimedes] was willing to show [the king] that he was quite able in rude matters, if he could condescend to them...
    MLit 12.313 13 Accustomed always to behold the presence of the universe in every part, the soul will not condescend to look at any new part as a stranger...

condescending, adj. (2)

    ET13 5.221 5 So far is [the English gentleman] from attaching any meaning to the words, that he believes himself to have done almost the generous thing, and that it is very condescending in him to pray to God.
    Carl 10.495 16 There is nothing deeper in [Carlyle's] constitution...than the considerate, condescending good nature with which he looks at every object in existence...

condescends, v. (1)

    OS 2.284 8 No inspired man ever asks this question [concerning the immortality of the soul] or condescends to these evidences.

condescension, n. (4)

    Con 1.312 2 ...to thy industry and thrift and small condescension to the established usage,-scores of servants are swarming...to thy command;...
    Tran 1.339 11 ...genius and virtue predict in man the same absence of private ends and of condescension to circumstances...
    ET15 5.269 7 [The London Times] attacks a duke as readily as a policeman, and with the most provoking airs of condescension.
    WD 7.170 6 There are days when the great are near us, when there is no frown on their brow, no condescension even;...

Condillac, Etienne Bonnot d (1)

    Tran 1.331 5 Even the materialist Condillac...was constrained to say...it is always our own thought that we perceive.

condiments, n. (1)

    NR 3.240 21 We came this time for condiments, not for corn.

condition, n. (153)

