Droll to Dyspeptic

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

droll, adj. (8)

    OS 2.270 11 If we consider what happens...in the instructions of dreams, wherein often we see ourselves in masquerade,--the droll disguises only magnifying and enhancing a real element and forcing it on our distant notice,--we shall catch many hints that will broaden and lighten into knowledge of the secret of nature.
    Chr1 3.103 25 ...it was droll in the good Riemer, who has written the memoirs of Goethe, to make out a list of his donations and good deeds...
    Art2 7.41 16 Nothing droll, nothing whimsical will endure.
    Comc 8.160 15 The presence of the ideal of right and of truth in all action makes the yawning delinquencies of practice...droll to the intellect.
    Comc 8.169 14 The lie [in poverty] is in the surrender of the man to his appearance;... It affects us oddly, as...to see a man in a high wind run after his hat, which is always droll.
    Dem1 10.27 1 [The demonologic] is a lawless world. ...no guilt and no virtue, but a droll bedlam...
    EzRy 10.383 21 I am sure all who remember both will associate [Ezra Ripley's] form with whatever was grave and droll in the old, cold, unpainted, uncarpeted, square-pewed meeting-house...
    Wom 11.419 23 It is very cheap wit that finds it so droll that a woman should vote.

droll, n. (1)

    PPh 4.75 6 The rare coincidence [in Socrates], in one ugly body, of the droll and the martyr...had forcibly struck the mind of Plato...

drollery, n. (1)

    PPh 4.74 9 This hard-headed humorist [Socrates], whose strange conceits, drollery and bonhommie diverted the young patricians...turns out...to have a probity as invincible as his logic...

dromedary, n. (1)

    ET4 5.71 1 The more vigorous [Englishmen] run out of the island...to Africa and Australia, to hunt with fury...with dog, with horse, with elephant or with dromedary, all the game that is in nature.

drone, n. (1)

    MoL 10.250 24 ...what does the scholar represent? The organ of ideas... imparting pulses of light and shocks of electricity, guidance and courage. So let his habits be formed, and all his economies heroic; no spoiled child, no drone, no epicure...

drones, n. (1)

    F 6.11 18 The more of these drones perish, the better for the hive.

droning, adj. (2)

    Comp 2.109 5 That which the droning world...will not allow the realist to say in his own words, it will suffer him to say in proverbs without contradiction.
    Ctr 6.137 3 Culture is the suggestion...that a man has a range of affinities through which he can modulate the violence of any master-tones that have a droning preponderance in his scale...

drooping, v. (2)

    Hsm1 2.243 5 ...Thunderclouds are Jove's festoons,/ Drooping oft in wreaths of dread/ Lightning-knotted round his head/...
    MMEm 10.430 1 If one could choose, and without crime be gibbeted,- were it not altogether better than the long drooping away by age without mentality or devotion?

droops, v. (1)

    SHC 11.428 3 ...Here the green pines delight, the aspen droops/ Along the modest pathways, and those fair/ Pale asters of the season spread their plumes/ Around this field, fit garden for our tombs./

drop, n. (39)

    Nat 1.43 11 A leaf, a drop, a crystal, a moment of time, is related to the whole...
    Nat 1.71 22 ...[man] is shrunk to a drop.
    AmS 1.107 9 [The poor and the low]...will perish to add one drop of blood to make that great heart beat...
    AmS 1.112 13 The drop is a small ocean.
    MN 1.221 26 [Man's] nobility needs the assurance of this inexhaustible reserved power. How great soever have been its bounties, they are a drop to the sea whence they flow.
    LT 1.278 2 We...want...not a chemical drop of water, but rain;...
    Con 1.317 16 Rich and fine is your dress, O conservatism!...but every one of these goods steals away a drop of my blood.
    Comp 2.101 19 The world globes itself in a drop of dew.
    SL 2.155 19 [The things the great man did] are the demonstrations in a few particulars of the genius of nature; they show the direction of the stream. But the stream is blood; every drop is alive.
    Fdsp 2.189 1 A ruddy drop of manly blood/ The surging sea outweighs;/...
    Exp 3.49 16 The dearest events are summer-rain, and we the Para coats that shed every drop.
    Nat2 3.181 26 The men, though young, having tasted the first drop from the cup of thought, are already dissipated...
    Nat2 3.185 7 ...to every creature nature added a little violence of direction in its proper path, a shove to put it on its way; in every instance a slight generosity, a drop too much.
    Nat2 3.196 21 That power...which makes the whole and the particle its equal channel...distils its essence into every drop of rain.
    NER 3.266 2 All the men in the world...cannot make a drop of blood...
    SwM 4.103 2 A drop of water has the properties of the sea, but cannot exhibit a storm.
    SwM 4.129 15 You love the worth in me; then I am your husband; but it is not me, but the worth, that fixes the love; and that worth is a drop of the ocean of worth that is beyond me.
    MoS 4.183 9 [The moral sentiment] is the drop which balances the sea.
    MoS 4.184 11 ...to each man is administered a single drop, a bead of dew of vital power, per day...
    MoS 4.184 13 ...to each man is administered...a cup as large as space, and one drop of the water of life in it.
    GoW 4.261 14 The falling drop makes its sculpture in the sand or the stone.
    F 6.9 25 How shall a man...draw off from his veins the black drop which he drew from his father's or his mother's life?
    F 6.41 13 ...as we do in dreams, with equanimity, the most absurd acts, so a drop more of wine in our cup of life will reconcile us to strange company and work.
    Civ 7.22 26 ...the power of a wafer or a drop of wax or gluten to guard a letter, as it flies over sea over land and comes to its address as if a battalion of artillery brought it, I look upon as a fine meter of civilization.
    PI 8.73 16 [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 has not yet refined their blood...
    PC 8.217 6 I find the single mind equipollent to a multitude of minds...as a drop of water balances the sea;...
    PC 8.230 11 ...in this economical world, where every drop and every crumb is husbanded, the transcendent powers of mind were not meant to be disused.
    Dem1 10.25 18 [Animal Magnetism] seemed to open again that door which was open to the imagination of childhood-of...the travelling cloak, the shoes of swiftness and the sword of sharpness that were to satisfy the uttermost wish of the senses without danger or a drop of sweat.
    Aris 10.38 5 How sturdy seem to us in the history, those...Burgundies and Guesclins of the old warlike ages! We can hardly believe...that an ague or fever, a drop of water or a crystal of ice ended them.
    EWI 11.143 5 Our planet, before the age of written history, had its races of savages, like...the animalcules that wiggle and bite in a drop of putrid water.
    War 11.154 22 The microscope reveals miniature butchery in atomies and infinitely small biters that swim and fight in an illuminated drop of water;...
    FSLC 11.192 15 Sire, said the brave Orte, governor of Bayonne, in his letter...both [the inhabitants and soldiers] and I must humbly entreat your majesty to be pleased to employ your arms and lives in things that are possible, however hazardous they may be, and we will exert ourselves to the last drop of our blood.
    FSLC 11.205 9 In Mr. Webster's imagination the American Union was a huge Prince Rupert's drop...
    FRep 11.528 13 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.
    PLT 12.51 20 Nature having for capital this rill [of thought], drop by drop... she husbands and hives...
    PLT 12.51 24 Nature having for capital this rill [of thought]...she husbands and hives, she forms reservoirs, were it only a phial or a hair-tube that will hold as it were a drop of attar.
    II 12.69 14 ...the drop of blood has latent power and organs...
    CL 12.145 17 [The Farmer] saves every drop of sap, as if it were wine.
    MLit 12.332 19 Life for [Goethe]...has a gem or two more on its robe; but... no drop of healthier blood flows yet in its veins.

drop, v. (17)

    Fdsp 2.202 17 [Before a friend] I am arrived at last in the presence of a man so real and equal that I may drop even those undermost garments of dissimulation, courtesy, and second thought...
    Fdsp 2.214 12 We go to Europe, or we pursue persons, or we read books, in the instinctive faith that these will...reveal us to ourselves. Beggars all. The persons are such as we; the Europe, an old faded garment of dead persons; the books, their ghosts. Let us drop this idolatry.
    Hsm1 2.248 3 Thomas Carlyle...has suffered no heroic trait in his favorites to drop from his biographical and historical pictures.
    Mrs1 3.126 27 [Fine manners] are a subtler science of defence to parry and intimidate; but once matched by the skill of the other party, they drop the point of the sword...
    Pow 6.74 12 ...you shall take what your brain can, and drop all the rest.
    CbW 6.263 17 Drop the cant, and treat [sickness] sanely.
    WD 7.183 16 ...in seeking to find what is the heart of the day, we come to the quality of the moment, and drop the duration altogether.
    Boks 7.210 2 The bid [for the Valdarfer Boccaccio] stood at five hundred guineas. A thousand guineas, said Earl Spencer. And ten, added the Marquis [of Blandford]. You might hear a pin drop.
    Suc 7.291 11 ...I think we shall agree in my first rule for success,--that we shall drop the brag and the advertisement...
    PC 8.213 18 We cannot yet afford to drop Homer, nor Aeschylus...
    Plu 10.308 27 'T is a temperance, not an eclecticism, which makes [Plutarch] adverse to the severe Stoic, or the Gymnosophist, or Diogenes, or any other extremist. That vice of theirs shall not hinder him from citing any good word they chance to drop.
    SlHr 10.448 11 ...I find an elegance in [Samuel Hoar's] quiet but firm withdrawal from all business in the courts which he could drop without manifest detriment to the interests involved...
    LS 11.23 21 ...I have proposed to the brethren of the Church to drop the use of the elements and the claim of authority in the administration of this ordinance [the Lord's Supper]...
    ACiv 11.310 4 ...there is perpetual march and progress to ideas. But in either case [natural philsophy and history], no link of the chain can drop out.
    PLT 12.48 22 Most men's minds do not grasp anything. All slips through their fingers, like the paltry brass grooves that in most country houses are used to raise or drop the curtain...
    Mem 12.108 6 I...can drop easily many poets out of the Elizabethan chronology, but not Shakspeare.
    CW 12.175 3 ...do not forget the 14th of November, when the meteors come, and on some years drop into your house-yard like sky-rockets.

dropped, v. (14)

    Con 1.296 4 There is a fragment of old fable which seems somehow to have been dropped from the current mythologies...
    Hist 2.7 26 These hints, dropped as it were from sleep and night, let us use in broad day.
    Mrs1 3.126 22 The manners of this class [of doers] are observed and caught with devotion by men of taste. ... By swift consent everything superfluous is dropped...
    UGM 4.17 16 [The imagination]...inspires an audacious mental habit. We are as elastic as the gas of gunpowder, and...a word dropped in conversation, sets free our fancy...
    SwM 4.144 1 Was [Swedenborg] like Saadi, who, in his vision, designed to fill his lap with the celestial flowers, as presents for his friends; but the fragrance of the roses so intoxicated him that the skirt dropped from his hands?...
    Wsp 6.209 11 The dogma of the mystic offices of Christ being dropped...it is impossible to maintain the old emphasis of his personality;...
    Res 8.141 1 By his machines man...can recover the history of his race by the medals which the deluge, and every creature...has involuntarily dropped of its existence;...
    PerF 10.70 23 The ripe fruit is dropped at last without violence...
    Chr2 10.107 21 [The clergy] have dropped...many doctrines and practices once esteemed indispensable to their order.
    LLNE 10.366 27 The ladies [at Brook Farm] took cold on washing-day; so it was ordained that the gentlemen-shepherds should wring and hang out clothes; which they punctually did. And it would sometimes occur that when they danced in the evening, clothespins dropped plentifully from their pockets.
    LS 11.12 1 That rite [washing of the feet] is used...by the Sandemanians. It has been very properly dropped by other Christians.
    LS 11.16 26 If the view which I have taken of the history of the institution [the Lord's Supper] be correct, then the claim of authority should be dropped in administering it.
    EWI 11.120 6 ...on the 1st August, 1838, the shackles dropped from every British slave.
    ACri 12.297 14 In [Carlyle's] books the vicious conventions of writing are all dropped.

dropping, adj. (2)

    Nat 1.12 22 What angels invented...this tent of dropping clouds...
    Bost 12.183 22 There are countries, said Howell, where the heaven is a fiery furnace or a blowing bellows, or a dropping sponge, most parts of the year.

dropping, v. (2)

    OA 7.335 24 ...the central wisdom...dropping off obstructions, leaves in happy subjects the mind purified and wise.
    QO 8.182 3 ...what we daily observe in regard to the bon-mots that circulate in society...the same growth befalls mythology: the legend is tossed from believer to poet, from poet to believer, everybody adding a grace or dropping a fault or rounding the form...

drops, n. (12)

    AmS 1.83 13 ...this fountain of power...has been so minutely subdivided and peddled out, that it is spilled into drops...
    Pt1 3.40 1 What drops of all the sea of our science are baled up!...
    SwM 4.99 1 ...it is easier to see the reflection of the great sphere in large globes...than in drops of water...
    SwM 4.113 27 The principle of all things, entrails made/ Of smallest entrails; bone, of smallest bone;/ Blood, of small sanguine drops reduced to one;/...
    SwM 4.114 2 The principle of all things, entrails made/ Of smallest entrails; bone, of smallest bone;/ Blood, of small sanguine drops reduced to one;/ Gold, of small grains; earth, of small sands compacted;/ Small drops to water, sparks to fire contracted./
    ET2 5.33 3 ...the English did not stick to claim the channel, or the bottom of all the main: As if, said they, we contended for the drops of the sea, and not for its situation...
    ET16 5.280 18 At the inn [at Amesbury], there was only milk for one cup of tea. When we called for more, the girl brought us three drops.
    Bty 6.283 6 ...[a man] feels the antipodes and the pole as drops of his blood;...
    Cour 7.266 3 ...there is no separate essence called courage...no vessel in the heart containing drops or atoms that make or give this virtue;...
    PI 8.53 4 The poet, like a delighted boy, brings you heaps of rainbow-bubbles... instead of a few drops of soap and water.
    Supl 10.173 25 Gardens of roses must be stripped to make a few drops of otto.
    FSLC 11.204 26 All the drops of [Webster's] his blood have eyes that look downward.

drops, v. (9)

    Bhr 6.186 5 Society is very swift in its instincts, and, if you do not belong to it, resists and sneers at you, or quietly drops you.
    Ill 6.313 1 ...in Boston, in San Francisco, the carnival, the maquerade is at its height. Nobody drops his domino.
    Farm 7.147 12 ...Nature drops a pine-cone in Mariposa, and it lives fifteen centuries...
    OA 7.324 20 [With age] The passions have answered their purpose: that slight but dread overweight with which in each instance Nature secures the execution of her aim, drops off.
    PerF 10.71 11 ...a gardener knows that [the loam] is full of peaches, full of oranges, and he drops in a few seeds by way of keys to unlock and combine its virtues;...
    LS 11.5 25 Two of the Evangelists...were present on that occasion [the Last Supper]. Neither of them drops the slightest intimation of any intention on the part of Jesus to set up anything permanent.
    EdAd 11.384 1 ...the train...drops every man at his estate as it whirls along...
    Wom 11.421 27 ...if any man will take the trouble to see how our people vote,-how many gentlemen...standing at the door of the polls, give every innocent citizen his ticket as he comes in...and how the innocent citizen, without further demur, goes and drops it in the ballot-box,-I cannot but think he will agree that most women might vote as wisely.
    MLit 12.332 7 That Goethe had not a moral perception proportionate to his other powers...is the cardinal fact of health or disease; since, lacking this, he...with divine endowments, drops by irreversible decree into the common history of genius.

dropsy, n. (2)

    Ctr 6.131 14 For performance, nature has no mercy, and sacrifices the performer to get it done; makes a dropsy or a tympany of him.
    Ctr 6.134 1 ...if we run over our private list of poets, critics, philanthropists and philosophers, we shall find them infected with this dropsy and elephantiasis [egotism]...

dropt, v. (2)

    SwM 4.140 20 No imprudent, no sociable angel ever dropt an early syllable to answer the longings of saints, the fears of mortals.
    ET5 5.79 8 ...[Kenelm Digby] had so graceful elocution and noble address, that, had he been dropt out of the clouds in any part of the world, he would have made himself respected;...

drossy, adj. (1)

    Thor 10.475 18 [Thoreau's] own verses are often rude and defective. The gold...is drossy and crude.

Drothin, St., n. (1)

    Suc 7.287 16 The [Norse] mother says to her son:--Success shall be in thy courser tall,/ Success in thyself, which is best of all,/ Success in thy hand, success in thy foot,/ In struggle with man, in battle with brute:--/ The holy God and Saint Drothin dear/ Shall never shut eyes on thy career;/...

drought, n. (4)

    Pow 6.64 11 The longer the drought lasts the more is the atmosphere surcharged with water.
    PerF 10.72 1 When the rain exceeds on the coast, there is drought on the prairie.
    EzRy 10.386 17 Some of those around me will remember one occasion of severe drought in this vicinity...
    HDC 11.55 15 The [Concord] river, at this period, seems to have caused some distress now by its overflow, now by its drought.

drove, n. (1)

    JBS 11.278 15 ...[John Brown] was much considered in the family where he then stayed, from the circumstance that this boy of twelve years had conducted alone a drove of cattle a hundred miles.

drove, v. (13)

    SL 2.158 19 Pretension never...drove back Xerxes...
    NER 3.251 21 The spirit of protest and of detachment drove the members of these [Sabbath and Bible] Conventions to bear testimony against the Church...
    NER 3.263 19 Doubts such as those I have intimated drove many good persons to agitate the questions of social reform.
    ET16 5.276 19 Far and wide a few shepherds with their flocks sprinkled the [Salisbury] plain, and a bagman drove along the road.
    Elo1 7.86 27 I remember long ago being attracted...into the court-room. ... [The prisoner's counsel] drove the attorney for the state from corner to corner...
    OA 7.328 26 Our instincts drove us to hive innumerable experiences...
    PI 8.6 22 Suppose there were in the ocean certain strong currents which drove a ship, caught in them, with a force that no skill of sailing with the best wind, and no strength of oars, or sails, or steam, could make any head against...
    PC 8.232 7 It was what we call plantation manners which drove peaceable forgiving New England to emancipation without phrase.
    Imtl 8.325 16 [The Greek] drove away the embalmers;...
    HDC 11.30 26 I shall not be expected...to repeat the details of that oppression which drove our fathers out hither.
    HDC 11.81 4 In 1786, when the general sufferings drove the people in parts of Worcester and Hampshire counties to insurrection, a large party of armed insurgents arrived in this town [Concord]...
    SMC 11.371 27 Every day, for the last eight days, there has been a terrible battle the whole length of the line. One day they drove us; but it has been regular bull-dog fighting.
    Scot 11.467 10 Disasters only drove [Scott] to immense exertion.

drover, n. (3)

    Prd1 2.237 25 The drover, the sailor, buffets it all day...
    SS 7.4 1 [My new friend] envied every drover and lumberman in the tavern their manly speech.
    ACri 12.285 13 Ought not the scholar to convey his meaning in terms as short and strong as the smith and the drover use to convey theirs?

drovers, n. (1)

    RBur 11.442 25 ...Burns knew how to take from fairs and gypsies, blacksmiths and drovers, the speech of the market and street, and clothe it with melody.

drown, v. (7)

    MN 1.223 7 I praise with wonder this great reality, which seems to drown all things in the deluge of its light.
    Exp 3.81 24 A sympathetic person is placed in the dilemma of a swimmer among drowning men, who all catch at him, and if he give so much as a leg or a finger they will drown him.
    MoS 4.185 25 ...the world-spirit is a good swimmer, and storms and waves cannot drown him.
    NMW 4.255 11 [Napoleon] would steal, slander, assassinate, drown and poison, as his interest dictated.
    Wsp 6.210 17 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 after the education has gone far, such is the expensiveness of America that the best use to put a fine person to is to drown him to save his board.
    EWI 11.124 10 If any mention was made of homicide, madness, adultery, and intolerable tortures [of negroes], we would let the church-bells ring louder, the church-organ swell its peal and drown the hideous sound.
    FSLC 11.202 5 [Webster] must learn...that he who was their pride in the woods and mountains of New England is now their mortification...they have thrust his speeches into the chimney. No roars of New York mobs can drown this voice in Mr. Webster's ear.

