Deaf to Declaring

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

deaf, adj. (21)

    Nat 1.34 6 When in fortunate hours we ponder this miracle, the wise man doubts if at all other times he is not blind and deaf;...
    Nat 1.45 26 ...far different from the deaf and dumb nature around them, these [human forms] all rest...on the unfathomed sea of thought and virtue...
    MR 1.249 26 ...[the Americans] are deaf to a sentiment.
    Hsm1 2.263 19 ...in the hour when we are deaf to the higher voices, who does not envy those who have seen safely to an end their manful endeavor?
    PPh 4.52 14 The country...of men faithful in doctrine and in practice to the idea of a deaf, unimplorable, immense fate, is Asia;...
    PPh 4.74 27 Crito bribed the jailer; but Socrates would not go out by treachery. Whatever inconvenience ensue, nothing is to be preferred before justice. These things I hear like pipes and drums, whose sound makes me deaf to every thing you say.
    MoS 4.177 9 We paint...Destiny, deaf.
    ET5 5.81 9 ...when [English] courts and parliament are both deaf, the plaintiff is not silenced.
    ET6 5.105 18 In a company of strangers you would think [the Englishman] deaf;...
    Wsp 6.199 19 [Fate] is Jove, who, deaf to prayers,/ Floods with blessings unawares./
    PI 8.59 21 [Odin] could make his enemies in battle blind or deaf...
    QO 8.195 23 Hallam...is...able to appreciate poetry unless it becomes deep, being always blind and deaf to imaginative and analogy-loving souls...
    Edc1 10.142 8 The [solitary] man is, as it were, born deaf and dumb...
    SovE 10.207 22 [The mystic or theist] knows the laws of gravitation and of repulsion are deaf to French talkers...
    Schr 10.259 6 For thought, and not praise,/ Thought is the wages/ For which I sell days,/ Will gladly sell ages,/ And willing grow old,/ Deaf and dumb, blind and cold/...
    HDC 11.29 10 Our ears shall not be deaf to the voice of time.
    FSLN 11.239 19 The national spirit in this country is so...preoccupied with interest, deaf to principle.
    FSLN 11.239 22 In 1825 Greece found America deaf, Poland found America deaf...
    FSLN 11.239 23 In 1825 Greece found America deaf...Italy and Hungary found her deaf.
    PLT 12.32 26 What can Plato or Newton teach, if you are deaf or incapable?
    Pray 12.352 3 ...what led us to these remembrances [of prayers] was the happy accident which in this undevout age lately brought us acquainted with two or three diaries, which attest...the eternity of the sentiment and its equality to itself through all the variety of expression. The first is the prayer of a deaf and dumb boy...

deaf, n. (2)

    Tran 1.357 11 Grave seniors talk to the deaf...
    CPL 11.503 5 Think how indigent Nature must appear to the blind, the deaf, and the idiot.

deafest, adj. (1)

    GoW 4.290 12 Genius hovers with [Goethe's] sunshine and music close by the darkest and deafest eras.

deaf-mute, n. (1)

    Chr2 10.118 5 The power that in other times inspired...the modern revivals, flies to the help of the deaf-mute and the blind...

deafness, n. (4)

    AmS 1.104 26 What deafness...you behold is there only by sufferance...
    OA 7.316 12 Nature lends herself to these illusions [of time], and adds dim sight, deafness...
    Prch 10.234 25 ...though I observe the deafness to counsel among men, yet the power of sympathy is always great;...
    LVB 11.92 18 The piety, the principle that is left in the United States... forbid us to entertain [the relocation of the Cherokees] as a fact. Such a dereliction of all faith and virtue, such a denial of justice, and such deafness to screams for mercy were never heard of in times of peace...

deal, adj. (1)

    Clbs 7.227 9 The understanding can no more empty itself by its own action than can a deal box.

deal, n. (57)

    MN 1.203 4 ...we are steadied by the perception that a great deal is doing;...
    MR 1.246 23 ...[infirm people] have a great deal more to do for themselves than they can possibly perform...
    LT 1.275 11 A great deal of the profoundest thinking of antiquity...is now re-appearing in extracts and allusions...
    Tran 1.355 25 There is...a great deal of well-founded objection to be spoken or felt against the sayings and doings of this class [Transcendentalists]...
    YA 1.381 18 [The farmer's condition] seemed a great deal worse, because the farmer is living in the same town with men who pretend to know exactly what he wants.
    Fdsp 2.191 1 We have a great deal more kindness than is ever spoken.
    Exp 3.47 7 'T is the trick of nature thus to degrade to-day; a good deal of buzz, and somewhere a result slipped magically in.
    Exp 3.84 12 In good earnest I am willing to spare this most unnecessary deal of doing.
    Exp 3.85 17 It takes a good deal of time to eat or to sleep...
    NR 3.227 17 We consecrate a great deal of nonsense because it was allowed by great men.
    NR 3.231 6 In the famous dispute with the Nominalists, the Realists had a good deal of reason.
    NER 3.276 20 ...the swift moments we spend with [those who love us] are a compensation for a great deal of misery;...
    UGM 4.6 7 We take a great deal of pains to waylay and entrap that which of itself will fall into our hands.
    NMW 4.238 13 Before he fought a battle, Bonaparte thought...a great deal about what he should do in case of a reverse of fortune.
    GoW 4.274 16 [Goethe] writes in the plainest and lowest tone, omitting a great deal more than he writes...
    GoW 4.287 26 When [Goethe] sits down to write a drama or a tale, he collects and sorts his observations from a hundred sides, and combines them into the body as fitly as he can. A great deal refuses to incorporate...
    GoW 4.288 1 When [Goethe] sits down to write a drama or a tale, he collects and sorts his observations from a hundred sides, and combines them into the body as fitly as he can. A great deal refuses to incorporate: this he adds loosely as letters of the parties, leaves from their journals, and the like. A great deal still is left that will not find any place.
    ET1 5.16 16 At one time [Carlyle] had inquired and read a good deal about America.
    ET1 5.23 12 [Wordsworth] replied he never was in haste to publish; partly because he corrected a good deal...
    ET16 5.274 10 Art and high art is a favorite target for [Carlyle's] wit. Yes, Kunst is a great delusion, and Goethe and Schiller wasted a great deal of good time on it...
    F 6.13 9 A good deal of our politics is physiological.
    F 6.16 24 The German and Irish millions...have a great deal of guano in their destiny.
    Pow 6.75 22 It requires a great deal of boldness and a great deal of caution to make a great fortune [said Rothschild]...
    Wth 6.102 24 Forty years ago, a dollar would not buy much in Boston. Now it will buy a great deal more in our old town...
    Ctr 6.155 8 There is a great deal of self-denial and manliness in poor and middle-class houses in town and country, that has not got into literature...
    Bhr 6.188 14 People masquerade before us...as...senators, or professors, or great lawyers, and impose on the frivolous, and a good deal on each other, by these fames.
    CbW 6.274 22 ...one may take a good deal of pains to bring people together...and yet no result come of it.
    CbW 6.274 25 ...there is a great deal of good in us that does not know itself...
    Ill 6.314 24 I knew a humorist who in a good deal of rattle had a grain or two of sense.
    Elo1 7.80 15 ...among our cool and calculating people...there is a good deal of skepticism as to extraordinary influence.
    Farm 7.147 7 There is a great deal of enchantment in a chestnut rail or picketed pine boards.
    Boks 7.192 16 It seems...as if some charitable soul, after losing a great deal of time among the false books and alighting upon a few true ones which made him happy and wise, would do a right act in naming those which have been bridges or ships to carry him safely over dark morasses and barren oceans...
    Clbs 7.245 18 [A club] requires people...who take a great deal for granted.
    Suc 7.305 4 ...'t is plain to the visitor that 't is of no importance at all about Odoacer and 't is a great deal of importance about Sylvina...
    Suc 7.305 6 ...if [Sylvina] says [Odoacer] was defeated, why he had better a great deal have been defeated than give her a moment's annoy.
    OA 7.332 24 [John Adams said] I have lived now nearly a century (he was ninety in the following October); a long, harassed and distracted life. I said, The world thinks a good deal of joy has been mixed with it.
    Res 8.151 19 The first care of a man settling in the country should be to open the face of the earth to himself by a little knowledge of Nature, or a great deal, if he can;...
    Insp 8.281 12 Some people will tell you there is a great deal of poetry and fine sentiment in a chest of tea.
    Imtl 8.332 20 ...you shall find a good deal of skepticism in the streets...
    Schr 10.276 3 There is a great deal of spiritual energy in the universe...
    Plu 10.305 8 ...I had rather a great deal that men should say, There was no such man at all as Plutarch, than that they should say that there was one Plutarch that would eat up his children as soon as they were born, as the poets speak of Saturn.
    LLNE 10.331 26 [Everett] had a good deal of special learning...
    LLNE 10.361 17 The young people [at Brook Farm] lived a great deal in a short time...
    CSC 10.374 5 These meetings [of the Chardon Street Convention] attracted a great deal of public attention...
    CSC 10.374 17 ...a great deal of confusion, eccentricity and freak appeared [at the Chardon Street Convention]...
    CSC 10.376 1 There was a great deal of wearisome speaking in each of those three-days' sessions [of the Chardon Street Convention]...
    FSLC 11.182 17 [The crisis over the Fugitive Slave Law] ended a good deal of nonsense we had been wont to hear and to repeat...
    SMC 11.357 15 At a halt in the march, a few of our boys were sitting on a rail fence, talking together whether it was right to sacrifice themselves. One of them said, he had been thinking a good deal about it, last night, and he thought one was never too young to die for a principle.
    SMC 11.367 22 In McClellan's retreat in the Peninsula, in July, 1862, it is all our men can do to draw their feet out of the mud. We marched one mile through mud...a good deal of the way over my boots...
    FRep 11.530 23 We have...a great deal of lying vanity.
    II 12.72 5 The poetic state given, a little more or a good deal more or less performance seems indifferent.
    II 12.72 25 The reformer comes with many plans of melioration, and the basis on which he wishes to build his new world, a great deal of money.
    CL 12.156 4 ...a view from a cliff over a wide country undoes a good deal of prose...
    Bost 12.199 16 John Smith says...nothing would be done for a plantation, till about some hundred of your Brownists of England, Amsterdam and Leyden went to New Plymouth; whose humorous ignorances caused them for more than a year to endure a wonderful deal of misery, with an infinite patience.
    ACri 12.302 22 ...when we came, in the woods, to a clump of goldenrod,- Ah! [Channing] says, here they are! these things consume a great deal of time. I don't know but they are of more importance than any other of our investments.
    WSL 12.338 16 [Landor is] A sharp, dogmatic man, with a great deal of knowledge, a great deal of worth, and a great deal of pride;...
    WSL 12.338 17 [Landor is] A sharp, dogmatic man, with a great deal of knowledge, a great deal of worth, and a great deal of pride;...

deal, v. (56)

    Nat 1.42 4 All things with which we deal, preach to us.
    LE 1.175 6 Pindar, Raphael...dwell in crowds it may be, but the instant thought comes...they spurn personal relations; they deal with abstractions...
    MR 1.247 16 If we...say,-I will [not]...deal with any person whose whole manner of life is not clear and rational, we shall stand still.
    SR 2.89 21 ...do thou...deal with Cause and Effect...
    Fdsp 2.202 20 ...I...may deal with [a friend] with the simplicity and wholeness with which one chemical atom meets another.
    Prd1 2.228 10 It is vinegar to the eyes to deal with men of loose and imperfect perception.
    Prd1 2.229 5 Scatter-brained and afternoon men spoil much more than their own affair in spoiling the temper of those who deal with them.
    OS 2.292 8 Deal so plainly with man and woman as to constrain the utmost sincerity...
    Exp 3.60 27 ...we should...do broad justice where we are, by whomsoever we deal with...
    Chr1 3.93 1 ...[the natural merchant] inspires respect and the wish to deal with him...
    Chr1 3.112 4 Could we not deal with a few persons,--with one person,-- after the unwritten statutes...
    Nat2 3.194 13 We cannot...deal with [Nature] as we deal with persons.
    NR 3.235 19 Thus we settle it in our cool libraries, that all the agents with which we deal are subalterns...
    ShP 4.208 25 ...with Shakspeare for biographer...we have really the information [about Shakespeare] which is material;...that which, if we were about to meet the man and deal with him, would most import us to know.
    NMW 4.239 26 Those who had to deal with him found that [Bonaparte] was not to be imposed upon...
    ET8 5.138 22 Our swifter Americans, when they first deal with English, pronounce them stupid;...
    Pow 6.63 16 Men expect from good whigs put into office by the respectability of the country, much less skill to deal with Mexico...than from some strong transgressor, like Jefferson or Jackson...
    Pow 6.68 8 All the elements whose aid man calls in will sometimes become his masters, especially those of most subtle force. Shall he then renounce steam, fire and electricity, or shall he learn to deal with them?
    Bhr 6.183 21 ...if [the enthusiast] finds the scholar apart from his companions...the scholar has no defence, but must deal on his terms.
    Bhr 6.185 1 The aspect of that man is repulsive; I do not wish to deal with him.
    Bhr 6.192 25 That is the charm in all good novels...that the heroes...deal loyally and with a profound trust in each other.
    Wsp 6.213 27 ...we are never without a hint...that we are one day to deal with real being...
    CbW 6.274 20 You cannot deal systematically with this fine element of society...
    CbW 6.276 7 If you are proposing only your own, the other party must deal a little hardly by you.
    CbW 6.276 8 If you deal generously, the other...will...deal truly with you.
    CbW 6.276 10 If you deal generously, the other, though selfish and unjust, will make an exception in your favor, and deal truly with you.
    Ill 6.322 23 ...we must...deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth.
    Elo1 7.75 22 In a Senate or other business committee, the solid result depends on a few men with working talent. They know how to deal with the facts before them...
    DL 7.133 22 ...whoso shall teach me how to eat my meat and take my repose and deal with men, without any shame following, will restore the life of man to splendor...
    WD 7.173 26 How difficult to deal erect with [these passing hours]!
    Clbs 7.241 14 We consider those...who think it the highest compliment they can pay a man to deal with him as an intellect...
    Cour 7.276 16 ...we must have a scope as large as Nature's to deal with beast-like men...
    PI 8.4 6 ...whilst we deal with this [existence of matter] as finality, early hints are given that we are not to stay here;...
    PI 8.14 2 [Men] assimilate themselves to [a new symbol], deal with it in all ways...
    PI 8.15 7 ...these Orientals [the Hindoos] deal with worlds and pebbles freely.
    PI 8.38 13 ...Milton, Hafiz, Ossian, the Welsh Bards;--these all deal with Nature and history as means and symbols...
    SA 8.92 23 Virtues speak to virtues, vices to vices,--each to their own kind in the people with whom we deal.
    Elo2 8.112 18 ...the political questions...find or form a class of men by nature and habit fit to discuss and deal with these measures...
    QO 8.203 25 The great deal always with the nearest.
    Dem1 10.17 20 I believed that I discovered in nature...somewhat which manifested itself only in contradiction, and therefore could not be grasped by a conception, much less by a word. ... It seemed to deal at pleasure with the necessary elements of our constitution;...
    Aris 10.55 18 If you deal with the vulgar, life is reduced to beggary indeed.
    PerF 10.83 17 The last revelation of intellect and of sentiment is that in a manner it...makes known to [the man]...that he is to deal absolutely in the world...
    Chr2 10.97 12 The poor Jews of the wilderness cried: Let not the Lord speak to us; let Moses speak to us. But the simple and sincere soul makes the contrary prayer: Let no intruder come between thee and me; deal THOU with me;...
    Chr2 10.101 2 They who deal with [a man of profound moral sentiment] are elevated with joy and hope;...
    Edc1 10.139 23 Everybody delights in the energy with which boys deal and talk with each other;...
    HDC 11.71 2 On the 27th June [1774], near three hundred persons... inhabitants of Concord, entered into a covenant, solemnly engaging with each other...neither to buy nor consume any merchandise imported from Great Britain, nor to deal with those who do.
    HDC 11.84 11 ...for the most part, [our fathers] deal generously by their minister...
    FSLC 11.203 6 ...as the activity and growth of slavery began to be offensively felt by [Webster's] constituents, the senator became less sensitive to these evils. They were not for him to deal with: he was the commercial representative.
    FSLN 11.243 7 I [Robert Winthrop] can only deal with masses as I find them.
    Wom 11.424 27 ...let us deal with [new opinions] greatly;...
    PLT 12.10 26 The wonder of the science of Intellect is that the substance with which we deal is of that subtle and active quality that it intoxicates all who approach it.
    PLT 12.17 8 I dare not deal with this element [Intellect] in its pure essence.
    PLT 12.57 14 The men we know, poets, wits, writers, deal with their thoughts as jewellers with jewels...
    Mem 12.91 18 ...a piece of news I hear, has a value at this moment exactly proportioned to my skill to deal with it.
    Bost 12.184 2 ...Sir Erskine Perry says the usage and opinion of the Hindoos so invades men of all castes and colors who deal with them that all take a Hindoo tint.
    Pray 12.355 20 I know that thou wilt deal with me as I deserve.

dealer, n. (2)

    Thor 10.461 23 ...[Thoreau] could estimate the weight of a calf or a pig, like a dealer.
    JBS 11.280 8 ...the anecdotes preserved [of John Brown] show a far-seeing skill and conduct, which...should secure...an honest reward, first to the farmer, and afterwards to the dealer.

dealers, n. (3)

    MR 1.237 15 It is Smith himself, and his...dealers...who have intercepted the sugar of the sugar...
    Art1 2.362 16 The knowledge of picture dealers has its value...
    SlHr 10.447 8 ...under the Maine Law [Samuel Hoar] was a prosecutor of the liquor dealers.

dealer's, n. (1)

    Carl 10.491 18 [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...

dealing, n. (21)

