Eadwine to Eastward

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

Eadwine [Edwin], King of N (1)

    Imtl 8.323 1 ...when Edwin, the Anglo-Saxon king, was deliberating on receiving the Christian missionaries, one of his nobles said to him: The present life of man, O king, compared with that space of time beyond... reminds me of one of your winter feasts...

eager, adj. (32)

    LE 1.181 4 Let [the scholar] not, too eager to grasp some badge of reward, omit the work to be done.
    YA 1.381 26 On one side is agricultural chemistry...and on the other, the farmer, not only eager for the information, but with bad crops and in debt and bankruptcy, for want of it.
    Exp 3.61 22 I am grown by sympathy a little eager and sentimental...
    Exp 3.85 3 ...I have not found that much was gained by manipular attempts to realize the world of thought. Many eager persons successively make an experiment in this way, and make themselves ridiculous.
    Chr1 3.112 8 Need we be so eager to seek [our friend]?
    Nat2 3.190 15 The hunger for wealth...fools the eager pursuer.
    NER 3.263 2 When we see an eager assailant of one of these wrongs...we feel like asking him, What right have you, sir, to your one virtue?
    UGM 4.19 8 The soul is impatient of masters and eager for change.
    Civ 7.17 23 Now speed the gay celerities of art,/ What in the desert was impossible/ Within four walls is possible again,/--Culture and libraries, mysteries of skill,/ Traditioned fame of masters, eager strife/ Of keen competing youths, joined or alone/...
    Elo1 7.64 23 Young men...are eager to enjoy this sense of added power [of eloquence]...
    DL 7.110 6 Do not ask [the scholar] to help with his savings...eager agents to lobby in legislatures...
    DL 7.119 26 ...who can see unmoved...the eager, blushing boys discharging as they can their household chores...
    DL 7.123 5 Every one was eager to try [the fairy cloak] on, but it would fit nobody...
    Boks 7.192 3 In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends...and though they...are eager to give us a sign and unbosom themselves, it is the law of their limbo that they must not speak until spoken to;...
    Cour 7.258 5 In war even generals are seldom found eager to give battle.
    Cour 7.278 7 A little Indian boy/ Followed him [George Nidiver] everywhere,/ Eager to share the hunter's joy,/ The hunter's meal to share./
    Suc 7.310 12 There is not a joyful boy or an innocent girl buoyant with fine purposes of duty, in all the street full of eager and rosy faces, but a cynic can chill and dishearten with a single word.
    Suc 7.310 16 Despondency comes readily enough to the most sanguine. The cynic has only to follow their hint with his bitter confirmation, and they check that eager courageous pace...
    OA 7.315 14 ...the naivete of [Josiah Quincy's] eager preference of Cicero' s opinions to King David's, gave unusual interest to the College festival.
    SA 8.82 1 ...trying experiments, and at perfect leisure with these posture-masters and flatterers all day, [the babe] throws himself into all the attitudes that correspond to theirs. ... Are they eager? he is nonchalant.
    Elo2 8.117 25 A worthy gentleman...listening to the debates of the General Assembly of the Scottish Kirk in Edinburgh, and eager to speak to the questions...went to [Dr. Hugh Blair] and offered him one thousand pounds sterling if he would teach him to speak with propriety in public.
    QO 8.178 9 We expect a great man to be a good reader; or in proportion to the spontaneous power should be the assimilating power. And though such are a more difficult and exacting class, they are not less eager.
    Aris 10.55 20 The astronomers are very eager to know whether the moon has an atmosphere;...
    Schr 10.278 7 These iron personalities, such as in Greece and Italy...were formed to...draw the eager service of thousands, rarely appear [in America].
    LLNE 10.354 24 It is the worst of community that it must inevitably transform into charlatans the leaders, by the endeavor continually to meet the expectation and admiration of this eager crowd of men and women seeking they know not what.
    SlHr 10.440 11 Though rich, [Samuel Hoar was] of a plainness and almost poverty of personal expenditure, yet liberal of his money to any worthy use, readily lending it to...industrious men, and by no means eager to reclaim of them either the interest or the principal.
    Thor 10.452 12 ...whilst all his companions were...eager to begin some lucrative employment, it was inevitable that [Thoreau's] thoughts should be exercised on the same question...
    GSt 10.502 23 ...[George Stearns's] interest [in Kansas] was so manifestly pure and sincere that he easily obtained eager offerings in quarters where other petitioners failed.
    TPar 11.286 2 Theodore Parker was...strong, eager, inquisitive of knowledge...
    ACiv 11.301 23 ...the eager interest of the few overpowers the apathetic general conviction of the many.
    Milt1 12.249 17 Eager to do fit justice to each thought, [Milton] does not subordinate it so as to project the main argument.
    Milt1 12.278 13 [Milton's plea for freedom of divorce] was a sally of the extravagant spirit of the time...eager to carry on the standard of truth to new heights.

eagerly, adv. (18)

    Nat 1.19 12 The shows of day...if too eagerly hunted...mock us with their unreality.
    AmS 1.95 9 I run eagerly into this resounding tumult.
    MR 1.256 25 ...the time will come when we too...shall eagerly convert more than we now possess into means and powers...
    Cir 2.313 22 ...the instinct of man presses eagerly onward to the impersonal and illimitable...
    ShP 4.193 4 Here [in the Elizabethan drama] is...a shelf full of English history...which men hear eagerly;...
    F 6.26 20 We hear eagerly every thought and word quoted from an intellectual man.
    Ill 6.322 18 In this kingdom of illusions we grope eagerly for stays and foundations.
    Suc 7.304 8 ...it occurs to [the lover] that [he and his beloved] might somehow meet independently of time and place. How delicious the belief that he could...hold instant and sempiternal communication! In solitude, in banishment...the experiment was eagerly tried.
    SA 8.86 17 Why need you, who are not a gossip...tell eagerly what the neighbors or the journals say?
    Prch 10.226 25 In matters of religion, men eagerly fasten their eyes on the differences between their creed and yours...
    Schr 10.264 17 One is tempted to affirm the office and attributes of the scholar a little the more eagerly, because of a frequent perversity of the class itself.
    Schr 10.278 11 ...when one observes how eagerly our people entertain and discuss a new theory...one would draw a favorable inference as to their intellectual and spiritual tendencies.
    LLNE 10.334 2 The smallest anecdote of [Everett's] behavior or conversation was eagerly caught and repeated...
    SlHr 10.438 5 [Samuel Hoar] was advised to withdraw to private lodgings [in Charleston], which were eagerly offered him by friends.
    Carl 10.493 21 The literary, the fashionable, the political man...comes eagerly to see this man [Carlyle], whose fun they have heartily enjoyed... and are struck with despair at the first onset.
    JBB 11.267 12 Every anecdote [of John Brown] is eagerly sought...
    Wom 11.407 14 ...[women]...lose themselves eagerly in the glory of their husbands and children.
    FRO2 11.490 14 Zealots eagerly fasten their eyes on the differences between their creed and yours...

eagerness, n. (5)

    OS 2.293 22 You are preparing with eagerness to go and render a service...
    ET4 5.53 13 In Scotland...a provincial eagerness and acuteness appear;...
    PC 8.226 15 The inquisitiveness of the child to hear runs to meet the eagerness of the parent to explain.
    LLNE 10.337 8 ...there was, in the first quarter of our nineteenth century... an eagerness for reform...
    FRep 11.527 23 Our institutions, of which the town is the unit, are educational... ... The result appears...in the...eagerness for novelty...

eagle, n. (11)

    Nat 1.13 27 ...[man] paves the road with iron bars, and mounting a coach with a ship-load of men, animals, and merchandise behind him, he darts... from town to town, like an eagle or a swallow through the air.
    LE 1.169 7 ...the deep, echoing, aboriginal woods, where...from year to year, the eagle and the crow see no intruder;...this beauty...has never been recorded by art...
    Tran 1.332 14 One thing at least, [the materialist] says, is certain...if I put a gold eagle in my safe, I find it again to-morrow;...
    YA 1.383 16 In one hand [a dime] became an eagle as it fell, and in another hand a copper cent.
    Hist 2.36 17 ...the wings of an eagle in the egg presuppose air.
    Pt1 3.16 22 ...an eagle...on an old rag of bunting...shall make the blood tingle...
    F 6.33 13 Man...stands on tiptoe threatening to hunt the eagle in his own element.
    Bty 6.300 19 Cardinal De Retz says of De Bouillon, With the physiognomy of an ox, he had the perspicacity of an eagle.
    PI 8.57 14 ...we listen to [the early bard] as we do to the Indian, or the hunter, or miner, each of whom represents his facts as accurately as the cry of the wolf or the eagle tells of the forest or the air they inhabit.
    Shak1 11.451 14 The unaffected joy of the comedy...contrasted with the grandeur of the tragedy, where...[Shakespeare] flies an eagle at the heart of the problem;...
    FRep 11.530 23 The spread eagle must fold his foolish wings and be less of a peacock;...

eagles, n. (3)

    F 6.41 1 Ducks take to the water, eagles to the sky...
    Cour 7.256 24 Men are so charmed with valor that they have pleased themselves with being called...eagles...
    Suc 7.281 7 Who bides at home, nor looks abroad,/ Carries the eagles and masters the sword./

eagle's, n. (2)

    ET8 5.138 21 A saving stupidity masks and protects [Englishmen's] perception, as the curtain of the eagle's eye.
    PPo 8.251 3 ...Hafiz is a poet for poets, whether he write, as sometimes, with a parrot's, or, as at other times, with an eagle's quill.

ear, n. (118)

    AmS 1.114 1 If there be one lesson...which should pierce [the scholar's] ear, it is, The world is nothing, the man is all;...
    DSA 1.133 21 ...with yet more entire consent of my human being, sounds in my ear the severe music of the bards that have sung of the true God in all ages.
    DSA 1.136 26 Where shall I hear these august laws of moral being so pronounced as to fill my ear...
    DSA 1.139 12 There is a good ear, in some men, that draws supplies to virtue out of very indifferent nutriment.
    LE 1.182 5 Let [the scholar]...serve the world as a true and noble man; never forgetting to worship the immortal divinities who whisper to the poet and make him the utterer of melodies that pierce the ear of eternal time.
    MN 1.198 27 Empedocles undoubtedly spoke a truth of thought, when he said, I am God; but the moment it was out of his mouth it became a lie to the ear;...
    MN 1.218 12 Genius...draws its means and the style of its architecture from within, going abroad only for audience and spectator, as we adapt our voice and phrase to the distance and character of the ear we speak to.
    LT 1.269 25 The fury with which the slave-trader defends every inch of... his howling auction-platform, is a trumpet to alarm the ear of mankind...
    LT 1.277 26 [The work of the reformer] is a buzz in the ear.
    Hist 2.6 17 Universal history, the poets, the romancers, do not in their stateliest pictures...anywhere lose our ear, anywhere make us feel...that this is for better men;...
    Hist 2.37 16 Does not...the ear of Handel predict the witchcraft of harmonic sound?
    SR 2.49 22 [The self-reliant individual] would utter opinions on all passing affairs, which...would sink like darts into the ear of men...
    SR 2.84 4 ...the ear and the tongue are two organs of one nature.
    SL 2.152 11 ...your propositions run out of one ear as they ran in at the other.
    SL 2.153 21 The writer who takes his subject from his ear and not from his heart, should know that he has lost as much as he seems to have gained...
    Prd1 2.223 14 The world is filled with the proverbs and acts and winkings of a base prudence, which is a devotion to matter, as if we possessed no other faculties than the palate...the eye and ear;...
    Hsm1 2.257 14 Why should these words, Athenian, Roman, Asia and England, so tingle in the ear?
    Hsm1 2.257 18 ...the ear loves names of foreign and classic topography.
    OS 2.294 3 ...every sound that is spoken over the round world, which thou oughtest to hear, will vibrate on thine ear!
    Int 2.326 1 Intellect and intellection signify to the common ear consideration of abstract truth.
    Art1 2.356 3 A good ballad draws my ear and heart whilst I listen...
    Pt1 3.8 12 ...we hear those primal warblings and attempt to write them down, but we lose ever and anon a word or a verse and substitute something of our own and thus miswrite the poem. The men of more delicate ear write down these cadences more faithfully...
    Pt1 3.13 15 ...the carpenter's stretched cord, if you hold your ear close enough, is musical in the breeze.
    Pt1 3.25 13 The sea...and every flower-bed, pre-exist or super-exist, in pre-cantations, which sail like odors in the air, and when any man goes by with an ear sufficiently fine, he overhears them and endeavors to write down the notes without diluting or depraving them.
    Chr1 3.101 25 I knew an amiable and accomplished person who undertook a practical reform, yet I was never able to find in him the enterprise of love he took in hand. He adopted it by ear...
    Mrs1 3.123 12 ...every man's name that emerged at all from the mass in the feudal ages rattles in our ear like a flourish of trumpets.
    NR 3.234 17 Lively boys write to their ear and eye...
    MoS 4.165 26 ...I, [says Montaigne,]...am afraid that Plato, in his purest virtue, if he had listened and laid his ear close to himself, would have heard some jarring sound of human mixture;...
    ShP 4.195 22 The first play [Shakespeare's Henry VIII] was written by a superior, thoughtful man, with a vicious ear.
    ShP 4.214 22 ...the speeches in [Shakespeare's] plays, and single lines, have a beauty which tempts the ear to pause on them for their euphuism...
    GoW 4.279 9 ...at last the hero [of Sand's Consuelo]...no longer answers to his own titled name; it sounds foreign and remote in his ear.
    ET4 5.47 17 The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue...
    ET14 5.257 15 There is no finer ear, nor more command of the keys of language [than Tennyson's].
    ET14 5.258 3 There are all degrees in poetry, and we must be thankful for every beautiful talent. But it is only a first success, when the ear is gained.
    ET14 5.258 13 A stanza of the song of nature the Oxonian has no ear for...
    Wth 6.87 4 Watt and Stephenson whispered in the ear of mankind their secret, that a half-ounce of coal will draw two tons a mile...
    Wsp 6.216 26 ...we very slowly admit in another man...an ear to hear acuter notes of right and wrong than we can.
    Wsp 6.227 17 [As we grow older] We have...an ear which hears not what men say, but hears what they do not say.
    Bty 6.293 7 It is necessary in music, when you strike a discord, to let down the ear by an intermediate note or two to the accord again;...
    Art2 7.43 25 The pulsation of a stretched string or wire gives the ear the pleasure of sweet sound...
    Art2 7.45 1 A jumble of musical sounds...gives pleasure to the unskilful ear.
    Art2 7.49 27 Not [the orator's] will, but...the great connection and crisis of events, thunder in the ear of the crowd.
    Elo1 7.63 12 [The orator's audience] come to get justice done to that ear and intuition which no Chatham and no Demosthenes has begun to satisfy.
    Elo1 7.73 18 ...the power of detaining the ear by pleasing speech...often exists without higher merits.
    Elo1 7.85 13 In any knot of men conversing on any subject, the person who knows most about it will have the ear of the company if he wishes it...
    Elo1 7.85 27 ...in the examination of witnesses there usually leap out...three or four stubborn words or phrases...which sink into the ear of all parties...
    DL 7.107 22 Do you think any rhetoric or any romance would get your ear from the wise gypsy who could tell straight on the real fortunes of the man;...
    DL 7.113 18 It...certainly ought to open our ear to every good-minded reformer, that our idea of domestic well-being now needs wealth to execute it.
    DL 7.120 25 ...who can see unmoved...the affectionate delight with which [the eager, blushing boys] greet the return of each one after the early separations which school or business require; the foresight with which, during such absences, they hive the honey which opportunity offers, for the ear and imagination of others;...
    DL 7.129 23 ...what educates [the dweller's] eye, or ear, or hand...may well find place [in the household].
    WD 7.161 6 What shall we say of the ocean telegraph, that extension of the eye and ear...
    Boks 7.195 16 There has already been a scrutiny and choice from many hundreds of young pens before the pamphlet or political chapter which you read in a fugitive journal comes to your eye. All these are young adventurers, who produce their performance to the wise ear of Time...
    Clbs 7.232 15 Some men love only to talk where they are masters. They like to go...into the shops where the sauntering people gladly lend an ear to any one.
    Clbs 7.238 3 ...[Odin] puts a question which none but himself could answer: What did Odin whisper in the ear of his son Balder, when Balder mounted the funeral pile?
    Clbs 7.238 7 ...[Odin] puts a question which none but himself could answer: What did Odin whisper in the ear of his son Balder, when Balder mounted the funeral pile? The startled giant [Wafthrudnir] replies: None of the gods knows what in the old time Thou saidst in the ear of thy son...
    Suc 7.283 21 Men are made each with some triumphant superiority, which, through some adaptation of fingers or ear or eye...enriches the community with a new art;...
    Suc 7.296 20 ...in every book [a good reader] finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakably meant for his ear.
    Suc 7.303 24 ...[the lover's] eye and ear are telegraphs;...
    OA 7.329 26 We have an admirable line worthy of Horace, ever and anon resounding in our mind's ear...
    PI 8.4 26 ...somewhat was murmured in our ear that dwindled astronomy into a toy;...
    PI 8.9 22 The privates of man's heart/ They speken and sound in his ear/ As tho' they loud winds were;/...
    PI 8.16 2 ...the book, the landscape or the personality which did not stay on the surface of the eye or ear...agitates us, and is not forgotten.
    PI 8.45 19 ...no matter what objects are near [water]...they become beautiful by being reflected. It is rhyme to the eye, and explains the charm of rhyme to the ear.
    PI 8.54 23 ...the poem is made up of lines each of which fills the ear of the poet in its turn...
    PI 8.56 25 ...[Newton] only shows...that the poetry which satisfies more youthful souls is not such to a mind like his, accustomed to grander harmonies;--this being a child's whistle to his ear;...
    SA 8.101 15 That method [of hereditary nobility]...gratified the ear with preserving historic names...
    Elo2 8.120 17 Many people have no ear for music...
    Elo2 8.120 18 ...every one has an ear for skilful reading.
    Elo2 8.125 7 ...[the man in the street]...can always get the ear of an audience to the exclusion of everybody else.
    Elo2 8.125 18 ...when [the orator] rises to any height of thought or of passion he comes down to a language level with the ear of all his audience.
    Res 8.139 26 [Nature] shows us only surfaces, but she is million fathoms deep. What spaces! what durations!...in humanity...millions of lives to add only sentiments and guesses, which at last, gathered in by an ear of sensibility, make the furniture of the poet.
    Comc 8.162 19 ...with what unfeigned compassion we have seen such a person [of excessive susceptibility to the ludicrous] receiving like a willing martyr the whispers into his ear of a man of wit.
    Comc 8.164 6 ...the occasion of laughter is some seeming, some keeping of the word to the ear and eye, whilst it is broken to the soul.
    QO 8.193 20 Every word in the language has once been used happily. The ear, caught by that felicity, retains it...
    PC 8.226 19 The ear outgrows the tongue...
    PC 8.226 21 ...the tongue is always learning to say what the ear has taught it...
    PPo 8.236 6 As Jelaleddin old and gray,/ [Saadi] seemed to bask, to dream and play/ Without remoter hope or fear/ Than still to entertain his ear/...
    PPo 8.244 23 [Hafiz] says to the Shah, Thou who rulest after words and thoughts which no ear has heard and no mind has thought, abide firm until thy young destiny tears off his blue coat from the old graybeard of the sky.
    PPo 8.250 23 A saint might lend an ear to the riotous fun of Falstaff;...
    PPo 8.262 2 The falcon answered [the nightingale], Be all ear:/ I, experienced in affairs,/ See fifty things, say never one;/ But thee the people prizes not,/ Who, doing nothing, say'st a thousand./
    Insp 8.287 19 Tie a couple of strings across a board, and set it in your window, and you have an instrument which no artist's harp can rival. It needs no instructed ear;...
    Insp 8.287 25 Did you never observe, says Gray, while rocking winds are piping loud, that pause...rising upon the ear in a shrill and plaintive note...
    Insp 8.295 17 ...read Hafiz and the Trouveurs; nay, Welsh and British mythology of Arthur, and (in your ear) Ossian;...
    Dem1 10.11 15 The jest and byword to an intelligent ear extends its meaning to the soul and to all time.
    Edc1 10.125 16 ...the poor man, whom the law does not allow to take an ear of corn when starving...is allowed to put his hand into the pocket of the rich, and say, You shall educate me...
    Plu 10.295 20 [Henry IV wrote] My good mother...put this book [Plutarch] into my hands almost when I was a child at the breast. It...has whispered in my ear many good suggestions and maxims for my conduct and the government of my affairs.
    LLNE 10.333 18 All [Everett's] speech was music, and with such variety and invention that the ear was never tired.
    MMEm 10.422 21 To her nephew Charles [Mary Moody Emerson writes]: War; what do I think of it? Why in your ear I think it so much better than oppression that if it were ravaging the whole geography of despotism it would be an omen of high and glorious import.
    Thor 10.474 16 [Thoreau's] eye was open to beauty, and his ear to music.
    Thor 10.482 23 Sugar is not so sweet to the palate as sound to the healthy ear.
    Thor 10.482 26 I put on some hemlock-boughs, and the rich salt crackling of their leaves was like mustard to the ear...
    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 caught the ear...of the only two among the twelve who wrote down what happened.
    LS 11.6 26 ...we must suppose that the expression, This do in remembrance of me, had come to the ear of Luke from some disciple who was present.
    HDC 11.37 17 ...the peace was made, and the ear of the savage already secured, before the pilgrims arrived at his seat of Musketaquid...
    HDC 11.40 3 ...the wailing of the tempest in the woods sounded kindlier in [the settlers of Concord's] ear than the smooth voice of the prelates, at home, in England.
    LVB 11.95 11 ...the steps of this crime [the relocation of the Cherokees] follow each other...at such fatally quick time, that the millions of virtuous citizens...must shut their eyes until the last howl and wailing of these tormented villages and tribes shall afflict the ear of the world.
    EWI 11.136 10 Granville Sharpe filled the ear of the judges with the sound principles that had from time to time been affirmed by the legal authorities...
    War 11.174 3 I regard no longer those names that so tingled in my ear. [The man of principle] is a baron of a better nobility and a stouter stomach.
    FSLC 11.202 6 [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.
    FSLN 11.221 15 [Webster] was there in his Adamitic capacity, as if he alone of all men did not disappoint the eye and the ear...
    FSLN 11.238 12 The plea in the mouth of a slave-holder that the negro is an inferior race sounds very oddly in my ear.
    EPro 11.326 5 Do not let the dying die: hold them back to this world, until you have charged their ear and heart with this message to other spiritual societies...
    Koss 11.396 3 God said, I am tired of kings,/ I suffer them no more;/ Up to my ear the morning brings/ The outrage of the poor./
    Wom 11.413 14 This is the victory of Griselda, her supreme humility. And it is when love has reached this height that all our pretty rhetoric begins to have meaning. When we see that...it is music in the ear...
    Wom 11.425 22 Every woman being the...wife, daughter, sister, mother, of a man, she can never be very far from his ear...
    Scot 11.464 8 [Scott's] own ear had been charmed by old ballads...
    CPL 11.503 10 ...if you can kindle the imagination by a new thought... instantly you expand...and become wise, and even prophetic. Music works this miracle for those who have a good ear;...
    PLT 12.32 7 I know well what a sieve every ear is.
    II 12.67 19 The eye and ear have a logic which transcends the skill of the tongue.
    II 12.67 20 The ear is not to be cheated.
    Mem 12.107 24 ...what we wish to keep, we must once thoroughly possess. Then the thing seen will no longer be what it was, a mere sensuous object before the eye or ear, but a reminder of its law...
    Bost 12.201 21 There is a little formula...I 'm as good as you be, which contains the essence of the Massachusetts Bill of Rights and of the American Declaration of Independence. And this...could be heard (by an acute ear) in the Petitions to the King...
    MAng1 12.244 19 The traveller from a distant continent, who gazes on that marble brow [bust of Michelangelo], feels that he is not a stranger in the foreign church; for the great name of Michael Angelo sounds hospitably in his ear.
    Milt1 12.253 5 ...every masterpiece of art goes on for some ages... despotically fashioning the public ear.
    Milt1 12.257 18 [Milton's] ear for music was so acute that he was not only enthusiastic in his love, but a skilful performer himself;...
    MLit 12.319 19 A good English scholar [Shelley] is, with ear, taste and memory;...
    PPr 12.389 22 [Carlyle] is like a lover or an outlaw who wraps up his message in a serenade, which is nonsense to the sentinel, but salvation to the ear for which it is meant.
    Trag 12.414 16 Time the consoler...dries the freshest tears by obtruding new figures...on our eye, new voices on our ear.