    Nat 1.4 2 Every man's condition is a solution in hieroglyphic to those inquiries he would put.
    DSA 1.126 27 ...[this moral truth] is guarded by one stern condition; this, namely; it is an intuition.
    DSA 1.134 27 ...observe the condition, the spiritual limitation of the office [of priest].
    LE 1.165 9 The condition of our incarnation in a private self seems to be a perpetual tendency to prefer the private law...to the exclusion of the law of universal being.
    MN 1.222 10 The one condition coupled with the gift of truth is its use.
    LT 1.260 21 ...a negative imposed on the will of man by his condition...is the foundation on which [Conservatism] rests.
    LT 1.280 26 Give the slave the least elevation of religious sentiment, and... he not only in his humility...feels that much deplored condition of his to be a fading trifle, but he makes you feel it too.
    Con 1.317 14 Rich and fine is your dress, O conservatism!...and a very good state and condition are you for gentlemen and ladies to live under;...
    Con 1.317 27 ...[man] takes along with him and puts out from himself the whole apparatus of society and condition extempore...
    Tran 1.335 3 Let any thought or motive of mine be different from that they are, the difference will transform my condition and economy.
    Tran 1.350 24 New, [Transcendentalists] confess, and by no means happy, is our condition...
    YA 1.373 22 Our condition is like that of the poor wolves...
    YA 1.381 6 These communists preferred the agricultural life as the most favorable condition for human culture;...
    YA 1.382 15 [The Associations]...proposed to amend the condition of men by substituting harmonious for hostile industry.
    Hist 2.7 3 We have the same interest in condition and character.
    Comp 2.98 7 The same dualism underlies the nature and condition of man.
    Comp 2.98 22 The waves of the sea do not more speedily seek a level from their loftiest tossing than the varieties of condition tend to equalize themselves.
    Comp 2.100 20 The true life and satisfactions of man seem to elude the utmost rigors or felicities of condition...
    Comp 2.123 18 In the nature of the soul is the compensation for the inequalities of condition.
    SL 2.143 7 What we call obscure condition or vulgar society is that condition and society whose poetry is not yet written...
    SL 2.143 8 What we call obscure condition or vulgar society is that condition and society whose poetry is not yet written...
    Lov1 2.171 4 ...the first condition is that we must leave a too close and lingering adherence to facts...
    Fdsp 2.196 16 In strict science all persons underlie the same condition of an infinite remoteness.
    Fdsp 2.208 24 The condition which high friendship demands is ability to do without it.
    OS 2.285 1 ...all unawares the advancing soul has built and forged for itself a new condition...
    OS 2.289 24 This energy [of the soul] does not descend into individual life on any other condition than entire possession.
    OS 2.293 12 [God's presence] inspires in man an infallible trust. ... In the presence of law to his mind he is overflowed with a reliance so universal that it sweeps away all cherished hopes and the most stable projects of mortal condition in its flood.
    OS 2.296 11 The soul gives itself, alone, original and pure, to the Lonely, Original and Pure, who, on that condition, gladly inhabits, leads and speaks through it.
    Int 2.327 1 Every man beholds his human condition with a degree of melancholy.
    Art1 2.360 22 ...that house and weather and manner of living which poverty and the fate of birth have made at once so odious and so dear...will serve as well as any other condition as the symbol of a thought which pours itself indifferently through all.
    Pt1 3.13 23 All form is an effect of character; all condition, of the quality of the life;...
    Pt1 3.26 14 The condition of true naming, on the poet's part, is his resigning himself to the divine aura which breathes through forms, and accompanying that.
    Pt1 3.31 14 ...Chaucer, in his praise of Gentilesse, compares good blood in mean condition to fire...
    Pt1 3.42 25 ...though thou [O poet] shouldst walk the world over, thou shalt not be able to find a condition inopportune or ignoble.
    Exp 3.49 22 I take this evanescence and lubricity of all objects...to be the most unhandsome part of our condition.
    Exp 3.52 14 ...temper prevails over everything of time, place and condition...
    Exp 3.82 2 A wise and hardy physician will say, Come out of that, as the first condition of advice.
    Mrs1 3.123 4 The popular notion [of a gentleman] certainly adds a condition of ease and fortune;...
    Mrs1 3.125 13 The famous gentlemen of Asia and Europe have been of this strong type; Saladin...Pericles, and the lordliest personages. They...were too excellent themselves, to value any condition at a high rate.
    Mrs1 3.126 3 Diogenes, Socrates, and Epaminondas, are gentlemen...who have chosen the condition of poverty...
    Gts 3.160 23 In our condition of universal dependence it seems heroic to let the petitioner be the judge of his necessity...
    Nat2 3.194 25 The uneasiness which the thought of our helplessness in the chain of causes occasions us, results from looking too much at one condition of nature, namely, Motion.
    Pol1 3.207 13 In this country we are very vain of our political institutions, which are singular in this, that they sprung, within the memory of living men, from the character and condition of the people...
    NR 3.238 1 ...our economical mother dispatches a new genius and habit of mind into every district and condition of existence...
    NER 3.263 14 ...wherever...a just and heroic soul finds itself...by the new quality of character it shall put forth it shall abrogate that old condition, law, or school in which it stands...
    UGM 4.3 3 If the companions of our childhood should turn out to be heroes, and their condition regal it would not surprise us.
    UGM 4.12 9 ...we sit by the fire and take hold on the poles of the earth. This quasi omnipresence supplies the imbecility of our condition.
    UGM 4.13 1 ...every man, inasmuch as he has any science,--is a definer and map-maker of the latitudes and longitudes of our condition.
    UGM 4.19 3 ...[a wise man] would...calm us with assurances that we could not be cheated; as every one would discern the checks and guaranties of condition.
    PPh 4.60 23 I, therefore, Callicles, am persuaded by these accounts [said Plato], and consider how I may exhibit my soul before the judge in a healthy condition.
    SwM 4.121 19 ...we must be at the top of our condition to understand any thing rightly.
    MoS 4.161 25 ...some condition between the extremes, and having, itself, a positive quality; some stark and sufficient man...is the fit person to occupy this ground of speculation.
    MoS 4.167 16 [I seem to hear Montaigne say] Our condition as men is risky and ticklish enough.