    Nat 1.36 19 Our dealing with sensible objects is a constant exercise in the necessary lessons of difference...
    Art1 2.362 6 Nothing astonishes men so much as common-sense and plain dealing.
    Mrs1 3.127 7 [Manners] aid our dealing and conversation...
    ET5 5.78 23 ...no breach of truth and plain dealing...is suffered the island [England].
    ET7 5.116 9 Add to this hereditary [German] rectitude the punctuality and precise dealing which commerce creates, and you have the English truth and credit.
    ET7 5.117 18 ...[the English] require plain dealing of others.
    ET18 5.302 13 What we must say about a nation is a superficial dealing with symptoms.
    CbW 6.272 5 Ask what is best in our experience, and we shall say, a few pieces of plain dealing with wise people.
    Ill 6.322 20 In this kingdom of illusions we grope eagerly for stays and foundations. There is none but a strict and faithful dealing at home...
    SS 7.6 2 Those constitutions which can bear in open day the rough dealing of the world must be of that mean and average structure such as iron and salt...
    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 7.292 4 ...nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing...
    Supl 10.175 23 Nature is always serious,-does not jest with us. Where we have begun in folly, we are brought quickly to plain dealing.
    LLNE 10.368 3 [The members of Brook Farm] expressed...the conviction that plain dealing was the best defence of manners and moral between the sexes.
    MMEm 10.427 10 I sometimes fancy I detect in [Mary Moody Emerson's] writings a certain...polite and courtly homage to the name and dignity of Jesus...really veiling and betraying her organic dislike to any interference, any mediation between her and the Author of her being, assurance of whose direct dealing with her she incessantly invokes...
    Thor 10.465 11 [Thoreau's] own dealing with [young men of sensibility] was never affectionate, but superior...
    Thor 10.478 26 Such dangerous frankness was in [Thoreau's] dealing that his admirers called him that terrible Thoreau...
    HDC 11.37 13 The faithful dealing and brave good will, which, during the life of the friendly Massasoit, [the English] uniformly experienced at Plymouth and at Boston, went to their hearts.
    LVB 11.92 19 The piety, the principle that is left in the United States... forbid us to entertain [the relocation of the Cherokees] as a fact. Such a dereliction of all faith and virtue, such a denial of justice...were never heard of...in the dealing of a nation with its own allies and wards...
    SMC 11.359 3 The older among us can well remember [George Prescott]... one of the last men in this town [Concord] you would have picked out for the rough dealing of war...
    AgMs 12.358 13 I still remember with some shame that in some dealing we had together a long time ago, I found that [Edmund Hosmer] had been looking to my interest in the affair, and I had been looking to my interest, and nobody had looked to his part.

dealing, v. (28)

    LE 1.176 26 ...literary men...dealing with the organ of language...learn to enjoy the pride of playing with this splendid engine...
    OS 2.279 6 In my dealing with my child, my Latin and Greek...stead me nothing;...
    OS 2.291 10 Nothing can pass [in the soul]...but...dealing man to man in naked truth...
    Art1 2.354 19 ...[the infant's] individual character and his practical power depend on his daily progress in the separation of things, and dealing with one at a time.
    Chr1 3.92 16 In the new objects we recognize the old game, the habit of fronting the fact, and not dealing with it at second hand...
    Mrs1 3.152 8 ...the bias of [Lilla's] nature was not to thought, but to sympathy, yet was she so perfect in her own nature as to meet intellectual persons by the fulness of her heart, warming them by her sentiments; believing...that by dealing nobly with all, all would show themselves noble.
    Pol1 3.199 1 In dealing with the State we ought to remember that its institutions are not aboriginal...
    NMW 4.256 5 ...when you have penetrated through all the circles of power and splendor [of Napoleon], you were not dealing with a gentleman, at last;...
    F 6.31 7 ...in dealing with steam and climate...[men] think they come under another [dominion];...
    Wth 6.107 2 ...every man has a certain satisfaction whenever his dealing touches on the inevitable facts;...
    Ctr 6.160 27 The orator who has once seen things in their divine order... will come to affairs as from a higher ground, and...he will have a certain mastery in dealing with them...
    CbW 6.263 18 In dealing with the drunken, we do not affect to be drunk.
    Elo1 7.90 21 ...tenacity of memory, power of dealing with facts...are keys which the orator holds;...
    Clbs 7.230 21 ...serious, happy discourse, avoiding personalities, dealing with results, is rare...
    Cour 7.268 5 There is a courage of a merchant in dealing with his trade...
    Cour 7.269 1 The judge...squarely accosts the question, and...by dealing with it as business which must be disposed of, he sees presently that common arithmetic and common methods apply to this affair.
    Suc 7.282 11 ...If thou go in thine own likeness,/ Be it health or be it sickness;/ If thou go as thy father's son,/ If thou wear no mask or lie,/ Dealing purely and nakedly;--/...
    Res 8.139 21 [Nature] shows us only surfaces, but she is million fathoms deep. What spaces! what durations! dealing with races as merely preparations of somewhat to follow;...
    Insp 8.289 24 ...the machine with which we are dealing is of such an inconceivable delicacy that whims also must be respected.
    Insp 8.291 25 Perhaps if you were successful abroad in talking and dealing with men, you would not come back to your book-shelf and your task.
    PerF 10.73 22 ...we see the causes of evils and learn to parry them and use them as instruments, by knowledge, being inside of them and dealing with them as the Creator does.
    Edc1 10.149 20 ...in literature,the young man who has taste...for noble thoughts...forgets all the world for the more learned friend,-who finds equal joy in dealing out his treasures.
    SlHr 10.440 24 The strength and the beauty of the man [Samuel Hoar] lay in the natural goodness and justice of his mind, which...after dealing all his life with weighty private and public interests, left an infantile innocence...
    Thor 10.461 6 It was said of Plotinus that he was ashamed of his body, and 't is very likely he had good reason for it,-that his body was a bad servant, and he had not skill in dealing with the material world...
    HDC 11.56 6 Even this check which befell [the people of Concord] acquaints us with the rapidity of their growth, for the good man [Peter Bulkeley], in dealing with his people, taxes them with luxury.
    LVB 11.90 24 ...it is not to be doubted that it is the good pleasure and the understanding of all humane persons in the Republic...that [the Indians] shall taste justice and love from all to whom we have delegated the office of dealing with them.
    FSLN 11.236 22 Whenever a man has come to this mind, that there is...no Constitution but his dealing well and justly with his neighbor;...then certain aids and allies will promptly appear...
    PLT 12.14 16 ...the metaphysician, dealing as it were with the mathematics of the mind, puts himself out of the way of inspiration;...

dealings, n. (6)

    ShP 4.205 3 ...[the Shakspeare Society] have gleaned a few facts touching the property, and dealings in regard to property, of the poet [Shakespeare].
    Wth 6.107 15 There is in all our dealings a self-regulation that supersedes chaffering.
    PerF 10.76 2 ...the wise merchant by truth in his dealings finds his credit unlimited...
    Supl 10.175 20 The like staidness is in [Nature's] dealings with us.
    MMEm 10.401 10 [Mary Moody Emerson's aunt] would leave the farm to her by will. This promise was kept; she came into possession of the property many years after, and her dealings with it gave her no small trouble...
    MMEm 10.401 22 Every word [Mary Moody Emerson] writes about this farm (Elm Vale, Waterford), her dealings and vexations about it...interest like a romance...

deals, v. (25)

    DSA 1.138 16 The true preacher can be known by this, that he deals out to the people his life...
    YA 1.375 24 Fathers...behold with impatience a new character and way of thinking presuming to show itself in their own son or daughter. This feeling...becomes petulance and tyranny when...the emperor of an empire, deals with the same difference of opinion in his subjects.
    SwM 4.139 24 ...the Spirit which is holy is reserved, taciturn, and deals in laws.
    ET12 5.208 11 It is contended by those who have been bred at Eton, Harrow, Rugby and Westminster...that an unwritten code of honor deals to the spoiled child of rank and to the child of upstart wealth, an evenhanded justice...
    Wth 6.92 15 The mechanic at his bench...deals on even terms with men of any condition.
    Ctr 6.161 12 ...a wise man who knows not only what Plato, but what Saint John can show him, can easily raise the affair he deals with to a certain majesty.
    Wsp 6.214 5 Heaven deals with us on no representative system.
    Wsp 6.220 21 A man does not see that...as he deals, so he is, and so he appears;...
    CbW 6.271 9 The success which will content [men] is a bargain...a legacy and the like. With these objects, their conversation deals with surfaces...
    Elo1 7.94 18 ...whilst [the preacher] deals in words we are released from attention.
    Farm 7.145 4 [Nature]...deals never with dead, but ever with quick subjects.
    Farm 7.152 26 The great elements with which [the farmer] deals cannot leave him unaffected...
    PI 8.70 22 Every man may be...lifted to a platform whence he looks beyond sense to moral and spiritual truth, and in that mood deals sovereignly with matter...
    PerF 10.79 25 In each talent is the perception of an order and series in the department he deals with...
    SovE 10.213 3 ...to [innocence] come grandeur of situation and poetic perception, enriching all it deals with.
    Prch 10.216 1 The true preacher can be known by this, that he deals out to the people his life...
    Plu 10.301 10 [Plutarch's] surprising merit is the genial facility with which he deals with his manifold topics.
    EWI 11.143 23 [Nature] appoints...no rescue for flies and mites but their spawning numbers, which no ravages can overcome. It deals with men after the same manner.
    PLT 12.36 26 In its lower function, when it deals with the apparent world, [Instinct] is common sense.
    II 12.86 20 Michael Angelo must paint Sistine ceilings till he can no longer read, except by holding the book over his head. Nature deals with all her children so.
    Mem 12.96 20 ...another man's memory is the history of science and art and civility and thought; and still another deals with laws and perceptions that are the theory of the world.
    CInt 12.116 2 ...[the college] deals with a force which it cannot monopolize or confine;...
    CInt 12.116 7 This power which [the college] deals is dear to all.
    CL 12.159 10 Nature...deals strictly with us;...
    MLit 12.314 18 ...a man may recite passages of his life with no feeling of egotism. Nor need a man have a vicious subjectiveness because he deals in abstract propositions.

dealt, v. (12)

    AmS 1.105 2 ...what overgrown error you behold is there only by sufferance, - by your sufferance. See it to be a lie, and you have already dealt it its mortal blow.
    DSA 1.119 15 The corn and the wine have been freely dealt to all creatures...
    Gts 3.159 22 ...everything is dealt to us without fear or favor, after severe universal laws.
    GoW 4.277 23 Wilhelm Meister is a novel in every sense...called by its admirers the only delineation of modern society,--as if other novels...dealt with costume and condition, this with the spirit of life.
    ET8 5.130 7 ...these [lower] classes are the right English stock, and may fairly show the national qualities, before yet art and education have dealt with them.
    Pow 6.72 11 The men whom in peaceful communities we hold if we can with iron at their legs...this man [Napoleon] dealt with hand to hand...
    Ill 6.318 19 The fine star-dust and nebulous blur in Orion...must come down and be dealt with in your household thought.
    QO 8.199 21 ...does it not look...as if we stood...in a circle of intelligences that reached...back to the first negro, who...gave a shriller sound or name for the thing he saw and dealt with?
    Insp 8.269 2 It was Watt who told King George III. that he dealt in an article of which kings were said to be fond,-Power.
    Edc1 10.153 6 ...[the teacher] cannot delight in personal relations with young friends, when...twenty classes are to be dealt with before the day is done.
    Plu 10.316 23 ...[Plutarch] praises the Romans, who, when the feast was over, dealt well with the lamps...
    ALin 11.332 20 ...how [Lincoln's] good nature became a noble humanity, in many a tragic case which the events of the war brought to him, every one will remember; and with what increasing tenderness he dealt when a whole race was thrown on his compassion.

Dean, n. (1)

    ET13 5.227 16 The [English] Bishop is elected by the Dean and Prebends of the cathedral.

Dean-Ireland, adj. (1)

    ET12 5.210 12 I looked over the Examination Papers of the year 1848, for the various scholarships and fellowships [at Oxford], the Lusby, the Hertford, the Dean-Ireland and the University...

Deans, Jeanie, n. (1)

    Scot 11.466 11 In his own household and neighbors [Scott] found characters and pets of humble class...came with these into real ties of mutual help and good will. From these originals he drew so genially his Jeanie Deans, his Dinmonts and Edie Ochiltrees...

deans, n. (1)

    Pow 6.79 26 I remarked in England...that in literary circles, the men of trust and consideration...university deans and professors...were...usually of a low and ordinary intellectuality...

dear, adj. (100)

