Devour to Dimensions

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

devour, v. (1)

    Pt1 3.23 26 The songs...are pursued by clamorous flights of censures, which swarm in far greater numbers and threaten to devour them;...

devoured, v. (4)

    NER 3.269 5 Is it strange that society should be devoured by a secret melancholy...
    ET11 5.183 18 I was surprised to observe the very small attendance usually in the House of Lords. Out of five hundred and seventy-three peers, on ordinary days only twenty or thirty. Where are they? I asked. At home on their estates, devoured by ennui...
    Res 8.138 6 A philosophy...which says...life is eating us up, 't is only question who shall be last devoured,--dispirits us;...
    FSLN 11.231 7 [Reasonably men] answered...that they knew Cuba would be had, and Mexico would be had, and they stood...as near to monarchy as they could, only to moderate the velocity with which the car was running down the precipice. In short, their theory was despair; the Whig wisdom was only...a waiting to be last devoured.

devouring, adj. (5)

    F 6.36 11 The whole circle of animal life...devouring war...pleases at a sufficient perspective.
    Suc 7.286 1 Hippocrates in Greece knew how to stay the devouring plague which ravaged Athens in his time...
    PI 8.18 19 ...I see that a devouring unity changes all into that which changes not.
    HDC 11.67 21 The planting of the [Massachusetts Bay] colony was the effect of religious principle. The Revolution was the fruit of another principle,-the devouring thirst for justice.
    SMC 11.359 4 The older among us can well remember [George Prescott]... not a trace of fierceness, much less...of the devouring thirst for excitement;...

devouring, v. (1)

    Bhr 6.180 24 There are eyes...that give no more admission into the man than blueberries. Others are liquid and deep...others are aggressive and devouring...

devout, adj. (21)

    Nat 1.61 16 The aspect of Nature is devout.
    Nat 1.66 11 ...the best read naturalist who lends an entire and devout attention to truth, will see that there remains much to learn of his relation to the world...
    Nat 1.74 7 ...thought is devout, and devotion is thought.
    DSA 1.126 13 This [moral] thought dwelled always deepest in the minds of men in the devout and contemplative East;...
    DSA 1.143 5 I have heard a devout person...say...On Sundays, it seems wicked to go to church.
    Con 1.321 22 ...men are misled into a reliance on institutions, which, the moment they cease to be the instantaneous creations of the devout sentiment, are worthless.
    SR 2.57 12 ...when the devout motions of the soul come, yield to them heart and life...
    Fdsp 2.194 1 I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends...
    Wsp 6.207 1 The religion of the early English poets is anomalous, so devout and so blasphemous, in the same breath.
    Wsp 6.227 19 There was a wise, devout man who is called in the Catholic Church, St. Philip Neri...
    Elo1 7.83 24 I have heard it reported of an eloquent preacher...that, on occasions of death or tragic disaster which overspread the congregation with gloom, he...turning to his favorite lessons of devout and jubilant thankfulness...carried audience, mourners and mourning along with him...
    PI 8.10 4 The poet who plays with [the law of correspondence] with most boldness...is most profound and most devout.
    Dem1 10.12 23 In the hands of poets, of devout and simple minds, nothing in the line of [the occult sciences'] character and genius would surprise us.
    Chr2 10.96 26 Devout men...have used different images to suggest this latent [moral] force;...
    Edc1 10.136 2 ...if [the moral nature] monopolize the man...he does not yet know his wealth. He is in danger of becoming merely devout...
    SovE 10.203 16 Far be it from me to underrate the men or the churches that have...organized [men's] devout impulses or oracles into good institutions.
    EzRy 10.395 4 ...devout, but with an extreme love of order, [Ezra Ripley] adopted heartily...the creed and catechism of the fathers...
    Thor 10.463 18 [Thoreau] said...Nature knows very well what sounds are worth attending to, and has made up her mind not to hear the railroad-whistle. But things respect the devout mind, and a mental ecstasy was never interrupted.
    Milt1 12.262 15 ...as basis or fountain of his rare physical and intellectual accomplishments, the man Milton was just and devout.
    Milt1 12.273 9 The most devout man of his time, [Milton] frequented no church;...
    Pray 12.350 18 ...there are scattered about in the earth a few records of these devout hours [of prayer]...

devout, n. (1)

    DSA 1.139 27 ...this docility is a check upon the mischief from the good and devout.

devoutly, adv. (1)

    Fdsp 2.210 25 Let [your friend] be to thee for ever a sort of beautiful enemy, untamable, devoutly revered...

dew, n. (8)

    LE 1.159 16 The sense of spiritual independence is like the lovely varnish of the dew...
    Comp 2.101 19 The world globes itself in a drop of dew.
    MoS 4.184 12 ...to each man is administered a single drop, a bead of dew of vital power, per day...
    Clbs 7.224 2 Too long shut in strait and few,/ Thinly dieted on dew,/ I will use the world, and sift it,/ To a thousand humors shift it./
    PC 8.224 26 How cunningly [Nature] hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable aniquity under roses and violets and morning dew!
    Insp 8.282 20 ...in this poem [The Flower] [Herbert] says:-And now in age I bud again,/ After so many deaths I live and write;/ I once more smell the dew and rain,/ And relish versing/...
    PerF 10.68 4 No ray is dimmed, no atom worn,/ My oldest force is good as new,/ And the fresh rose on yonder thorn/ Gives back the bending heavens in dew./
    II 12.71 10 The divine energy...casts its old garb, and reappears, another creature;...the Ancient of Days in the dew of the morning.

dewdrop, n. (2)

    F 6.32 9 The cold...freezes a man like a dewdrop.
    PI 8.41 13 ...dewdrop and haze and the pencil of light are as long-lived as chaos and darkness.

dew-drops, n. [dewdrops,] (2)

    Bhr 6.170 1 If [manners] are superficial, so are the dew-drops which give such a depth to the morning meadows.
    SovE 10.188 9 Nature is a tropical swamp in sunshine, on whose purlieus we hear the song of summer birds, and see prismatic dewdrops...

dews, n. (2)

    ET16 5.288 19 There, I thought, in America, lies nature sleeping...too much by half for man in the picture, and so giving a certain tristesse, like the rank vegetation of swamps and forests seen at night, steeped in dews and rains, which it loves;...
    Insp 8.286 14 ...it is a primal rule to defend your morning, to keep all its dews on...

Dews, n. (1)

    PPo 8.241 21 Asaph, the vizier, at a certain time, lost the seal of Solomon, which one of the Dews or evil spirits found...

dewy, adj. (1)

    Nat 1.19 10 The shows of day, the dewy morning...if too eagerly hunted... mock us with their unreality.

Dexter, Samuel, n. (1)

    ACri 12.301 21 When Samuel Dexter, long since, argued the claims of South Boston Bridge, he had to meet loud complaints of the shutting out of the coasting-trade by the proposed improvements.

dexterity, n. (8)

    ET4 5.65 1 In the case of the ship-money, the judges delivered it for law, that England being an island, the very midland shires therein are all to be accounted maritime; and Fuller adds, the genius even of landlocked counties driving the natives with a maritime dexterity.
    ET15 5.266 26 I was told of the dexterity of one of [the London Times's] reporters, who, finding himself, on one occasion, where the magistrates had strictly forbidden reporters, put his hands into his coat-pocket, and with pencil in one hand and tablet in the other, did his work.
    Res 8.148 19 See the dexterity of the good aunt in keeping the young people all the weary holiday busy and diverted without knowing it...
    FSLN 11.224 17 It is remarked of the Americans that they value dexterity too much, and honor too little;...
    PLT 12.57 20 There is a conflict between a man's private dexterity or talent and his access to the free air and light which wisdom is;...
    Bost 12.185 8 ...if the character of the people [of Boston] has a larger range and greater versatility, causing them to exhibit equal dexterity in what are elsewhere reckoned incompatible works, perhaps they may thank their climate of extremes...
    MAng1 12.226 22 ...[Michelangelo] possessed an unexpected dexterity in minute mechanical contrivances.
    ACri 12.293 20 Shakspeare might be studied for his dexterity in the use of these weapons [of rhetoric], if it were not for his heroic strength.

dexterous, adj. (2)

    Cour 7.273 8 ...it is not the means on which we draw, as...practical skill or dexterous talent..that count, but the aims only.
    Edc1 10.134 3 If [a man] be dexterous, his tuition should make it appear;...

dexterously, adv. (1)

    Elo1 7.65 6 That...which eloquence ought to reach, is not a particular skill in...dexterously addressing the prejudice of the company...

Dexter's, Captain, n. (1)

    MMEm 10.419 3 I [Mary Moody Emerson] walked to Captain Dexter's. Sick.

Dhakkan, n. (1)

    Bost 12.184 10 [Howell] compares [Indian society] to the geologic phenomenon which the black soil of the Dhakkan offers,-the property, namely, of assimilating to itself every foreign substance introduced into its bosom.

diabolic, adj. (3)

    Res 8.147 18 Against the terrors of the mob, which...is diabolic...good sense has many arts of prevention and of relief.
    SovE 10.213 5 Once men thought Spirit divine, and Matter diabolic;...
    Carl 10.494 22 A strong nature has a charm for [Carlyle], previous, it would seem, to all inquiry whether the force be divine or diabolic.

diabolical, adj. (2)

    Supl 10.165 2 Every favorite is not a cherub...nor each unpleasing person a dark, diabolical intriguer;...
    ACri 12.289 22 Goethe, who had collected all the diabolical hints in men and nature for traits for his Walpurgis Nacht, continued the humor of collecting such horrors after this first occasion had passed...

diadem, n. (1)

    ACri 12.293 16 A list might be made of showy words that tempt young writers...opal and the rest of the precious stones, carcanet, diadem.

diadems, n. (2)

    Fdsp 2.202 23 Sincerity is the luxury allowed, like diadems and authority, only to the highest rank;...
    WD 7.155 4 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./

diagnosis, n. (2)

    OS 2.285 20 We are all discerners of spirits. That diagnosis lies aloft in our life or unconscious power.
    Comc 8.168 2 ...in the country we cannot find every day a case that agrees with the diagnosis of the books.

diagonal, adj. (1)

    SS 7.15 14 ...nature delights to put us between extreme antagonisms, and our safety is in the skill with which we keep the diagonal line.

diagram, n. (4)

    NR 3.225 22 ...on seeing the smallest arc we complete the curve, and when the curtain is lifted from the diagram which it seemed to veil, we are vexed to find that no more was drawn than just that fragment of an arc which we first beheld.
    Cour 7.270 8 Every creature has a courage of his constitution fit for his duties:--Archimedes, the courage of a geometer to stick to his diagram...
    Plu 10.299 21 [Plutarch] is...sufficiently a mathematician to leave some of his readers...respectfully skipping to the next chapter. But this scholastic omniscience of our author engages a new respect, since they hope he understands his own diagram.
    CInt 12.114 9 ...when the Roman soldier, at the sack of Syracuse, broke into his study, the philosopher [Archimedes] could not rise from his chair and his diagram...

diagrams, n. (1)

    CbW 6.262 12 We learn geology the morning after the earthquake, on ghastly diagrams of cloven mountains, upheaved plains...

dial, adj. (1)

    Nat 1.33 3 The visible world and the relation of its parts, is the dial plate of the invisible.

dial, n. (4)

    SR 2.85 15 ...the whole bright calendar of the year is without a dial in [the man in the street's] mind.
    Fdsp 2.208 9 A man is reputed to have thought and eloquence; he cannot, for all that, say a word to his cousin or his uncle. They accuse his silence with as much reason as they would blame the insignificance of a dial in the shade.
    LS 11.23 6 ...now...Christians must contend that it is...really a duty, to commemorate [Jesus] by a certain form [the Lord's Supper], whether that form be agreeable to their understandings or not. Is not this to make vain the gift of God? Is not this to turn back the hand on the dial?
    CW 12.174 25 As Linnaeus made a dial of plants, so shall you of all the objects that guide your walks.

Dial, The, n. (1)

    LLNE 10.343 23 ...the intelligence and character and varied ability of the company...perhaps waked curiosity as to its aims and results. Nothing more serious came of it than the modest quarterly journal called The Dial...

dialect, n. (9)

    Art1 2.365 2 Sculpture may serve to teach the pupil...how purely the spirit can translate its meanings into that eloquent dialect [of form].
    NR 3.233 5 Shakspeare's passages of passion...are in the very dialect of the present year.
    ET14 5.235 8 Mixture is a secret of the English island; in their dialect, the male principle is the Saxon, the female, the Latin;...
    Bhr 6.180 1 ...the ocular dialect needs no dictionary...
    Bhr 6.190 6 Neither Aristotle, nor Leibnitz, nor Junius, nor Champollion has set down the grammar-rules of this dialect [of behavior]...
    PI 8.18 2 ...[as soon as a man masters a principle and sees his facts in relation to it] he can now find symbols of universal significance, which are readily rendered into any dialect;...
    Elo2 8.124 28 ...Lord Chesterfield thought that without being instructed in the dialect of the Halles no man could be a complete master of French.
    CSC 10.374 16 A great variety of dialect and of costume was noticed [at the Chardon Street Convention];...
    RBur 11.442 14 ...[Burns] has made the Lowland Scotch a Doric dialect of fame.

dialectic, n. (1)

    PPh 4.79 2 ...when we praise the style, or the common sense, or arithmetic [of Plato], we speak as boys, and much of our impatient criticism of the dialectic, I suspect, is no better.

Dialectic, n. (2)

    PPh 4.62 22 ...there is a science of sciences,--I call it Dialectic,--which is the Intellect discriminating the false and the true.
    PPh 4.63 3 The sciences...are like sportsmen, who seize whatever prey offers, even without being able to make any use of it. Dialectic must teach the use of them.

dialectics, n. (2)

    Exp 3.58 10 Life is not dialectics.
    ET4 5.53 16 In Scotland...among the intellectual, is the insanity of dialectics.

dialects, n. (1)

    Int 2.347 10 The angels are so enamored of the language that is spoken in heaven that they will not distort their lips with the hissing and unmusical dialects of men...

dialogue, n. (13)

    Fdsp 2.211 21 There can never be deep peace between two spirits, never mutual respect, until in their dialogue each stands for the whole world.
    Hsm1 2.245 12 In harmony with this delight in personal advantages [in the elder English dramatists] there is in their plays a certain heroic cast of character and dialogue...
    Hsm1 2.245 16 ...there is in [the elder English dramatists'] plays a certain heroic cast of character and dialogue...wherein the speaker is...on such deep grounds of character, that the dialogue, on the slightest additional incident in the plot, rises naturally into poetry.
    Mrs1 3.148 17 Certainly, kings and queens, nobles and great ladies, had some right to complain of the absurdity that had been put in their mouths before the days of Waverley; but neither does Scott's dialogue bear criticism.
    Mrs1 3.148 19 ...[Scott's] dialogue is in costume...
    Mrs1 3.148 22 In Shakspeare alone the speakers do not strut and bridle, the dialogue is easily great...
    PPh 4.60 19 The admirable earnest [in Plato] comes not only...in the perfect yes and no of the dialogue...
    PPh 4.66 19 A happier example of the stress laid on nature [by Plato] is in the dialogue with the young Theages...
    MoS 4.168 16 One has the same pleasure in [Montaigne's language] that he feels in listening to the necessary speech of men about their work, when any unusual circumstance gives momentary importance to the dialogue.
    Dem1 10.6 7 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...a suspicion that they have been with precisely these persons in precisely this room, and heard precisely this dialogue...
    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...
    ACri 12.284 20 ...there is a conversation above grossness and below refinement...where Shakspeare seems to have gathered his comic dialogue.
    WSL 12.348 21 [Landor's] merit must rest, at last, not on the spirit of the dialogue...

Dialogue, n. (2)

    WSL 12.347 8 [Landor's] Dialogue on the Epicurean philosophy is a theory of the genius of Epicurus.
    WSL 12.347 10 [Landor's] Dialogue between Barrow and Newton is the best of all criticisms on the essays of Bacon.

dialogues, n. (4)

    DSA 1.133 23 Now do not degrade the life and dialogues of Christ out of the circle of this charm...
    PPh 4.71 18 [Socrates] can drink, too;...and after leaving the whole party under the table, goes away...to begin new dialogues with somebody that is sober.
    SwM 4.119 9 ...whatever [Swedenborg] saw...he saw not abstractly, but in pictures, heard it in dialogues...
    Dem1 10.4 13 ...[in dreams] we seem busied...in earnest dialogues, strenuous actions for nothings...

Dialogues, n. (1)

    WSL 12.347 13 [Landor's] picture of Demosthenes in three several Dialogues is new and adequate.

Dialogues [Plato], n. (2)

    DL 7.110 10 How could such a book as Plato's Dialogues have come down, but for the sacred savings of scholars...
    Suc 7.297 22 ...[the youth] can read Plato, covered to his chin with a cloak in a cold upper chamber, though he should associate the Dialogues ever after with a woollen smell.

dial's, n. (1)

    FRep 11.537 12 ...the Genius or Destiny of America is...a man incessantly advancing, as the shadow on the dial's face...

Dials, Seven, London, Engl (1)

    ET4 5.69 3 ...the bullies of the costermongers of Shoreditch, Seven Dials and Spitalfield, [the English] know how to wake up.

diamagnetism, n. (1)

    Grts 8.306 19 ...diamagnetism is a law of the mind...

