Control to Copula

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

control, n. (22)

    Int 2.328 26 We have little control over our thoughts.
    Int 2.336 19 ...the power of picture or expression...implies...a certain control over the spontaneous states...
    NER 3.255 12 ...the country is full of kings. Hands off! let there be no control and no interference in the administration of the affairs of this kingdom of me.
    Bhr 6.176 7 ...underneath all [the old Massachusetts statesman's] irritability was...a memory in which lay in order and method like geologic strata every fact of his history, and under the control of his will.
    Bhr 6.179 13 The communication by the glance is in the greatest part not subject to the control of the will.
    Civ 7.24 25 The ship, in its latest complete equipment, is an abridgment and compend of a nation's arts... No use can lessen the wonder of this control by so weak a creature of forces so prodigious.
    PI 8.75 4 The grandeur of our life exists...in what of us is inevitable and above our control.
    SA 8.87 8 It is necessary for the purification of drawing-rooms that these entertaining explosions [of laughter] should be under strict control.
    Elo2 8.119 18 Those whom we admire--the great orators--have some habit of heat, and moreover a certain control of it...
    Elo2 8.126 17 Men differ so much in control of their faculties!
    PPo 8.239 18 When the bard improvised an amatory ditty, the young [Bedouin] chief's excitement was almost beyond control.
    Insp 8.274 5 In June the morning is noisy with birds; in August they are already getting old and silent. Hence arises the question, Are these moods in any degree within control?
    Insp 8.274 16 What metaphysician has undertaken to enumerate...the rules for the recovery of inspiration? That is least within control which is best in them.
    Aris 10.64 25 Virtue and genius are always on the direct way to the control of the society in which they are found.
    Edc1 10.157 12 Sympathy, the female force...deficient in instant control and the breaking down of resistance, is more subtle and lasting and creative [than will, the male power].
    LLNE 10.344 20 ...[Theodore Parker's] character appeared in the last moments with the same firm control as in the midday of strength.
    EWI 11.118 15 ...experience...shows the existence, beside the covetousness, of a bitterer element [in slavery]...the voluptuousness of holding a human being in his absolute control.
    PLT 12.44 1 We believe that certain persons add to the common vision a certain degree of control over these states of mind;...
    PLT 12.45 16 The primary rule for the conduct of Intellect is to have control of the thoughts without losing their natural attitudes and action.
    PLT 12.47 6 There is a meter which determines the constructive power of man,-this, namely, the question whether the mind possesses the control of its thoughts, or they of it.
    PLT 12.50 15 When pace is increased it will happen that the control is in a degree lost.
    II 12.77 23 ...one day, though far off, you will attain the control of these [higher] states;...

control, v. (12)

    DSA 1.137 3 ...the laws of nature control the activity of the hands...
    Prd1 2.234 6 Let [a man] control the habit of expense.
    Chr1 3.91 1 Man...in these examples [of men of character] appears...to be an expression of the same laws which control the tides and the sun...
    Pow 6.54 13 ...belief in compensation...characterizes all valuable minds, and must control every effort that is made by an industrious one.
    Wsp 6.217 26 The bias of errors of principle carries away men into perilous courses as soon as their will does not control their passion or talent.
    Civ 7.26 5 High degrees of moral sentiment control the unfavorable influences of climate;...
    Insp 8.294 23 We...cannot control and domesticate at will the high states of contemplation and continuous thought.
    HDC 11.43 16 ...when, presently...parties, with grants of land, straggled into the country to truck with the Indians and to clear the land for their own benefit, the Governor and freemen in Boston found it neither desirable nor possible to control the trade and practices of these farmers.
    FSLC 11.191 9 Lord Coke held that where an Act of Parliament is against common right and reason, the common law shall control it...
    Wom 11.417 13 In all [literature], the body of the joke...is identical with Mahomet's opinion that women have not a sufficient moral or intellectual force to control the perturbations of their physical structure.
    II 12.75 12 How shall I educate my children? Shall I indulge, or shall I control them?
    II 12.77 17 ...we can take sight beforehand of a state of being wherein the will shall penetrate and control what it cannot now reach.

controlled, v. (8)

    MR 1.253 10 We complain that the politics of masses of the people are controlled by designing men...
    Mrs1 3.126 10 ...the politics of this country, and the trade of every town, are controlled by these hardy and irresponsible doers...
    NMW 4.241 22 [Napoleon's] real strength lay in [the people's] conviction that he was their representative in his genius and aims, not only when he courted, but when he controlled...them.
    F 6.33 9 ...the chemic explosions are controlled like [man's] watch.
    Res 8.147 26 ...we have noted examples among our orators, who have... handled and controlled...a malignant mob, by superior manhood...
    Chr2 10.100 12 ...it is only as fast as this hearing [of these high communications] from another is authorized by its consent with [a man's] own, that it is pure and safe to each; and all receiving from abroad must be controlled by this immense reservation.
    HDC 11.43 27 The nature of man and his condition in the world, for the first time within the period of certain history, controlled the formation of the State [in Massachusetts].
    Trag 12.406 25 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 not adapted to man, nor man to that...

controlling, adj. (9)

    Chr1 3.102 16 [Men] must...make us feel that they have a controlling happy future opening before them...
    GoW 4.271 26 [Goethe]...was born with a free and controlling genius.
    GoW 4.281 10 A German public asks for a controlling sincerity.
    ET4 5.47 27 Race is a controlling influence in the Jew...
    ET15 5.264 15 [The London Times] has entered into each municipal, literary and social question, almost with a controlling voice.
    Wsp 6.217 18 ...the heart is at once aware of the state of health or disease, which is the controlling state...
    Elo1 7.70 13 It is said that the Khans or story-tellers in Ispahan and other cities of the East, attain a controlling power over their audience...
    PC 8.211 9 A controlling influence of the times has been the wide and successful study of Natural Science.
    Insp 8.292 26 Some perceptions...are granted to the single soul; they...are the permanent and controlling ones.

controlling, v. (6)

    Wth 6.104 2 If you take out of State Street the ten honestest merchants and put in ten roguish persons controlling the same amount of capital, the rates of insurance will indicate it;...
    Bhr 6.169 16 What are [manners] but thought...controlling the movements of the body...
    OA 7.318 5 That which does not decay is so central and controlling in us, that, as long as one is alone by himself, he is not sensible of the inroads of time...
    QO 8.198 4 The bold theory of Delia Bacon, that Shakspeare's plays were written by a society of wits...had plainly for her the charm of the superior meaning they would acquire when read under this light; this idea of the authorship controlling our appreciation of the works themselves.
    Prch 10.224 5 The health and welfare of man consist in ascent...from self-activity of talents...to the controlling and reinforcing of talents...
    ACri 12.300 4 The power of the poet is in controlling these symbols;...

controls, v. (6)

    PC 8.208 20 Now that by the increased humanity of law she controls her property, [woman] inevitably takes the next step to her share in power.
    PerF 10.77 27 In proportion to the depth of the insight is the power and reach of the kingdom [a man] controls.
    Edc1 10.157 5 The will, the male power...makes that military eye which controls boys as it controls men;...
    Edc1 10.157 6 The will, the male power...makes that military eye which controls boys as it controls men;...
    Thor 10.477 3 [Thoreau's] habitual thought makes all his poetry a hymn to...the Spirit which vivifies and controls his own...
    War 11.155 15 ...the appearance of the other instincts [than self-help] immediately modifies and controls this;...

controversial, adj. (3)

    Nat2 3.188 1 Jacob Behmen and George Fox betray their egotism in the pertinacity of their controversial tracts...
    SwM 4.137 3 [Swedenborg] carries his controversial memory with him in his visits to the souls.
    Milt1 12.249 1 [Milton's tracts] are not effective...like what became also controversial tracts, several masterly speeches in the history of the American Congress.

controversies, n. (3)

    LS 11.4 3 ...more important controversies have arisen respecting [the Lord' s Supper's] nature.
    FRO2 11.485 13 I think we might now relinquish our theological controversies to communities more idle and ignorant than we.
    Milt1 12.270 19 ...drawn into the great controversies of the times, [Milton] is never lost in a party.

controversy, n. (7)

    AmS 1.102 23 The odds are that the whole question is not worth the poorest thought which the scholar has lost in listening to the controversy.
    LT 1.270 10 Anti-masonry had a deep right and wrong, which gradually emerged to sight out of the turbid controversy.
    NR 3.230 26 In any controversy concerning morals, an appeal may be made with safety to the sentiments which the language of the people expresses.
    LLNE 10.347 10 [Robert Owen] was the better Christian in his controversy with Christians...
    LS 11.3 4 In the history of the Church no subject has been more fruitful of controversy than the Lord's Supper.
    LS 11.4 5 ...more important controversies have arisen respecting [the Lord' s Supper's] nature. The famous question of the Real Presence was the main controversy between the Church of England and the Church of Rome.
    FSLN 11.242 2 [The single defender of the right] may well say, If my countrymen do not care to be defended, I too will decline the controversy...

controvert, v. (2)

    Supl 10.164 8 Controvert [the man with the superlative temperament's] opinion and he cries Persecution!...
    Thor 10.456 7 It seemed as if [Thoreau's] first instinct on hearing a proposition was to controvert it...

contumacious, adj. (2)

    ET8 5.134 22 ...here [in England] exists the best stock in the world...as if the burly inexpressive, now mute and contumacious, now fierce and sharp-tongued dragon, which once made the island light with his fiery breath, had bequeathed his ferocity to his conqueror.
    ET18 5.306 2 You cannot account for [Englishmen's] success by their Christianity, commerce, charter, common law, Parliament, or letters, but by the contumacious sharp-tongued energy of English naturel...

contumacy, n. (2)

    Comp 2.121 17 ...the criminal adheres to his vice and contumacy...
    HDC 11.31 8 In consequence of [Laud's] famous proclamation setting up certain novelties in the rites of public worship, fifty godly ministers were suspended for contumacy...

contumely, n. (3)

    Chr1 3.98 11 What have I gained...that I do not tremble before...the Calvinistic Judgment-day,--if I quake...at the threat of...contumely...
    Bty 6.298 21 ...short legs which constrain us to short, mincing steps are a kind of personal insult and contumely to the owner;...
    LVB 11.95 19 ...a letter addressed as mine is [to Van Buren], and suggesting to the mind of the Executive the plain obligations of man, has a burlesque character in the apprehensions of some of my friends. I, sir, will not beforehand treat you with the contumely of this distrust.

conundrums, n. (1)

    Clbs 7.235 19 In the old time conundrums were sent from king to king by ambassadors.

convalescent, adj. (1)

    Nat2 3.178 24 ...when we are convalescent, nature will look up to us.

convene, n. (1)

    Exp 3.65 6 Right to hold land, right of property, is disputed, and the conventions convene, and before the vote is taken, dig away in your garden...

convene, v. (1)

    WD 7.174 22 ...academies convene to settle the claims of the old schools.

convened, v. (2)

    Elo1 7.83 5 The emergency which has convened the meeting is usually of more importance than anything the debaters have in their minds...
    Aris 10.32 21 It will not pain me...if it should turn out, what is true, that I am describing...a chapter of Templars...but...so rarely convened...that their names and doings are not recorded in any Book of Peerage...

convenience, n. (40)

    MN 1.192 24 ...I would not have the laborer sacrificed to my convenience and pride...
    Con 1.309 25 ...what your convenience could spare, your pride cannot.
    Con 1.316 19 What you say of your...world is true enough, and I gladly avail myself of its convenience;...
    Con 1.316 23 ...the plant Man does not require for his most glorious flowering this pomp of preparation and convenience...
    YA 1.369 4 In Europe...the land is full of men...whose interest and pride it is...to fill [their estates] with every convenience and ornament.
    Hist 2.10 8 What the former age has epitomized into a formula or rule for manipular convenience, [the mind] will lose all the good of verifying for itself, by means of the wall of that rule.
    SR 2.82 23 Beauty, convenience, grandeur of thought and quaint expression are as near to us as to any...
    Mrs1 3.135 7 It were unmerciful, I know, quite to abolish the use of these screens, which are of eminent convenience...
    Mrs1 3.137 22 Proportionate is our disgust at those invaders who fill a studious house with blast and running, to secure some paltry convenience.
    GoW 4.273 10 The immense horizon which journeys with us lends its majesty...to matters of convenience and necessity...
    ET2 5.32 2 The busiest talk with leisure and convenience at sea...
    ET4 5.54 9 We must use the popular category...for convenience...
    ET6 5.104 11 The Englishman is very petulant and precise about his accommodation at inns and on the roads; a quiddle about his toast and his chop and every species of convenience...
    ET6 5.105 5 Every man in this polished country [England] consults only his convenience...
    ET10 5.156 5 The Crystal Palace is not considered honest until it pays; no matter how much convenience, beauty, or eclat, it must be self-supporting.
    ET14 5.233 11 [The Englishman]...prefers his hot chop, with perfect security and convenience in the eating of it...
    Wth 6.97 2 ...it is each man's interest that...ease and convenience of living... should exist somewhere...
    Wth 6.109 6 A youth coming into the city from his native New Hampshire farm...boards at a first-class hotel, and believes he must somehow have outwitted Dr. Franklin and Malthus, for luxuries are cheap. But he pays for the one convenience of a better dinner, by the loss of some of the richest social and educational advantages.
    Wth 6.123 8 ...the citizen comes to know that his predecessor the farmer built the house in the right spot for...the convenience to the pasture...
    Bhr 6.172 12 ...when we think...what high lessons and inspiring tokens of character [manners] convey...we see what range the subject has, and what relations to convenience, power and beauty.
    Elo1 7.75 9 These kinds of public and private speaking have their use and convenience to the practitioners;...
    DL 7.111 7 ...what idea predominates in our houses? Thrift first, then convenience and pleasure.
    Clbs 7.232 21 Some men love only to talk where they are masters. ... They go rarely to thei their equals, and then as for their own convenience simply...
    OA 7.319 20 We had a judge in Massachusetts who at sixty proposed to resign...he was dissuaded by his friends, on account of the public convenience at that time.
    SA 8.81 5 [Manners'] vast convenience I must always admire.
    Res 8.142 23 ...geography and geology are yielding to man's convenience...
    Edc1 10.127 17 Enamoured of [sun's, moon's, plants', animals'] beauty, comforted by their convenience, [man] seeks them as ends...
    Supl 10.170 27 Men of the world value truth...not by its sacredness, but for its convenience.
    MoL 10.245 13 Our industrial skill, arts ministering to convenience and luxury, have made life expensive...
    Schr 10.288 2 ...[he that would sacrifice at the Muse's altar] must relinquish...prosperity and convenience;...
    EzRy 10.385 4 [Joseph Emerson wrote] Have I done well to get me a shay? Have I not been proud or too fond of this convenience?
    HDC 11.44 3 [The colonists'] wants, their poverty, their manifest convenience made them bold to ask of the Governor and of the General Court, immunities...
    HDC 11.46 18 [The Massachusetts Bay towns'] powers were speedily settled by obvious convenience...
    EWI 11.124 16 The sugar [the negroes] raised was excellent: nobody tasted blood in it. The coffee was fragrant;...the cotton clothed the world. What! all raised by these men, and no wages? Excellent! What a convenience!
    FSLC 11.181 24 The very convenience of property, the house and land we occupy, have lost their best value...
    ACiv 11.301 26 Banknotes rob the public, but are such a daily convenience that we silence our scruples...
    EdAd 11.393 6 ...a few friends of good letters have thought fit to associate themselves for the conduct of a new journal. We have obeyed the custom and convenience of the time in adopting this form of a Review...
    Wom 11.424 26 When new opinions appear, they will be entertained and respected, by every fair mind, according to their reasonableness, and not according to their convenience...
    CL 12.161 24 Is it not an eminent convenience to have in your town a person who knows where arnica grows...
    Trag 12.415 9 [Our human being] is like a stream of water, which, if dammed up on one bank, overruns the other, and flows equally at its own convenience over sand, or mud, or marble.

conveniences, n. (12)

    Nat 1.12 19 What angels invented...these rich conveniences...
    MR 1.235 17 ...I should not be pained at a change which threatened a loss of some of the luxuries or conveniences of society...
    MR 1.243 5 [The man with a strong bias to the contemplative life] may leave to others the costly conveniences of housekeeping...
    MR 1.245 12 How can the man who has learned but one art, procure all the conveniences of life honestly?
    Fdsp 2.210 11 I can get politics and chat and neighborly conveniences from cheaper companions [than my friend].
    Prd1 2.227 22 In the rainy day [the good husband]...gets his tool-box... stored with nails, gimlet, pincers, screwdriver and chisel. Herein he tastes... the cat-like love...of the conveniences of long housekeeping.
    DL 7.112 2 ...the wealth and multiplication of conveniences embarrass us...
    Boks 7.205 11 ...[Gibbon's] book is one of the conveniences of civilization...
    Cour 7.275 1 [The man with sacred courage] is everywhere a liberator, but of a freedom that is ideal; not seeking to have land or money or conveniences...
    Suc 7.287 21 These boasted arts are of very recent origin. They are local conveniences...
    Suc 7.288 1 These [boasted arts] are local conveniences...
    WSL 12.338 3 Here [in America] is very good earth and water and plenty of them; that [John Bull] is free to allow; to all other gifts of Nature or man his eyes are sealed by the inexorable demand for the precise conveniences to which he is accustomed in England.

conveniency, n. (6)