    Nat 1.10 17 In the wilderness, I find something more dear and connate than in streets or villages.
    Nat 1.11 16 Then there is a kind of contempt of the landscape felt by him who has just lost by death a dear friend.
    DSA 1.133 17 ...when I see among my contemporaries...a dear friend...I see beauty that is to be desired.
    DSA 1.141 25 What a cruel injustice it is to that Law...which alone can make thought dear and rich;...that it is travestied and depreciated...
    LE 1.175 22 ...welcome falls the imprisoning rain,-dear hermitage of nature.
    MN 1.191 4 The land we live in has no interest so dear...as the fit consecration of days of reason and thought.
    MR 1.242 17 ...for ends so sacred and dear some relaxation must be had...
    MR 1.252 23 We do not greet [the laborers'] talents...nor in the assembly of the people vote for what is dear to them.
    LT 1.262 27 By tones of triumph, of dear love...[persons] have the skill to make the world look bleak and inhospitable, or seem the nest of tenderness and joy.
    Tran 1.355 14 A saint should be as dear as the apple of the eye.
    YA 1.367 13 There is no feature of the old countries that strikes an American with more agreeable surprise than the beautiful gardens of Europe;...works...which might well make the land dear to the citizen...
    SR 2.50 16 I remember an answer which...I was prompted to make to a valued adviser who was wont to importune me with the dear old doctrines of the church.
    SR 2.77 1 ...the moment [a man] acts from himself...that teacher shall... make his name dear to all history.
    Comp 2.126 1 We linger in the ruins of the old tent...nor believe that the spirit can feed, cover, and nerve us again. We cannot again find aught so dear, so sweet, so graceful.
    Comp 2.126 14 The death of a dear friend, wife, brother, lover, which seemed nothing but privation, somewhat later assumes the aspect of a guide or genius;...
    Lov1 2.185 20 [Love] makes covenants with Eternal Power in behalf of this dear mate.
    Fdsp 2.198 13 ...Dear Friend, If I was sure of thee...I should never think again of trifles in relation to thy comings and goings.
    Fdsp 2.204 22 When a man becomes dear to me I have touched the goal of fortune.
    Hsm1. 2.252 15 What joys has kind nature provided for us dear creatures!
    OS 2.292 20 How dear, how soothing to man, arises the idea of God...
    OS 2.293 8 [God's presence] inspires in man an infallible trust. ... He is sure that his welfare is dear to the heart of being.
    Cir 2.310 7 The things which are dear to men at this hour are so on account of the ideas which have emerged on their mental horizon...
    Cir 2.313 13 Christianity is rightly dear to the best of mankind;...
    Art1 2.360 17 ...that house and weather and manner of living which poverty and the fate of birth have made at once so odious and so dear...will serve as well as any other condition as the symbol of a thought which pours itself indifferently through all.
    Pt1 3.33 24 [The poet] unlocks our chains and admits us to a new scene. This emancipation is dear to all men...
    Exp 3.43 17 The lords of life, the lords of life,--/ I saw them pass,/ In their own guise,/ .../ Little man, least of all,/ Among the legs of his guardians tall,/ Walked about with puzzled look:--/ Him by the hand dear Nature took;/...
    Exp 3.62 11 In the morning I awake and find the old world...the dear old spiritual world...not far off.
    Exp 3.62 12 In the morning I awake and find the old world...the dear old spiritual world and even the dear old devil not far off.
    Exp 3.65 21 Thou art sick, but shalt not be worse, and the universe, which holds thee dear, shall be the better.
    Nat2 3.171 11 ...ever like a dear friend and brother when we chat affectedly with strangers, comes in this honest face [of nature], and takes a grave liberty with us...
    NR 3.223 7 Not less are summer mornings dear/ To every child they wake/...
    NER 3.252 20 ...[some reformers] wish the pure wheat, and will die but it shall not ferment. Stop, dear Nature, these incessant advances of thine;...
    NER 3.276 18 Dear to us are those who love us;...
    SwM 4.93 2 Among eminent persons, those who are most dear to men are not of the class which the economist calls producers...
    SwM 4.110 13 These grand rhymes or returns in nature,--the dear, best-known face startling us at every turn...delighted the prophetic eye of Swedenborg;...
    MoS 4.174 15 My astonishing San Carlo thought the lawgivers and saints infected. They found the ark empty; saw, and would not tell; and tried to choke off their approaching followers, by saying, Action, action, my dear fellows, is for you!
    MoS 4.182 11 Even the doctrines dear to the hope of man...[the spiritualist' s] neighbors can not put the statement so that he shall affirm it.
    GoW 4.263 3 Nothing so broad, so subtle, or so dear, but comes... commended to [the writer's] pen, and he will write.
    GoW 4.284 8 Goethe can never be dear to men.
    ET4 5.57 17 ...the solid material interest predominates [in the Norse Sagas], so dear to English understanding...
    ET4 5.63 7 Dear to the English heart is a fair stand-up fight.
    ET5 5.78 27 ...in a bargain, no prospect of advantage is so dear to the [English] merchant as the thought of being tricked is mortifying.
    ET11 5.179 24 ...the English are those barbarians of Jamblichus, who... firmly continue to employ the same words, which are also dear to the gods.
    ET11 5.185 8 In general, all that is required of [English nobility] is...to give the example of that decorum so dear to the British heart.
    ET15 5.263 19 [The London Times] has shown those qualities which are dear to Englishmen...
    ET17 5.293 7 A finer hospitality made many private houses [in London] not less known and dear.
    Wth 6.108 24 One might say...that nothing is cheap or dear...
    Ctr 6.136 22 ...our talents are as mischievous as if each had been seized upon by some bird of prey which had whisked him away from fortune... from the dear society of the poets;...
    Wsp 6.223 20 If you follow the suburban fashion in building a sumptuous-looking house for a little money, it will appear to all eyes as a cheap dear house.
    Wsp 6.232 18 The conviction that his work is dear to God and cannot be spared, defends [a man].
    CbW 6.267 27 The young people do not like the town, do not like the sea-shore, they will...find a dear cottage deep in the mountains...
    Ill 6.312 7 The boy, how sweet to him is his fancy! how dear the story of barons and battles!
    Ill 6.315 22 Bare and grim to tears is the lot of the children in the hovel I saw yesterday; yet not the less they hung it round with frippery romance... and talked of the dear cottage where so many joyful hours had flown.
    SS 7.8 17 Dear heart! take it sadly home to thee,--there is no cooperation.
    Elo1 7.70 26 ...who does not remember in childhood some white or black or yellow Scheherezade, who, by that talent of telling endless feats of fairies and magicians and kings and queens, was more dear and wonderful to a circle of children than any orator in England or America is now?
    Elo1 7.71 21 The old man [Priam] asked: Tell me, dear child, who is that man, shorter by a head than Agamemnon, yet he looks broader in his shoulders and breast.
    DL 7.132 11 Will not man one day open his eyes and see how dear he is to the soul of Nature...
    DL 7.133 24 ...whoso shall teach me how to eat my meat and take my repose and deal with men, without any shame following, will...make his own name dear to all history.
    Boks 7.189 17 The bookseller might certainly know that his customers are in no respect better for the purchase and consumption of his wares. The volume is dear at a dollar...
    Boks 7.191 26 In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends...
    Cour 7.262 11 Lieutenant Ball...whispered, Courage, my dear boy! you will recover in a minute or so;...
    Suc 7.281 4 One thing is forever good;/ That one thing is Success,--/ Dear to the Eumenides,/ And to all the heavenly brood./
    Suc 7.287 16 The [Norse] mother says to her son:--Success shall be in thy courser tall,/ Success in thyself, which is best of all,/ Success in thy hand, success in thy foot,/ In struggle with man, in battle with brute:--/ The holy God and Saint Drothin dear/ Shall never shut eyes on thy career;/...
    SA 8.105 18 ...[sentimentalists] love liberty, dear liberty!...
    SA 8.105 19 ...[sentimentalists] worship virtue, dear virtue!
    QO 8.186 16 Hafiz...furnished Moore with the original of the piece,- When in death I shall calm recline,/ Oh, bear my heart to my mistress dear,/ etc.
    QO 8.191 10 We may like well to know what is Plato's and what is Montesquieu's or Goethe's part, and what thought was always dear to the writer himself;...
    PPo 8.244 21 Our father Adam [says Hafiz] sold Paradise for two kernels of wheat; then blame me not, if I hold it dear at one grapestone.
    PPo 8.258 10 O'er the garden water goes the wind alone/ To rasp and to polish the cheek of the wave;/ The fire is quenched on the dear hearthstone,/ But it burns again on the tulips brave./
    Insp 8.285 9 When now the Spring stirred,/ I said to the nightingales:/ Dear nightingales, trill/ Early, O, early before my lattice,/ Wake me out of the deep sleep/ Which mightily chains the young man./
    Insp 8.285 16 ...the love-filled singers [nightingales]/ Poured by night before my window/ Their sweet melodies,-/ Kept awake my dear soul,/ Roused tender new longings/ In my lately touched bosom/...
    Insp 8.287 14 Do you want...Helvellyn, or Plinlimmon, dear to English song, in your closet?
    SovE 10.191 15 An Eastern poet...said that God had made justice so dear to the heart of Nature that, if any injustice lurked anywhere under the sky, the blue vault would shrivel to a snake-skin and cast it out by spasms.
    Prch 10.227 11 [The theologian] sees that what is most effective in the writer is what is dear to his, the reader's, mind.
    Prch 10.231 23 We come to church properly...for approach to principles to see how it stands with us, with the deep and dear facts of right and love.
    MMEm 10.413 12 Ah! were virtue, and that of dear heavenly meekness attached by any necessity to a lower rank of genteel people, who would sympathize with the exalted with satisfaction?
    MMEm 10.418 2 My [Mary Moody Emerson's] uncle has been the means of lessening my property. Ridiculous to wound him for that. He was honestly seeking his own. But at last, this very night, the bargain is closed, and I am delighted with myself:-my dear self has done well.
    MMEm 10.419 26 I [Mary Moody Emerson] had ten dollars a year for clothes and charity, and I never remember to have been needy, though I never had but two or three aids in those six years of earning my home. That ten dollars my dear father earned...
    MMEm 10.429 1 ...as [Mary Moody Emerson] never travelled without being provided for this dear and indispensable contingency [death], I believe she wore out a great many [shrouds].
    MMEm 10.429 8 I [Mary Moody Emerson] enter my dear sixty the last of this month.
    MMEm 10.429 18 O dear worms,-how they will at some sure time take down this tedious tabernacle...
    EWI 11.130 20 ...a citizen of Nantucket, walking in New Orleans, found a freeborn [negro] citizen of Nantucket, a man, too...as it happened, very dear to him, as having saved his own life, working chained in the streets of that city...
    EWI 11.141 11 On sight of these [African artifacts], says Clarkson, many sublime thoughts seemed to rush at once into [William Pitt's] mind, some of which he expressed; and hence appeared to arise a project which was always dear to him, of the civilization of Africa...
    War 11.155 8 Nature implants with life...perpetual struggle...to attain to a mastery and the security of a permanent, self-defended being; and to each creature these objects are made so dear that it risks its life continually in the struggle for these ends.
    War 11.171 2 This [aspiration towards peace] is not to be carried by public opinion, but...by private, dear and earnest love.
    FSLC 11.196 23 I wonder that our acute people who have learned that the cheapest police is dear schools, should not find out that an immoral law costs more than the loss of the custom of a Southern city.
    FSLC 11.201 25 [Webster] must learn...that those to whom his name was once dear and honored...disown him...
    FSLN 11.239 5 There has come, too, one to whom lurking warfare is dear, Retribution, with a soul full of wiles;...
    HCom 11.340 8 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/...
    SMC 11.348 11 These things are dear to every man that lives,/ And life prized more for what it lends than gives./
    RBur 11.441 18 ...[Burns] has endeared...the dear society of weans and wife, of brothers and sisters...
    Scot 11.463 1 The memory of Sir Walter Scott is dear to this [Massachusetts Historical] Society...
    CPL 11.503 25 Every one of us is always in search of his friend, and when unexpectedly he finds a stranger enjoying the rare poet or thinker who is dear to his own solitude,-it is like finding a brother.
    Mem 12.103 10 If we recall our own favorites, we shall usually find that it is for one crowning act or thought that we hold them dear.
    CInt 12.116 7 This power which [the college] deals is dear to all.
    Milt1 12.262 15 [Milton] is rightly dear to mankind...
    Milt1 12.269 23 [Milton] felt the dear love of native land and native language.
    Pray 12.353 20 ...let every thought and word go to confirm and illuminate that end; namely, that I must become near and dear to thee [My Father];...
    Pray 12.356 25 O eternal Verity! and true Charity! and dear Eternity! thou art my God...
    AgMs 12.361 20 Down below, where manure is cheap and hay dear, they will sell their oxen in November;...

dear, adv. (5)

    Comp 2.99 11 But the President has paid dear for his White House.
    Comp 2.112 16 ...a man often pays dear for a small frugality.
    ET6 5.111 26 'T is in bad taste, is the most formidable word an Englishman can pronounce. But this japan costs them dear.
    Ctr 6.138 16 Your man of genius pays dear for his distinction.
    Ctr 6.163 14 There is none of the social goods that may not be purchased too dear...

Dearborn, adj. (1)

    F 6.14 5 ...if you could weigh bodily the tonnage of any hundred of the Whig and the Democratic party in a town on the Dearborn balance...you could predict with certainty which party would carry it.

dear-bought, adj. (1)

    Civ 7.17 5 We praise the guide, we praise the forest life:/ But will we sacrifice our dear-bought lore/ Of books and arts and trained experiment/...

dearer, adj. (6)

    Lov1 2.176 25 In the green solitude [the lover] finds a dearer home than with men...
    Prd1 2.240 18 Every man's imagination hath its friends; and life would be dearer with such companions.
    Pt1 3.16 4 A beauty not explicable is dearer than a beauty which we can see to the end of.
    NER 3.276 21 Dear to us are those who love us;...but dearer are those who reject us as unworthy...
    Wth 6.102 6 I wish the farmer held [the dollar] dearer, and would spend it only for real bread;...
    Wth 6.107 11 The manufacturer says he will furnish you with just that thickness or thinness [of paper] you want;...here is his schedule;--any variety of paper, as cheaper or dearer, with the prices annexed.

dearer, adv. (1)

    EzRy 10.391 9 ...[Ezra Ripley] loved to buy dearer and sell cheaper than others.

dearest, adj. (22)

    AmS 1.107 4 [The poor and the low] are content to be brushed like flies from the path of a great person, so that justice shall be done by him to that common nature which it is the dearest desire of all to see enlarged and glorified.
    Comp 2.114 2 Cheapest, say the prudent, is the dearest labor.
    Fdsp 2.214 14 Let us even bid our dearest friends farewell...
    Exp 3.43 18 The lords of life, the lords of life,--/ I saw them pass,/ In their own guise,/ .../ Dearest Nature, strong and kind,/ Whispered, Darling, never mind!/ To-morrow they will wear another face,/ The founder thou! these are thy race!/
    Exp 3.49 14 The dearest events are summer-rain...
    Exp 3.65 2 ...lawfulness of writing down a thought, is questioned; much is to say on both sides, and, while the fight waxes hot, thou, dearest scholar, stick to thy foolish task...
    Nat2 3.171 20 There are all degrees of natural influence, from these quarantine powers of nature, up to her dearest and gravest ministrations to the imagination and the soul.
    Nat2 3.188 18 Each young and ardent person writes a diary, in which, when the hours of prayer and penitence arrive, he inscribes his soul. The pages thus written are to him burning and fragrant;...too good for the world, and hardly yet to be shown to the dearest friend.
    PPh 4.76 18 The dearest defenders and disciples [of Plato] are at fault.
    GoW 4.285 1 [Goethe] lays a ray of light under every fact, and between himself and his dearest property.
    SS 7.8 24 ...the dearest friends are separated by impassable gulfs.
    Clbs 7.235 7 Yonder is a man who can answer the questions which I cannot. Is it so? Hence comes to me boundless curiosity to know his experiences and his wit. Hence competition for the stakes dearest to man.
    Suc 7.299 19 Is...the house in which your dearest friend lived, only a piece of real estate...
    Elo2 8.110 4 ...whose mind soever is fully possessed with a fervent desire to know good things, and with the dearest charity to infuse the knowledge of them into others, when such a man would speak, his words...trip about him at command...
    HCom 11.339 10 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.
    SMC 11.361 9 The letters of the captain [George Prescott] are the dearest treasures of this town [Concord].
    SMC 11.375 26 A gloom gathers on this assembly...for, in many houses, the dearet and noblest is gone from their hearth-stone.
    FRep 11.519 20 We have seen the great party of property and education in the country drivelling and huckstering away...the dearest hopes of mankind;...
    FRep 11.539 4 Here is the post where the patriot should plant himself; here the altar where virtuous young men, those to whom friendship is the dearest covenant, should bind each other to loyalty;...
    Milt1 12.262 7 ...[Milton] said...whose mind soever is fully possessed with a fervent desire to know good things, and with the dearest charity to infuse the knowledge of them into others, when such a man would speak, his words...trip about him at command...
    Milt1 12.277 9 Milton, fired with dearest charity to infuse the knowledge of good things into others, tasked his giant imagination...for an end beyond, namely, to teach.
    Pray 12.353 23 I will know the joy of giving to my friend the dearest treasure I have.

dearly, adv. (8)

    Exp 3.69 13 I would gladly be moral and keep due metes and bounds, which I dearly love...
    NER 3.252 16 It was in vain urged by the housewife that God made yeast... and loves fermentation just as dearly as he loves vegetation;...
    GoW 4.264 17 Nature has dearly at heart the formation of the speculative man, or scholar.
    ET6 5.107 13 ...[the Englishman] dearly loves his house.
    DL 7.111 25 ...a house kept to the end of display is impossible to all but a few women, and their success is dearly bought.
    SovE 10.211 1 ...is it quite impossible to believe that men should be drawn to each other by the simple respect which each man feels for another...the respect he feels for another who, underneath his compliances with artificial society, would dearly like to serve somebody...
    MMEm 10.408 21 ...the whim and petulance in which by diseased habit [Mary Moody Emerson] had grown to indulge without suspecting it, was burned up in the glow of her pure and poetic spirit, which dearly loved the Infinite.
    CInt 12.119 11 I value dearly the poet who knows his art so well that, when his voice vibrates, it fills the hearer with sympathetic song...

dearth, n. (2)

    CbW 6.268 17 ...there is a great dearth, this year, of friends;...
    QO 8.179 22 ...the dearth of design accuses the penury of intellect.

death, adj. (1)

    Bost 12.203 21 ...there is always [in Boston]...always a heresiarch, whom the governor and deputies labor with but cannot silence. Some new light... some adversary of the death penalty;...

death, n. (161)

