Cones to Consciousnesses

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

cones, n. (1)

    HDC 11.39 1 The useful pine lifted its cones into the frosty air.

confectioner, n. (1)

    CL 12.146 7 It seems to me much that I have brought a skilful chemist into my ground...for an art he has, out of all kinds of refuse rubbish to manufacture Virgaliens, Bergamots, and Seckels, in a manner which no confectioner can approach...

confectioners, n. (2)

    UGM 4.16 13 The indicators of the values of matter are degraded to a sort of cooks and confectioners, on the appearance of the indicators of ideas.
    Ill 6.314 16 ...I remember the quarrel of another youth with the confectioners, that when he racked his wit to choose the best comfits in the shops, in all the endless varieties of sweetmeat he could find only three flavors, or two.

confectioners', n. (1)

    DL 7.111 15 The houses of the rich are confectioners' shops...

confectionery, n. (1)

    Boks 7.216 23 [The novel] is only confectionery, not the raising of new corn.

Confederacy, n. (1)

    EPro 11.323 14 Give the Confederacy New Orleans, Charleston, and Richmond, and they would have demanded St. Louis and Baltimore.

Confederate, Congress, n. (1)

    EPro 11.325 18 The malignant cry of the Secession press within the free states, and the recent action of the Confederate Congress, are decisive as to [the Emancipation Proclamation's] efficiency and correctness of aim.

confer, v. (4)

    Cir 2.317 14 ...these [divine] moments confer a sort of omnipresence and omnipotence...
    Cour 7.271 17 If Governor Wise is a superior man, or inasmuch as he is a superior man, he distinguishes John Brown. As they confer, they understand each other swiftly;...
    HDC 11.79 10 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 not confer with flesh and blood...
    Mem 12.106 7 Talk of memory and cite me these fine examples of Grotius and Daguesseau, and I think how awful is that power and what privilege and tyranny it must confer.

conference, n. (1)

    Elo1 7.84 4 Pepys says of Lord Clarendon...on his return from a conference, I did never observe how much easier a man do speak when he knows all the company to be below him, than in him;...

conferences, n. (1)

    HDC 11.64 1 ...the [Concord] Town Records of that day [April 18, 1689] confine themselves...to conferences with the neighboring towns to run boundary lines.

conferred, v. (7)

    Pt1 3.41 6 O poet! a new nobility is conferred in groves and pastures...
    SwM 4.95 22 The Arabians say, that Abul Khain, the mystic, and Abu Ali Seena, the philosopher, conferred together;...
    ET6 5.113 15 ...[the English] think, says the Venetian traveller of 1500, no greater honor can be conferred or received, than to invite others to eat with them, or to be invited themselves...
    Bty 6.285 8 The king, on the next day, conferred the sovereignty on [Tisso]...
    CPL 11.495 21 Happier, if [the town] contain citizens who...make costly gifts to education, civility and culture, as in the act we are met to witness and acknowledge to-day [opening of the Concord Library]. I think we cannot easily overestimate the benefit conferred.
    Bost 12.189 11 The [Massachusetts Bay] territory-conferred on the patentees in absolute property...extended from the 40th to the 48th degree of north latitude...
    AgMs 12.363 26 [Edmund Hosmer]...was incorrigible in his skepticism concerning the benefits conferred by legislatures on the agriculture of Massachusetts.

conferring, v. (1)

    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 conferring of privileges never so exalted would be a price too large.

confers, v. (7)

    LE 1.174 19 It is the noble, manlike, just thought, which is the superiority demanded of you, and not crowds but solitude confers this elevation.
    Tran 1.337 13 ...I have assurance in myself that in pardoning these faults according to the letter, man exerts the sovereign right which the majesty of his being confers on him;...
    Comp 2.113 18 He is great who confers the most benefits.
    Wsp 6.217 8 We believe that holiness confers a certain insight, because not by our private but by our public force can we share and know the nature of things.
    Bty 6.299 19 ...we can pardon pride, when a woman possesses such a figure that wherever she stands...she confers a favor on the world.
    Chr2 10.120 9 [Character] confers perpetual insight.
    LLNE 10.348 2 Fourier...has put men under the obligation which a generous mind always confers...

confess, v. (48)

    DSA 1.149 27 I confess, all attempts to project and establish a Cultus with new rites and forms, seem to me vain.
    MR 1.235 15 ...I confess I should not be pained at a change which threatened a loss of some of the luxuries or conveniences of society...
    MR 1.249 15 ...if...a woman or a child discovers...a juster way of thinking than mine, I ought to confess it by my respect and obedience...
    Con 1.305 27 ...before this personal appeal, the innovator must confess his weakness...
    Con 1.306 1 ...before this personal appeal, the innovator...must confess that no man is to be found good enough to be entitled to stand champion for the principle.
    Tran 1.342 5 Our American literature and spiritual history are, we confess, in the optative mood;...
    Tran 1.350 23 New, [Transcendentalists] confess, and by no means happy, is our condition...
    SR 2.52 18 ...I confess with shame I sometimes succumb and give the dollar...
    Lov1 2.169 22 The natural association of the sentiment of love with the heyday of the blood seems to require that in order to portray it in vivid tints, which every youth and maid should confess to be true to their throbbing experience, one must not be too old.
    Lov1 2.187 4 If there be virtue, all the vices are known as such; they confess and flee.
    Fdsp 2.195 11 I confess to an extreme tenderness of nature on this point [of friendship].
    Prd1 2.239 5 What low, poor, paltry, hypocritical people an argument on religion will make of the pure and chosen souls! They will...feign to confess here, only that they may brag and conquer there...
    OS 2.286 25 If [a man] have not found his home in God...the build, shall I say, of all his opinions will involuntarily confess it...
    OS 2.287 27 ...if a man do not speak from within the veil, where the word is one with that it tells of, let him lowly confess it.
    Pt1 3.9 10 ...we were obliged to confess that [a recent writer of lyrics] is plainly a contemporary, not an eternal man.
    Exp 3.73 17 In our more correct writing we give to this generalization the name of Being, and thereby confess that we have arrived as far as we can go.
    NER 3.255 17 I confess, the motto of the Globe newspaper is so attractive to me that I can seldom find much appetite to read what is below it in its columns...
    NER 3.277 26 ...we hold on to our little properties...although they confess that our being does not flow through them.
    NER 3.281 7 Let a clear, apprehensive mind...converse with the most commanding poetic genius, I think...the poet would confess that his creative imagination gave him no deep advantage...
    MoS 4.165 21 When I the most strictly and religiously confess myself, [says Montaigne,] I find that the best virtue I have has in it some tincture of vice;...
    MoS 4.175 2 [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;...
    ET15 5.270 4 Who would care for [the London Times], if it surmised, or dared to confess...
    F 6.34 23 Very odious, I confess, are the lessons of Fate.
    Bhr 6.180 7 You can read in the eyes of your companion whether your argument hits him, though his tongue will not confess it.
    CbW 6.245 2 ...I confess that life is rather a subject of wonder than of didactics.
    DL 7.132 23 Does the consecration of Sunday confess the desecration of the entire week?
    DL 7.132 25 Does the consecration of the church confess the profanation of the house?
    Cour 7.271 7 ...men who wish to inspire terror seem thereby to confess themselves cowards.
    Comc 8.157 15 I confess, [Aristotle's] definition [of the ridiculous]...does not satisfy me...
    PC 8.212 10 We confess that in America everything looks new and recent.
    Grts 8.311 16 This day-labor of ours, we confess, has hitherto a certain emblematic air...
    Grts 8.316 6 We like the natural greatness of health and wild power. I confess that I am as much taken by it in boys...as in more orderly examples.
    Imtl 8.342 27 I confess that everything connected with our personality fails.
    Edc1 10.156 23 I confess myself utterly at a loss in suggesting particular reforms in our ways of teaching.
    SovE 10.203 24 I confess our later generation appears ungirt, frivolous, compared with the religions of the last or Calvinist age.
    Plu 10.303 24 ...I confess that, in reading [Plutarch], I embrace the particulars...
    Plu 10.321 1 ...I yet confess my enjoyment of this old version [of Plutarch's Morals]...
    HDC 11.59 14 I confess what chiefly interests me, in the annals of [King Philip's] war, is the grandeur of spirit exhibited by a few of the Indian chiefs.
    HDC 11.67 9 ...Mr. [Daniel] Bliss replied...I...used the word Mediator in some differing light from that you have given it; but I confess I was soon uneasy that I had used the word...
    FSLC 11.188 13 I had thought, I confess, what must come at last would come at first, a banding of all men against the authority of this statute [the Fugitive Slave Law].
    Wom 11.417 3 ...this conspicuousness [of Woman] had its inconveniences. But it is cheap wit that has been spent on this subject; from Aristophanes, in whose comedies I confess my dulness to find good joke, to Rabelais...
    PLT 12.12 9 I confess to a little distrust of that completeness of system which metaphysicians are apt to affect.
    Bost 12.203 26 I confess I do not find in our [New England] people, with all their education, a fair share of originality of thought;...
    MAng1 12.238 24 It has been the defect of some great men that they did not duly appreciate or did not confess the talents and virtues of others...
    Milt1 12.267 7 [Wrote Milton] Albeit I must confess to be half in doubt whether I should bring it forth or no, it being so contrary to the eye of the world, that I shall endanger either not to be regarded, or not to be understood. For who is there, almost, that measures wisdom by simplicity...
    ACri 12.288 8 ...I confess to some titillation of my ears from a rattling oath.
    MLit 12.332 22 Humanity must...confess as this man [Goethe] goes out that they have served it better, who assured it out of the innocent hope in their hearts that a Physician will come, than this majestic Artist...
    WSL 12.337 10 When Mr. Bull rides in an American coach...he is very ready to confess his ignorance of everything about him...

confessed, adj. (1)

    Con 1.298 13 Conservatism stands on man's confessed limitations...

confessed, v. (9)

    ET11 5.194 13 A man of wit [in England]...confessed to his friend that he could not enter [noblemen's] houses without being made to feel that they were great lords, and he a low plebeian.
    ET17 5.295 22 I said, if Plato's Republic were published in England as a new book to-day, do you think it would find any readers?--[Wordsworth] confessed it would not...
    Clbs 7.241 27 Even Montesquieu confessed that in conversation, if he perceived he was listened to by a third person, it seemed to him from that moment the whole question vanished from his mind.
    Clbs 7.246 4 [A man of irreproachable behavior and excellent sense] confessed he liked low company.
    QO 8.198 19 ...what dismay when the good Matilda, pleased with [the author's] pleasure, confessed she had written the criticism...
    Grts 8.313 15 ...Barcena the Jesuit confessed to another of his order that when the Devil appeared to him in his cell one night, out of his profound humility he rose up to meet him, and prayed him to sit down in his chair, for he was more worthy to sit there than himself.
    Thor 10.471 24 [Thoreau] confessed that he sometimes felt like a hound or a panther...
    Carl 10.498 5 ...in England, where the morgue of aristocracy has very slowly admitted scholars into society...[Carlyle] has...made himself a power confessed by all men...
    MAng1 12.232 16 ...inimitable as his works are, [Michelangelo's] whole life confessed that his hand was all inadequate to express his thought.

confessedly, adv. (2)

    Comc 8.166 29 A classification or nomenclature used by the scholar... confessedly a makeshift...becomes through indolence a barrack and a prison...
    Let 12.404 6 Apathies and total want of work...never will obtain any sympathy if there is...an unweeded patch in the garden; not to mention the graver absurdity of a youth of noble aims who can find no field for his energies, whilst...the religious, civil and judicial forms of the country are confessedly effete and offensive.

confesses, v. (6)

    MR 1.233 5 The sins of our trade belong...to no individual. One plucks, one distributes, one eats. Every body partakes, every body confesses...
    Comp 2.100 25 Under the primeval despots of Egypt, history honestly confesses that man must have been as free as culture could make him.
    Comc 8.167 5 The physiologist Camper humorously confesses the effect of his studies in dislocating his ordinary associations.
    QO 8.188 16 Quotation confesses inferiority.
    Dem1 10.6 2 In sleep one shall travel certain roads...or shall walk alone in familiar fields and meadows, which road or which meadow in waking hours he never looked upon. This feature of dreams deserves the more attention from its singular resemblance to that obscure yet startling experience which almost every person confesses in daylight...
    Aris 10.35 23 ...every man confesses that the highest good which the universe proposes to him is the highest society.

confessing, adj. (1)

    Bhr 6.177 18 It almost violates the proprieties if we say above the breath here what the confessing eyes do not hesitate to utter to every street passenger.

confessing, v. (1)

    HDC 11.48 21 I shall be excused for confessing that I have set a value upon any symptom of meanness and private pique which I have met with in these antique books [Concord Town Records]...

confession, n. (19)

    MR 1.233 6 The sins of our trade belong...to no individual. One plucks, one distributes, one eats. Every body partakes, every body confesses,-with cap and knee volunteers his confession...
    Hist 2.30 2 [The advancing man] finds...that universal man wrote by [the poet's] pen a confession true for one and true for all.
    Comp 2.106 22 [Jove] cannot get his own thunders; Minerva keeps the key of them... A plain confession of the in-working of the All and of its moral aim.
    SL 2.159 5 There is confession in the glances of our eyes...
    OS 2.284 14 These questions which we lust to ask about the future are a confession of sin.
    OS 2.291 11 Nothing can pass [in the soul]...but...dealing man to man in... plain confession...
    Art1 2.359 7 ...in the pictures of the Tuscan and Venetian masters, the highest charm is the universal language they speak. A confession of moral nature...breathes from them all.
    Art1 2.362 23 ...we must end with a frank confession that the arts, as we know them, are but initial.
    Pt1 3.10 9 ...the experience of each new age requires a new confession...
    Pol1 3.217 15 The gladiators in the lists of power feel...the presence of worth. I think the very strife of trade and ambition is confession of this divinity;...
    NER 3.279 24 It is yet in all men's memory that, a few years ago, the liberal churches complained that the Calvinistic church denied to them the name of Christian. I think the complaint was confession...
    ET7 5.125 25 ...tortures, it is said, could never wrest from an Egyptian the confession of a secret.
    Ctr 6.136 14 Bring any club or company of intelligent men together again after ten years, and if the presence of some penetrating and calming genius could dispose them to frankness, what a confession of insanities would come up!
    Bhr 6.179 16 We look into the eyes to know if this other form is another self, and the eyes...make a faithful confession what inhabitant is there.
    Bhr 6.179 18 The confession of a low, usurping devil is there made [in the eyes]...
    Wsp 6.224 11 People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
    Schr 10.268 23 There is confession in [the practical men's] eyes...
    SMC 11.358 11 I doubt not many of our soldiers could repeat the confession of a youth whom I knew in the beginning of the [Civil] war...
    CPL 11.506 7 [Kepler writes] I will triumph over mankind by the honest confession that I have stolen the golden vases of the Egyptians to build up a tabernacle for my God far away from the confines of Egypt.

Confession of Augsburg, n. (2)

    EPro 11.315 17 Such moments of expansion [of liberty] in modern history were the Confession of Augsburg, the plantation of America...
    RBur 11.440 22 The Confession of Augsburg, the Declaration of Independence...are not more weighty documents in the history of freedom than the songs of Burns.

Confession of Faith, n. (1)

    Prch 10.219 27 The Understanding will write out the vision in a Confession of Faith.

confessional, n. (1)

    Chr2 10.118 23 How many people are there in Boston? Some two hundred thousand. Well, then so many sects. Of course, each poor soul loses all his old stays;...no confessor reports that he has neglected the confessional...

confessionals, n. (1)

    SR 2.74 11 There are two confessionals...

Confessions [Jean Jacques (2)

    ET1 5.17 5 Rousseau's Confessions had discovered to [Carlyle] that he was not a dunce;...
    Boks 7.208 10 Among the best books are certain Autobiographies; as... Rousseau's Confessions;...

confessions, n. (3)

    AmS 1.103 18 The orator distrusts at first the fitness of his frank confessions...
    MoS 4.164 27 ...[Montaigne] has anticipated all censure by the bounty of his own confessions.
    SS 7.3 9 In the conversation that followed, my new friend made some extraordinary confessions.

Confessions [Saint Augustin (1)

    Pray 12.356 7 ...we must not tie up the rosary on which we have strung these few white beads [prayers], without adding a pearl of great price from that book of prayer, the Confessions of Saint Augustine.