Diamagnetism, n. (1)

    Grts 8.306 9 In 1848 I had the privilege of hearing Professor Faraday deliver...a lecture on what he called Diamagnetism...

diameter, n. (9)

    Cir 2.312 14 The astronomer must have his diameter of the earth's orbit as a base to find the parallax of any star.
    NR 3.240 2 Since we are all so stupid, what benefit that there should be two stupidities! It is like that brute advantage so essential to astronomy, of having the diameter of the earth's orbit for a base of its triangles.
    ET14 5.254 13 A horizon of brass of the diameter of his umbrella shuts down around [the English student's] senses.
    ET16 5.276 25 Stonehenge is a circular colonnade with a diameter of a hundred feet...
    Civ 7.29 12 ...the astronomer, having by an observation fixed the place of a star,--by so simple an expedient as waiting six months and then repeating his observation, contrived to put the diameter of the earth's orbit...between his first observation and his second...
    Farm 7.142 14 [The farmer's] machine is of colossal proportions; the diameter of the water-wheel, the arms of the levers, the power of the battery, are out of all mechanic measure;...
    Farm 7.147 14 ...Nature drops a pine-cone in Mariposa, and it...grows three or four hundred feet high, and thirty in diameter...
    Res 8.139 6 Our Copernican globe is a great factory or shop of power, with its rotating constellations, times and tides. The machine is of colossal size; the diameter of the water-wheel, the arms of the levers and the volley of the battery out of all mechanic measure;...
    Aris 10.56 22 The nearer my friend...the more diameter our spheres have.

diameters, n. (6)

    Hist 2.13 11 Genius...sees the rays parting from one orb, that diverge, ere they fall, by infinite diameters.
    SwM 4.115 13 The form above [the circular] is the spiral...its diameters are not rectilinear...
    ET1 5.9 2 I had visited Professor Amici, who had shown me his microscopes, magnifying (it was said) two thousand diameters;...
    SS 7.5 7 Do you think, [my friend] said, I am in such great terror of being shot, I, who am only waiting to...put diameters of the solar system and sidereal orbits between me and all souls...
    PI 8.16 5 ...the sole question is...how many diameters are drawn quite through from matter to spirit;...
    Dem1 10.26 1 [Mesmerism]...is separated by celestial diameters from the love of spiritual truths.

diametrical, adj. (1)

    Thor 10.479 11 A certain habit of antagonism defaced [Thoreau's] earlier writings,-a trick of rhetoric...of substituting for the obvious word and thought its diametrical opposite.

diametrically, adv. (1)

    ET15 5.264 24 [The London Times] will kill all but that paper which is diametrically in opposition;...

diamond, adj. (2)

    Lov1 2.179 1 [The lover's] friends find in [his mistress] a likeness to her mother, or her sisters, or to persons not of her blood. The lover sees no resemblance except to summer evenings and diamond mornings...
    Milt1 12.252 25 We think we have heard the recitation of [Milton's] verses by genius which found in them that which itself would say; recitation which told, in the diamond sharpness of every articulation, that now first was such perception and enjoyment possible;...

diamond, n. (8)

    Fdsp 2.209 10 Leave to the diamond its ages to grow...
    Fdsp 2.211 1 The hues of the opal, the light of the diamond, are not to be seen if the eye is too near.
    SwM 4.98 6 If you will have pure carbon, carbuncle, or diamond, to make the brain transparent, the trunk and organs shall be so much the grosser...
    ET5 5.83 15 More than the diamond Koh-i-noor...[the English] prize that dull pebble...whose poles turn themselves to the poles of the world...
    Supl 10.175 10 ...Nature...crystallizes in water at one invariable angle, in diamond at one...
    Supl 10.177 12 ...the diamond and the pearl, which are only accidental and secondary in their use and value to us, are proper to the Oriental world.
    Wom 11.411 24 The far-fetched diamond finds its home/ Flashing and smouldering in [woman's] hair./
    ACri 12.293 14 A list might be made of showy words that tempt young writers...golden, diamond, amethyst...

diamonded, adj. (1)

    Bhr 6.188 20 ...the sad realist knows these fellows [of position] at a glance, and they know him; as when in Paris the chief of the police enters a ball-room, so many diamonded pretenders shrink...

diamond-merchant, n. (2)

    PI 8.71 16 The poet is representative,--whole man, diamond-merchant, symbolizer, emancipator;...
    Schr 10.265 20 ...at a single strain of a bugle out of a grove...the poet replaces all this cowardly Self-denial and God-denial of the literary class with the conviction that to one poetic success the world will surrender on its knees. Instantly he casts in his lot with the pearl-diver and the diamond-merchant.

diamonds, n. (8)

    LE 1.171 13 It looks as if [the French Eclectics] had all truth, in taking all the systems, and had nothing to do but to sift and wash and strain, and the gold and diamonds would remain in the last colander.
    ET6 5.114 14 Hither [to an English dress-dinner] come all manner of... political, literary and personal news; railroads, horses, diamonds, agriculture, horticulture, pisciculture and wine.
    Wth 6.86 25 We may well call [coal] black diamonds.
    DL 7.115 24 Genius and virtue, like diamonds, are best plain-set...
    PI 8.11 9 Seas, forests, metals, diamonds and fossils interest the eye, but 't is only with some preparatory or predicting charm.
    SA 8.106 6 ...[the debauchee of sentiment] believes his disease is blooming health. A rough realist or a phalanx of realists would be prescribed; but that is like proposing to mend your bad road with diamonds.
    Edc1 10.132 23 ...presently the aroused intellect finds gold and gems in one of these scorned facts,-then finds that the day of facts is a rock of diamonds;...
    SlHr 10.446 8 ...so entirely was [Samuel Hoar's] respect to the ground-plan and substructure of society a natural ability...that it was...like one of those opaque crystals...not less perfect in their angles and structure, and only less beautiful, than the transparent topazes and diamonds.

Diana, n. (1)

    Nat2 3.175 5 [A boy] hears the echoes of a horn in a hill country...which converts the mountains into an Aeolian harp,--and this supernatural tiralira restores to him...Apollo, Diana, and all divine hunters and huntresses.

diaper, n. (1)

    Thor 10.462 11 [Thoreau] had a strong common sense, like that which Rose Flammock, the weaver's daughter in Scott's romance [The Betrothed], commends in her father, as resembling a yardstick, which, whilst it measures dowlas and diaper, can equally well measure tapestry and cloth of gold.

diaries, n. (6)

    ET13 5.224 17 [The English] put up no Socratic prayer, much less any saintly prayer for the Queen's mind;...but say bluntly, Grant her in health and wealth long to live. And one traces this Jewish prayer in all English private history, from the prayers of King Richard...to those in the diaries of Sir Samuel Romilly and of Haydon the painter.
    SovE 10.204 1 There was in the last century a serious habitual reference to the spiritual world, running through diaries, letters and conversation...
    LLNE 10.343 11 ...perhaps those persons who were mutually the best friends...had no ambition of publishing their letters, diaries or conversation.
    Bost 12.194 10 Who can read the pious diaries of the Englishmen in the time of the Commonwealth and later, without a sigh that we write no diaries to-day?
    Bost 12.194 13 Who can read the pious diaries of the Englishmen in the time of the Commonwealth and later, without a sigh that we write no diaries to-day?
    Pray 12.351 26 ...what led us to these remembrances [of prayers] was the happy accident which in this undevout age lately brought us acquainted with two or three diaries...

Diary [Carolus Linnaeus], n (1)

    Boks 7.208 11 Among the best books are certain Autobiographies; as... Linnaeus's Diary;...

Diary [John Adams], n. (1)

    FSLC 11.180 16 ...The Boston of the American Revolution, which figures so proudly in John Adams's Diary...Boston...must bow its ancient honor in the dust...

diary, n. (12)

    Nat2 3.188 11 Each young and ardent person writes a diary...
    ET1 5.5 8 On looking over the diary of my journey in 1833, I find nothing to publish in my memoranda of visits to places.
    Insp 8.281 17 When we have ceased for a long time to have any fulness of thoughts that once made a diary a joy as well as a necessity...in writing a letter to a friend we may find that we rise to thought...that costs no effort...
    EzRy 10.383 9 To these facts, gathered chiefly from [Ezra Ripley's] own diary...I can only add a few traits from memory.
    EzRy 10.384 9 Perhaps I cannot better illustrate this tendency [to believe in a particular providence] than by citing a record from the diary of the father of [Ezra Ripley's] predecessor...
    MMEm 10.399 16 I have found that I could only bring you this portrait [of Mary Moody Emerson] by selections from the diary of my heroine...
    MMEm 10.417 8 [Mary Moody Emerson] was addressed and offered marriage by a man...whom she respected. The proposal gave her pause...but after consideration she refused it, I know not on what grounds: but a few allusions to it in her diary suggest that it was a religious act...
    Thor 10.459 27 In every part of Great Britain, [Thoreau] wrote in his diary, are discovered traces of the Romans...
    Thor 10.469 22 Under his arm [Thoreau] carried an old music-book to press plants; in his pocket, his diary and pencil...
    Thor 10.470 7 [Thoreau] drew out of his breast-pocket his diary...
    SMC 11.372 16 June fourth is marked in [George Prescott's] diary as An awful day;-two hundred men lost to the command;...
    CPL 11.499 16 ...[Mary Moody Emerson] writes in her diary, Life truly resembles a river-ever the same-never the same;...

Diary [Samuel Pepys], n. (1)

    ET6 5.108 26 The romance does not exceed the height of noble passion in Mrs. Lucy Hutchinson, or in Lady Russell, or even as one discerns through the plain prose of Pepys's Diary, the sacred habit of an English wife.

Diary [Thomas Moore], n. (1)

    QO 8.197 10 In Moore's Diary, Mr. Hallam is reported as mentioning at dinner one of his friends who had said, I don't know how it is, a thing that falls flat from me seems quite an excellent joke when given at second hand by Sheridan.

diastole, n. (2)

    Comp 2.96 22 Polarity, or action and reaction, we meet in every part of nature;...in the systole and diastole of the heart;...
    Fdsp 2.196 3 ...the systole and diastole of the heart are not without their analogy in the ebb and flow of love.

dibble, v. (1)

    CL 12.157 13 The landscape is vast, complete, alive. We step about, dibble and dot, and attempt in poor linear ways to hobble after those angelic radiations.

Dibdin, Thomas Frognall, n. (1)

    Boks 7.209 20 In May, 1812, the library of the Duke of Roxburgh was sold. The sale lasted forty-two days,--we abridge the story from Dibdin...

dice, n. (7)

    Nat 1.39 1 ...Nature's dice are always loaded;...
    Con 1.301 8 If we read the world historically, we shall say, Of all the ages... this is the best throw of the dice of nature that has yet been, or that is yet possible.
    Con 1.303 23 [The existing world] will stand until a better cast of the dice is made.
    Comp 2.102 13 ...The dice of God are always loaded.
    Exp 3.46 19 Some heavenly days must have been intercalated somewhere, like those that Hermes won with dice of the Moon...
    Wth 6.103 17 A dollar...is worth more...in a temperate, schooled, law-abiding community than in some sink of crime, where dice, knives and arsenic are in constant play.
    Wsp 6.221 22 Let me show [the reader] that the dice are loaded;...

Dichtung und Wahrheit [Goet (1)

    GoW 4.286 10 This idea [that a man exists for culture] reigns in [Goethe's] Dichtung und Wahrheit...

Dickens, Charles, n. (11)

    ET2 5.31 24 We found on board [the Washington Irving] the usual cabin library; Basil Hall, Dumas, Dickens, Bulwer, Balzac and Sand were our sea-gods.
    ET13 5.229 13 Dickens writes novels on Exeter-Hall humanity.
    ET14 5.246 14 Dickens...writes London tracts.
    ET15 5.271 17 It is a new trait of the nineteenth century, that the wit and humor of England--as in Punch, so in the humorists, Jerrold, Dickens, Thackeray, Hood--have taken the direction of humanity and freedom.
    ET17 5.292 23 Every day in London gave me new opportunities of meeting men and women who give splendor to society. I saw...Dickens, Thackeray, Tennyson...
    Bhr 6.174 1 Charles Dickens self-sacrificingly undertook the reformation of our American manners in unspeakable particulars.
    Boks 7.213 16 The novel is that allowance and frolic the imagination finds. Everything else pins it down, and men flee for redress to...Dickens, Thackeray and Reade.
    Insp 8.290 11 Some of us may remember, years ago, in the English journals, the petition, signed by Carlyle, Browning, Tennyson, Dickens and other writers in London, against the license of the organ-grinders...
    Aris 10.54 14 The more familiar examples of this power [of eloquence] certainly are those...who think, and paint, and laugh, and weep, in their eloquent closets, and then convert the world into a huge whispering-gallery, to...win smiles and tears from many generations. The eminent examples are...Bunyan, Burns, Scott, and now we must add Dickens.
    MoL 10.246 6 Dickens complained that in America, as soon as he arrived in any of the Western towns, a committee waited on him and invited him to deliver a temperance lecture.
    LLNE 10.339 3 ...the humanity which was the aim of all the multitudinous works of Dickens;...was all on the side of the people.

Dickens's, Charles, n. (1)

    ET19 5.309 16 Mr. Dickens's letter of apology for his absence [from the Manchester Athenaeum Banquet] was read.

dicta, n. (2)

    FSLC 11.191 13 Lord Mansfield, in the case of the slave Somerset, wherein the dicta of Lords Talbot and Hardwicke had been cited...said, I care not for the supposed dicta of judges, however eminent, if they be contrary to all principle.
    FSLC 11.191 16 Lord Mansfield...said, I care not for the supposed dicta of judges, however eminent, if they be contrary to all principle.

dictate, n. (5)

    NER 3.254 16 Every project in the history of reform...is good when it is the dictate of a man's genius and constitution...
    Chr2 10.94 7 On the perpetual conflict between the dictate of this universal mind and the wishes and interests of the individual, the moral discipline of life is built.
    Chr2 10.94 20 He who doth a just action seeth therein nothing of his own, but an inconceivable nobleness attaches to it, because it is a dictate of the general mind.
    SovE 10.198 1 Virtue is the adopting of this dictate of the universal mind by the individual will.
    EWI 11.123 21 It was, or it seemed the dictate of trade, to keep the negro down.

dictate, v. (11)

    LE 1.159 24 If any person have...less jealousy to guard his integrity, shall he therefore dictate to you and me?
    LE 1.182 27 The student...is great only by being passive to the superincumbent spirit. Let this faith then dictate all his action.
    Int 2.335 14 [The thought] seems, for the time...to dictate to the unborn.
    MoS 4.160 25 ...a shell must dictate the architecture of a house founded on the sea.
    ET5 5.75 11 Last of all the Norman or French-Dane arrived [in England], and formally conquered, harried and ruled the kingdom. A century later it came out that the Saxon...forced the baron to dictate Saxon terms to Norman kings;...
    Wth 6.107 4 ...every man has a certain satisfaction...when he sees that things themselves dictate the price...
    Wth 6.120 23 The rule is not to dictate nor to insist on carrying out each of your schemes by ignorant wilfulness...
    Ctr 6.163 25 ...every brave heart must treat society as a child, and never allow it to dictate.
    WD 7.184 5 There are people...who dictate to others and are not dictated to;...
    Koss 11.400 2 ...you [Kossuth], the foremost soldier of freedom in this age, it is for us [the people of Concord] to crave your judgment; who are we that we should dictate to you?
    CInt 12.127 12 ...these two [the College and the Church] should be counterbalancing to the bad politics and selfish trade. But there is but one institution, and not three. The Church and the College now take their tone from the City, and do not dictate their own.

dictated, v. (11)

    MR 1.232 16 ...the general system of our trade...is not dictated by the high sentiments of human nature;
    SR 2.73 24 You will soon love what is dictated by your nature as well as mine...
    NER 3.253 24 ...there were changes of employment dictated by conscience.
    NMW 4.238 24 It was a whimsical economy of the same kind which dictated [Bonaparte's] practice, when general in Italy, in regard to his burdensome correspondence.
    NMW 4.240 2 Those who had to deal with him found that [Bonaparte]... could cipher as well as another man. This appears in all parts of his Memoirs, dictated at St. Helena.
    NMW 4.244 7 ...in spite of the detraction which his systematic egotism dictated toward the great captains who conquered with and for him, ample acknowledgements are made by [Napoleon] to Lannes, Duroc...
    NMW 4.251 15 [Bonaparte's] memoirs, dictated to Count Montholon and General Gourgaud at St. Helena, have great value...
    NMW 4.255 12 [Napoleon] would steal, slander, assassinate, drown and poison, as his interest dictated.
    WD 7.184 6 There are people...who dictate to others and are not dictated to;...
    AKan 11.259 10 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...until it is notorious that all promotion, power and policy are dictated from one source...
    EPro 11.324 8 These necessities which have dictated the conduct of the federal government are overlooked especially by our foreign critics.

dictates, n. (4)

    MoS 4.182 8 the people's questions are not [the spiritualist's]; their methods are not his; and against all the dictates of good nature he is driven to say he has no pleasure in them.
    ET13 5.227 23 [The Dean and Prebends] go into the cathedral, chant and pray and beseech the Holy Ghost to assist them in their choice [of a Bishop]; and...invariably find that the dictates of the Holy Ghost agree with the recommendations of the Queen.
    Comc 8.165 21 The satire [on religion] reaches its climax when the actual Church is set in direct contradiction to the dictates of the religious sentiment...
    EWI 11.100 22 When we consider what remains to be done for this interest [emancipation] in this country, the dictates of humanity make us tender of such as are not yet persuaded.

dictates, v. (5)

    Cour 7.259 23 We want the will which advances and dictates.
    PI 8.19 9 Whilst common sense looks at things or visible Nature as real and final facts, poetry, or the imagination which dictates it, is a second sight...
    PI 8.54 11 The difference between poetry and stock poetry is this, that in the latter the rhythm is given and the sense adapted to it; while in the former the sense dictates the rhythm.
    SovE 10.212 4 The mind as it opens transfers very fast its choice...from all that talent executes to the sentiment that fills the heart and dictates the future of nations.
    AgMs 12.361 17 ...we farmers always know what our interest dictates...

dictating, v. (1)

    ET10 5.164 2 [The English] have...no horse-guards dictating to the crown;...

dictation, n. (4)

    F 6.3 18 'T is fine for us to speculate and elect our course, if we must accept an irresistible dictation.
    F 6.4 4 ...if there be irresistible dictation, this dictation understands itself.
    CbW 6.245 4 ...so much irresistible dictation from temperament and unknown inspiration enters into [life], that we doubt we can say anything out of our own experience whereby to help each other.
    ACiv 11.306 26 Neither do I doubt, is such a composition should take place, that the Southerners will come back quietly and politely, leaving their haughty dictation.

dictator, n. (3)

    Wsp 6.229 3 If we will sit quietly, what [people] ought to say is said, with their will or against their will. We do not care for you, let us pretend what we may,--we are always looking through you to the dim dictator behind you.
    Insp 8.297 12 [The human soul] is the dictator; the mind itself the awful oracle.
    ACiv 11.302 21 [Government] has, of necessity, in any crisis of the state, the absolute powers of a dictator.

dictators, n. (1)

    DSA 1.149 2 The silence that accepts merit as the most natural thing in the world, is the highest applause. Such souls...are...the dictators of fortune.

dictatory, adj. (1)

    Milt1 12.270 8 [Milton] told the Parliament that the imprimaturs of Lambeth House had been writ in Latin; for that our English...will not easily find servile letters enow to spell such a dictatory presumption.

diction, n. (5)

    Nat 1.30 21 ...wise men pierce this rotten diction...
    EzRy 10.383 25 I am sure all who remember both will associate [Ezra Ripley's] form with whatever was grave and droll in the old...meeting-house... with long prayers, rich with the diction of ages;...
    Milt1 12.250 18 What under heaven had...the manner of living of Saumaise...or his niceties of diction, to do with the solemn question whether Charles Stuart had been rightly slain?
    ACri 12.287 4 Into the exquisite refinement of his Academy, [Plato] introduces the low-born Socrates, relieving the purple diction by his perverse talk...
    EurB 12.367 13 ...[Wordsworth's] poems evince a power of diction that is no more rivalled by his contemporaries than is his poetic insight.

dictionaries, n. (3)

    ET14 5.237 26 The manner in which [the English] learned Greek and Latin...without dictionaries, grammars, or indexes...required a more robust memory, and cooperation of all the faculties;...
    Wth 6.98 9 Every man may have occasion to consult books which he does not care to possess, such as cyclopedias, dictionaries, tables, charts, maps and other public documents;...
    MoL 10.256 21 ...this big-mouthed talker, among his dictionaries and Leipzig editions of Lysias, had lost his knowledge.