Drowned Lovers, The [Scotc (1)

    QO 8.186 3 The fine verse in the old Scotch ballad of The Drowned Lovers...is a translation of Martial's epigram on Hero and Leander...

drowned, v. (5)

    F 6.32 6 ...trim your bark, and the wave which drowned it will be cloven by it...
    Elo2 8.127 16 ...on going up the pulpit-stairs [Dr. Charles Chauncy] was informed that a little boy had fallen into Frog Pond on the Common and was drowned...
    Elo2 8.127 23 ...on going up the pulpit-stairs [Dr. Charles Chauncy] was informed that a little boy had fallen into Frog Pond on the Common and was drowned, and the doctor was requested to improve the sad occasion. The doctor was much distressed, and in his prayer he hesitated...he implored the Divine Being to--to--to bless to them all the boy that was this morning drowned in Frog Pond.
    Schr 10.279 3 It was said of an eminent Frenchman, that he was drowned in his talents.
    Trag 12.407 17 ...universally, in uneducated and unreflecting persons...we discover traits of the same superstition [belief in Fate]: If you balk water you will be drowned the next time;...

drowning, adj. (2)

    Exp 3.81 22 A sympathetic person is placed in the dilemma of a swimmer among drowning men...
    Mrs1 3.146 3 There is still ever some admirable person in plain clothes, standing on the wharf, who jumps in to rescue a drowning man;...

drowning, v. (3)

    F 6.6 25 We must see that the world...will not mind drowning a man or a woman...
    Grts 8.303 7 The porter or truckman refuses a reward for finding your purse, or for pulling you drowning out of the river. Thereby, with the service, you have got a moral lift.
    Mem 12.109 10 You know what is told of the experience of some persons who have been recovered from drowning. They relate that their whole life's history seemed to pass before them in review.

drowns, v. (1)

    F 6.32 4 The water drowns ship and sailor like a grain of dust.

drowsily, adv. (1)

    ET2 5.31 16 Classics which at home are drowsily read, have a strange charm in a country inn...

drowsiness, n. (3)

    NER 3.258 17 ...by a wonderful drowsiness of usage [the ancient languages] had exacted the study of all men.
    MoS 4.172 16 The wise skeptic is a bad citizen; no conservative, he sees the selfishness of property and the drowsiness of institutions.
    Res 8.151 22 [The art of taking a walk] will draw...the drowsiness out of August.

drowsy, adj. (5)

    Mrs1 3.140 17 Society loves...sleepy languishing manners, so that they cover...the air of drowsy strength...
    ET5 5.88 15 [The Englishmen's] drowsy minds need to be flagellated by war and trade and politics and persecution.
    ET10 5.164 4 [The English] have...drowsy habitude...
    FSLN 11.239 18 The national spirit in this country is so drowsy...
    II 12.69 8 The whole art of man has been...to provoke, to extort speech from the drowsy genius.

drudge, n. (2)

    Nat 1.28 26 ...the moment a ray of relation is seen to extend from [the ant] to man, and the little drudge is seen to be a monitor...then all its habits... become sublime.
    Art1 2.349 13 So shall the drudge in dusty frock/ Spy behind the city clock/ Retinues of airy kings,/ Skirts of angels, starry wings/...

drudge, v. (6)

    LE 1.176 11 Let us...suffer, and weep, and drudge...
    MoS 4.154 7 Why should we fret and drudge?
    F 6.16 27 [The Germans and Irish] are...carted over America, to ditch and to drudge...
    F 6.33 6 The mischievous torrent is taught to drudge for man;...
    SA 8.100 11 It is the sense of every human being that man...should arm himself with tools and force the elements to drudge for him and give him power.
    MoL 10.242 27 ...the bribe came to men of intellectual culture,-Come, drudge in our mill.

drudged, v. (3)

    Con 1.308 3 ...I laid my bones to, and drudged for the good I possess;...
    ET7 5.120 10 ...[Wellington] drudged for years on his military works at Lisbon...
    Wsp 6.237 19 ...[The Shakers] say, the Spirit will presently manifest to the man himself and to the society what manner of person he is, and whether he belongs among them. They do not receive him, they do not reject him. And not in vain have they...drudged in their fields...if they have truly learned thus much wisdom.

drudgeries, n. (1)

    MoS 4.151 21 On the other part, the men of toil and trade and luxury,--the animal world...and the practical world, including the painful drudgeries which are never excused to philosopher or poet any more than to the rest,-- weigh heavily on the other side.

drudgery, n. (10)

    AmS 1.95 22 Drudgery, calamity...are instructors in eloquence and wisdom.
    MR 1.241 25 ...where there is a fine organization, apt for poetry and philosophy, that individual...is better taught by a moderate and dainty exercise...than by the downright drudgery of the farmer and the smith.
    Con 1.324 5 If [the hero] have earned his bread by drudgery...he will make it at least honorable by his expenditure.
    Tran 1.341 17 ...to [many intelligent and religious persons'] lofty dream the writing of Iliads or Hamlets, or the building of cities or empires seems drudgery.
    YA 1.381 13 All this drudgery...to end in mortgages and the auctioneer's flag...
    Fdsp 2.206 11 [Friendship] should...add rhyme and reason to what was drudgery.
    Ctr 6.146 20 ...boys and men of that condition [who have grown up on a farm, which they have never left] look upon...drudgery in a city, as opportunity.
    Aris 10.53 1 ...Genius unlocks for all men the chains of use, temperament and drudgery...
    LLNE 10.349 27 By reason of the isolation of men at the present day, all work is drudgery.
    FSLC 11.189 9 I thought that every time a man goes back to his own thoughts, these angels receive him, talk with him...that these moments counterbalance the years of drudgery...

drudges, n. (1)

    AmS 1.114 25 Young men...turn drudges...

drudges, v. (1)

    Edc1 10.128 18 ...here [in the household] labor drudges, here affections glow...

drudging, v. (1)

    MMEm 10.397 2 The yesterday doth never smile,/ To-day goes drudging through the while,/ Yet in the name of Godhead, I/ The morrow front and can defy;/ Though I am weak, yet God, when prayed,/ Cannot withhold his conquering aid./

drug, n. (2)

    Edc1 10.154 10 ...total abstinence from this drug [of emulation and display]...involves at once immense claims on the time, the thoughts, on the life of the teacher.
    Mem 12.106 11 ...I come to a bright school-girl who...carries thousands of nursery rhymes and all the poetry in all the readers, hymn-books, and pictorial ballads in her mind; and 't is a mere drug.

drug, v. (1)

    Farm 7.135 8 ...[Farmers] prove the virtues of each bed of rock/ And, like the chemist mid his loaded jars,/ Draw from each stratum its adapted use/ To drug their crops or weapon their arts withal./

drugged, v. (5)

    Lov1 2.176 2 In the noon and the afternoon of life we still throb at the recollection of days when happiness...must be drugged with the relish of pain and fear;...
    MoS 4.178 1 We have been sopped and drugged with the air...
    Wth 6.116 8 The smell of the plants has drugged [the land-owner]...
    Ill 6.313 27 ...everybody is drugged with his own frenzy...
    II 12.81 10 The men are all drugged with this liquor of thought...

drugs, n. (3)

    ET10 5.167 26 England is aghast at the disclosure of her fraud in the adulteration of food, of drugs...
    Supl 10.165 26 ...there is an inverted superlative...which...feeds on drugs and poisons;...
    Supl 10.177 24 ...the Orientals excel...in spices, in dyes and drugs...

Druid, n. (1)

    Hist 2.28 18 The priestcraft...of the Magian, Brahmin, Druid, and Inca, is expounded in the individual's private life.

Druidical, adj. (2)

    ET16 5.278 4 How came the stones [of Stonehenge] here? for these sarsens, or Druidical sandstones, are not found in this neighborhood.
    ET16 5.281 4 ...at the summer solstice, the sun rises exactly over the top of that [astronomical] stone [at Stonehenge], at the Druidical temple at Abury, there is also an astronomical stone, in the same relative position.

Druids, n. (5)

    AmS 1.100 1 ...out of terrible Druids and Berserkers come at last Alfred and Shakspeare.
    ET12 5.200 23 [Oxford's] foundations date...from Arthur, if, as is alleged, the Pheryllt of the Druids had a seminary here.
    ET16 5.282 2 ...here is the high point of the theory: the Druids had the magnet;...
    ET16 5.282 7 The Druids were Phoenicians.
    Chr2 10.104 13 Every nation is degraded by the goblins it worships instead of this Deity. The Dionysia and Saturnalia of Greece and Rome, the human sacrifice of the Druids...are examples of this perversion.

drum, n. (6)

    PI 8.46 15 Soldiers can march better and fight better for the drum and trumpet.
    PI 8.48 19 The boy liked the drum...
    Aris 10.37 25 What is the meaning of this invincible respect for war...that we can never quite smother the trumpet and the drum?
    Aris 10.38 9 From the most accumulated culture we are always running back to the sound of any drum and fife.
    Thor 10.456 3 [Thoreau]...required a little sense of victory, a roll of the drum, to call his powers into full exercise.
    HDC 11.73 2 In these peaceful fields [of Concord], for the first time since a hundred years, the drum and alarm-gun were heard...

drum-beat, n. (1)

    PI 8.47 3 Young people like rhyme, drum-beat, tune...

Drummond, William, n. (2)

    Boks 7.207 26 ...what with...the gossiping record of his opinions in his conversations with Drummond of Hawthornden, [Jonson] has really illustrated the England of his time...
    PI 8.44 18 Ben Jonson told Drummond that Sidney did not keep a decorum in making every one speak as well as himself.

drums, n. (6)

    Pt1 3.29 8 We fill the hands and nurseries of our children with all manner of dolls, drums and horses;...
    PPh 4.74 27 Crito bribed the jailer; but Socrates would not go out by treachery. Whatever inconvenience ensue, nothing is to be preferred before justice. These things I hear like pipes and drums...
    F 6.40 17 ...of all the drums and rattles by which men are made willing to have their heads broke...the most admirable is this by which we are brought to believe that events are arbitrary...
    Cour 7.264 25 ...the drums, flags...of the soldier have conquered you long before his sword or bayonet reaches you.
    Schr 10.280 19 Society...is dazzled and deceived by the weapon [of talent], without inquiring into the cause for which it is drawn; like boys by the drums and colors of the troops.
    CL 12.137 5 ...the Professor [Linnaeus] was generally attended by two hundred students, and, when they returned, they marched through the streets of Upsala in a festive procession...to the music of drums and trumpets...

drunk, adj. (12)

    Art1 2.366 7 The old tragic Necessity, which...furnishes the sole apology for the intrusion of such anomalous figures [as Venuses and Cupids] into nature,--namely...that the artist was drunk with a passion for form which he could not resist...no longer dignifies the chisel or the pencil.
    NER 3.270 26 You remember the story of the poor woman who importuned King Philip of Macedon to grant her justice, which Philip refused: the woman exclaimed, I appeal: the king, astonished, asked to whom she appealed: the woman replied, From Philip drunk to Philip sober.
    NER 3.271 2 I believe not in two classes of men, but in man in two moods, in Philip drunk and Philip sober.
    MoS 4.153 21 [The men of the senses] hold that Luther had milk in him... when he advised a young scholar, perplexed with fore-ordination and free-will, to get well drunk.
    ET4 5.59 9 King Ingiald finds it vastly amusing to burn up half a dozen kings in a hall, after getting them drunk.
    CbW 6.263 19 In dealing with the drunken, we do not affect to be drunk.
    Elo1 7.92 21 ...in cases where profound conviction has been wrought, the eloquent man is he...who is inwardly drunk with a certain belief.
    Boks 7.213 25 [The imagination] has a flute which sets the atoms of our frame in a dance, like planets; and once so liberated, the whole man reeling drunk to the music, they never quite subside to their old stony state.
    OA 7.319 11 ...they who take the larger draughts [of the cup of time] are drunk with it...
    PPo 8.246 13 I will be drunk and down with wine;/ Treasures we find in a ruined house./
    SMC 11.362 5 [George Prescott] never remits his care of the men, aiming to hold them to their good habits and to keep them cheerful. For the first point, he...encourages a temperance society which is formed in the camp. I have not had a man drunk, or affected by liquor, since we came here.
    Bost 12.192 8 ...Biorn and Thorfinn, Northmen...ate so many grapes from the wild vines that they were reeling drunk.

drunk, v. (4)

    Nat 1.38 14 ...wool cannot be drunk...
    DSA 1.132 25 ...[the simple] have not yet drunk so deeply of [the great soul' s] sense as to see that only by coming again to themselves...can they grow forevermore.
    Hsm1 2.243 1 Ruby wine is drunk by knaves/...
    Supl 10.170 15 [The guest's] health was drunk with some acknowledgment of his distinguished services to both countries...

drunkard, n. (2)

    Tran 1.355 5 ...the justice which is now claimed for...the drunkard, is for Beauty...
    SA 8.105 25 Cure the drunkard...but what lessons can be devised for the debauchee of sentiment?

drunkards, n. (3)

    Exp 3.60 19 Men live in their fancy, like drunkards whose hands are too soft and tremulous for successful labor.
    Cour 7.270 20 As for the bullying drunkards of which armies are usually made up, [John Brown] thought cholera, small-pox and consumption as valuable recruits.
    Res 8.147 15 ...when fear has once possessed you, God ye good even! You think you are flying towards the poop when you are running towards the prow, and for one enemy think you have ten before your eyes, as drunkards who see a thousand candles at once.

drunken, adj. (2)

    PPo 8.257 10 By breath of beds of roses drawn,/ I found the grove in the morning pure,/ In the concert of the nightingales/ My drunken brain to cure./
    Chr2 10.93 20 In bad men [the sense of Right and Wrong] is dormant, as health is in men entranced or drunken;...

drunken, n. (1)

    CbW 6.263 18 In dealing with the drunken, we do not affect to be drunk.

drunken, v. (1)

    DSA 1.138 11 This man...had eaten and drunken;...

drunkenness, n. (5)

    Cir 2.322 6 Dreams and drunkenness...are the semblance and counterfeit of this oracular genius...
    Pt1 3.33 5 ...dream delivers us to dream, and while the drunkenness lasts we will sell our bed, our philosophy, our religion, in our opulence.
    LS 11.14 7 We quote [St. Paul's] passage nowadays as if it enjoined attendance upon the [Lord's] Supper; but he wrote it merely to chide [his friends] for drunkenness.
    AsSu 11.250 12 [Sumner's] opponents accuse him neither of drunkenness nor debauchery...
    Let 12.401 25 ...where the divine nature and the artist is crushed...every other planet is better than the earth. Men deteriorate...drunkenness comes with a disaster;...

Drury Lane Theatre, London (1)

    ShP 4.206 15 Malone, Warburton, Dyce and Collier have wasted their oil. The famed theatres, Covent Garden, Drury Lane, the Park and Tremont have vainly assisted.

dry, adj. (34)

    Nat 1.3 14 ...why should we grope among the dry bones of the past...
    Nat 1.28 5 ...all Linnaeus' and Buffon's volumes, are dry catalogues of facts;...
    AmS 1.109 25 Do we fear lest we should...drink truth dry?
    DSA 1.140 20 If no heart warm this rite [the Lord's Supper], the hollow, dry, creaking formality is too plain...
    Con 1.315 1 ...rising one morning before day from his bed of moss and dry leaves, [Friar Bernard] gnawed his roots and berries...
    Prd1 2.225 16 ...we are poisoned by the air that is too cold or too hot, too dry or too wet.
    Prd1 2.234 24 ...timber...if laid up high and dry, will strain, warp and dry-rot;...
    Pt1 3.3 9 [The umpires of tastes'] cultivation is local, as if you should rub a log of dry wood in one spot to produce fire...
    Pt1 3.29 19 That spirit which suffices quiet hearts, which seems to come forth to such from every dry knoll of sere grass...comes forth to the poor and hungry...
    Mrs1 3.140 7 The dry light must shine in to adorn our festival...
    NER 3.259 1 ...the Good Spirit never cared for the colleges, and though all men and boys were now drilled in Latin, Greek and Mathematics, it had quite left these shells high and dry on the beach...
    SwM 4.112 5 [Swedenborg's Animal Kingdom] was an anatomist's account of the human body, in the highest style of poetry. Nothing can exceed the bold and brilliant treatment of a subject usually so dry and repulsive.
    SwM 4.122 7 To the withered traditional church, yielding dry catechisms, [Swedenborg] let in nature again...
    MoS 4.167 2 As I look at [Montaigne's] effigy opposite the title-page, I seem to hear him say...I stand here for truth, and will not, for all the states and churches and revenues and personal reputations of Europe, overstate the dry fact, as I see it;...
    NMW 4.248 25 The winter, says Napoleon, is not the most unfavorable season for the passage of lofty mountains. The snow is then firm...and there is nothing to fear from avalanches, the real and only danger to be apprehended in the Alps. On these high mountains there are often very fine days in December, of a dry cold...
    ET14 5.240 27 [Bacon] complains that he finds this part of learning [universality] very deficient, the profounder sort of wits drawing a bucket now and then for their own use, but the spring-head unvisited. This was the dry light which did scorch and offend most men's watery natures.
    Wth 6.87 20 Wealth begins...in dry sticks to burn...
    Wth 6.120 6 ...the cow that [Mr. Cockayne] buys gives milk for three months; then her bag dries up. What to do with a dry cow?...
    CbW 6.262 13 We learn geology the morning after the earthquake, on ghastly diagrams of cloven mountains, upheaved plains, and the dry bed of the sea.
    Bty 6.298 5 [Women]...teach [the most serious student] to put a pleasing method into what is dry and difficult.
    Farm 7.147 18 [The tree] did not grow on a ridge, but in a basin, where it found deep soil, cold enough and dry enough for the pine;...
    Boks 7.212 5 There is another class [of books], more needful to the present age, because the currents of custom run now in another direction and leave us dry on this side;--I mean the Imaginative.
    Clbs 7.231 16 Among the men of wit and learning, [the lover of letters] could not withhold his homage from the gayety... But when he came home, his brave sequins were dry leaves.
    PI 8.35 14 The test of the poet is the power to take the passing day...and hold it up to a divine reason, till he sees it...to be related to astronomy and history and the eternal order of the world. Then the dry twig blossoms in his hand.
    SA 8.88 22 If...a man has not firm nerves...it is perhaps a wise economy to go to a good shop and dress himself irreproachably. He...may easily find that performance...a fortification that...allows him to go gayly into conversations where else he had been dry and embarrassed.
    Res 8.145 4 A sudden shower cannot wet [the old forester], if he cares to be dry;...
    Res 8.146 17 ...taking up a chip of dry pine, [Tissenet] drew a burning-glass from his pocket and set the chip on fire.
    Thor 10.479 15 It was so dry, you might call it wet.
    HDC 11.62 16 Alas! for [the Indians]-their day is o'er,/ Their fires are out from hill and shore,/ No more for them the wild deer bounds,/ The plough is on their hunting grounds;/ The pale man's axe rings in their woods,/ The pale man's sail skims o'er their floods,/ Their pleasant springs are dry./
    SMC 11.364 21 [George Prescott writes] We started and marched two miles without stopping to rest...being very hot and dry.
    FRep 11.542 22 ...man seems to play...a certain part that even tells on the general face of the planet...leads rivers into dry countries for their irrigation...
    CL 12.152 11 The dry leaves rustle so loud, as we go rummaging through them, that we can hear nothing else.
    CL 12.152 13 The leaf in our dry climate gets fully ripe...
    AgMs 12.361 4 ...why this recommendation [in the Agricultural Survey] of stone houses? They are not so cheap, not so dry, and not so fit for us [New England farmers].

dry, v. (3)

    Nat 1.76 26 The sordor and filths of nature, the sun shall dry up...
    SwM 4.112 7 [Swedenborg] saw nature wreathing through an everlasting spiral, with wheels that never dry, on axles that never creak...
    F 6.7 16 Rivers dry up by opening of the forest.

Dryasdust [Carlyle, Sartor (1)

    PPr 12.389 1 How well-read, how adroit, that thousand arts in [Carlyle's] one art of writing; with his expedient for expressing those unproven opinions which he entertains but will not endorse, by summoning one of his men of straw from the cell,-and the respectable...Dryasdust, or Picturesque Traveller, says what is put into his mouth, and disappears.

