Demophoon to Designs

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

Demophoon, n. (1)

    Supl 10.165 23 ...there is an inverted superlative...which shivers like Demophoon, in the sun...

demoralize, v. (1)

    AKan 11.259 12 I do not know any story so gloomy as the politics of this country for the last twenty years, centralizing ever more manifestly round one spring, and that a vast crime...illustrating the fatal effects of a false position to demoralize legislation...

demoralized, adj. (1)

    NMW 4.257 10 ...what was the result of [Napoleon's] vast talent and power...of this demoralized Europe?

demoralizes, v. (2)

    Wth 6.90 27 Poverty demoralizes.
    Wsp 6.239 20 What is called religion effeminates and demoralizes.

demoralizing, adj. (1)

    Wth 6.104 20 ...if you should take out of the powerful class engaged in trade a hundred good men and put in a hundred bad, or, what is just the same thing, introduce a demoralizing institution, would not the dollar... presently find it out?

Demos, n. (2)

    Pow 6.62 8 The same energy in the Greek Demos drew the remark that the evils of popular government appear greater than they are;...
    Art2 7.56 19 ...in Greece, the Demos of Athens divided into political factions upon the merits of Phidias.

Demosthenes, n. (17)

    GoW 4.270 23 [Goethe] appears at a time...when, in the absence of heroic characters, a social comfort and cooperation have come in. There is...no Demosthenes...but any number of clever parliamentary and forensic debaters;...
    Elo1 7.63 13 [The orator's audience] come to get justice done to that ear and intuition which no Chatham and no Demosthenes has begun to satisfy.
    Elo1 7.69 20 The virtue of books is to be readable, and of orators to be interesting; and this is a gift of Nature; as Demosthenes...signified his sense of this necessity when he wrote, Good Fortune, as his motto on his shield.
    Elo1 7.73 8 Philip of Macedon said of Demosthenes, on hearing the report of one of his orations, Had I been there, he would have persuaded me to take up arms against myself;...
    Elo1 7.85 3 ...the splendid weapons which went to the equipment of Demosthenes, of Aeschines...deserve a special enumeration.
    Elo1 7.99 7 To stand on one's own feet, Heeren finds the key-note to the discourses of Demosthenes...
    Boks 7.199 23 Plutarch cannot be spared from the smallest library; first because he is so readable, which is much; then that he is medicinal and invigorating. The lives of...Alexander, Demosthenes...are what history has of best.
    Boks 7.202 9 The secret of the recent histories in German and in English is the discovery...that the sincere Greek history of that period [Age of Pericles] must be drawn from Demosthenes...and from the comic poets.
    Elo2 8.124 15 ...in your struggles with the world...seek refuge...in the patriotism of Cicero, Demosthenes and Burke...
    PC 8.218 6 The history of Greece is at one time reduced to two persons,- Philip...and Demosthenes...
    Plu 10.318 12 ...wherever the Cid is relished, the legends of...Bonaparte, and Walter Scott's Chronicles in prose or verse,-there will Plutarch, who told the story of Leonidas...of...Themistocles, Demosthenes...sit as... laureate of the ancient world.
    AsSu 11.251 1 ...the third crime [Sumner] stands charged with, is, that his speeches were written before they were spoken; which, of course, must be true in Sumner's case, as it was true...of Demosthenes;...
    FRep 11.539 11 It is not by heads reverted to the dying Demosthenes...that you can combat the dangers and dragons that beset the United States at this time.
    CInt 12.120 4 ...I value [talent] more...when the talent is...in harmony with the public sentiment of mankind. Such is the patriotism of Demosthenes...
    CInt 12.120 13 In Demosthenes is this realism of genius.
    WSL 12.346 18 [Landor] loves...Aristophanes, Demosthenes, Virgil...
    WSL 12.347 12 [Landor's] picture of Demosthenes in three several Dialogues is new and adequate.

Demosthenes's, n. (1)

    Elo1 7.99 3 One thought the philosophers of Demosthenes's own time found running through all his orations,--this namely, that virtue secures its own success.

demur, n. (1)

    Wom 11.421 26 ...if any man will take the trouble to see how our people vote,-how many gentlemen...standing at the door of the polls, give every innocent citizen his ticket as he comes in...and how the innocent citizen, without further demur, goes and drops it in the ballot-box,-I cannot but think he will agree that most women might vote as wisely.

den, n. (3)

    Comp 2.116 2 ...there is no den in the wide world to hide a rogue.
    Clbs 7.223 2 Yet Saadi loved the race of men,--/ No churl, immured in cave or den;/...
    HDC 11.61 23 ...the Indian seemed to inspire such a feeling as the wild beast inspires in the people near his den.

Denderah, Egypt, n. (1)

    DSA 1.139 21 The prayers and even the dogmas of our church are like the zodiac of Denderah...

denial, n. (8)

    MN 1.215 10 ...[the disciple] attached the value of virtue to some particular practices, as the denial of certain appetites in certain specified indulgences...
    Con 1.302 2 ...we must...suffer men...to pair off into insane parties, and learn the amount of truth each knows by the denial of an equal amount of truth.
    NER 3.260 24 ...in this, as in every period of intellectual activity, there has been a noise of denial and protest;...
    Edc1 10.141 25 ...the way to knowledge and power has ever been...a way, not through plenty and superfluity, but by denial and renunciation, into solitude and privation;...
    LVB 11.92 17 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...
    EWI 11.121 17 It may be asserted, without fear of denial, that the former slaves of Jamaica are now as secure in all social rights, as freeborn Britons.
    War 11.167 8 At a still higher stage, [man] comes into the region of holiness;...he...accepts with alacrity wearisome tasks of denial and charity;...
    II 12.67 26 Objection and loud denial not less prove the reality and conquests of an idea than the friends and advocates it finds.

denials, n. (2)

    Exp 3.81 20 ...I cannot dispose of other people's facts; but I possess such a key to my own as persuades me, against all their denials, that they also have a key to theirs.
    GoW 4.278 16 ...those who begin [Goethe's Wilhelm Meister] with the higher hope to read in it a worthy history of genius, and the just award of the laurel to its toils and denials, have also reason to complain.

denied, v. (27)

    DSA 1.127 19 ...the divine nature is attributed to one or two persons, and denied to all the rest...
    DSA 1.127 20 ...the divine nature is attributed to one or two persons, and denied to all the rest, and denied with fury.
    DSA 1.134 16 If utterance is denied, the thought lies like a burden on the man.
    Tran 1.352 10 ...It is not to be denied that there must be some wide difference between [the Transcendentalist's] faith and other faith;...
    Tran 1.356 8 [Transcendentalists] complain that everything around them must be denied;...
    SR 2.57 11 In your metaphysics you have denied personality to the Deity...
    SR 2.64 22 Here are the lungs of that inspiration...which cannot be denied without impiety and atheism.
    SL 2.138 10 Every man sees that he is that middle point whereof every thing may be affirmed and denied with equal reason.
    Pol1 3.221 10 I do not call to mind a single human being who has steadily denied the authority of the laws, on the simple ground of his own moral nature.
    NR 3.245 18 All the universe over, there is but one thing, this old Two-Face... right-wrong, of which any proposition may be affirmed or denied.
    NER 3.279 22 It is yet in all men's memory that, a few years ago, the liberal churches complained that the Calvinistic church denied to them the name of Christian.
    PPh 4.61 25 [Plato] could prostrate himself on the earth and cover his eyes whilst he adored...that of which every thing can be affirmed and denied...
    SwM 4.131 4 Beauty is disgraced, love is unlovely, when truth...is denied...
    GoW 4.269 3 ...it is not to be denied that men are cordial in their recognition and welcome of the intellectual accomplishments.
    ET4 5.45 20 It has been denied that the English have genius.
    ET14 5.245 16 ...[Hallam's] eye does not reach to the ideal standards...all new thought must be cast into the old moulds. The expansive element which creates literature is steadily denied.
    Imtl 8.340 16 Lord Bacon said: Some of the philosophers who were least divine denied generally the immortality of the soul...
    Supl 10.163 4 [The doctrine of temperance] is usually taught on a low platform...and its importance cannot be denied and hardly exaggerated.
    Schr 10.266 4 ...[Nature] will not be denied;...
    LLNE 10.337 17 Gall and Spurzheim's Phrenology laid a rough hand on the mysteries of animal and spiritual nature, dragging down every sacred secret to a street show. The attempt...felt connection where the professors denied it...
    LLNE 10.346 7 ...[the pilgrim]...had learned to sleep...on a wagon covered with the buffalo-robe under the shed,-or under the stars, when the farmer denied the shed and the buffalo-robe.
    LS 11.4 8 The doctrine of the Consubstantiation taught by Luther was denied by Calvin.
    LS 11.4 17 ...it is now near two hundred years since the Society of Quakers denied the authority of the rite [the Lord's Supper] altogether...
    EWI 11.141 18 In 1791, Mr. Wilberforce announced to the House of Commons, We have already gained one victory: we have obtained for these poor creatures [West Indian negroes] the recognition of their human nature, which for a time was most shamefully denied them.
    SMC 11.350 2 ...it is a piece of nature and the common sense that the throbbing chord that holds us to our kindred, our friends and our town, is not to be denied or resisted...
    Wom 11.418 24 The answer that lies, silent or spoken, in the minds of well-meaning persons, to the new claims [of rights for women], is this: that though their mathematical justice is not be be denied, yet the best women do not wish these things;...
    CInt 12.124 19 The necessity of a mechanical system [of education] is not to be denied.

denies, v. (9)

    LE 1.164 4 We resent all criticism which denies us anything that lies in our line of advance.
    LE 1.174 12 Do not go into solitude only that you may presently come into public. Such solitude denies itself;...
    SR 2.74 20 [My own perfect circle] denies the name of duty to many offices that are called duties.
    NR 3.245 5 The end and the means...life is made up of the intermixture and reaction of these two amicable powers, whose marriage appears beforehand monstrous, as each denies and tends to abolish the other.
    MoS 4.152 15 After dinner, a man believes less, denies more...
    MoS 4.182 14 Even the doctrines dear to the hope of man...[the spiritualist' s] neighbors can not put the statement so that he shall affirm it. But he denies out of more faith, and not less.
    MoS 4.182 15 [The spiritualist] denies out of honesty.
    Bhr 6.195 15 ...[Marcus Scaurus], full of firmness and gravity, defended himself in this manner:--Quintus Varius Hispanus alleges that Marcus Scaurus...excited the allies to arms: Marcus Scaurus...denies it. There is no witness. Which do you believe, Romans?
    Ill 6.320 2 There is illusion that shall deceive even the performer of the miracle. Though he make his body, he denies that he makes it.

denique, adv. (1)

    PC 8.208 8 Prisca juvent alios, ego me nunc denique natum/ Gratulor./

Denmark, n. (3)

    Mrs1 3.144 3 This gentleman is this afternoon arrived from Denmark;...
    ET4 5.61 15 The continued draught of the best men in Norway, Sweden and Denmark to these piratical expeditions exhausted those countries...
    ET4 5.62 7 Konghelle, the town where the kings of Norway, Sweden and Denmark were wont to meet, is now rented to a private English gentleman for a hunting ground.

Dennis, John, n. (1)

    WSL 12.342 1 A charm attaches to the most inferior names which have in any manner got themselves enrolled in the registers of the House of Fame... to...Theobald and Dennis...

denominated, v. (2)

    Tran 1.340 8 ...Immanuel Kant...replied to the skeptical philosophy of Locke...by showing that there was a very important class of ideas or imperative forms, which did not come by experience, but through which experience was acquired; that these were intuitions of the mind itself; and he denominated them Transcendental forms.
    SwM 4.140 6 The Hindoos have denominated the Supreme Being, the Internal Check.

denominates, v. (1)

    Milt1 12.260 20 The world, no doubt, contains many of that class of men whom Wordsworth denominates silent poets...

denominating, v. (1)

    Int 2.345 4 ...whosoever propounds to you a philosophy of the mind, is only a more or less awkward translator of things in your consciousness which you have also your way of seeing, perhaps of denominating.

denominations, n. (1)

    LT 1.263 17 ...somebody shocked a circle of friends of order here in Boston, who supposed that our people were identified with their religious denominations, by declaring that an eloquent man...would be ordained at once in one of our metropolitan churches.

Denon, Dominique Vivant, n. (2)

    Wth 6.95 3 The reader of Humboldt's Cosmos follows the marches of a man whose eyes, ears and mind are armed by all the science, arts, and implements which mankind have anywhere accumulated, and who is using these to add to the stock. So it is with Denon...
    MoL 10.253 19 All that is left of [Napoleon's Egyptian campaign] is the researches of those savans on the antiquities of Egypt, including the great work of Denon...

denote, v. (5)

    Nat 1.25 20 We say...the head to denote thought;...
    SR 2.64 7 We denote this primary wisdom as Intuition...
    Art1 2.353 21 [Indian, Chinese and Mexican idols] denote the height of the human soul in that hour...
    ET7 5.124 2 A slow temperament...has given occasion to the observation that English wit comes afterwards,--which the French denote as esprit d' escalier.
    WD 7.171 27 It is singular that our rich English language should have no word to denote the face of the world.

denoted, v. (1)

    SwM 4.96 1 If one should ask the reason of this intuition, the solution would lead us into that property which Plato denoted as Reminiscence...

denotes, v. (7)

    Mrs1 3.123 2 ...the word [gentleman] denotes good-nature or benevolence;...
    NR 3.234 6 ...the wonder and charm of [art] is the sanity in insanity which it denotes.
    SwM 4.142 12 Strange, scholastic, didactic, passionless, bloodless man [Swedenborg], who denotes classes of souls as a botanist disposes of a carex...
    F 6.9 11 A dome of brow denotes one thing...
    WD 7.172 5 Kinde was the old English term, which...filled only half the range of our fine Latin word, with its delicate future tense,--natura, about to be born, or what German philosophy denotes as a becoming.
    Chr2 10.102 14 Character denotes habitual self-possession...
    II 12.72 19 It is this employment of new means...that denotes the inspired man.

denounce, v. (4)

    Tran 1.355 10 [Our virtue's] representatives are austere; they preach and denounce;...
    Hsm1 2.254 21 It seems not worth [the hero's] while to...denounce with bitterness flesh-eating or wine-drinking...
    MMEm 10.403 5 [Mary Moody Emerson] had a deep sympathy with genius. When it was unhallowed, as in Byron, she had none the less, whilst she deplored and affected to denounce him.
    FSLC 11.204 21 [Webster] praises Adams and Jefferson, but it is a past Adams and Jefferson that his mind can entertain. A present Adams and Jefferson he would denounce.

denounced, v. (7)

    MR 1.232 14 ...the general system of our trade (apart from the blacker traits, which, I hope, are exceptions denounced...by all reputable men) is a system of selfishness;...
    ET4 5.51 9 Everything English is a fusion of distant and antagonistic elements. The language is mixed;...a country of extemes...nothing can be praised in it without damning exceptions, and nothing denounced without salvos of cordial praise.
    ET15 5.264 6 [The London Times] denounced and discredited the French Republic of 1848...
    ET15 5.264 11 [The London Times] first denounced and then adopted the new French Empire...
    MMEm 10.406 6 [Mary Moody Emerson] surprised, attracted, chided and denounced her companion by turns...
    FSLN 11.243 19 [Robert Winthrop] denounced every name and aspect under which liberty and progress dare show themselves in this age and country...
    TPar 11.290 19 Two days...the days of the rendition of Sims and Burns, made the occasion of [Theodore Parker's] most remarkable discourses. He kept nothing back. In terrible earnest he denounced the public crime...

denouncing, adj. (1)

    LT 1.280 7 This denouncing philanthropist is himself a slaveholder in every word and look.

denouncing, v. (3)

    Wth 6.95 27 The pulpit and the press have many commonplaces denouncing the thirst for wealth;...
    FSLN 11.243 16 Having...professed his adoration for liberty in the time of his grandfathers, [Robert Winthrop] proceeded with his work of denouncing freedom and freemen at the present day...
    Milt1 12.271 26 [Milton] maintained the doctrine of literary liberty, denouncing the censorship of the press...

dens, n. (5)

    Prd1 2.228 22 The beautiful laws of time and space, once dislocated by our inaptitude, are holes and dens.
    Mrs1 3.144 17 ...these [social lions] are monsters of one day, and to-morrow will be dismissed to their holes and dens;...
    CbW 6.254 18 Wars, fires, plagues...clear the ground of rotten races and dens of distemper...
    Bty 6.279 17 In dens of passion, and pits of woe, [Seyd] saw strong Eros struggling through/...
    War 11.157 17 Early in the eleventh and twelfth centuries, the Italian cities had grown so populous and strong that they forced the rural nobility to dismantle their castles, which were dens of cruelty...

dense, adj. (4)

    Hist 2.36 22 Transport [Napoleon] to...dense population...and you shall see that the man Napoleon, bounded that is by such a profile and outline, is not the virtual Napoleon.
    Int 2.326 7 Heraclitus looked upon the affections as dense and colored mists.
    Ctr 6.152 8 ...in old, dense countries, among a million of good coats a fine coat comes to be no distinction...
    WSL 12.348 3 The dense writer has yet ample room and choice of phrase...

denser, adj. (1)

    Bost 12.207 14 The Massachusetts colony grew and filled its own borders with a denser population than any other American State...

densest, adj. (1)

    ACri 12.290 20 A good writer must convey the feeling...as if in his densest period was no cramp...

dentist, n. (1)

    Nat 1.72 20 [Man's] relation to nature, his power over it, is through the understanding, as by...the repairs of the human body by the dentist and surgeon.

dentistry, n. (2)

    Tran 1.359 5 ...when every voice is raised...for an improvement in dress, or in dentistry;...will you not tolerate one or two solitary voices in the land, speaking for thoughts and principles not marketable or perishable?
    WD 7.159 27 How excellent are the mechanical aids we have applied to the human body, as in dentistry,

dentition, n. (1)

    FRep 11.516 9 ...[immigrants] find this country just passing through a great crisis in its history, as necessary as lactation or dentition or puberty to the human individual.

denude, v. (1)

    Aris 10.56 6 Others I meet...who denude and strip one of all attributes but material values.

deny, v. (41)

