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

copy, n. (19)

    MN 1.218 3 ...what is Genius but finer love...a love of the flower and perfection of things, and a desire to draw a new picture or copy of the same?
    Hist 2.15 17 A particular picture or copy of verses, if it do not awaken the same train of images, will yet superinduce the same sentiment as some wild mountain walk...
    Art1 2.351 18 ...[the painter] will come to value the expression of nature and not nature itself, and so exalt in his copy the features that please him.
    Pt1 3.25 4 ...[the poet's thoughts], sharing the aspiration of the whole universe, tend to paint a far more delicate copy of their essence on his mind.
    Chr1 3.108 26 Every trait which the artist recorded in stone he had seen in life, and better than his copy.
    MoS 4.163 16 I heard with pleasure that one of the newly-discovered autographs of William Shakspeare was in a copy of Florio's translation of Montaigne.
    MoS 4.163 20 ...the duplicate copy of Florio...turned out to have the autograph of Ben Jonson in the fly-leaf.
    ET7 5.121 2 On the king's birthday, when each bishop was expected to offer the king a purse of gold, Latimer gave Henry VIII. a copy of the Vulgate, with a mark at the passage, Whoremongers and adulterers God will judge;...
    Ctr 6.136 8 All conversation is at an end when we have discharged ourselves of a dozen personalities...which make up our American existence. Nor do we expect anybody to be other than a faint copy of these heroes.
    Bty 6.295 15 Burns writes a copy of verses and sends them to a newspaper, and the human race take charge of them that they shall not perish.
    Farm 7.135 19 What these strong masters [farmers] wrote at large in miles,/ I followed in small copy in my acre;/...
    Boks 7.209 21 In May, 1812, the library of the Duke of Roxburgh was sold. The sale lasted forty-two days...and among the many curiosities was a copy of Boccaccio published by Valdarfer, at Venice, in 1471;...
    Boks 7.209 23 In May, 1812, the library of the Duke of Roxburgh was sold. The sale lasted forty-two days...and among the many curiosities was a copy of Boccaccio published by Valdarfer, at Venice, in 1471; the only perfect copy of this edition.
    Boks 7.210 27 ...M. Van Praet groped in vain among the royal alcoves in Paris, to detect a copy of the famed Valdarfer Boccaccio.
    PI 8.9 16 Nature gives [the student]...a copy of every humor and shade in his character and mind.
    Schr 10.288 21 ...[the scholar] should read a little proudly, as one who knows the original, and cannot therefore very highly value the copy.
    MMEm 10.411 9 In her solitude of twenty years, with fewest books and those only sermons, and a copy of Paradise Lost...[Mary Moody Emerson] was driven to find Nature her companion and solace.
    AsSu 11.251 20 ...I wish, sir, that the high respects of this meeting shall be expressed to Mr. Sumner; that a copy of the resolutions that have been read may be forwarded to him.
    FRep 11.534 3 A man is coming, here as [in England], to value himself on what he can buy. Worst of all, his expense is not his own, but a far-off copy of Osborne House or the Elysee.

copy, v. (9)

    AmS 1.98 13 Colleges and books only copy the language which the field and the work-yard made.
    SR 2.82 22 ...why need we copy the Doric or the Gothic model?
    Chr1 3.104 25 ...it is but poor chat and gossip to go to enumerate traits of this simple and rapid power [of character], and we are painting the lightning with charcoal; but in these long nights and vacations I like to console myself so. Nothing but itself can copy it.
    ET4 5.47 4 In race, it is not the broad shoulders, or litheness, or stature that give advantage, but a symmetry that reaches as far as to the wit. Then the miracle and renown begin. Then first we care to...copy heedfully the training...
    ET10 5.163 14 Whatever is excellent and beautiful...in fountain, garden, or grounds,--the English noble crosses sea and land to see and to copy at home.
    Bhr 6.170 8 Genius invents fine manners, which the baron and the baroness copy very fast...
    QO 8.196 25 ...it is not rare to find...people who copy drawings with admirable skill, but are incapable of any design.
    EWI 11.122 20 ...the villages copy Boston.
    EurB 12.370 26 ...[modern painters] copy the technics of their predecessors...

copying, v. (2)

    F 6.17 18 [Man] helps himself on each emergency by copying or duplicating his own structure...
    CL 12.164 18 What is the merit of Thomson's Seasons but copying a few of the pictures out of this vast book [of Nature] into words...

Copyright Bill, n. (1)

    EurB 12.366 18 In the debates on the Copyright Bill, in the English Parliament, Mr. Sergeant Wakley, the coroner, quoted Wordsworth's poetry in derision...

copyright, n. (7)

    Exp 3.64 23 Law of copyright and international copyright is to be discussed...
    Exp 3.64 24 Law of copyright and international copyright is to be discussed...
    PPh 4.77 19 [Plato] has clapped copyright on the world.
    ShP 4.193 15 ...so many rising geniuses have enlarged or altered [Elizabethan plays]...that no man can any longer claim copyright in this work of numbers.
    ET3 5.36 17 ...a sensible Englishman once said to me, As long as you do not grant us copyright, we shall have the teaching of you.
    PPo 8.252 1 The Persians had a mode of establishing copyright the most secure of any contrivance with which we are acquainted.
    II 12.74 6 Here is a famous Ode, which...lies in all memories as the high-water mark in the flood of thought in this age. What does the writer know of that? Converse with him, learn his opinions and hopes. He has long ago passed out of it, and perhaps his only concern with it is some copyright of an edition in which certain pages...are contained.

coquetry, n. (1)

    Lov1 2.173 11 ...without any coquetry the happy, affectionate nature of woman flows out in this pretty gossip.

Cor Gawr [Choir Gaur], n. (1)

    ET16 5.279 3 Some diligent Fellowes or Layard will arrive...at the whole history [of Stonehenge], by that exhaustive British sense and perseverance... which leaves its own Stonehenge or Choir Gaur to the rabbits, whilst it opens pyramids and uncovers Nineveh.

coral, adj. (1)

    QO 8.199 26 ...[the individual] is no more to be credited with the grand result [of language] than the acaleph which adds a cell to the coral reef which is the basis of the continent.

coral, n. (2)

    MN 1.202 3 When we have spent our wonder in computing this wasteful hospitality with which boon Nature turns off new firmaments...as fast as the madrepores make coral...one can hardly help asking...whether it be quite worth while to...glut the innocent space with so poor an article.
    Gts 3.161 15 The only gift is a portion of thyself. ... Therefore the poet brings his poem;...the sailor, coral and shells;...

Corax the Naxian, n. (1)

    Plu 10.313 18 [Plutarch] reminds his friends that the Delphic oracles have given several answers the same in substance as that formerly given to Corax the Naxian: It sounds profane impiety/ To teach that human souls e'er die./

cord, n. (11)

    MN 1.207 23 [a man] cannot read, or think, or look but he unites the hitherto separated strands into a perfect cord.
    Comp 2.110 14 ...[every opinion] is a harpoon hurled at the whale, unwinding, as it flies, a coil of cord in the boat...
    Pt1 3.13 14 ...the carpenter's stretched cord, if you hold your ear close enough, is musical in the breeze.
    Nat2 3.188 20 This is the man-child that is born to the soul, and her life still circulates in the babe. The umbilical cord has not yet been cut.
    SwM 4.143 15 ...[Swedenborg] could never break the umbilical cord which held him to nature...
    ET8 5.130 20 [The English] are full of coarse strength, rude exercise, butcher's meat and sound sleep; and suspect any poetic insinuation or any hint for the conduct of life which reflects on this animal existence, as if somebody were fumbling at the umbilical cord and might stop their supplies.
    ET11 5.194 20 When Julia Grisi and Mario sang at the houses of the Duke of Wellington and other grandees, a cord was stretched between the singer and the company.
    PerF 10.82 13 Every one knows what are the effects of music to put people in gay or mournful or martial mood. But these are...only the hint of its power on a keener sense. It is a stroke on a loose or tense cord.
    Chr2 10.99 19 In its companions [the soul] sees other truths honored, and successively finds their foundation also in itself. Then it cuts the cord...
    HDC 11.78 14 ...say the plaintive records, General Washington, at Cambridge, is not able to give but 24s. per cord for wood, for the army;...
    HDC 11.78 17 ...say the plaintive records...it is Voted, that this town [Concord] encourage the inhabitants to supply the army, by paying two dollars per cord, over and above the General's [Washington's] price, to such as shall carry wood thither;...

cordage, n. (3)

    ET4 5.56 12 The men who have built a ship and invented the rig, cordage, sail, compass and pump;...have acquired much more than a ship.
    PI 8.74 2 In the mire of the sensual life...even [poets'] novel and newspaper, nay, their superstitions also, are...a cordage of ropes that hold them up out of the slough.
    SovE 10.204 14 ...cordage and machinery never supply the place of life.

corded, v. (1)

    Suc 7.298 26 The owner of the wood-lot finds only a number of discolored trees, and says...they should be cut and corded before spring.

cordial, adj. (15)

    Nat 1.43 11 The fable of Proteus has a cordial truth.
    Fdsp 2.191 13 The effect of the indulgence of this human affection is a certain cordial exhilaration.
    Hsm1 2.245 15 ...there is in [the elder English dramatists'] plays a certain heroic cast of character and dialogue...wherein the speaker is so earnest and cordial...that the dialogue, on the slightest additional incident in the plot, rises naturally into poetry.
    GoW 4.269 3 ...men are cordial in their recognition and welcome of the intellectual accomplishments.
    ET4 5.51 9 Everything English is a fusion of distant and antagonistic elements. The language is mixed;...a country of extemes...nothing can be praised in it without damning exceptions, and nothing denounced without salvos of cordial praise.
    ET15 5.272 15 If only [the London Times] dared to cleave to the right... genius would be its cordial and invincible ally;...
    Pow 6.67 9 ...with his honor the Judge [Boniface] was very cordial...
    CbW 6.243 23 The music that can deepest reach,/ And cure all ill, is cordial speech/...
    Elo1 7.67 27 When each auditor...shudders...with fear lest all will heavily fail through one bad speech, mere energy and mellowness [in the orator] are then inestimable. Wisdom and learning would be harsh and unwelcome, compared with a substantial cordial man...
    Farm 7.135 21 ...The cordial quality of pear or plum/ Ascends as gladly in a single tree/ As in broad orchards resonant with bees;/...
    PPo 8.251 6 Every song of Hafiz affords new proof of the unimportance of your subject to success, provided only the treatment be cordial.
    Insp 8.281 22 ...in writing a letter to a friend we may find that we rise to a thought and to a cordial power of expression that costs no effort...
    CInt 12.127 1 ...here [in the college] Imagination should be greeted with the problems in which it delights; the noblest tasks to the Muse proposed and the most cordial and honoring rewards;...
    CW 12.170 2 ...The cordial quality of pear or plum/ Ascends as gladly in the single tree/ As in broad orchards resonant with bees;/...
    ACri 12.298 13 Here has come into the country, three months ago, a History of Friedrich...a book that, one would think, the English people would rise up in a mass to thank [Carlyle] for, by cordial acclamation...

cordial, n. (3)

    Nat 1.9 17 In good health, the air is a cordial of incredible virtue.
    Clbs 7.234 24 ...beside its comfort as medicine and cordial, once in the right company, new and vast values do not fail to appear.
    ChiE 11.472 13 I need not mention [China's] useful arts...its tea, the cordial of nations.

cordially, adv. (3)

    ET1 5.8 5 I could not make [Landor] praise Mackintosh, nor my more recent friends; Montaigne very cordially,--and Charron also...
    Pow 6.55 26 With adults, as with children, one class enter cordially into the game...
    Imtl 8.332 7 Slowly [the two men] advanced towards each other as they could, through the brilliant company, and at last met,-said nothing, but shook hands long and cordially.

cordials, n. (1)

    Clbs 7.225 17 ...of all the cordials known to us, the best, safest and most exhilarating...is society;...

cords, n. (5)

    PI 8.5 18 I believe this conviction makes the charm of chemistry,--that we have the same avoirdupois matter in an alembic, without a vestige of the old form; and in animal transformation not less, as...in embryo and man; everything undressing and stealing away from its old into new form, and nothing fast but those invisible cords which we call laws...
    PI 8.5 21 ...we see...that the secret cords or laws show their well-known virtue through every variety...
    HDC 11.45 16 The bands of love and reverence, held fast the little state [the Massachusetts Bay Colony], whilst [the settlers] untied the great cords of authority to examine their soundness...
    HDC 11.63 23 ...nothing would satisfy [the country people] but that the governor must be bound in chains or cords...
    HDC 11.78 19 ...say the plaintive records...it is Voted, that this town [Concord] encourage the inhabitants to supply the army, by paying two dollars per cord, over and above the General's [Washington's] price, to such as shall carry wood thither; and 210 cords of wood were carried.

core, n. (11)

    MN 1.196 5 Here comes by a great inquisitor with auger and plumb-line, and will...pierce to the core of things.
    Tran 1.331 27 The sturdy capitalist...must set [his banking-house], at last... on a mass of unknown materials and solidity, red-hot or white-hot perhaps at the core...
    F 6.19 23 We cannot trifle with...this cropping-out in our planted gardens of the core of the world.
    Bhr 6.187 27 'T is hard to keep the what from breaking through this pretty painting of the how. The core will come to the surface.
    Elo1 7.97 19 It is not the people that are in fault for not being convinced, but he that cannot convince them. He should mould them, armed as he is with the reason and love which are also the core of their nature.
    DL 7.109 5 An increased consciousness of the soul, you say, characterizes the period. Let us see if it has not only arranged the atoms at the circumference, but the atoms at the core.
    PI 8.29 24 ...[Herbert, Swedenborg, Wordsworth] know that this correspondence of things to thoughts...is elemental, or in the core of things.
    Chr2 10.117 16 The Sunday is the core of our civilization...
    Prch 10.237 5 The old intellect still lives, to pierce the shows to the core.
    FSLN 11.242 10 The [American] universities are not, as in Hobbes's time, the core of rebellion...
    ALin 11.332 8 ...this man [Lincoln] was sound to the core...

Corinna, n. (1)

    Bty 6.297 20 ...why need we console ourselves with the fames of Helen of Argos, or Corinna...

Corinne [Madame de Stael], (1)

    MMEm 10.408 4 As by seeing a high tragedy, reading a true poem, or a novel like Corinne, so, by society with [Mary Moody Emerson], one's mind is electrified and purged.

Corinthian, adj. (2)

    Pow 6.71 4 In history the great moment is when the savage is just ceasing to be a savage...and you have Pericles and Phidias, not yet passed over into the Corinthian civility.
    Bhr 6.185 19 Nothing can be more excellent in kind than the Corinthian grace of Gertrude's manners...

Corinthians, Epistle to the, (2)

    LS 11.13 24 I am of opinion that it is wholly upon the Epistle to the Corinthians...that the ordinance [the Lord's Supper] stands.
    LS 11.14 2 The end which [St. Paul] has in view, in the eleventh chapter of the first Epistle [to the Corinthians], is not to enjoin upon his friends to observe the [Lord's] Supper, but to censure their abuse of it.

Coriolanus, n. (1)

    UGM 4.15 11 Under this head [of the effects of friendship]...falls that homage...which all ranks pay to the hero of the day, from Coriolanus and Gracchus down to Pitt...

Cork, Ireland, n. (1)

    ET2 5.33 15 Yesterday every passenger had measured the speed of the ship by watching the bubbles over the ship's bulwarks. To-day...we measure by Kinsale, Cork, Waterford and Ardmore.

corks, n. (1)

    Elo2 8.119 5 Go into an assembly well excited, some angry political meeting on the eve of a crisis. Then it appears that eloquence is as natural as swimming,--an art which all men might learn, though so few do. It only needs that they should be once well pushed off into the water...without corks...

cormorants, n. (1)

    MAng1 12.236 25 ...[Michelangelo] replies [to the Duke of Tuscany]...that he hoped he should shortly see the execution of his plans [for St. Peter's] brought to such a point that they could no longer be interfered with...if, he adds, I do not commit a great crime by disappointing the cormorants who are daily hoping to get rid of me.

Corn Laws, n. (2)

    YA 1.380 13 ...the swelling cry of voices for the education of the people indicates that Government has other offices than those of banker and executioner. Witness...the English League against the Corn Laws;...
    ET15 5.264 4 [The London Times] adopted the League against the Corn Laws, and when Cobden had begun to despair, it announced his triumph.

corn, n. (80)

