Crecy, France to Ctesiphon, Mesopotamia

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

Crecy, France, n. (1)

    Cour 7.256 5 What a memory of Poitiers and Crecy, and Bunker Hill, and Washington's endurance!

credence, n. (5)

    ET4 5.49 9 It is easy to add to the counteracting forces to race. Credence is a main element.
    Imtl 8.324 16 The credence of men...makes their manners and customs;...
    Chr2 10.106 12 Our ancestors spoke continually of angels and archangels with the same good faith as they would have spoken of their own parents or their late minister. Now the words...are rhetoric, and all credence is gone.
    SovE 10.211 10 Men live by their credence.
    SovE 10.211 23 The credence of men it is that moulds them...

credentials, n. (2)

    Pt1 3.8 21 The sign and credentials of the poet are that he announces that which no man foretold.
    II 12.81 6 ...the real credentials by which man takes precedence of man... are intellectual and moral.

credible, adj. (7)

    Hist 2.5 4 The fact narrated must correspond to something in me to be credible or intelligible.
    Chr1 3.109 7 The most credible pictures are those of majestic men who prevailed at their entrance...
    Chr1 3.110 3 I find it more credible, since it is anterior information, that one man should know heaven, as the Chinese say, than that so many men should know the world.
    LLNE 10.329 9 Experiment is credible; antiquity is grown ridiculous.
    SMC 11.354 19 The [Civil] war made the Divine Providence credible to many who did not believe the good Heaven quite honest.
    PPr 12.386 2 ...[Carlyle's] fancies are more attractive and more credible than the sanity of duller men.
    Let 12.393 7 ...when our correspondent proceeds to flying-machines, we have no longer the smallest taper-light of credible information and experience left...

credit, adj. (2)

    DL 7.115 4 [To give money to a sufferer] is only...a credit system in which a paper promise to pay answers for the time instead of liquidation.
    SA 8.84 26 ...just in proportion to the morality of a people will be the expansion of the credit system.

credit, n. (45)

    Nat 1.37 16 The same good office is performed by Property and its filial systems of debt and credit.
    LE 1.184 23 ...in the counting-room the merchant cares little whether...the transaction [be] a letter of credit or a transfer of stocks; be it what it may, his commission comes gently out of it;...
    MN 1.211 15 Whenever [poets] appear, they will redeem their own credit.
    LT 1.273 16 What does [the wealthy man]...but resolve...to find himself out some factor, to whose care and credit he may commit the whole managing of his religious affairs;...
    Con 1.310 23 ...in this institution of credit...always some neighbor stands ready to be bread and land and tools and stock to the young adventurer.
    Con 1.321 24 As it loses its truth, [religion] loses its credit with the sagacious.
    YA 1.374 18 ...we repair commerce with unlimited credit, and are presently visited with unlimited bankruptcy.
    Comp 2.114 17 ...the real price of labor is knowledge and virtue, whereof wealth and credit are signs.
    Pt1 3.16 23 Some stars...or other figure which came into credit God knows how, on an old rag of bunting...shall make the blood tingle...
    Chr1 3.107 18 ...however pertly our sermons and disciplines would divide some share of credit...[Nature] goes her own gait and puts the wisest in the wrong.
    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.
    UGM 4.4 12 The race goes with us on [great men's] credit.
    UGM 4.4 14 The knowledge that in the city is a man who invented the railroad, raises the credit of all the citizens.
    UGM 4.18 13 Especially when a mind of powerful method has instructed men, we find the examples of oppression. The dominion of Aristotle...the credit of Luther...are in point.
    SwM 4.139 17 [Swedenborg's] revelations destroy their credit by running into detail.
    ShP 4.196 12 If [Shakespeare] lost any credit of design, he augmented his resources;...
    NMW 4.253 24 [Napoleon] is unjust to his generals;...meanly stealing the credit of their great actions from Kellermann, from Bernadotte;...
    ET4 5.72 24 ...the genius of the English hath always more inclined them to foot-service, as pure and proper manhood, without any mixture; whilst in a victory on horseback, the credit ought to be divided betwixt the man and his horse.
    ET7 5.116 10 Add to this hereditary [German] rectitude the punctuality and precise dealing which commerce creates, and you have the English truth and credit.
    ET13 5.228 22 Religious persons are driven out of the Established Church into sects, which instantly rise to credit and hold the Establishment in check.
    ET16 5.280 19 At the inn [at Amesbury], there was only milk for one cup of tea. When we called for more, the girl brought us three drops. My friend [Carlyle] was annoyed, who stood for the credit of an English inn...
    Wth 6.124 13 The good poet [finds] fame and literary credit;...
    Wsp 6.202 13 The solar system has no anxiety about its reputation, and the credit of truth and honesty is as safe;...
    Ill 6.319 12 There is the illusion of love, which attributes to the beloved person all which that person shares with his or her family, sex, age or condition, nay, with the human mind itself. 'T is these which the lover loves, and Anna Matilda gets the credit of them.
    Farm 7.152 18 ...credit exists in the ratio of morality.
    Boks 7.198 3 ...in these days, when it is found...that we need not be alarmed though we should find it not dull, [Herodotus's history] is regaining credit.
    Cour 7.270 4 ...I remember the old professor, whose searching mind engraved every word he spoke on the memory of the class, when we asked if he had read this or that shining novelty, No, I have never read that book; instantly the book lost credit...
    Suc 7.290 10 I hate this shallow Americanism which hopes to get rich by credit...
    OA 7.325 16 Little by little [age] has amassed such a fund of merit that it can very well afford to go on its credit when it will.
    SA 8.84 12 We say, in these days, that credit is to be abolished in trade; is it?
    SA 8.84 16 Credit is to be abolished? Can't you abolish faces and character...
    SA 8.84 17 Credit is to be abolished? Can't you abolish faces and character, of which credit is the reflection?
    SA 8.84 19 As long as men are born babes they will live on credit for the first fourteen or eighteen years of their life.
    SA 8.84 22 Every innocent man has in his countenance a promise to pay, and hence credit.
    SA 8.84 22 Less credit will there be? You are mistaken.
    PC 8.227 3 Great men,-the age goes on their credit;...
    PerF 10.76 3 ...the wise merchant by truth in his dealings finds his credit unlimited...
    Schr 10.265 21 Like [the pearl-diver and the diamond-merchant] [the poet] will joyfully lose days and months, and estates and credit, in the profound hope that one restoring, all rewarding, immense success will arrive at last...
    HDC 11.80 4 [Concord's] instructions to their representatives are full of loud complaints of the disgraceful state of public credit...
    LVB 11.89 2 Sir [Van Buren]: The seat you fill places you in a relation of credit and nearness to every citizen.
    EWI 11.121 25 The legislature [of Jamaica]...say, The peaceful demeanor of the emancipated population redounds to their own credit...
    Shak1 11.449 8 ...[Shakespeare] is...the genius which...in sterile periods, keeps up the credit of the human mind.
    PLT 12.9 9 Here [in society] they play the game of conversation, as they play billiards, for pastime and credit.
    ACri 12.295 22 Montaigne must have the credit of giving to literature that which we listen for in bar-rooms, the low speech...
    PPr 12.388 11 ...a continuer of the great line of scholars, [Carlyle] sustains their office in the highest credit and honor.

credit, v. (7)

    Chr1 3.109 24 I should think myself very unhappy in my associates if I could not credit the best things in history.
    Nat2 3.189 7 [The young person] cannot yet credit that one may have impressive experience and yet may not know how to put his private fact into literature...
    PPh 4.40 6 ...it is fair to credit the broadest generalizer [Plato] with all the particulars deducible from his thesis.
    PI 8.26 18 ...when we describe man as poet, and credit him with the triumphs of the art, we speak of the potential or ideal man...
    QO 8.189 26 Our very abstaining to repeat and credit the fine remark of our friend is thievish.
    MLit 12.310 3 ...we ought to credit literature with much more than the bare word it gives us.
    PPr 12.386 14 One can hardly credit, whilst under the spell of this magician [Carlyle], that the world always had the same bankrupt look, to foregoing ages as to us...

creditable, adj. (7)

    GoW 4.281 4 ...in all these countries [England, America and France], men of talent write from talent. It is enough if...the taste [is] propitiated,--so many columns, so many hours, filled in a lively and creditable way.
    ET17 5.295 16 I told [Wordsworth] it was not creditable that no one in all the country knew anything of Thomas Taylor...
    Wsp 6.207 21 I do not find the religions of men at this moment very creditable to them...
    Grts 8.304 6 A sensible man...avoids introducing the names of his creditable companions...
    LLNE 10.346 1 ...we were curious to know how [the pilgrim] sped in his experiments on the neighbor, and his anecdotes were...often highly creditable.
    HDC 11.47 9 He is ill informed who expects, on running down the [New England] Town Records for two hundred years, to find...a metropolis of patriots, enacting wholesome and creditable laws.
    EWI 11.127 21 It is a creditable incident in the history that 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.

creditably, adv. (1)

    GoW 4.283 23 ...your interest in the writer is not confined to his story and he dismissed from memory when he has performed his task creditably...

credited, v. (3)

    Chr1 3.95 25 ...whatever instances can be quoted of unpunished theft, or of a lie which somebody credited, justice must prevail...
    QO 8.199 25 ...[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.
    MLit 12.310 15 ...they say every man walks environed by his proper atmosphere, extending to some distance around him. This beautiful result must be credited to literature also in casting its account.

creditis, v. (1)

    Bhr 6.195 17 ...[Marcus Scaurus], full of firmness and gravity, defended himself in this manner:--Quintus Varius Hispanus alleges that Marcus Scaurus...excited the allies to arms: Marcus Scaurus...denies it. There is no witness. Which do you believe, Romans? Utri creditis, Quirites?

creditor, n. (2)

    Cir 2.316 5 One man thinks justice consists in paying debts, and has no measure in his abhorrence of another who...makes the creditor wait tediously.
    Mrs1 3.142 11 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. No, said Fox, I owe this money to Sheridan; it is a debt of honor; if an accident should happen to me, he has nothing to show. Then, said the creditor, I change my debt into a debt of honor, and tore the note in pieces.

creditors, n. (3)

    NMW 4.240 5 When the expenses...of his palaces, had accumulated great debts, Napoleon examined the bills of the creditors himself...
    ET6 5.109 14 Wellington...could not stir abroad for fear of public creditors.
    WSL 12.342 4 From the moment of entering a library and opening a desired book, we cease to be citizens, creditors, debtors, housekeepers...

credits, n. (1)

    Comp 2.93 12 The documents...from which the doctrine [of Compensation] is to be drawn...are the tools in our hands...greetings, relations, debts and credits...

credulity, n. (5)

    NR 3.247 17 ...the most sincere and revolutionary doctrine...shall in a few weeks be coldly set aside...and the same immeasurable credulity demanded for new audacities.
    ET8 5.138 14 [The English] are subject to panics of credulity and of rage...
    Wom 11.417 24 There is always the want of thought; there is always credulity.
    II 12.66 17 There is a singular credulity which no experience will cure us of...
    MAng1 12.225 3 ...[Michelangelo]...was mortified by receiving from the government reproaches at his credulity and fear.

credulous, adj. (6)

    Pt1 3.10 19 I remember when I was young how much I was moved one morning by tidings that genius had appeared in a youth who sat near me at table. He...had written hundreds of lines, but...could tell nothing but that all was changed,--man, beast, heaven, earth and sea. How gladly we listened! how credulous!
    Wth 6.120 20 [Cockayne] will have nothing to do with trees, but will have grass. After a year or two the grass must be turned up and ploughed; now what crops? Credulous Cockayne!
    Dem1 10.13 19 In times most credulous of these fancies the sense was always met and the superstition rebuked by the grave spirit of reason and humanity.
    EzRy 10.389 13 [Ezra Ripley] was very credulous...
    EzRy 10.390 6 Like other credulous men, [Ezra Ripley] was opinionative...
    II 12.70 13 ...Goethe, Fourier, Schelling, Coleridge, they all begin: we, credulous bystanders, believe, of course, that they can finish as they begun.

Creech, Thomas, n. (1)

    WSL 12.341 27 A charm attaches to the most inferior names which have in any manner got themselves enrolled in the registers of the House of Fame... to Creech and Fenton...

Creed, Apostles', n. (1)

    ET13 5.229 21 George Borrow...reads to [the Gypsies] the Apostles' Creed in Romany.

creed, n. (35)

    DSA 1.123 25 These facts have always suggested to man the sublime creed that the world is not the product of manifold power, but of one will...
    DSA 1.131 12 One would rather be A pagan, suckled in a creed outworn,/ than to be defrauded of his manly right...
    DSA 1.142 22 ...[the Puritans'] creed is passing away...
    Tran 1.340 19 ...the tendency to respect the intuitions and to give them, at least in our creed, all authority over our experience, has deeply colored the conversation and poetry of the present day;...
    Tran 1.348 13 The popular literary creed seems to be, I am a sublime genius; I ought not therefore to labor.
    Cir 2.305 11 In the thought of to-morrow there is a power to upheave all thy creed...
    Int 2.342 1 He in whom the love of repose predominates will accept the first creed...he meets...
    Exp 3.51 16 I knew a witty physician who found the creed in the biliary duct...
    Exp 3.60 25 ...I settle myself ever the firmer in the creed that we should... do broad justice where we are...
    Exp 3.75 13 ...out of unbeliefs a creed shall be formed.
    Mrs1 3.145 3 Let the creed and commandments even have the saucy homage of parody.
    PPh 4.74 16 When accused before the judges of subverting the popular creed, [Socrates] affirms the immortality of the soul...
    ET4 5.55 15 [The Celts] had...priestly culture and a sublime creed.
    ET13 5.214 7 ...English life...does not grow out of the Athanasian creed...
    ET14 5.242 2 In England these [generalizations]...do all have a kind of filial retrospect to Plato and the Greeks. Of this kind is...Spenser's creed that soul is form, and doth the body make;...
    ET17 5.298 6 [Wordsworth's] adherence to his poetic creed rested on real inspirations.
    Wsp 6.206 15 What Gothic mixtures the Christian creed drew from the pagan sources, Richard of Devizes' chronicle of Richard I.'s crusade, in the twelfth century, may show.
    Cour 7.276 27 ...there is no creed of an honest man...which does not equally preach it.
    OA 7.320 15 ...the creed of the street is, Old Age is not disgraceful, but immensely disadvantageous.
    OA 7.321 13 The cynical creed or lampoon of the market is refuted by the universal prayer for long life...
    PI 8.23 6 A man's action is only a picture-book of his creed.
    Chr2 10.113 1 The creed, the legend, forms of worship, swiftly decay.
    SovE 10.199 18 When I talked with an ardent missionary, and pointed out to him that his creed found no support in my experience, he replied, It is not so in your experience, but is so in the other world.
    SovE 10.202 3 [A man] may throw himself upon...some verbal creed, with such concentration as to hide the universe from him: but the stars roll above;...
    Prch 10.223 13 ...this [movement of religious opinion] of to-day has the best omens as being of the most expansive humanity, since it seeks to find in every nation and creed the imperishable doctrines.
    Prch 10.226 26 In matters of religion, men eagerly fasten their eyes on the differences between their creed and yours...
    EzRy 10.395 6 ...[Ezra Ripley] adopted heartily...the creed and catechism of the fathers...
    MMEm 10.399 13 ...[Mary Moody Emerson's life]...marks the precise time when the power of the old creed yielded to the influence of modern science and humanity.
    HDC 11.82 23 Two religious societies, of differing creed, dwell together [in Concord] in good understanding...
    HCom 11.340 21 Where faith made whole with deed/ Breathes its awakening breath/ Into the lifeless creed,/ They saw [Truth] plumed and mailed,/ With sweet, stern face unveiled,/ And all-repaying eyes, look proud on them in death/ Lowell, Commemoration Ode.
    Shak1 11.449 27 I see, among the lovers of this catholic genius [Shakespeare], here present, a few, whose deeper knowledge invites me to hazard an article of my literary creed;...
    FRO2 11.488 1 ...every believer holds a different creed; that is, all churches are churches of one member.
    FRO2 11.490 15 Zealots eagerly fasten their eyes on the differences between their creed and yours...
    II 12.88 4 It seems to me, as if men stood craving a more stringent creed than any of the pale and enervating systems to which they have had recourse.
    WSL 12.345 20 A moral force, yet wholly unmindful of creed and catechism...[character] works directly and without means...

creeds, n. (16)

    SR 2.79 4 As men's prayers are a disease of the will, so are their creeds a disease of the intellect.
    SR 2.79 20 ...chiefly is this [power of a new mind] apparent in creeds and churches...
    SL 2.136 25 If we look wider...laws and letters and creeds and modes of living seem a travesty of truth.
    Cir 2.305 12 In the thought of to-morrow there is a power to upheave...all the creeds...
    Wsp 6.208 23 In creeds never was such levity;...
    Wsp 6.214 21 I do not think [skepticism] can be cured or stayed by any modification of theologic creeds...
    Wsp 6.220 5 ...look where we will...a perfect reaction, a perpetual judgment keeps watch and ward. And this appears in a class of facts which concerns all men, within and above their creeds.
    PC 8.211 22 The creeds of [the sectarian's] church shrivel like dried leaves at the door of the observatory...
    PC 8.228 13 Science corrects the old creeds;...
    Imtl 8.328 2 These truths, passing out of [Swedenborg's] system into general circulation, are now met with every day, qualifying the views and creeds of all churches and of men of no church.
    Chr2 10.106 3 ...in the hands...of fierce Gauls, [Christianity's] creeds were tainted with their barbarism.
    SovE 10.201 19 The creeds into which we were initiated in childhood and youth no longer hold their old place in the minds of thoughtful men...
    SovE 10.208 14 ...natural religion supplies still all the facts which are disguised under the dogma of popular creeds.
    Prch 10.236 27 We no longer recite the old creeds of Athanasius or Arius...
    MoL 10.245 11 ...those who would check and guide have a dreary feeling that in the change and decay of the old creeds and motives there was no offset to supply their place.
    FRO1 11.478 5 We are all very sensible...of the feeling that churches are outgrown; that creeds are outgrown;...

creek, n. (1)

    PLT 12.15 17 We figure to ourselves Intellect as an ethereal sea...carrying its whole virtue into every creek and inlet which it bathes.

creeks, n. (1)

    Pow 6.56 8 ...health...runs over, and inundates the neighborhoods and creeks of other men's necessities.

creep, v. (12)

    Nat 1.20 6 ...[man] may creep into a corner...
    DSA 1.132 6 Already the long shadows of untimely oblivion creep over me...
    MR 1.254 15 Love will creep where it cannot go...
    Cir 2.319 25 This old age ought not to creep on a human mind.
    Nat2 3.170 15 The anciently-reported spells of these places [the woods] creep on us.
    ET6 5.103 23 ...[England] is no country for fainthearted people; don't creep about diffidently;...
    Boks 7.219 19 [The communications of the sacred books]...are living characters translatable into every tongue and form of life. I read them on lichens and bark;...they fly in birds, they creep in worms;...
    PerF 10.87 8 If I have not my own respect, I...had better creep into my grave.
    MMEm 10.422 17 ...the gray-headed god [Time] throws his shadows all around, and his slaves catch...at the halo he throws around poetry, or pebbles, bugs, or bubbles. Sometimes they climb, sometimes creep into the meanest holes...
    EWI 11.100 18 ...[the opponent of slavery] feels that none but a stupid or a malignant person can hesitate on a view of the facts. Under such an impulse...I had almost said, Creep into your grave, the universe has no need of you!
    EWI 11.123 13 ...we...have acquired the vices and virtues that belong to trade. We peddle...we creep in teams...to market, and for the sale of goods.
    FSLC 11.178 9 ...Though, feigning dwarfs, [Eternal Rights] crouch and creep,/ The strong they slay, the swift outstride;/...

creeping, adj. (4)

    Nat 1.60 8 [Idealism] beholds the whole circle of persons and things...not as painfully accumulated...in an aged creeping Past...
    GoW 4.280 1 The argument [in Goethe's Wilhelm Meister] is the passage of a democrat to the aristocracy, using both words in their best sense. And this passage is not made in any mean or creeping way...
    Wth 6.83 13 From air the creeping centuries drew/ The matted thicket low and wide/...
    Farm 7.144 25 The invisible and creeping air takes form and solid mass.

creeping, v. (3)

    Edc1 10.155 23 By and by the curiosity [of the creatures of nature] masters the fear, and they come swimming, creeping and flying towards [the naturalist];...
    FSLC 11.201 23 [Webster] must learn...that the obscure and private who have no voice and care for none, so long as things go well, but who feel the disgrace of the new legislation creeping like miasma into their homes... disown him...
    FRep 11.520 21 Parties...exhibit a surprising fugacity in creeping out of one snake-skin into another of equal ignominy and lubricity...

creep-mouse, adj. (1)

    Bhr 6.185 10 Here are creep-mouse manners, and thievish manners.

creeps, v. (4)

    Pt1 3.40 17 Nothing walks, or creeps, or grows, or exists, which must not in turn arise and walk before [the poet] as exponent of his meaning.
    Suc 7.303 15 ...the genial man is interested in every slipper that comes into the assembly. The passion, alike everywhere, creeps under the snows of Scandinavia, under the fires of the equator...
    Edc1 10.132 15 Day creeps after day, each full of facts...that we cannot enough despise...
    SovE 10.204 11 A sleep creeps over the great functions of man.