    Nat 1.63 3 ...if it only deny the existence of matter, [Idealism] does not satisfy the demands of the spirit.
    Nat 1.70 25 We distrust and deny inwardly our sympathy with nature.
    AmS 1.109 11 I deny not...that a revolution in the leading idea may be distinctly enough traced.
    LE 1.164 9 ...deny to [the man of letters] any quality of literary or metaphysical power...and he is piqued.
    MN 1.221 15 Be the lowly ministers of that pure omniscience [the intellect], and deny it not before men.
    MR 1.227 21 ...none of my auditors will deny that we ought to seek to establish ourselves in such disciplines and courses as will deserve that guidance and clearer communication with the spiritual nature.
    Con 1.298 9 ...conservatism...must deny the possibility of good...
    Con 1.298 10 ...conservatism...must deny ideas...
    Tran 1.330 21 [The idealist] does not deny the sensuous fact...
    Tran 1.330 23 [The idealist] does not deny the presence of this table...
    Tran 1.356 9 [Transcendentalists] complain that everything around them must be denied; and if feeble, it takes all their strength to deny...
    Hist 2.8 24 ...[each man] must transfer the point of view from which history is commonly read...to himself, and not deny his conviction that he is the court...
    Hist 2.14 1 Nothing is so fleeting as form; yet never does it quite deny itself.
    Comp 2.109 9 ...this law of laws [Compensation], which the pulpit, the senate and the college deny, is hourly preached in all markets and workshops by flights of proverbs...
    SL 2.151 25 [The world] will certainly accept your own measure of your doing and being, whether you sneak about and deny your own name...
    Fdsp 2.197 15 I cannot deny it, O friend, that the vast shadow of the Phenomenal includes thee also in its pied and painted immensity...
    Exp 3.61 11 ...a thoughtful man...cannot without affectation deny to any set of men and women a sensibility to extraordinary merit.
    Exp 3.85 7 ...I have not found that much was gained by manipular attempts to realize the world of thought. Many eager persons successively make an experiment in this way, and make themselves ridiculous. They acquire democratic manners, they foam at the mouth, they hate and deny.
    Gts 3.163 10 I say to [the donor], How can you give me this pot of oil or this flagon of wine when all your oil and wine is mine, which belief of mine this gift seems to deny?
    UGM 4.5 13 We must not...deny the substantial existence of other people.
    SwM 4.130 2 [To Swedenborg] To reason about faith, is to doubt and deny.
    MoS 4.156 22 [The skeptic says] I tire of these hacks of routine, who deny the dogmas.
    MoS 4.156 23 [The skeptic says] I neither affirm nor deny.
    MoS 4.177 17 I can reason down or deny every thing, except this perpetual Belly...
    NMW 4.225 21 [The man in the street] finds [Napoleon], like himself, by birth a citizen, who, by very intelligible merits, arrived as such a commanding position that he could indulge all those tastes which the common man possesses but is obliged to conceal and deny...
    ET1 5.11 14 [Coleridge said] It was a wonder that after so many ages of unquestioning acquiescence in the doctrine of St. Paul...this handful of Priestleians should take on themselves to deny it...
    ET4 5.70 1 Wood the antiquary, in describing the poverty and maceration of Father Lacey, an English Jesuit, does not deny him beer.
    F 6.8 10 Let us not deny [the ferocity of nature] up and down.
    Wth 6.118 12 It is commonly observed that a sudden wealth, like a prize drawn in a lottery or a large bequest to a poor family, does not permanently enrich. They have served no apprenticeship to wealth, and with the rapid wealth come rapid claims which they do not know how to deny...
    Ctr 6.139 13 The hardiest skeptic...who has visited...the exhibition of the Industrious Fleas, will not deny the validity of education.
    Wsp 6.212 23 ...the multitude of the sick shall not make us deny the existence of health.
    Art2 7.45 23 ...who will deny that the merely conventional part of the [artistic] performance contributes much to its effect?
    WD 7.177 19 Zoologists may deny that horse-hairs in the water change to worms...
    PI 8.63 17 There is something...the eminent scholars of England, historians and reviewers, romancers and poets included, might deny and blaspheme it,--which is setting us and them aside...and planting itself.
    PC 8.225 15 ...time and space,-what are they? Our first problems...of whose dizzy vastitudes all the worlds of God are a mere dot on the margin; impossible to deny, impossible to believe.
    PPo 8.249 4 We would do nothing but good [says Hafiz], else would shame come to us on the day when the soul must hie hence; and should they then deny us Paradise, the Houris themselves would forsake that and come out to us.
    Aris 10.44 12 It were to dispute against the sun, to deny this difference of brain.
    PerF 10.87 23 ...we presume strength of him or them who deny [the moral sentiment].
    FSLC 11.190 2 ...all men are beloved as they raise us to [the spiritual element]; hateful as they deny or resist it.
    FSLN 11.243 12 ...though I [Robert Winthrop] am now to deny and condemn you, you see it is not my will but the party necessity.
    WSL 12.342 22 Let us not be so illiberal with our schemes for the renovation of society and Nature as to disesteem or deny the literary spirit.

denying, n. (1)

    MoS 4.159 22 This then is the right ground of the skeptic,--this of consideration, of self-containing;...not at all of universal denying...

denying, v. (8)

    Nat 1.63 8 [If Idealism only deny the existence of matter] It leaves me in the splendid labyrinth of my perceptions, to wander without end. Then the heart resists it, because it balks the affections in denying substantive being to men and women.
    LE 1.164 14 ...concede [the man of letters] talents never so rare, denying him genius, and he is aggrieved.
    NR 3.236 15 You have not got rid of parts by denying them...
    MoS 4.180 20 Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them.
    ET14 5.247 25 It was a curious result, in which the civility and religion of England for a thousand years ends in denying morals and reducing the intellect to a sauce-pan.
    Bhr 6.171 16 Your manners are always under examination, and by committees little suspected...who are awarding or denying you very high prizes when you least think of it.
    PC 8.231 1 Around that immovable persistency of yours, statesmen, legislatures, must revolve, denying you, but not less forced to obey.
    ACiv 11.308 24 What is so foolish as the terror lest the blacks should be made furious by freedom and wages? It is denying these that is the outrage...

deoxygenated, adj. (1)

    Bhr 6.184 24 ...the high-born Turk who came hither [to a dress circle] fancied...that all the talkers were brained and exhausted by the deoxygenated air;...

depart, v. (20)

    DSA 1.127 9 Let this faith depart, and the very words it spake...become false...
    LT 1.288 23 Faithless, faithless, we fancy that with the dust we depart and are not...
    Chr1 3.109 27 John Bradshaw, says Milton, appears like a consul, from whom the fasces are not to depart with the year;...
    Mrs1 3.137 8 We should meet each morning as from foreign countries, and, spending the day together, should depart at night, as into foreign countries.
    ET1 5.24 5 When I prepared to depart [Wordsworth] said he wished to show me what a common person in England could do...
    Civ 7.20 17 The Indian is gloomy and distressed when urged to depart from his habits and traditions.
    Elo1 7.70 5 ...[the right eloquence] holds the hearer fast; steals away his feet, that he shall not depart;...
    Insp 8.285 31 At last it has become summer,/ And at the first glimpse of morning/ The busy early fly stings me/ Out of my sweet slumber./ Unmerciful she returns again:/ When often the half-awake victim/ Impatiently drives her off,/ She calls hither the unscrupulous sisters,/ And from my eyelids/ Sweet sleep must depart./
    Schr 10.275 9 Beauty...is always departing from those who depart out of [the moral sentiment].
    EzRy 10.395 18 ...in his old age, when all the antique Hebraism and its customs are passing away, it is fit that [Ezra Ripley] too should depart,- most fit that in the fall of laws a loyal man should die.
    SlHr 10.441 12 ...[Samuel Hoar]...might easily suggest Milton's picture of John Bradshaw, that he was a consul from whom the fasces did not depart with the year...
    Thor 10.485 2 It seems...a kind of indignity to so noble a soul [as Thoreau] that he should depart out of Nature before yet he has been really shown to his peers for what he is.
    GSt 10.501 2 We do not know how to prize good men until they depart.
    HDC 11.78 5 In the whole course of the [Revolutionary] war the town [Concord] did not depart from this pledge it had given.
    AKan 11.263 20 When [the country] is lost it will be time enough then for any who are luckless enough to remain alive to gather up their clothes and depart to some land where freedom exists.
    EPro 11.326 3 Happy are the young, who find the pestilence [slavery] cleansed out of the earth, leaving open to them an honest career. Happy the old, who see Nature purified before they depart.
    FRep 11.519 2 ...each aspirant for power vies with his rival which can stoop lowest, and depart widest from himself.
    MAng1 12.235 20 [Michelangelo] required...that he should be absolute master of the whole design [of St. Peter's], free to depart from the plans of San Gallo and to alter what had been already done.
    ACri 12.284 14 ...the learned depart from established forms of speech, in hope of finding or making better;...
    Let 12.402 2 ...where the divine nature and the artist is crushed...every other planet is better than the earth. Men deteriorate...with the wantonness of the tongue and with the anxiety for a livelihood the blessing of every year becomes a curse, and all the gods depart.

departed, adj. (5)

    DSA 1.144 22 None believeth in the soul of man, but only in some man or person old and departed.
    UGM 4.14 22 ...it is hard for departed men to touch the quick like our own companions...
    Dem1 10.12 17 The lovers...of what we call the occult and unproved sciences...of intercourse, by writing or by rapping or by painting, with departed spirits, need not reproach us with incredulity because we are slow to accept their statement.
    MMEm 10.424 10 Hail requiem of departed Time!
    HDC 11.85 24 Why need I remind you of our own Hosmers, Minotts...the departed benefactors of the town [Concord]?

departed, v. (14)

    Tran 1.345 27 ...Where are they who represented genius, virtue, the invisible and heavenly world, to these? ... ...did the high idea die out of them, and leave their unperfumed body as its tomb and tablet, announcing to all that the celestial inhabitant, who once gave them beauty, had departed?
    Chr1 3.109 6 We require that a man should be so large and columnar in the landscape, that it should deserve to be recorded that he arose, and girded up his loins, and departed to such a place.
    ET5 5.75 1 [The Roman] disembarked his legions [in England]...at last, he made a handsome compliment of roads and walls, and departed.
    WD 7.155 10 I, in my pleached garden, watched the pomp,/ Forgot my morning wishes, hastily/ Took a few herbs and apples, and the Day/ Turned and departed silent./
    PI 8.61 19 Ah, sir, said Merlin [to Sir Gawaine]...when you shall have departed from this place, I shall nevermore speak to you...
    PI 8.62 24 You will find the king at Carduel in Wales [said Merlin]; and when you arrive there you will find there all the companions who departed with you...
    PI 8.62 28 ...Sir Gawain departed joyful and sorrowful;...
    SovE 10.204 25 I will not now go into the metaphysics of that reaction by which in history a period of belief is followed by an age of criticism, in which...an excessive respect for forms out of which the heart has departed becomes more obvious in the least religious minds.
    EzRy 10.388 7 [Ezra Ripley said] Now your father is to be carried to his grave, full of labors and virtues. There is none of that large family left but you, and it rests with you to bear up the good name and usefulness of your ancestors. If you fail,-Ichabod, the glory is departed. Let us pray.
    Thor 10.479 1 Such dangerous frankness was in [Thoreau's] dealing that his admirers called him that terrible Thoreau, as if he spoke when silent, and was still present when he had departed.
    GSt 10.507 14 Almost I am ready to say to these mourners [of George Stearns], Be not too proud in your grief, when you remember that there is... not a Southern State in which the freedmen will not learn to-day from their preachers that one of their most efficient benefactors has departed...
    LS 11.21 25 That form out of which the life and suitableness have departed should be as worthless in [Christianity's] eyes as the dead leaves that are falling around us.
    Trag 12.412 1 The Egyptian sphinxes, which sit to-day as they sat when the Greek came and saw them and departed...have countenances expressive of complacency and repose...
    Trag 12.412 2 The Egyptian sphinxes, which sit to-day as they sat...when the Roman came and saw them and departed...have countenances expressive of complacency and repose...

departing, adj. (1)

    Edc1 10.136 14 ...the coming age and the departing age seldom understand each other.

departing, v. (2)

    Con 1.303 25 The contest between the Future and the Past is one between Divinity entering and Divinity departing.
    Schr 10.275 8 Beauty...is always departing from those who depart out of [the moral sentiment].

department, n. (19)

    Cir 2.301 24 This fact [that around every circle another can be drawn]... may conveniently serve us to connect many illustrations of human power in every department.
    SwM 4.135 5 The genius of Swedenborg, largest of all modern souls in this [Hebraic] department of thought, wasted itself in the endeavor to reanimate and conserve what had already arrived at its natural term...
    ET5 5.93 8 There is no department of literature, of science, or of useful art, in which [the English] have not produced a first-rate book.
    OA 7.320 27 ...he who has accomplished something in any department alone deserves to be heard on that subject.
    Elo2 8.131 18 An ingenious metaphysical writer...has noted that intellectual works in any department breed each other...
    PC 8.219 27 The names of the masters at the head of each department of science, art or function are often little known to the world...
    Grts 8.305 1 There are to each function and department of Nature supplementary men...
    PerF 10.79 25 In each talent is the perception of an order and series in the department he deals with...
    SovE 10.199 8 It is the sturdiest prejudice in the public mind that religion is...a department distinct from all other experiences...
    Schr 10.273 9 In this country we are fond of results and of short ways to them; and most in this department [of the scholar].
    LLNE 10.327 23 The structures of old faith in every department of society a few centuries have sufficed to destroy.
    LLNE 10.336 21 Astronomy...compelled a certain extension and uplifting of our views of the Deity and his Providence. This correction of our superstitions was confirmed by the new science of Geology, and the whole train of discoveries in every department.
    Thor 10.474 15 [Thoreau]...liked to throw every thought into a symbol. was no pedant of a department.
    GSt 10.503 11 In 1862...[George Stearns] took the first steps for organizing the Freedman's Bureau,-a department which has since grown to great proportions.
    EPro 11.321 14 What right has any one to read in the journals tidings of victories, if he has not bought them by his own valor, treasure, personal sacrifice, or by service as good in his own department?
    Wom 11.411 9 ...how should we better measure the gulf between the best intercourse of men in old Athens, in London, or in our American capitals,- between this and the hedgehog existence of diggers of worms, and the eaters of clay and offal,-than by signalizing just this department of taste or comeliness?
    PLT 12.27 13 These views of the source of thought and the mode of its communication lead us to a whole system of ethics, strict as any department of human duty...
    WSL 12.340 20 ...when we remember [Landor's] rich and ample page, wherein we are always sure to find...an industrious observation in every department of life...we wish to thank a benefactor of the reading world.
    EurB 12.374 25 ...Mr. Bulwer's recent stories have given us who do not read novels occasion to think of this department of literature...

Department of State, n. (1)

    Prd1 2.227 15 The good husband finds method as efficient...in the harvesting of fruits in the cellar, as in...the files of the Department of State.

departmental, adj. (2)

    Bty 6.286 9 At the birth of Winckelmann...side by side with this arid, departmental, post mortem science, rose an enthusiasm in the study of Beauty;...
    Edc1 10.150 22 [In colleges] You have to work for large classes instead of individuals;...you grow departmental, routinary, military almost with your discipline and college police.

Departments, Executive, n. (1)

    YA 1.378 10 Instead of a huge Army and Navy and Executive Departments, [Trade] converts Government into an Intelligence-Office...

departments, n. (12)

    LE 1.170 24 As in poetry and history, so in the other departments.
    LT 1.289 6 To a true scholar the attraction of...the departments of life...is simply the information they yield him of this supreme nature which lurks within all.
    ET5 5.83 7 ...in high departments [the English] are cramped and sterile.
    ET8 5.142 7 ...to appease diseased or inflamed talent, the [English] army and navy may be entered (the worst boys doing well in the navy); and the civil service in departments where serious official work is done;...
    ET15 5.266 15 The staff of The [London] Times has always been made up of able men. Old Walter...Jones Lloyd, John Oxenford, Mr. Mosely, Mr. Bailey, have contributed to its renown in their special departments.
    ET15 5.267 27 ...the steadiness of the aim [of the London Times] suggests the belief that this fire is directed and fed by older engineers; as if persons of exact information, and with settled views of policy...availed themselves of [the writers'] younger energy and eloquence to plead the cause. Both the council and the executive departments gain by this division.
    Art2 7.37 1 All departments of life at the present day...seem to feel...the identity of their law.
    Aris 10.33 6 Room is found for all the departments of the state in the moods and faculties of each human spirit...
    PerF 10.86 5 That band which ties [cosmical laws] together...is universal good, saturating all with one being and aim, so that each...is only the same spirit applied to new departments.
    SovE 10.183 6 ...each of the great departments of Nature...exhibits the same laws on a different plane;...
    LLNE 10.365 25 ...in every instance the newcomers [to Brook Farm]... were sure to avail themselves of every means of instruction; their knowledge was increased, their manners refined,-but they became in that proportion averse to labor, and were charged by the heads of the departments with a certain indolence and selfishness.
    Humb 11.456 5 If a life prolonged to an advanced period bring with it several inconveniences to the individual, there is a compensation in the delight of being able...to see great advances in knowledge develop themselves under our eyes in departments which had long slept in inactivity.

departs, v. (6)

    Hist 2.30 25 ...where [the story of Prometheus] departs from the Calvinistic Christianity and exhibits him as the defier of Jove, it represents a state of mind which readily appears wherever the doctrine of Theism is taught in a crude, objective form...
    PI 8.68 25 By successive states of mind all the facts of Nature are for the first time interpreted. In proportion as [a man's] life departs from this simplicity, he uses circumlocution...
    PC 8.232 17 ...wherever high society exists it is very well able to exclude pretenders. The intruder finds himself uncomfortable, and quickly departs to his own gang.
    Imtl 8.323 13 Driven by the chilling tempest, a little sparrow enters at one door, and flies delighted around us till it departs through the other.
    PLT 12.15 22 We figure to ourselves Intellect as an ethereal sea...carrying its whole virtue into every creek and inlet which it bathes. To this sea every human house has a water front. But this force...making day where it comes and leaving night when it departs, is no fee or property of man or angel.
    CInt 12.130 25 Power never departs from [truth].

departure, n. (18)