Dryden, John, n. (9)

    AmS 1.92 1 We read the verses of one of the great English poets...of Dryden, with the most modern joy...
    LE 1.175 1 Pindar, Raphael, Angelo, Dryden, De Stael, dwell in crowds it may be...
    ShP 4.197 17 ...more recently not only Pope and Dryden have been beholden to [Chaucer], but, in the whole society of English writers, a large unacknowledged debt is easily traced.
    Boks 7.207 8 Here [in the Elizabethan era the scholar] has Shakspeare... Herrick; and Milton, Marvell and Dryden, not long after.
    PI 8.72 23 A little more or less skill in whistling is of no account. See those weary pentameter tales of Dryden and others.
    Plu 10.296 14 In England, Sir Thomas North translated [Plutarch's] Lives in 1579, and Holland the Morals in 1603, in time to be...read by Bacon, Dryden and Cudworth.
    Milt1 12.252 15 We think we have seen and heard criticism upon [Milton' s] poems, which the bard himself would have more valued than the recorded praise of Dryden, Addison and Johnson...
    WSL 12.341 13 When we pronounce the names of...Ben Jonson and Isaak Walton; Dryden and Pope,-we...enter into a region of the purest pleasure accessible to human nature.
    EurB 12.365 17 Many of [Wordsworth's] poems...might be all improvised. Nothing of Milton, nothing...of Dryden, could be.

dry-dock, n. (1)

    Art2 7.40 6 When we reflect on the pleasure we receive from a ship, a railroad, a dry-dock; or from a picture, a dramatic representation, a statue, a poem,--we find that these have not a quite simple, but a blended origin.

dryest, adj. (1)

    PI 8.7 23 ...the severest analyzer, scornful of all but dryest fact, is forced to keep the poetic curve of Nature...

dry-goods, adj. (1)

    Schr 10.269 3 The dry-goods men...are idealists...

drying, adj. (1)

    Trag 12.414 21 As the west wind...combs out the matted and dishevelled grass as it lay in night-locks on the ground, so we let in Time as a drying wind into the seed-field of thoughts which are dark and wet and low bent.

drying, v. (1)

    AKan 11.262 7 Pans of gold lay drying outside of every man's tent, in perfect security [in California].

dryly, adv. (2)

    SA 8.92 24 If you are suspiciously and dryly on your guard, so is he or she.
    Plu 10.300 5 ...though Plutarch is as plain-spoken [as Montaigne], his moral sentiment is always pure. What better praise has any writer received than he whom Montaigne finds frank in giving things, not words, dryly adding, it vexes me that he is so exposed to the spoil of those that are conversant with him.

dry-rot, v. (1)

    Prd1 2.234 25 ...timber...if laid up high and dry, will strain, warp and dry-rot;...

dual, adj. (4)

    Comp 2.97 9 Whilst the world is thus dual, so is every one of its parts.
    Comp 2.114 13 ...because of the dual constitution of things, in labor as in life there can be no cheating.
    NER 3.266 12 When the individual is not individual, but is dual;...what concert can be?
    F 6.22 5 ...though Fate is immense, so is Power, which is the other fact in the dual world, immense.

dualism, n. (5)

    Nat 1.50 17 ...a small alteration in our local position, apprizes us of a dualism.
    SR 2.77 23 [Prayer as a means to effect a private end] supposes dualism and not unity in nature and consciousness.
    Comp 2.97 4 An inevitable dualism bisects nature...
    Comp 2.98 6 The same dualism underlies the nature and condition of man.
    Milt1 12.276 15 Like prophets, [Homer and Shakespeare] seem but imperfectly aware of the import of their own utterances. We hesitate to say such things, and say them only to the unpleasing dualism, when the man and the poet show like a double consciousness.

duality, n. (1)

    ET14 5.238 20 Lord Bacon has the English duality.

dubbed, adj. (1)

    Aris 10.42 11 In 1373, in writs of summons of members of Parliament, the sheriff of every county is to cause two dubbed knights...to be returned.

dubiously, adv. (1)

    MLit 12.311 5 ...[the library of the Present Age] vents...books...which work dubiously on society...

Dublin Bank, n. (1)

    ET7 5.124 21 ...when the Rochester rappings began to be heard of in England, a man deposited 100 pounds in a sealed box in the Dublin Bank, and then advertised in the newspapers to all somnambulists, mesmerizers and others, that whoever could tell him the number of his note should have the money.

Dubuc, ("), n. (1)

    QO 8.192 3 ...Voltaire usually imitated, but with such superiority that Dubuc said: He is like the false Amphitryon; although the stranger, it is always he who has the air of being master of the house.

Duca, Gran, Piazza del, Fl (1)

    MAng1 12.229 20 In the Piazza del Gran Duca at Florence, stands, in the open air, [Michelangelo's] David...

ducal, adj. (4)

    NER 3.275 13 ...a naval and military honor...a ducal coronet...have this lustre for each candidate that they enable him to walk erect and unashamed in the presence of some persons before whom he felt himself inferior.
    SwM 4.98 16 ...now, when the royal and ducal Frederics, Christians and Brunswicks of that day have slid into oblivion, [Swedenborg] begins to spread himself into the minds of thousands.
    ET5 5.77 27 A man of that [English] brain thinks and acts thus; and his neighbor, being afflicted with the same kind of brain...is ready to allow the justice of the thought and act in his retainer or tenant, though sorely against his baronial or ducal will.
    Wth 6.121 25 Of the two eminent engineers in the recent construction of railways in England, Mr. Brunel went straight...cutting ducal estates in two...

ducats, n. (1)

    ET6 5.113 17 ...[the English] would sooner give five or six ducats to provide an entertainment for a person, than a groat to assist him in any distress.

duchesses, n. (1)

    ET11 5.191 11 Prostitutes taken from the theatres were made duchesses [in England]...

duchy, n. (1)

    PPo 8.238 13 A war is undertaken [in the East] for an epigram or a distich, as in Europe for a duchy.

duck, n. (2)

    ET2 5.28 8 It is impossible not to personify a ship; every body does, in every thing they say...she swims like a duck;...
    Thor 10.466 27 ...the birds which frequent the stream [the Concord River], heron, duck, sheldrake, loon, osprey;...were all known to [Thoreau]...

duck, v. (1)

    SL 2.163 4 Shall I skulk and dodge and duck with my unseasonable apologies...

ducking, v. (2)

    OS 2.292 3 [Simple souls] must always be a godsend to princes, for they confront them, a king to a king, without ducking or concession...
    GoW 4.269 20 ...how can [the writer] be honored...when he is no longer the lawgiver, but the sycophant, ducking to the giddy opinion of a reckless public;...

ducks, n. (4)

    ET2 5.27 1 ...[the good ship] has reached the Banks;...gulls, haglets, ducks, petrels, swim, dive and hover around;...
    F 6.41 1 Ducks take to the water...
    CbW 6.256 3 California gets peopled and subdued, civilized in this immoral way, and on this fiction a real prosperity is rooted and grown. 'T is a decoy-duck; 't is tubs thrown to amuse the whale; but real ducks, and whales that yield oil, are caught.
    Supl 10.174 26 Nor is there in Nature itself any swell, any brag, any strain or shock, but a firm common sense...through all her ducks and geese;...

duct, n. (1)

    Exp 3.51 16 I knew a witty physician who found the creed in the biliary duct...

ductile, adj. (3)

    Nat 1.52 9 To [the poet], the refractory world is ductile and flexible;...
    OA 7.317 23 Time is indeed the theatre and seat of illusion: nothing is so ductile and elastic.
    Res 8.142 26 All is ductile and plastic.

ductility, n. (1)

    F 6.32 20 ...the ductility of metals...are awaiting you.

Dudley, Joseph, n. (1)

    HDC 11.85 26 On the village green [of Concord] have been the steps of Winthrop and Dudley;...

Dudley, Thomas, n. (1)

    HDC 11.41 22 In 1638, 1200 acres were granted to Governor Winthrop, and 1000 to Thomas Dudley...

due, adj. (53)

    Nat 1.30 11 In due time the fraud is manifest...
    Tran 1.351 18 All that is clearly due to-day is not to lie.
    SR 2.45 11 ...the inmost in due time becomes the outmost...
    SR 2.63 12 [The world] has been taught by this colossal symbol [of kings] the mutual reverence that is due from man to man.
    SR 2.65 7 Every man...knows that to his involuntary perceptions a perfect faith is due.
    Comp 2.121 15 We feel defrauded of the retribution due to evil acts...
    SL 2.159 21 [A man] may be a solitary eater, but he cannot keep his foolish counsel. A broken complexion...and the want of due knowledge,--all blab.
    Fdsp 2.216 9 It has seemed to me lately more possible than I knew, to carry a friendship greatly, on one side, without due correspondence on the other.
    Pt1 3.6 4 ...there is some...excess of phlegm in our constitution which does not suffer [sun, stars, earth, water] to yield the due effect.
    Exp 3.51 9 Of what use [is genius]...if the web is...too irritable by pleasure and pain, so that life stagnates from too much reception without due outlet?
    Exp 3.69 13 I would gladly be moral and keep due metes and bounds...
    Exp 3.80 11 The partial action of each strong mind in one direction is a telescope for the objects on which it is pointed. But every other part of knowledge is to be pushed to the same extravagance, ere the soul attains her due sphericity.
    Chr1 3.115 9 This is confusion, this the right insanity, when the soul no longer knows its own, nor where its allegiance, its religion, are due.
    Gts 3.159 12 If at any time it comes into my head that a present is due from me to somebody, I am puzzled what to give...
    Pol1 3.217 20 It is because we know how much is due from us that we are impatient to show some petty talent as a substitute for worth.
    NR 3.235 24 I wish to speak with all respect of persons, but sometimes I must pinch myself to keep awake and preserve the due decorum.
    NER 3.284 5 [A man] can already rely on the laws of gravity, that every stone will fall where it is due;...
    UGM 4.19 6 ...[a wise man] would...calm us with assurances that we could not be cheated; as every one would discern the checks and guaranties of condition. The rich would see their mistakes and poverty, the poor their escapes and their resources. But nature brings all this about in due time.
    UGM 4.24 13 Is it not a rare contrivance that lodged the due inertia in every creature...
    UGM 4.29 2 Nothing is more marked than the power by which individuals are guarded from individuals, in a world where every benefactor becomes so easily a malefactor only by continuation of his activity into places where it is not due;...
    PPh 4.59 3 [Plato's] strength is like the momentum of a falling planet, and his discretion the return of its due and perfect curve...
    PPh 4.66 22 Socrates declares that if some have grown wise by associating with him, no thanks are due to him;...
    SwM 4.119 15 ...to a reader who can make due allowance in the report for the reporter's [Swedenborg's] peculiarities, the results are still instructive...
    SwM 4.130 13 Success, or a fortunate genius, seems to depend...on a due proportion, hard to hit, of moral and mental power...
    ShP 4.194 4 The poet needs a ground in popular tradition...which...may restrain his art within the due temperance.
    ET4 5.46 12 Is this [English] power due to their race...
    ET5 5.95 22 In due course, all England will be drained...
    ET13 5.227 7 Brougham...said, How will the reverend bishops...be able to express their due abhorrence of the crime of perjury...
    ET17 5.297 27 ...there is something hard and sterile in [Wordsworth's] poetry...want of due catholicity and cosmopolitan scope...
    Ctr 6.143 12 [The boy] is infatuated for weeks with whist and chess; but presently will find out...that when he rises from the game too long played, he is vacant and forlorn and despises himself. Thenceforward it...has its due weight in his experience.
    Wsp 6.213 9 The religion of the cultivated class now...consists in an avoidance of acts and engagements which it was once their religion to assume. But this avoidance will yield spontaneous forms in their due hour.
    Wsp 6.230 15 I am well assured that the Questioner who brings me so many problems will bring the answers also in due time.
    Ill 6.314 6 Amid the joyous troop who give in to the charivari, comes now and then a sad-eyed boy whose eyes lack the requisite refractions to clothe the show in due glory...
    Farm 7.137 17 If [a man] have not...some product for which the farmer will give him corn, he must himself return into his due place among the planters.
    Boks 7.202 3 ...Winckelmann, a Greek born out of due time, has become essential to an intimate knowledge of the Attic genius.
    Suc 7.288 8 The Arabian sheiks...do not want [American arts]; yet...are easily able to impress the Frenchman or the American who visits them with the respect due to a brave and sufficient man.
    MoL 10.241 6 You go to be teachers, to become...in due course, statesmen, naturalists, philanthropists;...
    MoL 10.254 24 There is respect due to your teachers...
    Plu 10.295 23 ...Rabelais cites [Plutarch] with due respect.
    SlHr 10.447 1 ...the farmers greeted [Samuel Hoar] as one of themselves, whilst they paid due homage to his powers of mind and to his virtues.
    Thor 10.470 9 [Thoreau] drew out of his breast-pocket his diary, and read the names of all the plants that should bloom on this day, whereof he kept account as a banker when his notes fall due.
    Thor 10.470 10 [Thoreau] drew out of his breast-pocket his diary, and read the names of all the plants that should bloom on this day, whereof he kept account as a banker when his notes fall due. The Cypripedium not due till to-morrow.
    LS 11.17 17 I appeal now to the convictions of communicants [in the Lord' s Supper], and ask such persons whether they have not been occasionally conscious of a painful confusion of thought between the worship due to God and the commemoration due to Christ.
    LS 11.17 18 I appeal now to the convictions of communicants [in the Lord' s Supper], and ask such persons whether they have not been occasionally conscious of a painful confusion of thought between the worship due to God and the commemoration due to Christ.
    TPar 11.290 20 Two days...the days of the rendition of Sims and Burns, made the occasion of [Theodore Parker's] most remarkable discourses. He kept nothing back. In terrible earnest he...meted out to every official...his due portion.
    EdAd 11.382 19 ...[the elements] shove us from them, yield to us/ Only what to our griping toil is due;/...
    II 12.67 3 [Instinct's] property is absolute science and an implicit reliance is due to it.
    Mem 12.105 3 The memory of all men is robust on the subject of a debt due to them...
    CL 12.148 5 I admire the taste which makes the avenue to a house... through a wood; besides the beauty...it disposes the mind of the inhabitant and of his guests to the deference due to each.
    CW 12.175 25 I admire the taste which makes the avenue to the house... through a wood;-as it disposes the mind of the inhabitant and of his guest to the deference due to each.
    Bost 12.199 8 When one thinks of the enterprises that are attempted in the heats of youth...we see with new increased respect the solid, well-calculated scheme of these emigrants [to New England]...building their empire by due degrees.
    Milt1 12.247 20 [The fame of a great man] needs time to give it due perspective.
    PPr 12.389 24 [Carlyle]...gives sincerity where it is due.

due, n. (3)

    Prd1 2.234 2 Health, bread, climate, social position, have their importance, and [a man] will give them their due.
    Plu 10.299 11 ...[Plutarch] is...enough a man of the world to give even the Devil his due...
    FSLC 11.190 27 Blackstone admits the sovereignty antecedent to any positive precept, of the law of Nature, among whose principles are, that we should live on, should hurt nobody, and should render unto every one his due, etc.

duel, n. (3)

    ET11 5.175 25 ...the duel, which in peace still held [French and English nobles] to the risks of war, diminished the envy that in trading and studious nations would else have pried into their title.
    ET12 5.200 19 ...out of twelve hundred young men [at Oxford]...a duel has never occurred.
    AsSu 11.247 23 Many years ago, when Mr. Webster was challenged in Washington to a duel by one of these [Southern] madcaps, his friends came forward with prompt good sense and said such a thing was not to be thought of;...

duellists, n. (1)

    War 11.170 13 In some of our cities they choose noted duellists as presidents and officers of anti-duelling societies.

dues, n. (1)

    ET4 5.58 15 ...[going into guest-quarters] was the only way in which, in a poor country, a poor king with many retainers could be kept alive when he leaves his own farm to collect his dues through the kingdom.

dug, v. (5)

    Pow 6.72 20 ...[Michel Angelo] went down into the Pope's gardens behind the Vatican, and with a shovel dug out ochres, red and yellow...
    CbW 6.265 13 ...I find the gayest castles in the air that were ever piled, far better for comfort and for use than the dungeons in the air that are daily dug and caverned out by grumbling, discontented people.
    MMEm 10.430 17 Those economists (Adam Smith) who say nothing is added to the wealth of a nation but what is dug out of the earth...why, I [Mary Moody Emerson] am content with such paradoxical kind of facts;...
    HDC 11.43 21 What could the body of freemen, meeting four times a year, at Boston, do for the daily wants of the planters at Musketaquid? The wolf was to be killed;...wells to be dug;...
    SMC 11.350 17 The town [Concord] has thought fit to signify its honor for a few of its sons by raising an obelisk in the square. It is a simple pile enough,-a few slabs of granite, dug just below the surface of the soil, and laid upon the top of it;...

Dugdale, William, n. (1)

    ET5 5.77 1 Certain Trolls or working brains, under the names of...Selden, Dugdale, Newton...dwell in the troll-mounts of Britain...

Dugdales, n. (1)

    ET8 5.139 1 To understand the power of performance that is in their finest wits...in the Dugdales, Gibbons, Hallams, Eldons and Peels, one should see how English day-laborers hold out.

Duhamel, Henri Louis, n. (1)

    Art2 7.41 8 Duhamel built a bridge by letting in a piece of stronger timber for the middle of the under-surface...

Duke, Grand, n. (2)

    Chr1 3.104 3 ...it was droll in the good Riemer, who has written memoirs of Goethe, to make out a list of his donations and good deeds, as...a post under the Grand Duke for Herder...
    MLit 12.325 23 There is a good letter from Wieland to Merck, in which Wieland relates that Goethe read to a select party his journal of a tour in Switzerland with the Grand Duke...

Duke, Grand, of Weimar [Ka (1)

    Prd1 2.229 9 The last Grand Duke of Weimar...said,--I have sometimes remarked in the presence of great works of art...how much a certain property contributes to the effect which gives life to the figures, and to the life an irresistible truth.

duke, n. (13)

    MN 1.202 6 When we...shorten the sight to look into this court of Louis Quatorze, and see the game that is played there,-duke and marshal, abbe and madame...one can hardly help asking...whether it be quite worth while to...glut the innocent space with so poor an article.
    SR 2.62 16 That popular fable of the sot...laid in the duke's bed, and, on his waking, treated with all obsequious ceremony like the duke...symbolizes... the state of man...
    Hsm1 2.245 7 When any Rodrigo, Pedro or Valerio enters [in the plays of the elder English dramatists]...the duke or governor exclaims, This is a gentleman...
    Hsm1 2.245 21 The Roman Martius has conquered Athens,--all but the invincible spirits of Sophocles, the duke of Athens, and Dorigen, his wife.
    Hsm1 2.247 11 Mar. This admirable duke, Valerius,/ With his disdain of fortune and of death,/ Captived himself, has captivated me,/ And though my arm hath ta'en his body here,/ His soul hath subjugated Martius' soul./
    NMW 4.245 5 Seventeen men in [Napoleon's] time were raised from common soldiers to the rank of king, marshal, duke, or general;...
    ET5 5.77 24 A man of that [English] brain thinks and acts thus; and his neighbor, being afflicted with the same kind of brain, though he is...called a baron or a duke, thinks the same thing...
    ET10 5.162 3 A sporting duke [in England] may fancy that the state depends on the House of Lords...
    ET10 5.164 22 ...absolute possession gives the smallest freeholder [in England] identity of interest with the duke.
    ET13 5.221 6 A great duke said on the occasion of a victory, in the House of Lords, that he thought the Almighty God had not been well used by them...
    ET15 5.269 6 [The London Times] attacks a duke as readily as a policeman...
    WD 7.173 9 Hume's doctrine was...that the beggar cracking fleas in the sunshine under a hedge, and the duke rolling by in his chariot;...had different means, but the same quantity of pleasant excitement.
    Aris 10.30 3 ...he that wol have prize of his genterie,/ For he was boren of a gentil house,/ And had his elders noble and virtuous,/ And n' ill hinselven do no gentil dedes,/ Ne folwe his gentil auncestrie, that dead is,/ He n' is not gentil, be he duke or erl;/...