    Nat 1.13 2 Beasts, fire, water, stones, and corn serve [man].
    Nat 1.41 24 The first and gross manifestation of this truth [of the doctrine of Use] is our inevitable and hated training in values and wants, in corn and meat.
    Nat 1.59 8 I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons.
    Nat 1.65 13 We do not know the uses of more than a few plants, as corn and the apple...
    DSA 1.119 14 The corn and the wine have been freely dealt to all creatures...
    LE 1.169 27 Undoubtedly the changes of geology have a relation to the prosperous sprouting of the corn and peas in my kitchen garden;...
    MR 1.245 25 Parched corn eaten to-day, that I may have roast fowl to my dinner Sunday, is a baseness;...
    MR 1.245 27 ...parched corn and a house with one apartment, that I may be free of all perturbations...is frugality for gods and heroes.
    Con 1.306 19 ...[the youth] says, If I am born in the earth...have the goodness, gentlemen of this world, to show me...my field where to plant my corn...
    Tran 1.337 8 I, [Jacobi] says, am...that godless person who, in opposition to an imaginary doctrine of calculation...would perjure myself like Epaminondas and John de Witt;...I would commit sacrilege with David; yea, and pluck ears of corn on the Sabbath, for no other reason than that I was fainting for lack of food.
    YA 1.374 12 ...the selfishness which hoards the corn for high prices is the preventive of famine;...
    YA 1.381 25 On one side is agricultural chemistry...offering, by means of a teaspoonful of artificial guano, to turn a sandbank into corn;...
    YA 1.383 7 ...it is proposed to plant corn and to bake bread by companies.
    YA 1.383 21 One man...with [a dime]...buys corn enough to feed the world;...
    Hist 2.7 23 [The true aspirant] hears the commendation...of that character he seeks...in the running river and the rustling corn.
    SR 2.46 16 ...no kernel of nourishing corn can come to [man] but through his toil...
    SR 2.68 15 When a man lives with God, his voice shall be as sweet as...the rustle of the corn.
    SR 2.87 8 The Emperor held it impossible to make a perfect army, says Las Casas, without abolishing our arms...until...the soldier should receive his supply of corn...and bake his bread himself.
    Comp 2.97 14 There is somewhat that resembles...man and woman...in a kernel of corn...
    SL 2.136 13 We [country folk] have not dollars, merchants have; let them give them. Farmers will give corn;...
    Int 2.333 26 If you...hoe corn, and then retire within doors, and shut your eyes and press them with your hand, you shall still see...the the corn-flags...
    Gts 3.161 14 The only gift is a portion of thyself. ... Therefore the poet brings his poem;...the farmer, corn;...
    Pol1 3.205 4 Corn will not grow unless it is planted and manured;...
    Pol1 3.206 9 A cent is the representative of a certain quantity of corn or other commodity.
    NR 3.240 22 We came this time for condiments, not for corn.
    NER 3.254 20 It is right and beautiful in any man to say, I will take this coat, or this book, or this measure of corn of yours,--in whom we see the act to be original...
    NER 3.283 21 ...whether thy work be fine or coarse, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work...it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought...
    UGM 4.9 19 Justice has already been done to steam...to corn and cotton;...
    UGM 4.35 10 It is for man...on every side, whilst he lives, to scatter the seeds of science and of song, that climate, corn, animals, men, may be milder...
    SwM 4.93 5 Among eminent persons, those who are most dear to men are not of the class which the economist calls producers...they have not cultivated corn, nor made bread;...
    SwM 4.93 11 A higher class...are the poets, who...feed the thought and imagination with ideas and pictures which raise men out of the world of corn and money...
    ShP 4.205 15 About the time when [Shakespeare] was writing Macbeth, he sues Philip Rogers...for thirty-five shillings, ten pence, for corn delivered to him at different times;...
    ShP 4.217 1 Shakspeare, Homer, Dante, Chaucer...knew that a tree had another use than for apples, and corn another than for meal...
    ET5 5.82 8 In politics [the English] put blunt questions, which must be answered; Who is to pay the taxes? What will you do for trade? What for corn?
    ET8 5.135 3 [The English] hide virtues under vices, or the semblance of them. It is the misshapen hairy Scandinavian troll again, who...threshes The corn/ That ten day-laborers could not end,/ but it is done in the dark and with muttered maledictions.
    F 6.16 27 [The Germans and Irish] are...carted over America...to make corn cheap...
    Wth 6.103 6 A dollar is rated for the corn it will buy...
    Wth 6.103 7 A dollar is rated for the corn it will buy, or to speak strictly, not for the corn or house-room, but for Athenian corn, and Roman house-room...
    Wth 6.103 8 A dollar is rated for the corn it will buy, or to speak strictly, not for the corn or house-room, but for Athenian corn, and Roman house-room...
    Wth 6.114 8 Pride...can eat potato, purslain, beans, lyed corn...
    Wth 6.115 8 [The pale scholar] stoops to pull up a purslain or a dock that is choking the young corn, and finds there are two;...
    Wth 6.115 25 ...every hill of melons, row of corn [on a man's land]...stand in his way...when he would go out of his gate.
    Wth 6.121 10 I know...neither how to buy wood, nor what to do with...the wood-lot, when bought. Never fear; it is all settled how it shall be, long beforehand, in the custom of the country...how to dress, whether to grass or to corn;...
    Civ 7.28 19 I admire still more than the saw-mill the skill which, on the seashore, makes the tides drive the wheels and grind corn...
    Art2 7.42 15 We do not grind corn or lift the loom by our own strength...
    Farm 7.137 16 If [a man] have not...some product for which the farmer will give him corn, he must himself return into his due place among the planters.
    Farm 7.150 25 There has been a nightmare bred in England of indigestion and spleen among landlords and loom-lords, namely, the dogma...that men multiply in a geometrical ratio, whilst corn multiplies only in an arithmetical;...
    Farm 7.152 5 The sun-stroke which knocks [the first planter] down brings his corn up.
    Boks 7.216 24 [The novel] is only confectionery, not the raising of new corn.
    PI 8.24 19 The atoms of the body were once nebulae, then rock, then loam, then corn, then chyme, then chyle, then blood;...
    PerF 10.75 18 ...[labor] grows in the corn;...
    Chr2 10.95 14 The moral element invites man...to find his satisfaction...not in much corn or wool, but in its communication.
    Edc1 10.125 17 ...the poor man, whom the law does not allow to take an ear of corn when starving...is allowed to put his hand into the pocket of the rich, and say, You shall educate me...
    Schr 10.276 1 We cannot eat the granite nor drink hydrogen. They must be decompounded and recompounded into corn and water before they can enter our flesh.
    LLNE 10.345 21 [The pilgrim] thought every one should labor at some necessary product, and as soon as he had made more than enough for himself, were it corn, or paper, or cloth, or boot-jacks, he should give of the commodity to any applicant...
    LLNE 10.366 15 No doubt there was in many [at Brook Farm] a certain strength drawn from the fury of dissent. Thus Mr. Ripley told Theodore Parker, There is your accomplished friend---: he would hoe corn all Sunday if I would let him, but all Massachusetts could not make him do it on Monday.
    HDC 11.27 3 Bulkeley, Hunt, Willard, Hosmer, Merriam, Flint,/ Possessed the land which rendered to their toil/ Hay, corn, roots, hemp, flax, apples, wool and wood./
    HDC 11.30 1 ...the little society of men who now, for a few years, fish in this river...mow the grass and reap the corn, shortly shall hurry from its banks as did their forefathers.
    HDC 11.35 2 Indian corn, even the coarsest, made as pleasant meal as rice.
    HDC 11.35 7 ...let no man, writes our pious chronicler [Edward Johnson]... make a jest of pumpkins, for with this fruit the Lord was pleased to feed his people until their corn and cattle were increased.
    HDC 11.37 2 A little pounded parched corn or no-cake sufficed [Indians] on the march.
    HDC 11.43 23 What could the body of freemen, meeting four times a year, at Boston, do for the daily wants of the planters at Musketaquid? The wolf was to be killed;...corn to be raised;...
    HDC 11.55 16 The [Concord] river, at this period, seems to have caused some distress now by its overflow, now by its drought. A cold and wet summer blighted the corn;...
    HDC 11.60 16 ...his corn cut down...it was only a great thaw in January, that melting the snow and opening the earth, enabled [King Philip's] poor followers to come at the ground-nuts, else they had starved.
    HDC 11.63 3 Randolph at this period [1666] writes to the English government, concerning the country towns; The farmers...make good advantage by their corn, cattle, poultry, butter and cheese.
    HDC 11.75 25 [the minute-men] supposed they had a right to their corn and their cattle...
    EWI 11.102 13 These men [negro slaves], our benefactors, as they are producers of corn and wine...I am heart-sick when I read how they came there, and how they are kept there.
    FSLN 11.233 11 You relied on the constitution. It has not the word slave in it; and very good argument has shown...that, with provisions so vague for an object not named, and which could not be availed of to claim a barrel of sugar or a barrel of corn, the robbing of a man and of all his posterity is effected.
    Wom 11.410 19 ...[the horse and ox] run...to the corn when hungry...
    RBur 11.443 14 ...the corn, barley, and bulrushes hoarsely rustle [Burns's songs]...
    CPL 11.501 17 [Literature] is thought to be the harmless entertainment of a few fanciful persons, and not at all to be the interest of the multitude. To these objections, which proceed on the cheap notion that nothing but what grinds corn...is anything worth, I have little to say.
    FRep 11.530 7 ...if there is fate in corn and cotton, so is there fate in thought...
    FRep 11.535 16 ...it is the rule of the universe that corn shall serve man, and not man corn.
    FRep 11.535 17 ...it is the rule of the universe that corn shall serve man, and not man corn.
    CL 12.151 20 In August, when the corn is grown to be a resort and protection to woodcocks and small birds...we observe already that the leaf is sere...
    CW 12.172 8 Still less did I know [when I bought my farm] what good and true neighbors I was buying...some of them now known the country through...and...other men not known widely but known at home, farmers... when witch-grass and nettles grew, causing a forest of apple-trees or miles of corn and rye to thrive.
    Bost 12.189 24 [John Smith writes (1624)] Here [in New England] are many isles planted with corn, groves, mulberries, salvage gardens and good harbours.
    Bost 12.204 15 In Massachusetts [Nature] did not want epic poems and dramas yet, but first...farmers to till and harvest corn for the world.
    Bost 12.204 16 In Massachusetts [Nature] did not want epic poems and dramas yet, but first...farmers to till and harvest corn for the world. Corn, yes, but honest corn; corn with thanks to the Giver of corn;...
    Bost 12.204 17 In Massachusetts [Nature] did not want epic poems and dramas yet, but first...farmers to till and harvest corn for the world. Corn, yes, but honest corn; corn with thanks to the Giver of corn;...

Corn, [William Spence], n. (1)

    ET9 5.150 15 In a tract on Corn, a most amiable...gentleman [William Spence] writes thus:--Though Britain, according to Bishop Berkeley's idea, were surrounded by a wall of brass ten thousand cubits in height, still she would as far excel the rest of the globe in riches, as she now does both in this secondary quality...

corn-cakes, n. (1)

    FRep 11.526 25 ...instead of the doleful experience of the European economist, who tells us, In almost all countries the condition of the great body of the people is poor and miserable, here that same great body has arrived at a sloven plenty,-ham and corn-cakes...enough have been attained;...

corn-chambers, n. (1)

    Prd1 2.227 21 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 garrets, presses and corn-chambers...

corn-eaters, n. (1)

    Exp 3.64 6 ...the ascetics, Gentoos and corn-eaters, [nature] does not distinguish by any favor.

corner, n. (27)

    Nat 1.20 7 ...[man] may creep into a corner...
    MN 1.193 25 ...the sturdiest defender of existing institutions feels the terrific inflammability of this air which condenses heat in every corner...
    MN 1.199 10 We can never surprise nature in a corner;...
    Con 1.317 20 Yonder peasant, who sits neglected there in a corner, carries a whole revolution of man and nature in his head...
    Tran 1.351 10 ...I can sit in a corner and perish (as you call it), but I will not move until I have the highest command.
    Hist 2.6 22 All that Shakspeare says of the king, yonder slip of a boy that reads in the corner feels to be true of himself.
    SR 2.47 23 ...we are...not minors and invalids in a protected corner...
    SR 2.49 1 ...looking out from his corner on such people and facts as pass by, [the boy] tries and sentences them on their merits...
    Prd1 2.227 17 In the rainy day [the good husband]...gets his tool-box set in the corner of the barn-chamber...
    Art1 2.360 18 ...that house and weather and manner of living which poverty and the fate of birth have made at once so odious and so dear, in the gray unpainted wood cabin, on the corner of a New Hampshire farm...will serve as well as any other condition as the symbol of a thought which pours itself indifferently through all.
    Art1 2.364 15 ...in the works of our plastic arts and especially of sculpture, creation is driven into a corner.
    ET8 5.132 13 [Young Englishmen] stoutly carry into every nook and corner of the earth their turbulent sense;...
    ET9 5.148 23 ...an ex-governor of Illinois, said to me, If the man knew anything, he would sit in a corner and be modest;...
    ET15 5.261 10 There is no corner and no night. A relentless inquisition [the newspaper] drags every secret to the day...
    F 6.10 14 At the corner of the street you read the possibility of each passenger in the facial angle...
    Pow 6.70 12 ...when you espouse an Orleans party...or any other but an organic party...you have a personality instead of a principle, which will inevitably drag you into a corner.
    Ctr 6.154 8 What is odious but...people...who intrigue to secure a padded chair and a corner out of the draught.
    Ill 6.317 13 ...[men who make themselves felt in the world] never deeply interest us unless they lift a corner of the curtain...
    Elo1 7.73 27 [Pleasing speech] is heard like a band of music passing through the streets, which...is forgotten as soon as it has turned the next corner;...
    Elo1 7.86 27 I remember long ago being attracted...into the court-room. ... [The prisoner's counsel] drove the attorney for the state from corner to corner...
    Elo1 7.87 1 I remember long ago being attracted...into the court-room. ... [The prisoner's counsel] drove the attorney for the state from corner to corner...
    Dem1 10.28 6 The whole world is an omen and a sign. Why look so wistfully in a corner?
    PerF 10.86 24 A boy who knows that a bully lives round the corner which he must pass on his daily way to school, is apt to take sinister views of streets and of school education.
    Edc1 10.145 24 ...Sir Charles Fellowes...being at Xanthus...had seen a Turk point with his staff to some carved work on the corner of a stone...
    Plu 10.308 17 ...[Plutarch] wishes the philosopher not to hide in a corner...
    War 11.175 21 Not in an obscure corner...is this seed of benevolence [Congress of Nations] laid in the furrow, with tears of hope;...
    Scot 11.462 7 Our concern is only with the residue, where the man Scott was warmed with a divine ray that clad with beauty...every bald hill in the country he looked upon, and so...illustrated every hidden corner of a barren and disagreeable territory.

Corner, Nine Acre, n. (1)

    EzRy 10.387 17 I once rode with [Ezra Ripley] to a house at Nine Acre Corner to attend the funeral of the father of a family.

Corner, Nine-Acre, n. (1)

    Thor 10.480 10 ...the blockheads were not born in Concord; but who said they were? It was their unspeakable misfortune to be born in London, or Paris, or Rome; but...they did what they could, considering that they never saw...Nine-Acre Corner...

cornered, v. (1)

    Cour 7.255 22 Animal resistance, the instinct of the male animal when cornered, is no doubt common;...

corners, n. (10)

    LE 1.176 10 Let us live in corners...
    YA 1.370 27 A heterogeneous population crowding on all ships from all corners of the world to the great gates of North America...it cannot be doubted that the legislation of this country should become more catholic and cosmopolitan than that of any other.
    Mrs1 3.139 24 [Society] hates corners and sharp points of character...
    ET3 5.38 7 ...[England] is stuffed full, in all corners and crevices, with towns, towers, churches, villas, palaces, hospitals and charity-houses.
    Bhr 6.187 16 Friendship should be surrounded with ceremonies and respects, and not crushed into corners.
    Ill 6.314 10 ...the scientific whim is lurking in all corners.
    Elo1 7.95 13 [Eloquence] is always dying out of famous places and appearing in corners.
    Suc 7.305 15 As our tenderness for youth and beauty gives a new and just importance to their fresh and manifold claims, so the like sensibility...has eyes and hospitality for merit in corners.
    HDC 11.38 8 ...after the bargain [for Concord] was concluded, Mr. Simon Willard, pointing to the four corners of the world, declared that they had bought three miles from that place, east, west, north and south.
    Bost 12.201 13 There is a little formula, couched in pure Saxon, which you may hear in the corners of streets...I 'm as good as you be...

corner-stone, n. (1)

    Wth 6.122 24 [The citizen from Dock Square] proceeds at once...to fix the spot for his corner-stone.

corner-stones, n. (1)

    PPh 4.39 6 ...[Plato's sentences] are the corner-stones of schools;...

cornfield, n. (1)

    AgMs 12.358 4 In an afternoon in April...I...found the Farmer in his cornfield.

cornfields, n. (2)

    HDC 11.76 25 ...you [veterans of the battle of Concord] have quit yourselves like men in your virtuous families; in your cornfields;...
    Bost 12.189 27 [John Smith writes (1624)] The seacoast, as you pass, shows you all along large cornfields...

corn-flags, n. (1)

    Int 2.334 3 If you...hoe corn, and then retire within doors, and shut your eyes and press them with your hand, you shall still see...the corn-flags...

Cornhill, n. (1)

    Wth 6.119 20 [A farm] requires as much watching as if you were decanting wine from a cask. The farmer knows what to do with it...but a blunderhead comes out of Cornhill, tries his hand, and it all leaks away.

cornhusk, n. (1)

    EWI 11.104 10 ...if we saw men's backs flayed with cowhides, and hot rum poured on, superinduced with brine or pickle, rubbed in with a cornhusk... we too should wince.

cornice, n. (1)

    MAng1 12.224 19 ...the Prince [of Orange] directed the artillery to demolish the tower [at San Miniato]. The artist [Michelangelo] hung mattresses of wool on the side exposed to the attack, and by means of a bold projecting cornice, from which they were suspended, a considerable space was left between them and the wall.

corn-lawed, v. (1)

    PPr 12.390 19 Carlyle's style is the first emergence of all this wealth and labor with which the world has gone with child so long. London and Europe, tunnelled, graded, corn-lawed...and America...have never before been conquered in literature.

corn-laws, n. (1)

    Wsp 6.210 27 Certain patriots in England devoted themselves for years to creating a public opinion that should break down the corn-laws and establish free trade.

Corn-Laws, n. (1)

    EPro 11.315 23 Such moments of expansion [of liberty] in modern history were the Confession of Augsburg...the repeal of the Corn-Laws...

Cornwall, Barry, n. (1)

    ET17 5.292 23 Every day in London gave me new opportunities of meeting men and women who give splendor to society. I saw...Milnes, Milman, Barry Cornwall...

Cornwall, Earl of [Richard] (1)

    ET4 5.64 8 Henry III. mortgaged all the Jews in the kingdom to his brother the Earl of Cornwall...

Cornwall, England, n. (3)

    ET3 5.41 13 It is not down in the books...that fortunate day when a wave of the German Ocean burst the old isthmus which joined Kent and Cornwall to France...
    ET3 5.42 13 In the variety of surface, Britain is a miniature of Europe, having...mines in Cornwall;...
    ET11 5.180 7 ...[the English lords] rightly wear the token of the glebe that gave them birth, suggesting that...here in London,--the crags of Argyle, the kail of Cornwall...are neither forgetting nor forgotten...

Cornwall, n. (1)

    Hist 2.35 9 ...all the postulates of elfin annals...I find true in Concord, however they might be in Cornwall or Bretagne.

corollary, n. (1)

    MoS 4.154 23 I knew a philosopher of this kidney who was accustomed briefly to sum up his experience of human nature in saying, Mankind is a damned rascal: and the natural corollary is pretty sure to follow, The world lives by humbug, and so will I.

coronation, adj. (2)

    MN 1.224 7 Pusillanimity and fear [the soul] refuses with a beautiful scorn; they are not for her who puts on her coronation robes, and goes out through universal love to universal power.
    ET13 5.218 26 Another part of the same service [at York Minster] on this occasion was not insignificant. Handel's coronation anthem, God save the King, was played by Dr. Camidge on the organ, with sublime effect.

coronation, n. (4)

    Pol1 3.216 5 That which...which freedom, cultivation, intercourse, revolutions, go to form and deliver, is character; that is the end of Nature, to reach unto this coronation of her king.
    ShP 4.196 6 ...some passages [in Shakespeare's Henry VIII], as the account of the coronation, are like autographs.
    ET6 5.110 1 [The English] repeated the ceremonies of the eleventh century in the coronation of the present Queen.
    Art2 7.55 12 Heraldry...and the ceremonies of a coronation, are a dignified repetition of the occurrences that might befall a dragoon and his footboy.

coroner, n. (2)

    EurB 12.366 19 In the debates on the Copyright Bill, in the English Parliament, Mr. Sergeant Wakley, the coroner, quoted Wordsworth's poetry in derision...
    EurB 12.366 25 In the debates on the Copyright Bill...Mr. Sergeant Wakley, the coroner, quoted Wordsworth's poetry in derision, and asked the roaring House of Commons...whether a man should have public reward for writing such stuff. Homer, Horace, Milton and Chaucer would defy the coroner.

coronet, n. (4)

    NER 3.275 13 ...a naval and military honor...a ducal coronet...have this lustre for each candidate that they enable him to walk erect and unashamed in the presence of some persons before whom he felt himself inferior.
    ET11 5.177 11 The lawyer, the farmer, the silk-mercer lies perdu under the coronet...
    ET11 5.178 2 Some of [the English aristocracy]...as Sheridan said of Coke, disdain to hide their head in a coronet;...
    SMC 11.348 8 Think you these felt no charms/ In their gray homesteads and embowered farms?/ ... In fields their boyish feet had known?/ In trees their fathers' hands had set,/ And which with them had grown,/ Widening each year their leafy coronet?/

corpora, n. (1)

    FRep 11.533 4 Corpora non agunt nisi soluta;...

corporal, adj. (2)

    Edc1 10.152 24 Whatever becomes of our method [of teaching], the conditions stand fast,-six hours, and thirty, fifty, or a hundred and fifty pupils. Something must be done, and done speedily, and in this distress the wisest are tempted...to proclaim...corporal punishment...
    Edc1 10.154 19 ...only to think of using [simple discipline and the following of nature] implies character and profoundness; to enter on this course of discipline is to be good and great. It is precisely analogous to the difference between the use of corporal punishment and the methods of love.

corporate, adj. (1)

    HDC 11.42 16 ...this first recorded political act of our fathers, this tax assessed on its inhabitants by a town, is the most important event in their civil history, implying...the exercise of a sovereign power, and connected with all the immunities and powers of a corporate town in Massachusetts.

corporation, n. (5)

    Con 1.308 19 I cannot occupy the bleakest crag of the White Hills or the Alleghany Range, but some man or corporation steps up to me to show me that it is his.
    Con 1.321 3 The corporation were advised to call off the police...
    GoW 4.282 10 In the learned journal, in the influential newspaper, I discern no form; only some irresponsible shadow; oftener some moneyed corporation...
    ET10 5.157 3 The ambition to create value evokes every kind of ability [in England]; government becomes a manufacturing corporation...
    HDC 11.84 16 ...it is to be remembered that a town is, in many respects, a financial corporation.

corporations, n. (2)

    ET11 5.183 4 In 1786 the soil of England was owned by 250,000 corporations and proprietors;...
    HDC 11.42 21 The greater speed and success that distinguish the planting of the human race in this country, over all other plantations in history, owe themselves mainly to the new subdivisions of the State into small corporations of land and power.

corporation-works, n. (1)

    PI 8.36 21 What are [the poet's] garland and singing-robes? What but a sensibility so keen that the scent of an elder-blow, or the timber-yard and corporation-works of a nest of pismires is event enough for him...

corporeal, adj. (6)

    Nat 1.17 1 ...in other hours, Nature satisfies...without any mixture of corporeal benefit.
    SwM 4.115 8 The lowest form is angular, or the terrestrial and corporeal.
    ET14 5.258 19 For a self-conceited modish life...clinging to a corporeal civilization...there is no remedy like the Oriental largeness.
    ET18 5.304 15 [The English]...occupy themselves...on a corporeal civilization...
    SS 7.5 6 Do you think, [my friend] said, I am in such great terror of being shot, I, who am only waiting to shuffle off my corporeal jacket...
    PI 8.28 1 [Blake wrote] I question not my corporeal eye any more than I would question a window concerning a sight.

corporeal, n. (1)

    Dem1 10.18 1 ...every demoniacal property can manifest itself in the corporeal and incorporeal...

corps, esprit de, n. (1)

    Civ 7.26 23 There can be no high civility without a deep morality, though it may not always call itself by that name, but sometimes...the cabalism or esprit de corps of a masonic or other association of friends.

corps, esprit du, n. (1)

    ET2 5.28 10 ...that wonderful esprit du corps by which we adopt into our self-love every thing we touch, makes us all champions of [a ship's] sailing qualities.

corps, n. (3)

    Mrs1 3.130 10 ...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 military corps...
    Res 8.145 18 Malus...was captain of a corps of engineers in Bonaparte's Egyptian campaign...
    LLNE 10.327 18 College classes, military corps, or trades-unions may fancy themselves indissoluble for a moment, over their wine;...

