Consubstantiation to Contriving

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

Consubstantiation, n. (1)

    LS 11.4 7 The doctrine of the Consubstantiation taught by Luther was denied by Calvin.

Consuelo [George Sand], n. (3)

    GoW 4.278 24 George Sand, in Consuelo and its continuation, has sketched a truer and more dignified picture [than has Goethe in Wilhelm Meister].
    Boks 7.214 13 ...Jeanne and Consuelo...are great steps from the novel of one termination...
    Boks 7.215 1 ...the player in Consuelo insists that he and his colleagues on the boards have taught princes the fine etiquette and strokes of grace and dignity which they practise with so much effect in their villas...

Consuelo [Sand, Consuelo], (1)

    Bhr 6.170 4 Consuelo, in the romance, boasts of the lessons she had given the nobles in manners, on the stage;...

consuetudes, n. (2)

    Fdsp 2.212 16 Late,--very late,--we perceive that...no consuetudes or habits of society would be of any avail to establish us in such relations with [the noble] as we desire...
    Prd1 2.240 13 Let us suck the sweetness of those affections and consuetudes that grow near us.

consul, n. (5)

    MR 1.231 26 In the Spanish islands, every agent or factor of the Americans, unless he be a consul, has taken oath that he is a Catholic...
    Chr1 3.109 26 John Bradshaw, says Milton, appears like a consul, from whom the fasces are not to depart with the year;...
    ET12 5.203 18 ...one day, being in Venice [Dr. Bandinel] bought a room full of books and manuscripts...and had the doors locked and sealed by the consul.
    Plu 10.293 19 ...[Plutarch]...was not consul in Rome...
    SlHr 10.441 11 ...[Samuel Hoar]...might easily suggest Milton's picture of John Bradshaw, that he was a consul from whom the fasces did not depart with the year...

consular, adj. (1)

    Plu 10.293 14 [Plutarch] has been represented...as having received from Trajan the consular dignity...

Consulates, n. (1)

    Hist 2.40 15 What does Rome know of rat and lizard? What are Olympiads and Consulates to these neighboring systems of being?

consuls, n. (1)

    Aris 10.41 13 ...the effect of freer institutions in England and America, has robbed the title of king of all its romance, as that of our commercial consuls as compared with the ancient Roman.

consul's, n. (1)

    Mrs1 3.153 25 Are you...rich enough to make...the itinerant with his consul' s paper which commends him To the charitable...feel the noble exception f your presence and your house from the general bleakness and stoniness;...

consulships, n. (1)

    WD 7.179 20 ...him I reckon the most learned scholar, not who can unearth for me the buried dynasties of Sesostris and Ptolemy...the Olympiads and consulships...

consult, v. (12)

    ET2 5.32 17 It has been said that the King of England would consult his dignity by giving audience to foreign ambassadors in the cabin of a man-of-war.
    ET12 5.212 5 ...the rich libraries collected at every one of many thousands of houses [in England], give an advantage not to be attained by a youth in this country, when one thinks how much more and better may be learned by a scholar who, immediately on hearing of a book, can consult it...
    ET16 5.274 18 In these days, [Carlyle] thought, it would become an architect to consult only the grim necessity...
    Wth 6.98 8 Every man may have occasion to consult books which he does not care to possess...
    Ctr 6.137 10 It is not a compliment but a disparagement to consult a man only on horses...
    OA 7.330 1 We have an admirable line worthy of Horace...but have searched all probable and improbable books for it in vain. We consult the reading men: but, strangely enough, they who know everything know not this.
    SA 8.99 11 When men consult you, it is not that they wish you to stand tiptoe and pump your brains...
    QO 8.183 19 ...we find in Grimm's Memoires that Sheridan got [his rules] from the witty D'Argenson; who, no doubt, if we could consult him, could tell of whom he first heard them told.
    Grts 8.304 26 When [young men] have learned that the parlor and the college and the counting-room demand as much courage as the sea or the camp, they will be willing to consult their own strength and education in their choice of place.
    Aris 10.48 11 I told the Duke of Newcastle, says Bubb Dodington in his Memoirs, that...I was determined to make some sort of a figure in life;... what it would be I could not determine yet; I must look round me a little and consult my friends...
    FSLC 11.206 12 If [the North and the South] continue to have a binding interest, they will be pretty sure to find it out: if not, they will consult their peace in parting.
    Wom 11.419 26 ...bring together a cultivated society of both sexes, in a drawing-room, and consult and decide by voices on a question of taste or on a question of right, and is there any absurdity or any practical difficulty in obtaining their authentic opinions?

consultation, n. (1)

    GSt 10.503 16 [George Stearns] passed his time in incessant consultation with all men whom he could reach...

consulted, v. (9)

    SwM 4.100 15 [Swedenborg's] duties had brought him into intimate acquaintance with King Charles XII., by whom he was much consulted and honored.
    ET11 5.185 23 The English nobles are high-spirited, active, educated men... and...have been consulted in the conduct of every important action.
    Wsp 6.228 3 Among the nuns in a convent not far from Rome, one had appeared who laid claim to certain rare gifts of inspiration and prophecy, and the abbess advised the Holy Father of the wonderful powers shown by her novice. The Pope did not well know what to make of these new claims, and Philip coming in from a journey one day, he consulted him.
    DL 7.108 5 Is it not plain that...in the dwelling-house must the true character and hope of the time be consulted?
    Aris 10.50 7 When old writers are consulted by young writers who have written their first book, they say, Publish it by all means; so only can you certainly know its quality.
    Edc1 10.135 23 In affirming that the moral nature of man is the predominant element and should therefore be mainly consulted in the arrangements of a school, I am very far from wishing that it should swallow up all the other instincts and faculties of man.
    PLT 12.60 12 That wonderful oracle [the divine soul] will reply when it is consulted...
    MAng1 12.225 23 In Rome, Michael Angelo was consulted by Pope Paul III. in building the fortifications of San Borgo.
    Trag 12.408 4 [Belief in Fate] is discriminated from the doctrine of Philosophical Necessity herein: that the last is an Optimism, and therefore the suffering individual finds his good consulted in the good of all, of which he is a part.

consulting, v. (3)

    ShP 4.212 23 [A man of talents] crams this part and starves that other part, consulting not the fitness of the thing, but his fitness and strength.
    NMW 4.232 15 In 1796 [Bonaparte] writes to the Directory: I have conducted the campaign without consulting any one.
    EWI 11.105 22 [Granville] Sharpe protected the [West Indian] slave. In consulting with the lawyers, they told Sharpe the laws were against him.

consults, v. (8)

    LE 1.179 15 ...[Napoleon] belonged to a class...who think that what a man can do is his greatest ornament, and that he always consults his dignity by doing it.
    MN 1.217 11 Is [Love] not a certain admirable wisdom...in which the individual is no longer his own foolish master...and consults every omen in nature with tremulous interest?
    SL 2.141 9 ...the more truly [a man] consults his own powers, the more difference will his work exhibit from the work of any other.
    ET6 5.105 5 Every man in this polished country [England] consults only his convenience...
    Elo1 7.84 18 Especially [the orator] consults his power by making instead of taking his theme.
    PI 8.36 13 ...there is entertainment and room for talent in the artist's selection of ancient or remote subjects; as when the poet goes to India, or to Rome, or to Persia, for his fable. But I believe nobody knows better than he that herein he consults his ease rather than his strength or his desire.
    Grts 8.307 25 ...in this self-respect or hearkening to the privatest oracle, [a man] consults his ease...
    CL 12.149 27 [The Indian] consults by way of natural compass, when he travels...

consume, v. (5)

    Nat 1.20 19 ...when Leonidas and his three hundred martyrs consume one day in dying...are not these heroes entitled to add the beauty of the scene to the beauty of the deed?
    Farm 7.143 8 Science has shown...the manner in which marine plants balance the marine animals, as the land plants supply the oxygen which the animals consume, and the animals the carbon which the plants absorb.
    LLNE 10.350 17 All these [the hyaena, the jackal, the gnat, the bug, the flea] shall be redressed by human culture, and the useful goat and dog and innocent poetical moth, or the wood-tick to consume decomposing wood, shall take their place.
    HDC 11.71 1 On the 27th June [1774], near three hundred persons... inhabitants of Concord, entered into a covenant, solemnly engaging with each other...neither to buy nor consume any merchandise imported from Great Britain...
    ACri 12.302 22 ...when we came, in the woods, to a clump of goldenrod,- Ah! [Channing] says, here they are! these things consume a great deal of time. I don't know but they are of more importance than any other of our investments.

consumed, v. (13)

    Lov1 2.176 7 In the noon and the afternoon of life we still throb at the recollection of days...when the day was not long enough, but the night too must be consumed in keen recollections;...
    Cir 2.317 4 The terror of reform is the discovery that we must cast away our virtues...into the same pit that has consumed our grosser vices...
    PPh 4.41 23 Plato...like every great man, consumed his own times.
    ET1 5.8 25 A great man, [Landor] said, should...kill his hundred oxen without knowing whether they would be consumed by gods and heroes...
    Wth 6.106 16 ...for all that is consumed so much less remains in the basket and pot...
    Wth 6.118 24 When men now alive were born, the farm yielded everything that was consumed on it.
    Civ 7.25 9 The skill that pervades complex details;...the farm made to produce all that is consumed on it;...these are examples of that tendency to combine antagonisms...which is the index of high civilization.
    MMEm 10.431 2 I [Mary Moody Emerson] believe thus much, that [the greatest geniuses'] large perception consumed their egotism...
    HDC 11.33 26 Johnson...intimates that [the pilgrims] consumed many days in exploring the country, to select the best place for the town.
    HDC 11.55 1 The country [around Concord] already began to yield more than was consumed by the inhabitants.
    FSLC 11.189 14 I thought that every time a man goes back to his own thoughts, these angels receive him, talk with him...and that this owning of a law...constituted the explanation of life, the excuse and indemnity for the errors and calamities which sadden it. In long years consumed in trifles, they remember these moments, and are consoled.
    Bost 12.202 27 The theology and the instinct of freedom that grew here [in Massachusetts] in the dark in serious men furnished a certain rancor which consumed all opposition...
    Milt1 12.250 7 We could be well content if the flames to which [Milton's Defence of the English People] was condemned at Paris, at Toulouse, and at London, had utterly consumed it.

consumer, n. (4)

    Mrs1 3.120 7 ...the salt, the dates, the ivory, and the gold, for which these horrible regions are visited, find their way into countries where the purchaser and consumer can hardly be ranked in one race with these cannibals and man-stealers;...
    Wth 6.85 9 Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer.
    Res 8.143 24 ...every manufacturer and producer in the North has an interest in protecting the negro as the consumer of his wares.
    QO 8.189 15 The capitalist of either kind [mental or pecuniary] is as hungry to lend as the consumer to borrow;...

consumes, v. (2)

    Nat 1.37 19 ...debt, which consumes so much time...is a preceptor whose lessons cannot be foregone...
    Wth 6.119 8 Now, the farmer buys almost all he consumes...

consuming, v. (1)

    Comc 8.174 9 When Carlini was convulsing Naples with laughter, a patient waited on a physician in that city, to obtain some remedy for excessive melancholy, which was rapidly consuming his life.

consummate, adj. (6)

    Nat2 3.179 18 [Efficient Nature] publishes itself in creatures...arriving at consummate results without a shock or a leap.
    ET15 5.267 12 [The London Times's] consummate discretion and success exhibit the English skill of combination.
    Pow 6.78 7 Stumping it through England for seven years made Cobden a consummate debater.
    Elo1 7.67 12 This range of many powers in the consummate speaker...leads us to consider the successive stages of oratory.
    Prch 10.215 2 Ascending through just degrees/ To a consummate holiness,/ As angel blind to trespass done,/ And bleaching all souls like the sun./
    Milt1 12.260 1 [Milton's] lore of foreign tongues added daily to his consummate skill in the use of his own.

consummated, v. (2)

    GSt 10.503 8 ...[George Stearns] did not give money to excuse his entire preoccupation in his own pursuits, but as an earnest of the dedication of his heart and hand to the interests of the sufferers [in Kansas],-a pledge kept until the success he wrought and prayed for was consummated.
    LVB 11.94 12 ...[the question of currency and trade] is the chirping of grasshoppers beside the immortal question...whether...so vast an outrage upon the Cherokee Nation and upon human nature shall be consummated.

consummation, n. (3)

    LE 1.178 21 Bonaparte represents truly a great recent revolution, which we in this country...shall carry to its farthest consummation.
    Fdsp 2.207 1 ...I find this law of one to one peremptory for conversation, which is the practice and consummation of friendship.
    FSLC 11.196 5 [The Fugitive Slave Law] offers a bribe in its own clauses for the consummation of the crime.

consumption, n. (10)

    MR 1.231 19 How many articles of daily consumption are furnished us from the West Indies;...
    ShP 4.190 21 [A great man] finds two counties groping to bring coal, or flour, or fish, from the place of production to the place of consumption, and he hits on a railroad.
    ET3 5.40 3 It is...pretended that the enormous consumption of coal in the island [England] is also felt in modifying the general climate.
    ET5 5.95 19 By cylindrical tiles and gutta-percha tubes, five millions of acres of bad land [in England] have been drained, and put on equality with the best, for rape-culture and grass. The climate too, which was already believed to have become milder and drier by the enormous consumption of coal, is so far reached by this new action, that fogs and storms are said to disappear.
    ET10 5.163 9 ...all that can succor the talent or arm the hands of the intelligent middle class, who never spare in what they buy for their own consupmtion;...is in open market [in England].
    Farm 7.145 12 [The plants] burn, that is, exhale and decompose their own bodies into the air and earth again. The animal burns, or undergoes the like perpetual consumption.
    Boks 7.189 16 The bookseller might certainly know that his customers are in no respect better for the purchase and consumption of his wares.
    Cour 7.270 22 As for the bullying drunkards of which armies are usually made up, [John Brown] thought cholera, small-pox and consumption as valuable recruits.
    Suc 7.302 6 Ah! if one could...find the day and its cheap means contenting, which only ask receptivity in you, and no strained exertion and cankering ambition, overstimulating...to have distinction and laurels and consumption!
    Let 12.404 24 Many of the best must die of consumption, many of despair... before the one great and fortunate life which they each predicted can shoot up into a thrifty and beneficent existence.

contact, n. (12)

    Exp 3.48 17 [Grief], like all the rest...never introduces me into the reality, for contact with which we would even pay the costly price of sons and lovers.
    Exp 3.48 20 Was it Boscovich who found out that bodies never come in contact?
    Exp 3.77 23 Two human beings are like globes, which can touch only in a point, and whilst they remain in contact all other points of each of the spheres are inert;...
    NR 3.245 13 ...All things are in contact;...
    PPh 4.54 4 ...the infinitude of the Asiatic soul and the defining, result-loving, machine-making, surface-seeking, opera-going Europe,--Plato came to join, and, by contact, to enhance the energy of each.
    PPh 4.55 21 ...the taste of two metals in contact;...this command of two elements must explain the power and the charm of Plato.
    PPh 4.76 10 ...[Plato's] writings have not...the vital authority which...the sermons of unlettered Arabs and Jews possess. There is an interval; and to cohesion, contact is necessary.
    Ctr 6.150 1 The head of a commercial house or a leading lawyer or politician is brought into daily contact with troops of men from all parts of the country...
    Insp 8.289 8 The seashore and the taste of two metals in contact...these are the types or conditions of this power [of novelty].
    MMEm 10.409 1 It is so universal with all classes to avoid contact with me [writes Mary Moody Emerson] that I blame none.
    MMEm 10.429 23 ...I [Mary Moody Emerson] irk under contact with forms of depravity...
    PLT 12.23 24 ...A body in the act of combination or decomposition enables another body, with which it may be in contact, to enter into the same state.

contadino, n. (1)

    ACri 12.288 20 What traveller has not listened to the vigor of...the Sia ammazato! of the Italian contadino...

contagion, n. (4)

    UGM 4.25 12 There needs but one wise man in a company and all are wise, so rapid is the contagion.
    Pow 6.60 18 If we will make bread, we must have contagion, yeast, emptyings, or what not, to induce fermentation into the dough;...
    Cour 7.272 1 See too what good contagion belongs to [courage].
    Elo2 8.130 18 It was said of Robespierre's audience, that though they understood not the words, they understood a fury in the words, and caught the contagion.

contagious, adj. (6)

    UGM 4.13 11 Activity is contagious.
    CbW 6.246 21 ...vigor is contagious...
    PC 8.229 16 All vigor is contagious...
    Insp 8.293 3 ...intellectual activity is contagious.
    PLT 12.23 19 ...what a modern experimenter calls the contagious influence of chemical action is so true of mind that I have only to read the law that its application may be evident...
    PLT 12.23 25 ...if one remembers how contagious are the moral states of men, how much we are braced by the presence and actions of any Spartan soul, it does not need vigor of our own kind...

contain, v. (25)

    Nat 1.61 2 It is essential to a true theory of nature and of man, that it should contain somewhat progressive.
    Nat 1.70 4 ...we learn to prefer...sentences which contain glimpses of truth, to digested systems which have no one valuable suggestion.
    DSA 1.151 12 The Hebrew and Greek Scriptures contain immortal sentences...
    Hist 2.37 6 ...were [Talbot's] whole frame here,/ It is of such a spacious, lofty pitch,/ Your roof were not sufficient to contain it./
    SR 2.45 6 The sentiment [original lines] instil is of more value than any thought they may contain.
    SR 2.70 18 All things real are so by so much virtue as they contain.
    SL 2.153 3 The sentence must also contain its own apology for being spoken.
    Chr1 3.94 26 Suppose a slaver on the coast of Guinea should take on board a gang of negroes which should contain persons of the stamp of Toussaint L'Ouverture...
    Mrs1 3.122 16 The usual words...must be respected; they will be found to contain the root of the matter.
    NER 3.258 13 The ancient languages...contain wonderful remains of genius...
    PPh 4.39 5 [Plato's] sentences contain the culture of nations;...
    PPh 4.49 14 The raptures of prayer and ecstasy of devotion lose all being in one Being. This tendency finds its highest expression...chiefly...in the Vedas, the Bhagavat Geeta, and the Vishnu Purana. Those writings contain little else than this idea...
    ET3 5.39 12 ...at one season, the country people [of England] say, the lakes contain one part water and two parts fish.
    ET4 5.44 20 The British Empire is reckoned to contain (in 1848) 222,000, 000 souls...
    ET11 5.182 4 A multitude of town palaces [in London] contain inestimable galleries of art.
    Pow 6.68 24 I remember a poor Malay cook on board a Liverpool packet, who, when the wind blew a gale, could not contain his joy;...
    Boks 7.196 14 ...the scholar knows that the famed books contain, first and last, the best thoughts and facts.
    Comc 8.168 5 I think there is malice in a very trifling story...which I should not take any notice of, did I not suspect it to contain some satire upon my brothers of the Natural History Society.
    Comc 8.172 26 Chodscha answered [Timur], If thou hast only seen thy face once, at at once seeing hast not been able to contain thyself, but hast wept, what should we do,--we who see thy face every day and night?
    Prch 10.218 3 I see in those classes and those persons...who contain the activity of to-day and the assurance of to-morrow,-I see in them character, but skepticism;...
    Thor 10.454 5 [Thoreau] was a protestant a outrance, and few lives contain so many renunciations.
    HDC 11.48 20 The matters there debated [in Concord town-meetings] are such as to invite very small considerations. The ill-spelled pages of the Town Records contain the result.
    HDC 11.54 22 Captain Underhill, in 1638, declared, that the new plantations of Dedham and Concord...will contain abundance of people.
    SMC 11.361 12 ...[George Prescott's letters] contain the sincere praise of men whom I now see in this assembly.
    CPL 11.495 13 Happier, if [the town] contain citizens who cannot wait for the slow growth of the population to make these advantages adequate to the desires of the people...