Cremona, Italy, adj. (1)

    QO 8.182 11 The Bible itself is like an old Cremona [violin];...

creole, adj. (1)

    Mrs1 3.140 15 Society loves creole natures...

crept, v. (6)

    LE 1.157 13 ...the diffidence of mankind in the soul has crept over the American mind;...
    Nat2 3.170 5 We have crept out of our close and crowded houses into the night and morning...
    ET2 5.26 15 ...we crept along through the floating drift of boards, logs and chips, which the rivers of Maine and New Brunswick pour into the sea after a freshet.
    SS 7.1 17 In caves and hollow trees [Seyd] crept/...
    MoL 10.247 21 ...no decay has crept over the spiritual force which gives bias and period to boundless Nature.
    CInt 12.115 14 ...if the intellectual interest be, as I hold, no hypocrisy, but the only reality,-then it behooves us...to give, among other possessions, the college into its hand casting down...every dignified blunder that has crept into its administration.

crescent, n. (2)

    Pt1 3.16 22 ...a crescent...on an old rag of bunting...shall make the blood tingle...
    PPo 8.244 9 Here is a poem on a melon, by Adsched of Meru:-Color, taste and smell, smaragdus, sugar and musk,/ Amber for the tongue, for the eye a picture rare,/ If you cut the fruit in slices, every slice a crescent fair,/ If you leave it whole, the full harvest moon is there./

crescents, n. (2)

    LT 1.260 13 Here is this great fact of Conservatism...which has planted its crosses, and crescents, and stars and stripes...over every rood of the planet...
    Dem1 10.10 16 ...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 have become crescents...

crescive, adj. (1)

    Exp 3.77 3 The great and crescive self...supplants all relative existence...

Creseide, Troilus and [Geof (1)

    ShP 4.198 3 ...the Romaunt of the Rose is only judicious translation from William of Lorris and John of Meung: Troilus and Creseide, from Lollius of Urbino...

crest, n. (2)

    ET6 5.111 14 A sea-shell should be the crest of England...
    Comc 8.170 24 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;...

crevice, n. (3)

    Exp 3.59 23 To fill the hour,--that is happiness; to fill the hour and leave no crevice for a repentance or an approval.
    ET13 5.215 2 [Prudent men say] Better find some niche or crevice in this mountain of stone which religious ages have quarried and carved...than attempt anything ridiculously and dangerously above your strength, like removing it.
    Pow 6.53 15 ...there is no chink or crevice in which [power] is not lodged...

crevices, n. (2)

    ET3 5.38 8 ...[England] is stuffed full, in all corners and crevices, with towns, towers, churches, villas, palaces, hospitals and charity-houses.
    CL 12.156 9 ...we are glad to see the world, and what amplitudes it has, of meadow, stream, upland, forest and sea, which yet are lanes and crevices to the great space in which the world shines like a cockboat in the sea.

crew, n. (5)

    SwM 4.131 16 ...a bird does not more readily weave its nest...than this seer of the souls [Swedenborg] substructs a new hell and pit...round every new crew of offenders.
    ET11 5.173 3 ...we take sides as we read for the loyal England, and King Charles's return to his right with his Cavaliers,--knowing what a heartless trifler he is, and what a crew of Godforsaken robbers they are.
    Cour 7.262 15 Lieutenant Ball...whispered, Courage, my dear boy! you will recover in a minute or so; I was just the same when I first went out in this way. It was as if an angel spoke to me. From that moment I was as fearless and as forward as the oldest of the boat's crew.
    OA 7.325 10 We learn the fatal compensations that wait on every act. Then, one after another, this riotous time-destroying crew [of passions] disappear.
    LLNE 10.355 6 As soon as our people got wind of the doctrine of Marriage held by this master [Fourier], it would fall at once into the hands of a lawless crew...

crews, n. (1)

    EWI 11.108 21 The shipmasters in [the slave] trade were...guilty of every barbarity to their own crews.

cribbed, v. (2)

    PI 8.37 26 [Mortal men] live cabined, cribbed, confined in a narrow and trivial lot...
    FRO1 11.478 21 ...in churches, every healthy and thoughtful mind finds itself in something less; it is checked, cribbed, confined.

Crichton, Admirable [James (1)

    Humb 11.457 3 Humboldt was one of those wonders of the world...like the Admirable Crichton...

Crichton, James, n. (1)

    NR 3.237 19 [Nature] would never get anything done, if she suffered Admirable Crichtons and universal geniuses.

Crichtons, Admirable, n. (1)

    NR 3.237 19 [Nature] would never get anything done, if she suffered Admirable Crichtons and universal geniuses.

cricket, n. (7)

    Ctr 6.142 24 Archery, cricket, gun and fishing-rod, horse and boat, are all educators, liberalizers;...
    Ctr 6.143 23 ...football, cricket...are lessons in the art of power...
    Elo2 8.129 1 It is this wise mixture of good drill in Latin grammar with good drill in cricket, boating and wrestling, that is the boast of English education...
    Edc1 10.139 15 [Boys'] elections at baseball or cricket are founded on merit...
    Thor 10.467 3 ...the turtle, frog, hyla and cricket, which make the banks [of the Concord River] vocal,-were all known to [Thoreau]...
    SHC 11.436 2 Our use [of Sleepy Hollow] will not displace the old tenants. The well-beloved birds will not sing one song the less...and in the grass, and by the pond, the locust, the cricket and the hyla, shall shrilly play.
    PLT 12.36 3 [Pan's] habit was to dwell in mountains, lying on the ground, tooting like a cricket in the sun...

cricket-ball, n. (1)

    Exp 3.49 25 We may have the sphere for our cricket-ball...

cricket-club, n. (1)

    PerF 10.81 24 ...if we fall in with a cricket-club and see the game masterly played, the best player is the first of men;...

crickets, n. (1)

    F 6.7 26 The cholera, the small-pox, have proved as mortal to some tribes as a frost to the crickets...

cried, v. (20)

    Nat 1.21 12 When Sir Harry Vane was dragged up the Tower-hill, sitting on a sled...one of the multitude cried out to him, You never sate on so glorious a seat!
    AmS 1.102 18 ...some ephemeral trade, or war, or man, is cried up by half mankind and cried down by the other half...
    AmS 1.102 19 ...some ephemeral trade, or war, or man, is cried up by half mankind and cried down by the other half...
    Con 1.296 12 ...Uranus cried, A new work, O Saturn! the old is not good again.
    Mrs1 3.151 8 Steep us, we cried [to women], in these influences, for days, for weeks...
    NMW 4.234 21 You are losing time, [Napoleon] cried;...
    ET7 5.123 8 The radical mob at Oxford cried after the tory Lord Eldon, There's old Eldon; cheer him; he never ratted.
    Pow 6.68 25 I remember a poor Malay cook on board a Liverpool packet, who, when the wind blew a gale, could not contain his joy; Blow! he cried, me do tell you, blow!
    CbW 6.253 5 They were the fools who cried against me...wrote the Chevalier de Boufflers to Grimm;...
    Suc 7.293 21 It is the dulness of the multitude that they cannot see the house in the ground-plan; the working, in the model of the projector. Whilst it is a thought...it is cried down, it is a chimera;...
    OA 7.313 1 Once more, the old man cried, ye clouds,/ Airy turrets purple-piled,/ Which once my infancy beguiled,/ Beguile me with the wonted spell./
    Chr2 10.97 9 The poor Jews of the wilderness cried: Let not the Lord speak to us; let Moses speak to us.
    MoL 10.254 1 [Pytheas] came to the poet Pindar and wished him to write an ode in his praise, and inquired what was the price of a poem. Pindar replied that he should give him one talent, about a thousand dollars of our money. A talent! cried Pytheas, why, for so much money I can erect a statue of bronze in the temple.
    Plu 10.299 12 ...[Plutarch] is...enough a man of the world to give even the Devil his due, and would have hugged Robert Burns, when he cried;-O wad ye tak' a thought and mend!/
    LLNE 10.367 14 Don't you see, [Fourier] cried, that nothing so delights the young Caucasian child as dirt?
    EWI 11.114 26 On the night of the 31st July [1834], [the negroes of the West Indies] met everywhere at their churches and chapels, and at midnight...on their knees, the silent, weeping assembly became men;...they cried, they sung, they prayed...
    EWI 11.126 21 ...the [slave] trade could not be abolished whilst this hungry West Indian market...cried, More, more, bring me a hundred a day;...
    JBS 11.276 9 Then angrily the people cried,/ The loss outweighs the profit far;/ Our goods suffice us as they are:/ We will not have them tried./
    MAng1 12.226 14 ...one day riding over [the Pons Palatinus] on horseback, with his friend Vasari, [Michelangelo] cried, George, this bridge trembles under us;...
    ACri 12.287 26 The sans-culottes at Versailles cried out, Let our little Mother Mirabeau speak!

criers, n. (1)

    PPh 4.55 9 ...[Plato] fortified himself by drawing all his illustrations from sources disdained by orators and polite conversers;...from cooks and criers;...

cries, n. (2)

    Chr1 3.98 22 ...rectitude is a perpetual victory, celebrated not by cries of joy but by serenity...
    FRep 11.517 13 ...the cries of children and debt are always holding the masses hard to the essential duties.

cries, v. (11)

    Tran 1.348 11 What right, cries the good world, has the man of genius to retreat from work, and indulge himself?
    Tran 1.351 3 We [Transcendentalists] perish of rest and rust: but we do not like your work. Then, says the world, show me your own. We have none. What will you do, then? cries the world.
    PPh 4.62 13 ...the Asia in [Plato's] mind was first heartily honored...and now, refreshed and empowered by this worship, the instinct of Europe, namely, culture, returns; and he cries, Yet things are knowable!
    Civ 7.17 14 Witness the mute all hail/ The joyful traveller gives, when on the verge/ Of craggy Indian wilderness he hears/ From a log cabin stream Beethoven's notes/ On the piano, played with master's hand./ Well done! he cries; the bear is kept at bay/...
    Art2 7.37 20 The child not only suffers, but cries;...
    PPo 8.263 8 What need, cries the mystic Feisi, of palaces and tapestry?
    Chr2 10.119 4 [Growth] is not dangerous, any more than the mother's withdrawing her hands from the tottering babe, at his first walk across the nursery-floor: the child fears and cries, but achieves the feat...
    Edc1 10.158 18 ...if the boy [in your school] stops you in your speech, cries out that you are wrong and sets you right, hug him!
    Supl 10.164 9 Controvert [the man with the superlative temperament's] opinion and he cries Persecution!...
    War 11.170 25 The next season...the party this man votes with have an appropriation to carry through Congress: instantly he wags his head the other way, and cries, Havoc and war!
    II 12.73 13 But how, cries my reformer, is this to be done? How could I do it, who have wife and family to keep? The question is most reasonable,- yet proves that you are not the man to do the feat.

Criffel, Mt., Scotland, n. (1)

    ET1 5.18 4 We [Emerson and Carlyle] went out to walk over long hills, and looked at Criffel...

Crillon, Louis de Balbes de (1)

    QO 8.190 19 The Comte de Crillon said one day to M. d'Allonville...If the universe and I professed one opinion and M. Necker expressed a contrary one, I should be at once convinced that the universe and I were mistaken.

crime, n. (97)