Duke, n. (1)

    ET11 5.181 8 Evelyn writes from Blois, in 1644: The wolves are here in such numbers, that they often come and take children out of the streets; yet will not the Duke, who is sovereign here, permit them to be destroyed.

Duke of Brunswick, n. (1)

    SwM 4.100 9 [Swedenborg]...devoted himself to the writing and publication of his voluminous theological works, which were printed at his own expense, or at that of the Duke of Brunswick or other prince...

dukedom, n. (1)

    ET11 5.178 19 Wraxall says that in 1781, Lord Surrey, afterwards Duke of Norfolk, told him that when the year 1783 should arrive, he meant to give a grand festival...to mark the day when the dukedom should have remained three hundred years in their house...

Dukes, Grand, n. (1)

    Wth 6.96 9 Ages derive a culture from the wealth of...Grand Dukes of Tuscany...or whatever great proprietors.

dukes, n. (9)

    ET4 5.51 6 Everything English is a fusion of distant and antagonistic elements. The language is mixed;...a country of extemes,--dukes and chartists, Bishops of Durham and naked heathen colliers;...
    ET11 5.188 26 These [English] lords are the treasurers and librarians of mankind, engaged by their pride and wealth to this function. Yet there were other works for British dukes to do.
    ET11 5.191 12 Prostitutes taken from the theatres were made duchesses, their bastards dukes and earls.
    ET11 5.193 1 Dismal anecdotes abound...of [English] dukes served by bailiffs...
    ET11 5.193 6 Dismal anecdotes abound...of ruined dukes and earls living in exile for debt.
    ET15 5.262 7 ...said Lord Mansfield to the Duke of Northumberland; mark my words;...these newspapers will most assuredly write the dukes of Northumberland out of their titles...
    Bty 6.302 2 The lives of the Italian artists, who established a despotism of genius amidst the dukes and kings and mobs of their stormy epoch, prove how loyal men in all times are to a finer brain, a finer method than their own.
    Bost 12.202 2 [The Massachusetts colonists] could say to themselves, Well, at least this yoke of man, of bishops, of courtiers, of dukes, is off my neck.
    EurB 12.368 20 [Wordsworth]...wrote Helvellyn and Windermere and the dim spirits which these haunts harbored. There was not the least attempt...to show, with great deference to the superior judgment of dukes and earls, that although London was the home for men of great parts, yet Westmoreland had these consolations for such as fate had condemned to the country life...

Dukes, n. (2)

    Wth 6.96 9 Ages derive a culture from the wealth of...Dukes of Devonshire...or whatever great proprietors.
    PPr 12.384 17 It is plain that...all the great classes of English society must read [Carlyle's Past and Present], even those whose existence it proscribes. Poor Queen Victoria...poor Primates and Bishops,-poor Dukes and Lords!

duke's, n. (4)

    SR 2.62 14 That popular fable of the sot...carried to the duke's house... symbolizes...the state of man...
    SR 2.62 15 That popular fable of the sot...washed and dressed and laid in the duke's bed ...symbolizes...the state of man...
    ET10 5.162 6 ...the engineer [in England] sees that every stroke of the steam-piston gives value to the duke's land...
    ET10 5.162 7 ...the engineer [in England] sees that every stroke of the steam-piston...doubles, quadruples, centuples the duke's capital...

Dulauloy, Countess, n. (2)

    Comc 8.171 20 A lady of high rank, but of lean figure, had given the Countess Dulauloy the nickname of Le Grenadier tricolore, in allusion to her tall figure...
    Comc 8.171 22 A lady of high rank, but of lean figure, had given the Countess Dulauloy the nickname of Le Grenadier tricolore, in allusion to her tall figure, as well as to her republican opinions; the Countess retaliated by calling Madame the Venus of the Pere-Lachaise...

dull, adj. (42)

    AmS 1.96 23 In its grub state...[the new deed] is a dull grub.
    AmS 1.111 27 ...the world lies no longer a dull miscellany and lumber-room...
    LE 1.185 1 ...you shall get your lesson out of the hour, and the object...even in reading a dull book...
    Hist 2.38 20 History no longer shall be a dull book.
    Art1 2.367 9 [Now men] abhor men as tasteless, dull, and inconvertible...
    Pt1 3.29 20 That spirit which suffices quiet hearts, which seems to come forth to such...from every pine stump and half-imbedded stone on which the dull March sun shines, comes forth to the poor and hungry...
    Pt1 3.37 22 ...Methodism and Unitarianism, are flat and dull to dull people...
    Chr1 3.110 15 He is a dull observer whose experience has not taught him the reality and force of magic, as well as of chemistry.
    Nat2 3.196 25 ...wisdom is infused into every form. It has been poured into us as blood;...it enveloped us in dull, melancholy days...
    NER 3.254 17 Every project in the history of reform...is...very dull and suspicious when adopted from another.
    SwM 4.134 5 [Swedenborg's] heavens and hells are dull;...
    MoS 4.168 6 ...[Montaigne] is never dull, never insincere...
    NMW 4.252 24 The consternation of the dull and conservative classes, the terror of the foolish old men and old women of the Roman conclave...make [Napoleon's] history bright and commanding.
    ET5 5.83 17 More than the diamond Koh-i-noor...[the English] prize that dull pebble...whose poles turn themselves to the poles of the world...
    ET14 5.239 26 'T is quite certain that Spenser, Burns, Byron and Wordsworth will be Platonists, and that the dull men will be Lockists.
    ET18 5.306 6 [The English]...are like a dull good horse which lets every nag pass him, but with whip and spur will run down every racer in the field.
    Ctr 6.132 21 There are dull and bright, sacred and profane, coarse and fine egotists.
    Ctr 6.165 27 Half engaged in the soil, pawing to get free, man needs all the music that can be brought to disengage him. If Love, red Love, with tears and joy;...if Science with her telegraphs through the deeps of space and time can set his dull nerves throbbing...make way and sing paean!
    Bty 6.281 19 The want of sympathy makes [the ornithologist's] record a dull dictionary.
    WD 7.179 23 ...him I reckon the most learned scholar...who can unfold the theory of this particular Wednesday. Can he uncover the ligaments...which attach the dull men and things we know to the First Cause?
    Boks 7.198 3 ...in these days, when it is found...that we need not be alarmed though we should find it not dull, [Herodotus's history] is regaining credit.
    Clbs 7.226 23 A man valuing himself as the organ of this or that dogma is a dull companion enough;...
    PC 8.218 17 Popes and kings and Councils of Ten are very sharp with their censorships and inquisitions, but it is on dull people.
    PPo 8.246 17 To be wise the dull brain so earnestly throbs,/ Bring bands of wine for the stupid head./
    Insp 8.272 9 Rarey can tame a wild horse; but if he could give speed to a dull horse, were not that better?
    Insp 8.284 14 ...I am...glad to find the dull rock itself to be deluged with Deity...
    Insp 8.285 4 ...at the right hour/ The lamp brings me pious light,/ That it, instead of Aurora or Phoebus,/ May enliven my quiet industry./ But they left me lying in sleep/ Dull, and not to be enlivened/...
    Grts 8.308 9 Clinging to Nature, or to that province of Nature which he knows, [the commander]...works after her laws and at her own pace, so that his doing, which is perfectly natural, appears miraculous to dull people.
    Aris 10.43 24 ...when the well-mixed man is born, with eyes not too dull nor too good...then no gift need be bestowed on him...
    Aris 10.45 26 Dull people think it Fortune that makes one rich and another poor.
    PerF 10.78 9 It would be easy to awake wonder by sketching the performance of each of these mental forces; as...of the Imagination, which turns every dull fact into pictures and poetry...
    PerF 10.82 11 Every one knows what are the effects of music to put people in gay or mournful or martial mood. But these are the effects on dull subjects...
    Edc1 10.132 16 Day creeps after day, each full of facts, dull, strange, despised things, that we cannot enough despise...
    Edc1 10.150 22 [In colleges] You have to work for large classes instead of individuals; you must lower your flag and reef your sails to wait for the dull sailors;...
    MMEm 10.406 15 ...if [Mary Moody Emerson's] companion was dull, her impatience knew no bounds.
    MMEm 10.406 16 [Mary Moody Emerson] tired presently of dull conversations...
    EWI 11.100 7 The subject [emancipation] is said to have the property of making dull men eloquent.
    PLT 12.7 21 A plain man finds [men of wit] so heavy, dull, and oppressive...that he comes to write in his tablets, Avoid the great man as one who is privileged to be an unprofitable companion.
    PLT 12.26 5 ...the dull, melancholy Pelasgi arrive at no civility until the Phoenicians and Ionians come in.
    PLT 12.26 25 ...no wine, music or exhilarating aids...avail at all to resist the palsy of mis-association. Genius is mute, is dull;...
    MLit 12.321 5 ...the interest of the poem [Wordsworth's The Excursion] ended almost with the narrative of the influences of Nature on the mind of the Boy, in the First Book. Obviously for that passage the poem was written, and with the exception of this and of a few strains of the like character in the sequel, the whole poem was dull.
    PPr 12.388 22 ...[Carlyle] never wrote one dull line.

dull, n. (7)

    LT 1.259 12 The Times are...trivial to the dull...
    LT 1.269 26 The fury with which the slave-trader defends every inch of... his howling auction-platform, is a trumpet...to wake the dull...
    MoS 4.174 3 The dull pray; the geniuses are light mockers.
    F 6.9 9 The gross lines are legible to the dull;...
    Aris 10.53 16 The best feat of genius is to bring all the varieties of talent and culture into its audience; the mediocre and the dull are reached as well as the intelligent.
    Wom 11.421 2 Those whom you [women] teach, and those whom you half teach, will fast enough make themselves...strong with their new insight, and votes will follow from all the dull.
    PLT 12.36 8 [Pan] could intoxicate by the strain of his shepherd's pipe,- silent yet to most, for his pipes make the music of the spheres,, which, because it sounds eternally, is not heard at all by the dull, but only by the mind.

dulled, v. (1)

    WD 7.158 4 ...such is the mechanical determination of our age, and so recent are our best contrivances, that use has not dulled our joy and pride in them;...

duller, adj. (1)

    PPr 12.386 2 ...[Carlyle's] fancies are more attractive and more credible than the sanity of duller men.

dullest, adj. (4)

    PI 8.6 6 The admission, never so covertly, that this [material world] is a makeshift, sets the dullest brain in ferment...
    PI 8.45 7 ...I doubt if the best poet has yet written any five-act play that can compare in thoroughness of invention with this unwritten play in fifty acts, composed by the dullest snorer on the floor of the watch-house.
    EWI 11.126 25 ...the [slave] trade could not be abolished whilst this hungry West Indian market...cried, More, more, bring me a hundred a day; [British merchants] could not expect any mitigation in the madness of the poor African war-chiefs. These considerations opened the eyes of the dullest in Britain.
    CL 12.152 5 ...[in October] all the trees are wind-harps, filling the air with music; and all men...walk to the measure of rhymes they make or remember. The dullest churl begins to quaver.

dulls, v. (1)

    Cir 2.321 7 Character dulls the impression of particular events.

dully, adv. (1)

    CW 12.176 17 ...it is much better to learn the elements of geology, of botany...by word of mouth from a companion than dully from a book.

dulness, n. (16)

    DSA 1.139 1 ...there is a commanding attraction in the moral sentiment, that can lend a faint tint of light to dulness...coming in its name...
    LE 1.161 13 I console myself...in the malignity and dulness of the nations, by falling back on these sublime recollections...
    Tran 1.348 18 The good, the illuminated, sit apart from the rest, censuring their dulness and vices...
    Int 2.347 6 ...nor do [the Greek philosophers] ever...testify the least displeasure or petulance at the dulness of their amazed auditory.
    Nat2 3.178 23 By fault of our dulness and selfishness we are looking up to nature...
    SwM 4.119 19 ...to a reader who can make due allowance in the report for the reporter's [Swedenborg's] peculiarities, the results are...a more striking testimony to the sublime laws he announced than any that balanced dulness could afford.
    GoW 4.273 24 [Goethe]...showed that the dulness and prose we ascribe to the age was only another of [Proteus's] masks...
    GoW 4.278 9 I suppose no book of this century can compare with [Goethe' s Wilhelm Meister] in its delicious sweetness...so provoking to the mind, gratifying it with...so many unexpected glimpses into a higher sphere, and never a trace of rhetoric or dulness.
    ET7 5.124 3 This [English] dulness makes their attachment to home...
    ET9 5.151 22 ...to wave our own flag at the dinner table or in the University is to carry the boisterous dulness of a fire-club into a polite circle.
    Suc 7.293 16 It is the dulness of the multitude that they cannot see the house in the ground-plan;...
    Grts 8.302 3 What anecdotes of any man do we wish to hear or read? Only the best. Certainly not those in which he was degraded to the level of dulness or vice...
    Edc1 10.141 9 ...[the boy] gladly enters a school which forbids conceit, affectation, emphasis and dulness...
    Carl 10.495 21 [Carlyle]...will not look grave even at dulness or tragedy.
    EdAd 11.385 23 What more serious calamity can befall a people than a constitutional dulness and limitation?
    Wom 11.417 3 ...this conspicuousness [of Woman] had its inconveniences. But it is cheap wit that has been spent on this subject; from Aristophanes, in whose comedies I confess my dulness to find good joke, to Rabelais...

duly, adv. (11)

    Comp 2.91 4 Mountain tall and ocean deep/ Trembling balance duly keep./
    SL 2.154 21 ...to every generation [Plato's works] come duly down...
    Nat2 3.180 11 Now we learn what patient periods must round themselves before the rock is formed;... How far off yet is the trilobite! how far the quadruped! how inconceivably remote is man! All duly arrive...
    ShP 4.212 25 ...Shakspeare has no peculiarity, no importunate topic; but all is duly given;...
    ET19 5.310 6 ...the political, the social, the parietal wit of Punch go duly every fortnight to every boy and girl in Boston and New York.
    HDC 11.77 7 The agitating events of those days [of the battle of Concord] were duly remembered in the church.
    LVB 11.90 22 ...it is not to be doubted that it is the good pleasure and the understanding of all humane persons in the Republic, of the men and the matrons sitting in the thriving independent families all over the land, that [the Indians] shall be duly cared for;...
    FSLN 11.242 20 The low bows to all the crockery gods of the day were duly made...
    PLT 12.33 22 Right thought...comes duly to those who look for it.
    MAng1 12.238 24 It has been the defect of some great men that they did not duly appreciate or did not confess the talents and virtues of others...
    MAng1 12.244 3 The innumerable pilgrims whom the genius of Italy draws to the city [Florence] duly visit this church [Santa Croce]...

Dumas, Alexander, n. (3)

    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.
    Pow 6.58 18 ...Dumas has journeymen;...
    Boks 7.213 15 The novel is that allowance and frolic the imagination finds. Everything else pins it down, and men flee for redress to...Disraeli, Dumas...

dumb, adj. (34)

    Nat 1.45 26 ...far different from the deaf and dumb nature around them, these [human forms] all rest...on the unfathomed sea of thought and virtue...
    AmS 1.95 13 I...take my place in the ring...taught by an instinct that so shall the dumb abyss be vocal with speech.
    LE 1.176 8 Come now, let us go and be dumb.
    LE 1.187 9 [Thought] will speak, though you were dumb, by its own miraculous organ.
    Fdsp 2.192 24 We talk better [with the commended stranger] than we are wont. We have...a richer memory, and our dumb devil has taken leave for the time.
    Pt1 3.20 15 The poet...puts eyes and a tongue into every dumb and inanimate object.
    Pt1 3.40 11 Stand there, [O poet,] balked and dumb...stand and strive...
    NER 3.273 12 Berkeley, having listened to the many lively things [Lord Bathurst's guests] had to say...displayed his plan with such an astonishing and animating force of eloquence and enthusiasm that they were struck dumb...
    GoW 4.282 3 Though [the writer] were dumb [his message] would speak.
    ET11 5.189 18 The grand old halls scattered up and down in England, are dumb vouchers to the state and broad hospitality of their ancient lords.
    Wsp 6.201 14 ...I am sure that a certain truth will be said through me, though I should be dumb...
    WD 7.155 2 Daughters of Time, the hypocritic days,/ Muffled and dumb like barefoot dervishes,/ And marching single in an endless file,/ Bring diadems and fagots in their hands./
    Boks 7.210 20 ...Earl Spencer exclaimed, Two thousand two hundred and fifty pounds! An electric shock went through the assembly. And ten, quietly added the Marquis [of Blandford]. There ended the strife [for the Valdarfer Boccaccio]. Ere Evans let the hammer fall, he paused; the ivory instrument swept the air; the spectators stood dumb, when the hammer fell.
    Boks 7.214 17 Life lies about us dumb;...
    Clbs 7.233 9 The greatest sufferers are often...men of a delicate sympathy, who are dumb in mixed company.
    QO 8.185 20 Madame de Stael's Architecture is frozen music is borrowed from Goethe's dumb music...
    PPo 8.248 2 What is pent and smouldered in the dumb actor, is not pent in the poet...
    PPo 8.261 20 While roses bloomed along the plain,/ The nightingale to the falcon said/ Why, of all birds, must thou be dumb?/ With closed mouth thou utterest,/ Though dying, no last word to man./
    Insp 8.273 26 Sometimes the Aeolian harp is dumb all day in the window...
    Dem1 10.2 2 In the chamber, on the stairs,/ Lurking dumb,/ Go and come/ Lemurs and Lars./
    Edc1 10.142 8 The [solitary] man is, as it were, born deaf and dumb...
    Schr 10.259 6 For thought, and not praise,/ Thought is the wages/ For which I sell days,/ Will gladly sell ages,/ And willing grow old,/ Deaf and dumb, blind and cold/...
    Schr 10.283 8 [Whosoever looks with heed into his thoughts] will find there is somebody within him that knows more than he does, a certain dumb life in life;...
    EWI 11.132 4 If the State has no power to defend its own people in its own shipping, because it has delegated that power to the Federal Government, has it no representation in the Federal Government? Are those men dumb?
    EWI 11.133 13 To what purpose have we clothed each of those representatives with the power of seventy thousand persons...if they are to sit dumb at their desks and see their constituents captured and sold;...
    War 11.154 17 ...[war] is exhibited to us continually in the dumb show of brute nature...
    War 11.156 14 Put [the man concerned with pugnacity] into a circle of cultivated men, where the conversation broaches the great questions that besiege the human reason, and he would be dumb and unhappy...
    ALin 11.329 16 In this country, on Saturday, every one was struck dumb... as he meditated on the ghastly blow [Lincoln's death].
    SMC 11.351 4 The art of the architect and the sense of the town have made these dumb stones [of the Concord Monument] speak;...
    PLT 12.47 19 Sometimes the patience and love [of intellectual men] are rewarded by the chamber of power being at last opened; but sometimes they pass away dumb, to find it where all obstruction is removed.
    II 12.68 24 We attributed power and science and good will to the Instinct, but we found it dumb and inexorable.
    ACri 12.286 15 Look at this forlorn caravan of travellers who wander over Europe dumb...
    Pray 12.352 3 ...what led us to these remembrances [of prayers] was the happy accident which in this undevout age lately brought us acquainted with two or three diaries, which attest...the eternity of the sentiment and its equality to itself through all the variety of expression. The first is the prayer of a deaf and dumb boy...
    Trag 12.410 17 If a man says, Lo! I suffer-it is apparent that he suffers not, for grief is dumb.

dumbly, adv. (1)

    EdAd 11.390 18 A journal that would meet the real wants of this time must have a courage and power sufficient to solve the problems which the great groping society around us...is dumbly exploring.

Dumfries, Scotland, n. (1)

    ET1 5.14 23 From Edinburgh I went to the Highlands. On my return I came from Glasgow to Dumfries...