    Nat 1.11 16 Then there is a kind of contempt of the landscape felt by him who has just lost by death a dear friend.
    Nat 1.21 11 When Sir Harry Vane was dragged up the Tower-hill, sitting on a sled, to suffer death as the champion of the English laws, one of the multitude cried out to him, You never sate on so glorious a seat!
    Nat 1.57 13 No man fears age or misfortune or death in [ideas'] serene company...
    Nat 1.71 9 [The world] is kept in check by death and infancy.
    AmS 1.92 15 ...[insects] lay up food before death for the young grub they shall never see.
    DSA 1.124 6 All evil is so much death or nonentity.
    DSA 1.124 21 ...absolute badness is absolute death.
    DSA 1.135 24 ...you will infer the sad conviction...of the universal decay and now almost death of faith in society.
    MN 1.217 15 ...is not he only unhappy who is not in love? his fancied freedom and self-rule-is it not so much death?
    MN 1.222 15 Emanuel Swedenborg affirmed that it was opened to him that the spirits who knew truth in this life, but did it not, at death shall lose their knowledge.
    Con 1.312 18 Now can your children be educated, your labor turned to their advantage, and its fruits secured to them after your death.
    SR 2.69 14 This which I think and feel underlay every former state of life and circumstances, as it does underlie...what is called life and what is called death.
    SR 2.75 13 We are...afraid of death...
    Comp 2.105 17 If [the unwise man] has escaped [the conditions of life] in form and in the appearance, it is because he has...fled from himself, and the retribution is so much death.
    Comp 2.108 6 ...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.
    Comp 2.111 26 [Fear] is a carrion crow, and though you see not well what he hovers for, there is death somewhere.
    Comp 2.126 14 The death of a dear friend, wife, brother, lover, which seemed nothing but privation, somewhat later assumes the aspect of a guide or genius;...
    SL 2.143 13 The parts of hospitality...the impressiveness of death...royalty makes its own estimate of, and a royal mind will.
    Fdsp 2.206 1 [Friendship] is for aid and comfort through all the relations and passages of life and death.
    Prd1 2.225 4 [Prudence] respects...the law of polarity, growth and death.
    Hsm1 2.247 12 Mar. This admirable duke, Valerius,/ With his disdain of fortune and of death,/ Captived himself, has captivated me,/ And though my arm hath ta'en his body here,/ His soul hath subjugated Martius' soul./
    Hsm1 2.262 2 ...it behooves the wise man...to familiarize himself...with sounds of execration, and the vision of violent death.
    Hsm1 2.264 6 ...the love that will be annihilated sooner than treacherous has already made death impossible...
    Int 2.339 11 ...if a man fasten his attention on a single aspect of truth and apply himself to that alone for a long time, the truth becomes...not itself but falsehood; herein resembling the air, which is...the breath of our nostrils, but if a stream of the same be directed on the body for a time, it causes cold, fever, and even death.
    Art1 2.367 12 [Men] reject life as prosaic, and create a death which they call poetic.
    Art1 2.367 19 ...[art] stands in the imagination as somewhat...struck with death from the first.
    Pt1 3.20 8 ...birth and death...are emblems;...
    Exp 3.48 24 In the death of my son...I seem to have lost a beautiful estate...
    Exp 3.49 16 Nothing is left us now but death.
    Chr1 3.114 11 The ages have exulted in the manners of a youth...who, by the pure quality of his nature, shed an epic splendor around the facts of his death...
    Nat2 3.196 3 ...the knowledge that we traverse the whole scale of being... and have some stake in every possibility, lends that sublime lustre to death, which philosophy and religion have too outwardly and literally striven to express in the popular doctrine of the immortality of the soul.
    NER 3.252 13 One apostle thought all men should go to farming...another that the mischief was in our diet, that we eat and drink damnation. These... were foes to the death to fermentation.
    NER 3.269 4 We adorn the victim [of education] with manual skill...his body with inoffensive and comely manners. So have we cunningly hid the tragedy of limitation and inner death we cannot avert.
    UGM 4.30 26 Why are the masses...food for knives and powder? The idea dignifies a few leaders...and they make war and death sacred;...
    PPh 4.43 24 [Plato] was born 427 A.C., about the time of the death of Pericles;...
    PPh 4.44 2 [Plato]...is said to have had an early inclination for war, but, in his twentieth year, meeting with Socrates...remained for ten years his scholar, until the death of Socrates.
    PPh 4.58 2 [Plato] has been charged with feigning sickness at the time of the death of Socrates.
    PNR 4.82 20 Whatever [Plato] looks upon discloses a second sense, and ulterior senses. His perception of the generation of contraries, of death out of life and life out of death...
    PNR 4.82 21 Whatever [Plato] looks upon discloses a second sense, and ulterior senses. His perception of the generation of contraries, of death out of life and life out of death...
    SwM 4.125 19 [To Swedenborg] The ghosts are tormented with the fear of death...
    SwM 4.141 17 The sad muse [Swedenborg] loves night and death and the pit.
    MoS 4.164 3 ...on the death of his father, Montaigne...retired from the practice of law at Bordeaux...
    MoS 4.169 23 [Montaigne says] Most of my actions are guided by example, not choice. In the hour of death, he gave the same weight to custom.
    MoS 4.183 2 George Fox saw that there was an ocean of darkness and death;...
    ShP 4.192 27 Here [in the Elizabethan drama] is...the Death of Julius Caesar, and other stories out of Plutarch, which [the audience] never tire of;...
    ShP 4.204 2 ...not until two centuries had passed, after [Shakespeare's] death, did any criticism which we think adequate begin to appear.
    ShP 4.206 5 We tell the chronicle of parentage...celebrity, death;...
    ShP 4.209 2 We have [Shakespeare's] recorded convictions on those questions which knock for answer at every heart,--on life and death...
    NMW 4.224 7 The first [conservative] class is...continually losing numbers by death.
    NMW 4.236 11 To a regiment of horse-chasseurs at Lobenstein...Napoleon said, My lads, you must not fear death; when soldiers brave death, they drive him into the enemy's ranks.
    ET1 5.16 12 ...[Carlyle] liked Nero's death...
    ET4 5.59 17 Odin died in his bed, in Sweden; but it was a proverb of ill condition to die the death of old age.
    ET4 5.64 1 Such is the ferocity of the [English] army discipline that a soldier, sentenced to flogging, sometimes prays that his sentence may be commuted to death.
    ET5 5.90 13 Many of the great [English] leaders, like Pitt, Canning, Castlereagh, Romilly, are soon worked to death.
    ET6 5.109 1 Sir Samuel Romilly could not bear the death of his wife.
    ET6 5.113 26 The guests [at dinner in London] are expected to arrive within half an hour of the time fixed by card of invitation, and nothing but death or mutilation is permitted to detain them.
    ET8 5.131 9 ...one can believe that Burton, the Anatomist of Melancholy, having predicted from the stars the hour of his death, slipped the knot himself round his own neck, not to falsify his horoscope.
    ET10 5.171 7 A large family is reckoned a misfortune [in England]. And it is a consolation in the death of the young, that a source of expense is closed.
    Ctr 6.160 6 ...the consideration of the great periods and spaces of astronomy induces a dignity of mind and an indifference to death.
    Bhr 6.193 20 It is related by the monk Basle, that being excommunicated by the Pope, he was, at his death, sent in charge of an angel, to find a fit place of suffering in hell;...
    Wsp 6.230 4 How it comes to us in silent hours, that truth is our only armor in all passages of life and death!
    Wsp 6.240 1 ...[men] suffer from politics...or from sickness, and they would gladly know that they were to be dismissed from the duties of life. But the wise instinct asks, How will death help them?
    Wsp 6.240 3 You shall not wish for death out of pusillanimity.
    Bty 6.285 11 The king...conferred the sovereignty on [Tisso], saying, Prince, administer this empire for seven days; at the termination of that period I shall put thee to death.
    Bty 6.285 14 At the end of the seventh day the king inquired [of Tisso], From what cause hast thou become so emaciated? He answered, From the horror of death.
    Bty 6.285 18 Thou hast ceased to take recreation, saying to thyself, In seven days I shall be put to death.
    Bty 6.285 19 These priests in the temple incessantly meditate on death;...
    Bty 6.287 20 [The ancients] thought the same genius, at the death of its ward, entered a new-born child...
    Ill 6.307 5 Flow, flow the waves hated,/ Accursed, adored,/ The waves of mutations:/ No anchorage is./ Sleep is not, death is not;/ Who seem to die live./
    Ill 6.322 17 Like sick men in hospitals, we change only from bed to bed, from one folly to another; and it cannot signify much what becomes of such...wailing, stupid, comatose creatures, lifted from bed to bed, from the nothing of life to the nothing of death.
    Elo1 7.78 12 Julius Caesar said to Metellus, when that tribune interfered to hinder him from entering the Roman treasury, Young man, it is easier for me to put you to death than to say that I will;...
    Elo1 7.83 21 I have heard it reported of an eloquent preacher...that, on occasions of death or tragic disaster which overspread the congregation with gloom, he ascended the pulpit with more than his usual alacrity...
    WD 7.172 17 We are coaxed, flattered and duped...from birth to death;...
    WD 7.174 6 He is a strong man who can look [these passing hours] in the eye...nor permit love, or death, or politics, or money, war or pleasure to draw him from his task.
    Clbs 7.238 7 ...[Odin] puts a question which none but himself could answer: What did Odin whisper in the ear of his son Balder, when Balder mounted the funeral pile? The startled giant [Wafthrudnir] replies...with death on my mouth have I spoken the fate-words of the generation of the Aesir;...
    Cour 7.265 15 Bodily pain is superficial, seated usually in the skin and the extremities...not in the vitals, where the rupture that produces death is perhaps not felt...
    Cour 7.267 11 Of [Charles XII, of Sweden] we may say that he led a life more remote from death, and in fact lived more, than any other man.
    Suc 7.309 4 Nature lays the ground-plan of each creature accurately...then veils it scrupulously. See how carefully she covers up the skeleton. ... She... forces death down underground, and makes haste to cover it up with leaves and vines...
    OA 7.324 21 To keep man in the planet, [Nature] impresses the terror of death.
    PI 8.4 13 First innuendoes, then broad hints, then smart taps are given, suggesting that nothing stands still in Nature but death;...
    SA 8.89 18 Either death or a friend, is a Persian proverb.
    Res 8.138 11 A Schopenhauer...inferring that sleep is better than waking, and death than sleep,--all the talent in the world cannot save him from being odious.
    Comc 8.174 4 Mirth quickly becomes intemperate, and the man would soon die of inanition, as some persons have been tickled to death.
    QO 8.186 15 Hafiz...furnished Moore with the original of the piece,- When in death I shall calm recline,/ Oh, bear my heart to my mistress dear,/ etc.
    PPo 8.239 24 Such [amatory] verses...will drive [Persian] warriors to the combat, fearless of death...
    PPo 8.255 6 ...Hafiz does not appear to have set any great value on his songs, since his scholars collected them for the first time after his death.
    Insp 8.280 19 Sleep is like death, and after sleep/ The world seems new begun;/...
    Insp 8.283 15 Seneca says of an almost fatal sickness that befell him, The thought of my father, who could not have sustained such a blow as my death, restrained me;...
    Imtl 8.324 24 ...among rude men moral judgments were rudely figured under the forms of dogs and whips, or of an easier and more plentiful life after death.
    Imtl 8.325 1 ...the whole life of man in the first ages was ponderously determined on death;...
    Imtl 8.325 18 [The Greek] adorned death...
    Imtl 8.325 21 [The Greek] looked at death only as the distributor of imperishable glory.
    Imtl 8.328 7 Sixty years ago...the habits and thought of religious persons, were all directed on death.
    Imtl 8.328 9 [Sixty years ago] All were under the shadow of Calvinism and of the Roman Catholic purgatory, and death was dreadful.
    Imtl 8.328 11 The emphasis of all the good books given to young people [sixty years ago] was on death.
    Imtl 8.328 15 Death is seen as a natural event...
    Imtl 8.328 26 The name of death was never terrible/ To him that knew to live./
    Imtl 8.329 22 Schiller said, What is so universal as death, must be benefit.
    Imtl 8.329 25 A friend of Michel Angelo saying to him that his constant labor for art must make him think of death with regret,-By no means, he said;...
    Imtl 8.329 26 A friend of Michel Angelo saying to him that his constant labor for art must make him think of death with regret,-By no means, he said; for if life be a pleasure, yet since death also is sent by the hand of the same Master, neither should that displease us.
    Imtl 8.339 8 [Franklin said] A man is not completely born until he has passed through death.
    Imtl 8.340 6 I know not whence we draw the assurance...of a life which shoots the gulf we call death...by so many claims as from our intellectual history.
    Imtl 8.340 20 Lord Bacon said: Some of the philosophers...came to this point, that whatsoever motions the spirit of man could act and perform without the organs of the body, might remain after death;...
    Imtl 8.342 7 [Said Goethe] If I work incessantly till my death, Nature is bound to give me another form of existence...
    Imtl 8.349 24 Nachiketas said, there is this inquiry. Some say the soul exists after the death of man; others say it does not exist.
    Imtl 8.350 24 [Yama said to Nachiketas] All those desires that are difficult to gain in the world of mortals, all those ask thou at thy pleasure;-those fair nymphs of heaven...for the like of them are not to be gained by men. I will give them to thee, but do not ask the question of the state of the soul after death.
    Aris 10.37 18 We like cool people...who can face death with firmness.
    Aris 10.46 14 I know how steep the contrast of condition looks;...such despotism of wealth and comfort in banquet-halls, whilst death is in the pots of the wretched...
    PerF 10.74 2 ...each of a thousand petty accidents puts [man] to death every day...
    Supl 10.165 12 ...the secrets of death, judgment and eternity are tedious when recurring as minute-guns.
    Plu 10.293 5 It is remarkable that of an author so familiar as Plutarch...not even the dates of his birth and death, should have come down to us.
    Plu 10.314 3 The soul, incapable of death, suffers in the same manner in the body, as birds that are kept in a cage.
    LLNE 10.328 8 The nobles shall not any longer, as feudal lords, have power of life and death over the churls...
    EzRy 10.388 12 I can remember a little speech [Ezra Ripley] made to me, when the last tie of blood which held me and my brothers to his house was broken by the death of his daughter.
    EzRy 10.392 21 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.
    EzRy 10.393 7 The usual experiences of men, birth, marriage, sickness, death, burial;...[Ezra Ripley] studied them all...
    MMEm 10.400 10 ...Mary [Moody Emerson] remained at Malden with her grandmother, and after her death, with her father's sister...
    MMEm 10.416 5 ...joy, hope and resignation unite me [Mary Moody Emerson] to Him whose mysterious Will adjusts everything, and the darkest and lightest are alike welcome. Oh, could this state of mind continue, death would not be longed for.
    MMEm 10.422 3 ...a few lamps held out in the firmament enable us...to date the revelations of God to man. But these lamps are held...to divide the history of God's operations in the birth and death of nations...
    MMEm 10.427 21 ...if it were in the nature of things possible He could withdraw himself,-I [Mary Moody Emerson] would hold on to the faith... that...my death, too, however long and tediously delayed to prayer,-was decreed, was fixed.
    MMEm 10.428 22 [Mary Moody Emerson] made up her shroud, and death still refusing to come...wore it as a night-gown, or a day-gown...
    MMEm 10.432 12 ...the event of [Mary Moody Emerson's] death had really such a comic tinge in the eyes of every one who knew her, that her friends feared they might, at her funeral, not dare to look at each other, lest they should forget the serious proprieties of the hour.
    GSt 10.501 6 ...on the instant of [good men's] death, we wonder at our past insensibility...
    GSt 10.501 11 ...the painful surprise which the last week brought us, in the tidings of the death of Mr. [George] Stearns, opened all eyes to the just consideration of the singular merits of the citizen...whom this assembly mourns.
    LS 11.7 4 Jesus is a Jew, sitting with his countrymen, celebrating their national feast [the Passover]. He thinks of his own impending death...
    LS 11.7 15 In years to come [says Jesus to his disciples], as long as your people shall come up to Jerusalem to keep this feast [the Passover], the connection which has subsisted between us will give a new meaning in your eyes to the national festival, as the anniversary of my death.
    HDC 11.59 4 ...when [King Philip] he was told that his sentence was death, he said he liked it well that he was to die before his heart was soft...
    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.
    HDC 11.62 5 After Philip's death, [the Indians'] strength was irrecoverably broken.
    HDC 11.63 4 Edward Bulkeley was the pastor [in Concord], until his death, in 1696.
    HDC 11.64 20 After the death of Rev. Mr. Estabrook, in 1711, it was propounded at the [Concord] town-meeting, whether one of the three gentlemen lately improved here in preaching...shall be now chosen in the work of the ministry?
    EWI 11.103 12 ...when [the negro] sank in the furrow...he went down to death with dusky dreams of African shadow-catchers and Obeahs hunting him.
    EWI 11.111 14 ...[West Indian slaves] were done to death with the most shocking levity between the master and manager...
    FSLC 11.188 1 ...[resistance to the Fugitive Slave Law] is befriending...on our own farms, a man who has taken the risk of being...starved to death...to get away from his driver...
    FSLC 11.195 7 By the law of Congress, March 2, 1807, it is piracy and murder, punishable by death, to enslave a man on the coast of Africa.
    AsSu 11.248 17 If...Massachusetts could send to the Senate a better man than Mr. Sumner, his death would be only so much the more quick and certain.
    JBB 11.268 23 [John Brown] believes in two articles,-two instruments, shall I say?-the Golden Rule and the Declaration of Independence; and he used this expression in conversation here concerning them, Better that a whole generation of men, women and children should pass away by a violent death than that one word of either should be violated in this country.
    TPar 11.285 1 At the death of a good and admirable person [Theodore Parker] we meet to console and animate each other by the recollection of his virtues.
    ALin 11.329 8 ...I doubt if any death has caused so much pain to mankind as this [of Lincoln] has caused, or will cause, on its announcement;...
    ALin 11.330 5 ...acclamations of praise for the task [Lincoln] had accomplished burst out into a song of triumph, which even tears for his death cannot keep down.
    ALin 11.336 27 ...what if it should turn out, in the unfolding of the web... that Heaven...shall make [Lincoln] serve his country even more by his death than by his life?
    HCom 11.340 24 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.
    HCom 11.344 25 ...in how many cases it chanced, when the hero had fallen, they who came by night to his funeral, on the morrow returned to the war-path to show his slayers the way to death!
    SHC 11.436 7 I have heard that death takes us away from ill things, not from good.
    CPL 11.496 20 Our founder [of the Concord Library] has found the many admirable examples...of benefactors who have not waited to bequeath colleges and hospitals, but have themselves built them, reminding us of Sir Isaac Newton's saying, that they who give nothing before their death, never in fact give at all.
    PLT 12.59 2 ...becoming somewhat else is the perpetual game of Nature, and death the penalty of standing still.
    CInt 12.114 10 ...when the Roman soldier, at the sack of Syracuse, broke into his study, the philosopher [Archimedes] could not rise from his chair and his diagram, and took his death without resistance.
    Bost 12.191 26 John Smith was stung near to death by the most poisonous tail of a fish, called a sting-ray.
    MAng1 12.220 12 Michael Angelo dedicated himself, from his childhood to his death, to a toilsome observation of Nature.
    MAng1 12.235 5 On the death of San Gallo, the architect of the church [St. Peter's], Paul III. first entreated, then commanded the aged artist [Michelangelo] to assume the charge of this great work...
    MAng1 12.240 7 [Michelangelo] was deeply enamoured of the most accomplished lady of the time, Vittoria Colonna...who, after the death of her husband, devoted herself to letters...
    MAng1 12.241 18 ...[Michelangelo] knew that his spirit could only enjoy contentment after death.
    MAng1 12.242 2 At the age of eighty years, [Michelangelo] wrote to Vasari...and tells him...that...no fancy arose in his mind but DEATH was sculptured on it.
    MAng1 12.242 8 In conversing upon this subject [death] with one of his friends, that person remarked that Michael [Angelo] might well grieve that one who was incessant in his creative labors should have no restoration. No, replied Michael...if life pleases us, death, being a work of the same master, ought not to displease us.
    MAng1 12.242 18 Michael [Angelo] admonishes [Vasari]...that we ought not to show that joy when a child is born, which should be reserved for the death of one who has lived well.
    Milt1 12.265 26 When [Milton] had cut down his opponents, he left the details of death and plunder to meaner partisans.
    EurB 12.377 19 [The Vivian Greys] discuss sun and planets, liberty and fate, love and death, over the soup.
    Trag 12.406 19 ...no theory of life can have any right which leaves out of account the values of...disunion, fear and death.
    Trag 12.411 4 ...a terror of freezing to death that seizes a man in a winter midnight on the moors; a fright at uncertain sounds heard by a family at night in the cellar or on the stairs...are no tragedy...
    Trag 12.413 6 When two strangers meet in the highway, what each demands of the other is that the aspect should show a firm mind...prepared alike to give death or to give life, as the emergency of the next moment may require.
    Trag 12.416 4 It is my duty, says Sir Charles Bell, to visit certain wards of the hospital where there is no patient admitted but with that complaint which most fills the imagination with the idea of insupportable pain and certain death.