contained, v. (23)

    AmS 1.84 11 In this view of him, as Man Thinking, the theory of [the scholar's] office is contained.
    DSA 1.128 9 The truth contained in [the Christian church], you...are now setting forth to teach.
    Lov1 2.185 3 Night, day, studies, talents, kingdoms, religion, are all contained in [the lover's] form full of soul, in this soul which is all form.
    OS 2.268 23 The Supreme Critic on the errors of the past and the present... is...that Unity, that Over-Soul, within which every man's particular being is contained...
    Pt1 3.30 19 ...the metamorphosis once seen, we divine that it does not stop. I will not now consider how much this makes the charm of algebra and the mathematics, which also have their tropes, but it is felt in every definition; as when Aristotle defines space to be an immovable vessel in which things are contained;...
    MoS 4.186 10 ...let [a man] learn...that, though abyss open under abyss, and opinion displace opinion, all are at last contained in the Eternal Cause...
    ShP 4.219 2 ...other men...beheld the same objects [as Shakespeare]: they also saw through them that which was contained.
    ET12 5.204 6 [The Bodleian Library's] catalogue is the standard catalogue on the desk of every library in Oxford. In each several college they underscore in red ink on this catalogue the titles of books contained in the library of that college...
    F 6.38 24 Do you suppose [the new-born man]...is contained in his skin...
    Elo2 8.123 18 [John Quincy Adams's] last lecture...contained some nervous allusions to the treatment he had received from his old friends...
    PPo 8.243 9 Gnomic verses, rules of life conveyed...especially in an image addressed to the eye and contained in a single stanza, were always current in the East;...
    Dem1 10.8 8 ...in the act is contained the counteraction.
    LLNE 10.344 3 ...[The Dial] contained some noble papers by Margaret Fuller...
    LLNE 10.351 25 [Fourierism] contained so much truth, and promised in the attempts that shall be made to realize it so much valuable instruction, that we are engaged to observe every step of its progress.
    HDC 11.55 7 In 1644, the town [Concord] contained sixty families.
    HCom 11.344 8 A single company in the Forty-fourth Massachusetts Regiment contained thirty-five sons of Harvard.
    CPL 11.502 13 [Thought] cannot be contained in any cup...
    II 12.66 1 't is very certain that a man's whole possibility is contained in that habitual first look which he casts on all objects.
    II 12.74 7 Here is a famous Ode, which...lies in all memories as the high-water mark in the flood of thought in this age. What does the writer know of that? Converse with him, learn his opinions and hopes. He has long ago passed out of it, and perhaps his only concern with it is some copyright of an edition in which certain pages...are contained.
    CL 12.141 6 Plutarch thought [the air] contained the knowledge of the future.
    MAng1 12.241 11 An eloquent vindication of [Michelangelo's poems'] philosophy may be found in a paper...by the Italian scholar, in the Discourse of Benedetto Varchi upon one sonnet of Michael Angelo, contained in the volume of his poems published by Biagioli...
    MAng1 12.242 10 ...a nobler sentiment, uttered by [Michelangelo], is contained in his reply to a letter of Vasari...
    Milt1 12.269 27 [Milton] preferred his own English...to the Latin, which contained all the treasures of his memory.

container, n. (2)

    Pow 6.80 23 ...every man is efficient only as he is a container or vessel of this force [spirit]...
    Ctr 6.151 5 How the imagination is piqued by anecdotes...of...any container of transcendent power, passing for nobody;...

containing, v. (16)

    Hist 2.5 26 Human life, as containing [the universal nature], is mysterious and inviolable...
    SwM 4.116 20 [Swedenborg says] I intend hereafter to communicate a number of examples of such correspondences, together with a vocabulary containing the terms of spiritual things, as well as of the physical things for which they are to be substituted.
    ET11 5.182 21 An agriculturist bought lately the island of Lewes, in Hebrides, containing 500,000 acres.
    ET12 5.210 14 I looked over the Examination Papers of the year 1848, for the various scholarships and fellowships [at Oxford]...containing the tasks which many competitors had victoriously performed...
    ET16 5.276 6 We [Emerson and Carlyle]...took a carriage to Amesbury, passing by Old Sarum, a bare, treeless hill, once containing the town which sent two members to Parliament...
    Ctr 6.141 20 Books, as containing the finest records of human wit, must always enter into our notion of culture.
    Boks 7.201 6 ...Plato's [delineation of Athenian manners] has merits of every kind...containing that ironical eulogy of Socrates which is the source from which all the portraits of that philosopher current in Europe have been drawn.
    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.
    Cour 7.266 3 ...there is no separate essence called courage...no vessel in the heart containing drops or atoms that make or give this virtue;...
    SlHr 10.442 16 ...what Middlesex jury, containing any God-fearing men in it, would hazard an opinion in flat contradiction to what Squire Hoar believed to be just?
    Thor 10.461 23 From a box containing a bushel or more of loose pencils, [Thoreau] could take up with his hands fast enough just a dozen pencils at every grasp.
    EWI 11.114 11 It was feared that the interest of the master and servant [in the West Indies] would now produce perpetual discord between them. In the island of Antigua, containing 37,000 people, 30,000 being negroes, these objections had such weight that the legislature rejected the apprenticeship system...
    EWI 11.132 7 Let the senators and representatives of the State [of Massachusetts], containing a population of a million freemen, 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.
    CL 12.146 27 Here [on Estabrook Farm] are varieties of apple not found in Downing or Loudon. The Tartaric variety, and Cow-apple...and Beware-of-this. Apples of a kind which I remember in boyhood, each containing a barrel of wind and half a barrel of cider.
    MAng1 12.238 3 Vasari observed that [Michelangelo] did not use wax candles, but a better sort made of the tallow of goats. He therefore sent him four bundles of them, containing forty pounds.
    Milt1 12.271 13 ...that which [Milton] desired was the liberty of the wise man, containing itself in the limits of virtue.

contains, v. (32)

    AmS 1.90 5 ...[the active soul] every man contains within him...
    LT 1.264 19 ...whatever is affirmative and now advancing, contains [that which shall constitute the times to come].
    LT 1.272 14 ...the origin of all reform is in that mysterious fountain of the moral sentiment in man, which, amidst the natural, ever contains the supernatural for men.
    Comp 2.101 3 Every thing in nature contains all the powers of nature.
    OS 2.271 22 [This pure nature] is undefinable, unmeasurable; but we know that it pervades and contains us.
    OS 2.275 13 This is the law of moral and of mental gain. The simple rise as by specific levity not into a particular virtue, but into the region of all the virtues. They are in the spirit which contains them all.
    Cir 2.318 24 That central life is somewhat...superior to knowledge and thought, and contains all its circles.
    Int 2.329 16 If we consider what persons have stimulated and profited us, we shall perceive the superiority of the spontaneous or intuitive principle over the arithmetical or logical. The first contains the second, but virtual and latent.
    Int 2.343 3 ...a true and natural man contains and is the same truth which an eloquent man articulates;...
    Pol1 3.209 26 Of the two great parties which at this hour almost share the nation between them, I should say that one has the best cause, and the other contains the best men.
    SwM 4.97 4 All religious history contains traces of the trance of saints...
    ShP 4.196 4 ...the play [Henry VIII] contains through all its length unmistakable traits of Shakspeare's hand...
    F 6.40 3 ...the soul contains the event that shall befall it;...
    Bhr 6.196 14 Special precepts are not to be thought of; the talent of well-doing contains them all.
    Elo1 7.71 5 ...every literature contains these high compliments to the art of the orator and the bard...
    Elo1 7.88 17 Each of Mansfield's famous decisions contains a level sentence or two which hit the mark.
    Boks 7.197 25 Of the old Greek books, I think there are five which we cannot spare... ... 2. Herodotus, whose history contains inestimable anecdotes...
    Boks 7.198 18 [Plato] contains the future, as he came out of the past.
    Suc 7.293 12 The fame of each discovery rightly attaches to the mind that made the formula which contains all the details...
    PPo 8.252 6 The [Persian] law of the ghaselle, or shorter ode, requires that the poet insert his name in the last stanza. Almost every one of several hundreds of poems of Hafiz contains his name thus interwoven more or less closely with the subject of the piece.
    Dem1 10.9 24 The soul contains in itself the event that shall presently befall it...
    Edc1 10.131 4 ...always the mind contains in its transparent chambers the means of classifying the most refractory phenomena...
    SovE 10.193 17 ...the habit of respecting that great order which certainly contains and will dispose of our little system, will take all fear from the heart.
    Carl 10.494 24 [Carlyle] preaches, as by cannonade, the doctrine that every noble nature...contains, if savage passions, also fit checks and grand impulses...
    ALin 11.329 19 ...perhaps, at this hour, when the coffin which contains the dust of the President [Lincoln] sets forward on its long march through mourning states...we might well be silent...
    FRO2 11.490 22 I am glad to believe society contains a class of humble souls who enjoy the luxury of a religion that does not degrade;...
    PLT 12.5 4 ...the Intellect builds the universe and is the key to all it contains.
    Bost 12.201 16 There is a little formula, couched in pure Saxon...I 'm as good as you be, which contains the essence of the Massachusetts Bill of Rights and of the American Declaration of Independence.
    Bost 12.208 1 I know that this history [of Massachusetts] contains many black lines of cruel injustice;...
    MAng1 12.215 15 Whilst [Michelangelo's] name belongs to the highest class of genius, his life contains in it no injurious influence.
    Milt1 12.260 18 The world, no doubt, contains many of that class of men whom Wordsworth denominates silent poets...
    Pray 12.354 21 The last of the four orisons...contains this petition;-My Father: I now come to thee with a desire to thank thee for the continuance of our love...

contaminate, v. (2)

    ET3 5.39 21 In the manufacturing towns [of England], the fine soot or blacks...contaminate the air...
    Edc1 10.137 10 ...jealous provision seems to have been made in [the new man's] constitution that you shall not invade and contaminate him with the worn weeds of your language and opinions.

contaminated, v. (2)

    FSLC 11.197 16 Every person who touches this business [the Fugitive Slave Law] is contaminated.
    Wom 11.421 10 The objection to [women's] voting is the same as is urged... against clergymen who take an active part in politics;-that...if they become good politicians they are worse clergymen. So of women, that they cannot enter this arena without being contaminated and unsexed.

contamination, n. (4)

    FSLN 11.235 8 ...no man has a right to hope that the laws of New York will defend him from the contamination of slaves another day until he has made up his mind that he will not owe his protection to the laws of New York, but to his own sense and spirit.
    Wom 11.421 14 Here are two or three objections [to women's voting]: first, a want of practical wisdom; second, a too purely ideal view; and, third, the danger of contamination.
    Wom 11.423 7 As for the unsexing and contamination [of women in politics],-that only accuses our existing politics...
    Wom 11.423 14 ...there is contamination enough [in politics]...

Contarini, Andrea, n. (1)

    PC 8.216 25 ...in [Michelangelo's] own days...you would need to hunt him in a conventicle with the Methodists of the era, namely, Savonarola, Vittoria Colonna, Contarini, Pole, Occhino;...

contemn, v. (2)

    Nat 1.58 14 ...Contemn the unsubstantial shows of the world;...
    Mrs1 3.131 10 We contemn in turn every other gift of men of the world;...

contemplate, v. (9)

    Nat 1.35 21 A new interest surprises us, whilst...we contemplate the fearful extent and multitude of objects;...
    Lov1 2.182 2 ...if...the soul passes through the body and falls to admire strokes of character, and the lovers contemplate one another in their discourses and their actions, then they pass to the true palace of beauty...
    OS 2.273 27 ...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.
    PPh 4.49 3 ...each [Unity and Variety] so fast slides into the other that we can never say what is one, and what it is not. The Proteus is as nimble... when we contemplate the one, the true, the good,--as in the surfaces and extremities of matter.
    PPh 4.49 25 Men contemplate distinctions, because they are stupefied with ignorance.
    Comc 8.159 4 Separate any object...from the connection of things, and contemplate it alone...it becomes at once comic;...
    PLT 12.44 24 For weal or woe we clear ourselves from the thing we contemplate.
    MLit 12.315 23 [The selfish] invited us to contemplate Nature, and showed us an abominable self.
    MLit 12.327 22 We think, when we contemplate the stupendous glory of the world, that it were life enough for one man merely to lift his hands and cry with Saint Augustine, Wrangle who pleases, I will wonder.

contemplated, v. (5)

    Exp 3.78 21 ...[murder] is an act quite easy to be contemplated;...
    Mrs1 3.122 19 The point of distinction in all this class of names, as courtesy, chivalry, fashion, and the like, is that the flower and fruit, not the grain of the tree, are contemplated.
    MoS 4.171 12 ...though the town and state and way of living, which our counsellor contemplated, might be a very modest or musty prosperity, yet men rightly go for him...
    LS 11.19 21 If I believed [the Lord's Supper] was enjoined by Jesus on his disciples, and that he even contemplated making permanent this mode of commemoration...and yet on trial it was disagreeable to my own feelings, I should not adopt it.
    PLT 12.30 27 When, moved by love, a man...rushes at immense personal sacrifice on some public, self-immolating act, it is not done for others, but to fulfil a high necessity of his proper character. The benefit to others is contingent and not contemplated by the doer.

contemplates, v. (3)

    Art1 2.355 7 This...power to fix the momentary eminency of an object...the painter and sculptor exhibit in color and in stone. The power depends on the depth of the artist's insight of that object he contemplates.
    PI 8.21 3 The poet contemplates the central identity...
    QO 8.178 13 ...he that uses [the understanding] of a superior elevates his own to the stature of that he contemplates.

contemplating, v. (5)

    Lov1 2.181 17 ...the man beholding such a [beautiful] person in the female sex runs to her and finds the highest joy in contemplating the form, movement and intelligence of this person...
    Elo1 7.93 5 ...the main distinction between [the eloquent man] and other well-graced actors is the conviction...that his mind is contemplating a whole...
    PLT 12.43 21 Genius is not a lazy angel contemplating itself and things.
    MAng1 12.222 22 There are now in Italy, both on canvas and in marble, forms and faces which the imagination is enriched by contemplating.
    MAng1 12.232 22 ...contemplating ever with love the idea of absolute beauty, [Michelangelo] was still dissatisfied with his own work.

contemplation, n. (25)

    Nat 1.23 8 The beauty of nature re-forms itself in the mind, and not for barren contemplation...
    Nat 1.60 9 [Idealism] beholds the whole circle of persons and things...as one vast picture which God paints on the instant eternity for the contemplation of the soul.
    Nat 1.66 9 Empirical science is apt...by the very knowledge of functions and processes to bereave the student of the manly contemplation of the whole.
    Con 1.317 1 ...the contemplation of some Scythian Anacharsis;...sufficed to build what you call society on the spot and in the instant when the sound mind in a sound body appeared.
    Hist 2.28 13 More than once some individual has appeared to me with... such commanding contemplation...begging in the name of God, as made good to the nineteenth century Simeon the Stylite...
    SR 2.77 17 Prayer is the contemplation of the facts of life from the highest point of view.
    OS 2.273 1 Some thoughts always find us young, and keep us so. Such a thought is the love of the universal and eternal beauty. Every man parts from that contemplation with the feeling that it rather belongs to ages than to mortal life.
    Int 2.327 15 What is addressed to us for contemplation does not threaten us...
    Art1 2.354 14 Until one thing comes out from the connection of things, there can be enjoyment, contemplation, but no thought.
    NER 3.282 27 Every time we converse we seek to translate [Providence] into speech, but whether we hit or whether we miss, we have the fact. Every discourse is an approximate answer: but it is of small consequence that we do not get it into verbs and nouns, whilst it abides for contemplation forever.
    PPh 4.64 6 ...the notion of virtue is not to be arrived at except through direct contemplation of the divine essence.
    GoW 4.266 20 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.
    ET4 5.50 26 Everything English is a fusion of distant and antagonistic elements. The language is mixed;...the currents of thought are counter, contemplation and practical skill;...
    ET5 5.80 7 [The English] are impatient...of minds addicted to contemplation...
    ET11 5.175 11 The De Veres, Bohuns, Mowbrays and Plantagenets were not addicted to contemplation.
    ET14 5.248 10 It is because [Bacon]...basked in an element of contemplation out of all modern English atmospheric gauges, that he is impressive...
    F 6.23 22 The too much contemplation of these limits induces meanness.
    Art2 7.51 15 ...the contemplation of a work of great art draws us into a state of mind which may be called religious.
    Elo1 7.93 6 ...the main distinction between [the eloquent man] and other well-graced actors is the conviction...that his mind is...inflamed by the contemplation of the whole...
    Comc 8.159 25 ...the best of all jokes is the sympathetic contemplation of things by the understanding from the philosopher's point of view.
    Insp 8.294 24 We...cannot control and domesticate at will the high states of contemplation and continuous thought.
    Prch 10.219 26 ...the sentiment that pervades a nation, the nation must react upon. It is resisted and corrupted by that obstinate tendency to personify and bring under the eyesight what should be the contemplation of Reason alone.
    Prch 10.235 22 All civil mankind have agreed in leaving one day for contemplation against six for practice.
    Schr 10.277 23 It is excellent when the individual is ripened to that degree that he touches both the centre and the circumference, so that he...alternates the contemplation of the fact in pure intellect, with the total conversion of the intellect into energy;...
    MAng1 12.217 3 ...in proportion as man rises above the servitude to wealth and a pursuit of mean pleasures, he perceives that what is most real is most beautiful, and that, by the contemplation of such objects, he is taught and exalted.

contemplative, adj. (20)