    Tran 1.336 15 Afterwards, when Emilia charges him with the crime, Othello exclaims, You heard her say herself it was not I./
    Tran 1.336 24 Jacobi...remarks that there is no crime but has sometimes been a virtue.
    YA 1.375 26 Difference of opinion is the one crime which kings never forgive.
    YA 1.389 9 Men complain of their suffering, and not of the crime.
    SR 2.88 5 Especially [the cultivated man] hates what he has if he see that it...came to him by...crime;...
    Comp 2.102 18 Every secret is told, every crime is punished...in silence and certainty.
    Comp 2.103 11 Crime and punishment grow out of one stem.
    Comp 2.116 3 Commit a crime, and the earth is made of glass.
    Comp 2.116 4 Commit a crime, and it seems as if a coat of snow fell on the ground, such as reveals in the woods the track of every partridge...
    Fdsp 2.211 14 There is at least this satisfaction in crime...you can speak to your accomplice on even terms.
    Hsm1 2.249 14 ...war, plague, cholera, famine, indicate a certain ferocity in nature, which, as it had its inlet by human crime, must have its outlet by human suffering.
    Cir 2.319 7 ...old age seems the only disease; all others run into this one. We call it by many names,--fever, intemperance, insanity, stupidity and crime;...
    Exp 3.78 12 ...men never speak of crime as lightly as they think;...
    Exp 3.79 1 No man at last believes...that the crime in him is as black as in the felon.
    Exp 3.79 3 ...there is no crime to the intellect.
    Exp 3.79 6 It is worse than a crime, it is a blunder, said Napoleon, speaking the language of the intellect.
    Pol1 3.210 19 ...[the conservative party] brands no crime...
    NR 3.235 15 The reason of idleness and of crime is the deferring of our hopes.
    PPh 4.76 3 ...expounding...the remorse of crime...[Plato] is literary, and never otherwise.
    NMW 4.231 21 Nothing has been more simple than my elevation [said Bonaparte], 't is in vain to ascribe it to intrigue or crime;...
    GoW 4.276 16 Goethe would have no word that does not cover a thing. The same measure will still serve [with the Devil]: I have never heard of any crime which I might not have committed.
    ET10 5.153 24 Nelson said, The want of fortune is a crime which I can never get over.
    ET11 5.194 1 Most of [the English noblemen] are only chargeable with idleness, which, because it squanders such vast power of benefit, has the mischief of crime.
    ET13 5.227 8 Brougham...said, How will the reverend bishops...be able to express their due abhorrence of the crime of perjury...
    Pow 6.65 16 [The Hoosiers and the Suckers] see, against the unanimous declarations of the people, how much crime the people will bear;...
    Pow 6.67 5 There was no crime which [Boniface] did not or could not commit.
    Wth 6.102 18 In California, the country where [the dollar] grew,--what would it buy? A few years since, it would buy a shanty, dysentery, hunger, bad company and crime.
    Wth 6.103 17 A dollar...is worth more...in a temperate, schooled, law-abiding community than in some sink of crime...
    Wth 6.105 2 If a talent is anywhere born into the world, the community of nations is enriched; and much more with a new degree of probity. The expense of crime...is so far stopped.
    Wth 6.105 4 In Europe, crime is observed to increase or abate with the price of bread.
    Wth 6.110 19 The cost of the crime and the expense of courts and of prisons we must bear...
    Wth 6.112 18 The crime which bankrupts men and states is job-work;...
    Ctr 6.134 10 The preservation of the species was a point of such necessity that nature has secured it at all hazards by immensely overloading the passion, at the risk of perpetual crime and disorder.
    Wsp 6.218 3 ...the cure of crime, is love.
    WD 7.165 21 I believe they have ceased to publish the Newgate Calendar and the Pirate's Own Book since the family newspapers...have quite superseded them in the freshness as well as the horror of their records of crime.
    Boks 7.213 5 We must have...some swing and verge for the creative power...driving ardent natures to insanity and crime if it do not find vent.
    Suc 7.290 19 I hate this shallow Americanism which hopes...to learn... power through...wealth by fraud. They think they have got it, but they have got...a crime which calls for another crime...
    Suc 7.290 20 I hate this shallow Americanism which hopes...to learn... power through...wealth by fraud. They think they have got it, but they have got...a crime which calls for another crime...
    PPo 8.235 1 Go transmute crime to wisdom, learn to stem/ The vice of Japhet by the thought of Shem./
    Grts 8.303 27 ...don't inculpate yourself in the local, social or national crime...
    Grts 8.315 5 Depth of intellect relieves even the ink of crime with a fringe of light.
    Aris 10.52 5 To a right aristocracy...everything will be permitted and pardoned,-gaming, drinking, fighting, luxury. These are the heads of party...everything short of infamous crime will pass.
    Aris 10.55 15 ...the thought has...no murder, no envy, no crime...
    Chr2 10.114 5 The Church...clings to the miraculous...which has even an immoral tendency, as one sees in Greek, Indian and Catholic legends, which are used to gloze every crime.
    Edc1 10.133 22 It is ominous, a presumption of crime, that this word Education has so cold, so hopeless a sound.
    Supl 10.174 10 Children and thoughtless people...like to talk of a marriage, of a bankruptcy, of a debt, of a crime.
    SovE 10.189 24 No matter how you seem to fatten on a crime, that can never be good for the bee which is bad for the hive.
    SovE 10.191 13 Nature is not so helpless but it can rid itself at last of every crime.
    SovE 10.193 14 Others may well suffer in the hideous picture of crime with which earth is filled...
    SovE 10.197 24 ...if I violate myself, if I commit a crime, the lightning loiters by the speed of retribution...
    SovE 10.210 6 ...there are the new conventions of social science, before which the questions of...the treatment of crime...come for a hearing.
    Prch 10.232 23 ...the gigantic evils which seem to us so mischievous and so incurable will at last end themselves and rid the world of their presence, as all crime sooner or later must.
    LLNE 10.351 14 Poverty shall be abolished [by Fourierism]; deformity, stupidity and crime shall be no more.
    EzRy 10.393 25 Was a man a sot...or suspected of some hidden crime...the good pastor [Ezra Ripley] knew his way straight to that point...
    MMEm 10.429 27 If one could choose, and without crime be gibbeted,- were it not altogether better than the long drooping away by age without mentality or devotion?
    Thor 10.478 22 [Thoreau] had a disgust at crime...
    HDC 11.82 13 [Concord] has suffered neither from war, nor pestilence, nor famine, nor flagrant crime.
    LVB 11.93 5 ...a crime [the relocation of the Cherokees] is projected that confounds our understandings by its magnitude...
    LVB 11.93 7 ...a crime [the relocation of the Cherokees] is projected that confounds our understandings by its magnitude,-a crime that really deprives us as well as the Cherokees of a country?...
    LVB 11.95 6 ...the steps of this crime [the relocation of the Cherokees] follow each other so fast...that the millions of virtuous citizens...have no place to interpose...
    EWI 11.110 7 The [English] assailants of slavery had early agreed to limit their political action on this subject to the abolition of the trade, but Granville Sharpe...felt constrained to record his protest against the limitation, declaring that slavery was as much a crime against the Divine law as the slave-trade.
    EWI 11.118 10 We sometimes say...give [the planter] a machine that will yield him as much money as the slaves, and he will thankfully let them go. He has no love of slavery, but he wants luxury, and he will pay even this price of crime and danger for it.
    EWI 11.130 15 ...if the shipmaster fails to pay the costs of this official arrest and the board in jail, these citizens [free negroes] are to be sold for slaves, to pay that expense. This man, these men, I see, and no law to save them. Fellow citizens, this crime will not be hushed up any longer.
    EWI 11.132 19 The Congress should instruct the President to send to those ports of Charleston, Savannah and New Orleans such orders and such force as should release, forthwith, all such citizens of Massachusetts as were holden in prison without the allegation of any crime...
    EWI 11.147 14 There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always...making all crime mean and ugly.
    FSLC 11.185 11 Because of this preoccupied mind, the whole wealth and power of Boston...are thrown into the scale of crime...
    FSLC 11.187 12 Here is a statute [the Fugitive Slave Law] which enacts the crime of kidnapping...
    FSLC 11.187 13 Here is a statute [the Fugitive Slave Law] which enacts the crime of kidnapping,-a crime on one footing with arson and murder.
    FSLC 11.191 3 ...if any human law should allow or enjoin us to commit a crime ([Blackstone's] instance is murder), we are bound to transgress that human law;...
    FSLC 11.194 12 ...the womb conceives and the breasts give suck to thousands and millions of hairy babes formed not in the image of your statute, but in the image of the Universe;...necessitated to express first or last every feeling of the heart. ... You can commit no crime, for they are created in their sentiments conscious of and hostile to it;...
    FSLC 11.195 9 By law of Congress September, 1850, it is a high crime and misdemeanor, punishable with fine and imprisonment, to resist the reenslaving a man on the coast of America.
    FSLC 11.195 17 ...the crime which the second law [the Fugitive Slave Law] ordains is greater than the crime which the first law forbids under penalty of the gibbet.
    FSLC 11.195 18 ...the crime which the second law [the Fugitive Slave Law] ordains is greater than the crime which the first law forbids under penalty of the gibbet.
    FSLC 11.195 19 ...it is a greater crime to reenslave a man who has shown himself fit for freedom, than to enslave him at first, when it might be pretended to be a mitigation of his lot as a captive in war.
    FSLC 11.196 5 [The Fugitive Slave Law] offers a bribe in its own clauses for the consummation of the crime.
    FSLC 11.197 15 Great is the mischief of a legal crime.
    FSLC 11.206 18 ...he who writes a crime into the statute-book digs under the foundations of the Capitol to plant there a powder-magazine...
    FSLC 11.212 3 The great game of the government has been to win the sanction of Massachusetts to the crime [the Fugitive Slave Law].
    FSLC 11.212 8 The behavior of Boston was the reverse of what it should have been: it was supple and officious, and it put itself into the base attitude of pander to the crime [the Fugitive Slave Law].
    FSLN 11.229 12 The way in which the country was dragged to consent to this [Fugitive Slave Law]...was the darkest passage in the history. It showed...that we could not be shocked by crime.
    FSLN 11.236 12 ...our education is...to know...that divine sentiments which are always soliciting us...are an offset to a Universe of suffering and crime;...
    FSLN 11.237 8 The end for which man was made is not crime in any form...
    FSLN 11.237 15 A man who commits a crime defeats the end of his existence.
    AsSu 11.250 23 ...the third crime [Sumner] stands charged with, is, that his speeches were written before they were spoken;...
    AKan 11.259 8 I do not know any story so gloomy as the politics of this country for the last twenty years, centralizing ever more manifestly round one spring, and that a vast crime...
    AKan 11.259 13 I do not know any story so gloomy as the politics of this country for the last twenty years, centralizing ever more manifestly round one spring, and that a vast crime...one crime always present...
    TPar 11.290 19 Two days...the days of the rendition of Sims and Burns, made the occasion of [Theodore Parker's] most remarkable discourses. He kept nothing back. In terrible earnest he denounced the public crime...
    ACiv 11.306 2 We fancy that the endless debate, emphasized by the crime and by the cannons of this war, has brought the free states to some conviction that it can never go well with us whilst this mischief of slavery remains in our politics...
    ACiv 11.309 21 We want a state of things in which crime shall not pay.
    EPro 11.320 8 ...[the Emancipation Proclamation] relieves our race once for all of its crime and false position.
    FRep 11.541 2 We want a state of things in which crime will not pay;...
    Mem 12.92 17 You say, I can never think of some act of neglect, of selfishness, or of passion without pain. Well, that is as it should be. That is the police of the Universe: the angels are set to punish you, so long as you are capable of such crime.
    Mem 12.92 19 ...in the history of character the day comes when you are incapable of such crime [of neglect, selfishness, passion].
    CInt 12.121 23 Here are still perverse millions full of passion, crime and blood.
    CW 12.178 4 I admire in trees the creation of property so clean of tears, or crime, or even care.
    Bost 12.208 8 No doubt all manner of vices can be found in [Boston], as in every city; infinite meanness, scarlet crime.
    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.

crimen, n. (1)

    Fdsp 2.211 16 Crimen quos inquinat, aequat.

crimes, n. (26)

    Con 1.314 26 The Friar Bernard lamented in his cell on Mount Cenis the crimes of mankind...
    SR 2.74 10 ...the bold sensualist will use the name of philosophy to gild his crimes.
    Cir 2.317 5 Forgive his crimes, forgive his virtues too,/ Those smaller faults, half converts to the right./
    Cir 2.317 23 ...O circular philosopher, I hear some reader exclaim, you... would fain teach us that if we are true...our crimes may be lively stones out of which we shall construct the temple of the true God!
    Exp 3.78 24 Especially the crimes that spring from love seem right and fair from the actor's point of view...
    NR 3.235 17 The reason of idleness and of crime is the deferring of our hopes. Whilst we are waiting we beguile the time...with eating and with crimes.
    MoS 4.182 1 These particular griefs and crimes are the foliage and fruit of such trees as we see growing.
    NMW 4.231 18 They charge me, [Bonaparte] said, with the commission of great crimes: men of my stamp do not commit crimes.
    NMW 4.231 19 They charge me, [Bonaparte] said, with the commission of great crimes: men of my stamp do not commit crimes.
    NMW 4.231 26 I have always marched with the opinion of great masses and with events [said Bonaparte]. Of what use then would crimes be to me?
    ET4 5.63 1 Alfieri said the crimes of Italy were the proof of the superiority of the stock;...
    ET4 5.63 5 The crimes recorded in [English] calendars leave nothing to be desired in the way of cold malignity.
    ET5 5.97 19 The crimes [in England] are factitious;...
    Wth 6.110 18 ...it turns out that the largest proportion of crimes are committed by foreigners.
    Ctr 6.133 6 The sufferers [from egotism]...reveal their indictable crimes...
    Wsp 6.211 20 ...the same gentlemen who agree to discountenance the private rogue will be forward to show civilities and marks of respect to the public one; and no amount of evidence of his crimes will prevent them giving him ovations...
    Civ 7.23 23 We see...the crimes of a single individual marked and punished at the distance of half the earth.
    Grts 8.315 6 We perhaps look on [intellect's] crimes as experiments of a universal student;...
    Dem1 10.19 6 It would be easy in the political history of every time to furnish examples of this irregular success, men having a force which without virtue...yet makes them prevailing. ... The crimes they commit...are strangely overlooked...
    Aris 10.63 16 Let [the man of honor] accept the position of armed neutrality, abhorring the crimes of the Chartist...
    LLNE 10.328 4 In the law courts, crimes of fraud have taken the place of crimes of force.
    HDC 11.84 4 I find [in Concord annals]...no unnatural crimes.
    EWI 11.103 7 For the negro...no security from the humors, none from the crimes, none from the appetites of his master...
    EWI 11.105 3 It became plain to all men, the more this business was looked into, that the crimes and cruelties of the slave-traders and slave-owners could not be overstated.
    FSLN 11.233 7 You relied on the constitution. It has not the word slave in it; and very good argument has shown that it would not warrant the crimes that are done under it;...
    PLT 12.45 1 If we converse with low things, with crimes, with mischances, we are not compromised.

criminal, adj. (5)

    DSA 1.135 27 ...any complaisance would be criminal which told you...that the faith of Christ is preached.
    Comp 2.100 13 If you make the criminal code sanguinary, juries will not convict.
    ET4 5.64 11 Of the [English] criminal statutes, Sir Samuel Romilly said, I have examined the codes of all nations, and ours is the worst...
    SlHr 10.442 23 ...[Samuel Hoar]...refused very large sums offered him to undertake the defence of criminal persons.
    War 11.168 1 ...chiefly it is said,-Either accept this principle [of peace]... and meet its absurd consequences; or else...give up the principle, and take that limit...which distinguishes offensive war as criminal, defensive war as just.

criminal, n. (2)

    Comp 2.121 16 ...the criminal adheres to his vice and contumacy...
    JBB 11.272 6 If judges cannot find law enough to maintain the sovereignty of the state, and to protect the life and freedom of every inhabitant not a criminal, it is idle to compliment them as learned and venerable.

criminals, n. (4)

    MoS 4.185 17 ...although society seems to be delivered over from the hands of one set of criminals into the hands of another set of criminals, as fast as the government is changed...yet, general ends are somehow answered.
    MoS 4.185 18 ...although society seems to be delivered over from the hands of one set of criminals into the hands of another set of criminals, as fast as the government is changed...yet, general ends are somehow answered.
    ET4 5.64 10 The torture of criminals, and the rack for extorting evidence, were slowly disused [in England].
    FRep 11.541 11 Humanity asks...that democratic institutions shall be more thoughtful...for the welfare of sick and unable persons, and serious care of criminals...

crimination, n. (1)

    EWI 11.135 10 ...I do not wish to darken the hours of this day by crimination;...

crimson, adj. (2)

    Nat 1.17 6 The long slender bars of cloud float like fishes in the sea of crimson light.
    DSA 1.119 13 The cool night...prepares [man's] eyes again for the crimson dawn.

crimson, n. (1)

    Suc 7.298 16 [The city boy in the October woods] is the king he dreamed he was; he walks...through bowers of crimson, porphyry and topaz...

cringe, v. (2)

    F 6.23 20 [Man's] sound relation to these facts is...not to cringe to them.
    SA 8.82 10 The attitudes of children are gentle, persuasive, royal...before they have learned to cringe.

cripple, n. (6)

    Nat 1.33 18 ...A cripple in the right way will beat a racer in the wrong;...
    NR 3.227 27 ...[a man with fine traits] cannot come near without appearing a cripple.
    ET18 5.304 12 [The English] mind is in a state of arrested development,--a divine cripple like Vulcan;...
    SS 7.7 5 ...no man is fit for society who has fine traits. At a distance he is admired, but bring him hand to hand, he is a cripple.
    Edc1 10.152 6 Alas for the cripple Practice when it seeks to come up with the bird Theory, which flies before it.
    EzRy 10.391 6 Ingratitude and meanness in [Ezra Ripley's] beneficiaries did not wear out his compassion; he bore the insult, and the next day his basket for the beggar, his horse and chaise for the cripple, were at their door.

cripple, v. (2)

    MR 1.243 23 Is our housekeeping sacred and honorable? Does it raise and inspire us, or does it cripple us instead?
    Trag 12.414 24 How fast we forget the blow that threatened to cripple us.

crippled, v. (2)

    ET4 5.63 22 Medwin, in the Life of Shelley, relates that at a military school they rolled up a young man in a snowball, and left him in his room...and crippled him for life.
    Art2 7.43 16 ...in each [of the fine arts] the creating intellect is crippled in some degree by the stuff on which it works.

cripples, n. (3)

    Art1 2.363 18 ...[art] is impatient...of making cripples and monsters...
    Wsp 6.238 12 The Spirit does not love cripples and malformations.
    SovE 10.195 19 Cripples and invalids, we doubt not there are bounding fawns in the forest...

cripples, v. (3)

    Nat 1.37 20 ...debt...which so cripples and disheartens a great spirit...is a preceptor whose lessons cannot be foregone...
    ET15 5.268 7 The [London] Times never...cripples itself by apology for the absence of the editor...
    Insp 8.289 3 What untunes is as bad as what cripples or stuns me.

crises, n. (10)

    Nat 1.75 20 It were a wise inquiry...to compare...especially at remarkable crises in life, our daily history with the rise and progress of ideas in the mind.
    DSA 1.149 17 So it is in rugged crises...that the angel is shown.
    Hist 2.4 24 ...the crises of [a man's] life refer to national crises.
    Hsm1 2.262 11 ...whoso is heroic will always find crises to try his edge.
    ET5 5.88 6 ...it must be owned [the English] are capable of larger views; but the indulgence...costs great crises...
    ET10 5.167 20 ...in these crises [of political enconomy] all are ruined except such as are proper individuals...
    ET10 5.169 13 What befalls from the violence of financial crises, befalls daily in the violence of artificial legislation.
    SlHr 10.442 27 ...in many a town it was asked, What does Squire Hoar think of this? and in political crises, he was entreated to write a few lines to make known to good men in Chelmsford, or Marlborough, or Shirley, what that opinion was.
    War 11.169 23 ...as far as [the charge of absurdity on the extreme peace doctrine] respects individual action in difficult and extreme cases, I will say, such cases seldom or never occur to the good and just man; nor are we careful to say, or even to know, what in such crises is to be done.
    ALin 11.333 7 ...[good humor] is to a man of severe labor, in anxious and exhausting crises, the natural resorative...

crisis, n. (29)

    DSA 1.149 7 There are...men to whom a crisis...comes graceful and beloved as a bride.
    LE 1.186 2 The hour of that choice [between the world and intellect] is the crisis of your history...
    Comp 2.121 18 ...[the criminal]...does not come to a crisis or judgment anywhere in visible nature.
    Lov1 2.187 27 ...I do not wonder at the emphasis with which the heart prophesies this crisis from early infancy...
    Mrs1 3.131 20 A sainted soul is always elegant, and, if it will, passes unchallenged into the most guarded ring. But so will Jock the teamster pass, in some crisis that brings him thither, and find favor, as long as his head is not giddy with the new circumstance...
    GoW 4.263 21 A new thought or a crisis of passion apprises [the writer] that all that he has yet learned and written is exoteric...
    ET6 5.106 17 I happened to arrive in England at the moment of a commercial crisis.
    ET10 5.168 26 It is rare to find a merchant who knows why a crisis occurs in trade...
    ET19 5.314 3 ...if the courage of England goes with the chances of a commercial crisis, I will go back to the capes of Massachusetts and my own Indian stream, and say to my countrymen, the old race are all gone...
    Art2 7.49 26 Not [the orator's] will, but...the great connection and crisis of events, thunder in the ear of the crowd.
    Elo1 7.92 13 In transcendent eloquence, there was ever some crisis in affairs, such as could deeply engage the man to the cause he pleads...
    DL 7.124 1 To each occurs, soon after the age of puberty, some event or society or way of living, which becomes the crisis of life...
    WD 7.164 3 ...the new man always finds himself standing on the brink of chaos, always in a crisis.
    SA 8.99 10 The way to have large occasional views, as in a political or social crisis, is to have large habitual views.
    Elo2 8.119 1 Go into an assembly well excited, some angry political meeting on the eve of a crisis.
    Elo2 8.124 8 ...in your struggles with the world, should a crisis ever occur when even friendship may deem it prudent to desert you...seek refuge...in the precepts and example of Him whose law is love...
    PC 8.227 25 To know in each social crisis how men feel in Kansas, in California, the wise man waits for no mails, reads no telegrams.
    Schr 10.261 2 The Athenians took an oath, on a certain crisis in their affairs, to esteem wheat, the vine and the olive the bounds of Attica.
    War 11.172 9 The attractiveness of war shows one thing...this namely, the conviction of man universally, that...that [a man]...should be himself a kingdom and a state;...really poorer if government, law and order went by the board;...because he...never needs to ask another what in any crisis it behooves him to do.
    FSLC 11.182 15 The crisis [over the Fugitive Slave Law] had the illuminating power of a sheet of lightning at midnight.
    FSLC 11.185 23 The crisis [over the Fugitive Slave Law] is interesting as it shows the self-protecting nature of the world and of Divine laws.
    TPar 11.290 9 [Theodore Parker's] ministry fell on a political crisis also;...
    ACiv 11.302 6 In this national crisis, it is not argument that we want...
    ACiv 11.302 20 [Government] has, of necessity, in any crisis of the state, the absolute powers of a dictator.
    Koss 11.401 7 ...when the crisis arrives it will find us all instructed beforehand in the rights and wrongs of Hungary...
    Humb 11.459 1 I know that we have been accustomed to think...that in a crisis no plan-maker was to be found in the [German] empire;...
    FRep 11.516 8 ...[immigrants] find this country just passing through a great crisis in its history...
    EurB 12.367 17 Early in life, at a crisis it is said in his private affairs, [Wordsworth] made his election between assuming and defending some legal rights, with the chances of wealth and a position in the world, and the inward promptings of his heavenly genius;...
    PPr 12.386 12 Every object [in Carlyle] attitudinizes...and instead of the common earth and sky, we have a Martin's Creation or Judgment Day. A crisis has always arrived which requires a deus ex machina.

criterion, n. (1)

    MLit 12.314 20 ...the criterion which discriminates these two habits [of subjectiveness] in the poet's mind is the tendency of his composition;...

critic, n. (19)

    Art1 2.358 20 ...the individual in whom simple tastes and susceptibility to all the great human influences overpower the accidents of a local and special culture, is the best critic of art.
    Chr1 3.106 20 How captivating is [children's] devotion to their favorite books...as feeling that they have a stake in that book;...and especially the total solitude of the critic, the Patmos of thought from which he writes, in unconsciousness of any eyes that shall ever read this writing.
    SwM 4.111 8 ...[Swedenborg] has at last found a pupil in Mr. Wilkinson...a philosophic critic...
    ET14 5.247 26 The critic [in England] hides his skepticism under the English cant of practical.
    ET14 5.248 6 It is very certain...that if Lord Bacon had been only the sensualist his critic pretends, he would never have acquired the fame which now entitles him to this patronage.
    Ctr 6.157 23 ...the poor little poet hearkens only to [praise], and rejects the censure as proving incapacity in the critic.
    Ctr 6.158 5 As soon as [the poet] sides with his critic against himself, with joy, he is a cultivated man.
    Ill 6.313 5 ...we rightly accuse the critic who destroys too many illusions.
    Suc 7.307 21 There is no such critic and beggar as this terrible Soul.
    PI 8.37 17 The critic destroys...
    PI 8.56 11 The critic, the philosopher, is a failed poet.
    Elo2 8.114 15 ...you may find [the orator] in some lowly Bethel, by the seaside...a man who never knew the looking-glass or the critic;...
    QO 8.192 26 Whoever expresses to us a just thought makes ridiculous the pains of the critic who should tell him where such a word had been said before.
    PC 8.217 11 Culture implies all which gives the mind possession of its own powers; as languages to the critic...
    Chr2 10.104 21 The moral sentiment is the perpetual critic on these [religious] forms...
    Plu 10.296 19 ...recently, there has been a remarkable revival, in France, in the taste for Plutarch and his contemporaries; led...by the eminent critic Sainte-Beuve.
    Thor 10.474 24 [Thoreau] was a good reader and critic...
    MAng1 12.217 19 The nature of the beautiful-we gladly borrow the language of Moritz, a German critic-consists herein, that because the understanding in the presence of the beautiful, cannot ask, Why is it beautiful? for that reason it is so.
    ACri 12.305 17 Criticism is an art when it...looks at...the essential quality of [the poet's] mind. Then the critic is poet.