    Nat 1.65 6 [The world] is a fixed point whereby we may measure our departure.
    Tran 1.332 25 In the order of thought, the materialist takes his departure from the external world...
    Tran 1.332 27 The idealist takes his departure from his consciousness...
    Comp 2.111 13 ...as soon as there is any departure from simplicity and attempt at halfness, or good for me that is not good for him, my neighbor feels the wrong;...
    Comp 2.121 7 Vice is the absence or departure of [Essence, or God].
    Pt1 3.32 22 All the value which attaches to...Oken...is the certificate we have of departure from routine, and that here is a new witness.
    PPh 4.55 22 ...our enlarged powers at the approach and at the departure of a friend;...this command of two elements must explain the power and the charm of Plato.
    ET1 5.24 27 It is not very rare to find persons loving sympathy and ease, who expatiate their departure from the common in one direction, by their conformity in every other.
    Pow 6.55 18 If Eric is in robust health...at his departure from Greenland he will steer west, and his ships will reach Newfoundland.
    Civ 7.21 2 ...chiefly the seashore has been the point of departure, to knowledge, as to commerce.
    Insp 8.289 10 ...our enlarged powers in the presence, or rather at the approach and at the departure of a friend...these are the types or conditions of this power [of novelty].
    SovE 10.196 10 The law of gravity is not hurt by every accident, though our leg be broken. No more is the law of justice by our departure from it.
    LLNE 10.338 26 Every immorality is a departure from nature...
    SMC 11.349 4 Fellow Citizens: The day is in Concord doubly our calendar day, as being the anniversary of the invasion of the town by the British troops in 1775, and of the departure of the company of voluteers for Washington, in 1861.
    SMC 11.358 14 Before [the youth's] departure [to the Civil War] he confided to his sister that he was naturally a coward...
    MAng1 12.225 8 The news of [Michelangelo's] departure occasioned a general concern in Florence...
    PPr 12.384 6 To atone for this departure from the vows of the scholar and his eternal duties to this secular charity, we have at least this gain, that here [in Carlyle's Past and Present] is a message which those to whom it was addressed cannot choose but hear.
    Let 12.398 22 ...companies of the best-educated young men in the Atlantic states every week take their departure for Europe;...

departures, n. (2)

    NR 3.228 16 The acts which you praise, I praise not, since they are departures from [the man's] faith...
    Wsp 6.229 27 ...for ourselves it is really of little importance what blunders in statement we make, so only we make no wilful departures from the truth.

depend, v. (18)

    MR 1.238 1 ...now I feel some shame before my wood-chopper...and my cook, for...they can contrive without my aid to bring the day and year round, but I depend on them...
    MR 1.239 23 ...we have now a puny, protected person, guarded by walls and curtains...and who, bred to depend on all these, is made anxious by all that endangers those possessions...
    Con 1.323 15 ...in peace and a commercial state we depend, not as we ought, on our knowledge and all men's knowledge that we are honest men...
    Con 1.325 11 I depend on my honor, my labor, and my dispositions for my place in the affections of mankind...
    SL 2.141 4 This talent and this call depend on [a man's] organization...
    Art1 2.354 17 ...[the infant's] individual character and his practical power depend on his daily progress in the separation of things...
    Pol1 3.219 9 The tendencies of the times...leave the individual, for all code, to the rewards and penalties of his own constitution; which work with more energy than we believe whilst we depend on artificial restraints.
    PPh 4.63 26 ...all virtue and all felicity depend on this science of the real...
    SwM 4.130 12 Success, or a fortunate genius, seems to depend on a happy adjustment of heart and brain;...
    NMW 4.254 24 Love is a silly infatuation, depend upon it [said Napoleon].
    ET4 5.53 23 ...there is no prosperity that seems more to depend on the kind of man than British prosperity.
    Civ 7.27 10 ...all our strength and success in the work of our hands depend on our borrowing the aid of the elements.
    DL 7.115 22 The great depend on their heart, not on their purse.
    DL 7.128 27 A verse of the old Greek Menander remains, which runs in translation:--Not on the store of sprightly wine,/ Nor plenty of delicious meats,/ Though generous Nature did design/ To court us with perpetual treats,--/ 'T is not on these we for content depend,/ So much as on the shadow of a Friend./
    LLNE 10.347 15 ...Ah, [Robert Owen] said, you may depend on it there are as tender hearts and as much good will to serve men, in palaces, as in colleges.
    MMEm 10.413 18 A mediocrity does seem to me [Mary Moody Emerson] more distant from eminent virtue than the extremes of station; though after all it must depend on the nature of the heart.
    MMEm 10.420 5 ...it would send me [Mary Moody Emerson] packing to depend for anything.
    SMC 11.358 7 ...the captain [George Prescott] writes home of another of his men, B[owers] comes from a sense of duty and love of country, and these are the soldiers you can depend upon.

depended, v. (6)

    AmS 1.102 19 ...some ephemeral trade, or war, or man, is cried up by half mankind and cried down by the other half as if all depended on this particular up or down.
    NMW 4.237 26 Every thing depended on the nicety of [Napoleon's] combinations...
    ET5 5.86 3 ...Wellington, when he came to the army in Spain, had every man weighed, first with accoutrements, and then without; believing that the force of an army depended on the weight and power of the individual soldiers...
    CbW 6.251 20 You would say this rabble of nations might be spared. But no, they are all counted and depended on.
    Elo2 8.129 19 ...said [Lord Ashley], if I, who had no personal concern in the question, was so overpowered with my own apprehensions that I could not find words to express myself, what must be the case of one whose life depended on his own abilities to defend it?
    FRep 11.521 3 ...the stiffest patriots falter and compromise; so that will cannot be depended on to save us.

dependence, n. (13)

    Nat 1.29 15 This immediate dependence of language upon nature...never loses its power to affect us.
    Nat 1.58 1 ...religion and ethics...have an analogous effect with all lower culture, in degrading nature and suggesting its dependence on spirit.
    AmS 1.81 20 Our day of dependence...draws to a close.
    SR 2.88 16 Our dependence on these foreign goods leads us to our slavish respect for numbers.
    Pt1 3.3 17 ...men seem to have lost the perception of the instant dependence of form upon soul.
    Pt1 3.4 1 ...the intellectual men do not believe in any essential dependence of the material world on thought and volition.
    Gts 3.160 24 In our condition of universal dependence it seems heroic to let the petitioner be the judge of his necessity...
    Gts 3.162 12 We sometimes hate the meat which we eat, because there seems something of degrading dependence in living by it...
    UGM 4.31 17 We pass very fast, in our personal moods, from dignity to dependence.
    ET4 5.53 19 In Ireland are the same climate and soil as in England, but... political dependence...
    Art2 7.55 21 This strict dependence of Art upon material and ideal Nature... has made all its past and may foreshow its future history.
    Elo2 8.124 7 In social converse with the mighty dead of ancient days, you will never smart under the galling sense of dependence upon the mighty living of the present age.
    MMEm 10.420 7 Better anything than dishonest dependence...

dependencies, n. (1)

    PPr 12.390 20 Carlyle's style is the first emergence of all this wealth and labor with which the world has gone with child so long. London and Europe...with trade-nobility, and East and West Indies for dependencies; and America...have never before been conquered in literature.

dependency, n. (1)

    SwM 4.134 19 Though the agency of the Lord is in every line referred to by name [by Swedenborg], it never becomes alive. There is no lustre in that eye which gazes from the centre and which should vivify the immense dependency of beings.

dependent, adj. (13)

    Tran 1.334 22 All that you call the world is...the perpetual creation of the powers of thought, of those that are dependent and of those that are independent of your will.
    Lov1 2.188 16 There are moments when the affections...make [the man's] happiness dependent on a person or persons.
    Fdsp 2.214 15 Let us even bid our dearest friends farewell, and defy them, saying Who are you? Unhand me: I will be dependent no more.
    OS 2.296 17 [The soul]...feels that the grass grows and the stone falls by a law inferior to, and dependent on, its nature.
    Cir 2.310 5 Much more obviously is history and the state of the world at any one time directly dependent on the intellectual classification then existing in the minds of men.
    Exp 3.51 13 What cheer can the religious sentiment yield, when that is suspected to be secretly dependent on the seasons of the year...
    Mrs1 3.122 26 The gentleman is...not in any manner dependent and servile...
    CbW 6.250 26 I once counted in a little neighborhood and found that every able-bodied man had say from twelve to fifteen persons dependent on him for material aid...
    Boks 7.209 4 There is a class [of books] whose value I should designate as Favorites: such as Froissart's Chronicles;...Landor; and De Quincey;--a list, of course, that may easily be swelled, as dependent on individual caprice.
    Aris 10.38 20 The existence of an upper class is not injurious, so long as it is dependent on merit.
    LLNE 10.355 21 ...the men of science, art, intellect, are pretty sure to degenerate into selfish housekeepers, dependent on wine, coffee, furnace-heat, gas-light and fine furniture.
    MMEm 10.428 2 Oh how weary in youth-more so scarcely now, not whenever I [Mary Moody Emerson] can breathe, as it seems, the atmosphere of the Omnipresence: then...honors, pleasures, labors, I always refuse, compared to this divine partaking of existence;-but how rare, how dependent on the organs through which the soul operates!
    HDC 11.71 8 In September [1774], incensed at the new royal law which made the judges dependent on the crown, the inhabitants [of Concord] assembled on the common...

dependents, n. (3)

    CbW 6.275 7 ...we live with dependents;...
    DL 7.114 6 ...we desire at least to put no stint or limit on our parents, relatives, guests or dependents;...
    Boks 7.215 6 ...the player in Consuelo insists that he and his colleagues on the boards have taught princes the fine etiquette and strokes of grace and dignity which they practise with so much effect...among their dependents...

depending, v. (1)

    Pol1 3.202 3 One man owns his clothes, and another owns a county. This accident, depending primarily on the skill and virtue of the parties...falls unequally, and its rights...are unequal.

depends, v. (27)

    Nat 1.29 23 A man's power to connect his thought with its proper symbol, and so to utter it, depends on the simplicity of his character...
    AmS 1.88 5 ...it depends on how far the process had gone, of transmuting life into truth.
    YA 1.383 26 Money is of no value; it cannot spend itself. All depends on the skill of the spender.
    Hist 2.4 16 ...the poise of my body depends on the equilibrium of centrifugal and centripetal forces...
    SR 2.63 4 As great a stake depends on your private act to-day as followed [kings'] public and renowned steps.
    Fdsp 2.202 9 ...all the speed in that contest [of friendship] depends on intrinsic nobleness...
    Cir 2.304 6 The extent to which this generation of circles, wheel without wheel, will go, depends on the force or truth of the individual soul.
    Art1 2.355 6 This...power to fix the momentary eminency of an object...the painter and sculptor exhibit in color and in stone. The power depends on the depth of the artist's insight of that object he contemplates.
    Exp 3.50 12 It depends on the mood of the man whether he shall see the sunset or the fine poem.
    Exp 3.50 17 There are...only a few hours so serene that we can relish nature or criticism. The more or less depends on structure or temperament.
    Mrs1 3.130 21 Each man's rank in that perfect graduation [of fashion] depends on some symmetry in his structure or some agreement in his structure to the symmetry of society.
    UGM 4.27 20 We balance one man with his opposite, and the health of the state depends on the see-saw.
    SwM 4.124 26 That metempsychosis which is familiar in the old mythology of the Greeks...in Swedenborg's mind has a more philosophic character. It is subjective, or depends entirely upon the thought of the person.
    ET10 5.162 3 A sporting duke [in England] may fancy that the state depends on the House of Lords...
    Pow 6.71 20 We say that success...depends on a plus condition of mind and body...
    Ctr 6.131 19 Our efficiency depends so much on our concentration, that nature usually in the instances where a marked man is sent into the world, overloads him with bias...
    Civ 7.27 7 Civilization depends on morality.
    Art2 7.52 26 [Beauty] depends forever on the necessary and the useful.
    Elo1 7.75 21 In a Senate or other business committee, the solid result depends on a few men with working talent.
    Farm 7.146 12 Water...transports vast boulders of rock in its iceberg a thousand miles. But its far greater power depends on its talent of becoming little...
    Cour 7.266 14 On organic action all strength depends.
    PI 8.72 1 One would say of the force in the works of Nature, all depends on the battery.
    Imtl 8.326 9 ...learning depends on the learner.
    Aris 10.58 2 ...All that depends on another gives pain; all that depends on himself gives pleasure;...
    EPro 11.322 9 Is it feared that taxes will check immigration? That depends on what the taxes are spent for.
    II 12.69 18 We believe...that the rudest mind has a Delphi and Dodona- predictions of Nature and history-in itself, though now dim and hard to read. All depends on some instigation...
    CL 12.166 3 Astronomy...depends a little too much on the glass-grinder, too little on the mind.

depicted, v. (3)

    Cir 2.305 14 In the thought of to-morrow there is a power to...marshal thee to a heaven which no epic dream has yet depicted.
    PPo 8.262 25 In thee, friend, that Tyrian chamber is found;/ Thine the star-pointing- roof, and the base on the ground:/ Is one half depicted with colors less bright?/ Beware that the counterpart blazes with light!/
    Shak1 11.450 26 You shall never find in this world the barons or kings [Shakespeare] depicted.

deplored, adj. (1)

    LT 1.280 26 Give the slave the least elevation of religious sentiment, and... he not only in his humility...feels that much deplored condition of his to be a fading trifle, but he makes you feel it too.

deplored, v. (1)

    MMEm 10.403 5 [Mary Moody Emerson] had a deep sympathy with genius. When it was unhallowed, as in Byron, she had none the less, whilst she deplored and affected to denounce him.

deplores, v. (2)

    Lov1 2.173 25 By and by that boy wants a wife, and very truly and heartily will he know where to find a sincere and sweet mate, without any risk such as Milton deplores as incident to scholars and great men.
    Mem 12.99 12 Plato deplores writing as a barbarous invention which would weaken the memory by disuse.

depopulation, n. (1)

    F 6.32 27 ...the depopulation by cholera and small-pox is ended by drainage and vaccination;...

deported, v. (1)

    EWI 11.110 12 In 1821, according to official documents presented to the American government by the Colonization Society, 200,000 slaves were deported from Africa.

deportment, n. (3)

    Mrs1 3.150 4 Woman, with her instinct of behavior, instantly detects in man...any want of that large, flowing and magnanimous deportment which is indispensable as an exterior in the hall.
    SMC 11.361 11 Always devoted...sometimes full of joy at the deportment of his comrades, [George Prescott's letters] contain the sincere praise of men whom I now see in this assembly.
    Milt1 12.257 11 Wood, [Milton's] political opponent, relates that his deportment was affable...

deposit, v. (2)

    DL 7.131 16 I wish to find in my own town a library and museum which is the property of the town, where I can deposit this precious treasure [engravings of Michelangelo's sibyls and prophets]...
    PLT 12.18 11 There are...[other minds] that deposit their dangerous unripe thoughts here and there to lie still for a time...

depositaries, n. (1)

    SA 8.93 21 Coleridge esteems cultivated women as the depositaries and guardians of English undefiled;...

depositary, n. (1)

    PerF 10.76 14 For man, the receiver of all, and depositary of these volumes of power, I am to say that his ability and performance are according to his reception of these various streams of force.

deposited, v. (5)

    SwM 4.125 26 [To Swedenborg] The covetous seem to themselves to be abiding in cells where their money is deposited...
    ET7 5.124 20 ...when the Rochester rappings began to be heard of in England, a man deposited 100 pounds in a sealed box in the Dublin Bank, and then advertised in the newspapers to all somnambulists, mesmerizers and others, that whoever could tell him the number of his note should have the money.
    PerF 10.70 25 ...the strata were deposited and uptorn and bent back...to create and flavor the fruit on your table to-day.
    HDC 11.72 22 A large amount of military stores had been deposited in this town [Concord]...
    CL 12.145 10 The American sun paints itself in these glowing balls [apples] amid the green leaves, the social fruit, in which Nature has deposited every possible flavor;...

depositories, n. (1)

    Imtl 8.337 10 If there is the desire to live, and in larger sphere, with more knowledge and power, it is because life and knowledge and power are good for us, and we are the natural depositaries of these gifts.

depot, n. (1)

    Elo2 8.120 1 ...Jenny Lind, when in this country, complained of concert-rooms and town-halls, that they did not give her room enough to unroll her voice, and exulted in the opportunity given her in the great halls she found sometimes built over a railroad depot.

depots, n. (1)

    ET10 5.169 3 In the culmination of national prosperity, in the...building of ships, depots, towns;...it was found [in England] that bread rose to famine prices...

depravation, n. (1)

    LT 1.289 12 [The Moral Sentiment] makes by its presence or absence... genius or depravation.

depravations, n. (1)

    Hist 2.5 11 What befell Asdrubal or Caesar Borgia is as much an illustration of the mind's powers and depravations as what has befallen us.

deprave, v. (1)

    ET10 5.155 4 ...Mr. Wortley said, though, in the higher ranks, to cultivate family affections was a good thing, it was not so among the lower orders. Better take [the children] away from those who might deprave them.

depraved, n. (1)

    PPr 12.382 7 It is not by sitting still at a grand distance and calling the human race larvae, that men are to be helped, nor by helping the depraved after their own foolish fashion...

depraving, v. (1)

    Pt1 3.25 15 The sea...and every flower-bed, pre-exist or super-exist, in pre-cantations, which sail like odors in the air, and when any man goes by with an ear sufficiently fine, he overhears them and endeavors to write down the notes without diluting or depraving them.

depravities, n. (1)

    SovE 10.190 27 These threads [of Necessity] are Nature's pernicious elements...her curdling cold, her hideous reptiles and worse men, cannibals and the depravities of civilization;...

depravity, n. (6)

    NER 3.278 17 The entertainment of the proposition of depravity is the last profligacy and profanation.
    CbW 6.255 5 ...the glory of character is in affronting the horrors of depravity to draw thence new nobilities of power;...
    Imtl 8.332 24 Where there is depravity there is a slaughter-house style of thinking.
    MMEm 10.429 24 ...I [Mary Moody Emerson] irk under contact with forms of depravity...
    MAng1 12.241 4 [Condivi wrote] As for me...this I know very well...that [Michelangelo's] own nature is a stranger to depravity.
    MAng1 12.242 25 ...[Michelangelo's] was a soul so enamoured of grace that it could not stoop to meanness or depravity;...

deprecate, v. (2)

    SR 2.87 24 Men...have come to esteem the religious, learned and civil institutions as guards of property, and they deprecate assaults on these...
    Bty 6.283 23 ...we...deprecate any romance of character;...

deprecated, v. (1)

    ET1 5.21 23 [Wordsworth] had never gone farther than the first part [of Goethe's Wilhelm Meister]; so disgusted was he that he threw the book across the room. I deprecated this wrath...

deprecates, v. (1)

    ACri 12.304 17 The Augsburg Allgemeine Zeitung deprecates an observatory founded for the benefit of navigation.

deprecating, v. (1)

    ET14 5.258 27 I am not surprised...to find an Englishman like Warren Hastings...deprecating the prejudices of his countrymen while offering them a translation of the Bhagvat.

deprecation, n. (1)

    Aris 10.62 25 In America [the gentleman] shall find deprecation of purism on all questions touching the morals of trade and of social customs...

deprecatory, adj. (2)

    PI 8.33 13 ...We detect at once by [style]...whether [the writer] has one eye apologizing, deprecatory, turned on his reader.
    War 11.163 23 This vast apparatus of artillery,...this martial music and endless playing of marches and singing of military and naval songs seem to us to constitute an imposing actual, which will not yield in centuries to the feeble, deprecatory voices of a handful of friends of peace.

depreciate, v. (1)