    AmS 1.96 15 In some contemplative hour [the new deed] detaches itself from the life like a ripe fruit...
    DSA 1.126 14 This [moral] thought dwelled always deepest in the minds of men in the devout and contemplative East;...
    MR 1.242 20 ...if a man find in himself any strong bias...to the contemplative life, that man...ought to ransom himself from the duties of economy by a certain rigor and privation in his habits.
    LT 1.265 5 Let us paint the agitator...the contemplative girl...
    PNR 4.87 6 The gods are [to Plato] the ideas. Pan is speech, or manifestation; Saturn, the contemplative; Jove, the regal soul;...
    PNR 4.89 2 As the poet...[Plato] is only contemplative.
    SwM 4.132 18 An ardent and contemplative young man...might read once these books of Swedenborg...and then throw them aside for ever.
    ET1 5.23 16 I said Tinturn Abbey appeared to be the favorite poem with the public, but more contemplative readers preferred the first books of the Excursion, and the Sonnets.
    ET14 5.260 9 ...the two complexions, or two styles of mind [in England],-- the perceptive class, and the practical finality class,--are ever in counterpoise, interacting mutually...one studious, contemplative, experimenting; the other, the ungrateful pupil, scornful of the source whilst availing itself of the knowledge for gain;...
    PPo 8.262 12 The following passages exhibit the strong tendency of the Persian poets to contemplative and religious poetry and to allegory.
    Imtl 8.331 5 ...what is called great and powerful life...unless combined with a certain contemplative turn...does not build up faith or lead to content.
    Chr2 10.93 14 ...the high, contemplative, all-commanding vision...is alike in all.
    LLNE 10.337 22 On the heels of this intruder [Phrenology] came Mesmerism, which...attempted the explanation of miracle and prophecy, as well as of creation. What could be more revolting to the contemplative philosopher!
    LLNE 10.341 22 Margaret Fuller, George Ripley...and many others...from time to time spent an afternoon at each other's houses in a serious conversation. With them was always...a man quite too cold and contemplative for the alliances of friendship...
    MMEm 10.421 20 In a religious contemplative public [our civilization] would have less outward variety, but simpler and grander means;...
    Thor 10.480 13 Had [Thoreau's] genius been only contemplative, he had been fitted to his life...
    Wom 11.418 3 There are plenty of people who...do not see the use of contemplative men...
    Shak1 11.450 12 Young men of a contemplative turn carry [Shakespeare's] sonnets in the pocket.
    PLT 12.47 11 One meets contemplative men who dwell in a certain feeling and delight which are intellectual but wholly above their expression.
    CL 12.160 7 I hold all these opinions on the power of the air to be substantially true. The poet affirms them;...the contemplative man affirms them.

contemporaneous, adj. (3)

    Nat 1.31 4 A man conversing in earnest...will find that a material image... arises in his mind, contemporaneous with every thought...
    Wth 6.102 25 Forty years ago, a dollar would not buy much in Boston. Now it will buy a great deal more in our old town, thanks to...the contemporaneous growth of New York and the whole country.
    PC 8.226 3 At any time, it only needs the contemporaneous appearance of a few superior and attractive men to give a new and noble turn to the public mind.

contemporaneousness, n. (1)

    F 6.44 17 Certain ideas are in the air. ... This explains the curious contemporaneousness of inventions and discoveries.

contemporaries, n. (59)

    AmS 1.81 8 We do not meet...for the advancement of science, like our contemporaries in the British and European capitals.
    AmS 1.88 15 ...neither can any artist entirely...write a book of pure thought, that shall be as efficient...to a remote posterity, as to contemporaries...
    DSA 1.133 16 ...when I see among my contemporaries a true orator...I see beauty that is to be desired.
    LE 1.167 2 ...to have as much learning as our contemporaries...satisfies us.
    LT 1.276 1 These reforms are our contemporaries;...
    Tran 1.341 26 ...it would not misbecome us to inquire nearer home, what these companions and contemporaries of ours think and do...
    SR 2.47 15 Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries...
    SR 2.48 20 It seems [the youth] knows how to speak to his contemporaries.
    Prd1 2.239 10 ...neither should you put yourself in a false position with your contemporaries by indulging a vein of hostility and bitterness.
    Hsm1 2.249 4 The violations of the laws of nature by our predecessors and our contemporaries are punished in us also.
    Art1 2.353 11 ...[a man] is necessitated by...the idea on which he and his contemporaries live and toil, to share the manner of his times...
    Pt1 3.5 11 [The poet] is isolated among his contemporaries by truth and by his art...
    Mrs1 3.126 5 I use these old names [Diogenes, Socrates, Epaminondas], but the men I speak of are my contemporaries.
    UGM 4.7 3 One man answers some question which none of his contemporaries put, and is isolated.
    UGM 4.24 10 The worthless and offensive members of society...never get over their astonishment at the ingratitude and selfishness of their contemporaries.
    UGM 4.25 17 Men resemble their contemporaries even more than their progenitors.
    UGM 4.26 8 The shield against the stingings of conscience is the universal practice, or our contemporaries.
    UGM 4.26 10 We learn of our contemporaries what they know without effort...
    UGM 4.26 19 The great, or such as...transcend fashions by their fidelity to universal ideas...defend us from our contemporaries.
    PPh 4.41 12 ...wherever we find a man higher by a whole head than any of his contemporaries, it is sure to come into doubt what are his real works.
    PPh 4.41 15 ...these [great] men magnetize their contemporaries...
    PPh 4.42 2 What is a great man but one...who takes up into himself all arts, sciences, all knowables, as his food? ... Hence his contemporaries tax him with plagiarism.
    SwM 4.98 13 This man [Swedenborg], who appeared to his contemporaries a visionary...no doubt led the most real life of any man then in the world...
    MoS 4.161 19 The terms of admission to this spectacle [of life] are, that [the wise skeptic] have...proof...that he has evinced the temper, stoutness and the range of qualities which, among his contemporaries and countrymen, entitle him to fellowship and trust.
    ShP 4.190 10 A great man...finds himself in the river of the thoughts and events, forced onward by the ideas and necessities of his contemporaries.
    GoW 4.265 27 [The scholar]...must also wish with other men to stand well with his contemporaries.
    ET4 5.47 16 How came such men as...Francis Bacon, George Herbert, Henry Vane, to exist here [in England]? What made these delicate natures? was it the air? was it the sea? was it the parentage? For it is certain that these men are samples of their contemporaries.
    ET12 5.211 3 In seeing these youths [at Oxford] I believed I saw already an advantage in vigor and color and general habit, over their contemporaries in the American colleges.
    Ctr 6.147 14 ...of the six or seven teachers whom each man wants among his contemporaries, it often happens that one or two of them live on the other side of the world.
    Ctr 6.164 9 What forests of laurel we bring...to those who stood firm against the opinion of their contemporaries!
    Wsp 6.208 3 The lover of the old religion complains that our contemporaries...succumb to a great despair...
    Bty 6.296 24 French memoires of the sixteenth century celebrate the name of Pauline de Viguier, a...maiden who so fired the enthusiasm of her contemporaries by her enchanting form, that the citizens of her native city of Toulouse obtained the aid of the civil authorities to compel her to appear publicly on the balcony at least twice a week...
    Art2 7.48 18 The artist who is to produce a work which is to be admired, not by his...contemporaries, but by all men...must disindividualize himself...
    DL 7.109 2 Let us go to the sitting-room, the table-talk and the expenditure of our contemporaries.
    Boks 7.196 2 ...I know beforehand that Pindar...Erasmus, More, will be superior to the average intellect. In contemporaries, it is not so easy to distinguish betwixt notoriety and fame.
    Boks 7.202 21 Of Plotinus, we have eulogies by Porphyry and Longinus, and the favor of the Emperor Gallienus, indicating the respect he inspired among his contemporaries.
    Boks 7.206 14 Ximenes...Henry IV. of France, are [Charles V's] contemporaries.
    Boks 7.207 22 [Jonson] has written verses to or on all his notable contemporaries;...
    Clbs 7.237 7 One of the best records of the great German master who towered over all his contemporaries in the first thirty years of this century, is his conversations as recorded by Eckermann;...
    PI 8.36 6 Many of the fine poems of Herrick, Jonson and their contemporaries had this casual origin.
    PC 8.215 20 ...a certain enormity of culture makes a man invisible to his contemporaries.
    Dem1 10.18 24 Seldom or never do [demonic individuals] meet their match among their contemporaries;...
    Schr 10.269 7 We are all contemporaries and bones of one body.
    Schr 10.275 10 The hero rises out of all comparison with contemporaries and with ages of men, because he disesteems old age, and lands, and money, and power...
    Plu 10.294 17 ...this neglect by [Plutarch's] contemporaries has been compensated by an immense popularity in modern nations.
    Plu 10.296 18 ...recently, there has been a remarkable revival, in France, in the taste for Plutarch and his contemporaries;...
    LLNE 10.362 25 ...[Charles Newcomb was] a student and philosopher, who found his daily enjoyment not with the elders or his exact contemporaries so much as with the fine boys who were skating and playing ball or bird-hunting;...
    EzRy 10.384 1 [Ezra Ripley] and his contemporaries...were believers in what is called a particular providence...
    SlHr 10.444 11 ...was it only the lot of excellence, that with aims so pure and single, [Samuel Hoar] seemed to pass out of life alone, as it were, unknown to those who were his contemporaries and familiars?
    FSLN 11.221 4 Mr. Webster had a natural ascendancy of aspect and carriage which distinguished him over all his contemporaries.
    CInt 12.132 4 ...old men cannot see...the institutions, the laws under which they have lived, passing, or soon to pass, into the hands of you and your contemporaries, without an earnest wish that you have caught sight of your high calling...
    MAng1 12.221 8 Most of [Michelangelo's] designs, his contemporaries inform us, were made with a pen...
    MAng1 12.232 5 The impulse of [Michelangelo's] grand style was instantaneous upon his contemporaries.
    MAng1 12.238 22 Michael Angelo was of that class of men who are too superior to the multitude around them to command a full and perfect sympathy. They stand in the attitude rather of appeal from their contemporaries to their race.
    Milt1 12.248 17 ...[Milton]...obtained great respect from his contemporaries as an accomplished scholar and a formidable pamphleteer.
    Milt1 12.253 18 Leaving out of view the pretensions of our contemporaries...we think no man can be named whose mind still acts on the cultivated intellect of England and America with an energy comparable to that of Milton.
    Milt1 12.254 18 Better than any other [Milton] has discharged the office of every great man, namely, to raise the idea of Man in the minds of his contemporaries and of posterity...
    EurB 12.367 14 ...[Wordsworth's] poems evince a power of diction that is no more rivalled by his contemporaries than is his poetic insight.
    Let 12.402 8 The steep antagonism between the money-getting and the academic class...perhaps is the more violent that whilst our work is imposed by the soil and the sea, our culture is the tradition of Europe. But we cannot share the desperation of our contemporaries;...

contemporary, adj. (13)

    Pt1 3.9 10 ...we were obliged to confess that [a recent writer of lyrics] is plainly a contemporary, not an eternal man.
    Mrs1 3.152 12 ...this Byzantine pile of chivalry or Fashion, which seems so fair and picturesque to those who look at the contemporary facts for science or for entertainment, is not equally pleasant to all spectators.
    SwM 4.111 22 The admirable preliminary discourses with which Mr. Wilkinson has enriched these volumes [by Swedenborg], throw all the contemporary philosophy of England into shade...
    ET14 5.237 20 The unique fact in literary history, the unsurprised reception of Shakspeare;...and the apathy proved by the absence of all contemporary panegyric,--seems to demonstrate an elevation in the mind of the people.
    ET16 5.273 10 It seemed a bringing together of extreme points, to visit the oldest religious monument in Britain in company with her latest thinker, and one whose influence may be traced in every contemporary book.
    Art2 7.47 11 Especially have we this infirmity of faith in contemporary genius.
    Cour 7.256 25 Men are so charmed with valor that they have pleased themselves with being called lions, leopards, eagles and dragons, from the animals contemporary with us in the geologic formations.
    PI 8.35 4 This contemporary insight is transubstantiation...
    Grts 8.315 15 How many men, detested in contemporary hostile history, of whom...we have learned...to see them as, on the whole, instruments of great benefit.
    Milt1 12.250 1 The Defence of the People of England, on which [Milton's] contemporary fame was founded, is...the worst of his works.
    MLit 12.321 12 ...more than any other contemporary bard [Wordsworth] is pervaded with a reverence of somewhat higher than (conscious) thought.
    PPr 12.380 9 The book [Carlyle's Past and Present] makes great approaches to true contemporary history...
    PPr 12.383 2 It requires great courage in a man of letters to handle the contemporary practical questions;...

contemporary, n. (9)

    Int 2.346 25 ...what marks [Greek philosophers' thought's] elevation and has even a comic look to us, is the innocent serenity with which these babe-like Jupiters...from age to age prattle to each other and to no contemporary.
    SwM 4.104 26 ...Linnaeus, [Swedenborg's] contemporary, was affirming... that Nature is always like herself...
    GoW 4.272 20 Still [Goethe] is a poet,--poet of a prouder laurel than any contemporary...
    Plu 10.294 7 ...though the contemporary...of Persius, Juvenal, Lucan and Seneca...[Plutarch] does not cite them...
    Plu 10.311 11 'T is almost inevitable to compare Plutarch with Seneca, who...was for many years his contemporary...
    HDC 11.35 17 The hardships of the journey and of the first encampment are certainly related by [the pilgrims'] contemporary with some air of romance...
    Shak1 11.452 13 [Shakespeare's] birth marked a great wine year when wonderful grapes ripened in the vintage of God, when Shakspeare and Galileo were born within a few months of each other, and Cervantes was his exact contemporary...
    MLit 12.321 25 With the name of Wordsworth rises to our recollection the name of his contemporary and friend, Walter Savage Landor...
    PPr 12.387 7 ...if you should ask the contemporary, he would tell you...that he had [no superstitions].

contempt, n. (36)

    Nat 1.11 15 Then there is a kind of contempt of the landscape felt by him who has just lost by death a dear friend.
    LE 1.178 5 ...out of disgrace and contempt, comes our tuition in the serene and beautiful laws.
    LE 1.181 14 Let [the scholar] know that...in a contempt for the gabble of to-day's opinions the secret of the world is to be learned...
    YA 1.385 16 There really seems a progress towards such a state of things in which this work shall be done by these natural workmen; and this...by the gradual contempt into which official government falls...
    SR 2.56 5 If this aversion had its origin in contempt and resistance like [the nonconformist's] own he might well go home with a sad countenance;...
    Fdsp 2.202 10 ...all the speed in that contest [of friendship] depends on intrinsic nobleness and the contempt of trifles.
    Hsm1 2.250 8 [Heroism's] rudest form is the contempt for safety and ease...
    Hsm1 2.251 23 ...every heroic act measures itself by its contempt of some external good.
    Hsm1 2.258 22 ...[many extraordinary young men] seem to throw contempt on our entire polity and social state;...
    Pol1 3.221 17 I do not call to mind a single human being who has steadily denied the authority of the laws, on the simple ground of his own moral nature. Such designs...are not entertained except avowedly as air-pictures. If the individual who exhibits them dare to think them practicable...men of talent and women of superior sentiments cannot hide their contempt.
    NR 3.247 1 We keep a running fire of sarcasm at ignorance and the life of the senses; then goes by, perchance, a fair girl...and...we admire and love her...and say, Lo! a genuine creature of the fair earth...insinuating a treachery and contempt for all we had so long loved and wrought in ourselves and others.
    NMW 4.228 9 The advocates of liberty and of progress are ideologists;--a word of contempt often in [Napoleon's] mouth;...
    NMW 4.239 16 ...[Napoleon]...made no secret of his contempt for the born kings...
    NMW 4.243 22 ...[Napoleon] said to one of his oldest friends, Men deserve the contempt with which they inspire me.
    ET5 5.80 8 [The English]...cannot conceal their contempt for sallies of thought...
    ET14 5.245 25 [Hallam] passes in silence, or dismisses with a kind of contempt, the profounder masters...
    Clbs 7.240 3 What can you do with an eloquent man? No rules of debate, no contempt of court...can be contrived that his first syllable will not set aside...
    PI 8.52 4 With...the first strain of a song,...we pour contempt on the prose you so magnify;...
    PPo 8.250 12 ...if you mistake [Hafiz] for a low rioter, he turns short on you...to ejaculate with equal fire the most unpalatable affirmations of heroic sentiment and contempt for the world.
    Dem1 10.17 23 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. ... Only in the impossible it seemed to delight, and the possible to repel with contempt.
    Aris 10.52 13 ...if the dressed and perfumed gentleman, who serves the people in no wise...go about to set ill examples and corrupt them, who shall blame them if they...express their unequivocal indignation and contempt?
    Aris 10.62 19 ...[the gentleman] will find...in English palaces the London twist...contempt of the masses, contempt of Ireland...
    Chr2 10.93 1 ...courage is contempt of danger in the determination to see this good of the whole enacted;...
    Edc1 10.139 19 ...I desire to be saved from [boys'] contempt.
    SovE 10.201 23 The creeds into which we were initiated in childhood and youth no longer hold their old place in the minds of thoughtful men, but... we hate to have them treated with contempt.
    Schr 10.269 11 Able men may sometimes affect a contempt for thought...
    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.
    Thor 10.459 18 ...[Thoreau's] aversation from English and European manners and tastes almost reached contempt.
    Carl 10.491 9 [Carlyle] treats [young men] with contempt;...
    HDC 11.70 9 ...if any person or persons...shall...be factors for the East India Company, we will treat them......with contempt and detestation.
    FSLN 11.233 20 You relied on State sovereignty in the Free States to protect their citizens. They are driven with contempt out of the courts and out of the territory of the Slave States...
    PLT 12.62 2 Sensibility is the secret readiness to believe in all kinds of power, and the contempt of any experience we have not is the opposite pole.
    CInt 12.117 4 ...[the scholars]...gave degrees and literary and social honors to those whom they ought to have rebuked and exposed, incurring the contempt of those whom they ought to have put in fear;...
    MAng1 12.235 2 When the Pope suggested to him that the [Sistine] chapel would be enriched if the figures were ornamented with gold, Michael Angelo replied...the characters I have painted were...holy men, with whom gold was an object of contempt.
    MAng1 12.237 3 [Michelangelo] shared Dante's deep contempt of the vulgar...
    WSL 12.338 18 [Landor is] A sharp, dogmatic man...with a profound contempt for all that he does not understand;...

contemptible, adj. (4)

    SA 8.87 5 Sometimes, when in almost all expressions the Choctaw and the slave have been worked out of [a man], a coarse nature still betrays itself in his contemptible squeals of joy.
    Elo2 8.128 20 This unmanliness [lack of eloquence] is so common a result of our half-education...that I wish [a boy's] guardians to consider that they are thus preparing him to play a contemptible part when he is full-grown.
    Dem1 10.4 19 ...[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.
    PLT 12.52 11 ...because [men] know one thing, we defer to them in another, and find them really contemptible.

contempts, n. (1)