    Fdsp 2.210 26 Let [your friend] be to thee for ever...not a trivial conveniency to be soon outgrown and cast aside.
    NR 3.236 2 ...the uninspired man certainly finds persons a conveniency in household matters...
    ET3 5.39 14 The only drawback on this industrial conveniency [in England] is the darkness of its sky.
    ET3 5.42 3 ...to make these [commercial] advantages avail, the river Thames must dig its spacious outlet to the sea from the heart of the kingdom, giving...all the conveniency to trade that a people so skilful and sufficient in economizing water-front by docks, warehouses and lighters required.
    PI 8.4 9 ...whilst we deal with this [existence of matter] as finality, early hints are given that we are not to stay here;...a warning that this magnificent hotel and conveniency we call Nature is not final.
    CInt 12.115 7 ...either science and literature is a hypocrisy, or it is not. If it be, then...turn your college into barracks and warehouses, and divert the funds of your founders into the stock of...a tan-yard or some other undoubted conveniency for the surrounding population.

convenient, adj. (14)

    LE 1.185 24 When you shall say...I must eat the good of the land and let learning and romantic expectations go, until a more convenient season;- then dies the man in you;...
    MN 1.197 14 ...we can use nature as a convenient standard...
    Tran 1.349 9 Each cause as it is called...becomes speedily a little shop, where the article...is now made up into portable and convenient cakes...
    Comp 2.108 18 The name and circumstance of Phidias, however convenient for history, embarrass when we come to the highest criticism.
    Prd1 2.237 4 ...frankness...puts the parties on a convenient footing...
    NMW 4.228 18 It is an advantage, within certain limits, to have renounced the dominion of the sentiments of piety, gratitude and generosity; since what was an impassable bar to us, and still is to others, becomes a convenient weapon for our purposes;...
    ET4 5.54 7 The kitchen-clock is more convenient than sidereal time.
    ET9 5.148 16 A man's personal defects will commonly have, with the rest of the world, precisely that importance which they have to himself. If he makes light of them, so will other men. We all find in these a convenient metre of character...
    ET13 5.230 19 But the religion of England...is it the sects? no; they...are to the Established Church as cabs are to a coach, cheaper and more convenient, but really the same thing.
    CbW 6.274 14 ...it is who lives near us of equal social degree,--a few people at convenient distance...these, and these only, shall be your life's companions;...
    EWI 11.123 25 We found it very convenient to keep [the negroes] at work...
    War 11.164 16 Observe the ideas of the present day...see...how timber, brick, lime and stone have flown into convenient shape, obedient to the master-idea reigning in the minds of many persons.
    SHC 11.431 2 A simultaneous movement has, in a hundred cities and towns in this country, selected some convenient piece of undulating ground with pleasant woods and waters;...and we lay the corpse in these leafy colonnades.
    EurB 12.378 19 We must...adjourn the rest of our critical chapter to a more convenient season.

conveniently, adv. (3)

    AmS 1.87 17 ...perhaps we shall...learn the amount of this influence more conveniently, by considering [books'] value alone.
    Cir 2.301 23 This fact [that around every circle another can be drawn]... may conveniently serve us to connect many illustrations of human power in every department.
    ET3 5.42 20 [England] is a nation conveniently small.

convent, n. (6)

    Con 1.316 1 Then came in the men, and they said, What cheer, brother? Does thy convent want gifts?
    Wsp 6.227 23 Among the nuns in a convent not far from Rome, one had appeared who laid claim to certain rare gifts of inspiration and prophecy...
    Wsp 6.228 7 [St. Philip Neri] threw himself on his mule...and hastened through the mud and mire to the distant convent.
    CInt 12.125 13 In the romance Spiridion...we had...the story of a young saint who comes into a convent for her education...
    CInt 12.125 15 In the romance Spiridion...we had...the story of a young saint who comes into a convent for her education, and not falling into the system and the little parties in the convent...it turns out in a few days that every hand is against this young votary.
    CInt 12.125 19 Piety in a convent accuses every one, from the novice to the abbess.

conventicle, n. (2)

    PC 8.216 24 ...in his own days [Michelangelo's] friends were few; and you would need to hunt him in a conventicle with the Methodists of the era...
    Milt1 12.269 20 ...[Milton] threw himself, the flower of elegancy, on the side of the reeking conventicle;...

Convention, Chardon Street, (5)

    CSC 10.373 7 The [Chardon Street] Convention organized itself by the choice of Edmund Quincy as Moderator...
    CSC 10.373 17 ...the [Chardon Street] Convention debated, for three days again, the remaining subject of the Priesthood.
    CSC 10.373 18 This Convention never printed any report of its deliberations...
    CSC 10.376 19 By no means the least value of this [Chardon Street] Convention, in our eye, was the scope it gave to the genius of Mr. Alcott...
    CSC 10.377 1 ...the [Chardon Street] Convention brought together many remarkable persons...

Convention, County, n. (2)

    HDC 11.71 4 In August [1774], a County Convention met in this town [Concord], to deliberate upon the alarming state of public affairs...
    HDC 11.81 11 In 1786...a large party of armed insurgents arrived in this town [Concord]...to hinder the sitting of the Court of Common Pleas. But they found no countenance here. The same people who had been active in a County Convention to consider grievances, condemned the rebellion...

convention, n. (10)

    Fdsp 2.207 20 In good company the individuals merge their egotism into a social soul exactly co-extensive with the several consciousnesses there present. ... Now this convention...destroys the high freedom of great conversation...
    Mrs1 3.130 12 ...come from year to year and see how permanent [the distinction of caste or fashion] is, in this Boston or New York life of man... ... Here are associations whose ties go over and under and through it, a meeting of merchants...a political, a religious convention;...
    Mrs1 3.139 18 ...being in its nature a convention, [society] loves what is conventional...
    UGM 4.21 26 I go to a convention of philanthropists. Do what I can, I cannot keep my eyes off the clock.
    GoW 4.271 13 Goethe was the philosopher of this [modern] multiplicity;... a manly mind, unembarrassed by the variety of coats of convention with which life had got encrusted...
    GoW 4.279 1 In the progress of the story, the characters of the hero and heroine [of Sand's Consuelo] expand at a rate that shivers the porcelain chess-table of aristocratic convention...
    PPo 8.248 9 ...it is only a few delicate spirits who are sufficient to see that the whole web of convention is the imbecility of those whom it entangles...
    Edc1 10.133 24 ...a convention for education...affects us with slight paralysis...
    ALin 11.330 23 All of us remember...the surprise and disappointment of the country at [Lincoln's] first nomination by the convention at Chicago.
    ALin 11.331 1 ...when the new and comparatively unknown name of Lincoln was announced [for President] (notwithstanding the report of the acclamations of that convention [in Chicago], we heard the result coldly and sadly.

Convention, n. (5)

    NMW 4.226 10 Dumont relates that he sat in the gallery of the Convention and heard Mirabeau make a speech.
    DL 7.133 17 He who shall bravely and gracefully subdue this Gorgon of Convention and Fashion...will restore the life of man to splendor...
    CSC 10.373 1 In the month of November, 1840, a Convention of Friends of Universal Reform assembled in the Chardon Street Chapel in Boston...
    HDC 11.82 1 In 1780, a constitution of the State [Massachusetts], proposed by the Convention chosen for that purpose, was accepted by the town [Concord]...
    FSLC 11.207 16 Shall we call a new Convention, or will any expert statesman furnish us a plan for the summary or gradual winding up of slavery, so far as the Republic is its patron?

conventional, adj. (28)

    YA 1.388 14 I speak of those organs which can be presumed to speak a popular sense. They recommend conventional virtues...
    SR 2.45 3 I read the other day some verses written by an eminent painter which were...not conventional.
    SL 2.144 17 [Those facts, words, persons, which dwell in a man's memory without his being able to say why] are symbols of value to him as they can interpret parts of his consciousness which he would vainly seek words for in the conventional images of books and other minds.
    SL 2.165 11 ...the painter uses the conventional story of the Virgin Mary, of Paul, of Peter.
    Art1 2.360 12 [The artist] need not cumber himself with a conventional nature and culture...
    Pt1 3.9 21 We hear, through all the varied music [of modern poetry], the ground-tone of conventional life.
    Pt1 3.16 27 Some stars...on an old rag of bunting...shall make the blood tingle under the rudest or the most conventional exterior.
    Pt1 3.39 16 Most of the things [the poet] says are conventional, no doubt;...
    Chr1 3.100 1 It is much that [the ingenious man] does not accept the conventional opinions and practices.
    Mrs1 3.139 18 ...being in its nature a convention, [society] loves what is conventional...
    NR 3.230 6 In the parliament, in the play-house, at dinner-tables [in England], I might see a great number of rich, ignorant, book-read, conventional, proud men...
    NMW 4.225 26 [The man in the street] finds [Napoleon], like himself, by birth a citizen, who, by very intelligible merits, arrived as such a commanding position that he could indulge all those tastes which the common man possesses but is obliged to conceal and deny:...the refined enjoyments of...palaces and conventional honors...
    GoW 4.269 24 ...how can [the writer] be honored...when he must...write conventional criticism...
    ET6 5.107 1 [The English] are positive, methodical, cleanly and formal, loving routine and conventional ways;...
    CbW 6.260 15 ...what we ask daily, is to be conventional.
    SS 7.7 17 We pray to be conventional.
    Art2 7.45 14 Another deduction from the genius of the artist is what is conventional in his art...
    Art2 7.45 23 ...who will deny that the merely conventional part of the [artistic] performance contributes much to its effect?
    DL 7.109 10 There should be nothing confounding and conventional in economy...
    PI 8.49 17 A right ode (however nearly it may adopt conventional metre...) will by any sprightliness be at once lifted out of conventionality...
    Schr 10.268 6 ...I rather wish you to...give play to your energies, but not... in conventional ways.
    LLNE 10.345 5 Society always values...inoffensive people, susceptible of conventional polish.
    LLNE 10.360 18 [The projectors of Brook Farm] had the feeling that our ways of living were too conventional and expensive...
    Thor 10.481 6 [Thoreau] had many elegancies of his own, whilst he scoffed at conventional elegance.
    MLit 12.316 9 Has [the writer] led thee to Nature because his own soul was too happy in beholding her power and love? Or is his passion for the wilderness only...the exhibition of a talent...which derives all its eclat from our conventional education...
    MLit 12.328 14 ...that we may not...pay a great man so ill a compliment as to praise him only in the conventional and comparative speech, let us honestly record our thought upon the total worth and influence of this genius [Goethe].
    EurB 12.368 2 We have poets who write the poetry...of the patrician and conventional Europe...
    EurB 12.369 4 ...the spirit of literature and the modes of living and the conventional theories of the conduct of life were called in question [by Wordsworth] on wholly new grounds...

conventional, n. (1)

    AmS 1.88 12 ...neither can any artist entirely exclude the conventional...

conventionalism, n. (2)

    YA 1.388 5 In America, out-of-doors all seems a market; in-doors an air-tight stove of conventionalism.
    Boks 7.216 1 A person of less courage...will answer [the question of a vicious marriage] as the heroine [of Jane Eyre] does,--giving way...to conventionalism...

conventionality, n. (1)

    PI 8.49 20 A right ode...will by any sprightliness be at once lifted out of conventionality...

Conventions, Bible, n. (1)

    NER 3.251 14 [The observer of New England's] attention must be commanded by the signs that the Church, or religious party...is appearing... in very significant assemblies called Sabbath and Bible Conventions;...

conventions, n. (22)

    MN 1.196 4 Here comes by a great inquisitor with auger and plumb-line, and will bore an Artesian well through our conventions and theories...
    Con 1.325 13 I depend on my honor, my labor, and my dispositions for my place in the affections of mankind, and not on any conventions or parchments of yours.
    Tran 1.349 25 ...[Transcendentalists] have...found that...from the courtesies of the academy and the college to the conventions of the cotillon-room and the morning call, there is a spirit of cowardly compromise...
    SR 2.88 19 The political parties meet in numerous conventions;...
    SR 2.88 26 ...the reformers summon conventions and vote and resolve in multitude.
    Exp 3.59 26 Under the oldest mouldiest conventions a man of native force prospers just as well as in the newest world...
    Exp 3.65 5 Right to hold land, right of property, is disputed, and the conventions convene, and before the vote is taken, dig away in your garden...
    Mrs1 3.149 13 I have seen an individual whose manners, though wholly within the conventions of elegant society, were never learned there...
    Pol1 3.219 26 We must not imagine that all things are lapsing into confusion if every tender protestant be not compelled to bear his part in certain social conventions;...
    NER 3.257 1 I find nothing healthful or exalting in the smooth conventions of society;...
    GoW 4.289 18 I join Napoleon with [Goethe], as being both representatives of the impatience and reaction of nature against the morgue of conventions...
    ET14 5.254 15 Squalid contentment with conventions...betray the ebb of life and spirit [in English students].
    Elo1 7.62 3 Our county conventions often exhibit a small-pot-soon-hot style of eloquence.
    Elo2 8.113 19 The orator is he whom every man is seeking when he goes... into the conventions...
    Elo2 8.132 20 Here [in the United States] is room for every degree of [eloquence], on every one of its ascending stages,--that of useful speech, in our commercial, manufacturing, railroad and educational conventions; that of political advice and persuasion...
    SovE 10.210 4 ...there are the new conventions of social science, before which the questions of the rights of women...come for a hearing.
    Plu 10.322 6 It is a service to our Republic to publish a book that can force ambitious young men, before they mount the platform of the county conventions, to read the Laconic Apothegms [of Plutarch]...
    FSLN 11.232 27 The events of this month are teaching one thing plain and clear...that official papers are of no use; resolutions of public meetings, platforms of conventions, no, nor laws, nor constitutions, any more.
    ACri 12.297 14 In [Carlyle's] books the vicious conventions of writing are all dropped.
    MLit 12.323 22 All conventions, all traditions [Goethe] rejected.
    MLit 12.330 23 The vicious conventions...stand [in Wilhelm Meister] for all they are worth in the newspaper.
    Let 12.398 6 ...the noblest youths are in a few years converted into pale Caryatides to uphold the temple of conventions.

Conventions, n. (3)

    NER 3.251 22 The spirit of protest and of detachment drove the members of these [Sabbath and Bible] Conventions to bear testimony against the Church...
    NER 3.251 24 The spirit of protest and of detachment drove the members of these [Sabbath and Bible] Conventions to bear testimony against the Church, and immediately afterwards to declare their discontent with these Conventions...
    CSC 10.375 21 ...there was no want of female speakers [at the Chardon Street Convention];...that flea of Conventions, Mrs. Abigail Folsom, was but too ready with her interminable scroll.

Conventions, Sabbath, n. (1)

    NER 3.251 14 [The observer of New England's] attention must be commanded by the signs that the Church, or religious party...is appearing... in very significant assemblies called Sabbath and Bible Conventions;...

converge, v. (1)

    MoS 4.179 5 A method in the world we do not see, but this parallelism of great and little, which never...discover the smallest tendency to converge.

conversant, adj. (10)

    Comp 2.115 17 ...the high laws which each man sees implicated in those processes with which he is conversant...do recommend to him his trade...
    PPh 4.60 9 ...philosophy is an elegant thing, if any one modestly meddles with it [said Plato]; but if he is conversant with it more than is becoming, it corrupts the man.
    SwM 4.104 5 The robust Aristotelian method...conversant with series and degree...had trained a race of athletic philosophers.
    MoS 4.150 5 One class [predisposed to Sensation]...is conversant with facts and surfaces...
    NMW 4.224 23 [Napoleon] had [the middle classes'] virtues and their vices; above all, he had their spirit or aim. That tendency is material... conversant with mechanical powers...
    ET14 5.239 11 ...wherever the mind takes a step, it is to put itself at one with a larger class, discerned beyond the lesser class with which it has been conversant.
    Schr 10.261 14 Literary men gladly acknowledge these ties which find for the homeless and the stranger a welcome where least looked for. But in proportion as we are conversant with the laws of life, we have seen the like.
    Plu 10.300 7 ...though Plutarch is as plain-spoken [as Montaigne], his moral sentiment is always pure. What better praise has any writer received than he whom Montaigne finds frank in giving things, not words, dryly adding, it vexes me that he is so exposed to the spoil of those that are conversant with him.
    FRO2 11.486 27 ...a man of religious susceptibility, and one at the same time conversant with many men...can find the same idea [that Christianity is as old as Creation] in numberless conversations.
    WSL 12.346 22 Only from a mind conversant with the First Philosophy can definitions be expected.

conversation, n. (248)