earl, n. (4)

    ET5 5.75 27 ...the banker...drives the earl out of his castle.
    ET11 5.176 8 In the same line of Warwick, the successor next but one to [Richard] Beauchamp was the stout earl of Henry VI. and Edward IV.
    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.
    ET11 5.194 26 The education of a soldier is a simpler affair than that of an earl in the nineteenth century.

Earl, n. (1)

    Grts 8.317 3 When Gerald, Earl of Kildare, who was in rebellion against [Henry VII] was brought to London, and examined before the Privy Council, one said, All Ireland cannot govern this Earl. Then let this Earl govern all Ireland, replied the King.

Earl of Kildare, Gerald, n. (1)

    Grts 8.316 26 When Gerald, Earl of Kildare, who was in rebellion against [Henry VII] was brought to London, and examined before the Privy Council, one said, All Ireland cannot govern this Earl. Then let this Earl govern all Ireland, replied the King.

Earl of Shrewsbury [John T (1)

    ET11 5.189 24 A sketch of the Earl of Shrewsbury, from the pen of Queen Elizabeth's archbishop Parker; Lord Herbert of Cherbury's autobiography;... are favorable pictures of a romantic style of manners.

earldoms, n. (1)

    Elo2 8.118 6 If the performance of the advocate reaches any high success it is paid in England with dignities in the professions, and in the state with... earldoms...

earlier, adj. (21)

    Lov1 2.170 25 He who paints [love] at the first period will lose some of its later, he who paints it at the last, some of its earlier traits.
    NMW 4.247 9 I should cite [Napoleon], in his earlier years, as a model of prudence.
    GoW 4.270 12 ...[the nineteenth century's] poet, is Goethe, a man quite domesticated in the century...impossible at any earlier time...
    ET11 5.197 27 [Titles of lordship] belong...to an earlier age...
    Elo1 7.78 13 In earlier days, [Julius Caesar] was taken by pirates. What then?
    Suc 7.293 8 So far from the performance being the real success, it is clear that the success was much earlier than that, namely, when all the feats that make our civility were the thoughts of good heads.
    OA 7.328 2 In old persons...we often observe a fair, plump, perennial, waxen complexion, which indicates that all the ferment of earlier days has subsided into serenity of thought and behavior.
    Elo2 8.114 4 In the folds of his brow, in the majesty of his mien, Nature has marked her son; and in that artificial and perhaps unworthy place and company [the Senate] shall remind you of the lessons taught him in earlier days by the torrent in the gloom of the pine-woods...
    Res 8.147 21 ...in earlier stages of the disorder [good sense] applies milder and nobler remedies.
    QO 8.185 25 Wordsworth's hero acting on the plan which pleased his childish thought, is Schiller's Tell him to reverence the dreams of his youth, and earlier, Bacon's Consilia juventutis plus divinitatis habent.
    PC 8.228 6 The inviolate soul is in perpetual telegraphic communication with the Source of events, has earlier information...
    Aris 10.46 1 Dull people think it Fortune that makes one rich and another poor. Is it? Yes, but the fortune was earlier than they think...
    Chr2 10.105 20 Christianity was once a schism and protest against the impieties of the time, which had originally been protests against earlier impieties, but had lost their truth.
    MoL 10.242 9 The inviolate soul is in perpetual telegraphic communication with the source of events. He has earlier information...
    LLNE 10.337 6 ...whether by a reaction of the general mind against the too formal science, religion and social life of the earlier period,-there was, in the first quarter of our nineteenth century, a certain sharpness of criticism...
    LLNE 10.338 25 The result [of Modern Science] in literature and the general mind was a return to law;...as distinguished from the profligate manners and politics of earlier times.
    Thor 10.466 17 The result of the recent survey of the Water Commissioners appointed by the State of Massachusetts [Thoreau] had reached by his private experiments, several years earlier.
    Thor 10.479 8 A certain habit of antagonism defaced [Thoreau's] earlier writings...
    HDC 11.78 10 The economy so rigid, which marked [Concord's] earlier history, has all vanished.
    Shak1 11.453 1 ...there are some men so born to live well that, in whatever company they fall,-high or low,-they fit well, and lead it! but...being again preferred to selecter companions, find no obstacle to ruling these as they did their earlier mates;...
    MLit 12.312 17 The poetry and speculation of the age are marked by a certain philosophic turn, which discriminates them from the works of earlier times.

earlier, adv. (16)

    Hsm1 2.248 4 Earlier, Robert Burns has given us a [heroic] song or two.
    Chr1 3.87 2 Stars rose; his faith was earlier up:/...
    ET7 5.122 26 The [English] barrister refuses the silk gown of Queen's Counsel, if his junior have it one day earlier.
    F 6.3 22 ...we find that we must begin [reform] earlier...
    F 6.4 2 We must begin our reform earlier still,-at generation...
    Prch 10.217 13 ...a restlessness and dissatisfaction in the religious world marks that we are in a moment of transition; as...earlier, when Paganism broke into Christians and Pagans.
    Plu 10.295 22 Still earlier, Rabelais cites [Plutarch] with due respect.
    Plu 10.311 10 'T is almost inevitable to compare Plutarch with Seneca, who, born fifty years earlier, was for many years his contemporary...
    LLNE 10.340 15 Dr. Channing took counsel in 1840 with George Ripley, to the point whether it were possible to bring cultivated, thoughtful people together, and make society that deserved the name. He had earlier talked with Dr. John Collins Warren on the like purpose...
    LLNE 10.367 10 The question which occurs to you had occurred much earlier to Fourier: How in this charming Elysium is the dirty work to be done?
    EWI 11.120 3 ...the great island of Jamaica...resolved...to emancipate absolutely on the 1st August, 1838. In British Guiana, in Dominica, the same resolution had been earlier taken with more good will;...
    Shak1 11.453 16 Had [Shakespeare's plays] been published earlier, our forefathers, or the most poetical among them, might have stayed at home to read them.
    FRep 11.532 25 Young men at thirty and even earlier lose all spring and vivacity...
    Bost 12.186 27 I do not know that Charles River or Merrimac water is more clarifying to the brain than the Savannah or Alabama rivers, yet the men that drink it get up earlier...
    Bost 12.192 5 In the journey of Rev. Peter Bulkeley and his company through the forest from Boston to Concord they fainted from the powerful odor of the stweefern in the sun;-like what befell, still earlier, Biorn and Thorfinn, Northmen, in their expedition to the same coast;...
    Trag 12.406 12 Men and women at thirty years, and even earlier, have lost all spring and vivacity...

earliest, adj. (18)

    Nat 1.73 2 Such examples [of the action of man upon nature with his entire force] are, the traditions of miracles in the earliest antiquity of all nations;...
    LE 1.160 25 Any history of philosophy fortifies my faith, by showing me that what high dogmas I had supposed were...only now possible to some recent Kant or Fichte,-were the prompt improvisations of the earliest inquirers;...
    Con 1.297 14 This [fable of Saturn and Uranus] may stand for the earliest account of a conversation on politics between a Conservative and a Radical which has come down to us.
    Hist 2.16 9 There are men whose manners have the same essential splendor as the simple and awful sculpture on the friezes of the Parthenon and the remains of the earliest Greek art.
    Lov1 2.172 17 The earliest demonstrations of complacency and kindness are nature's most winning pictures.
    Pol1 3.203 1 In the earliest society the proprietors made their own wealth...
    ET14 5.232 14 This homeliness, veracity and plain style appear in the earliest extant [English literary] works and in the latest.
    ET15 5.263 13 [The London Times] has ears everywhere, and its information is earliest, completest and surest.
    CbW 6.270 22 How to live with unfit companions?--for with such, life is for the most part spent; and experience teaches little better than our earliest instinct of self-defence...
    DL 7.105 5 The child realizes to every man his own earliest remembrance...
    PI 8.45 10 Music and rhyme are among the earliest pleasures of the child...
    QO 8.203 7 The earliest describers of savage life...have a charm of truth...
    Imtl 8.324 4 The Egyptian people furnish us the earliest details of an established civilization...
    PerF 10.71 15 The earliest hymns of the world were hymns to these natural forces.
    EWI 11.101 24 From the earliest monuments it appears that one race was victim and served the other races.
    EWI 11.102 5 From the earliest time, the negro has been an article of luxury to the commercial nations.
    FSLC 11.192 27 You know that the Act of Congress of September 18, 1850, is a law which every one of you will break on the earliest occasion.
    Trag 12.411 24 ...the earliest works of the art of sculpture are countenances of sublime tranquillity.

earls, n. (4)

    ET8 5.134 12 ...here [in England] exists the best stock in the world...men of...strong instincts, yet apt for culture;...earls and tradesmen;...
    ET11 5.191 12 Prostitutes taken from the theatres were made duchesses, their bastards dukes and earls.
    ET11 5.193 6 Dismal anecdotes abound...of ruined dukes and earls living in exile for debt.
    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...

Earls of Pembroke, n. (1)

    ET16 5.284 4 We [Emerson and Carlyle] came to Wilton and to Wilton Hall,--the renowned seat of the Earls of Pembroke...

early, adj. (79)

    DSA 1.131 8 Accept the injurious impositions of our early catechetical instruction, and even honesty and self-denial were but splendid sins...
    LE 1.185 22 When you shall say...I renounce, I am sorry for it, my early visions;...then dies the man in you;...
    MN 1.215 1 To every reform, in proportion to its energy, early disgusts are incident...
    Tran 1.345 22 In looking at the class of counsel...and at the matronage of the land...one asks, Where are they who represented genius, virtue, the invisible and heavenly world, to these? Are they...taken in early ripeness to the gods...
    Hist 2.9 9 Babylon, Troy, Tyre, Palestine, and even early Rome are passing already into fiction.
    Hist 2.21 20 In the early history of Asia and Africa, Nomadism and Agriculture are the two antagonist facts.
    Comp 2.108 17 Phidias it is not, but the work of man in that early Hellenic world that I would know.
    Lov1 2.187 27 ...I do not wonder at the emphasis with which the heart prophesies this crisis from early infancy...
    Cir 2.321 19 True conquest is the causing the calamity to fade and disappear as an early cloud of insignificant result...
    Chr1 3.102 17 [Men] must...make us feel that they have a controlling happy future opening before them, whose early twilights already kindle in the passing hour.
    UGM 4.7 26 Direct giving is agreeable to the early belief of men;...
    PPh 4.43 26 [Plato]...is said to have had an early inclination for war...
    PPh 4.47 5 [Philosophy's] early records...are of the immigrations from Asia...
    SwM 4.140 21 No imprudent, no sociable angel ever dropt an early syllable to answer the longings of saints, the fears of mortals.
    ShP 4.197 16 The influence of Chaucer is conspicuous in all our early literature;...
    NMW 4.230 10 The times, [Bonaparte's] constitution and his early circumstances combined to develop this pattern democrat.
    ET1 5.8 1 [Landor]...shares the growing taste for Perugino and the early masters.
    ET1 5.17 5 Tristram Shandy was one of [Carlyle's] first books after Robinson Crusoe, and Robertson's America an early favorite.
    ET4 5.59 27 The early [Norse] Sagas are sanguinary and piratical;...
    ET8 5.141 16 Does the early history of each tribe show the permanent bias, which...is masked as the tribe spreads its activity into colonies, commerce, codes, arts, letters?
    ET8 5.141 19 Does the early history of each tribe show the permanent bias, which...is masked as the tribe spreads its activity into colonies, commerce, codes, arts, letters? The early history shows it...
    ET17 5.296 16 ...in [Wordsworth's] early house-keeping at the cottage where he first lived, he was accustomed to offer his friends bread and plainest fare;...
    Wth 6.109 25 ...we charged threepence a pound for carrying cotton, sixpence for tobacco, and so on; which...brought into the country an immense prosperity, early marriages...
    Wsp 6.206 27 The religion of the early English poets is anomalous, so devout and so blasphemous, in the same breath.
    Wsp 6.233 20 Thus can the faithful student reverse all the warnings of his early instinct...
    Bty 6.287 4 ...the passionate histories in the looks and manners of youth and early manhood...we know how these forms thrill, paralyze, provoke, inspire and enlarge us.
    Bty 6.306 23 Wherever we begin, thither our steps tend: an ascent from the joy of a horse in his trappings...up to the perception of Plato that globe and universe are rude and early expressions of an all-dissolving Unity,--the first stair on the scale to the temple of the Mind.
    Ill 6.324 4 The early Greek philosophers Heraclitus and Xenophanes measured their force on this problem of identity.
    DL 7.108 22 We are sure that the sacred form of man is not seen in...these bloated and shrivelled bodies...and early deaths.
    DL 7.120 22 ...who can see unmoved...the affectionate delight with which [the eager, blushing boys] greet the return of each one after the early separations which school or business require;...
    DL 7.121 1 ...who can see unmoved...the unrestrained glee with which [the eager, blushing boys] disburden themselves of their early mental treasures when the holidays bring them again together?
    Farm 7.140 16 Early marriages and the number of births are indissolubly connected with abundance of food;...
    WD 7.170 1 The scholar must look long for the right hour for Plato's Timaeus. At last the elect morning arrives, the early dawn...
    Boks 7.204 21 For history there is great choice of ways to bring the student through early Rome.
    Boks 7.205 2 The poet Horace is the eye of the Augustan age;...and Martial will give [the student] Roman manners,--and some very bad ones,--in the early days of the Empire...
    Clbs 7.226 4 ...the staple of conversation is widely unlike in its circles. Sometimes it is facts...sometimes it is love, and makes the balm of our early and of our latest days;...
    Clbs 7.243 14 ...a history of clubs from early antiquity...would be an important chapter in history.
    Cour 7.261 20 I knew a young soldier who died in the early campaign...
    Suc 7.297 25 We remember when in early youth the earth spoke and the heavens glowed;...
    PI 8.4 6 ...whilst we deal with this [existence of matter] as finality, early hints are given that we are not to stay here;...
    PI 8.8 16 In geology, what a useful hint was given to the early inquirers on seeing in the possession of Professor Playfair a bough of a fossil tree which was perfect wood at one end and perfect mineral coal at the other.
    PI 8.57 7 It costs the early bard little talent to chant more impressively than the later, more cultivated poets.
    Elo2 8.122 21 ...the wonders [John Quincy Adams] could achieve with that cracked and disobedient organ [his voice] showed what power might have belonged to it in early manhood.
    Elo2 8.122 24 In the early years of this century, Mr. [John Quincy] Adams... was elected Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory in Harvard College.
    QO 8.189 3 In common prudence there is an early limit to this leaning on an original.
    PC 8.212 22 The oldest empires...now that we have true measures of duration [in Geology], show like creations of yesterday. It is yet quite too early to draw sound conclusions.
    PC 8.216 7 The early names are too typical,-Homer, or blind man;...
    PPo 8.253 5 ...I heard the harp of the planet Venus, and it said in the early morning, I am the disciple of the sweet-voiced Hafiz!
    Insp 8.285 24 At last it has become summer,/ And at the first glimpse of morning/ The busy early fly stings me/ Out of my sweet slumber./
    Grts 8.303 2 Self-respect is the early form in which greatness appears.
    Imtl 8.339 1 Most men...promise by their countenance and conversation and by their early endeavor much more than they ever perform...
    Aris 10.45 10 ...the man's associations, fortunes, love, hatred, residence, rank, the books he will buy, the roads he will traverse are predetermined in his organism. Men will need him, and he is rich and eminent by nature. That man cannot be too late or too early.
    SovE 10.192 20 Nothing is allowed to exceed or absorb the rest; if it do, it is disease, and is quickly destroyed. It was an early discovery of the mind,- this beneficent rule.
    MMEm 10.402 1 In Malden [Mary Moody Emerson] lived through all her youth and early womanhood...
    MMEm 10.402 12 [Mary Moody Emerson's] early reading was Milton, Young, Akenside, Samuel Clarke, Jonathan Edwards...
    MMEm 10.404 18 [Mary Moody Emerson] writes to her nephew Charles Emerson, in 1833... I scarcely feel the sympathies of this life enough to agitate the pool. This in general, one case or so excepted, and even this is a relation to God through you. 'T was so in my happiest early days, when you were at my side.
    MMEm 10.413 25 ...[Mary Moody Emerson] writes of her early days in Malden: When I get a glimpse of the revolutions of nations...I remember with great satisfaction that from all the ills suffered, in childhood...I felt that it was rather the order of things...
    MMEm 10.414 11 [Mary Moody Emerson writes] Could [my aunt's] own temper in childhood or age have been subdued, how happy for herself, who had a warm heart; but for me would have prevented those early lessons of fortitude, which her caprices taught me to practise.
    MMEm 10.414 17 [Mary Moody Emerson] alludes to the early days of her solitude...
    Thor 10.460 25 The hall was filled at an early hour by people of all parties, and [Thoreau's] earnest eulogy of the hero [John Brown] was heard by all respectfully...
    GSt 10.502 1 [George Stearns] was an early laborer in the resistance to slavery.
    GSt 10.502 3 As early as 1855 the Emigrant Aid Society was formed;...
    LS 11.13 4 ...[the disciples] were bound together by the memory of Christ, and nothing could be more natural than...that what was done with peculiar propriety by them, his personal friends, with less propriety should come to be extended to their companions also. In this way religious feasts grew up among the early Christians.
    LS 11.13 12 Many persons consider this fact, the observance of such a memorial feast [the Lord's Supper] by the early disciples, decisive of the question whether it ought to be observed by us.
    LS 11.15 15 In this manner we may see clearly enough how this ancient ordinance [the Lord's Supper] got its footing among the early Christians...
    LS 11.16 14 On every other subject [than the Lord's Supper] succeeding times have learned to form a judgment more in accordance with the spirit of Christianity than was the practice of the early ages.
    HDC 11.29 5 ...the people of New England...as the second centennial anniversary of each of its early settlements arrived, have seen fit to observe the day.
    HDC 11.51 8 Early efforts were made to instruct [the Indians]...
    War 11.152 13 The student of history acquiesces the more readily in this copious bloodshed of the early annals...when he learns that it is a temporary and preparatory state...
    TPar 11.293 1 ...[Theodore Parker] has gone down in early glory to his grave...
    ACiv 11.299 5 ...the rude and early state of society does not work well with the later...
    Wom 11.412 23 Beautiful is the passion of love, painter and adorner of youth and early life...
    PLT 12.37 8 If we could retain our early innocence, we might trust our feet uncommanded to take the right path to our friend in the woods.
    PLT 12.60 4 This premature stop, I know not how, befalls most of us in early youth;...
    Mem 12.101 20 Shall we not on higher stages of being remember and understand our early history better?
    Mem 12.103 21 ...confined now in populous streets you behold again the green fields, the shadows of the gray birches; by the solitary river hear again the joyful voices of early companions...
    CL 12.140 27 The power of the air was the first explanation offered by the early philosophers of the mutual understanding that men have.
    Milt1 12.263 7 [Milton] was...an early riser...
    PPr 12.382 3 As we recall the topics [in Carlyle's Past and Present], we are struck with the force given to the plain truths;... These things strike us with a force which reminds us of the morals of the Oriental or early Greek masters...