Critic, Supreme, n. (1)

    OS 2.268 18 The Supreme Critic on the errors of the past and the present... is that great nature in which we rest...

critical, adj. (28)

    AmS 1.109 16 We, it seems, are critical;...
    Tran 1.341 3 ...many intelligent and religious persons...betake themselves to a certain solitary and critical way of living...
    Pt1 3.14 10 Here we find ourselves suddenly not in a critical speculation but in a holy place...
    Exp 3.47 22 ...in this great society wide lying around us, a critical analysis would find very few spontaneous actions.
    Exp 3.59 17 Life is not intellectual or critical, but sturdy.
    Chr1 3.100 7 Our houses ring with laughter and personal and critical gossip, but it helps little.
    Chr1 3.115 3 When at last that which we have always longed for [a fine character] is arrived...then to be critical...argues a vulgarity that seems to shut the doors of heaven.
    GoW 4.272 17 This reflective and critical wisdom makes the poem [Goethe's Helena] more truly the flower of this time.
    GoW 4.286 26 ...especially his relations to remarkable minds and to critical epochs of thought:--these [Goethe] magnifies.
    ET1 5.4 6 ...my narrow and desultory reading had inspired the wish to see the faces of three or four writers,--Coleridge, Wordsworth, Landor, DeQuincey, and the latest and strongest contributor to the critical journals, Carlyle;...
    ET1 5.21 15 I inquired if [Wordsworth] had read Carlyle's critical articles and translations.
    ET11 5.185 9 If one asks, in the critical spirit of the day, what service this class [English nobility] have rendered?--uses appear, or they would have perished long ago.
    WD 7.175 18 One of the illusions is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive hour.
    Boks 7.217 24 Every good fable...every passage of love, and even philosophy and science, when they...are not detached and critical, have the imaginative element.
    QO 8.196 9 ...Cardinal de Retz, at a critical moment in the Parliament of Paris, described himself in an extemporary Latin sentence...
    Prch 10.235 20 The inevitable course of remark for us, when we meet each other for meditation on life and duty, is...simply the celebration of the power and beneficence amid which and by which we live, not critical, but affirmative.
    Plu 10.296 20 M. Octave Greard, in a critical work on [Plutarch's] Morals, has carefully corrected the popular legends...
    HDC 11.70 10 ...we think it our duty, at this critical time of our public affairs, to return our hearty thanks to the town of Boston...
    HDC 11.83 16 I hope that History [of Concord] will not long remain unknown. The author [Lemuel Shattuck]...has wisely enriched his pages with the resolutions, addresses and instructions to its agents, which...at critical periods, the town has voted.
    War 11.152 19 War...brings men into such swift and close collision in critical moments that man measures man.
    FSLC 11.203 12 [Webster] indulged occasionally in excellent expression of the known feeling of the New England people [on slavery]: but...he omitted to throw himself into the movement in those critical moments when his leadership would have turned the scale.
    FSLN 11.224 8 Four years ago to-night, on one of those high critical moments in history...Mr. Webster, most unexpectedly, threw his whole weight on the side of Slavery...
    TPar 11.288 11 It will not be...in the state-house, the proclamations of governors, with their failing virtue-failing them at critical moments-that coming generations will study what really befell [in Boston];...
    EdAd 11.385 20 We have taste, critical talent, good professors, good commentators, but a lack of male energy.
    Milt1 12.250 21 Though it evinces learning and critical skill, yet, as an historical argument, [Milton's Defence of the English People] cannot be valued with similar disquisitions of Robertson and Hallam...
    Milt1 12.253 12 ...it would be great injustice to Milton to consider him as enjoying merely a critical reputation.
    EurB 12.370 17 A critical friend of ours affirms that the vice which bereaved modern painters of their power is the ambition to begin where their fathers ended;...
    EurB 12.378 18 We must...adjourn the rest of our critical chapter to a more convenient season.

Critical Dictionary, n. (1)

    Plu 10.321 9 I hope the Commission of the Philological Society in London, charged with the duty of preparing a Critical Dictionary, will not overlook these volumes [the 1718 edition of Plutarch]...

critically, adv. (4)

    Mrs1 3.147 27 If the individuals who compose the purest circles of aristocracy in Europe...should pass in review, in such manner as that we could at leisure and critically inspect their behavior, we might find no gentleman and no lady;...
    ET12 5.206 27 ...it is certain that a Senior Classic [at Eton]...is critically learned in all the humanities.
    DL 7.123 22 ...every man is provided in his thought with a measure of man which he applies to every passenger. Unhappily, not one in many thousands comes up to the stature and proportions of the model. Neither does the measurer himself;...neither do...the heroes of the race. When he inspects them critically, he discovers that their aims are low...
    Comc 8.162 24 The victim who has just received the discharge [of wit], if in a solemn company, has the air very much of a stout vessel which has just shipped a heavy sea; and though it does not split it, the poor bark is for the moment critically staggered.

criticise, v. (5)

    NR 3.241 22 If you criticise a fine genius, the odds are that you are out of your reckoning...
    Ctr 6.158 20 ...[Bonaparte] could criticise a play...and give a just opinion.
    DL 7.108 8 It is easier...to criticise [a territory's] polity, books, art, than to come to the persons and dwellings of men and read their character...
    DL 7.113 10 ...is there any calamity...that more invokes the best good will to remove it, than this?...to be compelled to criticise;...
    Grts 8.311 24 [The scholar's] courage is to...criticise Kant and Swedenborg...

criticised, v. (1)

    EWI 11.114 3 ...every provision of the bill [for emancipation in the West Indies] was criticised with severity.

criticising, v. (1)

    NR 3.242 4 ...whilst I fancied I was criticising [a man], I was censuring or rather terminating my own soul.

criticism, n. (104)

    Nat 1.3 3 [Our age] writes biographies, histories, and criticism.
    Nat 1.35 13 Every scripture is to be interpreted by the same spirit which gave it forth, - is the fundamental law of criticism.
    Nat 1.60 16 [The soul] sees something more important in Christianity than... the niceties of criticism;...
    LE 1.164 4 We resent all criticism which denies us anything that lies in our line of advance.
    MN 1.211 12 If the theory has receded out of modern criticism, it is because we have not had poets.
    MR 1.247 9 I do not wish to push my criticism on the state of things around me to that extravagant mark that shall compel me to suicide...
    LT 1.282 11 ...the Religion is an abolishing criticism.
    LT 1.283 1 ...the criticism which is levelled at the laws and manners, ends in thought...
    LT 1.285 21 No man can compare the ideas and aspirations of the innovators of the present day with those of former periods, without feeling how great and high this criticism is.
    LT 1.290 4 ...[the Moral Sentiment] is recognized...in every criticism...
    Tran 1.355 18 Alas for these days of derision and criticism!
    Tran 1.356 2 ...no doubt [Transcendentalists] will lay themselves open to criticism and to lampoons...
    YA 1.381 17 All this drudgery...to end in mortgages and the auctioneer's flag, and removing from bad to worse. It is time to have the thing looked into, and with a sifting criticism ascertained who is the fool.
    Comp 2.108 20 The name and circumstance of Phidias...embarrass when we come to the highest criticism.
    Lov1 2.180 1 The statue is then beautiful...when it is passing out of criticism...
    Prd1 2.229 6 I have seen a criticism on some paintings, of which I am reminded when I see the shiftless and unhappy men who are not true to their senses.
    Art1 2.362 17 The knowledge of picture dealers has its value, but listen not to their criticism when your heart is touched by genius.
    Pt1 3.7 13 Criticism is infested with a cant of materialism...
    Pt1 3.25 16 ...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.
    Pt1 3.32 15 If a man is inflamed and carried away by his thought...let me read his paper, and you may have all the arguments and histories and criticism.
    Pt1 3.38 17 ...I am not wise enough for a national criticism...
    Exp 3.50 16 There are...only a few hours so serene that we can relish nature or criticism.
    Exp 3.58 11 We, I think, in these times, have had lessons enough of the futility of criticism.
    Exp 3.59 10 Objections and criticism we have had our fill of.
    Chr1 3.106 14 They are a relief from literature,--these fresh draughts from the sources of thought and sentiment; as we read, in an age of polish and criticism, the first lines of written prose and verse of a nation.
    Mrs1 3.140 17 Society loves...sleepy languishing manners, so that they cover...the air of drowsy strength, which disarms criticism;...
    Mrs1 3.148 17 Certainly, kings and queens, nobles and great ladies, had some right to complain of the absurdity that had been put in their mouths before the days of Waverley; but neither does Scott's dialogue bear criticism.
    NR 3.235 1 Homoeopathy is...of great value as criticism on the hygeia or medical practice of the time.
    NR 3.235 5 ...[Mesmerism, Swedenborgism, Fourierism, and the Millennial Church]...are poor pretensions enough, but good criticism on the science, philosophy and preaching of the day.
    NER 3.256 6 A restless, prying, conscientious criticism broke out in unexpected quarters.
    NER 3.257 7 The same insatiable criticism may be traced in the efforts for the reform of Education.
    NER 3.261 12 The criticism and attack on institutions...has made one thing plain...
    NER 3.267 26 ...[our system of education] is open to graver criticism than the palsy of its members...
    NER 3.284 16 Suppress for a few days your criticism on the insufficiency of this or that teacher or experimenter...
    PPh 4.76 13 ...[Plato's] writings have not...the vital authority which...the sermons of unlettered Arabs and Jews possess. There is an interval; and to cohesion, contact is necessary. I know not what can be said in reply to this criticism but that we have come to a fact in the nature of things: an oak is not an orange.
    PPh 4.79 2 ...when we praise the style, or the common sense, or arithmetic [of Plato], we speak as boys, and much of our impatient criticism of the dialectic, I suspect, is no better.
    PPh 4.79 4 ...when we praise the style, or the common sense, or arithmetic [of Plato], we speak as boys, and much of our impatient criticism of the dialectic, I suspect, is no better. The criticism is like our impatience of miles, when we are in a hurry;...
    SwM 4.94 4 I have sometimes thought that he would render the greatest service to modern criticism, who should draw the line of relation that subsists between Shakspeare and Swedenborg.
    SwM 4.123 3 There is no such problem for criticism as [Swedenborg's] theological writings...
    ShP 4.204 3 ...not until two centuries had passed, after [Shakespeare's] death, did any criticism which we think adequate begin to appear.
    ShP 4.210 10 Some able and appreciating critics think no criticism on Shakspeare valuable that does not rest purely on the dramatic merit;...
    GoW 4.269 24 ...how can [the writer] be honored...when he must...write conventional criticism...
    GoW 4.277 16 [Goethe's works] consist of translations, criticism, dramas, lyric and every other description of poems, literary journals and portraits of distinguished men.
    ET1 5.3 13 For the first time for many months we were forced to check the saucy habit of travellers' criticism...
    ET1 5.10 2 The criticism [of Landor] may be right or wrong, and is quickly forgotten;...
    ET5 5.93 24 ...the vigilance of party criticism [in England] insures the selection of a competent person.
    ET12 5.206 21 The effect of this drill [at Oxford] is the radical knowledge of...the solidity and taste of English criticism.
    ET13 5.228 13 The English Church, undermined by German criticism, had nothing left but tradition;...
    ET14 5.248 25 Coleridge...who wrote and spoke the only high criticism in his time, is one of those who save England from the reproach of no longer possessing the capacity to appreciate what rarest wit the island has yielded.
    ET14 5.249 13 But for Coleridge, and a lurking taciturn minority uttering itself in occasional criticism...one would say that in Germany and in America is the best mind in England rightly respected.
    ET14 5.259 4 Might I [Warren Hastings]...venture to prescribe bounds to the latitude of criticism, I should exclude...all rules drawn from the ancient or modern literature of Europe...
    ET14 5.259 23 While the constructive talent [in England] seems dwarfed and superficial, the criticism is often in the noblest tone...
    ET17 5.295 3 [The Edinburgh Review] had...changed the tone of its literary criticism from the time when a certain letter was written to the editor by Coleridge.
    F 6.19 12 The force with which we resist these torrents of tendency... amounts to little more than a criticism or protest made by a minority of one...
    F 6.22 9 For who and what is this criticism that pries into the matter?
    Wth 6.92 17 The artist has made his picture so true that it disconcerts criticism.
    Ctr 6.142 3 Good criticism is very rare and always precious.
    Bty 6.286 18 So inveterate is our habit of criticism that much of our knowledge in this direction belongs to the chapter of pathology.
    DL 7.112 27 The difficulties to be overcome [in housekeeping] must be freely admitted; they are many and great. Nor are they to be disposed of by any criticism or amendment of particulars taken one at a time...
    DL 7.120 10 ...who can see unmoved...the warm sympathy with which [the eager, blushing boys] kindle each other...the youthful criticism, on Sunday, of the sermons;...
    Clbs 7.226 13 Some talkers excel in the precision with which they formulate their thoughts...others lay criticism asleep by a charm.
    Cour 7.259 21 In ordinary, we have a snappish criticism which watches and contradicts the opposite party.
    Cour 7.269 10 Morphy played a daring game in chess: the daring was only an illusion of the spectator, for the player sees his move to be well fortified and safe. You may see the same dealing in criticism;...
    Suc 7.296 5 There is something of poverty in our criticism.
    Suc 7.309 17 When that is spoken which has a right to be spoken, the chatter and the criticism will stop.
    PI 8.32 18 ...inestimable is the criticism of memory as a corrective to first impressions.
    SA 8.79 1 Much ill-natured criticism has been directed on American manners.
    QO 8.182 18 What divines had assumed as the distinctive revelations of Christianity, theologic criticism has matched by exact parallelisms from the Stoics and poets of Greece and Rome.
    QO 8.188 5 A more subtle and severe criticism might suggest that some dislocation has befallen the race;...
    QO 8.198 20 ...what dismay when the good Matilda, pleased with [the author's] pleasure, confessed she had written the criticism...
    Supl 10.166 10 Among these glorifiers, the coldest stickler for names and dates and measures cannot lament his criticism and coldness of fancy.
    SovE 10.204 22 I will not now go into the metaphysics of that reaction by which in history a period of belief is followed by an age of criticism...
    MoL 10.244 24 There is much criticism...but an affirmative philosophy is wanting.
    Plu 10.298 15 ...a master of ancient culture, [Plutarch] read books with a just criticism;...
    Plu 10.321 25 We owe to these translators [of Plutarch] many sharp perceptions of the wit and humor of their author, sometimes even to the adding of the point. I notice one, which...the severer criticism of the Editor has not retained.
    LLNE 10.327 22 The age of arithmetic and of criticism has set in.
    LLNE 10.328 20 In literature the effect [of detachment] appeared in the decided tendency of criticism.
    LLNE 10.330 14 Germany had created criticism in vain for us until 1820...
    LLNE 10.330 21 [Everett] made us for the first time acquainted with...with the criticism of Heyne.
    LLNE 10.335 23 In the pulpit Dr. Frothingham...had already made us acquainted...with the genius of Eichhorn's theologic criticism.
    LLNE 10.337 8 ...there was, in the first quarter of our nineteenth century, a certain sharpness of criticism...
    LLNE 10.337 26 ...[Mesmerism] affirmed unity and connection between remote points, and as such was excellent criticism on the narrow and dead classification of what passed for science;...
    LLNE 10.339 12 I attribute much importance to two papers of Dr. Channing, one on Milton and one on Napoleon, which were the first specimens in this country of that large criticism which in England had given power and fame to the Edinburgh Review.
    LLNE 10.352 6 ...we could not exempt [Fourierism] from the criticism which we apply to so many projects for reform with which the brain of the age teems.
    FSLN 11.225 6 ...I have my own opinions on [Webster's] seventh of March discourse and those others, and think them very transparent and very open to criticism...
    EdAd 11.393 11 The name [Massachusetts Quarterly Review] might convey the impression of a book of criticism...
    Shak1 11.448 22 All criticism is only a making of rules out of [Shakespeare's] beauties.
    CPL 11.504 23 Napoleon's reading could not be large, but his criticism is sometimes admirable...
    PLT 12.55 18 The curses of malignity and despair are important criticism...
    Milt1 12.247 22 It was very easy to remark an altered tone in the criticism when Milton reappeared as an author, fifteen years ago...
    Milt1 12.248 10 ...the new criticism indicated a change in the public taste, and a change which the poet [Milton] himself might claim to have wrought.
    Milt1 12.252 13 We think we have seen and heard criticism upon [Milton' s] poems, which the bard himself would have more valued than the recorded praise of Dryden, Addison and Johnson...
    ACri 12.303 5 I designed to speak of one point more, the touching a principal question in criticism in recent times-the Classic and Romantic, or what is classic?
    ACri 12.305 13 Criticism is an art when it does not stop at the words of the poet...
    MLit 12.313 6 [Subjectiveness] is the new consciousness of the one mind, which predominates in criticism.
    MLit 12.322 2 With the name of Wordsworth rises to our recollection the name of his contemporary and friend, Walter Savage Landor,-a man... whose genius and accomplishments deserve a wiser criticism than we have yet seen applied to them...
    MLit 12.326 22 If we try Goethe by the ordinary canons of criticism, we should say that his thinking is of great altitude, and all level;...
    MLit 12.333 1 The criticism, which is not so much spoken as felt in reference to Goethe, instructs us directly in the hope of literature.
    WSL 12.347 17 ...the minuteness of [Landor's] verbal criticism gives a confidence in his fidelity when he speaks the language of meditation or of passion.
    EurB 12.369 2 ...with a complete satisfaction [Wordsworth]...celebrated his own [life] with the religion of a true priest. Hence the antagonism which was immediately felt between his poetry and the spirit of the age, that here not only criticism but conscience and will were parties;...
    EurB 12.369 21 The influence [of Wordsworth]...was wafted up and down into lone and into populous places...and soon came to be felt in poetry, in criticism, in plans of life, and at last in legislation.
    PPr 12.385 20 ...the variety and excellence of the talent displayed in [Carlyle's Past and Present] is pretty sure to leave all special criticism in the wrong.
    PPr 12.388 15 One excellence [Carlyle] has in an age of Mammon and of criticism, that he never suffers the eye of his wonder to close.
    Let 12.398 17 ...[American youths] are educated above the work of their times and country, and disdain it. Many of the more acute minds pass into a lofty criticism of these things...

criticisms, n. (2)

    WSL 12.347 11 [Landor's] Dialogue between Barrow and Newton is the best of all criticisms on the essays of Bacon.
    AgMs 12.363 23 In this strain the Farmer [Edmund Hosmer] proceeded, adding many special criticisms.