Dictionarium Britannicum [N (1)

    Pt1 3.18 3 ...it is related of Lord Chatham that he was accustomed to read in Bailey's Dictionary when he was preparing to speak in Parliament.

Dictionary, Critical, n. (1)

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

dictionary, n. (9)

    Nat 1.32 12 Did it need...this host of orbs in heaven, to furnish man with the dictionary and grammar of his municipal speech?
    AmS 1.98 1 Life is our dictionary.
    NR 3.233 11 I read Proclus...as I might read a dictionary...
    SwM 4.121 22 ...the dictionary of symbols is yet to be written.
    Bhr 6.180 1 ...the ocular dialect needs no dictionary...
    Bty 6.281 19 The want of sympathy makes [the ornithologist's] record a dull dictionary.
    Boks 7.211 4 Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy is a book of great learning. To read it is like reading in a dictionary.
    Boks 7.211 8 Neither is a dictionary a bad book to read.
    Milt1 12.268 7 ...[Milton]...devoted much of his time to the preparing of a Latin dictionary.

didactic, adj. (4)

    MN 1.204 22 ...the didactic morals of self-denial and strife with sin, are in the view we are constrained by our constitution to take of the fact seen from the platform of action;...
    SwM 4.142 11 Strange, scholastic, didactic, passionless, bloodless man [Swedenborg], who denotes classes of souls as a botanist disposes of a carex...
    ET1 5.23 21 [Wordsworth] preferred such of his poems as touched the affections, to any others; for whatever is didactic...might perish quickly;...
    Thor 10.465 13 [Thoreau's] own dealing with [young men of sensibility] was...didactic, scorning their petty ways...

didactics, n. (3)

    Int 2.345 14 ...let us end these didactics.
    CbW 6.245 3 ...life is rather a subject of wonder than of didactics.
    Plu 10.311 22 [Seneca] is tiresome through perpetual didactics.

Diderot, Denis, n. (5)

    Clbs 7.233 24 Diderot said of the Abbe Galiani: He was a treasure in rainy days;...
    Comc 8.170 12 The same astonishment of the intellect at the disappearance of the man out of Nature...is the secret of all the fun...of the gay Rameau of Diderot...
    Grts 8.315 19 Diderot was no model...
    Grts 8.315 26 A poor scribbler who had written a lampoon against him... came with it in his poverty to Diderot...
    Grts 8.315 27 A poor scribbler who had written a lampoon against him... came with it in his poverty to Diderot, and Diderot, pitying the creature, wrote the dedication for him...

Diderots, n. (1)

    Chr2 10.105 26 Varnhagen von Ense, writing in Prussia in 1848, says: The Gospels belong to the most aggressive writings. No leaf thereof could attain the liberty of being printed (in Berlin) to-day. What...Diderots, Fichtes, Heines, and many another heretic, one can detect therein!

Dido [Chaucer, Legend of G (1)

    Wsp 6.207 4 The religion of the early English poets is anomalous, so devout and so blasphemous, in the same breath. Such is Chaucer's extraordinary confusion of heaven and earth in the picture of Dido...

die, n. (4)

    YA 1.391 27 After all the deductions which are to be made for our pitiful politics, which stake every gravest national question on the silly die whether James or whether Robert shall sit in the chair and hold the purse;... there still remains an organic simplicity and liberty...
    ET4 5.54 16 I found plenty of well-marked English types...robust men, with faces cut like a die...
    Wom 11.407 14 ...[women] give entirely to their affections, set their whole fortune on the die...
    CPL 11.506 12 [Kepler writes] ...I have stolen the golden vases of the Egyptians to build up a tabernacle for my God far away from the confines of Egypt. If you forgive me, I rejoice;...the die is cast;...

die, v. (100)

    AmS 1.114 25 Young men...die of disgust...
    DSA 1.143 25 ...when men die we do not mention them.
    MR 1.230 4 We thought...that such as [the money-catcher] at least would die hard;...
    LT 1.262 21 I would die for [persons] with joy.
    Con 1.308 22 ...I am very peaceable, and on my private account could well enough die...
    Tran 1.345 24 In looking at the class of counsel...and at the matronage of the land...one asks, Where are they who represented genius, virtue, the invisible and heavenly world, to these? ... ...did the high idea die out of them...
    Tran 1.352 25 ...When shall I die and be relieved of the responsibility of seeing an Universe which I do not use?
    YA 1.377 20 Feudalism...had grown mischievous, it was time for it to die...
    SR 2.79 6 [Men] say...Let not God speak to us, lest we die.
    SR 2.87 16 The persons who make up a nation to-day, next year die...
    SL 2.153 11 ...if the pages instruct you not, they will die like flies in the hour.
    Prd1 2.240 8 Our friends and fellow-workers die off from us.
    Hsm1 2.246 13 ...Never one object underneath the sun/ Will I behold before my Sophocles:/ Farewell; now teach the Romans how to die./
    Hsm1 2.246 14 Mar. Dost know what 't is to die?/
    Hsm1 2.246 16 Mar. Dost know what 't is to die?/ Soph. Thou dost not, Martius,/ And, therefore, not what 't is to live; to die/ Is to begin to live..../
    Hsm1 2.257 27 Epaminondas, brave and affectionate, does not seem to us to need Olympus to die upon...
    Int 2.335 20 The most wonderful inspirations die with their subject if he has no hand to paint them to the senses.
    Pt1 3.31 28 ...the gypsies say of themselves it is in vain to hang them, they cannot die.
    Exp 3.51 24 We see young men who owe us a new world...but they never acquit the debt; they die young and dodge the account;...
    Exp 3.72 4 I am ready to die out of nature...
    Exp 3.84 4 When I receive a new gift, I do not macerate my body to make the account square, for if I should die I could not make the account square.
    Pol1 3.204 23 The old, who have seen through the hypocrisy of courts and statesmen, die and leave no wisdom to their sons.
    NR 3.242 26 It is the secret of the world that all things subsist and do not die...
    NER 3.252 19 ...[some reformers] wish the pure wheat, and will die but it shall not ferment.
    PPh 4.60 26 ...looking to the truth, I shall endeavor in reality to live as virtuously as I can [said Plato]; and when I die, to die so.
    PPh 4.74 20 When accused before the judges of subverting the popular creed, [Socrates] affirms the immortality of the soul, the future reward and punishment; and refusing to recant, in a caprice of the popular government was condemned to die...
    MoS 4.169 14 When [Montaigne] came to die he caused the mass to be celebrated in his chamber.
    ET4 5.52 10 Certain temperaments suit the sky and soil of England...whilst all the unadapted temperaments die out.
    ET4 5.59 17 Odin died in his bed, in Sweden; but it was a proverb of ill condition to die the death of old age.
    ET8 5.131 14 [Englishmen's] looks bespeak an invincible stoutness: they... will die game.
    ET8 5.136 21 On deliberate choice and from grounds of character, [the English hero] has elected his part to live and die for...
    ET9 5.150 4 [The English] have no curiosity about foreigners, and answer any information you may volunteer with Oh, Oh! until the informant makes up his mind that they shall die in their ignorance...
    F 6.13 15 In England there is always some man of wealth and large connection...who, as soon as he begins to die, checks his forward play...
    F 6.25 22 If the air come to our lungs, we breathe and live; if not, we die.
    Pow 6.68 16 [Men of this surcharge of arterial blood]...had rather die by the hatchet of a Pawnee than sit all day and every day at a counting-room desk.
    Ctr 6.135 25 Have you talked with Messieurs Turbinewheel, Summitlevel, and Lacofruppees? Then you may as well die.
    Ctr 6.152 18 Can it be that the American forest has refreshed some weeds of old Pictish barbarism just ready to die out...
    Wsp 6.210 11 Let a man attain the highest and broadest culture that any American has possessed, then let him die by sea-storm...and all America will acquiesce that the best thing has happened to him;...
    Wsp 6.231 3 The Buddhists say, No seed will die: every seed will grow.
    Wsp 6.240 2 ...[men] suffer from politics...or from sickness, and they would gladly know that they were to be dismissed from the duties of life. But the wise instinct asks, How will death help them? These are not dismissed when they die.
    Wsp 6.240 12 ...as far as [immortality] is a question of fact respecting the government of the universe, Marcus Antoninus summed the whole in a word, It is pleasant to die if there be gods, and sad to live if there be none.
    CbW 6.248 20 A person seldom falls sick but the bystanders are animated with a faint hope that he will die...
    CbW 6.259 5 ...as soon as the children are good, the mothers...think they are going to die.
    Bty 6.279 26 [Seyd] thought it happier to be dead,/ To die for Beauty, than live for bread./
    Bty 6.296 2 ...all masons and carpenters work to repeat and preserve the agreeable forms, whilst the ugly ones die out.
    Bty 6.303 16 ...the Welsh bard warns his countrywomen, Half of their charms with Cadwallon shall die./
    Ill 6.307 6 Flow, flow the waves hated,/ Accursed, adored,/ The waves of mutations:/ No anchorage is./ Sleep is not, death is not;/ Who seem to die live./
    Civ 7.21 14 ...a nomad, will die with no more estate than the wolf or the horse leaves.
    Elo1 7.92 1 There is for every man a statement possible of that truth which he is most unwilling to receive,--a statement possible, so broad and so pungent that he cannot get away from it, but must either bend to it or die of it.
    Boks 7.193 18 It is easy...to demonstrate that though [a man] should read from dawn till dark, for sixty years, he must die in the first alcoves [of the libraries].
    Cour 7.261 13 Each [new soldier] whispers to himself:...only will the benignant Heaven save me from disgracing myself and my friends and my State. Die! O yes, I can well die; but I cannot afford to misbehave;...
    Cour 7.261 14 Each [new soldier] whispers to himself:...only will the benignant Heaven save me from disgracing myself and my friends and my State. Die! O yes, I can well die; but I cannot afford to misbehave;...
    Cour 7.267 23 The llama that will carry a load if you caress him, will refuse food and die if he is scourged.
    Cour 7.276 19 ...we must have a scope as large as Nature's to...foresee in the secular melioration of the planet how these [beast-like men] will become unnecessary and will die out.
    OA 7.324 3 All men carry seeds of all distempers through life latent, and we die without developing them;...
    Comc 8.174 3 Mirth quickly becomes intemperate, and the man would soon die of inanition...
    PPo 8.245 2 [Hafiz] says,-I batter the wheel of heaven/ When it rolls not rightly by;/ I am not one of the snivellers/ Who fall thereon and die./
    PPo 8.247 24 ...quick perception and corresponding expression...this generosity of ebb and flow satisfies, and we should be willing to die when our time comes, having had our swing and gratification.
    Insp 8.292 5 The moth must fly to the lamp, and you must solve those questions though you die.
    Imtl 8.328 12 [Sixty years ago] We were all taught that we were born to die;...
    Imtl 8.329 1 A man of thought is willing to die, willing to live;...
    Imtl 8.329 6 A man of affairs is afraid to die...
    Imtl 8.329 15 The saying of Marcus Antoninus it were hard to mend: It is well to die if there be gods, and sad to live if there be none.
    Imtl 8.330 19 I was lately told of young children who feel a certain terror at the assurance of life without end. What! will it never stop? the child said; what! never die? never, never? It makes me feel so tired.
    Imtl 8.345 7 ...we live by choice;...by the vivacity of the laws which we obey, and obeying share their life,-or we die by sloth, by disobedience...
    Imtl 8.351 22 The soul is not born; it does not die;...
    Aris 10.29 15 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;/ His office natural ay wol it hold,/ Up peril of my lif, til that it die./
    Chr2 10.96 21 Though Love repine, and Reason chafe,/ There came a voice without reply,/ 'T is man's perdition to be safe,/ When for the truth he ought to die./
    Chr2 10.117 2 ...[Calvinism] is doomed also, and will only die last;...
    Chr2 10.117 22 Confucius said, If in the morning I hear of the right way, and in the evening die, I can be happy.
    Supl 10.165 14 Thousands of people live and die who were never...hungry or thirsty...
    MoL 10.246 23 There is an oracle current in the world, that nations die by suicide.
    MoL 10.258 17 Who would not, if it could be made certain that the new morning of universal liberty should rise on our race by the perishing of one generation, who would not consent to die?
    Schr 10.282 2 We will hold fast our opinion and die in silence.
    Plu 10.313 20 [Plutarch] reminds his friends that the Delphic oracles have given several answers the same in substance as that formerly given to Corax the Naxian: It sounds profane impiety/ To teach that human souls e'er die./
    EzRy 10.390 4 ...I am not sure that [Ezra Ripley] did not die in the belief in the reality of Major Downing.
    EzRy 10.395 19 ...in his old age, when all the antique Hebraism and its customs are passing away, it is...most fit that in the fall of laws a loyal man should die.
    MMEm 10.397 23 Many a day shall dawn and die,/ Many an angel wander by,/ And passing, light my sunken turf,/ Moist perhaps by ocean surf,/ Forgotten amid splendid tombs,/ Yet wreathed and hid by summer blooms./
    MMEm 10.398 3 On earth I dream;-I die to be:/ Time! shake not thy bald head at me./ I challenge thee to hurry past,/ Or for my turn to fly too fast./
    MMEm 10.430 7 I [Mary Moody Emerson] pray to die...
    Thor 10.466 23 ...the shad-flies which fill the air on a certain evening once a year, and which are snapped at by the fishes so ravenously that many of these die of repletion;...were all known by [Thoreau]...
    Carl 10.494 7 ...a lover who will live and die for that which he speaks for... [Carlyle] respects;...
    HDC 11.59 5 ...when [King Philip] he was told that his sentence was death, he said he liked it well that he was to die before his heart was soft...
    FSLN 11.216 4 We that had loved him so, followed him, honoured him,/ Lived in his mild and magnificent eye,/ Learned his great language, caught his clear accents,/ Made him our pattern to live and to die!/
    FSLN 11.239 10 [The Greeks] said of the happiness of the unjust, that at its close it begets itself an offspring and does not die childless, and...there sprouts forth for posterity every-ravening calamity...
    EPro 11.326 4 Do not let the dying die: hold them back to this world...
    HCom 11.343 3 [Our young men] said, It is not in me to resist. I go [to war] because I must. It is a duty which I shall never forgive myself if I decline. ... Only one thing is certain, I can well die but i cannot afford to misbehave.
    SMC 11.347 2 They have shown what men may do,/ They have proved how men may die,-/ Count, who can, the fields they have pressed,/ Each face to the solemn sky! Brownell.
    SMC 11.348 24 ...manhood is the one immortal thing/ Beneath Time's changeful sky,/ And, where it lightened once, from age to age,/ Men come to learn, in grateful pilgrimage,/ That length of days is knowing when to die./ Lowell, Concord Ode.
    SMC 11.355 2 ...it was found, contrary to all popular belief, that the country was at heart abolitionist, and for the Union was ready to die.
    SMC 11.357 17 At a halt in the march, a few of our boys were sitting on a rail fence, talking together whether it was right to sacrifice themselves. One of them said...he thought one was never too young to die for a principle.
    SMC 11.369 2 I feel, [George Prescott] writes, I have much to be thankful for that my life is spared, although I would willingly die to have the regiment do as well as they have done.
    SHC 11.433 23 Here [at Sleepy Hollow] we may establish that most agreeable of all museums...an Arboretum,-wherein may be planted...every tree that is native to Massachusetts...so that every child may be shown growing...the beech, which we have allowed to die out of the eastern counties;...
    FRep 11.515 11 When the cannon is aimed by ideas...when men die for what they live for...the better code of laws at last records the victory.
    CL 12.155 19 ...after having climbed the Alps, whilst I [Linnaeus], a youth of twenty-five years...lay down as if to die in those ends of the world, these two old [Lap] men, one fifty, one seventy years...felt none of the inconveniences of the road...
    Bost 12.185 4 There is great testimony of discriminating persons to the effect that Rome is endowed with the enchanting property of inspiring a longing in men there to live and there to die.
    Bost 12.195 4 How needful is David, Paul, Leighton, Fenelon, to our devotion. Of these writers, of this spirit which deified them, I will say with Confucius, If in the morning I hear of the right way, and in the evening die, I can be happy.
    Bost 12.207 25 The towns or countries in which the man lives and dies where he was born, and his son and son's son live and die where he did, are of no great account.
    PPr 12.384 11 ...here [in Carlyle's Past and Present] is a message which those to whom it was addressed cannot choose but hear. Though they die, they must listen.
    Let 12.404 24 Many of the best must die of consumption, many of despair... before the one great and fortunate life which they each predicted can shoot up into a thrifty and beneficent existence.

died, v. (45)