    Nat 1.29 19 It is this [dependence of language upon nature] which gives that piquancy to the conversation of a strong-natured farmer...
    AmS 1.94 15 I have heard it said...that the rough, spontaneous conversation of men [the clergy] do not hear...
    DSA 1.134 13 ...it is the effect of conversation with the beauty of the soul, to beget a desire and need to impart to others the same knowledge and love.
    LE 1.170 5 ...[every man's] own conversation with nature is still unsung.
    MN 1.206 12 Each individual soul is such in virtue of its being a power to translate the world into some particular language of its own;...into...a conversation...
    MR 1.245 7 ...we shall dwell like the ancient Romans in narrow tenements, whilst our public edifices, like theirs, will be worthy...for conversation...
    MR 1.253 3 Let any two matrons meet, and observe how soon their conversation turns on the troubles from their "help,", as our phrase is.
    LT 1.270 1 The Temperance-question, which rides the conversation of ten thousand circles...is a gymnastic training to the casuistry and conscience of the time.
    LT 1.271 17 In conversation with a wise man, we find ourselves apologizing for our employments;...
    Con 1.297 15 This [fable of Saturn and Uranus] may stand for the earliest account of a conversation on politics between a Conservative and a Radical which has come down to us.
    Con 1.314 17 ...he who sets his face like a flint against every novelty, when approached in the confidence of conversation...has also his gracious and relenting moments...
    Con 1.318 4 ...an army encamps in a desert, and...creates a white city in an hour...a place for feasting, for conversation, and for love.
    Tran 1.340 20 ...the tendency to respect the intuitions and to give them, at least in our creed, all authority over our experience, has deeply colored the conversation and poetry of the present day;...
    Tran 1.342 12 [Transcendentalists] are lonely; the spirit of their writing and conversation is lonely;...
    Tran 1.347 23 ...[the Transcendentalists'] solitary and fastidious manners not only withdraw them from the conversation, but from the labors of the world;...
    Hist 2.31 19 ...in all [man's] weakness both his body and his mind are invigorated by habits of conversation with nature.
    SR 2.55 22 There is a mortifying experience in particular...I mean...the forced smile which we put on...in answer to conversation which does not interest us.
    Comp 2.96 4 That which [men] hear in schools and pulpits without afterthought, if said in conversation would probably be questioned in silence.
    Comp 2.106 9 The human soul is true to these facts [of Compensation] in the painting...of conversation.
    SL 2.150 4 ...Gertrude has Guy; but what now avails...how Roman his mien and manners, if...she has no aims, no conversation that can enchant her graceful lord?
    Lov1 2.172 3 The strong bent of nature is seen in the proportion which this topic of personal relations usurps in the conversation of society.
    Lov1 2.175 17 ...no man ever forgot the visitations of that power to his heart and brain...when no place is too solitary...for him who has richer company and sweeter conversation in his new thoughts than any old friends...can give him;...
    Lov1 2.182 8 By conversation with that which is in itself excellent, magnanimous, lowly, and just, the lover comes to a warmer love of these nobilities...
    Fdsp 2.192 20 Having imagined and invested [the commended stranger], we ask how we should stand related in conversation and action with such a man...
    Fdsp 2.192 22 The same idea exalts conversation with [the commended stranger].
    Fdsp 2.193 5 ...as soon as the stranger begins to intrude...his defects, into the conversation, it is all over.
    Fdsp 2.198 4 ...[the soul] goes alone for a season that it may exalt its conversation or society.
    Fdsp 2.204 1 Almost every man we meet...has...some whim of religion or philanthropy in his head...which spoils all conversation with him.
    Fdsp 2.206 27 ...I find this law of one to one peremptory for conversation...
    Fdsp 2.207 8 ...three cannot take part in a conversation of the most sincere and searching sort.
    Fdsp 2.207 21 In good company the individuals merge their egotism into a social soul exactly co-extensive with the several consciousnesses there present. ... Now this convention...destroys the high freedom of great conversation...
    Fdsp 2.208 2 We talk sometimes of a great talent for conversation, as if it were a permanent property in some individuals.
    Fdsp 2.208 4 Conversation is an evanescent relation,--no more.
    Prd1 2.235 25 How many words and promises are promises of conversation!
    Hsm1 2.264 3 Who does not sometimes...await with curious complacency the speedy term of his own conversation with finite nature?
    OS 2.268 25 The Supreme Critic on the errors of the past and the present... is...that common heart of which all sincere conversation is the worship...
    OS 2.270 8 If we consider what happens in conversation...we shall catch many hints that will broaden and lighten into knowledge of the secret of nature.
    OS 2.276 27 ...these other souls, these separated selves, draw me as nothing else can. They stir in me the new emotions we call passion;...thence come conversation, competition, persuasion, cities and war.
    OS 2.277 8 In all conversation between two persons tacit reference is made...to a common nature.
    OS 2.278 14 The action of the soul is oftener in that which is felt and left unsaid than in that which is said in any conversation.
    OS 2.278 19 I feel the same truth how often in my trivial conversation with my neighbors, that somewhat higher in each of us overlooks this by-play...
    OS 2.291 27 I do not wonder that these [simple] men go to see Cromwell and Christina and Charles the Second and James the First and the Grand Turk. For they are, in their own elevation, the fellows of kings, and must feel the servile tone of conversation in the world.
    Cir 2.310 13 Conversation is a game of circles.
    Cir 2.310 13 In conversation we pluck up the termini which bound the common of silence on every side.
    Int 2.337 9 A child knows...if the attitude [in a picture] be natural or grand or mean; though he has never received any instruction in drawing or heard any conversation on the subject...
    Pt1 3.5 24 ...the great majority of men seem to be...mutes, who cannot report the conversation they have had with nature.
    Pt1 3.6 8 Every man should be so much an artist that he could report in conversation what had befallen him.
    Pt1 3.9 3 I took part in a conversation the other day concerning a recent writer of lyrics...
    Pt1 3.17 15 The vocabulary of an omniscient man would embrace words and images excluded from polite conversation.
    Pt1 3.27 26 All men avail themselves of such means as they can, to add this extraordinary power to their normal powers; and to this end they prize conversation...
    Pt1 3.32 24 That also is the best success in conversation, the magic of liberty...
    Exp 3.53 19 I saw a gracious gentleman who adapts his conversation to the form of the head of the man he talks with!
    Exp 3.54 3 Shall I preclude my future by...kindly adapting my conversation to the shape of heads?
    Exp 3.55 16 We house with the insane, and must humor them; then conversation dies out.
    Exp 3.68 4 All good conversation, manners and action come from a spontaneity which forgets usages...
    Chr1 3.99 19 Society...shreds...its conversation into ceremonies and escapes.
    Mrs1 3.127 7 [Manners] aid our dealing and conversation...
    Mrs1 3.141 12 A man who is happy [in the company], finds in every turn of the conversation equally lucky occasions for the introduction of that which he has to say.
    Mrs1 3.148 12 Scott is praised for the fidelity with which he painted the demeanor and conversation of the superior classes.
    Nat2 3.188 26 The friend coldly turns [the pages of a young person's diary] over, and passes from the writing to conversation...
    Nat2 3.190 20 The hunger for wealth...fools the eager pursuer. What is the end sought? Plainly to secure the ends of good sense and beauty from the intrusion of deformity or vulgarity of any kind. But what an operose method! What a train of means to secure a little conversation!
    Nat2 3.190 25 ...trade to all the world, country-house and cottage by the waterside, all for a little conversation, high, clear and spiritual!
    Nat2 3.191 3 Conversation, character, were the avowed ends [of wealth];...
    Nat2 3.191 26 [The rich] are like one who has interrupted the conversation of a company to make his speech, and now has forgotten what he went to say.
    NR 3.234 8 In conversation, men are encumbered with personality, and talk too much.
    NR 3.237 7 We like to come to a height of land and see the landscape, just as we value a general remark in conversation.
    NR 3.239 13 In every conversation, even the highest, there is a certain trick...
    NER 3.280 22 ...all frank and searching conversation, in which a man lays himself open to his brother, apprises each of their radical unity.
    UGM 4.10 26 There are advancements to numbers, anatomy, architecture, astronomy, little suspected at first, when, by union with intellect and will, they...reappear in conversation, character and politics.
    UGM 4.17 16 [The imagination]...inspires an audacious mental habit. We are as elastic as the gas of gunpowder, and...a word dropped in conversation, sets free our fancy...
    UGM 4.26 24 ...we feed on genius, and refresh ourselves from too much conversation with our mates...
    PPh 4.71 14 The young men...invite [Socrates] to their feasts, whither he goes for conversation.
    PPh 4.73 5 ...it is certain that [Socrates] had grown to delight in nothing else than this conversation;...
    MoS 4.168 11 I know not anywhere the book that seems less written [than Montaigne's Essays]. It is the language of conversation transferred to a book.
    ShP 4.198 27 Show us the constituency, and the now invisible channels by which the senator is made aware of their wishes; the crowd of practical and knowing men, who, by correspondence or conversation, are feeding him with evidence, anecdotes and estimates...
    ShP 4.210 27 ...the occasion which gave the saint's meaning the form of a conversation...is immaterial compared with the universality of its application.
    NMW 4.250 23 [Bonaparte] delighted in the conversation of men of science...
    GoW 4.262 18 ...besides the universal joy of conversation, some men are born with exalted powers for this second creation. Men are born to write.
    GoW 4.263 7 In conversation, in calamity, [the writer] finds new materials;...
    GoW 4.266 4 In this country, the emphasis of conversation and of public opinion commends the practical man;...
    GoW 4.283 6 ...almost all the valuable distinctions which are current in higher conversation have been derived to us from Germany.
    ET1 5.14 18 As I might have foreseen, the visit [with Coleridge] was rather a spectacle than a conversation...
    ET1 5.15 12 [Carlyle] was...self-possessed and holding his extraordinary powers of conversation in easy command;...
    ET1 5.21 3 [Wordsworth] alluded once or twice to his conversation with Dr. Channing...
    ET1 5.21 7 The conversation [with Wordsworth] turned on books.
    ET1 5.24 20 To judge from a single conversation, [Wordsworth] made the impression of a narrow and very English mind;...
    ET4 5.60 2 History rarely yields us better passages than the conversation between King Sigurd the Crusader and King Eystein his brother...
    ET8 5.127 15 This trait of gloom has been fixed on [the English] by French travellers, who...have spent their wit on the solemnity of their neighbors. The French say, gay conversation is unknown in their island.
    ET8 5.140 9 Haldor was...short in conversation...
    ET13 5.222 21 ...the same [English] men who have brought free trade or geology to their present standing, look grave and lofty and shut down their valve as soon as the conversation approaches the English Church.
    ET16 5.288 1 As I had thus taken in the conversation the saint's part, when dinner was announced, Carlyle refused to go out before me,--he was altogether too wicked.
    ET17 5.296 5 ...[Wordsworth's] conversation was not marked by special force or elevation.
    Ctr 6.136 4 All conversation is at an end when we have discharged ourselves of a dozen personalities...
    Ctr 6.137 13 It is not a compliment but a disparagement...whenever [a man] appears, considerately to turn the conversation to the bantling he is known to fondle.
    Ctr 6.138 5 ...here is a pedant that cannot...conceal his wrath at interruption by the best, if their conversation do not fit his impertinency...
    Ctr 6.149 3 ...the want of good conversation [at the Earl of Devon's] was a very great inconvenience...
    Ctr 6.149 7 In the country, in long time, for want of good conversation, one's understanding and invention contract a moss on them...
    Ctr 6.150 24 [The man of the world's] conversation clings to the weather and the news...
    Ctr 6.157 15 Here is a new poem, which elicits a good many comments in the journals and in conversation.
    Bhr 6.192 16 The novels are as useful as Bibles if they teach you the secret that the best of life is conversation...
    CbW 6.269 5 ...the best fruit [travel] finds, when it finds it, is conversation.
    CbW 6.270 26 Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors...
    CbW 6.271 8 The success which will content [men] is a bargain...a legacy and the like. With these objects, their conversation deals with surfaces...
    CbW 6.272 6 Our conversation once and again has apprised us that we belong to better circles than we have yet beheld;...
    CbW 6.272 11 In excited conversation we have glimpses of the universe...
    Bty 6.298 8 ...we fear to fatigue [women], and acquire a facility of expression which passes from conversation into habit of style.
    Ill 6.311 3 Our conversation with nature is not just what it seems.
    SS 7.3 8 In the conversation that followed, my new friend made some extraordinary confessions.
    SS 7.12 14 A cold sluggish blood thinks it...must decline its turn in the conversation.
    SS 7.13 26 Conversation will not corrupt us if we come to the assembly in our own garb and speech...
    SS 7.14 11 Put any company of people together with freedom for conversation, and a rapid self-distribution takes place into sets and pairs.
    SS 7.14 18 All conversation is a magnetic experiment.
    Civ 7.24 5 ...a severe morality gives that essential charm to woman which... breeds courtesy and learning, conversation and wit, in her rough mate;...
    Elo1 7.61 6 One man is brought to the boiling-point by the excitement of conversation in the parlor.
    Elo1 7.64 11 Socrates says: If any one wishes to converse with the meanest of the Lacedaemonians, he will at first find him despicable in conversation...
    Elo1 7.69 8 The traveller in Sicily needs no gayer melodramatic exhibition [of eloquence] than the table d'hote of his inn will afford him in the conversation of the joyous guests.
    Elo1 7.85 14 In any knot of men conversing on any subject, the person who knows most about it will...lead the conversation...
    DL 7.122 14 ...[Lord Falkland's] house was a university in a less volume, whither [the most polite and accurate men of Oxford University] came...to examine and refine those grosser propositions which laziness and consent made current in vulgar conversation.
    DL 7.124 14 ...we soon catch the trick of each man's conversation...
    Farm 7.154 9 What possesses interest for us is...[each man's] constitutional excellence. This is forever a surprise, engaging and lovely; we cannot be satiated with knowing it, and about it; and it is this which the conversation with Nature cherishes and guards.
    Clbs 7.225 23 ...the staple of conversation is widely unlike in its circles.
    Clbs 7.226 27 Neither do we by any means always go to people for conversation.
    Clbs 7.227 27 Conversation is the laboratory and workshop of the student.
    Clbs 7.228 5 Every time we say a thing in conversation, we get a mechanical advantage in detaching it well and deliverly.
    Clbs 7.228 7 I prize the mechanics of conversation.
    Clbs 7.229 1 We remember the time...on a long journey in the old stage-coach, where...conversation naturally flowed...
    Clbs 7.230 16 Nothing seems so cheap as the benefit of conversation; nothing is more rare.
    Clbs 7.231 1 Conversation in society is found to be on a platform so low as to exclude science, the saint and the poet.
    Clbs 7.232 3 ...[the lover of letters] seeks the company of those who have convivial talent. But the moment they meet, to be sure they begin to be something else than they were;...they kill conversation at once.
    Clbs 7.232 7 ...it is only on natural ground that conversation can be rich.
    Clbs 7.233 19 [Holmes's (?)] conversation is all pictures...
    Clbs 7.236 16 ...[Dr. Johnson's] conversation...has a lasting charm.
    Clbs 7.236 17 Conversation is the vent of character as well as of thought;...
    Clbs 7.240 27 Every variety of gift...has its vent and exchange in conversation.
    Clbs 7.241 1 Conversation is the Olympic games whither every superior gift resorts to assert and approve itself...
    Clbs 7.241 19 ...the best conversation is rare.
    Clbs 7.241 25 It is possible that the best conversation is between two persons who can talk only to each other.
    Clbs 7.242 1 Even Montesquieu confessed that in conversation, if he perceived he was listened to by a third person, it seemed to him from that moment the whole question vanished from his mind.
    Clbs 7.242 17 ...in all civil nations attempts have been made to organize conversation by bringing together cultivated people under the most favorable conditions.
    Clbs 7.242 19 ...there was liberal and refined conversation in the Greek, in the Roman and in the Middle Age.
    Clbs 7.243 15 ...a history of clubs...tracing the efforts to secure liberal and refined conversation...would be an important chapter in history.
    Clbs 7.246 9 Tutors and parents cannot interest [the boy] like the uproarious conversation he finds in the market or the dock.
    Clbs 7.246 20 ...when the manufacturers, merchants and shipmasters meet, see...how long the conversation lasts!
    Clbs 7.247 25 ...to a club met for conversation a supper is a good basis...
    Clbs 7.250 13 When we look for the highest benefits of conversation, the Spartan rule of one to one is usually enforced.
    Cour 7.270 15 Captain John Brown...said to me in conversation, that for a settler in a new country, one good, believing, strong-minded man is worth a hundred, nay, a thousand men without character;...
    Suc 7.289 21 I could point to men in this country...of this [egotistical] humor, whom we could ill spare; any one of them would be a national loss. But it spoils conversation.
    Suc 7.309 10 ...do not daub with sables and glooms in your conversation.
    OA 7.332 5 I have lately found in an old note-book a record of a visit to ex-President John Adams, in 1825, soon after the election of his son to the Presidency. It is but a sketch, and nothing important passed in the conversation;...
    PI 8.11 25 We cannot utter a sentence in sprightly conversation without a similitude.
    PI 8.12 2 Conversation is not permitted without tropes;...
    PI 8.17 1 ...the poet listens to conversation and beholds all objects in Nature, to give back, not them, but a new and transcendent whole.
    PI 8.18 27 In the presence and conversation of a true poet, teeming with images to express his enlarging thought, his person, his form, grows larger to our fascinated eyes.
    PI 8.27 17 William Blake, whose abnormal genius, Wordsworth said, interested him more than the conversation of Scott or of Byron, writes thus...
    SA 8.91 22 ...sincere and happy conversation doubles our powers;...
    SA 8.92 27 In this art of conversation, Woman...is the lawgiver.
    SA 8.93 8 No one can be a master in conversation who has not learned much from women;...
    SA 8.94 5 ...[Madame de Stael] said...Conversation, like talent, exists only in France.
    SA 8.94 7 Madame de Stael valued nothing but conversation.
    SA 8.94 27 ...[the party in the second coach] had...breathed a purer air: such a conversation between Madame de Stael and Madame Recamier and Benjamin Constant and Schlegel!...
    SA 8.95 3 ...[the party in the second coach] had...breathed a purer air: such a conversation between Madame de Stael and Madame Recamier and Benjamin Constant and Schlegel! they were all in a state of delight. The intoxication of the conversation had made them insensible to all notice of weather...
    SA 8.95 7 Conversation fills all gaps...
    SA 8.96 12 Let us not look east and west for materials of conversation...
    SA 8.96 17 ...things said for conversation are chalk eggs.
    SA 8.99 16 ...in good conversation parties don't speak to the words, but to the meanings of each other.
    SA 8.99 19 Manners first, then conversation.
    SA 8.107 8 These are the bases of civil and polite society; namely, manners, conversation, lucrative labor and public action;...
    Elo2 8.126 7 ...there is a conversation above grossness and below refinement, where propriety resides.
    QO 8.178 16 Our debt to tradition through reading and conversation is so massive...that...one would say there is no pure originality.
    QO 8.192 8 Wordsworth, as soon as he heard a good thing...very soon reproduced it in his conversation and writing.
    QO 8.197 4 You have had the like experience in conversation: the wit was in what you heard, not in what the speakers said.
    Insp 8.276 12 [Inspiration] seems a semi-animal heat; as if...a genial companion, or a new thought suggested in book or conversation could fire the train...
    Insp 8.292 6 [Another source of inspiration is] Conversation, which, when it is best, is a series of intoxications.
    Insp 8.292 8 Not Aristotle, not Kant or Hegel, but conversation, is the right metaphysical professor.
    Insp 8.293 2 We must be warmed by the fire of sympathy, to be brought into the right...angles of vision. Conversation; for intellectual activity is contagious.
    Insp 8.293 14 In enlarged conversation we have suggestions that require new ways of living...
    Grts 8.304 20 I am...to infer your reading from the wealth and accuracy of your conversation.
    Grts 8.312 16 The great man loves the conversation or the book that convicts him...
    Imtl 8.331 22 [One of the men] said that when he entered the Senate he became in a short time intimate with one of his colleagues, and...they daily... spent much time in conversation on the immortality of the soul...
    Imtl 8.339 1 Most men...promise by their countenance and conversation and by their early endeavor much more than they ever perform...
    Dem1 10.6 3 This feature of dreams deserves the more attention from its singular resemblance to that obscure yet startling experience which almost every person confesses in daylight, that particular passages of conversation and action have occurred to him in the same order before...
    Edc1 10.141 12 ...[the boy] gladly enters a school which...teaches by practice the law of conversation...
    Supl 10.163 18 We talk, sometimes, with people whose conversation would lead you to suppose that they had lived in a museum...
    Supl 10.173 27 ...these raptures of fire and frost, which indeed cleanse pedantry out of conversation...would cost me the days of well-being which are now so cheap to me, yet so valued.
    Supl 10.176 16 ...in Western nations the superlative in conversation is tedious and weak...
    SovE 10.199 16 You may sometimes talk with the gravest and best citizen, and the moment the topic of religion is broached, he runs into a childish superstition. His face looks infatuated, and his conversation is.
    SovE 10.204 2 There was in the last century a serious habitual reference to the spiritual world, running through diaries, letters and conversation...
    Schr 10.264 24 The poet and the citizen perfectly agree in conversation on the wise life.
    Plu 10.298 18 ...eminently social, [Plutarch]...knew the high value of good conversation;...
    Plu 10.312 1 Seneca...by his conversation with the Court of Nero...learned to temper his philosophy with facts.
    Plu 10.319 16 [Plutarch] knew the laws of conversation and the laws of good-fellowship quite as well as Horace...
    Plu 10.321 13 [The language of the 1718 edition of Plutarch] runs through the whole scale of conversation in the street, the market...
    Plu 10.321 18 there are, no doubt, many vulgar phrases [in the 1718 edition of Plutarch], and many blunders of the printer; but it is the speech of business and conversation...
    LLNE 10.334 1 The smallest anecdote of [Everett's] behavior or conversation was eagerly caught and repeated...
    LLNE 10.341 18 Margaret Fuller, George Ripley, Dr. Convers Francis, Theodore Parker, Dr. Hedge, Mr. Brownson, James Freeman Clarke, William H. Channing and many others...from time to time spent an afternoon at each other's houses in a serious conversation.
    LLNE 10.343 12 ...perhaps those persons who were mutually the best friends...had no ambition of publishing their letters, diaries or conversation.
    LLNE 10.343 13 From that time meetings were held for conversation...
    LLNE 10.348 10 A man is entitled...to the air of good conversation in his bringing up...
    LLNE 10.362 7 Margaret Fuller, with her joyful conversation and large sympathy, was often a guest [at Brook Farm]...
    LLNE 10.364 21 There is agreement in the testimony that [Brook Farm] was...to many, the most important period of their life...their first acquaintance with the riches of conversation...
    EzRy 10.388 20 When Put Merriam...had the effrontery to call on the Doctor [Ezra Ripley] as an old acquaintance, in the midst of general conversation Mr. Frost came in...
    EzRy 10.392 10 We remember the remark of a gentleman who listened with much delight to [Ezra Ripley's] conversation...that a man who could tell a story so well was company for kings and John Quincy Adams.
    EzRy 10.393 16 [Ezra Ripley's] conversation was strictly personal and apt to the party and the occasion.
    EzRy 10.395 9 ...[Ezra Ripley's] whole life and conversation were consistent.
    MMEm 10.398 12 [Lucy Percy] prefers the conversation of men to that of women;...
    MMEm 10.402 18 Nobody can...recall the conversation of old-school people, without seeing that Milton and Young had a religious authority in their mind...
    MMEm 10.407 19 [Mary Moody Emerson] would tear...into the conversation, into the thought, into the character of the stranger,- disdaining all the graduation by which her fellows time their steps...
    MMEm 10.408 15 Our Delphian [Mary Moody Emerson]...could always be tamed by large and sincere conversation.
    Thor 10.455 1 A fine house, dress, the manners and talk of highly cultivated people were all thrown away on [Thoreau]. He...considered these refinements as impediments to conversation...
    Thor 10.456 12 It seemed as if [Thoreau's] first instinct on hearing a proposition was to controvert it, so impatient was he of the limitations of our daily thought. This habit...is a little chilling to the social affections; and...mars conversation.
    Thor 10.463 5 ...[Thoreau] seemed the only man of leisure in town, always ready...for conversation prolonged into late hours.
    Thor 10.464 23 ...[Thoreau] said, one day, The other world is all my art;...I do not use it as a means. This was the muse and genius that ruled his opinions, conversation, studies, work and course of life.
    Thor 10.465 2 At first glance [Thoreau] measured his companion, and... could very well report his weight and calibre. And this made the impression of genius which his conversation sometimes gave.
    Thor 10.478 6 A truth-speaker [Thoreau], capable of the most deep and strict conversation;...
    Carl 10.489 2 Thomas Carlyle is...as extraordinary in his conversation as in his writing...
    LS 11.6 2 Two of the Evangelists...were present on that occasion [the Last Supper]. Neither of them drops the slightest intimation of any intention on the part of Jesus to set up anything permanent. John especially...who has recorded with minuteness the conversation and the transactions of that memorable evening, has quite omitted such a notice.
    EWI 11.139 16 There are now other energies than force, other than political, which no man in future can allow himself to disregard. There is direct conversation and influence.
    War 11.156 4 In some parts of this country...the absorbing topic of all conversation is whipping; who fought, and which whipped?
    War 11.156 12 Put [the man concerned with pugnacity] into a circle of cultivated men, where the conversation broaches the great questions that besiege the human reason, and he would be dumb and unhappy...
    War 11.156 22 ...Fontenelle expressed a volume of meaning when he said, I hate war, for it spoils conversation.
    FSLC 11.199 9 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.
    FSLN 11.217 13 The one thing not to be forgiven to intellectual persons is... to take their ideas from others. From this want of manly rest in their own and rash acceptance of other people's watchwords come the imbecility and fatigue of their conversation.
    JBB 11.268 21 [John Brown] believes in two articles,-two instruments, shall I say?-the Golden Rule and the Declaration of Independence; and he used this expression in conversation here concerning them, Better that a whole generation of men, women and children should pass away by a violent death than that one word of either should be violated in this country.
    SMC 11.357 9 I have a note of a conversation that occurred in our first company, the morning before the battle of Bull Run.
    Wom 11.408 22 Wise, cultivated, genial conversation is the last flower of civilization...
    Wom 11.408 25 Conversation is our account of ourselves.
    Wom 11.411 18 Society, conversation, decorum...are [women's] homes and attendants.
    FRO2 11.486 2 ...as my friend, your presiding officer [of the Free Religious Association], has asked me to take at least some small part in this day's conversation, I am ready to give...the first simple foundation of my belief...
    PLT 12.9 8 Here [in society] they play the game of conversation, as they play billiards, for pastime and credit.
    PLT 12.18 17 The perceptions of a soul, its wondrous progeny, are born by the conversation, the marriage of souls;...
    PLT 12.38 15 The thought, the doctrine, the right hitherto not affirmed is published...in conversation of scholars and philosophers...
    PLT 12.51 1 We are forced to treat a great part of mankind as if they were a little deranged. We detect their mania and humor it, so that conversation soon becomes a tiresome effort.
    II 12.83 24 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.
    Mem 12.98 23 The facts of the last two or three days or weeks are all you have with you,-the reading of the last month's books. Your conversation, action, your face and manners, report of no more...
    Mem 12.100 14 Sir Isaac Newton was embarrassed when the conversation turned on his discoveries and results; he could not recall them;...
    CL 12.163 8 If we should now say a few words on the advantages that belong to the conversation with Nature, I might set them so high as to make it a religious duty.
    CW 12.179 4 What alone possesses interest for us is the naturel of each... and this is that which the conversation with Nature goes to cherish and to guard.
    Bost 12.198 15 No external advantages...can bestow that delicacy and grandeur of bearing which belong only to a mind accustomed to celestial conversation.
    Milt1 12.256 3 ...the idea of a purer existence than any he saw around him, to be realized in the life and conversation of men, inspired every act and every writing of John Milton.
    Milt1 12.258 19 ...[Milton's] address and his conversation were worthy of his fame.
    Milt1 12.258 26 ...in reply apparently to some compliment on his powers of conversation, [Milton] writes: Many have been celebrated for their compositions, whose common conversation and intercourse have betrayed no marks of sublimity or genius.
    Milt1 12.259 1 ...[Milton] writes: Many have been celebrated for their compositions, whose common conversation and intercourse have betrayed no marks of sublimity or genius.
    ACri 12.284 17 ...there is a conversation above grossness and below refinement where prosperity resides...
    ACri 12.300 12 All conversation, as all literature, appears to me the pleasure of rhetoric...
    MLit 12.318 7 [The educated and susceptible] betray this impatience [with the poverty of our dogmas of religion and philosophy] by fleeing for resource to a conversation with Nature...
    AgMs 12.360 2 I walked up and down the field, as [Edmund Hosmer] ploughed his furrow, and we talked as we walked. Our conversation naturally turned on the season and its new labors.
    Trag 12.405 5 The conversation of men is a mixture of regrets and apprehensions.
    Trag 12.416 24 [The intellect] yields the joys of conversation, of letters and of science.