    Prd1 2.235 10 Iron cannot rust...nor money stocks depreciate, in the few swift moments in which the Yankee suffers any one of them to remain in his possession.

depreciated, v. (3)

    DSA 1.141 27 What a cruel injustice it is to that Law...that it is travestied and depreciated...
    LE 1.164 9 Say to the man of letters that he cannot...be a grand-marshal,- and he will not seem to himself depreciated.
    HDC 11.55 10 ...in 1640, all immigration [to Concord] ceased, and the country produce and farm-stock depreciated.

depreciating, v. (1)

    PerF 10.79 12 I knew a manufacturer who found his property invested in chemical works which were depreciating in value.

depreciation, n. (3)

    Prd1 2.234 27 ...money...if invested, is liable to depreciation of the particular kind of stock.
    Ctr 6.158 3 ...the poet cultivated becomes a stockholder in both companies,--say Mr. Curfew in the Curfew stock, and in the humanity stock,--and, in the last, exults as much in the demonstration of the unsoundness of Curfew, as his interest in the former gives him pleasure in the currency of Curfew. For the depreciation of his Curfew stock only shows the immense values of the humanity stock.
    Thor 10.468 25 I think [Thoreau's] fancy for referring everything to the meridian of Concord did not grow out of any ignorance or depreciation of other longitudes or latitudes...

depress, v. (2)

    MR 1.253 20 To use an Egyptian metaphor, it is not [the people's] will for any long time, to raise the nails of wild beasts and to depress the heads of the sacred birds.
    ET3 5.43 14 [Nature made] An island,--but not so large, the people [of England] not so many as to glut the great markets and depress one another...

depressed, v. (1)

    FRep 11.532 5 Our people are too slight and vain. They are easily elated and easily depressed.

depressing, adj. (1)

    Carl 10.492 26 If you boast of the growth of the country, and show [Carlyle] the wonderful results of the census, he finds nothing so depressing as the sight of a great mob.

depression, n. (3)

    CbW 6.265 3 ...a depression of spirits develops the germs of a plague in individuals and nations.
    Suc 7.292 23 ...because we cannot shake off from our shoes this dust of Europe and Asia...life is theatrical and literature a quotation; and hence that depression of spirits...said to mark every American brow.
    II 12.86 1 Work and learn in evil days, in barren days, in days of depression and calamity.

deprive, v. (2)

    Thor 10.479 2 I think the severity of [Thoreau's] ideal interfered to deprive him of a healthy sufficiency of human society.
    LS 11.25 5 ...I am consoled by the hope that no time and no change can deprive me of the satisfaction of pursuing and exercising [the pastoral office's] highest functions.

deprived, v. (9)

    MR 1.236 14 ...there are reasons proper to every individual why he should not be deprived of [manual labor].
    NER 3.271 4 ...Unwillingly the soul is deprived of truth.
    PNR 4.84 7 Plato affirms...that the soul is unwillingly deprived of true opinions...
    SwM 4.125 22 [To Swedenborg] Such as have deprived themselves of charity, wander and flee...
    PI 8.60 24 Presently [Sir Gawaine] heard the voice of one groaning on his right hand; looking that way, he could see nothing save a kind of smoke... through which he could not pass; and this impediment made him so wrathful that it deprived him of speech.
    Dem1 10.16 10 As [the young man] comes into manhood he remembers passages and persons that seem...to have been supernaturally deprived of injurious influence on him.
    LLNE 10.360 25 [The projectors of Brook Farm] had the feeling that our ways of living were too conventional and expensive...not permitting men to combine cultivation of mind and heart with a reasonable amount of daily labor. At the same time, it was an attempt...to share the advantages they should attain, with others now deprived of them.
    Wom 11.419 9 ...perhaps it is because these people [advocates of women's rights] have been deprived of education...that they have been stung to say, It is too late for us...but, at least, we will see that the whole race of women shall not suffer as we have suffered.
    CPL 11.494 6 The bishop of Cavaillon, Petrarch's friend, in a playful experiment locked up the poet's library...but the poet's misery caused him to restore the key on the first evening. And I verily believe I should have become insane, says Petrarch, if my mind had longer been deprived of its necessary nourishment.

deprives, v. (2)

    LVB 11.93 7 ...a crime [the relocation of the Cherokees] is projected that confounds our understandings by its magnitude,-a crime that really deprives us as well as the Cherokees of a country?...
    EWI 11.126 16 ...[British merchants] saw further that the slave-trade, by keeping in barbarism the whole coast of eastern Africa, deprives them of countries and nations of customers...

depriving, v. (2)

    Clbs 7.244 8 Such [literary] societies are possible only in great cities, and are the compensation which these can make to their dwellers for depriving them of the free intercourse with Nature.
    Edc1 10.131 6 ...always the mind contains in its transparent chambers the means of classifying the most refractory phenomena, of depriving them of all casual and chaotic aspect...

depth, n. (54)

    AmS 1.88 3 Precisely in proportion to the depth of mind from which it issued, so high does [nature] soar...
    Con 1.295 20 Such an irreconcilable antagonism [as that between Conservatism and Innovation]...must have a correspondent depth of seat in the human constitution.
    Tran 1.336 4 ...the spiritual measure of inspiration is the depth of the thought...
    SR 2.79 16 In proportion to the depth of the thought...is [the pupil's] complacency.
    SL 2.153 5 The effect of any writing on the public mind is mathematically measurable by its depth of thought.
    SL 2.155 6 ...the effect of every action is measured by the depth of the sentiment from which it proceeds.
    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...
    OS 2.267 4 ...there is a depth in those brief moments [of faith] which constrains us to ascribe more reality to them than to all other experiences.
    Art1 2.355 6 This...power to fix the momentary eminency of an object...the painter and sculptor exhibit in color and in stone. The power depends on the depth of the artist's insight of that object he contemplates.
    Pt1 3.33 26 [The poet] unlocks our chains and admits us to a new scene. This emancipation is dear to all men, and the power to impart it, as it must come from greater depth and scope of thought, is a measure of intellect.
    NR 3.244 23 Love shows me the opulence of nature, by disclosing to me in my friend a hidden wealth, and I infer an equal depth of good in every other direction.
    NER 3.268 24 We do not believe that...any influence of genius, will ever give depth of insight to a superficial mind.
    UGM 4.26 25 ...we feed on genius...and exult in the depth of nature in that direction in which he leads us.
    SwM 4.122 5 No wonder that [Swedenborg's] depth of ethical wisdom should give him influence as a teacher.
    MoS 4.156 10 [The skeptic says] I, at least, will shun the weakness of philosophizing beyond my depth.
    NMW 4.244 27 I know, [Napoleon] said, the depth and draught of water of every one of my general.
    ET8 5.134 9 ...here [in England] exists the best stock in the world...best for depth, range and equability;...
    ET14 5.244 24 Burke was addicted to generalizing, but his was a shorter line [than Milton's]; as his thoughts have less depth, they have less compass.
    F 6.10 17 At the corner of the street you read the possibility of each passenger...in the depth of his eye.
    Bhr 6.170 1 If [manners] are superficial, so are the dew-drops which give such a depth to the morning meadows.
    CbW 6.268 17 The youth aches for solitude. When he comes to the house he passes through the house. That does not make the deep recess he sought. Ah! now I perceive, he says, it must be deep with persons; friends only can give depth.
    CbW 6.268 25 [The youth is] Slow, slow to learn the lesson that there is but one depth...
    Bty 6.306 4 ...I find...the beauty ever in proportion to the depth of thought.
    SS 7.10 3 [The ends of thought] reach down to that depth where society itself originates and disappears;...
    Art2 7.38 7 Always in proportion to the depth of its sense does [the thought] knock importunately at the gates of the soul, to be spoken, to be done.
    WD 7.171 23 ...could a power open our eyes to behold millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth,--I believe I should find that mid-plain on which they moved floored beneath and arched above with the same web of blue depth which weaves itself over me now...
    WD 7.183 17 It is the depth at which we live and not at all the surface extension that imports.
    WD 7.185 15 ...this is the progress of every earnest mind;...from local skills and the economy which reckons the amount of production per hour to the finer economy which respects the quality of what is done, and...the fidelity with which it flows from ourselves; then to the depth of thought it betrays...
    Boks 7.203 13 These guides [the Platonists] speak of the gods with such depth and with such pictorial details...
    Clbs 7.236 24 [Dr. Johnson's] obvious religion or superstition, his deep wish that they should think so or so, weighs with [his company],--so rare is depth of feeling...among the light-minded men and women who make up society;...
    PC 8.229 17 ...when we see creation we also begin to create. Depth of character...can only find nourishment in this soil.
    Insp 8.278 5 The depth of the notes which we accidentally sound on the strings of Nature is out of all proportion to our taught and ascertained faculty...
    Insp 8.292 25 Some perceptions...are granted to the single soul; they come from the depth and go to the depth...
    Grts 8.315 4 Depth of intellect relieves even the ink of crime with a fringe of light.
    Imtl 8.339 23 After we have found our depth [on a new planet], and assimilated what we could of the new experience, transfer us to a new scene.
    Imtl 8.347 16 Future state is an illusion for the ever-present state. It is not length of life, but depth of life.
    Aris 10.54 22 The manners of course must have that depth and firmness of tone to attest their centrality in the nature of the man.
    PerF 10.77 26 In proportion to the depth of the insight is the power and reach of the kingdom [a man] controls.
    Edc1 10.158 26 According to the depth from which you draw your life, such is the depth not only of your strenuous effort, but of your manners and presence.
    Edc1 10.158 27 According to the depth from which you draw your life, such is the depth not only of your strenuous effort, but of your manners and presence.
    Prch 10.222 14 I cannot keep the sun in heaven, if you take away the purpose that animates him. ... The words, great, venerable, have lost their meaning; every thought loses all its depth and has become mere surface.
    Prch 10.234 8 A vivid thought brings the power to paint it; and in proportion to the depth of its source is the force of its projection.
    Schr 10.264 14 [The scholar] is...here to be sobered...by the depth of his draughts of the cup of immortality.
    Thor 10.453 16 A natural skill for mensuration, growing out of...his habit of ascertaining the measures and distances of objects which interested him... the depth and extent of ponds and rivers...and his intimate knowledge of the territory about Concord, made [Thoreau] drift into the profession of land-surveyor.
    Thor 10.474 11 The depth of [Thoreau's] perception found likeness of law throughout Nature...
    FRep 11.531 24 In this country...there is, at present...an extravagant confidence in our talent and activity, which becomes, whilst successful, a scornful materialism,-but with the fault, of course, that it has no depth...
    II 12.80 8 It is the exhortation of Zoroaster, Let the depth, the immortal depth of your soul lead you.
    CL 12.143 11 ...De Quincey prefixes to this description of Wordsworth a little piece of advice which I wonder has not attracted more attention. The depth and subtlety of the eyes varies exceedingly with the state of the stomach...
    CL 12.143 15 ...De Quincey prefixes to this description of Wordsworth a little piece of advice which I wonder has not attracted more attention. ...if young ladies were aware of the magical transformations which can be wrought in the depth and sweetness of the eye by a few weeks' exercise, I fancy we should see their habits in this point altered greatly for the better.
    Bost 12.198 12 ...no depth of affection that does not rise to a religious sentiment, can bestow that delicacy and grandeur of bearing which belong only to a mind accustomed to celestial conversation.
    MAng1 12.221 5 The depth of [Michelangelo's] knowledge in anatomy has no parallel among the artists of modern times.
    ACri 12.294 13 [Shakespeare's] muse is moral simply from its depth...
    MLit 12.334 7 The very depth of the sentiment...is guarantee for the riches of science and of song in the age to come.
    PPr 12.390 3 Plato is the purple ancient, and Bacon and Milton the moderns of the richest strains. Burke sometimes reaches to that exuberant fulness, though deficient in depth.

depths, n. (8)

    Fdsp 2.194 26 High thanks I owe you, excellent lovers, who carry out the world for me to new and noble depths...
    SwM 4.112 10 [Swedenborg]...sometimes sought to uncover those secret recesses where Nature is sitting at the fires in the depths of her laboratory;...
    Bty 6.305 8 Into every beautiful object there enters somewhat immeasurable and divine, and just as much into form bounded by outlines... as into tones of music or depths of space.
    Cour 7.280 4 But sure that rifle's aim,/ Swift choice of generous part,/ Showed in its passing gleam/ The depths of a brave heart./
    Res 8.149 20 When now and then the vaulted roof [of the Mammoth Cave] rises high overhead and hides all its possibilities in lofty depths, 't is but gloom on gloom.
    MMEm 10.403 12 My opinion, [Mary Moody Emerson] writes, [is]...that the fiery depths of Calvinism...would have alone been fitted to fix [Byron' s] imagination.
    CL 12.143 4 The light which resides in [Wordsworth's eyes] is at no time a superficial light, but, under favorable accidents, it is a light which seems to come from depths below all depths;...
    CL 12.143 5 The light which resides in [Wordsworth's eyes] is at no time a superficial light, but, under favorable accidents, it is a light which seems to come from depths below all depths;...

deputation, n. (1)

    SlHr 10.438 14 ...when...a deputation of gentlemen waited upon him in the hall to say they had come with the unanimous voice of the State to remove him by force...[Samuel Hoar] considered his duty discharged to the last point of possibility.

deputies, n. (6)

    Wsp 6.223 2 God has delegated himself to a million deputies.
    HDC 11.45 24 The disputes between that forbearing man [John Winthrop] and the deputies are like the quarrels of girls...
    HDC 11.46 4 ...[John Winthrop] advised, seeing the freemen were grown so numerous, to send deputies from every town once in a year to revise the laws and to assess all monies.
    HDC 11.63 7 [Edward Bulkeley's] youngest brother, Peter, was deputy from Concord, and was chosen speaker of the house of deputies in 1676.
    LVB 11.91 5 The newspapers now inform us that...a treaty contracting for the exchange of all the Cherokee territory was pretended to be made by an agent on the part of the United States with some persons appearing on the part of the Cherokees; that the fact afterwards transpired that these deputies did by no means represent the will of the nation;...
    Bost 12.203 6 ...there is always [in Boston] a minority unconvinced, always a heresiarch, whom the governor and deputies labor with but cannot silence.

deputy, n. (7)

    Art1 2.354 24 It is the habit of certain minds to give an all-excluding fulness to...the word, they alight upon, and to make that for the time the deputy of the world.
    Mrs1 3.125 17 A plentiful fortune is reckoned necessary...to the completion of this man of the world; and it is a material deputy which walks through the dance which [power] has led.
    NMW 4.249 18 This deputy of the nineteenth century [Napoleon] added to his gifts a capacity for speculation on general topics.
    Pow 6.70 5 March without the people, said a French deputy from the tribune, and you march into night...
    HDC 11.46 20 ...the [Massachusetts Bay Colony's] towns learned to exercise a sovereignty...in the choice of their deputy to the house of representatives;...
    HDC 11.63 5 [Edward Bulkeley's] youngest brother, Peter, was deputy from Concord...
    Bost 12.207 9 With all their love of his person, [the people of Boston] took immense pleasure in turning out the governor and deputy and assistants...

deputy-sheriff, n. (1)

    MMEm 10.400 19 One of [Mary Moody Emerson's] tasks, it appears, was to watch for the approach of the deputy-sheriff...

DeQuincey, Thomas, n. (5)

    ET1 5.4 1 Like most young men at that time, I was much indebted to the men of Edinburgh...to Scott, Playfair and DeQuincey;...
    ET1 5.4 4 ...my narrow and desultory reading had inspired the wish to see the faces of three or four writers,--Coleridge, Wordsworth, Landor, DeQuincey...
    ET17 5.294 4 At Edinburgh...I made the acquaintance of DeQuincey, of Lord Jeffrey...
    CL 12.142 21 There is also an effect [of walking] on beauty. De Quincey said, I have seen Wordsworth's eyes sometimes affected powerfully in this respect.
    CL 12.143 8 ...De Quincey prefixes to this description of Wordsworth a little piece of advice...

derange, v. (2)

    F 6.49 2 If in the least particular one could derange the order of nature,- who would accept the gift of life?
    Bty 6.299 1 Saadi describes a schoolmaster so ugly and crabbed that a sight of him would derange the ecstasies of the orthodox.

deranged, adj. (1)

    SwM 4.119 13 When [Swedenborg] attempted to announce the law most sanely, he was forced to couch it in parable. Modern psychology offers no similar example of a deranged balance.

deranged, v. (2)

    MMEm 10.413 19 A mediocre mind will be deranged in either extreme of wealth or poverty...
    PLT 12.50 27 We are forced to treat a great part of mankind as if they were a little deranged.

deranging, v. (1)

    YA 1.372 16 The sphere is flattened at the poles and swelled at the equator;...the form...required to prevent the protuberances of the continent... from continually deranging the axis of the earth.

Derar, n. (1)

    MR 1.251 9 The naked Derar, horsed on an idea, was found an overmatch for a troop of Roman cavalry.

Derby County, England, n. (1)

    ET11 5.182 16 The Duke of Devonshire, besides his other estates, owns 96, 000 acres in the County of Derby.

Derby Day, n. (1)

    ET4 5.73 25 Every [English] inn-room is lined with pictures of races;...and the House of Commons adjourns over the Derby Day.

Derby, England, n. (1)

    ET7 5.125 12 I knew a very worthy man,--a magistrate, I believe he was, in the town of Derby,--who went to the opera to see Malibran.

Derby, Lord [Edward Stanle (1)

    EWI 11.112 2 ...in 1833, on the 14th May, Lord Stanley, Minister of the Colonies, introduced into the House of Commons his bill for the Emancipation.