Death, n. (7)

    Hist 2.40 7 What light does [history] shed on those mysteries which we hide under the names Death and Immortality?
    Imtl 8.349 11 Yama, the lord of Death, promised Nachiketas, the son of Gautama, to grant him three boons at his own choice.
    Imtl 8.349 15 Nachiketas...said, O Death! let Gautama be appeased in mind...
    Imtl 8.350 6 Nachiketas said, Even by the gods was it inquired [concerning immortality]. And as to what thou sayest, O Death, that it is not easy to understand it, there is no other speaker to be found like thee.
    Edc1 10.128 25 Here [in the household] is Economy, and Glee, and Hospitality, and Ceremony, and Frankness, and Calamity, and Death, and Hope.
    MMEm 10.404 21 Destitution is the Muse of [Mary Moody Emerson's] genius,-Destitution and Death.
    MMEm 10.404 23 I used to propose that [Mary Moody Emerson's] epitaph should be: Here lies the angel of Death.

death-bed, n. (1)

    SMC 11.373 12 On his death-bed, [George Prescott] received the needless assurances of his general that he had done more than all his duty...

death-cold, adj. (1)

    Chr1 3.104 27 How death-cold is literary genius before this fire of life [character]!

deathless, adj. (1)

    Pt1 3.23 16 ...when the soul of the poet has come to ripeness of thought, [nature] detaches and sends away from it its poems or songs,--a fearless, sleepless, deathless progeny...

deaths, n. (3)

    DL 7.108 22 We are sure that the sacred form of man is not seen in...these bloated and shrivelled bodies...and early deaths.
    Insp 8.282 19 ...in this poem [The Flower] [Herbert] says:-And now in age I bud again,/ After so many deaths I live and write;/...
    HDC 11.40 25 We have records of marriages and deaths, beginning nineteen years after the settlement [of Concord];...

debased, v. (1)

    MN 1.212 3 Is [man's work in the world] for use? nature is debased...

debate, n. (31)

    LE 1.166 5 Observe the phenomenon of extempore debate.
    MN 1.207 2 When Chatham leads the debate, men may well listen, because they must listen.
    MN 1.211 4 What is best in any work of art but...that which flows from the hour and the occasion, like the eloquence of men in a tumultuous debate?
    YA 1.388 9 I find no expression in our state papers or legislative debate...of a high national feeling...
    OS 2.277 12 ...in groups where debate is earnest...the company become aware that the thought rises to an equal level in all bosoms...
    Exp 3.64 20 Whilst the debate goes forward on the equity of commerce... New and Old England may keep shop.
    Mrs1 3.141 26 Parliamentary history has few better passages than the debate in which Burke and Fox separated in the House of Commons;...
    NR 3.226 8 That happens in the world, which we often witness in a public debate.
    NER 3.253 20 With this din of opinion and debate there was a keener scrutiny of institutions and domestic life than any we had known;...
    PPh 4.71 11 [Socrates] was a cool fellow, adding to his humor a perfect temper and a knowledge of his man...which laid the companion open to certain defeat in any debate...
    PPh 4.71 12 [Socrates] was a cool fellow, adding to his humor a perfect temper and a knowledge of his man...which laid the companion open to certain defeat in any debate,--and in debate he immoderately delighted.
    ET5 5.89 26 To show capacity, A Frenchman described as the end of a speech in debate...
    ET11 5.184 7 ...why need [English peers] sit out the debate? Has not the Duke of Wellington, at this moment, their proxies...
    Ctr 6.131 6 A topical memory makes [a man] an almanac; a talent for debate, a disputant;...
    Elo1 7.61 10 One man is brought to the boiling-point by the excitement of conversation in the parlor. ... Another requires the additional caloric of a multitude and a public debate;...
    Elo1 7.76 1 In a Senate or other business committee, the solid result depends on a few men with working talent. They...value men only as they can forward the work. But a new man comes there who...has a talent for speaking. In the debate with open doors, this precious person makes a speech which is printed and read all over the Union...
    WD 7.173 11 Hume's doctrine was that...the girl equipped for her first ball, and the orator returning triumphant from the debate, had different means, but the same quantity of pleasant excitement.
    Clbs 7.226 8 With some men [conversation] is a debate;...
    Clbs 7.240 3 What can you do with an eloquent man? No rules of debate... can be contrived that his first syllable will not set aside...
    Elo2 8.111 14 Who knows before the debate begins what the preparation...
    PerF 10.85 7 ...Canning or Thurlow has a genius of debate, and says, I will know how with this weapon to defend the cause that will pay best...
    Edc1 10.147 25 By many steps...the hesitating collegian, in the school debate, in college clubs...comes at last to full, secure, triumphant unfolding of his thought in the popular assembly...
    CSC 10.375 21 ...there was no want of female speakers [at the Chardon Street Convention]; Mrs. Little and Mrs. Lucy Sessions took a pleasing and memorable part in the debate...
    EzRy 10.391 27 In debate...the structure of [Ezra Ripley's] sentences was admirable;...
    EWI 11.113 21 After much debate, the bill [for emancipation in the West Indies] passed by large majorities.
    FSLC 11.200 21 The words of John Randolph, wiser than he knew, have been ringing ominously in all echoes for thirty years, words spoken in the heat of the Missouri debate.
    AsSu 11.250 17 ...beyond this charge...that he broke over the proprieties of debate, I find [Sumner] accused of publishing his opinion of the Nebraska conspiracy in a letter to the people of the United States...
    ACiv 11.306 1 We fancy that the endless debate...has brought the free states to some conviction that it can never go well with us whilst this mischief of slavery remains in our politics...
    PLT 12.49 20 The difference is obvious enough in Talent between the speed of one man's action above another's. In debate, in legislature, not less in action;...
    ACri 12.292 10 A Mr. Randall, M. C., who appeared before the committee of the House of Commons on the subject of the American mode of closing a debate, said, that the one-hour rule worked well; made the debate short and graphic.
    ACri 12.292 11 A Mr. Randall, M. C., who appeared before the committee of the House of Commons on the subject of the American mode of closing a debate, said, that the one-hour rule worked well; made the debate short and graphic.

debate, v. (1)

    SMC 11.354 3 As long as we debate in council, both sides may form their private guess what the event may be, or which is the strongest.

debated, v. (7)

    YA 1.393 24 Philip II. of Spain rated his ambassador for neglecting serious affairs in Italy, whilst he debated some point of honor with the French ambassador;...
    PPh 4.39 12 Out of Plato come all things that are still written and debated among men of thought.
    Plu 10.319 23 The guests not invited to a private board by the entertainer, but introduced by a guest as his companions, the Greek called shadows; and the question is debated whether it was civil to bring them...
    CSC 10.373 17 ...the [Chardon Street] Convention debated, for three days again, the remaining subject of the Priesthood.
    LS 11.3 9 Without considering the frivolous questions which have been lately debated as to the posture in which men should partake of [the Lord's Supper];...the questions have been settled differently in every church...
    HDC 11.48 18 The matters there debated [in Concord town-meetings] are such as to invite very small considerations.
    EWI 11.128 6 For months and years the bill [on emanicipation in the West Indies] was debated...

debater, n. (4)

    PPh 4.75 7 The rare coincidence [in Socrates], in one ugly body, of...the keen street and market debater with the sweetest saint known to any history at that time, had forcibly struck the mind of Plato...
    Pow 6.78 8 Stumping it through England for seven years made Cobden a consummate debater.
    PerF 10.82 3 ...when the soldier comes home from the fight, he fills all eyes. But the soldier has the same admiration of the great parliamentary debater.
    FSLN 11.225 19 Who doubts the power of any fluent debater to defend either of our political parties...

debaters, n. (3)

    NR 3.226 14 ...the audience, who have only to hear and not to speak, judge very wisely and superiorly how wrongheaded and unskilful is each of the debaters to his own affair.
    GoW 4.270 25 [Goethe] appears at a time...when, in the absence of heroic characters, a social comfort and cooperation have come in. There is...no Chatham, but any number of clever parliamentary and forensic debaters;...
    Elo1 7.83 6 The emergency which has convened the meeting is usually of more importance than anything the debaters have in their minds...

debates, n. (9)

    Ill 6.316 24 I, who have all my life heard any number of orations and debates...am still the victim of any new page;...
    SA 8.101 27 In America, the necessity of...building every house and barn and fence, then church and town-house...made the whole population poor; and the like necessity is still found in each new settlement in the Territories. These needs gave their character to the public debates in every village and state.
    Elo2 8.117 23 A worthy gentleman...listening to the debates of the General Assembly of the Scottish Kirk in Edinburgh...went to [Dr. Hugh Blair] and offered him one thousand pounds sterling if he would teach him to speak with propriety in public.
    Elo2 8.123 9 ...[John Quincy Adams] took such ground in the debates of the following session as to lose the sympathy of many of his constituents in Boston.
    HDC 11.73 5 ...the farmers [of Concord] snatched down their rusty firelocks from the kitchen walls, to make good the resolute words of their town debates.
    EWI 11.109 15 These debates [on West Indian slavery] are instructive...
    EWI 11.134 7 ...the reader of Congressional debates, in New England, is perplexed to see with what admirable sweetness and patience the majority of the free States are schooled and ridden by the minority of slave-holders.
    Bost 12.196 3 The universality of an elementary education in New England is her praise and her power in the whole world. To the schools succeeds the village lyceum...where every week through the winter, lectures are read and debates sustained...
    EurB 12.366 18 In the debates on the Copyright Bill, in the English Parliament, Mr. Sergeant Wakley, the coroner, quoted Wordsworth's poetry in derision...

Debates, Parliamentary, n. (1)

    MN 1.206 23 England, France, and America read Parliamentary Debates, which no high genius now enlivens;...

debating, v. (1)

    PI 8.14 13 To the Parliament debating how to tax America, Burke exclaimed, Shear the wolf.

debating-club, n. (2)

    FSLC 11.199 25 [The Fugitive Slave Law] has turned every dinner-table into a debating-club...
    SMC 11.363 22 When, afterwards, five of [George Prescott's] men were prisoners in the Parish Prison in New Orleans, they...formed a debating-club...

debating-societies, n. (1)

    CbW 6.274 23 ...one may take a good deal of pains...to organize clubs and debating-societies, and yet no result come of it.

debauch, n. (1)

    PPo 8.249 25 ...the love or the wine of Hafiz is not to be confounded with vulgar debauch.

debauch, v. (1)

    FSLN 11.228 1 ...the decision of Webster [for the Fugitive Slave Law] was accompanied with everything offensive to freedom and good morals. There was something like an attempt to debauch the moral sentiment of the clergy and of the youth.

debauched, v. (3)

    MN 1.197 16 [Nature] has this advantage as a witness, it cannot be debauched.
    NR 3.230 25 ...universally, a good example of this social force is the veracity of language, which cannot be debauched.
    EdAd 11.392 24 The conscience of man is regenerated as is the atmosphere, so that society cannot be debauched.

debauchee, n. (2)

    ET11 5.192 17 ...the rotten debauchee [George IV] let down from a window by an inclined plane into his coach to take the air, was a scandal to Europe...
    SA 8.105 27 ...what lessons can be devised for the debauchee of sentiment?

debauchery, n. (2)

    Pow 6.64 5 ...all kinds of power usually emerge at the same time;...the ecstasies of devotion with the exasperations of debauchery.
    AsSu 11.250 12 [Sumner's] opponents accuse him neither of drunkenness nor debauchery...

debilities, n. (1)

    SA 8.80 12 The staple figure in novels is the man...who sits, among the young aspirants and desperates...and, never sharing their affections or debilities, hurls his word like a bullet when occasion requires...

debility, n. (2)

    FSLC 11.184 2 I cannot think the most judicious tubing a compensation for metaphysical debility.
    Let 12.397 12 Regrets and Bohemian castles and aesthetic villages...are the voices of debility.

debonair, adj. (2)

    Con 1.298 19 ...conservatism is debonair and social...
    Ctr 6.164 6 The high virtues are not debonair...

debt, n. (78)

    Nat 1.26 11 ...this origin of all words that convey a spiritual import...is our least debt to nature.
    Nat 1.37 16 The same good office is performed by Property and its filial systems of debt and credit.
    Nat 1.37 17 Debt, grinding debt...is a preceptor whose lessons cannot be foregone...
    Nat 1.37 19 ...debt...is a preceptor whose lessons cannot be foregone...
    MN 1.220 3 What a debt is ours to that old religion...teaching privation, self-denial and sorrow!
    MR 1.232 2 The abolitionist has shown us our dreadful debt to the southern negro.
    MR 1.244 2 I ought to be armed by every part and function of my household...by my traffic. Yet I am almost no party to any of these things. Custom does it for me...and runs me in debt to boot.
    MR 1.244 6 It is for cake that we run in debt;...
    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.
    Comp 2.112 17 The borrower runs in his own debt.
    Comp 2.112 23 Has [a man] gained by borrowing, through indolence or cunning, his neighbor's wares, or horses, or money? There arises on the deed the instant acknowledgment of benefit on the one part and of debt on the other;...
    Comp 2.113 11 ...first or last you must pay your entire debt.
    Comp 2.113 14 You must pay at last your own debt.
    Comp 2.119 8 Put God in your debt.
    Lov1 2.174 6 ...the coldest philosopher cannot recount the debt of the young soul wandering here in nature to the power of love...
    Prd1 2.221 23 ...it would be hardly honest in me...whilst my debt to my senses is real and constant, not to own it in passing.
    Prd1 2.224 23 ...our existence...so fond of splendor and so tender to hunger and cold and debt, reads all its primary lessons out of these books.
    Hsm1 2.261 23 ...not only need we breathe and exercise the soul by assuming the penalties...of debt...
    Cir 2.316 8 ...that second man...asks himself Which debt must I pay first, the debt to the rich, or the debt to the poor?...
    Cir 2.316 9 ...that second man...asks himself Which debt must I pay first, the debt to the rich, or the debt to the poor?...
    Cir 2.316 9 ...that second man...asks himself Which debt must I pay first... the debt of money, or the debt of thought to mankind...
    Cir 2.316 10 ...that second man...asks himself Which debt must I pay first... the debt of money, or the debt of thought to mankind...
    Cir 2.316 23 Does [a man] owe no debt but money?
    Exp 3.51 24 We see young men who owe us a new world...but they never acquit the debt;...
    Mrs1 3.142 9 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;...
    Mrs1 3.142 12 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.
    Mrs1 3.142 14 Fox thanked the man for his confidence and paid him, saying, his debt was of older standing, and Sheridan must wait.
    Gts 3.164 7 After you have served [a magnanimous person] he at once puts you in debt by his magnanimity.
    UGM 4.20 1 I must not forget that we have a special debt to a single class.
    PPh 4.75 21 ...[Plato] was able...to avail himself of the wit and weight of Socrates, to which unquestionably his own debt was great;...
    ShP 4.197 19 ...in the whole society of English writers, a large unacknowledged debt [to Chaucer] is easily traced.
    NMW 4.239 15 ...[Napoleon] knew his debt to his austere education...
    ET5 5.97 26 Solvency is maintained [in England] by means of a national debt...
    ET8 5.137 27 [The English] are...churlish as men sometimes please to be who do not forget a debt...
    ET10 5.155 20 The British empire is solvent; for in spite of the huge national debt, the valuation mounts.
    ET11 5.184 27 ...there are few noble families [in England] which have not paid, in some of their members, the debt of life or limb in the sacrifices of the Russian war.
    ET11 5.193 7 Dismal anecdotes abound...of ruined dukes and earls living in exile for debt.
    Wth 6.84 19 ...though light-headed man forget,/ Remembering Matter pays her debt/...
    Wth 6.85 11 [A man] fails to make his place good in the world unless he not only pays his debt but also adds something to the common wealth.
    Wth 6.90 27 A man in debt is so far a slave...
    Wth 6.117 12 ...the eating quality of debt does not relax its voracity.
    Wsp 6.234 26 [Benedict said] My ledger may show that I am in debt...
    CbW 6.246 23 We have a debt to every great heart...
    CbW 6.247 18 Now we reckon [days]...by some debt which is to be paid us or which we are to pay...
    Ill 6.312 9 What a debt is [the boy's] to imaginative books!
    Ill 6.312 19 [The dreariest alderman] pays a debt quicker to a rich man than to a poor man.
    WD 7.176 18 We owe to genius always the same debt, of lifting the curtain from the common...
    PI 8.3 7 Poverty, frost, famine, disease, debt, are the beadles and guardsmen that hold us to common sense.
    PI 8.10 24 Science does not know its debt to imagination.
    SA 8.85 4 ...Do not go to ask your debtor the payment of a debt on the day when you have no other resource.
    QO 8.178 15 Our debt to tradition through reading and conversation is so massive...that...one would say there is no pure originality.
    QO 8.180 5 If we confine ourselves to literature, 't is easy to see that the debt is immense to past thought.
    QO 8.182 25 ...the surprising results of the new researches into the history of Egypt have opened to us the deep debt of the churches of Rome and England to the Egyptian hierology.
    QO 8.183 14 Thirty years ago...you might often hear cited as Mr. Webster' s three rules...thirdly, never to pay any debt to-day.
    QO 8.189 13 This vast mental indebtedness has every variety that pecuniary debt has...
    QO 8.189 18 The capitalist of either kind [mental or pecuniary] is as hungry to lend as the consumer to borrow; and the transaction no more indicates intellectual turpitude in the borrower than the simple fact of debt involves bankruptcy.
    QO 8.204 4 We cannot overstate our debt to the Past...
    PC 8.208 27 The war gave us the abolition of slavery, the success...of the Freedmen's Bureau. Add to these the new scope of social science; the abolition of capital punishment and of imprisonment for debt;...
    Grts 8.320 6 ...people are as those with whom they converse? And if all or any are heavy to me, that fact accuses me. Why complain, as if a man's debt to his inferiors were not at least equal to his debt to his superiors?
    Grts 8.320 7 ...people are as those with whom they converse? And if all or any are heavy to me, that fact accuses me. Why complain, as if a man's debt to his inferiors were not at least equal to his debt to his superiors?
    Edc1 10.128 22 ...here [in the household] the secrets of character are told... the compensations which, like angels of justice, pay every debt...
    Edc1 10.159 9 Consent yourself to be an organ of your highest thought, and lo! suddenly you put all men in your debt...
    Supl 10.174 9 Children and thoughtless people...like to talk of a marriage, of a bankruptcy, of a debt, of a crime.
    Plu 10.309 17 ...[Plutarch]...despises the Epicharmian disputations: as, that he who ran in debt yesterday owes nothing to-day, as being another man;...
    MMEm 10.400 21 One of [Mary Moody Emerson's] tasks, it appears, was to watch for the approach of the deputy-sheriff, who might come to...to arrest the uncle for debt.
    Thor 10.451 13 ...[Thoreau] seldom thanked colleges for their service to him, holding them in small esteem, whilst yet his debt to them was important.
    HDC 11.79 24 The great expense of the [Revolutionary] war was borne with cheerfulness [by Concord], whilst the war lasted; but years passed, after the peace, before the debt was paid.
    EWI 11.107 17 [The Quakers] were rich: they owned, for debt or by inheritance, [West Indian] island property;...
    RBur 11.441 18 ...[Burns] has endeared...hardship; the fear of debt;...
    Scot 11.463 12 ...to the rare tribute of a centennial anniversary of his birthday...[Scott] is not less entitled...by the exceptional debt which all English-speaking men have gladly owed to his character and genius.
    FRep 11.517 14 ...the cries of children and debt are always holding the masses hard to the essential duties.
    PLT 12.43 5 I owe to genius always the same debt, of lifting the curtain from the common...
    PLT 12.55 15 We disown our debt to moral evil.
    Mem 12.105 3 The memory of all men is robust on the subject of a debt due to them...
    Mem 12.108 15 You cannot overstate our debt to the past...
    MLit 12.309 2 In our fidelity to the higher truth we need not disown our debt, in our actual state of culture, in the twilights of experience, to these rude helpers.
    MLit 12.310 2 We...take up Plutarch or Augustine, and read a few sentences or pages, and lo!...secrets of magnanimity and grandeur invite us on every hand, life is made up of them. Such is our debt to a book.
    WSL 12.349 1 Many of [Landor's sentences] will secure their own immortality in English literature; and this, rightly considered, is no mean merit. These are not plants and animals, but the genetical atoms of which both are composed. All our great debt to the Oriental world is of this kind, not utensils and statues of the precious metal, but bullion and gold-dust.