Confessions [St. Augustine] (1)

    Boks 7.208 7 Among the best books are certain Autobiographies; as, St. Augustine's Confessions;......

confessor, n. (4)

    Elo1 7.65 16 Bring [the master orator] to his audience, and, be they...with their opinions in the keeping of a confessor, or with their opinions in their bank-safes,--he will have them pleased and humored as he chooses;...
    Chr2 10.118 22 How many people are there in Boston? Some two hundred thousand. Well, then so many sects. Of course, each poor soul loses all his old stays;...no confessor reports that he has neglected the confessional...
    Edc1 10.136 20 The old man thinks the young man has no distinct purpose, for he could never get anything intelligible and earnest out of him. Perhaps the young man does not think it worth his while to explain himself to so hard and inapprehensive a confessor.
    Thor 10.478 9 A truth-speaker [Thoreau]...a friend...almost worshipped by those few persons who resorted to him as their confessor and prophet...

confessors, n. (2)

    ET13 5.217 22 [The English Church] has the seal of martyrs and confessors;...
    Cour 7.274 14 There are ever appearing in the world men who, almost as soon as they are born, take a bee-line to...the axe of the tyrant, like...Jesus and Socrates. Look...at the folios of the Brothers Bollandi, who collected the lives of twenty-five thousand martyrs, confessors, ascetics and self-tormentors.

confest, v. (2)

    HCom 11.339 11 We grudge them not, our dearest, bravest, best,-/ Let but the quarrel's issue stand confest:/ 'T is Earth's old slave-God battling for his crown/ And Freedom fighting with her visor down./ Holmes.
    SHC 11.428 24 ...Forget man's littleness, deserve the best,/ God's mercy in thy thought and life confest./ William Ellery Channing.

confide, v. (17)

    YA 1.390 21 It is for us to confide in the beneficent Supreme Power...
    Pt1 3.12 2 With what joy I begin to read a poem which I confide in as an inspiration!
    Mrs1 3.150 14 ...I confide so entirely in [woman's] inspiring and musical nature, that I believe only herself can show us how she shall be served.
    PNR 4.89 18 It was a high scheme, his absolute privilege for the best...as the premium which [Plato] would set on grandeur. There shall be exempts of two kinds:...secondly, those who by eminence of nature and desert are out of reach of your rewards. ... We confide them to themselves;...
    MoS 4.161 23 Men do not confide themselves to boys...
    ShP 4.207 14 Did Shakspeare confide to any notary or parish recorder...the genesis of that delicate creation [A Midsummer Night's dream]?
    ET7 5.119 19 [The English] confide in each other...
    Wsp 6.239 7 'T is a higher thing to confide that if it is best we should live, we shall live...
    Suc 7.291 5 There was a wise man...Michel Angelo, who writes thus of himself:...I began to understand...that to confide in one's self, and become something of worth and value, is the best and safest course.
    Suc 7.291 12 ...I think we shall agree in my first rule for success,--that we shall...take Michel Angelo's course, to confide in one's self, and be something of worth and value.
    PPo 8.252 26 Out of the East, and out of the West, no man understands me;/ O, the happier I, who confide to none but the wind!/
    Insp 8.287 6 ...[from Nature] are ejaculated sweet and dreadful words never uttered in libraries. Ah! the spring days, the summer dawns, the October woods! I confide that my reader knows these delicious secrets...
    Imtl 8.337 18 All the comfort I have found teaches me to confide that I shall not have less in times and places that I do not yet know.
    Plu 10.322 9 It is a service to our Republic to publish a book that can force ambitious young men...to read...the Apothegms of Great Commanders [of Plutarch]. If we could keep the secret, and communicate it only to a few chosen aspirants, we might confide that, by this noble infiltration, they would easily carry the victory over all competitors.
    Thor 10.476 18 [Thoreau's] riddles were worth the reading, and I confide that if at any time I do not understand the expression, it is yet just.
    AsSu 11.252 3 ...if our arms at this distance cannot defend [Charles Sumner] from assassins, we confide the defence of a life so precious to all honorable men and true patriots...
    EPro 11.320 27 We confide that Mr. Lincoln is in earnest...

confided, adj. (1)

    Pol1 3.215 21 ...the less government we have the better,--the fewer laws, and the less confided power.

confided, v. (16)

    SR 2.47 16 Great men have always...confided themselves childlike to the genius of their age...
    GoW 4.272 15 [Goethe's Helena] are...elaborate forms to which the poet has confided the results of eighty years of observation.
    GoW 4.283 26 The old Eternal Genius who built the world has confided himself more to this man [the writer] than to any other.
    ET4 5.60 11 ...the old fossil world shows that the first steps of reducing the chaos were confided to saurians and other huge and horrible animals...
    ET5 5.101 7 Every man [in England]...knows what is confided to him...
    ET7 5.120 18 ...the chairman [of a St. George's festival in Montreal] complimented his compatriots, by saying, they confided that wherever they met an Englishman, they found a man who would speak the truth.
    ET15 5.266 3 Our entertainer [at the London Times] confided us to a courteous assistant to show us the establishment...
    Ctr 6.139 21 We know that an army which can be confided in may be formed by discipline;...
    Farm 7.140 12 [The farmer] has grave trusts confided to him.
    Boks 7.220 20 ...[the French Institute and the British Association] divide the whole body into sections, each of which sits upon and reports of certain matters confided to it...
    Cour 7.261 20 I knew a young soldier...who confided to his sister that he had made up his mind to volunteer for the war.
    Aris 10.49 11 I should like to see...every man made acquainted with the true number and weight of every adult citizen, and that he be placed where he belongs, with so much power confided to him as he could carry and use.
    LS 11.24 25 As it is the prevailing opinion and feeling in our religious community that it is an indispensable part of the pastoral office to administer this ordinance [the Lord's Supper], I am about to resign into your hands that office which you have confided to me.
    JBS 11.280 12 ...if [John Brown] traded in wool, he was a merchant prince, not in the amount of wealth, but in the protection of the interests confided to him.
    SMC 11.358 14 Before [the youth's] departure [to the Civil War] he confided to his sister that he was naturally a coward...
    SHC 11.429 2 Citizens and Friends: The committee to whom was confided the charge of carrying out the wishes of the town [Concord] in opening the [Sleep Hollow] cemetary...have thought it fit to call the inhabitants together...

confidence, n. (51)

    AmS 1.102 13 ...it becomes [the scholar] to feel all confidence in himself...
    AmS 1.114 7 ...this confidence in the unsearched might of man belongs...to the American Scholar.
    DSA 1.146 22 By trusting your own heart, you shall gain more confidence in other men.
    LE 1.158 8 The resources of the scholar are proportioned to his confidence in the attributes of the Intellect.
    LE 1.180 6 ...[Napoleon] had a sublime confidence...in the sallies of courage...
    Con 1.314 17 ...he who sets his face like a flint against every novelty, when approached in the confidence of conversation...has also his gracious and relenting moments...
    YA 1.379 10 Every line of history inspires a confidence that we shall not go far wrong;...
    SL 2.152 19 ...we know that these gentlemen will not communicate their own character and experience to the company. If we had reason to expect such a confidence we should go through all inconvenience and opposition.
    Mrs1 3.142 14 Fox thanked the man for his confidence and paid him...
    PPh 4.69 15 ...beauty is the most lovely of all things, exciting hilarity and shedding desire and confidence through the universe wherever it enters...
    NMW 4.232 20 I have gained some advantages over superior forces and when totally destitute of every thing [Bonaparte writes to the Directory], because, in the persuasion that your confidence was reposed in me, my actions were as prompt as my thoughts.
    NMW 4.233 12 ...[Napoleon] inspires confidence and vigor by the extraordinary unity of his action.
    NMW 4.249 3 Read [Napoleon's] account, too, of the way in which battles are gained. In all battles a moment occurs when the bravest troops...feel inclined to run. That terror proceeds from a want of confidence in their own courage...
    NMW 4.249 5 Read [Napoleon's] account, too, of the way in which battles are gained. In all battles a moment occurs when the bravest troops...feel inclined to run. That terror proceeds from a want of confidence in their own courage, and it only requires a slight opportunity, a pretence, to restore confidence to them.
    GoW 4.266 21 If I were to compare action of a much higher strain with a life of contemplation, I should not venture to pronounce with much confidence in favor of the former.
    ET6 5.111 7 Bacon told [the English], Time was the right reformer; Chatham, that confidence was a plant of slow growth;...
    ET9 5.144 22 [The Englishman's] confidence in the power and performance of his nation makes him provokingly incurious about other nations.
    ET14 5.250 24 ...a master should inspire a confidence that he will adhere to his convictions...
    ET15 5.268 25 ...[the English] like [the London Times]...above all, for the nationality and confidence of its tone.
    Pow 6.61 22 A timid man...might easily believe that he and his country have seen their best days, and he hardens himself the best he can against the coming ruin. But after this has been foretold with equal confidence fifty times...he discovers that the enormous elements of strength which are here in play make our politics unimportant.
    Bhr 6.176 16 Every man...looks with confidence for some traits and talents in his own child...
    Bhr 6.192 17 The novels are as useful as Bibles if they teach you the secret that...the greatest success is confidence...
    SS 7.9 6 ...the stuff of tragedy and of romances is in a moral union of two superior persons whose confidence in each other for long years...is at last justified by victorious proof of probity...
    Elo1 7.78 25 The confidence of men in [Caesar] is lavish...
    Cour 7.277 12 ...if...you have no confidence in any foreign mind, then be brave...
    SA 8.88 19 If...a man has not firm nerves...it is perhaps a wise economy to go to a good shop and dress himself irreproachably. He...may easily find that performance an addition of confidence...
    QO 8.177 19 Of a large and powerful class we might ask with confidence, What is the event they most desire?...
    Imtl 8.342 1 ...courage or confidence in the mind comes to those who know by use its wonderful forces and inspirations and returns.
    Aris 10.49 14 In the absence of such anthropometer I have a perfect confidence in the natural laws.
    Supl 10.175 27 The men whom [Nature] admits to her confidence...are uniformly marked by absence of pretension...
    SovE 10.188 26 ...a sublime confidence is fed at the bottom of the heart that...an eternal, beneficent necessity is always bringing things right;...
    MMEm 10.413 1 ...I [Mary Moody Emerson] shall delight to return to God. His name my fullest confidence.
    MMEm 10.418 26 Should I [Mary Moody Emerson] take so much care to save a few dollars? Never was I so much ashamed. Did I say with what rapture I might dispose of them to the poor? Pho! self-preservation, dignity, confidence in the future, contempt of trifles! Alas, I am disgraced.
    LS 11.14 25 ...there is a material circumstance which diminishes our confidence in the correctness of the Apostle's [St. Paul's] view [of the Lord' s Supper];...
    HDC 11.58 11 The inactivity of Major [Simon] Willard, in Ninigret's war, had lost him no confidence.
    LVB 11.89 11 Each has the highest right to call your [Van Buren's] attention to such subjects as are of a public nature, and properly belong to the chief magistrate; and the good magistrate will feel a joy in meeting such confidence.
    FSLC 11.180 20 In Boston, we have said with such lofty confidence, no fugitive slave can be arrested...
    FSLC 11.180 23 ...we must transfer our vaunt to the country, and say, with a little less confidence, no fugitive man can be arrested here;...
    FSLC 11.193 4 There is not a manly Whig, or a manly Democrat, of whom if a slave were hidden in one of our houses from the hounds, we should not ask with confidence to lend his wagon in aid of his escape, and he would lend it.
    FSLC 11.197 20 ...here are gentlemen whose believed probity was the confidence and fortification of multitudes, who...have been drawn into the support of this foul business [the Fugitive Slave Law].
    FSLN 11.230 21 [Reasonably men] answered that they had no confidence in their strength to resist the Democratic party;...
    TPar 11.285 11 In Plutarch's lives of Alexander and Pericles, you have the secret whispers of their confidence to their lovers and trusty friends.
    ALin 11.331 19 [Lincoln] had a face and manner...which inspired confidence...
    SHC 11.436 20 The being that can share a thought and feeling so sublime as confidence in truth is no mushroom.
    FRep 11.521 22 The American marches with a careless swagger to the height of power...in his reckless confidence that he can have all he wants, risking all the prized charters of the human race...
    FRep 11.531 21 In this country...there is, at present...an extravagant confidence in our talent and activity...
    FRep 11.544 8 ...in seeing this felicity without example that has rested on the Union thus far, I find new confidence for the future.
    PLT 12.13 4 Metaphysics is dangerous as a single pursuit. We should feel more confidence in the same results from the mouth of a man of the world.
    CInt 12.114 25 Milton congratulates the Parliament that, whilst London is besieged and blocked...yet then are the people...more than at other times wholly taken up with the study of highest and most important matters to be reformed...and the fact argues a just confidence in the grandeur and self-subsistency of the cause of religious liberty which made all material war an impertinence.
    WSL 12.347 17 ...the minuteness of [Landor's] verbal criticism gives a confidence in his fidelity when he speaks the language of meditation or of passion.
    Let 12.392 9 ...we have thought that we might clear our account [of correspondence] by writing a quarterly catholic letter to all and several who have honored us...with their confidence...

confidences, n. (1)

    Suc 7.296 19 ...in every book [a good reader] finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakably meant for his ear.

confident, adj. (7)

    YA 1.382 7 The science is confident...
    SR 2.69 25 Inasmuch as the soul is present there will be power not confident but agent.
    Chr1 3.91 16 ...the most confident and the most violent persons learn that here [in a man of character] is resistance on which both impudence and terror are wasted...
    ET9 5.149 12 ...the prestige of the English name warrants a certain confident bearing...
    Cour 7.269 23 When a confident man comes into a company magnifying this or that author he has freshly read, the company grow silent and ashamed of their ignorance.
    Suc 7.303 3 [The greatest men] may well speak in this uncertain manner of their knowledge, and in this confident manner of their will...
    War 11.172 26 We are affected...by the appearance of a few rich and wilful gentlemen who take their honor into their own keeping, defy the world, so confident are they of their courage and strength...

confidential, adj. (2)

    NR 3.247 26 How sincere and confidential we can be, saying all that lies in the mind...
    Aris 10.48 25 In Rome or Greece what sums would not be paid for a superior slave, a confidential secretary and manager...

confidently, adv. (2)

    Exp 3.83 6 I can very confidently announce one or another law...
    CSC 10.376 17 ...[these men and women at the Chardon Street Convention] found what they sought, or the pledge of it...in...the prophetic dignity and transfiguration which accompanies...a man...who...awaits confidently the new emergency for the new counsel.

confiding, adj. (1)

    Lov1 2.173 16 The girls may have little beauty, yet plainly do they establish between them and the good boy the most agreeable, confiding relations;...

confiding, v. (2)

    Pol1 3.213 21 The wise man [the community] cannot find in nature, and it makes awkward but earnest efforts...to secure the advantages of efficiency and internal peace by confiding the government to one, who may himself select his agents.
    UGM 4.32 15 Nature never sends a great man into the planet without confiding the secret to another soul.

confine, v. (10)

    MN 1.205 9 Confine [the ocean] by granite rocks...and it is filled with expression;...
    Int 2.342 25 ...if I speak, I define, I confine and am less.
    SwM 4.112 16 It is remarkable that this sublime genius [Swedenborg]...in a book [The Animal Kingdom] whose genius is a daring poetic synthesis, claims to confine himself to a rigid experience.
    ET18 5.306 13 The feudal system survives [in England]...in the social barriers which confine patronage and promotion to a caste...
    Cour 7.264 7 ...the farmer is skilful to fight [the forest fire]. The neighbors run together;...and by raking with the hoe a long but little trench, confine to a patch the fire which would easily spread over a hundred acres.
    QO 8.180 4 If we confine ourselves to literature, 't is easy to see that the debt is immense to past thought.
    HDC 11.63 27 ...the [Concord] Town Records of that day [April 18, 1689] confine themselves to descriptions of lands...
    FSLC 11.207 6 What shall we do? First, abrogate this [Fugitive Slave] law; then, proceed to confine slavery to slave states...
    PLT 12.11 16 I confine my ambition to true reporting of [intellect's] play in natural action...
    CInt 12.116 3 ...[the college] deals with a force which it cannot monopolize or confine;...

confined, adj. (2)

    Mrs1 3.153 4 ...the advantages which fashion values are plants which thrive in very confined localities...
    Bost 12.200 19 ...a gold-mine, a new country...offer swing and play to the confined powers.

confined, v. (22)

    Nat 1.33 12 These propositions [in physics] have a much more extensive and universal sense when applied to human life, than when confined to technical use.
    Nat 1.67 26 The American who has been confined...to the sight of buildings designed after foreign models, is surprised on entering York Minster or St. Peter's at Rome, by the feeling that these structures are...faint copies of an invisible archetype.
    YA 1.392 12 We are full of vanity, of which the most signal proof is our sensitiveness to foreign and especially English censure. One cause of this is our immense reading, and that reading chiefly confined to the productions of the English press.
    Prd1 2.237 24 The terrors of the storm are chiefly confined to the parlor and the cabin.
    SwM 4.124 14 ...what is real and universal cannot be confined to the circle of those who sympathize strictly with [Swedenborg's] genius...
    GoW 4.283 22 ...your interest in the writer is not confined to his story and he dismissed from memory when he has performed his task creditably...
    ET11 5.192 14 The sycophancy and sale of votes and honor, for place and title;...the splendor of the titles, and the apathy of the nation; are instructive, and make the reader pause and explore the firm bounds which [in England] confined these vices to a handful of rich men.
    ET11 5.196 10 ...advantages once confined to men of family are now open to the whole middle class.
    ET13 5.229 1 The English (and I wish it were confined to them, but 't is a taint in the Anglo-Saxon blood in both hemispheres),--the English and the Americans cant beyond all other nations.
    ET17 5.293 9 It is not in distinguished circles that wisdom and elevated characters are usually found, or, if found, they are not confined thereto;...
    CbW 6.271 24 ...if one comes who can...show [men]...what gifts they have...then...we see the zenith over and the nadir under us. Instead of the tanks and buckets of knowledge to which we are daily confined, we come down to the shore of the sea...
    PI 8.37 26 [Mortal men] live cabined, cribbed, confined in a narrow and trivial lot...
    PI 8.61 25 Ah, sir, said Merlin [to Sir Gawaine]...never other person will be able to discover this place...neither shall I ever go out from hence, for in the world there is no such strong tower as this wherein I am confined;...
    Insp 8.270 22 The Hunterian law of arrested development is not confined to vegetable and animal structure...
    Grts 8.314 6 Scintillations of greatness...are by no means confined to the cultivated and so-called moral class.
    Thor 10.483 19 We are strictly confined to our men to whom we give liberty.
    FRO1 11.478 21 ...in churches, every healthy and thoughtful mind finds itself in something less; it is checked, cribbed, confined.
    FRO2 11.487 6 [Thought] cannot be confined or hid.
    Mem 12.103 18 ...confined now in populous streets you behold again the green fields, the shadows of the gray birches;...
    CL 12.135 5 [Earth-hunger] is not less visible in that branch of the family which inhabits America. Nor is it confined to farmers, speculators, and filibusters, or conquerors.
    MAng1 12.223 23 Nor was [Michelangelo's] a skill in ornament, or confined to the outline and designs of towers and facades...
    WSL 12.342 16 Let us thankfully allow every faculty and art which opens new scope to a life so confined as ours.

confinement, n. (3)

    ET2 5.28 27 The confinement, cold, motion, noise and odor [at sea] are not to be dispensed with.
    Wth 6.108 18 The price of coal shows...a compulsory confinement of the miners to a certain district.
    CL 12.140 23 We are very sensible of this [power of the air]...when, after much confinement to the house, we go abroad into the landscape...

confines, n. (3)

    Nat 1.16 17 The influence of the forms and actions in nature is so needful to man, that, in its lowest functions, it seems to lie on the confines of commodity and beauty.
    WD 7.171 16 The sky is...the verge or confines of matter and spirit.
    CPL 11.506 10 [Kepler writes] I will triumph over mankind by the honest confession that I have stolen the golden vases of the Egyptians to build up a tabernacle for my God far away from the confines of Egypt.

confines, v. (4)