early, adv. (44)

    MR 1.242 22 ...if a man find in himself any strong bias to poetry...that man ought to reckon early with himself, and, respecting the compensations of the Universe, ought to ransom himself from the duties of economy by a certain rigor and privation in his habits.
    Con 1.307 27 ...I have risen early and sat late...
    SR 2.43 4 Nothing to [man] falls early or too late./
    Exp 3.56 25 Our friends early appear to us as representatives of certain ideas which they never pass or exceed.
    Nat2 3.173 16 Art and luxury have early learned that they must work as enhancement and sequel to this original beauty [of nature].
    NR 3.246 26 We keep a running fire of sarcasm at ignorance and the life of the senses; then goes by, perchance, a fair girl...and...we admire and love her...and say, Lo! a genuine creature of the fair earth, not dissipated or too early ripened by books, philosophy, religion, society, or care!...
    SwM 4.130 20 ...this man [Swedenborg]...early fell into dangerous discord with himself.
    ET4 5.65 1 As early as the [Norman] conquest it is remarked...that [England's] merchants trade to all countries.
    Ctr 6.155 15 There is a great deal of self-denial and manliness in poor and middle-class houses in town and country...that...works early and late...
    Ctr 6.164 14 ...culture cannot begin too early.
    Bty 6.297 13 Walpole says...people go early to get places at the theatres, when it is known [the Gunning sisters] will be there.
    Civ 7.29 7 ...on a planet so small as ours, the want of an adequate base for astronomical measurements is early felt...
    DL 7.121 6 What is the hoop that holds [the eager, blushing boys] stanch? It is the iron band...of austerity, which, excluding them from the sensual enjoyments which make other boys too early old, has directed their activity in safe and right channels...
    Clbs 7.234 1 One lesson we learn early,--that...men are all of one pattern.
    Cour 7.257 24 A large majority of men...beginning early to be occupied day by day with some routine of safe industry, never come to the rough experiences that make the Indian, the soldier or frontiersman self-subsistent and fearless.
    SA 8.87 9 It is necessary for the purification of drawing-rooms that these entertaining explosions [of laughter] should be under strict control. Lord Chesterfield had early made this discovery...
    Insp 8.282 16 [Herbert's] health had broken down early...
    Insp 8.285 10 When now the Spring stirred,/ I said to the nightingales:/ Dear nightingales, trill/ Early, O, early before my lattice,/ Wake me out of the deep sleep/ Which mightily chains the young man./
    SovE 10.192 6 The student discovers one day that he lives in enchantment... and through this enchanted gallery he is led by unseen guides to read and learn the laws of Heaven. This discovery may come early,-sometimes in the nursery, to a rare child;...
    Prch 10.217 23 We are born too late for the old and too early for the new faith.
    MoL 10.242 3 [The scholar]...is born one or two centuries too early for the rough and sensual population into which he is thrown.
    Plu 10.304 22 Early this morning, asking Epaminondas about the manner of Lysis's burial, I found that Lysis had taught him as far as the incommunicable mysteries of our sect...
    EzRy 10.382 2 [Ezra Ripley] had early manifested a desire for learning...
    MMEm 10.414 5 ...[Mary Moody Emerson] writes...I remember with great satisfaction that from all the ills suffered, in childhood...I felt that it was rather the order of things than their individual fault. It was from being early impressed by my poor unpractical aunt, that Providence and Prayer were all in all.
    LS 11.12 15 It appears...in Christian history that the disciples had very early taken advantage of these impressive words of Christ [This do in remembrance of me.] to hold religious meetings...
    HDC 11.44 14 As early as 1633, the office of townsman or selectman appears [in New England]...
    HDC 11.44 25 In 1635, the [General] Court say...it is Ordered, that the freemen of every town shall have power to...choose their own particular officers. This pointed chiefly at the office of constable, but they soon chose their own selectmen, and very early assessed taxes;...
    EWI 11.110 1 The [English] assailants of slavery had early agreed to limit their political action on this subject to the abolition of the trade...
    EWI 11.119 26 ...the great island of Jamaica...early in 1838, resolved...to emancipate absolutely on the 1st August, 1838.
    EWI 11.140 27 Mr. Clarkson, early in his career, made a collection of African productions and manufactures, as specimens of the arts and culture of the negro;...
    War 11.155 18 The instinct of self-help is very early unfolded in the coarse and merely brute form of war...
    War 11.157 14 Early in the eleventh and twelfth centuries, the Italian cities had grown so populous and strong that they forced the rural nobility to dismantle their castles...
    SMC 11.358 14 I doubt not many of our soldiers could repeat the confession of a youth whom I knew in the beginning of the [Civil] war, who...went to the field, and died early.
    SMC 11.365 16 It happened...that the Fifth Massachusetts was almost unofficered. The colonel was, early in the day, disabled by a casualty;...
    SMC 11.373 1 Early in the morning of the eighteenth [the Thirty-second Regiment] went to the front...
    II 12.83 17 Him we account the fortunate man whose determination to his aim is sufficiently strong to leave him no doubt. I am aware that Nature does not always pronounce early on this point.
    II 12.84 20 Men generally attempt, early in life, to make their brothers, afterwards their wives, acquainted with what is going forward in their private theatre;...
    Mem 12.99 9 ...there is a wild memory in children and youth which makes what is early learned impossible to forget;...
    Mem 12.102 6 We learn early that there is great disparity of value between our experiences;...
    CL 12.136 14 Linnaeus, early in life, read a discourse at the University of Upsala on the necessity of travelling in one's own country...
    Bost 12.191 23 ...[the planters of Massachusetts] exaggerated their troubles. Bears and wolves were many; but early, they believed there were lions;...
    Milt1 12.260 4 Very early in life [Milton] became conscious that he had more to say to his fellow men than they had fit words to embody.
    EurB 12.367 17 Early in life...[Wordsworth] made his election between assuming and defending some legal rights, with the chances of wealth and a position in the world, and the inward promptings of his heavenly genius;...
    EurB 12.369 23 In this country [Wordsworth's influence] very early found a stronghold...

Early Drama, n. (1)

    Boks 7.221 10 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.

earn, v. (9)

    MR 1.234 12 ...to earn money enough to buy [a farm] requires a sort of concentration toward money...
    YA 1.388 14 I speak of those organs which can be presumed to speak a popular sense. They recommend...whatever will earn and preserve property;...
    Comp 2.123 2 I no longer wish to meet a good I do not earn...
    Exp 3.85 18 It takes a good deal of time...to earn a hundred dollars...
    NER 3.283 23 ...whether thy work be fine or coarse...so only it be honest work...it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought...
    Wth 6.85 5 [A man] is no whole man until he knows how to earn a blameless livelihood.
    AKan 11.257 11 I know people who are making haste to reduce their expenses and pay their debts...in preparation to save and earn for the benefit of the Kansas emigrants.
    ACiv 11.298 5 All honest men are daily striving to earn their bread by their industry.
    Pray 12.355 10 I know that thou hast not created me and placed me here on earth...and told me to be like thyself when I see so little of thee here to profit by; thou hast not done this, and then left me here to myself, a poor, weak man, scarcely able to earn my bread.

earned, v. (15)

    MR 1.238 2 ...I...have not earned by use a right to my arms and feet.
    MR 1.247 21 ...we must clear ourselves each one by the interrogation, whether we have earned our bread to-day by the hearty contribution of our energies to the common benefit;...
    Con 1.324 4 If [the hero] have earned his bread by drudgery...he will make it at least honorable by his expenditure.
    Exp 3.57 21 Something is earned...by conversing with so much folly and defect.
    NMW 4.257 23 ...when men saw...after the destruction of armies, new conscriptions; and they who had toiled so desperately were never nearer to the reward,--they could not spend what they had earned...they deserted [Napoleon].
    ET10 5.169 15 Such a wealth has England earned, ever new, bounteous and augmenting.
    ET10 5.169 23 A part of the money earned [in England] returns to the brain to buy schools, libraries, bishops, astronomers, chemists and artists with;...
    ET11 5.175 20 The war-lord earned his honors...
    ET18 5.299 9 ...[the English] have earned their vantage ground and held it through ages of adverse possession.
    Wth 6.101 24 [The farmer's] bones ache with the days' work that earned [his dollar].
    CbW 6.275 9 ...we live...not only with the young whom we are to...clothe with the advantages we have earned...
    Elo1 7.70 21 Scheherezade tells these stories [in the Arabian Nights] to save her life, and the delight of young Europe and young America in them proves that she fairly earned it.
    MMEm 10.419 26 I [Mary Moody Emerson] had ten dollars a year for clothes and charity, and I never remember to have been needy, though I never had but two or three aids in those six years of earning my home. That ten dollars my dear father earned...
    Koss 11.400 7 You [Kossuth] have earned your own nobility at home.
    AgMs 12.359 7 What good this man [Edmund Hosmer] has or has had, he has earned.

earnest, adj. (32)

    Nat 1.50 4 If the Reason be stimulated to more earnest vision, outlines and surfaces become transparent...
    Nat 1.50 25 ...the earnest mechanic, the lounger...are unrealized at once [when seen from a coach]...
    MN 1.197 26 Every earnest glance we give to the realities around us... proceeds from a holy impulse...
    SR 2.61 22 ...all history resolves itself very easily into the biography of a few stout and earnest persons.
    Hsm1 2.245 15 ...there is in [the elder English dramatists'] plays a certain heroic cast of character and dialogue...wherein the speaker is so earnest and cordial...that the dialogue, on the slightest additional incident in the plot, rises naturally into poetry.
    Hsm1. 2.252 26 ...the little man takes the great hoax [the world] so innocently...that the great soul cannot choose but laugh at such earnest nonsense.
    OS 2.277 12 ...in groups where debate is earnest...the company become aware that the thought rises to an equal level in all bosoms...
    OS 2.290 23 ...the soul that ascends to worship the great God...dwells...in the earnest experience of the common day...
    Art1 2.368 9 [Beauty] will...spring up between the feet of brave and earnest men.
    Chr1 3.102 15 Men should be intelligent and earnest.
    Pol1 3.213 15 The wise man [the community] cannot find in nature, and it makes awkward but earnest efforts to secure his government by contrivance;...
    SwM 4.97 6 All religious history contains traces of the trance of saints--a beatitude...earnest, solitary, even sad;...
    MoS 4.180 10 Can you not believe that a man of earnest and burly habit may find small good in tea...
    ET7 5.116 7 The faces of clergy and laity in old sculptures and illuminated missals are charged with earnest belief.
    ET14 5.255 1 [The English] parry earnest speech with banter and levity;...
    Bhr 6.184 17 ...to earnest persons...we cannot extol [dress circles] highly.
    WD 7.185 5 ...this is the progress of every earnest mind; from the works of man and the activity of the hands to a delight in the faculties which rule them;...
    Comc 8.164 18 ...the religious sentiment is the most real and earnest thing in nature...
    Insp 8.272 2 ...every earnest workman...knows some favorable conditions for his task.
    Dem1 10.4 13 ...[in dreams] we seem busied...in earnest dialogues, strenuous actions for nothings...
    Chr2 10.104 22 The moral sentiment is the perpetual critic on these [religious] forms, thundering its protest, sometimes in earnest and lofty rebuke;...
    Edc1 10.135 5 ...we aim to make accountants, attorneys, engineers; but not to make able, earnest, great-hearted men.
    Edc1 10.136 17 The old man thinks the young man has no distinct purpose, for he could never get anything intelligible and earnest out of him.
    MoL 10.243 16 It is charged that all vigorous nations, except our own, have balanced their labor by mental activity, and especially by the imagination...the angel of earnest and believing ages.
    Thor 10.460 26 The hall was filled at an early hour by people of all parties, and [Thoreau's] earnest eulogy of the hero [John Brown] was heard by all respectfully...
    HDC 11.61 20 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 11.66 10 Mr. [Daniel] Bliss...by his earnest sympathy with [George Whitefield], in opinion and practice, gave offence to a part of his people.
    War 11.171 2 This [aspiration towards peace] is not to be carried by public opinion, but...by private, dear and earnest love.
    TPar 11.291 20 ...[Theodore Parker's] great hospitable heart was the sanctuary to which every soul conscious of an earnest opinion came for sympathy...
    II 12.86 4 There is but one only liberator in this life from the demons that invade us, and that is Endeavor,-earnest, entire, perennial endeavor.
    CInt 12.132 4 ...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 high calling...
    Milt1 12.248 23 [Milton's tracts] are earnest, spiritual...

earnest, n. (26)

    Nat 1.31 2 A man conversing in earnest...will find that a material image... arises in his mind...
    Hist 2.34 13 All the fictions of the Middle Age explain themselves as a masked or frolic expression of that which in grave earnest the mind of that period toiled to achieve.
    SR 2.75 3 ...it demands something godlike in him who...has ventured to trust himself for a taskmaster. High be his heart...that he may in good earnest be doctrine, society, law, to himself...
    Lov1 2.173 17 The girls may have little beauty, yet plainly do they establish between them and the good boy the most agreeable, confiding relations; what with their fun and their earnest, about Edgar and Jonas and Almira...
    Pt1 3.11 17 Mankind in good earnest have availed so far in understanding themselves and their work, that the foremost watchman on the peak announces his news.
    Pt1 3.16 2 ...[the coachman or the hunter] loves the earnest of the north wind, of rain...
    Exp 3.84 11 In good earnest I am willing to spare this most unnecessary deal of doing.
    PPh 4.60 18 The admirable earnest [in Plato] comes not only at intervals...
    MoS 4.164 11 [Montaigne] took up his economy in good earnest...
    ShP 4.189 17 There is nothing whimsical and fantastic in [the poet's] production, but sweet and sad earnest...
    Wsp 6.216 14 ...when poems were made,--the human soul was in earnest...
    Art2 7.53 20 The Iliad of Homer...the plays of Shakspeare...were made not for sport but in grave earnest...
    Clbs 7.250 11 ...Nature is always very much in earnest...
    PI 8.3 20 ...the universe...is in earnest...
    Comc 8.163 24 ...it is the top of wisdom to philosophize yet not appear to do it, and in mirth to do the same with those that are serious and seem in earnest;...
    Comc 8.172 17 Timur ceased weeping, but Chodscha ceased not, but began now first to weep amain, and in good earnest.
    PerF 10.88 3 Every new asserter of the right surprises us...and we hardly dare believe he is in earnest.
    Edc1 10.139 24 Everybody delights in the energy with which boys deal and talk with each other; the mixture of fun and earnest...with which the game is played;...
    Supl 10.175 24 Life could not be carried on except by fidelity and good earnest;...
    MMEm 10.409 18 ...from the highway hedges where I [Mary Moody Emerson] get lodging...I get a pleasing vision which is an earnest of the interminable skies where the mansions are prepared for the poor.
    GSt 10.503 4 ...[George Stearns] did not give money to excuse his entire preoccupation in his own pursuits, but as an earnest of the dedication of his heart and hand to the interests of the sufferers [in Kansas]...
    TPar 11.284 5 ...Every word that [Parker] speaks has been fierily furnaced/ In the blast of a life that has struggled in earnest/...
    TPar 11.290 19 Two days...the days of the rendition of Sims and Burns, made the occasion of [Theodore Parker's] most remarkable discourses. He kept nothing back. In terrible earnest he denounced the public crime...
    EPro 11.321 1 We confide that Mr. Lincoln is in earnest...
    ACri 12.294 11 [Shakespeare's] fun is as wise as his earnest...
    Let 12.400 8 ...in good earnest, and in all love, let [a man] be that which he is;...

earnestly, adv. (5)

    MN 1.213 25 ...if you incline your mind, you will apprehend [the Intelligible]: not too earnestly...
    LT 1.279 3 ...I urge the more earnestly the paramount duties of self-reliance.
    PPo 8.246 17 To be wise the dull brain so earnestly throbs,/ Bring bands of wine for the stupid head./
    Aris 10.48 7 I told the Duke of Newcastle, says Bubb Dodington in his Memoirs, that...I was determined to make some sort of a figure in life; I earnestly wished it might be under his protection...
    ACiv 11.307 2 ...no doubt, there will be discreet men from that section [the South] who will earnestly strive to inaugurate more moderate and fair administration of the government...

earnestness, n. (17)

    Con 1.307 22 With equal earnestness and good faith, replies to this plaintiff an upholder of the establishment...
    Con 1.320 17 The cause of education is urged in this country with the utmost earnestness...
    NER 3.273 13 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...after some pause, rose up all together with earnestness, exclaiming, Let us set out with him immediately.
    PPh 4.51 21 These two principles [unity and diversity] reappear and interpenetrate all things, all thought; the one, the many. One is... earnestness; the other, knowledge...
    PPh 4.57 26 With the palatial air there is [in Plato]...a certain earnestness...
    SwM 4.123 20 What earnestness and weightiness [in Swedenborg]...
    MoS 4.174 2 The first dangerous symptom I report is, the levity of intellect; as if it were fatal to earnestness to know much.
    MoS 4.174 5 How respectable is earnestness on every platform!...
    GoW 4.283 3 This earnestness enables [the Germans] to outsee men of much more talent.
    SS 7.3 15 ...[my new friend's] evident earnestness engaged my attention...
    Elo1 7.93 17 This terrible earnestness [of the eloquent man] makes good the ancient superstition of the hunter, that the bullet will hit its mark, which is first dipped in the marksman's blood.
    DL 7.117 5 [The reform that applies itself to the household] must come in connection with a true acceptance by each man of his vocation,--not chosen by his parents or friends, but by his genius, with earnestness and love.
    DL 7.119 3 ...let this stranger...in your looks, in your accent and behavior, read your heart and earnessness...
    LLNE 10.351 20 The ability and earnestness of the advocate [Fourier] and his friends...commanded our attention and respect.
    CSC 10.375 9 The assembly [at the Chardon Street Convention] was characterized by the predominance of a certain plain, sylvan strength and earnestness...
    HDC 11.53 14 We, who see in the squalid remnants of the twenty tribes of Massachusetts...can hardly learn without emotion the earnestness with which the most sensible individuals of the copper race held on to the new hope they had conceived...
    FSLC 11.200 7 ...it is cheering to behold what champions the emergency [of the Fugitive Slave Law] called to this poor black boy;...above all, with what earnestness and dignity the advocates of freedom were inspired.

earning, n. (1)

    EWI 11.142 24 I have said that this event [emancipation in the West Indies] interests us because it came mainly from the concession of the whites; I add, that in part it is the earning of the blacks.

earning, v. (8)

    ShP 4.206 3 We tell the chronicle of parentage...earning of money...
    ET5 5.87 20 The Englishman is peaceably minding his business and earning his day's wages.
    Wth 6.91 25 The world is full of fops...and these will deliver the fop opinion, that it is not respectable to be seen earning a living;...
    Wth 6.91 27 The world is full of fops...and these will deliver the fop opinion...that it is much more respectable to spend without earning;...
    Bhr 6.170 24 Give a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes. He has not the trouble of earning or owning them...
    MMEm 10.419 25 I [Mary Moody Emerson] had ten dollars a year for clothes and charity, and I never remember to have been needy, though I never had but two or three aids in those six years of earning my home.
    Thor 10.453 3 ...[Thoreau] preferred, when he wanted money, earning it by some piece of manual labor agreeable to him...
    FSLN 11.240 18 [The free man] is a finished man; earning and bestowing good;...

earnings, n. (9)