Derbyshire, England, n. (2)

    ET3 5.42 14 In the variety of surface, Britain is a miniature of Europe, having...caves in Matlock and Derbyshire;...
    Ctr 6.148 26 Aubrey writes, I have heard Thomas Hobbes say, that, in the Earl of Devon's house, in Derbyshire, there was a good library...

dereliction, n. (2)

    LVB 11.92 16 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...
    War 11.174 21 If peace is to be maintained, it must be by brave men...men who have...attained such a perception of their own intrinsic worth that they do not think property or their own body a sufficient good to be saved by such dereliction of principle as treating a man like a sheep.

derelictions, n. (2)

    MR 1.230 26 ...The ways of commerce...are now in their general course so vitiated by derelictions and abuses at which all connive, that it requires more vigor and resources than can be expected of every young man, to right himself in them;...
    Con 1.325 15 ...if I allow myself in derelictions and become idle and dissolute, I quickly come to love the protection of a strong law...

deride, v. (1)

    SHC 11.428 18 ...Prison thy soul from malice, bar out pride,/ Nor these pale flowers nor this still field deride:/...

derided, v. (1)

    PLT 12.41 5 Every new impression on the mind is not to be derided, but is to be accounted for...

derides, v. (1)

    Fdsp 2.194 20 ...by the divine affinity of virtue with itself, I find [my friends], or rather not I, but the Deity in me and in them derides and cancels the thick walls of individual character...

derision, n. (7)

    LE 1.185 18 What is this Truth you seek? What is this Beauty? men will ask, with derision.
    Tran 1.355 18 Alas for these days of derision and criticism!
    Mrs1 3.142 25 The painted phantasm Fashion rises to cast a species of derision on what we say.
    Nat2 3.193 20 Must we not suppose somewhere in the universe a slight treachery and derision?
    Aris 10.62 19 ...[the gentleman] will find...in English palaces the London twist, derision, coldness...
    CSC 10.376 23 ...not [the Chardon Street Convention's] least instructive lesson was the gradual but sure ascendency of [Alcott's] spirit, in spite of the incredulity and derision with which he is at first received...
    EurB 12.366 20 In the debates on the Copyright Bill, in the English Parliament, Mr. Sergeant Wakley, the coroner, quoted Wordsworth's poetry in derision...

derivative, adj. (1)

    LE 1.157 3 ...the mark of American merit...in eloquence, seems...itself not new but derivative...

derive, v. (14)

    AmS 1.91 24 It is remarkable, the character of the pleasure we derive from the best books.
    DSA 1.125 16 [The sentiment of virtue] corrects the capital mistake of the infant man, who...hopes to derive advantages from another...
    Hist 2.6 1 All laws derive hence [from the universal nature] their ultimate reason;...
    UGM 4.5 10 If now we proceed to inquire into the kinds of service we derive from others, let us be warned of the danger of modern studies, and begin low enough.
    ET3 5.43 25 For the English nation, the best of them are in the centre of all Christians, because they have interior intellectual light. This appears conspicuously in the spiritual world. This light they derive from the liberty of speaking and writing, and thereby of thinking.
    ET4 5.52 11 The English derive their pedigree from such a range of nationalities that there needs sea-room and land-room to unfold the varieties of talent and character.
    ET9 5.152 16 ...this precious knave [George of Cappadocia] became, in good time, Saint George of England...the pride of the best blood of the modern world. Strange, that the solid truth-speaking Briton should derive from an impostor.
    Wth 6.96 7 Ages derive a culture from the wealth of Roman Caesars...or whatever great proprietors.
    SS 7.16 2 ...a sound mind will derive its principles from insight...
    DL 7.124 12 In men, it is their...removal to the East or to the West, or some other magnified trifle which makes the meridian movement, and all the after years and actions only derive interest from their relation to that.
    Prch 10.236 20 We want some intercalated days, to bethink us and to derive order to our life from the heart.
    EdAd 11.383 7 ...this energetic race [Americans] derive an unprecedented material power from the new arts...
    PLT 12.64 5 We wish to sum up the conflicting impressions [of Intellect] by saying that all point at last to a unity which inspires all. Our poetry, our religion are its skirts and penumbrae. Yet the charm of life is the hints we derive from this.
    II 12.87 27 These studies [of the Intellect] seem to me to derive an importance from their bearing on the universal question of modern times, the question of Religion.

derived, adj. (1)

    EWI 11.136 12 ...Derived power cannot be superior to the power from which it is derived...

derived, v. (22)

    Chr1 3.104 16 The true charity of Goethe is to be inferred from the account he gave Dr. Eckermann of the way in which he had spent his fortune. Each bonmot of mine has cost a purse of gold. Half a million of my own money... the large income derived from my writings...have been expended to instruct me in what I now know.
    PPh 4.75 22 ...[Plato] was able...to avail himself of the wit and weight of Socrates, to which unquestionably his own debt was great; and these derived again their principal advantage from the perfect art of Plato.
    ShP 4.196 24 [The poet in illiterate times] is...little solicitous whence his thoughts have been derived;...
    GoW 4.283 7 ...almost all the valuable distinctions which are current in higher conversation have been derived to us from Germany.
    ET4 5.51 12 Neither do this people [the English] appear to be of one stem, but collectively a better race than any from which they are derived.
    ET8 5.134 4 ...however derived...here [in England] exists the best stock in the world...
    ET14 5.241 6 Plato had signified the same sense, when he said, All the great arts require a subtle and speculative research into the law of nature, since loftiness of thought and perfect mastery over every subject seem to be derived from some such source as this.
    Ctr 6.132 11 I saw a man who believed the principal mischiefs in the English state were derived from the devotion to musical concerts.
    Ctr 6.132 15 A freemason, not long since, set out to explain to this country that the principal cause of the success of General Washington was the aid he derived from the freemasons.
    CbW 6.256 16 The benefaction derived in Illinois and the great West from railroads is inestimable...
    Boks 7.194 11 ...whole nations have derived their culture from a single book...
    Suc 7.285 24 There is a mode of reckoning, [Columbus] proudly adds, derived from astronomy, which is sure and safe to any one who understands it.
    PI 8.43 12 I have heard that the Germans think...that Goldsmith's title to the name [of poet] is...derived from the Vicar of Wakefield.
    PI 8.46 23 If you hum or whistle the rhythm of the common English metres...you can easily believe these metres to be...derived from the human pulse...
    QO 8.180 27 Rabelais is the source of many a proverb, story and jest, derived from him into all modern languages;...
    QO 8.192 24 It never troubles the simple seeker from whom he derived such or such a sentiment.
    PC 8.221 1 ...one of the distinctions of our century has been the devotion of cultivated men to natural science. The benefits thence derived to the arts and to civilization are signal and immense.
    Thor 10.455 12 [Thoreau] said,-I have a faint recollection of pleasure derived from smoking dried lily-stems, before I was a man.
    LS 11.15 26 ...it does not appear that the opinion of St. Paul...ought to alter our opinion derived from the Evangelists [concerning the Lord's Supper].
    EWI 11.136 14 ...Derived power cannot be superior to the power from which it is derived...
    II 12.85 17 Within this magical power derived from fidelity to his nature, [man] adds also the mechanical force of perseverance.
    Trag 12.406 22 The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an intellectual source is the belief in a brute Fate or Destiny;...

derives, v. (7)

    SwM 4.107 7 This theory [Identity-philosophy] dates from the oldest philosophers, and derives perhaps its best illustration from the newest.
    ET4 5.54 26 The sources from which tradition derives [the English] stock are mainly three.
    ET7 5.117 1 Veracity derives from instinct...
    Bhr 6.171 5 The power of a woman of fashion to lead and also to daunt and repel, derives from [timid girls'] belief that she knows resources and behaviors not known to them;...
    Bhr 6.191 22 Novels are the journal or record of manners, and the new importance of these books derives from the fact that the novelist begins to penetrate the surface and treat this part of life more worthily.
    MAng1 12.239 21 ...the reputation of many works of art now in Italy derives a sanction from the tradition of [Michelangelo's] praise.
    MLit 12.316 9 Has [the writer] led thee to Nature because his own soul was too happy in beholding her power and love? Or is his passion for the wilderness only...the exhibition of a talent...which derives all its eclat from our conventional education...

deriving, v. (4)

    Wsp 6.212 14 ...the official men can in no wise help you in any question of to-day, they deriving entirely from the old dead things.
    PI 8.48 13 So in our songs and ballads the refrain skilfully used, and deriving some novelty or better sense in each of many verses...
    Comc 8.160 18 The activity of our sympathies may for a time hinder our perceiving the fact intellectually, and so deriving mirth from it;...
    MAng1 12.218 22 ...all men have...a power of deriving pleasure from Beauty.

derkely, adv. (1)

    F 6.46 11 ...our flesh hath no might/ To understand it aright/ For it is warned too derkely./

derkest, adj. (1)

    Aris 10.29 9 Take fire and beare it into the derkest hous/ Betwixt this and the mount of Caucasus/ And let men shut the dores, and go thenne,/ Yet wol the fire as faire lie and brenne/ As twenty thousand men might it behold;/...

derogatory, adj. (2)

    Lov1 2.174 9 ...the coldest philosopher cannot recount the debt of the young soul wandering here in nature to the power of love, without being tempted to unsay, as treasonable to nature, aught derogatory to the social instincts.
    QO 8.200 19 Goethe frankly said, What would remain to me if this art of appropriation were derogatory to genius?

derrick, n. (1)

    ET16 5.283 15 I chanced to see, a year ago, men at work on the substructure of a house in Bowdoin Square, in Boston, swinging a block of granite of the size of the largest of the Stonehenge columns, with an ordinary derrick.

dervish, n. (2)

    PPo 8.248 19 [Hafiz] tells his mistress that not the dervish, or the monk, but the lover, has in his heart the spirit which makes the ascetic and the saint;...
    PPo 8.249 22 Hafiz...tears off his turban and throws it at the head of the meddling dervish...

dervishes, n. (2)

    Mrs1 3.154 17 Osman had a humanity so broad and deep that although his speech was so bold and free with the Koran as to disgust all the dervishes, yet was there never a poor outcast...but fled at once to him;...
    WD 7.155 2 Daughters of Time, the hypocritic days,/ Muffled and dumb like barefoot dervishes,/ And marching single in an endless file,/ Bring diadems and fagots in their hands./

desarts, n. (1)

    ShP 4.207 19 The forest of Arden...the antres vast and desarts idle of Othello's captivity,--where is the third cousin, or grand-nephew...that has kept one word of those transcendent secrets?

Desatir, n. (1)

    Boks 7.218 15 After the Hebrew and Greek Scriptures...[the sacred books] are, the Desatir of the Persians, and the Zoroastrian Oracles;...

Descartes, Rene, n. (1)

    SwM 4.104 12 ...Descartes, taught by Gilbert's magnet, with its vortex, spiral and polarity, had filled Europe with the leading thought of vortical motion, as the secret of nature.

descend, v. (16)

    Con 1.303 4 We have all a certain intellection or presentiment of reform existing in the mind, which does not yet descend into the character...
    Con 1.324 16 Cannot I too descend a Redeemer into nature?
    Fdsp 2.199 15 Almost all people descend to meet.
    Fdsp 2.215 3 If [my friend] is great, he makes me so great that I cannot descend to converse.
    OS 2.278 23 Men descend to meet.
    OS 2.289 23 This energy [of the soul] does not descend into individual life on any other condition than entire possession.
    Int 2.336 8 ...all [men] have some art or power of communication in their head, but only in the artist does it descend into the hand.
    PPh 4.57 22 According to the old sentence, If Jove should descend to the earth, he would speak in the style of Plato.
    SwM 4.122 22 Instead of a religion which visited [Swedenborg] diplomatically three or four times...here was a teaching which...showed him through what a long ancestry his thoughts descend;...
    SwM 4.131 18 [Swedenborg] was let down through a column that...was formed of angelic spirits, that he might descend safely amongst the unhappy...
    ET6 5.110 3 A hereditary tenure is natural to [the English]. Offices, farms, trades and traditions descend so.
    DL 7.117 19 ...the pine and the oak shall gladly descend from the mountains to uphold the roof of men as faithful and necessary as themselves;...
    FRep 11.534 7 We lose our invention and descend into imitation.
    ACri 12.296 27 [Herrick] has, and knows that he has...a perfect, plain style, from which he can soar to a fine, lyric delicacy, or descend to coarsest sarcasm, without losing his firm footing.
    PPr 12.383 20 The poet cannot descend into the turbid present without injury to his rarest gifts.
    PPr 12.384 4 It is a costly proof of character that the most renowned scholar of England [Carlyle] should take his reputation in his hand and should descend into the [political] ring;...

descendant, n. (1)

    Thor 10.451 2 Henry David Thoreau was the last male descendant of a French ancestor who came to this country from the Isle of Guernsey.

descendants, n. (5)

    ET11 5.178 17 Wraxall says that in 1781, Lord Surrey, afterwards Duke of Norfolk, told him that when the year 1783 should arrive, he meant to give a grand festival to all the descendants of the body of Jockey of Norfolk...
    Insp 8.270 14 They...cut off [the aboriginal man's] tail, set him on end, sent him to school and made him pay taxes, before he could begin to write his sad story for the compassion or the repudiation of his descendants...
    Plu 10.297 4 ...M. Fustel de Coulanges has explored from its roots in the Aryan race, then in their Greek and Roman descendants, the primaeval religion of the household.
    HDC 11.30 14 Here are still around me the lineal descendants of the first settlers of this town [Concord].
    FRep 11.516 11 We are in these days settling for ourselves and our descendants questions which...will make the peace and prosperity or the calamity of the next ages.

descended, v. (12)

    AmS 1.103 8 [The scholar]...learns that in going down into the secrets of his own mind he has descended into the secrets of all minds.
    PNR 4.86 19 [Plato]...descended into detail with a courage like that he witnessed in nature.
    NMW 4.238 2 [Napoleon's] personal attention descended to the smallest particulars.
    Ctr 6.156 13 ...Newton, Milton, Wordsworth, did not live in a crowd, but descended into it from time to time as benefactors;...
    Ctr 6.161 15 Burke descended from a higher sphere when he would influence human affairs.
    QO 8.187 13 ...now it appears that [English and American nursery-tales]... are the property of all the nations descended from the Aryan race...
    Aris 10.29 2 But for ye speken of such gentillesse/ As is descended out of old richesse,/ That therfore shullen ye be gentilmen,-/ Such arrogance n' is not worth a hen./
    HDC 11.31 18 Among the silenced [English] clergymen was a distinguished minister...Rev. Peter Bulkeley, descended from a noble family...
    HDC 11.77 12 William Emerson, the pastor [of Concord], had a hereditary claim to the affection of the people, being descended in the fourth generation from Edward Bulkeley, son of Peter.
    CPL 11.499 7 I possess the manuscript journal of a lady [Mary Moody Emerson], native of this town [Concord] (and descended from three of its clergymen), who removed into Maine...
    Milt1 12.274 7 ...by great knowledge, and by religion, [Milton] would reascend to the height from which our nature is supposed to have descended.
    ACri 12.287 1 See how Plato managed it, with an imagination so gorgeous, and a taste so patrician, that Jove, if he descended, was to speak in his style.

descending, adj. (3)

    Tran 1.335 11 Am I vicious and insane? my fortunes will seem to you obscure and descending.
    Int 2.341 15 ...every man is a receiver of this descending holy ghost...
    CbW 6.267 17 In childhood we...doubted not by distant travel we should reach the baths of the descending sun and stars.

descending, v. (5)

    Comp 2.119 20 The mob is man voluntarily descending to the nature of the beast.
    OS 2.268 3 Our being is descending into us from we know not whence.
    SwM 4.143 12 Some minds are for ever restrained from descending into nature;...
    Dem1 10.21 4 ...the fabled ring of Gyges...is simply mischievous. A new or private language...the desired discovery of the guided balloon, are of this kind. Tramps...descending on the lonely traveller...can well be spared.
    MLit 12.319 6 In Byron...[the subjective tendency] predominates; but in Byron...it sees not its true end...a life...descending into Nature to behold itself reflected there.

descends, v. (7)

    DSA 1.135 5 The man on whom the soul descends...alone can teach.
    MN 1.199 26 ...nature descends always from above.
    SwM 4.126 14 [Swedenborg] delivers golden sayings which express with singular beauty the ethical laws;...Ends always ascend as nature descends.
    Elo2 8.125 15 ...when any orator at the bar or in the Senate rises in his thought, he descends in his language...
    PerF 10.78 4 It would be easy to awake wonder by sketching the performance of each of these mental forces; as of the diving-bell of the Memory, which descends into the deeps of our past...
    Bost 12.193 1 The divine will descends into the barbarous mind in some strange disguise;...
    MLit 12.309 15 We go musing into the vault of day and night;...no muse descends...

descent, n. (17)

    Nat 1.69 14 All things unto our flesh are kind,/ In their descent and being;.../
    YA 1.364 3 ...the locomotive and the steamboat...shoot every day across the thousand various threads of national descent and employment...
    OS 2.275 17 ...there is a kind of descent and accommodation felt when we leave speaking of moral nature to urge a virtue which it enjoins.
    Pt1 3.29 3 Milton says that...the epic poet, he who shall sing of the gods and their descent unto men, must drink water out of a wooden bowl.
    ET4 5.45 8 The British Empire is reckoned to contain (in 1848)...perhaps a fifth of the population of the globe... Perhaps forty of these millions are of British stock. Add the United States of America...and you have a population of English descent and language of 60,000,000...
    ET4 5.50 13 We are piqued with pure descent...
    ET4 5.61 5 ...decent and dignified men now existing boast their descent from these filthy thieves [the Normans]...
    ET5 5.92 16 [The English] have approved...their descent from Odin's smiths, by their hereditary skill in working in iron;...
    ET11 5.177 7 The pretence is that the [English] noble is of unbroken descent from the Norman...
    ET11 5.178 25 This long descent of [English] families and this cleaving through ages to the same spot of ground, captivates the imagination.
    ET11 5.197 1 The fiction with which the noble and the bystander equally please themselves [in England] is that the former is of unbroken descent from the Norman...
    ET14 5.243 14 These heights [of the Elizabethan age] were followed by a meanness and a descent of the mind into lower levels;...
    Wsp 6.218 18 The moment of your...acceptance of the lucrative standard will be marked in the pause or solstice of genius... The vulgar are sensible of the change in you, and of your descent...
    Schr 10.275 24 The descent of genius into talents is part of the natural order and history of the world.
    JBB 11.267 18 Captain John Brown is...the fifth in descent from Peter Brown...
    EPro 11.319 9 ...all men of African descent who have faculty enough to find their way to our lines are assured of the protection of American law.
    MLit 12.335 22 [The Genius of the time] will...record the descent of principles into practice...

descents, n. (1)

    Milt1 12.264 3 ...[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.

describable, adj. (1)

    Dem1 10.22 23 There is as precise and as describable a reason for every fact occurring to [the so-called lucky man], as for any occurring to any man.

describe, v. (42)