    ET14 5.252 21 A good Englishman shuts himself out of three fourths of his mind and confines himself to one fourth.
    F 6.9 7 Every spirit makes its house; but afterwards the house confines the spirit.
    Suc 7.295 19 ...talent confines, but the central life puts us in relation to all.
    PLT 12.59 4 I cannot conceive any good in a thought which confines and stagnates.

confining, v. (4)

    ET1 5.16 7 When too much praise of any genius annoyed [Carlyle] he professed hugely to admire the talent shown by his pig. He had spent much time and contrivance in confining the poor beast to one enclosure in his pen, but pig, by great strokes of judgment, had found out how to let a board down, and had foiled him.
    ET5 5.90 3 Sir Samuel Romilly refused to speak in popular assemblies, confining himself to the House of Commons...
    Schr 10.288 10 I had perhaps wiselier adhered to my first purpose of confining my illustration [of the scholar] to a single topic...
    FRO1 11.478 8 We are all very sensible...of the feeling...that a technical theology no longer suits us. It is not the ill will of people...but the incapacity for confining themselves there.

confirm, v. (9)

    Int 2.329 9 As far as we can recall these ecstasies [of thought] we carry away in the ineffaceable memory the result, and all men and all the ages confirm it.
    Clbs 7.230 12 ...a natural fact has only half its value until a fact in moral nature, its counterpart, is stated. Then they confirm and adorn each other;...
    Grts 8.310 8 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. ... It is not an oracle...but such as it is, it is something which the contradiction of all mankind could not shake, and which the consent of all mankind could not confirm.
    HDC 11.76 15 We...confirm from living lips the sealed records of time.
    AKan 11.255 18 The testimony of the telegraphs from St. Louis and the border confirm the worst details.
    II 12.81 8 ...the real credentials by which man...lays his hand on those advantages which confirm and consolidate rank, are intellectual and moral.
    Mem 12.92 6 What was an isolated, unrelated belief or conjecture, our later experience instructs us how to place in just connection with other views which confirm and expand it.
    Pray 12.353 19 Let the purpose for which I live be always before me; let every thought and word go to confirm and illuminate that end;...
    EurB 12.369 16 What [Wordsworth] said, [many others] were prepared to hear and confirm.

confirmation, n. (8)

    Chr1 3.98 24 It is disgraceful to fly to events for confirmation of our truth and worth.
    Pow 6.79 23 I remarked in England, in confirmation of a frequent experience at home, that in literary circles, the men of trust and consideration...were...usually of a low and ordinary intellectuality...
    Art2 7.51 3 ...we arrive at this conclusion, which I offer as a confirmation of the whole view, that the delight which a work of art affords, seems to arise from our recognizing in it the mind that formed Nature...
    Clbs 7.239 24 When Henry III. (1217) plead duress against his people demanding confirmation and execution of the Charter, the reply was: If this were admitted, civil wars could never close but by the extirpation of one of the contending parties.
    Suc 7.310 16 Despondency comes readily enough to the most sanguine. The cynic has only to follow their hint with his bitter confirmation...
    Imtl 8.332 16 ...the impulse which drew these minds to this inquiry [concerning immortality] through so many years was a better affirmative evidence than their failure to find a confirmation was negative.
    LVB 11.92 8 We have looked in the newspapers of different parties and find a horrid confirmation of the tale [of the relocation of the Cherokees].
    PPr 12.391 24 Whatever thought or motto has once appeared to [Carlyle] fraught with meaning...is sure to return...now as threat, now as confirmation...

confirmatory, adj. (1)

    LE 1.167 7 We assume that...what we say we only throw in as confirmatory of this supposed complete body of literature.

confirmed, v. (8)

    Comp 2.94 3 I was lately confirmed in these desires [to write on Compensation] by hearing a sermon at church.
    ET5 5.75 14 Last of all the Norman or French-Dane arrived [in England], and formally conquered, harried and ruled the kingdom. A century later it came out that the Saxon...step by step, got all the essential securities of civil liberty invented and confirmed.
    PerF 10.77 6 A few moral maxims confirmed by much experience would stand high on the list [of resources]...
    Chr2 10.101 19 I am in the habit of thinking...confirmed by what I notice in many lives-that to every serious mind Providence sends from time to time five or six or seven teachers who are of first importance to him...
    LLNE 10.336 19 Astronomy...compelled a certain extension and uplifting of our views of the Deity and his Providence. This correction of our superstitions was confirmed by the new science of Geology...
    HDC 11.44 27 In 1635, the [General] Court say...it is Ordered, that the freemen of every town shall have power to...choose their own particular officers. This pointed chiefly at the office of constable, but they soon chose their own selectmen, and very early assessed taxes; a power at first resisted, but speedily confirmed to them.
    EWI 11.108 23 The facts [of the slave trade] confirmed [Thomas Clarkson' s] sentiment, that Providence had never made that to be wise which was immoral...
    ALin 11.331 19 [Lincoln] had a face and manner...which confirmed good will.

confirming, v. (2)

    PI 8.67 3 A good poem...goes about the world offering itself to reasonable men, who...carry it to their reasonable neighbors. Thus it draws to it the wise and generous souls, confirming their secret thoughts...
    Schr 10.263 13 The scholar is here to fill others with love and courage by confirming their trust in the love and wisdom which are at the heart of all things;...

confirms, v. (3)

    PPh 4.66 7 In the doctrine of the organic character and disposition is the origin of caste. ... The East confirms itself, in all ages, in this faith.
    QO 8.190 16 There is none so eminent and wise but he knows minds whose opinion confirms or qualifies his own...
    Imtl 8.343 24 ...as soon as virtue glows, this belief [in immortality] confirms itself.

confiscate, v. (1)

    MMEm 10.400 20 One of [Mary Moody Emerson's] tasks, it appears, was to watch for the approach of the deputy-sheriff, who might come to confiscate the spoons...

confiscation, n. (1)

    Pol1 3.221 1 There is not, among the most religious and instructed men of the most religious and civil nations...a sufficient belief in the unity of things, to persuade them...that the private citizen might be reasonable and a good neighbor, without the hint of a jail or a confiscation.

conflagration, n. (4)

    Cir 2.308 21 Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet. Then all things are at risk. It is as when a conflagration has broken out in a great city...
    Bty 6.286 12 At the birth of Winckelmann...side by side with this arid, departmental, post mortem science, rose an enthusiasm in the study of Beauty; and perhaps some sparks from it may yet light a conflagration in the other.
    Farm 7.145 27 Whilst all thus burns...it needs a perpetual tempering...to check the fury of the conflagration;...
    MMEm 10.423 3 Channing paints [war's] miseries, but does he know those of a worse war...the cruel oppression of the poor by the rich, which corrupts old worlds? How much better, more honest, are storming and conflagration of towns!

conflict, n. (12)

    LT 1.284 5 ...we begin to doubt...whether [Reform] be not...a paper blockade, in which each party is to display the utmost resources of his spirit and belief, and no conflict occur...
    Pol1 3.201 11 What the tender poetic youth dreams, and prays, and paints to-day...shall be carried as grievance and bill of rights through conflict and war...
    Pol1 3.209 7 Ordinarily our parties are parties of circumstance, and not of principle; as the planting interest in conflict with the commercial;...
    MoS 4.160 4 [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.
    ET14 5.242 12 In England these [generalizations]...do all have a kind of filial retrospect to Plato and the Greeks. Of this kind is...Hegel's study of civil history, as the conflict of ideas and the victory of the deeper thought;...
    Chr2 10.94 7 On the perpetual conflict between the dictate of this universal mind and the wishes and interests of the individual, the moral discipline of life is built.
    EWI 11.101 23 The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records between the material and the moral nature.
    FSLN 11.224 10 Four years ago to-night, on one of those high critical moments in history...when the powers of right and wrong are mustered for conflict...Mr. Webster, most unexpectedly, threw his whole weight on the side of Slavery...
    PLT 12.57 19 There is a conflict between a man's private dexterity or talent and his access to the free air and light which wisdom is;...
    PLT 12.60 16 Man was made for conflict...
    II 12.88 8 The Buddhist who...reads the issue of the conflict beforehand in the rank of the actors, is calm.
    II 12.88 12 The old Greek was respectable...who found the genius of tragedy in the conflict between Destiny and the strong should...

conflict, v. (2)

    SwM 4.144 26 Many opinions conflict as to the true centre.
    FRep 11.523 11 ...[Americans...say, One vote can do no harm! and vote for something which they do not approve, because their party or set votes for it. Of course this puts them in the power of any party having a steady interest to promote which does not conflict manifestly with the pecuniary interest of the voters.

conflicting, adj. (2)

    MoS 4.156 17 [The skeptic says] If there is a wish for immortality, and no evidence, why not say just that? If there are conflicting evidences, why not state them?
    PLT 12.64 1 We wish to sum up the conflicting impressions [of Intellect] by saying that all point at last to a unity which inspires all.

conflicts, n. (1)

    II 12.85 11 I think the reason why men fail in their conflicts is because they wear other armor than their own.

confluence, n. (4)

    Civ 7.31 27 ...it is not New York streets, built by the confluence of workmen and wealth of all nations...that make the real estimation.
    Thor 10.466 11 The river on whose banks [Thoreau] was born and died he knew from its springs to its confluence with the Merrimack.
    EdAd 11.386 20 ...who can see the continent with...its confluence of races so favorable to the highest energy...without putting new queries to Destiny as to the purpose for which this muster of nations...is made?
    ACri 12.301 10 After Chicago had secured the confluence of the railroads to itself, I chanced to meet my founder [of New City] again...

conform, v. (9)

    Nat 1.40 3 ...[man] is learning the secret that he can...conform all facts to his character.
    Nat 1.40 16 Sensible objects conform to the premonitions of Reason...
    Nat 1.75 4 We make fables to hide the baldness of the fact and conform it... to the higher law of the mind.
    Nat 1.76 18 As fast as you conform your life to the pure idea in your mind, that will unfold its great proportions.
    SR 2.48 10 Infancy conforms to nobody; all conform to it;...
    Fdsp 2.202 25 Sincerity is the luxury allowed...only to the highest rank; that being permitted to speak truth, as having none above it to court or conform unto.
    ET8 5.139 10 Even the scale of expense on which people live, and to which scholars and professional men conform, proves the tension of [English] muscle...
    DL 7.104 26 ...[the child] conforms to nobody, all conform to him;...
    HDC 11.52 25 ...here [at Concord] [Tahattawan and Waban] entered, by [John Eliot's] assistance, into an agreement to twenty-nine rules, all breathing a desire to conform themselves to English customs.

conformation, n. (1)

    Mrs1 3.138 11 The flower of courtesy does not very well bide handling, but if we dare to open another leaf and explore what parts go to its conformation, we shall find also an intellectual quality.

conformed, adj. (1)

    Pt1 3.4 7 ...even the poets are contented with a civil and conformed manner of living...

conformed, v. (3)

    Art2 7.41 14 [Our works] must be conformed to [Nature's] law...
    OA 7.318 22 ...looking at age under an aspect more conformed to the common sense, if the question be the felicity of age, I fear the first popular judgments will be unfavorable.
    Milt1 12.278 2 ...according to Lord Bacon's definition of poetry...Poetry, not finding the actual world exactly conformed to its idea of good and fair, seeks to accommodate the shows of things to the desires of the mind...

conforming, v. (4)

    SR 2.54 5 The objection to conforming to usages that have become dead to you is that it scatters your force.
    NMW 4.232 17 In 1796 [Bonaparte] writes to the Directory: I have conducted the campaign without consulting any one. I should have done no good if I had been under the necessity of conforming to the notions of another person.
    Pow 6.54 18 All the great captains, said Bonaparte, have performed vast achievements by conforming with the rules of the art...
    MMEm 10.432 1 What a timid, ungrateful creature! Fear the deepest pitfalls of age, when pressing on...to Him...with whom all miseries and irregularities are conforming to universal good!

conformists, n. (2)

    ET13 5.225 22 [Religion] is endogenous, like the skin and other vital organs. A new statement every day. The prophet and apostle knew this, and the nonconformist confutes the conformists, by quoting the texts they must allow.
    ET13 5.227 26 ...you must pay for conformity. All goes well as long as you run with conformists.

conformities, n. (1)

    ET17 5.298 1 ...[Wordsworth] had conformities to English politics and traditions;...

conformity, n. (14)

    DSA 1.146 6 ...cast behind you all conformity...
    MR 1.244 5 Our expense is almost all for conformity.
    SR 2.50 4 The virtue in most request is conformity.
    SR 2.54 18 A man must consider what a blind-man's-buff is this game of conformity.
    SR 2.55 7 This conformity makes [men] not false in a few particulars...but false in all particulars.
    SR 2.59 10 Your conformity explains nothing.
    SR 2.60 10 I hope in these days we have heard the last of conformity and consistency.
    NER 3.257 5 I pay a destructive tax in my conformity.
    ET1 5.24 23 To judge from a single conversation, [Wordsworth] made the impression...of one who paid for his rare elevation by general tameness and conformity.
    ET1 5.24 28 It is not very rare to find persons loving sympathy and ease, who expatiate their departure from the common in one direction, by their conformity in every other.
    ET13 5.227 25 ...you must pay for conformity.
    OA 7.329 11 In process of time, [Linnaeus] finds with delight the little white Trientalis, the only plant with seven petals and sometimes seven stamens, which constitutes a seventh class in conformity with his system.
    FRep 11.521 1 The very glaciers are viscous, or relegate into conformity...
    MAng1 12.218 13 A beautiful person...appears to have truer conformity to all pleasing objects in external Nature than another.

conforms, v. (5)

    Nat 1.52 5 The sensual man conforms thoughts to things;...
    Nat 1.52 6 ...the poet conforms things to his thoughts.
    SR 2.48 9 Infancy conforms to nobody;...
    DL 7.104 25 ...[the child] conforms to nobody, all conform to him;...
    PerF 10.79 27 In each talent is the perception...of an order and series which preexisted in Nature, and which this mind sees and conforms to.

confound, v. (7)

    Pol1 3.206 2 A nation of men unanimously bent on freedom or conquest can easily confound the arithmetic of statists...
    NMW 4.244 4 [Napoleon] could not confound Fox and Pitt, Carnot, Lafayette and Bernadotte, with the danglers of his court;...
    Elo1 7.77 25 A greater power of carrying the thing loftily and with perfect assurance, would confound merchant, banker, judge...
    Imtl 8.342 17 Ignorant people confound reverence for the intuitions with egotism.
    FSLC 11.189 20 I thought it was this fair mystery, whose foundations are hidden in eternity, which made the basis of human society, and of law; and that to pretend anything else, as that the acquisition of property was the end of living, was to confound all distinctions...
    FSLN 11.220 18 In what I have to say of Mr. Webster I do not confound him with vulgar politicians before or since.
    FRO2 11.489 14 ...do not attempt to elevate [the lesson of the New Testament] out of humanity, by saying, This was not a man, for then you confound it with the fables of every popular religion...

confounded, v. (7)

    SR 2.61 14 ...millions of minds so grow and cleave to [Christ's] genius that he is confounded with virtue...
    ET4 5.54 10 We must use the popular category...for convenience, and not as exact and final. Otherwise we are presently confounded when the best-settled traits of one race are claimed by some new ethnologist as precisely characteristic of the rival tribe.
    Elo1 7.74 7 There are all degrees of power [in eloquence]...but they must not be confounded.
    PI 8.28 6 The words [Fancy and Imagination] are often used, and the things confounded.
    Res 8.146 2 ...coming among a wild party of Illinois, [Tissenet] overheard them say that they would scalp him. He said to them, Will you scalp me? Here is my scalp, and confounded them by lifting a little periwig he wore.
    PPo 8.249 24 ...the love or the wine of Hafiz is not to be confounded with vulgar debauch.
    MLit 12.313 20 ...the single soul feels its right to be no longer confounded with numbers...

confounding, n. (1)

    PLT 12.8 23 ...was there ever prophet burdened with a message to his people who did not cloud our gratitude by a strange confounding in his own mind of private folly with his public wisdom?

confounding, v. (9)

    Exp 3.78 23 ...in its sequel [murder] turns out to be a horrible jangle and confounding of all relations.
    SwM 4.140 13 Strictly speaking, Swedenborg's revelation is a confounding of planes...
    ET5 5.80 26 All the steps [the English] orderly take; but with the high logic of never confounding the minor and major proposition;...
    DL 7.109 9 There should be nothing confounding and conventional in economy...
    PI 8.22 4 Men are imaginative, but not overpowered by it to the extent of confounding its suggestions with external facts.
    FSLC 11.213 6 ...it is confounding distinctions to speak of the geographic sections of this country as of equal civilization.
    FSLN 11.222 11 ...[Webster] knew perfectly well how to make such exordiums, episodes and perorations as might give perspective to his harangues without in the least embarrassing his march or confounding his transitions.
    PLT 12.62 26 ...when a man says I hope, I find, I think, he might properly say, The human race, thinks or finds or hopes. And meantime he shall be able continually to keep sight of his biographical Ego...rhetoric or offset to his grand spiritual Ego, without...ever confounding them.
    EurB 12.367 8 ...Wordsworth...though confounding his accidental with the universal consciousness...is really a master of the English language...

confounds, v. (7)

    SR 2.69 22 This one fact the world hates; that the soul becomes; for that... confounds the saint with the rogue...
    Comp 2.109 26 Bad counsel confounds the adviser.
    Pt1 3.7 19 Criticism is infested with a cant of materialism, which... confounds [poets] with those whose province is action but who quit it to imitate the sayers.
    SwM 4.137 12 [Swedenborg] is...like Montaigne's parish priest, who, if a hail-storm passes over the village, thinks the day of doom is come, and the cannibals already have got the pip. Swedenborg confounds us not less with the pains of Melancthon and Luther and Wolfius...
    Elo1 7.77 15 A man succeeds because he has more power of eye than another, and so coaxes or confounds him.
    Aris 10.51 19 The day is darkened...when genius grows...reckless of its fine duties of being Saint, Prophet, Inspirer to its humble fellows, balks their respect and confounds their understanding by silly extravagances.
    LVB 11.93 6 ...a crime [the relocation of the Cherokees] is projected that confounds our understandings by its magnitude...

confront, v. (8)

    OS 2.292 2 [Simple souls] must always be a godsend to princes, for they confront them, a king to a king...
    F 6.24 25 ...if Fate is so prevailing, man also is part of it, and can confront fate with fate.
    Pow 6.81 21 Let a man dare go to a loom and see if he be equal to it. Let machine confront machine, and see how they come out.
    Ctr 6.150 12 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...that the poet, the mystic and the hero may hope to confront their counterparts.
    Bhr 6.171 8 The power of a woman of fashion to lead and also to daunt and repel, derives from [timid girls'] belief that she knows resources and behaviors not known to them; but when these have mastered her secret they learn to confront her...
    PC 8.225 20 The highest flight to which the muse of Horace ascended was in that triplet of lines in which he described the souls which can calmly confront the sublimity of Nature...
    FSLC 11.210 6 Let [the United States] confront this mountain of poison [slavery]...
    ACiv 11.305 23 Instantly, the armies that now confront you must run home to protect their estates...

confronted, v. (2)

    OS 2.285 25 ...confronted face to face...men offer themselves to be judged.
    Thor 10.454 2 [Thoreau] could easily solve the problems of the surveyor, but he was daily beset with graver questions, which he manfully confronted.

confronting, v. (3)

    Comp 2.95 13 The blindness of the preacher consisted in deferring to the base estimate of the market of what constitutes a manly success, instead of confronting and convicting the world from the truth;...
    ET11 5.198 5 A multitude of English...are every day confronting the peers on a footing of equality...
    ET16 5.275 7 Still speaking of the Americans, Carlyle complained that they dislike the coldness and exclusiveness of the English, and run away to France...instead of...confronting Englishmen and acquiring their culture...

confronts, v. (3)

    Chr1 3.110 7 The virtuous prince confronts the gods, without any misgivings.
    Chr1 3.110 9 He who confronts the gods, without any misgiving, knows heaven;...
    Res 8.147 20 Disorganization [good sense] confronts with organization...