    LE 1.178 1 ...out of earnings, and borrowings, and lendings, and losses;... comes our tuition in the serene and beautiful laws.
    Exp 3.65 7 Right to hold land, right of property, is disputed...and before the vote is taken, dig away in your garden, and spend your earnings as a waif or godsend to all serene and beautiful purposes.
    ShP 4.205 8 It appears...that [Shakespeare] bought an estate in his native village with his earnings as writer and shareholder;...
    Wth 6.126 4 The merchant has but one rule, absorb and invest;...earnings must not go to increase expense...
    Civ 7.34 9 ...if there be...a country...where the laborer is not secured in the earnings of his own hands;...that country is...not civil, but barbarous;...
    AKan 11.260 2 Manifest Destiny, Democracy, Freedom, fine names for an ugly thing. ... They call it Chivalry and freedom; I call it the stealing all the earnings of a poor man and the earnings of his little girl and boy...
    AKan 11.260 3 Manifest Destiny, Democracy, Freedom, fine names for an ugly thing. ... They call it Chivalry and freedom; I call it the stealing all the earnings of a poor man...and the earnings of all that shall come from him...
    EPro 11.322 17 ...this taxation, which makes the land wholesome and habitable...is the best investment in which property-holder ever lodged his earnings.
    PPr 12.381 13 As we recall the topics [in Carlyle's Past and Present], we are struck with the force given to the plain truths;...the proposition that the laborer must have a greater share in his earnings;...

earns, v. (1)

    PNR 4.88 14 Shakspeare is a Platonist when he writes...He, that can endure/ To follow with allegiance a fallen lord,/ Does conquer him that did his master conquer,/ And earns a place in the story./

ear-rending, adj. (1)

    II 12.84 25 Men generally attempt, early in life, to make their brothers, afterwards their wives, acquainted with what is going forward in their private theatre; but they soon desist from the attempt, in finding that they also have some farce, or, perhaps, some ear-and heart-rending tragedy forward on their secret boards, on which they are intent;...

ears, n. (52)

    MN 1.198 15 My eyes and ears are revolted by any neglect of the physical facts, the limitations of man.
    MN 1.209 16 As children in their play run behind each other, and seize one by the ears and make him walk before them, so is the spirit our unseen pilot.
    MN 1.209 24 If [a man] listen with insatiable ears, richer and greater wisdom is taught him;...
    MN 1.210 6 ...if [a man's] eye is set...not on the truth that is still taught, and for the sake of which the things are to be done, then the voice...at last is but a humming in his ears.
    MR 1.241 10 Neither would I shut my ears to the plea of the learned professions...
    MR 1.256 23 ...the farmer casts into the ground the finest ears of his grain...
    Tran 1.337 8 I, [Jacobi] says, am...that godless person who, in opposition to an imaginary doctrine of calculation...would perjure myself like Epaminondas and John de Witt;...I would commit sacrilege with David; yea, and pluck ears of corn on the Sabbath, for no other reason than that I was fainting for lack of food.
    Tran 1.354 27 A reference to Beauty in action sounds...a little hollow and ridiculous in the ears of the old church.
    Comp 2.101 21 Eyes, ears, taste, smell, motion, resistance, appetite, and organs of reproduction that take hold on eternity,--all find room to consist in the small creature.
    Int 2.328 6 In the most...introverted self-tormentor's life, the greatest part is incalculable by him...and must be, until he can take himself up by his own ears.
    PPh 4.72 9 Plain old uncle as [Socrates] was, with his great ears...the rumor ran that on one or two occasions, in the war with Boeotia, he had shown a determination which had covered the retreat of a troop;...
    SwM 4.140 26 We should have listened on our knees to any favorite, who... could hint to human ears the scenery and circumstance of the newly parted soul.
    ShP 4.204 16 Our ears are educated to music by [Shakespeare's] rhythm.
    ShP 4.216 18 ...how stands the account of man with this bard and benefactor [Shakespeare], when, in solitude, shutting our ears to the reverberations of his fame, we seek to strike the balance?
    NMW 4.255 25 [Napoleon] had the habit of pulling [women's] ears and pinching their cheeks when he was in good humor...
    NMW 4.255 27 [Napoleon] had the habit...pulling the ears and whiskers of men...
    ET8 5.133 25 The common Englishman is prone to forget a cardinal article in the bill of social rights, that every man has a right to his own ears.
    ET15 5.263 12 [The London Times] has ears everywhere...
    ET16 5.287 6 My friends asked, whether there were any Americans?...any theory of the right future of that country? Thus challenged... ...I said, Certainly yes;--but those who hold it are fanatics of a dream which I should hardly care to relate to your English ears, to which it might be only ridiculous...
    F 6.37 13 Eyes are found in light; ears in auricular air;...
    Wth 6.94 27 The reader of Humboldt's Cosmos follows the marches of a man whose eyes, ears and mind are armed by all the science, arts, and implements which mankind have anywhere accumulated...
    Wth 6.121 13 Nature has her own best mode of doing each thing, and she has somewhere told it plainly, if we will keep our eyes and ears open.
    Wsp 6.205 20 Laomedon, in his anger at Neptune and Apollo...does not hesitate to menace them that he will cut their ears off.
    Wsp 6.221 17 Law it is...which hears without ears, sees without eyes, moves without feet and seizes without hands.
    Wsp 6.224 6 A man cannot utter two or three sentences without disclosing to intelligent ears precisely where he stands in life and thought...
    Bty 6.284 4 The motive of science was the extension of man...till his hands should touch the stars...his ears understand the language of beast and bird...
    Elo1 7.74 4 I know no remedy against [an oiled tongue] but...the wax which Ulysses stuffed into the ears of his sailors to pass the Sirens safely.
    Boks 7.220 5 ...there are as good eyes and ears now in the planet as ever were.
    Clbs 7.242 12 Does it never occur that we perhaps live with people too superior to be seen,--as there are musical notes too high for the scale of most ears?
    Cour 7.257 19 Every moment as long as [the child] is awake he studies the use of his eyes, ears, hands and feet...
    PI 8.67 18 Do you think Burns...has opened no eyes and ears to the face of Nature...
    Res 8.144 16 The Indian, the sailor, the hunter, only these know the power of the hands, feet, teeth, eyes and ears.
    PPo 8.251 21 It is told of Hafiz, that, when he had written a compliment to a handsome youth...the verses came to the ears of Timour in his palace.
    Dem1 10.13 15 I am content and occupied with such miracles as I know, such as my eyes and ears daily show me...
    Plu 10.304 13 ...[Plutarch] says:-Do you not observe, some one will say, what a grace there is in Sappho's measures, and how they delight and tickle the ears and fancies of the hearers?
    Plu 10.316 9 It would be generous to lend our eyes and ears, nay, if possible, our reason and fortitude to others, whilst we are idle or asleep.
    LLNE 10.347 24 Mr. Owen preached his doctrine of labor and reward...to the slow ears of his generation.
    Thor 10.477 4 I hearing get, who had but ears,/ And sight, who had but eyes before;/ I moments live, who lived but years,/ And truth discern, who knew but learning's lore./
    HDC 11.29 10 Our ears shall not be deaf to the voice of time.
    HDC 11.66 3 ...bounties of twenty shillings are given as late as 1735, to Indians and whites, for the heads of these animals [wolves and wildcats], after the constable has cut off the ears.
    EWI 11.124 6 What if [slavery] cost a few unpleasant scenes on the coast of Africa? That was a great way off; and the scenes could be endured by some sturdy, unscrupulous fellows, who...need not trouble our ears with the disagreeable particulars.
    EWI 11.142 2 The emancipation [in the West Indies] is observed, in the islands, to have wrought for the negro a benefit as sudden as when a thermometer is brought out of the shade into the sun. It has given him eyes and ears.
    Koss 11.401 1 ...this new crusade which you [Kossuth] preach to willing and to unwilling ears in America is a seed of armed men.
    RBur 11.442 19 ...[Burns] had that secret of genius to draw from the bottom of society the strength of its speech, and astonish the ears of the polite with these artless words...
    CPL 11.501 12 I know the word literature has in many ears a hollow sound.
    FRep 11.530 1 In this fact, that we are a nation of individuals...and that on such an organization sooner or later the moral laws must tell, to such ears must speak,-in this is our hope.
    PLT 12.9 22 Ever since the Norse heaven made the stern terms of admission that a man must do something excellent with his hands or feet, or with his voice, eyes, ears...the same demand has been made in Norse earth.
    CL 12.134 1 Keen ears can catch a syllable,/ As if one spoke to another,/ In the hemlocks tall, untamable,/ And what the whispering grasses smother./
    ACri 12.288 8 ...I confess to some titillation of my ears from a rattling oath.
    ACri 12.305 13 Don't rattle your rules in our ears;...
    EurB 12.366 5 The Pindar, the Shakspeare, the Dante...have...the eye to see...the test-objects of the microscope, and then the tongue to utter the same things in words that engrave them on all the ears of mankind.
    Trag 12.412 20 All that life demands of us through the greater part of the day is...open eyes and ears, and free hands.

earth, n. (289)