Corps, Ninth, n. (1)

    SMC 11.366 9 Captain Humphrey H. Buttrick...saw hard service in the Ninth Corps, under General Burnside.

corpse, n. (9)

    Nat 1.16 1 Even the corpse has its own beauty.
    Nat 1.28 15 The seed of a plant, - to what affecting analogies in the nature of man is that little fruit made use of, in all discourse, up to the voice of Paul, who calls the human corpse a seed...
    Nat 1.56 10 The sublime remark of Euler on his law of arches...had already transferred nature into the mind, and left matter like an outcast corpse.
    Hist 2.31 26 The philosophical perception of identity through endless mutations of form makes [man] know the Proteus. What else am I who laughed or wept yesterday, who slept last night like a corpse, and this morning stood and ran?
    SR 2.57 2 Why drag about this corpse of your memory...
    SL 2.131 12 Even the corpse that has lain in the chambers has added a solemn ornament to the house.
    Imtl 8.325 11 The chief end of man being to be buried well, the arts most in request [in Egypt] were masonry and embalming, to give imperishability to the corpse.
    Imtl 8.327 1 ...the true disciples saw, through the letter, the doctrine of eternity, which dissolved the poor corpse and nature also...
    SHC 11.431 5 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.

corpses, n. (2)

    Mrs1 3.119 19 It is somewhat singular, adds Belzoni, to whom we owe this account, to talk of happiness among people who live in sepulchres, among the corpses and rags of an ancient nation which they know nothing of.
    FRep 11.519 22 We have seen the great party of property and education in the country drivelling and huckstering away...the dearest hopes of mankind;...imbecile as corpses when evil was to be prevented.

corpus, habeas, n. (1)

    JBB 11.272 24 ...your habeas corpus is, in any way in which it has been, or, I fear, is likely to be used, a nuisance...

Corpus Poetarum, n. (1)

    ET12 5.206 26 ...it is certain that a Senior Classic [at Eton] can quote correctly from the Corpus Poetarum...

correct, adj. (10)

    LE 1.179 21 [Napoleon] believed that the great captains of antiquity performed their exploits only by correct combinations...
    Exp 3.73 16 In our more correct writing we give to this generalization the name of Being...
    NR 3.232 26 I looked into Pope's Odyssey yesterday: it is as correct and elegant after our canon of to-day as if it were newly written.
    PPh 4.65 16 ...God invented and bestowed sight on us for this purpose,-- that on surveying the circles of intelligence in the heavens, we might properly employ those of our own minds...and that having thus learned, and being naturally possessed of a correct reasoning faculty, we might...set right our own wanderings and blunders.
    ET14 5.245 22 Hallam...is unconscious of the deep worth which lies in the mystics, and which often outvalues as a seed of power and a source of revolution all the correct writers and shining reputations of their day.
    Comc 8.167 24 ...I was hastening to visit an old and honored friend, who... was in a dying condition, when I met his physician, who accosted me...with joy sparkling in his eyes. And how is my friend, the reverend Doctor? I inquired. O, I saw him this morning; it is the most correct apoplexy I have ever seen;...
    LLNE 10.331 13 If any of my readers were at that period [1820] in Boston or Cambridge, they will easily remember [Everett's] radiant beauty of person...a voice...that...was the most mellow and beautiful and correct of all the instruments of the time.
    LS 11.16 25 If the view which I have taken of the history of the institution [the Lord's Supper] be correct, then the claim of authority should be dropped in administering it.
    ACri 12.287 10 ...all able men have known how to import the petulance of the street into correct discourse.
    MLit 12.327 5 It is all design with [Goethe], just...analogies, allusion, illustration, which knowledge and correct thinking supply;...

correct, v. (17)

    LE 1.175 24 Digest and correct the past experience;...
    LT 1.279 20 ...magnifying the importance of that wrong, [men] fancy that if that abuse were redressed all would go well, and they fill the land with clamor to correct it.
    Int 2.329 11 As far as we can recall these ecstasies [of thought] we carry away in the ineffaceable memory the result, and all men and all the ages confirm it. It is called truth. But the moment we...attempt to correct and contrive, it is not truth.
    UGM 4.20 26 These [great] men correct the delirium of the animal spirits...
    MoS 4.168 19 It is Cambridge men who correct themselves and begin again at every half sentence...
    Wsp 6.236 19 ...[Benedict] would correct his conduct, in that respect in which he had faulted, to the next person he should meet.
    Elo1 7.94 21 If you would correct my false view of facts,--hold up to me the same facts in the true order of thought...
    DL 7.116 25 [The reform that applies itself to the household] must correct the whole system of our social living.
    Grts 8.315 17 How many men, detested in contemporary hostile history, of whom...we have learned to correct our old estimates, and to see them as, on the whole, instruments of great benefit.
    Aris 10.36 26 ...a new respect for the sacredness of the individual man, is that antidote which must correct in our country the disgraceful deference to public opinion...
    Chr2 10.119 21 No evil can come from reform which a deeper thought will not correct.
    Edc1 10.158 23 By simple living, by an illimitable soul...you correct...all.
    Plu 10.306 8 The plain speaking of Plutarch...in our new tendencies of civilization, may tend to correct a false delicacy.
    FSLC 11.213 14 ...the sting of the late disgraces [the Fugitive Slave Law] is that this royal position of Massachusetts was foully lost, that the well-known sentiment of her people was not expressed. Let us correct this error.
    AKan 11.258 20 Next to the private man, I value the primary assembly, met to watch the government and to correct it.
    FRep 11.525 7 After every practical mistake out of which any disaster grows, the [American] people wake and correct it with energy.
    FRep 11.530 22 We have much to learn, much to correct...

corrected, v. (14)

    YA 1.363 4 ...our people have their intellectual culture from one country and their duties from another. This false state of things is newly in a way to be corrected.
    NER 3.261 10 It is of little moment that one or two or twenty errors of our social system be corrected...
    ET1 5.23 11 [Wordsworth] replied he never was in haste to publish; partly because he corrected a good deal...
    F 6.5 1 Any excess of emphasis on one part would be corrected...
    SS 7.10 10 ...this banishment to the rocks and echoes no metaphysics can make right or tolerable. This result is so against nature...that it must be corrected by a common sense and experience.
    Plu 10.296 21 M. Octave Greard, in a critical work on [Plutarch's] Morals, has carefully corrected the popular legends...
    SMC 11.353 2 The aim of the hour was to reconstruct the South; but first the North had to be reconstructed. Its own theory and practice of liberty had got sadly out of gear, and must be corrected.
    Wom 11.422 25 ...if in your city the uneducated emigrant vote numbers thousands...it is to be corrected by an educated and religious vote...
    PLT 12.9 1 ...if you like to run away from this besetting sin of sedentary men, you can escape all this insane egotism by running into society, where the manners and estimate of the world have corrected this folly...
    PLT 12.13 6 The inward analysis must be corrected by rough experience.
    PLT 12.50 19 The excess of individualism, when it is not corrected...makes that vice which we stigmatize as monotones, men of one idea...
    CInt 12.122 10 ...it happens often that the wellbred and refined...need to have their corrupt voting and violence corrected by the cleaner and wiser suffrages of poor farmers.
    CL 12.139 26 The [Massachusetts] climate needs...to be corrected by a little anthracite coal...
    Bost 12.187 7 I think the Potomac water is a little acrid, and should be corrected by copious infusions of these provincial streams.

correcting, v. (8)

    AmS 1.101 3 ...[the scholar]...correcting still his old records; must relinquish display and immediate fame.
    DSA 1.122 27 See how this rapid intrinsic energy worketh everywhere... correcting appearances...
    Exp 3.75 24 ...we have no means of correcting these colored and distorting lenses which we are...
    DL 7.117 8 ...if we begin by reforming particulars of our present system [of housekeeping], correcting a few evils and letting the rest stand, we shall soon give up in despair.
    OA 7.335 1 [John Adams]...enters bravely into long sentences...but carries them invariably to a conclusion, without correcting a word.
    Aris 10.64 10 No great man has existed who did not rely on the sense and heart of mankind as represented by the good sense of the people, as correcting the modes and over-refinements and class prejudices of the lettered men of the world.
    Chr2 10.104 1 [The religions we call false]...were affirmations of the conscience correcting the evil customs of their times.
    FRep 11.525 15 In each new threat of faction the ballot has been, beyond expectation, right and decisive. It is ever an inspiration...a sudden, undated perception of eternal right coming into and correcting things that were wrong;...

correction, n. (10)

    MR 1.247 24 ...we must not cease to tend to the correction of flagrant wrongs...
    SL 2.161 20 This revisal or correction is a constant force...
    Fdsp 2.214 1 Whatever correction of our popular views we make from insight, nature will be sure to bear us out in...
    SwM 4.124 4 The moral insight of Swedenborg, the correction of popular errors...take him out of comparison with any other modern writer...
    Edc1 10.136 25 I call our system [of education] a system of despair, and I find all the correction, all the revolution that is needed...in one word, in Hope.
    Edc1 10.155 3 ...the correction of this quack practice is to import into Education the wisdom of life.
    Plu 10.320 19 The correction [in the 1871 edition of Plutarch's Morals] is not only of names of authors and of places grossly altered or misspelled...
    LLNE 10.336 19 Astronomy...compelled a certain extension and uplifting of our views of the Deity and his Providence. This correction of our superstitions was confirmed by the new science of Geology...
    ChiE 11.473 22 I am sure that gentlemen around me bear in mind the bill... requiring that candidates for public offices shall first pass examinations on their literary qualifications for the same. Well, China has preceded us...in this essential correction of a reckless usage;...
    MAng1 12.221 11 Most of [Michelangelo's] designs, his contemporaries inform us, were made...in the style of an engraving on copper or wood; a manner more expressive but not admitting of correction.

corrections, n. (1)

    UGM 4.6 14 ...[other than great men] must make painful corrections...

corrective, n. (1)

    PI 8.32 18 ...inestimable is the criticism of memory as a corrective to first impressions.

correctly, adv. (5)

    Nat 1.67 12 ...it is less to my purpose to recite correctly the order and superposition of the strata, than to know why all thought of multitude is lost in a tranquil sense of unity.
    Prd1 2.229 21 Even lifeless figures, as vessels and stools--let them be drawn ever so correctly--lose all effect so soon as they lack the resting upon their centre of gravity...
    Exp 3.73 12 This vigor is...in the highest degree unbending. Nourish it correctly and do it no injury, and it will fill up the vacancy between heaven and earth.
    ET12 5.206 26 ...it is certain that a Senior Classic [at Eton] can quote correctly from the Corpus Poetarum...
    HDC 11.84 8 The old town clerks did not spell very correctly...

correctness, n. (4)

    Int 2.337 10 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, nor can himself draw with correctness a single feature.
    Elo2 8.129 24 These are ascending stairs [to eloquence],--a good voice, winning manners, plain speech, chastened...by the schools into correctness;...
    LS 11.14 25 ...there is a material circumstance which diminishes our confidence in the correctness of the Apostle's [St. Paul's] view [of the Lord' s Supper];...
    EPro 11.325 20 The malignant cry of the Secession press within the free states, and the recent action of the Confederate Congress, are decisive as to [the Emancipation Proclamation's] efficiency and correctness of aim.

corrector, n. (2)

    Plu 10.321 1 In spite of its carelessness and manifold faults, which, I doubt not, have tried the patience of its present learned editor and corrector, I yet confess my enjoyment of this old version [of Plutarch's Morals]...
    II 12.66 9 None of the metaphysicians have prospered in describing this power [consciousness], which...is the corrector of private excesses and mistakes;...

corrects, v. (4)

    DSA 1.125 13 [The sentiment of virtue] corrects the capital mistake of the infant man...
    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.
    Ctr 6.131 4 Whilst all the world is in pursuit of power...culture corrects the theory of success.
    PC 8.228 13 Science corrects the old creeds;...

Correggio, Antonio Allegri (1)

    Milt1 12.259 14 ...to enlarge and enliven his elegant learning, [Milton] was sent into Italy, where he beheld...the rival works of Raphael, Michael Angelo and Correggio;...

correlation, n. (5)

    F 6.39 12 The ulterior aim...the correlation by which planets subside and crystallize...will not stop but will work into finer particulars...
    F 6.45 3 The correlation is shown in defects.
    F 6.45 26 This correlation really existing can be divined.
    PC 8.211 15 The correlation of forces and the polarization of light have carried us to sublime generalizations...
    PC 8.222 1 When the correlation of the sciences was announced by Oersted and his colleagues, it was no surprise;...

correlative, adj. (2)

    Mrs1 3.122 9 The word gentleman has not any correlative abstract to express the quality.
    Edc1 10.151 26 If [the young man] has his own vice, he has its correlative virtue.

correlative, n. (3)

    Hist 2.35 26 ...[man] is also the correlative of nature.
    Hist 2.38 14 ...in the light of these two facts, namely, that the mind is One, and that nature is its correlative, history is to be read and written.
    Comp 2.101 14 Every occupation, trade, art, transaction, is...a correlative of every other.

correlatively, adv. (1)

    Lov1 2.187 24 Looking at these aims with which two persons, a man and a woman, so variously and correlatively gifted, are shut up in one house to spend in the nuptial society forty or fifty years, I do not wonder at the emphasis with which the heart prophesies this crisis from early infancy...

correpondences, n. (1)

    SwM 4.120 22 This design of exhibiting such correpondences [between heaven and earth]...was narrowed and defeated by the exclusively theologic direction which [Swedenborg's] inquiries took.

correspond, v. (8)

    Nat 1.47 16 In my utter impotence...to know whether the impressions [my senses] make on me correspond with outlying objects, what difference does it make, whether Orion is up there in heaven, or some god paints the image in the firmament of the soul?
    Hist 2.5 4 The fact narrated must correspond to something in me to be credible or intelligible.
    PPh 4.62 15 [Things] are knowable, because being from one, things correspond.
    PPh 4.69 6 To these four sections [images, objects, opinions, truths], the four operations of the soul correspond,--conjecture, faith, understanding, reason.
    SwM 4.116 4 ...In our doctrine of Representations and Correspondences [says Swedenborg] we shall treat...of the astonishing things which occur... which correspond so entirely to supreme and spiritual things that one would swear that the physical world was purely symbolical of the spiritual world;...
    PI 8.41 25 ...the poet sees...the large effect of laws which correspond to the inward laws which he knows...
    SA 8.81 27 ...trying experiments, and at perfect leisure with these posture-masters and flatterers all day, [the babe] throws himself into all the attitudes that correspond to theirs.
    Dem1 10.10 17 ...under every tree in the speckled sunshine and shade no man notices that every spot of light is a perfect image of the sun, until in some hour the moon eclipses the luminary; and then first we notice that the spots of light...correspond to the changed figure of the sun.

corresponded, v. (2)

    NR 3.230 19 We conceive distinctly enough the French, the Spanish, the German genius, and it is not the less real that perhaps we should not meet in either of those nations a single individual who corresponded with the type.
    PPh 4.52 10 To this partiality [of unity and diversity] the history of nations corresponded.

correspondence, n. (42)

    Nat 1.29 3 Because of this radical correspondence between visible things and human thoughts, savages...converse in figures.
    YA 1.377 14 [Traders'] information, their wealth, their correspondence, have made them quite other men than left their native shore.
    Fdsp 2.216 9 It has seemed to me lately more possible than I knew, to carry a friendship greatly, on one side, without due correspondence on the other.
    PPh 4.62 16 There is a scale; and the correspondence of heaven to earth...is our guide.
    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 4.117 22 ...[mankind] had sciences, religions, philosophies, and yet had failed to see the correspondence of meaning between every part and every other part.
    SwM 4.120 12 The correspondence between thoughts and things henceforward occupied [Swedenborg].
    MoS 4.150 18 The correspondence of Pope and Swift describes mankind around them as monsters;...
    MoS 4.163 5 ...in prosecuting my correspondence [with John Sterling], I found that, from a love of Montaigne, he had made a pilgrimage to his chateau...
    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...
    NMW 4.238 26 It was a whimsical economy of the same kind which dictated [Bonaparte's] practice, when general in Italy, in regard to his burdensome correspondence.
    NMW 4.239 2 [Bonaparte] directed Bourrienne to leave all letters unopened for three weeks, and then observed with satisfaction how large a part of the correspondence had thus disposed of itself...
    GoW 4.286 16 Of course the book [Goethe's Dichtung und Wahrheit] affords slender materials for what would be reckoned with us a Life of Goethe;...no correspondence...
    ET3 5.35 5 ...the traveller [in England] rides as on a cannon-ball...and reads quietly the Times newspaper, which, by its immense correspondence and reporting seems to have machinized the rest of the world for his occasion.
    ET11 5.192 4 The Selwyn correspondence, in the reign of George III., discloses a rottenness in the aristocracy which threatened to decompose the state.
    ET15 5.263 23 [The London Times] has shown those qualities which are dear to Englishmen...a towering assurance, backed by...its world-wide network of correspondence and reports.
    Wth 6.89 10 The same correspondence that is between thirst in the stomach and water in the spring, exists between the whole of man and the whole of nature.
    Bhr 6.194 16 There is a stroke of magnanimity in the correspondence of Bonaparte with his brother Joseph...
    Bhr 6.194 21 There is a stroke of magnanimity in the correspondence of Bonaparte with his brother Joseph, when...he complained that he missed in Napoleon's letters the affectionate tone which had marked their childish correspondence.
    Clbs 7.249 9 ...in the sections of the British Association more information is mutually and effectually communicated, in a few hours, than in many months of ordinary correspondence...
    Suc 7.300 22 The fundamental fact in our metaphysic constitution is the correspondence of man to the world...
    Suc 7.300 27 The mind yields sympathetically to the tendencies or law which...make the order of Nature; and in the perfection of this correspondence or expressiveness, the health and force of man consist.
    OA 7.326 25 [The youth] is tormented with the want of correspondence between things and thoughts.
    OA 7.327 20 ...at the end of fifty years, [a man's] soul is appeased by seeing some sort of correspondence between his wish and his possession.
    OA 7.331 2 In Goethe's Romance, Makaria, the central figure for wisdom and influence, pleases herself with withdrawing into solitude to astronomy and epistolary correspondence.
    PI 8.9 25 Every correspondence we observe in mind and matter suggests a substance older and deeper than either of these old nobilities.
    PI 8.29 21 ...[Herbert, Swedenborg, Wordsworth] know that this correspondence of things to thoughts is far deeper than they can penetrate...
    PI 8.48 27 ...when [people] apprehend real rhymes, namely, the correspondence of parts in Nature...they do not longer value rattles and ding-dongs...
    Res 8.150 24 It was a pleasing trait in Goethe's romance, that Makaria retires from society to astronomy and her correspondence.
    Grts 8.317 24 Goethe, in his correspondence with his Grand Duke of Weimar, does not shine.
    Grts 8.318 1 Goethe, in his correspondence with his Grand Duke of Weimar, does not shine. We can see that the Prince had the advantage of the Olympian genius. It is more plainly seen in the correspondence between Voltaire and Frederick of Prussia.
    Edc1 10.141 3 That stormy genius of [the boy's] needs a little direction to... a correspondence year by year with his wisest and best friends.
    SovE 10.200 8 Here [a man] stands, a lonely thought harmoniously organized into correspondence with the universe of mind and matter.
    LLNE 10.352 26 There is an order in which in a sound mind the faculties always appear, and which, according to the strength of the individual, they seek to realize in the surrounding world. The value of Fourier's system is that it is a statement of such an order...carried outward into its correspondence in facts.
    LLNE 10.362 8 Margaret Fuller...was often a guest [at Brook Farm], and always in correspondence with her friends.
    SlHr 10.437 22 At the time when [Samuel Hoar] went to South Carolina... pending his correspondence with the governor and the legal officers, he was repeatedly warned that it was not safe for him to appear in public...
    GSt 10.505 12 When one remembers...the wide correspondence, presently enlarged by printed circulars, then by newspapers established wholly or partly at [George Stearns's] own cost;...I think this single will was worth to the cause ten thousand ordinary partisans...
    HDC 11.32 1 Mr. Bulkeley, having turned his estate into money and set his face towards New England, was easily able to persuade a good number of planters to join him. They arrived in Boston in 1634. Probably there had been a previous correspondence with Governor Winthrop...
    HDC 11.68 7 ...in answer to letters received from the united committees of correspondence, in the vicinity of Boston, the town [of Concord] say: We cannot possibly view with indifference the...endeavors of the enemies of this...country, to rob us of those rights, that are the distinguishing glory and felicity of this land;...
    SMC 11.361 27 [George Prescott] never remits his care of the men, aiming to hold them to their good habits and to keep them cheerful. For the first point, he...urges their correspondence with their friends;...
    PLT 12.22 4 If man has organs...for reproduction and love and care of his young, you shall find all the same in the muskrat. There is a perfect correspondence;...
    Let 12.392 3 ...we are very liable...to fall behind-hand in our correspondence;...