Critics, Fable for, A [Jam (1)

    TPar 11.284 14 ...[Theodore Parker's] periods fall on you, stroke after stroke,/ Like the blows of a lumberer felling an oak,/ You forget the man wholly, you 're thankful to meet/ With a preacher who smacks of the field and the street,/ And to hear, you 're not over-particular whence,/ Almost Taylor's profusion, quite Latimer's sense./ Lowell, A Fable for Critics.

critics, n. (21)

    Tran 1.344 17 ...[the Transcendentalists] are the most exacting and extortionate critics.
    Tran 1.357 7 [The strong spirits'] thought and emotion...quite withdraws them from all notice of these carping critics;...
    Nat2 3.178 15 The critics who complain of the sickly separation of the beauty of nature from the thing to be done, must consider that our hunting of the picturesque is inseparable from our protest against false society.
    ShP 4.204 18 Coleridge and Goethe are the only critics who have expressed our convictions [about Shakespeare] with any adequate fidelity...
    ShP 4.210 9 Some able and appreciating critics think no criticism on Shakspeare valuable that does not rest purely on the dramatic merit;...
    ShP 4.210 13 Some able and appreciating critics think...that [Shakespeare] is falsely judged as poet and philosopher. I think as highly as these critics of his dramatic merit, but still think it secondary.
    Ctr 6.133 26 ...if we run over our private list of poets, critics, philanthropists and philosophers, we shall find them infected with this dropsy and elephantiasis [egotism]...
    PI 8.69 20 ...our English nature and genius has made us the worst critics of Goethe...
    SA 8.79 4 Much ill-natured criticism has been directed on American manners. I do not think it is to be resented. Rather, if we are wise, we shall listen and mend. Our critics will then be our best friends...
    MoL 10.241 8 You go to be teachers...I hope, some of you, to be the men of letters, critics, philosophers;...
    Plu 10.317 18 I know that the chapter of Apothegms of Noble Commanders is rejected by some critics as not a genuine work of Plutarch;...
    TPar 11.286 8 Theodore Parker was...a man of study...rapidly pushing his studies so far as to leave few men qualified to sit as his critics.
    EPro 11.324 10 These necessities which have dictated the conduct of the federal government are overlooked especially by our foreign critics.
    Scot 11.464 1 Critics have found [Scott's books] to be only rhymed prose.
    II 12.68 2 One often sees in the embittered acuteness of critics snuffing heresy from afar, their own unbelief...
    Bost 12.201 3 European critics regret the detachment of the Puritans to this country without aristocracy;...
    Milt1 12.252 21 We think we have seen and heard criticism upon [Milton' s] poems, which the bard himself would have more valued than the recorded praise of Dryden, Addison and Johnson, because it...was...more welcome to the poet than the general and vague acknowledgment of his genius by those able but unsympathizing critics.
    ACri 12.288 24 What traveller has not listened to the vigor of...the deep stomach of an English drayman's execration. I remember an occasion when a proficient in this style came from North Street to Cambridge and drew a crowd of young critics in the college yard...
    WSL 12.340 11 ...we...have no wish...to put an argument in the mouth of [Landor's] critics.
    WSL 12.347 4 ...as it is not from the highest Alps or Andes but from less elevated summits that the most attractive landscape is commanded, so is Mr. Landor the most useful and agreeable of critics.
    PPr 12.380 2 [Carlyle's Past and Present] is a brave and just book, and not a semblance. No new truth, say the critics on all sides. Is it so?

Crito, n. (1)

    Boks 7.199 11 Here [in Plato] is...the picture of the best persons, sentiments and manners...portraits of...Crito, Prodicus...

Crito [Plato, Crito], n. (1)

    PPh 4.74 23 Crito bribed the jailer; but Socrates would not go out by treachery.

Croce, Santa, Church of, F (1)

    Hist 2.17 21 Santa Croce and the Dome of St. Peter's are lame copies after a divine model.

Croce, Santa, Florence, It (1)

    MAng1 12.243 23 In the church of Santa Croce are [Michelangelo's] mortal remains.

crockery, adj. (1)

    FSLN 11.242 20 The low bows to all the crockery gods of the day were duly made...

crockery, n. (2)

    Ill 6.317 7 [The new style or mythology] is like the cement which the peddler sells at the door; he makes broken crockery hold with it, but you can never buy of him a bit of the cement which will make it hold when he is gone.
    EWI 11.126 10 It was very easy for manufacturers...to see that...if the slaves [in the West Indies] had wages, the slaves would be clothed, would build houses, would fill them with tools, with pottery, with crockery, with hardware;...

crockery-shops, n. (1)

    MoS 4.175 4 [The levity of intellect] is hobgoblin the first; and though it has been the subject of much elegy in our nineteenth century...I confess it is not very affecting to my imagination; for it seems to concern the shattering of baby-houses and crockery-shops.

crockery-ware, n. (1)

    MR 1.237 8 Is it possible that I, who get indefinite quantities of...crockery-ware... by simply signing my name...to a cheque...get the fair share of exercise to my faculties by that act which nature intended me...

crocodile, n. (5)

    PNR 4.80 18 [The human being's] arts and sciences...look glorious when prospectively beheld from the distant brain of...crocodile...
    WD 7.160 12 What of this dapper caoutchouc and gutta-percha, which make...rain-proof coats for all climates, which teach us to defy the wet, and put every man on a footing with the beaver and the crocodile?
    Cour 7.276 12 Wolf, snake and crocodile are not inharmonious in Nature...
    PPo 8.242 12 The crocodile in the rolling stream had no safety from Afrasiyab.
    PerF 10.73 25 It is curious to see how a creature so feeble and vulnerable as a man, who, unarmed, is no match for the wild beasts, tiger, or crocodile...is yet able to subdue to his will these terrific [natural] forces...

crocodiles, n. (3)

    Comp 2.98 5 The barren soil does not breed fevers, crocodiles, tigers or scorpions.
    Pow 6.69 7 There are Oregons, Californias and Exploring Expeditions enough appertaining to America to find [men of this surcharge of arterial blood] in files to gnaw and in crocodiles to eat.
    SovE 10.188 11 Nature is a tropical swamp in sunshine, on whose purlieus we hear the song of summer birds, and see prismatic dewdrops-but her interiors are terrific, full of hydras and crocodiles.

Croesus, n. (2)

    PPo 8.241 26 Firdusi...has written in the Shah Nameh the annals...of Karun (the Persian Croesus)...
    Thor 10.454 20 I am often reminded, [Thoreau] wrote in his journal, that if I had bestowed on me the wealth of Croesus, my aims must be still the same, and my means essentially the same.

croisements, n. (1)

    Insp 8.289 20 La Nature aime les croisements, says Fourier.

cromlech, n. (1)

    ET3 5.38 10 In the history of art it is a long way from a cromlech to York minster;...

cromlechs, n. (1)

    Imtl 8.335 8 The mind delights in immense time;...delights in architecture, whose building lasts so long...and here are the Pyramids, which have as many thousands [of years], and cromlechs and earth-mounds much older than these.

Cromwell, Oliver, n. (8)

    OS 2.291 23 I do not wonder that these [simple] men go to see Cromwell and Christina and Charles the Second and James the First and the Grand Turk.
    Cir 2.322 4 A man, said Oliver Cromwell, never rises so high as when he knows not whither he is going.
    Pol1 3.199 19 ...society is fluid;...any particle may suddenly become the centre of the movement and compel the system to gyrate round it; as every man of strong will, like Pisistratus or Cromwell, does for a time...
    ET4 5.68 24 ...[the English] know where their war-dogs lie. Cromwell, Blake, Marlborough, Chatham, Nelson and Wellington are not to be trifled with...
    CbW 6.254 12 Rough, selfish despots serve men immensely...as the infatuations no less than the wisdom of Cromwell;...
    Cour 7.255 17 There is a Hercules...or a Cid in the mythology of every nation; and in authentic history, a Leonidas...a Cromwell...
    Plu 10.318 8 ...wherever the Cid is relished, the legends of...Lord Herbert of Cherbury, Cromwell, Nelson...there will Plutarch...sit as...laureate of the ancient world.
    FSLN 11.235 4 Cromwell said, We can only resist the superior training of the King's soldiers, by enlisting godly men.

Cromwell [Shakespeare, Henr (1)

    ShP 4.195 25 The first play [Shakespeare's Henry VIII] was written by a superior, thoughtful man, with a vicious ear. I can mark his lines, and know well their cadence. See Wolsey's soliloquy, and the following scene with Cromwell...

Cromwell's, Oliver, n. (2)

    Civ 7.30 13 It was a great instruction, said a saint in Cromwell's war, that the best courages are but beams of the Almighty.
    CPL 11.505 8 Hear the testimony of Seldon, the oracle of the English House of Commons in Cromwell's time.

crones, n. (1)

    Scot 11.466 8 In his own household and neighbors [Scott] found characters and pets of humble class, with whom he established the best relation,- small farmers and tradesmen...peasant-girls, crones...

crook, v. (1)

    Prd1 2.239 5 What low, poor, paltry, hypocritical people an argument on religion will make of the pure and chosen souls! They will...crook and hide...

crooked, adj. (4)

    Con 1.324 5 If [the hero] have earned his bread...in the narrow and crooked ways which were all an evil law had left him, he will make it at least honorable by his expenditure.
    Comp 2.93 24 ...if this doctrine [Compensation] could be stated in terms with any resemblance to those bright intuitions in which this truth is sometimes revealed to us, it would be a star in many...crooked passages in our journey...
    Comc 8.160 9 ...[the man of the world's] eye wandering perpetually from the rule to the crooked, lying, thieving fact, makes the eyes run over with laughter.
    Wom 11.423 10 As for the unsexing and contamination [of women in politics],-that only...shows...that our policies are so crooked...

crookedness, n. (1)

    ET7 5.116 18 ...any slipperiness in the [English] government of political faith, or any repudiation or crookedness in matters of finance, would bring the whole nation to a committee of inquiry and reform.

crook-necks, n. (1)

    Wth 6.108 1 You dismiss your laborer, saying, Patrick, I shall send for you as soon as I cannot do without you. Patrick goes off contented, for he knows that...however unwilling you may be, the canteloupes, crook-necks and cucumbers will send for him.

crooned, v. (1)

    Scot 11.464 9 [Scott's] own ear had been charmed by old ballads crooned by Scottish dames at firesides...

crooning, v. (1)

    EWI 11.98 2 There a captive sat in chains,/ Crooning ditties treasured well/ From his Afric's torrid plains./

crop, n. (14)

    Nat 1.18 19 The state of the crop in the surrounding farms alters the expression of the earth from week to week.
    Cir 2.303 15 An orchard, good tillage, good grounds, seem a fixture...to a citizen; but to a large farmer, not much more fixed than the state of the crop.
    NR 3.238 15 Solitude would ripen a plentiful crop of despots.
    ET16 5.284 1 ...I heard afterwards that it is not an economy to cultivate this land [Salisbury Plain], which only yields one crop on being broken up...
    Pow 6.56 23 [A strong pulse] is like the climate, which easily rears a crop which no glass, or irrigation, or tillage, or manures can elsewhere rival.
    Wth 6.110 8 Britain, France and Germany...send out, attracted by the fame of our advantages, first their thousands, then their millions of poor people, to share the crop.
    Farm 7.139 14 ...[the farmer] must wait for his crop to grow.
    Farm 7.149 5 The smaller [the farmer's] garden, the better he can feed it, and the larger the crop.
    Farm 7.149 24 See what the farmer accomplishes by a cart-load of tiles: he alters the climate by letting off water which kept the land cold through constant evaporation...and he deepens the soil, since the discharge of this standing water allows the roots of his plants to penetrate below the surface to the subsoil, and accelerates the ripening of the crop.
    Boks 7.198 24 Every new crop in the fertile harvest of reform...is there [in Plato].
    SovE 10.208 23 ...a new crop of geniuses like those of the Elizabethan age, may be born in this age...
    HDC 11.34 20 [Food the pilgrims] attain with sore travail, every one that can lift a hoe to strike into the earth...tearing up the roots and bushes from the ground, which, the first year, yielded them a lean crop...
    EWI 11.117 7 In June, 1835, the Ministers, Lord Aberdeen and Sir George Grey, declared to the Parliament...that the new crop of [West Indian] island produce would not fall short of that of the last year.
    AgMs 12.361 24 Down below, where manure is cheap and hay dear, they will sell their oxen in November; but for me [Edmund Hosmer] to sell my cattle and my produce in the fall would be to sell my farm, for I should have no manure to renew a crop in the spring.

cropped, v. (1)

    CL 12.137 23 In Tornea, [Linnaeus] found the people suffering every spring from the loss of their cattle, which died by some frightful distemper, to the number of fifty or a hundred in a year. Linnaeus walked out to examine the meadow...and found it a bog, where the water-hemlock grew in abundance, and had evidently been cropped plentifully by the animals in feeding.

cropping, v. (1)

    ShP 4.195 19 In Henry VIII. I think I see plainly the cropping out of the original rock on which [Shakespeare's] own finer stratum was laid.

cropping-out, n. (1)

    F 6.19 22 We cannot trifle with...this cropping-out in our planted gardens of the core of the world.

crops, n. (17)

    YA 1.381 27 On one side is agricultural chemistry...and on the other, the farmer, not only eager for the information, but with bad crops and in debt and bankruptcy, for want of it.
    Nat2 3.177 4 A susceptible person does not like to indulge his tastes in this kind [in passive nature] without the apology of some trivial necessity: he goes...to look at the crops...
    Wth 6.84 16 ...Then docks were built, and crops were stored,/ And ingots added to the hoard./
    Wth 6.117 14 When the cholera is in the potato, what is the use of planting larger crops?
    Wth 6.120 15 [Mr. Cockayne] plants trees; but there must be crops, to keep the trees in ploughed land.
    Wth 6.120 16 [Mr. Cockayne] plants trees; but there must be crops, to keep the trees in ploughed land. What shall be the crops?
    Wth 6.120 19 [Cockayne] will have nothing to do with trees, but will have grass. After a year or two the grass must be turned up and ploughed; now what crops?
    Civ 7.31 17 ...the true test of civilization is, not...the crops,--no, but the kind of man the country turns out.
    Farm 7.135 8 ...[Farmers] prove the virtues of each bed of rock/ And, like the chemist mid his loaded jars,/ Draw from each stratum its adapted use/ To drug their crops or weapon their arts withal./
    Farm 7.138 23 [The farmer] bends to the order of the seasons, the weather, the soils and crops...
    Farm 7.150 7 By drainage we went down to a subsoil we did not know, and have found there is a Concord under old Concord, which we are now getting the best crops from;...
    Farm 7.152 13 ...when...there is more skill, and tools and roads, the new generations are strong enough to open the lowlands, where the wash of mountains has accumulated the best soil, which yield a hundred-fold the former crops.
    WD 7.159 17 [Steam] irrigates crops...
    MoL 10.247 15 The fears and agitations of men who watch...the crops...are not for [the scholar].
    SlHr 10.439 25 ...[Samuel Hoar] had a strong, unaffected interest in farms, and crops, and weathers...
    HDC 11.55 18 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;...and the crops suffered much from mice.
    Bost 12.192 10 [The Massachusetts colonists'] crops suffered from pigeons and mice.

cross, adj. (1)

    Clbs 7.234 17 ...the ground of our indignation is our conviction that [yonder man's] dissent is some wilfulness he practises on himself. He checks the flow of his opinion, as the cross cow holds up her milk.

Cross, Charing, London, En (1)

    ET11 5.181 25 Northumberland House holds its place by Charing Cross.

cross, n. (8)

    AmS 1.101 14 For the ease and pleasure of...accepting...the religion of society, [the scholar] takes the cross of making his own...
    Hist 2.12 8 When we have gone through this process, and added thereto the Catholic Church, its cross...we have as it were been the man that made the minster;...
    Art2 7.45 20 ...how much is there that is not original...in...whatever is national or usual; as the usage of building all Roman churches in the form of a cross...
    Imtl 8.326 12 ...the barbarians who received the cross took the doctrine of the resurrection as the Egyptians took it.
    Dem1 10.16 27 This faith...in the particular of lucky days and fortunate persons, as frequent in America to-day as the faith in...the wholesome potency of the sign of the cross in modern Rome...runs athwart the recognized agencies...which science and religion explore.
    Chr2 10.109 27 Paganism has only taken the oath of allegiance, taken the cross...
    CPL 11.505 22 One curious witness [to the value of reading] was that of a Shaker who, when showing me the houses of the Brotherhood, and a very modest bookshelf, said there was Milton's Paradise Lost, and some other books in the house, and added that he knew where they were, but he took up a sound cross in not reading them.
    Pray 12.353 10 These duties are not the life, but the means which enable us to show forth the life. So must I take up this cross, and bear it willingly.