    Ctr 6.162 17 ...let the populace bestow on you their coldest contempts.

contemptuous, adj. (2)

    ET8 5.137 24 ...the English press [is] never timorous about French opinion, but arrogant and contemptuous.
    WSL 12.343 27 [Landor's] love of beauty...betrays itself in all petulant and contemptuous expressions.

contend, v. (11)

    Prd1 2.239 1 If they set out to contend, Saint Paul will lie and Saint John will hate.
    Chr1 3.105 13 It is of no use to ape [character] or to contend with it.
    UGM 4.5 12 We must not contend against love...
    Elo1 7.72 25 ...when...his words fell like the winter snows, not then would any mortal contend with Ulysses;...
    Cour 7.264 19 Courage...consists in the conviction that the agents with whom you contend are not superior in strength of resources or spirit to you.
    Suc 7.311 13 There is an external life, which is...taught to grasp all the boy can get, urging him...to ride, run, argue and contend...
    MMEm 10.420 26 Hard to contend for a health which is daily used in petition for a final close.
    LS 11.23 1 ...the Almighty God was pleased to qualify and send forth a man to teach men...that sacrifice was smoke, and forms were shadows. This man lived and died true to this purpose; and now...Christians must contend that it is a matter of vital importance,-really a duty, to commemorate him by a certain form [the Lord's Supper]...
    HDC 11.75 23 [The minute-men] never dreamed their children would contend who had done the most.
    EWI 11.145 3 I esteem the occasion of this jubilee [of emancipation in the West Indies] to be the proud discovery that the black race can contend with the white...
    ACiv 11.300 2 The evil you contend with has taken alarming proportions...

contended, v. (5)

    Comp 2.117 11 ...no man thoroughly understands a truth until he has contended against it...
    ET2 5.33 3 ...the English did not stick to claim the channel, or the bottom of all the main: As if, said they, we contended for the drops of the sea, and not for its situation...
    ET12 5.208 4 It is contended by those who have been bred at Eton, Harrow, Rugby and Westminster, that the public sentiment within each of those schools is high-toned and manly;...
    Clbs 7.238 9 ...[Odin] puts a question which none but himself could answer: What did Odin whisper in the ear of his son Balder, when Balder mounted the funeral pile? The startled giant [Wafthrudnir] replies...with Odin contended I in wise words.
    LLNE 10.334 21 When Massachusetts was full of [Everett's] fame it was not contended that he had thrown any truths into circulation.

contending, adj. (4)

    Clbs 7.239 27 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.
    Aris 10.41 21 In the Norse Edda it appears as the curious but excellent policy of contending tribes, when tired of war, to exchange hostages...
    PerF 10.69 8 ...man in Nature is surrounded by a gang of friendly giants who can...help him in every kind. Each by itself has a certain omnipotence, but all, like contending kings and emperors, in the presence of each other, are antagonized and kept polite...
    EdAd 11.392 11 ...this hour when the jangle of contending churches is hushing or hushed, will seem only the more propitious to those who believe that man need not fear the want of religion, because they know his religious constitution...

contending, v. (5)

    F 6.29 16 A little whim of will to be free gallantly contending against the universe of chemistry.
    Ctr 6.163 10 [The ancients] preferred the noble vessel...contending with winds and waves...to her companion borne into harbor with colors flying and guns firing.
    Ill 6.321 1 That story of Thor...describes us, who are contending, amid these seeming trifles, with the supreme energies of nature.
    SA 8.96 24 The main point is to...say, with Newton, There's no contending against facts.
    Koss 11.398 20 ...[the sympathy of Americans] is a living soul contending with living souls.

contends, v. (1)

    Tran 1.330 4 ...the idealist contends that his way of thinking is in higher nature.

content, adj. (44)

    Nat 1.23 12 Others have the same love [of nature] in such excess, that, not content with admiring, they seek to embody it in new forms.
    AmS 1.106 20 All the rest behold in the hero or the poet their own green and crude being, - ripened; yes, and are content to be less...
    AmS 1.107 1 [The poor and the low] are content to be brushed like flies from the path of a great person...
    DSA 1.147 16 ...almost all men are content with [society's] easy merits;...
    LE 1.164 13 Concede to [the man of letters] genius...and he is content;...
    LE 1.186 14 Be content with a little light, so it be your own.
    MR 1.228 6 ...I will not dissemble my hope that each person whom I address has felt his own call...to be in his place...a benefactor, not content to slip along through the world like a footman or a spy...
    Tran 1.350 8 A great man will be content to have indicated in any the slightest manner his perception of the reigning Idea of his time...
    Comp 2.99 15 ...[the President] is content to eat dust before the real masters who stand erect behind the throne.
    Comp 2.120 15 I learn to be content.
    Fdsp 2.193 26 Let the soul be assured that somewhere in the universe it should rejoin its friend, and it would be content and cheerful alone for a thousand years.
    Prd1 2.222 5 [Prudence] is content to seek health of body by complying with physical conditions...
    OS 2.288 25 Humanity shines in Homer...in Milton. They are content with truth.
    OS 2.297 11 [Man] will...be content with all places and with any service he can render.
    Pt1 3.41 18 God wills also [O poet]...that thou be content that others speak for thee.
    Exp 3.74 16 [Just persons] refuse to explain themselves, and are content that new actions should do them that office.
    Exp 3.84 16 I am very content with knowing, if only I could know.
    Chr1 3.90 18 O Iole! how did you know that Hercules was a god? Because, answered Iole, I was content the moment my eyes fell on him.
    Chr1 3.106 3 I was content with the simple rural poverty of my own;...
    Gts 3.164 20 We can rarely strike a direct stroke, but must be content with an oblique one;...
    SwM 4.118 21 ...Swedenborg was not content with the culinary use of the world.
    MoS 4.183 19 [The man of thought] is content with just and unjust...
    ET1 5.7 18 ...[Landor]...is well content to impress, if possible, his English whim upon the immutable past.
    ET5 5.89 19 A nation of laborers, every [English] man is trained to some one art or detail, and aims at perfection in that; not content unless he has something in which he thinks he surpasses all other men.
    ET16 5.281 9 ...at the summer solstice, the sun rises exactly over the top of that [astronomical] stone [at Stonehenge], at the Druidical temple at Abury, there is also an astronomical stone, in the same relative position. In the silence of tradition, this one relation to science becomes an important clew; but we [Emerson and Carlyle] were content to leave the problem with the rocks.
    CbW 6.266 14 The Turkish cadi said to Layard, After the fashion of thy people, thou hast wandered from one place to another, until thou art happy and content in none.
    Ill 6.311 1 ...we must be content to be pleased without too curiously analyzing the occasions.
    Suc 7.294 17 I pronounce that young man happy who is content with having acquired the skill which he had aimed at...
    PI 8.63 24 ...none of your carpet poets, who are content to amuse, will satisfy us.
    SA 8.89 1 Thus much for manners: but we are not content with pantomime;...
    Grts 8.304 9 A sensible man...is content with putting his fact or theme simply on its ground.
    Dem1 10.13 13 I am content and occupied with such miracles as I know...
    Supl 10.166 19 I...am content that [my eyes] should see the real world...
    MMEm 10.430 20 Those economists (Adam Smith) who say...that, whatever disposition of virtue may exist, unless something is done for society, deserves no fame,-why, I [Mary Moody Emerson] am content with such paradoxical kind of facts;...
    Thor 10.485 4 It seems...a kind of indignity to so noble a soul [as Thoreau] that he should depart out of Nature before yet he has been really shown to his peers for what he is. But he, at least, is content.
    LS 11.24 17 I am content that [the Lord's Supper] stand to the end of the world...
    HCom 11.340 3 Many loved Truth, and lavished life's best oil/ Amid the dust of books to find her,/ Content at last, for guerdon of their toil,/ With the cast mantle she hath left behind her./
    SMC 11.375 11 I am sure I need not bespeak your gratitude to these fellow citizens and neighbors of ours [veterans of the Civil War]. I hope they will be content with the laurels of one war.
    Shak1 11.448 1 We are all content to let Shakspeare speak for himself.
    CL 12.144 9 In Massachusetts, our land...is...not like some towns in the more broken country of New Hampshire, built on three or four hills...so that if you go a mile, you have only the choice whether you will climb the hill on your way out or on your way back. The more reason we have to be content with the felicity of our slopes in Massachusetts...
    Milt1 12.250 5 We could be well content if the flames to which [Milton's Defence of the English People] was condemned at Paris, at Toulouse, and at London, had utterly consumed it.
    Milt1 12.276 18 Perhaps we speak to no fact, but to mere fables, of an idle mendicant Homer, and of a Shakspeare content with a mean and jocular way of life.
    MLit 12.312 18 The poetry and speculation of the age are marked by a certain philosophic turn, which discriminates them from the works of earlier times. The poet is not content to see how Fair hangs the apple from the rock...
    MLit 12.332 9 [Goethe] was content to fall into the track of vulgar poets...

content, n. (10)

    Hist 2.23 11 The home-keeping wit...is that continence or content which finds all the elements of life in its own soil;...
    Fdsp 2.200 3 It makes no difference how many friends I have, and what content I can find in conversing with each, if there be one to whom I am not equal.
    DL 7.128 27 A verse of the old Greek Menander remains, which runs in translation:--Not on the store of sprightly wine,/ Nor plenty of delicious meats,/ Though generous Nature did design/ To court us with perpetual treats,--/ 'T is not on these we for content depend,/ So much as on the shadow of a Friend./
    SA 8.99 8 ...What we want is...your content to be a vehicle of the simple truth.
    QO 8.177 4 Whoever looks...at flies, aphides, gnats and innumerable parasites...must have remarked the extreme content they take in suction...
    PPo 8.253 22 I have no hoarded treasure,/ Yet have I rich content;/ The first from Allah to the Shah,/ The last to Hafiz went./
    Imtl 8.331 7 ...what is called great and powerful life...unless combined with...a taste for abstract truth, for the moral laws, does not build up faith or lead to content.
    MMEm 10.397 10 Ah me! it was my childhood's thought,/ If He should make my web a blot/ On life's fair picture of delight,/ My heart's content would find it right./
    MMEm 10.412 5 I [Mary Moody Emerson] am so small in my expectations, that a week of industry delights. Rose before light every morn;...washed, carded, cleaned house, and baked. To-day cannot recall an error, nor scarcely a sacrifice, but more fulness of content in the labors of a day never was felt.
    ACri 12.286 5 Luther said, I preach coarsely; that giveth content to all.

content, v. (18)

    MN 1.195 17 Great men do not content us.
    MN 1.212 15 Every star in heaven is discontented and insatiable. Gravitation and chemistry cannot content them.
    MR 1.232 12 I content myself with the fact that the general system of our trade...is a system of selfishness;...
    Lov1 2.185 27 Not always can...even home in another heart, content the awful soul that dwells in clay.
    Pt1 3.16 2 No imitation or playing of these things [of nature] would content [the coachman or the hunter];...
    Chr1 3.112 2 ...if we could abstain from asking anything of [men]...and content us with compelling them through the virtue of the eldest laws!
    Gts 3.162 15 We ask the whole. Nothing less will content us.
    Nat2 3.186 20 The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed...
    UGM 4.34 18 ...at last we shall cease to look in men for completeness, and shall content ourselves with their social and delegated quality.
    NMW 4.244 23 The characters which [Napoleon] has drawn of several of his marshals...though they did not content the insatiable vanity of French officers, are no doubt substantially just.
    Wth 6.88 22 ...will a man content himself with a hut and a handful of dried pease?
    CbW 6.271 5 The success which will content [men] is a bargain...and the like.
    Suc 7.307 23 No historical person begins to content us.
    PI 8.63 8 We are sometimes apprised that...the high poets, that Homer, Milton, Shakspeare, do not fully content us.
    Aris 10.58 7 Prosperity and pound-cake are for very young gentlemen, whom such things content;...
    HDC 11.68 4 It would be impossible on this occasion to recite all these patriotic papers [of Concord]. I must content myself with a few brief extracts.
    FSLC 11.190 22 I...shall content myself with reading a single passage.
    ACiv 11.300 4 The evil you contend with has taken alarming proportions, and you still content yourself with parrying the blows it aims...

contented, adj. (13)

    YA 1.368 8 ...[the farmer] is so contented with his alleys, woodlands, orchards and river, that Niagara and the Notch of the White Hills...are superfluities.
    SL 2.162 11 A good man is contented.
    Mrs1 3.141 18 The favorites of society...are able men...who exactly fill the hour and the company; contented and contenting, at a marriage or a funeral...
    MoS 4.169 8 [Montaigne's] writing has no enthusiasms, no aspiration; contented, self-respecting and keeping the middle of the road.
    Bhr 6.189 1 A man who is sure of his point, carries a broad and contented expression...
    Bhr 6.194 5 ...such was the contented spirit of the monk [Basle] that he found something to praise in every place and company...
    Grts 8.301 17 ...we ought not to be and shall not be contented with any goal we have reached.
    Plu 10.311 26 Cannot the simple lover of truth enjoy the virtues of those he meets, and the virtues suggested by them, so to find himself at some time purely contented?
    LLNE 10.332 20 ...even the coarsest [auditors] were contented to go punctually to listen, for [Everett's] manner, when they had found out that the subject-matter was not for them.
    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 and to its equality with the best London manufacture, he returned home contented.
    EWI 11.118 25 The child will sit in your arms contented, provided you do nothing.
    Bost 12.202 19 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...
    Bost 12.202 20 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...

contented, v. (26)

    LE 1.167 25 Further inquiry will discover...that [these chanting poets] contented themselves with the passing chirp of a bird...
    Pt1 3.4 7 ...even the poets are contented with a civil and conformed manner of living...
    UGM 4.16 10 Senates and sovereigns have no compliment...like the addressing to a human being thoughts out of a certain height, and presupposing his intelligence. This honor...genius perpetually pays; contented if now and then in a century the proffer is accepted.
    ET2 5.31 1 If sailors were contented...I should respect them.
    ET4 5.59 23 King Hake of Sweden cuts and slashes in battle, as long as he can stand, then orders his war-ship, loaded with his dead men and their weapons, to be taken out to sea, the tiller shipped and the sails spread; being left alone he sets fire to some tar-wood and lies down contented on deck.
    ET8 5.128 8 As compared with the Americans, I think [the English] cheerful and contented.
    ET10 5.156 7 [The English] are contented with slower steamers, as long as they know that swifter boats lose money.
    ET16 5.274 7 I thought it natural that [travelling Americans] should give...a little [time] to scientific clubs and museums, which, at this moment, make London very attractive. But my philosopher [Carlyle] was not contented.
    ET16 5.275 26 I told Carlyle that...I like the [English] people;...but meantime, I surely know that as soon as I return to Massachusetts I shall lapse at once into the feeling...that England...must one day be contented, like other parents, to be strong only in her children.
    ET18 5.304 3 Canada and Australia have been contented with substantial independence.
    Wth 6.107 25 You dismiss your laborer, saying, Patrick, I shall send for you as soon as I cannot do without you. Patrick goes off contented, for he knows that the weeds will grow with the potatoes...
    Wth 6.111 6 ...we have to pay, not what would have contented [the immigrants] at home, but what they have learned to think necessary here;...
    Wth 6.114 10 Pride...can talk with poor men, or sit silent well contented in fine saloons.
    CbW 6.250 20 In mankind [nature] is contented if she yields one master in a century.
    Ill 6.312 23 [the dreariest alderman] wishes the bow and compliment of some leader in the state or in society; weighs what he says; perhaps he never comes nearer to him for that, but dies at last better contented for this amusement of his eyes and his fancy.
    Boks 7.199 3 ...every fresh suggestion of modern humanity, is there [in Plato]. If the student wish to see...the supremacy of truth and the religious sentiment, he shall be contented also.
    Suc 7.287 6 I don't know but we and our race elsewhere set a higher value on wealth, victory and coarse superiority of all kinds, than other men...are less easily contented.
    PI 8.16 16 Mountains and oceans we think we understand;--yes, so long as they are contented to be such...
    PC 8.207 12 We may be well contented with our fair inheritance.
    PPo 8.244 2 On earth's wide thoroughfares below/ Two only men contented go:/ Who knows what 's right and what 's forbid,/ And he from whom is knowledge hid./
    Grts 8.317 19 The man who sells you a lamp shows you that the flame of oil, which contented you before, casts a strong shade in the path of the petroleum which he lights behind it;...
    EzRy 10.382 1 ...when fitted for college, the son [Ezra Ripley] could not be contented with teaching...
    JBS 11.277 9 ...as soon as [people] read [John Brown's] own speeches and letters they are heartily contented...
    PLT 12.13 25 The adepts value only the pure geometry, the aerial bridge ascending from earth to heaven with arches and abutments of pure reason. I am fully contented if you tell me where are the two termini.
    II 12.83 11 All we ask of any man is to be contented with his own work.
    Milt1 12.274 25 ...Bacon's imagination was said to be the noblest that ever contented itself to minister to the understanding...

contenting, v. (3)

    SL 2.138 26 ...by contenting ourselves with obedience we become divine.
    Mrs1 3.141 18 The favorites of society...are able men...who exactly fill the hour and the company; contented and contenting, at a marriage or a funeral...
    Suc 7.302 2 Ah! if one could...find the day and its cheap means contenting...

contention, n. (2)

    Nat2 3.187 18 ...the contention is ever hottest on minor matters.
    Schr 10.285 8 [Men of talent] have talents for contention...

contentment, n. (7)

    SR 2.60 20 Let us affront and reprimand the smooth mediocrity and squalid contentment of the times...
    SL 2.139 23 Place yourself in the middle of the stream of power and wisdom...and you are without effort impelled...to right and a perfect contentment.
    Exp 3.61 5 ...we should...do broad justice where we are...accepting our actual companions and circumstances...as the mystic officials to whom the universe has delegated its whole pleasure for us. If these are mean and malignant, their contentment, which is the last victory of justice, is a more satisfying echo to the heart than the voice of poets...
    ET14 5.254 14 Squalid contentment with conventions...betray the ebb of life and spirit [in English students].
    LLNE 10.361 5 Those who inspired and organized [Brook Farm] were... persons impatient of...the uniformity, perhaps they would say the squalid contentment of society around them...
    HDC 11.49 11 It is the consequence of this institution [the town-meeting] that not a school-house...a mill-dam, hath been...altered, or bought, or sold, without the whole population of this town [Concord] having a voice in the affair. A general contentment is the result.
    MAng1 12.241 17 ...[Michelangelo] knew that his spirit could only enjoy contentment after death.

contents, n. (3)

    SL 2.154 27 The permanence of all books is fixed...by...the intrinsic importance of their contents to the constant mind of man.
    PI 8.54 16 ...the verse must be...inseparable from its contents...
    QO 8.183 24 ...when [Webster] opened a new book, he turned to the table of contents...