    ShP 4.205 25 ...whatever scraps of information concerning [Shakespeare's] condition these researches may have rescued, they can shed no light upon that infinite invention which is the concealed magnet of his attraction for us.
    GoW 4.275 7 ...Goethe suggested the leading idea of modern botany...that every part of a plant is only a transformed leaf to meet a new condition;...
    GoW 4.277 24 Wilhelm Meister is a novel in every sense...called by its admirers the only delineation of modern society,--as if other novels...dealt with costume and condition, this with the spirit of life.
    ET4 5.59 16 Odin died in his bed, in Sweden; but it was a proverb of ill condition to die the death of old age.
    ET4 5.70 21 ...hunting is the fine art of every Englishman of condition.
    ET6 5.107 15 ...[the Englishman] dearly loves his house. If he is rich, he buys a demesne and builds a hall; if he is in middle condition, he spares no expense on his house.
    ET6 5.114 21 ...the range of nations from which London draws, and the steep contrasts of condition, create the picturesque in society...
    ET8 5.138 18 [The English] are subject to panics of credulity and of rage, but the temper of the nation...settles itself soon and easily...and serenity is its normal condition.
    ET9 5.150 27 The English dislike the American structure of society, whilst yet trade, mills, public education and Chartism are doing what they can to create in England the same social condition.
    ET10 5.155 14 The Englishman believes that every man...has himself to thank if he do not mend his condition.
    ET10 5.166 2 I much prefer the condition of an English gentleman of the better class to that of any potentate in Europe...
    ET11 5.196 18 Here [in England] at last were climate and condition friendly to the working faculty.
    ET12 5.204 19 The reading men [at Oxford] are kept, by hard walking, hard riding and measured eating and drinking, at the top of their condition...
    ET13 5.225 24 It is the condition of a religion to require religion for its expositor.
    ET14 5.256 22 The English have lost sight of the fact that poetry exists to speak the spiritual law, and that no wealth of description or of fancy is yet essentially new and out of the limits of prose, until this condition is reached.
    ET16 5.276 2 I told Carlyle that...I like the [English] people;...but meantime, I surely know that as soon as I return to Massachusetts I shall lapse at once into the feeling...that England...must one day be contented...to be strong only in her children. But this was a proposition which no Englishman of whatever condition can easily entertain.
    F 6.13 6 ...in the history of the individual is always an account of his condition...
    F 6.41 16 Each creature puts forth from itself its own condition and sphere...
    F 6.47 6 One key, one solution to the mysteries of human condition... exists;...
    Pow 6.55 10 During...trials of strength, wrestling, fighting, a large amount of blood is collected in the arteries...and but little is sent into the veins. This condition is constant with intrepid persons.
    Pow 6.55 17 If Eric...is at the top of his condition...at his departure from Greenland he will steer west, and his ships will reach Newfoundland.
    Pow 6.71 21 We say that success...depends on a plus condition of mind and body...
    Wth 6.92 15 The mechanic at his bench...deals on even terms with men of any condition.
    Ctr 6.146 19 ...boys and men of that condition [who have grown up on a farm, which they have never left] look upon work on a railroad...as opportunity.
    Ctr 6.165 3 ...in an old community a well-born proprietor is usually found... to feel a habitual desire that the estate...shall be delivered down to the next heir in as good condition as he received it;...
    Bhr 6.194 11 At last the escorting angel returned with his prisoner [the monk Basle] to them that sent him, saying that no phlegethon could be found that would burn him; for that in whatever condition, Basle remained incorrigibly Basle.
    CbW 6.245 10 The priest is glad if his prayers or his sermon meet the condition of any soul;...
    CbW 6.260 13 ...the most meritorious public services have always been performed by persons in a condition of life removed from opulence.
    CbW 6.260 27 ...good hearts and sound minds are of no condition...
    CbW 6.273 18 With the first class of men our friendship or good understanding goes quite behind all accidents...of condition...
    CbW 6.277 25 It is inevitable to name particulars of virtue and of condition...
    Bty 6.296 14 A beautiful woman is a practical poet...planting tenderness, hope and eloquence in all whom she approaches. Some favors of condition must go with it, since a certain serenity is essential...
    Ill 6.319 9 There is the illusion of love, which attributes to the beloved person all which that person shares with his or her family, sex, age or condition...
    Ill 6.321 4 We fancy we have fallen into bad company and squalid condition...
    Civ 7.26 14 ...one condition is essential to the social education of man, namely, morality.
    DL 7.109 26 ...some things each man buys without hesitation; if it were only...books that are written to his condition...
    WD 7.180 22 We must be at the top of our condition to understand anything rightly.
    WD 7.184 4 There are people...who do not care so much for conditions as others, for they are always in one condition and enjoy themselves;...
    Suc 7.306 12 ...the oracles are never silent; but the receiver must by a happy temperance be brought to that top of condition...that he can easily take and give these fine communications.
    Suc 7.306 15 Health is the condition of wisdom...
    OA 7.318 21 ...not to press too hard on these deceits and illusions of Nature, which are inseparable from our condition...if the question be the felicity of age, I fear the first popular judgments will be unfavorable.
    OA 7.323 9 Under the general assertion of the well-being of age, we can easily count particular benefits of that condition.
    OA 7.327 24 He is serene...whose condition, in particular and in general, allows the utterance of his mind.
    OA 7.336 1 I have heard that whoever loves is in no condition old.
    PI 8.14 27 ...[the Hindoos]...have made it the central doctrine of their religion that what we call Nature...has no real existence,--is only phenomenal. Youth, age, property, condition, events, persons,--self, even,-- are successive maias (deceptions) through which Vishnu mocks and instructs the soul.
    PI 8.22 15 Man runs about restless and in pain when his condition or the objects about him do not fully match his thought.
    PI 8.23 7 Your condition, your employment, is the fable of you.
    PI 8.40 12 ...[the writer] must be at the top of his condition.
    PI 8.62 21 ...said Merlin...salute for me the king and the queen and all the barons, and tell them of my condition.
    Res 8.141 7 Ah! what a plastic little creature [man] is!...he making himself comfortable in every climate, in every condition.