    LE 1.185 26 When you shall say...I must eat the good of the land and let learning and romantic expectations go...then once more perish the buds of art...as they have died already in a thousand thousand men.
    Hsm1 2.262 17 It is but the other day that the brave Lovejoy gave his breast to the bullets of a mob...and died when it was better not to live.
    Mrs1 3.129 3 The city would have died out, rotted and exploded, long ago, but that it was reinforced from the fields.
    NR 3.248 17 ...I endeavored to show my good men...that I revered saints, but woke up glad that the old pagan world stood its ground and died hard;...
    PPh 4.44 12 [Plato]...died, as we have received it, in the act of writing, at eighty-one years.
    SwM 4.101 9 ...[Swedenborg]...died in London, March 29, 1772, of apoplexy...
    SwM 4.122 17 Instead of a religion which visited [Swedenborg] diplomatically three or four times,--when he was born, when he married, when he fell sick and when he died...here was a teaching which accompanied him all day...
    SwM 4.125 20 [To Swedenborg] The ghosts are tormented with the fear of death and cannot remember that they have died.
    MoS 4.162 26 ...when in Paris, in 1833...in the cemetery of Pere Lachaise, I came to a tomb of Auguste Collignon, who died in 1830...
    MoS 4.169 13 Montaigne died of a quinsy, at the age of sixty, in 1592.
    ShP 4.203 8 Sir Henry Wotton was born four years after Shakspeare, and died twenty-three years after him;...
    ET1 5.18 14 ...[Carlyle]...saw how every event affects all the future. Christ died on the tree; that built Dunscore kirk yonder; that brought you and me together.
    ET1 5.23 14 [Wordsworth] replied he never was in haste to publish;...but what he had written would be printed, whether he lived or died.
    ET4 5.59 15 Odin died in his bed, in Sweden;...
    ET10 5.153 21 An Englishman who has lost his fortune is said to have died of a broken heart.
    ET10 5.158 18 Hargreaves invented the spinning-jenny, and died in a workhouse.
    ET11 5.175 18 Our success in France, says the historian [Thomas Fuller], lived and died with [Richard Beauchamp].
    Cour 7.261 20 I knew a young soldier who died in the early campaign...
    Cour 7.266 21 Plutarch relates that the Pythoness who tried to prophesy without command in the Temple at Delphi...fell into convulsions and died.
    Suc 7.286 2 Hippocrates in Greece knew how to stay the devouring plague which ravaged Athens in his time, and his skill died with him.
    OA 7.322 11 ...if the life be true and noble, we have quite another sort of seniors than the...dotards who are falsely old,--namely, the men...who appearing in any street, the people empty their houses to gaze at and obey them:...as blind old Dandolo...elected at the age of ninety-six to the throne of the Eastern Empire, which he declined, and died doge at ninety-seven.
    PPo 8.237 2 To Baron von Hammer Purgstall, who died in Vienna in 1856, we owe our best knowledge of the Persians.
    Chr2 10.107 1 Calvinism was one and the same thing in Geneva, in Scotland, in Old and New England. If there was a wedding, they had a sermon;...if a war, or small-pox, or a comet, or canker-worms, or a deacon died,-still a sermon...
    Edc1 10.133 7 If I have renounced the search of truth...I have died to all use of these new events...
    EzRy 10.381 6 ...it is stated that the mother [Lydia Kent Ripley] died leaving nineteen children...
    EzRy 10.383 6 [The Ezra Ripleys] had three children: Sarah...Samuel... Daniel Bliss, born August 1, 1784. He died September 21, 1841.
    MMEm 10.400 8 [Mary Moody Emerson's father] died at Rutland, Vermont...
    MMEm 10.403 8 [Mary Moody Emerson] liked to notice that the greatest geniuses have died ignorant of their power and influence.
    MMEm 10.430 27 I [Mary Moody Emerson] have heard that the greatest geniuses have died ignorant of their power and influence on the arts and sciences.
    Thor 10.466 10 The river on whose banks [Thoreau] was born and died he knew from its springs to its confluence with the Merrimack.
    LS 11.22 12 That for which Paul lived and died so gloriously;...was to redeem us from a formal religion...
    LS 11.22 26 ...the Almighty God was pleased to qualify and send forth a man to teach men...that sacrifice was smoke, and forms were shadows. This man lived and died true to this purpose;...
    HDC 11.78 2 ...[William Emerson] asked, and obtained of the town [Concord], leave to accept the commission of chaplain to the Northern army, at Ticonderoga, and died...of the distemper that prevailed in the camp.
    EWI 11.109 1 More seamen died in [the slave] trade in one year than in the whole remaining trade of the country [England] in two.
    HCom 11.340 9 Many in sad faith sought for [Truth],/ Many with crossed hands sighed for her;/ But these, our brothers, fought for her,/ At life's dear peril wrought for her,/ So loved her that they died for her,/ Tasting the raptured fleetness/ Of her divine completeness/...
    SMC 11.358 14 I doubt not many of our soldiers could repeat the confession of a youth whom I knew in the beginning of the [Civil] war, who...went to the field, and died early.
    SMC 11.373 11 [George Prescott] was carried off the field to the division hospital, and died on the following morning.
    SMC 11.375 3 Those who went through those dreadful fields [of the Civil War] and returned not deserve much more than all the honor we can pay. But those also who went through the same fields, and returned alive, put just as much at hazard as those who died...
    Scot 11.467 26 [Scott] found himself in his youth and manhood and age in the society of...Wilson, Hogg, De Quincey, to name only some of his literary neighbors, and, as soon as he died, all this brilliant circle was broken up.
    CL 12.137 17 In Tornea, [Linnaeus] found the people suffering every spring from the loss of their cattle, which died by some frightful distemper...
    CW 12.174 17 In the arboretum you should have things...which people who read of them are hungry to see. Thus plant the Sequoia Gigantea...and set it on its way of ten or fifteen centuries. Bayard Taylor planted two -one died but I saw the other looking well.
    Bost 12.187 26 The Greeks thought him unhappy who died without seeing the statue of Jove at Olympia.
    MAng1 12.233 2 A little before he died, [Michelangelo] burned a great number of designs, sketches and cartoons made by him...
    Milt1 12.254 4 There is something pleasing in the affection with which we can regard a man [Milton] who died a hundred and sixty years ago...
    Pray 12.351 20 Wacic the Caliph, who died A. D. 845, ended his life...with these words: O thou whose kingdom never passes away, pity one whose dignity is so transient.

diem, n. (1)

    SovE 10.195 16 We need not always be stipulating for our clean shirt and roast joint per diem.

Dieman's, Van, Land, n. (1)

    ET5 5.92 3 The nation [England] sits in the immense city they have builded, a London extended into every man's mind, though he live in Van Dieman's Land or Capetown.

dien, v. (1)

    ACiv 11.297 2 Ich dien, I serve, is a truly royal motto.

dies, v. (24)

    Nat 1.23 5 Nothing divine dies.
    DSA 1.126 3 The principle of veneration never dies out.
    LE 1.185 24 When you shall say...I must eat the good of the land and let learning and romantic expectations go, until a more convenient season;- then dies the man in you;...
    MR 1.232 6 In the island of Cuba...it appears only men are bought for the plantations, and one dies in ten every year...to yield us sugar.
    SR 2.87 16 The persons who make up a nation to-day, next year die, and their experience dies with them.
    Hsm1. 2.252 21 ...the little man...is born red, and dies gray...
    Exp 3.55 16 We house with the insane, and must humor them; then conversation dies out.
    NR 3.243 4 As soon as a person is no longer related to our present well-being, he is concealed, or dies, as we say.
    PPh 4.70 3 When an artificer, [Plato] says, in the fabrication of any work, looks to that which always subsists according to the same; and, employing a model of this kind, expresses its idea and power in his work,--it must follow that his production should be beautiful. But when he beholds that which is born and dies, it will be far from beautiful.
    ET6 5.102 8 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;...
    ET8 5.136 21 On deliberate choice and from grounds of character, [the English hero] has elected his part to live and die for, and dies with grandeur.
    ET14 5.253 19 ...in England, one hermit finds this fact, and another finds that, and lives and dies ignorant of its value.
    F 6.5 9 The Spartan, embodying his religion in his country, dies before its majesty without a question.
    F 6.29 19 ...goodness dies in wishes.
    Ill 6.312 23 [the dreariest alderman] wishes the bow and compliment of some leader in the state or in society; weighs what he says; perhaps he never comes nearer to him for that, but dies at last better contented for this amusement of his eyes and his fancy.
    Farm 7.147 11 Set out a pine-tree, and it dies in the first year...
    PPo 8.245 12 In honor dies he to whom the great seems ever wonderful.
    Imtl 8.347 13 He has [immortality], and he alone, who gives life to all names, persons, things, where he comes. No religion, not the wildest mythology dies for him;...
    Dem1 10.22 11 A Highland chief, an Indian sachem or a feudal baron may fancy...that...when he dies, banshees will announce his fate to kinsmen in foreign parts.
    PerF 10.88 5 ...the cause of right for which we labor never dies...
    HDC 11.30 11 ...the race survives whilst the individual dies.
    FSLN 11.215 7 All else is gone; from those great eyes/ The soul has fled:/ When faith is lost, when honor dies,/ The man is dead!/ Whittier, Ichabod!
    Mem 12.103 12 The poor short lone fact dies at the birth.
    Bost 12.207 24 The towns or countries in which the man lives and dies where he was born, and his son and son's son live and die where he did, are of no great account.

diet, n. (26)

    AmS 1.92 25 ...great and heroic men have existed who had almost no other information than by the printed page. I only would say that it needs a strong head to bear that diet.
    MN 1.215 19 You shall love...an unimpeded mind, and not a monkish diet;...
    MN 1.215 24 Tell me not how great your project is...cleaner diet...
    MR 1.251 19 [Caliph Omar's] diet was barley bread;...
    SR 2.53 9 I wish [my life]...not to need diet and bleeding.
    SL 2.161 27 The object of the man...is...to suffer the law to traverse his whole being without obstruction, so that on what point soever of his doing your eye falls it shall report truly of his character, whether it be his diet, his house...
    SL 2.163 21 The poor mind does not seem to itself to be any thing unless it have an outside badge,--some Gentoo diet, or Quaker coat...
    NER 3.252 11 One apostle thought all men should go to farming...another that the mischief was in our diet...
    NER 3.262 5 Our marriage is no worse than...our diet...
    ET4 5.69 10 [The English] use a plentiful and nutritious diet.
    ET5 5.84 24 [The English] secure the essentials in their diet, in their arts and manufactures.
    ET12 5.206 1 The number of fellowships at Oxford is 540, averaging 200 pounds a year, with lodging and diet at the college.
    ET12 5.210 25 The diet and rough exercise [at Oxford] secure a certain amount of old Norse power.
    F 6.41 11 ...insane persons are indifferent to their dress, diet, and other accommodations...
    Ctr 6.154 20 'T is a superstition to insist on a special diet.
    Ctr 6.154 23 How can you mind diet, bed, dress, or salutes or compliments...when you think how paltry are the machinery and the workers?
    DL 7.118 1 The diet of the house does not create its order...
    DL 7.125 9 In each the circumstance signalized differs, but in each it is made the coals of an ever-burning egotism. In one, it was his going to sea;... in a fifth, his new diet and regimen;...
    MMEm 10.419 20 ...so poor are some of those allotted to join me [Mary Moody Emerson] on the weary needy path, that 't is benevolence enjoins self-denial. Could I but dare it in the bread-and-water diet!
    MMEm 10.429 6 I [Mary Moody Emerson] have given up, the last year or two, the hope of dying. In the lowest ebb of health nothing is ominous; diet and exercise restore.
    Thor 10.463 10 ...when some one urged a vegetable diet, Thoreau thought all diets a very small matter...
    HDC 11.39 27 Hard labor and spare diet [the settlers of Concord] had...
    HDC 11.56 12 We have among us [says Peter Bulkeley] excess and...pride in apparel, daintiness in diet...
    CL 12.155 27 I [Linnaeus] saw [Lap] men more than seventy years old put their heel on their own neck, without any exertion. O holy simplicity of diet, past all praise!
    Milt1 12.263 7 [Milton] was abstemious in diet...
    PPr 12.382 14 A man's diet should be what is simplest and readiest to be had...

Diet of 1751, n. (1)

    SwM 4.100 17 At the Diet of 1751...the most solid memorials on finance were from [Swedenborg's] pen.

dieted, v. (3)

    CbW 6.274 2 It makes no difference, in looking back five years, how you have been dieted or dressed;...
    DL 7.112 12 If the children...are...dieted, attended...then does the hospitality of the house suffer;...
    Clbs 7.224 2 Too long shut in strait and few,/ Thinly dieted on dew,/ I will use the world, and sift it,/ To a thousand humors shift it./

diets, n. (2)

    F 6.32 26 The plague in the sea-service from scurvy is healed by lemon juice and other diets...
    Thor 10.463 10 ...Thoreau thought all diets a very small matter...

Dieu, n. (4)

    Wsp 6.209 21 When Paul Leroux offered his article Dieu to the conductor of a leading French journal, he replied, La question de Dieu manque d' actualite.
    WD 7.178 17 ...an old French sentence says, God works in moments,--En peu d'heure Dieu labeure.
    Chr2 10.104 9 Si Dieu a fait l'homme a son image, l'homme l' a bien rendu.
    Plu 10.295 9 King Henry IV. wrote to his wife, Marie de Medicis: Vive Dieu. As God liveth, you could not have sent me anything which could be more agreeable than the news of the pleasure you have taken in this reading [of Plutarch].

Dieu [Paul Leroux], n. (1)

    Wsp 6.209 20 When Paul Leroux offered his article Dieu to the conductor of a leading French journal, he replied, La question de Dieu manque d' actualite.

differ, v. (13)

    Nat 1.58 2 Ethics and religion differ herein; that the one is the system of human duties commencing from man; the other, from God.
    NMW 4.256 15 ...these two parties [democrat and conservative] differ only as young and old.
    CbW 6.249 27 Clay and clay differ in dignity...
    Ill 6.321 18 How can we penetrate the law of our shifting moods and susceptibility? Yet they differ as all and nothing.
    Ill 6.323 27 ...we transcend the circumstance continually and taste the real quality of existence; as in our employments, which only differ in the manifestations but express the same laws;...
    Elo1 7.61 4 Our temperaments differ in capacity of heat...
    Cour 7.266 9 The thoughtful man says, You differ from me in opinion and methods...
    Elo2 8.126 17 Men differ so much in control of their faculties!
    Schr 10.269 5 The dry-goods men, and the brokers...are idealists, and only differ from the philosopher in the intensity of the charge.
    LS 11.17 27 ...our opinions differ much respecting the nature and offices of Christ...
    FRO2 11.485 21 I have no wish to proselyte any reluctant mind, nor, I think, have I any curiosity or impulse to intrude on those whose ways of thinking differ from mine.
    II 12.81 19 The haberdashers and brokers and attorneys are idealists and only differ in the amount and clearness of their perception.
    CInt 12.130 26 Our colleges may differ much in the scale of requirements... but 't is very certain than an examination is yonder before us...

differed, v. (3)

    LE 1.179 1 Napoleon observed that [the English soldiers'] manner of handling their arms differed from the French exercise...
    NER 3.265 14 Many of us have differed in opinion, and we could find no man who could make the truth plain, but possibly a college, or an ecclesiastical council, might.
    SwM 4.117 3 Lord Bacon had found that truth and nature differed only as seal and print;...

difference, n. (105)