Contents, n. (1)

    Aris 10.41 15 We shall come to add Kings in the Contents of the Directory, as we do Physicians, Brokers, etc.

contents, v. (4)

    OS 2.296 2 we have...no record of any character or mode of living that entirely contents us.
    ET14 5.257 25 [Tennyson] contents himself with describing the Englishman as he is...
    Wth 6.121 17 How often we must remember the art of the surgeon, which, in replacing the broken bone, contents itself with releasing the parts from false position;...
    PLT 12.11 24 ...he who who contents himself with dotting a fragmentary curve...follows a system also...

contest, n. (16)

    Con 1.303 23 The contest between the Future and the Past is one between Divinity entering and Divinity departing.
    Fdsp 2.200 5 If I have shrunk unequal from one contest, the joy I find in all the rest becomes mean and cowardly.
    Fdsp 2.202 9 ...all the speed in that contest [of friendship] depends on intrinsic nobleness...
    Chr1 3.90 22 ...Hercules did not wait for a contest;...
    NR 3.241 20 ...in the contest we are now considering, the players are also the game...
    NER 3.255 5 There is observable throughout [the practical activities of New England], the contest between mechanical and spiritual methods...
    NER 3.278 25 I remember standing at the polls one day when the anger of the political contest gave a certain grimness to the faces of the independent electors...
    PPh 4.61 2 ...looking to the truth, I shall endeavor in reality to live as virtuously as I can [said Plato]; and when I die, to die so. And I invite all other men...to this contest, which, I affirm, surpasses all contests here.
    NMW 4.257 14 [Napoleon] left France smaller, poorer, feebler, than he found it; and the whole contest for freedom was to be begun again.
    CbW 6.254 10 Rough, selfish despots serve men immensely, as Henry VIII. in the contest with the Pope;...
    Boks 7.210 6 ...the contest [for the Valdarfer Boccaccio] proceeded...
    Edc1 10.129 11 No dollar of property can be created without...some acquisition of knowledge and practical force. It is a constant contest with the active faculties of men...
    SlHr 10.437 15 The Homeric heroes, when they saw the gods mingling in the fray, sheathed their swords. So did not [Samuel Hoar] feel any call to make it a contest of personal strength with mobs or nations;...
    HDC 11.78 7 [Concord's] little population of 1300 souls behaved like a party to the contest [the American Revolution].
    FSLN 11.220 24 ...of course, [vulgar politicians] can drive out from the contest any honorable man.
    CL 12.147 2 ...there was a contest between the old orchard and the invading forest-trees...

contest, v. (1)

    DSA 1.128 5 These general views, which, while they are general, none will contest, find abundant illustration in the history of religion...

contested, adj. (1)

    Nat 1.73 8 Such examples [of the action of man upon nature with his entire force] are...many obscure and yet contested facts, now arranged under the name of Animal Magnetism;...

contested, v. (2)

    Ctr 6.163 8 Open your Marcus Antoninus. In the opinion of the ancients he was the great man...who contested the frowns of fortune.
    MLit 12.317 7 It is not to be contested that selfishness and the senses write the laws under which we live...

contests, n. (3)

    LT 1.280 20 ...how trivial seem the contests of the abolitionist...
    Fdsp 2.202 3 He [who offers himself a candidate for the covenant of friendship] proposes himself for contests where Time, Want, Danger, are in the lists...
    PPh 4.61 2 ...looking to the truth, I shall endeavor in reality to live as virtuously as I can [said Plato]; and when I die, to die so. And I invite all other men...to this contest, which, I affirm, surpasses all contests here.

context, n. (1)

    Elo1 7.87 11 ...[the state's attorney] revenged himself...on the judge, by requiring the court to define what salvage was. The court..tried words...like a schoolmaster puzzled by a hard sum, who reads the context with emphasis.

contexture, n. (1)

    GoW 4.264 24 [The scholar] is...one of the estates of the realm, provided and prepared...in the knitting and contexture of things.

contiguous, adj. (1)

    Ctr 6.131 18 ...any excess of power in one part is usually paid for at once by some defect in a contiguous part.

continence, n. (3)

    Hist 2.23 11 The home-keeping wit...is that continence or content which finds all the elements of life in its own soil;...
    ShP 4.194 21 ...when at last the greatest freedom of style and treatment was reached [in Egypt and Greece], the prevailing genius of architecture still enforced a certain calmness and continence in the statue.
    ET6 5.106 23 ...[the English] have as much energy, as much continence of character as they ever had.

continent, adj. (2)

    MR 1.255 20 He who would help himself and others should...be...a continent, persisting, immovable person...
    Nat2 3.177 21 Frivolity is a most unfit tribute to Pan, who ought to be represented in the mythology as the most continent of gods.

Continent, American, n. (1)

    FSLN 11.221 13 I think [people] looked at [Webster] as the representative of the American Continent.

continent, n. (42)

    AmS 1.81 16 Perhaps the time is already come when...the sluggard intellect of this continent will look from under its iron lids...
    LE 1.156 25 Men looked...that nature...should reimburse itself by a brood of Titans, who should laugh and leap in the continent...
    MN 1.223 4 Who shall dare think he has...missed anything excellent in the past, who seeth...the yet untouched continent of hope glittering...in the vast West?
    YA 1.364 23 The bountiful continent is ours...
    YA 1.365 16 Columbus alleged as a reason for seeking a continent in the West, that the harmony of nature required a great tract of land in the western hemisphere...
    YA 1.365 26 The continent we inhabit is to be physic and food for our mind, as well as our body.
    YA 1.369 11 Whatever events in progress shall go to disgust men with cities...will render a service to the whole face of this continent...
    YA 1.372 14 The sphere is flattened at the poles and swelled at the equator;...the form...required to prevent the protuberances of the continent... from continually deranging the axis of the earth.
    Pt1 3.22 6 ...the limestone of the continent consists of infinite masses of the shells of animalcules...
    ShP 4.190 4 A great man does not wake up on some fine morning and say, I am full of life, I will go to sea and find an Antarctic continent...
    ET3 5.41 20 It is not down in the books...that fortunate day when a wave of the German Ocean burst the old isthmus which joined Kent and Cornwall to France...cutting off...a territory...so near that it can see the harvests of the continent...
    ET10 5.155 25 During the war from 1789 to 1815, whilst they complained that they...by dint of enormous taxes were subsidizing all the continent against France, the English were growing rich every year faster than any people ever grew before.
    ET11 5.176 26 [The Duke of Bedford's] ancestor having travelled on the continent...became the companion of a foreign prince wrecked on the Dorsetshire coast, where Mr. [John] Russell lived.
    ET13 5.220 24 When you see on the continent the well-dressed Englishman come into his ambassador's chapel and put his face for silent prayer into his smooth-brushed hat, you cannot help feeling how much national pride prays with him...
    ET16 5.288 21 There, in that great sloven continent [America]...still sleeps and murmurs and hides the great mother...
    Wsp 6.233 5 It is related of William of Orange, that whilst he was besieging a town on the continent, a gentleman sent to him on public business came to his camp...
    CbW 6.262 9 What had been, ever since our memory, solid continent, yawns apart and discloses its composition and genesis.
    Elo1 7.82 24 ...[Columbus] can say nothing to one party or to the other, but he can show how all Europe can be diminished and reduced under the king, by annexing to Spain a continent as large as six or seven Europes.
    Suc 7.283 12 We have discovered the Antarctic continent.
    SA 8.104 15 We have come...to know the vast resources of the continent...
    QO 8.199 27 ...[the individual] is no more to be credited with the grand result [of language] than the acaleph which adds a cell to the coral reef which is the basis of the continent.
    PC 8.207 16 Was ever such coincidence of advantages in time and place as in America to-day?...the hungry cry for men which goes up from the wide continent;...
    Imtl 8.341 22 [The thinker] is but as a fly or a worm to this mountain, this continent, which his thoughts inhabit.
    PerF 10.72 1 When the continent sinks, the opposite continent...rises.
    PerF 10.72 2 When the continent sinks, the opposite continent...rises.
    MoL 10.250 8 [Nature says to the American] See to it that you hold and administer the continent for mankind.
    MoL 10.258 12 Slavery is broken, and, if we use our advantage, irretrievably. For such a gain...one generation might well be sacrificed; perhaps it will; that this continent be purged...
    FSLC 11.199 11 A measure of pacification and union. What is [the Fugitive Slave Law's] effect? To make one sole subject for conversation and painful thought throughout the continent, namely, slavery.
    ACiv 11.306 13 There does exist, perhaps, a popular will...that our trade, and therefore our laws, must have the whole breadth of the continent...
    EPro 11.322 14 If [taxes] go to fill up this yawning Dismal Swamp, which...neutralized hitherto all the vast capabilities of this continent,-then this taxation...is the best investment in which property-holder ever lodged his earnings.
    ALin 11.335 17 Step by step [Lincoln] walked before [the American people];...the true representative of this continent;...
    EdAd 11.382 12 The injured elements say, Not in us;/ And night and day, ocean and continent,/ Fire, plant and mineral say, Not in us;/ And haughtily return us stare for stare./
    EdAd 11.386 17 ...who can see the continent...without putting new queries to Destiny as to the purpose for which this muster of nations...is made?
    Koss 11.401 4 You [Kossuth] have got your story told in every palace and log hut and prairie camp, throughout the continent.
    Humb 11.458 11 When [Humboldt] was stopped in Spain and could not get away, he turned round and interpreted their mountain system, explaining the past history of the continent of Europe.
    FRep 11.526 8 ...here is the human race poured out over the continent to do itself justice;...
    FRep 11.531 19 In this country...there is, at present...a headlong devotion... to the conquest of the continent...
    FRep 11.542 25 ...man seems to play...a certain part that even tells on the general face of the planet...hinders the inroads of the sea on the continent...
    Bost 12.201 11 The future historian will regard the detachment of the Puritans without aristocracy...as great a gain to mankind as the opening of this continent.
    Bost 12.209 7 ...thus our little city [Boston] thrives and enlarges... propagating itself like a banyan over the continent.
    MAng1 12.244 15 The traveller from a distant continent, who gazes on that marble brow [bust of Michelangelo], feels that he is not a stranger in the foreign church;...
    PPr 12.390 25 How like an air-balloon or bird of Jove does [Carlyle] seem to float over the continent...

Continent, n. (1)

    LLNE 10.369 23 I please myself with the thought that our American mind... is beginning to show a quiet power, drawn from wide and abundant sources, proper to a Continent and to an educated people.

continental, adj. (3)

    YA 1.370 2 ...the nervous, rocky West is intruding a new and continental element into the national mind...
    ET15 5.267 8 The tone of [the London Times's] articles has often been the occasion of comment from the official organs of the continental courts...
    ET18 5.301 10 [The foreign policy of England] has a principal regard to the interest of trade, checked however by the aristocratic bias of the ambassador, which usually puts him in sympathy with the continental Courts.

Continental, adj. (3)

    HDC 11.50 2 The British government has recently presented to the several public libraries of this country, copies of the splendid edition of the Domesday Book, and other ancient public records of England. I cannot but think that it would be a suitable acknowledgment of this national munificence, if the records of one of our towns...should be printed, and presented...to the Continental nations as a lesson of humanity and love.
    HDC 11.79 7 In June [1776], the General Assembly of Massachusetts resolved to raise 5000 militia for six months, to reinforce the Continental army.
    CInt 12.119 1 The emigration into America of British, as well as of Continental people, is the eulogy of America...

continents, n. (6)

    MN 1.222 21 Do what you know, and perception is converted into character, as islands and continents were built by invisible infusories...
    Cir 2.302 18 The new continents are built out of the ruins of an old planet;...
    ET3 5.43 16 [Nature made] An island,--but not so large, the people [of England] not so many as to glut the great markets and depress one another, but proportioned to the size of Europe and the continents.
    ET18 5.303 8 ...[Englishmen's] colonization annexes archipelagoes and continents...
    FSLC 11.211 3 Europe, the least of all the continents, has almost monopolized for twenty centuries the genius and power of them all.
    CL 12.154 9 The sea is the chemist that...pulverizes old continents, and builds new;...

contingences, n. (1)

    SwM 4.134 11 The thousand-fold relation of men is not there [in Swedenborg's system of the world]. The interest that attaches in nature to each man...because he defies all dogmatizing and classification, so many allowances and contingences and futurities are to be taken into account;...

contingencies, n. (4)

    Mrs1 3.153 17 Everything that is called fashion and courtesy humbles itself before...the heart of love. This is the royal blood, this the fire, which, in all countries and contingencies, will work after its kind and conquer and expand all that approaches it.
    F 6.49 20 Let us build...to the Necessity which rudely or softly educates [man] to the perception that there are no contingencies;...
    Ctr 6.147 24 ...a man witnessing the admirable effect of ether to lull pain, and meditating on the contingencies of wounds...rejoices in Dr. Jackson's benign discovery...
    FSLC 11.210 14 ...granting that these contingencies [of abolition] are too many to be spanned by any human geometry...still the question recurs, What must we do?

contingency, n. (3)

    Pow 6.76 24 The good lawyer is not the man who has an eye to every side and angle of contingency...
    PPo 8.238 18 ...life [in the East] hangs on the contingency of a skin of water more or less.
    MMEm 10.429 2 ...as [Mary Moody Emerson] never travelled without being provided for this dear and indispensable contingency [death], I believe she wore out a great many [shrouds].

contingent, adj. (5)

    Wth 6.108 20 All salaries are reckoned on contingent as well as on actual services.
    Ctr 6.158 13 I must have children...I must have a social state and history, or my thinking and speaking want body or basis. But to give these accessories any value, I must know them as contingent...possessions...
    Dem1 10.21 12 Animal magnetism inspires the prudent and moral with a certain terror; so the divination of contingent events...
    SlHr 10.445 5 [Samuel Hoar] saw what was essential, and refused whatever was not, so that no man embarrassed himself less with a needless array of books and evidences of contingent value.
    PLT 12.30 26 When, moved by love, a man...rushes at immense personal sacrifice on some public, self-immolating act, it is not done for others, but to fulfil a high necessity of his proper character. The benefit to others is contingent and not contemplated by the doer.

continual, adj. (11)

    Nat 1.19 4 In July, the blue pontederia...swarms with yellow butterflies in continual motion.
    Nat 1.37 8 ...what continual reproduction of annoyances, inconveniences, dilemmas;...
    Nat 1.66 17 ...the best read naturalist who lends an entire and devout attention to truth, will see that there remains much to learn of his relation to the world, and that it...is arrived at...by a continual self-recovery...
    SR 2.84 14 [Society] undergoes continual changes;...
    SL 2.137 17 All our manual labor and works of strength, as prying, splitting, digging, rowing and so forth, are done by dint of continual falling...
    Cir 2.307 4 The continual effort to raise himself above himself...betrays itself in a man's relations.
    Nat2 3.186 5 The child...delighted with every new thing, lies down at night overpowered by the fatigue which this day of continual pretty madness has incurred.
    ET11 5.197 7 ...the analysis of the [English] peerage and gentry shows the rapid decay and extinction of old families, the continual recruiting of these from new blood.
    DL 7.114 12 ...we desire to play the benefactor and the prince...with the man or woman of worth who alights at our door. How can we do this, if the wants of each day...constrain us to a continual vigilance lest we be betrayed into expense?
    PC 8.213 4 ...the rocks of Nahant or the dikes of the White Hills disclose that...the soil of the valleys and plains [is] a continual decomposition and recomposition.
    Edc1 10.127 11 [Man's] continual tendency...is to overlook the fact that the world is only his teacher...

continually, adv. (40)

    MN 1.193 7 Men...are continually yielding to this dazzling result of numbers, that which they would never yield to the solitary example of any one.
    Tran 1.346 12 [A man] ought to be...a great influence, which should... refresh old merits continually with new ones;...
    YA 1.372 16 The sphere is flattened at the poles and swelled at the equator;...the form...required to prevent the protuberances of the continent... from continually deranging the axis of the earth.
    YA 1.379 2 ...the aristocracy of trade...was...the result of merit of some kind, and is continually falling...before new claims of the same sort.
    YA 1.385 23 Justice is continually administered more and more by private reference...
    SR 2.75 19 ...we see that most natures...do lean and beg day and night continually.
    OS 2.287 23 All men stand continually in the expectation of the appearance of such a teacher [who speaks always from within].
    Pt1 3.35 20 Before [Swedenborg] the metamorphosis continually plays.
    Gts 3.163 19 ...the expectation of gratitude...is continually punished by the total insensibility of the obliged person.
    UGM 4.11 11 Each material thing...has its translation, through humanity, into the spiritual and necessary sphere where it plays a part as indestructible as any other. And to these, their ends, all things continually ascend.
    SwM 4.126 8 [Swedenborg] delivers golden sayings which express with singular beauty the ethical laws; as when he uttered that famed sentence, that In heaven the angels are advancing continually to the springtime of their youth, so that the oldest angel appears the youngest...
    ShP 4.197 22 Chaucer, it seems, drew continually...from Guido di Colonna...
    NMW 4.224 7 The first [conservative] class is...continually losing numbers by death.
    ET12 5.202 15 ...gifts of all values, from a hall or a fellowship or a library, down to a picture or a spoon, are continually accruing [at Oxford]...
    Bhr 6.197 18 What finest hands would not be clumsy to sketch the genial precepts of the young girl's demeanor? The chances seem infinite against success; and yet success is continually attained.
    Bhr 6.197 25 ...we are continually surprised [in the young girl] with graces and felicities not only unteachable but undescribable.
    Bty 6.292 23 This is the theory of dancing, to recover continually in changes the lost equilibrium...
    Ill 6.323 25 ...we transcend the circumstance continually and taste the real quality of existence;...
    Boks 7.193 25 The inspection of the catalogue [of the Cambridge Library] brings me continually back to the few standard writers who are on every private shelf;...
    Suc 7.297 23 'T is the bane of life that natural effects are continually crowded out...
    SA 8.90 10 The life of these persons was conducted in the same calm and affirmative manner as their discourse. Life with them was an experiment continually varied...
    SA 8.103 13 ...[the American to be proud of] was the best talker...in the company...what with the multitude and distinction of his facts (and one detected continually that he had a hand in everything that has been done)...
    Chr2 10.106 8 Our ancestors spoke continually of angels and archangels with the same good faith as they would have spoken of their own parents or their late minister.
    Chr2 10.112 24 Every age, says Varnhagen, has another sieve for the religious tradition, and will sift it out again. Something is continually lost by this treatment...
    Edc1 10.148 13 ...in education...we are continually trying costly machinery against nature...
    SovE 10.183 4 Since the discovery of Oersted that galvanism and electricity and magnetism are only forms of one and the same force...we have continually suggested to us a larger generalization...
    LLNE 10.354 23 It is the worst of community that it must inevitably transform into charlatans the leaders, by the endeavor continually to meet the expectation and admiration of this eager crowd of men and women seeking they know not what.
    Thor 10.453 22 [Surveying] had the advantage for [Thoreau] that it led him continually into new and secluded grounds...
    HDC 11.79 17 For these men [in the Continental army] [Concord] was continually providing shoes, stockings, shirts, coats, blankets and beef.
    EWI 11.117 18 It soon appeared in all the [West Indian] islands that the planters were disposed...to exert the same licentious despotism as before. The negroes complained to the magistrates and to the governor. In the island of Jamaica, this ill blood continually grew worse.
    War 11.154 17 ...[war] is exhibited to us continually in the dumb show of brute nature...
    War 11.155 9 Nature implants with life...perpetual struggle...to attain to a mastery and the security of a permanent, self-defended being; and to each creature these objects are made so dear that it risks its life continually in the struggle for these ends.
    Wom 11.425 3 ...let [new opinions] make their way by the upper road, and not by the way of manufacturing public opinion, which lapses continually into expediency...
    FRO1 11.478 18 The child, the young student, finds scope in his mathematics...because he...finds himself continually instructed.
    PLT 12.28 9 'T is only the source that we can see;-the eternal mind... continually ejaculating its torrent into every artery and vein and veinlet of humanity.
    PLT 12.56 22 We are continually tempted to sacrifice genius to talent...
    PLT 12.62 22 ...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,-I have a desk, I have an office...
    Mem 12.101 15 ...because all Nature has one law and meaning...all we have known aids us continually to the knowledge of the rest of Nature.
    Milt1 12.253 7 The opposition to [a masterpiece of art], always greatest at first, continually decreases...
    Trag 12.408 20 The law which establishes nature and the human race, continually thwarts the will of ignorant individuals...