Cross, St., Church of, Eng (1)

    ET16 5.289 5 Just before entering Winchester we stopped at the Church of Saint Cross...

cross, v. (8)

    LE 1.184 16 When [the scholar] sees how much thought he owes to the disagreeable antagonism of various persons who pass and cross him, he can easily think that in a society of perfect sympathy, no word, no act, no record, would be.
    ET3 5.41 21 It is not down in the books...that fortunate day when a wave of the German Ocean burst the old isthmus which joined Kent and Cornwall to France...cutting off...a territory...so near that it can see the harvests of the continent, and so far that who would cross the strait must be an expert mariner...
    Wth 6.87 22 Wealth begins...in a horse or a locomotive to cross the land, in a boat to cross the sea;...
    WD 7.162 12 Nature loves to cross her stocks...
    Schr 10.269 23 The poet writes his verse on a scrap of paper, and instantly the desire and love of all mankind take charge of it, as if it were Holy Writ. What need has he to cross the sill of his door?
    HDC 11.32 19 [The pilgrims] could cross the Massachusetts or Charles River, by the ferry at Newtown;...
    SMC 11.368 20 On the second of July [the Thirty-second Regiment] had to cross the famous wheat-field...
    Bost 12.202 11 [The Massachusetts colonists could say to themselves] Here...I shall take leave to breathe and think freely. If you do not like it, if you molest me, I can cross the brook and plant a new state...

crossed, adj. (2)

    HDC 11.33 5 Sometimes passing through thickets...and [the pilgrims'] feet clambering over the crossed trees...
    HCom 11.340 6 Many in sad faith sought for [Truth],/ Many with crossed hands sighed for her;/ But these, our brothers, fought for her,/ At life's dear peril wrought for her,/ So loved her that they died for her,/ Tasting the raptured fleetness/ Of her divine completeness/...

crossed, v. (14)

    Hist 2.25 4 After the army had crossed the river Teleboas in Armenia, there fell much snow...
    UGM 4.28 13 There is somewhat deceptive about the intercourse of minds. The boundaries are invisible, but they are never crossed.
    ET1 5.3 3 In 1833...I crossed from Boulogne and landed in London...
    ET1 5.5 1 It is probable you left some obscure comrade...when you crossed sea and land to play bo-peep with celebrated scribes.
    ET16 5.285 3 We [Emerson and Carlyle] crossed a bridge [at Wilton Hall] built by Inigo Jones...
    Ill 6.309 15 [In the Mammoth Cave] I...crossed the streams Lethe and Styx;...
    LS 11.8 6 [Jesus] may have foreseen that his disciples would meet to remember him, and that with good effect. It may have crossed his mind that this would be easily continued a hundred or a thousand years...
    FSLC 11.203 19 ...very unexpectedly to the whole Union, on the 7th March, 1850...[Webster] crossed the line, and became the head of the slavery party in this country.
    ALin 11.330 9 [Lincoln] was thoroughly American, had never crossed the sea...
    SMC 11.371 15 On the third of May, [the Thirty-second Regiment] crossed the Rapidan for the fifth time.
    SMC 11.372 3 On the twenty-third, [the Thirty-second Regiment] crossed the North Anna, and achieved a great success.
    SMC 11.372 6 On the thirtieth, we learn, our regiment [the Thirty-second] has never been in the second line since we crossed the Rapidan, on the third.
    SMC 11.372 26 On the sixteenth of June, [the Thirty-second Regiment] crossed the James River...
    Bost 12.198 4 We can show [in New England] native examples, and I may almost say (travellers as we are) natives who never crossed the sea, who possess all the elements of noble behavior.

crosses, n. (4)

    LT 1.260 12 Here is this great fact of Conservatism...which has planted its crosses, and crescents, and stars and stripes...over every rood of the planet...
    NMW 4.245 5 ...the crosses of [Napoleon's] Legion of Honor were given to personal valor, and not to family connexion.
    Supl 10.178 24 ...Nature, who loves crosses and mixtures, makes these two tendencies [of the East and the West] necessary each to the other...
    Schr 10.287 12 [The scholar] shall not submit to degradation, but shall bear these crosses with what grace he can.

crosses, v. (2)

    ET10 5.163 13 Whatever is excellent and beautiful...in fountain, garden, or grounds,--the English noble crosses sea and land to see and to copy at home.
    QO 8.186 25 There are many fables which...are said to be agreeable to the human mind. Such are The Seven Sleepers, Gyge's Ring...whose omnipresence only indicates how easily a good story crosses all frontiers.

cross-grained, adj. (1)

    ET8 5.135 10 Here [in England] was lately a cross-grained miser [Joseph Turner], odd and ugly...

crossing, adj. (1)

    Hist 2.20 22 In the woods in a winter afternoon one will see as readily the origin of the stained glass window...in the colors of the western sky seen through the bare and crossing branches of the forest.

crossing, v. (14)

    Nat 1.9 17 Crossing a bare common...I have enjoyed a perfect exhilaration.
    Nat 1.25 18 ...transgression [means] the crossing of a line;...
    Hist 2.28 10 I have seen the first monks and anchorets, without crossing seas or centuries.
    Chr1 3.90 14 [The man of character's] victories are by demonstration of superiority, and not by crossing of bayonets.
    ET1 5.21 20 [Wordsworth] proceeded to abuse Goethe's Wilhelm Meister heartily. It was full of all manner of fornication. It was like the crossing of flies in the air.
    Wth 6.121 24 Of the two eminent engineers in the recent construction of railways in England, Mr. Brunel went straight...crossing highways...
    CbW 6.259 14 ...[an absorbing passion] is the heat which...overcomes the friction of crossing thresholds and first addresses in society...
    Civ 7.24 27 ...I watched, in crossing the sea, the beautiful skill whereby the engine in its constant working was made to produce two hundred gallons of fresh water out of salt water, every hour...
    SMC 11.371 5 After Gettysburg, the Thirty-second Regiment saw hard service...crossing the Rapidan...
    SMC 11.373 6 After driving the enemy from the railroad, crossing it... [George Prescott] was struck...by a musket-ball...
    Koss 11.399 8 We [people of Concord] only see in you [Kossuth] the angel of freedom, crossing sea and land;...
    Koss 11.399 9 We [people of Concord] only see in you [Kossuth] the angel of freedom...crossing parties, nationalities, private interests and self-esteems;...
    II 12.76 6 ...Van Mons of Belgium, after all his experiments at crossing and refining his fruit, arrived at last at the most complete trust in the native power.
    CL 12.162 16 Sometimes the farmer withstands [the true naturalist] in crossing his lots, but 't is to no purpose;...

crossings, n. (1)

    PLT 12.24 20 What happens here in mankind is matched by what happens out there in the history of grass and wheat. This curious resemblance repeats, in the mental function, the...crossings, blight, parasites, and in short, all the accidents of the plant.

cross-legged, adj. (1)

    ET4 5.66 4 The bronze monuments of crusaders lying cross-legged in the Temple Church at London...are of the same type as the best youthful heads of men now in England;...

cross-magnetism, n. (1)

    Grts 8.306 9 In 1848 I had the privilege of hearing Professor Faraday deliver...a lecture on what he called Diamagnetism,-by which he meant cross-magnetism;...

cross-roads, adj. (1)

    Bost 12.188 14 [Boston] is...not...a cross-roads tavern...grown up by time and luck to a place of wealth;...

crotchet, n. (2)

    NR 3.236 21 ...when each person...would conquer all things to his poor crochet, [Nature] raises up against him another person...
    GoW 4.265 19 The ambitious and mercenary bring their last new mumbo-jumbo... and...easily succed in making it seen in a glare; and a multitude go mad about it, and they are not to be reproved or cured by the opposite multitude who are kept from this particular insanity by an equal frenzy on another crotchet.

crotchets, n. (1)

    ET8 5.134 2 No man can claim...to put upon the company with the loud statement of his crotchets or personalities.

crouch, v. (1)

    FSLC 11.178 9 ...Though, feigning dwarfs, [Eternal Rights] crouch and creep,/ The strong they slay, the swift outstride;/...

crouching, adj. (1)

    Wsp 6.199 8 ...Thrown to lions for their meat,/ The crouching lion kissed his feet/...

crow, n. (5)

    Nat 1.53 4 ...The ornament of beauty is Suspect,/ A crow which flies in heaven's sweetest air./
    LE 1.169 8 ...the deep, echoing, aboriginal woods, where...from year to year, the eagle and the crow see no intruder;...this beauty...has never been recorded by art...
    Comp 2.111 25 [Fear] is a carrion crow...
    MMEm 10.430 3 If one could choose, and without crime be gibbeted,- were it not altogether better than the long drooping away by age without mentality or devotion? The vulture and crow would caw caw...
    PLT 12.43 13 There are times when the cawing of a crow...is more suggestive to the mind than the Yosemite gorge or the Vatican would be in another hour.

crow, v. (3)

    Prd1 2.239 5 What low, poor, paltry, hypocritical people an argument on religion will make of the pure and chosen souls! They will shuffle and crow...
    Elo1 7.69 10 ...[the Sicilians] crow, squeal, hiss, cackle, bark, and scream like mad...
    PI 8.6 8 The admission, never so covertly, that this [material world] is a makeshift, sets the dullest brain in ferment: our little sir, from his first tottering steps, as soon as he can crow, does not like to be practised upon...

crow-bar, n. [crowbar,] (2)

    YA 1.376 17 ...the sceptre comes to be a crow-bar.
    MoS 4.171 16 ...men rightly...reject the reformer so long as he comes only with axe and crowbar.

crowbars, n. (1)

    ET4 5.58 21 ...crowbars, peat-knives and hay-forks are tools valued by [the Norsemen] all the more for their charming aptitude for assassinations.

crowd, n. (48)

    LE 1.174 1 If [the scholar] pines in a lonely place, hankering for the crowd...he is not in the lonely place;...
    LE 1.175 2 Pindar, Raphael...dwell in crowds it may be, but the instant thought comes the crowd grows dim to their eye;...
    LE 1.182 16 [The man of genius] must draw from the infinite Reason, on one side; and he must penetrate into the heart and sense of the crowd, on the other.
    YA 1.389 18 The more need of a withdrawal from the crowd...by the brave.
    SR 2.54 3 ...the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
    Exp 3.51 26 We see young men who owe us a new world...but they never acquit the debt; they die young and dodge the account; or if they live they lose themselves in the crowd.
    Mrs1 3.123 15 ...in the moving crowd of good society the men of valor and reality are known...
    ShP 4.192 12 The best proof of [the Elizabethan theatre's] vitality is the crowd of writers which suddenly broke into this field;...
    ShP 4.198 26 Show us the constituency, and the now invisible channels by which the senator is made aware of their wishes; the crowd of practical and knowing men, who, by correspondence or conversation, are feeding him with evidence, anecdotes and estimates...
    ShP 4.211 25 Shakspeare is as much out of the category of eminent authors, as he is out of the crowd.
    GoW 4.269 19 ...how can [the writer] be honored...when he loses himself in a crowd;...
    ET12 5.207 13 The great silent crowd of thoroughbred Grecians always known to be around him, the English writer cannot ignore.
    Ctr 6.145 22 He that does not fill a place at home, cannot abroad. He only goes there to hide his insignificance in a larger crowd.
    Ctr 6.156 13 ...Newton, Milton, Wordsworth, did not live in a crowd...
    Bhr 6.183 2 It is reported of one prince that his head had the air of leaning downwards, in order not to humble the crowd.
    Bty 6.286 20 The crowd in the street oftener furnishes degradations than angels or redeemers...
    Bty 6.297 2 ...the citizens of her native city of Toulouse obtained the aid of the civil authorities to compel [Pauline de Viguier] to appear publicly on the balcony at least twice a week, and as often as she showed herself, the crowd was dangerous to life.
    Bty 6.297 9 ...even the noble crowd in the drawing-room clambered on chairs and tables to look at [the Duchess of Hamilton].
    Bty 6.302 6 If a man can cut such a head on his stone gatepost as shall draw and keep a crowd about it all day, by its beauty, good nature, and inscrutable meaning;...this is still the legitimate dominion of beauty.
    Ill 6.325 15 [The young mortal] fancies himself in a vast crowd which sways this way and that...
    Ill 6.325 18 The mad crowd drives hither and thither...
    Art2 7.49 27 Not [the orator's] will, but...the great connection and crisis of events, thunder in the ear of the crowd.
    Art2 7.54 25 The amphitheatre of the old Romans,--any one may see its origin who looks at the crowd running together to see any fight, sickness, or odd appearance in the street.
    Elo1 7.89 7 A crowd of men go up to Faneuil Hall;...
    Boks 7.194 10 Let [each student]...not waste his memory on a crowd of mediocrities.
    Clbs 7.229 7 In youth...the day is too short for books and the crowd of thoughts...
    Suc 7.303 12 Who is he...who does not like to hear of those sensibilities which...send wonderful eye-beams across assemblies, from one to one, never missing in the thickest crowd?
    Elo2 8.113 24 [Man] finds himself perhaps in the Senate, when the forest has cast out some wild, black-browed bantling to show the same energy in the crowd of officials which he had learned in driving cattle to the hills...
    QO 8.203 1 Pindar uses this haughty defiance, as if it were impossible to find his sources: There are many swift darts within my quiver which have a voice for those with understanding; but to the crowd they need interpreters.
    PC 8.227 18 In our daily intercourse, we go with the crowd...
    Grts 8.303 5 The man in the tavern maintains his opinion, though the whole crowd takes the other side; we are at once drawn to him.
    Grts 8.318 12 ...degrees of intellect...have no attraction for the crowd...
    Dem1 10.3 20 Within the sweep of yon encircling wall/ How many a large creation of the night,/ Wide wilderness and mountain, rock and sea,/ Peopled with busy, transitory groups,/ Finds room to rise, and never feels the crowd./
    Dem1 10.7 26 [Dreams] pique us by independence of us, yet we know ourselves in this mad crowd...
    Aris 10.62 14 ...[the gentleman] will find in the well-dressed crowd... vulgarity of sentiment.
    PerF 10.81 18 See in a circle of school-girls one with...no special vivacity,-but she can so recite her adventures that she is never alone... Would you know where to find her? Listen for the laughter...see where is... a pretty crowd all bright with one electricity;...
    SovE 10.196 22 Have you said to yourself ever: I abdicate all choice, I see it is not for me to interfere. I see that I have been one of the crowd;...
    Prch 10.231 15 Buckminster, Channing, Dr. Lowell, Edward Taylor, Parker, Bushnell, Chapin,-it is they who have been necessary, and the opinions of the floating crowd of no importance whatever.
    Prch 10.235 26 A wise man advises that we should see to it that we read and speak two or three reasonable words, every day, amid the crowd of affairs and the noise of trifles.
    LLNE 10.354 24 It is the worst of community that it must inevitably transform into charlatans the leaders, by the endeavor continually to meet the expectation and admiration of this eager crowd of men and women seeking they know not what.
    MMEm 10.409 15 ...from the rays which burst forth when the crowd are entering these noble saloons, whilst I [Mary Moody Emerson] stand in the doors, I get a pleasing vision which is an earnest of the interminable skies where the mansions are prepared for the poor.
    War 11.173 19 ...another age comes...and a man puts himself under the dominion of principles. I see him to be...immovable in the waves of the crowd.
    FRep 11.514 4 In our popular politics you may note that each aspirant who rises above the crowd...soon learns that it is by no means by obeying the vulgar weathercock of his party...that real power is gained...
    FRep 11.514 16 In our popular politics you may note that each aspirant who rises above the crowd...soon learns...that the only title...to a larger following, is to see for himself what is the real public interest, and to stand for that;-that is a principle, and all the cheering and hissing of the crowd must by and by accommodate itself to it.
    CL 12.159 23 The crowd in the cities, at the hotels, theatres, card-tables... are all more or less mad...
    MAng1 12.237 5 [Michelangelo] shared Dante's deep contempt...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.
    ACri 12.288 24 What traveller has not listened to the vigor of...the deep stomach of an English drayman's execration. I remember an occasion when a proficient in this style came from North Street to Cambridge and drew a crowd of young critics in the college yard...
    PPr 12.389 17 ...[Carlyle] does yet, ever and anon, as if catching the glance of one wise man in the crowd...lance at him in clear level tone the very word...

crowd, v. (3)

    AmS 1.106 1 The unstable estimates of men crowd to him whose mind is filled with a truth...
    OS 2.272 21 The spirit sports with time,--Can crowd eternity into an hour,/ Or stretch an hour to eternity./
    Elo2 8.117 20 As soon as a man shows rare power of expression...all the great interests...crowd to him to be their spokesman...

crowded, adj. (18)

    AmS 1.103 16 The poet...is found to have recorded that which men in crowded cities find true for them also.
    LE 1.162 26 [The youth] is curious concerning that man's day. What filled it? the crowded orders...
    Lov1 2.184 13 Little think the youth and maiden who are glancing at each other across crowded rooms...of the precious fruit long hereafter to proceed from this new, quite external stimulus.
    Nat2 3.170 6 We have crept out of our close and crowded houses into the night and morning...
    ET1 5.17 18 [Carlyle] still returned to English pauperism, the crowded country...
    ET3 5.37 20 The innumerable details [in England], the crowded succession of towns, cities, cathedrals, castles and great and decorated estates...hide all boundaries by the impression of magnificence and endless wealth.
    ET15 5.263 3 [Writing for English journals] comes of the crowded state of the professions...
    ET16 5.276 20 It looked as if the wide margin given in this crowded isle to this primeval temple [Stonehenge] were accorded by the veneration of the British race to the old egg out of which all their ecclesiastical structures and history had proceeded.
    Bhr 6.180 26 There are eyes...that give no more admission into the man than blueberries. Others are liquid and deep...others...require crowded Broadways and the security of millions to protect individuals against them.
    Ill 6.324 24 In a crowded life of many parts and performers...the same elements offer the same choices to each new comer...
    PC 8.207 22 [Men] come from crowded, antiquated kingdoms to the easy sharing of our simple forms.
    Imtl 8.332 3 ...it chanced that [my friend] never met [his colleague] again until, twenty-five years afterwards, they saw each other through open doors at a distance in a crowded reception at the President's house in Washington.
    SovE 10.200 13 Certainly it is human to value...a crowded church;...
    Schr 10.268 10 Nature...will bring to each of you the crowded hour, the great opportunity.
    Plu 10.301 4 I admire [Plutarch's] rapid and crowded style...
    LLNE 10.334 7 ...he [Everett] who was heard with such throbbing hearts and sparkling eyes in the lighted and crowded churches, did not let go his hearers when the church was dismissed...
    MMEm 10.425 3 When the dreamy pages of life seem all turned and folded down to very weariness, even this idea of those who fill the hour with crowded virtues, lifts the spectator to other worlds...
    Scot 11.466 26 ...Scott portrayed with equal strength and success every figure in his crowded company.

crowded, v. (7)

    YA 1.366 16 ...the walks of trade were crowded...
    Chr1 3.108 15 Character...must not be crowded on by persons...
    Nat2 3.170 25 How easily we might walk onward into the opening landscape...until by degrees the recollection of home was crowded out of the mind...
    Suc 7.297 24 'T is the bane of life that natural effects are continually crowded out...
    Elo2 8.123 3 When [John Quincy Adams] read his first lectures in 1806... the hall was crowded by the Professors and by unusual visitors.
    Mem 12.99 20 What is the newspaper but a sponge or invention for oblivion? the rule being that for every fact added to the memory, one is crowded out...
    Bost 12.200 14 There are always men ready for adventures-more in an over-governed, over-peopled country, where all the professions are crowded and all character suppressed...

crowding, v. (4)

    AmS 1.115 1 ...thousands of young men as hopeful now crowding to the barriers for the career do not yet see, that if the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts...the huge world will come round to him.
    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.
    HDC 11.33 21 Much time was lost in travelling [the pilgrims] knew not whither, when the sun was hidden by clouds; for their compass miscarried in crowding through the bushes...
    EWI 11.128 18 The extent of the [British] empire, and the magnitude and number of other questions crowding into court, keep this one [slavery] in balance...

crowds, n. (12)