Correspondence, n. (1)

    SwM 4.105 19 [Swedenborg] named his favorite views the doctrine of Forms, the doctrine of Series and Degrees, the doctrine of Influx, the doctrine of Correspondence.

correspondences, n. (2)

    SwM 4.116 19 [Swedenborg says] I intend hereafter to communicate a number of examples of such correspondences [between the natural and spiritual worlds]...
    PC 8.224 17 The good wit finds the law from a single observation,-the law, and its limitations, and its correspondences...

Correspondences, n. (1)

    SwM 4.115 26 ...In our doctrine of Representations and Correspondences [says Swedenborg] we shall treat of both these symbolical and typical resemblances...

correspondency, n. (1)

    Hist 2.38 11 I will not now go behind the general statement to explore the reason of this correspondency.

correspondent, adj. (6)

    Nat 1.76 20 A correspondent revolution in things will attend the influx of the spirit.
    Con 1.295 20 Such an irreconcilable antagonism [as that between Conservatism and Innovation]...must have a correspondent depth of seat in the human constitution.
    Gts 3.163 4 The gift, to be true, must be the flowing of the giver unto me, correspondent to my flowing unto him.
    Insp 8.271 4 The poet cannot see a natural phenomenon which does not express to him a correspondent fact in his mental experience;...
    SovE 10.199 3 While the immense energy of the sentiment of duty and the awe of the supernatural exert incomparable influence on the mind,-yet it is often perverted, and the tradition received with awe, but without correspondent action of the receiver.
    CPL 11.497 24 The chairman of Mr. [William] Munroe's trustees has told you how old is the foundation of our village library, and we think we can trace in our modest records a correspondent effect of culture amidst our citizens.

correspondent, n. (6)

    ET17 5.291 19 At the landing in Liverpool, I found my Manchester correspondent awaiting me...
    SMC 11.362 1 [George Prescott] never remits his care of the men, aiming to hold them to their good habits and to keep them cheerful. For the first point, he...writes news of them home, urging his own correspondent to visit their families...
    Let 12.392 15 ...in regard to the writer who has given us his speculations on Railroads and Air-roads, our correspondent shall have his own way.
    Let 12.393 5 ...when our correspondent proceeds to flying-machines, we have no longer the smallest taper-light of credible information and experience left...
    Let 12.395 9 One of the [letter] writers relentingly says, What shall my uncles and aunts do without me? and desires distinctly to be understood...to propose...to begin the enterprise of concentration by concentrating all uncles and aunts in one delightful village by themselves!-so heedless is our correspondent of putting all the dough into one pan, and all the leaven into another.
    Let 12.397 13 Especially to one importunate correspondent we must say that there is no chance for the aesthetic village.

correspondents, n. (5)

    SL 2.164 11 How dare I read Washington's campaigns when I have not answered the letters of my own correspondents?
    ShP 4.203 9 ...I find, among [Wotton's] correspondents and acquaintances, the following persons: Theodore Beza, Isaac Casaubon...
    ET15 5.266 21 [The London Times] has mercantile and political correspondents in every foreign city...
    Milt1 12.258 24 In a letter to one of his foreign correspondents...[Milton] writes: Many have been celebrated for their compositions, whose common conversation and intercourse have betrayed no marks of sublimity or genius.
    Let 12.404 10 As far as our correspondents have entangled their private griefs with the cause of American Literature, we counsel them to disengage themselves as fast as possible.

corresponding, adj. (9)

    Pt1 3.15 5 ...if any phenomenon remains brute and dark it is because the corresponding faculty in the observer is not yet active.
    SwM 4.116 10 ...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...
    Ctr 6.166 14 ...if one shall read the future of the race hinted in the organic effort of nature to mount and meliorate, and the corresponding impulse to the Better in the human being, we shall dare affirm that there is nothing he will not overcome and convert...
    Bhr 6.175 6 A prince who is accustomed every day to be courted and deferred to by the highest grandees, acquires a corresponding expectation...
    PI 8.53 26 Outside of the nursery the beginning of literature is the prayers of a people...the mind allowing itself range, and therewith is ever a corresponding freedom in the style...
    PPo 8.247 20 ...quick perception and corresponding expression...this generosity of ebb and flow satisfies...
    Dem1 10.15 19 The belief that particular individuals are attended by a good fortune which makes them desirable associates in any enterprise of uncertain success...influences all joint action of commerce and affairs, and a corresponding assurance in the individuals so distinguished meets and justifies the expectation of others by a boundless self-trust.
    Thor 10.472 16 ...no academy made [Thoreau] its corresponding secretary...
    Wom 11.422 17 Every one is a half vote, but the next elector behind him brings the other or corresponding half in his hand...

corresponding, v. (8)

    Tran 1.331 25 The sturdy capitalist...must set [his banking-house], at last, not on a cube corresponding to the angles of his structure, but on a mass of unknown materials and solidity...
    Hist 2.8 14 There is no...mode of action in history to which there is not somewhat corresponding in [each man's] life.
    SwM 4.114 25 Man is a kind of very minute heaven, corresponding to the world of spirits and to heaven.
    PerF 10.73 6 The brain of man has methods and arrangements corresponding to these material powers...
    HDC 11.32 7 ...on the 2d of September, 1635, corresponding in New Style to 12th September...leave to begin a plantation at Musketaquid was given to Peter Bulkeley, Simon Willard, and about twelve families more.
    Mem 12.101 14 ...because all Nature has one law and meaning,-part corresponding to part,-all we have known aids us continually to the knowledge of the rest of Nature.
    MAng1 12.215 3 Few lives of eminent men are harmonious; few that furnish, in all the facts, an image corresponding with their fame.
    MAng1 12.218 21 ...all men have an organization corresponding more or less to the entire system of Nature...

corresponds, v. (10)

    Nat 1.9 12 ...every hour and change [in nature] corresponds to and authorizes a different state of the mind...
    Nat 1.26 15 Every appearance in nature corresponds to some state of the mind...
    Nat 1.71 25 ...[the structure] once fitted [man], now it corresponds to him from far and on high.
    Hist 2.23 17 Every thing the individual sees without him corresponds to his states of mind...
    SR 2.62 1 ...the man in the street, finding no worth in himself which corresponds to the force which built a tower or sculptured a marble god, feels poor when he looks on these.
    Schr 10.279 15 ...the young...finding that nothing outside corresponds to the noble order in the soul, are confused...
    War 11.164 5 Every nation and every man instantly surround themselves with a material apparatus which exactly corresponds to their moral state...
    FRO1 11.479 16 ...as soon as every man...is apprised that the perfect law of duty corresponds with the laws of chemistry, of vegetation, of astronomy, as face to face in a glass;...then we have a religion that exalts...
    PLT 12.20 1 There is in Nature a parallel unity which corresponds to the unity in the mind and makes it available.
    CInt 12.124 5 Here [in a good teacher] is sympathy; here is an order that corresponds to that in [a young man's] own mind...

corroborated, v. (1)

    Milt1 12.257 1 Perfections of body and of mind are attributed to [Milton] by his biographers, that if the anecdotes...had not been in part furnished or corroborated by political enemies, would lead us to suspect the portraits were ideal...

corrode, v. (1)

    ET3 5.39 22 In the manufacturing towns [of England], the fine soot or blacks...poison many plants and corrode the monuments and buildings.

corrugated, v. (1)

    ET17 5.296 10 [Wordsworth] had a healthy look, with a weather-beaten face, his face corrugated...

corrupt, adj. (10)

    YA 1.389 26 The private mind has the access to the totality of goodness and truth that it may be a balance to a corrupt society;...
    Pt1 3.25 18 ...herein is the legitimation of criticism, in the mind's faith that the poems are a corrupt version of some text in nature with which they ought to be made to tally.
    Pol1 3.208 3 Every actual State is corrupt.
    Wsp 6.202 4 If the Divine Providence has hid from men neither disease nor deformity nor corrupt society...let us not be so nice that we cannot write these facts down coarsely as they stand...
    WD 7.165 22 Politics were never more corrupt and brutal;...
    MMEm 10.423 12 War devastates the conscience of men, yet corrupt peace does not less.
    FSLC 11.186 5 ...of the corrupt society that exists we have never been able to combine any pure prosperity.
    CInt 12.122 1 There are bad books and false teachers and corrupt judges;...
    CInt 12.122 9 ...it happens often that the wellbred and refined...need to have their corrupt voting and violence corrected by the cleaner and wiser suffrages of poor farmers.
    MAng1 12.234 15 [Michelangelo] saw clearly that if the corrupt and vulgar eyes that could see nothing but indecorum in his terrific prophets and angels could be purified as his own were pure, they would only find occasion for devotion in the same figures.

corrupt, v. (3)

    Comp 2.113 26 Beware of too much good staying in your hand. It will fast corrupt and worm worms.
    SS 7.13 27 Conversation will not corrupt us if we come to the assembly in our own garb and speech...
    Aris 10.52 10 ...if the dressed and perfumed gentleman, who serves the people in no wise...go about to set ill examples and corrupt them, who shall blame them if they burn his barns...

corrupted, v. (14)

    Pol1 3.208 27 A party is perpetually corrupted by personality.
    ET4 5.57 21 The heroes of the [Norse] Sagas are not the knights of South Europe. No vaporing of France and Spain has corrupted them.
    ET4 5.69 19 ...Tacitus found the English beer already in use among the Germans: They make from barley or wheat a drink corrupted into some resemblance to wine.
    Wth 6.111 23 The rabble are corrupted by their means;...
    Wsp 6.208 5 The lover of the old religion complains that our contemporaries...have corrupted into a timorous conservatism and believe in nothing.
    SA 8.101 18 ...wealth and ease corrupted the race [of the hereditary nobility].
    Dem1 10.19 17 The insinuation [of belief in the demonological] is that the known eternal laws of morals and matter are sometimes corrupted or evaded by this gypsy principle...
    Chr2 10.104 20 Every particular instruction...is accommodated to humble and gross minds, and corrupted.
    Prch 10.219 23 ...the sentiment that pervades a nation, the nation must react upon. It is resisted and corrupted by that obstinate tendency to personify and bring under the eyesight what should be the contemplation of Reason alone.
    EWI 11.137 17 By a certain fatality, none but the vilest arguments were brought forward [against emancipation in the West Indies], which corrupted the very persons who used them.
    FSLC 11.180 26 ...we must transfer our vaunt to the country, and say, with a little less confidence, no fugitive man can be arrested here; at least we can brag thus until to-morrow, when the farmers also may be corrupted.
    FSLN 11.242 24 I [Robert Winthrop] am, as you see, a man virtuously inclined, and only corrupted by my profession of politics.
    SMC 11.352 15 ...this one violation [slavery] was a subtle poison, which in eighty years corrupted the whole overgrown body politic...
    Mem 12.92 11 [Memory] does not lie, cannot be corrupted...

corruptible, n. (1)

    AmS 1.96 18 In some contemplative hour [the new deed] detaches itself...to become a thought of the mind. Instantly it is raised, transfigured; the corruptible has put on incorruption.

corrupting, v. (3)

    Cour 7.272 23 The best act of the marvellous genius of Greece was...in the instinct which, at Thermopylae...kept Asia out of Europe,--Asia with its antiquities and organic slavery,--from corrupting the hope and new morning of the West.
    SA 8.97 27 ...beware of jokes; too much temperance cannot be used: inestimable for sauce, but corrupting for food, we go away hollow and ashamed.
    Dem1 10.20 2 [Belief in the demonological] is a midsummer madness, corrupting all who hold the tenet.

corruption, n. (12)

    Nat 1.29 26 The corruption of man is followed by the corruption of language.
    Nat 1.29 27 The corruption of man is followed by the corruption of language.
    Con 1.315 3 ...[Friar Bernard]...set forth to go to Rome to reform the corruption of mankind.
    Int 2.327 13 ...any record of our fancies or reflections, disentangled from the web of our unconsciousness, becomes an object impersonal and immortal. ... A better art than that of Egypt has taken fear and corruption out of it.
    SwM 4.132 3 Except Rabelais and Dean Swift nobody ever had such science of filth and corruption [as did Swedenborg].
    Bhr 6.196 24 ...if you have headache...or thunderstroke, I beseech you...to hold your peace, and not pollute the morning...by corruption and groans.
    Grts 8.315 13 It is difficult to find greatness pure. Well, I please myself with its diffusion; to find a spark of true fire amid much corruption.
    Imtl 8.340 13 A sort of absoluteness attends all perception of truth,-no smell of age, no hint of corruption.
    PerF 10.86 16 ...it begins to be doubtful whether our corruption in this country has not gone a little over the mark of safety...
    Schr 10.274 24 It is the corruption of our generation that men value a long life...
    FSLN 11.223 17 Whether evil influences and the corruption of politics, or whether original infirmity, it was the misfortune of his country that with this large understanding [Webster] had not what is better than intellect...
    TPar 11.292 19 ...the polished and pleasant traitors to human rights...rot and are forgotten with their double tongue saying all that is sordid for the corruption of man.

corruptions, n. (2)

    PC 8.217 3 ...in [Michelangelo's] own days...you would need to hunt him in a conventicle with the Methodists of the era...the radicals of the hour, banded
    TPar 11.289 25 ...[Theodore Parker] insisted...that the essence of Christianity is its practical morals;...and if you combine it...with ordinary city ambitions to gloze over municipal corruptions...it is a hypocrisy...

corrupts, v. (7)

    AmS 1.88 27 ...love of the hero corrupts into worship of his statue.
    DSA 1.130 12 Historical Christianity has fallen into the error that corrupts all attempts to communicate religion.
    PPh 4.60 10 ...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.
    Bhr 6.191 18 ...when [a man] opens [his thought] for show, it corrupts him.
    WD 7.177 21 Zoologists may deny that horse-hairs in the water change to worms, but I find that whatever is old corrupts, and the past turns to snakes.
    MMEm 10.423 1 Channing paints [war's] miseries, but does he know those of a worse war...the cruel oppression of the poor by the rich, which corrupts old worlds?
    MMEm 10.423 4 Channing paints [war's] miseries, but does he know those of a worse war...the cruel oppression of the poor by the rich, which corrupts old worlds? How much better, more honest, are storming and conflagration of towns! They are but letting blood which corrupts into worms and dragons.

corsairs, n. (1)

    CbW 6.261 26 Aesop, Saadi, Cervantes, Regnard, have been taken by corsairs...and know the realities of human life.

corse, n. (1)

    ShP 4.207 4 ...I went once to see the Hamlet of a famed performer...and all I then heard and all I now remember of the tragedian was that in which the tragedian had no part; simply Hamlet's question to the ghost: What may this mean,/ That thou, dead corse, again in complete steel/ Revisit'st thus the glimpses of the moon?/

Corsicans, n. (1)

    Res 8.145 13 ...the Corsicans at the battle of Golo...made use of the bodies of their dead to form an intrenchment.

Cortes, n. (1)

    ET8 5.137 13 ...[the English] administer, in different parts of the world, the codes of every empire and race;...in the West Indies, the edicts of the Spanish Cortes;...

Cortez, Hernando, n. (1)

    Mrs1 3.128 16 The class of power, the working heroes, the Cortez...see that [fashion] is the festivity and permanent celebration of such as they;...

cortical, adj. (2)

    ET8 5.138 9 If anatomy is reformed according to national tendencies, I suppose the spleen will hereafter be found in the Englishman, not found in the American, and differencing the one from the other. I anticipate another anatomical discovery, that this organ will be found to be cortical and caducous;...
    CL 12.140 17 So exquisite is the structure of the cortical glands, said the old physiologist Malpighi, that when the atmosphere is ever so slightly vitiated or altered, the brain is the first part to sympathize...

Corvisart des Marets, Jean (1)

    NMW 4.251 1 Of medicine too [Bonaparte] was fond of talking, and with those of its practitioners whom he most esteemed,--with Corvisart at Paris...

Corvisart des Martes, Jean (1)

    NMW 4.251 8 Covisart candidly agreed with me [said Bonaparte] that all your filthy mixtures are good for nothing.

Cosdami [Borrow, The Zinca (1)

    ET13 5.229 27 George Borrow...reads to [the Gypsies] the Apostles' Creed in Romany. When I had concluded, he says, I looked around me. The features of the assembly were twisted...not an individual present but squinted; the genteel Pepa, the good-humored Chicharona, the Cosdami, all squinted;...

cosmetic, n. (2)

    PPo 8.242 26 These legends [of Persian kings], with...the cohol, a cosmetic by which pearls and eyebrows are indelibly stained black, the bladder in which musk is brought, the down of the lip, the mole on the cheek, the eyelash;...make the staple imagery of Persian odes.
    Aris 10.55 5 He is beautiful in face, in port, in manners, who is absorbed in objects which he truly believes to be superior to himself. Is there...any cosmetic or any blood that can obtain homage like that security of air presupposing so undoubtingly the sympathy of men in his designs?

cosmetics, n. (1)

    Bost 12.198 17 No external advantages...can bestow that delicacy and grandeur of bearing which belong only to a mind accustomed to celestial conversation. All else is coarse and external; all else is tailoring and cosmetics beside this;...

cosmic, adj. (1)

    FRep 11.542 27 ...the cosmic results will be the same, whatever the daily events may be.

cosmical, adj. (7)

    Bty 6.303 18 The new virtue which constitutes a thing beautiful is a certain cosmical quality...
    Res 8.140 8 What power does Nature not owe to her duration, of amassing infinitesimals into cosmical forces!
    PC 8.211 27 That cosmical west wind...is alone broad enough to carry to every city and suburb...the inspirations of this new hope of mankind.
    Dem1 10.22 15 A Highland chief, an Indian sachem or a feudal baron may fancy...that...when he dies, banshees will announce his fate to kinsmen in foreign parts. What more facile than to project this exuberant selfhood into the region where individuality is forever bounded by generic and cosmical laws?
    PerF 10.85 13 I find the survey of these cosmical powers a doctrine of consolation...
    Thor 10.479 24 [Thoreau] referred every minute fact to cosmical laws.
    TPar 11.285 17 ...the political rule is a cosmical rule, that if a man is not strong in his own district, he is not a good candidate elsewhere.

cosmically, adv. (1)

    ET14 5.242 10 In England these [generalizations]...do all have a kind of filial retrospect to Plato and the Greeks. Of this kind is...the theory of Swedenborg, so cosmically applied by him, that the man makes his heaven and hell;...

cosmogonies, n. (1)

    GoW 4.286 24 ...certain whimsical opinions, cosmogonies and religions of his own invention...these [Goethe] magnifies.

cosmogony, n. (1)

    Pt1 3.32 20 All the value which attaches to...Oken, or any other who introduces questionable facts into his cosmogony...is the certificate we have of departure from routine, and that here is a new witness.

Cosmogony, n. (1)

    MMEm 10.425 18 ...[the earth's] youthful charms as decked by the hand of Moses' Cosmogony, will linger about the heart, while Poetry succumbs to Science.

cosmology, n. (2)

    SwM 4.105 4 ...the largest application of principles, had been exhibited by Leibnitz and Christian Wolff, in cosmology;...
    SwM 4.106 8 [Swedenborg] was apt for cosmology...

cosmopolitan, adj. (3)

    YA 1.371 8 ...it cannot be doubted that the legislation of this country should become more catholic and cosmopolitan than that of any other.
    ET5 5.92 21 [The English] have...justified their occupancy of the centre of habitable land, by their supreme ability and cosmopolitan spirit.
    ET17 5.297 27 ...there is something hard and sterile in [Wordsworth's] poetry...want of due catholicity and cosmopolitan scope...