continuance, n. (6)

    Con 1.318 15 ...we are bound to see that the society of which we compose a part, does not permit the formation or continuance of views and practices injurious to the honor and welfare of mankind.
    OS 2.284 7 ...in the adoration of humility, there is no question of continuance.
    SwM 4.131 20 [Swedenborg] was let down through a column that...was formed of angelic spirits, that he might descend safely amongst the unhappy, and witness the vastation of souls and hear there, for a long continuance, their lamentations;...
    PerF 10.79 2 The power of a man increases steadily by continuance in one direction.
    Edc1 10.155 2 ...the familiar observation of the universal compensations might suggest the fear that so summary a stop of a bad humor [striking a bad boy] was more jeopardous than its continuance.
    Pray 12.354 24 The last of the four orisons...contains this petition;-My Father: I now come to thee with a desire to thank thee for the continuance of our love...

continuation, n. (13)

    YA 1.383 2 The Community is only the continuation of the same movement which made the joint-stock companies for manufactures, mining, insurance, banking, and so forth.
    YA 1.385 2 How gladly would each citizen pay a commission for the support and continuation of good guidance.
    Nat2 3.184 16 The astronomers said, Give us matter and a little motion and we will construct the universe. ... A very unreasonable postulate, said the metaphysicians, and a plain begging of the question. Could you not prevail to know the genesis of projection, as well as the continuation of it?
    UGM 4.29 1 Nothing is more marked than the power by which individuals are guarded from individuals, in a world where every benefactor becomes so easily a malefactor only by continuation of his activity into places where it is not due;...
    GoW 4.278 24 George Sand, in Consuelo and its continuation, has sketched a truer and more dignified picture [than has Goethe in Wilhelm Meister].
    ET3 5.36 11 The American is only the continuation of the English genius into new conditions, more or less propitious.
    Wsp 6.219 5 ...to [man]...the lures of passion and the commandments of duty are opened; and the next lesson taught is the continuation of the inflexible law of matter into the subtile kingdom of will and of thought;...
    Wsp 6.238 22 The race of mankind have always offered at least this implied thanks for the gift of existence,--namely...the insatiable curiosity and appetite for its continuation.
    Art2 7.48 10 ...in useful art, so far as it is useful, the work must be strictly subordinated to the laws of Nature, so as to become a sort of continuation... of Nature;...
    Edc1 10.138 9 ...let us have men whose manhood is only the continuation of their boyhood, natural characters still;...
    PLT 12.17 5 ...I believe...that the genius of man is a continuation of the power that made him...
    PLT 12.59 22 Inspiration is the continuation of the divine effort that built the man.
    PLT 12.63 1 I may well say this [identification of the Ego with the universe] is...the continuation of the divine effort.

continuations, n. (2)

    Art1 2.369 5 When science is learned in love, and its powers are wielded by love, they will appear the supplements and continuations of the material creation.
    Imtl 8.327 15 Swedenborg described an intelligible heaven, by continuing the like employments in the like circumstances as those we know;... continuations of our earthly experience.

continue, v. (27)

    Con 1.301 15 ...no man can continue to exist in whom both these elements [Conservatism and Reform] do not work...
    Con 1.303 18 ...here [in the existing world] is sacred fact. This also was true, or it could not be...it has life in it, or it could not continue.
    Tran 1.332 18 ...ask [the materialist] why he believes that an uniform experience will continue uniform...
    Lov1 2.186 11 ...that which drew [lovers] to each other was signs of loveliness, signs of virtue; and these virtues are there, however eclipsed. They appear and reappear and continue to attract;...
    Fdsp 2.192 25 For long hours we can continue a series of sincere, graceful, rich communications [with a commended stranger]...
    Int 2.338 11 ...when we write with ease...we seem to be assured that nothing is easier than to continue this communication at pleasure.
    Exp 3.55 25 ...each [picture] will bear an emphasis of attention once, which it cannot retain, though we fain would continue to be pleased in that manner.
    Pol1 3.221 18 Not the less does nature continue to fill the heart of youth with suggestions of this enthusiasm...
    NR 3.228 26 ...men are steel-filings. Yet we unjustly select a particle, and say, O steel-filing number one!...what prodigious virtues are these of thine!... Whilst we speak the loadstone is withdrawn; down falls our filing in a heap with the rest, and we continue our mummery to the wretched shaving.
    UGM 4.21 16 If I work in my garden and prune an apple-tree, I am well enough entertained, and could continue indefinitely in the like occupation.
    NMW 4.255 5 As long as I continue to be what I am [said Napoleon], I may have as many pretended friends as I please.
    ET6 5.106 20 These people [the English] have sat here a thousand years, and here they will continue to sit.
    ET11 5.179 23 ...the English are those barbarians of Jamblichus, who... firmly continue to employ the same words, which are also dear to the gods.
    ET13 5.224 22 Abroad with my wife, writes Pepys piously, the first time that ever I rode in my own coach; which do make my heart rejoice and praise God, and pray him to bless it to me, and continue it.
    CbW 6.259 16 ...[an absorbing passion] is the heat which...gives us a good start and speed, easy to continue when once it is begun.
    Bty 6.295 9 In a house that I know, I have noticed a block of spermaceti lying about closets and mantelpieces, for twenty years together, simply because the tallow-man gave it the form of a rabbit; and I suppose it may continue to be lugged about unchanged for a century.
    OA 7.327 7 The throes continue until the child is born.
    OA 7.333 6 ...[John Adams]...added, My son has more political prudence that any man that I know who has existed in my time; he never was put off his guard; and I hope he will continue such...
    Imtl 8.329 19 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;...
    Plu 10.310 25 [Plutarch] quotes Thucydides's saying that not the desire of honor only never grows old, but much less also the inclination to society and affection to the State, which continue even in ants and bees to the very last.
    MMEm 10.416 5 ...joy, hope and resignation unite me [Mary Moody Emerson] to Him whose mysterious Will adjusts everything, and the darkest and lightest are alike welcome. Oh, could this state of mind continue, death would not be longed for.
    MMEm 10.428 10 Constantly offer myself [Mary Moody Emerson] to continue the obscurest and loneliest thing ever heard of, with one proviso,- [God's] agency.
    FSLC 11.206 10 If [the North and the South] continue to have a binding interest, they will be pretty sure to find it out...
    SMC 11.373 7 After driving the enemy from the railroad, crossing it, and climbing the farther bank to continue the charge, [George Prescott] was struck...by a musket-ball...
    II 12.79 8 ...you shall not speak of any work of art except in its presence; then you will continue to learn something...
    CW 12.177 18 ...physicians or naturalists are the only professional men who continue their tasks out of study-hours;...
    MAng1 12.220 24 Cardinal Farnese one day found [Michelangelo], when an old man, walking alone in the Coliseum, and expressed his surprise at finding him solitary amidst the ruins; to which he replied, I go yet to school, that I may continue to learn.

continued, adj. (4)

    ET4 5.61 13 The continued draught of the best men in Norway, Sweden and Denmark to these piratical expeditions exhausted those countries...
    Chr2 10.122 14 [Character]...does not ask, in the absoluteness of its trust, even for the assurance of continued life.
    EWI 11.121 26 The legislature [of Jamaica]...say, The peaceful demeanor of the emancipated population...affords a proof of their continued comfort and prosperity.
    II 12.83 25 Life is not quite desirable to [men slow in finding their vocation]. It uniformly suggests in the conversation of men the presumption of continued life, of which the present is only one term.

continued, v. (19)

    Hist 2.26 4 [Vases, tragedies, statues] have continued to be made in all ages...
    NR 3.239 15 In every conversation, even the highest, there is a certain trick, which may be soon learned by an acute person, and then that particular style continued indefinitely.
    SwM 4.100 12 Later, [Swedenborg] resigned his office of Assessor: the salary attached to this office continued to be paid to him during his life.
    SwM 4.100 16 [Swedenborg's] duties had brought him into intimate acquaintance with King Charles XII., by whom he was much consulted and honored. The like favor was continued to him by his successor.
    SwM 4.119 14 The principal powers continued to maintain a healthy action [in Swedenborg]...
    ET1 5.6 2 [Greenough] believed that the Greeks had wrought in schools or fraternities,--the genius of the master imparting his design to his friends, and inflaming them with it, and when his strength was spent, a new hand with equal heat continued the work;...
    ET1 5.11 8 When [Coleridge] stopped to take breath, I interposed that whilst I highly valued all his explanations, I was bound to tell him that I was born and bred a Unitarian. Yes, he said, I supposed so; and continued as before.
    ET11 5.178 12 Sir Henry Wotton says of the first Duke of Buckingham, He was born at Brookeby in Leicestershire, where his ancestors had chiefly continued about the space of four hundred years...
    OA 7.334 19 We asked if at Whitefield's return the same popularity continued.
    Res 8.144 9 The commander called for men in the ranks who could rebuild the road. Many men stepped forward, searched in the water, found the hidden rails, laid the track, put the disabled engine together and continued their journey.
    PC 8.227 4 Great men,-the age goes on their credit; but all the rest, when their wires are continued and not cut, can do as signal things...
    Aris 10.36 17 ...all the deference of modern society to this idea of the Gentleman, and all the whimsical tyranny of Fashion which has continued to engraft itself on this reverence, is a secret homage to reality and love...
    LLNE 10.362 5 Mr. Ichabod Morton of Plymouth...came and built a house on [Brook] farm, and he, or members of his family, continued there to the end.
    SlHr 10.438 10 ...[Samuel Hoar] continued the uniform practice of his daily walk in all parts of the city [Charleston].
    LS 11.6 14 I have only brought these accounts [of the Last Supper] together, that you may judge whether it is likely that a solemn institution, to be continued to the end of time by all mankind...would have been established in this slight manner...
    LS 11.8 7 [Jesus] may have foreseen that his disciples would meet to remember him, and that with good effect. It may have crossed his mind that this would be easily continued a hundred or a thousand years...
    Bost 12.210 25 ...in Boston, Nature...has given good sons to good sires, or at least continued merit in the same blood.
    MAng1 12.235 10 On the death of San Gallo...Paul III. first entreated, then commanded the aged artist [Michelangelo] to assume the charge of this great work, which, though commenced forty years before, was only commenced by Bramante, and ill continued by San Gallo.
    ACri 12.289 23 Goethe, who had collected all the diabolical hints in men and nature for traits for his Walpurgis Nacht, continued the humor of collecting such horrors after this first occasion had passed...

continuer, n. (2)

    PerF 10.79 10 How we prize a good continuer!
    PPr 12.388 9 ...a continuer of the great line of scholars, [Carlyle] sustains their office in the highest credit and honor.

continuers, n. (1)

    EWI 11.138 6 ...we are indebted mainly to this movement [for emancipation in the West Indies] and to the continuers of it, for the popular discussion of every point of practical ethics...

continues, v. (6)

    NMW 4.254 19 Laws, institutions, monuments, nations, all fall [said Napoleon]; but the noise [of a great reputation] continues...
    Ctr 6.132 25 In the distemper known to physicians as chorea, the patient sometimes turns round and continues to spin slowly on one spot.
    Wsp 6.230 11 ...the part you took continues to plead for you.
    Plu 10.304 17 ...[Plutarch] says...the Sibyl, with her frantic grimaces... continues her voice a thousand years...
    PLT 12.25 9 The fine tree continues to grow.
    PLT 12.59 24 The same course continues itself in the mind which we have witnessed in Nature...

continuest, v. (1)

    Pray 12.354 27 I cannot express my gratitude for what thou hast been and continuest to be to me.

continuing, adj. (2)

    DL 7.128 6 Happy will that house be...in which character marries... Then shall marriage be a covenant to secure to either party the sweetness and honor of being a calm, continuing, inevitable benefactor to the other.
    EzRy 10.389 2 [Ezra Ripley] had...the patient, continuing courtesy...

continuing, v. (2)

    PNR 4.82 11 These expansions or extensions [of facts] consist in continuing the spiritual sight where the horizon falls on our natural vision...
    Imtl 8.327 12 Swedenborg described an intelligible heaven, by continuing the like employments in the like circumstances as those we know;...

continuity, n. (13)

    AmS 1.85 7 There is never a beginning, there is never an end, to the inexplicable continuity of this web of God...
    PNR 4.85 8 This eldest Goethe [Plato]...delighted...in discovering connection, continuity and representation everywhere...
    SwM 4.122 27 Instead of a religion which visited [Swedenborg] diplomatically three or four times...here was a teaching which accompanied him...into natural objects...and opened the future world by indicating the continuity of the same laws.
    MoS 4.170 15 We are persuaded that a thread runs through all things...and men, and events, and life...pass and repass only that we may know the direction and continuity of that line.
    ET5 5.80 5 [The English] are jealous of minds that have much facility of association, from an instinctive fear that the seeing many relations to their thought might impair this serial continuity and lucrative concentration.
    Pow 6.77 14 ...in human action, against the spasm of energy we offset the continuity of drill.
    Boks 7.205 10 [The student] cannot spare Gibbon...with such wit and continuity of mind, that...his book is one of the conveniences of civilization...
    Comc 8.157 24 ...the break of continuity in the intellect, is comedy...
    Insp 8.273 9 [Most men's] house and trade and families serve them as ropes to give a coarse continuity.
    PLT 12.52 21 ...to arrange general reflections in their natural order...this continuity is for the great.
    II 12.66 20 There is a singular credulity which no experience will cure us of, that another man has seen or may see somewhat more than we, of the primary facts; as for example, of the continuity of the individual...
    Mem 12.91 9 Memory...gives continuity and dignity to human life.
    Mem 12.107 8 ...observing some mysterious continuity of mental operation during sleep...'t is an old rule of scholars...'T is best knocking in the nail overnight and clinching it next morning.

continuous, adj. (15)

    LE 1.183 12 They [whom the student's thoughts have entertained or inflamed] find that he is a poor, ignorant man...nowise emitting a continuous stream of light...
    Tran 1.353 1 I wish to exchange this flash-of-lightning faith for continuous daylight...
    Cir 2.306 27 ...a month hence, I doubt not, I shall wonder who he was that wrote so many continuous pages.
    Pow 6.77 10 ...the galvanic stream, slow but continuous, is equal in power to the electric spark...
    Farm 7.138 24 [The farmer] represents continuous hard labor...
    Farm 7.141 5 [The farmer] is the continuous benefactor.
    PI 8.50 24 Richard Owen...said:--All hitherto observed causes of extirpation point either to continuous slowly operating geologic changes, or to no greater sudden cause than the, so to speak, spectral appearance of mankind on a limited tract of land not before inhabited.
    Elo2 8.111 17 Who knows before the debate begins...what the means are of the combatants? The facts, the reasons, the logic,--above all, the flame of passion and the continuous energy of will which is presently to be let loose on this bench of judges...all are invisible and unknown.
    Insp 8.294 24 We...cannot control and domesticate at will the high states of contemplation and continuous thought.
    SovE 10.209 13 ...the inspirations we catch of this [moral] law are not continuous and technical...
    LLNE 10.369 12 ...the lady or the romantic scholar [at Brook Farm] saw the continuous strength and faculty in people who would have disgusted them but that these powers were now spent in the direction of their own theory of life.
    ChiE 11.474 4 [Asian immigrants'] power of continuous labor, their versatility...are unlooked-for virtues.
    PLT 12.25 23 All great masters are chiefly distinguished by the power of adding a second, a third, and perhaps a fourth step in a continuous line.
    II 12.67 21 A continuous effect cannot be produced by discontinuous thought...
    II 12.70 20 Inspiration is vital and continuous.

continuously, adv. (2)

    PPh 4.72 7 ...[Socrates] showed one who was afraid to go on foot to Olympia, that it was no more than his daily walk within doors, if continuously extended, would easily reach.
    PNR 4.82 16 Everywhere [Plato] stands on a path which...runs continuously round the universe.

contorted, adj. (1)

    Elo1 7.64 14 Socrates says: If any one wishes to converse with the meanest of the Lacedaemonians...when a proper opportunity offers, this same person...will hurl a sentence worthy of attention, short and contorted...

contortions, n. (1)

    Prd1 2.230 2 The Raphael in the Dresden gallery...is the quietest and most passionless piece you can imagine; a couple of saints who worship the Virgin and Child. it awakens a deeper impression than the contortions of ten crucified martyrs.

contraband, adj. (1)

    Edc1 10.157 17 I assume that you [teachers] will keep the grammar, reading, writing and arithmetic in order; 't is easy and of course you will. But smuggle in a little contraband wit...

contract, n. (8)

    Comp 2.119 6 The nature and soul of things takes on itself the guaranty of the fulfilment of every contract...
    Pt1 3.4 4 Theologians think it a pretty air-castle to talk of the spiritual meaning...of a city or a contract...
    ET6 5.106 1 In mixed or in select companies [the English] do not introduce persons; so that a presentation is a circumstance as valid as a contract.
    ET9 5.152 3 George of Cappadocia...was a low parasite who got a lucrative contract to supply the army with bacon.
    CbW 6.276 5 ...nature is tugging at every contract to make the terms of it fair.
    SlHr 10.445 21 If [Samuel Hoar] spoke of the engagement of two lovers, he called it a contract.
    EWI 11.119 19 Lord Brougham and Mr. Buxton declared that the [Jamaican] planter had not fulfilled his part in the [emancipation] contract...
    FSLC 11.186 24 ...virtue is the very self of every man. It is therefore a principle of law that an immoral contract is void, and that an immoral statute is void.