    Nat 1.33 7 The axioms of physics translate the laws of ethics. Thus...the smallest weight may be made to lift the greatest, the difference of weight being compensated by time;...
    Nat 1.36 21 Our dealing with sensible objects is a constant exercise in the necessary lessons of difference...
    Nat 1.44 12 Each creature is only a modification of the other; the likeness in them is more than the difference...
    Nat 1.47 17 ...what difference does it make, whether Orion is up there in heaven, or some god paints the image in the firmament of the soul?
    Nat 1.47 22 ...what is the difference, whether land and sea interact...or whether, without relations of time and space, the same appearances are inscribed in the constant faith of man?
    Nat 1.51 15 In these cases, by mechanical means, is suggested the difference between the observer and the spectacle...
    Nat 1.57 17 ...we learn the difference between the absolute and the conditional or relative.
    Nat 1.73 15 The difference between the actual and the ideal force of man is happily figured by the schoolmen...
    AmS 1.109 1 Historically, there is thought to be a difference in the ideas which predominate over successive epochs...
    LE 1.163 14 The difference of circumstance is merely costume.
    MN 1.198 2 What difference can it make whether [our glance at the realities around us] take the shape of exhortation...
    MR 1.238 4 Consider further the difference between the first and second owner of property.
    Con 1.299 4 It makes a great difference to your figure and to your thought whether your foot is advancing or receding.
    Con 1.324 1 It will never make any difference to a hero what the laws are.
    Tran 1.335 2 Let any thought or motive of mine be different from that they are, the difference will transform my condition and economy.
    Tran 1.352 11 ...there must be some wide difference between [the Transcendentalist's] faith and other faith;...
    YA 1.375 24 Fathers...behold with impatience a new character and way of thinking presuming to show itself in their own son or daughter. This feeling...becomes petulance and tyranny when...the emperor of an empire, deals with the same difference of opinion in his subjects.
    YA 1.375 25 Difference of opinion is the one crime which kings never forgive.
    Hist 2.11 13 Belzoni digs and measures in the mummy-pits and pyramids of Thebes until he can see the end of the difference between the monstrous work and himself.
    Hist 2.12 13 The difference between men is in their principle of association.
    SR 2.53 12 ...for myself it makes no difference whether I do or forbear those actions which are reckoned excellent.
    Comp 2.119 15 The history of persecution is a history of endeavors...to twist a rope of sand. It makes no difference whether the actors be many or one...
    SL 2.141 10 ...the more truly [a man] consults his own powers, the more difference will his work exhibit from the work of any other.
    Fdsp 2.200 2 It makes no difference how many friends I have...if there be one to whom I am not equal.
    Prd1 2.228 3 There is more difference in the quality of our pleasures than in the amount.
    OS 2.267 1 There is a difference between one and another hour of life in their authority and subsequent effect.
    OS 2.295 10 It makes no difference whether the appeal is to numbers or to one.
    Cir 2.320 27 The difference between talents and character is adroitness to keep the old and trodden round, and power and courage to make a new road to new and better goals.
    Int 2.333 5 The difference between persons is not in wisdom but in art.
    Pt1 3.25 22 A rhyme in one of our sonnets should not be less pleasing than...the resembling difference of a group of flowers.
    Pt1 3.34 12 Here is the difference betwixt the poet and the mystic, that the last nails a symbol to one sense, which was a true sense for a moment, but soon becomes old and false.
    Exp 3.84 26 I know that the world I converse with in the city and in the farms, is not the world I think. I observe that difference, and shall observe it.
    Chr1 3.103 14 People always recognize this difference. We know who is benevolent, by quite other means than the amount of subscription to soup-societies.
    Nat2 3.176 15 The difference between landscape and landscape is small...
    Nat2 3.176 16 The difference between landscape and landscape is small, but there is great difference in the beholders.
    Pol1 3.211 26 It makes no difference how many tons' weight of atmosphere presses on our heads, so long as the same pressure resists it within the lungs.
    Pol1 3.214 20 I can see well enough a great difference between my setting myself down to a self-control, and my going to make somebody else act after my views;...
    NER 3.262 15 It makes no difference what you say, you must make me feel that you are aloof from [the institution];...
    NER 3.285 16 ...that is ever the difference between the wise and the unwise: the latter wonders at what is unusual, the wise man wonders at the usual.
    UGM 4.6 1 A main difference betwixt men is, whether they attend their own affair or not.
    UGM 4.24 21 Difference from me is the measure of absurdity.
    PPh 4.48 6 ...every mental act...recognizes the difference of things.
    PPh 4.50 16 ...the nature of the Great Spirit is single, though its forms be manifold, arising from the consequences of acts [said Krishna]. When the difference of the investing form...is destroyed, there is no distinction.
    SwM 4.130 2 [Swedenborg] was painfully alive to the difference between knowing and doing...
    SwM 4.143 1 'T is a great difference [between Swedenborg and Behmen].
    MoS 4.150 5 One class [predisposed to Sensation] has the perception of difference...
    GoW 4.282 6 It makes a great difference to the force of any sentence whether there be a man behind it
    ET5 5.99 27 The difference of rank [in England] does not divide the national heart.
    ET7 5.121 22 ...the Englishman is not fickle. He had really made up his mind now for years as he read his newspaper, to hate and despise M. Guizot; and the altered position of the man as an illustrious exile and a guest in the country, makes no difference to him...
    ET14 5.242 15 In England these [generalizations]...do all have a kind of filial retrospect to Plato and the Greeks. Of this kind is...the identity-philosophy of Schelling, couched in the statement that all difference is quantitative.
    ET14 5.249 25 [Carlyle] saw little difference in the gladiators, or the causes for which they combated;...
    ET16 5.287 24 ...I insisted that the manifest absurdity of the view to English feasibility could make no difference to a gentleman;...
    Pow 6.74 1 ...the one evil [in life] is dissipation; and it makes no difference whether our dissipations are coarse or fine;...
    Wsp 6.231 7 What is vulgar...but the avarice of reward? 'T is the difference of artisan and artist...
    Wsp 6.235 13 A man, says Vishnu Sarma, who having well compared his own strength or weakness with that of others, after all doth not know the difference, is easily overcome by his enemies.
    CbW 6.251 3 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...nor does it seem to make much difference whether he is bachelor or patriarch;...
    CbW 6.269 7 What a difference in the hospitality of minds!
    CbW 6.274 1 It makes no difference, in looking back five years, how you have been dieted or dressed;...
    CbW 6.277 18 The main difference between people seems to be that one man can come under obligations on which you can rely,--is obligable; and another is not.
    Bty 6.291 17 What a difference in effect between a battalion of troops marching to action, and one of our independent companies on a holiday!
    Elo1 7.77 12 What a difference between men in power of face!
    Clbs 7.234 2 One lesson we learn early,--that in spite of seeming difference, men are all of one pattern.
    Clbs 7.234 7 In fact the only sin which we never forgive in each other is difference of opinion.
    Suc 7.288 10 These [American] feats have to be sure great difference of merit...
    Suc 7.297 6 ...our difference of wit appears to be only a difference of impressionability...
    Suc 7.301 18 ...the chief difference between man and man is a difference of impressionability.
    PI 8.44 8 Vast is the difference between writing clean verses for magazines, and creating these new persons and situations...
    PI 8.54 7 The difference between poetry and stock poetry is this, that in the latter the rhythm is given and the sense adapted to it; while in the former the sense dictates the rhythm.
    PI 8.72 7 The number of successive saltations the nimble thought can make, measures the difference between the highest and lowest of mankind.
    SA 8.83 22 There is the same difference between heavy and genial manners as between the perceptions of octogenarians and those of young girls who see everything in the twinkling of an eye.
    Comc 8.160 23 ...whilst the presence of the ideal discovers the difference [between rule and fact], the comedy is enhanced whenever that ideal is embodied visibly in a man.
    QO 8.201 4 Every mind is different; and the more it is unfolded, the more pronounced is that difference.
    PPo 8.247 26 The difference is not so much in the quality of men's thoughts as in the power of uttering them.
    Grts 8.320 9 ...the difference of level...makes eloquence, indignation, poetry, in him who finds there is much to communicate.
    Aris 10.33 8 Room is found for all the departments of the state in the moods and faculties of each human spirit, with separate function and difference of dignity.
    Aris 10.44 13 It were to dispute against the sun, to deny this difference of brain.
    Chr2 10.96 22 Though Love repine, and Reason chafe,/ There came a voice without reply,/ 'T is man's perdition to be safe,/ When for the truth he ought to die./ Such is the difference of the action of the heart within and of the senses without.
    Edc1 10.126 4 Humanly speaking, the school, the college, society, make the difference between men.
    Edc1 10.147 6 Teach [a boy] the difference between the similar and the same.
    Edc1 10.154 19 ...only to think of using [simple discipline and the following of nature] implies character and profoundness; to enter on this course of discipline is to be good and great. It is precisely analogous to the difference between the use of corporal punishment and the methods of love.
    Supl 10.178 2 On the other hand,-and it is a good illustration of the difference of genius,-the European nations...understand the manufacture of iron.
    SovE 10.184 8 In ignorant ages it was common to vaunt the human superiority by underrating the instinct of other animals; but a better discernment finds that the difference is only of less and more.
    SovE 10.184 19 I see the unity of thought and of morals running through all animated Nature; there is no difference of quality...
    SovE 10.202 12 In the Christianity of this country there is wide difference of opinion in regard to inspiration, prophecy...
    Prch 10.223 17 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;...
    Prch 10.233 16 ...if I had to counsel a young preacher, I should say: When there is any difference felt between the foot-board of the pulpit and the floor of the parlor, you have not yet said that which you should say.
    Schr 10.285 9 ...[men of talent] nourish a small difference into a loud quarrel.
    Plu 10.305 19 There is...a wide difference of time in the writing of these discourses [of Plutarch]...
    LS 11.4 23 ...so far from the [Lord's] Supper being a tradition in which men are fully agreed, there has always been the widest room for difference of opinion upon this particular.
    EWI 11.121 15 ...every man's position [in Jamaica] is settled by the same circumstances which regulate that point in other free countries, where no difference of color exists.
    Wom 11.409 8 It was Burns's remark when he first came to Edinburgh that between the men of rustic life and the polite world he observed little difference;...
    Wom 11.415 27 ...another important step [for Woman] was made by the doctrine of Swedenborg, a sublime genius who...showed the difference of sex to run through nature and through thought.
    SHC 11.435 4 ...though we make much ado in our praises of Italy or Andes, Nature makes not so much difference.
    FRO2 11.488 3 All our sects have refined the point of difference between them.
    FRO2 11.488 4 The point of difference that still remains between churches...is in the addition to the moral code...of somewhat positive and historical.
    FRO2 11.488 9 The point of difference that still remains between churches...is in the addition to the moral code...of somewhat positive and historical. I think that to be...the one difference remaining.
    PLT 12.49 18 The difference is obvious enough in Talent between the speed of one man's action above another's.
    PLT 12.56 4 The right partisan is a heady man, who...sees some one thing with heat and exaggeration; and if he falls among other narrow men...seems inspired and a god-send to those who wish to...carry a point. 'T is the difference between progress by railroad and by walking across the broken country.
    II 12.66 25 I know, of course, all the grounds on which any man affirms the immortality of the Soul. Fed from one spring, the water-tank is equally full in all the gardens: the difference is in the distribution by pipes and pumps (difference in the aqueduct)...
    II 12.67 1 I know, of course, all the grounds on which any man affirms the immortality of the Soul. Fed from one spring, the water-tank is equally full in all the gardens: the difference is in the distribution by pipes and pumps (difference in the aqueduct)...
    Mem 12.93 21 We figure [memory] as if the mind were a kind of looking-glass, which being carried through the street of time receives on its clear plate every image that passes; only with this difference, that our plate is iodized so that every image sinks into it, and is held there.
    Mem 12.95 5 Never was truer fable than that of the Sibyl's writing on leaves which the wind scatters. The difference between men is that in one the memory with inconceivable swiftness flies after and recollects the flying leaves...
    Mem 12.96 11 This is the high difference, the quality of the association by which a man remembers.
    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...
    WSL 12.348 2 [Landor] knows the wide difference between compression and an obscure elliptical style.

differenced, v. (3)

    Nat 1.44 4 The granite is differenced in its laws only by the more or less of heat from the river that wears it away.
    ET5 5.101 4 ...[the English] are more bound in character than differenced in ability or in rank.
    Elo1 7.97 7 He who will train himself to mastery in this science of persuasion must lay the emphasis of education...on character and insight. Let him see that his speech is not differenced from action;...

differences, n. (18)

    Nat 1.38 8 The whole character and fortune of the individual are affected by the least inequalities in the culture of the understanding; for example, in the perception of differences.
    AmS 1.109 8 ...I do not much dwell on these differences [of epochs].
    YA 1.384 20 The actual differences of men must be acknowledged...
    Hist 2.12 19 The progress of the intellect is to the clearer vision of causes, which neglects surface differences.
    Int 2.330 14 ...the differences between men in natural endowment are insignificant in comparison with their common wealth.
    NER 3.270 15 I do not believe that the differences of opinion and character in men are organic.
    NER 3.281 7 Let a clear, apprehensive mind...converse with the most commanding poetic genius, I think it would appear...that a perfect understanding, a like receiving, a like perceiving, abolished differences;...
    PPh 4.48 3 We unite all things...by perceiving the superficial differences and the profound resemblances.
    NMW 4.235 23 ...if fighting be the best mode of adjusting national differences...certainly Bonaparte was right in making it thorough.
    ET16 5.279 11 We [Emerson and Carlyle] walked in and out and took again and again a fresh look at the uncanny stones [of Stonehenge]. The old sphinx put our petty differences of nationality out of sight.
    WD 7.157 13 The eye appreciates finer differences than art can expose.
    QO 8.190 6 Each man of thought is surrounded by wiser men than he, if they cannot write as well. Cannot he and they combine? Cannot they...call their poem Beaumont and Fletcher, or the Theban Phalanx's? The city will for nine days or nine years make differences and sinister comparisons...
    Grts 8.305 4 There are to each function and department of Nature supplementary men: to geology...men, with a taste for mountains and rocks, a quick eye for differences and for chemical changes.
    Aris 10.38 23 If the differences [in men] are organic, so are the merits...
    Prch 10.226 26 In matters of religion, men eagerly fasten their eyes on the differences between their creed and yours...
    Prch 10.234 15 The differences of opinion, the strength of old sects or timorous literalists...is not worth considering [by the young clergyman]...
    Schr 10.266 12 I am not disposed to magnify temporary differences...
    FRO2 11.490 15 Zealots eagerly fasten their eyes on the differences between their creed and yours...

differences, v. (5)

    SL 2.143 26 A man's genius, the quality that differences him from every other...determines for him the character of the universe.
    Nat2 3.179 20 A little heat...is all that differences the...cold poles of the earth from the prolific tropical climates.
    ET10 5.157 14 [The English] have reinforced their own productivity by the creation of that marvellous machinery which differences this age from any other age.
    F 6.44 9 The quality of the thought differences the Egyptian and the Roman...
    PI 8.72 5 Power of generalizing differences men.

differencing, v. (2)

    ET8 5.138 7 If anatomy is reformed according to national tendencies, I suppose the spleen will hereafter be found in the Englishman, not found in the American, and differencing the one from the other.
    Grts 8.306 22 ...every mind has...a new direction of its own, differencing its genius and aim from every other mind;...

different, adj. (101)

    Nat 1.9 13 ...every hour and change [in nature] corresponds to and authorizes a different state of the mind...
    Nat 1.23 20 ...the works of nature are innumerable and all different...
    Nat 1.24 20 Truth, and goodness, and beauty, are but different faces of the same All.
    Nat 1.45 25 ...far different from the deaf and dumb nature around them, these [human forms] all rest...on the unfathomed sea of thought and virtue...
    Nat 1.51 25 By a few strokes [the poet] delineates...the sun, the mountain... not different from what we know them, but only lifted from the ground and afloat before the eye.
    DSA 1.124 11 ...all things proceed out of this same spirit, which is differently named...in its different applications...
    DSA 1.124 12 ...the ocean receives different names on the several shores which it washes.
    LE 1.156 12 ...a very different estimate of the scholar's profession prevails in this country...
    Con 1.309 8 My genius leads me to build a different manner of life from any of yours.
    Tran 1.335 1 Let any thought or motive of mine be different from that they are, the difference will transform my condition and economy.
    Hist 2.25 1 ...[in the Grecian period] the habit of [each man's] supplying his own needs educates the body to wonderful performances. Such are the Agamemnon and Diomed of Homer, and not far different is the picture Xenophon gives of himself and his compatriots...
    SR 2.83 25 There is at this moment for you an utterance brave and grand as that of...the pen of Moses or Dante, but different from all these.
    SL 2.137 20 The simplicity of the universe is very different from the simplicity of a machine.
    Lov1 2.170 13 ...this passion of which we speak [love]...makes the aged participators of it not less than the tender maiden, though in a different and nobler sort.
    Hsm1 2.250 26 ...a different breeding, different religion and greater intellectual activity would have modified or even reversed the particular action...
    Pt1 3.6 20 ...the Universe has three children...which reappear under different names in every system of thought...
    Pt1 3.36 12 ...the same man or society of men may wear one aspect to themselves and their companions, and a different aspect to higher intelligences.
    Nat2 3.191 8 ...wealth was good as it...kept the children and the dinner-table in a different apartment.
    NR 3.232 20 I am very much struck in literature by the appearance that one person wrote all the books; as if the editor of a journal planted his body of reporters in different parts of the field of action...
    NR 3.238 19 ...when [the recluse] comes into a public assembly he sees that men have very different manners from his own...
    NER 3.266 8 ...the force which moves the world is a new quality, and can never be furnished by adding whatever quantities of a different kind.
    NER 3.267 6 [The union of men] is the union of friends who live in different streets or towns.
    UGM 4.5 22 Each man seeks those of different quality from his own...
    UGM 4.19 17 [The great man's] class is extinguished with him. In some other and quite different field the next man will appear;...
    PPh 4.43 1 [Plato] says, in the Republic, Such a genius as philosophers must of necessity have, is wont but seldom in all its parts to meet in one man, but its different parts generally spring up in different persons.
    PPh 4.43 2 [Plato] says, in the Republic, Such a genius as philosophers must of necessity have, is wont but seldom in all its parts to meet in one man, but its different parts generally spring up in different persons.
    SwM 4.142 21 The warm, many-weathered, passionate-peopled world is to [Swedenborg]...an emblematic freemason's procession. How different is Jacob Behmen!...
    ShP 4.205 16 About the time when [Shakespeare] was writing Macbeth, he sues Philip Rogers...for thirty-five shillings, ten pence, for corn delivered to him at different times;...
    NMW 4.249 27 On the voyage to Egypt [Napoleon] liked, after dinner, to fix on three or four persons to support a proposition, and as many to oppose it. He gave a subject, and the discussions turned on questions of religion, the different kinds of government, and the art of war.
    ET4 5.44 15 ...you cannot draw the line where a race begins or ends. Hence every writer makes a different count.
    ET4 5.48 17 ...the Briton of to-day is a very different person from Cassibelaunus or Ossian.
    ET4 5.50 23 Everything English is a fusion of distant and antagonistic elements. The language is mixed; the names of men are of different nations...
    ET8 5.129 18 Commerce sends abroad multitudes of different classes [of Englishmen].
    ET8 5.137 9 ...[the English] administer, in different parts of the world, the codes of every empire and race;...
    ET17 5.293 11 ...my recollections of the best hours go back to private conversations in different parts of the kingdom [England]...
    ET17 5.297 4 ...[in London] you will hear from different literary men that Wordsworth had no personal friend...
    ET18 5.299 3 ...[England] is an old pile built in different ages...
    F 6.10 9 In different hours a man represents each of several of his ancestors...
    F 6.22 2 ...Fate...is different seen from above and from below...
    F 6.24 2 ...the dogma [of Fate] makes a different impression when it is held by the weak and lazy.
    F 6.34 18 The Fultons and Watts of politics...by satisfying [the religious principle]...through a different disposition of society...have contrived to make of this terror the most...energetic form of a State.
    Ctr 6.139 19 The city breeds one kind of speech and manners; the back country a different style;...
    Ctr 6.141 19 ...though we must not omit any jot of our system, we can seldom be sure that...as much good would not have accrued from a different system.
    Bhr 6.174 20 If you look at the pictures of patricians and of peasants of different periods and countries, you will see how well they match the same classes in our towns.
    Bhr 6.182 12 ...[Balzac] says, The look, the voice, the respiration, and the attitude or walk, are identical. But, as it has not been given to man the power to stand guard at once over these four different simultaneous expressions of his thought, watch that one which speaks out the truth, and you will know the whole man.
    Wsp 6.201 22 We are of different opinions at different hours...
    Wsp 6.228 25 We need not much mind what people please to say, but what...their natures say, though their...understandings try to...articulate something different.
    Wsp 6.234 25 [Benedict said] I meet powerful, brutal people to whom I have no skill to reply. They think they have defeated me. It is so published in society, in the journals; I am defeated in this fashion...perhaps on a dozen different lines.
    CbW 6.266 10 There are three wants which never can be satisfied: that of the rich...that of the sick, who wants something different; and that of the traveller...
    SS 7.14 21 I know that my friend can talk eloquently; you know that he cannot articulate a sentence: we have seen him in different company.
    Civ 7.19 24 The Chinese and Japanese...is different from the man of Madrid...
    Art2 7.40 14 I hasten to state the principle which prescribes, through different means, its firm law to the useful and the beautiful arts.
    Art2 7.50 12 In sculpture, did ever anybody call the Apollo a fancy piece? Or say of the Laocoon how it might be made different?
    Elo1 7.61 5 ...we boil at different degrees.
    Elo1 7.71 19 Helen is pointing out to Priam, from a tower, the different Grecian chiefs.
    Elo1 7.81 8 Does [any one] think that not possibly a man may come to him who shall persuade him out of his most settled determination?... No, he defies any one, every one. Ah! he is thinking of resistance, and of a different turn from his own.
    WD 7.173 11 Hume's doctrine was that...the girl equipped for her first ball, and the orator returning triumphant from the debate, had different means, but the same quantity of pleasant excitement.
    WD 7.181 16 The days at Belleisle were all different...
    Clbs 7.225 22 We seek society with very different aims...
    Clbs 7.230 25 ...I seldom meet with a reading and thoughtful person but he tells me...that he has no companion. Suppose such a one to go out exploring different circles in search of this wise and genial counterpart,--he might inquire far and wide.
    Suc 7.287 1 Here are already quite different degrees of moral merit in these examples.
    Suc 7.311 7 We live on different planes or platforms.
    PI 8.5 19 ...we see that things wear different names and faces, but belong to one family;...
    PI 8.6 19 ...whilst the man is startled by this closer inspection of the laws of matter, his attention is called to the independent action of the mind;...a certain tyranny which springs up in his own thoughts, which have an order, method and beliefs of their own, very different from the order which this common sense uses.
    PI 8.32 12 Of course, we know what you say, that legends are found in all tribes,--but this legend is different.
    SA 8.85 10 Wait till your affairs go better, and you have other means at hand; you will then ask in a different tone, and [your debtor] will treat your claim with entire respect.
    Res 8.149 11 ...when the mind has exhausted its energies for one employment, it is still fresh and capable of a different task.
    Comc 8.158 12 ...if there be phenomena in botany which we call abortions, the abortion...assumes to the intellect the like completeness with the further function to which in different circumstances it had attained.
    QO 8.200 21 Every one of my writings [said Goethe] has been furnished to me by a thousand different persons...
    QO 8.201 3 Every mind is different;...
    Insp 8.291 21 Allston...had two or three rooms in different parts of Boston, where he could not be found.
    Grts 8.306 16 ...further experiments led [Faraday] to the theory that every chemical substance would be found to have its own, and a different, polarity.
    Imtl 8.351 9 These two, ignorance (whose object is what is pleasant) and knowledge (whose object is what is good) are known...to lead to different goals.
    Chr2 10.96 27 Devout men...have used different images to suggest this latent [moral] force;...
    Edc1 10.129 22 Is it not true that every landscape I behold...every pain I suffer, leaves me a different being from that they found me?
    Supl 10.171 27 'T is very different, this weak and wearisome lie, from the stimulus to the fancy which is given by a romancing talker who does not mean to be exactly taken...
    SovE 10.183 8 ...each of the great departments of Nature...exhibits the same laws on a different plane;...
    Prch 10.234 11 A vivid thought brings the power to paint it; and in proportion to the depth of its source is the force of its projection. We are happy and enriched; we go away invigorated, assisted each in our own work, however different...
    LLNE 10.356 26 [Thoreau]...brought every day a new proposition, as revolutionary as that of yesterday, but different...
    CSC 10.374 6 These meetings [of the Chardon Street Convention]...were spoken of in different circles in every note of hope, of sympathy, of joy, of alarm, of abhorrence and of merriment.
    LVB 11.92 7 We have looked in the newspapers of different parties and find a horrid confirmation of the tale [of the relocation of the Cherokees].
    EWI 11.115 5 Some American captains left the shore and put to sea [at the announcement of emancipation in the West Indies], anticipating insurrection and general murder. With far different thoughts, the negroes spent the hour in their huts and chapels.
    War 11.151 10 Looked at in this general and historical way, many things wear a very different face from that they show near by, and one at a time...
    War 11.154 4 [Alexander's conquest of the East] brought different families of the human race together...
    War 11.160 16 The sublime question has startled one and another happy soul in different quarters of the globe,-Cannot love be, as well as hate?
    War 11.161 2 [The idea that there can be peace as well as war] is expounded, illustrated, defined, with different degrees of clearness;...
    FSLC 11.198 25 Mr. Webster's measure [the Fugitive Slave Law] was, he told us, final. It was a pacification...a measure of conciliation and adjustment. These were his words at different times: there was to be no parleying more; it was irrepealable.
    FSLC 11.205 12 In Mr. Webster's imagination the American Union was a huge Prince Rupert's drop, which, if so much as the smallest end be shivered off, the whole will snap into atoms. Now the fact is quite different from this.
    FSLN 11.227 19 ...Mr. Webster and the country went for the application to these poor men [negroes] of quadruped law. People were expecting a totally different course from Mr. Webster.
    FRO2 11.488 1 ...every believer holds a different creed; that is, all churches are churches of one member.
    CPL 11.505 10 A man, that strives to make himself a different thing from other men by much reading gains this chiefest good, that in all fortunes he hath something to entertain and comfort himself withal.
    FRep 11.528 15 In Mr. Webster's imagination the American Union was a huge Prince Rupert's drop, which will snap into atoms is so much as the smallest end be shivered off. Now the fact is quite different from this.
    PLT 12.10 3 ...there is a certain beatitude...to which all men are entitled, tasted by them in different degrees...
    PLT 12.10 7 ...there is a certain beatitude...to which all men are entitled... and to which their entrance must be in every way forwarded. Practical men...cannot arrive at this. Something very different has to be done...
    PLT 12.11 9 Let me have your attention to this dangerous subject [the laws and powers of the Intellect], which we will cautiously approach on different sides of this dim and perilous lake...
    Bost 12.183 3 The old physiologists...watched the effect of different climates.
    Bost 12.183 13 ...from every stratum a different aroma and air according to its quality.
    Milt1 12.276 21 ...the genius and office of Milton were different [from those of Homer and Shakespeare]...
    MLit 12.319 26 [Shelley]...shares with Richter, Chateaubriand, Manzoni and Wordsworth the feeling of the Infinite, which so labors for expression in their different genius.
    MLit 12.321 27 With the name of Wordsworth rises to our recollection the name of his contemporary and friend, Walter Savage Landor,-a man working in a very different and peculiar spirit...
    Pray 12.354 4 The next [prayer] is in a metrical form. It is the aspiration of a different mind...