Dumont, Pierre Etienne Lou [Dumont,] (6)

    NMW 4.226 9 Dumont relates that he sat in the gallery of the Convention and heard Mirabeau make a speech.
    NMW 4.226 11 It struck Dumont that he could fit [Mirabeau's speech] with a peroration...
    NMW 4.226 14 ...Dumont, in the evening, showed [his peroration] to Mirabeau.
    NMW 4.226 19 Mirabeau read [Dumont's peroration]...and declared he would incorporate it into his harangue to-morrow, to the Assembly. It is impossible, said Dumont, as, unfortunately, I have shown it to Lord Elgin.
    QO 8.197 16 Dumont was exalted by being used by Mirabeau...
    Insp 8.283 26 Had I not lived with Mirabeau, says Dumont, I never should have known all that can be done in one day...

dumped, v. (1)

    Civ 7.31 24 I see the immense material prosperity...California quartz-mountains dumped down in New York to be repiled architecturally alongshore from Canada to Cuba...

dumpish, adj. (3)

    MoS 4.171 18 ...we...reject a sour, dumpish unbelief...
    ET19 5.312 24 ...I was given to understand in my childhood...that in prosperity [Englishmen] were moody and dumpish...
    Comc 8.163 4 [Wit]...unless it encounter a mystic or a dumpish soul, goes everywhere heralded and harbingered by smiles and greetings.

dunce, n. (4)

    ET1 5.17 7 Rousseau's Confessions had discovered to [Carlyle] that he was not a dunce;...
    PI 8.44 22 ...the dunce has experiences that may explain Shakspeare to him...
    Edc1 10.153 9 A sure proportion of rogue and dunce finds its way into every school...
    Plu 10.295 17 [Henry IV wrote] My good mother...who would not wish, she said, to see her son an illustrious dunce, put this book [Plutarch] into my hands almost when I was a child at the breast.

dunces, n. (5)

    Boks 7.212 26 The very dunces wish to go to the theatre.
    Dem1 10.26 17 [Adepts in occult facts] are...by laws of kind,-dunces seeking dunces...preferring snores and gastric noises to the voice of any muse.
    Dem1 10.26 18 [Adepts in occult facts] are...by laws of kind,-dunces seeking dunces...preferring snores and gastric noises to the voice of any muse.
    Plu 10.295 24 Montaigne, in 1589, says: We dunces had been lost, had not this book [Plutarch] raised us out of the dirt.
    FRep 11.539 16 It is not by heads reverted...to George Washington, that you can combat the dangers and dragons that beset the United States at this time. I believe this cannot be accomplished by dunces or idlers...

Dundee Church, Scotland, ad (1)

    ET13 5.215 8 In seeing old castles and cathedrals, I sometimes say, as to-day in front of Dundee Church tower...This was built by another and a better race than any that now look on it.

Dundee Church, Scotland, n. (1)

    ET13 5.215 25 The power of the religious sentiment [in England]...created the religious architecture...Fountains Abbey, Ripon, Beverley and Dundee...

Dunderhead, Mr., n. (2)

    Elo2 8.130 6 He who would convince the worthy Mr. Dunderhead of any truth which Dunderhead does not see, must be a master of his art.
    Elo2 8.130 7 He who would convince the worthy Mr. Dunderhead of any truth which Dunderhead does not see, must be a master of his art.

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

    Elo2 8.130 12 ...such practical chemistry as the conversion of a truth written in God's language into a truth in Dunderhead's language, is one of the most beautiful and cogent weapons that are forged in the shop of the Divine Artificer.

dungeon, n. (1)

    EWI 11.110 27 ...every [West Indian] house had a dungeon attached to it;...

dungeons, n. (1)

    CbW 6.265 12 ...I find the gayest castles in the air that were ever piled, far better for comfort and for use than the dungeons in the air that are daily dug and caverned out by grumbling, discontented people.

Dunkers, n. (1)

    CSC 10.374 21 ...Dunkers, Muggletonians, Come-outers...all successively... seized their moment [at the Chardon Street Convention]...

dunned, v. (1)

    Mrs1 3.142 6 A tradesman who had long dunned [Charles James Fox] for a note of three hundred guineas, found him one day counting gold, and demanded payment.

duns, n. (1)

    Wth 6.115 27 Every tree and graft [on a man's land]...stand in his way like duns, when he would go out of his gate.

Dunscore, Scotland, adj. (1)

    ET1 5.18 15 ...[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.

Dunscore, Scotland, n. (2)

    ET1 5.15 1 ...being intent on delivering a letter which I had brought from Rome, inquired for Craigenputtock. It was a farm in Nithsdale, in the parish of Dunscore...
    ET1 5.15 23 Few were the objects and lonely the man [Carlyle]; not a person to speak to within sixteen miles except the minister of Dunscore;...

dupe, n. (6)

    Hsm1. 2.252 18 When the spirit is not master of the world, then it is its dupe.
    Ill 6.313 25 We wake from one dream into another dream. The toys to be sure...are graduated in refinement to the quality of the dupe.
    WD 7.173 20 Ah! poor dupe, will you never slip out of the web of the master juggler...
    PPo 8.245 27 'T is writ on Paradise's gate,/ Woe to the dupe that yields to Fate!/
    EzRy 10.389 17 [Ezra Ripley] was the easy dupe of any tonguey agent... who went by.
    PPr 12.388 17 Let who will be the dupe of trifles, [Carlyle] cannot keep his eye off from that gracious Infinite which embosoms us.

duped, v. (4)

    Wth 6.115 15 [The pale scholar]...by and by wakes up from his idiot dream of chickweed and red-root, to remember his morning thought, and to find that with his adamantine purposes he has been duped by a dandelion.
    Elo1 7.77 18 The newspapers, every week, report the adventures of some impudent swindler, who, by steadiness of carriage, duped those who should have known better.
    WD 7.172 16 We are coaxed, flattered and duped from morn to eve...
    Wom 11.423 13 As for the unsexing and contamination [of women in politics],-that only...shows...that our policies are...made up of things...to be understood only by wink and nudge; this man to be coaxed, that man to be bought, and that other to be duped.

dupes, n. (4)

    Exp 3.67 23 It is ridiculous that we are diplomatists, and doctors, and considerate people; there are no dupes like these.
    Mrs1 3.143 11 ...it is not to be supposed that men have agreed to be the dupes of anything preposterous;...
    UGM 4.20 13 We swim...on a river of delusions and are effectually amused with houses and towns in the air, of which the men about us are dupes.
    II 12.80 13 Why should we be the dupes of our senses...

duplex, adj. (1)

    Pt1 3.41 18 God wills also that thou [O poet] abdicate a manifold and duplex life...

duplicate, adj. (1)

    MoS 4.163 19 ...the duplicate copy of Florio...turned out to have the autograph of Ben Jonson in the fly-leaf.

duplicate, n. (3)

    ET12 5.203 13 In the Bodleian Library, Dr. Bandinel showed me...the first Bible printed at Mentz...and a duplicate of the same...
    Res 8.137 5 We are...each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate.
    MMEm 10.399 11 ...[Mary Moody Emerson's life] is purely original and hardly admits of a duplicate.

duplicating, v. (1)

    F 6.17 18 [Man] helps himself on each emergency by copying or duplicating his own structure...

duplicity, n. (3)

    Nat 1.30 4 When...duplicity and falsehood take place of simplicity and truth, the power over nature as an interpreter of the will is in a degree lost;...
    Ill 6.322 21 In this kingdom of illusions we grope eagerly for stays and foundations. There is none but a strict and faithful dealing at home and a severe barring out of all duplicity or illusion there.
    PLT 12.54 15 The tree or the brook has no duplicity...

dura ilia, n. (1)

    ET12 5.207 23 When born with good constitutions, [English students] make those eupeptic studying-mills, the cast-iron men, the dura ilia, whose powers of performance compare with ours as the steam-hammer with the music-box;...

durability, n. (1)

    Mrs1 3.129 24 [Aristocracy] respects the administration of such unimportant matters, that we should not look for any durability in its rule.

durable, adj. (3)

    ET7 5.119 12 [The English] build of stone: public and private buildings are massive and durable.
    Bty 6.301 24 When the delicious beauty of lineaments loses its power, it is because a more delicious beauty has appeared; that an interior and durable form has been disclosed.
    Farm 7.141 8 He who...builds a durable house...makes a fortune...which is useful to his country long afterwards.

duration, n. (26)

    Fdsp 2.200 20 Respect the naturlangsamkeit which...works in duration in which Alps and Andes come and go as rainbows.
    OS 2.281 20 ...a certain enthusiasm attends the individual's consciousness of that divine presence [the soul]. The character and duration of this enthusiasm vary with the state of the individual...
    OS 2.283 25 Jesus, living in these moral sentiments [truth, justice, love]... never made the separation of the idea of duration from the essence of these attributes...
    OS 2.283 27 Jesus...never...uttered a syllable concerning the duration of the soul.
    OS 2.284 1 It was left to [Christ's] disciples to sever duration from the moral elements...
    Cir 2.317 16 ...these [divine] moments confer a sort of omnipresence and omnipotence which asks nothing of duration...
    Exp 3.60 11 It is not the part of men, but of fanatics...to say that, the shortness of life considered, it is not worth caring whether for so short a duration we were sprawling in want or sitting high.
    UGM 4.33 19 ...the disparities of talent and position vanish when the individuals are seen in the duration which is necessary to complete the career of each...
    ET4 5.49 21 ...all our historical period is a point to the duration in which nature has wrought.
    Wsp 6.239 11 Higher than the question of our duration is the question of our deserving.
    WD 7.178 14 A third illusion haunts us, that a long duration...is valuable.
    WD 7.183 16 ...in seeking to find what is the heart of the day, we come to the quality of the moment, and drop the duration altogether.
    WD 7.183 23 ...the least acceleration of thought and the least increase of power of thought, make life to seem and to be of vast duration.
    Res 8.140 7 What power does Nature not owe to her duration, of amassing infinitesimals into cosmical forces!
    PC 8.212 21 The oldest empires...now that we have true measures of duration [in Geology], show like creations of yesterday.
    PC 8.212 26 The old six thousand years of chronology become a kitchen clock...since the duration of geologic periods has come into view.
    Imtl 8.335 23 ...the nebular theory threatens [the sun's and the star's] duration also...
    Imtl 8.344 9 Goethe said: It is to a thinking being quite impossible to think himself non-existent, ceasing to think and live; so far does every one carry in himself the proof of immortality, and quite spontaneously. But...so soon as [the man] dogmatically will grasp a personal duration to bolster up in cockney fashion that inward assurance, he is lost in contradiction.
    Imtl 8.347 17 [Future state] is not duration, but a taking of the soul out of time...
    Imtl 8.349 4 It is curious to find the selfsame feeling, that it is...not duration, but a state of abandonment to the Highest, and so the sharing of His perfection,-appearing in the farthest east and west.
    Aris 10.60 7 ...out of the vast duration of man's race, [a certain order of men] tower like mountains...
    Edc1 10.130 15 Why does [man] track in the midnight heaven a pure spark, a luminous patch...but because he acquires thereby a majestic sense of power;...and finding and carrying their law in his mind, can, as it were, see his simple idea realized up yonder in...frightful periods of duration.
    Plu 10.312 19 ...what noble words we owe to [Seneca]:...The good man differs from God in nothing but duration.
    MMEm 10.422 9 Dissolve the body...and we measure duration by the number of our thoughts...
    PLT 12.5 9 In geology, vast duration, but we are never strangers.
    PLT 12.18 25 [The perceptions of the soul] take to themselves...ships and cities and nations and armies of men and ages of duration;...

durations, n. (2)

    PPh 4.51 1 As if [Krishna] had said, All is for the soul, and the soul is Vishnu;...and durations are deceptive;...
    Res 8.139 21 [Nature] shows us only surfaces, but she is million fathoms deep. What spaces! what durations!...

duress, n. (1)

    Clbs 7.239 23 When Henry III. (1217) plead duress against his people demanding confirmation and execution of the Charter, the reply was: If this were admitted, civil wars could never close but by the extirpation of one of the contending parties.

Durham, Bishops of, England (1)

    ET4 5.51 6 Everything English is a fusion of distant and antagonistic elements. The language is mixed;...a country of extemes,--dukes and chartists, Bishops of Durham and naked heathen colliers;...

Durham, England, n. (1)

    ET13 5.227 3 ...a bishop [in England] is only a surpliced merchant. Through his lawn I can see the bright buttons of the shopman's coat glitter. A wealth like that of Durham makes almost a premium on felony.

Duroc, Gerard Christophe M (2)

    NMW 4.244 10 ...ample acknowledgements are made by [Napoleon] to Lannes, Duroc...
    NMW 4.254 27 I do not even love my brothers [said Napoleon]: perhaps Joseph a little...and Duroc...

durst, v. (1)

    SovE 10.187 26 Montaigne kills off bigots as cowhage kills worms; but there is a higher muse there sitting where he durst not soar...

dusky, adj. (3)

    EWI 11.103 12 ...when [the negro] sank in the furrow...he went down to death with dusky dreams of African shadow-catchers and Obeahs hunting him.
    EPro 11.314 13 Up! and the dusky race/ That sat in darkness long,-/ Be swift their feet as antelopes,/ And as behemoth strong./
    II 12.65 23 ...in each man's experience, from this spark [consciousness] torrents of light have once and again streamed and revealed the dusky landscape of his life.

dust, n. (47)

    Nat 1.17 9 ...the active enchantment [of the sky] reaches my dust...
    Nat 1.52 10 ...[the poet] invests dust and stones with humanity...
    LE 1.173 11 ...the thing whereon [thought] shines, though it were dust and sand, is a new subject with countless relations.
    MN 1.219 17 What brought the pilgrims here? One man says, civil liberty;... and a third discovers that the motive force was plantation and trade. But if the Puritans could rise from the dust they could not answer.
    LT 1.288 17 ...where but in that Thought through which we communicate with absolute nature, and are made aware that whilst we shed the dust of which we are built...the law which clothes us with humanity remains anew?...shall we learn the Truth?
    LT 1.288 23 Faithless, faithless, we fancy that with the dust we depart and are not...
    Comp 2.99 16 ...[the President] is content to eat dust before the real masters who stand erect behind the throne.
    SL 2.155 20 ...all things are [Truth's] organs,--not only dust and stones, but errors and lies.
    Pol1 3.197 11 Out of dust to build/ What is more than dust,--/ Walls Amphion piled/ Phoebus stablish must./
    Pol1 3.197 12 Out of dust to build/ What is more than dust,--/ Walls Amphion piled/ Phoebus stablish must./
    Pol1 3.218 3 [What we do] may throw dust in [our companions'] eyes, but does not smooth our own brow...
    UGM 4.9 14 ...every organ, function, acid, crystal, grain of dust, has its relation to the brain.
    UGM 4.11 26 Man, made of the dust of the world, does not forget his origin;...
    PNR 4.89 23 In his eighth book of the Republic, [Plato] throws a little mathematical dust in our eyes.
    ET1 5.9 5 Landor despised entomology, yet, in the same breath, said, the sublime was in a grain of dust.
    ET5 5.81 24 [The English] kiss the dust before a fact.
    ET11 5.188 21 In these [English] manors...the antiquary finds the frailest Roman jar...without so much as a new layer of dust...
    F 6.6 26 We must see that the world...swallows your ship like a grain of dust.
    F 6.32 5 The water drowns ship and sailor like a grain of dust.
    Wth 6.83 25 What oldest star the fame can save/ Of races perishing to pave/ The planet with a floor of lime?/ Dust is their pyramid and mole:/...
    Wsp 6.234 2 Hafiz writes,--At the last day, men shall wear/ On their heads the dust,/ As ensign and as ornament/ Of their lowly trust.
    Bty 6.304 18 Chaff and dust begin to sparkle...
    Civ 7.29 26 ...[the heavenly powers] swerve never from their foreordained paths,--neither the sun, nor the moon, nor a bubble of air, nor a mote of dust.
    WD 7.174 1 How difficult to deal erect with [these passing hours]! The events they bring...their urgent work, all throw dust in the eyes and distract attention.
    Cour 7.251 1 So nigh is grandeur to our dust,/ So near is God to man,/ When Duty whispers low, Thou must,/ The youth replies, I can./
    Suc 7.292 19 ...because we cannot shake off from our shoes this dust of Europe and Asia, the world seems to be born old...
    PPo 8.250 22 ...sometimes [Hafiz's] feast, feasters and world are only one pebble more in the eternal vortex and revolution of Fate:-I am: what I am/ My dust will be again./
    PPo 8.264 3 The bird-soul was ashamed;/ [The birds'] body was quite annihilated;/ They had cleaned themselves from the dust,/ And were by the light ensouled./ What was, and was not,-the Past,-/ Was wiped out from their breast./
    Insp 8.284 11 My anchorite thought it sad that atmospheric influences should bring to our dust the communion of the soul with the Infinite.
    Imtl 8.321 9 ...What is excellent,/ As God lives, is permanent;/ Hearts are dust, hearts' loves remain;/ Heart's love will meet thee again./
    Imtl 8.326 16 [The doctrine of the resurrection] was an affair of the body, and narrowed again by the fury of sect; so that grounds were sprinkled with holy water to receive only orthodox dust;...
    PerF 10.84 8 ...this child of the dust throws himself by obedience into the circuit of the heavenly wisdom, and shares the secret of God.
    Supl 10.176 26 ...[Nature] creates in the East the uncontrollable yearning... to use a freedom of fancy which plays with all the works of Nature...galaxy or grain of dust, as toys and words of the mind;...
    SovE 10.197 10 What is this intoxicating sentiment that allies this scrap of dust to the whole of Nature and the whole of Fate...
    EzRy 10.379 4 We love the venerable house/ Our fathers built to God:/ In Heaven are kept their grateful vows,/ Their dust endears the sod./
    MMEm 10.416 13 Later [Mary Moody Emerson writes]: Could I have those hours in which in fresh youth I said, To obey God is joy, though there were no hereafter, I should rejoice, though returning to dust.
    MMEm 10.425 6 When the dreamy pages of life seem all turned and folded down to very weariness, even this idea of those who fill the hour with crowded virtues, lifts the spectator to other worlds, and he adores the eternal purposes of Him who...bringeth to dust, and raiseth to the skies.
    HDC 11.66 24 The ninth allegation [against Daniel Bliss] is That in praying for himself...he said, he was a poor vile worm of the dust, that was allowed as Mediator between God and his people.
    EWI 11.144 13 ...now, the arrival in the world of such men as Toussaint... outweighs in good omen all the English and American humanity. The anti-slavery of the whole world is dust in the balance before this...
    FSLC 11.180 19 ...Boston, spoiled by prosperity, must bow its ancient honor in the dust...
    JBB 11.272 1 ...the use of a judge is to secure good government, and where the citizen's weal is imperilled by abuse of the federal power, to use that arm which can secure it, viz., the local government. Had that been done on certain calamitous occasions, we should not have seen the honor of Massachusetts trailed in the dust...by the ill-timed formalism of a venerable bench.
    EPro 11.314 3 To-day unbind the captive,/ So only are ye unbound;/ Lift up a people from the dust,/ Trump of their rescue, sound!/
    ALin 11.328 17 [The people] knew that outward grace is dust;/ They could not choose but trust/ In that sure-footed mind's [Lincoln's] unfaltering skill./ And supple-tempered will/ That bent, like perfect steel, to spring again and thrust./
    ALin 11.329 19 ...perhaps, at this hour, when the coffin which contains the dust of the President [Lincoln] sets forward on its long march through mourning states...we might well be silent...
    HCom 11.340 2 Many loved Truth, and lavished life's best oil/ Amid the dust of books to find her,/ Content at last, for guerdon of their toil,/ With the cast mantle she hath left behind her./
    Koss 11.398 2 The mighty tread/ Brings from the dust the sound of liberty./
    ChiE 11.470 4 Nature creates in the East the uncontrollable yearning...to use a freedom of fancy which plays with all works of Nature...galaxy or grain of dust...

dusted, v. (1)

    Fdsp 2.192 12 The house is dusted...

dust-hole, n. (1)

    Dem1 10.7 20 Dreams have a poetic integrity and truth. This limbo and dust-hole of thought is presided over by a certain reason, too.

dusty, adj. (3)

    Tran 1.348 24 ...the good and wise must...carry salvation to the combatants and demagogues in the dusty arena below.
    Art1 2.349 13 So shall the drudge in dusty frock/ Spy behind the city clock/ Retinues of airy kings,/ Skirts of angels, starry wings/...
    WD 7.180 7 ...this curious, peering, itinerant, imitative America...will take off its dusty shoes...