Conversation, n. (2)

    SwM 4.128 24 Perhaps the true subject of the Conjugal Love [by Swedenborg] is Conversation, whose laws are profoundly set forth.
    Wom 11.408 22 ...there is an art...better than botany, geology, or any science; namely, Conversation.

conversational, adj. (1)

    MMEm 10.398 17 [Lucy Percy] converses with those who are most distinguished for their conversational powers.

Conversations, Bird [Feride (1)

    PPo 8.263 15 Ferideddin Attar wrote the Bird Conversations, a mystical tale...

Conversations, Imaginary [W (1)

    WSL 12.340 12 ...for twenty years we have still found the Imaginary Conversations a sure resource in solitude...

Conversations' Lexicon, n. (1)

    Pol1 3.217 7 Malthus and Ricardo quite omit [character];...in the Conversations' Lexicon it is not set down;...

conversations, n. (16)

    Hist 2.7 12 Books, monuments, pictures, conversations, are portraits in which [the wise man] finds the lineaments he is forming.
    Art1 2.361 13 When I came at last to Rome and saw with eyes the pictures, I found that genius...was the plain you and me I...had left at home in so many conversations.
    Exp 3.80 16 If you could look with [the kitten's] eyes you might see her surrounded with hundreds of figures performing complex dramas, with tragic and comic issues, long conversations...
    NMW 4.237 14 In one of his conversations with Las Casas, [Napoleon] remarked, As to moral courage, I have rarely met with the two-o'clock-in-the- morning kind...
    ET11 5.190 12 At Wilton House the Arcadia was written, amidst conversations with Fulke Greville...
    ET17 5.293 11 ...my recollections of the best hours go back to private conversations in different parts of the kingdom [England]...
    SS 7.5 24 These conversations [with my friend] led me somewhat later to the knowledge of similar cases...
    Boks 7.207 25 ...what with...the gossiping record of his opinions in his conversations with Drummond of Hawthornden, [Jonson] has really illustrated the England of his time...
    Clbs 7.237 9 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;...
    SA 8.88 21 If...a man has not firm nerves...it is perhaps a wise economy to go to a good shop and dress himself irreproachably. He...may easily find that performance...a fortification that...allows him to go gayly into conversations where else he had been dry and embarrassed.
    LLNE 10.342 3 These fine conversations, of course, were incomprehensible to some in the company...
    LLNE 10.346 19 ...Robert Owen...read lectures or held conversations wherever he found listeners;...
    CSC 10.377 3 ...the [Chardon Street] Convention...gave occasion to memorable interviews and conversations...
    MMEm 10.406 16 [Mary Moody Emerson] tired presently of dull conversations...
    FRO2 11.487 2 ...a man of religious susceptibility...can find the same idea [that Christianity is as old as Creation] in numberless conversations.
    II 12.78 19 ...[the writer]...should write nothing that will not help somebody,-as I knew of a good man who held conversations, and wrote on the wall, that every person might speak to the subject, but no allusion should be made to the opinions of other speakers;...

Conversations with Goethe [ (1)

    Boks 7.208 19 Another class of books closely allied to these [Autobiographies]...are those which may be called Table-Talks: of which the best are Saadi's Gulistan;...Eckermann's Conversations with Goethe;...

converse, n. (5)

    Comp 2.97 27 What we gain in power is lost in time, and the converse.
    Int 2.331 8 At last comes the era of reflection...when we keep the mind's eye open whilst we converse...
    GoW 4.283 19 [Goethe] has the formidable independence which converse with truth gives...
    Elo2 8.124 5 In social converse with the mighty dead of ancient days, you will never smart under the galling sense of dependence upon the mighty living of the present age.
    Prch 10.229 21 It was said: [The clergy] have bronchitis because they read from their papers sermons with a near voice, and then, looking at the congregation, they try to speak with their far voice, and the shock is noxious. I think they do this, or the converse of this, with their thought.

converse, v. (36)

    Nat 1.29 5 ...savages...converse in figures.
    DSA 1.119 20 One is constrained to respect the perfection of this world in which our senses converse.
    SR 2.72 24 Live no longer to the expectation of these deceived and deceiving people with whom we converse.
    Fdsp 2.207 26 ...it is affinity that determines which two shall converse.
    Fdsp 2.215 4 If [my friend] is great, he makes me so great that I cannot descend to converse.
    Fdsp 2.215 25 ...if you come, perhaps you will fill my mind...not with yourself but with your lustres, and I shall not be able any more than now to converse with you.
    OS 2.291 1 Converse with a mind that is grandly simple, and literature looks like word-catching.
    Cir 2.319 11 Whilst we converse with what is above us, we do not grow old, but grow young.
    Exp 3.48 22 An innavigable sea washes with silent waves between us and the things we aim at and converse with.
    Exp 3.69 21 The persons who compose our company converse...and somewhat comes of it all, but an unlooked-for result.
    Exp 3.71 7 When I converse with a profound mind...I am at first apprised of my vicinity to a new and excellent region of life.
    Exp 3.84 24 I know that the world I converse with in the city and in the farms, is not the world I think.
    Nat2 3.172 5 The blue zenith is the point in which romance and reality meet. I think if we should be rapt away into all that and dream of heaven, and should converse with Gabriel and Uriel, the upper sky would be all that would remain of our furniture.
    NER 3.280 25 When two persons sit and converse in a thoroughly good understanding, the remark is sure to be made, See how we have disputed about words!
    NER 3.281 2 Let a clear, apprehensive mind...converse with the most commanding poetic genius, I think it would appear that there was no inequality such as men fancy, between them;...
    NER 3.282 22 Every time we converse we seek to translate [Providence] into speech...
    ET17 5.293 3 It was my privilege also [in London] to converse with Miss Baillie, with Lady Morgan, with Mrs. Jameson and Mrs. Somerville.
    Pow 6.78 25 Cannot one converse better on a topic on which he has experience, than on one which is new?
    Bhr 6.179 26 The eyes of men converse as much as their tongues...
    Elo1 7.64 9 Socrates says: If any one wishes to converse with the meanest of the Lacedaemonians, he will at first find him despicable in conversation...
    Clbs 7.237 13 In the Norse legends, The gods of Valhalla when they meet the Jotuns, converse on the perilous terms that he who cannot answer the other's questions forfeits his own life.
    OA 7.318 16 How many men habitually believe that each chance passenger with whom they converse is of their own age...
    QO 8.189 25 Shall we converse as spies?
    PC 8.217 24 If [a man] can converse better than any other, he rules the minds of men...
    Insp 8.287 3 Solitary converse with Nature;...
    Grts 8.320 4 ...people are as those with whom they converse?
    Plu 10.316 6 This courteous, gentle and benign disposition and behavior is not so acceptable, so obliging or delightful to any of those with whom we converse, as it is to those who have it.
    MMEm 10.407 9 ...in the country, we converse so much more with ourselves, that we are almost led to forget everybody else.
    War 11.156 20 To men...in whom is any knowledge or mental activity, the detail of battle becomes insupportably tedious and revolting. It is like the talk of one of those monomaniacs whom we sometimes meet in society, who converse on horses;...
    Wom 11.414 4 ...women know, at first sight, the characters of those with whom they converse.
    PLT 12.6 4 Whilst we converse with truths as thoughts, they exist also as plastic forces;...
    PLT 12.44 26 If we converse with low things...we are not compromised.
    II 12.74 3 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...
    CInt 12.117 16 Two men cannot converse together on any topic without presently finding where each stands in moral judgment;...
    Pray 12.352 5 When my long-attached friend comes to me, I have pleasure to converse with him...
    EurB 12.366 12 The poet must not only converse with pure thought, but he must demonstrate it almost to the senses.