different, n. (1)

    PPh 4.56 3 Art expresses the one or the same by the different.

differential, adj. (1)

    Nat2 3.178 20 ...nature...serves as a differential thermometer, detecting the presence or absence of the divine sentiment in man.

differently, adv. (6)

    AmS 1.112 7 This idea [of Unity] has inspired the genius...in a newer time, of Goethe, Wordsworth, and Carlyle. This idea they have differently followed...
    DSA 1.124 10 ...all things proceed out of this same spirit, which is differently named love, justice, temperance...
    Exp 3.78 15 The act looks very differently on the inside and on the outside;...
    QO 8.193 27 ...people quote so differently...
    Dem1 10.9 7 We learn [from dreams] that actions whose turpitude is very differently reputed proceed from one and the same affection.
    LS 11.3 13 Without considering the frivolous questions which have been lately debated as to the posture in which men should partake of [the Lord's Supper];...the questions have been settled differently in every church...

differing, adj. (3)

    SwM 4.118 11 Why hear I the same sense from countless differing voices...
    HDC 11.67 8 ...Mr. [Daniel] Bliss replied...I was filled with wonder, that such a sinful and worthless worm as I am, was allowed to represent Christ... and used the word Mediator in some differing light from that you have given it;...
    HDC 11.82 23 Two religious societies, of differing creed, dwell together [in Concord] in good understanding...

differing, v. (3)

    PPh 4.50 21 The whole world is but a manifestation of Vishnu [said Krishna], who...is to be regarded by the wise as not differing from, but as the same as themselves.
    ET8 5.138 11 If anatomy is reformed according to national tendencies, I suppose the spleen will hereafter be found in the Englishman, not found in the American, and differencing the one from the other. I anticipate another anatomical discovery, that this organ will be found to be cortical and caducous; that they are superficially morose, but at last tender-hearted, herein differing from Rome and the Latin nations.
    ET18 5.299 12 [The English] are well marked and differing from other leading races.

differs, v. (10)

    Nat 1.55 2 ...[the poet] differs from the philosopher only herein, that the one proposes Beauty as his main end; the other Truth.
    Nat 1.65 1 ...[the world] differs from the body in one important respect.
    ET8 5.136 10 Each of [the English] has an opinion which he feels it becomes him to express all the more that it differs from yours.
    Art2 7.51 7 ...the delight which a work of art affords, seems to arise from our recognizing in it the mind that formed Nature, again in active operation. It differs from the works of Nature in this, that they are organically reproductive.
    DL 7.125 2 In each the circumstance signalized differs, but in each it is made the coals of an ever-burning egotism.
    Plu 10.312 19 ...what noble words we owe to [Seneca]:...The good man differs from God in nothing but duration.
    LS 11.11 20 [Christ's washing the disiciples' feet] only differs in this, that we have found the [Lord's] Supper used in New England and the washing of the feet not.
    FRO2 11.489 17 ...do not attempt to elevate [the lesson of the New Testament] out of humanity, by saying, This was not a man, for then you confound it with the fables of every popular religion, and my distrust of the story makes me distrust the doctrine as soon as it differs from my own belief.
    PLT 12.37 20 Perception differs from Instinct by adding the Will.
    MLit 12.326 13 [Goethe] differs from all the great in the total want of frankness.

difficult, adj. (41)

    YA 1.385 7 ...many people...are never happier than when difficult practical questions...are to be solved.
    YA 1.386 3 If any man has a talent...for administering difficult affairs...let him in the county-town...put up his sign-board, Mr. Smith, Governor...
    Exp 3.73 10 I fully understand language, [Mencius] said, and nourish well my vast-flowing vigor. I beg to ask what you call vast-flowing vigor? said his companion. The explanation, replied Mencius, is difficult.
    Gts 3.162 1 The law of benefits is a difficult channel, which requires careful sailing, or rude boats.
    PPh 4.53 14 ...[the Greeks'] perfect works in architecture and sculpture seemed things of course, not more difficult than the completion of a new ship at the Medford yards...
    SwM 4.97 1 ...by being assimilated to the original soul...the soul of man does then easily flow into all things, and all things flow into it: they mix; and he is present and sympathetic with their structure and law. This path is difficult, secret and beset with terror.
    ET5 5.87 1 ...[the English]...do not like ponderous and difficult tactics...
    ET14 5.259 15 [Warren Hasting] goes to bespeak indulgence to...passages elevated to a tract of sublimity into which our habits of judgment will find it difficult to pursue them.
    Pow 6.79 17 The masters say that they know a master in music, only by seeing the pose of the hands on the keys;--so difficult and vital an act is the command of the instrument.
    Bhr 6.197 13 Who dare assume to guide a youth, a maid, to perfect manners? the golden mean is so delicate, difficult...
    Bty 6.298 6 [Women]...teach [the most serious student] to put a pleasing method into what is dry and difficult.
    Elo1 7.86 9 In every company the man with the fact is like the guide you hire to lead your party...through a difficult country.
    WD 7.173 26 How difficult to deal erect with [these passing hours]!
    Cour 7.268 10 Merchants recognize as much gallantry, well judged too, in the conduct of a wise and upright man of business in difficult times, as soldiers in a soldier.
    Cour 7.275 22 In the most private life, difficult duty is never far off.
    Cour 7.277 10 If you accept your thoughts as inspirations from the Supreme Intelligence, obey them when they prescribe difficult duties...
    QO 8.178 8 We expect a great man to be a good reader; or in proportion to the spontaneous power should be the assimilating power. And though such are a more difficult and exacting class, they are not less eager.
    QO 8.193 6 ...it is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others, as it is to invent.
    Insp 8.296 17 The day is good in which we have had the most perceptions. The analysis is the more difficult, because poppy-leaves are strewn when a generalization is made;...
    Insp 8.296 22 'T is the most difficult of tasks to keep/ Heights which the soul is competent to gain./
    Grts 8.315 10 It is difficult to find greatness pure.
    Imtl 8.350 17 [Yama said to Nachiketas] All those desires that are difficult to gain in the world of mortals, all those ask thou at thy pleasure;...
    Aris 10.59 8 ...these [grand interests] are rare and difficult examples...
    Edc1 10.152 10 It is difficult to class [pupils], some are too young, some are slow, some perverse.
    SovE 10.210 12 I know how delicate this [moral] principle is,-how difficult of adaptation to practical and social arrangements.
    EzRy 10.392 19 The society will meet after the Lyceum, as it is difficult to bring people together in the evening,-and no moon.
    EzRy 10.393 18 An eminent skill [Ezra Ripley] had in saying difficult and unspeakable things;...
    MMEm 10.417 18 It is difficult, when we have no kind of barrier, to command our feelings.
    Thor 10.452 19 ...it required rare decision to...keep [Thoreau's] solitary freedom at the cost of disappointing the natural expectations of his family and friends: all the more difficult that he had a perfect probity...
    War 11.169 20 In the second place, as far as [the charge of absurdity on the extreme peace doctrine] respects individual action in difficult and extreme cases, I will say, such cases seldom or never occur to the good and just man;...
    FSLC 11.187 7 It is remarkable how rare in the history of tyrants is an immoral law. Some color, some indirection was always used. If you take up the volumes of the Universal History, you will find it difficult searching.
    FSLN 11.220 1 ...it is always a little difficult to decipher what this public sense is;...
    FSLN 11.240 16 [Liberty] is made difficult, because freedom is the accomplishment and perfectness of man.
    TPar 11.289 4 ...it was complained...that [Theodore Parker's] zeal burned with too hot a flame. It is so difficult, in evil times, to escape this charge!...
    SMC 11.366 16 In August, 1862...when it was becoming difficult to meet the draft...twelve men, including [Sylvester Lovejoy], were enlisted for three years...
    EdAd 11.390 19 Let [a journal] now show its astuteness by dodging each difficult question...
    EdAd 11.391 20 Will [a journal] venture into the thin and difficult air of that school where the secrets of structure are discussed under the topics of mesmerism and the twilights of demonology?
    CL 12.148 14 Our Aryan progenitors in Asia celebrated the winds as the conveying Maruts, traversers of places difficult of access.
    Milt1 12.275 19 The most affecting passages in Paradise Lost are personal allusions; and when we are fairly in Eden, Adam and Milton are often difficult to be separated.
    ACri 12.287 17 ...when a great bank president was expounding the virtues of his party and of the government to a silent circle of bank pensioners, a grave Methodist exclaimed, Fiddlesticks! The whole party were surprised and cheered...though it would be difficult to explain the propriety of the expression...
    Let 12.394 14 [The correspondents] do not entertain anything absurd or even difficult.

difficult, n. (1)

    PLT 12.10 21 The laws and powers of the Intellect have...a stupendous peculiarity, of being at once observers and observed. So that it is difficult to hold them fast...

difficulties, n. (15)

    SL 2.132 5 The intellectual life may be kept clean and healthful if man will...not import into his mind difficulties which are none of his.
    Prd1 2.233 21 ...who has not seen the tragedy of imprudent genius struggling for years with paltry pecuniary difficulties, at last sinking, chilled, exhausted and fruitless...
    Pt1 3.38 14 ...when we adhere to the ideal of the poet, we have our difficulties even with Milton and Homer.
    Pow 6.61 12 One comes to value this plus health when he sees that all difficulties vanish before it.
    DL 7.112 25 The difficulties to be overcome [in housekeeping] must be freely admitted;...
    DL 7.125 5 In each the circumstance signalized differs, but in each it is made the coals of an ever-burning egotism. In one, it was his going to sea; in a second, the difficulties he combated in going to college;...
    PC 8.231 14 Difficulties exist to be surmounted.
    PPo 8.263 24 In the fable [Ferideddin Attar's Bird Conversations], the birds were soon weary of the length and difficulties of the way...
    Aris 10.63 5 I know the difficulties in the way of the man of honor.
    Edc1 10.150 1 Happy the natural college thus self-instituted around every natural teacher; the young men of Athens around Socrates...in short the natural sphere of every leading mind. But the moment this is organized, difficulties begin.
    Edc1 10.157 1 No discretion that can be lodged with a school-committee... can at all avail to reach these difficulties and perplexities [in education]...
    EzRy 10.382 10 [Ezra Ripley] had to encounter great difficulties, but, through a kind providence and the patronage of Dr. Forbes, he entered Harvard University, July, 1772.
    HDC 11.55 11 ...in 1640, all immigration [to Concord] ceased, and the country produce and farm-stock depreciated. Other difficulties accrued.
    War 11.161 26 That the project of peace should appear visionary to great numbers of sensible men;...should appear to the grave and good-natured to be embarrassed with extreme practical difficulties,-is very natural.
    AKan 11.258 9 We stick at the technical difficulties.

difficulty, n. (32)