Cosmos [Alexander von Humbo (3)

    Wth 6.94 26 The reader of Humboldt's Cosmos follows the marches of a man whose eyes, ears and mind are armed by all the science, arts, and implements which mankind have anywhere accumulated...
    WD 7.172 10 ...with great propriety, Humboldt entitles his book, which recounts the last results of science, Cosmos.
    Humb 11.457 15 With great propriety, [Humboldt] named his sketch of the results of science Cosmos.

Cosmos, n. (1)

    PLT 12.48 4 Somewhat is to come to the light, and one [talent] was created to fetch it,-a vessel of honor or of dishonor. 'T is of instant use in the economy of the Cosmos...

Cossack, adj. (1)

    LLNE 10.354 26 Unless [the leader of a community] have a Cossack roughness of clearing himself of what belongs not, charlatan he must be.

cosset, v. (1)

    F 6.6 23 ...Nature...does not cosset or pamper us.

cosseted, v. (1)

    LLNE 10.325 5 Children had been repressed and kept in the background; now they were considered, cosseted and pampered.

cosseting, n. (1)

    EurB 12.375 24 ...this reward granted [the novels of costume or of circumstance] is property, all-excluding property...a preference and cosseting which is rude and insulting to all but the minion.

cosseting, v. (1)

    Wth 6.93 4 The life of pleasure is so ostentatious that a shallow observer must believe that this is the agreed best use of wealth, and, whatever is pretended, it ends in cosseting.

cost, n. (37)

    MN 1.202 22 None of [the eminent souls] seen by himself...will justify the cost of that enormous apparatus of means by which this spotted and defective person was at last procured.
    MR 1.245 18 It is better to go without [the conveniences of life], than to have them at too great a cost.
    Hist 2.29 6 The fact teaches [the child]...how the Pyramids were built, better than the discovery by Champollion of the names of all the workmen and the cost of every tile.
    Cir 2.314 15 ...the goods which belong to you gravitate to you and need not be pursued with pains and cost?
    GoW 4.287 15 ...the charm of this portion of the book [Goethe's Thory of Colors] consists in the simplest statement of the relation betwixt these grandees of European scientific history and himself; the mere drawing of the lines from Goethe to Kepler, from Goethe to Bacon, from Goethe to Newton. The drawing of the line...gives pleasure when Iphigenia and Faust do not, without any cost of invention comparable to that of Iphigenia and Faust.
    ET11 5.193 23 [English noblemen]...keep [their houses] empty, aired, and the grounds mown and dressed, at a cost of four or five thousand pounds a year.
    Pow 6.60 20 ...the torpid artist seeks inspiration at any cost...
    Wth 6.98 17 ...pictures, engravings, statues and casts, beside their first cost, entail expenses, as of galleries and keepers for the exhibition;...
    Wth 6.110 18 The cost of the crime and the expense of courts and of prisons we must bear...
    Wth 6.110 21 The cost of education of the posterity of this great colony [of immigrants], I will not compute.
    Wth 6.122 1 Of the two eminent engineers in the recent construction of railways in England, Mr. Brunel went straight...and so arriving at his end, at great pleasure to geometers, but with cost to his company.
    Ctr 6.131 15 If [nature] wants a thumb, she makes one at the cost of arms and legs...
    Ctr 6.141 14 ...a large part of our cost and pains is thrown away.
    Ctr 6.144 27 Balls, riding, wine-parties and billiards pass to a poor boy for something fine and romantic, which they are not; and a free admission to them on an equal footing...would be worth ten times its cost, by undeceiving him.
    SS 7.9 27 We must infer that the ends of thought were peremptory, if they were to be secured at such ruinous cost.
    Civ 7.26 2 Where the banana grows the animal system is...pampered at the cost of higher qualities...
    DL 7.112 23 If the children...are...schooled and at home fostered by the parents,--then does the hospitality of the house suffer;... ... If all are well attended, then must the master and mistress be studious of particulars at the cost of their own accomplishments and growth;...
    DL 7.118 26 I pray you, O excellent wife, not to cumber yourself and me to get a rich dinner for this man or this woman who has alighted at our gate, nor a bed-chamber made ready at too great a cost.
    Imtl 8.336 15 Will you, with vast cost and pain, educate your children to be adepts in their several arts, and, as soon as they are ready to produce a masterpiece, call out a file of soldiers to shoot them down?
    Edc1 10.125 24 The child shall be taken up by the State, and taught, at the public cost, the rudiments of knowledge...
    Edc1 10.148 10 It s curious...what vast pains and cost we incur to do wrong.
    Edc1 10.151 13 Is it not manifest...that wise men...heartily seeking the good of mankind, and counting the cost of innovation, should dare to arouse the young to a just and heroic life;...
    Edc1 10.153 24 ...there is always the temptation in large schools to omit the endless task of meeting the wants of each single mind and to govern by steam. But it is at frightful cost.
    MoL 10.258 7 ...the issues already appearing overpay the cost.
    Thor 10.452 17 ...whilst all his companions were...eager to begin some lucrative employment, it was inevitable that [Thoreau's] thoughts should be exercised on the same question, and it required rare decision to...keep his solitary freedom at the cost of disappointing the natural expectations of his family and friends...
    Thor 10.465 22 Admiring friends offered to carry [Thoreau] at their own cost to the Yellowstone River...
    GSt 10.505 15 When one remembers...the wide correspondence, presently enlarged by printed circulars, then by newspapers established wholly or partly at [George Stearns's] own cost;...I think this single will was worth to the cause ten thousand ordinary partisans...
    GSt 10.506 17 ...these public benefits were purchased [by George Stearns] at a severe cost.
    HDC 11.35 9 The great cost of cattle, and the sickening of [the pilgrims'] cattle upon such wild fodder as was never cut before;...are the other disasters enumerated by the historian [Edward Johnson].
    HDC 11.81 3 ...whilst the town [Concord] had its own full share of the public distress, it was very far from desiring relief at the cost of order and law.
    EWI 11.123 27 ...by the aid of a little whipping, we could get [the negroes'] work for nothing but their board and the cost of whips.
    War 11.152 6 ...in the infancy of society...the necessities of the strong will certainly be satisfied at the cost of the weak...
    War 11.163 15 ...one is scared to find at what a cost the peace of the globe is kept.
    FSLC 11.196 2 A wicked law cannot be executed by good men, and must be by bad. Flagitious men must be employed, and every act of theirs is a stab at the public peace. It cannot be executed at such a cost...
    CW 12.178 15 ...[trees] grow, when you wake and when you sleep, at nobody's cost...
    Milt1 12.265 23 [Milton]...deliberately undertakes the defence of the English people, when advised by his physicians that he does it at the cost of sight.
    AgMs 12.361 6 Our [New England] roads are always changing their direction, and after a man has built at great cost a stone house, a new road is opened, and he finds himself a mile or two from the highway.

cost, v. (26)

    MN 1.206 2 An individual man is a fruit which it cost all the foregoing ages to form and ripen.
    Comp 2.99 12 ...the President has paid dear for his White House. It has commonly cost him all his peace...
    Chr1 3.104 14 The true charity of Goethe is to be inferred from the account he gave Dr. Eckermann of the way in which he had spent his fortune. Each bonmot of mine has cost a purse of gold.
    UGM 4.4 6 ...I do not travel to find...ingots that cost too much.
    Civ 7.29 2 The forces of steam, gravity, galvanism, light, magnets, wind, fire, serve us day by day and cost us nothing.
    WD 7.175 2 ...to ascertain the discoverers of America needs as much voyaging as the discovery cost.
    WD 7.182 1 ...what has been best done in the world,--the works of genius,-- cost nothing.
    Boks 7.196 11 ...good travellers stop at the best hotels; for though they cost more, they do not cost much more...
    Clbs 7.225 4 We need tonics, but must have those that cost little or no reaction.
    PI 8.24 1 It cost thousands of years only to make the motion of the earth suspected.
    Supl 10.174 1 ...these raptures of fire and frost, which...make the speech salt and biting, would cost me the days of well-being which are now so cheap to me, yet so valued.
    EzRy 10.385 10 ...on 15th May [1735] we have this [from Joseph Emerson]: Shay brought home; mending cost thirty shillings.
    Thor 10.453 10 ...[Thoreau] was very competent to live in any part of the world. It would cost him less time to supply his wants than another.
    Thor 10.455 6 [Thoreau] declined invitations to dinner-parties, because...he could not meet the individuals to any purpose. They make their pride, he said, in making their dinner cost much;...
    Thor 10.455 7 [Thoreau] declined invitations to dinner-parties, because...he could not meet the individuals to any purpose. They make their pride, he said, in making their dinner cost much; I make my pride in making my dinner cost little.
    Thor 10.456 4 It cost [Thoreau] nothing to say No;...
    EWI 11.124 1 ...by the aid of a little whipping, we could get [the negroes'] work for nothing but their board and the cost of whips. What if it cost a few unpleasant scenes on the coast of Africa?
    FSLC 11.209 1 'T is said [buying the slaves] will cost two thousand millions of dollars.
    FSLN 11.219 10 [the Fugitive Slave Law] cost [Webster] his life...
    ACiv 11.305 7 ...if we conquer the enemy [the South],-what then? We shall still have to keep him under, and it will cost as much to hold him down as it did to get him down.
    HCom 11.345 5 We see...a new era, worth to mankind all the treasure and all the lives it has cost;...
    SMC 11.358 19 Before [the youth's] departure [to the Civil War] he confided to his sister...that he had long trained himself by forcing himself, on the suspicion of any near danger, to go directly up to it, cost him what struggles it might.
    PLT 12.7 1 ...if [the student] finds at first with some alarm how impossible it is to accept many things which the hot or the mild sectarian may insist on his believing, he will be armed by his insight and brave to meet all inconvenience and all resistance it may cost him.
    PLT 12.50 1 The same functions which are perfect in our quadrupeds are seen slower performed in palaeontology. Many races it cost them to achieve the completion that is now in the life of one.
    Mem 12.92 22 ...in the history of character the day comes when you are incapable of such crime [of neglect, selfishness, passion]. Then...you look on it...with wonder at the deed, and with applause at the pain it has cost you.
    ACri 12.296 15 [Herrick was] Like Montaigne in this, that his subject cost him nothing...

coster-mongers, n. [costermongers,] (3)

    ET4 5.63 12 The coster-mongers of London streets hold cowardice in loathing...
    ET4 5.69 2 ...the bullies of the costermongers of Shoreditch, Seven Dials and Spitalfield, [the English] know how to wake up.
    ET11 5.173 12 ...the fair idea of a settled government [in England] connecting itself with heraldic names...was too pleasing a vision to be shattered by...the politics of shoe-makers and costermongers.

costlier, adj. (2)

    PPo 8.260 19 I have sought for thee a costlier dome/ Than Mahmoud's palace high,/ And thou, returning, find thy home/ In the apple of Love's eye./
    PLT 12.22 9 ...a mollusk is a cheap edition [of man] with a suppression of the costlier illustrations...

costliest, adj. (3)

    Mrs1 3.140 6 ...the direct splendor of intellectual power is ever welcome in fine society as the costliest addition to its rule and its credit.
    CPL 11.508 5 [Books'] costliest benefit is that they set us free from themselves;...
    ACri 12.283 12 ...to [writing] the education is costliest.

costly, adj. (31)

    MR 1.243 4 [The man with a strong bias to the contemplative life] may leave to others the costly conveniences of housekeeping...
    Con 1.317 17 All this costly culture of yours is not necessary.
    Hist 2.25 18 The costly charm of the ancient tragedy...is that the persons speak simply...
    SR 2.62 4 To [the man in the street] a palace, a statue, or a costly book have an alien and forbidding air...
    Lov1 2.185 12 ...adding up costly advantages...[lovers] exult in discovering that...they would give all as a ransom for the beautiful, the beloved head...
    Fdsp 2.206 13 Friendship may be said to require natures so rare and costly... that its satisfaction can very seldom be assured.
    Pt1 3.7 22 ...Homer's words are as costly and admirable to Homer as Agamemnon's victories are to Agamemnon.
    Exp 3.48 18 [Grief], like all the rest...never introduces me into the reality, for contact with which we would even pay the costly price of sons and lovers.
    ET2 5.30 9 Such discomfort and such danger as the narratives of the captain and mate disclose are bad enough as the costly fee we pay for entrance to Europe;...
    ET6 5.107 21 Hither [to his house the Englishman] brings all that is rare and costly...
    ET10 5.164 26 Every whim of exaggerated egotism is put into stone and iron [in England], into silver and gold, with costly deliberation and detail.
    Wth 6.87 15 The craft of the merchant is this bringing a thing from where it abounds to where it is costly.
    Wth 6.113 23 Let [the realist] delegate to others the costly courtesies and decorations of social life.
    Ctr 6.163 27 All that class of the severe and restrictive virtues, said Burke, are almost too costly for humanity.
    OA 7.328 7 ...a man does not live long and actively without costly additions of experience...
    Aris 10.33 24 Some qualities [Nature] carefully fixes and transmits, but some, and those the finer, she exhales with the breath of the individual, as too costly to perpetuate.
    Edc1 10.138 7 ...we sacrifice the genius of the pupil...to a neat and safe uniformity, as the Turks whitewash the costly mosaics of ancient art...
    Edc1 10.148 14 ...in education...we are continually trying costly machinery against nature...
    Supl 10.177 21 ...the Orientals excel in costly arts...
    Supl 10.177 23 ...the Orientals excel...in weaving on hand-looms costly stuffs from silk and wool...
    Schr 10.278 20 In making this claim of costly accomplishments for the scholar, I chiefly wish to infer the dignity of his work by the lustre of his appointments.
    SlHr 10.444 3 [Samuel Hoar's] beauty was pathetic and touching in these latest days, and, as now appears, it awakened a certain tender fear in all who saw him, that the costly ornament of our homes and halls and streets was speedily to be removed.
    ACiv 11.302 4 ...by the dislike of people to pay out a direct tax, governments are forced to render life costly by making them pay twice as much, hidden in the price of tea and sugar.
    CPL 11.495 17 Happier, if [the town] contain citizens who...make costly gifts to education, civility and culture...
    FRep 11.533 26 Life is grown and growing so costly that it threatens to kill us.
    PLT 12.44 7 ...the gods have guarded this privilege [of sensibility] with costly penalty.
    II 12.86 26 There is a probity of the Intellect, which demands, if possible, virtues more costly than any Bible has consecrated.
    CW 12.173 14 ...nothing in Europe is more elaborately luxurious than the costly gardens...
    CW 12.175 17 Horses and carriages are costly toys...
    ACri 12.283 14 On the writer the choicest influences are concentrated,- nothing that does not go to his costly equipment...
    PPr 12.384 1 It is a costly proof of character that the most renowned scholar of England [Carlyle] should take his reputation in his hand and should descend into the [political] ring;...

costly, n. (1)

    EurB 12.370 7 The elegance, the wit and subtlety of this writer [Tennyson]...his taste for the costly and gorgeous, discriminate the musky poet of gardens and conservatories...

costs, n. (3)

    Wth 6.110 24 The cost of education of the posterity of this great colony [of immigrants], I will not compute. But the gross amount of these costs will begin to pay back what we thought was a net gain from our transatlantic customers of 1800.
    EWI 11.130 11 ...I see...poor black men of obscure employment...in ships... freeborn as we,-whom the slave-laws of the States of South Carolina and Georgia and Louisiana have...shut up in jails so long as the vessel remained in port, with the stringent addition, that if the shipmaster fails to pay the costs of this official arrest and the board in jail, these citizens are to be sold for slaves, to pay that expense.
    EPro 11.319 5 ...an event [Emancipation] worth the dreadful war, worth its costs and uncertainties, seems now to be close before us.

costs, v. (35)

    MR 1.244 8 ...it is...not worship, that costs so much.
    Tran 1.356 16 Grave seniors insist on [Transcendentalists'] respect...to some vocation...or morning or evening call, which they resist as what does not concern them. But it costs such sleepless nights...they have so many moods about it;...
    Prd1 2.238 17 It is a proverb that courtesy costs nothing;...
    Cir 2.307 24 Every personal consideration that we allow costs us heavenly state.
    NR 3.244 25 ...a good pear or apple costs no more time or pains to rear than a poor one;...
    UGM 4.6 16 It costs a beautiful person no exertion to paint her image on our eyes;...
    UGM 4.6 18 It costs no more for a wise soul to convey his quality to other men.
    ET5 5.88 6 ...it must be owned [the English] are capable of larger views; but the indulgence...costs great crises...
    ET6 5.111 25 'T is in bad taste, is the most formidable word an Englishman can pronounce. But this japan costs them dear.
    ET7 5.122 23 [The English] love stoutness...in declining money or promotion that costs any concession.
    ET9 5.151 6 ...this childish [English] patriotism costs something...
    Wth 6.107 12 A pound of paper costs so much...
    Wth 6.108 10 If a St. Michael's pear sells for a shilling, it costs a shilling to raise it.
    Wth 6.108 13 You may not see that the fine pear costs you a shilling, but it costs the community so much.
    Wth 6.108 14 You may not see that the fine pear costs you a shilling, but it costs the community so much.
    Wth 6.109 11 Money often costs too much...
    Wth 6.114 11 ...vanity costs money, labor, horses, men, women, health and peace...
    CbW 6.264 20 'T is a Dutch proverb that paint costs nothing...
    CbW 6.264 22 'T is a Dutch proverb that paint costs nothing, such are its preserving qualities in damp climates. Well, sunshine costs less, yet is finer pigment.
    WD 7.161 3 The chain of Western railroads from Chicago to the Pacific has planted cities and civilization in less time than it costs to bring an orchard into bearing.
    WD 7.174 26 ...your homage to Dante costs you so much sailing;...
    Cour 7.263 15 ...every soldier killed costs the enemy his weight in lead.
    Cour 7.266 15 Hear what women say of doing a task by sheer force of will: it costs them a fit of sickness.
    Suc 7.298 2 Now it costs a rare combination of clouds and lights to overcome the common and mean.
    PI 8.57 7 It costs the early bard little talent to chant more impressively than the later, more cultivated poets.
    Elo2 8.126 22 ...it costs a great heat to enable a heavy man to come up with those who have a quick sensibility.
    Insp 8.281 22 ...in writing a letter to a friend we may find that we rise to a thought and to a cordial power of expression that costs no effort...
    Aris 10.31 18 [The best young men] do not yet covet...any exuberance of wealth, wealth that costs too much;...
    FSLC 11.196 25 I wonder that our acute people...should not find out that an immoral law costs more than the loss of the custom of a Southern city.
    FSLN 11.218 21 [The newsboy] unfolds his magical sheets,-twopence a head his bread of knowledge costs...
    ACiv 11.308 16 ...this action [emancipation], which costs so little...rids the world, at one stroke, of this degrading nuisance [slavery]...
    EPro 11.321 24 What if...the gold dollar costs one hundred and twenty-seven cents?
    II 12.73 11 ...really the capital discovery of modern agriculture is that it costs no more to keep a good tree than a bad one.
    II 12.82 21 [A man] has a facility, which costs him nothing, to do somewhat admirable to all men.
    CInt 12.130 20 Power costs nothing to the powerful.

costume, n. (22)

    LE 1.163 15 The difference of circumstance is merely costume.
    SR 2.86 12 The arts and inventions of each period are only its costume...
    Mrs1 3.148 19 ...[Scott's] dialogue is in costume...
    GoW 4.277 24 Wilhelm Meister is a novel in every sense...called by its admirers the only delineation of modern society,--as if other novels...dealt with costume and condition, this with the spirit of life.
    ET4 5.65 18 I remarked the stoutness [of the English] on my first landing at Liverpool; porter, drayman, coachman, guard,--what substantial, respectable, grandfatherly figures, with costume and manners to suit.
    Bty 6.293 14 I suppose the Parisian milliner...will know how to reconcile the Bloomer costume to the eye of mankind...by interposing the just gradations.
    Bty 6.300 6 ...petulant old gentlemen...who see, after a world of pains have been successfully taken for the costume, how the least mistake in sentiment takes all the beauty out of your clothes,--affirm that the secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.
    Ill 6.323 23 Riches and poverty are a thick or thin costume;...
    Art2 7.45 22 ...how much is there that is not original...in...whatever is national or usual; as...the custom of draping a statue in classical costume.
    Boks 7.214 23 ...the novel...will not always be the novel of costume merely.
    PI 8.44 26 In dreams we are true poets; we create the persons of the drama; we give them appropriate figures, faces, costume;...
    QO 8.187 18 If we observe the tenacity with which nations cling to their first types of costume...we shall think very well of the first men, or ill of the latest.
    QO 8.196 17 ...many men can write better under a mask than for themselves; as...Le Sage in Spanish costume...
    Dem1 10.9 9 Sleep takes off the costume of circumstance...
    Aris 10.36 1 ...inequalities exist, not in costume, but in the powers of expression and action;...
    Supl 10.177 10 The costume [of the East], the articles in which wealth is displayed, are in the same extremes.
    CSC 10.374 16 A great variety of dialect and of costume was noticed [at the Chardon Street Convention];...
    FRep 11.533 23 Every village, every city, has its architecture, its costume... from England.
    WSL 12.344 20 [Landor] draws his own portrait in the costume of a village schoolmaster...
    EurB 12.375 2 ...the obvious division of modern romance is into two kinds: first, the novels of costume or of circumstance...
    EurB 12.376 2 Except in the stories of Edgeworth and Scott...the novels of costume are all one...
    EurB 12.377 10 The novels of Fashion, of Disraeli, Mrs. Gore, Mr. Ward, belong to the class of novels of costume...