    Nat 1.62 3 ...when we try to define and describe [God], both language and thought desert us...
    DSA 1.121 27 The moral traits which are all globed into every virtuous act and thought, - in speech we must...describe or suggest by painful enumeration of many particulars.
    DSA 1.131 6 ...the language that describes Christ...paints a demigod, as the Orientals or the Greeks would describe Osiris or Apollo.
    MN 1.198 10 In treating a subject so large, in which we must...aim much more to suggest than to describe, I know it is not easy to speak with the precision attainable on topics of less scope.
    MN 1.198 13 I do not wish in attempting to paint a man, to describe an air-fed... ghost.
    MN 1.218 20 Behold! there is the sun, and the rain, and the rocks; the old sun, the old stones. How easy were it to describe all this fitly; yet no word can pass.
    MN 1.218 24 ...when Genius arrives...it has no straining to describe...
    MN 1.223 12 We cannot describe the natural history of the soul...
    SL 2.132 18 These [problems of original sin, origin of evil, predestination and the like] are the soul's mumps and measles and whooping-coughs, and those who have not caught them cannot describe their health or prescribe the cure.
    Lov1 2.170 21 It matters not...whether we attempt to describe the passion [of love] at twenty, thirty, or at eighty years.
    Lov1 2.171 1 ...it is to be hoped that...we may attain to that inward view of the law which shall describe a truth ever young and beautiful...
    Prd1 2.233 13 [The scholar] resembles the pitiful drivellers whom travellers describe as frequenting the bazaars of Constantinople...
    OS 2.283 12 Do not require a description of the countries towards which you sail. The description does not describe them to you...
    Pt1 3.37 4 I look in vain for the poet whom I describe.
    Exp 3.74 9 ...in accepting the leading of the sentiments, it is...the universal impulse to believe, that is...the principal fact in the history of the globe. Shall we describe this cause as that which works directly?
    GoW 4.263 25 A new thought or a crisis of passion apprises [the writer] that all that he has yet learned and written is exoteric,--is not the fact, but some rumor of the fact. What then? Does he throw away the pen? No; he begins again to describe in the new light which has shined on him...
    ET4 5.57 5 The [Norse] Sagas describe a monarchical republic like Sparta.
    ET5 5.84 23 [The English] think him the best dressed man whose dress is so fit for his use that you cannot notice or remember to describe it.
    Pow 6.54 21 The key to the age may be this, or that, or the other, as the young orators describe;...
    Bty 6.291 24 In the midst of...a festal procession gay with banners, I saw a boy seize an old tin pan...and poising it on the top of a stick, he set it turning and made it describe the most elegant imaginable curves, and drew away attention from the decorated procession by this startling beauty.
    Art2 7.49 24 In eloquence, the great triumphs of the art are...when consciously [the orator] makes himself the mere tongue of the occasion and the hour, and says what cannot but be said. Hence the term abandonment, to describe the self-surrender of the orator.
    Elo1 7.63 24 The definitions of eloquence describe its attraction for young men.
    Elo1 7.68 14 Set a New Englander to describe any accident which happened in his presence. What hesitation and reserve in his narrative!
    Elo1 7.68 19 Set a New Englander to describe any accident which happened in his presence. What hesitation and reserve in his narrative! He... though he cannot describe, hopes to suggest the whole scene.
    Elo1 7.69 10 [The Sicilians] mimic the voice and manner of the person they describe;...
    Boks 7.205 26 There is...Boccaccio's Life of Dante, a great man to describe a greater.
    Suc 7.287 9 The ancient Norse ballads describe [the Norseman] as afflicted with this inextinguishable thirst of victory.
    PI 8.26 17 ...when we describe man as poet...we speak of the potential or ideal man...
    PI 8.59 18 The Norsemen have no less faith in poetry and its power, when they describe it thus:--Odin spoke everything in rhyme.
    Grts 8.308 14 ...Nelson, said, I feel that I am fitter to do the action than to describe it.
    Grts 8.310 1 As [the Quakers] express [self-respect], it might be thus...if at any time I...propose a journey or a course of conduct, I perhaps find a silent obstacle in my mind that I cannot account for. ... You ask me to describe it. I cannot describe it.
    Grts 8.310 2 As [the Quakers] express [self-respect], it might be thus...if at any time I...propose a journey or a course of conduct, I perhaps find a silent obstacle in my mind that I cannot account for. ... You ask me to describe it. I cannot describe it.
    Aris 10.36 4 ...we, certainly, have not come here to describe well-dressed vulgarity.
    Aris 10.38 25 ...the power and excellence we describe are real.
    Supl 10.164 21 Language should aim to describe the fact.
    LLNE 10.351 12 Aladdin and his magician, or the beautiful Scheherezade can alone, in these prosaic times before the [Fourierist] sight, describe the material splendors collected there [in the Golden Horn].
    Thor 10.480 3 ...[Thoreau] seemed haunted by a certain chronic assumption that the science of the day pretended completeness, and he had just found out that the savans had neglected to discriminate a particular botanical variety, had failed to describe the seeds or count the sepals.
    EWI 11.115 10 I will not repeat to you the well-known paragraph, in which Messrs, Thome and Kimball...describe the occurrences of that night [of emancipation] in the island of Antigua.
    Wom 11.417 10 In all [literature], the body of the joke is one, namely...to describe [women] as victims of temperament;...
    Mem 12.97 23 A knife with a good spring, a forceps...the teeth or jaws of which fit and play perfectly, as compared with the same tools when badly put together, describe to us the difference between a person of quick and strong perception...and a heavy man who witnesses the same facts...
    MLit 12.335 24 [The Genius of the time] will describe the new heroic life of man...
    AgMs 12.363 18 These [poor farmers] should be holden up to imitation, and their methods detailed; yet their houses are very uninviting and inconspicuous to State Commissioners. So with these premiums to farms, and premiums at cattle-shows. The class that I describe must pay the premium which is awarded to the rich.

described, v. (48)

    Nat 1.26 17 ...that state of the mind can only be described by presenting that natural appearance as its picture.
    MN 1.204 13 ...there is a Life not to be described or known otherwise than by possession?
    Hist 2.29 27 [The advancing man] finds that the poet was no odd fellow who described strange and impossible situations...
    Hist 2.38 26 [A man] shall walk, as the poets have described that goddess, in a robe painted all over with wonderful events and experiences;...
    SL 2.157 13 It was this conviction which Swedenborg expressed when he described a group of persons in the spiritual world endeavoring in vain to articulate a proposition which they did not believe;...
    SL 2.160 10 ...with sublime propriety God is described as saying, I AM.
    Lov1 2.179 12 Who can analyze the nameless charm which glances from one and another face and form? ... It is destroyed for the imagination by any attempt to refer it to organization. Nor does it point to any relations of friendship or love known and described in society...
    Cir 2.301 5 St. Augustine described the nature of God as a circle whose centre was everywhere and its circumference nowhere.
    Cir 2.312 1 Literature is a point outside of our hodiernal circle through which a new one may be described.
    Pt1 3.22 20 ...nature...does not leave another to baptize her but baptizes herself; and this through the metamorphosis again. I remember that a certain poet described it to me thus...
    Exp 3.72 10 ...I have described life as a flux of moods...
    SwM 4.101 10 [Swedenborg] is described, when in London, as a man of a quiet, clerical habit...
    ShP 4.211 7 ...[Shakespeare] drew the man, and described the day, and what is done in it;...
    NMW 4.248 17 An example of [Napoleon's] common-sense is what he says of the passage of the Alps in winter, which all writers...had described as impracticable.
    GoW 4.270 7 I described Bonaparte as a representative of the popular external life and aims of the nineteenth century.
    ET4 5.57 11 In Norway...the actors are bonders or landholders, every one of whom is named and personally and patronymically described, as the king's friend and companion.
    ET4 5.68 22 ...Robin Hood comes described to us as mitissimus praedonum; the gentlest thief.
    ET5 5.89 25 To show capacity, A Frenchman described as the end of a speech in debate...
    ET8 5.129 14 [The English] are contradictorily described as sour, splenetic and stubborn,--and as mild, sweet and sensible.
    ET15 5.269 19 ...I read, among the daily announcements [in the London Times], one offering a reward of fifty pounds to any person who would put a nobleman, described by name and title, late a member of Parliament, into any county jail in England...
    F 6.11 3 So [a man] has but one future, and that is already...described in that little fatty face...
    Bhr 6.192 1 The novels used to lead us on to a foolish interest in the fortunes of the boy and girl they described.
    Wsp 6.204 23 ...the whole state of man is a state of culture; and its flowering and completion may be described as Religion...
    Elo1 7.64 4 Isocrates described his art as the power of magnifying what was small and diminishing what was great...
    Elo1 7.75 7 These accomplishments [of eloquence] are of the same kind, and only a degree higher than...the vituperative style well described in the street-word jawing.
    DL 7.121 22 In many parts of true economy a cheering lesson may be learned from the mode of life and manners of the later Romans, as described to us in the letters of the younger Pliny.
    PI 8.8 20 Natural objects, if individually described and out of connection, are not yet known...
    PI 8.14 6 The return of the soul to God was described as a flask of water broken in the sea.
    PI 8.14 11 Machiavel described the papacy as a stone inserted in the body of Italy to keep the wound open.
    PI 8.57 11 [The early bard's] advantage is that his words are things, each the lucky sound which described the fact...
    PI 8.67 27 We must...ask...whether we shall find our tragedy written in [Hamlet's],--our hopes, wants, pains, disgraces, described to the life...
    QO 8.196 10 ...Cardinal de Retz...described himself in an extemporary Latin sentence...
    PC 8.225 20 The highest flight to which the muse of Horace ascended was in that triplet of lines in which he described the souls which can calmly confront the sublimity of Nature...
    Grts 8.310 3 As [the Quakers] express [self-respect], it might be thus...if at any time I...propose a journey or a course of conduct, I perhaps find a silent obstacle in my mind that I cannot account for. ... It is not an oracle...it is too simple to be described...
    Imtl 8.327 4 ...Swedenborg...described the moral faculties and affections of man, with the hard realism of an astronomer describing the suns and planets of our system...
    Imtl 8.327 11 Swedenborg described an intelligible heaven...
    LLNE 10.358 5 One merchant to whom I described the Fourier project, thought it must not only succeed, but that agricultural association must presently fix the price of bread...
    MMEm 10.398 21 Lucy Percy...the friend of Strafford and of Pym, is thus described by Sir Toby Matthews.
    MMEm 10.419 14 I [Mary Moody Emerson] praise Him, though when my strength of body falters, it is a trial not easily described.
    Carl 10.490 24 Forster of Rawdon described to me a dinner at the table d' hote of some provincial hotel where he carried Carlyle...
    LS 11.8 19 ...many persons are apt to imagine that the very striking and personal manner in which the eating and drinking [at the Last Supper] is described, indicates a striking and formal purpose to found a festival.
    HDC 11.33 1 Edward Johnson of Woburn has described in an affecting narrative [the pilgrims'] labors by the way.
    FSLN 11.222 27 After all [Webster's] talents have been described, there remains that perfect propriety which animated all the details of the action or speech with the character of the whole...
    ACiv 11.299 14 Is this secular progress we have described...only to give [man] sensibility...
    Milt1 12.254 21 Better than any other [Milton] has discharged the office of every great man, namely...to draw after Nature a life of man, exhibiting such a composition of grace, of strength and of virtue, as poet had not described nor hero lived.
    Milt1 12.274 8 From a just knowledge of what man should be, [Milton] described what he was.
    EurB 12.374 12 For this reason, children delight in fairy tales. Nature is described in them as the servant of man, which they feel ought to be true.
    Let 12.399 12 ...this class [of over-educated youth] is rapidly increasing by the infatuation of the active class, who...use all possible endeavors to secure to [their children] the same result. Certainly we are not insensible to this calamity, as described by the observers...

describers, n. (2)

    QO 8.203 8 The earliest describers of savage life...have a charm of truth...
    LLNE 10.357 26 ...[the Fourierists] were describers of that which is really being done.

describes, v. (23)

    DSA 1.131 2 ...the language that describes Christ...is not the style of friendship...
    MN 1.219 4 Genius...advertises us...that it knows so deeply and speaks so musically, because it is itself a mutation of the thing it describes.
    MR 1.255 13 An Arabian poet describes his hero by saying, Sunshine was he/ In the winter day;/ And in the midsummer/ Coolness and shade./
    LT 1.273 4 Milton...describes a relation between religion and the daily occupations...
    Hist 2.7 8 ...all that is said of the wise man by Stoic or Oriental or modern essayist, describes to each reader his own idea...
    Hist 2.7 9 ...all that is said of the wise man by Stoic or Oriental or modern essayist...describes [to each reader] his unattained but attainable self.
    Hsm1 2.253 15 Ibn Haukal, the Arabian geographer, describes a heroic extreme in the hospitality of Sogd, in Bukharia.
    Pt1 3.8 25 ...[the poet] is the only teller of news, for he was present and privy to the appearance which he describes.
    Pt1 3.36 13 Certain priests, whom [Swedenborg] describes as conversing very learnedly together, appeared to the children who were at some distance, like dead horses;...
    Mrs1 3.123 26 [The name gentleman] describes a man standing in his own right...
    PNR 4.87 17 [Plato] describes his own ideal, when he paints...a god leading things from disorder into order.
    MoS 4.150 18 The correspondence of Pope and Swift describes mankind around them as monsters;...
    ShP 4.208 23 ...with Shakspeare for biographer...we have really the information [about Shakespeare] which is material; that which describes character and fortune...
    ET2 5.28 24 Near the equator you can read small print by [the light of the sea-fire]; and the mate describes the phosphoric insects, when taken up in a pail, as shaped like a Carolina potato.
    ET14 5.234 5 [Swift] describes his fictitious persons as if for the police.
    Bty 6.298 27 Saadi describes a schoolmaster so ugly and crabbed that a sight of him would derange the ecstasies of the orthodox.
    Ill 6.320 27 That story of Thor, who was set to drain the drinking-horn in Asgard and to wrestle with the old woman and to run with the runner Lok, and presently found that he had been drinking up the sea, and wrestling with Time, and racing with Thought,--describes us...
    Imtl 8.328 18 A wise man in our time caused to be written on his tomb, Think on living. That inscription describes a progress in opinion.
    Dem1 10.10 27 Belzoni describes the three marks which led him to dig for a door to the pyramid of Ghizeh.
    Carl 10.491 17 [Carlyle] treats [young men] with contempt;...they will eat vegetables and drink water, and he...describes with gusto the crowds of people who gaze at the sirloins in the dealer's shop-window...
    EWI 11.121 19 [Charles Metcalfe] further describes the erection of numerous churches, chapels and schools which the new population [of Jamaica] required...
    PLT 12.49 6 [Dante] clasps the thought as if it were a tree or a stone, and describes as mathematically.
    MLit 12.320 9 ...the reason why [the true poet] can say one thing well is because his vision extends to the sight of all things, and so he describes each as one who knows many and all.

describing, v. (19)

    Nat 1.4 6 ...nature is already, in its forms and tendencies, describing its own design.
    MoS 4.173 12 I mean to...celebrate the calendar-day of our Saint Michel de Montaigne, by counting and describing these doubts or negations.
    NMW 4.256 9 In describing the two parties into which modern society divides itself,--the democrat and the conservative,--I said, Bonaparte represents the democrat...
    ET4 5.69 26 Wood the antiquary, in describing the poverty and maceration of Father Lacey, an English Jesuit, does not deny him beer.
    ET6 5.102 5 On the day of my arrival at Liverpool, a gentleman, in describing to me the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, happened to say, Lord Clarendon has pluck like a cock and will fight till he dies;...
    ET12 5.208 19 The German Huber, in describing to his countrymen the attributes of an English gentleman, frankly admits that in Germany, we have nothing of the kind.
    ET14 5.257 26 [Tennyson] contents himself with describing the Englishman as he is...
    Wsp 6.215 4 In our definitions we grope after the spiritual by describing it as invisible.
    Elo1 7.87 7 ...[the state's attorney] revenged himself...on the judge, by requiring the court to define what salvage was. The court..tried words... describing duties of insurers, captains, pilots and miscellaneous sea-officers that are or might be...
    Clbs 7.239 7 ...Dr. Dalton scratched a formula on a scrap of paper and pushed it towards the guest,--Had he seen that? The visitor scratched on another paper a formula describing some results of his own with sulphuric acid, and pushed it across the table,--Had he seen that?
    QO 8.182 16 ...whatever undue reverence may have been claimed for [the Bible] by the prestige of philonic inspiration, the stronger tendency we are describing is likely to undo.
    Imtl 8.327 6 ...Swedenborg...described the moral faculties and affections of man, with the hard realism of an astronomer describing the suns and planets of our system...
    Aris 10.32 17 It will not pain me...if it should turn out, what is true, that I am describing a real aristocracy...
    Aris 10.57 3 I will not protract this discourse by describing the duties of the brave and generous.
    SovE 10.191 14 An Eastern poet, in describing the golden age, 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.
    Thor 10.475 11 ...[Thoreau] said that Aeschylus and the Greeks, in describing Apollo and Orpheus, had given no song, or no good one.
    Thor 10.476 12 I long ago lost a hound, a bay horse and a turtle-dove, and am still on their trail. Many are the travellers I have spoken...describing their tracks...
    II 12.66 8 None of the metaphysicians have prospered in describing this power [consciousness], which constitutes sanity;...
    MAng1 12.218 9 The Italian artists sanction this view of Beauty by describing it as il piu nell' uno, the many in one...

description, n. (21)

    MN 1.204 17 The royal reason, the Grace of God, seems the only description of our multiform but ever identical fact.
    MN 1.213 12 ...as the power or genius of nature is ecstatic, so must its science or the description of it be.
    OS 2.283 11 Do not require a description of the countries towards which you sail.
    OS 2.283 12 Do not require a description of the countries towards which you sail. The description does not describe them to you...
    Mrs1 3.121 19 Comme il faut, is the Frenchman's description of good society: as we must be.
    PPh 4.57 10 Where there is great compass of wit, we usually find excellencies that combine easily in the living man, but in description appear incompatible.
    GoW 4.277 17 [Goethe's works] consist of translations, criticism, dramas, lyric and every other description of poems, literary journals and portraits of distinguished men.
    ET8 5.133 12 It was no bad description of the Briton generically, what was said two hundred years ago of one particular Oxford scholar: He was a very bold man, uttered any thing that came into his mind...
    ET14 5.256 20 The English have lost sight of the fact that poetry exists to speak the spiritual law, and that no wealth of description or of fancy is yet essentially new and out of the limits of prose, until this condition is reached.
    F 6.9 18 Read the description in medical books of the four temperaments...
    CbW 6.246 19 What we have...to say of life, is rather description...than available rules.
    SA 8.93 13 Shenstone gave no bad account of this influence [of women] in his description of the French woman...
    SA 8.105 13 Now society in towns is infested by persons who, seeing that the sentiments please, counterfeit the expression of them. These we call sentimentalists,--Talkers who mistake the description for the thing...
    QO 8.203 17 ...no man suspects the superior merit of [Cook's or Henry's] description, until Chateaubriand, or Moore, or Campbell, or Byron, or the artists, arrive...
    Thor 10.471 10 [Thoreau] would not offer a memoir of his observations to the Natural History Society. Why should I? To detach the description from its connections in my mind would make it no longer true or valuable to me...
    Thor 10.482 9 I subjoin a few sentences taken from [Thoreau's] unpublished manuscripts, not only as records of his thought and feeling, but for their power of description and literary excellence...
    HDC 11.39 14 ...[the settlers of Concord] might say with Higginson, after his description of the other elements, that...all Europe is not able to afford to make so great fires as New England.
    Scot 11.464 15 Just so much thought, so much picturesque detail in dialogue or description as the old ballad required...[Scott] would keep and use...
    CL 12.143 9 ...De Quincey prefixes to this description of Wordsworth a little piece of advice...
    Milt1 12.249 26 Two of [Milton's] pieces may be excepted from this description, one for its faults, the other for its excellence.
    Milt1 12.261 10 We may even apply to [Milton's] performance on the instrument of language, his own description of music...

descriptions, n. (3)

    HDC 11.63 27 ...the [Concord] Town Records of that day [April 18, 1689] confine themselves to descriptions of lands...
    PLT 12.3 7 ...in listening to...Michael Faraday's explanation of magnetic powers, or the botanist's descriptions, one could not help admiring the irresponsible security and happiness of the attitude of the naturalist;...
    PLT 12.3 19 Could we have...the exhaustive accuracy of distribution which chemists use in their nomenclature and anatomists in their descriptions, applied to a higher class of facts;...

descriptive, adj. (3)

    ET12 5.200 16 Still more descriptive is the fact that out of twelve hundred young men [at Oxford]...a duel has never occurred.
    Boks 7.201 5 ...Plato's [delineation of Athenian manners] has merits of every kind,--being...a picture of a feast of wits, not less descriptive than Aristophanes;...
    ACri 12.292 6 Some of these [Americanisms] are odious. Some as an adverb...the adjective graphic, which means what is written...but is used as if it meant descriptive...

descry, v. (2)

    F 6.40 24 ...we have not eyes sharp enough to descry the thread that ties cause and effect.
    WD 7.168 26 Cannot memory still descry the old school-house and its porch...