conversed, v. (12)

    LE 1.167 19 By Latin and English poetry we were born and bred in an oratorio of praises of nature...yet the naturalist of this hour finds that he knows nothing, by all their poems, of any of these fine things; that he has conversed with the mere surface and show of them all;...
    UGM 4.16 20 These [new fields of activity] are at once accepted as the reality, of which the world we have conversed with is the show.
    UGM 4.18 25 If a wise man should appear in our village he would create, in those who conversed with him, a new consciousness of wealth...
    ShP 4.199 21 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; for the ministrations of books and of other minds are a whiff of smoke to that most private reality with which he has conversed.
    NMW 4.250 9 In 1806 [Napoleon] conversed with Fournier, bishop of Montpellier, on matters of theology.
    ET16 5.284 7 We [Emerson and Carlyle] came to Wilton and to Wilton Hall...the frequent home of Sir Philip Sidney...where he conversed with Lord Brooke...
    Ill 6.316 25 I, who have all my life...read poems and miscellaneous books, conversed with many geniuses, am still the victim of any new page;...
    Elo1 7.72 13 When [Ulysses and Menelaus] conversed, and interweaved stories and opinions with all, Menelaus spoke succinctly...
    SovE 10.196 15 ...when we have conversed with navigators who know the coast, we may begin to put out an oar and trim a sail.
    MMEm 10.410 5 When Mrs. Thoreau called on [Mary Moody Emerson] one day, wearing pink ribbons, she shut her eyes, and so conversed with her for a time.
    MMEm 10.413 9 [I, Mary Moody Emerson] Met a lady in the morning walk, a foreigner,-conversed on the accomplishments of Miss T.
    PPr 12.379 14 ...[Carlyle's Past and Present] is the book of a powerful and accomplished thinker, who has looked with naked eyes at the dreadful political signs in England for the last few years, has conversed much on these topics...

conversely, adv. (1)

    PC 8.224 20 State the sun, and you state the planets, and conversely.

converser, n. (1)

    SA 8.93 27 Madame de Stael...was the most extraordinary converser that was known in her time...

conversers, n. (2)

    PPh 4.55 7 ...[Plato] fortified himself by drawing all his illustrations from sources disdained by orators and polite conversers;...
    Bost 12.208 27 What public souls have lived here [in Boston]...what gifted conversers...

converses, v. (10)

    LE 1.157 23 ...when [the scholar] comprehends his duties he...converses with things.
    Con 1.303 14 Reform converses with possibilities...
    OS 2.275 5 With each divine impulse the mind...comes out into eternity, and inspires and expires its air. It converses with truths that have always been spoken in the world...
    Mrs1 3.124 27 ...only that plenteous nature is rightful master which is the complement of whatever person it converses with.
    Mrs1 3.139 10 The person who...converses with heat, puts whole drawing-rooms to flight.
    PPh 4.47 1 There is a moment in the history of every nation, when...the perceptive powers reach their ripeness and have not yet become microscopic: so that man, at that instant...with his feet still planted on the immense forces of night, converses by his eyes and brain with solar and stellar creation.
    Ctr 6.135 15 ...after a man has discovered that there are limits to the interest which his private history has for mankind, he still converses with his family, or a few companions...
    Elo1 7.64 15 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...so that he who converses with him will appear to be in no respect superior to a boy.
    MMEm 10.398 16 [Lucy Percy] converses with those who are most distinguished for their conversational powers.
    PLT 12.44 22 ...the fact of intellectual perception severs once for all the man from the things with which he converses.

conversing, n. (1)

    Lov1 2.181 21 If...from too much conversing with material objects, the soul was gross, and misplaced its satisfaction in the body, it reaped nothing but sorrow;...

conversing, v. (17)

    Nat 1.31 1 A man conversing in earnest...will find that a material image... arises in his mind...
    AmS 1.85 2 Every day, men and women, conversing - beholding and beholden.
    DSA 1.147 17 ...the instant effect of conversing with God will be to put [society's easy merits] away.
    MN 1.213 8 By piety alone, by conversing with the cause of nature, is [man] safe and commands it.
    Comp 2.93 18 ...the heart of man might be bathed by an inundation of eternal love, conversing with that which he knows was always and always must be...
    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.
    Prd1 2.223 25 [Culture] sees prudence...to be...a name for wisdom and virtue conversing with the body and its wants.
    Pt1 3.36 14 Certain priests, whom [Swedenborg] describes as conversing very learnedly together, appeared to the children who were at some distance, like dead horses;...
    Exp 3.57 21 Something is earned...by conversing with so much folly and defect.
    Pol1 3.221 22 ...there are now men...more exactly, I will say, I have just been conversing with one man, to whom no weight of adverse experience will make it for a moment appear impossible that thousands of human beings might exercise towards each other the grandest and simplest sentiments...
    UGM 4.13 12 Looking where others look, and conversing with the same things, we catch the charm which lured them.
    PPh 4.64 15 [Plato] secures a position not to be commanded, by his passion for reality; valuing philosophy only as it is the pleasure of conversing with real being.
    PPh 4.67 3 With many...[said Socrates, the Daemon] does not prevent me from conversing, who yet are not at all benefited by associating with me.
    SwM 4.118 27 ...[Swedenborg's] profound mind admitted the perilous opinion...that he was an abnormal person, to whom was granted the privilege of conversing with angels and spirits;...
    Elo1 7.85 11 In any knot of men conversing on any subject, the person who knows most about it will have the ear of the company if he wishes it...
    Schr 10.273 21 Other men are...heaving and carrying, each that he may peacefully execute the fine function by which they all are helped. Shall [the scholar] play, whilst their eyes follow him from far with reverence, attributing to him the...conversing with supernatural allies?
    MAng1 12.242 2 In conversing upon this subject [death] with one of his friends, that person remarked that Michael [Angelo] might well grieve that one who was incessant in his creative labors should have no restoration.

conversion, n. (15)

    Nat 1.29 16 ...this conversion of an outward phenomenon into a type of somewhat in human life, never loses its power to affect us.
    AmS 1.115 9 ...for work...the conversion of the world.
    DSA 1.132 18 A true conversion...is...to be made by the reception of beautiful sentiments.
    MN 1.215 22 Tell me not how great your project is...[the world's] conversion into a Christian church...
    MR 1.256 21 The opening of the spiritual senses disposes men ever...to cast all things behind, in the insatiable thirst for divine communications. A purer fame, a greater power rewards the sacrifice. It is the conversion of our harvest into seed.
    OS 2.282 5 A certain tendency to insanity has always attended the opening of the religious sense in men, as if they had been blasted with excess of light. The trances of Socrates...the conversion of Paul...are of this kind.
    Int 2.336 21 ...the power of picture or expression...implies...a certain control over the spontaneous states, without which no production is possible. It is a conversion of all nature into the rhetoric of thought...
    SwM 4.106 16 The thoughts in which [Swedenborg] lived were, the universality of each law in nature;...the version or conversion of each into other, and so the correspondence of all the parts;...
    SwM 4.138 20 To what a painful perversion had Gothic theology arrived, that Swedenborg admitted no conversion for evil spirits!
    F 6.29 25 There can be no driving force except through the conversion of the man into his will...
    Wsp 6.210 3 What [proof of infidelity], like the facility of conversion?
    PI 8.35 6 This contemporary insight is transubstantiation, the conversion of daily bread into the holiest symbols;...
    Elo2 8.130 11 ...such practical chemistry as the conversion of a truth written in God's language into a truth in Dunderhead's language, is one of the most beautiful and cogent weapons that are forged in the shop of the Divine Artificer.
    Comc 8.165 13 The Society in London...pestered the gallant rover [Capt. John Smith] with frequent solicitations...touching the conversion of the Indians...
    Schr 10.277 24 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;...

convert, v. (27)

    Nat 1.26 7 Children and savages use only nouns or names of things, which they convert into verbs...
    DSA 1.132 17 To aim to convert a man by miracles is a profanation of the soul.
    DSA 1.138 6 The capital secret of his profession, namely, to convert life into truth, [the preacher] had not learned.
    MR 1.256 25 ...the time will come when we too...shall eagerly convert more than we now possess into means and powers...
    Chr1 3.114 15 ...the mind requires...a force of character which will convert judge, jury, soldier and king;...
    Pol1 3.205 12 Cover up a pound of earth never so cunningly...convert it to gas; it will always weigh a pound;...
    UGM 4.8 22 ...plants convert the minerals into food for animals...
    PPh 4.67 26 There is no thought in any mind but it quickly tends to convert itself into a power and organizes a huge instrumentality of means.
    SwM 4.95 2 [The moral sentiment]...by inspiring the will, which is the seat of personality, seems to convert the universe into a person;...
    SwM 4.116 9 ...if we choose to express any natural truth in physical and definite vocal terms [says Swedenborg], and to convert these terms only into the corresponding and spiritual terms, we shall...elicit a spiritual truth or theological dogma...
    SwM 4.138 22 ...the carrion in the sun will convert itself to grass and flowers;...
    Ctr 6.166 8 [Man] is to convert all impediments into instruments...
    Ctr 6.166 16 ...there is nothing [the human being] will not overcome and convert...
    Ctr 6.166 18 [Man] will convert the Furies into Muses...
    CbW 6.259 21 ...there is...no plant that is not fed from manures. We only insist...that the plant grow upward and convert the base into the better nature.
    Elo1 7.97 20 ...[the eloquent man] is to convert [the people] into fiery apostles and publishers of the same wisdom.
    DL 7.130 15 Why should we convert ourselves into showmen and appendages to our fine houses and our works of art?
    Suc 7.289 27 Nature knows how to convert evil to good;...
    PI 8.34 16 The...measure of poetic genius is the power...to convert those [superstitions] of the nineteenth century and of the existing nations into universal symbols.
    PI 8.34 23 ...to convert the vivid energies acting at this hour in New York and Chicago and San Francisco, into universal symbols, requires a subtile and commanding thought.
    SA 8.92 18 ...speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel.
    Comc 8.165 8 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...
    Comc 8.165 19 Smith...sent out a party into the swamp, caught an Indian, and sent him home in the first ship to London, telling the Society they might convert one themselves.
    Aris 10.54 9 The more familiar examples of this power [of eloquence] certainly are those...who think, and paint, and laugh, and weep, in their eloquent closets, and then convert the world into a huge whispering-gallery...
    Koss 11.400 25 Sir [Kossuth]...we congratulate you that you have known how to convert calamities into powers...
    PLT 12.43 2 The highest measure of poetic power is such insight and faculty to fuse the circumstances of to-day as shall make transparent the whole web of circumstance and opinion in which the man finds himself, so that he...sees so truly the omnipresence of eternal cause that he can convert the daily and hourly event of New York, of Boston, into universal symbols.
    II 12.72 14 One master could so easily be conceived as writing all the books of the world. They are all alike. For [Inspiration] is a power to convert all Nature to his use.

converted, v. (25)

    Nat 1.41 15 In God, every end is converted into a new means.
    Nat 1.46 19 ...when [our friend] has...become an object of thought, and...is converted in the mind into solid and sweet wisdom, - it is a sign to us that his office is closing...
    AmS 1.96 2 A strange process too, this by which experience is converted into thought...
    AmS 1.96 3 A strange process too, this by which experience is converted into thought, as a mulberry leaf is converted into satin.
    MN 1.222 21 Do what you know, and perception is converted into character...
    MR 1.239 8 ...[the heir] is converted from the owner into a watchman or a watch-dog to this magazine of old and new chattels.
    Mrs1 3.144 9 ...here is...Reverend Jul Bat, who has converted the whole torrid zone in his Sunday school;...
    MoS 4.164 15 In the civil wars of the League, which converted every house into a fort, Montaigne kept his gates open and his house without defence.
    ShP 4.217 12 [Shakespeare] converted the elements which waited on his command, into entertainments.
    GoW 4.275 8 ...by varying the conditions, a leaf may be converted into any other organ...
    ET1 5.9 21 [Landor] has a wonderful brain, despotic, violent and inexhaustible, meant for a soldier, by what chance converted to letters;...
    ET4 5.72 15 In the Danish invasions the marauders seized upon horses where they landed, and were at once converted into a body of expert cavalry.
    ET11 5.182 3 ...most of the historical [English] houses are masked or lost in the modern uses to which trade or charity has converted them.
    Elo1 7.68 24 ...listen to a poor Irishwoman recounting some experience of hers. Her speech flows like a river...such justice done to all the parts! It is a true transubstantiation,--the fact converted into speech...
    Boks 7.198 12 You find in [Plato] that which you have already found in Homer...the poet converted to a philosopher...
    SA 8.106 1 ...what lessons can be devised for the debauchee of sentiment? Was ever one converted?
    Res 8.147 26 ...we have noted examples among our orators, who have... handled and controlled, and...converted a malignant mob, by superior manhood...
    Comc 8.165 10 The Society in London which had contributed their means to convert the savages, hoping doubtless to see the...Roaring Thunders and Tustanuggees of that day converted into church-wardens and deacons at least, pestered the gallant rover [Capt. John Smith] with frequent solicitations...touching the conversion of the Indians...
    Schr 10.282 24 ...it is the end of eloquence...to persuade a multitude of persons to...change the course of life. They go forth not the men they came in, but shriven, convicted and converted.
    Thor 10.465 8 I have repeatedly known young men of sensibility converted in a moment to the belief that this [Thoreau] was the man they were in search of...
    War 11.167 6 At a still higher stage, [man] comes into the region of holiness;...his warlike nature is all converted into an active medicinal principle;...
    EPro 11.317 26 When we consider the immense opposition that has been neutralized or converted by the progress of the war...one can hardly say the deliberation [on the Emancipation Proclamation] was too long.
    SMC 11.351 6 The art of the architect and the sense of the town have made these dumb stones [of the Concord Monument] speak; have...converted these elements from a secular to a sacred and spiritual use;...
    EurB 12.374 20 ...Zanoni pains us and the author loses our respect... because the power with which his hero is armed is a toy, inasmuch as the power...is a power for London; a divine power converted into a burglar's false key...
    Let 12.398 5 ...the noblest youths are in a few years converted into pale Caryatides...

convertibility, n. (2)

    Bty 6.304 7 The feat of the imagination is in showing the convertibility of every thing into every other thing.
    SovE 10.183 12 That convertibility we so admire in plants and animal structures, whereby the repairs and ulterior uses are subserved, when one part is wounded or deficient, by another; this self-help and self-creation proceed from the same original power which works remotely in grandest and meanest structures by the same design...

convertible, adj. (9)

    ET14 5.232 8 [The English]...never are surprised into a covert or witty word, such as pleased the Athenians and Italians, and was convertible into a fable not long after;...
    F 6.32 2 ...every jet of chaos which threatens to exterminate us is convertible by intellect into wholesome force.
    Bty 6.283 26 ...we prize very humble utilities, a prudent husband, a good son...and perhaps reckon only his money value...as a sort of bill of exchange easily convertible into fine chambers...
    Art2 7.52 19 The laws of each art are convertible into the laws of every other.
    PI 8.23 16 We are advertised...that every thing is convertible into every other.
    Comc 8.162 5 A rogue alive to the ludicrous is still convertible.
    Supl 10.177 20 A bag of sequins...a single horse, constitute an estate in countries where insecure institutions make every one desirous of concealable and convertible property.
    SovE 10.183 3 Since the discovery of Oersted that galvanism and electricity and magnetism are only forms of one and the same force, and convertible into each other, we have continually suggested to us a larger generalization...
    ACri 12.300 3 Idealism regards the world as symbolic, and all these symbols or forms as fugitive and convertible expressions.

converting, v. (6)

    Hist 2.18 9 The trivial experience of every day is always...converting into things the words and signs which we had heard and seen without heed.
    SL 2.142 21 Foolish, whenever you take the meanness and formality of that thing you do, instead of converting it into the obedient spiracle of your character and aims.
    Wth 6.93 9 Men of sense esteem wealth to be...the converting of the sap and juices of the planet to the incarnation and nutriment of their design.
    Wsp 6.205 21 King Olaf's mode of converting Eyvind to Christianity was to put a pan of glowing coals on his belly...
    CbW 6.262 21 Nature...works up every shred and ort and end into new creations; like a good chemist whom I found the other day in his laboratory, converting his old shirts into pure white sugar.
    FSLN 11.227 15 [The Fugitive Slave Law] was the question...whether the Negro shall be...a piece of money? Whether this system, which is a kind of mill or factory for converting men into monkeys, shall be upheld and enlarged?

converts, n. (3)

    Cir 2.317 6 Forgive his crimes, forgive his virtues too,/ Those smaller faults, half converts to the right./
    LS 11.13 5 [Early Christian religious feasts] were readily adopted by the Jewish converts...
    LS 11.13 6 [Early Christian religious feasts] were readily adopted by the Jewish converts...and also by the Pagan converts...

converts, v. (19)