    AmS 1.112 27 ...[Swedenborg] endeavored to engraft a purely philosophical Ethics on the popular Christianity of his time. Such an attempt of course must have difficulty which no genius could surmount.
    SR 2.54 12 ...under all these screens I have difficulty to detect the precise man you are...
    SL 2.132 13 Our young people are diseased with the theological problems of original sin, origin of evil, predestination and the like. These never presented a practical difficulty to any man...
    Cir 2.321 10 When we see the conqueror we do not think much of any one battle or success. We see that we had exaggerated the difficulty.
    Gts 3.159 6 I do not think this general insolvency [of the world]...to be the reason of the difficulty experienced at Christmas and New Year and other times, in bestowing gifts;...
    UGM 4.6 11 I count him a great man who inhabits a higher sphere of thought, into which other men rise with labor and difficulty;...
    SwM 4.105 14 ...the proximity of these geniuses, one or other of whom had introduced all his leading ideas, makes Swedenborg another example of the difficulty...of proving originality...
    NMW 4.243 18 Good God! [Napoleon] said, how rare men are! There are eighteen millions in Italy, and I have with difficulty found two...
    NMW 4.248 9 What creates great difficulty, [Napoleon] remarks, in the profession of the land-commander, is the necessity of feeding so many men and animals.
    NMW 4.249 16 When a man has been present in many actions [said Napoleon], he distinguishes that moment [of panic] without difficulty...
    ET3 5.36 19 ...we have the same difficulty in making a social or moral estimate of England, that the sheriff finds in drawing a jury to try some cause which has agitated the whole community...
    ET6 5.110 19 [The English] have difficulty in bringing their reason to act...
    ET8 5.131 13 [Englishmen's] looks bespeak an invincible stoutness: they have extreme difficulty to run away...
    ET14 5.252 1 [The English] are with difficulty ideal;...
    ET16 5.283 8 For the difficulty of handling and carrying stones of this size [of Stonehenge], the like is done in all cities, every day, with no other aid than horse-power.
    CbW 6.248 24 Franklin said, Mankind...begin upon a thing, but, meeting with a difficulty, they fly from it discouraged;...
    CbW 6.250 22 The more difficulty there is in creating good men, the more they are used when they come.
    Elo1 7.68 17 Set a New Englander to describe any accident which happened in his presence. What hesitation and reserve in his narrative! He tells with difficulty some particulars...
    DL 7.116 13 ...this voice of communities and ages, Give us wealth and the good household shall exist, is vicious, and leaves the whole difficulty untouched.
    Clbs 7.245 19 It is always a practical difficulty with clubs to regulate the laws of election so as to exclude peremptorily every social nuisance.
    SA 8.106 3 ...what lessons can be devised for the debauchee of sentiment? Was ever one converted? The innocence and ignorance of the patient is the first difficulty;...
    Grts 8.312 2 Nature, when she adds difficulty, adds brain.
    Aris 10.59 5 ...difficulty is [a grand interest's] delight...
    MoL 10.250 7 [Nature says to the American] I give you...the forest and the mine, the elemental forces, nervous energy. When I add difficulty, I add brain.
    LLNE 10.363 4 ...[Charles Newcomb was] a student and philosopher, who found his daily enjoyment...with the fine boys who were skating and playing ball or bird-hunting;...yet was he the chosen counsellor to whom the guardians [at Brook Farm] would repair on any hitch or difficulty that occurred...
    MMEm 10.420 20 The difficulty of getting places of low board for a lady, is obvious.
    LS 11.19 14 Most men find the bread and wine [of the Lord's Supper] no aid to devotion, and to some it is a painful impediment. ... The statement of this objection leads me to say that I think this difficulty...to be entitled to the greatest weight.
    FSLN 11.240 22 ...mountains of difficulty must be surmounted...before [man] dare say, I am free.
    AKan 11.261 12 The President told the Kansas Committee that the whole difficulty grew from the factious spirit of the Kansas people...
    Wom 11.420 1 ...bring together a cultivated society of both sexes, in a drawing-room, and consult and decide by voices on a question of taste or on a question of right, and is there any absurdity or any practical difficulty in obtaining their authentic opinions?
    FRep 11.533 1 The source of mischief is the extreme difficulty with which men are roused from the torpor of every day.
    WSL 12.347 22 [Landor] hates false words, and seeks with care, difficulty and moroseness those that fit the thing.

diffidence, n. (2)

    LE 1.157 12 ...the diffidence of mankind in the soul has crept over the American mind;...
    LVB 11.94 19 ...there exists in a great part of the Northern people a gloomy diffidence in the moral character of the government.

diffident, adj. (1)

    LT 1.278 13 To the youth diffident of his ability...the temptation is always great to lend himself to public movements...

diffidently, adv. (1)

    ET6 5.103 23 ...[England] is no country for fainthearted people; don't creep about diffidently;...

diffuse, adj. (2)

    Wth 6.116 14 The genius of reading and of gardening are antagonistic, like resinous and vitreous electricity. One is concentrative in sparks and shocks; the other is diffuse strength;...
    PLT 12.17 25 ...the sun is conceived to have made our system by hurling out from itself the outer rings of diffuse ether...

diffused, v. (3)

    Nat 1.16 2 ...besides this general grace diffused over nature, almost all the individual forms are agreeable to the eye...
    ET5 5.84 19 [The English] have diffused the taste for plain substantial hats, shoes and coats through Europe.
    Civ 7.33 25 ...if there be...a country where knowledge cannot be diffused without perils of mob law and statute law;...that country is...not civil, but barbarous;...

diffusely, adv. (1)

    EdAd 11.390 20 Let [a journal] now show its astuteness by...arguing diffusely every point on which men are long ago unanimous.

diffuseness, n. (1)

    SwM 4.123 6 [Swedenborg's theological writings'] immense and sandy diffuseness is like the prairie or the desert...

diffuser, n. (1)

    HCom 11.343 26 ...when I consider [Massachusetts's] influence on the country as a principal planter of the Western States, and now...the diffuser of religious, literary and political opinion;...I think the little state bigger than I knew.

diffuses, v. (1)

    UGM 4.33 9 This is the key to the power of the greatest men,--their spirit diffuses itself.

diffusing, adj. (1)

    MMEm 10.430 10 Had I [Mary Moody Emerson] the highest place of acquisition and diffusing virtue here, the principle of human sympathy would be too strong for that rapt emotion, that severe delight which I crave;...

diffusion, n. (6)

    Comp 2.111 11 Whilst I stand in simple relations to my fellow-man, I have no displeasure in meeting him. We meet...as two currents of air mix, with perfect diffusion and interpenetration of nature.
    ET13 5.224 2 ...[the Anglican Church's] instinct is hostile to all change in politics, literature, or social arts. The church has not been the founder...of the Free School, of whatever aims at diffusion of knowledge.
    ET14 5.239 2 The rules of [idealism's] genesis or its diffusion are not known.
    Civ 7.24 9 Another measure of culture is the diffusion of knowledge...
    Grts 8.315 12 It is difficult to find greatness pure. Well, I please myself with its diffusion;...
    MLit 12.312 13 [The influence of Shakespeare] almost alone has called out the genius of the German nation into an activity which...has made theirs now at last the paramount intellectual influence of the world, reacting with great energy on England and America. And thus, and not by mechanical diffusion, does an original genius work and spread himself.

diffusion-societies, n. (1)

    Schr 10.266 21 ...the philosophers and diffusion-societies have not much helped us.

diffusive, adj. (2)

    LT 1.274 25 ...[Marriage] shall honor the man and the woman, as much as the most diffusive and universal action.
    PPh 4.50 12 As one diffusive air, passing through the perforations of a flute, is distinguished as the notes of a scale, so the nature of the Great Spirit is single, though its forms be manifold [said Krishna]...

dig, v. (12)

    MR 1.237 1 When I go into my garden with a spade, and dig a bed, I feel such an exhilaration...that I discover that I have been defrauding myself all this time in letting others do for me what I should have done with my own hands.
    LT 1.289 15 ...the granite comes to the surface and towers into the highest mountains, and, if we dig down, we find it below the superficial strata...
    Comp 2.123 10 ...there is no tax on the knowledge that the compensation exists, and that it is not desirable to dig up treasure.
    Exp 3.65 6 Right to hold land, right of property, is disputed...and before the vote is taken, dig away in your garden...
    ET3 5.41 27 ...to make these [commercial] advantages avail, the river Thames must dig its spacious outlet to the sea from the heart of the kingdom...
    ET5 5.96 1 ...now [Steam] must pump, grind, dig and plough for the farmer.
    Wth 6.123 2 The stone-mason who should build the well thinks he shall have to dig forty feet;...
    Art2 7.49 4 ...we do not dig, or grind, or hew, by our muscular strength...
    Dem1 10.11 1 Belzoni describes the three marks which led him to dig for a door to the pyramid of Ghizeh.
    EWI 11.119 10 ...[Sir Lionel Smith] defended the negro women [in Jamaica]; they should not be made to dig the cane-holes...
    FSLC 11.209 12 Every man in the land will give a week's work to dig away this accursed mountain of sorrow [slavery] once and forever out of the world.
    Let 12.400 12 ...is [a man] driven into a circumstance where the spirit must not live? Let him thrust it from him with scorn, and learn to dig and plough.

Digby, Kenelm, n. (3)

    ET5 5.79 3 Sir Kenelm Digby...was a model Englishman in his day.
    ET5 5.79 11 Sir Kenelm wrote a book...in which he propounds, that syllogisms do breed, or rather are all the variety of man's life.
    PLT 12.40 9 The philosopher knows only laws. That is, he considers a purely mental fact, part of the soul itself. We say with Kenelm Digby, All things that she knoweth are herself, and she is all that she knoweth.

digest, n. (1)

    MMEm 10.408 6 [Mary Moody Emerson] is no...orderly digest of any system of philosophy...

digest, v. (4)

    LE 1.175 24 Digest and correct the past experience;...
    Imtl 8.339 21 Take us as we are, with our experience, and transfer us to a new planet, and let us digest for its inhabitants what we could of the wisdom of this.
    EWI 11.107 20 ...[the Quakers] were religious, tender-hearted men and women; and they had to hear the news [of slavery] and digest it as they could.
    Mem 12.93 8 As every creature is furnished with teeth to seize and eat, and with stomach to digest its food, so the memory is furnished with a perfect apparatus.

digested, adj. (2)

    Nat 1.70 4 ...we learn to prefer...sentences which contain glimpses of truth, to digested systems which have no one valuable suggestion.
    OA 7.328 10 What to the youth is only a guess or a hope, is in the veteran a digested statute.

digested, v. (2)

    ET7 5.119 7 [The English] read gladly in old Fuller that a lady in the reign of Elizabeth, would have as patiently digested a lie, as the wearing of false stones...
    Plu 10.305 22 Many of [Plutarch's discourses] are mere sketches or notes for chapters in preparation, which were never digested or finished.

digestible, adj. (1)

    NER 3.252 18 It was in vain urged by the housewife...that fermentation develops the saccharine element in the grain, and makes it more palatable and more digestible.

digesting, v. (3)

    SwM 4.108 20 The mind is a finer body, and resumes its functions of feeding, digesting, absorbing, excluding and generating, in a new and ethereal element.
    SwM 4.108 23 Here in the brain is all the process of alimentation repeated, in the acquiring, comparing, digesting and assimilating of experience.
    PLT 12.21 27 If man has organs...for digesting, for protection by house-building... you shall find all the same in the muskrat.

digestion, n. (5)

    Nat 1.72 14 ...he that works most in [the world] is but a half-man, and whilst his arms are strong and his digestion good, his mind is imbruted...
    F 6.11 15 In certain men digestion and sex absorb the vital force...
    PI 8.35 8 ...every man would be a poet if his intellectual digestion were perfect.
    PI 8.73 19 [Poets] are, in our experience, men of every degree of skill,-- some of them only once or twice receivers of an inspiration, and presently falling back on a low life. The drop of ichor that tingles in their veins... cannot lift the whole man to the digestion and function of ichor...
    PLT 12.33 4 The appetite and the power of digestion measure our right to knowledge.

digestive, adj. (1)

    FRep 11.522 11 [The American] sits secure in the possession of his vast domain...and feels the security that there can be...no danger from any excess of importation of art or learning into a country of...such immense digestive power.

digger, n. (2)

    F 6.10 22 Ask the digger in the ditch to explain Newton's laws;...
    Pow 6.73 9 There is no way to success in our art but to take off your coat, grind paint, and work like a digger on the railroad, all day and every day.

diggers, n. (4)

    UGM 4.15 7 What has friendship so signal as its sublime attraction to whatever virtue is in us? ... We are piqued to some purpose, and the industry of the diggers on the railroad will not again shame us.
    ET14 5.254 11 No hope, no sublime augury cheers the [English] student... but only a casual dipping here and there, like diggers in California prospecting for a placer that will pay.
    SovE 10.188 17 When we trace from the beginning, that ferocity has uses; only so are the conditions of the then world met, and these monsters are the scavengers, executioners, diggers...
    Wom 11.411 8 ...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?

digging, v. (3)

    Nat 1.65 19 ...you cannot freely admire a noble landscape if laborers are digging in the field hard by.
    SL 2.137 16 All our manual labor and works of strength, as prying, splitting, digging, rowing and so forth, are done by dint of continual falling...
    ET7 5.117 13 'T is said that the wolf, who makes a cache of his prey and brings his fellows with him to the spot, if, on digging, it is not found, is instantly and unresistingly torn in pieces.

dight, v. (1)

    Pt1 3.14 6 So every spirit, as it is more pure,/ And hath in it the more of heavenly light,/ So it the fairer body doth procure/ To habit in, and it more fairly dight,/ With cheerful grace and amiable sight./

dignified, adj. (14)

    MN 1.220 13 ...the spirit's holy errand through us absorbed the thought. How dignified was this!
    GoW 4.278 25 George Sand, in Consuelo and its continuation, has sketched a truer and more dignified picture [than has Goethe in Wilhelm Meister].
    ET4 5.61 4 ...decent and dignified men now existing boast their descent from these filthy thieves [the Normans]...
    ET8 5.129 21 Commerce sends abroad multitudes of different classes [of Englishmen]. The choleric Welshman, the fervid Scot, the bilious resident in the East or West Indies, are wide of the perfect behavior of the educated and dignified man of family [in England].
    ET11 5.191 18 In logical sequence of these dignified revels, Pepys can tell the beggarly shifts to which the king was reduced...
    ET12 5.205 19 Oxford is a little aristocracy in itself, numerous and dignified enough to rank with other estates in the realm;...
    Art2 7.55 12 Heraldry...and the ceremonies of a coronation, are a dignified repetition of the occurrences that might befall a dragoon and his footboy.
    Suc 7.288 4 The Arabian sheiks, the most dignified people in the planet, do not want [American arts];...
    SA 8.82 2 ...trying experiments, and at perfect leisure with these posture-masters and flatterers all day, [the babe] throws himself into all the attitudes that correspond to theirs. ... Are they encroaching? he is dignified and inexorable.
    Aris 10.40 19 Every survey of the dignified classes...imprints universal lessons...
    MMEm 10.412 24 Since Sabbath, Aunt B--[the insane aunt] was brought here [to Malden]. Ah! mortifying sight! instinct perhaps triumphs over reason, and every dignified respect to herself, in her anxiety about recovery...
    Thor 10.478 23 [Thoreau] detected paltering as readily in dignified and prosperous persons as in beggars...
    CInt 12.115 14 ...if the intellectual interest be, as I hold, no hypocrisy, but the only reality,-then it behooves us...to give, among other possessions, the college into its hand casting down...every dignified blunder that has crept into its administration.
    WSL 12.340 24 ...when we remember [Landor's] rich and ample page...we feel how dignified is this perpetual Censor in his curule chair...

dignified, v. (5)

    Mrs1 3.138 5 Every natural function can be dignified by deliberation and privacy.
    SwM 4.104 1 ...[Swedenborg's] life was dignified by noblest pictures of the universe.
    MMEm 10.425 23 ...the bare bones of this poor embryo earth may give the idea of the Infinite far, far better than when dignified with arts and industry...
    EurB 12.376 25 ...a perception of beauty was the equally indispensable element of the association [society in Wilhelm Meister], by which each was dignified and all were dignified;...
    EurB 12.376 26 ...a perception of beauty was the equally indispensable element of the association [society in Wilhelm Meister], by which each was dignified and all were dignified;...

dignifiedly, adv. (1)

    GoW 4.285 19 [Goethe] can not hate anybody; his time is worth too much. Temperamental antagonisms may be suffered, but like feuds of emperors, who fight dignifiedly across kingdoms.

dignifies, v. (7)

    Art1 2.366 10 The old tragic Necessity...no longer dignifies the chisel or the pencil.
    UGM 4.30 24 Why are the masses...food for knives and powder? The idea dignifies a few leaders...and they make war and death sacred;...
    SwM 4.122 13 [Swedenborg's religion]...interprets and dignifies every circumstance.
    WD 7.180 4 That interpreter [of time] shall guide us from a menial and eleemosynary existence into riches and stability. He dignifies the place where he is.
    EWI 11.137 24 This moral force perpetually reinforces and dignifies the friends of this cause [emancipation in the West Indies].
    SHC 11.432 3 What work of man will compare with the plantation of a park? It dignifies life.
    II 12.83 13 An enthusiastic workman dignifies his art and arrives at results.

dignify, v. (6)

    Fdsp 2.206 6 [Friends] are to dignify to each other the daily needs and offices of man's life...
    Mrs1 3.136 4 No rent-roll nor army-list can dignify skulking and dissimulation;...
    DL 7.131 24 A collection of this kind [a library and museum], the property of each town, would dignify the town...
    FSLC 11.182 22 ...[the crisis over the Fugitive Slave Law] showed what stuff reputations are made of, what straws we dignify by office and title...
    Scot 11.464 12 ...finding [the old ballads] now outgrown and dishonored by the new culture, [Scott] attempted to dignify and adapt them to the times in which he lived.
    PLT 12.19 17 So works the poor little blockhead manikin. He must arrange and dignify his shop or farm the best he can.

dignifying, v. (2)

    FSLN 11.240 20 [The free man] is a finished man;...at home in Nature and dignifying that;...
    FRO1 11.480 16 The soul of our late war, which will always be remembered as dignifying it, was, first, the desire to abolish slavery in this country...

dignitaries, n. (2)

    ET11 5.198 2 [Titles of lordship...may be advantageously consigned...to the dignitaries of Australia and Polynesia.
    Bhr 6.174 25 The modern aristocrat...is well drawn...in the pictures which Commodore Perry brought home of dignitaries in Japan.

dignities, n. (3)

    Mrs1 3.153 15 Everything that is called fashion and courtesy humbles itself before the...creator of titles and dignities, namely the heart of love.
    Elo2 8.118 5 If the performance of the advocate reaches any high success it is paid in England with dignities in the professions...
    Wom 11.411 2 [Man] invented marriage; and surrounded by religion...by all manner of dignities and renunciations, the union of the sexes.

dignity, n. (70)