debtor, n. (6)

    YA 1.390 15 We cannot give our life to the cause of the debtor...as another is doing;...
    Gts 3.163 25 It is a very onerous business, this of being served, and the debtor naturally wishes to give you a slap.
    UGM 4.12 19 Every novel is a debtor to Homer.
    UGM 4.19 27 When we are exalted by ideas, we do not owe this to Plato, but to the idea, to which also Plato was debtor.
    GoW 4.271 25 [Goethe] is not a debtor to his position...
    SA 8.85 3 ...Do not go to ask your debtor the payment of a debt on the day when you have no other resource.

debtors, n. (4)

    Exp 3.49 1 If to-morrow I should be informed of the bankruptcy of my principal debtors, the loss of my property would be a great inconvenience to me, perhaps, for many years; but it would leave me as it found me...
    PPh 4.40 5 St. Augustine...Goethe, are likewise [Plato's] debtors...
    RBur 11.442 8 ...the farm-work, the country holiday, the fishing-cobble are still [Burns's] debtors to-day.
    WSL 12.342 4 From the moment of entering a library and opening a desired book, we cease to be citizens, creditors, debtors, housekeepers...

debts, n. (25)

    MR 1.234 22 ...we all involve ourselves in [the evil of property] the deeper by forming connections...by benefits and debts.
    SR 2.74 22 ...if I can discharge [my own perfect circle's] debts it enables me to dispense with the popular code.
    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...
    Cir 2.316 3 One man thinks justice consists in paying debts...
    Cir 2.316 20 ...the progress of my character will liquidate all these debts without injustice to higher claims.
    Gts 3.159 10 ...it is always so pleasant to be generous, though very vexatious to pay debts.
    Pol1 3.215 16 Of all debts men are least willing to pay the taxes.
    ShP 4.195 7 ...it appears that Shakspeare did owe debts in all directions...
    ShP 4.199 16 Is there at last in [the writer's] breast a Delphi whereof to ask concerning any thought or thing, whether it be verily so, yea or nay? and to have answer, and to rely on that? All the debts which such a man could contract to other wit would never disturb his consciousness of originality;...
    NMW 4.240 4 When the expenses...of his palaces, had accumulated great debts, Napoleon examined the bills of the creditors himself...
    ET6 5.109 12 Wellington...paid his debts...
    ET10 5.155 15 To pay their debts is [the Englishmen's] national point of honor.
    ET17 5.291 9 In these comments on an old journey [English Traits]...I have abstained from reference to persons, except...in one or two cases where the fame of the parties seemed to have given the public a property in all that concerned them. I must further allow myself a few notices, if only as an acknowledgment of debts that cannot be paid.
    Wth 6.125 16 ...Best use of money is to pay debts;...
    Ill 6.321 4 We fancy we have fallen into bad company and squalid condition, low debts, shoe-bills...
    Ill 6.323 1 Speak as you think, be what you are, pay your debts of all kinds.
    Civ 7.34 2 ...if there be...a country...where public debts and private debts outside of the State are repudiated;...that country is...not civil, but barbarous;...
    DL 7.107 26 Do you think any rhetoric or any romance would get your ear from the wise gypsy...who could explain...your debts, your temperament... and in every explanation, not sever you from the whole, but unite you to it?
    QO 8.191 21 When Shakspeare is charged with debts to his authors, Landor replies: Yet he was more original than his originals.
    Aris 10.55 13 ...the thought has no debts...
    HDC 11.79 27 The great expense of the [Revolutionary] war was borne with cheerfulness [by Concord], whilst the war lasted; but years passed, after the peace, before the debt was paid. As soon as danger and injury ceased, the people were left at leisure to consider their poverty and their debts.
    AKan 11.257 10 I know people who are making haste to reduce their expenses and pay their debts...in preparation to save and earn for the benefit of the Kansas emigrants.
    FRep 11.512 15 The wine-merchant has his analyst and taster, the more exquisite the better. He has also, I fear, his debts to the chemist as well as to the vineyard.
    FRep 11.523 18 ...[the people] must pay their debts...
    CL 12.147 14 Evelyn quotes Lord Caernarvon's saying, Wood is an excrescence of the earth provided by God for the payment of debts.

decade, n. (3)

    WD 7.178 15 A third illusion haunts us, that a long duration, as a year, a decade, a century, is valuable.
    Clbs 7.244 5 ...we have records of the brilliant society that Edinburgh boasted in the first decade of this century.
    Plu 10.322 17 If over-read in this decade...[Plutarch's] sterling values will presently recall the eye and thought of the best minds...

decalogue, n. (1)

    Schr 10.273 7 In the right hands, literature is not resorted to as a consolation...but as a decalogue.

decanting, v. (1)

    Wth 6.119 16 [A farm] requires as much watching as if you were decanting wine from a cask.

decants, v. (1)

    Wth 6.119 19 [A farm] requires as much watching as if you were decanting wine from a cask. The farmer knows what to do with it, stops every leak, turns all the streamlets to one reservoir and decants wine;...

decasyllabic, adj. (1)

    PI 8.46 20 If you hum or whistle the rhythm of the common English metres,--of the decasyllabic quatrain...you can easily believe these metres to be organic...

decay, n. (23)

    DSA 1.135 23 ...you will infer the sad conviction...of the universal decay... of faith in society.
    DSA 1.143 20 ...what greater calamity can fall upon a nation than the loss of worship? Then all things go to decay.
    Hist 2.29 18 How many times in the history of the world has the Luther of the day had to lament the decay of piety in his own household!
    Hsm1 2.263 2 Whatever outrages have happened to men may befall a man again; and very easily in a republic, if there appear any signs of a decay of religion.
    PPh 4.50 5 What is the great end of all [said Krishna], you shall now learn from me. It is soul...exempt from birth, growth and decay...
    ET11 5.197 6 ...the analysis of the [English] peerage and gentry shows the rapid decay and extinction of old families...
    ET14 5.249 17 It is the surest sign of national decay, when the Bramins can no longer read or understand the Braminical philosophy.
    ET14 5.250 4 ...[Carlyle's] imagination, finding no nutriment in any creation, avenged itself by celebrating the majestic beauty of the laws of decay.
    Wsp 6.212 25 In spite of...universal decay of religion...the moral sense reappears to-day...
    OA 7.319 19 We had a judge in Massachusetts who at sixty proposed to resign, alleging that he perceived a certain decay in his faculties;...
    PC 8.233 16 ...in certain historic periods there have been times of negation,-a decay of thought...
    Insp 8.282 8 ...it sometimes if rarely happens that after a season of decay or eclipse...the faculties revive to their fullest force.
    Insp 8.282 27 I understand The Harbingers to refer to the signs of age and decay which [Herbert] detects in himself...
    SovE 10.207 8 ...in all churches a certain decay of ancient piety is lamented...
    MoL 10.245 10 ...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.
    MoL 10.246 24 There is an oracle current in the world, that nations die by suicide. The sign of it is the decay of thought.
    MoL 10.247 21 ...no decay has crept over the spiritual force which gives bias and period to boundless Nature.
    Carl 10.496 17 ...in the decay and downfall of all religions, Carlyle thinks that the only religious act which a man nowadays can securely perform is to wash himself well.
    EWI 11.126 3 ...[slavery] does not increase the white population; it does not improve the soil; everything goes to decay.
    ALin 11.336 4 ...who does not see, even in this tragedy [death of Lincoln] so recent, how fast the terror and ruin of the massacre are already burning into glory around the victim? Far happier this fate than...to have watched the decay of his own faculties;...
    EdAd 11.392 17 In the rapid decay of what was called religion, timid and unthinking people fancy a decay of the hope of man.
    EdAd 11.392 19 In the rapid decay of what was called religion, timid and unthinking people fancy a decay of the hope of man.
    II 12.75 27 ...in spite of Boston and London, and universal decay of religion, etc....the moral sense reappears forever with the same angelic newness that has been from of old the fountain of poetry and beauty and strength.

decay, v. (6)

    Wsp 6.214 18 We say the old forms of religion decay...
    OA 7.318 5 That which does not decay is so central and controlling in us, that, as long as one is alone by himself, he is not sensible of the inroads of time...
    Imtl 8.326 1 [The Greek]...built his beautiful tombs at Pompeii. The poet Shelley says of these delicately carved white marble cells, They seem not so much hiding places of that which must decay, as voluptuous chambers for immortal spirits.
    Chr2 10.113 2 The creed, the legend, forms of worship, swiftly decay.
    TPar 11.287 6 'T is sometimes a question, shall we not leave [the old religions] to decay without rude shocks?
    CL 12.146 12 In old towns there are always certain paradises known to the pedestrian, old and deserted farms, where the neglected orchard has been left to itself, and whilst some of its trees decay, the hardier have held their own.

decayed, adj. (2)

    Pow 6.66 19 It is an esoteric doctrine of society that a little wickedness is good to make muscle;...as if poor decayed formalists of law and order cannot run like wild goats, wolves, and conies;...
    CInt 12.117 9 ...[the scholars]...gave degrees and literary and social honors to those whom they ought to have rebuked and exposed, incurring the contempt of those whom they ought to have put in fear; then the college... ceases to be a school;...and instead...it is a hospital for decayed tutors.

decayed, n. (1)

    Schr 10.273 7 In the right hands, literature is not resorted to as a consolation, and by the broken and decayed, but as a decalogue.

decaying, adj. (1)

    DSA 1.143 17 ...in these two errors...I find the causes of a decaying church...

decays, n. (7)

    SL 2.129 7 The living Heaven thy prayers respect,/ House at once and architect,/ .../ Grows by decays/...
    Pt1 3.22 22 Genius is the activity which repairs the decays of things...
    Farm 7.143 3 Long before [the farmer] was born, the sun of ages... mellowed his land...and accumulated the sphagnum whose decays made the peat of his meadow.
    PI 8.9 10 ...[all things in Nature's] growths, decays, quality and use so curiously resemble [the student], in parts and in wholes, that he is compelled to speak by means of them.
    GSt 10.507 1 ...when I consider...that [George Stearns]...was never called to suffer under the decays and loss of his powers...I count him happy among men.
    SHC 11.431 12 The life of a tree is a hundred and a thousand years; its decays ornamental;...
    Mem 12.103 1 The poet, the philosopher, lamed, old, blind, sick, yet disputing the ground inch by inch against fortune, finds a strength against the wrecks and decays sometimes more invulnerable than the heyday of youth and talent.

decays, v. (1)

    LVB 11.90 2 The interest always felt in the aboriginal population-an interest naturally growing as that decays,-has been heightened in regard to this tribe [Cherokee].

decease, v. (2)

    DSA 1.132 7 ...I shall decease forever.
    Cir 2.309 15 Valor consists in the power of self-recovery, so that a man... cannot be out-generalled, but put him where you will, he stands. This can only be by...the intrepid conviction that his laws...may at any time be superseded and decease.

deceases, v. (1)

    Comp 2.121 22 Inasmuch as [the criminal] carries the malignity and the lie with him he so far deceases from nature.

decedentia, adj. (1)

    PC 8.225 22 ...Hunc solem, et stellas, et decedentia certis/ Tempora momentis, sunt qui formidine nulla/ Imbuti spectant./

deceit, n. (1)

    OA 7.313 23 The world has overmuch of pain,--/ If Nature give me joy again,/ Of such deceit I'll not complain./

deceitful, adj. (2)

    Hsm1 2.246 20 ...[To die] is to leave/ Deceitful knaves for the society/ Of gods and goodness..../
    MMEm 10.424 2 In Eternity, no deceitful promises, no fantastic illusions, no riddles concealed by thy [Time's] shrouds...

deceitful, n. (1)

    SwM 4.131 26 ...[Swedenborg] saw...the infernal tun of the deceitful;...

deceits, n. (2)

    Nat2 3.192 5 Quite analogous to the deceits in life, there is...a similar effect on the eye from the face of external nature.
    OA 7.318 19 ...not to press too hard on these deceits and illusions of Nature...if the question be the felicity of age, I fear the first popular judgments will be unfavorable.

deceivable, adj. (1)

    Pol1 3.204 26 [The young] believe their own newspaper, as their fathers did at their age. With such an ignorant and deceivable majority, States would soon run to ruin, but that there are limitations beyond which the folly and ambition of governors can not go.

deceive, v. (16)

    DSA 1.122 20 If a man dissemble, deceive, he deceives himself...
    Tran 1.337 2 I, [Jacobi] says, am...that godless person who, in opposition to an imaginary doctrine of calculation...would lie and deceive, as Pylades when he personated Orestes;...
    Tran 1.337 25 The Buddhist...who...will not deceive the benefactor by pretending that he has done more than he should, is a Transcendentalist.
    Comp 2.92 3 Man's the elm, and Wealth the vine,/ Stanch and strong the tendrils twine:/ Though the frail ringlets thee deceive,/ None from its stock that vine can reave./
    Int 2.341 1 ...the poet...is one whom Nature cannot deceive...
    MoS 4.155 13 You that will have all solid, and a world of pig-lead, deceive yourselves grossly.
    MoS 4.164 13 ...abhorring to be deceived or to deceive, [Montaigne] was esteemed in the country for his sense and probity.
    NMW 4.253 2 ...the vain attempts of statists to amuse and deceive him... make [Napoleon's] history bright and commanding.
    ET12 5.205 3 The whole expense, says Professor Sewel, of ordinary college tuition at Oxford, is about sixteen guineas a year. But this plausible statement may deceive a reader unacquainted with the fact that the principal teaching relied on is private tuition.
    Ill 6.319 26 There is illusion that shall deceive even the elect.
    Ill 6.319 27 There is illusion that shall deceive even the performer of the miracle.
    OA 7.316 20 Whilst...our mates are yet youths with even boyish remains, one good fellow in the set prematurely sports a gray or a bald head, which... does deceive his juniors and the public...
    PI 8.32 21 We are dazzled at first by new words and brilliancy of color, which occupy the fancy and deceive the judgment.
    Comc 8.161 3 ...Falstaff...is a character of the broadest comedy...pretending to patriotism and to parental virtues, not with any intent to deceive...
    MMEm 10.399 6 I wish to meet the invitation with which the ladies have honored me by offering them a portrait of real life. It is a representative life...of an age now past, and of which I think no types survive. Perhaps I deceive myself and overestimate its interest.
    EWI 11.139 25 The tendency of things runs steadily to this point, namely... to give [every man] so much power as he naturally exerts,-no more, no less. Of course, the timid and base persons...who owe all their place to the opportunities which the older order of things allowed them, to deceive and defraud men, shudder at the change...

deceived, adj. (3)

    SR 2.72 23 Live no longer to the expectation of these deceived and deceiving people with whom we converse.
    Bhr 6.167 19 Too weak to win, too fond to shun/ The tyrants or his doom,/ The much deceived Endymion/ Slips behind a tomb./
    Dem1 10.18 23 In vain do the clear-headed part of mankind discredit [demonic individuals] as deceivers or deceived,-the mass is attracted.

deceived, v. (26)

    MN 1.192 15 ...I will not be deceived into admiring the routine of handicrafts and mechanics...
    MN 1.206 25 ...nobody will read [Parliamentary Debates] who trusts his own eye: only they who are deceived by the popular repetition of distinguished names.
    LT 1.267 25 To-day always looks mean to the thoughtless, in the face of an uniform experience that all good and great and happy actions are made up precisely of these blank to-days. Let us not be so deceived.
    LT 1.287 27 We do not wish to be deceived.
    SL 2.156 21 No man need be deceived who will study the changes of expression.
    Pt1 3.11 25 Man, never so often deceived, still watches for the arrival of a brother who can hold him steady to a truth until he has made it his own.
    Gts 3.160 2 Men use to tell us that we love flattery even though we are not deceived by it, because it shows that we are of importance enough to be courted.
    Nat2 3.186 15 ...this opaline lustre plays round the top of every toy to [the child's] eye to insure his fidelity, and he is deceived to his good.
    MoS 4.164 13 ...abhorring to be deceived or to deceive, [Montaigne] was esteemed in the country for his sense and probity.
    GoW 4.284 13 [Goethe] has no aims less large than the conquest...of universal truth, to be his portion: a man not to be bribed, nor deceived, nor over-awed;...
    Bhr 6.175 19 Don't be deceived by a facile exterior.
    Wsp 6.211 24 We were not deceived by the professions of the private adventurer...
    Wsp 6.229 6 Even children are not deceived by the false reasons which their parents give in answer to their questions...
    Cour 7.269 13 ...a new book astonishes for a few days...but the scholar is not deceived.
    OA 7.317 20 Don't be deceived by dimples and curls.
    PI 8.48 4 Was I deceived, or did a sable cloud/ Turn forth its silver lining on the night?/ I did not err, there does a sable cloud/ Turn forth its silver lining on the night./ Comus.
    PPo 8.241 13 ...when the Queen of Sheba came to visit Solomon, he had built...a palace, of which the floor or pavement was of glass, laid over running water, in which fish were swimming. The Queen of Sheba was deceived thereby...
    PPo 8.241 22 Asaph, the vizier, at a certain time, lost the seal of Solomon, which one of the Dews or evil spirits found, and, governing in the name of Solomon, deceived the people.
    Supl 10.168 16 ...the old head, after deceiving and being deceived many times, thinks, What's the use of having to unsay to-day what I said yesterday?
    Schr 10.280 17 Society...is dazzled and deceived by the weapon [of talent]...
    Plu 10.303 20 [Plutarch's] delight in poetry makes him cite with joy the speech of Gorgias, that the tragic poet who deceived was juster than he who deceived not...
    Plu 10.303 21 [Plutarch's] delight in poetry makes him cite with joy the speech of Gorgias, that the tragic poet who deceived was juster than he who deceived not, and he that was deceived was wiser than he who was not deceived.
    Plu 10.303 22 [Plutarch's] delight in poetry makes him cite with joy the speech of Gorgias, that the tragic poet who deceived was juster than he who deceived not, and he that was deceived was wiser than he who was not deceived.
    Thor 10.474 26 [Thoreau] could not be deceived as to the presence or absence of the poetic element in any composition...
    CInt 12.131 7 ...'t is very certain that an examination is yonder before us and an examining committee that cannot be escaped or deceived...
    CL 12.160 18 ...the zones of plants...are all thermometers which cannot be deceived...

deceivers, n. (1)

    Dem1 10.18 23 In vain do the clear-headed part of mankind discredit [demonic individuals] as deceivers or deceived,-the mass is attracted.

deceives, v. (1)

    DSA 1.122 20 If a man dissemble, deceive, he deceives himself...

deceiving, adj. (1)

    SR 2.72 23 Live no longer to the expectation of these deceived and deceiving people with whom we converse.

deceiving, v. (1)

    Supl 10.168 16 ...the old head, after deceiving and being deceived many times, thinks, What's the use of having to unsay to-day what I said yesterday?