    YA 1.378 10 ...[Trade] converts Government into an Intelligence-Office...
    Prd1 2.231 17 We call partial half-lights, by courtesy, genius; talent which converts itself to money;...
    Cir 2.311 8 We all stand waiting, empty...surrounded by mighty symbols which are not symbols to us, but prose and trivial toys. Then cometh the god and converts the statues into fiery men...
    Nat2 3.172 18 The fall of snowflakes in a still air...the musical, steaming, odorous south wind, which converts all trees to wind-harps;...these are the music and pictures of the most ancient religion.
    Nat2 3.175 3 [A boy] hears the echoes of a horn in a hill country...which converts the mountains into an Aeolian harp...
    Nat2 3.193 26 To the intelligent, nature converts itself into a vast promise...
    UGM 4.8 23 ...each man converts some raw material in nature to human use.
    PPh 4.43 21 ...a philosopher converts the value of all his fortunes into his intellectual performances.
    ET5 5.95 7 The agriculturist Bakewell created sheep and cows and horses to order, and breeds in which every thing was omitted but what is economical. The cow is sacrificed to her bag, the ox to his sirloin. Stall-feeding... converts the stable to a chemical factory.
    F 6.39 4 ...the first cell converts itself into stomach, mouth, nose, or nail, according to the want;...
    Elo1 7.73 25 [Pleasing speech] is heard like a band of music passing through the streets, which converts all the passengers into poets...
    WD 7.178 5 A snake converts whatever prey the meadow yields him into snake;...
    Clbs 7.240 13 What can you do with Beaumarchais, who converts the censor whom the court has appointed to stifle his play into an ardent advocate?
    Clbs 7.240 19 The court successively appoints three more severe inquisitors; Beaumarchais converts them all into triumphant vindicators of the play which is to bring in the Revolution.
    PI 8.14 1 [A new symbol] satiates, transports, converts [men].
    Chr2 10.95 23 [The moral sentiment] puts us at the heart of Nature, where we belong...and so converts us into universal beings.
    SovE 10.212 26 ...with what power [innocence] converts evil accidents into benefits;...
    EdAd 11.389 7 We have a bad war, many victories, each of which converts the country into an immense chanticleer;...
    Trag 12.416 22 The intellect is a consoler, which delights in detaching or putting an interval between a man and his fortune, and so converts the sufferer into a spectator and his pain into poetry.

convervatism, n. (1)

    Elo1 7.95 16 ...wherever the fresh moral sentiment, the instinct of freedom and duty, come in direct opposition to fossil conservatism and the thirst of gain, the spark will pass.

convex, adj. (1)

    Exp 3.51 1 Of what use is genius, if the organ is too convex or too concave...

convey, v. (35)

    Nat 1.26 9 ...this origin of all words that convey a spiritual import...is our least debt to nature.
    Nat 1.32 9 ...how great a language to convey such pepper-corn informations!
    AmS 1.82 18 It is one of those fables which out of an unknown antiquity convey an unlooked-for wisdom, that the gods...divided Man into men...
    LT 1.279 5 I cannot find language of sufficient energy to convey my sense of the sacredness of private integrity.
    Tran 1.358 20 Perhaps too there might be room [in society] for the exciters and monitors; collectors of the heavenly spark, with power to convey the electricity to others.
    SL 2.134 27 Could ever a man of prodigious mathematical genius convey to others any insight into his methods?
    SL 2.160 11 The lesson which these observations convey is, Be, and not seem.
    Art1 2.352 4 ...that abridgment and selection we observe in all spiritual activity...is the inlet of that higher illumination which teaches to convey a larger sense by simpler symbols.
    Art1 2.352 16 ...the artist must employ the symbols in use in his day and nation to convey his enlarged sense to his fellow-men.
    Art1 2.366 15 Men are not well pleased with the figure they make in their own imaginations, and...convey their better sense in an oratorio, a statue, or a picture.
    Gts 3.161 5 ...we might convey to some person that which properly belonged to his character...
    NR 3.231 2 Proverbs, words and grammar-inflections convey the public sense with more purity and precision than the wisest individual.
    UGM 4.6 19 It costs no more for a wise soul to convey his quality to other men.
    ET15 5.271 9 Many of [Punch's] caricatures...will convey to the eye in an instant the popular view which was taken of each turn of public affairs.
    ET16 5.273 19 On Friday, 7th July, we [Emerson and Carlyle] took the South Western Railway through Hampshire to Salisbury, where we found a carriage to convey us to Amesbury.
    Bhr 6.172 9 ...when we think...what high lessons and inspiring tokens of character [manners] convey...we see what range the subject has...
    Civ 7.22 11 Another step in civility is the change from war, hunting and pasturage, to agriculture. Our Scandinavian forefathers have left us a significant legend to convey their sense of the importance of this step.
    Boks 7.205 5 [Horace, Tacitus, Martial] will bring [the student] to Gibbon, who will...convey him with abundant entertainment down...through fourteen hundred years of time.
    PI 8.65 3 The poet who shall use Nature as his hieroglyphic must have an adequate message to convey thereby.
    Elo2 8.124 25 Ought not the scholar to be able to convey his meaning in terms as short and strong as the porter or truckman uses to convey his?
    Elo2 8.124 26 Ought not the scholar to be able to convey his meaning in terms as short and strong as the porter or truckman uses to convey his?
    Insp 8.274 9 ...where is the Franklin with kite or rod for this fluid [inspiration]?-a Franklin who can draw off electricity from Jove himself, and convey it into the arts of life...
    Grts 8.309 5 ...the rule of the orator begins...when his deep conviction, and the right and necessity he feels to convey that conviction to his audience,- when these shine and burn in his address;...
    Aris 10.39 15 I wish...men who...can feel and convey the sense which is only collectively or totally expressed by a population;...
    Aris 10.65 20 I do not know whether that word Gentleman...is a sufficiently broad generalization to convey the deep and grave fact of self-reliance.
    Edc1 10.145 7 Baffled for want of language and methods to convey his meaning, not yet clear to himself, [the child] conceives that though not in this house or town, yet in some other house or town is the wise master who can put him in possession of the rules and instruments to execute his will.
    Edc1 10.147 21 Letter by letter, syllable by syllable, the child learns to read, and in good time can convey to all the domestic circle the sense of Shakspeare.
    Supl 10.164 19 From want of skill to convey quality, we hope to move admiration by quantity.
    LS 11.14 20 ...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.
    EdAd 11.393 10 The name [Massachusetts Quarterly Review] might convey the impression of a book of criticism...
    Wom 11.406 14 [Women] learn so fast and convey the result so fast as to outrun the logic of their slow brother...
    CL 12.164 3 Nature speaks to the imagination; first, through her grand style,-the hint of immense force and unity which her works convey;...
    ACri 12.285 11 Ought not the scholar to convey his meaning in terms as short and strong as the smith and the drover use to convey theirs?
    ACri 12.285 13 Ought not the scholar to convey his meaning in terms as short and strong as the smith and the drover use to convey theirs?
    ACri 12.290 18 A good writer must convey the feeling of a flamboyant witness, and at the same time of chemic selection...

conveyance, n. (2)

    Pt1 3.34 18 ...all language is vehicular and transitive, and is good, as ferries and horses are, for conveyance...
    DL 7.109 25 ...some things each man buys without hesitation; if it were only...conveyance in carriages and boats...

conveyancing, n. (1)

    ET14 5.254 3 ...for the most part the natural science in England...is as void of imagination and free play of thought as conveyancing.

conveyed, v. (13)

    Nat 1.47 2 Thus is the unspeakable but intelligible and practicable meaning of the world conveyed to man...in every object of sense.
    Int 2.335 17 ...[the thought] needs a vehicle or art by which it is conveyed to men.
    Gts 3.161 19 ...it restores society in so far to the primary basis, when a man' s biography is conveyed in his gift...
    Pol1 3.208 6 What satire on government can equal the severity of censure conveyed in the word politic, which now for ages has signified cunning...
    UGM 4.15 25 Shakspeare's principal merit may be conveyed in saying that he of all men best understands the English language...
    SwM 4.128 17 I know how delicious is this cup of love...but it is a child's clinging to his toy; an attempt...to keep the picture-alphabet through which our first lessons are prettily conveyed.
    ET12 5.210 21 ...in general, here [at Oxford]...the knowledge pretended to be conveyed was conveyed.
    Wsp 6.226 27 What I am and what I think is conveyed to you, in spite of my efforts to hold it back.
    Wsp 6.227 2 What I am has been secretly conveyed from me to another, whilst I was vainly making up my mind to tell him it.
    PI 8.5 26 ...we see...that the secret cords or laws show their well-known virtue through every variety...and the interest is gradually transferred from the forms to the lurking method. This hint, however conveyed, upsets our politics, trade...
    PPo 8.243 7 Gnomic verses, rules of life conveyed in a lively image...were always current in the East;...
    Imtl 8.326 10 No more truth can be conveyed than the popular mind can bear...
    JBS 11.276 24 But though they slew him with the sword,/ And in the fire his touchstone burned,/ Its doings could not be o'erturned,/ Its undoings restored./ And when, to stop all future harm,/ They strewed its ashes to the breeze,/ They little guessed each grain of these/ Conveyed the perfect charm./ William Allingham.

conveying, adj. (1)

    CL 12.148 13 Our Aryan progenitors in Asia celebrated the winds as the conveying Maruts...

conveying, v. (1)

    ShP 4.217 5 Shakspeare, Homer, Dante, Chaucer...knew that a tree had another use than for apples...and the ball of the earth, than for tillage and roads: that these things bore a second and finer harvest to the mind... conveying in all their natural history a certain mute commentary on human life.

conveys, v. (5)

    Comp 2.96 8 If a man dogmatize in a mixed company on Providence and the divine laws, he is answered by a silence which conveys well enough to an observer the dissatisfaction of the hearer, but his incapacity to make his own statement.
    Art1 2.367 16 [Men] eat and drink, that they may afterwards execute the ideal. Thus is art vilified; the name conveys to the mind its secondary and bad senses;...
    SwM 4.142 24 ...[Behmen]...listens awe-struck, with the gentlest humanity, to the Teacher whose lessons he conveys;...
    Elo1 7.97 25 ...[the moral sentiment] conveys a hint of our eternity...
    LS 11.17 2 You say, every time you celebrate the rite [the Lord's Supper], that Jesus enjoined it; and the whole language you use conveys that impression.

convict, v. (1)

    Comp 2.100 13 If you make the criminal code sanguinary, juries will not convict.

convicted, v. (6)

    NER 3.273 23 What is it we heartily wish of each other? Is it to be pleased and flattered? No, but to be convicted and exposed...
    NER 3.277 1 ...every man at heart...wishes to be convicted of his error...
    ET15 5.269 21 ...I read, among the daily announcements [in the London Times], one offering a reward of fifty pounds to any person who would put a nobleman, described by name and title...into any county jail in England, he having been convicted of obtaining money under false pretences.
    ET18 5.300 21 Men and women were convicted [in England] of poisoning scores of children for burial-fees.
    Schr 10.282 24 ...it is the end of eloquence...to persuade a multitude of persons to...change the course of life. They go forth not the men they came in, but shriven, convicted and converted.
    LLNE 10.331 25 It was remarked that for a man who threw out so many facts [Everett] was seldom convicted of a blunder.

convicting, v. (1)

    Comp 2.95 13 The blindness of the preacher consisted in deferring to the base estimate of the market of what constitutes a manly success, instead of confronting and convicting the world from the truth;...

conviction, n. (63)

    AmS 1.91 25 [The best books] impress us with the conviction that one nature wrote and the same reads.
    DSA 1.135 22 ...you will infer the sad conviction...of the universal decay... of faith in society.
    MR 1.248 27 The power which is at once spring and regulator in all efforts of reform is the conviction that there is an infinite worthiness in man...
    LT 1.276 20 I think that the soul of reform; the conviction that not sensualism, not slavery...are needed...
    LT 1.281 16 ...Pestalozzi...recorded his conviction that the amelioration of outward circumstances will be the effect but can never be the means of mental and moral improvement.
    Tran 1.337 23 The Buddhist...who, in his conviction that every good deed can by no possibility escape its reward, will not deceive the benefactor by pretending that he has done more than he should, is a Transcendentalist.
    Hist 2.8 25 ...[each man] must transfer the point of view from which history is commonly read...to himself, and not deny his conviction that he is the court...
    SR 2.45 10 Speak your latent conviction...
    SR 2.46 12 There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance;...
    SL 2.157 11 It was this conviction which Swedenborg expressed when he described a group of persons in the spiritual world endeavoring in vain to articulate a proposition which they did not believe;...
    OS 2.293 3 [God's presence] inspires in man an infallible trust. He has not the conviction, but the sight, that the best is the true...
    Cir 2.309 13 Valor consists in the power of self-recovery, so that a man... cannot be out-generalled, but put him where you will, he stands. This can only be by...the intrepid conviction that his laws...may at any time be superseded...
    Exp 3.82 17 In Flaxman's drawing of the Eumenides of Aeschylus, Orestes supplicates Apollo, whilst the Furies sleep on the threshold. The face of the god expresses a shade of regret and compassion, but is calm with the conviction of the irreconcilableness of the two spheres.
    NER 3.281 16 I believe it is the conviction of the purest men that the net amount of man and man does not much vary.
    UGM 4.31 24 ...true art is only possible on the conviction that every talent has its apotheosis somewhere.
    NMW 4.241 19 [Napoleon's] real strength lay in [the people's] conviction that he was their representative in his genius and aims...
    ET4 5.61 6 ...decent and dignified men now existing boast their descent from these filthy thieves [the Normans], who showed a far juster conviction of their own merits, by assuming for their types the swine, goat, jackal...
    ET7 5.121 26 [The English] require the same adherence, thorough conviction and reality, in public men.
    Wsp 6.232 17 The conviction that his work is dear to God and cannot be spared, defends [a man].
    Wsp 6.239 9 'T is a higher thing to confide that if it is best we should live, we shall live,--'t is higher to have this conviction than to have the lease of indefinite centuries and millenniums and aeons.
    Ill 6.319 18 ...who has...come to the conviction that what seems the succession of thought is only the distribution of wholes into causal series?
    Ill 6.323 9 At the top or at the bottom of all illusions, I set the cheat which still leads us to work and live for appearances; in spite of our conviction, in all sane hours, that it is what we really are that avails with friends, with strangers, and with fate or fortune.
    Art2 7.46 21 It is a curious proof of our conviction that the artist does not feel himself to be the parent of his work...that we are so unwilling to impute our best sense of any work of art to the author.
    Art2 7.51 25 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.
    Elo1 7.92 19 ...in cases where profound conviction has been wrought, the eloquent man is he...who is inwardly drunk with a certain belief.
    Elo1 7.93 4 ...the main distinction between [the eloquent man] and other well-graced actors is the conviction...that his mind is contemplating a whole...
    Elo1 7.94 24 If you would correct my false view of facts,--hold up to me the same facts in the true order of thought, and I cannot go back from the new conviction.
    Boks 7.193 22 ...I can seldom go there [to the Cambridge Library] without renewing the conviction that the best of it all is already within the four walls of my study at home.
    Clbs 7.234 14 ...the ground of our indignation is our conviction that [yonder man's] dissent is some wilfulness he practises on himself.
    Cour 7.264 18 Courage...consists in the conviction that the agents with whom you contend are not superior in strength of resources or spirit to you.
    PI 8.5 11 Thin or solid, everything is in flight. I believe this conviction makes the charm of chemistry...
    SA 8.100 20 There is in America a general conviction in the minds of all mature men, that every young man of good faculty and good habits can by perseverance attain to an adequate estate;...
    SA 8.104 16 We have come...to know...the good will that is in the people, their conviction of the great moral advantages of freedom...
    PC 8.228 24 It was the conviction of Plato...that piety is an essential condition of science...
    Grts 8.309 4 ...the rule of the orator begins...when his deep conviction, and the right and necessity he feels to convey that conviction to his audience,- when these shine and burn in his address;...
    Grts 8.309 5 ...the rule of the orator begins...when his deep conviction, and the right and necessity he feels to convey that conviction to his audience,- when these shine and burn in his address;...
    Imtl 8.322 2 Mute orator! well skilled to plead,/ And send conviction without phrase,/ Thou dost succor and remede/ The shortness of our days,/ And promise, on thy Founder's truth,/ Long morrow to this mortal youth./ Monadnoc.
    Imtl 8.329 17 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;...
    Imtl 8.337 14 The love of life...seems to indicate...a conviction of immense resources and possibilities proper to us...
    Dem1 10.27 20 ...I think the numberless forms in which this superstition [demonology] has reappeared...betrays [man's] conviction that behind all your explanations is a vast and potent and living Nature...
    PerF 10.77 11 My conviction of principles,-that is great part of my possessions.
    SovE 10.201 12 ...up comes a man with...a knotty sentence from St. Paul, which he considers as the axe at the root of your tree. ... Let him know by your security that your conviction is clear and sufficient...
    Schr 10.265 17 ...at a single strain of a bugle out of a grove...the poet replaces all this cowardly Self-denial and God-denial of the literary class with the conviction that to one poetic success the world will surrender on its knees.
    LLNE 10.368 3 [The members of Brook Farm] expressed...the conviction that plain dealing was the best defence of manners and moral between the sexes.
    SlHr 10.441 23 ...[Samuel Hoar] sometimes wearied his audience with the pains he took to qualify and verify his statements, adding clause on clause to do justice to all his conviction.
    Thor 10.468 27 I think [Thoreau's] fancy for referring everything to the meridian of Concord...was...a playful expression of his conviction of the indifferency of all places...
    LVB 11.94 15 One circumstance lessens the reluctance with which I intrude at this time on your [Van Buren's] attention my conviction that the government ought to be admonished of a new historical fact...
    War 11.171 1 This [aspiration towards peace] is not to be carried by public opinion, but by private opinion, by private conviction...
    War 11.171 24 The attractiveness of war shows one thing...this namely, the conviction of man universally, that a man should be himself responsible... for his behavior;...
    War 11.174 2 [The man of principle] is willing to be hanged at his own gate, rather than consent to...the suppression of his conviction.
    ACiv 11.301 24 ...the eager interest of the few overpowers the apathetic general conviction of the many.
    ACiv 11.306 3 We fancy that the endless debate...has brought the free states to some conviction that it can never go well with us whilst this mischief of slavery remains in our politics...
    SMC 11.354 22 Every man was an abolitionist by conviction, but did not believe that his neighbor was.
    SMC 11.365 10 ...the regimental officers believed, what is now the general conviction of the country, that the misfortunes of the day [battle of Bull Run] were not so much owing to the fault of the troops as to the insufficiency of the combinations by the general officers.
    FRO2 11.490 3 I submit that in sound frame of mind, we read or remember the religious sayings and oracles of other men...only for joy in the social identity which they open to us, and that these words would have no weight with us if we had not the same conviction already.
    FRep 11.525 10 ...any disturbances in politics...sober [the American people], and instantly show more virtue and conviction in the popular vote.
    PLT 12.30 1 ...our deep conviction of the riches proper to every mind does not allow us to admit of much looking over into one another's virtues.
    PLT 12.50 22 The excess of individualism, when it is not...subordinated to the Supreme Reason, makes that vice which we stigmatize as monotones, men of one idea, or, as the French say, enfant perdu d'une conviction isolee...
    Mem 12.92 8 The old whim or perception was an augury of a broader insight, at which we arrive later with securer conviction.
    CL 12.136 17 Linnaeus, early in life, read a discourse at the University of Upsala on the necessity of travelling in one's own country, based on the conviction that Nature was inexhaustibly rich...
    MAng1 12.219 14 [Michelangelo] labored to express the beautiful, in the entire conviction that it was only to be attained by knowledge of the true.
    Milt1 12.277 13 [Milton's] own conviction it is which gives such authority to his strain.
    PPr 12.385 12 Worst of all for the party attacked, [Carlyle's Past and Present] bereaves them beforehand of all sympathy, by...impressing the reader with the conviction that the satirist himself has the truest love for everything old and excellent in English land and institutions...