    Comc 8.167 20 ...I was hastening to visit an old and honored friend, who... was in a dying condition...
    Comc 8.169 3 ...according to Latin poetry and English doggerel,--Poverty does nothing worse/ Than to make man ridiculous./ In this instance the halfness lies in the pretension of the parties to some consideration on account of their condition.
    QO 8.192 18 [Quotation] betrays the consciousness that truth...is the treasure of all men. And inasmuch as any writer has ascended to a just view of man's condition, he has adopted this tone.
    PC 8.228 26 It was the conviction of Plato...that piety is an essential condition of science...
    Insp 8.276 22 I am not, says the man, at the top of my condition to-day...
    Insp 8.280 8 I honor health as the first muse, and sleep as the condition of health.
    Imtl 8.339 4 ...the man must have new motives, new companions, new condition and another term.
    Dem1 10.6 25 We fear lest the poor brute [the dog] should gain one dreadful glimpse of his condition...
    Dem1 10.7 17 In a mixed assembly we have chanced to see...the features of the mink, of the bull, of the rat and the barn-door fowl. You think, could the man overlook his own condition, he could not be restrained from suicide.
    Aris 10.46 10 I know how steep the contrast of condition looks;...
    Aris 10.57 6 I will not protract this discourse by describing the duties of the brave and generous. And yet I will venture to name one, and the same is almost the sole condition on which knighthood is to be won;...
    PerF 10.75 13 [Labor] surprises in the perfect form and condition of trees clean of caterpillars and borers...
    Edc1 10.130 23 If Newton come and...perceive...that every atom in Nature draws to every other atom...he reports the condition of millions of worlds which his eye never saw.
    Edc1 10.131 13 In our condition are the roots of language and communication...
    Supl 10.175 11 ...Nature...crystallizes in water at one invariable angle...in granite at one; and if you omit the smallest condition, the experiment will not succeed.
    Supl 10.176 21 ...[Nature] appoints us to keep within the sharp boundaries of form as the condition of our strength...
    Prch 10.225 14 [The moral sentiment] is a commandment at every moment and in every condition of life to do the duty of that moment...
    MoL 10.241 20 The very disadvantages of [the scholar's] condition point at superiorities.
    MoL 10.255 20 ...[the work of art] should have a commanding motive in the time and condition in which it was made.
    Schr 10.275 5 ...Algernon Sidney wrote to his father...I have ever had in my mind that when God should cast me into such a condition as that I cannot save my life but by doing an indecent thing he shows me the time has come when I should resign it.
    Schr 10.284 13 [The scholar] will have to answer certain questions, which... cannot be staved off. For all men, all women...your condition...are the interrogators...
    Schr 10.287 25 Give me bareness and poverty so that I know them as the sure heralds of the Muse. Not in plenty, not in a thriving, well-to-do condition, she delighteth.
    LLNE 10.349 19 [Genius] must now set itself to raise the social condition of man...
    LLNE 10.367 7 One would meet also [at Brook Farm] some modest pride in their advanced condition...
    MMEm 10.398 9 They whom [Lucy Percy] is pleased to choose are such as are of the most eminent condition...
    MMEm 10.429 14 [God] communicates this our condition and humble waiting, or I [Mary Moody Emerson] should never perceive Him.
    Thor 10.459 15 [Thoreau's] preference of his country and condition was genuine...
    Thor 10.460 19 Before the first friendly word had been spoken for Captain John Brown, [Thoreau] sent notices to most houses in Concord that he would speak in a public hall on the condition and character of John Brown...
    HDC 11.41 8 ...it appears from a petition of some newcomers, in 1643, that a part [of the land in Concord] had been divided among the first settlers without price, on the single condition of improving it.
    HDC 11.43 26 The nature of man and his condition in the world, for the first time within the period of certain history, controlled the formation of the State [in Massachusetts].
    EWI 11.106 27 Immemorial usage preserves the memory of positive law, long after all traces of the occasion, reason, authority and time of its introduction are lost; and in a case so odious as the condition of slaves, must be taken strictly...
    FSLC 11.186 8 There is always something in the very advantages of a condition which hurts it.
    ACiv 11.304 17 The war is welcome to the Southerner;...and suits his semi-civilized condition.
    EPro 11.320 9 The first condition of success is secured in putting ourselves right.
    EPro 11.324 20 This is an odd thing for an Englishman, a Frenchman, or an Austrian to say, who remembers...the condition of Italy, until 1859...
    Koss 11.399 23 We [people of Concord] know the austere condition of liberty...
    Shak1 11.448 10 Genius is the consoler of our mortal condition...
    Shak1 11.449 13 Men were so astonished and occupied by [Shakespeare's] poems that they have not been able to see his face and condition...
    CPL 11.504 8 There is a wonderful agreement among eminent men of all varieties of character and condition in their estimate of books.
    FRep 11.522 23 I think this levity is a reaction on the [American] people from the extraordinary advantages and invitations of their condition.
    FRep 11.526 22 ...instead of the doleful experience of the European economist, who tells us, In almost all countries the condition of the great body of the people is poor and miserable, here that same great body has arrived at a sloven plenty...
    FRep 11.528 9 All this [American] forwardness and self-reliance...proceed on the belief...that [the people's] union and law are not in their memory, but in their blood and condition.
    PLT 12.37 3 In its lower function, when it deals with the apparent world, [Instinct] is common sense. It requires the performance of all that is needful to the animal life and health. Then it requires a proportion between a man's acts and his condition...
    PLT 12.58 14 The condition of sanity is to respect the order of the intellectual world;...
    Bost 12.189 2 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;...
    Milt1 12.266 21 [Milton] told the bishops that instead of showing the reason of their lowly condition from divine example and command, they seek to prove their high preeminence from human consent and authority.
    Milt1 12.278 16 [Milton's plea for freedom of divorce] is to be regarded as a poem on one of the griefs of man's condition...
    WSL 12.341 21 Literature is the effort of man to indemnify himself for the wrongs of his condition.
    Trag 12.411 14 The spirit...finds its own support in any condition...
    Trag 12.416 8 The individual who suffers has a mysterious counterbalance to that condition...