Dutch, adj. (6)

    ET11 5.191 27 In logical sequence of these dignified revels, Pepys can tell the beggarly shifts to which the king was reduced, who could not find paper at his council table...and the baker will not bring bread any longer. Meantime the English Channel was swept and London threatened by the Dutch fleet...
    ET14 5.232 16 [The plain style] imports into [English] songs and ballads the smell of the earth...and, like a Dutch painter, seeks a household charm...
    Pow 6.57 18 Import into any stationary district, as into an old Dutch population in New York or Pennsylvania...a colony of hardy Yankees...and everything begins to shine with values.
    CbW 6.264 20 'T is a Dutch proverb that paint costs nothing...
    HDC 11.61 17 When the Dutch, or the French, or the English royalist disagreed with the [Massachusetts Bay] Colony, there was always found a Dutch, or French, or tory party,-an earnest minority,-to keep things from extremity.
    HDC 11.61 19 When the Dutch, or the French, or the English royalist disagreed with the [Massachusetts Bay] Colony, there was always found a Dutch, or French, or tory party,-an earnest minority,-to keep things from extremity.

Dutch, n. (5)

    SwM 4.139 21 If a man say that the Holy Ghost has informed him...that the Dutch, in the other world, live in a heaven by themselves...I reply that the Spirit which is holy is reserved, taciturn, and deals in laws.
    ET2 5.32 25 When their privilege was disputed by the Dutch and other junior marines...the English did not stick to claim the channel, or the bottom of all the main...
    Carl 10.492 21 [Carlyle says] St. John was insulted by the Dutch; he came home, got the law passed that foreign vessels should pay high fees, and it cut the throat of the Dutch, and made the English trade.
    Carl 10.492 23 [Carlyle says] St. John was insulted by the Dutch; he came home, got the law passed that foreign vessels should pay high fees, and it cut the throat of the Dutch, and made the English trade.
    PLT 12.13 16 I admire the Dutch, who burned half the harvest to enhance the price of the remainder.

Dutchmen, n. (1)

    AmS 1.97 18 ...those Savoyards...getting their livelihood by carving... smoking Dutchmen...went out one day...and discovered that they had whittled up the last of their pine trees.

duties, n. (92)

    Nat 1.58 3 Ethics and religion differ herein; that the one is the system of human duties commencing from man; the other, from God.
    AmS 1.100 15 It remains to say somewhat of [the scholar's] duties.
    DSA 1.136 14 Preaching is the expression of the moral sentiment in application to the duties of life.
    LE 1.155 16 [The scholar's] duties lead him directly into the holy ground...
    LE 1.157 22 ...when [the scholar] comprehends his duties he above all men is a realist...
    LE 1.185 11 ...I thought that...you would not be sorry to be admonished of those primary duties of the intellect...
    MN 1.211 23 [This ecstatic state] respects...virtue, and not duties.
    MR 1.235 20 ...I should not be pained at a change which threatened a loss of some of the luxuries or conveniences of society, if it proceeded from a preference of the agricultural life out of the belief that our primary duties as men could be better discharged in that calling.
    MR 1.241 5 ...every man ought to stand in primary relations with the work of the world; ought...not to suffer the accident of...his having been bred to some dishonorable and injurious craft, to sever him from those duties;...
    MR 1.242 25 ...if a man find in himself any strong bias to poetry...that man...respecting the compensations of the Universe, ought to ransom himself from the duties of economy by a certain rigor and privation in his habits.
    LT 1.279 3 ...I urge the more earnestly the paramount duties of self-reliance.
    Tran 1.358 5 Society also has its duties in reference to this class [Transcendentalists]...
    YA 1.363 3 ...our people have their intellectual culture from one country and their duties from another.
    YA 1.381 2 These [Communities] proceeded...in great part from a feeling... that in the scramble of parties for the public purse the main duties of government were omitted...
    YA 1.382 20 It was a noble thought of Fourier...to distinguish in his Phalanx a class as the Sacred Band, by whom whatever duties were disagreeable and likely to be omitted, were to be assumed.
    YA 1.387 10 I think I see place and duties for a nobleman in every society;...
    SR 2.74 13 You may fulfil your round of duties by clearing yourself in the direct, or in the reflex way.
    SR 2.74 21 [My own perfect circle] denies the name of duty to many offices that are called duties.
    SR 2.81 4 ...when [the wise man's]...duties...call him from his house...he is at home still...
    SL 2.139 19 For you there is...a fit place and congenial duties.
    SL 2.142 27 We think greatness entailed or organized in some places or duties...
    SL 2.164 6 Let me heed my duties.
    Fdsp 2.193 21 The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed;...all tragedies, all ennuis vanish,--all duties even;...
    Hsm1 2.262 24 The unremitting retention of simple and high sentiments in obscure duties is hardening the character to that temper which will work with honor...
    Cir 2.316 16 For me...love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred; nor can I detach one duty...from all other duties...
    SwM 4.100 13 [Swedenborg's] duties had brought him into intimate acquaintance with King Charles XII....
    SwM 4.118 5 One would say that as soon as men had the first hint that every sensible object...subsists...as a picture-language to tell another story of beings and duties, other science would be put by...
    GoW 4.270 5 Among these [men of literary genius of our age] no more instructive name occurs than that of Goethe to represent the powers and duties of the scholar or writer.
    ET11 5.185 27 ...when it happens that the spirit of the earl meets his rank and duties, we have the best examples of behavior.
    Pow 6.74 7 Friends, books, pictures, lower duties, talents, flatteries, hopes,-- all are distractions...
    Wth 6.114 20 ...if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he...should not...fetter himself with duties which will embitter his days...
    Wth 6.116 15 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; so that each disqualifies its workman for the other's duties.
    Bhr 6.187 4 A person of strong mind comes to perceive that for him an immunity is secured so long as he renders to society that service which is native and proper to him,--an immunity from all the observances, yea, and duties, which society so tyrannically imposes on the rank and file of its members.
    Wsp 6.232 15 Life is hardly respectable...if it has...no duties or affections that constitute a necessity of existing.
    Wsp 6.239 27 ...[men] suffer from politics...or from sickness, and they would gladly know that they were to be dismissed from the duties of life.
    CbW 6.251 5 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...if he do not violently decline the duties that fall to him, this amount of helpfulness will in one way or another be brought home to him.
    Bty 6.283 8 [A man's] duties are measured by that instrument he is;...
    Elo1 7.87 8 ...[the state's attorney] revenged himself...on the judge, by requiring the court to define what salvage was. The court..tried words... describing duties of insurers, captains, pilots and miscellaneous sea-officers that are or might be...
    Boks 7.214 10 ...books that...distribute things...with as daring a freedom as we use in dreams...enable us to form an original judgment of our duties...
    Cour 7.270 7 Every creature has a courage of his constitution fit for his duties...
    Cour 7.277 10 If you accept your thoughts as inspirations from the Supreme Intelligence, obey them when they prescribe difficult duties...
    SA 8.102 17 ...as in civil duties, so in social power and duties.
    Imtl 8.328 21 Sufficient to to-day are the duties of to-day.
    Imtl 8.328 24 ...spend yourself on the work before you, well assured that the right performance of this hour's duties will be the best preparation for the hours or ages that follow it...
    Dem1 10.24 9 Read a page of Cudworth or of Bacon, and we are...armed to manly duties.
    Aris 10.35 26 If a few grand natures should come to us and weave duties and offices between us and them, it would make our bread ambrosial.
    Aris 10.51 7 The expectation and claims of mankind indicate the duties of this class [public respresentatives].
    Aris 10.51 17 The day is darkened...when genius grows...reckless of its fine duties of being Saint, Prophet, Inspirer to its humble fellows...
    Aris 10.52 17 To live without duties is obscene.
    Aris 10.57 4 I will not protract this discourse by describing the duties of the brave and generous.
    Aris 10.57 14 It was objected to Gustavus that he did not better distinguish between the duties of a carabine and a general...
    Aris 10.57 17 ...a soul on which elevated duties are laid will so realize its special and lofty duties as not to be in danger of assuming through a low generosity those which do not belong to it.
    Aris 10.57 18 ...a soul on which elevated duties are laid will so realize its special and lofty duties as not to be in danger of assuming through a low generosity those which do not belong to it.
    Aris 10.62 12 ...to every gentleman grave and dangerous duties are proposed.
    Edc1 10.151 7 What tranquil mind will [the college] have fortified to walk with meekness in private and obscure duties...
    SovE 10.208 1 ...the most accomplished culture, or rapt holiness, never exhausted the claim of these lowly duties...
    Prch 10.237 3 The old heart remains as ever with its old human duties.
    MoL 10.249 11 Only the duties of Intellect must be owned.
    Schr 10.272 26 ...the allusions just now made to the extent of [the scholar' s] duties...may show that his place is no sinecure.
    Carl 10.497 23 ...[Carlyle] has stood for the people...teaching the nobles their peremptory duties.
    LS 11.23 8 ...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 men,-to make ourselves,-forget that not forms, but duties...are enjoined;...
    LS 11.24 26 [The pastoral office] has many duties for which I am feebly qualified.
    HDC 11.40 21 ...as we are informed, the edge of [the settlers of Concord's] appetite was greater to spiritual duties at their first coming, in time of wants, than afterwards.
    HDC 11.82 18 If the community [Concord] stints its expense in small matters, it spends freely on great duties.
    EWI 11.113 20 The Ministers...proposed to give the [West Indian] planters...20,000,000 pounds sterling...to be distributed to the owners of slaves by commissioners, whose appointment and duties were regulated by the Act [of emancipation].
    EWI 11.115 25 The clergy and missionaries throughout the island [Antigua] were actively engaged, seizing the opportunity to enlighten the people on all the duties and responsibilities of their new relation...
    EWI 11.135 8 There are other comparisons and other imperative duties which come sadly to mind...
    FSLC 11.207 2 ...I strongly share the hope of mankind in the power, and therefore, in the duties of the Union;...
    AKan 11.255 5 Mr. Whitman is not here; but knowing, as we all do, why he is not, what duties kept him at home he is more than present.
    TPar 11.292 26 ...taking all the duties he could grasp, and more... [Theodore Parker] has gone down in early glory to his grave...
    ACiv 11.298 24 The state of the country fills us with anxiety and stern duties.
    ACiv 11.299 16 Is...this evolution of man to the highest powers...not to bring duties with it?
    EPro 11.321 7 If the ruler has duties, so has the citizen.
    SMC 11.358 3 One [volunteer] wrote to his father these words: You may think it strange that I, who have always naturally rather shrunk from danger, should wish to enter the army; but there is a higher Power that... enables [men] to see their duty, and gives them courage to face the dangers with which those duties are attended.
    SMC 11.359 18 [George Prescott] was...engaged in common duties...
    EdAd 11.386 1 We hearken in vain for any profound voice...intelligently announcing duties which clothe life with joy...
    Wom 11.419 5 The answer that lies, silent or spoken, in the minds of well-meaning persons, to the new claims [for women's rights], is this:...that, if the laws and customs were modified in the manner proposed, it would embarrass and pain gentle and lovely persons with duties which they would find irksome and distasteful.
    Wom 11.426 14 ...when [man] is [woman's] guardian, fulfilled with all nobleness, knows and accepts his duties as her brother, all goes well for both.
    FRO1 11.481 4 The interests that grow out of a meeting like this [of the Free Religious Association] should bind us with new strength to the old eternal duties.
    FRep 11.517 15 ...the cries of children and debt are always holding the masses hard to the essential duties.
    FRep 11.517 23 [The American people] are now proceeding...to carry out, not the bill of rights, but the bill of human duties.
    FRep 11.535 25 The class of which I speak make themselves merry without duties.
    FRep 11.539 9 Let the good citizen perform the duties put on him here and now.
    PLT 12.27 15 These views of the source of thought and the mode of its communication...open to us the tendencies and duties of men of thought in the present time.
    PLT 12.37 26 At a moment in our history the mind's eye opens and we become aware...of rights, of duties, of thoughts...
    CInt 12.113 2 I cannot consent to wander from the duties of this day into the fracas of politics.
    CInt 12.127 3 ...here [in the college] Imagination should be greeted with the problems in which it delights;...here the highest duties be urged...
    CInt 12.132 6 ...old men cannot see...the institutions, the laws under which they have lived, passing, or soon to pass, into the hands of you and your contemporaries, without an earnest wish that you have caught sight of... your vast possibilities and inspiring duties.
    Milt1 12.267 19 ...Milton deserved the apostrophe of Wordsworth;-Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free,/ So didst thou travel on life's common way/ In cheerful godliness; and yet thy heart/ The lowliest duties on itself did lay./
    Milt1 12.267 20 [Milton] laid on himself the lowliest duties.
    Pray 12.353 8 These duties are not the life, but the means which enable us to show forth the life.
    PPr 12.384 7 To atone for this departure from the vows of the scholar and his eternal duties to this secular charity, we have at least this gain, that here [in Carlyle's Past and Present] is a message which those to whom it was addressed cannot choose but hear.

duty, n. (146)