costumes, n. (8)

    SL 2.151 6 The scholar...apes the customs and costumes of the man of the world to deserve the smile of beauty...
    ET4 5.65 24 The pictures on the chimney-tiles of [the American's] nursery were pictures of these [English] people. Here they are in the identical costumes and air which so took him.
    ET6 5.109 22 [The English] keep their old customs, costumes, and pomps...
    ET13 5.225 17 The chatter of French politics...and the noise of embarking emigrants had quite put most of the old legends out of mind; so that when you came to read the liturgy to a modern congregation, it...suggested a masquerade of old costumes.
    Bty 6.291 17 How beautiful are ships on the sea! but ships in the theatre,-- or ships kept for picturesque effect on Virginia Water by George IV., and men hired to stand in fitting costumes at a penny an hour!
    SS 7.4 25 [My friend] went to Vienna, to Smyrna, to London. In all the variety of costumes...he could never discover a man in the street who wore anything like his own dress.
    PLT 12.58 23 No wonder the children love masks and costumes...
    Trag 12.414 15 Time the consoler...dries the freshest tears by obtruding new figures, new costumes, new roads, on our eye, new voices on our ear.

cot, n. (1)

    RBur 11.438 3 He was the music to whose tone/ The common pulse of man keeps time/ In cot or castle's mirth or moan,/ In cold or sunny clime./

coterie, n. (1)

    QO 8.199 12 ...does it not look...as if we stood, not in a coterie of prompters...but in a circle of intelligences...

coteries, n. (1)

    Clbs 7.243 18 ...a history of clubs...tracing the clubs and coteries in each country, would be an important chapter in history.

cotillon, n. (1)

    PI 8.70 6 In a cotillon some persons dance and others await their turn when the music and the figure come to them.

cotillon-room, n. (1)

    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...

cotillons, n. (1)

    Mrs1 3.131 24 A sainted soul is always elegant, and, if it will, passes unchallenged into the most guarded ring. But so will Jock the teamster pass...and find favor, as long as...the iron shoes do not wish to dance in waltzes and cotillons.

cottage, adj. (1)

    Pt1 3.33 11 The fate of the poor shepherd, who, blinded and lost in the snow-storm, perishes in a drift within a few feet of his cottage door, is an emblem of the state of man.

cottage, n. (12)

    LE 1.174 22 ...it is only as the garden, the cottage...are a sort of mechanical aids to [independence of spirit], that they are of value.
    Mrs1 3.134 16 I may go into a cottage, and find a farmer who feels that he is the man I have come to see...
    Nat2 3.190 24 ...trade to all the world, country-house and cottage by the waterside, all for a little conversation, high, clear and spiritual!
    ET6 5.112 11 A severe decorum rules the court and the cottage [in England].
    ET17 5.296 17 ...in [Wordsworth's] early house-keeping at the cottage where he first lived, he was accustomed to offer his friends bread and plainest fare;...
    Wth 6.120 1 When Mr. Cockayne takes a cottage in the country, and will keep his cow, he thinks a cow is a creature that is fed on hay and gives a pail of milk twice a day.
    Wth 6.120 12 ...how can Cockayne, who has no pastures, and leaves his cottage daily in the cars at business hours, be pothered with fatting and killing oxen?
    CbW 6.267 27 The young people do not like the town, do not like the sea-shore, they will...find a dear cottage deep in the mountains...
    Bty 6.302 8 ...if a man can build a plain cottage with such symmetry as to make all the fine palaces look cheap and vulgar;...this is still the legitimate dominion of beauty.
    Ill 6.315 22 Bare and grim to tears is the lot of the children in the hovel I saw yesterday; yet not the less they hung it round with frippery romance... and talked of the dear cottage where so many joyful hours had flown.
    Suc 7.300 18 ...the affections make some little web of cottage and fireside populous, important...
    RBur 11.441 16 ...[Burns] has endeared the farmhouse and cottage...

cottages, n. (2)

    Hist 2.39 12 [Each man] shall...bring with him into humble cottages the blessing of the morning stars...
    MAng1 12.237 5 [Michelangelo] shared Dante's deep contempt...not of the simple inhabitants of lowly streets or humble cottages, but of that sordid and abject crowd of all classes and all places who obscure, as much as in them lies, every beam of beauty in the universe.

cottas, terra, n. (1)

    PI 8.13 12 Vivacity of expression may indicate this high gift, even when the thought is of no great scope, as when Michel Angelo, praising the terra cottas, said, If this earth were to become marble, woe to the antiques!

cotton, adj. (6)

    Ill 6.321 13 ...if we weave a yard of tape in all humility and as well as we can, long hereafter we shall see it was no cotton tape at all but some galaxy which we braided...
    OA 7.332 13 The old President [John Adams] sat in a large stuffed arm-chair... a cotton cap covered his bald head.
    HDC 11.38 1 Our [Concord] Records affirm that Squaw Sachem, Tahattawan, and Nimrod did sell a tract of six miles square to the English, receiving for the same, some fathoms of Wampumpeag, hatchets, hoes, knives, cotton cloth and shirts.
    ACiv 11.300 27 Can you convince...the iron interest, or the cotton interest, by reading passages from Milton or Montesquieu?
    EdAd 11.392 22 A God starts up behind cotton bales also.
    FRep 11.512 19 ...the interest nations took in our war was exasperated by the importance of the cotton trade.

Cotton, Charles, n. (2)

    ShP 4.203 15 ...I find, among [Wotton's] correspondents and acquaintances...Charles Cotton, John Pym...
    ET14 5.234 3 Hobbes was perfect in the noble vulgar speech. Donne... Hooker, Cotton...wrote it.

cotton, n. (22)

    MN 1.192 26 Let there be worse cotton and better men.
    MR 1.237 7 Is it possible that I, who get indefinite quantities of...cotton... by simply signing my name...to a cheque...get the fair share of exercise to my faculties by that act which nature intended me...
    MR 1.237 18 ...it is...the hunter, and the planter, who have intercepted...the cotton of the cotton.
    MR 1.237 19 ...it is...the hunter, and the planter, who have intercepted...the cotton of the cotton.
    Mrs1 3.120 11 ...the salt, the dates, the ivory, and the gold, for which these horrible regions are visited, find their way into...countries where man serves himself with metals, wood, stone, glass, gum, cotton, silk and wool;...
    UGM 4.8 26 The inventors of fire...cotton;...severally make an easy way for all, through unknown and impossible confusions.
    UGM 4.9 19 Justice has already been done to steam...to corn and cotton;...
    MoS 4.151 27 The trade in our streets...thinks nothing of the force which necessitated traders and a trading planet to exist: no, but sticks to cotton, sugar, wool and salt.
    ET10 5.167 15 The incessant repetition of the same hand-work dwarfs the man...to make a pin-polisher, a buckle-maker, or any other specialty; and presently...whole towns are sacrificed...when cotton takes the place of linen...
    Wth 6.109 23 ...we charged threepence a pound for carrying cotton, sixpence for tobacco, and so on;...
    PC 8.208 6 Who does not prefer the age...of coal, petroleum, cotton, steam, electricity, and the spectroscope?
    PerF 10.88 16 The world stands on ideas, and not on iron or cotton;...
    SovE 10.211 6 'T is very shallow to say that cotton, or iron, or silver and gold are kings of the world;...
    MoL 10.242 21 The country was full of activity, with its wheat, coal, iron, cotton;...
    EWI 11.102 14 These men [negro slaves], our benefactors, as they are producers...of cotton, of sugar, of rum and brandy;..I am heart-sick when I read how they came there, and how they are kept there.
    EWI 11.124 14 The sugar [the negroes] raised was excellent: nobody tasted blood in it. The coffee was fragrant;...the cotton clothed the world.
    ACiv 11.297 13 ...for two or three ages [slavery] has lasted, and has yielded a certain quantity of rice, cotton and sugar.
    CPL 11.497 13 The sedge Papyrus...is of more importance to history than cotton, or silver, or gold.
    CPL 11.501 18 [Literature] is thought to be the harmless entertainment of a few fanciful persons, and not at all to be the interest of the multitude. To these objections, which proceed on the cheap notion that nothing but what... weaves cotton, is anything worth, I have little to say.
    FRep 11.512 20 ...what is cotton? One plant out of some two hundred thousand known to the botanist...
    FRep 11.513 1 ...as Arkwright and Whitney were the demi-gods of cotton, so prolific Time will yet bring an inventor to every plant.
    FRep 11.530 7 ...if there is fate in corn and cotton, so is there fate in thought...

cotton-mule, n. (1)

    ET5 5.93 7 The steam-chamber of Watt, the locomotive of Stephenson, the cotton-mule of Roberts, perform the labor of the world.

Cotton's, Charles, n. (1)

    MoS 4.162 15 A single odd volume of Cotton's translation of the Essays [of Montaigne] remained to me from my father's library, when a boy.

cotton-spinner, n. (1)

    ET5 5.76 3 What signifies a pedigree of a hundred links, against a cotton-spinner with steam in his mill;...

cotton-wool, n. (1)

    Elo1 7.74 3 I know no remedy against [an oiled tongue] but cotton-wool...

couch, n. (1)

    Insp 8.286 1 Vigorous, I spring from my couch,/ Seek the beloved Muses/...

couch, v. (1)

    SwM 4.119 11 When [Swedenborg] attempted to announce the law most sanely, he was forced to couch it in parable.

couched, v. (3)

    PNR 4.88 27 [Plato's] writings have...the sempiternal youth of poetry. For their arguments, most of them, might have been couched in sonnets...
    ET14 5.242 14 In England these [generalizations]...do all have a kind of filial retrospect to Plato and the Greeks. Of this kind is...the identity-philosophy of Schelling, couched in the statement that all difference is quantitative.
    Bost 12.201 12 There is a little formula, couched in pure Saxon, which you may hear in the corners of streets...I 'm as good as you be...

coucou, n. (1)

    Carl 10.497 2 Czar Nicholas was [Carlyle's] hero; for in the ignominy of Europe, when...every one ran away in a coucou, with his head shaved, through the Barriere de Passy, one man remained who believed he was put there by God Almighty to govern his empire...

cough, n. (1)

    SMC 11.359 6 The older among us can well remember [George Prescott]... tender as a woman in his care for a cough or a chilblain in his men;...

cough, v. (2)

    Ctr 6.133 11 ...we have seen children who finding themselves of no account when grown people come in, will cough until they choke, to draw attention.
    PLT 12.28 21 [Nature] is immensely rich; [man] is welcome to her entire goods, but she...will not so much as beckon or cough;...

coughs, v. (1)

    Farm 7.151 22 ...[the first planter] coughs, he has a stitch in his side, he has a fever and chills;...

Coulanges, Fustel de, n. (1)

    Plu 10.297 2 ...M. Fustel de Coulanges has explored from its roots in the Aryan race, then in their Greek and Roman descendants, the primaeval religion of the household.

coulisses, n. (1)

    Ill 6.316 1 ...how dare any one, if he could, pluck away the coulisses, stage effects and ceremonies, by which [women] live.

council, adj. (4)

    ET11 5.191 20 In logical sequence of these dignified revels, Pepys can tell the beggarly shifts to which the king was reduced, who could not find paper at his council table...
    Pow 6.75 11 There was, in the whole city, but one street in which Pericles was ever seen, the street which led to the market-place and the council house.
    Elo2 8.109 2 He, when the rising storm of party roared,/ Brought his great forehead to the council board,/ There, while hot heads perplexed with fears the state,/ Calm as the morn the manly patriot sate;/...
    EWI 11.127 22 ...when, in 1789, the first privy council report of evidence on the [slave] trade...was presented to the House of Commons, a late day being named for the discussion...Mr. Wilberforce, Mr. Pitt, the Prime Minister, and other gentlemen, took advantage of the postponement to retire into the country to read the report.

Council, Fourth Lateran, n. (1)

    LS 11.3 21 In the Fourth Lateran Council, it was decreed that any believer should communicate at least once in a year...

council, n. (17)

    YA 1.376 10 ...the Emperor Nicholas is reported to have said to his council, The age is embarrassed with new opinions;...
    NER 3.265 17 Many of us have differed in opinion, and we could find no man who could make the truth plain, but possibly a college, or an ecclesiastical council, might.
    ET15 5.267 27 ...the steadiness of the aim [of the London Times] suggests the belief that this fire is directed and fed by older engineers; as if persons of exact information, and with settled views of policy...availed themselves of [the writers'] younger energy and eloquence to plead the cause. Both the council and the executive departments gain by this division.
    Bty 6.281 17 We should go to the ornithologist with a new feeling if he could teach us what the social birds say when they sit in the autumn council...
    Elo1 7.82 15 The audience [if there be personality in the orator]...follows like a child its preceptor, and hears what he has to say. It is as if, amidst the king's council at Madrid, Ximenes urged that an advantage might be gained of France...
    Clbs 7.241 8 ...it is not this class, whom the splendor of their accomplishment...makes them chancellors and commanders of council and of action...whom we now consider.
    Cour 7.264 17 Courage is equality to the problem...in council, or in action;...
    Schr 10.277 21 It is excellent when the individual is ripened to that degree that he touches both the centre and the circumference, so that he is not only widely intelligent, but carries a council in his breast for the emergency of to-day;...
    Carl 10.492 2 In the Long Parliament, [Carlyle] says, the only great Parliament, they sat...grave as an ecumenical council...
    GSt 10.506 9 There [George Stearns] sat in the council, a simple, resolute Republican...
    HDC 11.71 12 In September [1774]...the inhabitants [of Concord]...forbade the justices to open the court of sessions. This little town then assumed the sovereignty. It was judge and jury and council and king.
    HDC 11.73 20 This little battalion [of minute-men], though in their hasty council some were urgent to stand their ground, retreated before the enemy to the high land on the other bank of the river...
    EWI 11.104 27 The richest and greatest, the prime minister of England, the king's privy council were obliged to say that [the story of West Indian slaves] was too true.
    EWI 11.127 26 ...when, in 1789, the first privy council report of evidence on the [slave] trade (a bulky folio embodying...all the examinations before the council) was presented to the House of Commons, a late day being named for the discussion...Mr. Wilberforce, Mr. Pitt, the Prime Minister, and other gentlemen, took advantage of the postponement to retire into the country to read the report.
    TPar 11.286 15 Such was the largeness of [Theodore Parker's] reception of facts and his skill to employ them that it looked as if he were some president of council to whom a score of telegraphs were ever bringing in reports;...
    SMC 11.354 3 As long as we debate in council, both sides may form their private guess what the event may be, or which is the strongest.
    Bost 12.189 8 On the 3d of November, 1620, King James incorporated forty of his subjects...the council...for the planting, ruling, ordering and governing of New England in America.

Council, n. (4)

    HDC 11.44 10 ...it was the river, or the winter, or famine, or the Pequots, that spoke through [the townsmen] to the Governor and the Council of Massachusetts Bay.
    HDC 11.46 8 ...[John Winthrop] advised, seeing the freemen were grown so numerous, to send deputies from every town once in a year to revise the laws and to assess all monies. And the General Court, thus constituted, only needed to go into separate session from the Council, as they did in 1644, to become essentially the same assembly they are to this day.
    HDC 11.66 17 I find, in the [Concord] Church Records, the charges preferred against [Daniel Bliss], his answer thereto, and the result of the Council.
    HDC 11.67 11 ...Mr. [Daniel] Bliss replied...I...used the word Mediator in some differing light from that you have given it; but I confess I was soon uneasy that I had used the word, lest some would put a wrong meaning thereupon. The Council admonished Mr. Bliss of some improprieties of expression...

Council of Assistants, n. (1)

    HDC 11.43 1 The charter gave to the freemen of the Company of Massachusetts Bay the election of the Governor and Council of Assistants.

Council, Privy, n. (1)

    Grts 8.317 2 When Gerald, Earl of Kildare, who was in rebellion against [Henry VII] was brought to London, and examined before the Privy Council, one said, All Ireland cannot govern this Earl. Then let this Earl govern all Ireland, replied the King.

council-chamber, n. (1)

    PLT 12.38 6 These [spiritual] facts, this essence [Truth], are not new; they are old and eternal, but our seeing of them is new. Having seen them we... pass into the council-chamber and government of Nature.

council-chambers, n. (1)

    OA 7.320 3 Age is comely...in council-chambers...

councillor, n. (1)

    HDC 11.63 10 [Edward Bulkeley's] youngest brother, Peter, was deputy from Concord, and was chosen speaker of the house of deputies in 1676. The following year, he was sent to England...as agent for the Colony; and on his return, in 1685, was a royal councillor.

councils, n. (9)

    Nat 1.31 23 Long hereafter, amidst agitation and terror in national councils...these solemn images shall reappear in their morning lustre...
    Nat 1.39 7 What noble emotions dilate the mortal as he enters into the councils of the creation...
    Con 1.295 12 The war [between Conservatism and Innovation] rages not only...in national councils and ecclesiastical synods...
    OA 7.321 8 ...in all governments, the councils of power were held by the old;...
    CSC 10.375 11 The assembly [at the Chardon Street Convention] was characterized by the predominance of a certain plain, sylvan strength and earnestness, whilst many of the most intellectual and cultivated persons attended its councils.
    GSt 10.505 12 When one remembers...the councils in which [George Stearns] satI think this single will was worth to the cause ten thousand ordinary partisans...
    HDC 11.66 13 Mr. [Daniel] Bliss...by his earnest sympathy with [George Whitefield], in opinion and practice, gave offence to a part of his people. Party and mutual councils were called...
    War 11.153 20 [Alexander's conquest of the East] had the effect of uniting into one great interest the divided commonwealths of Greece, and infusing a new and more enlarged public spirit into the councils of their statesmen.
    TPar 11.288 8 It will not be in the acts of city councils, nor of obsequious mayors;...that coming generations will study what really befell [in Boston];...

Councils, Oecumenical, n. (1)

    MoL 10.245 22 A French prophet of our age, Fourier, predicted that one day, instead of by battles and Oecumenical Councils, the rival portions of humanity would dispute each other's excellence in the manufacture of little cakes.

Councils of Ten, n. (1)

    PC 8.218 15 Popes and kings and Councils of Ten are very sharp with their censorships and inquisitions...