convictions, n. (28)

    Nat 1.59 2 It appears that motion...and religion, all tend to affect our convictions of the reality of the external world.
    Nat2 3.193 25 Are we tickled trout, and fools of nature? One look at the face of heaven and earth...soothes us to wiser convictions.
    ShP 4.189 18 There is nothing whimsical and fantastic in [the poet's] production, but sweet and sad earnest, freighted with the weightiest convictions...which any man or class knows of in his times.
    ShP 4.204 19 Coleridge and Goethe are the only critics who have expressed our convictions [about Shakespeare] with any adequate fidelity...
    ShP 4.208 27 We have [Shakespeare's] recorded convictions on those questions which knock for answer at every heart...
    ET14 5.250 25 ...a master should inspire a confidence that he will adhere to his convictions...
    Civ 7.33 7 ...in Judaea, the advent of Jesus, and, in modern Christendom, of the realists Huss, Savonarola and Luther,--are casual facts which carry forward races to new convictions...
    Elo1 7.64 22 ...the end of eloquence is...to alter...perhaps in a half hour's discourse, the convictions and habits of years.
    Elo1 7.80 23 ...each man inquires if any orator can change his convictions.
    OA 7.320 21 Universal convictions are not to be shaken by the whimseys of overfed butchers and firemen...
    PC 8.218 10 If a theologian of deep convictions and strong understanding carries his country with him, like Luther, the state becomes Lutheran, in spite of the Emperor;...
    PC 8.229 20 The miracles of genius always rest on profound convictions which refuse to be analyzed.
    PC 8.233 14 The age has new convictions.
    Aris 10.53 7 A man who has that possession of his means and that magnetism that he can at all times carry the convictions of a public assembly, we must respect...
    Chr2 10.96 27 Devout men, in the endeavor to express their convictions, have used different images to suggest this latent [moral] force;...
    Chr2 10.112 7 The laws of old empires stood on the religious convictions.
    SovE 10.207 24 If theology shows that opinions are fast changing, it is not so with the convictions of men with regard to conduct.
    Prch 10.218 10 ...[those persons in whom I am accustomed to look for tendency and progress] will not mask their convictions;...
    Prch 10.235 10 ...emphasize your choice by utter ignoring of all that you reject; seeing that opinions are temporary, but convictions uniform and eternal...
    Plu 10.311 6 ...[Plutarch's] extreme interest in every trait of character and his broad humanity, lead him constantly...to the study of the Beautiful and Good. Hence...his clear convictions of the high destiny of the soul.
    Thor 10.478 2 Thoreau...might fortify the convictions of prophets in the ethical laws by his holy living.
    GSt 10.505 17 When one remembers...his immovable convictions,-I think this single will [George Stearns] was worth to the cause ten thousand ordinary partisans...
    LS 11.17 13 I appeal now to the convictions of communicants [in the Lord' s Supper], and ask such persons whether they have not been occasionally conscious of a painful confusion of thought between the worship due to God and the commemoration due to Christ.
    LS 11.22 9 In the midst of considerations as to what Paul thought, and why he so thought, I cannot help feeling that it is time misspent to argue to or from his convictions, or those of Luke and John, respecting any form.
    HCom 11.344 1 ...when I see how irresistible the convictions of Massachusetts are in these swarming populations,-I think the little state bigger than I knew.
    EdAd 11.393 3 With these convictions, a few friends of good letters have thought fit to associate to associate themselves for the conduct of a new journal.
    FRep 11.515 10 When the cannon is aimed by ideas, when men with religious convictions are behind it...the better code of laws at last records the victory.
    Milt1 12.250 11 The lover of [Milton's] genius will always regret that he should [when writing the Defence of the English People] not...have written from the deep convictions of love and right...

convicts, n. (2)

    Pol1 3.211 5 ...the children of the convicts of Botany Bay are found to have as healthy a moral sentiment as other children.
    Chr2 10.118 7 The power that in other times inspired...the modern revivals, flies...to the reform of convicts and harlots...

convicts, v. (1)

    Grts 8.312 17 The great man loves the conversation or the book that convicts him...

convince, v. (10)

    MoS 4.181 11 The manners and thoughts of believers astonish [some minds] and convince them that these have seen something which is hid from themselves.
    ET3 5.41 2 I have seen a kratometric chart designed to show that the city of Philadelphia was...by inference in the same belt of empire, as the cities of Athens, Rome and London. It was drawn by a patriotic Philadelphian, and was examined with pleasure...by the inhabitants of Chestnut Street. But when carried to Charleston, to New Orleans and to Boston, it somehow failed to convince the ingenious scholars of all those capitals.
    ET14 5.247 27 The critic [in England] hides his skepticism under the English cant of practical. To convince the reason...is romantic pretension.
    Bhr 6.190 14 ...men do not convince by their argument...
    Elo1 7.97 16 It is not the people that are in fault for not being convinced, but he that cannot convince them.
    Elo2 8.130 6 He who would convince the worthy Mr. Dunderhead of any truth which Dunderhead does not see, must be a master of his art.
    PerF 10.70 7 See what your robust neighbor, who never feared to live in [the air], has got from it;...power to convince...
    FSLC 11.190 20 ...no reasonable person needs a quotation from Blackstone to convince him that white cannot be legislated to be black...
    ACiv 11.300 26 Can you convince the shoe interest, or the iron interest...by reading passages from Milton or Montesquieu?
    PLT 12.25 4 The moment a man begins not to be convinced, that moment he begins to convince.

convinced, v. (10)

    DSA 1.145 16 ...men can scarcely be convinced there is in them anything divine.
    Chr1 3.109 8 The most credible pictures are those of majestic men who prevailed at their entrance, and convinced the senses;...
    MoS 4.180 16 ...has [a man of earnest and burly habit] not a right to insist on being convinced in his own way?
    MoS 4.180 17 ...has [a man of earnest and burly habit] not a right to insist on being convinced in his own way? When he is convinced, he will be worth the pains.
    SS 7.3 5 I fell in with a humorist on my travels, who had in his chamber a cast of the Rondanini Medusa, and who assured me that...he was convinced that the sculptor who carved it intended it for Memory...
    Elo1 7.97 16 It is not the people that are in fault for not being convinced, but he that cannot convince them.
    PI 8.36 14 [The poet] is very well convinced that the great moments of life are those in which his own house, his own body...have been illuminated into prophets and teachers.
    QO 8.190 23 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.
    EWI 11.101 19 ...the oldest planters of Jamaica are convinced that it is cheaper to pay wages than to own the slave.
    PLT 12.25 4 The moment a man begins not to be convinced, that moment he begins to convince.

convinces, v. (1)

    Mrs1 3.150 21 ...by the firmness with which she treads her upward path, [woman] convinces the coarsest calculators that another road exists than that which their feet know.

convincing, v. (1)

    ALin 11.331 24 ...[Lincoln]...was excellent...in arguing his case and convincing you fairly and firmly.

convives, n. (1)

    Clbs 7.248 14 Plutarch, Xenophon and Plato, who have celebrated each a banquet of their set, have given us next to no data of the viands; and it is to be believed that an indifferent tavern dinner in such society was more relished by the convives than a much better one in worse company.

convivial, adj. (2)

    ET11 5.185 4 For the rest, the [English] nobility have the lead...in convivial and domestic hospitalities.
    Clbs 7.231 24 ...[the lover of letters] seeks the company of those who have convivial talent.

Convocation, n. (1)

    ET12 5.202 3 I saw the school-court or quadrangle [at Oxford] where, in 1683, the Convocation caused the Leviathan of Thomas Hobbes to be publicly burnt.

convolutions, n. (1)

    Con 1.300 17 Each of the convolutions of the sea-shell...marks one year of the fish's life;...

convoy, v. (1)

    OA 7.313 5 I know ye [clouds] skilful to convoy/ The total freight of hope and joy/ Into rude and homely nooks,/ Shed mocking lustres on shelf of books,/ On farmer's byre, on pasture rude,/ And stony pathway to the wood./

convulsed, v. (2)

    Nat2 3.196 24 ...wisdom is infused into every form. It has been poured into us as blood; it convulsed us as pain;...
    Supl 10.163 16 [Those who share the superlative temerpament] go tearing, convulsed through life...

convulsible, adj. (1)

    Cir 2.321 12 The great man is not convulsible or tormentable;...

convulsing, v. (1)

    Comc 8.174 6 When Carlini was convulsing Naples with laughter, a patient waited on a physician in that city, to obtain some remedy for excessive melancholy...

convulsion, n. (1)

    MoS 4.168 26 Montaigne...never shrieks, or protests, or prays: no weakness, no convulsion, no superlative...

convulsions, n. (6)

    SL 2.135 9 ...there is no need of struggles, convulsions, and despairs...
    OS 2.282 6 A certain tendency to insanity has always attended the opening of the religious sense in men, as if they had been blasted with excess of light. The trances of Socrates...the convulsions of George Fox and his Quakers...are of this kind.
    Cour 7.266 20 Plutarch relates that the Pythoness who tried to prophesy without command in the Temple at Delphi...fell into convulsions and died.
    Res 8.148 4 What can a poor truckman, who is hired to groan and to hiss, do, when the orator shakes him into convulsions of laughter so that he cannot throw his egg?
    Comc 8.162 15 So painfully susceptible are some men to these impressions [of halfness], that if a man of wit come into the room where they are, it seems to take them out of themselves with violent convulsions of the face and sides, and obstreperous roarings of the throat.
    PC 8.225 1 Every inch of the mountains is scarred by unimaginable convulsions...

convulsive, adj. (1)

    Hist 2.15 7 ...we have [the Greek national mind expressed] once again in sculpture...a multitude of forms...like votaries performing some religious dance before the gods, and, though in convulsive pain or mortal combat, never daring to break the figure and decorum of their dance.

cooed, v. (1)

    Lov1 2.173 21 The girls may have little beauty, yet plainly do they establish between them and the good boy the most agreeable, confiding relations; what with their fun and their earnest, about...when the singing-school would begin, and other nothings concerning which the parties cooed.

cook, n. (9)

    MR 1.237 25 ...now I feel some shame before my wood-chopper...and my cook...
    Hist 2.24 24 A sparse population and want [in the Grecian period] make every man his own valet, cook, butcher and soldier...
    SL 2.159 22 Can a cook, a Chiffinch, an Iachimo be mistaken for Zeno or Paul?
    Int 2.330 17 Do you think the porter and the cook have no anecdotes...for you?
    ET5 5.101 11 The chancellor carries England on his mace...the cook in the bowl of his spoon;...
    Pow 6.68 23 I remember a poor Malay cook on board a Liverpool packet...
    Wth 6.108 7 We must have joiner, locksmith, planter, priest, poet, doctor, cook, weaver, ostler; each in turn, through the year.
    LLNE 10.350 21 It takes sixteen hundred and eighty men to make one Man, complete in all the faculties; that is, to be sure that you have got a good joiner, a good cook...and so on.
    ACri 12.287 5 Into the exquisite refinement of his Academy, [Plato] introduces the low-born Socrates, relieving the purple diction by his perverse talk, his gallipots, and cook...

cook, v. (4)

    Nat2 3.190 9 ...bread and wine, mix and cook them how you will, leave us hungry and thirsty...
    Pow 6.78 19 The rule for hospitality and Irish 'help' is to have the same dinner every day throughout the year. At last, Mrs. O'Shaughnessy learns to cook it to a nicety...
    MoL 10.251 8 Learn...to cook your supper.
    Wom 11.417 26 There are plenty of people who believe women to be incapable of anything but to cook...

cooked, v. (3)

    F 6.37 21 [Man's] food is cooked when he arrives;...
    WD 7.173 4 Seldom and slowly the mask [of illusion] falls and the pupil is permitted to see that all is one stuff, cooked and painted under many counterfeit appearances.
    QO 8.201 7 [The individual] must draw the elements into him for food, and, if they be granite and silex, will prefer them cooked by sun and rain, by time and art, to his hand.

cookery, n. (1)

    PPh 4.59 26 ...[Plato's] finding that word cookery, and adulatory art, for rhetoric, in the Gorgias, does us a substantial service still.

cooking, v. (2)

    Comp 2.114 9 It is best...to buy...in the house, good sense applied to cooking, sewing, serving;...
    CbW 6.275 21 A man of wit was asked, in the train, what was his errand in the city. He replied, I have been sent to procure an angel to do cooking.

Cooks, James, n. (1)

    Wth 6.96 18 It is the interest of all that there should be...Captain Cooks to voyage round the world...

Cook's, James, v. (1)

    QO 8.203 8 The earliest describers of savage life, as Captain Cook's account of the Society Islands...have a charm of truth...

cooks, n. (4)

    UGM 4.16 13 The indicators of the values of matter are degraded to a sort of cooks and confectioners, on the appearance of the indicators of ideas.
    PPh 4.55 9 ...[Plato] fortified himself by drawing all his illustrations from sources disdained by orators and polite conversers;...from cooks and criers;...
    ET5 5.80 14 ...[the English] have a supreme eye to facts, and theirs is...the logic of cooks, carpenters and chemists...
    EWI 11.130 3 ...I see...poor black men of obscure employment as mariners, cooks or stewards, in ships, yet citizens of this our Commonwealth of Massachusetts,-freeborn as we,-whom the slave-laws of the States of South Carolina and Georgia and Louisiana have arrested in the vessels in which they visited those ports...

cool, adj. (20)

    DSA 1.119 11 The cool night bathes the world as with a river...
    LE 1.163 4 ...in the cool breeze that sings out of these northern mountains... behold Charles the Fifth's day;...
    SR 2.71 21 How far off, how cool, how chaste the persons look...
    Int 2.326 12 Intellect...sees an object as it stands in the light of science, cool and disengaged.
    Nat2 3.183 4 The cool disengaged air of natural objects makes them enviable to us...
    NR 3.234 18 Lively boys write to their ear and eye, and the cool reader finds nothing but sweet jingles in it.
    NR 3.235 18 Thus we settle it in our cool libraries, that all the agents with which we deal are subalterns...
    PPh 4.71 8 [Socrates] was a cool fellow...
    MoS 4.154 3 Keep cool: it will be all one a hundred years hence.
    MoS 4.155 8 ...[the skeptic] stands for...a cool head and whatever serves to keep it cool;...
    MoS 4.155 9 ...[the skeptic] stands for...a cool head and whatever serves to keep it cool;...
    Elo1 7.74 8 There is the glib tongue and cool self-possession of the salesman in a large shop...
    Elo1 7.80 11 ...among our cool and calculating people...there is a good deal of skepticism as to extraordinary influence.
    Cour 7.264 14 The school-boy is daunted before his tutor by a question of arithmetic, because he does not yet command the simple steps of the solution which the boy beside him has mastered. These once seen, he is as cool as Archimedes...
    PI 8.28 22 ...Quarles, after he was quite cool, wrote Emblems.
    SA 8.85 20 Keep cool, and you command everybody, said Saint-Just;...
    Aris 10.37 11 We like cool people...
    MMEm 10.429 12 [Mary Moody Emerson wrote] Tedious indisposition:- hoped, as it took a new form, it would open the cool, sweet grave.
    Bost 12.185 18 [Boston] is not a country of luxury or of pictures; of snows rather, of east winds and changing skies; visited by icebergs, which, floating by, nip with their cool breath our blossoms.
    Trag 12.413 9 We must walk as guests in Nature; not impassioned, but cool and disengaged.

cool, v. (3)

    Con 1.300 26 ...the solid columnar stem, which lifts that bank of foliage into the air...to cool us with its shade, is the gift and legacy of dead and buried years.
    Fdsp 2.196 17 Shall we fear to cool our love by mining for the metaphysical foundation of this Elysian temple?
    Art1 2.349 7 ...Let spouting fountains cool the air,/ Singing in the sun-baked square./

coolies, n. (1)

    Farm 7.142 23 Who are the farmer's servants? Not the Irish, nor the coolies...

coolly, adv. (3)

    YA 1.381 21 On one side is agricultural chemistry, coolly exposing the nonsense of our spendthrift agriculture...
    Clbs 7.239 2 It happened many years ago that an American chemist carried a letter of introduction to Dr. Dalton of Manchester, England...and was coolly enough received by the doctor in the laboratory where he was engaged.
    Comc 8.161 1 ...Falstaff...is a character of the broadest comedy...coolly ignoring the Reason, whilst he invokes its name...

coolness, n. (3)

    MR 1.255 17 An Arabian poet describes his hero by saying, Sunshine was he/ In the winter day;/ And in the midsummer/ Coolness and shade./
    Mrs1 3.137 17 ...coolness and absence of heat and haste indicate fine qualities.
    Wth 6.99 19 Property is an intellectual production. The game requires coolness, right reasoning, promptness and patience in the players.

cools, v. (4)

    UGM 4.16 17 Genius...by acquainting us with new fields of activity, cools our affection for the old.
    F 6.15 25 The face of the planet cools and dries...
    PPo 8.255 20 Once flees [the phoenix] upward, he will perch/ On Tuba's golden bough;/ His home is on that fruited arch/ Which cools the blest below.
    Insp 8.278 22 Herrick said: 'T is not every day that I/ Fitted am to prophesy;/ No, but when the spirit fills/ The fantastic panicles,/ Full of fire, then I write/ As the Godhead doth indite./ Thus enraged, my lines are hurled,/ Like the Sibyl's, through the world;/ Look how next the holy fire/ Either slakes, or doth retire;/ So the fancy cools,-till when/ That brave spirit comes again./

coon, adj. (1)

    Clbs 7.246 12 I knew a scholar...who said that he liked, in a barroom, to tell a few coon stories...

coop, n. (1)

    MoS 4.157 9 [The skeptic says] Why think to shut up all things in your narrow coop...

coop, v. (1)

    SS 7.10 18 ...coop up most men and you undo them.