Confucius, n. (22)

    SL 2.159 23 Confucius exclaimed,--How can a man be concealed? How can a man be concealed?
    ET16 5.274 25 ...[Carlyle]...compared the savans of Somerset House to the boy who asked Confucius how many stars in the sky? Confucius replied, he minded things near him: then said the boy, how many hairs are there in your eyebrows? Confucius said, he did n't know and did n't care.
    ET16 5.274 26 ...[Carlyle]...compared the savans of Somerset House to the boy who asked Confucius how many stars in the sky? Confucius replied, he minded things near him: then said the boy, how many hairs are there in your eyebrows? Confucius said, he did n't know and did n't care.
    ET16 5.275 1 ...[Carlyle]...compared the savans of Somerset House to the boy who asked Confucius how many stars in the sky? Confucius replied, he minded things near him: then said the boy, how many hairs are there in your eyebrows? Confucius said, he did n't know and did n't care.
    Boks 7.194 15 ...Hafiz was the eminent genius of the Persians, Confucius of the Chinese, Cervantes of the Spaniards;...
    Boks 7.218 20 After the Hebrew and Greek Scriptures...[the sacred books] are...the Chinese Classic, of four books, containing the wisdom of Confucius and Mencius.
    SA 8.78 2 I have heard my master say that a man cannot fully exhaust the abilities of his nature.--Confucius.
    SA 8.85 27 Eat at your table as you would eat at the table of the king, said Confucius.
    SA 8.100 13 The old Confucius in China admitted the benefit [of riches], but stated the limitation...
    QO 8.182 21 ...when Confucius and the Indian scriptures were made known, no claim to monopoly of ethical wisdom [in Christianity] could be thought of;...
    PC 8.214 10 ...if these [romantic European] works still survive and multiply, what shall we say of...names of men who have left remains that certify a height of genius...which men in proportion to their wisdom still cherish,-as Zoroaster, Confucius...
    Insp 8.275 17 Socrates, Menu, Confucius, Zertusht,-we recognize in all of them this ardor to solve the hints of thought.
    Chr2 10.117 21 Confucius said, If in the morning I hear of the right way, and in the evening die, I can be happy.
    Chr2 10.120 15 Confucius said one day to Ke Kang: Sir, in carrying on your government, why should you use killing at all? Let your evinced desires be for what is good, and the people will be good.
    Chr2 10.120 22 Ke Kang, distressed about the number of thieves in the state, inquired of Confucius how to do away with them.
    Chr2 10.120 23 Ke Kang, distressed about the number of thieves in the state, inquired of Confucius how to do away with them. Confucius said, If you, sir, were not covetous, although you should reward them to do it, they would not steal.
    ChiE 11.472 18 Confucius has not yet gathered all his fame.
    ChiE 11.472 23 When Socrates heard that the oracle declared that he was the wisest of men, he said, it must mean that other men held that they were wise, but that he knew that he knew nothing. Confucius had already affirmed this of himself...
    ChiE 11.472 25 ...what we call the GOLDEN RULE of Jesus, Confucius had uttered in the same terms five hundred years before.
    Bost 12.195 3 How needful is David, Paul, Leighton, Fenelon, to our devotion. Of these writers, of this spirit which deified them, I will say with Confucius, If in the morning I hear of the right way, and in the evening die, I can be happy.
    ACri 12.295 13 The Chinese have got on so long with their solitary Confucius and Mencius;...
    MLit 12.316 26 Of the perception now fast becoming a conscious fact...that Moses and Confucius, Montaigne and Leibnitz, are not so much individuals as they are parts of man and parts of me, and my intelligence proves them my own,-literature is far the best expression.

confuse, v. (1)

    Supl 10.169 19 The poor countryman, having no circumstance of carpets, coaches, dinners, wine and dancing in his head to confuse him, is able to look straight at you...

confused, adj. (4)

    Hist 2.24 12 In [the Grecian state] existed those human forms which supplied the sculptor with his models of Hercules, Phoebus, and Jove; not like the forms abounding in the streets of modern cities, wherein the face is a confused blur of features...
    NMW 4.232 5 [Bonaparte] is...terrific to all talkers and confused truth-obscuring persons.
    PPo 8.265 17 You as three birds are amazed,/ Impatient, heartless, confused:/ Far over you am I raised,/ Since I am in act Simorg./
    Chr2 10.98 1 We affirm that in all men is this majestic [moral] perception and command;...that it distances and degrades all statements of whatever saints, heroes, poets, as obscure and confused stammerings before its silent revelation.

confused, v. (1)

    Schr 10.279 16 ...the young...finding that nothing outside corresponds to the noble order in the soul, are confused...

confusion, n. (37)

    Nat 1.5 7 In inquiries so general as our present one...no confusion of thought will occur.
    Hist 2.27 16 When the voice of a prophet out of the deeps of antiquity merely echoes to [the student]...a prayer of his youth, he then pierces to the truth through all the confusion of tradition...
    SR 2.72 10 ...come not into their confusion.
    Prd1 2.228 18 ...the discomfort...of confusion of thought about facts...is of no nation.
    Exp 3.79 14 Saints are sad, because they behold sin...from the point of view of the conscience, and not of the intellect; a confusion of thought.
    Chr1 3.115 6 This is confusion, this the right insanity, when the soul no longer knows its own, nor where its allegiance, its religion, are due.
    Mrs1 3.137 15 If [lovers] forgive too much, all slides into confusion and meanness.
    Pol1 3.219 24 We must not imagine that all things are lapsing into confusion if every tender protestant be not compelled to bear his part in certain social conventions;...
    NR 3.241 5 To embroil the confusion and make it impossible to arrive at any general statement,--when we have insisted on the imperfection of individuals, our affections and our experience urge that every individual is entitled to honor...
    PPh 4.47 8 [Philosophy's] early records...are of the immigrations from Asia...a confusion of crude notions of morals and of natural philosophy...
    PPh 4.73 24 [Socrates is] A pitiless disputant...so careless and ignorant as to disarm the wariest and draw them, in the pleasantest manner, into horrible doubts and confusion.
    ShP 4.209 13 Who ever read the volume of [Shakespeare's] Sonnets without finding that the poet had there revealed...the confusion of sentiments in the most susceptible, and, at the same time, the most intellectual of men?
    Wth 6.124 14 The good merchant [finds] large gains, ships, stocks and money. The good poet [finds] fame and literary credit; but not either the other. Yet there is commonly a confusion of expectations on these points.
    Wsp 6.207 3 The religion of the early English poets is anomalous, so devout and so blasphemous, in the same breath. Such is Chaucer's extraordinary confusion of heaven and earth in the picture of Dido...
    Ill 6.324 23 ...the unities of Truth and of Right are not broken by the disguise. There need never be any confusion in these.
    DL 7.128 2 Happy will that house be...in which character marries, and not confusion and a miscellany of unavowable motives.
    Elo2 8.129 12 ...[Lord Ashley] drew such an argument from his own confusion as more advantaged his cause that all the powers of eloquence could have done.
    Res 8.137 19 I am benefited by every observation of a victory of man over Nature;...by seeing that every healthy and resolute man is...a method coming into a confusion and drawing order out of it.
    Comc 8.160 5 There is no joke so true and deep in actual life as when some pure idealist goes up and down among the institutions of society, attended by a man...who, sympathizing with the philosopher's scrutiny, sympathizes also with the confusion and indignation of the detected, skulking institutions.
    Comc 8.161 5 ...Falstaff...is a character of the broadest comedy...cooly ignoring the Reason, whilst he invokes its name...only to make the fun perfect by enjoying the confusion betwixt Reason and the negation of Reason...
    Comc 8.168 21 ...the same confusion of the sympathies because a pretension is not made good, points the perpetual satire against poverty...
    PPo 8.259 11 The same confusion of high and low...is habitual to [Hafiz].
    Imtl 8.342 18 Ignorant people confound reverence for the intuitions with egotism. There is no confusion in the things themselves.
    Dem1 10.4 3 ...the astonishment remains that one should dream; that we should...become the theatre of delirious shows, wherein time, space, persons, cities, animals, should dance before us in merry and mad confusion;...
    Dem1 10.4 18 ...[in dreams] we seem...cheated by spectral jokes and waking suddenly with ghastly laughter...to rake with confusion in memory among the gibbering nonsense to find the motive of this contemptible cachinnation.
    Dem1 10.27 1 [The demonologic] is a lawless world. We have...come into the realm or chaos of chance and pretty or ugly confusion;...
    Edc1 10.140 15 ...Caesar in Gaul, Sherman in Savannah, and hazing in Holworthy, dance through [the boy's] narrative in merry confusion, yet the logic is good.
    MoL 10.243 1 America at large exhibited such a confusion as California showed in 1849...
    CSC 10.374 17 ...a great deal of confusion, eccentricity and freak appeared [at the Chardon Street Convention]...
    Carl 10.497 14 [Carlyle] thinks it the only question for wise men...to address themselves to the problem of society. This confusion is the inevitable end of such falsehoods and nonsense as they have been embroiled with.
    LS 11.17 6 It has seemed to me that the use of this ordinance [the Lord's Supper] tends to produce confusion in our views of the relation of the soul to God.
    LS 11.17 10 It is the old objection to the doctrine of the Trinity...that such confusion was introduced into the soul that an undivided worship was given nowhere.
    LS 11.17 16 I appeal now to the convictions of communicants [in the Lord' s Supper], and ask such persons whether they have not been occasionally conscious of a painful confusion of thought between the worship due to God and the commemoration due to Christ.
    FSLC 11.213 16 Here let there be no confusion in our ideas.
    EPro 11.324 2 The [Civil] war...brought with it the immense benefit of... preventing the whole force of Southern connection and influence throughout the North from distracting every city with endless confusion...
    PLT 12.61 16 ...the clear-headed thinker complains of souls led hither and thither by affections...and in the confusion asks the polarity of intellect.
    CInt 12.123 17 ...each talent links itself so fast with self-love and with petty advantage that it...sets up for itself, and makes confusion.

confusions, n. (2)

    UGM 4.9 3 ...the makers of tools;...the musician,--severally make an easy way for all, through unknown and impossible confusions.
    ACri 12.293 2 Vulgarisms to be gazetted...as a general thing; after all. Confusions of lie and lay, sit and set, shall and will.

confutation, n. (2)

    Comp 2.121 19 There is no stunning confutation of [the criminal's] nonsense before men and angels.
    UGM 4.27 16 They cry up the virtues of George Washington,--Damn George Washington! is the poor Jacobin's whole speech and confutation.

confuted, v. (4)

    NER 3.278 8 We wish to hear ourselves confuted.
    PPh 4.73 12 ...[Socrates] is...a man who was willingly confuted if he did not speak the truth...
    PPh 4.73 13 ...[Socrates] is...a man who was willingly confuted if he did not speak the truth, and who willingly confuted others asserting what was false;...
    PPh 4.73 14 ...[Socrates] is...a man who was willingly confuted if he did not speak the truth, and who willingly confuted others asserting what was false; and not less pleased when confuted than when confuting;...

confuters, n. (1)

    Farm 7.150 13 These [drainage] tiles are political economists, confuters of Malthus and Ricardo;...

confutes, v. (3)

    OS 2.268 27 The Supreme Critic on the errors of the past and the present... is...that overpowering reality which confutes our tricks and talents...
    ET13 5.225 22 [Religion] is endogenous, like the skin and other vital organs. A new statement every day. The prophet and apostle knew this, and the nonconformist confutes the conformists, by quoting the texts they must allow.
    Edc1 10.148 17 The natural method [of education] forever confutes our experiments...

confuting, v. (1)

    PPh 4.73 15 ...[Socrates] is...a man who was willingly confuted if he did not speak the truth, and who willingly confuted others asserting what was false; and not less pleased when confuted than when confuting;...

conge, n. (1)

    ET13 5.227 17 The [English] Bishop is elected by the Dean and Prebends of the cathedral. The Queen sends these gentlemen a conge d'elire, or leave to elect;...

congeal, v. (1)

    ET13 5.225 4 ...[the English] have not been able to congeal humanity by act of Parliament.

congener, n. (1)

    ET4 5.46 24 We anticipate in the doctrine of race something like that law of physiology that whatever bone, muscle, or essential organ is found in one healthy individual, the same part or organ may be found in or near the same place in its congener;...

congenial, adj. (3)

    SL 2.139 19 For you there is...a fit place and congenial duties.
    CbW 6.274 17 ...all those who are native, congenial, and by many an oath of the heart sacramented to you, are gradually and totally lost.
    ACri 12.284 7 There is, in every nation...a certain mode of phraseology so consonant and congenial to the analogy and principles of its respective language as to remain settled and unaltered.

congenially, adv. (1)

    Milt1 12.259 21 ...probably no traveller ever entered that country of history [Italy] with better right to its hospitality [than Milton], none upon whom its influences could have fallen more congenially.

congestion, n. (1)

    PLT 12.33 7 As soon as our accumulation [of knowledge] overruns our invention or power to use, the evils of intellectual gluttony begin,- congestion of the brain, apoplexy and strangulation.

congratulate, v. (6)

    Fdsp 2.213 9 We may congratulate ourselves that the period of nonage...is passed in solitude...
    Hsm1 2.260 17 ...congratulate yourself if you have done something strange and extravagant and broken the monotony of a decorous age.
    NMW 4.246 27 We can not, in the universal imbecility, indecision and indolence of men, sufficiently congratulate ourselves on this strong and ready actor [Napoleon]...
    Wsp 6.218 19 The moment of your...acceptance of the lucrative standard will be marked in the pause or solstice of genius... The vulgar are sensible of the change in you, and of your descent, though they clap you on the back and congratulate you on your increased common-sense.
    LLNE 10.357 3 [Thoreau said] Again and again I congratulate myself on my so-called poverty...
    Koss 11.400 24 Sir [Kossuth]...we congratulate you that you have known how to convert calamities into powers...

congratulated, v. (2)

    ET10 5.168 24 ...Pitt, Peel and Robinson and their Parliaments...went to their graves in the belief that they were enriching the country which they were impoverishing. They congratulated each other on ruinous expedients.
    Thor 10.451 24 After completing his experiments [on lead-pencils], [Thoreau] exhibited his work to chemists and artists in Boston, and having obtained their certificates to its excellence...he returned home contented. His friends congratulated him that he had now opened his way to fortune.

congratulates, v. (2)

    Hsm1 2.263 23 Who that sees the meanness of our politics but inly congratulates Washington that he is long already wrapped in his shroud...
    CInt 12.114 14 Milton congratulates the Parliament that, whilst London is besieged and blocked...yet then are the people...more than at other times wholly taken up with the study of highest and most important matters to be reformed...

congratulation, n. (1)

    MoL 10.241 17 I offer perpetual congratulation to the scholar;...

congratulations, n. (5)

    MN 1.191 1 Let us exchange congratulations on the enjoyments and the promises of this literary anniversary.
    OA 7.332 15 We...told [John Adams] he must let us join our congratulations to those of the nation on the happiness of his house.
    OA 7.332 19 [John Adams said] The time of gratulation and congratulations is nearly over with me;...
    EWI 11.99 2 We are met to exchange congratulations on the anniversary of an event singular in the history of civilization;...
    ACri 12.298 19 ...one would think...a sympathizing and much-reading America would make a new treaty or send a minister extraordinary to offer congratulations of honoring delight to England in acknowledgment of such a donation [as Carlyle's History of Frederick II];...

congregation, n. (9)

    Comp 2.94 13 [The preacher]...urged from reason and from Scripture a compensation to be made to both parties [the wicked and the good] in the next life. No offence appeared to be taken by the congregation at this doctrine.
    ET13 5.225 15 The chatter of French politics...and the noise of embarking emigrants had quite put most of the old legends out of mind; so that when you came to read the liturgy to a modern congregation, it was almost absurd in its unfitness...
    Elo1 7.83 22 I have heard it reported of an eloquent preacher...that, on occasions of death or tragic disaster which overspread the congregation with gloom, he ascended the pulpit with more than his usual alacrity...
    OA 7.335 16 [John Adams] received a premature report of his son's election...and told the reporter he had been hoaxed, for it was not yet time for any news to arrive. The informer...insisted on repairing to the meeting-house, and proclaimed it aloud to the congregation...
    Prch 10.229 18 It was said: [The clergy] have bronchitis because they read from their papers sermons with a near voice, and then, looking at the congregation, they try to speak with their far voice, and the shock is noxious.
    EzRy 10.384 7 [Ezra Ripley] and his contemporaries...were believers in what is called a particular providence...following the narrowness of King David and the Jews, who thought the universe existed only or mainly for their church and congregation.
    EzRy 10.386 22 Some of those around me will remember one occasion of severe drought in this vicinity, when the late Rev. Mr. Goodwin offered to relieve the Doctor [Ezra Ripley] of the duty of leading in prayer; but the Doctor...ejected his offer with some humor, as with an air that said to all the congregation, This is no time for you young Cambridge men; the affair, sir, is getting serious. I will pray myself.
    HDC 11.66 9 In 1741, the celebrated Whitfield preached here [in Concord], in the open air, to a great congregation.
    HDC 11.86 3 On the village green [of Concord] have been the steps...of Whitfield, whose silver voice melted his great congregation into tears;...