December, adj. (2)

    Elo1 7.79 19 ...there are men of the most peaceful way of life and peaceful principle, who are felt wherever they go, as sensibly as a July sun or a December frost...
    SlHr 10.448 26 With beams December planets dart,/ [Samuel Hoar's] cold eye truth and conduct scanned;/ July was in his sunny heart,/ October in his liberal hand./

December, n. (7)

    NMW 4.248 24 The winter, says Napoleon, is not the most unfavorable season for the passage of lofty mountains. The snow is then firm...and there is nothing to fear from avalanches, the real and only danger to be apprehended in the Alps. On these high mountains there are often very fine days in December...
    HDC 11.66 23 The ninth allegation [against Daniel Bliss] is That in praying for himself, in a church-meeting, in December last, he said, he was a poor vile worm of the dust, that was allowed as Mediator between God and his people.
    LVB 11.90 27 The newspapers now inform us that, in December, 1835, a treaty contracting for the exchange of all the Cherokee territory was pretended to be made by an agent on the part of the United States with some persons appearing on the part of the Cherokees;...
    EPro 11.319 6 October, November, December will have passed over beating hearts and plotting brains...
    SMC 11.368 9 ...at Fredericksburg, in December, Lieutenant-Colonel Prescott loudly expressed his satisfaction at his comrades...
    SMC 11.371 10 After Gettysburg, the Thirty-second Regiment saw hard service...crossing the Rapidan, and suffering from such extreme cold, a few days later, at Mine Run, that the men were compelled to break rank and run in circles to keep themselves from being frozen. On the third of December, they went into winter quarters.
    Bost 12.191 6 The colony of 1620 had landed at Plymouth. It was December...

Decembers, n. (1)

    MLit 12.309 9 When we flout all particular books as initial merely, we truly express the privilege of spiritual nature, but, alas, not the fact and fortune...of these humble Junes and Decembers of mortal life.

decencies, n. (1)

    EWI 11.102 23 The prizes of society...the decencies and joys of marriage, honor, obedience, personal authority...these were for all, but not for [negro slaves].

decency, n. (1)

    MoS 4.167 24 [I seem to hear Montaigne say] Why should I vapor and play the philosopher, instead of ballasting, the best I can, this dancing balloon? So, at least, I...can shoot the gulf at last with decency.

decent, adj. (8)

    Nat 1.19 27 Every heroic act is also decent...
    AmS 1.114 14 The scholar is decent, indolent, complaisant.
    SR 2.51 6 Every decent and well-spoken individual affects and sways me more than is right.
    ET4 5.61 4 ...decent and dignified men now existing boast their descent from these filthy thieves [the Normans]...
    Wsp 6.207 27 Here are...even in the decent populations, idolatries wherein the whiteness of the ritual covers scarlet indulgence.
    Aris 10.59 25 The youth...having got into decent society, is left to himself...
    LS 11.21 10 I am not engaged to Christianity by decent forms...
    Milt1 12.265 14 [Milton's native honor] breathed itself over his decent form.

decenter, adj. (1)

    MLit 12.332 17 Life for [Goethe] is prettier, easier, wiser, decenter...but its old eternal burden is not relieved;...

deception, n. (2)

    WD 7.172 18 We are coaxed, flattered and duped...from birth to death; and where is the old eye that ever saw through the deception?
    OA 7.316 9 Wellington, in speaking of military men, said, What masks are these uniforms to hide cowards! I have often detected the like deception in the cloth shoe...of Age.

deceptions, n. (4)

    Exp 3.85 16 We must be very suspicious of the deceptions of the element of time.
    Ill 6.319 4 There are deceptions of the senses, deceptions of the passions...
    Ill 6.325 23 Every moment new changes and new showers of deceptions to baffle and distract [the young mortal].
    PI 8.15 2 ...[the Hindoos]...have made it the central doctrine of their religion that what we call Nature...has no real existence,--is only phenomenal. Youth, age, property, condition, events, persons,--self, even,-- are successive maias (deceptions) through which Vishnu mocks and instructs the soul.

deceptive, adj. (5)

    UGM 4.28 11 There is somewhat deceptive about the intercourse of minds.
    PPh 4.51 1 As if [Krishna] had said, All is for the soul, and the soul is Vishnu;...and durations are deceptive;...
    SS 7.15 25 Society and solitude are deceptive names.
    Boks 7.193 19 It is easy...to demonstrate that though [a man] should read from dawn till dark, for sixty years, he must die in the first alcoves [of the libraries]. But nothing can be more deceptive than this arithmetic...
    JBB 11.270 25 [John Brown] saw how deceptive the forms are.

decide, v. (8)

    NMW 4.238 10 ...[Napoleon said] I have observed that it is always these quarters of an hour that decide the fate of a battle.
    F 6.3 24 We decide that [the boys and girls] are not of good stock.
    F 6.9 16 ...ask Quetelet if temperaments decide nothing?...
    F 6.9 18 Ask Spurzheim...if there be anything [temperaments] do not decide?
    Boks 7.221 14 Another member [of the literary club] meantime shall as honestly search, sift and as truly report on British mythology...the histories of Brut, Merlin and Welsh poetry;...a fourth, on Mysteries, Early Drama, Gesta Romanorum, Collier, and Dyce, and the Camden Society. Each shall give us his grains of gold...and every other shall then decide whether this is a book indispensable to him also.
    War 11.169 25 A wise man will never...decide beforehand what he shall do in a given extreme event.
    Wom 11.419 26 ...bring together a cultivated society of both sexes, in a drawing-room, and consult and decide by voices on a question of taste or on a question of right, and is there any absurdity or any practical difficulty in obtaining their authentic opinions?
    Trag 12.413 15 A man should try Time, and his face should wear the expression of a just judge...who puts Nature and fortune on their merits: he will hear the case out, and then decide.

decided, adj. (11)

    Hsm1 2.259 23 The fair girl who repels interference by a decided and proud choice of influences...inspires every beholder with somewhat of her own nobleness.
    ET1 5.7 17 ...[Landor] is decided in his opinions...
    ET9 5.144 10 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.
    ET12 5.209 6 The university is a decided presumption in any man's favor [in England].
    SovE 10.186 2 ...we exaggerate when we represent these two elements [belief and skepticism] as disunited; every man shares them both; but it is true that men generally are marked by a decided predominance of one or of the other element.
    LLNE 10.328 19 In literature the effect [of detachment] appeared in the decided tendency of criticism.
    TPar 11.286 6 Theodore Parker was...a man of study, fit for a man of the world; with decided opinions and plenty of power to state them;...
    CL 12.135 9 The land, the care of land, seems to be the calling of the people of this new country, of those, at least, who have not some decided bias...
    WSL 12.340 2 ...[Landor's] eccentricity is too decided not to have diminished his greatness
    WSL 12.342 13 ...this sweet asylum of an intellectual life [a library] must appear to have the sanction of Nature, as long as so many men are born with so decided an aptitude for reading and writing.
    Let 12.399 1 ...companies of the best-educated young men in the Atlantic states every week take their departure for Europe;...simply because they shall so be...agreeably entertained for one or two years, with some lurking hope...that something may turn up to give them a decided direction.

decided, v. (12)

    NMW 4.235 14 Having decided what was to be done, [Napoleon] did that with might and main.
    ET1 5.6 23 Here is my [Greenough's] theory of structure...an emphasis of features proportioned to their gradated importance in function; color and ornament to be decided and arranged and varied by strictly organic laws...
    ET15 5.264 1 When Lord Brougham was in power, [the London Times] decided against him, and pulled him down.
    ET18 5.299 17 [Englishmen's] political conduct is not decided by general views...
    Aris 10.40 5 In every company one finds the best man; and if there be any question, it is decided the instant they enter into any practical enterprise.
    LLNE 10.365 6 Married women I believe uniformly decided against the community.
    Thor 10.470 5 On the day I speak of [Thoreau] looked for the Menyanthes, detected it across the wide pool, and, on examination of the florets, decided that it had been in flower five days.
    EWI 11.106 22 ...[George Somerset's] case was adjourned again and again, and judgment delayed. At last judgment was demanded, and on the 22d June, 1772, Lord Mansfield is reported to have decided...
    FSLN 11.226 7 Mr. Webster decided for Slavery...
    CPL 11.503 20 Many times the reading of a book has made the fortune of the man,-has decided his way of life.
    FRep 11.538 10 It is not a question whether we shall be a multitude of people. No, that has been conspicuously decided already;...
    Milt1 12.269 6 Questions that involve all social and personal rights were hasting to be decided by the sword...

decides, v. (8)

    SL 2.154 8 ...a public...not to be overawed, decides upon every man's title to fame.
    SwM 4.112 13 It is remarkable that this sublime genius [Swedenborg] decides peremptorily for the analytic, against the synthetic method;...
    Pow 6.76 18 The good Speaker in the House is not the man who knows the theory of parliamentary tactics, but the man who decides off-hand.
    CbW 6.246 1 The judge...since there must be a decision, decides as he can...
    CbW 6.253 8 They were the fools who cried against me...wrote the Chevalier de Boufflers to Grimm; aye, but the but the fools have the advantage of numbers, and 't is that which decides.
    SA 8.103 26 That is the point which decides the welfare of a people; which way does it look?
    FSLN 11.225 17 ...it is the genius and temper of the man which decides whether he will stand for right or for might.
    SMC 11.348 16 Yea, many a tie, through iteration sweet,/ Strove to detain their fatal feet;/ And yet the enduring half they chose,/ Whose choice decides a man life's slave or king,/ The invisible things of God before the seen and known:/ Therefore their memory inspiration blows/ With echoes gathering on from zone to zone;/...

deciding, v. (2)

    F 6.14 9 On the whole, [weighing] would be rather the speediest way of deciding the vote...
    Edc1 10.125 14 We have already taken...the initial step...thus deciding at the start the destiny of this country,-this, namely, that the poor man...is allowed to put his hand into the pocket of the rich, and say, You shall educate me...

deciduous, adj. (2)

    Lov1 2.187 17 At last [lovers] discover that all which at first drew them together...was deciduous...
    ET4 5.55 2 Some peoples are deciduous or transitory.

decigrade, adj. (1)

    Aris 10.33 3 The Golden Book of Venice...the hierarchy of India...is each a transcript of the decigrade or centigraded Man.

decimal, adj. (3)

    UGM 4.8 27 ...the makers of tools; the inventor of decimal notation;... severally make an easy way for all, through unknown and impossible confusions.
    Art2 7.40 3 The useful arts comprehend...navigation, practical chemistry and the construction of all the grand and delicate tools and instruments by which man serves himself; as language, the watch, the ship, the decimal cipher;...
    PC 8.214 20 ...[The Middle Ages'] Magna Charta, decimal numbers...are the delight and tuition of ours.

decimated, v. (2)

    NMW 4.241 22 [Napoleon's] real strength lay in [the people's] conviction that he was their representative in his genius and aims...even when he decimated them by his conscriptions.
    ET7 5.120 9 If war do not bring in its sequel new trade, better agriculture and manufactures...no prosperity could support it; much less a nation decimated for conscripts and out of pocket, like France.

decipher, v. (3)

    PI 8.22 22 In the ocean, in fire, in the sky, in the forest, [man] finds facts adequate and as large as he. ... It is easier...to decipher the arrow-head character, than to interpret these familiar sights.
    FSLN 11.220 2 ...it is always a little difficult to decipher what this public sense is;...
    CL 12.165 11 Swedenborg or Behman or Plato tried to decipher this hieroglyphic [of Nature]...

deciphering, v. (1)

    Plu 10.303 14 ...it is in reading the fragments [Plutarch] has saved from lost authors that I have hailed another example of...the benign Providence which...allows us to witness...the deciphering of forgotten languages...

decision, n. (13)

    NMW 4.237 20 In one of his conversations with Las Casas, [Napoleon] remarked, As to moral courage, I have rarely met with the two-o'clock-in-the- morning kind: I mean...that which...in spite of the most unforeseen events, leaves full freedom of judgment and decision...
    ET1 5.6 25 Here is my [Greenough's] theory of structure...an emphasis of features proportioned to their gradated importance in function; color and ornament to be decided and arranged and varied by strictly organic laws, having a distinct reason for each decision;...
    ET4 5.67 4 On the English face are combined decision and nerve with the fair complexion, blue eyes and open and florid aspect.
    Pow 6.76 8 Many men are knowing, many are apprehensive and tenacious, but they do not rush to a decision.
    Pow 6.76 8 ...in our flowing affairs a decision must be made...
    Wth 6.100 6 The right merchant is...a man...who makes up his decision on what he has seen.
    CbW 6.246 1 The judge...since there must be a decision, decides as he can...
    CSC 10.376 26 ...although no decision was had...yet the [Chardon Street] Convention brought together many remarkable persons...
    Thor 10.452 15 ...whilst all his companions were...eager to begin some lucrative employment, it was inevitable that [Thoreau's] thoughts should be exercised on the same question, and it required rare decision to refuse all the accustomed paths...
    EWI 11.107 8 [Lord Mansfield's] decision established the principle that the air of England is too pure for any slave to breathe...
    FSLN 11.227 25 ...the decision of Webster [for the Fugitive Slave Law] was accompanied with everything offensive to freedom and good morals.
    EPro 11.317 7 ...so fair a mind...so reticent that his decision has taken all parties by surprise...the firm tone in which he announces it...all these have bespoken such favor to the act [Emancipation Proclamation] that...we are beginning to think that we have underestimated the capacity and virtue which the Divine Providence has made an instrument of benefit so vast.
    EPro 11.318 9 ...it became every day more apparent what gigantic and what remote interests were to be affected by the decision of the President [Lincoln]...

decisions, n. (13)

    LE 1.162 27 [The youth] is curious concerning that man's day. What filled it?...the stern decisions...
    Pol1 3.212 26 Every man finds a sanction for his simplest claims and deeds, in decisions of his own mind, which he calls Truth and Holiness.
    Pol1 3.212 27 Every man finds a sanction for his simplest claims and deeds, in decisions of his own mind, which he calls Truth and Holiness. In these decisions all the citizens find a perfect agreement...
    Wth 6.104 8 If you take out of State Street the ten honestest merchants and put in ten roguish persons controlling the same amount of capital...the judge will sit less firmly on the bench, and his decisions be less upright;...
    Elo1 7.87 17 ...[the court] read away piteously the decisions of the Supreme Court...
    Elo1 7.88 17 Each of Mansfield's famous decisions contains a level sentence or two which hit the mark.
    Elo1 7.88 26 ...I read without surprise that the black-letter lawyers of the day sneered at [Lord Mansfield's] equitable decisions...
    EWI 11.105 26 [Granville] Sharpe protected the [West Indian] slave. In consulting with the lawyers, they told Sharpe the laws were against him. Sharpe would not believe it; no prescription on earth could ever render such iniquities legal. But the decisions are against you, and Lord Mansfield, now Chief Justice of England, leans to the decisions.
    EWI 11.106 1 [Granville] Sharpe protected the [West Indian] slave. In consulting with the lawyers, they told Sharpe the laws were against him. Sharpe would not believe it; no prescription on earth could ever render such iniquities legal. But the decisions are against you, and Lord Mansfield, now Chief Justice of England, leans to the decisions.
    EWI 11.106 6 [Granville] Sharpe instantly...gave himself to the study of English law...until he had proved that the opinions relied on, of Talbot and Yorke, were incompatible with the former English decisions...
    EWI 11.106 11 ...when [Granville Sharpe] brought the case of George Somerset, another slave, before Lord Mansfield, the slavish decisions were set aside, and equity affirmed.
    EWI 11.106 16 Very unwilling had that great lawyer [Lord Mansfield] been to reverse the late decisions [on slavery];...
    ALin 11.333 2 [Lincoln's good humor] enabled him...to take off the edge of the severest decisions;...

decisive, adj. (12)