Cooper, Anthony [Earl of S (1)

    ET13 5.229 17 Lord Shaftesbury calls the poor thieves together and reads sermons to them, and they call it gas.

Cooper, James Fenimore, n. (1)

    OA 7.335 3 [John Adams] spoke of the new novels of Cooper...with praise...

cooperate, v. (2)

    Chr2 10.121 6 In a sensible family...all conspire and joyfully cooperate.
    ACiv 11.310 11 ...President Lincoln has proposed to Congress that the government shall cooperate with any state that shall enact a gradual abolishment of slavery.

cooperated, v. (1)

    Prch 10.225 1 ...when [a man] shall act from one motive, and all his faculties play true, it is clear mathematically...that this will tell in the result as if twenty men had cooperated...

cooperates, v. (2)

    Chr1 3.95 11 [Character] is a natural power...and all nature cooperates with it.
    GoW 4.262 14 The facts do not lie in [the memory] inert; but some subside and others shine; so that we soon have a new picture, composed of the eminent experiences. The man cooperates.

cooperating, v. (2)

    Tran 1.333 14 Although in his action overpowered by the laws of action, and so, warmly co-operating with men...yet when he speaks...after the order of thought, [the idealist] is constrained to degrade persons into representatives of truths.
    Comp 2.125 15 ...to us...resisting, not cooperating with the divine expansion, this growth comes by shocks.

co-operation, n. [cooperation,] (14)

    MoS 4.179 17 Shall I add, as one juggle of this enchantment, the stunning non-intercourse law which makes co-operation impossible?
    MoS 4.181 22 Charitable souls come with their projects and ask [the spiritualist's] co-operation.
    GoW 4.270 19 [Goethe] appears at a time...when...a social comfort and cooperation have come in.
    ET14 5.238 2 The manner in which [the English] learned Greek and Latin... by lectures of a professor, followed by their own searchings,--required a more robust memory, and cooperation of all the faculties;...
    Wsp 6.241 23 [Man] shall expect no cooperation...
    SS 7.8 18 Dear heart! take it sadly home to thee,--there is no cooperation.
    SS 7.8 25 ...the dearest friends are separated by impassable gulfs. The cooperation is involuntary...
    SS 7.9 14 ...though there be for heroes this moral union, yet they too are as far off as ever from an intellectual union, and the moral union is for comparatively low and external purposes, like the cooperation of a ship's company...
    SA 8.97 14 ...I have seen a man of genius who made me think that if other men were like him cooperation were impossible.
    QO 8.189 23 Certainly it only needs two well placed and well tempered for cooperation, to get somewhat far transcending any private enterprise!
    LLNE 10.349 25 Society, concert, cooperation, is the secret of the coming Paradise.
    GSt 10.504 24 I have heard...that [George Stearns] was indignant at this or that man's behavior, but never that his anger...ever stood in the way of his hearty cooperation with the offenders when they returned to the path of public duty.
    EWI 11.99 18 I might well hesitate...to undertake to set this matter [emancipation] before you; which ought rather to be done by a strict cooperation of many well-advised persons;...
    FSLN 11.244 26 ...I hope we...have come to a belief that there is a divine Providence in the world, which will not save us but through our own cooperation.

cooperative, adj. (2)

    PC 8.209 2 The war gave us the abolition of slavery, the success...of the Freedmen's Bureau. Add to these the new scope of social science;...the cooperative societies;...
    LLNE 10.358 12 Society in England and in America is trying the [Fourierist] experiment again in small pieces, in cooperative associations...

coopering, v. (1)

    MN 1.215 20 You shall love...sympathy and usefulness, and not hoeing and coopering.

cooping, v. (1)

    F 6.32 15 ...after cooping [the Saxon race] up for a thousand years in yonder England, [nature] gives a hundred Englands...

coops, v. (1)

    Ill 6.321 21 Instead of the firmament of yesterday, which our eyes require, it is to-day an egg-shell which coops us in;...

coordinate, adj. (1)

    Boks 7.212 7 A right metaphysics should do justice to the coordinate powers of Imagination, Insight, Understanding and Will.

co-ordinates, v. [coordinates,] (3)

    ShP 4.212 17 An omnipresent humanity co-ordinates all [Shakespeare's] faculties.
    ET15 5.268 13 [The London Times] draws from any number of learned and skilful contributors; but a more learned and skilful person supervises, corrects, and co-ordinates.
    SovE 10.194 1 ...[good men] have accepted the notion of a mechanical supervision of human life, by which that certain wonderful being whom they call God does take up their affairs where their intelligence leaves them, and somehow knits and coordinates the issues of them in all that is beyond the reach of private faculty.

coordinating, adj. (1)

    Ill 6.311 12 In admiring the sunset we do not yet deduct the rounding, coordinating, pictorial powers of the eye.

coordinating, v. (1)

    QO 8.201 26 Genius is...the capacity of receiving just impressions from the external world, and the power of coordinating these after the laws of thought.

coos, v. (1)

    DL 7.104 3 All day, between his three or four sleeps, [the nestler] coos like a pigeon-house...

cope, n. (2)

    PPo 8.255 10 My phoenix long ago secured/ His nest in the sky-vault's cope;/ In the body's cage immured,/ He was weary of life's hope./
    War 11.149 2 The archangel Hope/ Looks to the azure cope,/ Waits through dark ages for the morn,/ Defeated day by day, but unto Victory born./

cope, v. (6)

    Hsm1 2.250 5 Towards all this external evil the man within the breast... affirms his ability to cope single-handed with the infinite army of enemies.
    GoW 4.271 10 Goethe was the philosopher of this [modern] multiplicity;... able and happy to cope with this rolling miscellany of facts and sciences...
    Pow 6.79 10 It is not question to express our thought, to elect our way, but to overcome resistances of the medium and material in everything we do. Hence the use of drill, and the worthlessness of amateurs to cope with practitioners.
    Grts 8.311 20 Let the scholar measure his valor by his power to cope with intellectual giants.
    EdAd 11.390 24 Will [a journal] cope with the allied questions of Government, Nonresistance, and all that belongs under that category?
    ACri 12.297 5 We have an artist [Carlyle] who in this merit of which I speak [mastery of the low style] will easily cope with these celebrities.

Copenhagen, Denmark, n. (2)

    ET4 5.62 3 It was a tardy recoil of these invasions [of Northmen], when...in 1807, Lord Cathcart, at Copenhagen, took the entire Danish fleet...
    ET15 5.267 11 What would The [London] Times say? is a terror in Paris, in Berlin, in Vienna, in Copenhagen and in Nepaul.

co-perception, n. (2)

    Prd1 2.224 16 ...the order of the world and the distribution of affairs and times, being studied with the co-perception of their subordinate place, will reward any degree of attention.
    Plu 10.299 6 A poet in verse or prose must have a sensuous eye, but an intellectual co-perception.

Copernican, adj. (8)

    ET14 5.241 18 A few generalizations always circulate in the world...and these are in the world constants, like the Copernican and Newtonian theories in physics.
    Bty 6.283 10 ...a right and perfect man would be felt to the centre of the Copernican system.
    Farm 7.142 8 In English factories, the boy that watches the loom...is called a minder. And in this great factory of our Copernican globe...the farmer is the minder.
    Suc 7.286 5 Leverrier carried the Copernican system in his head...
    Res 8.139 3 Our Copernican globe is a great factory or shop of power...
    Insp 8.273 5 The separation of our days by sleep almost destroys identity. Could we but turn these fugitive sparkles into an astronomy of Copernican worlds!
    Imtl 8.346 14 You cannot make a written theory or demonstration of [immortality] as you can an orrery of the Copernican astronomy.
    PLT 12.53 3 'T is with us a flash of light, then a long darkness, then a flash again. Ah, could we turn these fugitive sparkles into an astronomy of Copernican worlds.

Copernicus, Nikolaus, n. (8)

    SR 2.58 1 Pythagoras was misunderstood...and Copernicus...
    PPh 4.40 3 St. Augustine, Copernicus...are likewise [Plato's] debtors...
    ET12 5.202 9 I do not know...whether [at Oxford] the Ptolemaic astronomy does not still hold its ground against the novelties of Copernicus.
    F 6.17 22 'T is...harder still to find the Tubal Cain...or Copernicus...
    F 6.18 6 No one can read the history of astronomy without perceiving that Copernicus, Newton...are not new men...
    PC 8.223 5 There is no use in Copernicus if the robust periodicity of the solar system does not show its equal perfection in the mental sphere...
    MoL 10.248 17 You [scholars] are here as the carriers of the power of Nature...as Copernicus, with his secret of the true astronomy;...
    LLNE 10.336 1 ...the paramount source of the religious revolution was Modern Science; beginning with Copernicus...

copestones, n. (1)

    AmS 1.98 11 Life lies behind us as the quarry from whence we get tiles and copestones for the masonry of to-day.

copied, v. (12)

    Mrs1 3.129 17 ...if the people should destroy class after class, until two men only were left, one of these would be the leader and would be involuntarily served and copied by the other.
    NER 3.254 14 ...it was directly in the spirit and genius of the age, what happened in one instance when a church censured and threatened to excommunicate one of its members...the threatened individual immediately excommunicated the church, in a public and formal process. This...of course loses all value when it is copied.
    PPh 4.71 7 ...the potters copied [Socrates'] ugly face on their stone jugs.
    MoS 4.163 9 ...from a love of Montaigne, [John Sterling] had made a pilgrimage to his chateau...and...had copied from the walls of his library the inscriptions which Montaigne had written there.
    ET1 5.5 10 ...I have copied the few notes I made of visits to persons...
    ET6 5.108 20 The sentiment of Imogen in Cymbeline is copied from English nature;...
    Bty 6.295 20 ...see how surely a beautiful form...is copied and reproduced without end.
    Bty 6.295 27 In our cities...any beautiful building is copied and improved upon...
    Art2 7.50 4 The first time you hear [good poetry], it sounds...as if copied out of some invisible tablet in the Eternal mind...
    Res 8.152 4 When [the scholar's] task requires the wiping out from memory all trivial fond records/ That youth and observation copied there,/ he must...go to wooded uplands...
    Wom 11.411 16 There is...no style adopted into the etiquette of courts, but was first the whim and the mere action of some brilliant woman, who charmed beholders by this new expression, and made it remembered and copied.
    MAng1 12.231 19 Very slowly came [Michelangelo], after months and years, to the dome [of St. Peter's]. At last he began to model it very small in wax. When it was finished, he had it copied larger in wood, and by this model it was built.

copies, n. (14)

    Nat 1.68 4 The American...is surprised on entering York Minster or St. Peter's at Rome, by the feeling that these structures are imitations also, - faint copies of an invisible archetype.
    Hist 2.17 22 Santa Croce and the Dome of St. Peter's are lame copies after a divine model.
    Int 2.338 2 Neither are the artist's copies from experience ever mere copies...
    Int 2.338 3 Neither are the artist's copies from experience ever mere copies...
    ET12 5.210 13 I looked over the Examination Papers of the year 1848, for the various scholarships and fellowships [at Oxford]...(copies of which were kindly given me by a Greek professor)...
    ET15 5.264 22 ...the only limit to the circulation of The [London] Times is the impossibility of printing copies fast enough;...
    ET15 5.265 23 ...[Mowbray Morris] told us that the daily printing [of the London Times] was then 35,000 copies;...
    ET15 5.265 26 ...[Mowbray Morris] told us...that, since February, the daily circulation [of the London Times] had increased by 8000 copies.
    Bty 6.295 21 How many copies are there of the Belvedere Apollo...
    DL 7.131 11 I wish to bring home to my children and my friends copies of these admirable forms [Michelangelo's sibyle and prophets]...
    Suc 7.286 8 We have seen an American woman write a novel of which a million copies were sold...
    PI 8.19 26 ...mountains, crystals, plants, animals, are seen; that which makes them is not seen: these, then, are apparent copies of unapparent natures.
    HDC 11.40 26 We have records of marriages and deaths, beginning nineteen years after the settlement [of Concord]; and copies of some of the doings of the town in regard to territory, of the same date.
    HDC 11.49 20 The British government has recently presented to the several public libraries of this country, copies of the splendid edition of the Domesday Book...

copious, adj. (6)

    Cir 2.301 8 We are all our lifetime reading the copious sense of this first of forms [the circle].
    Pt1 3.42 9 ...this is the reward; that the ideal shall be real to thee [O poet], and the impressions of the actual world shall fall like summer rain, copious, but not troublesome to thy invulnerable essence.
    Elo2 8.131 11 Your argument is ingenious, your language copious...but your major proposition palpably absurd. Will you establish a lie?
    War 11.152 13 The student of history acquiesces the more readily in this copious bloodshed of the early annals...when he learns that it is a temporary and preparatory state...
    Bost 12.187 7 I think the Potomac water is a little acrid, and should be corrected by copious infusions of these provincial streams.
    Bost 12.191 16 ...the next colony planted itself at Salem, and the next at Weymouth; another at Medford; before these men...wisely judged that the best point for a city was at the bottom of a deep and islanded bay, where a copious river entered it...

copiously, adv. (1)

    Comc 8.171 17 [Personal appearance] is the butt of those jokes of the Paris drawing-rooms...which are copiously recounted in the French Memoires.

copper, adj. (3)

    YA 1.383 17 In one hand [a dime] became an eagle as it fell, and in another hand a copper cent.
    PPo 8.245 24 The understanding's copper coin/ Counts not with the gold of love./
    HDC 11.53 15 We, who see in the squalid remnants of the twenty tribes of Massachusetts...can hardly learn without emotion the earnestness with which the most sensible individuals of the copper race held on to the new hope they had conceived...

copper, n. (4)

    Wth 6.83 21 What smiths, and in what furnace, rolled/ .../ Copper and iron, lead, and gold?/
    PerF 10.75 17 [Labor] is under the house in the well; it is over the house in slates and copper and water-spout;...
    EWI 11.104 13 ...if we saw the runaways hunted with bloodhounds into swamps and hills; and, in cases of passion, a planter throwing his negro into a copper of boiling cane-juice,-if we saw these things with eyes, we too should wince.
    MAng1 12.221 10 Most of [Michelangelo's] designs, his contemporaries inform us, were made...in the style of an engraving on copper or wood;...

copper-miners, n. (1)

    Wth 6.94 16 ...the supply in nature of railroad-presidents, copper-miners... is limited by the same law which keeps the proportion in the supply of carbon, of alum, and of hydrogen.

coppers, n. (1)

    WD 7.165 12 Every new step in improving the engine restricts one more act of the engineer,--unteaches him. Once it took Archimedes; now it only needs a fireman, and a boy to know the coppers...

Coppet, France, n. (2)

    SA 8.94 17 Sainte-Beuve tells us of the privileged circle at Coppet...
    SA 8.94 19 Sainte-Beuve tells us of the privileged circle at Coppet, that after making an excursion one day, the party returned in two coaches from Chambery to Aix, on the way to Coppet.

Coppus, Egypt, n. (1)

    Dem1 10.11 25 ...Pancrates, journeying from Memphis to Coppus, and wanting a servant, took a door-bar and pronounced over it magical words...

co-presence, n. (3)

    Prd1 2.222 11 ...a true prudence or law of shows recognizes the co-presence of other laws...
    F 6.47 26 ...by the cunning co-presence of two elements...whatever lames or paralyzes you draws in with it the divinity...to repay.
    PC 8.217 15 [Culture] is...the co-presence of the revolutionary force in intellect.

co-present, adj. (1)

    ET4 5.67 21 The two sexes are co-present in the English mind.

Copt, n. (1)

    QO 8.199 16 ...does it not look...as if we stood...in a circle of intelligences that reached through all thinkers, poets, inventors and wits, men and women, English, German, Celts, Aryan, Ninevite, Copt...

copula, n. (3)

    ET14 5.244 27 [Hume] owes his fame to one keen observation, that no copula had been detected between any cause and effect, either in physics or in thought;...
    F 6.40 2 [Man] thinks his fate alien, because the copula is hidden.
    PLT 12.39 27 ...the mind discovers some essential copula binding this [new] fact or change to a class of facts or changes...

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