    Nat 1.9 5 [The lover of nature's] intercourse with heaven and earth becomes part of his daily food.
    Nat 1.12 21 What angels invented...this ocean of air above, this ocean of water beneath, this firmament of earth between?...
    Nat 1.17 7 From the earth, as a shore, I look out into that silent sea.
    Nat 1.18 20 The state of the crop in the surrounding farms alters the expression of the earth from week to week.
    Nat 1.22 7 The visible heavens and earth sympathize with Jesus.
    Nat 1.27 11 ...the blue sky in which the private earth is buried...is the type of Reason.
    Nat 1.28 17 The motion of the earth round its axis and round the sun, makes the day and the year.
    Nat 1.56 25 These [thoughts] are they who were set up...from the beginning, or ever the earth was.
    Nat 1.64 9 As a plant upon the earth, so a man rests upon the bosom of God;...
    Nat 1.69 5 For us, the winds do blow,/ The earth does rest.../
    Nat 1.76 12 Adam called his house, heaven and earth;...
    Nat 1.77 1 As when the summer comes...the face of the earth becomes green before it, so shall the advancing spirit create its ornaments along its path...
    AmS 1.102 25 Let [the scholar] not quit his belief that a popgun is a popgun, though the ancient and honorable of the earth affirm it to be the crack of doom.
    AmS 1.113 21 ...no man in God's wide earth is either willing or able to help any other man.
    AmS 1.114 22 Young men...inflated by the mountain winds, shined upon by all the stars of God, find the earth below not in unison with these...
    DSA 1.131 20 ...you shall not dare and live...in company with the infinite Beauty which heaven and earth reflect to you...
    DSA 1.136 17 In how many churches...is man made sensible...that the earth and heavens are passing into his mind;...
    DSA 1.141 24 What a cruel injustice it is to that Law, the joy of the whole earth...that it is travestied and depreciated...
    LE 1.155 15 ...a scholar is the favorite of Heaven and earth...
    LE 1.159 16 The sense of spiritual independence is like the lovely varnish of the dew, whereby the old, hard, peaked earth and its old self-same productions are made new every morning...
    LE 1.187 16 ...[Thought] shall yield every sincere good that is in the soul to the scholar beloved of earth and heaven.
    MN 1.191 8 The scholars are the priests of that thought which establishes the foundations of the earth.
    MN 1.210 8 [A man's] health and greatness consist in his being the channel through which heaven flows to earth...
    MR 1.228 11 ...I will not dissemble my hope that each person whom I address has felt his own call...to be in his place...a brave and upright man, who must find or cut a straight road to everything excellent in the earth...
    MR 1.239 22 ...we have now a puny, protected person, guarded by...men-servants and women-servants from the earth and the sky...
    MR 1.243 15 ...attempting to drive along the ecliptic with one horse of the heavens and one horse of the earth, there is only discord and ruin and downfall to chariot and charioteer.
    MR 1.246 19 Sofas, ottomans...theatre, entertainments,-all these [infirm people] want...and if they miss any one, they represent themselves as the... most wretched persons on earth.
    LT 1.275 5 ...[the spirit of Reform] goes up and down, paving the earth with eyes...
    Con 1.306 16 ...[the youth] says, If I am born in the earth, where is my part?...
    Con 1.308 24 ...I am very peaceable, and on my private account could well enough die, since it appears...that I have been missent to this earth...
    Con 1.309 18 Your want is a gulf which the possession of the broad earth would not fill.
    Con 1.324 18 Whosoever hereafter shall name my name, shall not record a malefactor but a benefactor in the earth.
    Tran 1.346 15 [A man] ought to be...a great influence...so that though absent...if the earth should open at my side...his name should be the prayer I should utter to the Universe.
    YA 1.364 26 Our garden is the immeasurable earth.../
    YA 1.372 16 The sphere is flattened at the poles and swelled at the equator;...the form...required to prevent the protuberances of the continent... from continually deranging the axis of the earth.
    Hist 2.32 12 Every animal...of the earth...has contrived...to leave the print of its features and form in some one or other of these upright, heaven-facing speakers.
    Hist 2.32 13 Every animal...of the earth and of the waters that are under the earth, has contrived...to leave the print of its features and form in some one or other of these upright, heaven-facing speakers.
    Hist 2.39 14 [Each man] shall...bring with him into humble cottages...all the recorded benefits of heaven and earth.
    SR 2.79 27 The pupil takes the same delight in subordinating every thing to the new terminology as a girl who has just learned botany in seeing a new earth and new seasons thereby.
    SR 2.81 1 They who made...Greece, venerable in the imagination, did so by sticking fast where they were, like an axis of the earth.
    Comp 2.116 3 Commit a crime, and the earth is made of glass.
    Comp 2.120 8 ...every suppressed or expunged word reverberates through the earth from side to side.
    SL 2.137 18 ...the globe, earth, moon, comet, sun, star, fall for ever and ever.
    SL 2.147 14 Earth fills her lap with splendors not her own.
    SL 2.147 16 The vale of Tempe, Tivoli and Rome are earth and water, rocks and sky.
    SL 2.147 17 The vale of Tempe, Tivoli and Rome are earth and water, rocks and sky. There are as good earth and water in a thousand places, yet how unaffecting!
    SL 2.149 26 Gertrude is enamored of Guy;...to live with him were life indeed...and heaven and earth are moved to that end.
    Lov1 2.181 6 ...[the ancient writers] said that the soul of man, embodied here on earth, went roaming up and down in quest of that other world of its own out of which it came into this...
    Fdsp 2.189 14 ...O friend, my bosom said,/ .../ All things through thee take nobler form/ And look beyond the earth,/...
    Fdsp 2.193 19 The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed;...
    Fdsp 2.216 25 True love transcends the unworthy object...and when the poor interposed mask crumbles, it...feels rid of so much earth and feels its independency the surer.
    Hsm1 2.256 19 The great will not condescend to take any thing seriously; all must be as gay as the song of a canary, though it were...the eradication of old and foolish churches and nations which have cumbered the earth long thousands of years.
    OS 2.268 21 The Supreme Critic on the errors of the past and the present... is that great nature in which we rest as the earth lies in the soft arms of the atmosphere;...
    OS 2.291 7 The simplest utterances are worthiest to be written, yet are they so cheap and so things of course, that in the infinite riches of the soul it is like gathering a few pebbles off the ground, or bottling a little air in a phial, when the whole earth and the whole atmosphere are ours.
    OS 2.291 14 Souls such as these...walk as gods in the earth...
    Int 2.342 14 The circle of the green earth he [in whom the love of truth predominates] must measure with his shoes to find the man who can yield him truth.
    Art1 2.355 22 I should think fire the best thing in the world, if I were not acquainted with air, and water, and earth.
    Art1 2.357 11 ...then is my eye opened to the eternal picture which nature paints in the street, with moving men and children...capped and based by heaven, earth, and sea.
    Art1 2.361 25 What, old mole! workest thou in the earth so fast?
    Art1 2.365 12 The oratorio has already lost its relation...to the sun, and the earth...
    Pt1 3.5 27 There is no man who does not anticipate a supersensual utility in the sun and stars, earth and water.
    Pt1 3.10 18 I remember when I was young how much I was moved one morning by tidings that genius had appeared in a youth who sat near me at table. He...had written hundreds of lines, but could not tell whether that which was in him was therein told; he could tell nothing but that all was changed,--man, beast, heaven, earth and sea.
    Pt1 3.14 18 The earth and the heavenly bodies...we sensually treat, as if they were self-existent;...
    Pt1 3.16 25 Some stars...on an old rag of bunting, blowing on the wind on a fort at the ends of the earth, shall make the blood tingle...
    Pt1 3.20 19 ...the eyes of Lyncaeus were said to see through the earth...
    Exp 3.45 20 Did our birth fall in some fit of indigence and frugality in nature, that she was so sparing of her fire and so liberal of her earth that it appears to us that we lack the affirmative principle...
    Exp 3.73 14 This vigor is...in the highest degree unbending. Nourish it correctly and do it no injury, and it will fill up the vacancy between heaven and earth.
    Exp 3.82 20 The man at [Apollo's] feet asks for his interest in turmoils of the earth...
    Mrs1 3.134 1 We pointedly, and by name, introduce the parties to each other. Know you before all heaven and earth, that this is Andrew, and this is Gregory...
    Mrs1 3.144 7 ...here is Captain Friese, from Cape Turnagain; and Captain Symmes, from the interior of the earth;...
    Mrs1 3.155 11 I overheard Jove, one day, said Silenus, talking of destroying the earth;...
    Gts 3.162 17 We arraign society if it do not give us, besides earth and fire and water, opportunity, love, reverence and objects of veneration.
    Nat2 3.169 4 There are days which occur in this climate...when the air, the heavenly bodies and the earth, make a harmony...
    Nat2 3.176 7 In every landscape the point of astonishment is the meeting of the sky and the earth...
    Nat2 3.179 22 A little heat...is all that differences the...deadly cold poles of the earth from the prolific tropical climates.
    Nat2 3.181 10 [Nature] arms and equips an animal to find its place and living in the earth...
    Nat2 3.186 22 ...[the vegetable life] fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds...
    Nat2 3.193 24 Are we tickled trout, and fools of nature? One look at the face of heaven and earth lays all petulance at rest...
    Nat2 3.195 3 All over the wide fields of earth grows the prunella or self-heal.
    Pol1 3.205 11 Cover up a pound of earth never so cunningly...it will always weigh a pound;...
    NR 3.245 27 ...our earth, whilst it spins on its own axis, spins all the time around the sun...
    NR 3.246 26 We keep a running fire of sarcasm at ignorance and the life of the senses; then goes by, perchance, a fair girl...and...we admire and love her...and say, Lo! a genuine creature of the fair earth...
    UGM 4.3 8 In the legends of the Gautama, the first men ate the earth and found it deliciously sweet.
    UGM 4.3 11 ...[good men] make the earth wholesome.
    UGM 4.9 11 The earth rolls;...
    UGM 4.12 8 ...we sit by the fire and take hold on the poles of the earth.
    UGM 4.12 11 In one of those celestial days when heaven and earth meet and adorn each other, it seems a poverty that we can only spend it once...
    UGM 4.13 5 We are as much gainers by finding a new property in the old earth as by acquiring a new planet.
    PPh 4.57 22 According to the old sentence, If Jove should descend to the earth, he would speak in the style of Plato.
    PPh 4.61 21 [Plato] could prostrate himself on the earth and cover his eyes whilst he adored that which cannot be numbered...
    PPh 4.62 17 There is a scale; and the correspondence of heaven to earth...is our guide.
    PNR 4.81 9 [Nature] waited tranquilly...for the hour to be struck when man should arrive. Then periods must pass before the motion of the earth can be suspected;...
    PNR 4.84 24 [Plato] saw that the globe of earth was not more lawful and precise than was the supersensible;...
    PNR 4.88 24 Intellect, [Plato] said, is king of heaven and of earth;...
    SwM 4.94 24 In the language of the Koran, God said, The heaven and the earth and all that is between them, think ye that we created them in jest, and that ye shall not return to us?
    SwM 4.98 1 Shall we say, that the economical mother disburses so much earth and so much fire...to make a man, and will not add a pennyweight...
    SwM 4.98 9 If you will have pure carbon, carbuncle, or diamond, to make the brain transparent, the trunk and organs shall be so much the grosser: instead of porcelain they are potter's earth, clay, or mud.
    SwM 4.104 11 ...Gilbert had shown that the earth was a magnet;...
    SwM 4.109 13 Creative force, like a musical composer, goes on unweariedly repeating a simple air or theme...ten thousand times reverberated, till it fills earth and heaven with the chant.
    SwM 4.114 1 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./
    SwM 4.117 20 The earth had fed its mankind through five or six millenniums...
    SwM 4.120 9 [Swedenborg] had borrowed from Plato the fine fable of a most ancient people, men better than we and dwelling nigher to the gods; and Swedenborg added that they used the earth symbolically;...
    SwM 4.120 20 The reason why all and single things, in the heavens and on earth, are representative, is because they exist from an influx of the Lord, through heaven [said Swedenborg].
    SwM 4.128 4 [Swedenborg]...though he finds false marriages on earth, fancies a wiser choice in heaven.
    SwM 4.142 6 Shall the archangels be less majestic and sweet than the figures that have actually walked the earth?
    MoS 4.166 17 [Montaigne] likes his saddle. You may read theology, and grammar, and metaphysics elsewhere. Whatever you get here shall smack of the earth and of real life...
    MoS 4.181 5 Others there are to whom the heaven is brass, and it shuts down to the surface of the earth.
    MoS 4.184 6 [The divine Providence] has shown the heaven and earth to every child...
    ShP 4.217 2 Shakspeare, Homer, Dante, Chaucer...knew that a tree had another use than for apples...and the ball of the earth, than for tillage and roads...
    ShP 4.217 26 One remembers again the trumpet-text in the Koran,--The heavens and the earth and all that is between them, think ye we have created them in jest?
    NMW 4.228 26 [Napoleon] is a worker in brass...in earth...
    GoW 4.269 15 There have been times when [the writer] was a sacred person... Every word was carved before his eyes into the earth and the sky;...
    ET3 5.40 17 ...the Greeks fancied Delphi the navel of the earth...
    ET3 5.40 18 ...the Greeks fancied Delphi the navel of the earth, in their favorite mode of fabling the earth to be an animal.
    ET4 5.51 4 Everything English is a fusion of distant and antagonistic elements. The language is mixed;...the currents of thought are counter...a people scattered by their wars and affairs over the face of the whole earth, and homesick to a man;...
    ET5 5.92 11 ...every dollar on earth contributes to the strength of the English government.
    ET5 5.98 13 The manners and customs of [English] society are artificial;... and we have a nation whose existence is a work of art;--a cold, barren, almost arctic isle being made the most fruitful, luxurious and imperial land in the whole earth.
    ET8 5.130 12 [The English] are of the earth, earthy;...
    ET8 5.132 13 [Young Englishmen] stoutly carry into every nook and corner of the earth their turbulent sense;...
    ET9 5.152 24 Amerigo Vespucci, the pickle-dealer at Seville...managed in this lying world to supplant Columbus and baptize half the earth with his own dishonest name.
    ET11 5.194 2 [English noblemen] might be little Providences on earth, said my friend, and they are, for the most part, jockeys and fops.
    ET13 5.217 1 The Catholic Church, thrown on this toiling, serious people [of England], has made in fourteen centuries a massive system...at once domestical and stately. In the long time, it has blended with everything in heaven above and the earth beneath.
    ET14 5.232 16 [The plain style] imports into [English] songs and ballads the smell of the earth...
    ET15 5.269 26 Every slip of an Oxonian or Cantabrigian who writes his first leader assumes that we subdued the earth before we sat down to write this particular [London] Times.
    F 6.34 2 [Steam] could be used to...compel other devils far more reluctant... namely, cubic miles of earth...
    F 6.35 15 The sufferance which is the badge of the Jew, has made him, in these days, the ruler of the rulers of the earth.
    F 6.38 6 Of what changes then in sky and earth...does the appearance of some Dante or Columbus apprise us!
    F 6.43 10 Whilst the man is weak, the earth takes up him.
    F 6.43 12 By and by [man] will take up the earth, and have his gardens and vineyards in the beautiful order...of his thought.
    F 6.44 1 Wood...gums, were dispersed over the earth and sea, in vain.
    Wth 6.89 3 Wealth requires...the freedom of the city, the freedom of the earth...
    Wth 6.95 18 The Persians say, 'T is the same to him who wears a shoe, as if the whole earth were covered with leather.
    Ctr 6.155 11 There is a great deal of self-denial and manliness in poor and middle-class houses in town and country...that keeps the earth sweet;...
    Ctr 6.165 12 ...Nature began with rudimental forms and rose to the more complex as fast as the earth was fit for their dwelling-place;...
    Wsp 6.205 4 Heaven always bears some proportion to earth.
    Wsp 6.207 4 The religion of the early English poets is anomalous, so devout and so blasphemous, in the same breath. Such is Chaucer's extraordinary confusion of heaven and earth in the picture of Dido...
    Wsp 6.241 15 There will be a new church founded on moral science;...it will have heaven and earth for its beams and rafters;...
    Bty 6.279 15 [Seyd] heard a voice none else could hear/ From centred and from errant sphere./ The quaking earth did quake in rhyme,/ Seas ebbed and flowed in epic chime./
    Bty 6.284 4 The motive of science was the extension of man...till his hands should touch the stars, his eyes see through the earth...
    Bty 6.284 6 The motive of science was the extension of man...till his hands should touch the stars...and, through his sympathy, heaven and earth should talk with him.
    Ill 6.311 10 Once we fancied the earth a plane, and stationary.
    Ill 6.319 14 As if one shut up always in a tower, with one window through which the face of heaven and earth could be seen, should fancy that all the marvels he beheld belonged to that window.
    SS 7.5 16 God may forgive sins, [my friend] said, but awkwardness has no forgiveness in heaven or earth.
    Civ 7.23 24 We see...the crimes of a single individual marked and punished at the distance of half the earth.
    Civ 7.28 3 ...we found out that the air and earth were full of Electricity...
    Art2 7.51 21 If the earth and sea conspire with virtue more than vice,--so do the masterpieces of art.
    Art2 7.53 14 ...every genuine work of art has as much reason for being as the earth and the sun.
    Elo1 7.59 8 For whom the Muses smile upon/ .../ ...though he speak in midnight dark;/ In heaven no star, on earth no spark,--/ Yet before the listener's eye/ Swims the world in ecstasy/...
    Elo1 7.73 15 ...Warren Hastings said of Burke's speech on his impeachment, As I listened to the orator, I felt for more than half an hour as if I were the most culpable being on earth.
    DL 7.113 25 Give me the means, says the wife, and your house shall not... waste your time. On hearing this we understand how these Means have come to be so omnipotent on earth.
    Farm 7.137 4 ...[the farmer] obtains from the earth the bread and the meat.
    Farm 7.139 12 ...[the farmer's] rule is that the earth shall feed and clothe him;...
    Farm 7.144 9 The earth works for [the farmer];...
    Farm 7.144 9 ...the earth is a machine which yields almost gratuitous service to every application of intellect.
    Farm 7.144 14 The tree can draw on the whole air, the whole earth...
    Farm 7.145 11 [The plants] burn, that is, exhale and decompose their own bodies into the air and earth again.
    Farm 7.145 13 The earth burns, the mountains burn and decompose, slower, but incessantly.
    Farm 7.152 1 ...[the first planter] learns...that the earth works faster for him than he can work for himself...
    WD 7.157 8 All the tools and engines on earth are only extensions of [the human body's] limbs and senses.
    WD 7.161 8 What shall we say of the ocean telegraph...whose sudden performance astonished mankind as if the intellect were taking the brute earth itself into training...
    WD 7.168 5 ...if [Czar Alexander] had the earth for his pasture and the sea for his pond, he would be a pauper still.
    WD 7.171 4 ...the treasures which Nature spent itself to amass...the earth with its foods;...are given immeasurably to all.
    WD 7.171 20 ...could a power open our eyes to behold millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth,--I believe I should find that mid-plain on which they moved floored beneath and arched above with the same web of blue depth which weaves itself over me now...
    WD 7.172 11 ...the earth is the cup, the sky is the cover, of the immense bounty of Nature which is offered us for our daily aliment;...
    Clbs 7.238 13 The startled giant [Wafthrudnir] replies...with Odin contended I in wise words. Thou must ever the wisest be. And still the gods and giants are so known, and still they play the same game in all the million mansions of heaven and of earth;...
    Suc 7.283 3 The earth is shaken by our engineries.
    Suc 7.297 26 We remember when in early youth the earth spoke and the heavens glowed;...
    PI 8.1 13 [The people of the sky] turn his heart from lovely maids,/ And make the darlings of the earth/ Swainish, coarse and nothing worth/...
    PI 8.13 13 Vivacity of expression may indicate this high gift, even when the thought is of no great scope, as when Michel Angelo, praising the terra cottas, said, If this earth were to become marble, woe to the antiques!
    PI 8.18 16 Why changes not the violet earth into musk?
    PI 8.24 2 It cost thousands of years only to make the motion of the earth suspected.
    PI 8.24 7 ...the astronomy is in the mind: the senses affirm that the earth stands still and the sun moves.
    PI 8.26 10 ...when, on rare days, [nature] speaks to the imagination, we feel that the huge heaven and earth are but a web drawn around us...
    PI 8.49 9 ...there is nothing on earth which is not in the heavens in a heavenly form...
    PI 8.49 11 ...there is...nothing in the heavens which is not on the earth in an earthly form.
    PI 8.57 16 ...the direct smell of the earth or the sea, is in these ancient poems...
    PI 8.58 15 ...[The wind] is always of the same age with the ages of ages,/ And of equal breadth with the surface of the earth./
    PI 8.74 14 Poems!--we have no poem. Whenever that angel shall be organized and appear on earth, the Iliad will be reckoned a poor ballad-grinding.
    SA 8.94 26 ...[the party in the second coach] had forgotten earth...
    Elo2 8.132 11 ...the Andes and Alleghanies indicate the line of the fissure in the crust of the earth along which they were lifted...
    Res 8.135 2 Go where he will, the wise man is at home,/ His hearth the earth,--his hall the azure dome;/...
    Res 8.137 7 The world is...strings of tension waiting to be struck; the earth sensitive as iodine to light;...
    Res 8.142 3 It was thought a fable, what Guthrie...told us, that in Taurida, in any piece of ground where springs of naphtha (or petroleum) obtain, by merely sticking an iron tube in the earth and applying a light to the upper end, the mineral oil will burn till the tube is decomposed...
    Res 8.151 18 The first care of a man settling in the country should be to open the face of the earth to himself...
    QO 8.200 6 The old animals have given their bodies to the earth to furnish through chemistry the forming race...
    PC 8.222 10 We are told that in posting his books, after the French had measured on the earth a degree of the meridian, when [Newton] saw that his theoretic results were approximating that empirical one, his hand shook...
    PC 8.222 17 ...when [Newton] saw, in the fall of an apple to the ground, the fall of the earth to the sun...that perception was accompanied by the spasm of delight by which the intellect greets a fact more immense still...
    PC 8.223 14 On...this all-dissolving unity, the emphasis of heaven and earth is laid.
    PC 8.223 27 Nature is an enormous system, but in mass and in particle curiously available to the humblest need of the little creature that walks on the earth!
    PPo 8.242 11 Firdusi...has written in the Shah Nameh the annals...of Afrasiyab...whose heart was bounteous as the ocean and his hands like the clouds when rain falls to gladden the earth.
    PPo 8.245 19 The earth is a host who murders his guests.
    PPo 8.246 20 The Builder of heaven/ Hath sundered the earth,/ So that no footway/ Leads out of it forth./
    PPo 8.256 6 I declare myself the slave of that masculine soul/ Which ties and alliance on earth once forever renounces./
    PPo 8.263 5 I read on the porch of a palace bold/ In a purple tablet letters cast,-/ A house though a million winters old,/ A house of earth comes down at last;/...
    Grts 8.305 15 ...the sun and the planets are made in part or in whole of the same elements as the earth is.
    Imtl 8.321 5 Wilt thou not ope thy heart to know/ What rainbows teach, and sunsets show?/ Verdict which accumulates/ From lengthening scroll of human fates/ Voice of earth to earth returned,/ Prayers of saints that inly burned,-/...
    Imtl 8.327 23 Milton anticipated the leading thought of Swedenborg, when he wrote, in Paradise Lost,-What if Earth/ Be but the shadow of Heaven, and things therein/ Each to the other like more than on earth is thought?/
    Imtl 8.350 12 Yama said [to Nachiketas]...choose the wide expanded earth...
    Imtl 8.350 16 [Yama said] Be a king, O Nachiketas! On the wide earth I will make thee the enjoyer of all desires.
    Aris 10.43 25 ...when the well-mixed man is born...with fire enough and earth enough...then no gift need be bestowed on him...
    Aris 10.61 24 ...when the great come by, as always there are angels walking in the earth, they know [the generous soul] at sight.
    PerF 10.71 22 The sun has lost no beams, the earth no elements;...
    Chr2 10.100 20 It happens now and then, in the ages, that a soul is born which offers no impediment to the Divine Spirit...and all its thoughts are perceptions of things as they are, without any infirmity of earth.
    Chr2 10.102 8 Lucifer's wager in the old drama was, There is no steadfast man on earth.
    Supl 10.166 14 Think how much pains astronomers and opticians have taken to procure an achromatic lens. Discovery in the heavens has waited for it; discovery on the face of the earth not less.
    SovE 10.193 14 Others may well suffer in the hideous picture of crime with which earth is filled...
    Prch 10.221 14 The understanding...because it has found absurdities to which the sentiment of veneration is attached, sneers at veneration; so that analysis has run to seed in unbelief. There is no faith left. We laugh and hiss, pleased with our power in making heaven and earth a howling wilderness.
    Prch 10.222 5 To [the soul which is without God] heaven and earth have lost their beauty.
    Prch 10.226 1 ...the earth we stand upon is not imperishable...
    Prch 10.232 17 We shall not very long have any part or lot in this earth...
    MoL 10.244 13 See the activity of the imagination in the Crusades...heaven walked on earth...
    MoL 10.245 16 Our industrial skill, arts ministering to convenience and luxury...have turned the eyes downward to the earth...
    Schr 10.263 25 [Intellect] is the power that makes the world incarnated in man, and laying again the beams of heaven and earth...
    Schr 10.272 9 Gold and silver, says one of the Platonists, grow in the earth from the celestial gods...
    Schr 10.277 8 These shrewd faculties belong to man. I love...to see them trained:...the craft of mathematical combination, which carries a working-plan of the heavens and of the earth in a formula.
    LLNE 10.336 3 ...the paramount source of the religious revolution was Modern Science; beginning with Copernicus, who destroyed the pagan fictions of the Church, by showing mankind that the earth on which we live was not the centre of the Universe...
    LLNE 10.350 6 Attractive Industry...would...cause the earth to yield healthy imponderable fluids to the solar system...
    LLNE 10.350 26 ...fancy the earth planted with fifties and hundreds of these [Fourierist] phalanxes side by side...
    MMEm 10.398 3 On earth I dream;-I die to be:/ Time! shake not thy bald head at me./ I challenge thee to hurry past,/ Or for my turn to fly too fast./
    MMEm 10.409 22 [Mary Moody Emerson writes] To live to give pain rather than pleasure (the latter so delicious) seems the spider-like necessity of my being on earth...
    MMEm 10.418 16 Not a prospect but is dark on earth, as to knowledge and joy from externals...
    MMEm 10.425 22 ...the bare bones of this poor embryo earth may give the idea of the Infinite far, far better than when dignified with arts and industry...
    MMEm 10.430 18 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;...
    SlHr 10.446 17 [Samuel Hoar] had a childlike innocence...which...enabled him to meet every comer with a free and disengaged courtesy that had no memory in it Of wrong and outrage with which the earth is filled./
    Thor 10.482 16 The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length the middle-aged man concludes to build a wood-shed with them.
    HDC 11.27 8 Earth laughs in flowers, to see her boastful boys/ Earth-proud, proud of the earth which is not theirs.
    HDC 11.27 9 Earth laughs in flowers, to see her boastful boys/ Earth-proud, proud of the earth which is not theirs.
    HDC 11.34 3 After [the pilgrims] have found a place of abode, they burrow themselves in the earth for their first shelter...
    HDC 11.34 5 After [the pilgrims] have found a place of abode, they burrow themselves in the earth for their first shelter, under a hillside, and casting the soil aloft upon timbers, they make a fire against the earth, at the highest side.
    HDC 11.34 14 ...in these poor wigwams [the pilgrims] sing psalms, pray and praise their God, till they can provide them houses, which they could not ordinarily, till the earth...brought forth bread to feed them.
    HDC 11.34 17 [Food the pilgrims] attain with sore travail, every one that can lift a hoe to strike into the earth standing stoutly to his labors...
    HDC 11.34 20 [Food the pilgrims] attain with sore travail, every one that can lift a hoe to strike into the earth...tearing up the roots and bushes from the ground...till the sod of the earth was rotten...
    HDC 11.56 17 The check [to Concord] was but momentary. The earth teemed with fruits.
    HDC 11.60 20 ...it was only a great thaw in January, that melting the snow and opening the earth, enabled [King Philip's] poor followers to come at the ground-nuts, else they had starved.
    HDC 11.85 7 ...in every part of this country...[Concord's sons] plough the earth...
    LVB 11.92 20 The piety, the principle that is left in the United States... forbid us to entertain [the relocation of the Cherokees] as a fact. Such a dereliction of all faith and virtue, such a denial of justice...were never heard of...in the dealing of a nation with its own allies and wards, since the earth was made.
    EWI 11.105 25 [Granville] Sharpe protected the [West Indian] slave. In consulting with the lawyers, they told Sharpe the laws were against him. Sharpe would not believe it; no prescription on earth could ever render such iniquities legal.
    EWI 11.128 8 For months and years the bill [on emanicipation in the West Indies] was debated...by the first citizens of England, the foremost men of the earth;...
    War 11.169 7 If you have a nation of men who have risen to that height of moral cultivation that they will not declare war or carry arms...you have a nation...of true, great and able men. Let me know more of that nation;... I shall find them...men whose influence is felt to the end of the earth;...
    War 11.176 1 Not in an obscure corner...is this seed of benevolence [Congress of Nations] laid in the furrow, with tears of hope; but in this broad America...where the forest is only now falling, or yet to fall, and the green earth opened to the inundation of emigrant men from all quarters of oppression and guilt;...
    FSLC 11.209 19 By new arts the earth is subdued, roaded, tunnelled, telegraphed, gas-lighted;...
    FSLC 11.210 5 Is it not time to do something besides...making the earth mellow and friable?
    AsSu 11.251 18 ...this noble head [Charles Sumner]...must be the target for a pair of bullies to beat with clubs. The murderer's brand shall stamp their foreheads wherever they may wander in the earth.
    JBB 11.268 9 [John Brown] is a man to make friends wherever on earth courage and integrity are esteemed...
    JBS 11.278 23 ...[John Brown's] enterprise to go into Virginia and run off five hundred or a thousand slaves was...the keeping of an oath made to heaven and earth forty-seven years before.
    EPro 11.326 1 Happy are the young, who find the pestilence [slavery] cleansed out of the earth...
    EdAd 11.382 22 ...[the elements] shove us from them, yield to us/ Only what to our griping toil is due;/ But the sweet affluence of love and song,/ The rich results of the divine consents/ Of man and earth, of world beloved and loved,/ The nectar and ambrosia are withheld./
    SHC 11.430 15 We give our earth to earth.
    SHC 11.430 16 We give our earth to earth.
    SHC 11.431 8 ...[trees] keep the earth habitable;...
    SHC 11.435 18 ...hither [to Sleepy Hollow] shall repair, to this modest spot of God's earth, every sweet and friendly influence;...
    RBur 11.442 5 How many Bonny Doons and John Anderson my jo's and Auld lang synes all around the earth have [Burns's] verses been applied to!
    RBur 11.443 1 The memory of Burns,-I am afraid heaven and earth have taken too good care of it to leave us anything to say.
    Shak1 11.451 1 The palaces [Englishmen] compass earth and sea to enter, the magnificence and personages of royal and imperial abodes, are shabby imitations and caricatures of [Shakespeare's]...
    FRO2 11.490 21 The earth moves, and the mind opens.
    FRep 11.513 19 Our sleepy civilization...has built its whole art of war...on that one compound [gunpowder]...and reckons Greeks and Romans and Middle Ages little better than Indians and bow-and-arrow times. As if the earth, water, gases, lightning and caloric had not a million energies, the discovery of any one of which could change the art of war again...
    FRep 11.531 9 I wish to see America, not like the old powers of the earth...
    FRep 11.535 13 Here let there be what the earth waits for,-exalted manhood.
    PLT 12.9 24 Ever since the Norse heaven made the stern terms of admission that a man must do something excellent with his hands or feet... the same demand has been made in Norse earth.
    PLT 12.13 24 The adepts value only the pure geometry, the aerial bridge ascending from earth to heaven with arches and abutments of pure reason.
    PLT 12.31 22 There is no property or relation in that immense arsenal of forces which the earth is, but some man is at last found who affects this...
    PLT 12.35 19 The Instinct begins...at the surface of the earth...
    PLT 12.42 6 ...I hear a whisper, which I dare trust, that [perception] is the thread on which the earth and the heaven of heavens are strung.
    II 12.68 17 The Instinct begins at this low point at the surface of the earth...
    II 12.71 9 The divine energy...casts its old garb, and reappears, another creature; the old energy in a new form, with all the vigor of the earth;...
    II 12.72 15 [Inspiration] is a tap-root that sucks all the juices of the earth.
    CL 12.147 13 Evelyn quotes Lord Caernarvon's saying, Wood is an excrescence of the earth provided by God for the payment of debts.
    CL 12.148 16 Our Aryan progenitors in Asia celebrated the winds as the conveying Maruts, traversers of places difficult of access. Stable is their birthplace in the sky, but they are agitators of heaven and earth...
    CL 12.151 2 The mallows the Greeks held sacred as giving the first sign of the sympathy of the earth with the celestial influences.
    Bost 12.184 24 ...it appears as if some localities of the earth...were preferred before others.
    Bost 12.194 14 Who shall restore to us the odoriferous Sabbaths which made the earth and the humble roof a sanctity?
    Bost 12.205 16 ...good men are as the green plain of the earth is...the foundation and flooring and sills of the state.
    MAng1 12.231 3 Of [Michelangelo's] genius for architecture it is sufficient to say that he built Saint Peter's, an ornament of the earth.
    Milt1 12.258 11 [Milton says] In those vernal seasons of the year, when the air is calm and pleasant, it were an injury and sullenness against Nature not to go out...and partake in her rejoicing with heaven and earth.
    Milt1 12.271 24 One of [Milton's] tracts is writ to prove that no power on earth can compel in matters of religion.
    MLit 12.323 7 ...since the earth as we said had become a reading-room, the new opportunities seem to have aided [Goethe] to be that resolute realist he is...
    MLit 12.331 26 Poetry is with Goethe thus external...but the Muse never assays those thunder-tones...which...abolish the old heavens and the old earth before the free will or Godhead of man.
    WSL 12.337 23 Here [in America] is very good earth and water and plenty of them; that [John Bull] is free to allow;...
    Pray 12.350 18 ...there are scattered about in the earth a few records of these devout hours [of prayer]...
    Pray 12.355 2 When nought on earth seemeth pleasant to me, thou dost make thyself known to me...
    Pray 12.355 6 I know that thou hast not created me and placed me here on earth...and told me to be like thyself when I see so little of thee here to profit by;...
    Pray 12.356 20 Neither was [the light of the soul] so above my understanding...as the heaven is above the earth.
    EurB 12.366 10 The poet, like the electric rod, must reach from a point nearer the sky than all surrounding objects, down to the earth, and into the dark wet soil, or neither is of use.
    PPr 12.386 10 Every object [in Carlyle] attitudinizes...and instead of the common earth and sky, we have a Martin's Creation or Judgment Day.
    Let 12.401 1 On earth all is imperfect! is an old proverb of the German.
    Let 12.401 24 ...where the divine nature and the artist is crushed...every other planet is better than the earth.
    Trag 12.410 14 [Tragedy] looks like an insupportable load under which earth moans aloud. But analyze it;...it is always another person who is tormented.