    Nat 1.74 11 There are innocent men who worship God after the tradition of their fathers, but their sense of duty has not yet extended to the use of all their faculties.
    AmS 1.89 12 Meek young men grow up in libraries, believing it their duty to accept the views which Cicero, which Locke...have given;...
    DSA 1.128 15 I shall endeavor to discharge my duty to you on this occasion, by pointing out two errors in [the Christian church's] administration...
    DSA 1.135 19 ...it is my duty to say to you that the need was never greater of new revelation than now.
    LE 1.185 15 You will hear that the first duty is to get land and money, place and name.
    MR 1.243 17 The duty that every man should assume his own vows...gains in emphasis if we look at our modes of living.
    MR 1.249 4 Is it not the highest duty that man should be honored in us?
    Con 1.315 14 ...[Friar Bernard]...talked with gentle mothers...who told him how much love they bore their children, and how they were perplexed...lest they should fail in their duty to them.
    Con 1.321 19 Instead of that reliance which the soul suggests, on the eternity of truth and duty, men are misled into a reliance on institutions...
    YA 1.381 3 These [Communities] proceeded...in great part from a feeling... that in the scramble of parties for the public purse the main duties of government were omitted,-the duty to instruct the ignorant, to supply the poor with work and with good guidance.
    YA 1.387 8 That were [the noble's] duty and stint,-to keep himself pure and purifying...
    SR 2.53 26 ...you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it.
    SR 2.74 20 [My own perfect circle] denies the name of duty to many offices that are called duties.
    SR 2.79 22 ...[creeds and churches] are also classifications of some powerful mind acting on the elemental thought of duty...
    SR 2.81 2 In manly hours we feel that duty is our place.
    Hsm1 2.246 27 ...Now I'll kneel,/ But with my back toward thee: 't is the last duty/ This trunk can do the gods./
    Hsm1 2.255 20 It is a height to which common duty can very well attain, to suffer and to dare with solemnity.
    Hsm1 2.263 7 Coarse slander, fire, tar and feathers and the gibbet, the youth may freely bring home to his mind...and inquire how fast he can fix his sense of duty...
    OS 2.277 20 ...in groups where debate is earnest...the company become aware...that all have a spiritual property in what was said, as well as the sayer. They all become wiser than they were. It arches over them like a temple, this unity of thought in which every heart beats with nobler sense of power and duty...
    OS 2.291 16 Souls such as these treat you as gods would...accepting without any admiration...your virtue even,--say rather your act of duty...
    OS 2.294 19 ...the sources of nature are in [man's] own mind, if the sentiment of duty is there.
    Cir 2.316 5 One man thinks justice consists in paying debts, and has no measure in his abhorrence of another who is very remiss in this duty...
    Cir 2.316 15 For me...love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred; nor can I detach one duty...from all other duties...
    Int 2.341 17 Exactly parallel is the whole rule of intellectual duty to the rule of moral duty.
    Int 2.341 18 Exactly parallel is the whole rule of intellectual duty to the rule of moral duty.
    Exp 3.75 7 In liberated moments we know that a new picture of life and duty is already possible;...
    Mrs1 3.136 16 Wherever [Montaigne] goes he pays a visit to whatever prince or gentleman of note resides upon his road, as a duty to himself and to civilization.
    SwM 4.138 4 That is active duty, say the Hindoos, which is not for our bondage;...
    SwM 4.138 6 That is active duty, say the Hindoos, which is not for our bondage;...all other duty is good only unto weariness.
    ShP 4.219 4 ...other men...beheld the same objects [as Shakespeare]: they also saw through them that which was contained. And to what purpose? The beauty straightway vanished; they read...all-excluding mountainous duty;...
    ET4 5.68 10 ...[Admiral Rodney] declared himself very sensible to fear, which he surmounted only by considerations of honor and public duty.
    ET8 5.128 1 [The police in England] thinks itself bound in duty to respect the pleasures and rare gayety of this inconsolable nation;...
    ET8 5.134 17 ...here [in England] exists the best stock in the world...men of...strong instincts, yet apt for culture;...abysmal temperament, hiding wells of wrath, and glooms on which no sunshine settles, alternated with a common sense and humanity which hold them fast to every piece of cheerful duty;...
    ET8 5.142 2 Nelson wrote from [English] hearts his homely telegraph, England expects every man to do his duty.
    ET11 5.175 22 The war-lord earned his honors, and no donation of land was large, as long as it brought the duty of protecting it...
    ET11 5.180 17 A susceptible man could not wear a name which represented in a strict sense a city or a county of England, without hearing in it a challenge to duty and honor.
    ET11 5.184 25 In the army, the [English] nobility fill a large part of the high commissions, and give to these a tone...of exclusiveness. They have borne their full share of duty and danger in this service...
    ET14 5.259 11 Might I [Warren Hastings]...venture to prescribe bounds to the latitude of criticism, I should exclude...all appeals to our revealed tenets of religion and moral duty.
    ET16 5.273 15 I was glad...to exchange a few reasonable words on the aspects of England with a man...who had as much penetration and as severe a theory of duty as any person in it [Carlyle].
    F 6.4 8 If we must accept Fate, we are not less compelled to affirm...the grandeur of duty...
    F 6.24 20 Go face...what danger lies in the way of duty,-knowing you are guarded by the cherubim of Destiny.
    Pow 6.72 12 The men whom in peaceful communities we hold if we can with iron at their legs...this man [Napoleon] dealt with hand to hand, dragged them to their duty...
    Bhr 6.173 5 Society is infested with rude...persons...whom a public opinion concentrated into good manners...can reach: the contradictors and railers at public and private tables, who are like terriers, who conceive it the duty of a dog of honor to growl at any passer-by...
    Bhr 6.196 14 Every hour will show a duty as paramount as that of my whim just now...
    Wsp 6.219 4 ...to [man]...the lures of passion and the commandments of duty are opened;...
    Wsp 6.224 10 A man cannot utter two or three sentences without disclosing to intelligent ears precisely where he stands in life and thought, namely, whether in the kingdom of the senses and the understanding, or in...the realm of intuitions and duty.
    Wsp 6.232 8 A poor, tender, painful body, [man] can run into flame or bullets or pestilence, with duty for his guide.
    Wsp 6.232 21 The lightning-rod that disarms the cloud of its threat is [man' s] body in its duty.
    Wsp 6.233 15 [A gentleman] found [William of Orange] directing the operation of his gunners, and...the king said, Do you not know, sir, that every moment you spend here is at the risk of your life? I run no more risk, replied the gentleman, than your Majesty. Yes, said the king, but my duty brings me here, and yours does not.
    Wsp 6.242 4 ...the good Laws themselves are alive...they animate [man] with the leading of great duty...
    Ill 6.315 1 [I knew a humorist who] shocked the company by maintaining that the attributes of God were two,--power and risibility, and that it was the duty of every pious man to keep up the comedy.
    Ill 6.317 22 ...the best soldiers, sea-captains and railway men have a gentleness when off duty...
    Elo1 7.95 15 ...wherever the fresh moral sentiment, the instinct of freedom and duty, come in direct opposition to fossil conservatism and the thirst of gain, the spark will pass.
    DL 7.131 27 Obviously, it would be easy for every town to discharge this truly municipal duty [of a library and museum].
    WD 7.177 12 The use of history is to give value to the present hour and its duty.
    WD 7.182 19 A song is no song unless the circumstance is free and fine. If the singer sing from a sense of duty or from seeing no way of escape, I had rather have none.
    Clbs 7.236 4 Jesus spent his life in discoursing with humble people on life and duty...
    Cour 7.252 3 Peril around, all else appalling,/ Cannon in front and leaden rain,/ Him duty, through the clarion calling/ To the van, called not in vain./
    Cour 7.263 11 Use makes a better soldier than the most urgent considerations of duty...
    Cour 7.275 22 In the most private life, difficult duty is never far off.
    Suc 7.289 2 Lord Brougham's single duty of counsel is, to get the prisoner clear.
    Suc 7.310 11 There is not a joyful boy or an innocent girl buoyant with fine purposes of duty...but a cynic can chill and dishearten with a single word.
    OA 7.327 10 All the functions of human duty irritate and lash [man] forward...
    PI 8.70 12 In the dance of God there is not one of the chorus but can and will begin to spin...whenever the music and figure reach his place and duty.
    SA 8.106 20 As soon as sacrifice becomes a duty and necessity to the man, I see no limit to the horizon which opens before me.
    Elo2 8.116 4 You go to a town-meeting where the people are called to some disagreeable duty...
    QO 8.194 10 ...you can easily pronounce, from the use and relevancy of the sentence, whether it had not done duty many times before...
    Imtl 8.331 20 [One of the men] said that when he entered the Senate he became in a short time intimate with one of his colleagues, and, though attentive enough to the routine of public duty, they daily returned to each other...
    Imtl 8.345 13 ...it is not my duty to prove to myself the immortality of the soul.
    Aris 10.63 1 In America [the gentleman] shall find...the narrowest contraction of ethics to the one duty of paying money.
    PerF 10.78 22 ...on the signal occasions in our career [our mental forces'] inspirations...make the selfish and protected and tenderly bred person strong for his duty...
    PerF 10.80 16 ...[the prisoner] took his flute out of his pocket and began to play, to the surprise, and, as it proved, to the delight of all the company; the jurors waked up, the sheriff forgot his duty, the judge himself beat time...
    Chr2 10.94 14 Every hour puts the individual in a position where his wishes aim at something which the sentiment of duty forbids him to seek.
    Chr2 10.99 7 The Divine Mind imparts itself to the single person: his whole duty is to this rule and teaching.
    Chr2 10.111 8 Duty grows everywhere...
    Edc1 10.159 5 Work straight on in absolute duty, and you lend an arm and an encouragement to all the youth of the universe.
    SovE 10.185 8 ...presently...a new perception opens, and [the man down in Nature] is made a citizen of the world of souls: he feels what is called duty;...
    SovE 10.189 6 ...a sublime confidence is fed at the bottom of the heart that...though we should fold our arms,-which we cannot do, for out duty requires us to be the very hands of this guiding sentiment...the evils we suffer will at last end themselves through the incessant opposition of Nature to everything hurtful.
    SovE 10.198 27 While the immense energy of the sentiment of duty and the awe of the supernatural exert incomparable influence on the mind,-yet it is often perverted...
    SovE 10.208 26 ...a new crop of geniuses like those of the Elizabethan age, may be born in this age, and...bring asceticism, duty and magnanimity into vogue again.
    Prch 10.225 14 [The moral sentiment] is a commandment at every moment...to do the duty of that moment...
    Prch 10.230 3 [The clergy's] first duty is self-possession founded on knowledge.
    Prch 10.235 16 The inevitable course of remark for us, when we meet each other for meditation on life and duty, is...simply the celebration of the power and beneficence amid which and by which we live...
    Prch 10.237 8 Here is thought and love and truth and duty, new as on the first day of Adam and of angels.
    MoL 10.246 14 Napoleon knows the art of war, but should not be put on picket duty.
    MoL 10.251 19 ...it is a primary duty of the man of letters to secure his independence.
    MoL 10.252 4 There is a very low feeling of duty...
    Schr 10.276 25 As Burke said, it is not only our duty to make the right known, but to make it prevalent.
    Schr 10.283 1 I wish...to see men's sense of duty extend to the cherishing and use of their intellectual powers...
    Plu 10.314 18 [Plutarch's] grand perceptions of duty lead him to his stern delight in heroism;...
    Plu 10.321 8 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]...
    LLNE 10.356 12 ...[Thoreau] said that the Fourierists had a sense of duty which led them to devote themselves to their second-best.
    EzRy 10.386 19 Some of those around me will remember one occasion of severe drought in this vicinity, when the late Rev. Mr. Goodwin offered to relieve the Doctor [Ezra Ripley] of the duty of leading in prayer;...
    MMEm 10.408 25 [Mary Moody Emerson] writes...My oddities were never designed,-effect of an uncalculating constitution, at first, then through isolation; and as to dress, from duty.
    MMEm 10.419 16 True, I [Mary Moody Emerson] must finger the very farthing candle-ends,-the duty assigned to my pride;...
    MMEm 10.426 8 ...the hold on [external objects] is so slight, that duty is lost sight of perhaps, at times.
    SlHr 10.437 10 ...[Samuel Hoar] was willing to face every disagreeable duty...
    SlHr 10.438 18 ...when the mob of Charleston was assembled in the streets before his hotel...[Samuel Hoar] considered his duty discharged to the last point of possibility.
    SlHr 10.447 6 [Samuel Hoar] never shrunk from a disagreeable duty.
    SlHr 10.448 17 ...I find an elegance in...[Samuel Hoar's] self-dedication... to such political activities as a strong sense of duty and the love of order and of freedom urged him to forward.
    Thor 10.452 21 ...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...was exact in securing his own independence, and in holding every man to the like duty.
    Carl 10.498 6 ...in England, where the morgue of aristocracy has very slowly admitted scholars into society...[Carlyle] has...taught scholars their lofty duty.
    GSt 10.504 25 I have heard...that [George Stearns] was indignant at this or that man's behavior, but never that his anger...ever stood in the way of his hearty cooperation with the offenders when they returned to the path of public duty.
    LS 11.23 2 ...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; and now...Christians must contend that it is...really a duty, to commemorate him by a certain form [the Lord's Supper]...
    HDC 11.47 19 In these assemblies [New England town-meetings], the public weal; the call of interest, duty, religion, were heard;...
    HDC 11.69 15 ...we will not, in this town [Concord]...buy, sell, or use any of the East India Company's tea, or any other tea, whilst there is a duty for raising a revenue thereon in America;...
    HDC 11.70 4 ...if any person or persons...so long as there is a duty on tea, shall import any tea from the India House, in England...we will treat them... as enemies to their country...
    HDC 11.70 10 ...we think it our duty...to return our hearty thanks to the town of Boston...
    FSLC 11.179 7 The last year has forced us all into politics, and made it a paramount duty to seek what it is often a duty to shun.
    FSLC 11.186 20 [The Fugitive Slave Law] is contravened: By the sentiment of duty.
    FSLC 11.186 21 An immoral law makes it a man's duty to break it...
    FSLC 11.188 8 ...this man who has run the gauntlet of a thousand miles for his freedom, the statute says, you men of Massachusetts shall hunt, and catch, and send back again to the dog-hutch he fled from. It is contrary to the primal sentiment of duty...
    FSLN 11.228 12 ...when allusion was made to the question of duty and the sanctions of morality, [Webster] very frankly said...Some higher law, something existing somewhere between here and the third heaven,-I do not know where.
    FSLN 11.231 24 May and Must, and the sense of right and duty, on the one hand, and the material necessities on the other: May and Must.
    TPar 11.286 9 [Theodore Parker] elected his part of duty...
    ACiv 11.303 15 ...there have been days in American history, when, if the free states had done their duty, slavery had been blocked...
    ACiv 11.305 17 Congress can...as a part of the military defence which it is the duty of Congress to provide, abolish slavery...
    ACiv 11.310 20 This state-paper [Lincoln's proposal of gradual abolition] is the more interesting that it appears to be the President's individual act, done under a strong sense of duty.
    ALin 11.331 21 ...[Lincoln] had a strong sense of duty...
    HCom 11.342 25 [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.
    HCom 11.344 10 A single company in the Forty-fourth Massachusetts Regiment contained thirty-five sons of Harvard. You all know as well as I the story of these dedicated men, who knew well on what duty they went...
    SMC 11.357 9 All sorts of men went to the [Civil] war...men hitherto of narrow opportunities of knowing the world, but well taught in the grammar-schools. But perhaps in every one of these classes were idealists, men who went from a religious duty.
    SMC 11.358 2 One [volunteer] wrote to his father these words: You may think it strange that I, who have always naturally rather shrunk from danger, should wish to enter the army; but there is a higher Power that... enables [men] to see their duty...
    SMC 11.358 5 ...the captain [George Prescott] writes home of another of his men, B[owers] comes from a sense of duty and love of country...
    SMC 11.363 5 I [George Prescott] told [the West Point officer] I had a good many young men in my company whose mothers asked me to look after them, and I should do so, and not allow them to hear such language, especially from an officer, whose duty it was to set them a better example.
    SMC 11.364 16 [George Prescott writes] We only had about twelve men [the rest of the company being, perhaps, on picket or other duty]...
    SMC 11.366 3 This [old artillery] company...was later embodied in the Forty-Seventh Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteers...and sent to New Orleans, where they were employed in guard duty during their term of service.
    SMC 11.373 14 On his death-bed, [George Prescott] received the needless assurances of his general that he had done more than all his duty...
    SMC 11.373 20 One of [George Prescott's] townsmen and comrades...uses these words: He was one of the few men who fight for principle. He did not fight for glory, honor, nor money, but because he thought it his duty.
    SMC 11.376 1 A duty so severe has been discharged [in the Civil War], and with such immense results of good...that, though the cannon volleys have a sound of funeral echoes, [men] can yet hear through them the benedictions of their country and mankind.
    Wom 11.416 16 ...[antagonism to Slavery] has, among its other effects, given Woman a feeling of public duty...
    FRO1 11.479 16 ...as soon as every man...is apprised that the perfect law of duty corresponds with the laws of chemistry, of vegetation, of astronomy, as face to face in a glass;...then we have a religion that exalts...
    FRO1 11.479 19 ...as soon as every man is apprised of the Divine Presence within his own mind,-is apprised...that the basis of duty, the order of society...draw their essence from this moral sentiment, then we have a religion that exalts...
    FRO1 11.480 7 ...it is only on the basis of active duty, that worship finds expression.
    CPL 11.508 9 ...read proudly; put the duty of being read invariably on the author.
    FRep 11.538 19 ...if the spirit which...put forth such gigantic energy in the charity of the Sanitary Commission, could be waked to the conserving and creating duty of making the laws just and humane, it were to enroll a great constituency of religious...obeyers of duty...
    FRep 11.538 22 ...if the spirit which...put forth such gigantic energy in the charity of the Sanitary Commission, could be waked to the conserving and creating duty of making the laws just and humane, it were to enroll a great constituency of...faithful obeyers of duty...
    PLT 12.27 14 These views of the source of thought and the mode of its communication lead us to a whole system of ethics, strict as any department of human duty...
    PLT 12.27 23 An individual body is the momentary arrest or fixation of certain atoms, which, after performing compulsory duty to this enchanted statue, are released again to flow in the currents of the world.
    Mem 12.110 8 With every new insight into the duty or fact of to-day we come into new possession of the past.
    CInt 12.117 22 I presently know...whether [my companion's] sense of duty is more or less severe...than mine;...
    CL 12.163 10 If we should now say a few words on the advantages that belong to the conversation with Nature, I might set them so high as to make it a religious duty.
    MLit 12.323 24 ...[Goethe] felt his entire right and duty to stand before and try and judge every fact in Nature.
    Pray 12.354 5 The next [prayer] is in a metrical form. It is the aspiration of a different mind, in quite other regions of power and duty...
    PPr 12.383 14 Each man can very well know his own part of duty, if he will;...
    Trag 12.415 27 It is my duty, says Sir Charles Bell, to visit certain wards of the hospital where there is no patient admitted but with that complaint which most fills the imagination with the idea of insupportable pain and certain death.

Duty, n. (6)

    DSA 1.151 22 I look for the new Teacher that shall follow so far those shining laws that he...shall show that the Ought, that Duty, is one thing with Science...
    MoS 4.176 14 Is [a man's] belief in God and Duty no deeper than a stomach evidence?
    Cour 7.251 3 So nigh is grandeur to our dust,/ So near is God to man,/ When Duty whispers low, Thou must,/ The youth replies, I can./
    FSLN 11.231 22 There are two forces in Nature, by whose antagonism we exist; the power of Fate...on the one hand,-and Will or Duty or Freedom on the other.
    II 12.76 23 ...Number, Inspiration, Nature, Duty;-'t is very certain that these things have been hid as under towels and blankets, most part of our days...
    Let 12.403 1 The old Duty is the old God.

dwarf, adj. (1)

    Art1 2.357 10 ...then is my eye opened to the eternal picture which nature paints in the street, with moving men and children...wrinkled, giant, dwarf...

dwarf, n. (1)

    Nat 1.71 13 Man is the dwarf of himself.

dwarf, v. (3)

    Nat 1.53 26 ...this power which [the poet] exerts to dwarf the great, to magnify the small, - might be illustrated by a thousand examples from [Shakspeare's] Plays.
    Pt1 3.19 25 The chief value of the new fact is to enhance the great and constant fact of Life, which can dwarf any and every circumstance...
    Pow 6.62 16 As long as our people quote English standards they dwarf their own proportions.

dwarfed, v. (4)

    ET14 5.259 22 While the constructive talent [in England] seems dwarfed and superficial, the criticism is often in the noblest tone...
    Art2 7.37 17 ...the human mind...tends...to the publication and embodiment of its thought, modified and dwarfed by the impurity and untruth which in all our experience injure the individuality through which it passes.
    SovE 10.197 4 ...I have never until now dreamed that this undertaking the entire management of my own affairs was not commendable. I have never seen, until now, that it dwarfed me.
    PLT 12.60 18 Instantly [man] is dwarfed by self-indulgence.

dwarfing, v. (1)

    Boks 7.215 25 The question there [in Jane Eyre] answered in regard to a vicious marriage will always be treated according to the habit of the party. A person of commanding individualism will answer it as Rochester does... magnifying the exception into a rule, dwarfing the world into an exception.

dwarfish, adj. (2)

    LT 1.285 17 ...truly we shall find much to console us, when we consider the cause of [the speculators'] uneasiness. It is...the contrast of the dwarfish Actual with the exorbitant Idea.
    Imtl 8.335 15 ...a century, when we have once made it familiar and compared it with a true antiquity, looks dwarfish and recent;...

dwarfishly, adv. (1)

    Pt1 3.39 2 The painter, the sculptor, the composer, the epic rhapsodist, the orator, all partake one desire, namely to express themselves symmetrically and abundantly, not dwarfishly and fragmentarily.

dwarfs, n. (3)

    LE 1.156 23 Men looked...that nature, too long the mother of dwarfs, should reimburse itself by a brood of Titans...
    ET16 5.276 13 On the broad downs...not a house was visible, nothing but Stonehenge, which looked like a group of brown dwarfs in the wide expanse...
    FSLC 11.178 9 ...Though, feigning dwarfs, [Eternal Rights] crouch and creep,/ The strong they slay, the swift outstride;/...

dwarfs, v. (12)

    DSA 1.127 14 The doctrine of the divine nature being forgotten, a sickness infects and dwarfs the constitution.
    Nat2 3.170 3 Here [in the forest] we find Nature to be the circumstance which dwarfs every other circumstance...
    NER 3.265 6 ...in the hour in which [a man] mortgages himself to two or ten or twenty, he dwarfs himself below the stature of one.
    ET10 5.167 10 The incessant repetition of the same hand-work dwarfs the man...
    CbW 6.277 26 ...all rests at last on that integrity which dwarfs talent...
    OA 7.317 24 The mind...dwarfs an age to an hour.
    PI 8.21 19 A thought...pressed, followed, opened, dwarfs matter, custom, and all but itself.
    PC 8.220 21 ...wherever a true man appears, everything usually reckoned great dwarfs itself;...
    Chr2 10.102 11 See how one noble person dwarfs a whole nation of underlings.
    MoL 10.243 23 The Egyptian built Thebes and Karnak on a scale which dwarfs our art...
    Shak1 11.451 20 [Shakespeare] dwarfs all writers without a solitary exception.
    Shak1 11.452 17 ...Shakspeare...simply by his colossal proportions, dwarfs the geniuses of Elizabeth...

dwell, v. (31)

    AmS 1.99 16 Those...who dwell and act with him, will feel the force of [the great soul's] constitution in the doings and passages of the day...
    AmS 1.109 8 ...I do not much dwell on these differences [of epochs].
    LE 1.175 1 Pindar, Raphael, Angelo, Dryden, De Stael, dwell in crowds it may be...
    MN 1.205 10 ...let [the ocean] wash a shore where wise men dwell, and it is filled with expression;...
    MR 1.245 3 ...we shall dwell like the ancient Romans in narrow tenements...
    MR 1.254 10 Love would put a new face on this weary old world in which we dwell as pagans and enemies too long...
    Tran 1.346 20 We affect to dwell with our friends in their absence, but we do not;...
    Hist 2.20 1 In these [Nubian Egypian] caverns, already prepared by nature, the eye was accustomed to dwell on huge shapes and masses...
    SL 2.144 11 Those facts, words, persons, which dwell in [a man's] memory without his being able to say why, remain because they have a relation to him not less real for being as yet unapprehended.
    Lov1 2.171 23 In the actual world...dwell care and canker and fear.
    OS 2.269 24 Every man's words who speaks from that [inner] life must sound vain to those who do not dwell in the same thought on their own part.
    OS 2.278 26 ...[men] resemble those Arabian sheiks who dwell in mean houses and affect an external poverty...
    Art1 2.356 21 The best pictures are rude draughts of a few of the miraculous dots and lines and dyes which make up the everchanging landscape with figures amidst which we dwell.
    Mrs1 3.119 22 In the deserts of Borgoo the rock-Tibboos still dwell in caves...
    PPh 4.49 7 In all nations there are minds which incline to dwell in the conception of the fundamental Unity.
    SwM 4.129 1 We meet, and dwell an instant under the temple of one thought...
    ET5 5.77 2 Certain Trolls or working brains, under the names of...Gibbon, Brindley, Watt, Wedgwood, dwell in the troll-mounts of Britain...
    ET9 5.145 8 Swedenborg...notes...[the English] regard foreigners as one looking through a telescope from the top of a palace regards those who dwell or wander about out of the city.
    ET13 5.230 23 Where dwells the religion [of England]? Tell me first where dwells electricity, or motion, or thought, or gesture. They do not dwell or stay at all.
    Wth 6.103 9 A dollar is rated for the corn it will buy, or to speak strictly... for the wit, probity and power which we eat bread and dwell in houses to share and exert.
    SS 7.6 25 Even Swedenborg...who reprobates to weariness the danger and vice of pure intellect, is constrained to make an extraordinary exception: There are also angels who do not live consociated, but separate, house and house; these dwell in the midst of heaven, because they are the best of angels.
    Civ 7.22 21 There was once a giantess who had a daughter, and the child saw a husbandman ploughing in the field. Then she ran...and carried them to her mother, and said, Mother, what sort of a beetle is this that I found wriggling in the sand? But the mother said, Put it away, my child; we must begone out of this land, for these people will dwell in it.
    DL 7.112 8 ...if you look at the multitude of particulars, one would say: Good housekeeping is impossible; order is too precious a thing to dwell with men and women.
    DL 7.119 24 There is many a humble house...where talent and taste and sometimes genius dwell with poverty and labor.
    DL 7.121 16 The angels that dwell with [the eager, blushing boys]...are Toil and Want...
    Schr 10.266 3 ...[the poet's] achievement is...letting in a beam of the pure eternity which burns up this limbo of shadows and chimeras in which we dwell.
    HDC 11.82 23 Two religious societies, of differing creed, dwell together [in Concord] in good understanding...
    Wom 11.413 18 Far have I clambered in my mind,/ But nought so great as Love I find./ What is thy tent, where dost thou dwell?/
    PLT 12.36 1 [Pan's] habit was to dwell in mountains...
    PLT 12.47 12 One meets contemplative men who dwell in a certain feeling and delight which are intellectual but wholly above their expression.
    Bost 12.185 20 ...wisdom is not found with those who dwell at their ease.