Desdemona [Shakespeare, Oth (3)

    Tran 1.336 12 In the play of Othello, the expiring Desdemona absolves her husband of the murder, to her attendant Emilia.
    Tran 1.337 2 I, [Jacobi] says, am...that godless person who, in opposition to an imaginary doctrine of calculation, would lie as the dying Desdemona lied;...
    ET6 5.108 22 The sentiment of Imogen in Cymbeline is copied from English nature; and not less...the Kate Percy and the Desdemona.

desecrate, v. (1)

    Fdsp 2.210 1 Why should we desecrate noble and beautiful souls by intruding on them?

desecrated, v. (1)

    Let 12.400 13 There is nothing holy which is not desecrated...among this people [the Germans].

desecration, n. (1)

    DL 7.132 24 Does the consecration of Sunday confess the desecration of the entire week?

desert, adj. (3)

    LE 1.169 16 ...this beauty,-haggard and desert beauty, which the sun and the moon, the snow and the rain, repaint and vary, has never been recorded by art...
    MN 1.220 19 Shall we not...betake ourselves to some desert cliff of Mount Katahdin...
    CL 12.166 2 Astronomy is a cold, desert science...

Desert, Great, n. (1)

    LT 1.262 12 ...persons are the world to persons,-a cunning mystery by which the Great Desert of thoughts and of planets takes this engaging form, to bring...its meanings nearer to the mind.

desert, n. (22)

    Con 1.312 25 ...as soon as you put your gift to use, you shall have acre or acre's worth according to your exhibition of desert...
    Con 1.318 1 ...an army encamps in a desert, and...creates a white city in an hour...
    Comp 2.122 24 Material good...if it came without desert or sweat, has no root in me...
    SL 2.159 17 A man may play the fool in the drifts of a desert, but every grain of sand shall seem to see.
    Exp 3.72 1 I clap my hands in infantine joy and amazement before the first opening to me of this august magnificence...the sunbright Mecca of the desert.
    Chr1 3.115 10 Is there any religion but this, to know that wherever in the wide desert of being the holy sentiment we cherish has opened into a flower, it blooms for me?...
    PNR 4.89 16 It was a high scheme, his absolute privilege for the best...as the premium which [Plato] would set on grandeur. There shall be exempts of two kinds:...secondly, those who by eminence of nature and desert are out of reach of your rewards.
    SwM 4.123 7 [Swedenborg's theological writings'] immense and sandy diffuseness is like the prairie or the desert...
    Wth 6.94 23 To be rich is...to visit the mountains, Niagara, the Nile, the desert, Rome, Paris, Constantinople;...
    SS 7.9 24 Such is the tragic necessity which strict science finds underneath our domestic and neighborly life, irresistibly driving each adult soul as with whips into the desert...
    Civ 7.17 20 Now speed the gay celerities of art,/ What in the desert was impossible/ Within four walls is possible again/...
    WD 7.160 16 What of the grand tools with which we engineer, like kobolds and enchanters...piercing the Arabian desert?
    Boks 7.219 22 [The communications of the sacred books]...are living characters translatable into every tongue and form of life. I read them on lichens and bark;...I detect them in laughter and blushes and eye-sparkles of men and women. These are Scriptures which the missionary might well carry over prairie, desert and ocean...
    Suc 7.308 11 I fear the popular notion of success stands in direct opposition in all points to the real and wholesome success. One adores public opinion, the other private opinion; one fame, the other desert;...
    PPo 8.238 16 ...the desert, the simoon, the mirage, the lion and the plague endanger [subsistence in the East]...
    PPo 8.239 16 Layard has given some details of the effect which the improvvisatori produced on the children of the desert.
    PPo 8.254 28 The muleteers and camel-drivers, on their way through the desert, sing snatches of [Hafiz's] songs...
    Prch 10.223 20 I find myself always struck and stimulated by a good anecdote, any trait...of faithful service. I do not find that the age or country makes the least difference; no, nor the language the actors spoke, nor the religion which they professed, whether Arab in the desert, or Frenchman in the Academy.
    II 12.76 13 That is the quality of [the moral sense], that it commands, and is not commanded. And rarely, and suddenly, and without desert, we are let into the serene upper air.
    Mem 12.94 21 Late in life we live by memory, and in our solstices or periods of stagnation; as the starved camel in the desert lives on his humps.
    CL 12.159 14 ...it was the practice...of the Persians, to let insane persons wander at their own will out of the towns, into the desert...
    ACri 12.295 20 ...if the English island had been larger and the Straits of Dover wider...they might have managed to feed on Shakspeare for some ages yet; as the camel in the desert is fed by his humps...

Desert of Sahara, n. (1)

    LLNE 10.349 21 The Desert of Sahara, the Campagna di Roma...accuse man.

Desert, Sahara, n. (1)

    Bost 12.183 17 There is the climate of the Sahara: a climate where the sunbeams are vertical;...

desert, v. (7)

    Nat 1.62 4 ...when we try to define and describe [God], both language and thought desert us...
    LE 1.166 2 ...the moment [men] desert the tradition for a spontaneous thought, then poetry, wit, hope...all flock to their aid.
    ET15 5.271 1 ...when [the editors of the London Times] see that [authors of each liberal movement] have established their fact...they strike in with the voice of a monarch, astonish those whom they succor as much as those whom they desert...
    Wth 6.111 25 The rabble are corrupted by their means; the means are too strong for them, and they desert their end.
    Cour 7.271 20 If opportunity allowed, [Governor Wise and John Brown] would...desert their former companions.
    Elo2 8.124 10 ...in your struggles with the world, should a crisis ever occur when even friendship may deem it prudent to desert you...seek refuge...in the precepts and example of Him whose law is love...
    Edc1 10.132 18 Day creeps after day, each full of facts...that we cannot enough despise,-call heavy, prosaic and desert.

deserted, adj. (1)

    CL 12.146 10 In old towns there are always certain paradises known to the pedestrian, old and deserted farms...

deserted, v. (6)

    MoS 4.184 21 Each man woke in the morning with...a spirit for action and passion without bounds...but, on the first motion to prove his strength,-- hands, feet, senses, gave way and would not serve him. He was an emperor deserted by his states...
    NMW 4.257 25 ...when men saw...after the destruction of armies, new conscriptions...they deserted [Napoleon].
    Elo1 7.94 8 ...[people] soon begin to ask, What is [the speaker] driving at? and if this man does not stand for anything, he will be deserted.
    Elo2 8.123 15 When, on his return from Washington, [John Quincy Adams] resumed his lectures in Cambridge...many of his political friends deserted him.
    MoL 10.253 15 Bonaparte himself deserted [the Egpytian campaign]...
    CInt 12.116 19 These are giddy times, and, you say, the college will be deserted.

Deserted Village [Oliver G (1)

    PI 8.43 12 I have heard that the Germans think...that Goldsmith's title to the name [of poet] is not from his Deserted Village...

deserter, n. (1)

    HDC 11.60 25 ...his brother, his uncle, his sister, and his beloved squaw being taken or slain, [King Philip] was at last shot down by an Indian deserter...

deserters, n. (1)

    LVB 11.91 16 Almost the entire Cherokee Nation stand up and say, This is not our act. Behold us. Here are we. Do not mistake that handful of deserters for us;...

desertion, n. (1)

    SL 2.164 13 It is a pusillanimous desertion of our work to gaze after our neighbors.

deserts, n. (15)

    LE 1.186 20 Why should you renounce your right to traverse the star-lit deserts of truth...
    Tran 1.357 26 Let [the Transcendentalist] obey the Genius...then most when he seems to lead to uninhabitable deserts of thought and life;...
    Comp 2.92 7 Laurel crowns cleave to deserts/...
    Comp 2.122 7 ...in a virtuous act I add to the world; I plant into deserts conquered from Chaos and Nothing...
    Mrs1 3.119 21 In the deserts of Borgoo the rock-Tibboos still dwell in caves...
    Nat2 3.176 12 The stars at night stoop down over the brownest, homeliest common with all the spiritual magnificence which they shed...on the marble deserts of Egypt.
    Bty 6.301 4 If a man...can irrigate deserts...'t is no matter whether his nose is parallel to his spine...
    OA 7.327 9 Every faculty new to each man thus...drives him out into doleful deserts until it finds proper vent.
    PI 8.51 21 The traveller as he paceth through those deserts asketh of [Oblivion], who builded [Memphis and Thebes]?...
    Res 8.141 19 ...we have seen the snowy deserts on the northwest, seats of Esquimaux, become lands of promise.
    PPo 8.258 26 Wisdom is like the elephant,/ Lofty and rare inhabitant:/ He dwells in deserts or in courts;/ With hucksters he has no resorts./
    Edc1 10.145 14 Happy this child...with a thought which...leads him, now into deserts, now into cities, the fool of an idea.
    MMEm 10.404 9 [Mary Moody Emerson] writes to her nephew Charles Emerson, in 1833... If I had been in aught but dreary deserts, I should have idolized my friends, despised the world and been haughty.
    MMEm 10.427 1 Never do the feelings of the Infinite and the consciousness of finite frailty and ignorance harmonize so well as at this mystic season in the deserts of life.
    EWI 11.145 14 The civility of the world has reached that pitch that...the quality of this [black] race is to be honored for itself. For this, they have been preserved in sandy deserts...

deserts, v. (5)

    SR 2.47 10 A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace. It is a deliverance which does not deliver. In the attempt his genius deserts him;...
    ET17 5.295 24 I said, if Plato's Republic were published in England as a new book to-day, do you think it would find any readers?--[Wordsworth] confessed it would not: and yet, he added after a pause, with that complacency which never deserts a true-born Englishman, and yet we have embodied it all.
    Bty 6.303 6 [Beauty] instantly deserts possession, and flies to an object in the horizon.
    Clbs 7.246 7 The girl deserts the parlor for the kitchen;...
    FSLN 11.221 1 There are those...who have power and inspiration only to do ill. Their talent or their faculty deserts them when they undertake anything right.

deserve, v. (19)

    LE 1.178 13 Believing, as in God, in the presence and favor of the grandest influences, let [the scholar] deserve that favor...
    MR 1.227 23 ...we ought to seek to establish ourselves in such disciplines and courses as will deserve that guidance and clearer communication with the spiritual nature.
    Con 1.296 5 There is a fragment of old fable...which may deserve attention...
    Tran 1.348 16 Deserve thy genius: exalt it.
    Tran 1.357 20 ...all these [Transcendentalists] of whom I speak...are novices;... Yet let them feel the dignity of their charge, and deserve a larger power.
    SR 2.73 11 If you cannot [love me for what I am], I will still seek to deserve that you should.
    SL 2.151 7 The scholar...apes the customs and costumes of the man of the world to deserve the smile of beauty...
    SL 2.154 10 Only those books come down which deserve to last.
    Chr1 3.109 4 We require that a man should be so large and columnar in the landscape, that it should deserve to be recorded that he arose, and girded up his loins, and departed to such a place.
    NMW 4.243 22 ...[Napoleon] said to one of his oldest friends, Men deserve the contempt with which they inspire me.
    ET15 5.272 1 I wish I could add that this journal [the London Times] aspired to deserve the power it wields...
    Elo1 7.85 5 The several talents which the orator employs...deserve a special enumeration.
    Dem1 10.3 4 The name Demonology covers dreams, omens, coincidences, luck, sortilege, magic and other experiences which...deserve notice chiefly because every man has usually in a lifetime two or three hints in this kind which are specially impressive to him.
    Dem1 10.24 2 Coincidences, dreams, animal magnetism, omens, sacred lots, have great interest for some minds. They run into this twilight and say, There 's more than is dreamed of in your philosophy. Certainly these facts... deserve to be considered.
    SMC 11.374 26 Those who went through those dreadful fields [of the Civil War] and returned not deserve much more than all the honor we can pay.
    SHC 11.428 23 ...Forget man's littleness, deserve the best,/ God's mercy in thy thought and life confest./ William Ellery Channing.
    FRO2 11.485 1 Friends: I wish I could deserve anything of the kind expression of my friend, the President [of the Free Religious Association], and the kind good will which the audience signifies...
    MLit 12.322 1 With the name of Wordsworth rises to our recollection the name of his contemporary and friend, Walter Savage Landor,-a man... whose genius and accomplishments deserve a wiser criticism than we have yet seen applied to them...
    Pray 12.355 20 I know that thou wilt deal with me as I deserve.

deserved, v. (10)

    Con 1.325 23 ...if they could give their verdict, [mankind] would say that [the intemperate and covetous person's] self-indulgence and his oppression deserved punishment from society...
    MoS 4.165 14 There is no man, in [Montaigne's] opinion, who has not deserved hanging five or six times;...
    ET9 5.152 10 When Julian came, A. D. 361, George [of Cappadocia] was dragged to prison; the prison was burst open by the mob and George was lynched, as he deserved.
    PI 8.53 11 ...Ben Jonson said that Donne, for not keeping of accent, deserved hanging.
    LLNE 10.340 14 Dr. Channing took counsel in 1840 with George Ripley, to the point whether it were possible to bring cultivated, thoughtful people together, and make society that deserved the name.
    MMEm 10.421 11 Alone, feeling strongly, fully, that I [Mary Moody Emerson] have deserved nothing;...
    HDC 11.83 26 For the most part, the town [Concord] has deserved the name it wears.
    Wom 11.407 21 Mrs. Lucy Hutchinson...who wrote the life of her husband...says, If he esteemed her at a higher rate than she in herself could have deserved, he was the author of that virtue he doted on...
    Milt1 12.267 14 ...Milton deserved the apostrophe of Wordsworth;-Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free,/ So didst thou travel on life's common way/ In cheerful godliness;.../
    AgMs 12.364 5 ...so much wisdom seemed to lie under all [Edmund Hosmer's] statement that it deserved a record.

deservedly, adv. (1)

    FSLN 11.220 11 I saw that a great man [Webster], deservedly admired for his powers and their general right direction, was able...when he failed...to carry parties with him.

deserves, v. (14)

    LT 1.259 23 Everything that is popular...deserves the attention of the philosopher...
    Hsm1 2.248 7 In the Harleian Miscellanies there is an account of the battle of Lutzen which deserves to be read.
    NER 3.262 19 No man deserves to be heard against property.
    SwM 4.105 20 [Swedenborg] named his favorite views the doctrine of Forms, the doctrine of Series and Degrees, the doctrine of Influx, the doctrine of Correspondence. His statement of these doctrines deserves to be studied in his books.
    NMW 4.227 18 Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France.
    NMW 4.256 7 ...[Napoleon] fully deserves the epithet of Jupiter Scapin, or a sort of Scamp Jupiter.
    ET11 5.186 12 [English nobility's] good behavior deserves all its fame...
    OA 7.320 27 ...he who has accomplished something in any department alone deserves to be heard on that subject.
    Res 8.150 27 I do not know that the treatise of Brillat-Savarin on the Physiology of Taste deserves its fame.
    Imtl 8.323 23 ...we are as ignorant of the state which preceded our present existence as of that which will follow it. Things being so, I feel that if this new faith can give us more certainty, it deserves to be received.
    Dem1 10.5 26 In sleep one shall travel certain roads...or shall walk alone in familiar fields and meadows, which road or which meadow in waking hours he never looked upon. This feature of dreams deserves the more attention from its singular resemblance to that obscure yet startling experience which almost every person confesses in daylight...
    Supl 10.171 9 ...the [agricultural] discourse, to say the truth, was bad; and one of our village fathers gave at the dinner this toast: The orator of the day: his subject deserves the attention of every farmer.
    MMEm 10.430 20 Those economists (Adam Smith) who say...that, whatever disposition of virtue may exist, unless something is done for society, deserves no fame,-why, I [Mary Moody Emerson] am content with such paradoxical kind of facts;...
    Pray 12.351 1 The prayer of Jesus is (as it deserves) become a form for the human race.

deserving, adj. (2)

    Bhr 6.196 27 The oldest and the most deserving person should come very modestly into any newly awaked company...
    JBB 11.270 5 It were bold to affirm that there is within that broad commonwealth, at this moment, another citizen as worthy to live, and as deserving of all public and private honor, as this poor prisoner [John Brown].

deserving, v. (5)

    Wsp 6.239 12 Higher than the question of our duration is the question of our deserving.
    WD 7.184 7 There are people...who in their consciousness of deserving success constantly slight the ordinary means of attaining it;...
    Aris 10.58 26 In his consciousness of deserving success, the caliph Ali constantly neglected the ordinary means of attaining it...
    CInt 12.121 1 Need enough there is of such a band of priests of intellect and knowledge; and great is the office, and well deserving and well paying the last sacrifices and the highest ability.
    Trag 12.412 8 The Egyptian sphinxes...have countenances expressive of complacency and repose, an expression of health, deserving their longevity...

design, n. (80)