    LE 1.174 19 It is the noble, manlike, just thought, which is the superiority demanded of you, and not crowds but solitude confers this elevation.
    LE 1.175 1 Pindar, Raphael, Angelo, Dryden, De Stael, dwell in crowds it may be...
    Mrs1 3.126 13 ...the politics of this country, and the trade of every town, are controlled by these hardy and irresponsible doers, who have...a broad sympathy which puts them in fellowship with crowds...
    GoW 4.277 1 ...[Goethe]...looked for [the Devil]...in every shade of coldness, selfishness and unbelief that, in crowds or in solitude, darkens over the human thought...
    Bty 6.297 14 Such crowds, [Walpole] adds elsewhere, flock to see the Duchess of Hamilton, that seven hundred people sat up all night...to see her get into her post-chaise next morning.
    Boks 7.194 1 The crowds and centuries of books are only commentary and elucidation, echoes and weakeners of these few great voices of time.
    SovE 10.200 14 ...as the [moral] sentiment purifies and rises, it leaves crowds.
    Carl 10.491 17 [Carlyle] treats [young men] with contempt;...they will eat vegetables and drink water, and he...describes with gusto the crowds of people who gaze at the sirloins in the dealer's shop-window...
    FSLN 11.221 9 ...[Webster's] arrival in any place was an event which drew crowds of people...
    ChiE 11.474 3 The immigrants from Asia come in crowds.
    PPr 12.380 7 ...he is the commander...whose eye not only sees details, but throws crowds of details into their right arrangement...
    Let 12.403 5 A friend of ours went five years ago to Illinois to buy a farm for his son. Though there were crowds of emigrants in the roads, the country was open on both sides...

crowds, v. (4)

    OS 2.265 5 ...Yonder masterful cuckoo/ Crowds every egg out of the nest,/ Quick or dead, except its own;/...
    ShP 4.207 7 That imagination which dilates the closet [Shakespeare] writes in to the world's dimension, crowds it with agents in rank and order, as quickly reduces the big reality to be the glimpses of the moon.
    GoW 4.286 23 ...certain love affairs [of Goethe] that came to nothing, as people say, have the strangest importance: he crowds us with details...
    PI 8.2 11 ...[Fancy] can knit/ What is past, what is done,/ With the web that 's just begun;/ Making free with time and size,/ Dwindles here, there magnifies,/ Swells a rain-drop to a tun;/ So to repeat/ No word or feat/ Crowds in a day the sum of ages,/ And blushing Love outwits the sages./

Crowe, Catherine Stevens, n (1)

    ET17 5.294 5 At Edinburgh...I made the acquaintance...of [John] Wilson, of Mrs. Crowe...

crowed, v. (1)

    LLNE 10.355 25 ...the men of science, art, intellect, are pretty sure to degenerate into selfish housekeepers, dependent on wine, coffee, furnace-heat, gas-light and fine furniture. Then instantly things swing the other way, and we suddenly find that civilization crowed too soon;...

crowing, v. (1)

    F 6.23 11 ...nothing is more disgusting than the crowing about liberty by slaves...

crown, adj. (1)

    ET5 5.83 16 More than the diamond Koh-i-noor, which glitters among their crown jewels, [the English] prize that dull pebble...whose poles turn themselves to the poles of the world...

crown, n. (21)

    LE 1.160 13 ...God gave me this crown...
    Con 1.299 27 Nature does not give the crown of its approbation, namely, beauty, to any action or emblem or actor but to one which combines both these elements [Conservatism and Reform];...
    Hsm1 2.246 5 My Dorigen,/ Yonder, above, 'bout Ariadne's crown,/ My spirit shall hover for thee. Prithee, haste./
    NMW 4.235 14 [Napoleon] laid his bones to, and wrought for his crown.
    ET6 5.109 23 [The English] keep...their wig and mace, sceptre and crown.
    ET10 5.164 3 [The English] have...no horse-guards dictating to the crown;...
    ET11 5.196 24 This is the charter, or the chartism, which fogs and seas and rains proclaimed [in England]...that work should wear the crown.
    Suc 7.289 4 Fuller says 't is a maxim of lawyers that a crown once worn cleareth all defects of the wearer thereof.
    QO 8.196 3 ...Hallam...distinguishes a lyric of Edwards or Vaux, and straightway it commends itself to us as if it had received the Isthmian crown.
    PC 8.207 10 The storm which has been resisted is a crown of honor and a pledge of strength to the ship.
    Prch 10.226 19 ...when [the railroads] came into his poetic Westmoreland... [Wordsworth] yet manned himself to say,-...Time,/ Pleased with your triumphs o'er his brother brother Space,/ Accepts from your bold hands the proffered crown/ Of hope and smiles on you with cheer sublime./
    Plu 10.318 14 ...wherever the Cid is relished, the legends of...Bonaparte, and Walter Scott's Chronicles in prose or verse,-there will Plutarch...sit as bestower of the crown of noble knighthood...
    Carl 10.497 2 Czar Nicholas was [Carlyle's] hero; for in the ignominy of Europe, when...no man was found with conscience enough to fire a gun for his crown...one man remained who believed he was put there by God Almighty to govern his empire...
    HDC 11.40 16 ...[The Concord settler's pastor said] if we come short in grace and holiness too, we are the most despicable people under heaven. Strive we, therefore, herein to excel, and suffer not this crown to be taken away from us.
    HDC 11.69 25 ...in conjunction with our brethren in America, we will risk our fortunes, and even our lives, in defence of his majesty, King George the Third, his person, crown and dignity;...
    HDC 11.71 9 In September [1774], incensed at the new royal law which made the judges dependent on the crown, the inhabitants [of Concord] assembled on the common...
    JBS 11.276 7 A thousand transformations rose/ From fair to foul, from foul to fair:/ The golden crown he did not spare,/ Nor scorn the beggar's clothes./
    HCom 11.339 12 We grudge them not, our dearest, bravest, best,-/ Let but the quarrel's issue stand confest:/ 'T is Earth's old slave-God battling for his crown/ And Freedom fighting with her visor down./ Holmes.
    Wom 11.408 6 Sappho...in the Olympic Games, gained the crown over Pindar.
    Wom 11.412 19 ...the starry crown of woman is in the power of her affection and sentiment...
    CPL 11.498 17 [Peter Bulkeley said] If we look to number, we are the fewest;...if to wealth and riches, we are the poorest of all the people of God through the whole world. We cannot excel, nor so much as equal other people in these things, and if we come short in grace and holiness too, we are the most despicable people under heaven. Strive we therefore herein to excel, and suffer not this crown to be taken away from us.

crown, v. (4)

    SR 2.78 22 ...[the self-helping man]...all honors crown...
    ShP 4.206 19 Betterton, Garrick, Kemble, Kean and Macready dedicate their lives to this genius [Shakespeare]; him they crown, elucidate, obey and express.
    Wsp 6.199 13 This is he men miscall Fate,/ Threading dark ways, arriving late,/ But ever coming in time to crown/ The truth, and hurl wrongdoers down./
    EPro 11.326 8 Incertainties now crown themselves assured,/ And Peace proclaims olives of endless age./

crowned, adj. (1)

    SwM 4.135 22 The excess of [Hebraic] influence shows itself [in Swedenborg] in the incongruous importation of a foreign rhetoric. What have I to do, asks the impatient reader, with...beryl and chalcedony;...what with...dragons crowned and horned...

crowned, v. (5)

    YA 1.394 20 Commanding worth and personal power must sit crowned in all companies...
    ET14 5.258 10 It was no Oxonian, but Hafiz, who said, Let us be crowned with roses, let us drink wine...
    ET16 5.289 25 I think I prefer this church [Winchester Cathedral] to all I have seen, except Westminster and York. Here was Canute buried, and here Alfred the Great was crowned and buried...
    DL 7.121 16 ...[the eager, blushing boys] sigh...for the theatre and premature freedom and dissipation, which others possess. Woe to them if their wishes were crowned!
    LLNE 10.341 1 [Channing] found [at Warren's house] a well-chosen assembly of gentlemen variously distinguished;...they were...drawing gently towards their great expectation, when a side-door opened, the whole company streamed in to an oyster supper, crowned by excellent wines;...

crowner, n. (1)

    PerF 10.82 8 ...when the soldier comes home from the fight, he fills all eyes. But the soldier has the same admiration of the great parliamentary debater. And poetry and literature are disdainful of all these claims beside their own. Like the boy who thought in turn...each of the three hundred and sixty-five days in the year the crowner.

crowning, adj. (4)

    LE 1.179 26 ...Napoleon...had also this crowning merit...
    CbW 6.267 6 ...the crowning fortune of a man, is to be born with a bias to some pursuit which finds him in employment and happiness...
    PI 8.1 1 But over all his crowning grace,/ Wherefor thanks God his daily praise,/ Is the purging of his eye/ To see the people of the sky/...
    Mem 12.103 9 If we recall our own favorites, we shall usually find that it is for one crowning act or thought that we hold them dear.

crowning, v. (1)

    ACri 12.298 14 ...one would think, the English people would...signify, by crowning [Carlyle] with a chaplet of oak-leaves, their joy that such a head existed among them...

crowns, n. (6)

    Comp 2.92 7 Laurel crowns cleave to deserts/...
    NMW 4.239 13 In his later days [Napoleon] had the weakness of wishing to add to his crowns and badges the prescription of aristocracy;...
    WD 7.175 25 Real kings hide away their crowns in their wardrobes...
    OA 7.322 17 We still feel the force...of Michel Angelo, wearing the four crowns of architecture, sculpture, painting and poetry;...
    MAng1 12.236 4 When the Pope...sent [Michelangelo] one hundred crowns of gold, as one month's wages, Michael sent them back.
    MAng1 12.238 16 ...[Michelangelo] was liberal to profusion to his old domestic Urbino, to whom he gave at one time two thousand crowns...

crow-quill, n. (1)

    MoS 4.167 9 As I look at [Montaigne's] effigy opposite the title-page, I seem to hear him say...I will rather mumble and prose about what I certainly know...than I will write, with a fine crow-quill, a fine romance.

croyez, v. (2)

    CbW 6.257 22 Croyez moi, l'erreur aussi a son merite, said Voltaire.
    PLT 12.55 21 Croyez moi, l'erreur aussi a son merite, said Voltaire.

crucible, n. (3)

    SwM 4.101 24 The genius [of Swedenborg] which was...to...attempt to establish a new religion in the world,--began its lessons...in the smelting-pot and crucible...
    Wth 6.126 3 The merchant has but one rule, absorb and invest;...the scraps and filings must be gathered back into the crucible;...
    LLNE 10.328 27 In science the French savant...with barometer, crucible, chemic test and calculus in hand, travels into all nooks and islands...

crucibles, n. (1)

    CL 12.160 22 ...[the earthquake] wrought to purpose in craters, and we borrowed the hint in crucibles.

crucified, adj. (1)

    Prd1 2.230 3 The Raphael in the Dresden gallery...is the quietest and most passionless piece you can imagine; a couple of saints who worship the Virgin and Child. it awakens a deeper impression than the contortions of ten crucified martyrs.

crucified, v. (1)

    LS 11.22 14 ...that for which Jesus gave himself to be crucified;...was to redeem us from a formal religion...

crucifixions, n. (2)

    CbW 6.255 10 What would painter do...but for crucifixions and hells?
    Trag 12.415 15 A tender American girl doubts of Divine Providence whilst she reads the horrors of the middle passage;...but to such as she these crucifixions do not come;...

crude, adj. (11)

    AmS 1.106 19 All the rest behold in the hero or the poet their own green and crude being...
    Hist 2.31 1 ...where [the story of Prometheus]...exhibits him as the defier of Jove, it represents a state of mind which readily appears wherever the doctrine of Theism is taught in a crude, objective form...
    Fdsp 2.216 15 Let your greatness educate the crude and cold companion.
    Cir 2.309 26 The idealism of Berkeley is only a crude statement of the idealism of Jesus...
    Cir 2.310 1 The idealism of Berkeley is only a crude statement of the idealism of Jesus, and that again is a crude statement of the fact that all nature is the rapid efflux of goodness executing and organizing itself.
    PPh 4.47 8 [Philosophy's] early records...are of the immigrations from Asia...a confusion of crude notions of morals and of natural philosophy...
    Plu 10.309 26 Except as historical curiosities, little can be said in behalf of the scientific value of [Plutarch's] Opinions of the Philosophers, the Questions and the Symposiacs. They are, for the most part, very crude opinions;...
    Thor 10.475 18 [Thoreau's] own verses are often rude and defective. The gold...is drossy and crude.
    EWI 11.103 23 ...the crude element of good in human affairs must work and ripen...
    FSLN 11.218 26 There is, no doubt, chaff enough in what [the newsboy] brings; but there is fact, thought, and wisdom in the crude mass...
    Wom 11.404 5 Lo, when the Lord made North and South,/ And sun and moon ordained he,/ Forth bringing each by word of mouth/ In order of its dignity,/ Did man from the crude clay express/ By sequence, and, all else decreed,/ He formed the woman; nor might less/ Than Sabbath such a work succeed./ Coventry Patmore.

crudity, n. (1)

    F 6.45 9 I find...that a crudity in the blood will appear in the argument;...

cruel, adj. (22)

    DSA 1.141 23 What a cruel injustice it is to that Law...that it is travestied and depreciated...
    MR 1.246 25 ...[infirm people] have a great deal more to do for themselves than they can possibly perform, nor do they once perceive the cruel joke of their lives...
    YA 1.373 6 [This Genius or Destiny] may be styled a cruel kindness...
    Comp 2.100 10 If the government is cruel, the governor's life is not safe.
    Comp 2.126 10 ...a cruel disappointment...seems at the moment unpaid loss, and unpayable.
    Art1 2.368 20 Is not the selfish and even cruel aspect which belongs to our great mechanical works...the effect of the mercenary impulses which these works obey?
    NMW 4.234 3 Horrible anecdotes may no doubt be collected from [Napoleon's] history, of the price at which he bought his successes; but he must not therefore be set down as cruel...
    NMW 4.234 4 Horrible anecdotes may no doubt be collected from [Napoleon's] history, of the price at which he bought his successes; but he must not therefore be set down as cruel...not bloodthirsty, not cruel,--but woe to what thing or person stood in his way!
    Ctr 6.137 25 'T is a cruel price we pay for certain fancy goods called fine arts and philosophy.
    CbW 6.254 1 ...the cruel wars which followed the march of Alexander introduced the civility, language and arts of Greece into the savage East;...
    Civ 7.26 3 Where the banana grows the animal system is...pampered at the cost of higher qualities: the man is sensual and cruel.
    Cour 7.258 23 Fear is cruel and mean.
    OA 7.324 27 To secure strength, [Nature] plants cruel hunger and thirst...
    Dem1 10.8 24 In dreams I see [Rupert] engaged in certain actions which seem...out of all fitness. He is hostile, he is cruel...
    Edc1 10.153 11 A sure proportion of rogue and dunce finds its way into every school and requires a cruel share of time...
    EzRy 10.392 22 Mr. N. F. is dead, and I expect to hear of the death of Mr. B. It is cruel to separate old people from their wives in this cold weather.
    MMEm 10.422 27 Channing paints [war's] miseries, but does he know those of a worse war...the cruel oppression of the poor by the rich...
    HDC 11.59 18 A nameless Wampanoag who was put to death by the Mohicans, after cruel tortures, was asked by his butchers, during the torture, how he liked the war?-he said, he found it as sweet as sugar was to Englishmen.
    EWI 11.110 26 In the [West Indian] islands was an ominous state of cruel and licentious society;...
    EWI 11.140 2 [The timid and base persons] would raise mobs, for fear is very cruel.
    War 11.153 26 [Alexander's conquest of the East] weaned the Scythians and Persians from some cruel and licentious practices to a more civil way of life.
    Bost 12.208 2 I know that this history [of Massachusetts] contains many black lines of cruel injustice;...

cruelest, adj. (1)

    SovE 10.188 21 The cruelest foe is a masked benefactor.

cruelties, n. (2)

    Pol1 3.210 3 The philosopher, the poet, or the religious man, will of course wish to cast his vote with the democrat...for the abolition of legal cruelties in the penal code...
    EWI 11.105 3 It became plain to all men, the more this business was looked into, that the crimes and cruelties of the slave-traders and slave-owners could not be overstated.

cruelty, n. (6)

    Boks 7.201 22 ...we must read the Clouds of Aristophanes, and what more of that master we gain appetite for...to know the tyranny of Aristophanes, requiring more genius and sometimes not less cruelty than belonged to the official commanders.
    SovE 10.191 3 These threads [of Necessity] are Nature's pernicious elements...the orphan's tears, the vices of men, lust, cruelty and pitiless avarice.
    War 11.157 17 Early in the eleventh and twelfth centuries, the Italian cities had grown so populous and strong that they forced the rural nobility to dismantle their castles, which were dens of cruelty...
    FSLC 11.193 12 If you starve or beat the orphan, in my presence, and I accuse your cruelty, can I help it?
    FSLC 11.193 23 The very defence which the God of Nature has provided for the innocent against cruelty is the sentiment of indignation and pity in the bosom of the beholder.
    Bost 12.203 11 ...there is always [in Boston]...always a heresiarch, whom the governor and deputies labor with but cannot silence. Some new light... some protester against the cruelty of the magistrates to the Quakers;...

Cruikshank, George, n. (1)

    ET19 5.309 15 Sir Archibald Alison, the historian, presided [at the Manchester Athenaeum Banquet], and opened the meeting with a speech. He was followed by Mr. Cobden...and others, among whom was Mr. Cruikshank, one of the contributors to Punch.

cruise, n. (1)

    OA 7.314 7 ...Lowly faithful, banish fear,/ Right onward drive unharmed;/ The port, well worth the cruise, is near,/ And every wave is charmed./

cruising, v. (1)

    ET4 5.56 2 Charlemagne, halting one day in a town of Narbonnese Gaul, looked out of a window and saw a fleet of Northmen cruising in the Mediterranean.

crumb, n. (1)

    PC 8.230 12 ...in this economical world, where every drop and every crumb is husbanded, the transcendent powers of mind were not meant to be disused.

crumbled, v. (2)

    FSLN 11.233 25 ...now you relied on these dismal guaranties infamously made in 1850; and, before the body of Webster is yet crumbled, it is found that they have crumbled.
    FSLN 11.233 26 ...now you relied on these dismal guaranties infamously made in 1850; and, before the body of Webster is yet crumbled, it is found that they have crumbled.

crumbles, v. (1)

    Fdsp 2.216 24 True love transcends the unworthy object...and when the poor interposed mask crumbles, it is not sad...

crumbling, adj. (2)

    ET11 5.188 19 In these [English] manors...the antiquary finds the frailest Roman jar or crumbling Egyptian mummy-case, without so much as a new layer of dust...
    PI 8.51 12 ...they adorned the sepulchres of the dead, and, planting thereon lasting bases, defied the crumbling touches of time...

crumbling, v. (1)

    Chr2 10.118 13 ...in the new importance of the individual, when thrones are crumbling...society is threatened with actual granulation, religious as well as political.

crumbs, n. (3)

    NR 3.237 26 ...the frugal farmer takes care that...swine shall eat the waste of his house, and poultry shall pick the crumbs...
    ET16 5.289 18 This hospitality of seven hundred years' standing [at the Church of Saint Cross] did not hinder Carlyle from pronouncing a malediction on the priest who receives 2000 pounds a year, that were meant for the poor, and spends a pittance on this small-beer and crumbs.
    PLT 12.32 19 Though the world is full of food we can take only the crumbs fit for us.

Crump, n. (1)

    SL 2.134 3 When we see a soul whose acts are all regal, graceful and pleasant as roses, we must...not...say, Crump is a better man with his grunting resistance to all his native devils.