Earth, n. (13)

    Con 1.309 1 ...if the Earth is yours so also is it mine.
    Con 1.309 3 ...as I am born to the Earth, so the Earth is given to me...
    Comp 2.91 9 The lonely Earth amid the balls/ That hurry through the eternal halls,/ A makeweight flying to the void,/ Supplemental asteroid,/ Or compensatory spark,/ Shoots across the neutral Dark./
    Art1 2.349 21 'T is the privilege of Art/ Thus to play its cheerful part,/ Man in Earth to acclimate/ And bend the exile to his fate/...
    Mrs1 3.147 4 ...As Heaven and Earth are fairer far/ Than Chaos and blank Darkness, though once chiefs/ .../ So on our heels a fresh perfection treads/...
    Mrs1 3.147 6 ...as we show beyond that Heaven and Earth/ In form and shape compact and beautiful;/ .../ So on our heels a fresh perfection treads/...
    Imtl 8.326 22 The Earth goes on the Earth glittering with gold;/ The Earth goes to the Earth sooner than it wold;/ The Earth builds on the Earth castles and towers;/ The Earth says to the Earth, All this is ours./
    Imtl 8.326 23 The Earth goes on the Earth glittering with gold;/ The Earth goes to the Earth sooner than it wold;/ The Earth builds on the Earth castles and towers;/ The Earth says to the Earth, All this is ours./
    Imtl 8.326 24 The Earth goes on the Earth glittering with gold;/ The Earth goes to the Earth sooner than it wold;/ The Earth builds on the Earth castles and towers;/ The Earth says to the Earth, All this is ours./
    Imtl 8.326 25 The Earth goes on the Earth glittering with gold;/ The Earth goes to the Earth sooner than it wold;/ The Earth builds on the Earth castles and towers;/ The Earth says to the Earth, All this is ours./
    Imtl 8.327 21 Milton anticipated the leading thought of Swedenborg, when he wrote, in Paradise Lost,-What if Earth/ Be but the shadow of Heaven, and things therein/ Each to the other like more than on earth is thought?/
    MoL 10.244 14 See the activity of the imagination in the Crusades...heaven walked on earth, and Earth could see with eyes the Paradise and the Inferno.
    SHC 11.434 12 What is the Earth itself but a surface scooped into nooks and caves of slumber...

earth-beat, n. (1)

    SwM 4.141 10 Melodious poets shall be hoarse as street ballads when once the penetrating key-note of nature and spirit is sounded,--the earth-beat... which makes the tune to which the sun rolls...

earth-born, adj. (1)

    PLT 12.36 10 [Pan] could terrify by earth-born fears called panics.

earthe, n. (1)

    Wsp 6.207 7 [Dido] was so fair,/ So young, so lusty, with her eyen glad,/ That if that God that heaven and earthe made/ Would have a love for beauty and goodness,/ And womanhede, truth, and seemliness,/ Whom should he loven but this lady sweet?/ There n' is no woman to him half so meet./

earthen, adj. (3)

    Mrs1 3.119 9 The husbandry of the modern inhabitants of Gournou...is philosophical to a fault. To set up their housekeeping nothing is requisite but two or three earthen pots, a stone to grind meal, and a mat which is the bed.
    Mrs1 3.130 17 Each [member of an assembly] returns to his degree in the scale of good society, porcelain remains porcelain, and earthen earthen.
    PPo 8.263 12 The eternal Watcher, who doth wake/ All night in the body's earthen chest,/ Will of thine arms a pillow make,/ And a bolster of thy breast./

earth-hunger, n. (1)

    ET7 5.119 9 [The English] have the earth-hunger...which is said to mark the Teutonic nations.

Earth-hunger, n. (1)

    CL 12.135 3 The Teutonic race have been marked in all ages by a trait which has received the name of Earth-hunger...

earthiness, n. (1)

    Thor 10.481 22 By [scent] [Thoreau] detected earthiness.

earthly, adj. (8)

    AmS 1.86 22 ...when this spiritual light shall have revealed the law of more earthly natures...[the scholar] shall look forward to an ever expanding knowledge as to a becoming creator.
    Lov1 2.180 20 ...personal beauty is then first charming and itself...when it suggests gleams and visions and not earthly satisfactions;...
    GoW 4.290 17 We too must write Bibles, to unite again the heavens and the earthly world.
    ET5 5.83 2 This [English] common-sense is a perception of all the conditions of our earthly existence;...
    PI 8.49 11 ...there is...nothing in the heavens which is not on the earth in an earthly form.
    PPo 8.244 18 He only [Hafiz] says, is fit for company, who knows how to prize earthly happiness at the value of a night-cap.
    Imtl 8.327 15 Swedenborg described an intelligible heaven, by continuing the like employments in the like circumstances as those we know;... continuations of our earthly experience.
    Chr2 10.122 12 [Character] makes no stipulations for earthly felicity...

earth-mounds, n. (1)

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

earth-proud, adj. (1)

    HDC 11.27 9 Earth laughs in flowers, to see her boastful boys/ Earth-proud, proud of the earth which is not theirs.

earthquake, adj. (1)

    Supl 10.165 9 ...one would not wear earthquake dresses or resurrection robes for a working jacket...

earthquake, n. (7)

    F 6.7 14 The planet is liable to...rendings from earthquake and volcano...
    F 6.7 18 At Lisbon an earthquake killed men like flies.
    CbW 6.262 11 We learn geology the morning after the earthquake...
    Cour 7.254 21 Men admire...the power of better combination and foresight...whether it only plays a game of chess...or whether...Franklin draws off the lightning in his hand; suggesting that one day a wiser geology shall make the earthquake harmless...
    Supl 10.165 7 Horace Walpole relates that in the expectation, current in London a century ago, of a great earthquake, some people provided themselves with dresses for the occasion.
    CL 12.160 20 The earthquake is the first chemist, goldsmith and brazier...
    ACri 12.283 14 ...a war, an earthquake, revival of letters...exist to [the writer] as colors for his brush.

earthquakes, n. (6)

    YA 1.372 15 The sphere is flattened at the poles and swelled at the equator;...the form...required to prevent the protuberances...even of lesser mountains cast up at any time by earthquakes, from continually deranging the axis of the earth.
    Ctr 6.140 18 There are people who...remain literalists, after hearing the music and poetry and rhetoric and wit of seventy or eighty years. ... But even these can understand pitchforks and the cry of Fire! and I have noticed in some of this class a marked dislike of earthquakes.
    Edc1 10.146 17 ...[Fellowes] was able to reconstruct, in the British Museum...the perfect model of the Ionic trophy-monument...which had been destroyed by earthquakes...
    Supl 10.167 25 [People of English stock's] houses are...not designed to reel in earthquakes...
    Plu 10.303 10 ...it is in reading the fragments [Plutarch] has saved from lost authors that I have hailed another example of...the benign Providence which uses the violence of war, of earthquakes and changed water-courses, to save underground through barbarous ages the relics of ancient art...
    PPr 12.391 8 We have never had anything in literature so like earthquakes as the laughter of Carlyle.

earths, n. (6)

    SwM 4.102 7 It seems that [Swedenborg] anticipated much science of the nineteenth century;...anticipated the views of modern astronomy in regard to the generation of earths by the sun;...
    F 6.38 6 Of what changes then in sky and earth, and in finer skies and earths, does the appearance of some Dante or Columbus apprise us!
    PI 8.42 3 Better men saw heavens and earths;...
    PerF 10.70 9 All the earths are burnt metals.
    EdAd 11.388 8 ...we believe politics to be...subject to the same laws with trees, earths and acids.
    PLT 12.17 26 ...the sun is conceived to have made our system by hurling out from itself the outer rings of diffuse ether which slowly condensed into earths and moons...

earth's, n. (10)

    Cir 2.312 14 The astronomer must have his diameter of the earth's orbit as a base to find the parallax of any star.
    Pol1 3.197 3 All earth's fleece and food/ For their like are sold./
    NR 3.240 3 Since we are all so stupid, what benefit that there should be two stupidities! It is like that brute advantage so essential to astronomy, of having the diameter of the earth's orbit for a base of its triangles.
    GoW 4.272 6 [Goethe's] Helena...is...the work of one who found himself the master of histories, mythologies, philosophies, sciences and national literatures, in the encyclopaedical manner in which modern erudition, with its international intercourse of the whole earth's population, researches into Indian, Etruscan and all Cyclopean arts;...
    Wth 6.96 23 We are all richer for the measurement of a degree of latitude on the earth's surface.
    Civ 7.29 12 ...the astronomer, having by an observation fixed the place of a star,--by so simple an expedient as waiting six months and then repeating his observation, contrived to put the diameter of the earth's orbit...between his first observation and his second...
    SA 8.96 27 When Molyneux fancied that the observations of the nutation of the earth's axis destroyed Newton's theory of gravitation, he tried to break it softly to Sir Isaac...
    PPo 8.244 1 On earth's wide thoroughfares below/ Two only men contented go:/ Who knows what 's right and what 's forbid,/ And he from whom is knowledge hid./
    MMEm 10.425 15 Not to complain of the poor old earth's chaotic state, brought so near in its long and gloomy transmutings by the geologist.
    EPro 11.320 15 The first condition of success is secured in putting ourselves right. We have...planted ourselves on a law of Nature:-If that fail,/ The pillared firmament is rottenness,/ And earth's base built on stubble./

Earth's, n. (1)

    HCom 11.339 12 We grudge them not, our dearest, bravest, best,-/ Let but the quarrel's issue stand confest:/ 'T is Earth's old slave-God battling for his crown/ And Freedom fighting with her visor down./ Holmes.

Earth-spirit, n. (1)

    LLNE 10.329 13 The warm swart Earth-spirit which made the strength of past ages...all gone;...

earthy, adj. (2)

    ET8 5.130 13 [The English] are of the earth, earthy;...
    ET14 5.232 9 ...[the English] delight in strong earthy expression...

ear-trumpet, n. (1)

    Thor 10.471 16 [Thoreau] saw as with microscope, heard as with ear-trumpet...

ease, n. (33)

    AmS 1.101 11 For the ease and pleasure of treading the old road...[the scholar] takes the cross of making his own...
    LE 1.157 16 ...men here...prefer...any livery productive of ease or profit, to the unproductive service of thought.
    SR 2.55 22 There is a mortifying experience in particular...I mean...the forced smile which we put on in company where we do not feel at ease...
    SL 2.150 10 ...nearness or likeness of nature,--how beautiful is the ease of its victory!
    Hsm1 2.250 8 [Heroism's] rudest form is the contempt for safety and ease...
    Hsm1 2.261 19 ...to live with some rigor of temperance, or some extremes of generosity, seems to be an asceticism which common good-nature would appoint to those who are at ease and in plenty...
    Cir 2.315 2 ...it behooves each to see, when he sacrifices prudence, to what god he devotes it; if to ease and pleasure, he had better be prudent still;...
    Int 2.338 9 ...when we write with ease...we seem to be assured that nothing is easier than to continue this communication at pleasure.
    Mrs1 3.123 5 The popular notion [of a gentleman] certainly adds a condition of ease and fortune;...
    PPh 4.72 27 ...it is said that to procure the pleasure, which he loves, of talking at his ease all day with the most elegant and cultivated young men, [Socrates] will now and then return to his shop and carve statues, good or bad, for sale.
    GoW 4.271 12 Goethe was the philosopher of this [modern] multiplicity;... able and happy to cope with this rolling miscellany of facts and sciences, and by his own versatility to dispose of them with ease;...
    ET1 5.24 26 It is not very rare to find persons loving sympathy and ease, who expatiate their departure from the common in one direction, by their conformity in every other.
    ET5 5.90 10 The high civil and legal offices [in England] are not beds of ease...
    ET6 5.108 11 England produces under favorable conditions of ease and culture the finest women in the world.
    ET12 5.209 25 ...many chairs and many fellowships [at Oxford] are made beds of ease;...
    Pow 6.55 22 If Eric is in robust health...at his departure from Greenland he will steer west, and his ships will reach Newfoundland. But take out Eric and put in a stronger and bolder man...and the ships will, with just as much ease, sail six hundred...miles further...
    Wth 6.97 2 ...it is each man's interest that...ease and convenience of living... should exist somewhere...
    Ctr 6.149 23 ...it requires a great many cultivated women...accustomed to ease and refinement...in order that you should have one Madame de Stael.
    Ctr 6.163 3 If there is any great and good thing in store for you, it will not come...in the shape of fashion, ease, and city drawing-rooms.
    Bhr 6.171 24 In hours of business we go to him who knows...that which we want, and we do not let our taste or feeling stand in the way. But this activity over, we...wish for those we can be at ease with;...
    Bhr 6.189 16 Not only is [your companion] larger, when at ease and his thoughts generous, but everything around him becomes variable with expression.
    WD 7.158 12 ...we pity our fathers for dying before...photograph and spectroscope arrived, as cheated out of half their human estate. These arts open great gates of a future, promising...to lift human life out of its beggary to a godlike ease and power.
    Clbs 7.232 18 Some men love only to talk where they are masters. They like to go...into the shops where the sauntering people gladly lend an ear to any one. On these terms...the talker is at his ease and jolly...
    Cour 7.253 12 ...when [men] see [the preference to the general good] proved by sacrifices of ease, wealth, rank, and of life itself, there is no limit to their admiration.
    PI 8.36 13 ...there is entertainment and room for talent in the artist's selection of ancient or remote subjects; as when the poet goes to India, or to Rome, or to Persia, for his fable. But I believe nobody knows better than he that herein he consults his ease rather than his strength or his desire.
    SA 8.85 15 ...youth in America is wont to be...not at ease...
    SA 8.99 24 ...[manners and talk] require...plenty and ease...
    SA 8.101 18 ...wealth and ease corrupted the race [of the hereditary nobility].
    Grts 8.307 25 ...in this self-respect or hearkening to the privatest oracle, [a man] consults his ease...
    LLNE 10.328 18 Are there any brigands on the road? inquired the traveller in France. Oh, no...said the landlord;...what should these fellows keep the highway for, when they can rob just as effectually, and much more at their ease, in the bureaus of office?
    HDC 11.42 8 ...the town [Concord]...ordered that the North quarter are to keep and maintain all their highways and bridges over the great river, in their quarter, and...in regard of the ease of the East quarter above the rest, in their highways, they are to allow the North quarter 3 pounds.
    Bost 12.185 20 ...wisdom is not found with those who dwell at their ease.
    EurB 12.378 12 [The English fashionist's] highest triumph is...instead of a noble high-bred ease, to have the courage to offend against every restraint of decorum...

eased, v. (2)

    HDC 11.65 5 The charges of education and of legislation, at this period, seem to have afflicted the town [Concord]; for they vote to petition the General Court to be eased of the law relating to providing a school-master;...
    MLit 12.314 1 ...in all ages, and now more, the narrow-minded have no interest in anything but its relation to their personality. What will help them to be...eased in some circumstance...

easel, n. (2)

    OA 7.331 5 Many of [Goethe's] works hung on the easel from youth to age...
    Insp 8.291 17 What prudence again does every artist, every scholar need in the security of his easel or his desk!

easels, n. (1)

    Art1 2.358 4 Away with your nonsense of oil and easels...

easier, adj. (15)

    MR 1.228 12 ...I will not dissemble my hope that each person whom I address has felt his own call...to be in his place...a brave and upright man, who must...make it easier for all who follow him to go in honor and with benefit.
    SL 2.135 6 ...our life might be much easier and simpler than we make it;...
    Int 2.338 11 ...when we write with ease...we seem to be assured that nothing is easier than to continue this communication at pleasure.
    NR 3.239 10 ...it is so much easier to do what one has done before than to do a new thing, that there is a perpetual tendency to a set mode.
    SwM 4.98 26 ...it is easier to see the reflection of the great sphere in large globes...than in drops of water...
    Elo1 7.78 11 Julius Caesar said to Metellus, when that tribune interfered to hinder him from entering the Roman treasury, Young man, it is easier for me to put you to death than to say that I will;...
    DL 7.108 7 It is easier to count the census...than to come to the persons and dwellings of men and read their character...
    PI 8.22 21 In the ocean, in fire, in the sky, in the forest, [man] finds facts adequate and as large as he. ... It is easier to read Sanscrit...than to interpret these familiar sights.
    Imtl 8.324 23 ...among rude men moral judgments were rudely figured under the forms of dogs and whips, or of an easier and more plentiful life after death.
    Schr 10.288 12 ...it is so much easier to say many things than to explain one.
    Thor 10.456 5 It cost [Thoreau] nothing to say No; indeed he found it much easier than to say Yes.
    FSLC 11.196 14 The first execution of the [Fugitive Slave] law, as was inevitable, was a little hesitating; the second was easier;...
    FSLN 11.220 5 ...when a great man comes who knots up into himself the opinions and wishes of the people, it is so much easier to follow him as an exponent of this.
    FRep 11.528 26 ...a pew in a particular church gives an easier entrance to the subscription ball.
    MLit 12.332 17 Life for [Goethe] is prettier, easier, wiser, decenter...but its old eternal burden is not relieved;...

easier, adv. (2)

    Pow 6.67 24 ...[Boniface] introduced the new horse-rake, the new scraper, the baby-jumper, and what not, that Connecticut sends to the admiring citizens. He did this the easier that the peddler stopped at his house, and paid his keeping by setting up his new trap on the landlord's premises.
    Elo1 7.84 5 Pepys says of Lord Clarendon...I did never observe how much easier a man do speak when he knows all the company to be below him, than in him;...

easiest, adj. (2)

    Wth 6.122 12 ...travellers and Indians know the value of a buffalo-trail, which is sure to be the easiest possible pass through the ridge.
    Milt1 12.277 19 What schools and epochs of common rhymers would it need to make a counterbalance to the severe oracles of [Milton's] muse:- In them is plainest taught and easiest learnt,/ What makes a nation happy, and keeps it so./

easiest, adv. (2)

    UGM 4.6 20 ...every one can do his best thing easiest.
    ACiv 11.306 19 ...what kind of peace shall at that moment be easiest attained, [the people] will make concessions for it...

easily, adv. (215)