contract, v. (8)

    Comp 2.123 11 I contract the boundaries of possible mischief.
    Exp 3.55 2 The intellect, seeker of absolute truth, or the heart, lover of absolute good, intervenes for our succor, and at one whisper of these high powers we awake from ineffectual struggles with this nightmare [of science]. We...cannot again contract ourselves to so base a state.
    ShP 4.199 17 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;...
    NMW 4.258 2 [Napoleon's egotism] resembled the torpedo, which inflicts a succession of shocks on any one who takes hold of it, producing spasms which contract the muscles of the hand, so that the man can not open his fingers;...
    ET9 5.145 4 Swedenborg...notes the similitude of minds among the English, in consequence of which they contract familiarity with friends who are of that nation...
    Ctr 6.149 8 In the country, in long time, for want of good conversation, one's understanding and invention contract a moss on them...
    EWI 11.118 16 We sometimes observe that spoiled children contract a habit of annoying quite wantonly those who have charge of them...
    Trag 12.405 15 ...how the spirit seems already to contract its domain...

contracted, v. (7)

    DSA 1.122 15 He who does a mean deed is by the action itself contracted.
    Lov1 2.182 18 In the particular society of his mate [the lover] attains a clearer sight of any spot, any taint which her beauty has contracted from this world...
    Lov1 2.182 26 ...separating in each soul that which is divine from the taint which it has contracted in the world, the lover ascends to the highest beauty...
    Art1 2.352 12 What is a man but a finer and compacter landscape than the horizon figures...and what is...his love of painting, his love of nature, but a still finer success...the spirit or moral of it contracted into a musical word, or the most cunning stroke of the pencil?
    SwM 4.114 2 The principle of all things, entrails made/ Of smallest entrails; bone, of smallest bone;/ Blood, of small sanguine drops reduced to one;/ Gold, of small grains; earth, of small sands compacted;/ Small drops to water, sparks to fire contracted./
    DL 7.121 27 [Lord Falkland's] house being within little more than ten miles from Oxford, he contracted familiarity and friendship with the most polite and accurate men of that University...
    EWI 11.119 2 The planter...has contracted in his indolent and luxurious climate the need of excitement by irritating and tormenting his slave.

contracting, adj. (1)

    Exp 3.52 25 On the platform of physics we cannot resist the contracting influences of so-called science.

contracting, v. (3)

    YA 1.393 4 Instead of the open future expanding here before the eye of every boy to vastness, would they like the closing in of the future to a narrow slit of sky, and that fast contracting to be no future?
    LVB 11.90 27 The newspapers now inform us that...a treaty contracting for the exchange of all the Cherokee territory was pretended to be made by an agent on the part of the United States with some persons appearing on the part of the Cherokees;...
    LVB 11.91 19 ...the American President and the Cabinet, the Senate and the House of Representatives...are contracting to put this active nation [the Cherokees] into carts and boats, and to drag them over mountains and rivers...

contraction, n. (2)

    Aris 10.62 27 In America [the gentleman] shall find...the narrowest contraction of ethics to the one duty of paying money.
    WSL 12.348 6 There is no inadequacy or disagreeable contraction in [the dense writer's] sentence...

contractor, n. (1)

    JBB 11.268 1 [John Brown's] father...became a contractor to supply the army with beef, in the war of 1812...

contractors, n. (1)

    Con 1.320 25 The contractors who were building a road out of Baltimore... found the Irish laborers quarrelsome...

contracts, n. (6)

    Chr1 3.92 24 ...[the natural merchant] communicates to all his own faith that contracts are of no private interpretation.
    Schr 10.281 1 [Idealistic views] threaten the validity of contracts...
    Schr 10.281 3 [Idealistic views] threaten the validity of contracts, but do not prevail so far as to establish the new kingdom which shall supersede contracts, oaths and property.
    LLNE 10.345 1 State Street had an instinct that [the Transcendentalists] invalidated contracts and threatened the stability of stocks;...
    AgMs 12.363 3 [The Agricultural Surveyor] is the victim of the Reports, which are sent him, of particular farms. He cannot go behind the estimates to know how the contracts were made...
    PPr 12.381 15 As we recall the topics [in Carlyle's Past and Present], we are struck with the force given to the plain truths;...the proposition...that the principle of permanence shall be admitted into all contracts of mutual service;...

contracts, v. (2)

    Exp 3.47 17 ...the pith of each man's genius contracts itself to a very few hours.
    Wth 6.92 18 The statue is so beautiful that it contracts no stain from the market...

contradict, v. (8)

    Con 1.305 1 You who quarrel with the arrangements of society...live, move, and have your being in this, and your deeds contradict your words every day.
    SR 2.57 3 Why drag about this corpse of your memory, lest you contradict somewhat you have stated in this or that public place?
    SR 2.57 5 Suppose you should contradict yourself; what then?
    SR 2.57 24 ...to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day.
    SR 2.65 13 Thoughtless people contradict as readily the statement of perceptions as of opinions...
    Bhr 6.173 8 I have seen men who neigh like a horse when you contradict them...
    EWI 11.123 20 The customer is the immediate jewel of our souls. Him we flatter, him we feast, compliment, vote for, and will not contradict.
    FSLC 11.194 19 This dreadful English Speech is saturated with songs, proverbs and speeches that flatly contradict and defy every line of Mr. Mason's statute [the Fugitive Slave Law].

contradicted, v. (1)

    Cir 2.305 21 Every [result] seems to be contradicted by the new;...

contradicting, adj. (1)

    Cour 7.267 1 In every school there are certain fighting boys; in every society, the contradicting men;...

contradicting, v. (2)

    Bhr 6.193 26 ...when [the monk Basle] came to discourse with [uncivil angels], instead of contradicting or forcing him, they took his part...
    SA 8.103 17 ...[the American to be proud of] was the best talker...in the company...in the temperance with which he...opened the eyes of the person he talked with without contradicting him.

contradiction, n. (13)

    MN 1.221 22 Our health and reason as men need our respect to this fact, against the heedlessness and against the contradiction of society.
    Comp 2.109 7 That which the droning world...will not allow the realist to say in his own words, it will suffer him to say in proverbs without contradiction.
    Hsm1 2.251 10 Heroism works in contradiction to the voice of mankind...
    Hsm1 2.251 11 Heroism works...in contradiction, for a time, to the voice of the great and good.
    F 6.23 4 To hazard the contradiction,-freedom is necessary.
    Art2 7.48 11 ...in useful art, so far as it is useful, the work must be strictly subordinated to the laws of Nature, so as to become...in no wise a contradiction of Nature;...
    Comc 8.165 21 The satire [on religion] reaches its climax when the actual Church is set in direct contradiction to the dictates of the religious sentiment...
    Grts 8.310 5 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...
    Imtl 8.344 10 Goethe said: It is to a thinking being quite impossible to think himself non-existent, ceasing to think and live; so far does every one carry in himself the proof of immortality, and quite spontaneously. But...so soon as [the man] dogmatically will grasp a personal duration to bolster up in cockney fashion that inward assurance, he is lost in contradiction.
    Dem1 10.17 12 I believed that I discovered in nature...somewhat which manifested itself only in contradiction...
    MoL 10.244 27 Our profoundest philosophy (if it were not a contradiction in terms) is skepticism.
    SlHr 10.442 17 ...what Middlesex jury, containing any God-fearing men in it, would hazard an opinion in flat contradiction to what Squire Hoar believed to be just?
    FSLC 11.195 3 ...the language of all permanent laws will be in contradiction to any immoral enactment.

contradictions, n. (5)

    Prd1 2.236 13 Human nature loves no contradictions, but is symmetrical.
    NR 3.245 6 We must reconcile the contradictions [between the end and the means] as we can...
    ET5 5.94 7 ...England subsists by antagonisms and contradictions.
    Cour 7.268 27 The judge puts his mind to the tangle of contradictions in the case...and by not being afraid of it...he sees presently that common arithmetic and common methods apply to this affair.
    MMEm 10.427 1 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. Contradictions, the modern German says, of the Infinite and finite.

contradictorily, adv. (1)

    ET8 5.129 14 [The English] are contradictorily described as sour, splenetic and stubborn,--and as mild, sweet and sensible.

contradictors, n. (3)

    Bhr 6.173 3 Society is infested with rude...persons...whom a public opinion concentrated into good manners...can reach: the contradictors and railers at public and private tables...
    CbW 6.270 7 ...resistance only exasperates the acrid fool, who believes that...he only is right. Hence all the dozen inmates [of his household] are soon perverted...into contradictors...of this one malefactor;...
    Clbs 7.245 11 There are those who have the instinct of a bat to fly against any lighted candle and put it out,--marplots and contradictors.

contradictory, adj. (1)

    PPh 4.48 26 [Unity's and Variety's] existence is mutually contradictory and exclusive;...

contradicts, v. (4)

    OS 2.272 12 ...[the soul] contradicts all experience.
    NER 3.282 2 We seek to say thus and so, and over our head some spirit sits which contradicts what we say.
    Clbs 7.246 25 ...when the manufacturers, merchants and shipmasters meet, see...how long the conversation lasts! They have come from many zones;... they have seen the best and the worst of men. Their knowledge contradicts the popular opinion and your own on many points.
    Cour 7.259 22 In ordinary, we have a snappish criticism which watches and contradicts the opposite party.

contradistinguished, v. (1)

    Art2 7.37 8 [All the departments of life] are sublime when seen as emanations of a Necessity contradistinguished from the vulgar Fate by being instant and alive...

contraries, n. (3)

    PNR 4.82 20 Whatever [Plato] looks upon discloses a second sense, and ulterior senses. His perception of the generation of contraries, of death out of life and life out of death...
    ShP 4.211 12 ...[Shakespeare] read the hearts of men and women...the transitions by which virtues and vices slide into their contraries...
    ET14 5.258 16 By the law of contraries, I look for an irresistible taste for Orientalism in Britain.

contrarieties, n. (1)

    ET4 5.51 27 ...certain temperaments...by well-managed contrarieties, develop as drastic a character as the English.

contrariwise, adv. (3)

    LT 1.276 26 I think that the soul of reform;...not reliance on numbers, but, contrariwise, distrust of numbers...
    Bhr 6.187 22 Here comes to me Roland, with a delicacy of sentiment leading and enwrapping him like a divine cloud or holy ghost. 'T is a great destitution to both that this should not be entertained with large leisures, but contrariwise should be balked by importunate affairs.
    PLT 12.40 21 The game of Intellect is the perception that whatever befalls or can be stated is a universal proposition; and contrariwise, that every general statement is poetical again by being particularized or impersonated.

contrary, adj. (22)

    Nat 1.56 8 The sublime remark of Euler on his law of arches, This will be found contrary to all experience, yet is true; had already transferred nature into the mind...
    AmS 1.85 23 ...[the young mind] goes on...discovering roots running under ground whereby contrary and remote things cohere and flower out from one stem.
    Hsm1 2.251 21 All prudent men see that the [heroic] action is clean contrary to a sensual prosperity;...
    Art1 2.367 18 ...[art] stands in the imagination as somewhat contrary to nature...
    Exp 3.62 5 I accept the clangor and jangle of contrary tendencies.
    UGM 4.8 12 Gift is contrary to the law of the universe.
    QO 8.190 22 The Comte de Crillon said one day to M. d'Allonville...If the universe and I professed one opinion and M. Necker expressed a contrary one, I should be at once convinced that the universe and I were mistaken.
    Chr2 10.97 11 The poor Jews of the wilderness cried: Let not the Lord speak to us; let Moses speak to us. But the simple and sincere soul makes the contrary prayer: Let no intruder come between thee and me;...
    Supl 10.165 23 ...there is an inverted superlative, or superlative contrary, which shivers, like Demophoon, in the sun...
    LS 11.14 18 ...it is contrary to all reason to suppose that God should work a miracle to convey information that could so easily be got by natural means.
    LVB 11.89 4 Before any acts contrary to his own judgment or interest have repelled the affections of any man, each may look with trust and living anticipation to your [Van Buren's] government.
    EWI 11.117 6 In June, 1835, the Ministers, Lord Aberdeen and Sir George Grey, declared to the Parliament...contrary to many sinister predictions, that the new crop of [West Indian] island produce would not fall short of that of the last year.
    FSLC 11.188 8 ...this man who has run the gauntlet of a thousand miles for his freedom, the statute says, you men of Massachusetts shall hunt, and catch, and send back again to the dog-hutch he fled from. It is contrary to the primal sentiment of duty...
    FSLC 11.191 1 Blackstone admits the sovereignty antecedent to any positive precept, of the law of Nature, among whose principles are, that we should live on, should hurt nobody, and should render unto every one his due, etc. No human laws are of any validity, if contrary to this.
    FSLC 11.191 17 Lord Mansfield...said, I care not for the supposed dicta of judges, however eminent, if they be contrary to all principle.
    FSLC 11.191 26 All authors who have any conscience or modesty agree that a person ought not to obey such commands as are evidently contrary to the laws of God.
    SMC 11.354 26 ...it was found, contrary to all popular belief, that the country was at heart abolitionist...
    EdAd 11.388 17 The young intriguers who drive in bar-rooms and town-meetings the trade of politics...have put the country into the position of an overgrown bully, and Massachusetts finds no heart or head to give weight and efficacy to her contrary judgment.
    FRO2 11.488 19 ...[miraculous dispensation] is contrary to that law of Nature which all wise men recognize;...
    Milt1 12.267 9 [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 7 I envy the boys the force of the double negative...though clean contrary to our grammar rules...
    Trag 12.407 2 The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an intellectual source is the belief in a brute Fate or Destiny; the belief that the order of Nature and events is controlled by a law...which holds on its way to the end...crushing [man] if his wishes lie contrary to it...

contrary, n. (12)

    DSA 1.127 7 On the contrary, the absence of this primary faith is the presence of degradation.
    GoW 4.279 12 Goethe's hero [in Wilhelm Meister], on the contrary, has so many weaknesses and impurities...that the sober English public...were disgusted.
    ET6 5.111 2 The favorite phrase of [the Englishmen's] law is, a custom whereof the memory of man runneth not back to the contrary.
    F 6.6 3 The Destinee.../ So strong it is, that though the world had sworne/ The contrary of a thing by yea or nay,/ Yet sometime it shall fallen on a day/ That falleth not oft in a thousand yeer;/...
    Wth 6.122 2 Mr. Stephenson on the contrary...followed his valley as implicitly as our Western Railroad follows the Westfield River...
    PI 8.19 14 ...poetry, or the imagination which dictates it, is a second sight, looking through [things], and using them as types or words for thoughts which they signify. Or is this belief a metaphysical whim of modern times, and quite too refined? On the contrary, it is as old as the human mind.
    SA 8.96 20 Don't say things. What you are...thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary.
    QO 8.189 19 The capitalist of either kind [mental or pecuniary] is as hungry to lend as the consumer to borrow; and the transaction no more indicates intellectual turpitude in the borrower than the simple fact of debt involves bankruptcy. On the contrary, in far the greater number of cases the transaction is honorable to both.
    War 11.169 12 Whenever we see the doctrine of peace embraced by a nation, we may be assured it will not be one that invites injury; but one, on the contrary, which has a friend in the bottom of the heart of every man...
    EdAd 11.386 13 Conceding these unfavorable appearances, it would yet be a poor pedantry to read the fates of this country from these narrow data. On the contrary, we are persuaded that moral and material values are always commensurate.
    EdAd 11.389 22 ...we are far from believing politics the primal interest of men. On the contrary, we hold that the laws and governors cannot possess a commanding interest for any but vacant or fanatical people;...
    CInt 12.126 15 ...that which [Harvard College] exists for, to be...a Delphos uttering warning and ravishing oracles to lift and lead mankind,-that it shall not be permitted to do or to think of. On the contrary, every generosity of thought is suspect and gets a bad name.

contrast, n. (24)

    Nat 1.65 7 As we degenerate, the contrast between us and our house is more evident.
    AmS 1.112 8 In contrast with their [Goethe's, Wordsworth's, Carlyle's] writing, the style of Pope, of Johnson, of Gibbon, looks cold and pedantic.
    DSA 1.137 25 ...the eye felt the sad contrast in looking at [the preacher], and then...into the beautiful meteor of the snow.
    MR 1.242 15 Better that the book should not be quite so good, and the book-maker...not himself often a ludicrous contrast to all that he has written.
    LT 1.285 16 ...truly we shall find much to console us, when we consider the cause of [the speculators'] uneasiness. It is...the contrast of the dwarfish Actual with the exorbitant Idea.
    Tran 1.353 4 These two states of thought diverge every moment, and stand in wild contrast.
    SR 2.84 19 What a contrast between the...American...and the...New Zealander...
    Cir 2.318 19 ...this incessant movement and progression which all things partake could never become sensible to us but by contrast to some principle of fixture or stability in the soul.
    MoS 4.149 12 Nothing so thin but has these two faces [sensation and morals], and when the observer has seen the obverse, he turns it over to see the reverse. Life is a pitching of this penny,--heads or tails. We never tire of this game, because there is still a slight shudder of astonishment at...the contrast of the two faces.
    ET9 5.145 25 France is, by its natural contrast, a kind of blackboard on which English character draws its own traits in chalk.
    ET11 5.172 3 The feudal character of the English state...glares a little, in contrast with the democratic tendencies.
    ET11 5.183 10 All over England...are the paradises of the nobles, where the livelong repose and refinement are heightened by the contrast with the roar of industry and necessity...
    ET14 5.254 4 [Natural science in England] stands in strong contrast with the genius of the Germans...
    ET19 5.311 22 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...
    Wth 6.100 26 Napoleon was fond of telling the story of the Marseilles banker who said to his visitor, surprised at the contrast between the splendor of the banker's chateau and hospitality and the meanness of the counting-room in which he had seen him,--Young man, you are too young to understand how masses are formed;...
    Art2 7.51 26 The galleries of ancient sculpture in Naples and Rome strike no deeper conviction into the mind than the contrast of the purity, the severity expressed in these fine old heads, with the frivolity and grossness of the mob that exhibits and the mob that gazes at them.
    Elo2 8.115 4 ...in contrast with the efficiency [the orator] suggests, our actual life and society appears a dormitory.
    Res 8.152 20 ...long before anything else is ready, these osiers hang out their joyful flowers in contrast to all the woods.
    Comc 8.159 11 ...the human form...suggests to our imagination the perfection of truth or goodness, and exposes by contrast any halfness or imperfection.
    Comc 8.161 15 If the essence of the Comic be the contrast in the intellect between the idea and the false performance, there is good reason why we should be affected by the exposure.
    PPo 8.238 1 Oriental life and society...stand in violent contrast with the multitudinous detail...of the Western nations.
    Aris 10.46 9 I know how steep the contrast of condition looks;...
    FRep 11.533 6 Contrast, change, interruption, are necessary to new activity...
    Milt1 12.266 10 Few men could be cited who have so well understood what is peculiar to the Christian ethics [as Milton], and the precise aid it has brought to men, in being an emphatic affirmation of the omnipotence of spiritual laws, and, by way of marking the contrast to vulgar opinions, laying its chief stress on humility.