Crump's, Mr., n. (1)

    ET9 5.144 12 Every individual [in England] has his particular way of living, which he pushes to folly, and the decided sympathy of his compatriots is engaged to back up Mr. Crump's whim by statutes and chancellors and horse-guards.

crusade, n. (5)

    NR 3.247 7 If...the hearer who is ready to sell all and join the crusade could have any certificate that to-morrow his prophet shall not unsay his testimony!
    Wsp 6.206 17 What Gothic mixtures the Christian creed drew from the pagan sources, Richard of Devizes' chronicle of Richard I.'s crusade, in the twelfth century, may show.
    PI 8.34 20 'T is easy to repaint the mythology...of...the crusade...
    Koss 11.400 27 ...this new crusade which you [Kossuth] preach to willing and to unwilling ears in America is a seed of armed men.
    Bost 12.200 17 ...a war, a crusade...speak to the imagination...

Crusade, n. (1)

    FSLN 11.244 3 ...Liberty is the Crusade of all brave and conscientious men...

crusader, n. (1)

    Wsp 6.205 5 The god of the cannibals will be a cannibal, of the crusaders a crusader...

Crusader, Sigurd [Sturluson (1)

    ET4 5.60 3 History rarely yields us better passages than the conversation between King Sigurd the Crusader and King Eystein his brother...

crusaders, n. (2)

    ET4 5.66 4 The bronze monuments of crusaders lying cross-legged in the Temple Church at London...are of the same type as the best youthful heads of men now in England;...
    Wsp 6.205 5 The god of the cannibals will be a cannibal, of the crusaders a crusader...

crusades, n. (3)

    LT 1.269 7 The leaders of the crusades against War, Negro slavery...are the right successors of Luther, Knox...
    ET13 5.215 21 The power of the religious sentiment [in England]...inspired the crusades...
    Chr2 10.118 3 The power that in other times inspired crusades...flies to the help of the deaf-mute and the blind...

Crusades, n. (2)

    PI 8.59 25 The Crusades brought out the genius of France...
    MoL 10.244 11 See the activity of the imagination in the Crusades...

crusading, v. (1)

    FSLC 11.187 22 [Resistance to the Fugitive Slave Law] is not going crusading into Virginia and Georgia after slaves...

crush, v. (7)

    Fdsp 2.195 13 It is almost dangerous to me to crush the sweet poison of misused wine of the affections.
    Pol1 3.212 3 It makes no difference how many tons' weight of atmosphere presses on our heads, so long as the same pressure resists it within the lungs. Augment the mass a thousand-fold, it cannot begin to crush us, as long as reaction is equal to action.
    MoS 4.177 6 The word Fate...expresses the sense of mankind...that the laws of the world...often hurt and crush us.
    ET4 5.59 2 Another pair [of Norse kings] ride out on a morning for a frolic, and finding no weapon near, will take the bits out of their horses' mouths and crush each other's heads with them...
    Clbs 7.240 16 What can you do with Beaumarchais, who converts the censor whom the court has appointed to stifle his play into an ardent advocate? The court appoints another censor, who shall crush it this time. Beaumarchais persuades him to defend it.
    Res 8.152 26 ...the cart-wheel in the road may crush [the willows];...
    LVB 11.93 9 ...how could we call the conspiracy that should crush these poor [Cherokee] Indians our government...

crushed, v. (11)

    MN 1.199 21 If anything could stand still, it would be crushed and dissipated by the torrent it resisted...
    YA 1.373 18 It is because Nature thus saves and uses, laboring for the general, that we poor particulars are so crushed and straitened...
    Comp 2.108 5 ...when the Thasians erected a statue to Theagenes, a victor in the games, one of his rivals went to it by night and endeavored to throw it down by repeated blows, until at last he moved it from its pedestal and was crushed to death beneath its fall.
    ET10 5.168 14 Steam from the first hissed and screamed to warn him; it was dreadful with its explosion, and crushed the engineer.
    F 6.7 20 At Naples three years ago ten thousand persons were crushed in a few minutes.
    F 6.24 27 We should be crushed by the atmosphere, but for the reaction of the air within the body.
    F 6.49 14 Why should we fear to be crushed by savage elements...
    Pow 6.73 1 [Michel Angelo] was not crushed by his one picture left unfinished at last.
    Bhr 6.187 16 Friendship should be surrounded with ceremonies and respects, and not crushed into corners.
    MMEm 10.423 23 O Time! thou loiterer. Thou, whose might has laid low the vastest and crushed the worm, restest on thy hoary throne...
    Let 12.401 22 ...where the divine nature and the artist is crushed, the sweetness of life is gone...

crushes, v. (3)

    Carl 10.493 16 ...this man [Carlyle] is a hammer that crushes mediocrity and pretension.
    ALin 11.337 22 There is a serene Providence which rules the fate of nations, which...crushes everything immoral as inhuman...
    Trag 12.407 3 The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an intellectual source is the belief in a brute Fate or Destiny; the belief that the order of Nature and events is controlled by a law...which holds on its way to the end...heedless whether it serves or crushes [man].

crushing, adj. (2)

    F 6.8 7 ...the forms of the shark...the jaw of the sea-wolf paved with crushing teeth...are hints of ferocity in the interiors of nature.
    CbW 6.253 17 ...savage forest laws and crushing despotism made possible the inspirations of Magna Charta under John.

crushing, v. (2)

    FSLN 11.240 14 ...all the statesmen...are sure to be found befriending liberty with their words, and crushing it with their votes.
    Trag 12.407 1 The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an intellectual source is the belief in a brute Fate or Destiny; the belief that the order of Nature and events is controlled by a law...which holds on its way to the end...crushing [man] if his wishes lie contrary to it...

Crusoe, Robinson [Daniel D (3)

    ET1 5.17 4 Tristram Shandy was one of [Carlyle's] first books after Robinson Crusoe...
    DL 7.106 22 ...Robinson Crusoe...what mines of thought and emotion...are in this encyclopaedia of young thinking!
    Thor 10.457 3 I said [to Thoreau], Who would not like to write something which all can read, like Robinson Crusoe?...

Crusoe, Robinson [Defoe, R (1)

    CPL 11.497 5 Robinson Crusoe, could he have had a shelf of our books, could almost have done without his man Friday...

crust, n. (9)

    MN 1.196 6 ...as soon as [the grand inquisitor] probes the crust, behold gimlet, plumb-line, and philosopher take a lateral direction...
    MN 1.196 13 ...if you come month after month to see what progress our reformer has made...you still find him...floating about in new parts of the same old vein or crust.
    MR 1.254 25 Have you not seen in the woods...a poor fungus or mushroom...manage to break its way up through the frosty ground, and actually to lift a hard crust on its head?
    Wth 6.89 2 Wealth requires, besides the crust of bread and the roof,--the freedom of the city, the freedom of the earth...
    Farm 7.152 24 This crust of soil which ages have refined [the farmer] refines again for the feeding of a civil and instructed people.
    Elo2 8.132 11 ...the Andes and Alleghanies indicate the line of the fissure in the crust of the earth along which they were lifted...
    PerF 10.70 11 One half the avoirdupois of the rocks which compose the solid crust of the globe consists of oxygen.
    HDC 11.29 21 The river...every winter, for ages, has spread its crust of ice over the great meadows which, in ages, it had formed.
    FSLC 11.202 24 We delighted...in [Webster's] daylight statement, simple force; the facts lay...like the layers of the crust of the globe.

crusts, n. (1)

    Grts 8.312 10 ...the stratification of crusts in geology is not more precise than the degrees of rank in minds.

crutches, n. (2)

    SR 2.85 7 [The civilized man] is supported on crutches, but lacks so much support of muscle.
    PC 8.227 22 It is only in the sleep of the soul that we help ourselves by so many ingenious crutches and machineries.

cry, n. (20)

    AmS 1.102 14 ...it becomes [the scholar]...to defer never to the popular cry.
    MN 1.222 27 The doctrine of this Supreme Presence is a cry of joy and exultation.
    YA 1.380 7 ...the swelling cry of voices for the education of the people indicates that Government has other offices than those of banker and executioner.
    SR 2.46 5 [Great works of art] teach us to abide by our spontaneous impression...then most when the whole cry of voices is on the other side.
    PPh 4.58 6 ...the anecdotes that have come down from the times attest [Plato's] manly interference before the people in his master's behalf, since even the savage cry of the assembly to Plato is preserved;...
    MoS 4.184 9 [The divine Providence] has shown the heaven and earth to every child and filled him with a desire for the whole;...a cry of famine, as of devils for souls.
    ET11 5.189 10 Against the cry of the old tenantry and the sympathetic cry of the English press, the [English nobility] have rooted out and planted anew...
    ET11 5.189 11 Against the cry of the old tenantry and the sympathetic cry of the English press, the [English nobility] have rooted out and planted anew...
    Ctr 6.140 17 There are people who...remain literalists, after hearing the music and poetry and rhetoric and wit of seventy or eighty years. ... But even these can understand pitchforks and the cry of Fire!...
    PI 8.57 14 ...we listen to [the early bard] as we do to the Indian, or the hunter, or miner, each of whom represents his facts as accurately as the cry of the wolf or the eagle tells of the forest or the air they inhabit.
    Elo2 8.116 1 I must feel that the speaker...comes for something,--it is a cry on the perilous edge of the fight,--or let him be silent.
    PC 8.207 15 Was ever such coincidence of advantages in time and place as in America to-day?...the hungry cry for men which goes up from the wide continent;...
    Prch 10.231 10 There are always plenty of young, ignorant people... wanting peremptorily instruction; but in the usual averages of parishes, only one person that is qualified to give it. ... It does not signify what [the others] say or think to-day; 't is the cry and the babble of the nursery...
    MoL 10.243 2 America at large exhibited such a confusion as California showed in 1849, when the cry of gold was first raised.
    HDC 11.74 22 Major Buttrick leaped from the ground, and gave the command to fire, which was repeated in a simultaneous cry by all his men.
    War 11.174 23 If the universal cry for reform of so many inveterate abuses, with which society rings...be an omen to be trusted;...then war has a short day...
    FSLC 11.201 4 [John Randolph's] words...come down now like the cry of Fate...
    FSLN 11.229 7 The way in which the country was dragged to consent to this [Fugitive Slave Law], and the disastrous defection (on the miserable cry of Union) of the men of letters...was the darkest passage in the history.
    EPro 11.325 17 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.
    Trag 12.409 10 Hark! what sounds on the night wind, the cry of Murder in that friendly house;...

cry, v. (24)

    LE 1.171 19 ...[the light] is gone before you can cry, Hold.
    Con 1.306 22 ...[the youth] says, If I am born in the earth...have the goodness, gentlemen of this world, to show me...my pleasant ground where to build my cabin. Touch any wood, or field, or house-lot, on your peril, cry all the gentlemen of this world;...
    Con 1.321 26 [The sagacious] detect the falsehood of the preaching, but when they say so, all good citizens cry, Hush;...
    Con 1.322 7 ...wherever he sees anything that will keep men amused... [every honest fellow] must cry Hist-a-boy, and urge the game on.
    Tran 1.343 6 Like the young Mozart, [Transcendentalists] are rather ready to cry ten times a day, But are you sure you love me?
    SR 2.78 15 We come to them who weep foolishly and sit down and cry for company...
    SL 2.156 16 Doth not Wisdom cry and Understanding put forth her voice?
    Exp 3.61 21 The fine young people despise life, but in me...to whom a day is a sound and solid good, it is a great excess of politeness to look scornful and cry for company.
    UGM 4.27 13 They cry up the virtues of George Washington...
    PPh 4.45 21 Children cry, scream and stamp with fury, unable to express their desires.
    MoS 4.158 21 ...it is alleged that labor impairs the form and breaks the spirit of man, and the laborers cry unanimously, We have no thoughts.
    NMW 4.258 8 ...the universal cry of France and of Europe in 1814 was, Enough of him; Assez de Bonaparte.
    Wth 6.123 27 Not less within doors a system settles itself paramount and tyrannical over master and mistress...cousin and acquaintance. 'T is in vain that genius or virtue or energy of character strive and cry against it.
    Bty 6.304 16 Every word has a double, treble or centuple use and meaning. What! has my stove and pepper-pot a false bottom? I cry you mercy, good shoe-box! I did not know you were a jewel-case.
    Ill 6.315 8 ...I have known gentlemen of great stake in the community...who held themselves bound to...cry Hist-a-boy! to every good dog.
    Clbs 7.234 11 We know beforehand that yonder man must think as we do. Has he not two hands,--two feet,--hair and nails? Does he not eat,--bleed,-- laugh,--cry?
    Suc 7.293 23 It is the dulness of the multitude that they cannot see the house in the ground-plan; the working, in the model of the projector. Whilst it is a thought...it is cried down, it is a chimera; but when it is a fact, and comes in the shape of...a hundred per cent., they cry, It is the voice of God.
    MMEm 10.410 18 When...Elizabeth Hoar, was at the Vale, and had gone out to walk in the forest with Hannah, her niece, Aunt Mary [Moody Emerson]...found a man in the next house and begged him to go and look for them. The man went and returned saying that he could not find them. Go and cry, Elizabeth.
    HDC 11.72 17 On 13th March [1775]...[William Emerson] preached to a very full assembly, taking for his text, 2 Chronicles xiii.12, And, behold, God himself is with us for our captain, and his priests with sounding trumpets to cry alarm against you.
    War 11.170 19 ...[public meetings] vote and vote, cry hurrah on both sides...
    SMC 11.354 6 ...the moment you cry Every man to his tent, O Israel! the delusions of hope and fear are at an end;...
    SMC 11.368 6 How would Concord people, [George Prescott] asks, like to pass the night on the battle-field, and hear the dying cry for help, and not be able to go to them.
    MLit 12.327 24 We think, when we contemplate the stupendous glory of the world, that it were life enough for one man merely to lift his hands and cry with Saint Augustine, Wrangle who pleases, I will wonder.
    WSL 12.339 2 ...[Landor] delights to throw a clod of dirt on the table, and cry, Gentlemen, there is a better man than all of you.

crying, v. (2)

    LT 1.272 19 The new voices in the wilderness, crying Repent, have revived a hope...that the thoughts of the mind may yet...be executed by the hands.
    Tran 1.341 11 [Many intelligent and religious persons] are striking work, and crying out for somewhat worthy to do!

crypt, n. (2)

    ET16 5.290 1 [Winchester Cathedral] is very old: part of the crypt into which we went down and saw the Saxon and Norman arches of the old church on which the present stands, was built fourteen or fifteen hundred years ago.
    Res 8.149 23 ...the guide kindled a Roman candle, and held it here and there shooting its fireballs successively into each crypt of the groined roof [of the Mammoth Cave]...

cryptic, adj. (1)

    Exp 3.77 11 The subject is the receiver of Godhead, and at every comparison must feel his being enhanced by that cryptic might.

crystal, adj. (9)

    MN 1.195 24 The crystal sphere of thought is as concentrical as the geological structure of the globe.
    Bhr 6.177 9 Men are like Geneva watches with crystal faces which expose the whole movement.
    Ill 6.310 22 Some crystal specks in the black ceiling high overhead [in the Mammoth Cave], reflecting the light of a half-hid lamp, yielded this magnificent effect.
    SS 7.1 25 ...As if in [Seyd] the welkin walked,/ The winds took flesh, the mountains talked,/ And he the bard, a crystal soul,/ Sphered and concentric with the whole./
    PI 8.52 25 We do not enclose watches in wooden, but in crystal cases...
    PPo 8.263 6 ...quarry thy stones from the crystal All,/ And build the dome that shall not fall./
    SlHr 10.448 4 There was no elegance in [Samuel Hoar's] reading or tastes beyond the crystal clearness of his mind.
    CL 12.139 15 If we have coarse days, and dogdays...and days that are like ice-blinks, we have also yellow days, and crystal days,-days which are... the perfection of temperature.
    WSL 12.341 17 When we pronounce the names of...Ben Jonson and Isaak Walton; Dryden and Pope,-we...enter into a region of the purest pleasure accessible to human nature. We have...entered that crystal sphere in which everything in the world of matter reappears, but transfigured and immortal.

crystal, n. (10)

    Nat 1.40 23 ...every chemical change from the rudest crystal up to the laws of life...shall hint or thunder to man the laws of right and wrong...
    Nat 1.43 11 A leaf, a drop, a crystal, a moment of time, is related to the whole...
    Nat2 3.172 11 The fall of snowflakes in a still air, preserving to each crystal its perfect form; the blowing of sleet over a wide sheet of water... these are the music and pictures of the most ancient religion.
    Nat2 3.183 24 ...moon, plant, gas, crystal, are concrete geometry and numbers.
    UGM 4.9 13 ...every organ, function, acid, crystal, grain of dust, has its relation to the brain.
    SwM 4.133 4 The universe [in Swedenborg's system of the world] is a gigantic crystal...
    Art2 7.50 15 A masterpiece of art has in the mind a fixed place in the chain of being, as much as a plant or a crystal.
    PC 8.213 3 ...the rocks of Nahant or the dikes of the White Hills disclose that the world is a crystal...
    Aris 10.38 5 How sturdy seem to us in the history, those...Burgundies and Guesclins of the old warlike ages! We can hardly believe...that an ague or fever, a drop of water or a crystal of ice ended them.
    NHI 12.1 3 Bacon's perfect law of inquiry after truth was that nothing should be in the globe of matter which was not also in the globe of crystal;...

Crystal Palace, England, n. (1)

    ET10 5.156 4 The Crystal Palace is not considered honest until it pays;...

Crystal Palaces, n. (1)

    Wsp 6.225 8 The way to conquer the foreign artisan is, not to kill him, but to beat his work. And the Crystal Palaces and World Fairs...are the result of this feeling.

crystallization, n. (1)

    LE 1.169 12 ...the broad, cold lowland which forms its coat of vapor with the stillness of subterranean crystallization;...this beauty...has never been recorded by art...

crystallize, v. (2)

    ET13 5.225 19 No chemist has prospered in the attempt to crystallize a religion.
    F 6.39 13 The ulterior aim...the correlation by which planets subside and crystallize...will not stop but will work into finer particulars...

crystallized, v. (2)

    Nat2 3.196 16 Man imprisoned, man crystallized, man vegetative, speaks to man impersonated.
    SMC 11.350 21 ...as we have learned that the upheaved mountain, from which these discs or flakes were broken, was once a glowing mass at white heat, slowly crystallized, then uplifted by the central fires of the globe: so the roots of events [the Concord Monument] appropriately marks are in the heart of the universe.

crystallizes, v. (1)

    Supl 10.175 9 ...Nature...crystallizes in water at one invariable angle...in granite at one;...

crystals, n. (5)

    SwM 4.106 6 [Swedenborg's] varied and solid knowledge makes his style lustrous...and resembling one of those winter mornings when the air sparkles with crystals.
    PI 8.13 21 ...if crystals, if alkalies...say what I say, it must be true.
    PI 8.19 24 ...mountains, crystals, plants, animals, are seen; that which makes them is not seen...
    SlHr 10.446 5 ...so entirely was [Samuel Hoar's] respect to the ground-plan and substructure of society a natural ability...that it was...like one of those opaque crystals...not less perfect in their angles and structure, and only less beautiful, than the transparent topazes and diamonds.
    CL 12.163 26 [The principle of levity] is related to the purest of the world, to gravity, the growth of grass, and the angles of crystals.

Ctesiphon, Mesopotamia, n. (1)

    Nat2 3.174 17 In [the stars'] soft glances I see what men strove to realize in some...Ctesiphon.

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