    Nat 1.22 10 ...whosoever has seen a person of...happy genius, will have remarked how easily he took all things along with him...
    Nat 1.27 19 It is easily seen that there is nothing lucky or capricious in these analogies...
    Nat 1.44 16 So intimate is this Unity, that, it is easily seen, it...betrays its source in Universal Spirit.
    DSA 1.147 14 We easily come up to the standard of goodness in society.
    LE 1.181 21 ...the lower faculties of man are subdued to docility; through which as an unobstructed channel the soul now easily and gladly flows?
    LE 1.184 16 ...[the scholar] can easily think that in a society of perfect sympathy, no word, no act, no record, would be.
    MN 1.216 19 Be you only whole and sufficient...and I can as easily dodge the gravitation of the globe as escape your influence.
    MR 1.250 1 [The Americans] think you may talk the north wind down as easily as raise society;...
    Con 1.315 8 ...[Friar Bernard's] piety and good will easily introduced him to many families of the rich...
    Con 1.317 23 ...nothing so easily organizes itself in every part of the universe as [man];...
    Con 1.317 25 ...no moss, no lichen is so easily born [as man];...
    Con 1.323 12 Those who rise above war, and those who fall below it, it easily discriminates...
    Tran 1.334 12 From...this beholding of all things in the mind, follow easily [the idealist's] whole ethics.
    Tran 1.336 8 In action [the Transcendentalist] easily incurs the charge of antinomianism by his avowal that he, who has the Law-giver, may with safety not only neglect, but even contravene every written commandment.
    Tran 1.346 1 We easily predict a fair future to each new candidate who enters the lists...
    YA 1.366 17 ...the walks of trade were crowded, whilst that of agriculture cannot easily be...
    YA 1.367 12 There is no feature of the old countries that strikes an American with more agreeable surprise than the beautiful gardens of Europe;...works easily imitated here...
    YA 1.369 26 We in the Atlantic states, by position, have...imbibed easily an European culture.
    YA 1.391 6 ...the wise and just man will always feel...that if all went down, he and such as he would quite easily combine in a new and better constitution.
    Hist 2.22 26 A man of rude health and flowing spirits...lives in his wagon and roams through all latitudes as easily as a Calmuc.
    Hist 2.28 4 How easily these old worships of Moses...domesticate themselves in the mind.
    SR 2.51 4 ...how easily we capitulate to badges and names...
    SR 2.61 21 ...all history resolves itself very easily into the biography of a few stout and earnest persons.
    Comp 2.108 14 That is the best part of each writer which has nothing private in it;...that which in the study of a single artist you might not easily find...
    SL 2.137 25 The simplicity of nature is not that which may easily be read...
    SL 2.150 19 ...a person of related mind...comes to us so softly and easily... that we feel as if some one was gone, instead of another having come;...
    Prd1 2.240 14 Undoubtedly we can easily pick faults in our company...
    Prd1 2.240 15 Undoubtedly we...can easily whisper names prouder, and that tickle the fancy more.
    Hsm1 2.245 4 In the elder English dramatists...there is a constant recognition of gentility, as if a noble behavior were as easily marked in the society of their age as color is in our American population.
    Hsm1 2.263 1 Whatever outrages have happened to men may befall a man again; and very easily in a republic, if there appear any signs of a decay of religion.
    OS 2.287 19 It is of no use to preach to me from without. I can do that too easily myself.
    OS 2.293 5 [God's presence] inspires in man an infallible trust. He has...the sight, that the best is the true, and may in that thought easily dismiss all particular uncertainties and fears...
    OS 2.295 24 Before that heaven which our presentiments foreshow us, we cannot easily praise any form of life we have seen or read of.
    Cir 2.303 11 A rich estate appears to women a firm and lasting fact; to a merchant, one easily created out of any materials, and easily lost.
    Art1 2.356 16 The best pictures can easily tell us their last secret.
    Pt1 3.18 27 ...the poet, who re-attaches things to nature and the Whole... disposes very easily of the most disagreeable facts.
    Pt1 3.19 22 A shrewd country-boy goes to the city for the first time, and the complacent citizen is not satisfied with his little wonder. It is not that he does not see all the fine houses...but he disposes of them as easily as the poet finds place for the railway.
    Exp 3.67 1 How easily, if fate would suffer it, we might keep forever these beautiful limits...
    Chr1 3.92 13 See [the man fortunate in trade] and you will know as easily why he succeeds, as, if you see Napoleon, you would comprehend his fortune.
    Chr1 3.109 1 How easily we read in old books...of the smallest action of the patriarchs.
    Mrs1 3.125 7 ...[my gentleman] has the private entrance to all minds, and I could as easily exclude myself, as him.
    Mrs1 3.134 11 I may easily go into a great household where there is much substance...and yet not encounter there any Amphitryon who shall subordinate these appendages.
    Mrs1 3.142 22 We may easily seem ridiculous in our eulogy of courtesy...
    Mrs1 3.148 22 In Shakspeare alone the speakers do not strut and bridle, the dialogue is easily great...
    Gts 3.161 7 ...we might convey to some person that which...was easily associated with him in thought.
    Nat2 3.170 21 How easily we might walk onward into the opening landscape...until by degrees the recollection of home was crowded out of the mind...
    Nat2 3.176 1 The moral sensibility which makes Edens and Tempes so easily, may not be always found, but the material landscape is never far off.
    Nat2 3.183 3 We may easily hear too much of rural influences.
    Nat2 3.194 15 If we measure our individual forces against [Nature's] we may easily feel as if we were the sport of an insuperable destiny.
    Pol1 3.206 2 A nation of men unanimously bent on freedom or conquest can easily confound the arithmetic of statists...
    Pol1 3.209 10 Ordinarily our parties are parties of circumstance, and not of principle;...parties which...can easily change ground with each other in the support of many of their measures.
    NR 3.226 16 Great men or men of great gifts you shall easily find...
    NR 3.229 19 We adjust our instrument for general observation, and sweep the heavens as easily as we pick out a single figure in the terrestrial landscape.
    NR 3.244 13 Jesus is not dead; he is very well alive: nor John, nor Paul, nor Mahomet, nor Aristotle; at times we believe we have seen them all, and could easily tell the names under which they go.
    NER 3.254 24 ...we are very easily disposed to resist the same generosity of speech when we miss originality and truth to character in it.
    NER 3.262 17 ...you must make me feel that you...by your natural and supernatural advantages do easily see to the end of [the institution]...
    NER 3.264 14 ...it may easily be questioned whether such a community will draw, except in its beginnings, the able and the good;...
    NER 3.274 11 ...Rousseau...Byron,--and I could easily add names nearer home...they would know the worst...
    UGM 4.12 17 ...in good faith, we are multiplied by our proxies. How easily we adopt their labors!
    UGM 4.14 13 Cecil's saying of Sir Walter Raleigh, I know that he can toil terribly, is an electric touch. So are Clarendon's portraits,--of Hampden...of Falkland, who was so severe an adorer of truth, that he could as easily have given himself leave to steal, as to dissemble.
    UGM 4.25 8 ...with the great, our thoughts and manners easily become great.
    UGM 4.28 27 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;...
    UGM 4.29 22 Serve the great. ... Never mind the taunt of Boswellism: the devotion may easily be greater than the wretched pride which is guarding its own skirts.
    PPh 4.43 27 [Plato]...is said to have had an early inclination for war, but, in his twentieth year, meeting with Socrates, was easily dissuaded from this pursuit...
    PPh 4.57 9 Where there is great compass of wit, we usually find excellencies that combine easily in the living man...
    PPh 4.72 8 ...[Socrates] showed one who was afraid to go on foot to Olympia, that it was no more than his daily walk within doors, if continuously extended, would easily reach.
    SwM 4.96 24 ...by being assimilated to the original soul...the soul of man does then easily flow into all things...
    SwM 4.121 9 [Swedenborg...poorly tethers every symbol to a several ecclesiastic sense. The slippery Proteus is not so easily caught.
    MoS 4.150 3 Each man is born with a predisposition to one or the other of these sides of nature [Sensation or Morals]; and it will easily happen that men will be found devoted to one or the other.
    MoS 4.183 8 All moods may be safely tried, and their weight allowed to all objections: the moral sentiment as easily outweighs them all, as any one.
    ShP 4.191 17 The court [in Shakespeare's time] took offence easily at political allusions and attempted to suppress [dramatic entertainments].
    ShP 4.197 19 ...in the whole society of English writers, a large unacknowledged debt [to Chaucer] is easily traced.
    GoW 4.265 14 The ambitious and mercenary bring their last new mumbo-jumbo... and...easily succed in making it seen in a glare;...
    GoW 4.268 6 The greatest action may easily be one of the most private circumstance.
    GoW 4.271 14 Goethe was the philosopher of this [modern] multiplicity;... a manly mind, unembarrassed by the variety of coats of convention with which life had got encrusted, easily able by his subtlety to pierce these...
    ET4 5.44 3 An ingenious anatomist [Robert Knox] has written a book to prove that races are imperishable, but nations are...easily changed or destroyed.
    ET7 5.119 2 [The English]...do not easily learn to make a show...
    ET7 5.121 7 [The English]...cannot easily change their opinions to suit the hour.
    ET8 5.128 12 [The English] are...not so easily amused as the southerners...
    ET8 5.129 27 In every [English] inn is the Commercial-Room, in which travellers, or bagmen who carry patterns and solicit orders for the manufacturers, are wont to be entertained. It easily happens that this class should characterize England to the foreigner...
    ET8 5.133 1 ...[young Englishmen]...measure their own strength by the terror they cause. These travellers are of every class...and it may easily happen that those of rudest behavior are taken notice of and remembered.
    ET8 5.138 16 [The English] are subject to panics of credulity and of rage, but the temper of the nation...settles itself soon and easily...
    ET10 5.161 2 Steam twines huge cannon into wreaths, as easily as it braids straw...
    ET11 5.185 12 If one asks...what service this class [English nobility] have rendered?--uses appear, or they would have perished long ago. Some of these are easily enumerated...
    ET11 5.186 10 ...[English nobility] see things so grouped and amassed as to infer easily the sum and genius...
    ET12 5.203 1 ...the committee charged with the affair [the purchase of Thomas Lawrence's art collection] had collected three thousand pounds, when, among other friends, they called on Lord Eldon. Instead of a hundred pounds, he surprised them by putting down his name for three thousand pounds. They told him they should now very easily raise the remainder.
    ET12 5.205 15 ...the known sympathy of entire Britain in what is done there [at the universities], justify a dedication to study in the undergraduate such as cannot easily be in America...
    ET16 5.275 10 I told Carlyle that I was easily dazzled, and was accustomed to concede readily all that an Englishman would ask;...
    ET16 5.276 2 I told Carlyle that...I like the [English] people;...but meantime, I surely know that as soon as I return to Massachusetts I shall lapse at once into the feeling...that England...must one day be contented...to be strong only in her children. But this was a proposition which no Englishman of whatever condition can easily entertain.
    ET16 5.282 21 The golden fleece again, of Jason, was the compass,--a bit of loadstone, easily supposed to be the only one in the world...
    ET16 5.287 15 I can easily see the bankruptcy of the vulgar musket-worship...
    Pow 6.56 23 [A strong pulse] is like the climate, which easily rears a crop which no glass, or irrigation, or tillage, or manures can elsewhere rival.
    Pow 6.58 10 ...if [the plus man] have the accidental advantage of personal ascendency...then quite easily...all his coadjutors and feeders will admit his right to absorb them.
    Pow 6.61 18 A timid man...might easily believe that he and his country have seen their best days...
    Pow 6.80 10 We can easily overpraise the vulgar hero.
    Wth 6.111 12 ...the subject [of economy] is tender, and we may easily have too much of it...
    Wth 6.112 5 Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other...
    Wth 6.116 5 [The land-owner] believes he composes easily on the hills.
    Ctr 6.154 17 The least habit of dominion over the palate has certain good effects not easily estimated.
    Ctr 6.161 12 ...a wise man who knows not only what Plato, but what Saint John can show him, can easily raise the affair he deals with to a certain majesty.
    Bhr 6.180 15 One comes away from a company in which, it may easily happen, he has said nothing...
    Bhr 6.185 14 In the shallow company, easily excited, easily tired, here is the columnar Bernard;...
    Bhr 6.186 9 Society...if you do not belong to it, resists and sneers at you, or quietly drops you. The first weapon enrages the party attacked; the second... is not to be resisted, as the date of the transaction is not easily found.
    Bhr 6.197 23 ...'t is a thousand to one that [the young girl's] air and manner will at once betray...that there is some other one or many of her class to whom she habitually postpones herself. But nature lifts her easily and without knowing it over these impossibilities...
    Wsp 6.235 14 A man, says Vishnu Sarma, who having well compared his own strength or weakness with that of others, after all doth not know the difference, is easily overcome by his enemies.
    CbW 6.269 21 ...fooling or dawdling can easily be borne;...
    CbW 6.272 22 Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can. This is the service of a friend. With him we are easily great.
    Bty 6.283 26 ...we prize very humble utilities, a prudent husband, a good son...and perhaps reckon only his money value...as a sort of bill of exchange easily convertible into fine chambers...
    Bty 6.293 19 All that is a little harshly claimed by progressive parties may easily come to be conceded without question, if this rule [of gradation] be observed.
    Bty 6.293 21 ...the circumstances may be easily imagined in which woman may speak, vote, argue causes, legislate and drive a coach...if only it come by degrees.
    Ill 6.313 26 ...the sots are easily amused.
    SS 7.13 15 We sink as easily as we rise, through sympathy.
    Civ 7.23 27 Poverty and industry with a healthy mind read very easily the laws of humanity...
    Elo1 7.74 23 ...whoever can say off currently, sentence by sentence, matter neither better nor worse than what is there [in the country newspaper] printed, will be very impressive to our easily pleased population.
    DL 7.103 2 The perfection of the providence for childhood is easily acknowledged.
    DL 7.119 17 There was never a country in the world which could so easily exhibit this heroism as ours;...
    DL 7.125 12 We are too easily pleased.
    Boks 7.189 2 It is easy to accuse books, and bad ones are easily found;...
    Boks 7.193 12 ...the number of printed books extant to-day may easily exceed a million.
    Boks 7.209 3 There is a class [of books] whose value I should designate as Favorites: such as Froissart's Chronicles;...Landor; and De Quincey;--a list, of course, that may easily be swelled...
    Clbs 7.229 15 [The student] seeks intelligent persons...who will give him provocation, and at once and easily the old motion begins in his brain...
    Clbs 7.234 21 ...I am to say that there may easily be obstacles in the way of finding the pure article [good company] we are in search of...
    Clbs 7.248 6 The hospitalities of clubs are easily exaggerated.
    Cour 7.264 8 ...the farmer is skilful to fight [the forest fire]. The neighbors run together;...and by raking with the hoe a long but little trench, confine to a patch the fire which would easily spread over a hundred acres.
    Cour 7.264 24 The eye is easily daunted;...
    Cour 7.268 3 There is...a courage which enables one man to speak masterly to a hostile company, whilst another man who can easily face a cannon's mouth dares not open his own.
    Cour 7.269 21 In all applications [courage] is the same power,--the habit of reference to one's own mind...which can easily dispose of any book because it can very well do without all books.
    Suc 7.287 6 I don't know but we and our race elsewhere set a higher value on wealth, victory and coarse superiority of all kinds, than other men...are less easily contented.
    Suc 7.288 6 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.
    Suc 7.306 13 ...the oracles are never silent; but the receiver must by a happy temperance be brought to...that frolic health, that he can easily take and give these fine communications.
    OA 7.323 8 Under the general assertion of the well-being of age, we can easily count particular benefits of that condition.
    OA 7.324 27 To secure strength, [Nature] plants cruel hunger and thirst, which so easily overdo their office, and invite disease.
    PI 8.32 22 We are dazzled at first by new words and brilliancy of color, which occupy the fancy and deceive the judgment. But all this is easily forgotten.
    PI 8.46 22 If you hum or whistle the rhythm of the common English metres...you can easily believe these metres to be organic...
    PI 8.50 18 ...every good reader will easily recall expressions or passages in works of pure science which have given him the same pleasure which he seeks in professed poets.
    PI 8.68 13 Better not to be easily pleased.
    PI 8.68 21 In proportion as a man's life comes into union with truth, his thoughts approach to a parallelism with the currents of natural laws, so that he easily expresses his meaning by natural symbols...
    PI 8.74 21 We too shall know how to take up...this Western civilization, into thought, as easily as men did when arts were few;...
    SA 8.86 11 A lady loses as soon as she admires too easily and too much.
    SA 8.88 18 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 an addition of confidence...
    SA 8.92 12 ...we are easily great with the loved and honored associate.
    SA 8.93 5 If every one recalled his experiences, he might find the best in the speech of superior women;--which...carried ingenuity, character, wise counsel and affection, as easily as the wit with which it was adorned.
    SA 8.102 4 I have been often impressed at our country town-meetings with the accumulated virility, in each village, of five or six or eight or ten men, who...so easily handle the affairs of the town.
    Elo2 8.122 16 I have heard that no man could read the Bible with such powerful effect [as John Quincy Adams]. I can easily believe it...
    QO 8.186 25 There are many fables which...are said to be agreeable to the human mind. Such are The Seven Sleepers, Gyge's Ring...whose omnipresence only indicates how easily a good story crosses all frontiers.
    QO 8.194 8 ...you can easily pronounce, from the use and relevancy of the sentence, whether it had not done duty many times before...
    PC 8.215 23 If [your public] are satisfied with cheap performance, you will not easily arrive at better.
    Insp 8.283 17 Goethe said to Eckermann, I work more easily when the barometer is high than when it is low.
    Imtl 8.337 26 ...I have enjoyed the benefits of all this complex machinery of arts and civilization, and its results of comfort. The good Power can easily provide me millions more as good.
    Dem1 10.16 22 This faith in a doting power, so easily sliding into the current belief everywhere...runs athwart the recognized agencies...which science and religion explore.
    Aris 10.36 9 The English government and people, or the French government, may easily make mistakes [in bestowing titles];...
    Aris 10.44 20 If I bring another [man into an estate], he sees what he should do with it. He appreciates the...land fit for...pasturage, wood-lot, cranberry-meadow; but just as easily he foresees all the means...
    Chr2 10.98 7 ...I may easily speak of that adorable nature, there where only I behold it in my dim experiences, in such terms as shall seem to the frivolous...as profane.
    Chr2 10.102 16 Character denotes...a balance not to be overset or easily disturbed by outward events and opinion...
    Chr2 10.116 2 This charm in the Pagan moralists, of suggestion, the charm...of mere truth (easily disengaged from their historical accidents which nobody wishes to force on us), the New Testament loses by its connection with a church.
    Plu 10.293 3 It is remarkable that of an author so familiar as Plutarch... whose history is so easily gathered from his works...not even the dates of his birth and death, should have come down to us.
    Plu 10.314 8 I can easily believe that an anxious soul may find in Plutarch' s chapter called Pleasure not attainable by Epicurus...a more sweet and reassuring argument on the immortality than in the Phaedo of Plato;...
    Plu 10.322 10 It is a service to our Republic to publish a book that can force ambitious young men...to read...the Apothegms of Great Commanders [of Plutarch]. If we could keep the secret, and communicate it only to a few chosen aspirants, we might confide that, by this noble infiltration, they would easily carry the victory over all competitors.
    LLNE 10.331 6 If any of my readers were at that period [1820] in Boston or Cambridge, they will easily remember [Everett's] radiant beauty of person...
    LLNE 10.344 13 Highly refined persons might easily miss in [Theodore Parker] the element of beauty.
    LLNE 10.355 17 In our free institutions...fortunes are easily made...
    MMEm 10.405 17 ...[Mary Moody Emerson] would easily rouse [the minister's] curiosity, as a person who could read his secret and tell him his fortune.
    MMEm 10.419 14 I [Mary Moody Emerson] praise Him, though when my strength of body falters, it is a trial not easily described.
    SlHr 10.441 10 ...[Samuel Hoar]...might easily suggest Milton's picture of John Bradshaw...
    Thor 10.453 27 [Thoreau] could easily solve the problems of the surveyor...
    GSt 10.502 23 ...[George Stearns's] interest [in Kansas] was so manifestly pure and sincere that he easily obtained eager offerings in quarters where other petitioners failed.
    LS 11.8 6 [Jesus] may have foreseen that his disciples would meet to remember him, and that with good effect. It may have crossed his mind that this would be easily continued a hundred or a thousand years...
    LS 11.8 8 ...men more easily transmit a form than a virtue...
    LS 11.14 20 ...it is contrary to all reason to suppose that God should work a miracle to convey information that could so easily be got by natural means.
    HDC 11.31 25 Mr. Bulkeley, having turned his estate into money and set his face towards New England, was easily able to persuade a good number of planters to join him.
    HDC 11.33 23 Much time was lost in travelling [the pilgrims] knew not whither...for...the Indian paths, once lost, they did not easily find.
    War 11.175 18 ...the mind, once prepared for the reign of principles, will easily find modes of expressing its will.
    ACiv 11.308 18 ...this action [emancipation], which costs so little (the parties being injured by it being such a handful that they can very easily be indemnified) rids the world, at one stroke, of this degrading nuisance [slavery]...
    EPro 11.323 7 [The Civil War] might have begun otherwise or elsewhere, but...it was written on the iron leaf, and you might as easily dodge gravitation.
    ALin 11.331 27 ...it turned out that [Lincoln]...worked easily.
    ALin 11.332 24 ...[Lincoln's] broad good humor, running easily into jocular talk...was a rich gift to this wise man.
    ALin 11.334 2 ...[Lincoln's] brief speech at Gettysburg will not easily be surpassed by words on any recorded occasion.
    EdAd 11.391 23 What will easily seem to many a far higher question than any other is that which respects the embodying of the Conscience of the period.
    EdAd 11.392 26 The health which we call Virtue is an equipoise which easily redresses itself...
    EdAd 11.393 8 ...a few friends of good letters have thought fit to associate themselves for the conduct of a new journal. We have obeyed the custom and convenience of the time in adopting this form of a Review, as a mould into which all metal most easily runs.
    Wom 11.424 9 ...let [women] have and hold and give their property as men do theirs;-and in a few years it will easily appear whether they wish a voice in making the laws that are to govern them.
    RBur 11.440 18 They that looked into [Burns's] eyes saw that they might look down the sky as easily.
    Shak1 11.452 18 ...Shakspeare...simply by his colossal proportions, dwarfs the geniuses of Elizabeth as easily as the wits of Anne...
    Shak1 11.452 26 ...there are some men so born to live well that, in whatever company they fall,-high or low,-they fit well, and lead it! but, being advanced to a higher class, they are just as much in their element as before, and easily command...
    Scot 11.465 20 By nature, by his reading and taste an aristocrat, in a time and country which easily gave him that bias, [Scott] had the virtues and graces of that class...
    FRO2 11.487 7 [Thought] is easily carried; it takes no room;...
    CPL 11.495 20 Happier, if [the town] contain citizens who...make costly gifts to education, civility and culture, as in the act we are met to witness and acknowledge to-day [opening of the Concord Library]. I think we cannot easily overestimate the benefit conferred.
    CPL 11.497 1 If you consider what has befallen you when reading...a tragedy, or a novel, even, that deeply interested you...you will easily admit the wonderful property of books to make all towns equal...
    FRep 11.514 17 In our popular politics you may note that each aspirant who rises above the crowd...soon learns...that the only title...to a larger following, is to see for himself what is the real public interest, and to stand for that;-that is a principle, and all the cheering and hissing of the crowd must by and by accommodate itself to it. Our times easily afford you very good examples.
    FRep 11.517 9 ...a court or an aristocracy, which must always be a small minority, can more easily run into follies than a republic...
    FRep 11.522 14 [The American] is easily fed with wheat and game...
    FRep 11.528 10 All this [American] forwardness and self-reliance... proceed on the belief...that [the people's] union and law are not in their memory, but in their blood and condition. If they unmake a law, they can easily make a new one.
    FRep 11.532 4 Our people are too slight and vain. They are easily elated and easily depressed.
    FRep 11.532 5 Our people are too slight and vain. They are easily elated and easily depressed.
    FRep 11.532 21 ...as soon as the success stops and the admirable man blunders, [our people] quit him;...and they transfer the repute of judgment to the next prosperous person who has not yet blundered. Of course this levity makes them as easily despond.
    PLT 12.27 1 The mechanical laws might as easily be shown pervading the kingdom of mind as the vegetative.
    PLT 12.45 23 There are men...who easily entertain ideas, but are not exact...
    PLT 12.47 23 By and by comes a facility; some one that can move the mountain and build of it a causeway through the Dismal Swamp, as easily as he carries the hair on his head.
    PLT 12.60 27 ...each [mind and heart] is easily exalted in our thoughts till it serves to fill the universe and become the synonym of God...
    II 12.72 11 One master could so easily be conceived as writing all the books of the world.
    Mem 12.108 6 I...can drop easily many poets out of the Elizabethan chronology, but not Shakspeare.
    CInt 12.130 19 Go sit with the Hermit in you, who knows more than you do. You will find...doors opened to grander entertainments. Yet all comes easily that he does...
    CL 12.138 24 [Linnaeus] found out that a terrible distemper which sometimes proves fatal in the north of Europe, was occasioned by an animalcule...which falls from the air on the face, or hand, or other uncovered part, burrows into it, multiplies and kills the sufferer. By timely attention, it is easily extracted.
    Bost 12.190 27 In our beautiful [Boston] bay...a good boatman can easily find his way for the first time to the State House...
    MAng1 12.222 14 Not easily in this age will any man acquire by himself such perceptions of the dignity or grace of the human frame as the student of art owes to the remains of Phidias...
    MAng1 12.234 13 When [Michelangelo] was informed that Paul IV. desired he should paint again the side of the chapel where the Last Judgment was painted, because of the indecorous nudity of the figures, he replied, Tell the Pope that this is easily done. Let him reform the world and he will find the pictures will reform themselves.
    Milt1 12.270 7 [Milton] told the Parliament that the imprimaturs of Lambeth House had been writ in Latin; for that our English...will not easily find servile letters enow to spell such a dictatory presumption.
    ACri 12.297 4 We have an artist [Carlyle] who in this merit of which I speak [mastery of the low style] will easily cope with these celebrities.
    MLit 12.313 3 We can easily concede that a steadfast tendency of this sort [toward subjectiveness] appears in modern literature.
    WSL 12.338 26 [Landor's] partialities and dislikes...often whimsical and amusing; yet they are quite sincere and...are easily separable from the man.
    EurB 12.373 9 ...we can easily believe that the behavior of the ball-room and of the hotel has not failed to draw some addition of dignity and grace from the fair ideals with which the imagination of a novelist has filled the heads of the most imitative class.
    PPr 12.385 21 ...we may easily fail in expressing the general objection [to Carlyle's Past and Present] which we feel.
    PPr 12.387 26 ...the manifold and increasing dangers of the English State, may easily excuse some over-coloring of the picture;...
    Let 12.402 22 It may easily happen that we are grown very idle, and must go to work...
    Trag 12.411 16 The spirit...learns to live in what is called calamity as easily as in what is called felicity;...