Counsel, Best, n. (1)

    Grts 8.310 16 ...there is for each a Best Counsel which enjoins the fit word and the fit act for every moment.

counsel, n. (62)

    Nat 1.57 3 Of [Ideas] took [the Supreme Being] counsel.
    MR 1.241 26 I would not quite forget the venerable counsel of the Egyptian mysteries...
    Tran 1.345 17 In looking at the class of counsel, and power...of the land... one asks, Where are they who represented genius, virtue, the invisible and heavenly world, to these?
    Hist 2.39 26 Hear the rats in the wall, see the lizard on the fence, the fungus under foot, the lichen on the log. ... As old as the Caucasion man,--perhaps older,--these creatures have kept their counsel beside him...
    Comp 2.109 26 Bad counsel confounds the adviser.
    SL 2.159 19 [A man] may be a solitary eater, but he cannot keep his foolish counsel.
    Prd1 2.230 22 We must call the highest prudence to counsel...
    Hsm1 2.260 20 It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person...
    Hsm1 2.262 19 I see not any road of perfect peace which a man can walk, but after the counsel of his own bosom.
    NER 3.283 8 ...the man...whose advent men and events prepare and foreshow, is one who...shall not take counsel of flesh and blood...
    NMW 4.232 13 [Bonaparte's] principal means are in himself. He asks counsel of no other.
    ET3 5.42 26 Nature held counsel with herself and said, My Romans are gone. To build my new empire, I will choose a rude race, all masculine, with brutish strength.
    ET5 5.93 15 ...in the complications of the trade and politics of their vast empire, [the English] have been equal to every exigency, with counsel and with conduct.
    ET7 5.125 4 It is told of a good Sir John that he heard a case stated by counsel...
    ET7 5.125 5 It is told of a good Sir John that he heard a case stated by counsel, and made up his mind; then the counsel for the other side taking their turn to speak, he found himself so unsettled and perplexed that he exclaimed, So help me God! I will never listen to evidence again.
    ET11 5.195 8 ...Sir Philip Sidney in his letter to his brother...gave plain and hearty counsel.
    ET12 5.199 22 I saw several faithful, high-minded young men [at Oxford], some of them in the mood of making sacrifices for peace of mind,--a topic, of course, on which I had no counsel to offer.
    Wth 6.123 12 Use has made the farmer wise, and the foolish citizen learns to take his counsel.
    Wsp 6.212 15 Only those can help in counsel or conduct who did not make a party pledge to defend this or that...
    CbW 6.261 17 ...perhaps [the rich man] can give wise counsel in a court of law.
    Elo1 7.86 23 I remember long ago being attracted, by the distinction of the counsel...into the court-room.
    Elo1 7.86 25 I remember long ago being attracted...into the court-room. The prisoner's counsel were the strongest and cunningest lawyers in the commonwealth.
    Cour 7.269 20 In all applications [courage] is the same power,--the habit of reference to one's own mind, as the home of all truth and counsel...
    Suc 7.289 3 Lord Brougham's single duty of counsel is, to get the prisoner clear.
    Suc 7.292 17 ...we do not carry a counsel in our breasts, or do not know it;...
    SA 8.93 5 If every one recalled his experiences, he might find the best in the speech of superior women;--which...carried ingenuity, character, wise counsel and affection...
    SA 8.99 6 See how it lies there in you; and if there is no counsel, offer none.
    Elo2 8.109 9 ...No mimic; from [the patriot's] breast his counsel drew,/ Believed the eloquent was aye the true;/...
    Elo2 8.116 21 ...[the orator] taking no counsel of past things...surprises [the people] with his tidings...
    Elo2 8.129 8 Lord Ashley...attempting to utter a premeditated speech in Parliament in favor of that clause of the bill which allowed the prisoner the benefit of counsel, fell into such a disorder that he was not able to proceed;...
    PPo 8.256 14 I, too, have a counsel for thee; O, mark it and keep it,/ Since I received the same from the Master above:/ Seek not for faith or for truth in a world of light-minded girls;/ A thousand suitors reckons this dangerous bride./
    Grts 8.310 12 You are rightly fond of certain books or men that you have found to excite your reverence and emulation. But none of these can compare with the greatness of that counsel which is open to you in happy solitude.
    Grts 8.315 3 [Napoleon's] advice to his brother...was: I have only one counsel for you,-Be Master.
    Aris 10.62 10 ...[the true man] is to know...that there is a master grace and dignity communicated by exalted sentiments to a human form, to which utility and even genius must do homage. And it is the sign and badge of this nobility, the drawing his counsel from his own breast.
    PerF 10.73 10 Whilst these [natural] forces act on us from the outside and we are not in their counsel, we call them Fate.
    PerF 10.78 22 ...on the signal occasions in our career [our mental forces'] inspirations...make the selfish and protected and tenderly bred person...wise in counsel...
    Prch 10.234 25 ...though I observe the deafness to counsel among men, yet the power of sympathy is always great;...
    MoL 10.255 4 ...neither saint nor sage, can compare with that counsel which is open to you.
    LLNE 10.340 11 Dr. Channing took counsel in 1840 with George Ripley, to the point whether it were possible to bring cultivated, thoughtful people together...
    LLNE 10.357 2 [Thoreau] was a good Abbot Samson, and carried a counsel in his breast.
    LLNE 10.363 5 ...[Charles Newcomb was] a student and philosopher, who found his daily enjoyment...with the fine boys who were skating and playing ball or bird-hunting;...yet was he the chosen counsellor to whom the guardians [at Brook Farm] would repair on any hitch or difficulty that occurred, and draw from him a wise counsel.
    CSC 10.376 18 ...[these men and women at the Chardon Street Convention] found what they sought, or the pledge of it...in...the prophetic dignity and transfiguration which accompanies...a man...who...awaits confidently the new emergency for the new counsel.
    EzRy 10.393 10 The usual experiences of men...[Ezra Ripley] studied them all, and sympathized so well in these that he was excellent company and counsel to all...
    Thor 10.462 23 [Thoreau]...could give judicious counsel in the gravest private or public affairs.
    HDC 11.46 2 It was on doubts concerning their own power, that, in 1634, a committee repaired to [John Winthrop] for counsel...
    HDC 11.47 4 Here [in the town-meeting] the rich gave counsel, but the poor also;...
    HDC 11.48 27 ...I have set a value upon any symptom of meanness and private pique which I have met with in these antique books [Concord Town Records], as proof that...if the good counsel prevailed, the sneaking counsel did not fail to be suggested;...
    LVB 11.94 25 On the broaching of this question [of the moral character of government], a general expression of despondency, of disbelief that any good will accrue from a remonstrance on an act of fraud and robbery, appeared in those men to whom we naturally turn for aid and counsel.
    EWI 11.136 6 I was a slave, said the counsel of [George] Somerset, speaking for his client, for I was in America...
    FSLC 11.182 23 ...[the crisis over the Fugitive Slave Law] showed...how competent we are to give counsel and help in a day of trial.
    FSLC 11.207 23 Since it is agreed by all sane men of all parties...that slavery is mischievous, why does the South itself never offer the smallest counsel of her own?
    ACiv 11.307 6 ...the North will for a time have its full share and more, in place and counsel.
    ALin 11.335 12 There, by...his even temper, his fertile counsel, his humanity, [Lincoln] stood a heroic figure in the centre of a heroic epoch.
    Wom 11.425 23 Every woman being the...wife, daughter, sister, mother, of a man, she can never be very far from his ear, never not of his counsel...
    SHC 11.432 3 What work of man will compare with the plantation of a park? It dignifies life. It is a seat for friendship, counsel, taste and religion.
    FRep 11.511 17 Wedgwood, the eminent potter, bravely took the sculptor Flaxman to counsel...
    Bost 12.203 13 ...there is always [in Boston]...always a heresiarch, whom the governor and deputies labor with but cannot silence. Some new light... some tender minister hospitable to Whitfield against the counsel of all the ministers;...
    Bost 12.207 10 With all their love of his person, [the people of Boston] took immense pleasure in...contravening the counsel of the clergy;...
    Milt1 12.250 9 The lover of [Milton's] genius will always regret that he should [when writing the Defence of the English People] not have taken counsel of his own lofty heart at this, as at other times...
    Milt1 12.264 11 His mind gave him, [Milton] said, that every free and gentle spirit, without that oath of chastity, ought to be born a knight; nor needed to expect the gilt spur...to stir him up, by his counsel and his arm, to secure and protect attempted innocence.
    Milt1 12.279 8 ...are not all men fortified by the remembrance of...the angelic devotion of this man [Milton], who...taking counsel only of himself, endeavored...to carry out the life of man to new heights of spiritual grace and dignity...
    PPr 12.379 10 [Carlyle's Past and Present] grapples honestly with the facts lying before all men...and...offers his best counsel to his brothers.

Counsel, Queen's, n. (1)

    ET7 5.122 25 The [English] barrister refuses the silk gown of Queen's Counsel, if his junior have it one day earlier.

counsel, v. (3)

    Prch 10.233 15 ...if I had to counsel a young preacher, I should say: When there is any difference felt between the foot-board of the pulpit and the floor of the parlor, you have not yet said that which you should say.
    HDC 11.83 4 Concord has always been noted for its ministers. The living need no praise of mine. Yet it is among the sources of satisfaction and gratitude, this day, that the aged [Ezra Ripley]...our fathers' counsellor and friend, is spared to counsel and intercede for the sons.
    Let 12.404 12 As far as our correspondents have entangled their private griefs with the cause of American Literature, we counsel them to disengage themselves as fast as possible.

counselled, v. (1)

    Wom 11.415 16 [The equality of the sexes] is even more perfect in the later sect of the Shakers, where no business is broached or counselled without the intervention of one elder and one elderess.

counselling, v. (1)

    YA 1.386 4 If any man has a talent...for counselling poor farmers how to turn their estates to good husbandry...let him in the county-town...put up his sign-board, Mr. Smith, Governor...

counsellor, n. (10)

    SL 2.156 27 I have heard an experienced counsellor say that he never feared the effect upon a jury of a lawyer who does not believe in his heart that his client ought to have a verdict.
    Prd1 2.234 3 Let [a man] esteem Nature a perpetual counsellor...
    Prd1 2.238 4 In the occurrence of unpleasant things among neighbors, fear comes readily to heart and magnifies the consequence of the other party; but it is a bad counsellor.
    MoS 4.171 12 ...though the town and state and way of living, which our counsellor contemplated, might be a very modest or musty prosperity, yet men rightly go for him...
    OA 7.317 13 ...in our old British legends of Arthur and the Round Table, his friend and counsellor, Merlin the Wise, is a babe found exposed in a basket by the river-side...
    PPo 8.240 18 [Solomon's] counsellor was Simorg, king of birds...
    LLNE 10.363 3 ...[Charles Newcomb was] a student and philosopher, who found his daily enjoyment...with the fine boys who were skating and playing ball or bird-hunting;...yet was he the chosen counsellor to whom the guardians [at Brook Farm] would repair on any hitch or difficulty that occurred...
    HDC 11.83 3 Concord has always been noted for its ministers. The living need no praise of mine. Yet it is among the sources of satisfaction and gratitude, this day, that the aged [Ezra Ripley]...our fathers' counsellor and friend, is spared to counsel and intercede for the sons.
    FRep 11.512 11 The marine insurance office has its mathematical counsellor to settle averages;...
    PPr 12.388 4 ...we at this distance are not so far removed from any of the specific evils [of the English State], and are deeply participant in too many, not to share the gloom and thank the love and courage of the counsellor [Carlyle].

counsellors, n. (2)

    SwM 4.133 21 All [Swedenborg's] interlocutors Swedenborgize. Be they who they may, to this complexion must they come at last. This Charon ferries them all over in his boat; kings, counsellors, cavaliers, doctors...
    LVB 11.95 1 Our counsellors and old statesmen here say that ten years ago they would have staked their lives on the affirmation that the proposed Indian measures could not be executed;...

Counsels, Infinite, n. (1)

    Tran 1.351 25 ...Cannot we...without complaint, or even with good-humor, await our turn of action in the Infinite Counsels?

counsels, n. (16)

    YA 1.388 11 I find no expression...especially in our newspapers, of a high national feeling, no lofty counsels that rightfully stir the blood.
    Exp 3.83 16 This is a fruit,--that I should not ask for a rash effect from meditations, counsels and the hiving of truths.
    Chr1 3.90 3 [Character] is conceived of as a certain undemonstrable force... by whose impulses the man is guided, but whose counsels he cannot impart;...
    Chr1 3.107 8 ...forgive the counsels; they are very natural.
    ET7 5.126 5 Defoe, who knew his countrymen well, says of them,--In close intrigue, their faculty's but weak,/ For generally whate'er they know, they speak,/ And often their own counsels undermine/ By mere infirmity without design;/...
    Elo1 7.72 3 [Priam] answered Helen, daughter of Jove, This is the wise Ulysses...knowing all wiles and wise counsels.
    Aris 10.63 20 Let [the man of honor]...say, The time will come when these poor enfans perdus of revolution, will have instructed their party, if only by their fate, and wiser counsels will prevail;...
    MoL 10.241 13 ...let me use the occasion...to offer you some counsels...
    Schr 10.285 3 These questions [of life] speak...to Genius...whose private counsels are not tinged with selfishness, but are laws.
    MMEm 10.432 18 [Mary Moody Emerson] gave high counsels.
    EPro 11.318 11 Against all timorous counsels [Lincoln] had the courage to seize the moment;...
    ALin 11.334 19 ...in the Babel of counsels and parties, this man [Lincoln] wrought incessantly...laboring to find what the people wanted, and how to obtain that.
    EdAd 11.387 26 Lovers of our country, but not always approvers of the public counsels, we should certainly be glad to give good advice in politics.
    EdAd 11.388 23 ...we have seen the best understandings of New England, the trusted leaders of her counsels...say, We are too old to stand for what is called a New England sentiment any longer.
    CInt 12.120 15 [Demosthenes said] If it please you to note it, my counsels to you are not such whereby I should grow great among you...
    PPr 12.379 22 ...the topic of English politics becomes the best vehicle for the expression of [Carlyle's] recent thinking, recommended to him by the desire to give some timely counsels...

counsels, v. (1)

    Schr 10.264 25 The poet counsels his own son as if he were a merchant.

count, n. (1)

    ET4 5.44 15 ...you cannot draw the line where a race begins or ends. Hence every writer makes a different count.

count, v. (42)

    LE 1.156 5 ...when events occur of great import, I count over these representatives of opinion, whom they will affect, as if I were counting nations.
    LT 1.262 21 I count myself nothing before [persons].
    Hist 2.27 7 ...when a truth that fired the soul of Pindar fires mine, time is no more. When I feel that we two meet in a perception...why should I count Egyptian years?
    Prd1 2.232 4 The man of talent affects to call his transgressions of the laws of the senses trivial and to count them nothing considered with his devotion to his art.
    Int 2.338 18 ...we can count all our good books;...
    Exp 3.47 13 How many individuals can we count in society?...
    NER 3.256 14 ...I am prone to count myself relieved of any responsibility to behave well and nobly to that person whom I pay with money;...
    UGM 4.6 9 I count him a great man who inhabits a higher sphere of thought...
    ET4 5.44 7 ...this writer [Robert Knox] did not found his assumed races on any necessary law...nor did he...count with precision the existing races...
    ET5 5.80 9 [The English]...cannot conceal their contempt for sallies of thought...whose steps they cannot count by their wonted rule.
    ET14 5.256 12 ...if I should count the poets who have contributed to the Bible of existing England sentences of guidance and consolation which are still glowing and effective,--how few!
    Civ 7.17 7 We praise the guide, we praise the forest life:/ But will we sacrifice our dear-bought lore/ Of books and arts and trained experiment,/ Or count the Sioux a match for Agassiz?/
    DL 7.108 7 It is easier to count the census...than to come to the persons and dwellings of men and read their character...
    Boks 7.193 12 It is easy to count the number of pages which a diligent man can read in a day...
    Boks 7.197 7 ...I will venture...to count the few books which a superficial reader must thankfully use.
    Cour 7.273 9 ...it is not the means on which we draw...that count, but the aims only.
    Suc 7.283 7 We count our census...
    OA 7.313 20 ...if it be to [clouds] allowed/ To fool me with a shining cloud,/ So only new griefs are consoled/ By new delights, as old by old,/ Frankly I will be your guest,/ Count your change and cheer the best./
    OA 7.320 12 We do not count a man's years, until he has nothing else to count.
    OA 7.320 13 We do not count a man's years, until he has nothing else to count.
    OA 7.323 8 Under the general assertion of the well-being of age, we can easily count particular benefits of that condition.
    OA 7.325 12 I count it another capital advantage of age, this, that a success more or less signifies nothing.
    PI 8.65 22 ...in so many alcoves of English poetry I can count only nine or ten authors who are still inspirers and lawgivers to their race.
    PI 8.66 16 I count the genius of Swedenborg and Wordsworth as the agents of a reform in philosophy...
    Elo2 8.111 8 ...all can see and understand the means by which a battle is gained: they count the armies...
    Insp 8.279 23 How many sources of inspiration can we count?
    Insp 8.280 1 The Arabs say that Allah does not count from life the days spent in the chase...
    Grts 8.311 21 Leave others to count votes and calculate stocks.
    Aris 10.65 8 There is no need that [a man of generous spirit] should count the pounds of property or the numbers of agents whom his influence touches;...
    Chr2 10.90 4 For what need I of book or priest/ Or Sibyl from the mummied East/ When every star is Bethlehem Star,-/ I count as many as there are/ Cinquefoils or violets in the grass,/ So many saints and saviours,/ So many high behaviours./
    MoL 10.246 3 In my youth, said a Scotch mountaineer, a Highland gentleman measured his importance, by the number of men his domain could support. ... To-day we are come to count the number of sheep.
    Thor 10.480 3 ...[Thoreau] seemed haunted by a certain chronic assumption that the science of the day pretended completeness, and he had just found out that the savans had neglected to discriminate a particular botanical variety, had failed to describe the seeds or count the sepals.
    GSt 10.507 5 ...when I consider...that [George Stearns]...beheld his work prosper for the joy and benefit of all mankind,-I count him happy among men.
    FSLN 11.219 20 ...it was strange to see that office, age, fame, talent, even a repute for honesty, all count for nothing.
    SMC 11.347 3 They have shown what men may do,/ They have proved how men may die,-/ Count, who can, the fields they have pressed,/ Each face to the solemn sky! Brownell.
    FRep 11.521 7 ...we can all count the few cases...when a public man ventured to act as he thought...
    CW 12.174 8 ...[a man in his wood-lot] remembers that Allah in his allotment of life does not count the time which the Arab spends in the chase.
    CW 12.175 10 ...a common spy-glass...turned on the Pleiades, or Seven Stars, in which most eyes can only count six,-will show many more...
    CW 12.175 16 How many poems have been written, or, at least attempted, on the lost Pleiad! for though that pretty constellation is called for thousands of years the Seven Stars, most eyes can only count six.
    Milt1 12.259 24 Among the advantages of his foreign travel, Milton certainly did not count it the least that it contributed to forge and polish that great weapon of which he acquired such extraordinary mastery,-his power of language.
    ACri 12.285 10 ...if I were asked how many masters of English idiom I know, I shall be perplexed to count five.
    Trag 12.407 18 ...universally, in uneducated and unreflecting persons...we discover traits of the same superstition [belief in Fate]:...if you count ten stars you will fall down dead;...

counted, adj. (1)

    Bost 12.209 17 You cannot conquer [Boston]...by counted millions of wealth.

counted, v. (13)

    MN 1.210 15 Are there not moments in the history of heaven when the human race was not counted by individuals, but was only the Influenced...
    Pt1 3.41 15 ...in nature the universal hours are counted by succeeding tribes of animals and plants...
    NER 3.259 12 ...the persons who, at forty years, still read Greek, can all be counted on your hand.
    ET2 5.32 10 Sea-days are long--these lack-lustre, joyless days which whistled over us; but they were few--only fifteen, as the captain counted...
    ET4 5.70 10 [The English] think...with the Arabs, that the days spent in the chase are not counted in the length of life.
    ET6 5.108 19 The song of 1596 says, The wife of every Englishman is counted blest.
    ET15 5.261 21 No antique privilege, no comfortable monopoly, but sees surely that its days are counted;...
    ET16 5.277 21 We [Emerson and Carlyle] counted and measured by paces the biggest stones [at Stonehenge]...
    Wsp 6.211 26 We were not deceived by the professions of the private adventurer,--the louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons;...
    CbW 6.250 24 I once counted in a little neighborhood and found that every able-bodied man had say from twelve to fifteen persons dependent on him for material aid...
    CbW 6.251 20 You would say this rabble of nations might be spared. But no, they are all counted and depended on.
    HDC 11.28 2 I will have never a noble,/ No lineage counted great;/ Fishers and choppers and ploughmen/ Shall constitute a state./
    CPL 11.499 2 ...Concord counted fourteen graduates of Harvard in its first century...

countenance, n. (35)