Congress, Act of, n. (1)

    FSLC 11.192 26 You know that the Act of Congress of September 18, 1850, is a law which every one of you will break on the earliest occasion.

Congress, American, n. (2)

    Elo1 7.90 13 A popular assembly, like...the American Congress, is commanded by these two powers,--first by a fact, then by skill of statement.
    Milt1 12.249 3 [Milton's tracts] are not effective...like what became also controversial tracts, several masterly speeches in the history of the American Congress.

Congress, Congress, n. (1)

    EPro 11.325 19 The malignant cry of the Secession press within the free states, and the recent action of the Confederate Congress, are decisive as to [the Emancipation Proclamation's] efficiency and correctness of aim.

Congress, International, n. (1)

    ET15 5.272 25 ...[if the London Times would cleave to the right] it would have the authority which is claimed for that dream of good men not yet come to pass, an International Congress;...

congress, n. (5)

    NER 3.252 4 [The Sabbath and Bible Conventions] defied each other, like a congress of kings...
    GoW 4.272 12 ...if one should chance to be at a congress of kings, the eye would take liberties with the peculiarities of each.
    ET16 5.286 27 My friends asked, whether there were any Americans?...any theory of the right future of that country? Thus challenged, I bethought myself neither of caucuses nor congress...
    FRep 11.521 14 John Quincy Adams was a man of an audacious independence that always kept the public curiosity alive in regard to what he might do. None could predict his word, and a whole congress could not gainsay it when it was spoken.
    FRep 11.529 4 A congress is a standing insurrection...

Congress, n. (40)

    LT 1.265 4 Let us paint the agitator...and the member of Congress...
    LT 1.270 15 The political questions touching...the Congress of nations; are all pregnant with ethical conclusions;...
    SR 2.76 10 A sturdy lad...who...goes to Congress...is worth a hundred of these city dolls.
    Chr1 3.91 11 [The people] cannot come at their ends by sending to Congress a learned, acute and fluent speaker, if he be not one who, before he was appointed by the people to represent them, was appointed by Almighty God to stand for a fact...
    ET1 5.20 20 My [Wordsworth's] friend Colonel Hamilton, at the foot of the hill, who was a year in America, assures me that the newspapers are atrocious, and accuse members of Congress of stealing spoons!
    ET18 5.307 18 Congress is not wiser or better than Parliament.
    Pow 6.61 13 A timid man, listening to the alarmists in Congress and in the newspapers...might easily believe that he and his country have seen their best days...
    Pow 6.65 6 ...churchmen and men of refinement, it seems agreed, are not fit persons to send to Congress.
    Elo1 7.63 16 Who can wonder at the attractiveness...of Congress...for our ambitious young men...
    Elo1 7.75 2 These talkers [who repeat the newspapers] are of that class who prosper, like the celebrated schoolmaster, by being only one lesson ahead of the pupil. Add a little sarcasm and prompt allusion to passing occurrences, and you have the mischievous member of Congress.
    Cour 7.259 24 When we get an advantage, as in Congress the other day, it is because our adversary has committed a fault...
    Imtl 8.331 25 When my friend at last left Congress, [the two men] parted...
    Aris 10.35 9 ...neither...the Congress, nor the mob...can avail to outlaw...or destroy the offence of superiority in persons.
    Aris 10.49 24 ...the town-meeting, the Congress, will not fail to find out legislative talent.
    MoL 10.244 18 Parliaments of Love and Poesy served [the people of the Middle Ages], instead of the House of Commons, Congress and the newspapers.
    EzRy 10.382 22 There were an unusually large number of distinguished men in this [Harvard] class of 1776: Christopher Gore, Governor of Massachusetts and Senator in Congress;...
    SlHr 10.443 8 I am sorry to say [Samuel Hoar] could not be elected to Congress a second time from Middlesex.
    GSt 10.505 25 These interests, which [George Stearns] passionately adopted, inevitably led him into personal communication with patriotic persons holding the same views,-with...members of Congress...
    EWI 11.132 9 Let the senators and representatives of the State [of Massachusetts]...go in a body before the Congress and say that they have a demand to make on them, so imperative that all functions of government must stop until it is satisfied.
    EWI 11.132 14 The Congress should instruct the President to send to those ports of Charleston, Savannah and New Orleans such orders and such force as should release, forthwith, all such citizens of Massachusetts as were holden in prison without the allegation of any crime...
    War 11.170 24 The next season...the party this man votes with have an appropriation to carry through Congress: instantly he wags his head the other way...
    FSLC 11.184 14 ...what is the use of constitutions, if all the guaranties provided by the jealousy of ages for the protection of liberty are made of no effect, when a bad act of Congress finds a willing commissioner?
    FSLC 11.186 17 Let me remind you a little in detail how the natural retribution acts in reference to the statute [Fugitive Slave Law] which Congress passed a year ago.
    FSLC 11.195 6 By the law of Congress, March 2, 1807, it is piracy and murder, punishable by death, to enslave a man on the coast of Africa.
    FSLC 11.195 9 By law of Congress September, 1850, it is a high crime and misdemeanor, punishable with fine and imprisonment, to resist the reenslaving a man on the coast of America.
    FSLC 11.203 1 [Webster] has been by his clear perceptions and statements in all these years the best head in Congress...
    AsSu 11.249 9 In Congress, [Charles Sumner] did not rush into party position.
    JBS 11.280 15 I am not a little surprised at the easy effrontery with which political gentlemen, in and out of Congress, take it upon them to say that there are not a thousand men in the North who sympathize with John Brown.
    ACiv 11.304 2 ...the one [power] strong enough to bring all the civility up to the height of that which is best, prays now at the door of Congress for leave to move.
    ACiv 11.305 15 Congress can, by edict...abolish slavery...
    ACiv 11.305 17 Congress can...as a part of the military defence which it is the duty of Congress to provide, abolish slavery...
    ACiv 11.310 10 ...President Lincoln has proposed to Congress that the government shall cooperate with any state that shall enact a gradual abolishment of slavery.
    ACiv 11.310 17 [Lincoln's proposal of gradual abolition] marks the happiest day in the political year. The American Executive ranges itself for the first time on the side of freedom. If Congress has been backward, the President has advanced.
    ACiv 11.310 25 If Congress accords with the President, it is not yet too late to begin the emancipation;...
    EPro 11.316 2 Such moments of expansion [of liberty] in modern history were the Confession of Augsburg...the passage of the Homestead Bill in the last Congress...
    Wom 11.423 18 The fairest names in this country...have gone into Congress and come out dishonored.
    ChiE 11.473 18 I am sure that gentlemen around me bear in mind the bill which the Hon. Mr. Jenckes of Rhode Island has twice attempted to carry through Congress, requiring that candidates for public offices shall first pass examinations on their literary qualifications for the same.
    FRep 11.523 24 If a customer looks grave at [the peoples'] newspaper, or damns their member of Congress, they take another newspaper, and vote for another man.
    CInt 12.117 1 ...[the scholars]...played the sycophant to presidents and generals and members of Congress...
    ACri 12.291 23 ...I sometimes wish that the Board of Education might carry out the project of a college for graduates of our universities, to which editors and members of Congress...might repair, and learn to sink what we could best spare of our words;...

Congress of Nations, n. (1)

    War 11.175 14 The proposition of the Congress of Nations is undoubtedly that at which the present fabric of our society and the present course of events do point.

Congress of Vienna, n. (1)

    ET9 5.146 25 ...so help him God! [the Englishman] will...impose Wapping on the Congress of Vienna...

Congress, Provincial, n. (4)

    HDC 11.71 25 In October [1774], the Provincial Congress met in Concord.
    HDC 11.72 10 In January, 1775, a meeting was held [in Concord] for the enlisting of minute-men. Reverend William Emerson, the chaplain of the Provincial Congress, preached to the people.
    HDC 11.78 26 When...the poor of Boston were quartered by the Provincial Congress on the neighboring country, Concord received 82 persons to its hospitality.
    HDC 11.86 4 On the village green [of Concord] have been the steps...of Hancock, and his compatriots of the Provincial Congress;...

congresses, n. (3)

    PC 8.209 7 The war gave us the abolition of slavery, the success...of the Freedmen's Bureau. Add to these the new scope of social science;...the incipient series of international congresses;...
    SlHr 10.441 2 [Samuel Hoar] returned from courts or congresses to sit down, with unaltered humility, in the church or in the town-house...
    FRep 11.518 10 ...liberal congresses and legislatures ordain...equivocal, interested and vicious measures.

Congressional, adj. (1)

    EWI 11.134 6 ...the reader of Congressional debates, in New England, is perplexed to see with what admirable sweetness and patience the majority of the free States are schooled and ridden by the minority of slave-holders.

Congressional Libraries, n. (1)

    Wth 6.96 16 It is the interest of all men that there should be...Congressional Libraries.

congressmen, n. (1)

    Tran 1.348 20 The good, the illuminated, sit apart from the rest...as if they thought that by sitting very grand in their chairs, the very brokers, attorneys, and congressmen would see the error of their ways, and flock to them.

congruent, adj. (1)

    Nat 1.47 12 It is a sufficient account of that Appearance we call the World, that God will teach a human mind, and so makes it the receiver of a certain number of congruent sensations...

congruity, n. (2)

    Nat 1.68 6 Nor has science sufficient humanity, so long as the naturalist overlooks that wonderful congruity which subsists between man and the world;...
    ET6 5.112 24 Sir Philip Sidney is one of the patron saints of England, of whom Wotton said, His wit was the measure of congruity.

conical, adj. (1)

    Thor 10.466 24 ...the conical heaps of small stones on the river-shallows, the huge nests of small fishes...were all known to [Thoreau]...

conies, n. (1)

    Pow 6.66 21 It is an esoteric doctrine of society that a little wickedness is good to make muscle;...as if poor decayed formalists of law and order cannot run like wild goats, wolves, and conies;...

conjectural, adj. (1)

    MN 1.214 14 Does the sunset landscape seem to you the place of Friendship... It is that. All other meanings which base men have put on it are conjectural and false.

conjecture, n. (3)

    PPh 4.69 6 To these four sections [images, objects, opinions, truths], the four operations of the soul correspond,--conjecture, faith, understanding, reason.
    GoW 4.274 12 [Goethe] had an extreme impatience of conjecture and of rhetoric.
    Mem 12.92 3 What was an isolated, unrelated belief or conjecture, our later experience instructs us how to place in just connection with other views which confirm and expand it.

conjectured, v. (1)

    ET12 5.206 17 The income of the nineteen colleges [at Oxford] is conjectured at 150,000 pounds a year.

conjectures, n. (2)

    PPh 4.63 24 The misery of man is to be baulked of the sight of essence and to be stuffed with conjectures;...
    PC 8.211 20 We have been taught...to wont ourselves to daring conjectures.

conjugal, adj. (1)

    DL 7.129 18 Beyond its primary ends of the conjugal, parental and amicable relations, the household should cherish the beautiful arts and the sentiment of veneration.

Conjugal Love [Emanuel Swe (3)

    PNR 4.88 19 Swedenborg, throughout his prose poem of Conjugal Love, is a Platonist.
    SwM 4.127 1 In the Conjugal Love, [Swedenborg] has unfolded the science of marriage.
    SwM 4.128 23 Perhaps the true subject of the Conjugal Love [by Swedenborg] is Conversation, whose laws are profoundly set forth.

conjugating, v. (1)

    NER 3.259 25 ...I will omit this conjugating [of Greek and Latin], and go straight to affairs.

conjunction, n. (3)

    Pt1 3.14 24 The mighty heaven, said Proclus, exhibits, in its transfigurations, clear images of the splendor of intellectual perceptions; being moved in conjunction with the unapparent periods of intellectual natures.
    HDC 11.69 22 ...in conjunction with our brethren in America, we will risk our fortunes, and even our lives, in defence of his majesty, King George the Third, his person, crown and dignity;...
    Scot 11.467 15 Under what rare conjunction of stars was this man [Scott] born, that, wherever he lived, he found superior men...

conjure, v. (1)

    NER 3.259 20 Some intelligent persons said or thought, Is that Greek and Latin some spell to conjure with...

conjuring, v. (1)

    NER 3.259 23 Conjuring is gone out of fashion...

conjuror, n. (1)

    Dem1 10.13 1 Nature never works like a conjuror...

conjurors, n. (1)

    SwM 4.130 6 [Swedenborg] was painfully alive to the difference between knowing and doing, and this sensibility is incessantly expressed. Philosophers are, therefore, vipers...and flying serpents; literary men are conjurors and charlatans.

conjuror's, n. (1)

    F 6.40 22 At the conjuror's, we detect the hair by which he moves his puppet...

connate, adj. (2)

    Nat 1.10 17 In the wilderness, I find something more dear and connate than in streets or villages.
    OS 2.274 2 ...we say...that a day of certain political, moral, social reforms is at hand, and the like, when we mean that in the nature of things one of the facts we contemplate is external and fugitive, and the other is permanent and connate with the soul.

connect, v. (5)

    Nat 1.29 22 A man's power to connect his thought with its proper symbol... depends on the simplicity of his character...
    Cir 2.301 23 This fact [that around every circle another can be drawn]... may conveniently serve us to connect many illustrations of human power in every department.
    ShP 4.215 1 ...every subordinate invention, by which [Shakespeare] helps himself to connect some irreconcilable opposites, is a poem too.
    Ctr 6.135 8 ...most men are afflicted with a coldness, an incuriosity, as soon as any object does not connect with their self-love.
    PLT 12.45 25 There are men...who easily entertain ideas, but...cannot connect or arrange their thoughts so as effectively to report them.

connected, v. (15)

    YA 1.366 15 This inclination [to cultivate the soil] has appeared...in those connected with the liberal professions.
    UGM 4.9 4 Each man is by secret liking connected with some district of nature...
    SwM 4.119 1 ...[Swedenborg's] ecstasy connected itself with just this office of explaining the moral import of the sensible world.
    ShP 4.204 10 ...it was with the introduction of Shakspeare into German, by Lessing...that the rapid burst of German literature was most intimately connected.
    NMW 4.231 9 My hand of iron, [Bonaparte] said...was immediately connected with my head.
    Farm 7.140 17 Early marriages and the number of births are indissolubly connected with abundance of food;...
    Cour 7.273 2 Napoleon said well, My hand is immediately connected with my head;...
    Cour 7.273 4 ...the sacred courage is connected with the heart.
    PPo 8.240 9 The Persian poetry rests on a mythology whose few legends are connected with the Jewish history and the anterior traditions of the Pentateuch.
    Imtl 8.342 27 ...everything connected with our personality fails.
    MMEm 10.412 25 Since Sabbath, Aunt B--[the insane aunt] was brought here [to Malden]. Ah! mortifying sight! instinct perhaps triumphs over reason, and every dignified respect to herself, in her anxiety about recovery, and the smallest means connected.
    Thor 10.471 6 [Thoreau's] interest in the flower or the bird...was connected with Nature...
    HDC 11.42 15 ...this first recorded political act of our fathers, this tax assessed on its inhabitants by a town, is the most important event in their civil history, implying...the exercise of a sovereign power, and connected with all the immunities and powers of a corporate town in Massachusetts.
    ALin 11.329 13 ...I doubt if any death has caused so much pain to mankind as this [of Lincoln] has caused, or will cause, on its announcement; and this...because of the mysterious hopes and fears which, in the present day, are connected with the name and institutions of America.
    SMC 11.374 8 On the first of April, the [Thirty-second] regiment connected with Sheridan's cavalry...

Connecticut, adj. (2)

    ET5 5.88 10 Nothing is more in the line of English thought than our unvarnished Connecticut question, Pray, sir, how do you get your living when you are at home?
    Ctr 6.161 9 Archimedes will look through your Connecticut machine at a glance, and judge of its fitness.

Connecticut, n. (9)

    Pow 6.67 23 ...[Boniface] introduced the new horse-rake, the new scraper, the baby-jumper, and what not, that Connecticut sends to the admiring citizens.
    Ctr 6.146 22 Poor country boys of Vermont and Connecticut formerly owed what knowledge they had to their peddling trips to the Southern States.
    LLNE 10.332 11 [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...
    EzRy 10.381 2 Ezra Ripley was born May 1, 1751 (O. S.), at Woodstock, Connecticut.
    HDC 11.55 25 In 1643, one seventh or one eighth part of the inhabitants [of Concord] went to Connecticut with Reverend Mr. Jones...
    FSLC 11.197 13 Nothing remains in this race of roguery but to coax Connecticut or Maine to outbid us all by adopting slavery into its constitution.
    JBB 11.267 21 [John Brown's] grandfather, of Simsbury, in Connecticut, was a captain in the Revolution.
    JBB 11.272 20 Is any man in Massachusetts so simple as to believe that when a United States Court in Virginia...sends to Connecticut...for a witness, it wants him for a witness?
    JBS 11.277 17 John Brown...was born in Torrington, Litchfield County, Connecticut, in 1800.