easiness, n. (1)

    ACri 12.296 19 [Herrick was] Like Montaigne in this, that...he knew what he spake of...and took his level, so that he had all his strength, the easiness of strength;...

east, adj. (10)

    Fdsp 2.191 3 Maugre all the selfishness that chills like east winds the world, the whole human family is bathed with an element of love like a fine ether.
    Pol1 3.208 18 We might as wisely reprove the east wind or the frost, as a political party...
    ET2 5.27 4 ...[the good ship] has reached the Banks;...gulls, haglets, ducks, petrels, swim, dive and hover around; no fishermen; she has passed the Banks, left five sail behind her far on the edge of the west at sundown, which were far east of us at morn...
    PPo 8.240 18 Solomon had three talismans...the third, the east wind, which was his horse.
    PPo 8.241 4 When all [the troops and spirits] were in order, the east wind, at [Solomon's] command, took up the carpet and transported with all that were upon it, whither he pleased...
    MoL 10.244 7 On the south and east shores of the Mediterranean Mahomet impressed his fierce genius how deeply into the manners, language and poetry of Arabia and Persia!
    HDC 11.38 10 ...after the bargain [for Concord] was concluded, Mr. Simon Willard, pointing to the four corners of the world, declared that they had bought three miles from that place, east, west, north and south.
    HDC 11.75 7 The militia and minute-men...ran...into the east quarter of the town [Concord]...
    Bost 12.185 16 [Boston] is not a country of luxury or of pictures; of snows rather, of east winds and changing skies;...
    ACri 12.302 10 [Channing] is the April day incarnated and walking...sour east wind and flowery southwest...

East, adj. (2)

    HDC 11.42 3 ...the town [Concord] having divided itself into three districts, called the North, South and East quarters, ordered that the North quarter are to keep and maintain all their highways and bridges over the great river, in their quarter...
    HDC 11.42 8 ...the town [Concord]...ordered that the North quarter are to keep and maintain all their highways and bridges over the great river, in their quarter, and...in regard of the ease of the East quarter above the rest, in their highways, they are to allow the North quarter 3 pounds.

east, adv. (8)

    Hist 2.36 6 In old Rome the public roads beginning at the Forum proceeded north, south, east, west...
    SL 2.148 20 [A man] is like a quincunx of trees, which counts five,--east, west, north, or south;...
    Ctr 6.154 5 What is odious but...people whose vane points always east...
    SA 8.96 11 Let us not look east and west for materials of conversation...
    QO 8.191 19 Many will read the book before one thinks of quoting a passage. As soon as he has done this, that line will be quoted east and west.
    Insp 8.269 24 The hunter on the prairie, at the right season, has no need of choosing his ground; east, west, by the river, by the timber, he is everywhere near his game.
    Koss 11.396 7 God said, I am tired of kings,/ I suffer them no more;/ Up to my ear the morning brings/ The outrage of the poor./ My angel,-his name is Freedom,-/ Choose him to be your king;/ He shall cut pathways east and west,/ And fend you with his wing./
    MLit 12.312 22 The poetry and speculation of the age are marked by a certain philosophic turn, which discriminates them from the works of earlier times. The poet is not content to see...of Hardiknute, Stately stept he east the wa,/ And stately stept he west,/...

East, adv. (1)

    PPh 4.42 22 Plato absorbed the learning of his time...and finding himself still capable of a larger synthesis...he travelled...into Egypt, and perhaps still farther East...

East India Company, n. (2)

    HDC 11.69 9 ...the British parliament have empowered the East India Company to export their tea into America...
    HDC 11.70 6 ...if any person or persons...shall...be factors for the East India Company, we will treat them...as enemies to their country...

East India Company's, n. (1)

    HDC 11.69 14 ...we will not, in this town [Concord]...buy, sell, or use any of the East India Company's tea...

East India House, n. (1)

    ET10 5.155 16 From the Exchequer and the East India House to the huckster's shop, every thing [in England] prospers because it is solvent.

East Indian, adj. (2)

    ET16 5.281 16 ...was [Stonehenge]...identical in design and style with the East Indian temples of the sun...
    Trag 12.407 11 The same idea [of Fate] makes the paralyzing terror with which the East Indian mythology haunts the imagination.

East Indies, n. (4)

    ET8 5.129 20 Commerce sends abroad multitudes of different classes [of Englishmen]. The choleric Welshman, the fervid Scot, the bilious resident in the East or West Indies, are wide of the perfect behavior of the educated and dignified man of family [in England].
    ET8 5.137 13 ...[the English] administer, in different parts of the world, the codes of every empire and race;...in the East Indies, the Laws of Menu;...
    EWI 11.111 18 ...when...some Quakers, or Moravians, and Wesleyan and Baptist missionaries, following in the steps of Carey and Ward in the East Indies, had been moved to come [the the West Indies] and cheer the poor victim...these missionaries were persecuted by the planters...
    PPr 12.390 20 Carlyle's style is the first emergence of all this wealth and labor with which the world has gone with child so long. London and Europe...with trade-nobility, and East and West Indies for dependencies; and America...have never before been conquered in literature.

east, n. (14)

    Nat 1.18 4 The leafless trees become spires of flame in the sunset, with the blue east for their background...
    OS 2.265 1 Space is ample, east and west,/ But two cannot go abreast,/ Cannot travel in it two/...
    Exp 3.43 13 The lords of life, the lords of life,--/ I saw them pass,/ In their own guise,/ .../ Some to see, some to be guessed,/ They marched from east to west/...
    Nat2 3.167 6 Though baffled seers cannot impart/ The secret of [world's] laboring heart,/ Throb thine with Nature's throbbing breast,/ And all is clear from east to west./
    ET2 5.30 1 A rising of the sea...say an inch in a century, from east to west on the land, will bury all the towns, monuments, bones and knowledge of mankind...
    ET3 5.37 3 ...to resist the tyranny and prepossession of the British element, a serious man must aid himself by comparing with it the civilizations of the farthest east and west...
    ET16 5.282 5 ...here is the high point of the theory: the Druids had the magnet; laid their courses by it; their cardinal points in Stonehenge, Ambresbury, and elsewhere, which vary a little from true east and west, followed the variations of the compass.
    Ill 6.318 8 ...[Columbus] found the illusion of arriving from the east at the Indies more composing to his lofty spirit than any tobacco.
    Grts 8.306 13 ...whilst ordinarily magnetism of steel is from north to south, in other substances, gases, it acts from east to west.
    Imtl 8.349 7 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.
    FRep 11.543 15 We shall stand...for vast interests; north and south, east and west will be present to our minds...

East, n. (31)

    AmS 1.91 19 ...when the sun is hid and the stars withdraw their shining, - we repair to the lamps...to guide our steps to the East again, where the dawn is.
    DSA 1.126 14 This [moral] thought dwelled always deepest in the minds of men in the devout and contemplative East;...
    YA 1.394 1 In the East, where the religious sentiment comes in to the support of the aristocracy...there is a grain of sweetness in the tyranny;...
    Hist 2.28 17 The priestcraft of the East and West...is expounded in the individual's private life.
    PPh 4.48 17 All philosophy, of East and West, has the same centripetence.
    PPh 4.49 11 The raptures of prayer and ecstasy of devotion lose all being in one Being. This tendency finds its highest expression in the religious writings of the East...
    PPh 4.52 20 If the East loved infinity, the West delighted in boundaries.
    PPh 4.66 7 In the doctrine of the organic character and disposition is the origin of caste. ... The East confirms itself, in all ages, in this faith.
    ET18 5.301 16 [The English] have...put an end to human sacrifices in the East.
    CbW 6.254 4 ...the cruel wars which followed the march of Alexander introduced the civility, language and arts of Greece into the savage East;...
    Elo1 7.70 13 It is said that the Khans or story-tellers in Ispahan and other cities of the East, attain a controlling power over their audience...
    DL 7.124 9 In men, it is their...removal to the East or to the West, or some other magnified trifle which makes the meridian movement...
    Cour 7.253 15 ...when [men] see [the preference to the general good] proved by sacrifices of ease, wealth, rank, and of life itself, there is no limit to their admiration. This has made the power of the saints of the East and West...
    PI 8.74 24 The intellect...uses London and Paris and Berlin, East and West, to its end.
    PPo 8.238 4 Life in the East is fierce, short, hazardous, and in extremes.
    PPo 8.240 4 He who would understand the influence of the Homeric ballads in the heroic ages should witness the effect which similar compositions have upon the wild nomads of the East.
    PPo 8.243 10 Gnomic verses...were always current in the East;...
    PPo 8.252 24 Out of the East, and out of the West, no man understands me;/ O, the happier I, who confide to none but the wind!/
    Chr2 10.90 2 For what need I of book or priest/ Or Sibyl from the mummied East/ When every star is Bethlehem Star,-/...
    Supl 10.176 18 ...in the East [the superlative] is animated...
    Supl 10.176 22 ...[Nature] creates in the East the uncontrollable yearning to escape from limitation into the vast and boundless;...
    MoL 10.257 21 Battle, with the sword, has cut many a Gordian knot in twain which all the wit of East and West, of Northern and Border statesmen could not untie.
    Plu 10.318 21 The union in Alexander of sublime courage with the refinement of his pure tastes, making him the carrier of civilization into the East...endeared him to Plutarch.
    LS 11.19 2 ...the use of the elements [of the Lord's Supper], however suitable to the people and modes of thought in the East...is foreign and unsuited to affect us.
    War 11.153 14 Plutarch...considers the invasion and conquest of the East by Alexander as one of the most bright and pleasing pages in history;...
    EPro 11.314 17 Come, East and West and North,/ By races, as snow-flakes,/ And carry my purpose forth,/ Which neither halts nor shakes./
    Wom 11.414 11 ...in the East...Woman yet occupies the same leading position, as a prophetess, that she has among the ancient Greeks...
    RBur 11.441 25 What a love of Nature [in Burns], and, shall I say it? of middle-class Nature. Not like...Moore, in the luxurious East...
    ChiE 11.470 1 Nature creates in the East the uncontrollable yearning to escape from limitation into the vast and boundless...
    CW 12.173 6 I [Linnaeus] possess here [in the Academy Garden] all that I desire of the spoils of the East and the West...
    Trag 12.412 5 The Egyptian sphinxes, which sit to-day...with their stony eyes fixed on the East and on the Nile, have countenances expressive of complacency and repose...

Easter [George Herbert], n. (1)

    PI 8.55 28 Keats disclosed by certain lines in his Hyperion this inward skill; and Coleridge showed at least his love and appetency for it. It appears in...Herbert's Virtue and Easter...

Easter, n. (2)

    LS 11.3 23 In the Fourth Lateran Council, it was decreed that any believer should communicate at least once in a year,-at Easter.
    LS 11.4 2 In the Fourth Lateran Council, it was decreed that any believer should communicate at least once in a year,-at Easter. Afterwards it was determined that this Sacrament should be received three times in the year,- at Easter, Whitsuntide and Christmas.

eastern, adj. (7)

    DSA 1.130 21 ...by this eastern monarchy of a Christianity...the friend of man is made the injurer of man.
    MN 1.221 1 ...we also can bask in the great morning which rises forever out of the eastern sea...
    YA 1.365 19 Columbus alleged as a reason for seeking a continent in the West, that the harmony of nature required a great tract of land in the western hemisphere, to balance the known extent of land in the eastern;...
    Chr1 3.109 9 The most credible pictures are those of majestic men who prevailed at their entrance, and convinced the senses; as happened to the eastern magian who was sent to test the merits of Zertusht or Zoroaster.
    MMEm 10.412 17 ...in dead of night, nearer morning, when the eastern stars glow...then, however awed, who can fear?
    EWI 11.126 16 ...[British merchants] saw further that the slave-trade, by keeping in barbarism the whole coast of eastern Africa, deprives them of countries and nations of customers...
    SHC 11.433 23 Here [at Sleepy Hollow] we may establish that most agreeable of all museums...an Arboretum,-wherein may be planted...every tree that is native to Massachusetts...so that every child may be shown growing...the beech, which we have allowed to die out of the eastern counties;...

Eastern, adj. (17)

    DSA 1.151 8 I look for the hour when that supreme Beauty which ravished the souls of those Eastern men...shall speak in the West also.
    PPh 4.53 23 ...Plato, in Egypt and in Eastern pilgrimages, imbibed the idea of one Deity...
    MoS 4.178 14 The Eastern sages owned the goddess Yoganidra, the great illusory energy of Vishnu, by whom, as utter ignorance, the whole world is beguiled.
    F 6.12 27 I find the coincidence of the extremes of Eastern and Western speculation in the daring statement of Schelling...
    CbW 6.273 1 An Eastern poet...writes with sad truth:--He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare,/ And he who has one enemy shall meet him everywhere./
    Elo1 7.71 2 The more indolent and imaginative complexion of the Eastern nations makes them much more impressible by these appeals to the fancy.
    PPo 8.239 7 The favor of the climate...allows to the Eastern nations a highly intellectual organization...
    PPo 8.240 12 The principal figure in the allusions of Eastern poetry is Solomon.
    PPo 8.258 12 Friendship is a favorite topic of the Eastern poets...
    Supl 10.179 2 The Northern genius finds itself singularly refreshed and stimulated by the breadth and luxuriance of Eastern imagery and modes of thinking...
    Supl 10.179 7 There is no writing which has more electric power to unbind and animate the torpid intellect than the bold Eastern muse.
    SovE 10.191 13 An Eastern poet...said that God had made justice so dear to the heart of Nature that, if any injustice lurked anywhere under the sky, the blue vault would shrivel to a snake-skin and cast it out by spasms.
    EzRy 10.390 20 We remember the remark made by the old farmer who used to travel hither from Maine, that no horse from the Eastern country would go by the Doctor's [Ezra Ripley's] gate.
    LS 11.19 23 If I believed [the Lord's Supper] was enjoined by Jesus on his disciples, and that he even contemplated making permanent this mode of commemoration, every way agreeable to an Eastern mind, and yet on trial it was disagreeable to my own feelings, I should not adopt it.
    Wom 11.414 23 In barbarous society the position of women is always low-in the Eastern nations lower than in the West.
    SHC 11.434 13 What is the Earth itself but...according to the Eastern fable, a bridge full of holes, into one or other of which all passengers sink to silence?
    CL 12.133 6 What boots it here of Thebes or Rome,/ Or lands of Eastern day?/ In forests I am still at home/ And there I cannot stray./

Eastern Empire, n. (1)

    OA 7.322 10 ...if the life be true and noble, we have quite another sort of seniors than the...dotards who are falsely old,--namely, the men...who appearing in any street, the people empty their houses to gaze at and obey them:...as blind old Dandolo...elected at the age of ninety-six to the throne of the Eastern Empire...

Eastern Europe, n. (1)

    ET8 5.140 26 ...if hereafter the war of races, often predicted, and making itself a war of opinions also (a question of despotism and liberty coming from Eastern Europe), should menace the English civilization, these sea-kings may take once again to their floating castles...

Eastern States, n. (1)

    ALin 11.330 25 Mr. Seward...was the favorite of the Eastern States.

eastward, adv. (1)

    Bost 12.182 2 The rocky nook with hilltops three/ Looked eastward from the farms,/ And twice each day the flowing sea/ Took Boston in its arms./

eastward, n. (1)

    II 12.84 4 [Men slow in finding their vocation] ripen too slowly than that the determination should appear in this brief life. As with our Catawbas and Isabellas at the eastward, the season is not quite long enough for them.

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