conditional, adj. (2)

    YA 1.372 26 The population of the world is a conditional population;...
    F 6.16 1 The population of the world is a conditional population;...

conditional, n. (1)

    Nat 1.57 18 ...we learn the difference between the absolute and the conditional or relative.

conditionally, adv. (1)

    Nat 1.55 9 The problem of philosophy...is, for all that exists conditionally, to find a ground unconditioned and absolute.

conditioned, adj. (3)

    Con 1.302 21 Wisdom does not seek a literal rectitude, but an useful, that is a conditioned one...
    ET14 5.252 2 ...[the English] are the most conditioned men...
    EWI 11.121 7 All those who are acquainted with the state of the island [Jamaica] know that our emancipated population are...as well conditioned... as any that we know of in any country.

conditioned, n. (1)

    Supl 10.171 23 If man loves the conditioned, he also loves the unconditioned.

conditioned, v. (4)

    Con 1.301 22 Our experience, our perception is conditioned by the need to acquire in parts and in succession...
    Prd1 2.224 27 [Prudence] takes the laws of the world, whereby man's being is conditioned, as they are...
    WD 7.185 10 ...this is the progress of every earnest mind;...from a respect to the works to a wise wonder at this mystic element of time in which he is conditioned;...
    Res 8.154 1 ...man is more miserably fed and conditioned there [in the tropics] than in the cold and stingy zones.

conditions, n. (77)