    AmS 1.83 22 The planter...is seldom cheered by any idea of the true dignity of his ministry.
    AmS 1.100 4 I hear therefore with joy whatever is beginning to be said of the dignity and necessity of labor to every citizen.
    AmS 1.107 7 [The poor and the low] cast the dignity of man from their downtrod selves upon the shoulders of a hero...
    DSA 1.150 20 Two inestimable advantages Christianity has given us; first the Sabbath...whose light...everywhere suggests...the dignity of spiritual being.
    LE 1.179 16 ...[Napoleon] belonged to a class...who think that what a man can do is his greatest ornament, and that he always consults his dignity by doing it.
    Tran 1.339 4 Man owns the dignity of the life which throbs around him...
    Tran 1.357 20 ...all these [Transcendentalists] of whom I speak...are novices;... Yet let them feel the dignity of their charge...
    SR 2.59 26 [Virtue] is it which throws...dignity into Washington's port...
    Hsm1 2.261 7 Let us be generous of our dignity as well as of our money.
    Art1 2.366 1 ...a ball-room makes us feel that we are all paupers in the almshouse of this world, without dignity...
    Exp 3.72 18 The consciousness in each man is a sliding scale, which identifies him now with the First Cause, and now with the flesh of his body; life above life, in infinite degrees. The sentiment from which it sprung determines the dignity of any deed...
    Mrs1 3.151 25 [Lilla] had too much sympathy and desire to please, than that you could say her manners were marked with dignity...
    Pol1 3.218 26 If a man found himself so rich-natured that he could...make life serene around him by the dignity and sweetness of his behavior, could he...covet relations so hollow and pompous as those of a politician?
    NER 3.276 11 ...if the secret oracles whose whisper makes the sweetness and dignity of [a man's] life do here withdraw and accompany him no longer,--it is time to undervalue what he has valued...
    UGM 4.31 16 We pass very fast, in our personal moods, from dignity to dependence.
    SwM 4.105 27 ...the Economy of the Animal Kingdom is one of those books which, by the sustained dignity of thinking, is an honor to the human race.
    GoW 4.289 9 ...compared with any motives on which books are written in England and America, [Goethe's work]...has the power to inspire which belongs to truth. Thus has he brought back to a book some of its ancient might and dignity.
    ET2 5.32 17 It has been said that the King of England would consult his dignity by giving audience to foreign ambassadors in the cabin of a man-of-war.
    ET8 5.142 3 ...for the dignity of a profession...the [English] army and navy may be entered...
    ET12 5.205 11 The number of students and of residents [at English universities], the dignity of the authorities...justify a dedication to study in the undergraduate such as cannot easily be in America...
    ET15 5.269 4 No dignity or wealth is a shield from [the London Times's] assault.
    ET18 5.302 23 ...what a proud chivalry is indicated in Collins's Peerage, through eight hundred years! What dignity resting on what reality and stoutness!
    F 6.5 21 Our Calvinists in the last generation had something of the same dignity.
    Wth 6.88 19 ...every thought of every hour opens a new want to [a man] which it concerns his power and dignity to gratify.
    Ctr 6.160 5 ...the consideration of the great periods and spaces of astronomy induces a dignity of mind and an indifference to death.
    CbW 6.249 27 Clay and clay differ in dignity...
    Ill 6.310 2 The mysteries and scenery of the [Mammoth] cave had the same dignity that belongs to all natural objects...
    Farm 7.138 2 ...[the countryman's] independence and his pleasing arts,-- the care of bees...the care...of orchards and forests, and the reaction of these on the workman, in giving him a strength and an plain dignity like the face and manners of Nature,--all men acknowledge.
    WD 7.169 11 In solitude and in the country, what dignity distinguishes the holy time!
    Boks 7.198 7 The Prometheus [of Aeschylus] is a poem of the like dignity and scope as the Book of Job...
    Boks 7.214 27 ...doubtless [novel-reading] gives some ideal dignity to the day.
    Boks 7.215 4 ...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 in their villas...
    OA 7.315 17 [Josiah Quincy's] was a discourse full of dignity...
    OA 7.331 27 ...we have had robust centenarians, and examples of dignity and wisdom.
    PI 8.67 18 Do you think Burns...has opened no eyes and ears to...the dignity of man and the charm and excellence of woman?
    SA 8.101 4 Every human society wants to be officered by a best class, who...shall be wise, temperate, brave, public men, adorned with dignity and accomplishments.
    Comc 8.163 7 No dignity...can make any stand against good wit.
    Comc 8.163 13 [Wit] is like ice, on which no beauty of form, no majesty of carriage can plead any immunity,--they must walk gingerly...or down they must go, dignity and all.
    PPo 8.254 8 [Hafiz] asserts his dignity as bard and inspired man of his people.
    Grts 8.300 1 True dignity abides with him alone/ Who, in the silent hour of inward thought,/ Can still suspect, and still revere himself,/ In lowliness of heart./ Wordsworth.
    Grts 8.312 15 A man will say: I am born to this position; I must take it, and neither you nor I can help or hinder me. Surely, then, I need not fret myself to guard my own dignity.
    Imtl 8.342 20 [The mind's] dignity consists in being under the law.
    Imtl 8.342 23 [The mind's] goodness is the most generous extension of our private interests to the dignity and generosity of ideas.
    Aris 10.33 8 Room is found for all the departments of the state in the moods and faculties of each human spirit, with separate function and difference of dignity.
    Aris 10.62 6 ...[the true man] is to know...that there is a master grace and dignity communicated by exalted sentiments to a human form...
    Prch 10.217 22 ...it appears...as the misfortune of this period that the cultivated mind has not the happiness and dignity of the religious sentiment.
    MoL 10.250 16 The ambassador is held to maintain the dignity of the Republic which he represents.
    Schr 10.278 22 ...I chiefly wish to infer the dignity of [the scholar's] work by the lustre of his appointments.
    Plu 10.293 14 [Plutarch] has been represented...as having received from Trajan the consular dignity...
    LLNE 10.332 19 All [Everett's] auditors felt the extreme beauty and dignity of the manner...
    CSC 10.376 13 ...[these men and women at the Chardon Street Convention] found what they sought, or the pledge of it...in...the prophetic dignity and transfiguration which accompanies...a man whose mind is made up to obey the great inward Commander...
    MMEm 10.398 7 [Lucy Percy] is of too high a mind and dignity not only to seek, but almost to wish, the friendship of any creature.
    MMEm 10.418 26 Should I [Mary Moody Emerson] take so much care to save a few dollars? Never was I so much ashamed. Did I say with what rapture I might dispose of them to the poor? Pho! self-preservation, dignity, confidence in the future, contempt of trifles! Alas, I am disgraced.
    MMEm 10.427 5 I sometimes fancy I detect in [Mary Moody Emerson's] writings a certain...polite and courtly homage to the name and dignity of Jesus...
    HDC 11.69 25 ...in conjunction with our brethren in America, we will risk our fortunes, and even our lives, in defence of his majesty, King George the Third, his person, crown and dignity;...
    HDC 11.84 5 The tone of the [Concord Town] Records rises with the dignity of the event.
    FSLC 11.200 8 ...it is cheering to behold what champions the emergency [of the Fugitive Slave Law] called to this poor black boy;...above all, with what earnestness and dignity the advocates of freedom were inspired.
    Wom 11.404 4 Lo, when the Lord made North and South,/ And sun and moon ordained he,/ Forth bringing each by word of mouth/ In order of its dignity,/ Did man from the crude clay express/ By sequence, and, all else decreed,/ He formed the woman; nor might less/ Than Sabbath such a work succeed./ Coventry Patmore.
    FRep 11.527 1 ...instead of the doleful experience of the European economist, who tells us, In almost all countries the condition of the great body of the people is poor and miserable, here that same great body has arrived at a sloven plenty...an unbuttoned comfort...far from polished, without dignity in his repose;...
    PLT 12.35 10 Indifferent to the dignity of its function, [Instinct] plays the god in animal nature as in human or as in the angelic...
    II 12.87 18 If immortality, in the sense in which you seek it, is best, you shall be immortal. If it is up to the dignity of that order of things you know, it is secure.
    Mem 12.91 10 Memory...gives continuity and dignity to human life.
    MAng1 12.222 16 Not easily in this age will any man acquire by himself such perceptions of the dignity or grace of the human frame as the student of art owes to the remains of Phidias...
    MAng1 12.231 13 ...is there not something affecting in the spectacle of an old man [Michelangelo], on the verge of ninety years...surmounting by the dignity of his purposes all obstacles and all enmities...
    Milt1 12.267 13 ...who is there, almost [wrote Milton], that measures... dignity by lowliness?
    Milt1 12.279 10 ...are not all men fortified by the remembrance of...the angelic devotion of this man [Milton], who,...endeavored...to carry out the life of man to new heights of spiritual grace and dignity...
    WSL 12.346 8 These merits make Mr. Landor's position in the republic of letters one of great mark and dignity.
    Pray 12.351 23 Wacic the Caliph...ended his life...with these words: O thou whose kingdom never passes away, pity one whose dignity is so transient.
    EurB 12.373 11 ...we can easily believe that the behavior of the ball-room and of the hotel has not failed to draw some addition of dignity and grace from the fair ideals with which the imagination of a novelist has filled the heads of the most imitative class.
    PPr 12.388 7 [Carlyle] has the dignity of a man of letters, who knows what belongs to him...

digressions, n. (1)

    LLNE 10.332 8 [Everett's learning] was so coldly and weightily communicated...enriched with so many excellent digressions and significant quotations, that...this learning instantly took the highest place to our imagination...

digs, v. (4)

    Hist 2.11 11 Belzoni digs and measures in the mummy-pits and pyramids of Thebes until he can see the end of the difference between the monstrous work and himself.
    Farm 7.141 6 He who digs a well...makes a fortune...which is useful to his country long afterwards.
    Farm 7.151 26 'T is long before [the first planter] digs or plants at all...
    FSLC 11.206 19 ...he who writes a crime into the statute-book digs under the foundations of the Capitol to plant there a powder-magazine...

digust, n. (2)

    ET8 5.128 4 ...[Englishmen's] well-known courage is entirely attributable to their digust of life.
    ET14 5.249 21 ...Carlyle was driven by his disgust at the pettiness and the cant, into the preaching of Fate.

dikes, n. (1)

    PC 8.213 2 ...the rocks of Nahant or the dikes of the White Hills disclose that the world is a crystal...

dilapidated, adj. (1)

    SR 2.81 20 In Thebes, in Palmyra, [the traveller's] will and mind have become old and dilapidated as they.

dilate, v. (3)

    Nat 1.17 9 ...I dilate and conspire with the morning wind.
    Nat 1.39 6 What noble emotions dilate the mortal as he enters into the councils of the creation...
    Hsm1 2.257 6 If we dilate in beholding the Greek energy...it is that we are already domesticating the same sentiment.

dilated, v. (1)

    LE 1.180 25 ...when all tactics had come to an end then [Napoleon] dilated...

dilates, v. (2)

    Lov1 2.177 9 ...[the lover] dilates;...
    ShP 4.207 6 That imagination which dilates the closet [Shakespeare] writes in to the world's dimension...as quickly reduces the big reality to be the glimpses of the moon.

dilemma, n. (2)

    Exp 3.81 22 A sympathetic person is placed in the dilemma of a swimmer among drowning men...
    ET16 5.288 6 As I had thus taken in the conversation the saint's part, when dinner was announced, Carlyle refused to go out before me,--he was altogether too wicked. I planted my back against the wall, and our host [Arthur Helps] wittily rescued us from the dilemma, by saying he was the wickedest and would walk out first, then Carlyle followed, and I went last.

dilemmas, n. (2)

    Nat 1.37 9 ...what continual reproduction of annoyances, inconveniences, dilemmas;...
    PPh 4.73 27 No escape; [Socrates] drives [his opponents] to terrible choices by his dilemmas...

dilettanteism, n. (3)

    Nat2 3.177 7 A dilettanteism in nature is barren and unworthy.
    Art2 7.56 12 ...all [the arts] sprang out of some genuine enthusiasm, and never out of dilettanteism and holidays.
    Boks 7.189 4 ...certainly there is dilettanteism enough...

dilettanti, n. (1)

    Dem1 10.24 20 While the dilettanti have been prying into the humors and muscles of the eye, simple men will have helped themselves and the world by using their eyes.

diligence, n. (8)

    Nat 1.19 20 ...[the beauty of an October afternoon] is only a mirage as you look from the windows of diligence.
    Prd1 2.235 17 By diligence and self-command, let [a man] put the bread he eats at his own disposal...
    Int 2.340 14 ...no diligence can rebuild the universe in a model by the best accumulation or disposition of details...
    ET17 5.296 3 [Wordsworth's] opinions of French, English, Irish and Scotch, seemed rashly formulized from little anecdotes of what had befallen himself and members of his family, in a diligence or stagecoach.
    Pow 6.77 24 Diligence passe sens, Henry VIII. was wont to say, or great is drill.
    Schr 10.273 14 We who should be the channel of that unweariable Power which never sleeps, must give our diligence no holidays.
    TPar 11.286 2 Theodore Parker was...of a diligence that never tired...
    MAng1 12.227 23 [Michelangelo's] diligence was so great that it is wonderful how he endured its fatigues.

diligent, adj. (3)

    ET16 5.278 26 Some diligent Fellowes or Layard will arrive, stone by stone, at the whole history [of Stonehenge]...
    Boks 7.193 13 It is easy to count the number of pages which a diligent man can read in a day...
    Dem1 10.24 14 ...suppose a diligent collection and study of these occult facts were made, they are merely physiological, semi-medical...

Dillwyn, William, n. (1)

    EWI 11.107 22 Six Quakers met in London on the 6th of July, 1783,- William Dillwyn, Samuel Hoar, George Harrison, Thomas Knowles, John Lloyd, Joseph Woods, to consider what step they should take for the relief and liberation of the negro slaves in the West Indies...

dilute, v. (1)

    FRep 11.538 4 Is it that Nature has only so much vital force, and must dilute it if it is to be multiplied into millions?

diluted, adj. (1)

    AmS 1.94 16 I have heard it said...that the rough, spontaneous conversation of men [the clergy] do not hear, but only a mincing and diluted speech.

diluted, v. (1)

    ET18 5.300 17 Pauperism incrusts and clogs the [English] state, and in hard times becomes hideous. In bad seasons, the porridge was diluted.

diluting, 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.

dilutions, n. (1)

    OA 7.319 3 ...prussic acid, strychnine, are weak dilutions: the surest poison is time.

dim, adj. (25)

    Nat 1.66 4 That which seems faintly possible...is often faint and dim because it is deepest seated in the mind among the eternal verities.
    LE 1.170 3 ...not less is there a relation of beauty between my soul and the dim crags of Agiochook up there in the clouds.
    LE 1.175 3 Pindar, Raphael...dwell in crowds it may be, but the instant thought comes the crowd grows dim to their eye;...
    MR 1.227 11 ...some of those offices and functions for which we were mainly created are grown so rare in society that the memory of them is only kept alive...in dim traditions;...
    Tran 1.331 20 ...how easy it is to show [the materialist]...that he need only ask a question or two beyond his daily questions to find his solid universe growing dim and impalpable before his sense.
    NER 3.276 1 ...instead of avoiding these men who make his fine gold dim, [a man] will cast all behind him...
    PPh 4.58 17 Horsed on these winged steeds [poetry, prophecy, high insight], [Plato] sweeps the dim regions...
    SwM 4.101 21 The genius [of Swedenborg] which was...to...venture into the dim spirit-realm...began its lessons in quarries and forges...
    ET5 5.88 15 Heavy fellows, steeped in beer and fleshpots, [the English] are hard of hearing and dim of sight.
    Wth 6.83 19 What smiths, and in what furnace, rolled/ (In dizzy aeons dim and mute/ The reeling brain can ill compute)/ Copper and iron, lead, and gold?/
    Wth 6.122 23 [The citizen from Dock Square] proceeds at once, his eyes dim with tears of joy, to fix the spot for his corner-stone.
    Wsp 6.229 3 If we will sit quietly, what [people] ought to say is said, with their will or against their will. We do not care for you, let us pretend what we may,--we are always looking through you to the dim dictator behind you.
    OA 7.316 12 Nature lends herself to these illusions [of time], and adds dim sight, deafness...
    PI 8.1 5 ...From blue mount and headland dim/ Friendly hands stretch forth to him/...
    PC 8.209 20 on perceptions less and less dim of laws the most sublime.
    Insp 8.270 5 The aboriginal man...in the dim lights of Darwin's microscope, is not an engaging figure.
    Dem1 10.4 8 They come, in dim procession led,/ The cold, the faithless, and the dead,/ As warm each hand, each brow as gay,/ As if they parted yesterday./
    Chr2 10.98 9 ...I may easily speak of that adorable nature, there where only I behold it in my dim experiences, in such terms as shall seem to the frivolous...as profane.
    Edc1 10.145 2 This is the perpetual romance of new life...when [God] sends into quiet houses a young soul...looking for something which is not there, but which ought to be there: the thought is dim but it is sure...
    MMEm 10.397 20 ...Nor me can Hope or Passion urge,/ Hearing as now the lofty dirge/ Which blasts of Northern mountains hymn,/ Nature's funeral high and dim,-/ Sable pageantry of clouds,/ Mourning summer laid in shrouds./
    HCom 11.341 11 I see thankfully those that are here, but dim eyes in vain explore for some who are not.
    EdAd 11.391 9 ...the current year has witnessed the appearance, in their first English translation, of [Swedenborg's] manuscripts. Here is an unsettled account in the book of Fame; a nebula to dim eyes, but which great telescopes may yet resolve into a magnificent system.
    PLT 12.11 9 Let me have your attention to this dangerous subject [the laws and powers of the Intellect], which we will cautiously approach on different sides of this dim and perilous lake...
    II 12.69 17 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.
    EurB 12.368 15 [Wordsworth]...wrote Helvellyn and Windermere and the dim spirits which these haunts harbored.

dime, n. (4)

    YA 1.383 15 ...[the Communities] exaggerate the importance of a favorite project of theirs, that of...paying all sorts of service at one rate, say ten cents the hour. They have paid it so; but not an instant would a dime remain a dime.
    YA 1.383 16 ...[the Communities] exaggerate the importance of a favorite project of theirs, that of...paying all sorts of service at one rate, say ten cents the hour. They have paid it so; but not an instant would a dime remain a dime.
    YA 1.383 18 ...the whole value of the dime is in knowing what to do with it.
    SR 2.52 8 ...I grudge...the dime...I give to such men as do not belong to me...

dimension, n. (1)

    ShP 4.207 7 That imagination which dilates the closet [Shakespeare] writes in to the world's dimension...as quickly reduces the big reality to be the glimpses of the moon.

dimensions, n. (9)

    Nat 1.45 1 [Words] cannot cover the dimensions of what is in truth.
    LT 1.267 4 How great were once Lord Bacon's dimensions!...
    ET3 5.37 17 As soon as you enter England...this little land stretches by an illusion to the dimensions of an empire.
    ET16 5.289 20 In the [Winchester] Cathedral I was gratified, at least by the ample dimensions.
    F 6.25 24 ...if truth come to our mind we suddenly expand to its dimensions...
    Bhr 6.189 19 ...no rod and chain will measure the dimensions of any house or house-lot;...
    Chr2 10.94 2 The antagonist nature is the individual, formed into a finite body of exact dimensions...
    Thor 10.467 8 ...the turtle, frog, hyla and cricket, which make the banks [of the Concord River] vocal,-were all known to [Thoreau], and, as it were, townsmen and fellow creatures; so that he felt an absurdity or violence in any narrative of one of these by itself apart, and still more of its dimensions on an inch-rule...
    MAng1 12.221 21 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.

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