contrast, v. (2)

    LT 1.271 26 Why should [the manner of life we lead] contrast thus with all natural beauty?
    Gts 3.159 17 These gay natures [flowers] contrast with the somewhat stern countenance of ordinary nature...

contrasted, adj. (1)

    Art1 2.365 23 A true announcement of the law of creation...would carry art up into the kingdom of nature, and destroy its separate and contrasted existence.

contrasted, v. (2)

    DSA 1.144 3 We have contrasted the Church with the Soul.
    Shak1 11.451 12 The unaffected joy of the comedy,-[Shakespeare] lives in a gale,-contrasted with the grandeur of the tragedy, where he stoops to no contrivance, no pulpiting...

contrasting, adj. (1)

    SL 2.163 24 The poor mind does not seem to itself to be any thing unless it have an outside badge,--some Gentoo diet...or...some wild contrasting action to testify that it is somewhat.

contrasting, v. (1)

    Bost 12.194 8 Who can read the fiery ejaculations of Saint Augustine...of Milton, of Bunyan even...without contrasting their immortal heat with the cold complexion of our recent wits?

contrasts, n. (11)

    Mrs1 3.143 4 Life owes much of its spirit to these sharp contrasts.
    Nat2 3.183 13 This guiding identity [in nature] runs through all the surprises and contrasts of the piece...
    PPh 4.75 9 The rare coincidence [in Socrates], in one ugly body, of...the keen street and market debater with the sweetest saint known to any history at that time, had forcibly struck the mind of Plato, so capacious of these contrasts;...
    NMW 4.246 22 Perhaps it is a little puerile, the pleasure [Napoleon] took in making these contrasts glaring;...
    ET6 5.114 21 ...the range of nations from which London draws, and the steep contrasts of condition, create the picturesque in society...
    Ctr 6.137 19 [Man's] excellence is facility...of transition...to wide contrasts and extremes.
    CbW 6.255 8 ...Art lives and thrills in new use and combining of contrasts...
    PI 8.45 23 Architecture gives the like pleasure [of rhyme] by the repetition of equal parts...in a row of windows, or in wings; gardens by the symmetric contrasts of the beds and walks.
    PPo 8.238 20 The very geography of old Persia showed these contrasts.
    Edc1 10.137 12 The charm of life is...these contrasts and flavors by which Heaven has modulated the identity of truth...
    PPr 12.387 2 ...the splendor of wit cannot outdazzle the calm daylight, which always shows every individual man in balance with his age, and able to work out his own salvation from all the follies of that, and no such glaring contrasts or severalties in that or this.

contrasts, v. (4)

    ET7 5.116 2 The Teutonic tribes have a national singleness of heart, which contrasts with the Latin races.
    ET7 5.125 18 This English stolidity contrasts with French wit and tact.
    CPL 11.507 1 You say, [reading] is a languid pleasure. Yes, but its tractableness...contrasts with the slowness of fortune and the inaccessibleness of persons.
    MAng1 12.230 25 Of [Michelangelo's] designs, the most celebrated is the cartoon representing soldiers coming out of the bath and arming themselves; an incident of the war of Pisa. The wonderful merit of this drawing, which contrasts the extremes of relaxation and vigor, is conspicuous even in the coarsest prints.

contravene, v. (4)

    Tran 1.336 11 In action [the Transcendentalist] easily incurs the charge of antinomianism by his avowal that he, who has the Law-giver, may with safety not only neglect, but even contravene every written commandment.
    Nat2 3.181 7 Nature is always consistent, though she feigns to contravene her own laws.
    NER 3.283 12 Pitiless, [the Law] avails itself of our success when we obey it, and of our ruin when we contravene it.
    SA 8.82 13 No art can contravene [thought] or conceal it.

contravened, v. (4)

    FSLC 11.186 19 [The Fugitive Slave Law] is contravened: By the sentiment of duty.
    FSLC 11.192 22 [The Fugitive Slave Law] is contravened by all the sentiments.
    FSLC 11.194 26 [The Fugitive Slave Law] is contravened by the written laws themselves...
    FSLC 11.195 24 [The Fugitive Slave Law] is contravened by the mischiefs it operates.

contravening, v. (2)

    Bost 12.207 9 With all their love of his person, [the people of Boston] took immense pleasure in...contravening the counsel of the clergy;...
    Trag 12.407 24 ...this terror of contravening an unascertained and unascertainable will cannot co-exist with reflection...

contribute, v. (3)

    Nat 1.18 7 ...every withered stem and stubble rimed with frost, contribute something to the mute music.
    SR 2.54 9 If you...contribute to a dead Bible-society...I have difficulty to detect the precise man you are...
    DL 7.132 1 Obviously, it would be easy for every town to discharge this truly municipal duty [of a library and museum]. Every one of us would gladly contribute his share;...

contributed, v. (13)

    NR 3.230 23 ...[the language] is a sort of monument to which each forcible individual in a course of many hundred years has contributed a stone.
    GoW 4.274 27 [Goethe] has contributed a key to many parts of nature...
    ET12 5.203 3 ...the committee charged with the affair [the purchase of Thomas Lawrence's art collection] had collected three thousand pounds, when, among other friends, They called on Lord Eldon. ... ...he said, your men have probably already contributed all they can spare; I can as well give the rest...
    ET14 5.256 12 ...if I should count the poets who have contributed to the Bible of existing England sentences of guidance and consolation which are still glowing and effective,--how few!
    ET15 5.266 15 The staff of The [London] Times has always been made up of able men. Old Walter...Jones Lloyd, John Oxenford, Mr. Mosely, Mr. Bailey, have contributed to its renown...
    Elo1 7.99 21 [Eloquence's] great masters, whilst they...thought no pains too great which contributed in any manner to further it,--resembling the Arabian warrior of fame, who wore seventeen weapons in his belt, and in personal combat used them all occasionally.--yet subordinated all means;...
    Comc 8.165 7 The Society in London which had contributed their means to convert the savages...pestered the gallant rover [Capt. John Smith] with frequent solicitations...touching the conversion of the Indians...
    HDC 11.78 22 Whilst Boston was occupied by the British troops, Concord contributed to the relief of the inhabitants...
    EWI 11.137 7 All men remember the subtlety and the fire of indignation which the Edinburgh Review contributed to the cause [of emancipation in the West Indies];...
    Bost 12.204 7 ...I do not find in our [New England] people, with all their education, a fair share of originality of thought;...not any...equal power of imagination. No Novum Organon;...no National Anthem have we yet contributed.
    Milt1 12.259 25 Among the advantages of his foreign travel, Milton certainly did not count it the least that it contributed to forge and polish that great weapon of which he acquired such extraordinary mastery,-his power of language.
    WSL 12.346 24 Only from a mind conversant with the First Philosophy can definitions be expected. Coleridge has contributed many valuable ones to modern literature.
    Pray 12.351 3 Many men have contributed a single expression, a single word to the language of devotion...

contributes, v. (3)

    Prd1 2.229 13 The last Grand Duke of Weimar...said,--I have sometimes remarked in the presence of great works of art...how much a certain property contributes to the effect which gives life to the figures, and to the life an irresistible truth.
    ET5 5.92 11 ...every dollar on earth contributes to the strength of the English government.
    Art2 7.45 24 ...who will deny that the merely conventional part of the [artistic] performance contributes much to its effect?

contributing, v. (2)

    YA 1.371 4 A heterogeneous population crowding...to the great gates of North America...and quickly contributing their private thought to the public opinion...it cannot be doubted that the legislation of this country should become more catholic and cosmopolitan than that of any other.
    EdAd 11.387 6 ...the right patriotism consists in the delight which springs from contributing our peculiar and legitimate advantages to the benefit of humanity.

contribution, n. (9)

    MR 1.247 22 ...we must clear ourselves each one by the interrogation, whether we have earned our bread to-day by the hearty contribution of our energies to the common benefit;...
    PPh 4.42 14 ...this grasping inventor [Plato] puts all nations under contribution.
    ShP 4.200 18 The nervous language of the Common Law...and the precision and substantial truth of the legal distinctions, are the contribution of all the sharp-sighted, strong-minded men who have lived in the countries where these laws govern.
    Art2 7.43 6 A great deduction is to be made before we can know [a man's] proper contribution to [his work of art].
    SovE 10.209 27 Here is contribution of money on a more extended and systematic scale than ever before to repair public disasters at a distance...
    FSLC 11.209 2 'T is said [buying the slaves] will cost two thousand millions of dollars. Was there ever any contribution that was so enthusiastically paid as this will be?
    CPL 11.502 20 ...every one of these [words] is the contribution of the wit of one and another sagacious man...
    PLT 12.11 14 My contribution [to the study of the laws and powers of the Intellect] will be simply historical.
    MLit 12.334 12 He who doubts whether this age or this country can yield any contribution to the literature of the world only betrays his own blindness to the necessities of the human soul.

contribution-box, n. (1)

    Res 8.148 8 If a good story will not answer, still milder remedies sometimes serve to disperse a mob. Try sending round the contribution-box.

contributions, n. (9)

    AmS 1.113 24 The scholar is that man who must take up into himself...all the constributions of the past...
    DSA 1.140 7 Would [the poor preacher] ask contributions for the missions, foreign or domestic?
    Art1 2.359 21 [The traveller who visits the Vatican galleries] studies the technical rules [of art] on these wonderful remains, but forgets that these works...are the contributions of many ages and many countries;...
    UGM 4.12 23 Life is girt all round with a zodiac of sciences, the contributions of men who have perished to add their point of light to our sky.
    ET14 5.253 24 ...in England, one hermit finds this fact, and another finds that, and lives and dies ignorant of its value. There are great exceptions...of Richard Owen, who has...has enriched science with contributions of his own...
    Suc 7.286 21 Our civilization is made up of a million contributions of this kind.
    LLNE 10.343 26 All [The Dial's] papers were unpaid contributions...
    GSt 10.502 20 For the relief of Kansas, in 1856-57, [George Stearns's] own contributions were the largest and the first.
    Milt1 12.273 4 [Milton] would...support preachers by voluntary contributions;...

contributor, n. (1)

    ET1 5.4 5 ...my narrow and desultory reading had inspired the wish to see the faces of three or four writers,--Coleridge, Wordsworth, Landor, DeQuincey, and the latest and strongest contributor to the critical journals, Carlyle;...

contributors, n. (4)

    ET15 5.263 15 I asked one of [the London Times's] old contributors whether it had once been abler than it is now? Never, he said;...
    ET15 5.268 11 [The London Times] draws from any number of learned and skilful contributors;...
    ET15 5.272 14 If only [the London Times] dared to cleave to the right...it might not have so many men of rank among its contributors, but genius would be its cordial and invincible ally;...
    ET19 5.309 15 Sir Archibald Alison, the historian, presided [at the Manchester Athenaeum Banquet], and opened the meeting with a speech. He was followed by Mr. Cobden...and others, among whom was Mr. Cruikshank, one of the contributors to Punch.

contrite, adj. (1)

    SR 2.58 13 In this pleasing contrite wood-life which God allows me, let me record day by day my honest thought without prospect or retrospect...

contrition, n. (1)

    DSA 1.149 21 ...these are heights that we can scarce...look up to without contrition and shame.

contritions, n. (3)

    Cir 2.317 8 It is the highest power of divine moments that they abolish our contritions also.
    Exp 3.81 14 The life of truth...is not the slave of tears, contritions and perturbations.
    SA 8.98 15 Never worry people with your contritions...

contrivance, n. (11)

    Pol1 3.213 16 The wise man [the community] cannot find in nature, and it makes awkward but earnest efforts to secure his government by contrivance;...
    NER 3.280 5 It only needs that a just man should walk in our streets to make it appear how pitiful and inartificial a contrivance is our legislation.
    UGM 4.24 12 Is it not a rare contrivance that lodged the due inertia in every creature...
    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.
    Bhr 6.185 27 Manners have been somewhat cynically defined to be a contrivance of wise men to keep fools at a distance.
    PPo 8.252 2 The Persians had a mode of establishing copyright the most secure of any contrivance with which we are acquainted.
    Imtl 8.334 7 After science begins, belief of permanence must follow in a healthy mind. Things so attractive...the secret workman so transcendently skilful that it tasks successive generations of observers only to find out...the delicate contrivance and adjustment of a weed...and the contriver of it all forever hidden!
    MoL 10.255 18 It is not enough that the work [of art] should show... ingenious contrivance...
    LLNE 10.349 3 As we listened to [Albert Brisbane's] exposition it appeared to us the sublime of mechanical philosophy; for the system was the perfection of arrangement and contrivance.
    Shak1 11.451 13 The unaffected joy of the comedy,-[Shakespeare] lives in a gale,-contrasted with the grandeur of the tragedy, where he stoops to no contrivance, no pulpiting...
    MAng1 12.227 8 Michael [Angelo]...constructed a movable platform to rest and roll upon the floor [of the Sistine Chapel], which is believed to be the same simple contrivance which is used in Rome, at this day, to repair the walls of churches.

contrivances, n. (6)

    YA 1.374 5 [That serene Power] resists our meddling, eleemosynary contrivances.
    WD 7.158 4 ...such is the mechanical determination of our age, and so recent are our best contrivances, that use has not dulled our joy and pride in them;...
    MMEm 10.425 9 'T is a strange deficiency in Brougham's title of a System of Natural Theology, when the moral constitution of the being for whom these contrivances were made is not recognized.
    Mem 12.93 15 There is no book like the memory, none with such a good index, and that of every kind...arranged...by all sorts of mysterious hooks and eyes to catch and hold, and contrivances for giving a hint.
    MAng1 12.226 23 ...[Michelangelo] possessed an unexpected dexterity in minute mechanical contrivances.
    Milt1 12.262 23 Among so many contrivances as the world has seen to make holiness ugly, in Milton at least it was so pure a flame that the foremost impression his character makes is that of elegance.

contrive, v. (12)

    DSA 1.150 4 All attempts to contrive a system are as cold as the new worship introduced by the French to the goddess of Reason...
    MR 1.237 27 ...now I feel some shame before my wood-chopper...and my cook, for...they can contrive without my aid to bring the day and year round...
    MR 1.246 8 [Infirm people] contrive everywhere to exhaust for their single comfort the entire means and appliances of that luxury to which our invention has yet attained.
    Comp 2.103 27 The ingenuity of man has always been dedicated to the solution of one problem,--how to detach the sensual sweet, the sensual strong, the sensual bright, etc., from the moral sweet, the moral deep, the moral fair; that is, again, to contrive to cut clean off this upper surface so thin as to leave it bottomless;...
    Int 2.329 11 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. It is called truth. But the moment we...attempt to correct and contrive, it is not truth.
    ET14 5.255 22 ...we have [in England] the factitious instead of the natural;...and the rewarding as an illustrious inventor whosoever will contrive one impediment more to interpose between the man and his objects.
    F 6.18 26 ...the journals contrive to furnish one good piece of news every day.
    Ctr 6.148 4 ...a man who looks...at London, says, If I should be driven from my own home, here at least my thoughts can be consoled by the most prodigal amusement and occupation which the human race in ages could contrive and accumulate.
    Aris 10.47 26 This is the whole game of society and the politics of the world. Being will always seem well;-but whether possibly I cannot contrive to seem without the trouble of being?
    Supl 10.164 16 ...we may challenge Providence to send a fact so tragical that we cannot contrive to make it a little worse in our gossip.
    HDC 11.84 8 The old town clerks [of Concord]...contrive to make pretty intelligible the will of a free and just community.
    EurB 12.378 9 [The English fashionist's] highest triumph is...to contrive even his civilities so that they may appear as near as may be to affronts;...

contrived, v. (8)

    YA 1.385 10 ...many people...are never happier than when difficult practical questions...are to be solved. All lies in light before them; they are in their element. Could any means be contrived to appoint only these!
    Hist 2.32 13 Every animal...has contrived...to leave the print of its features and form in some one or other of these upright, heaven-facing speakers.
    Lov1 2.174 21 ...it may seem to many men...that they have no fairer page in their life's book than the delicious memory of some passages wherein affection contrived to give a witchcraft...to a parcel of accidental and trivial circumstances.
    Exp 3.76 11 ...the fop contrived to dress his bailiffs in his livery...
    MoS 4.179 9 ...when a man comes into the room it does not appear whether he has been fed on yams or buffalo,--he has contrived to get so much bone and fibre as he wants, out of rice or out of snow.
    F 6.34 21 The Fultons and Watts of politics...through a different disposition of society...have contrived to make of this terror the most...energetic form of a State.
    Civ 7.29 11 ...the astronomer, having by an observation fixed the place of a star,--by so simple an expedient as waiting six months and then repeating his observation, contrived to put the diameter of the earth's orbit...between his first observation and his second...
    Clbs 7.240 4 What can you do with an eloquent man? No rules of debate... no gag-laws can be contrived that his first syllable will not set aside...

contriver, n. (2)

    Imtl 8.334 10 After science begins, belief of permanence must follow in a healthy mind. Things so attractive, designs so wise...and the contriver of it all forever hidden!
    Aris 10.40 8 ...if the healer of small-pox, the contriver of the safety-lamp... should keep their secrets...must not the whole race of mankind serve them as gods?

contrives, v. (4)

    Comp 2.99 7 Thus [Nature] contrives to intenerate the granite and felspar...
    Comp 2.102 1 The value of the universe contrives to throw itself into every point.
    Mrs1 3.120 12 ...the salt, the dates, the ivory, and the gold, for which these horrible regions are visited, find their way into...countries where man... writes laws, and contrives to execute his will through the hands of many nations;...
    Mrs1 3.145 10 What if the false gentleman contrives so to address his companion as civilly to exclude all others from his discourse, and also to make them feel excluded?

contriving, v. (3)

    ET5 5.76 6 What signifies a pedigree of a hundred links...against a company of broad-shouldered Liverpool merchants, for whom Stephenson and Brunel are contriving locomotives and a tubular bridge?
    Cour 7.257 5 Cut off [the snapping-turtle's] head, and the teeth will not let go the stick. Break the egg of the young, and the little embryo...bites fiercely; these vivacious creatures contriving--shall we say?--not only to bite after they are dead, but also to bite before they are born.
    CInt 12.116 15 ...if [colleges] could cause that a mind not profound should become profound,-we should all rush to their gates; instead of contriving inducements to draw students, you would need to set police at the gates to keep order in the in-rushing multitude.

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