dwelled, v. (2)

    DSA 1.126 12 This [moral] thought dwelled always deepest in the minds of men in the devout and contemplative East;...
    HDC 11.51 2 Those [Indians] who dwelled by ponds and rivers had some tincture of civility...

dweller, n. (4)

    Civ 7.19 3 A certain degree of progress from the rudest state in which man is found,--a dweller in caves...is called Civilization.
    DL 7.129 22 Whatever brings the dweller into a finer life...may well find place [in the household].
    SovE 10.197 12 What is this intoxicating sentiment...that makes this doll a dweller in ages...
    Bost 12.182 7 The sea returning day by day/ Restores the world-wide mart;/ So let each dweller on the Bay/ Fold Boston in his heart./

dwellers, n. (1)

    Clbs 7.244 8 Such [literary] societies are possible only in great cities, and are the compensation which these can make to their dwellers for depriving them of the free intercourse with Nature.

dwellest, v. (1)

    Comp 2.106 3 How secret art thou who dwellest in the highest heavens...O thou only great God...

dwelling, n. (5)

    PPh 4.50 23 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. I neither am going nor coming; nor is my dwelling in any one place;...
    WD 7.169 22 ...a thousand spectacles [the variable wind] brings, and each is the frame or dwelling of a new spirit.
    PPo 8.262 1 While roses bloomed along the plain,/ The nightingale to the falcon said/... ...sitt'st thou on the hand of princes,/ And feedest on the grouse's breast,/ Whilst I, who hundred thousand jewels/ Squander in a single tone,/ Lo! I feed myself with worms,/ And my dwelling is the thorn./
    Thor 10.482 1 [Thoreau]...became very jealous of cities and the sad work which their refinements and artifices made with man and his dwelling.
    JBB 11.266 7 ...There [John Brown] spoke aloud for Freedom, and the Border strife grew warmer/ Till the Rangers fired his dwelling, in his absence, in the night;/...

dwelling, v. (11)

    LE 1.174 17 ...[the public] wish the scholar to replace to them those... divine experiences of which they have been defrauded by dwelling in the street.
    Cir 2.305 24 The new statement...to those dwelling in the old, comes like an abyss of scepticism.
    Int 2.346 4 ...wonderful seems the calm and grand air of these few [Greek philosophers], these great spiritual lords...dwelling in a worship which makes the sanctities of Christianity look parvenues and popular;...
    Nat2 3.194 19 ...if, instead of identifying ourselves with the work, we feel that the soul of the Workman streams through us, we shall find the peace of the morning dwelling first in our hearts...
    SwM 4.120 8 [Swedenborg] had borrowed from Plato the fine fable of a most ancient people, men better than we and dwelling nigher to the gods;...
    Bhr 6.182 18 Palaces interest us mainly in the exhibition of manners, which, in the idle and expensive society dwelling in them, are raised to a high art.
    Wsp 6.213 13 There is...a simple, quiet, undescribed, undescribable presence, dwelling very peacefully in us...
    Aris 10.33 10 The terrible aristocracy that is in Nature. Real people dwelling with the real...then, far down, people of taste, people dwelling in a relation...and, far below these, gross and thoughtless, the animal man...
    Aris 10.33 12 The terrible aristocracy that is in Nature. Real people dwelling with the real...then, far down, people of taste, people dwelling in a relation...and, far below these, gross and thoughtless, the animal man...
    HDC 11.53 9 ...[Tahattawan] was asked, why he desired a town so near, when there was more room for them up in the country? The sachem replied that he knew if the Indians dwelt far from the English, they would not so much care to pray...but would be...Indians still; but dwelling near the English, he hoped it might be otherwise with them then.
    CInt 12.122 4 ...it happens often that the wellbred and refined...dwelling amidst colleges, churches, and scientific museums...are more vicious and malignant than the rude country people...

dwelling-house, n. (4)

    Comp 2.93 11 The documents...from which the doctrine [of Compensation] is to be drawn...are the tools in our hands...the transactions of the street, the farm, and the dwelling-house;...
    MoS 4.161 1 ...the body of man is the type after which a dwelling-house is built.
    DL 7.108 4 Is it not plain that...in the dwelling-house must the true character and hope of the time be consulted?
    Thor 10.481 11 ...[Thoreau] remarked that by night every dwelling-house gives out bad air...

dwelling-place, n. (2)

    Ctr 6.165 13 ...Nature began with rudimental forms and rose to the more complex as fast as the earth was fit for their dwelling-place;...
    HDC 11.86 14 ...I believe this town [Concord] to have been the dwelling-place, in all times since its planting, of pious and excellent persons...

dwellings, n. (8)

    YA 1.367 25 ...the whole force of all the arts goes to facilitate the decoration of lands and dwellings.
    ET5 5.84 13 [The English] study use and fitness...in the order of their dwellings...
    DL 7.108 10 It is easier...to criticise [a territory's] polity, books, art, than to come to the persons and dwellings of men and read their character...
    DL 7.113 3 The difficulties to be overcome [in housekeeping] must be freely admitted; they are many and great. Nor are they to be disposed of by any criticism or amendment of particulars taken one at a time, but only by the arrangement of the household to a higher end than those to which our dwellings are usually built and furnished.
    Clbs 7.237 23 Wafthrudnir asks [Odin]...what river separates the dwellings of the sons of the giants from those of the gods;...
    Thor 10.460 2 In every part of Great Britain, [Thoreau] wrote in his diary, are discovered traces of the Romans...their dwellings.
    HDC 11.38 17 [The Puritans] proceeded to build, under the shelter of the hill that extends for a mile along the north side of the Boston road, their first dwellings.
    EWI 11.107 15 In [the Quakers'] plain meeting-houses and prim dwellings this dismal agitation [against slavery] got entrance.

dwells, v. (18)

    DSA 1.130 16 [Christianity] has dwelt, it dwells, with noxious exaggeration about the person of Jesus.
    Lov1 2.186 1 Not always can...even home in another heart, content the awful soul that dwells in clay.
    Fdsp 2.216 23 True love...dwells and broods on the eternal...
    OS 2.276 1 ...whoso dwells in this moral beatitude already anticipates those special powers which men prize so highly.
    OS 2.290 23 ...the soul that ascends to worship the great God...dwells in the hour that now is...
    OS 2.294 17 ...the Highest dwells with [man];...
    SwM 4.123 14 [Swedenborg's] thought dwells in essential resemblances...
    ET13 5.230 20 Where dwells the religion [of England]?
    ET13 5.230 21 Where dwells the religion [of England]? Tell me first where dwells electricity...
    CbW 6.265 20 ...power dwells with cheerfulness;...
    WD 7.175 27 In the Norse legend of our ancestors, Odin dwells in a fisher' s hut...
    WD 7.176 2 In the Hindoo legends, Hari dwells a peasant among peasants.
    Clbs 7.223 7 But [Saadi] has no companion;/ Come ten, or come a million,/ Good Saadi dwells alone./
    PPo 8.258 26 Wisdom is like the elephant,/ Lofty and rare inhabitant:/ He dwells in deserts or in courts;/ With hucksters he has no resorts./
    Supl 10.169 15 The citizen dwells in delusions.
    Schr 10.288 24 ...[the scholar] is to hold lightly every tradition, every opinion, every person, out of his piety to that Eternal Spirit which dwells unexpressed with him.
    Let 12.397 22 Whilst [a man] dwells in the old sin, he will pay the old fine.
    Trag 12.410 9 ...all sorrow dwells in a low region.

dwelt, v. (18)

    AmS 1.108 23 ...I have dwelt perhaps tediously upon this abstraction of the Scholar.
    DSA 1.130 16 [Christianity] has dwelt, it dwells, with noxious exaggeration about the person of Jesus.
    MN 1.220 4 What a debt is ours to that old religion, which, in the childhood of most of us, still dwelt like a sabbath morning in the country of New England...
    Hist 2.19 18 The Doric temple preserves the semblance of the wooden cabin in which the Dorian dwelt.
    SR 2.73 22 It is alike your interest...and all men's, however long we have dwelt in lies, to live in truth.
    Mrs1 3.154 14 The king of Schiraz could not afford to be so bountiful as the poor Osman who dwelt at his gate.
    NER 3.269 17 In [scholars'] experience the scholar was not raised by the sacred thoughts amongst which he dwelt...
    ET8 5.140 15 Haldor remained a short time with the king, and then came to Iceland, where he took up his abode in Hiardaholt and dwelt in that farm to a very advanced age.
    ET13 5.220 19 The spirit that dwelt in this [English] church has glided away to animate other activities...
    DL 7.122 9 ...[the most polite and accurate men of Oxford University] found such an immenseness of wit and such a solidity of judgment in [Lord Falkland]...that they frequently resorted and dwelt with him...
    Suc 7.296 23 Wherever any noble sentiment dwelt, it made the faces and houses around to shine.
    SovE 10.197 6 I have not discovered, until this blessed ray flashed just now through my soul, that there dwelt any power in Nature that would relieve me of my load.
    EzRy 10.390 27 In [Ezra Ripley's] house dwelt order and prudence and plenty.
    SlHr 10.441 7 [Samuel Hoar] was a man in whom so rare a spirit of justice visibly dwelt, that if one had met him in a cabin or in a forest he must still seem a public man...
    SlHr 10.446 24 ...let the cloud rest where it might, [Samuel Hoar] dwelt in eternal sunshine.
    LS 11.6 21 I have only brought these accounts [of the Last Supper] together, that you may judge whether it is likely that a solemn institution... would have been established...in a manner so slight, that the intention of commemorating it should not appear...to have...dwelt in the mind of the only two among the twelve who wrote down what happened.
    HDC 11.53 5 ...[Tahattawan] was asked, why he desired a town so near, when there was more room for them up in the country? The sachem replied that he knew if the Indians dwelt far from the English, they would not so much care to pray...
    Milt1 12.257 8 Aubrey says [of Milton], This harmonical and ingenuous soul dwelt in a beautiful, well-proportioned body.

dwindle, v. (1)

    QO 8.189 2 In every kind of parasite...the self-supplying organs wither and dwindle...

dwindled, adj. (1)

    HDC 11.50 24 The man of the woods might well draw on himself the compassion of the planters. His erect and perfect form...was found joined to a dwindled soul.

dwindled, v. (1)

    PI 8.4 26 ...somewhat was murmured in our ear that dwindled astronomy into a toy;...

dwindles, v. (2)

    Cir 2.306 2 ...presently, all its energy spent, [the new statement] pales and dwindles before the revelation of the new hour.
    PI 8.2 7 ...[Fancy] can knit/ What is past, what is done,/ With the web that ' s just begun;/ Making free with time and size,/ Dwindles here, there magnifies,/ Swells a rain-drop to a tun;/...

dwindling, v. (1)

    CL 12.146 20 I know a whole district...where the apple-trees strive with and hold their ground against the native forest-trees: the apple growing with profusion that mocks the pains taken by careful cockneys, who come out into the country, plant young trees, and watch them dwindling.

Dyaus, n. (1)

    WD 7.167 1 The new study of the Sanskrit has shown us the origin of the old names of God,--Dyaus, Deus, Zeus, Zeu pater, Jupiter...

Dyce, Alexander, n. (3)

    ShP 4.206 14 Malone, Warburton, Dyce and Collier have wasted their oil.
    ShP 4.208 12 Read the antique documents extricated, analyzed and compared by the assiduous Dyce and Collier, and now read one of [Shakespeare's] skyey sentences...and tell me if they match;...
    Boks 7.221 11 Another member [of the literary club] meantime shall as honestly search, sift and as truly report on British mythology...the histories of Brut, Merlin and Welsh poetry;...a fourth, on Mysteries, Early Drama, Gesta Romanorum, Collier, and Dyce, and the Camden Society.

dye, n. (1)

    ET5 5.99 19 [Englishmen's] minds, like wool, admit of a dye which is more lasting than the cloth.

dyes, n. (5)

    Nat 1.52 26 ...the lays of birds, the scents and dyes of flowers [Shakspeare] finds to be the shadow of his beloved;...
    Art1 2.356 19 The best pictures are rude draughts of a few of the miraculous dots and lines and dyes which make up the everchanging landscape with figures amidst which we dwell.
    Supl 10.177 24 ...the Orientals excel...in spices, in dyes and drugs...
    EWI 11.141 4 Mr. Clarkson, early in his career, made a collection of African productions and manufactures, as specimens of the arts and culture of the negro; comprising cloths and loom...leather, glass, dyes...
    FRep 11.511 13 The manufacturers rely on turbines of hydraulic perfection; the carpet-mill, of mordants and dyes which exhaust the skill of the chemist;...

dying, adj. (10)

    Tran 1.337 1 I, [Jacobi] says, am...that godless person who, in opposition to an imaginary doctrine of calculation, would lie as the dying Desdemona lied;...
    YA 1.377 21 ...as they say of dying people, all [Feudalism's] faults came out.
    Comc 8.167 20 ...I was hastening to visit an old and honored friend, who... was in a dying condition...
    QO 8.185 12 Rabelais's dying words...only repeats the IF inscribed on the portal of the temple at Delphi.
    SovE 10.186 7 'T is a sort of proverbial dying speech of scholars...that...of Nathaniel Carpenter... It did repent him, he said, that he had formerly so much courted the maid instead of the mistress (meaning philosophy and mathematics to the neglect of divinity).
    MMEm 10.418 18 Not a prospect but is dark on earth, as to knowledge and joy from externals: but the prospect of a dying bed reflects lustre on all the rest.
    LVB 11.93 11 ...how could we call...the land that was cursed by [the Cherokees'] parting and dying imprecations our country, any more?
    JBS 11.281 2 All gentlemen, of course, are on [John Brown's] side. I do not mean by gentlemen, people of scented hair and perfumed handkerchiefs, but men...who...like the dying Sidney, pass the cup of cold water to the dying soldier who needs it more.
    JBS 11.281 3 All gentlemen, of course, are on [John Brown's] side. I do not mean by gentlemen, people of scented hair and perfumed handkerchiefs, but men...who...like the dying Sidney, pass the cup of cold water to the dying soldier who needs it more.
    FRep 11.539 11 It is not by heads reverted to the dying Demosthenes...that you can combat the dangers and dragons that beset the United States at this time.

dying, n. (3)

    CbW 6.263 25 I once asked a clergyman in a retired town...what men of ability he saw? He replied that he spent his time with the sick and the dying.
    EPro 11.326 4 Do not let the dying die: hold them back to this world...
    SMC 11.368 5 How would Concord people, [George Prescott] asks, like to pass the night on the battle-field, and hear the dying cry for help, and not be able to go to them.

dying, v. (22)

    Nat 1.20 19 ...when Leonidas and his three hundred martyrs consume one day in dying...are not these heroes entitled to add the beauty of the scene to the beauty of the deed?
    MR 1.248 22 ...it would be like dying of perfumes to sink in the effort to re-attach the deeds of every day to the holy and mysterious recesses of life.
    YA 1.371 22 ...there is a sublime and friendly Destiny by which the human race is guided,-the race never dying, the individual never spared...
    Pt1 3.33 14 On the brink of the waters of life and truth, we are miserably dying.
    ET4 5.68 1 Nelson, dying at Trafalgar, sends his love to Lord Collingwood...
    ET8 5.131 20 [The English] are good...at dying in the last ditch...
    ET12 5.206 11 [The young men at Oxford] shuddered at the prospect of dying a Fellow...
    F 6.35 27 The second and imperfect races are dying out...
    CbW 6.263 27 ...if people were sick and dying to any purpose, we would leave all and go to them...
    Elo1 7.95 12 [Eloquence] is always dying out of famous places and appearing in corners.
    Farm 7.153 14 ...living or dying, [the farmer] never shall be heard of in [palaces];...
    WD 7.158 6 ...we pity our fathers for dying before steam and galvanism...
    OA 7.317 27 Saadi found in a mosque at Damascus an old Persian of a hundred and fifty years, who was dying...
    PPo 8.261 22 While roses bloomed along the plain,/ The nightingale to the falcon said/ Why, of all birds, must thou be dumb?/ With closed mouth thou utterest,/ Though dying, no last word to man./
    Imtl 8.348 26 ...the man puts off the ignorance and tumultuous passions of youth; proceeding thence puts off the egotism of manhood, and becomes at last a public and universal soul. He is...rising to realities; the outer relations and circumstances dying out, he entering deeper into God...
    SovE 10.208 6 ...by dying we live.
    Plu 10.316 21 ...nothing so resembles an animal as fire. It is moved and nourished by itself, and...in its quenching shows some power that seems to proceed from a vital principle, for it makes a noise and resists, like an animal dying...
    MMEm 10.429 5 I [Mary Moody Emerson] have given up, the last year or two, the hope of dying.
    SHC 11.430 13 ...the irresistible democracy-shall I call it?-of chemistry, of vegetation, which recomposes for new life every decomposing particle,- the race never dying, the individual never spared,-have impressed on the mind of the age the futility of these old arts of preserving.
    MAng1 12.216 2 [Michelangelo]...dying at the end of near ninety years, had not yet become old...
    MAng1 12.241 16 Towards his end, there seems to have grown in [Michelangelo] an invincible appetite of dying...
    Pray 12.354 1 If but this tedious battle could be fought,/ Like Sparta's heroes at one rocky pass,/ One day be spent in dying, men had sought/ The spot, and been cut down like mower's grass./

dynamic, adj. (2)

    SwM 4.133 2 Swedenborg's system of the world...is dynamic, not vital...
    ET14 5.236 22 The more hearty and sturdy [English] expression may indicate that the savageness of the Norseman was not all gone. Their dynamic brains hurled off their words as the revolving stone hurls off scraps of grit.

dynastic, adj. (1)

    FRep 11.515 5 No interest not attaches...to the wars of German, French and Spanish emperors, which were only dynastic wars...

dynasties, n. (4)

    YA 1.378 3 [Trade] calls out all force of a certain kind that slumbered in the former dynasties.
    Pol1 3.213 24 All forms of government symbolize an immortal government, common to all dynasties and independent of numbers...
    WD 7.179 18 ...him I reckon the most learned scholar, not who can unearth for me the buried dynasties of Sesostris and Ptolemy...
    PC 8.217 15 [Culture] is ever the romance of history in all dynasties...

dynasty, n. (5)

    ShP 4.202 13 There is somewhat touching in the madness with which the passing age...registers every trifle touching Queen Elizabeth...and lets pass without a single valuable note the founder of another dynasty, which alone will cause the Tudor dynasty to be remembered...
    ShP 4.202 14 There is somewhat touching in the madness with which the passing age...registers every trifle touching Queen Elizabeth...and lets pass without a single valuable note the founder of another dynasty, which alone will cause the Tudor dynasty to be remembered...
    ET11 5.193 12 The historic names of the Buckinghams, Beauforts, Marlboroughs and Hertfords have gained no new lustre, and now and then darker scandals break out, ominous as the new chapters added under the Orleans dynasty to the Causes Celebres in France.
    ChiE 11.471 6 All share the surprise and pleasure when the venerable Oriental dynasty...suddenly steps into the fellowship of nations.
    PPr 12.381 27 As we recall the topics [in Carlyle's Past and Present], we are struck with the force given to the plain truths;...the assumption throughout the book, that a new chivalry and nobility, namely, the dynasty of labor, is replacing the old nobilities.

dysentery, n. (1)

    Wth 6.102 17 In California, the country where [the dollar] grew,--what would it buy? A few years since, it would buy a shanty, dysentery, hunger, bad company and crime.

dyspepsia, n. (1)

    Exp 3.61 18 The fine young people despise life, but in me, and in such as with me are free from dyspepsia...it is a great excess of politeness to look scornful and cry for company.

dyspeptic, adj. (1)

    SwM 4.141 25 [Swedenborg's spiritual world] is...very like...to the phenomena of dreaming, which nightly turns many an honest gentleman, benevolent but dyspeptic, into a wretch...

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