Connecticut River, n. (3)

    Hsm1 2.257 17 Massachusetts, Connecticut River and Boston Bay you think paltry places...
    HDC 11.58 7 From Narragansett to the Connecticut River, the scene of war was shifted as fast as these red hunters could traverse the forest.
    Bost 12.187 5 ...they who drink for some little time of the Potomac water lose their relish for the water...of the Merrimac and the Connecticut...

connecting, v. (3)

    ET11 5.173 6 ...the fair idea of a settled government [in England] connecting itself with heraldic names...was too pleasing a vision to be shattered by a few offensive realities...
    LVB 11.93 18 You [Van Buren] will not do us the injustice of connecting this remonstrance [against the relocation of the Cherokees] with any sectional and party feeling.
    CPL 11.505 24 In 1618 (8th March) John Kepler came upon the discovery of the law connecting the mean distances of the planets with the periods of their revolution about the sun...

connection, n. (73)

    Nat 1.52 21 The remotest spaces of nature are visited [by Shakspeare's muse], and the farthest sundered things are brought together, by a subtile spiritual connection.
    Nat 1.59 15 I only wish to indicate the true position of nature in regard to man...as the ground which to attain is the object of human life, that is, of man's connection with nature.
    AmS 1.113 2 ...[Swedenborg] saw and showed the connection between nature and the affections of the soul.
    DSA 1.145 9 ...each would be an easy secondary to some...sectarian connection...
    DSA 1.146 13 Not too anxious to visit periodically...each family in your parish connection, - when you meet one of these men or women, be to them a divine man;...
    LT 1.271 7 Seen in this their natural connection, [reforms] are sublime.
    LT 1.279 1 ...I desire to express the respect and joy I feel before this sublime connection of reforms now in their infancy around us...
    Tran 1.335 21 The Transcendentalist adopts the whole connection of spiritual doctrine.
    Hist 2.40 2 What connection do the books show between the fifty or sixty chemical elements and the historical eras?
    SR 2.47 15 Accept the place the divine providence has found for you...the connection of events.
    SL 2.143 12 The parts of hospitality, the connection of families...royalty makes its own estimate of, and a royal mind will.
    SL 2.145 24 ...Napoleon sent to Vienna M. de Narbonne...saying that it was indispensable to send to the old aristocracy of Europe men of the same connection...
    Int 2.328 9 I have been floated into...this connection of events...
    Art1 2.354 13 Until one thing comes out from the connection of things, there can be enjoyment, contemplation, but no thought.
    Art1 2.363 10 Art has not yet come to its maturity...if it do not stand in connection with the conscience...
    Pt1 3.17 18 What would be base, or even obscene, to the obscene, becomes illustrious, spoken in a new connection of thought.
    Chr1 3.97 18 Men of character like to hear of their faults; the other class do not like to hear of faults; they worship events; secure to them...a connection...and they will ask no more.
    NER 3.281 25 ...man stands in strict connection with a higher fact never yet manifested.
    NER 3.283 5 ...the man...whose advent men and events prepare and foreshow, is one who shall enjoy his connection with a higher life...
    PPh 4.43 24 [Plato]...was of patrician connection in his times and city...
    PNR 4.85 8 This eldest Goethe [Plato]...delighted...in discovering connection, continuity and representation everywhere...
    PNR 4.86 11 ...the connection between our knowledge and the abyss of being is still real...
    SwM 4.106 19 The thoughts in which [Swedenborg] lived were, the universality of each law in nature;...the centrality of man in nature, and the connection that subsists throughout all things...
    MoS 4.170 8 Truth, or the connection between cause and effect, alone interests us.
    GoW 4.264 13 ...nature has more splendid endowments for those whom she elects to a superior office; for the class of scholars or writers, who see connection where the multitude see fragments...
    ET1 5.24 2 [Wordsworth]...quoted, with evident pleasure, the verses addressed To the Skylark. In this connection he said of the Newtonian theory that it might yet be superseded and forgotten;...
    ET9 5.147 23 ...[the Englishman] hides no defect of his form, features, dress, connection, or birthplace...
    ET11 5.178 27 This long descent of [English] families and this cleaving through ages to the same spot of ground, captivates the imagination. It has too a connection with the names of the towns and districts of the country.
    ET13 5.219 16 The [English] national temperament deeply enjoys the unbroken order and tradition of its church;...the sober grace, the good company, the connection with the throne and with history, which adorn it.
    ET13 5.219 21 ...the stability of the English nation is passionately enlisted to [the Church's] support, from its inextricable connection with the cause of public order, with politics and with the funds.
    ET14 5.253 12 [English science] wants the connection which is the test of genius.
    ET19 5.311 24 This conscience is one element [which attracts an American to England], and the other is...that homage of man to man, running through all classes...which stands in strong contrast with the superficial attachments of other races, their excessive courtesy and short-lived connection.
    F 6.13 13 In England there is always some man of wealth and large connection, planting himself...on the side of progress...
    F 6.31 18 ...relation and connection are not somewhere and sometimes...
    F 6.36 19 ...find if you can a point where there is no thread of connection [between fate and freedom].
    Pow 6.54 9 A belief in causality, or strict connection between every pulse-beat and the principle of being...characterizes all valuable minds...
    Pow 6.69 26 Cut off the connection between any of our works and this aboriginal source, and the work is shallow.
    Ctr 6.160 22 There is a certain loftiness of thought and power to marshal and adjust particulars, which can only come from an insight of their whole connection.
    Wsp 6.220 24 ...[a man] does not see...that relation and connection are not somewhere and sometimes, but everywhere and always;...
    CbW 6.263 1 If now in this connection of discourse we should venture on laying down the first obvious rules of life, I will not here repeat the first rule of economy...
    Art2 7.49 26 Not [the orator's] will, but...the great connection and crisis of events, thunder in the ear of the crowd.
    Elo1 7.95 19 The natural connection by which [the resistance to slavery] drew to itself a train of moral reforms...reinforced the city with new blood from the woods and mountains.
    DL 7.117 2 [The reform that applies itself to the household] must come in connection with a true acceptance by each man of his vocation...
    DL 7.132 5 Certainly, not aloof from this homage to beauty, but in strict connection therewith, the house will come to be esteemed a Sanctuary.
    Clbs 7.232 10 ...let [conversation] feel the connection with the battery.
    Suc 7.311 23 ...we have powers, connection, children, reputations, professions;...
    OA 7.327 18 [A man] has his calling, homestead, social connection and personal power...
    PI 8.8 20 Natural objects, if individually described and out of connection, are not yet known...
    Comc 8.159 4 Separate any object...from the connection of things...it becomes at once comic;...
    QO 8.180 18 ...if we find in India or Arabia a book out of our horizon of thought and tradition, we are soon taught by new researches in its native country to discover...its latent, but real connection with our own Bibles.
    QO 8.185 6 A pleasantry which ran through all the newspapers a few years since, taxing the eccentricities of a gifted family connection in New England, was only a theft of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's mot of a hundred years ago...
    PPo 8.243 13 ...the connection between the stanzas of [the Persians'] longer odes is much like that between the refrain of our old English ballads...
    Dem1 10.17 19 I believed that I discovered in nature...somewhat which manifested itself only in contradiction, and therefore could not be grasped by a conception, much less by a word. ... It resembled Providence, since it pointed at connection.
    Dem1 10.21 26 Great men feel that they are so by...falling back on what is humane; in renouncing...each exclusive and local connection, to beat with the pulse and breathe with the lungs of nations.
    Chr2 10.116 4 This charm in the Pagan moralists, of suggestion, the charm...of mere truth...the New Testament loses by its connection with a church.
    Edc1 10.126 16 ...when one and the same man...leaves...the stupor of the senses, to enter into the quasi-omniscience of high thought...all limits disappear. No horizon shuts down. He sees...all facts in their connection.
    Prch 10.237 16 ...the upper eyes behold causes and the connection of things.
    LLNE 10.337 16 Gall and Spurzheim's Phrenology laid a rough hand on the mysteries of animal and spiritual nature, dragging down every sacred secret to a street show. The attempt...felt connection where the professors denied it...
    LLNE 10.337 25 ...[Mesmerism] affirmed unity and connection between remote points...
    LLNE 10.341 9 Some time afterwards Dr. Channing opened his mind to Mr. and Mrs. Ripley, and with some care they invited a limited party of ladies and gentlemen. I had the honor to be present. Though I recall the fact, I do not retain...any connection between [this attempt] and the new zeal of the friends who at that time began to be drawn together by sympathy of studies and of aspiration.
    MMEm 10.420 8 Better anything than dishonest dependence, which... despoils friendship of equal connection.
    SlHr 10.444 7 ...how solitary [Samuel Hoar] looked, day by day in the world, this man so revered, this man...of large acquaintance and wide family connection!
    LS 11.7 12 In years to come [says Jesus to his disciples], as long as your people shall come up to Jerusalem to keep this feast [the Passover], the connection which has subsisted between us will give a new meaning in your eyes to the national festival, as the anniversary of my death.
    EWI 11.135 25 The lives of the advocates [of emancipation in the West Indies] are pages of greatness, and the connection of the eminent senators with this question constitutes the immortalizing moments of those men's lives.
    War 11.151 17 War...when seen...in the infancy of society, appears a part of the connection of events...
    EPro 11.323 27 The [Civil] war...brought with it the immense benefit of... preventing the whole force of Southern connection and influence throughout the North from distracting every city with endless confusion...
    EdAd 11.390 4 ...[man] lives in such connection with Thought and Fact that his bread is surely involved as one element thereof...
    ChiE 11.471 9 All share the surprise and pleasure when the venerable Oriental dynasty...suddenly steps into the fellowship of nations. This auspicious event, considered in connection with the late innovations in Japan, marks a new era...
    PLT 12.37 4 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...that symmetry and connection which is imperative in all healthily constituted men...
    Mem 12.92 5 What was an isolated, unrelated belief or conjecture, our later experience instructs us how to place in just connection with other views which confirm and expand it.
    Mem 12.109 22 If we occupy ourselves long on this wonderful faculty [memory], and see...the way in which new knowledge calls upon old knowledge...so that what one had painfully held by strained attention and recapitulation...is now clamped and locked by inevitable connection...we cannot fail to draw thence a sublime hint that thus there must be an endless increase in the power of memory only through its use;...
    CInt 12.129 6 Is...an insurance office, bank or bakery outside of the system and connection of things...
    PPr 12.379 18 ...[Carlyle's Past and Present] is the book of a...thinker, who has looked with naked eyes at the dreadful political signs in England for the last few years...until such daily and nightly meditation has grown into a great connection, if not a system of thoughts;...

connections, n. (9)

    MR 1.234 21 ...we all involve ourselves in [the evil of property] the deeper by forming connections...
    Bhr 6.188 11 People masquerade before us in their...offices, and connections...
    Ill 6.316 15 In the worst-assorted connections there is ever some mixture of true marriage.
    MMEm 10.404 11 [Mary Moody Emerson] writes to her nephew Charles Emerson, in 1833... I never expected connections and matrimony.
    Thor 10.471 11 [Thoreau] would not offer a memoir of his observations to the Natural History Society. Why should I? To detach the description from its connections in my mind would make it no longer true or valuable to me...
    AKan 11.263 4 ...now, vast property...family connections...cover the land with a network that immensely multiplies the dangers of war.
    FRO1 11.477 21 ...[the Free Religious Association] has prompted an equal magnanimity, that thus invites...all religious men, whatever their connections...to unite in a movement of benefit to men...
    PLT 12.16 5 To Be is the unsolved, unsolvable wonder. To Be, in its two connections of inward and outward, the mind and Nature.
    PLT 12.40 14 Insight assimilates the thing seen. Is it only another way of affirming and illustrating this to say that it sees nothing alone, but sees each particular object in just connections,-sees all in God?

connects, v. (3)

    MoS 4.170 25 We love whatever affirms, connects, preserves;...
    ET16 5.281 20 The heroic antiquary [William Stukeley]...connects [Stonehenge] with the oldest monuments and religion of the world...
    Imtl 8.324 10 ...I read in the second book of Herodotus this memorable sentence: The Egyptians are the first of mankind who have affirmed the immortality of the soul. Nor do I read it with less interest that the historian connects it presently with the doctrine of metempsychosis;...

connexion, n. (3)

    YA 1.370 20 We cannot look on the freedom of this country, in connexion with its youth, without a presentiment that here shall laws and institutions exist on some scale of proportion to the majesty of nature.
    NMW 4.245 7 ...the crosses of [Napoleon's] Legion of Honor were given to personal valor, and not to family connexion.
    Schr 10.272 19 ...the quality and essence of the universe is in [Union Pacific stock] also. Have we less interest...in any relation of life or custom of society? The scholar is to show, in each, identity and connexion;...

connive, v. (1)

    MR 1.230 27 ...The ways of commerce...are now in their general course so vitiated by derelictions and abuses at which all connive, that it requires more vigor and resources than can be expected of every young man, to right himself in them;...

connives, v. (1)

    Fdsp 2.194 23 ...by the divine affinity of virtue with itself, I find [my friends], or rather not I, but the Deity in me and in them derides and cancels the thick walls of individual character, relation, age, sex, circumstance, at which he usually connives...

connoisseur, n. (1)

    Art1 2.366 11 ...the artist and the connoisseur now seek in art the exhibition of their talent...

connoisseurs, n. (1)

    Edc1 10.146 10 ...[Fellowes] read history and studied ancient art to explain his stones;...he called in the succor...of experts in coins, of scholars and connoisseurs;...

connoisseurship, n. (1)

    CL 12.157 23 Every acquisition we make in the science of beauty is so sweet that I think it is cheaply paid for by what accompanies it, of course, the prating and affectation of connoisseurship.

conquer, v. (31)

    AmS 1.107 11 [The poor and the low]...will perish to add one drop of blood to make...those giant sinews combat and conquer.
    MR 1.240 12 Every man ought to have this opportunity to conquer the world for himself.
    Comp 2.124 14 Jesus and Shakspeare are fragments of the soul, and by love I conquer and incorporate them in my own conscious domain.
    Prd1 2.239 6 What low, poor, paltry, hypocritical people an argument on religion will make of the pure and chosen souls! They will...feign to confess here, only that they may brag and conquer there...
    Hsm1 2.247 8 Soph. Martius, O Martius,/ Thou now hast found a way to conquer me./
    Mrs1 3.153 18 Everything that is called fashion and courtesy humbles itself before...the heart of love. This is the royal blood, this the fire, which...will work after its kind and conquer and expand all that approaches it.
    NR 3.236 20 ...when each person...would conquer all things to his poor crochet, [Nature] raises up against him another person...
    PNR 4.88 13 Shakspeare is a Platonist when he writes...He, that can endure/ To follow with allegiance a fallen lord,/ Does conquer him that did his master conquer,/ And earns a place in the story./
    ET4 5.55 21 The English come mainly from the Germans, whom the Romans found hard to conquer in two hundred and ten years...
    ET4 5.55 23 The English come mainly from the Germans, whom the Romans found hard to conquer in two hundred and ten years,--say impossible to conquer, when one remembers the long sequel;...
    Pow 6.63 20 Men expect from good whigs put into office by the respectability of the country, much less skill to deal with Mexico...than from some strong transgressor, like Jefferson or Jackson, who first conquers his own government and then uses the same genius to conquer the foreigner.
    Ctr 6.148 13 ...let [a man's] own genius be what it may, it will repel quite as much of agreeable and valuable talent as it draws, and, in a city, the total attraction of all the citizens is sure to conquer, first or last, every repulsion...
    Bhr 6.175 16 It is much to conquer one's face...
    Wsp 6.225 6 The way to conquer the foreign artisan is, not to kill him, but to beat his work.
    Cour 7.263 3 They can conquer who believe they can.
    Suc 7.311 13 There is an external life, which is...taught to grasp all the boy can get, urging him...to...unfold his talents, shine, conquer and possess.
    SA 8.95 24 The great gain is...not to conquer your companion...
    Elo2 8.131 1 ...great generals do not fight many battles, but conquer by tactics...
    Res 8.146 22 A determined man, by his very attitude...begins to conquer.
    Res 8.146 22 ...they can conquer who believe they can.
    HDC 11.59 7 We know beforehand who must conquer in that unequal struggle [with the Indian].
    War 11.153 5 The strong tribe...attack and conquer their neighbors...
    FSLC 11.200 25 The words of John Randolph, wiser than he knew, have been ringing ominously in all echoes for thirty years, words spoken in the heat of the Missouri debate. We do not govern the people of the North by our black slaves, but by their own white slaves. We know what we are doing. We have conquered you once, and we can and will conquer you again.
    FSLN 11.228 6 [Webster] told the people at Boston they must conquer their prejudices;...
    ACiv 11.305 5 ...if we conquer the enemy [the South],-what then?
    ACiv 11.305 11 ...next winter we must begin at the beginning, and conquer [the South] over again.
    EPro 11.324 24 ...granting the truth, rightly read, of the historical aphorism, that the people always conquer, it is to be noted that, in the Southern States, the tenure of land and the local laws, with slavery, give the social system not a democratic but an aristocratic complexion;...
    Shak1 11.451 25 [Shakespeare's] mind has a superiority such that the universities should read lectures on him, and conquer the unconquerable if they can.
    PLT 12.18 10 There are...minds that produce their thoughts complete men, like armed soldiers, ready and swift to go out to resist and conquer all the armies of error...
    Bost 12.209 16 You cannot conquer [Boston] by numbers...
    AgMs 12.358 21 As I drew near this brave laborer [Edmund Hosmer] in the midst of his own acres, I could not help feeling for him the highest respect. Here is the Caesar, the Alexander of the soil, conquering and to conquer...

conquered, v. (19)

    MR 1.251 12 The [Arab] women fought like men, and conquered the Roman men.
    MR 1.251 16 [The Arabs] conquered Asia, and Africa, and Spain, on barley.
    SR 2.87 1 ...Napoleon conquered Europe by the bivouac...
    Comp 2.122 7 ...in a virtuous act I add to the world; I plant into deserts conquered from Chaos and Nothing...
    Hsm1 2.245 19 The Roman Martius has conquered Athens...
    Chr1 3.90 22 ...Hercules...conquered whether he stood, or walked, or sat, or whatever thing he did.
    Mrs1 3.127 10 [Manners] aid our dealing and conversation as a railway aids travelling, by...leaving nothing to be conquered but pure space.
    NMW 4.244 8 ...in spite of the detraction which his systematic egotism dictated toward the great captains who conquered with and for him, ample acknowledgements are made by [Napoleon] to Lannes, Duroc...
    ET5 5.75 6 Last of all the Norman or French-Dane arrived [in England], and formally conquered, harried and ruled the kingdom.
    ET15 5.264 3 [The London Times] declared war against Ireland, and conquered it.
    Wsp 6.206 26 King Richard taunts God with forsaking him. ...in sooth not through any cowardice of my warfare art thou thyself, my king and my God, conquered this day...
    Cour 7.264 26 ...the...shining helmets, beard and moustache of the soldier have conquered you long before his sword or bayonet reaches you.
    PPo 8.251 24 Timour taxed Hafiz with treating disrepectfully his two cities, to raise and adorn which he had conquered nations.
    Dem1 10.18 25 ...[demonic individuals] are not to be conquered save by the universe itself...
    SlHr 10.437 19 ...when [Samuel Hoar] saw the day and the gods went against him, he withdrew, but with an unaltered belief. All was conquered praeter atrocem animum Catonis.
    Thor 10.469 7 The other weapon with which [Thoreau] conquered all obstacles in science was patience.
    FSLC 11.200 24 The words of John Randolph, wiser than he knew, have been ringing ominously in all echoes for thirty years, words spoken in the heat of the Missouri debate. We do not govern the people of the North by our black slaves, but by their own white slaves. We know what we are doing. We have conquered you once, and we can and will conquer you again.
    ALin 11.336 14 [Lincoln] had conquered the public opinion of Canada, England and France.
    PPr 12.390 22 Carlyle's style is the first emergence of all this wealth and labor with which the world has gone with child so long. London and Europe...and America...have never before been conquered in literature.