    LE 1.183 6 They whom [the student's] thoughts have entertained or inflamed, seek him before yet they have learned the hard conditions of thought.
    Con 1.323 13 Those who rise above war, and those who fall below it, it easily discriminates, as well as those who, accepting its rude conditions, keep their own head by their own sword.
    SR 2.82 21 [The work of art] was an application of [the artist's] own thought to the thing to be done and the conditions to be observed.
    Comp 2.105 8 Life invests itself with inevitable conditions...
    Comp 2.105 12 Life invests itself with inevitable conditions...which one and another brags...that they do not touch him;--but the brag is on his lips, the conditions are in his soul.
    Prd1 2.222 6 [Prudence] is content to seek health of body by complying with physical conditions...
    OS 2.273 5 The least activity of the intellectual powers redeems us in a degree from the conditions of time.
    Int 2.338 5 The conditions essential to a constructive mind do not appear to be so often combined but that a good sentence or verse remains fresh and memorable for a long time.
    Int 2.338 24 ...some of the conditions of intellectual construction are of rare occurrence.
    Pt1 3.38 25 Art is the path of the creator to his work. The paths or methods are ideal and eternal, though few men ever see them; not the artist himself for years, or for a lifetime, unless he come into the conditions.
    Pt1 3.39 3 [Artists] found or put themselves in certain conditions...and each presently feels the new desire.
    Pt1 3.41 8 O poet! a new nobility is conferred in groves and pastures, and not in castles or by the sword-blade any longer. The conditions are hard, but equal.
    Nat2 3.179 24 All changes [in Efficient Nature] pass without violence, by reason of the two cardinal conditions of boundless space and boundless time.
    UGM 4.22 7 ...if there should appear in the company some gentle soul who...apprises me of my independence on any conditions of country, or time, or human body,--that man liberates me;...
    NMW 4.230 13 [Bonaparte] had the virtues of his class and the conditions for their activity.
    NMW 4.257 4 Here [in Napoleon] was an experiment, under the most favorable conditions, of the powers of intellect without conscience.
    GoW 4.275 7 ...by varying the conditions, a leaf may be converted into any other organ...
    ET1 5.4 21 The conditions of literary success are almost destructive of the best social power...
    ET2 5.32 5 ...under the best conditions, a voyage [at sea] is one of the severest tests to try a man.
    ET3 5.36 12 The American is only the continuation of the English genius into new conditions, more or less propitious.
    ET4 5.49 13 Whatever influences add to mental or moral faculty, take men out of nationality as out of other conditions...
    ET5 5.76 13 [These Saxons] are the wealth-makers,--and by dint of mental faculty which has its own conditions.
    ET5 5.83 2 This [English] common-sense is a perception of all the conditions of our earthly existence;...
    ET5 5.94 4 The climate and geography [of England], I said, were factitious, as if the hands of man had arranged the conditions.
    ET6 5.108 11 England produces under favorable conditions of ease and culture the finest women in the world.
    ET14 5.252 3 ...[the English] are the most conditioned men, as if, having the best conditions, they could not bring themselves to forfeit them.
    F 6.15 8 Nature is the tyrannous circumstance...the conditions of a tool, like the locomotive, strong enough on its track, but which can do nothing but mischief off of it;...
    Pow 6.71 16 ...the compression and tension of these stern conditions [of war] is a training for the finest and softest arts...
    Pow 6.72 15 This aboriginal might gives a surprising pleasure when it appears under conditions of supreme refinement...
    Ctr 6.150 9 The best bribe which London offers to-day to the imagination is that in such a vast variety of people and conditions one can believe there is room for persons of romantic character to exist...
    Wsp 6.213 17 There is...a simple...presence, dwelling very peacefully in us...and to this homage there is a consent of all thoughtful and just men in all ages and conditions.
    CbW 6.277 2 Wherever there is failure, there is...some step omitted, which nature never pardons. The happy conditions of life may be had on the same terms.
    SS 7.15 16 Solitude is impracticable, and society fatal. We must keep our head in the one and our hands in the other. The conditions are met, if we keep our independence, yet do not lose our sympathy.
    Civ 7.28 12 ...we managed to meet the conditions, and to fold up the letter in such invisible compact form as [Electricity] could carry in those invisible pockets of his...
    Elo1 7.95 11 ...the conditions for eloquence always exist.
    WD 7.184 3 There are people...who do not care so much for conditions as others...
    WD 7.185 20 ...this is the progress of every earnest mind;...from local skills...to the finer economy which respects the quality of what is done, and...the fidelity with which it flows from ourselves; then to the depth of thought it betrays, looking to its universality, or that its roots are in eternity, not in time. Then it flows from character, that sublime health which...makes us great in all conditions...
    Clbs 7.229 19 [The student] seeks intelligent persons...who will give him provocation, and at once and easily the old motion begins in his brain...and the infinite opulence of things is again shown him. But the right conditions must be observed.
    Clbs 7.242 18 ...in all civil nations attempts have been made to organize conversation by bringing together cultivated people under the most favorable conditions.
    Clbs 7.248 2 ...to a club met for conversation a supper is a good basis, as it...puts pedantry and business to the door. All are in good humor and at leisure, which are the first conditions of discourse;...
    Clbs 7.250 6 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...
    SA 8.99 22 ...[manners and talk] require certain material conditions...
    QO 8.179 27 In a hundred years, millions of men, and...not an art of education that fulfils the conditions.
    PC 8.224 11 ...the mass is like the atom,-the same chemistry, gravity and conditions.
    Insp 8.270 2 The hunter on the prairie, at the right season, has no need of choosing his ground;...he is everywhere near his game. But the favorable conditions are rather the exception than the rule.
    Insp 8.272 3 ...every earnest workman...knows some favorable conditions for his task.
    Insp 8.274 19 Of the modus of inspiration we have no knowledge. But in the experience of meditative men there is a certain agreement as to the conditions of reception.
    Insp 8.289 2 All the conditions must be right for my success...
    Insp 8.289 16 ...the mixture of lie in truth, and the experience of poetic creativeness...these are the types or conditions of this power [of novelty].
    Insp 8.293 1 We must be warmed by the fire of sympathy, to be brought into the right conditions...
    Insp 8.296 14 ...it is impossible to detect and wilfully repeat the fine conditions to which we have owed our happiest frames of mind.
    Insp 8.296 21 ...I can never remember the circumstances to which I owe [a generalization], so as to repeat the experiment or put myself in the conditions...
    Aris 10.64 13 There are certain conditions in the highest degree favorable to the tranquillity of spirit and to that magnanimity we so prize.
    PerF 10.79 15 [The manufacturer] undertook the charge of [the chemical works] himself...learned chemistry and acquainted himself with all the conditions of the manufacture.
    PerF 10.84 12 ...this child of the dust throws himself by obedience into the circuit of the heavenly wisdom, and shares the secret of God. Thus is the world delivered into your hand, but on two conditions,-not for property... and...not for self-indulgence.
    Chr2 10.117 8 In the worst times, men of organic virtue are born...and indifferently in high and low conditions.
    Edc1 10.123 4 With the key of the secret he marches faster/ From strength to strength, and for night brings day,/ While classes or tribes too weak to master/ The flowing conditions of life, give way./
    Edc1 10.152 17 Each [pupil] requires so much consideration, that the morning hope of the teacher...is often closed at evening by despair. Each single case...shows...the strict conditions of the hours, on one side, and the number of tasks, on the other.
    Edc1 10.152 19 Whatever becomes of our method [of teaching], the conditions stand fast...
    SovE 10.188 15 When we trace from the beginning, that ferocity has uses; only so are the conditions of the then world met...
    Prch 10.230 20 The existence of the Sunday, and the pulpit waiting for a weekly sermon, give [the young preacher] the very conditions, the pou sto he wants.
    LLNE 10.352 18 [Fourier]...skips the faculty of life...which eludes all conditions;...
    Thor 10.474 16 [Thoreau's] eye was open to beauty, and his ear to music. He found these, not in rare conditions, but wheresoever he went.
    EWI 11.112 12 The scheme of the Minister...proposed...that on 1st August, 1834, all persons [in the West Indies] now slaves should be entitled to be registered as apprenticed laborers, and to acquire thereby all the rights and privileges of freemen, subject to the restriction of laboring under certain conditions.
    EWI 11.112 12 The scheme of the Minister...proposed...that on 1st August, 1834, all persons [in the West Indies] now slaves should...acquire...all the rights and privileges of freemen, subject to the restriction of laboring under certain conditions. These conditions were, that the praedials should owe three fourths of the profits of their labor to their masters for six years...
    EWI 11.112 20 With these provisions and conditions, the bill [for emancipation in the West Indies] proceeds...in the following terms...
    FSLC 11.188 19 I thought that all men of all conditions had been made sharers of a certain experience, that in certain rare and retired moments they had been made to see how man is man...
    AsSu 11.248 11 The very conditions of the game must always be,-the worst life staked against the best.
    EPro 11.315 14 [Liberty] comes, like religion...in rare conditions...
    EdAd 11.390 8 ...the insight which commands the laws and conditions of the true polity precludes forever all interest in the squabbles of parties.
    ChiE 11.474 5 [Asian immigrants'] power of continuous labor, their versatility in adapting themselves to new conditions...are unlooked-for virtues.
    FRep 11.516 19 The new conditions of mankind in America are really favorable to progress...
    FRep 11.534 15 In the planters of this country...the conditions of the country...forced them to a wonderful personal independence...
    PLT 12.27 19 There is no permanent wise man, but men capable of wisdom, who, being put into certain company or other favorable conditions, become wise...
    II 12.79 5 You shall not violate [inspiration's] conditions...
    CInt 12.131 13 ...your conditions, the invisible world, are the interrogators.
    Bost 12.200 10 If John Bull interest you at home, come and see him under new conditions...