    OS 2.286 1 Against their will [men] exhibit those decisive trifles by which character is read.
    PPh 4.43 8 Plato...(though I doubt he wanted the decisive gift of lyric expression), mainly is not a poet because he chose to use the poetic gift to an ulterior purpose.
    Pow 6.59 12 When a new boy comes into school...there is at once a trial of strength...and it is settled thenceforth which is the leader. So now, there is a measuring of strength, very courteous but decisive, and an acquiescence thenceforward when these two meet.
    Ctr 6.162 12 When the state is unquiet, personal qualities are more than ever decisive.
    Elo1 7.73 22 ...as this fascination of discourse aims only at amusement, though it be decisive in its momentary effect, it is yet a juggle...
    WD 7.175 18 One of the illusions is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive hour.
    Insp 8.279 6 There are...certain risks in this presentiment of the decisive perception...
    Dem1 10.26 11 These adepts [in occult facts] have mistaken flatulency for inspiration. Were this drivel which they report as the voice of spirits really such, we must find out a more decisive suicide.
    Chr2 10.107 25 ...the distinctions of the true clergyman are not less decisive.
    LS 11.13 12 Many persons consider this fact, the observance of such a memorial feast [the Lord's Supper] by the early disciples, decisive of the question whether it ought to be observed by us.
    EPro 11.325 19 The malignant cry of the Secession press within the free states, and the recent action of the Confederate Congress, are decisive as to [the Emancipation Proclamation's] eficiency and correctness of aim.
    FRep 11.525 12 In each new threat of faction the ballot has been, beyond expectation, right and decisive.

decisively, adv. (1)

    Pow 6.73 18 ...there are two economies which are the best succedanea which the case admits. The first is the stopping off decisively our miscellaneous activity...

deck, n. (7)

    LE 1.178 26 On coming on board the Bellerophon, a file of English soldiers drawn up on deck gave [Napoleon] a military salute.
    LT 1.269 24 The fury with which the slave-trader defends every inch of his bloody deck...is a trumpet to alarm the ear of mankind...
    NMW 4.250 19 One fine night, on deck, amid a clatter of materialism, Bonaparte pointed to the stars, and said, You may talk as long as you please, gentlemen, but who made all that?
    ET2 5.28 3 The mainmast [of our ship], from the deck to the top-button, measured 115 feet;...
    ET2 5.28 4 The mainmast [of our ship]...measured 115 feet; the length of the deck from stem to stern, 155.
    ET4 5.59 23 King Hake of Sweden cuts and slashes in battle, as long as he can stand, then orders his war-ship, loaded with his dead men and their weapons, to be taken out to sea, the tiller shipped and the sails spread; being left alone he sets fire to some tar-wood and lies down contented on deck.
    EWI 11.130 27 ...I thought the deck of a Massachusetts ship was as much the territory of Massachusetts as the floor on which we stand.

deck, v. (4)

    Lov1 2.188 2 ...I do not wonder...at the profuse beauty with which the instincts deck the nuptial bower...
    Hsm1 2.243 3 ...Rose and vine-leaf deck buffoons;/...
    Hsm1 2.258 12 The pictures which fill the imagination in reading the actions of Pericles...Hampden, teach us...that we, by the depth of our living, should deck [our life] with more than regal or national splendor...
    ET6 5.107 20 ...within, [the Englishman's house] is...filled with good furniture. 'T is a passion which survives all others, to deck and improve it.

decked, v. (3)

    Nat2 3.173 10 ...I go with my friend to the shore of our little river, and with one stroke of the paddle I...pass into a delicate realm of sunset and moonlight... A holiday...the proudest, most heart-rejoicing festival that valor and beauty, power and taste, ever decked and enjoyed, establishes itself on the instant.
    SS 7.1 11 ...nor loved [Seyd] less/ Stately lords in palaces/ Princely women hard to please,/ Fenced by form and ceremony,/ Decked by courtly rites and dress/...
    MMEm 10.425 17 ...[the earth's] youthful charms as decked by the hand of Moses' Cosmogony, will linger about the heart, while Poetry succumbs to Science.

Decker, Thomas, n. (1)

    ShP 4.192 14 The best proof of [the Elizabethan theatre's] vitality is the crowd of writers which suddenly broke into this field; Kyd, Marlow, Greene, Jonson, Chapman, Decker, Webster, Heywood, Middleton, Peele, Ford, Massinger, Beaumont and Fletcher.

deck-flogging, n. (1)

    ET4 5.63 24 [The English] have retained impressment, deck-flogging, army-flogging and school-flogging.

decking, v. (1)

    Bty 6.304 25 The poets are quite right in decking their mistresses with the spoils of the landscape...

decks, v. (1)

    ET14 5.250 9 ...where impatience of the tricks of men...builds altars to the negative Deity, the inevitable recoil is...the gallantry of the private heart, which decks its immolation with glory...

declaim, v. (1)

    LS 11.20 21 I am not so foolish as to declaim against forms.

declaimed, v. (1)

    Elo1 7.78 16 In earlier days, [Julius Caesar] was taken by pirates. What then? He threw himself into their ship...declaimed to them;...

declaiming, v. (1)

    ET1 5.23 3 This recitation [of his sonnets by Wordsworth] was so unlooked for and surprising,--he, the old Wordsworth, standing apart, and reciting to me in a garden-walk, like a school-boy declaiming,--that I at first was near to laugh;...

declamation, n. (5)

    ET1 5.10 23 ...[Coleridge] burst into a declamation on the folly and ignorance of Unitarianism...
    Bhr 6.169 8 Good tableaux do not need declamation.
    DL 7.120 11 ...who can see unmoved...the warm sympathy with which [the eager, blushing boys] kindle each other...the school declamation faithfully rehearsed at home...
    Elo2 8.130 8 Declamation is common;...
    LLNE 10.334 12 ...not a sentence was written in academic exercises, not a declamation attempted in the college chapel, but showed the omnipresence of [Everett's] genius to youthful heads.

declamations, n. (1)

    PerF 10.87 26 ...legislatures listen with appetite to declamations against [the moral sentiment], and vote it down.

declaration, n. (4)

    MR 1.232 1 In the Spanish islands, every agent or factor of the Americans... has taken oath that he is a Catholic, or has caused a priest to make that declaration for him.
    SR 2.71 8 Let us stun and astonish the intruding rabble...by a simple declaration of the divine fact.
    NMW 4.241 12 The best document of [Napoleon's] relation to his troops is the order of the day on the morning of the battle of Austerlitz, in which Napoleon promises the troops that he will keep his person out of reach of fire. This declaration...sufficiently explains the devotion of the army to their leader.
    SMC 11.353 15 When the rights of man are recited under any old government, every one of them is a declaration of war.

Declaration of American Ind (2)

    ET12 5.202 6 I do not know whether this learned body [at Oxford] have yet heard of the Declaration of American Independence...
    EPro 11.315 19 Such moments of expansion [of liberty] in modern history were the Confession of Augsburg...the Declaration of American Independence in 1776...

Declaration of Independence, (7)

    F 6.23 13 ...nothing is more disgusting than...the flippant mistaking for freedom of some paper preamble like a Declaration of Independence...by those who have never dared to think or to act...
    Chr2 10.92 2 [The man] has his life in Nature, like a beast: but choice is born in him;...here is the Declaration of Independence, the July Fourth of zoology and astronomy.
    JBB 11.268 19 [John Brown] believes in two articles,-two instruments, shall I say?-the Golden Rule and the Declaration of Independence;...
    JBB 11.270 15 ...we are here to think of relief for the family of John Brown. To my eyes, that family looks very large and very needy of relief. It comprises...almost every man who loves the Golden Rule and the Declaration of Independence, like him...
    JBB 11.272 12 A Vermont judge, Hutchinson, who has the Declaration of Independence in his heart;...is worth a court-house full of lawyers so idolatrous of forms as to let go the substance.
    RBur 11.440 22 The Confession of Augsburg, the Declaration of Independence...are not more weighty documents in the history of freedom than the songs of Burns.
    Bost 12.201 18 There is a little formula, couched in pure Saxon...I 'm as good as you be, which contains the essence of the Massachusetts Bill of Rights and of the American Declaration of Independence.

declarations, n. (4)

    Pow 6.65 15 [The Hoosiers and the Suckers] see, against the unanimous declarations of the people, how much crime the people will bear;...
    Wsp 6.229 22 Physiognomy and phrenology are...declarations of the soul that it is aware of certain new sources of information.
    Prch 10.218 8 I see in those classes and those persons...who contain the activity of to-day and the assurance of to-morrow...a clear enough perception of the inadequacy of the popular religious statement to the wants of their heart and intellect, and explicit declarations of this fact.
    FSLN 11.235 3 To make good the cause of Freedom, you must draw off from all foolish trust in others. You must be...declarations of Independence...

declaratory, adj. (3)

    FSLC 11.186 26 ...laws...are simply declaratory of a right which already existed...
    FSLC 11.195 1 Laws are merely declaratory of the natural sentiments of mankind...
    FSLN 11.233 1 [Official papers] are all declaratory of the will of the moment...

declare, v. (16)

    Con 1.308 27 ...I feel called upon...to declare to you my opinion that if the Earth is yours so also is it mine.
    Art1 2.365 21 A true announcement of the law of creation, if a man were found worthy to declare it, would carry art up into the kingdom of nature...
    Pt1 3.37 3 He is the poet and shall draw us with love and terror, who sees through the flowing vest the firm nature, and can declare it.
    NER 3.251 24 The spirit of protest and of detachment drove the members of these [Sabbath and Bible] Conventions to bear testimony against the Church, and immediately afterwards to declare their discontent with these Conventions...
    PPh 4.56 21 To the study of nature [Plato]...prefixes the dogma, Let us declare the cause which led the Supreme Ordainer to produce and compose the universe.
    NMW 4.237 21 ...[Napoleon] did not hesitate to declare that he was himself eminently endowed with this two-o'clock-in-the-morning courage...
    ET11 5.190 15 At Wilton House the Arcadia was written, amidst conversations with Fulke Greville, Lord Brooke, a man of no vulgar mind, as his own poems declare him.
    ET13 5.227 8 Brougham...said...the reverend bishops...solemnly declare in the presence of God that when they are called upon to accept a living, perhaps of 4000 pounds a year, at that very instant they are moved by the Holy Ghost to accept the office and administration thereof, for no other reason whatever?
    PPo 8.256 5 I declare myself the slave of that masculine soul/ Which ties and alliance on earth once forever renounces./
    SovE 10.184 3 Asthis unity exists...from lower type of man to the highest yet attained, so it does not less declare itself in the spirit or intelligence of the brute.
    SovE 10.205 9 It is a sort of mark of probity and sincerity to declare how little you believe...
    Prch 10.221 23 Unlovely, nay, frightful, is the solitude of the soul which is without God in the world. To...behold the horse, cow and bird, and to foresee an equal and speedy end to him and them;-no, the bird...would... declare him an outcast.
    Schr 10.279 20 I declare anew from Heaven that truth exists new and beautiful and profitable forevermore.
    Schr 10.285 27 Genius delights only in statements which are themselves true...which...do daily declare fresh war against all falsehood and custom...
    War 11.168 25 If you have a nation of men who have risen to that height of moral cultivation that they will not declare war or carry arms...you have a nation...of true, great and able men.
    AKan 11.256 1 When pressed to look at the cause of the mischief in the Kansas laws, the President falters and declines the discussion; but his supporters in the Senate...speak out, and declare the intolerable atrocity of the code.

declared, v. (31)

    DSA 1.130 6 ...[Jesus] declared [the inner law] was God.
    DSA 1.144 2 The remedy is already declared in the ground of our complaint of the Church.
    MR 1.241 27 I would not quite forget the venerable counsel of the Egyptian mysteries, which declared that there were two pairs of eyes in man...
    NMW 4.226 17 Mirabeau read [Dumont's peroration]...and declared he would incorporate it into his harangue to-morrow, to the Assembly.
    GoW 4.281 22 If [the writer] can not rightly express himself to-day, the same things subsist and will open themselves to-morrow. There lies the burden on his mind,--the burden of truth to be declared...
    ET3 5.42 6 When James the First declared his purpose of punishing London by removing his Court, the Lord Mayor replied that in removing his royal presence from his lieges, they hoped he would leave them the Thames.
    ET4 5.68 8 ...[Admiral Rodney] declared himself very sensible to fear...
    ET7 5.118 15 Even Lord Chesterfield...when he came to define a gentleman, declared that truth made his distinction;...
    ET15 5.264 2 [The London Times] declared war against Ireland, and conquered it.
    F 6.42 14 As once [man] found himself among toys, so now...his growth is declared in his ambition...
    SS 7.4 6 For himself [my new friend] declared that he could not get enough alone to write a letter to a friend.
    SA 8.88 24 ...I have heard with admiring submission the experience of the lady who declared that the sense of being perfectly well dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquillity which religion is powerless to bestow.
    Imtl 8.343 16 [The moral sentiment] risks or ruins property, health, life itself, without hesitation, for its thought, and all men justify the man by their praise for this act. And Mahomet in the same mind declared, Not dead, but living, ye are to account all those who are slain in the way of God.
    Supl 10.170 19 ...the great official...declared that he should remember this honor to the latest moment of his existence.
    LLNE 10.338 10 The German poet Goethe...declared war against the great name of Newton...
    LLNE 10.342 6 These fine conversations...were incomprehensible to some in the company, and they had their revenge in their little joke. One declared that It seemed to him like going to heaven in a swing;...
    HDC 11.38 5 ...in conclusion, the said Indians declared themselves satisfied, and told the Englishmen they were welcome.
    HDC 11.38 8 ...after the bargain [for Concord] was concluded, Mr. Simon Willard, pointing to the four corners of the world, declared that they had bought three miles from that place, east, west, north and south.
    HDC 11.54 20 Captain Underhill, in 1638, declared, that the new plantations of Dedham and Concord do afford large accommodations...
    HDC 11.58 27 [King Philip] stoutly declared to the Commissioners that he would not deliver up a Wampanoag...
    EWI 11.113 7 ...be it enacted...that from and after the first August, 1834, slavery shall be and is hereby utterly and forever abolished and declared unlawful throughout the British colonies...
    EWI 11.117 1 In June, 1835, the Ministers, Lord Aberdeen and Sir George Grey, declared to the Parliament that the system [of emancipation in the West Indies] worked well;...
    EWI 11.119 17 Lord Brougham and Mr. Buxton declared that the [Jamaican] planter had not fulfilled his part in the [emancipation] contract...
    War 11.157 19 Early in the eleventh and twelfth centuries, the Italian cities had grown so populous and strong that they forced the rural nobility to... come and reside in the towns. The popes...declared religious jubilees...
    FSLC 11.204 8 [Webster] adheres to the letter. Happily he was born late,- after the independence had been declared, the Union agreed to, and the constitution settled.
    FSLN 11.244 1 ...I put it...to every poetic, every heroic, every religious heart, that not so is...our worship to be declared.
    EPro 11.320 26 ...we are assuming the firmness of the policy thus declared [in the Emancipation Proclamation].
    ChiE 11.472 20 When Socrates heard that the oracle declared that he was the wisest of men, he said, it must mean that other men held that they were wise, but that he knew that he knew nothing.
    MAng1 12.232 9 Sir Joshua Reynolds...declared to the British Institution, I feel a self-congratulation in knowing myself capable of such sensations as [Michelangelo] intended to excite.
    Milt1 12.256 8 [Milton] declared that he who would aspire to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem;...
    Milt1 12.274 11 [Milton] beholds [man] as he walked in Eden:-His fair large front and eye sublime declared/ Absolute rule; and hyacinthine locks/ Round from his parted forelock manly hung/ Clustering, but not beneath his shoulders broad./

declares, v. (13)

    Tran 1.342 19 ...[Society] saith, Whoso goes to walk alone...declares all to be unfit to be his companions;...
    Nat2 3.187 25 The strong, self-complacent Luther declares with an emphasis not to be mistaken, that God himself cannot do without wise men.
    PPh 4.66 21 Socrates declares that if some have grown wise by associating with him, no thanks are due to him;...
    NMW 4.228 12 An Italian proverb...declares that if you would succeed, you must not be too good.
    PI 8.60 6 [The Crusades brought out the genius of France, in the twelfth century, when] Pons de Capdeuil declares,--Since the air renews itself and softens, so must my heart renew itself...
    Plu 10.296 2 Montesquieu...in his Pensees, declares, I am always charmed with Plutarch;...
    Plu 10.298 18 ...[Plutarch]...declares in a letter written to his wife that he finds scarcely an erasure, as in a book well-written, in the happiness of his life.
    JBB 11.269 27 ...it is the reductio ad absurdum of Slavery, when the governor of Virginia is forced to hang a man [John Brown] whom he declares to be a man of the most integrity, truthfulness and courage he has ever met.
    PLT 12.34 12 Ask what the Instinct declares, and we have little to say.
    PLT 12.62 15 ...Aristotle declares that the origin of reason is not reason, but something better.
    II 12.65 16 Ask what the Instinct declares, and we have little to say;...
    Milt1 12.263 27 ...[Milton] declares that a certain niceness of nature, an honest haughtiness and self-esteem...and a modesty, kept me still above those low descents of mind beneath which he must deject and plunge himself that can agree to such degradation.
    Milt1 12.275 12 ...the Comus [is] a transcript, in charming numbers, of that philosophy of chastity, which, in the Apology for Smectymnuus, and in the Reason of Church Government, [Milton] declares to be his defence and religion.

declaring, v. (5)

    LT 1.263 18 ...somebody shocked a circle of friends of order here in Boston...by declaring that an eloquent man...would be ordained at once in one of our metropolitan churches.
    SwM 4.130 22 In his Animal Kingdom [Swedenborg] surprised us by declaring that he loved analysis, and not synthesis;...
    Supl 10.172 10 ...[it] was similarly asserted of the late Lord Jeffrey, at the Scottish bar,-an attentive auditor declaring on one occasion after an argument of three hours, that he had spoken the whole English language three times over in his speech.
    LS 11.10 8 [Jesus] permitted himself to be anointed, declaring that it was for his interment.
    EWI 11.110 6 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.

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