conquering, adj. (3)

    PPh 4.73 19 [Socrates is] A pitiless disputant...the bounds of whose conquering intelligence no man had ever reached;...
    SwM 4.111 14 ...[Swedenborg] has at last found a pupil in Mr. Wilkinson... who has restored his master's buried books to the day...to go round the world in our commercial and conquering tongue.
    MMEm 10.397 6 The yesterday doth never smile,/ To-day goes drudging through the while,/ Yet in the name of Godhead, I/ The morrow front and can defy;/ Though I am weak, yet God, when prayed,/ Cannot withhold his conquering aid./

conquering, v. (2)

    YA 1.366 24 ...this [inclination to withdraw from cities] promised the conquering of the soil...
    AgMs 12.358 20 As I drew near this brave laborer [Edmund Hosmer] in the midst of his own acres, I could not help feeling for him the highest respect. Here is the Caesar, the Alexander of the soil, conquering and to conquer...

conqueror, n. (4)

    Cir 2.321 8 When we see the conqueror we do not think much of any one battle or success.
    ET8 5.134 25 ...here [in England] exists the best stock in the world...as if the burly inexpressive, now mute and contumacious, now fierce and sharp-tongued dragon, which once made the island light with his fiery breath, had bequeathed his ferocity to his conqueror.
    ET8 5.139 22 No nation was ever so rich in able men [as England];...men of such temper, that, like Baron Vere, had one seen him returning from a victory, he would by his silence have suspected that he had lost the day; and, had he beheld him in a retreat, he would have collected him a conqueror by the cheerfulness of his spirit.
    DL 7.133 16 ...the heroism which at this day would make on us the impression of Epaminondas and Phocion must be that of a domestic conqueror.

conquerors, n. (4)

    Suc 7.290 7 ...war, cannons and executions are used to clear the ground of bad, lumpish, irreclaimable savages, but always to the damage of the conquerors.
    PI 8.5 4 ...somewhat was murmured in our ear...that under chemistry was power and purpose: power and purpose ride on matter to the last atom. It was steeped in thought, did everywhere express thought; that, as great conquerors have burned their ships when once they were landed on the wished-for shore, so the noble house of Nature we inhabit has temporary uses...
    II 12.81 6 All conquests that history tells of will be found to resolve themselves into the superior mental powers of the conquerors...
    CL 12.135 6 [Earth-hunger] is not less visible in that branch of the family which inhabits America. Nor is it confined to farmers, speculators, and filibusters, or conquerors.

conquers, v. (6)

    Chr1 3.90 14 [The man of character] conquers because his arrival alters the face of affairs.
    ET3 5.34 5 Alfieri thought Italy and England the only countries worth living in;...the latter because art conquers nature...
    Pow 6.63 19 Men expect from good whigs put into office by the respectability of the country, much less skill to deal with Mexico...than from some strong transgressor, like Jefferson or Jackson, who first conquers his own government and then uses the same genius to conquer the foreigner.
    CbW 6.246 14 That by which a man conquers in any passage is a profound secret to every other being in the world...
    Elo2 8.114 17 ...you may find [the orator] in some lowly Bethel, by the seaside...a man who conquers his audience by infusing his soul into them...
    ALin 11.337 20 There is a serene Providence which rules the fate of nations, which...conquers alike by what is called defeat or by what is called victory...

conquest, n. (19)

    MR 1.251 23 ...when [Caliph Omar] left Medina to go to the conquest of Jerusalem, he rode on a red camel...
    Cir 2.321 17 True conquest is the causing the calamity to fade and disappear...
    Mrs1 3.143 24 There is not only the right of conquest, which genius pretends...but less claims will pass for the time;...
    Mrs1 3.144 21 The artist, the scholar, and, in general, the clerisy, win their way up into these places [of fashion] and get represented here, somewhat on this footing of conquest.
    Pol1 3.206 2 A nation of men unanimously bent on freedom or conquest can easily confound the arithmetic of statists...
    NMW 4.236 26 Conquest has made me what I am [said Napoleon], and conquest must maintain me.
    GoW 4.284 11 [Goethe] has no aims less large than the conquest of universal nature...
    ET4 5.60 21 The [Norman] conquest has obtained in the chronicles the name of the memory of sorrow.
    ET4 5.65 2 As early as the [Norman] conquest it is remarked...that [England's] merchants trade to all countries.
    ET8 5.137 8 The English did not calculate the conquest of the Indies. It fell to their character.
    ET10 5.170 20 [England's] success strengthens the hands of base wealth. Who can propose to youth poverty and wisdom, when mean gain has arrived at the conquest of letters and arts;...
    ET18 5.303 27 ...who would see...the explosion of their well-husbanded forces, must follow the swarms...pouring out now for two hundred years from the British islands...to the conquest of the globe.
    Wth 6.88 25 [A man]...is tempted out by his appetites and fancies to the conquest of this and that piece of nature, until he finds his well-being in the use of his planet...
    PI 8.71 26 ...for obvious municipal or parietal uses God has given us a bias or a rest on to-day's forms. Hence the shudder of joy with which in each clear moment we recognize the metamorphosis, because it is always a conquest, a surprise from the heart of things.
    Comc 8.167 1 A classification or nomenclature used by the scholar... confessedly...a bivouac for a night, and implying a march and a conquest to-morrow,-- becomes through indolence a barrack and a prison...
    Edc1 10.154 24 ...in this world of hurry and distraction, who can wait for the returns of reason and the conquest of self;...
    War 11.153 13 Plutarch...considers the invasion and conquest of the East by Alexander as one of the most bright and pleasing pages in history;...
    FRep 11.531 18 In this country...there is, at present...a headlong devotion... to the conquest of the continent...
    PPr 12.390 23 Carlyle's style is the first emergence of all this wealth and labor with which the world has gone with child so long. London and Europe...and America...have never before been conquered in literature. This is the first invasion and conquest.

Conquest, Norman, n. (2)

    ET7 5.117 23 Alfred...is called by a writer at the Norman Conquest, the truth-speaker;...
    Milt1 12.270 13 ...a history of England was one of the three main tasks which [Milton] proposed to himself. He proceeded in it no further than to the Conquest.

conquests, n. (2)

    II 12.67 27 Objection and loud denial not less prove the reality and conquests of an idea than the friends and advocates it finds.
    II 12.81 3 All conquests that history tells of will be found to resolve themselves into the superior mental powers of the conquerors...

consanguinity, n. (2)

    Nat 1.63 13 ...this [ideal] theory...does not account for that consanguinity which we acknowledge to [nature].
    Int 2.341 3 [The poet] feels a strict consanguinity [with Nature]...

conscience, n. (96)

    Nat 1.40 17 Sensible objects...reflect the conscience.
    DSA 1.141 1 I know and honor the purity and strict conscience of numbers of the clergy.
    DSA 1.151 4 What hinders that now...you speak the very truth, as your life and conscience teach it...
    MN 1.216 22 ...there are other examples of this total and supreme influence, besides Nature and the conscience.
    MR 1.233 23 The trail of the serpent reaches into all the lucrative professions and practices of man. Each has its own wrongs. Each finds a tender and very intelligent conscience a disqualification for success.
    MR 1.234 8 Suppose a man is so unhappy as to be born a saint...with the conscience and love of an angel, and he is to get his living in the world;...
    MR 1.235 21 Who could regret to see a high conscience...exercising a sensible effect on young men in their choice of occupation...
    LT 1.268 27 The actors constitute that great army of martyrs who...by their conscience and philanthropy..compose the visible church of the existing generation.
    LT 1.269 18 ...[modern reform movements] educate the conscience and the intellect of the people.
    LT 1.270 7 The Temperance-question...is a gymnastic training to the casuistry and conscience of the time.
    LT 1.271 7 The conscience of the Age demonstrates itself in this effort to raise the life of man by putting it in harmony with his idea of the Beautiful and the Just.
    LT 1.272 11 Out of this fair Idea in the mind springs the effort at the Perfect. ... If we would make more strict inquiry concerning its origin, we find ourselves rapidly approaching...that term where speech becomes silence, and science conscience.
    LT 1.276 3 These reforms...are ourselves; our own light, and sight, and conscience;...
    YA 1.391 23 One thing is plain for all men of common sense and common conscience...
    Hist 2.40 22 Broader and deeper we must write our annals...from an influx of the ever new, ever sanative conscience...
    Fdsp 2.195 24 We over-estimate the conscience of our friend.
    Fdsp 2.203 7 I knew a man who under a certain religious frenzy...spoke to the conscience of every person he encountered...
    Art1 2.363 10 Art has not yet come to its maturity...if it do not stand in connection with the conscience...
    Exp 3.79 14 Saints are sad, because they behold sin...from the point of view of the conscience...
    Exp 3.79 16 ...seen from the conscience or will, [sin] is pravity or bad.
    Exp 3.79 19 The conscience must feel [sin] as essence, essential evil.
    Chr1 3.96 22 ...men of character are the conscience of the society to which they belong.
    Pol1 3.212 7 Wild liberty develops iron conscience.
    Pol1 3.212 9 Want of liberty, by strengthening law and decorum, stupefies conscience.
    Pol1 3.212 19 ...an abstract of the codes of nations would be a transcript of the common conscience.
    Pol1 3.217 22 We are haunted by a conscience of this right to grandeur of character...
    NER 3.253 24 ...there were changes of employment dictated by conscience.
    NER 3.254 8 ...it was directly in the spirit and genius of the age, what happened in one instance when a church censured and threatened to excommunicate one of its members on account of the somewhat hostile part to the church which his conscience led him to take in the anti-slavery business;...
    NER 3.272 16 ...when their intellect or their conscience has been aroused;... [men] are radicals.
    UGM 4.26 7 The shield against the stingings of conscience is the universal practice...
    SwM 4.129 24 Whether from a self-inquisitorial habit that he grew into from jealousy of the sins to which men of thought are liable, [Swedenborg] has acquired, in disentangling and demonstrating that particular form of moral disease, an acumen which no conscience can resist.
    SwM 4.130 27 ...though aware that truth is not solitary nor is goodness solitary, but both must ever mix and marry, [Swedenborg] makes war on his mind, takes the part of the conscience against it...
    SwM 4.132 20 An ardent and contemplative young man...might read once these books of Swedenborg, these mysteries of love and conscience, and then throw them aside for ever.
    SwM 4.144 22 ...in [Swedenborg's] immolation of genius and fame at the shrine of conscience, is a merit sublime beyond praise.
    NMW 4.257 5 Here [in Napoleon] was an experiment...of the powers of intellect without conscience.
    ET4 5.62 18 ...the children of felons have a healthy conscience.
    ET7 5.122 18 In February, 1848, [the English] said, Look, the French king and his party fell for want of a shot; they had not conscience to shoot...
    ET9 5.144 20 The pursy man [in England]...does wrong in order to feel his freedom, and makes a conscience of persisting in it.
    ET14 5.248 1 The critic [in England] hides his skepticism under the English cant of practical. To convince the reason, to touch the conscience, is romantic pretension.
    ET19 5.311 14 This conscience is one element [which attracts an American to England]...
    Pow 6.64 15 ...in morals, wild liberty breeds iron conscience;...
    Pow 6.66 18 It is an esoteric doctrine of society that a little wickedness is good to make muscle; as if conscience were not good for hands and legs;...
    Wth 6.84 23 ...Still, through [Matter's] motes and masses, draw/ Electric thrills and ties of Law,/ Which bind the strengths of Nature wild/ To the conscience of a child./
    Wsp 6.216 25 ...we very slowly admit in another man a higher degree of moral sentiment than our own,--a finer conscience...
    CbW 6.246 7 We like very well to be praised for our action, but our conscience says, Not unto us.
    CbW 6.249 23 ...let us have the considerate vote of single men spoken on their honor and their conscience.
    Boks 7.219 5 All these [sacred] books are the majestic expressions of the universal conscience...
    PI 8.69 3 Vexatious to find poets, who are by excellence the thinking and feeling of the world, deficient in truth of intellect and of affection. Then is conscience unfaithful...
    Elo2 8.109 6 He, when the rising storm of party roared,/ Brought his great forehead to the council board,/ There, while hot heads perplexed with fears the state,/ Calm as the morn the manly patriot sate;/ Seemed, when at last his clarion accents broke/ As if the conscience of the country spoke./
    Comc 8.160 14 The presence of the ideal of right and of truth in all action makes the yawning delinquencies of practice remorseful to the conscience...
    PC 8.216 20 Michel Angelo was the conscience of Italy.
    Insp 8.270 19 We must take [the aboriginal man] as we find him...in all our knowledge of him, an interesting creature, with a will, an invention, an imagination, a conscience and an inextinguishable hope.
    Insp 8.280 4 Plato thought exercise would almost cure a guilty conscience.
    Grts 8.307 27 In morals this [individual bias] is conscience;...
    Imtl 8.344 22 My idea of heaven is that there is no melodrama in it at all; that it is wholly real. Here is the emphasis of conscience and experience;...
    Dem1 10.26 26 [The demonologic] is a lawless world. We have left the geometry, the compensation, and the conscience of the daily world...
    Dem1 10.27 4 [The demonologic] is a lawless world. ...a droll bedlam, where...the actors and spectators have no conscience or reflection...
    Chr2 10.104 1 [The religions we call false]...were affirmations of the conscience correcting the evil customs of their times.
    SovE 10.203 18 The Church of Rome had its saints, and inspired the conscience of Europe...
    SovE 10.211 13 Governments stand by [men's credence],-by the faith that the people share,-whether it comes from the religion in which they were bred, or from an original conscience in themselves...
    Schr 10.262 9 I do not now refer to that intellectual conscience which forms itself in tender natures...
    Schr 10.262 13 Stung by this intellectual conscience, we go to measure our tasks as scholars...
    Plu 10.295 19 [Henry IV wrote] My good mother...put this book [Plutarch] into my hands almost when I was a child at the breast. It has been like my conscience...
    Plu 10.312 7 [Seneca] ventured far-apparently too far-for so keen a conscience as he inly had.
    LLNE 10.326 2 It is not easy to date these eras of activity with any precision, but in this region one made itself remarked, say in 1820 and the twenty years following. It...brought new divisions in politics; as the new conscience touching temperance and slavery.
    LLNE 10.366 3 ...the conscience of the conscientious runs in veins...
    EzRy 10.394 3 Was a man a sot...or was there any cloud or suspicious circumstances in his behavior, the good pastor [Ezra Ripley] knew his way straight to that point...and whatever relief to the conscience of both parties plain speech could effect was sure to be procured.
    EzRy 10.394 6 In all such passages [with people] [Ezra Ripley] justified himself to the conscience, and commonly to the love, of the persons concerned.
    MMEm 10.423 12 War devastates the conscience of men, yet corrupt peace does not less.
    SlHr 10.442 14 Many good stories are still told of the perplexity of jurors who found the law and the evidence on one side, and yet Squire Hoar had said that he believed, on his conscience, his client entitled to a verdict.
    SlHr 10.442 24 [Samuel Hoar's] character made him the conscience of the community in which he lived.
    SlHr 10.443 4 I used to feel that [Samuel Hoar's] conscience was a kind of meter of the degree of honesty in the country...
    Carl 10.497 1 Czar Nicholas was [Carlyle's] hero; for in the ignominy of Europe, when...no man was found with conscience enough to fire a gun for his crown...one man remained who believed he was put there by God Almighty to govern his empire...
    EWI 11.103 25 ...the crude element of good in human affairs must work and ripen, spite of whips and plantation laws and West Indian interest. Conscience rolled on its pillow, and could not sleep.
    EWI 11.110 4 The [English] assailants of slavery had early agreed to limit their political action on this subject to the abolition of the trade, but Granville Sharpe, as a matter of conscience...felt constrained to record his protest against the limitation...
    EWI 11.146 1 These considerations [of emancipation in the West Indies] seem to leave no choice for the action of the intellect and the conscience of the country.
    EWI 11.146 17 ...some degree of despondency is pardonable, when [the negro] observes the men of conscience and of intellect...so hotly offended by whatever incidental petulances or infirmities of indiscreet defenders of the negro, as to permit themselves to be ranged with the enemies of the human race;...
    FSLC 11.191 24 All authors who have any conscience or modesty agree that a person ought not to obey such commands as are evidently contrary to the laws of God.
    FSLC 11.197 7 New York advertised in Southern markets that it would go for slavery, and posted the names of merchants who would not. Boston, alarmed, entered into the same design. Philadelphia, more fortunate, had no conscience at all...
    FSLC 11.208 17 Why not end this dangerous dispute [over slavery] on some ground of fair compensation on one side, and satisfaction on the other to the conscience of the free states?
    FSLN 11.226 20 ...a ghastly result of all those years of experience in affairs, this, that there was nothing better for the foremost American man [Webster] to tell his countrymen than that Slavery was now at that strength that they must beat down their conscience and become kidnappers for it.
    FSLN 11.243 22 [Robert Winthrop] denounced every name and aspect under which liberty and progress dare show themselves in this age and country, but with a lingering conscience which qualified each sentence with a recommendation to mercy.
    AKan 11.260 25 Are there no women in that [Southern] country,-women, who always carry the conscience of a people?
    EPro 11.320 22 The government has assured itself of the best constituency in the world...the passionate conscience of women, the sympathy of distant nations,-all rally to its support.
    ALin 11.334 11 [Lincoln's] occupying the chair of state was a triumph...of the public conscience.
    SMC 11.373 15 On his death-bed, [George Prescott] received the needless assurances of his general that he had done more than all his duty,-needless to a conscience so faithful and unspotted.
    EdAd 11.392 23 The conscience of man is regenerated as is the atmosphere...
    FRO2 11.487 15 ...we all agree that the health and integrity of man is...a regard to natural conscience.
    CL 12.142 3 ...Plato said of exercise that it would almost cure a guilty conscience.
    Bost 12.202 21 The soul of a political party is by no means usually the officers and pets of the party, who...spend the salaries. No, but...the men who are never contented and never to be contented with the work actually accomplished, but who from conscience are engaged to what that party professes...
    Milt1 12.262 27 The victories of the conscience in [Milton] are gained by the commanding charm which all the severe and restrictive virtues have for him.
    Milt1 12.270 21 [Milton's] private opinions and private conscience always distinguish him.
    WSL 12.345 26 ...though [character] may be resisted at any time, yet resistance to it is a suicide. For the person who stands in this lofty relation to his fellow men is always the impersonation to them of their conscience.
    AgMs 12.363 7 The true men of skill, the poor farmers, who, by the sweat of their face, without an inheritance and without offence to their conscience have reared a family of valuable citizens and matrons to the state...are the only right subjects of this Report [Agricultural Survey of the Commonwealth];...
    EurB 12.369 2 ...with a complete satisfaction [Wordsworth]...celebrated his own [life] with the religion of a true priest. Hence the antagonism which was immediately felt between his poetry and the spirit of the age, that here not only criticism but conscience and will were parties;...
    PPr 12.380 13 [Carlyle's Past and Present] is such an appeal to the conscience and honor of England as cannot be forgotten...