Condivi, Ascanio, n. (1)

    MAng1 12.240 21 Condivi, his friend, has left this testimony; I have often heard Michael Angelo reason and discourse upon love, but never heard him speak otherwise than upon platonic love.

condole, v. (2)

    EzRy 10.387 23 We presently arrived [at the funeral], and the Doctor [Ezra Ripley] addressed each of the mourners separately: Sir, I condole with you.
    EzRy 10.387 24 We presently arrived [at the funeral], and the Doctor [Ezra Ripley] addressed each of the mourners separately: Sir, I condole with you. Madam, I condole with you.

condolence, n. (1)

    DL 7.115 14 [Man] should be visited in this his prison...with no mean-spirited offer of condolence because you have not money...

condoned, v. (1)

    PLT 12.57 11 All is condoned if I can write a good song or novel.

conduct, n. (45)

    Con 1.302 25 The reformer, the partisan, loses himself in driving to the utmost some specialty of right conduct...
    MoS 4.170 6 Shall we say that Montaigne has...given the right and permanent expression of the human mind, on the conduct of life?
    ShP 4.209 26 What point...of the conduct of life, has [Shakespeare] not settled?
    GoW 4.278 6 I suppose no book of this century can compare with [Goethe' s Wilhelm Meister] in its delicious sweetness...so provoking to the mind, gratifying it with...so many good hints for the conduct of life...
    ET5 5.93 16 ...in the complications of the trade and politics of their vast empire, [the English] have been equal to every exigency, with counsel and with conduct.
    ET7 5.121 11 [The English] are like ships with too much head on to come quickly about, nor will prosperity or even adversity be allowed to shake their habitual view of conduct.
    ET8 5.130 18 [The English] are full of coarse strength, rude exercise, butcher's meat and sound sleep; and suspect any poetic insinuation or any hint for the conduct of life which reflects on this animal existence...
    ET11 5.174 24 The things these English have done were not done...without wisdom and conduct;...
    ET11 5.185 24 The English nobles are high-spirited, active, educated men... and...have been consulted in the conduct of every important action.
    ET12 5.208 10 It is contended by those who have been bred at Eton, Harrow, Rugby and Westminster...that, in their playgrounds...manly feelings and generous conduct are encouraged;...
    ET13 5.214 11 A youth marries in haste; afterwards, when his mind is opened to the reason of the conduct of life, he is asked what he thinks of the institution of marriage...
    ET13 5.222 4 Wellington esteems a saint only as far as he can be an army chaplain: Mr. Briscoll, by his admirable conduct and good sense, got the better of Methodism, which had appeared among the soldiers and once among the officers.
    ET14 5.244 10 ...a bad general wants myriads of men and miles of redoubts to compensate the inspirations of courage and conduct.
    ET18 5.299 17 [Englishmen's] political conduct is not decided by general views...
    ET18 5.301 23 In Magna Charta it was ordained that all merchants shall have safe and secure conduct to go out and come into England...
    F 6.3 11 ...the question of the times resolved itself into a practical question of the conduct of life.
    F 6.24 5 The right use of Fate is to bring up our conduct to the loftiness of nature.
    Wsp 6.212 15 Only those can help in counsel or conduct who did not make a party pledge to defend this or that...
    Wsp 6.236 19 ...[Benedict] would correct his conduct, in that respect in which he had faulted, to the next person he should meet.
    Civ 7.23 18 The skilful combinations of civil government...require wisdom and conduct in the rulers...
    Civ 7.27 3 Hear the definition which Kant gives of moral conduct: Act always so that the immediate motive of thy will may become a universal rule for all intelligent beings.
    Elo1 7.80 8 A barrister in England is reputed to have made thirty or forty thousand pounds per annum in representing the claims of railroad companies before committees of the House of Commons. His clients pay not so much for legal as for manly accomplishments,--for courage, conduct and a commanding social position...
    Boks 7.215 12 ...'t is pity [people] should not read novels a little more, to import the fine generosities and the clear, firm conduct, which are as becoming in the unions and separations which love effects under shingle roofs as in palaces and among illustrious personages.
    Cour 7.253 5 I observe that there are three qualities which conspicuously attract the wonder and reverence of mankind: 1. Disinterestedness, as shown in indifference to the ordinary bribes and influences of conduct... practical power...courage...
    Cour 7.255 24 ...the pure article, courage with eyes, courage with conduct... is the endowment of elevated characters.
    Cour 7.268 9 Merchants recognize as much gallantry, well judged too, in the conduct of a wise and upright man of business in difficult times, as soldiers in a soldier.
    Grts 8.309 24 As [the Quakers] express [self-respect], it might be thus...if at any time I...propose a journey or a course of conduct, I perhaps find a silent obstacle in my mind that I cannot account for.
    Aris 10.65 6 ...for the day that now is, a man of generous spirit...will use a high prudence in the conduct of life to guard himself from being dissipated on many things.
    SovE 10.207 25 If theology shows that opinions are fast changing, it is not so with the convictions of men with regard to conduct.
    Plu 10.295 21 [Henry IV wrote] My good mother...put this book [Plutarch] into my hands almost when I was a child at the breast. It...has whispered in my ear many good suggestions and maxims for my conduct and the government of my affairs.
    SlHr 10.448 27 With beams December planets dart,/ [Samuel Hoar's] cold eye truth and conduct scanned;/ July was in his sunny heart,/ October in his liberal hand./
    EWI 11.120 26 The Queen, in her speech to the Lords and Commons, praised the conduct of the emancipated population [of Jamaica]...
    EWI 11.121 6 All those who are acquainted with the state of the island [Jamaica] know that our emancipated population are...as independent in their conduct...as any that we know of in any country.
    JBS 11.280 5 ...the anecdotes preserved [of John Brown] show a far-seeing skill and conduct...
    EPro 11.324 8 These necessities which have dictated the conduct of the federal government are overlooked especially by our foreign critics.
    EdAd 11.393 5 ...a few friends of good letters have thought fit to associate themselves for the conduct of a new journal.
    PLT 12.43 8 The conduct of Intellect must respect nothing so much as preserving the sensibility.
    PLT 12.45 15 The primary rule for the conduct of Intellect is to have control of the thoughts without losing their natural attitudes and action.
    Milt1 12.267 25 Johnson petulantly taunts Milton...in returning from Italy because his country was in danger, and then opening a private school. Milton, wiser, felt no absurdity in this conduct.
    Milt1 12.268 8 ...the religious sentiment warmed [Milton's] writings and conduct with the highest affection of faith.
    Milt1 12.273 27 Learn to estimate great characters [wrote Milton]...by the habitual justice and temperance of their conduct.
    ACri 12.294 1 ...in the conduct of the play, and the speech of the heroes, [Shakespeare] keeps the level tone which is the tone of high and low alike...
    Pray 12.354 16 That my weak hand may equal my firm faith,/ And my life practise more than my tongue saith;/ That my low conduct may not show,/ Nor my relenting lines,/ That I thy purpose did not know,/ Or overrated thy designs./
    Pray 12.356 10 And being admonished to reflect upon myself, I entered into the very inward parts of my soul, by thy conduct;...
    EurB 12.369 5 ...the spirit of literature and the modes of living and the conventional theories of the conduct of life were called in question [by Wordsworth] on wholly new grounds...