    LT 1.261 2 I wish to consider well this affirmative side [Reform]...which encroaches on [Conservatism] every day, puts it out of countenance...
    Con 1.310 25 ...in this institution of credit, which is as universal as honesty and promise in the human countenance, always some neighbor stands ready to be bread and land and tools and stock to the young adventurer.
    SR 2.56 6 If this aversion had its origin in contempt and resistance like [the nonconformist's] own he might well go home with a sad countenance;...
    SR 2.81 7 ...when [the wise man's]...duties...call him...into foreign lands, he...shall make men sensible by the expression of his countenance that he goes, the missionary of wisdom and virtue...
    Lov1 2.177 25 Into the most pitiful and abject [love] will infuse a heart and courage to defy the world, so only it have the countenance of the beloved object.
    Cir 2.309 21 ...[idealism's] countenance waxes stern and grand...
    Art1 2.362 15 The sweet and sublime face of Jesus [in Raphael's Transfiguration] is beyond praise, yet how it disappoints all florid expectations! This familiar, simple, home-speaking countenance is as if one should meet a friend.
    Mrs1 3.130 6 ...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, where too it has not the least countenance from the law of the land.
    Mrs1 3.149 9 ...by the moral quality radiating from his countenance [a man] may abolish all considerations of magnitude...
    Gts 3.159 18 These gay natures [flowers] contrast with the somewhat stern countenance of ordinary nature...
    UGM 4.26 5 We keep each other in countenance and exasperate by emulation the frenzy of the time.
    ET8 5.135 11 Here [in England] was lately a cross-grained miser [Joseph Turner]...resembling in countenance the portrait of Punch with the laugh left out;...
    Bhr 6.167 5 ...Graceful women, chosen men/ Dazzle every mortal:/ Their sweet and lofty countenance/ His enchanting food;/...
    Bty 6.298 25 Martial ridicules a gentleman of his day whose countenance resembled the face of a swimmer seen under water.
    Bty 6.300 26 Sir Philip Sidney...Ben Jonson tells us, was no pleasant man in countenance...
    Art2 7.44 4 Eloquence...is modified how much by the material organization of the orator...the play of the eye and countenance.
    Clbs 7.228 21 How sweet those hours when the day was not long enough to communicate and compare our intellectual jewels...the delicious verses we had hoarded! What a motive had then our solitary days! How the countenance of our friend still left some light after he had gone!
    PI 8.75 7 ...the involuntary part of [men's] life is so much as to...leave them no countenance to say aught of what is so trivial as their selfish thinking and doing.
    SA 8.84 3 ...every change in our experience instantly indicates itself on our countenance and carriage...
    SA 8.84 21 Every innocent man has in his countenance a promise to pay...
    Comc 8.170 27 In Raphael's Angel driving Heliodorus from the Temple, the crest of the helmet is so remarkable, that but for the extraordinary energy of the face, it would draw the eye too much; but the countenance of the celestial messenger subordinates it, and we see it not.
    Comc 8.173 14 ...when the men appear who ask our votes as representatives of this ideal, we are sadly out of countenance.
    Grts 8.306 25 ...every man...has a new countenance, new manner, new voice, new thoughts and new character.
    Imtl 8.338 27 Most men...promise by their countenance and conversation and by their early endeavor much more than they ever perform...
    SovE 10.212 27 ...with what power [innocence] converts evil accidents into benefits; the power of its countenance; the power of its presence!
    Prch 10.232 9 ...it were inhuman to affect ignorance or indifference on Sundays to what makes our blood beat and our countenance dejected Saturday or Monday.
    SlHr 10.446 21 ...[Samuel Hoar's] countenance had an unalterable tranquillity and sweetness;...
    HDC 11.81 9 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.
    EWI 11.120 20 Though joy beamed on every countenance, [emancipation day in Jamaica] was throughout tempered with solemn thankfulness to God...
    FSLN 11.221 5 [Webster's] countenance, his figure, and his manners were all in so grand a style, that he was, without effort, as superior to his most eminent rivals as they were to the humblest;...
    EPro 11.326 13 ...that ill-fated, much-injured race which the [Emancipation] Proclamation respects will lose somewhat of the dejection sculptured for ages in their bronzed countenance...
    Koss 11.398 6 Sir [Kossuth], we have watched with attention...the unvarying tone and countenance which you have maintained.
    CL 12.149 12 The Hindoos called fire Agni...of graceful form and whose countenance is turned on all sides.
    MLit 12.317 24 There are facts...which drive young men into gardens and solitary places, and cause extravagant gestures, starts, distortions of the countenance and passionate exclamations;...
    Pray 12.352 6 When my long-attached friend comes to me...I rejoice to pass my eyes over his countenance;...

countenance, v. (2)

    ET11 5.185 6 In general, all that is required of [English nobility] is...to countenance charities...
    Suc 7.290 22 We countenance each other in this life of show...

countenances, n. (3)

    Art2 7.52 2 These [ancient sculptures] are the countenances of the first-born...
    Trag 12.411 25 ...the earliest works of the art of sculpture are countenances of sublime tranquillity.
    Trag 12.412 6 The Egyptian sphinxes...have countenances expressive of complacency and repose...

counter, adj. (2)

    Nat2 3.184 4 If the identity [in nature] expresses organized rest, the counter action runs also into organization.
    ET4 5.50 25 Everything English is a fusion of distant and antagonistic elements. The language is mixed;...the currents of thought are counter...

counter, n. (1)

    ET12 5.209 16 The definition of a public school [in England] is a school which excludes all that could fit a man for standing behind a counter.

counteract, v. (2)

    Insp 8.283 19 Goethe said to Eckermann, I work more easily when the barometer is high than when it is low. Since I know this, I endeavor, when the barometer is low, to counteract the injurious effect by greater exertion...
    FRep 11.535 15 What this country longs for is personalities...to counteract its materialities.

counteracted, v. (1)

    Comp 2.104 23 This dividing and detaching is steadily counteracted.

counteracting, adj. (1)

    ET4 5.49 8 It is easy to add to the counteracting forces to race.

counteraction, n. (7)

    Con 1.297 17 [The battle between Conservatism and Innovation] is ever thus. It is the counteraction of the centripetal and the centrifugal forces.
    SR 2.51 23 The doctrine of hatred must be preached, as the counteraction of the doctrine of love...
    Dem1 10.8 8 ...in the act is contained the counteraction.
    MoL 10.252 23 Intellect measures itself by its counteraction to any accumulation of material force.
    Schr 10.282 15 The spiritual nature exhibits itself so in its counteraction to any accumulation of material force.
    FSLC 11.203 15 At last, at a fatal hour, [Webster's] sluggishness accumulated to downright counteraction...
    MAng1 12.220 6 The human form, says Goethe, cannot be comprehended through seeing its surface. It must be stripped of the muscles...its action and counteraction learned;...

counteractions, n. (1)

    Wth 6.94 12 Each of these idealists, working after his thought, would make it tyrannical, if he could. He is met and antagonized by other speculators as hot as he. The equilibrium is preserved by these counteractions...

counterbalance, n. (3)

    FSLN 11.235 16 ...that I understand to be the end for which a soul exists in this world,-to be himself the counterbalance of all falsehood and all wrong.
    Milt1 12.277 17 What schools and epochs of common rhymers would it need to make a counterbalance to the severe oracles of [Milton's] muse...
    Trag 12.416 8 The individual who suffers has a mysterious counterbalance to that condition...

counterbalance, v. (3)

    YA 1.372 19 The census of the population is found to keep an invariable equality in the sexes, with a trifling predominance in favor of the male, as if to counterbalance the necessarily increased exposure of male life in war, navigation, and other accidents.
    Elo2 8.115 18 [The true orator's] attitude in the rostrum, on the platform, requires that he counterbalance his auditory.
    FSLC 11.189 8 I thought that every time a man goes back to his own thoughts, these angels receive him, talk with him...that these moments counterbalance the years of drudgery...

counterbalances, n. (1)

    Wsp 6.202 22 We may well give skepticism as much line as we can. The spirit will return and fill us. It drives the drivers. It counterbalances any accumulations of power...

counterbalancing, adj. (1)

    CInt 12.126 2 It is true that the University and the Church, which should be counterbalancing institutions to our great material institutions of trade and of territorial power, do not express the sentiment of the popular politics and the popular optimism, whatever it be.

counterbalancing, v. (1)

    CInt 12.127 8 ...these two [the College and the Church] should be counterbalancing to the bad politics and selfish trade.

counterfeit, adj. (6)

    Pt1 3.28 27 That is not an inspiration, which we owe to narcotics, but some counterfeit excitement and fury.
    Exp 3.48 13 There are moods in which we court suffering, in the hope that here at least we shall find reality, sharp peaks and edges of truth. But it turns out to be scene-painting and counterfeit.
    MoS 4.170 21 Talent makes counterfeit ties; genius finds the real ones.
    ET7 5.119 8 [The English] read gladly in old Fuller that a lady in the reign of Elizabeth, would have as patiently digested a lie, as the wearing of... pendants of counterfeit pearl.
    WD 7.173 5 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.
    OA 7.317 2 ...if the essence of age is not present, these signs, whether of Art or Nature, are counterfeit and ridiculous;...

counterfeit, n. (7)

    Cir 2.322 7 Dreams and drunkenness, the use of opium and alcohol are the semblance and counterfeit of this oracular genius...
    SA 8.96 3 The great gain is...to find a companion who knows what you do not; to tilt with him and be overthrown...with utter destruction of all your logic and learning. ... Then you can see the real and the counterfeit...
    SA 8.96 4 The great gain is...to find a companion who knows what you do not; to tilt with him and be overthrown...with utter destruction of all your logic and learning. ... Then you...will never accept the counterfeit again.
    Imtl 8.324 14 ...I know well that where this belief [in immortality] once existed it would necessarily take a base form for the savage and a pure form for the wise;-so that I only look on the counterfeit as a proof that the genuine faith had been there.
    Edc1 10.139 9 [Boys] know truth from counterfeit as quick as the chemist does.
    Schr 10.281 8 We are not afraid of new truth...but of a counterfeit.
    War 11.152 22 On its own scale, on the virtues it loves, [war] endures no counterfeit...

counterfeit, v. (1)

    SA 8.105 11 Now society in towns is infested by persons who, seeing that the sentiments please, counterfeit the expression of them.

counterfeited, v. (3)

    Comp 2.114 18 ...the real price of labor is knowledge and virtue, whereof wealth and credit are signs. These signs, like paper money, may be counterfeited or stolen...
    Comp 2.114 20 ...the real price of labor is knowledge and virtue, whereof wealth and credit are signs. These signs...may be counterfeited or stolen, but that which they represent, namely, knowledge and virtue, cannot be counterfeited or stolen.
    QO 8.202 9 There is always in [originals] a style and weight of speech... which cannot be counterfeited.

counterfeiters, n. (1)

    Cour 7.259 16 ...the aggressive attitude of men who...will no longer be bothered with...counterfeiters in public offices...that part, the part of the leader and soul of the vigilance committee, must be taken by stout and sincere men...

counterfeits, n. (3)

    Art1 2.365 4 ...the statue will look cold and false before that new activity which...is impatient of counterfeits...
    Chr1 3.108 26 We have seen many counterfeits, but we are born believers in great men.
    ET13 5.228 5 ...you, who are an honest man in other particulars [than conformity], know that there is alive somewhere a man whose honesty reaches to this point also that he shall not kneel to false gods, and on the day when you meet him, you sink into the class of counterfeits.

counterpart, n. (9)

    Hist 2.17 23 Strasburg Cathedral is a material counterpart of the soul of Erwin of Steinbach.
    Fdsp 2.210 24 Guard [your friend] as thy counterpart.
    Cir 2.314 19 Not through subtle subterranean channels need friend and fact be drawn to their counterpart...
    Clbs 7.230 11 ...a natural fact has only half its value until a fact in moral nature, its counterpart, is stated.
    Clbs 7.230 27 ...I seldom meet with a reading and thoughtful person but he tells me...that he has no companion. Suppose such a one to go out exploring different circles in search of this wise and genial counterpart,--he might inquire far and wide.
    PI 8.65 7 The Muse [of Poetry] shall be the counterpart of Nature...
    PC 8.223 1 Every law in Nature...has a counterpart in the intellect.
    PPo 8.262 26 In thee, friend, that Tyrian chamber is found;/ Thine the star-pointing- roof, and the base on the ground:/ Is one half depicted with colors less bright?/ Beware that the counterpart blazes with light!/
    Scot 11.465 13 The tone of strength in Waverley...was more than justified by the superior genius of the following romances, up to the Bride of Lammermoor, which almost goes back to Aeschylus for a counterpart as a painting of Fate...

counterparts, n. (2)

    SwM 4.122 24 Instead of a religion which visited [Swedenborg] diplomatically three or four times...here was a teaching which accompanied him...into society, and showed by what affinities he was girt to his equals and his counterparts;...
    Ctr 6.150 12 The best bribe which London offers to-day to the imagination is that in such a vast variety of people and conditions one can believe...that the poet, the mystic and the hero may hope to confront their counterparts.

counter-party, n. (1)

    NMW 4.256 25 The counter-revolution, the counter-party, still waits for its organ and representative...

counterpoise, n. (3)

    Int 2.344 13 One soul is a counterpoise of all souls...
    ET14 5.260 7 ...the two complexions, or two styles of mind [in England],-- the perceptive class, and the practical finality class,--are ever in counterpoise...
    PI 8.74 27 The only heart that can help us is one that draws...from itself, a counterpoise to society.

counterpoise, v. (2)

    Elo1 7.76 18 We have a half belief that the person is possible who can counterpoise all other persons.
    WD 7.158 24 ...one might say that the inventions of the last fifty years counterpoise those of the fifty centuries before them.

counterpoises, v. (1)

    PC 8.225 16 ...the moral element in man counterpoises this dismaying immensity and bereaves it of terror.

counter-revolution, n. (1)

    NMW 4.256 25 The counter-revolution...still waits for its organ and representative...

counters, n. (1)

    NER 3.262 9 Do you complain of the laws of Property? It is a pedantry to give such importance to them. Can we not play the game of life with these counters, as well as those?...

counter-statement, n. (1)

    Wsp 6.202 9 If the Divine Providence...has stated itself out in passions, in war...let us not be so nice that we cannot...doubt but there is a counter-statement as ponderous, which we can arrive at...

countervail, v. (5)

    AmS 1.94 1 Gowns and pecuniary foundations...can never countervail the least sentence or syllable of wit.
    Ctr 6.144 21 I knew a leading man in a leading city, who, having set his heart on an education at the university and missed it, could never quite feel himself the equal of his own brothers who had gone thither. His easy superiority to multitudes of professional men could never quite countervail to him this imaginary defect.
    FSLN 11.240 9 ...that is the stern edict of Providence, that liberty shall be no hasty fruit, but that...age on age, shall cast itself into the opposite scale, and not until liberty has slowly accumulated weight enough to countervail and preponderate against all this, can the sufficient recoil come.
    CInt 12.130 10 [The intellect's] oracles countervail all.
    MLit 12.330 14 The least inequality of mixture [of Truth, Beauty and Goodness], the excess of one element over the other, in that degree...makes the world opaque to the observer, and destroys so far the value of his experience. No particular gifts can countervail this defect.

countervails, v. (2)

    LT 1.263 8 [Persons] are an incalculable energy which countervails all other forces in nature...
    ET6 5.111 22 The keeping of the proprieties is [in England] as indispensable as clean linen. No merit quite countervails the want of this whilst this sometimes stands in lieu of all.

counterweight, n. (2)

    ET6 5.104 3 Nothing but the most serious business could give one any counterweight to these Baresarks [the English]...
    Schr 10.282 16 The spiritual nature exhibits itself so in its counteraction to any accumulation of material force. There is no mass that can be a counterweight for it.

counterweights, n. (1)

    UGM 4.27 8 Ah! yonder in the horizon is our help;--other great men, new qualities, counterweights and checks on each other.

countess, n. (1)

    OS 2.290 8 The vain traveller attempts to embellish his life by quoting my lord and the prince and the countess...

Countess of Carlisle [Lucy (1)

    MMEm 10.398 20 ...[Lucy Percy]...will take a deep interest for persons of celebrity.

counties, n. (10)

    ShP 4.190 19 [A great man] finds two counties groping to bring coal, or flour, or fish, from the place of production to the place of consumption, and he hits on a railroad.
    ET2 5.25 8 The occasion of my second visit to England was an invitation from some Mechanics' Institutes in Lancashire and Yorkshire, which...in 1847 had been linked into a Union, which embraced twenty or thirty towns and cities, and presently extended into the middle counties and northward into Scotland.
    ET4 5.64 27 In the case of the ship-money, the judges delivered it for law, that England being an island, the very midland shires therein are all to be accounted maritime; and Fuller adds, the genius even of landlocked counties driving the natives with a maritime dexterity.
    F 6.7 17 Towns and counties fall into [the sea].
    PerF 10.87 3 ...a sensitive politician suffers his ideas of the part New York or Pennsylvania or Ohio is to play in the future of the Union, to be fashioned by the election of rogues in some counties.
    Chr2 10.118 15 In the present tendency of our society...when counties and towns are resisting centralization...society is threatened with actual granulation, religious as well as political.
    SlHr 10.442 7 For a long term of years, [Samuel Hoar] was at the head of the bar in Middlesex, practising, also, in the adjoining counties.
    HDC 11.55 6 In 1643, the colony was so numerous that it became expedient to divide it into four counties, Concord being included in Middlesex.
    HDC 11.81 5 In 1786, when the general sufferings drove the people in parts of Worcester and Hampshire counties to insurrection, a large party of armed insurgents arrived in this town [Concord]...
    SHC 11.433 23 Here [at Sleepy Hollow] we may establish that most agreeable of all museums...an Arboretum,-wherein may be planted...every tree that is native to Massachusetts...so that every child may be shown growing...the beech, which we have allowed to die out of the eastern counties;...

counting, adj. (1)

    OS 2.271 3 What we commonly call man, the eating, drinking, planting, counting man, does not...represent himself, but misrepresents himself.

counting, v. (8)

    LE 1.156 6 ...when events occur of great import, I count over these representatives of opinion, whom they will affect, as if I were counting nations.
    Mrs1 3.142 7 A tradesman who had long dunned [Charles James Fox] for a note of three hundred guineas, found him one day counting gold, and demanded payment.
    MoS 4.159 27 [The skeptic] is the considerer...counting stock...
    MoS 4.173 12 I mean to...celebrate the calendar-day of our Saint Michel de Montaigne, by counting and describing these doubts or negations.
    ET12 5.199 4 At the present day...[Cambridge] has the advantage of Oxford, counting in its alumni a greater number of distinguished scholars.
    F 6.8 3 Without...counting how many species of parasites hang on a bombyx...the forms of the shark...are hints of ferocity in the interiors of nature.
    Edc1 10.151 13 Is it not manifest...that wise men...heartily seeking the good of mankind, and counting the cost of innovation, should dare to arouse the young to a just and heroic life;...
    Thor 10.480 18 ...I cannot help counting it a fault in [Thoreau] that he had no ambition.

counting-house, n. (1)

    NER 3.256 9 Why should professional labor and that of the counting-house be paid so disproportionately to the labor of the porter and wood-sawyer?

counting-houses, n. (1)

    NMW 4.252 14 I call Napoleon the agent or attorney...of the throng who fill the markets, shops, counting-houses, manufactories, ships, of the modern world...

counting-room, adj. (2)

    Pow 6.68 18 [Men of this surcharge of arterial blood]...had rather die by the hatchet of a Pawnee than sit all day and every day at a counting-room desk.
    Wth 6.125 19 The counting-room maxims liberally expounded are laws of the universe.

counting-room, n. (4)

    LE 1.184 21 ...in the counting-room the merchant cares little whether the cargo be hides or barilla;...be it what it may, his commission comes gently out of it;...
    Wth 6.101 1 Napoleon was fond of telling the story of the Marseilles banker who said to his visitor, surprised at the contrast between the splendor of the banker's chateau and hospitality and the meanness of the counting-room in which he had seen him,--Young man, you are too young to understand how masses are formed;...
    Grts 8.304 24 When [young men] have learned that the parlor and the college and the counting-room demand as much courage as the sea or the camp, they will be willing to consult their own strength and education in their choice of place.
    FRep 11.523 15 ...if [Americans] should come to be interested in themselves and in their career, they would no more stay away from the election than from their own counting-room...

counting-rooms, n. (2)

    F 6.41 3 Ducks take to the water...clerks to counting-rooms...
    FSLN 11.218 16 Look into the morning trains which, from every suburb, carry the business men into the city to their shops, counting-rooms...

countless, adj. (11)

    Nat 1.1 1 A subtle chain of countless rings/ The next unto the farthest brings;...
    LE 1.173 11 ...the thing whereon [thought] shines...is a new subject with countless relations.
    LT 1.278 3 We...want...the spirit that sheds and showers...countless, endless actions.
    Hist 2.13 15 Genius detects...through countless individuals the fixed species;...
    Pt1 3.23 1 ...[nature] shakes down from the gills of one agaric countless spores...
    NR 3.223 1 In countless upward-striving waves/ The moon-drawn tide-wave strives/...
    SwM 4.118 10 Why hear I the same sense from countless differing voices...
    DL 7.111 12 The progress of domestic living has been...in countless means and arts of comfort...
    Dem1 10.18 7 ...[the demonaical property]...forms in the moral world...a transverse element, so that the former may be called the warp, the latter the woof. For the phenomena which hence originate there are countless names...
    FSLC 11.212 23 It was the praise of Athens, She could not lead countless armies into the field, but she knew how with a little band to defeat those who could.
    CL 12.149 15 What uses that we know belong to the forest, and what countless uses that we know not!

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