Conscience, n. (3)

    Con 1.302 14 Here is the fact which men call Fate...not to be disposed of by the consideration that the Conscience commands this or that...
    Con 1.302 19 ...although the commands of the Conscience are essentially absolute, they are historically limitary.
    EdAd 11.391 25 What will easily seem to many a far higher question than any other is that which respects the embodying of the Conscience of the period.

consciences, n. (2)

    Exp 3.64 14 If we will be strong with [nature's] strength we must not harbor such disconsolate consciences, borrowed too from the consciences of other nations.
    NER 3.255 3 There was in all the practical activities of New England for the last quarter of a century, a gradual withdrawal of tender consciences from the social organizations.

conscientious, adj. (8)

    MR 1.250 4 Now if I talk...with a conscientious youth...I see at once how paltry is all this generation of unbelievers...
    NER 3.256 5 A restless, prying, conscientious criticism broke out in unexpected quarters.
    MoS 4.157 27 ...great numbers dislike [the State] and suffer conscientious scruples to allegiance;...
    ET14 5.256 10 The poetry [of England] of course is low and prosaic; only now and then, as in Wordsworth, conscientious;...
    Prch 10.223 21 I see that sensible men and conscientious men all over the world were of one religion...
    FSLN 11.244 3 ...Liberty is the Crusade of all brave and conscientious men...
    CL 12.160 27 When I look at natural structures...I know that I am seeing an architecture and carpentry which has no sham, is solid and conscientious...
    MLit 12.324 4 ...a sort of conscientious feeling [Goethe] had to be up to the universe is the best account and apology for many of [his stories].

conscientious, n. (1)

    LLNE 10.366 3 ...the conscience of the conscientious runs in veins...

conscientiously, adv. (1)

    ET6 5.107 8 A Frenchman may possibly be clean; an Englishman is conscientiously clean.

conscientiousness, n. (1)

    LT 1.264 13 ...in the hair-splitting conscientiousness of some eccentric person who has found some new scruple to embarrass himself and his neighbors withal is to be found that which shall constitute the times to come...

conscious, adj. (45)

    Nat 1.27 4 Man is conscious of a universal soul within or behind his individual life...
    Nat 1.72 6 [Man] perceives that...if still he have elemental power...it is not conscious power...
    MN 1.204 7 ...the spirit and peculiarity of that impression nature makes on us is this, that...the whole...obeys that redundancy or excess of life which in conscious beings we call ecstasy.
    YA 1.386 16 Where is he who seeing a thousand men...making the whole region forlorn by their inaction, and conscious himself of possessing the faculty they want, does not hear his call to go and be their king?
    Comp 2.124 15 Jesus and Shakspeare are fragments of the soul, and by love I conquer and incorporate them in my own conscious domain.
    Lov1 2.176 17 [Love] makes all things alive and significant. Nature grows conscious.
    Fdsp 2.197 3 [A man who stands united in his thought] is conscious of a universal success...
    OS 2.275 7 With each divine impulse the mind...comes out into eternity, and inspires and expires its air. It...becomes conscious of a closer sympathy with Zeno and Arrian than with persons in the house.
    OS 2.277 21 ...in groups where debate is earnest...the company become aware...that all have a spiritual property in what was said, as well as the sayer. ... All are conscious of attaining to a higher self-possession.
    Int 2.328 2 ...this native law remains over [the mind] after it has come to reflection or conscious thought.
    Int 2.333 17 Perhaps, if we should meet Shakspeare we should not be conscious of any steep inferiority;...
    Int 2.336 27 Not by any conscious imitation of particular forms are the grand strokes of the painter executed...
    Int 2.342 21 As long as I hear truth I...am not conscious of any limits to my nature.
    Pt1 3.26 19 ...beyond the energy of his possessed and conscious intellect [every intellectual man] is capable of a new energy...by abandonment to the nature of things;...
    Exp 3.70 18 ...that which is coexistent, or ejaculated from a deeper cause, as yet far from being conscious, knows not its own tendency.
    NR 3.244 15 ...we cannot make voluntary and conscious steps in the admirable science of universals...
    NMW 4.251 20 [Bonaparte] has the good-nature of strength and conscious superiority.
    ET2 5.28 14 The conscious ship hears all the praise.
    ET5 5.86 26 ...conscious that no race of better men exists, [the English] rely most on the simplest means...
    ET8 5.137 18 [The English] are very conscious of their advantageous position in history.
    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.
    ET16 5.279 12 To these conscious stones [of Stonehenge] we two pilgrims [Emerson and Carlyle] were alike known and near.
    ET16 5.288 15 There, I thought, in America, lies nature sleeping, overgrowing, almost conscious...
    Art2 7.38 14 The utterance of thought and emotion in speech and action may be conscious or unconscious.
    Art2 7.38 21 The conscious utterance of thought, by speech or action, to any end, is Art.
    Elo1 7.66 27 There is a tablet [in the audience] for every line [the orator] can inscribe, though he should mount to the highest levels. Humble persons are conscious of new illumination;...
    Suc 7.295 23 How often it seems the chief good to be born...well adjusted to the tone of the human race. Such a man feels himself...conscious by his receptivity of an infinite strength.
    PI 8.10 27 [Goethe] was himself conscious of [imagination's] help...
    QO 8.202 20 Shakspeare, Milton, Wordsworth, were very conscious of their responsibilities.
    Imtl 8.329 18 I think all sound minds rest on a certain preliminary conviction, namely, that if it be best that conscious personal life shall continue, it will continue; if not best, then it will not;...
    Dem1 10.8 15 Once or twice the conscious fetters shall seem to be unlocked [by dreams]...
    SovE 10.200 26 You have perceived in the first fact of your conscious life here a miracle so astounding...as to exhaust wonder...
    MMEm 10.432 9 Shame on me [Mary Moody Emerson]...resigned...to the loss of that character which I once thought and felt so sure of, without ever being conscious of acting from calculation.
    LS 11.17 15 I appeal now to the convictions of communicants [in the Lord' s Supper], and ask such persons whether they have not been occasionally conscious of a painful confusion of thought between the worship due to God and the commemoration due to Christ.
    EWI 11.139 22 The tendency of things runs steadily to this point, namely... to give [every man] so much power as he naturally exerts,-no more, no less. Of course, the timid and base persons, all who are conscious of no worth in themselves...shudder at the change...
    FSLC 11.194 13 ...the womb conceives and the breasts give suck to thousands and millions of hairy babes formed not in the image of your statute, but in the image of the Universe;...necessitated to express first or last every feeling of the heart. ... You can commit no crime, for they are created in their sentiments conscious of and hostile to it;...
    TPar 11.291 19 ...[Theodore Parker's] great hospitable heart was the sanctuary to which every soul conscious of an earnest opinion came for sympathy...
    PLT 12.17 11 ...as man is conscious of the law of vegetable and animal nature, so is he aware of an Intellect which overhangs his consciousness...
    PLT 12.24 10 ...the nervous and hysterical and animalized will produce a like series of symptoms in you...though you are conscious that they do not properly belong to you...
    MAng1 12.233 23 [Michelangelo] was conscious in his efforts of higher aims than to address the eye.
    Milt1 12.260 4 Very early in life [Milton] became conscious that he had more to say to his fellow men than they had fit words to embody.
    Milt1 12.261 17 ...Milton was conscious of possessing this intellectual voice...
    MLit 12.316 21 Of the perception now fast becoming a conscious fact,- that there is One Mind, and that all the powers and privileges which lie in any, lie in all...literature is far the best expression.
    MLit 12.321 14 ...more than any other contemporary bard [Wordsworth] is pervaded with a reverence of somewhat higher than (conscious) thought.
    Let 12.396 17 How joyfully we have felt the admonition of larger natures which despised our aims and pursuits, conscious that a voice out of heaven spoke to us in that scorn.

conscious, n. (1)

    AmS 1.95 2 ...the transition through which [thought] passes from the unconscious to the conscious, is action.

consciously, adv. (4)

    Nat 1.32 23 Have mountains, and waves, and skies, no significance but what we consciously give them...
    Art2 7.47 27 ...all the advantages to which I have adverted are such as the artist did not consciously produce.
    Art2 7.49 21 In eloquence, the great triumphs of the art are...when consciously [the orator] makes himself the mere tongue of the occasion and the hour...
    Dem1 10.8 18 [Dreams] are the maturation often of opinions not consciously carried out to statements...

consciousness, n. (64)

    Nat 1.63 22 ...when...we come to inquire, Whence is matter? and Whereto? many truths arise to us out of the recesses of consciousness.
    Tran 1.329 16 As thinkers, mankind have ever divided into two sects, Materialists and Idealists; the first class founding on experience, the second on consciousness;...
    Tran 1.331 4 This [idealistic] manner of looking at things transfers every object in nature from an independent and anomalous position without there, into the consciousness.
    Tran 1.332 27 The idealist takes his departure from his consciousness...
    Tran 1.333 9 The idealist has another measure...namely, the rank which things themselves take in his consciousness;...
    Tran 1.333 26 ...[the idealist] does not respect...the church, nor charities, nor arts, for themselves; but hears, as at a vast distance, what they say, as if his consciousness would speak to him through a pantomimic scene.
    Tran 1.334 10 From this transfer of the world into the consciousness... follow easily [the idealist's] whole ethics.
    Tran 1.353 20 The worst feature of this double consciousness is, that the two lives, of the understanding and of the soul, which we lead, really show very little relation to each other;...
    YA 1.365 3 The task of surveying, planting, and building upon this immense tract requires an education and a sentiment commensurate thereto. A consciousness of this fact is beginning to take the place of the purely trading spirit and education which sprang up whilst all the population lived on the fringe of sea-coast.
    Hist 2.6 7 Property also holds of the soul... The obscure consciousness of this fact is the light of all our day...
    SR 2.49 10 ...the man is as it were clapped into jail by his consciousness.
    SR 2.59 22 What makes the majesty of the heroes of the senate and the field, which so fills the imagination? The consciousness of a train of great days and victories behind.
    SR 2.63 20 The joyful loyalty with which men have everywhere suffered the king...to...represent the law in his person, was the hieroglyphic by which they obscurely signified their consciousness of their own right and comeliness...
    SR 2.74 10 ...the law of consciousness abides.
    SR 2.77 23 [Prayer as a means to effect a private end] supposes dualism and not unity in nature and consciousness.
    SL 2.138 5 The wild fertility of nature is felt in comparing our rigid names and reputations with our fluid consciousness.
    SL 2.144 15 [Those facts, words, persons, which dwell in a man's memory without his being able to say why] are symbols of value to him as they can interpret parts of his consciousness...
    Lov1 2.187 22 ...the purification of the intellect and the heart from year to year is the real marriage...wholly above [the lovers'] consciousness.
    Fdsp 2.197 9 I cannot make your consciousness tantamount to mine.
    OS 2.281 19 ...a certain enthusiasm attends the individual's consciousness of that divine presence [the soul].
    Cir 2.306 10 There are no fixtures to men, if we appeal to consciousness.
    Int 2.345 3 ...whosoever propounds to you a philosophy of the mind, is only a more or less awkward translator of things in your consciousness...
    Int 2.345 7 ...[the philosopher] has not succeeded in rendering back to you your consciousness.
    Exp 3.72 13 The consciousness in each man is a sliding scale...
    Exp 3.77 16 Never can love make consciousness and ascription equal in force.
    Chr1 3.93 18 I see [in the natural merchant]...the consciousness of being an agent and playfellow of the original laws of the world.
    Mrs1 3.150 9 A certain awkward consciousness of inferiority in the men may give rise to the new chivalry in behalf of Woman's Rights.
    Nat2 3.181 22 ...[plants] grope ever upward towards consciousness;...
    Nat2 3.182 2 ...no doubt when [the maples and ferns] come to consciousness they too will curse and swear.
    UGM 4.18 25 If a wise man should appear in our village he would create, in those who conversed with him, a new consciousness of wealth...
    PPh 4.51 19 These two principles [unity and diversity] reappear and interpenetrate all things, all thought; the one, the many. One is... consciousness; the other, definition...
    PPh 4.54 27 ...the union of impossibilities, which reappears in every object;, its real and its ideal power,--was now also transferred entire to the consciousness of a man [Plato].
    ShP 4.199 12 Did [the bard] feel himself overmatched by any companion? The appeal is to the consciousness of the writer.
    ShP 4.199 18 Is there at last in [the writer's] breast a Delphi whereof to ask concerning any thought or thing, whether it be verily so, yea or nay? and to have answer, and to rely on that? All the debts which such a man could contract to other wit would never disturb his consciousness of originality;...
    ET6 5.110 11 Wordsworth says of the small freeholders of Westmoreland, Many of these humble sons of the hills had a consciousness that the land which they tilled had for more than five hundred years been possessed by men of the same name and blood.
    F 6.47 8 ...one solution to the old knots of fate, freedom, and foreknowledge, exists; the propounding, namely, of the double consciousness.
    SS 7.3 23 There was some paralysis on [my new friend's] will, such that when he met men on common terms he spoke...from the point, like a flighty girl. His consciousness of the fault made it worse.
    DL 7.109 2 An increased consciousness of the soul, you say, characterizes the period.
    WD 7.184 7 There are people...who in their consciousness of deserving success constantly slight the ordinary means of attaining it;...
    QO 8.192 15 [Quotation] betrays the consciousness that truth is the property of no individual...
    Insp 8.277 8 ...all poets have signalized their consciousness of rare moments when they were superior to themselves...
    Insp 8.292 18 ...in discourse with a friend, our thought, hitherto wrapped in our consciousness, detaches itself...
    Dem1 10.6 11 Animals have been called the dreams of Nature. Perhaps for a conception of their consciousness we may go to our own dreams.
    Dem1 10.8 3 [Dreams] have a double consciousness, at once sub-and ob-jective.
    Aris 10.58 25 In his consciousness of deserving success, the caliph Ali constantly neglected the ordinary means of attaining it...
    PerF 10.72 16 The laws of material nature run up into the invisible world of the mind, and hereby we acquire a key to those sublimities which skulk and hide in the caverns of human consciousness.
    Chr2 10.97 20 It would instantly indispose us to any person claiming to speak for the Author of Nature, the setting forth any fact or law which we did not find in our consciousness.
    Chr2 10.98 10 ...I may easily speak of that adorable nature, there where only I behold it in my dim experiences, in such terms as shall seem to the frivolous, who dare not fathom their consciousness, as profane.
    Edc1 10.132 11 ...whilst thus the man is ever invited inward into shining realms of knowledge and power by the shows of the world, which interpret to him the infinitude of his own consciousness,-it becomes the office of a just education to awaken him to the knowledge of this fact.
    Schr 10.284 16 [The scholar] will have to answer certain questions, which... cannot be staved off. For all men, all women...are the interrogators:...Is there method in your consciousness?
    LLNE 10.326 6 Men grew reflective and intellectual. There was a new consciousness.
    LLNE 10.332 4 [Everett's learning] was so coldly and weightily communicated...as if in the consciousness and consideration of all history and all learning ...that...this learning instantly took the highest place to our imagination...
    LLNE 10.339 6 There was...a consciousness of power not yet finding its determinate aim.
    LLNE 10.363 10 [Charles Newcomb] lived and thought, in 1842, such worlds of life; all hinging on the thought of Being or Reality as opposed to consciousness;...
    MMEm 10.426 16 Usefulness, if it requires action, seems less like existence than the desire of being absorbed in God, retaining consciousness.
    MMEm 10.426 26 Never do the feelings of the Infinite and the consciousness of finite frailty and ignorance harmonize so well as at this mystic season in the deserts of life.
    EWI 11.128 6 For months and years the bill [on emanicipation in the West Indies] was debated, with some consciousness of the extent of its relations...
    PLT 12.17 13 ...as man is conscious of the law of vegetable and animal nature, so is he aware of an Intellect which overhangs his consciousness...
    II 12.65 17 Consciousness is but a taper in the great night;...
    Bost 12.205 27 ...there was never, I suppose, a more rapid expansion in population, wealth and all the elements of power, and in the citizens' consciousness of power and sustained assertion of it, than was exhibited here.
    Milt1 12.276 16 Like prophets, [Homer and Shakespeare] seem but imperfectly aware of the import of their own utterances. We hesitate to say such things, and say them only to the unpleasing dualism, when the man and the poet show like a double consciousness.
    MLit 12.313 5 [Subjectiveness] is the new consciousness of the one mind...
    EurB 12.367 9 ...Wordsworth...though confounding his accidental with the universal consciousness...is really a master of the English language...
    Let 12.396 25 To live solitary and unexpressed is...painful in proportion to one's consciousness of ripeness and equality to the offices of friendship.

consciousnesses, n. (1)

    Fdsp 2.207 14 In good company the individuals merge their egotism into a social soul exactly co-extensive with the several consciousnesses there present.

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