conduct, v. (2)

    NR 3.225 6 Could any man conduct into me the pure stream of that which he pretends to be!
    NER 3.261 21 It is handsomer to remain in the establishment better than the establishment, and to conduct that in the best manner, than to make a sally against evil by some single improvement, without supporting it by a total regeneration.

conducted, v. (9)

    NER 3.285 8 The life of man is the true romance, which when it is valiantly conducted will yield the imagination a higher joy than any fiction.
    NMW 4.232 14 In 1796 [Bonaparte] writes to the Directory: I have conducted the campaign without consulting any one.
    ET5 5.90 6 The business of the House of Commons is conducted by a few persons...
    ET15 5.265 18 I went one day with a good friend to The [London] Times office, which was entered through a pretty garden-yard in Printing-House Square. We walked with some circumspection, as if we were entering a powder-mill; but...by dint of some transmission of cards, we were at last conducted into the parlor of Mr. Morris...
    SA 8.90 8 The life of these persons was conducted in the same calm and affirmative manner as their discourse.
    LLNE 10.353 5 ...what is true and good must not only be begun by life, but must be conducted to its issues by life.
    FSLN 11.236 5 ...our education is not conducted by toys and luxuries...
    JBS 11.278 15 ...[John Brown] was much considered in the family where he then stayed, from the circumstance that this boy of twelve years had conducted alone a drove of cattle a hundred miles.
    CInt 12.114 4 ...[Archimedes] was willing to show [the king] that he was quite able in rude matters, if he could condescend to them, and he conducted the defence of Syracuse against the Romans.

conductor, n. (3)

    Pt1 3.40 16 Stand there, [O poet,]...hissed and hooted, stand and strive, until at last rage draw out of thee that dream-power which every night shows thee is thine own; a power transcending all limit and privacy, and by virtue of which a man is the conductor of the whole river of electricity.
    Wsp 6.209 20 When Paul Leroux offered his article Dieu to the conductor of a leading French journal, he replied, La question de Dieu manque d' actualite.
    CL 12.155 16 [Says Linnaeus] Not without admiration, I have watched my two Lap companions, in my journey to Finmark, one, my conductor, the other, my interpreter.

conductors, n. (4)

    SL 2.134 18 ...the wonders of which [men of extraordinary success] were the visible conductors seemed to the eye their deed.
    NR 3.233 21 ...the master [Handel] overpowered the littleness and incapableness of the performers, and made them conductors of his electricity...
    ET15 5.267 6 The influence of this journal [London Times] is a recognized power in Europe, and...none is more conscious of it than its conductors.
    Elo1 7.61 20 The eloquence of one [man] stimulates...all others to a degree that makes them good receivers and conductors...

conducts, v. (1)

    FRep 11.534 8 We lose our invention and descend into imitation. A man no longer conducts his own life.

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