    Nat 1.4 6 ...nature is already, in its forms and tendencies, describing its own design.
    Nat 1.7 9 One might think the atmosphere was made transparent with this design, to give man...the perpetual presence of the sublime.
    Nat 1.31 20 The poet...bred in the woods...without design and without heed, - shall not lose their lesson altogether...
    Nat 1.58 6 [Religion and Ethics] are one to our present design.
    AmS 1.112 2 ...one design unites and animates the farthest pinnacle and the lowest trench.
    YA 1.371 27 [Destiny] is not discovered in [men's] calculated and voluntary activity, but in what befalls, with or without their design.
    YA 1.382 10 The science is confident, and surely the poverty is real. If any means could be found to bring these two together! This was one design of the projectors of the Associations which are now making their first feeble experiments.
    Hist 2.34 2 ...[Goethe's Helena]...awakens the reader's invention and fancy by the wild freedom of the design...
    SR 2.61 9 Every true man...requires infinite spaces and numbers and time fully to accomplish his design;...
    Exp 3.68 26 ...for practical success, there must not be too much design.
    Pol1 3.197 17 When the Muses nine/ With the Virtues meet,/ Find to their design/ An Atlantic seat,/ By green orchard boughs/ Fended from the heat,/ Where the statesman ploughs/ Furrow for the wheat;/ .../ Then the perfect State is come,/ The republican at home./
    Pol1 3.221 4 ...there never was in any man sufficient faith in the power of rectitude to inspire him with the broad design of renovating the State on the principle of right and love.
    Pol1 3.221 6 ...there never was in any man sufficient faith in the power of rectitude to inspire him with the broad design of renovating the State on the principle of right and love. All those who have pretended this design have been partial reformers...
    NER 3.279 10 The reason why any one refuses...his aid to your benevolent design, is in you...
    NER 3.283 17 [The Law] rewards actions after their nature, and not after the design of the agent.
    SwM 4.120 22 This design of exhibiting such correpondences [between heaven and earth]...was narrowed and defeated by the exclusively theologic direction which [Swedenborg's] inquiries took.
    MoS 4.150 25 The genius is a genius by the first look he casts on any object. Is his eye creative? Does he not rest in angles and colors, but beholds the design?--he will presently undervalue the actual object.
    MoS 4.182 18 I believe, [the spiritualist] says, in the moral design of the universe;...
    ShP 4.196 12 If [Shakespeare] lost any credit of design, he augmented his resources;...
    NMW 4.254 16 To make a great noise is [Napoleon's] favorite design.
    GoW 4.277 14 I have no design to enter into any analysis of [Goethe's] numerous works.
    ET1 5.5 27 [Greenough] believed that the Greeks had wrought in schools or fraternities,--the genius of the master imparting his design to his friends...
    ET3 5.42 24 ...there is such an artificial completeness in this nation of artificers [England] as if there were a design from the beginning to elaborate a bigger Birmingham.
    ET7 5.126 6 Defoe, who knew his countrymen well, says of them,--In close intrigue, their faculty's but weak,/ For generally whate'er they know, they speak,/ And often their own counsels undermine/ By mere infirmity without design;/...
    ET13 5.219 10 The [English] universities also are parcel of the ecclesiastical system, and their first design is to form the clergy.
    ET14 5.256 17 Where is great design in modern English poetry?
    ET16 5.280 11 We [Emerson and Carlyle] left the mound [Stonehenge] in the twilight, with the design to return the next morning...
    ET16 5.281 16 ...was [Stonehenge]...identical in design and style with the East Indian temples of the sun...
    F 6.27 8 He who sees through the design, presides over it...
    F 6.46 19 Wonderful intricacy in the web, wonderful constancy in the design this vagabond life admits.
    Wth 6.93 11 Men of sense esteem wealth to be...the converting of the sap and juices of the planet to the incarnation and nutriment of their design.
    Wth 6.93 12 Power is what [men of sense] want...power to execute their design, power to give legs and feet...to their thought;...
    Wth 6.112 19 The crime which bankrupts men and states is...declining from your main design, to serve a turn here or there.
    Wth 6.124 22 I have not at all completed my design.
    Bty 6.294 26 In all design, art lies in making your object prominent...
    Bty 6.296 3 The felicities of design in art or in works of nature are shadows or forerunners of that beauty which reaches its perfection in the human form.
    Suc 7.294 4 Is there no loving...of our design, for itself alone?
    Suc 7.294 15 If the artist, in whatever art, is well at work on his own design, it signifies little that he does not yet find orders or customers.
    PI 8.20 14 The very design of imagination is to domesticate us in another, in a celestial nature.
    PI 8.33 18 Great design belongs to a poem...
    PI 8.33 22 We want design...
    Res 8.148 26 See the dexterity of the good aunt in keeping the young people all the weary holiday busy and diverted without knowing it...the pop-corn, and Christmas hemlock spurting in the fire. The children never suspect how much design goes to it...
    QO 8.179 22 ...the dearth of design accuses the penury of intellect.
    QO 8.196 26 ...it is not rare to find...people who copy drawings with admirable skill, but are incapable of any design.
    Imtl 8.339 3 Most men...promise by their countenance and conversation and by their early endeavor much more than they ever perform,- suggesting a design still to be carried out;...
    Chr2 10.122 3 [A well-principled man] defends himself against failure in his main design by making every inch of the road to it pleasant.
    Edc1 10.131 26 ...[man] is to be the stalwart...Newton, of the physic, metaphysic and ethics of the design of the world.
    Edc1 10.152 8 Try your design on the best school.
    SovE 10.183 18 That convertibility we so admire in plants and animal structures, whereby the repairs and ulterior uses are subserved, when one part is wounded or deficient, by another; this self-help and self-creation proceed from the same original power which works remotely in grandest and meanest structures by the same design...
    Prch 10.224 3 The health and welfare of man consist in ascent...from occupation with details to knowledge of the design;...
    MoL 10.255 27 We should see in [the work of art] the great belief of the artist, which caused him to make it so as he did, and not otherwise;... somewhat that must be done then and there by him; he could not take his neck out of that yoke, and save his soul. And this design must shine through the whole performance.
    Plu 10.303 26 ...in reading [Plutarch], I embrace the particulars, and carry a faint memory of the argument or general design of the chapter;...
    LLNE 10.340 17 [Channing] had earlier talked with Dr. John Collins Warren on the like purpose [of bringing thoughtful people together], who admitted the wisdom of the design and undertook to aid him in making the experiment.
    LLNE 10.342 17 I think there prevailed at that time a general belief in Boston that there was some concert of doctrinaires to...inaugurate some movement in literature, philosophy and religion, of which design the supposed conspirators were quite innocent;...
    LLNE 10.353 6 Could not the conceiver of [Fourier's] design have also believed that a similar model lay in every mind...
    MMEm 10.398 10 They whom [Lucy Percy] is pleased to choose are such as are of the most eminent condition both for power and employment,-not with any design towards her own particular...
    LS 11.20 8 ...any act or meeting which tends to awaken a pure thought, a flow of love, an original design of virtue, I call a worthy, a true commemoration [of Jesus].
    HDC 11.43 9 ...when, presently, the design of the [Massachusetts Bay] colony began to fulfil itself, by the settlement of new plantations in the vicinity of Boston...the Governor and freemen in Boston found it neither desirable nor possible to control the trade and practices of these farmers.
    HDC 11.50 14 ...this design [the conversion of the Indians] is named first in the printed Considerations, that inclined Hampden, and determined Winthrop and his friends, to come hither [to New England].
    HDC 11.69 11 ...the British parliament have empowered the East India Company to export their tea into America, for the sole purpose of raising a revenue from hence; to render the design abortive, we will not, in this town [Concord]...buy, sell, or use any of the East India Company's tea...
    War 11.155 17 ...the appearance of the other instincts [than self-help] immediately modifies and controls this; turns its energies into harmless, useful and high courses, showing thereby what was its ultimate design;...
    FSLC 11.197 6 New York advertised in Southern markets that it would go for slavery, and posted the names of merchants who would not. Boston, alarmed, entered into the same design.
    FSLC 11.208 3 Everything invites emancipation. The grandeur of the design, the vast stake we hold;...all join to demand it.
    EPro 11.317 1 The extreme moderation with which the President [Lincoln] advanced to his design,-his long-avowed expectant policy...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.
    SHC 11.434 3 ...[Sleepy Hollow] was inevitably chosen by [the people of Concord] when the design of a new cemetery was broached...
    SHC 11.434 5 ...[Sleepy Hollow] was inevitably chosen by [the people of Concord] when the design of a new cemetery was broached, if it did not suggest the design, as the fit place for their final repose.
    SHC 11.434 8 In all the multitudes of woodlands and hillsides, which within a few years have been laid out with a similar design [as a cemetery], I have not known one so fitly named. Sleepy Hollow.
    FRO2 11.485 6 ...quite against my design and my will, I shall have to request the attention of the audience to a few written remarks...
    FRO2 11.486 8 ...we find parity, identity of design, through Nature...
    PLT 12.20 5 This methodizing mind meets no resistance in its attempts. The scattered blocks, with which it strives to form a symmetrical structure, fit. This design following after finds with joy that like design went before.
    PLT 12.20 6 This methodizing mind meets no resistance in its attempts. The scattered blocks, with which it strives to form a symmetrical structure, fit. This design following after finds with joy that like design went before.
    PLT 12.21 8 We hold [thoughts] as lanterns to light each other and our present design.
    MAng1 12.221 19 Those who have never given attention to the arts of design are surprised that the artist should find so much to study in a fabric of such limited parts and dimensions as the human body.
    MAng1 12.224 13 On the 24th of October, 1529, the Prince of Orange, general of Charles V., encamped on the hills surrounding the city [Florence], and his first operation was to throw up a rampart to storm the bastion of San Miniato. His design was frustrated by the providence of Michael Angelo.
    MAng1 12.229 6 It does not fall within our design to give an account of [Michelangelo's] works...
    MAng1 12.230 14 Every one of these pieces [in the Sistine Chapel ceiling]...is a study of anatomy and design.
    MAng1 12.235 19 [Michelangelo] required...that he should be absolute master of the whole design [of St. Peter's]...
    MAng1 12.239 10 [Michelangelo] said of his predecessor, the architect Bramante, that he laid the first stone of Saint Peter's...with fit design for a vast structure.
    Milt1 12.250 15 To insult Salmasius, not to acquit England, is the main design [of Milton's Defence of the English People].
    MLit 12.327 2 It is all design with [Goethe]...

Design, n. (1)

    Wth 6.98 14 There is a refining influence from the arts of Design on a prepared mind which is as positive as that of music...

Design, School of, n. (1)

    ACri 12.304 20 The Augsburg Allgemeine Zeitung deprecates an observatory founded for the benefit of navigation. Nor can we promise that our School of Design will secure a lucrative post to the pupils.

design, v. (7)

    YA 1.379 6 We design it thus and thus; it turns out otherwise and far better.
    Int 2.337 24 ...the mystic pencil wherewith we...draw [in unconscious states]...can design well and group well;...
    Exp 3.69 22 The persons who compose our company...design and execute many things, and somewhat comes of it all, but an unlooked-for result.
    Art2 7.47 13 We fear that Allston and Greenough did not foresee and design all the effect they produce on us.
    DL 7.128 25 A verse of the old Greek Menander remains, which runs in translation:--Not on the store of sprightly wine,/ Nor plenty of delicious meats,/ Though generous Nature did design/ To court us with perpetual treats,--/ 'T is not on these we for content depend,/ So much as on the shadow of a Friend./
    LS 11.8 3 ...many opinions may be entertained of [Jesus's] intention, all consistent with the opinion that he did not design a perpetual ordinance [in the Lord's Supper].
    MLit 12.333 10 When one of these grand monads is incarnated whom Nature seems to design for eternal men and draw to her bosom, we think that the old weariness of Europe and Asia, the trivial forms of daily life will now end...

designate, v. (5)

    Int 2.334 25 In the intellect constructive, which we popularly designate by the word Genius, we observe the same balance of two elements as in intellect receptive.
    ET11 5.173 27 [The English people] are proud...of the language and symbol of chivalry. Even the word lord is the luckiest style that is used in any language to designate a patrician.
    ET18 5.304 25 The English designate the kingdoms emulous of free institutions, as the sentimental nations.
    Boks 7.208 22 There is a class [of books] whose value I should designate as Favorites...
    MLit 12.311 25 If we should designate favorite studies in which the age delights more than in the rest of this great mass of the permanent literature of the human race, one or two instances would be conspicuous.

designated, v. (1)

    ET1 5.8 17 [Landor]...designated as three of the greatest of men, Washington, Phocion and Timoleon...

designates, v. (1)

    Mrs1 3.121 8 ...the steady interest of mankind in [the name gentleman] must be attributed to the valuable properties which it designates.

designed, adj. (1)

    AmS 1.99 19 Those...who dwell and act with him, will feel the force of [the great soul's] constitution in the doings and passages of the day better than it can be measured by any public and designed display.

designed, v. (17)

    Nat 1.67 27 The American who has been confined...to the sight of buildings designed after foreign models, is surprised on entering York Minster or St. Peter's at Rome, by the feeling that these structures are...faint copies of an invisible archetype.
    MN 1.219 19 [The Puritans' motive for settlement] is to be seen in what they were, and not in what they designed;...
    Exp 3.69 24 [The individual] designed many things, and drew in other persons as coadjutors, quarreled with some or all, blundered much, and something is done;...
    Nat2 3.194 9 ...it also appears that our actions are seconded and disposed to greater conclusions than we designed.
    SwM 4.143 25 Was [Swedenborg] like Saadi, who, in his vision, designed to fill his lap with the celestial flowers, as presents for his friends;...
    ET3 5.40 20 I have seen a kratometric chart designed to show that the city of Philadelphia was in the same thermic belt, and by inference in the same belt of empire, as the cities of Athens, Rome and London.
    Art2 7.41 5 Smeaton built Eddystone Lighthouse on the model of an oak-tree, as being the form in Nature best designed to resist a constant assailing force.
    Supl 10.167 24 [People of English stock's] houses are...not designed to reel in earthquakes...
    Plu 10.305 4 The paths of life are large, but few are men directed by the Daemons. When Theanor had said this, he looked attentively on Epaminondas, as if he designed a fresh search into his nature and inclinations.
    MMEm 10.408 23 [Mary Moody Emerson] writes...My oddities were never designed...
    LS 11.11 15 I ask any person who believes the [Lord's] Supper to have been designed by Jesus to be commemorated forever, to go and read the account of it in the other Gospels...
    LS 11.15 23 ...it does not appear from a careful examination of the account of the Last Supper in the Evangelists, that it was designed by Jesus to be perpetual;...
    LS 11.16 16 But it is said: Admit that the rite [the Lord's Supper] was not designed to be perpetual. What harm doth it?
    PLT 12.22 9 ...a mollusk is a cheap edition [of man]...designed for dingy circulation...
    MAng1 12.229 15 [Michelangelo's Moses]...is designed to embody the Hebrew Law.
    Milt1 12.248 25 ...as writings designed to gain a practical point, [Milton's tracts] fail.
    ACri 12.303 4 I designed to speak of one point more, the touching a principal question in criticism in recent times-the Classic and Romantic, or what is classic?

designedly, adv. (1)

    SwM 4.103 17 Our books are false by being fragmentary: their sentences are...childish expressions of surprise or pleasure in nature; or, worse, owing a brief notoriety to their petulance, or aversion from the order of nature;-- being some curiosity or oddity, designedly not in harmony with nature...

designer, n. (1)

    MAng1 12.230 17 ...[Michelangelo] aimed exclusively [in the Sistine Chapel ceiling frescoes], as a stern designer, to express the vigor and magnificence of his conceptions.

designers, n. (1)

    FRep 11.511 14 The manufacturers rely on turbines of hydraulic perfection;...the calico print, on designers of genius...

designing, adj. (1)

    MR 1.253 10 We complain that the politics of masses of the people are controlled by designing men...

designs, n. (23)

    YA 1.371 19 ...[America] is a country...of designs...
    YA 1.395 9 If only the men are employed in conspiring with the designs of the Spirit who led us hither and is leading us still, we shall quickly enough advance out of all hearing of others' censures...
    Comp 2.124 11 ...my brother is my guardian, acting for me with the friendliest designs...
    Lov1 2.187 13 [Lovers]...exchange the passion which once could not lose sight of its object, for a cheerful disengaged furtherance, whether present or absent, of each other's designs.
    Int 2.335 1 The constructive intellect produces thoughts, sentences, poems, plans, designs, systems.
    Pol1 3.221 11 I do not call to mind a single human being who has steadily denied the authority of the laws, on the simple ground of his own moral nature. Such designs...are not entertained except avowedly as air-pictures.
    ET14 5.256 24 ...the grave old [English] poets...heeded their designs, and less considered the finish.
    Wsp 6.234 17 [Benedict] had no designs on the future...
    Wsp 6.239 18 [Immortality] must be proved, if at all, from our own activity and designs...
    CbW 6.255 16 I do not think very respectfully of the designs or the doings of the people who went to California in 1849.
    Elo1 7.91 18 ...we...might well go round the world, to see...a man who, in prosecuting great designs, has an absolute command of the means of representing his ideas...
    OA 7.331 21 It must be believed that there is a proportion between the designs of a man and the length of his life...
    Imtl 8.334 4 After science begins, belief of permanence must follow in a healthy mind. Things so attractive, designs so wise...and the contriver of it all forever hidden!
    Aris 10.55 8 He is beautiful in face, in port, in manners, who is absorbed in objects which he truly believes to be superior to himself. Is there...any cosmetic or any blood that can obtain homage like that security of air presupposing so undoubtingly the sympathy of men in his designs?
    Aris 10.61 14 Give up, once for all, the hope of approbation from the people in the street, if you are pursuing great ends. How can they guess your designs?
    ACiv 11.300 15 If the war brought any surprise to the North, it was not the fault of sentinels on the watch-tower, who had furnished full details of the designs, the muster and the means of the enemy.
    MAng1 12.221 7 Most of [Michelangelo's] designs, his contemporaries inform us, were made with a pen...
    MAng1 12.223 24 Nor was [Michelangelo's] a skill in ornament, or confined to the outline and designs of towers and facades...
    MAng1 12.228 13 I have found, says [Michelangelo's] friend, some of his designs in Florence, where, whilst may be seen the greatness of his genius, it may also be known that when he wished to take Minerva from the head of Jove, there needed the hammer of Vulcan.
    MAng1 12.230 21 Of [Michelangelo's] designs, the most celebrated is the cartoon representing soldiers coming out of the bath and arming themselves;...
    MAng1 12.231 15 ...is there not something affecting in the spectacle of an old man [Michelangelo], on the verge of ninety years...only hindered by the limits of life from fulfilling his designs?
    MAng1 12.233 3 A little before he died, [Michelangelo] burned a great number of designs, sketches and cartoons made by him...
    Pray 12.354 19 That my weak hand may equal my firm faith,/ And my life practise more than my tongue saith;/ That my low conduct may not show,/ Nor my relenting lines,/ That I thy purpose did not know,/ Or overrated thy designs./

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