Effeminacy to Elicits

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

effeminacy, n. (6)

    Nat 1.19 24 The high and divine beauty which can be loved without effeminacy, is that which is found in combination with the human will.
    MR 1.242 10 ...the faults and vices of our literature and philosophy, their too great...effeminacy...are attributable to the enervated and sickly habits of the literary class.
    ET4 5.68 7 Admiral Rodney's figure approached to delicacy and effeminacy...
    ET4 5.68 14 Clarendon says the Duke of Buckingham was so modest and gentle, that some courtiers attempted to put affronts on him, until they found that this modesty and effeminacy was only a mask for the most terrible determination.
    Schr 10.265 6 ...[poets] sit white over their stoves, and talk themselves hoarse over the...the effeminacy of book-makers.
    Plu 10.315 8 ...this Stoic [Plutarch] in his fight...with vices, effeminacy and indolence, is gentle as a woman when other strings are touched.

effeminate, adj. (6)

    Con 1.323 10 The man of courage and resources is shown [in war or anarchy], and the effeminate and base person.
    Art1 2.366 27 As soon as beauty is sought...for pleasure, it degrades the seeker. ...an effeminate, prudent, sickly beauty, which is not beauty, is all that can be formed;...
    Cour 7.275 24 Scholars and thinkers are prone to an effeminate habit...
    Schr 10.267 27 I do not wish to see you effeminate gownsmen...
    FSLC 11.182 2 Every liberal study is discredited [by the Fugitive Slave Law],-literature and science appear effeminate...
    MLit 12.329 21 [We can fancy Goethe saying to himself] Fierce churchmen and effeminate aspirants will chide and hate my name, but every keen beholder of life will justify my truth [in Wilhelm Meister]...

effeminated, v. (1)

    F 6.13 18 [Conservatives] have been effeminated by position or nature...

effeminates, v. (1)

    Wsp 6.239 20 What is called religion effeminates and demoralizes.

effeminating, adj. (1)

    Schr 10.267 2 ...[the cant of the time] believes that ideas do not lead to the owning of stocks; they are perplexing and effeminating.

effeminating, v. (1)

    Wsp 6.207 22 I do not find the religions of men at this moment very creditable to them, but either childish and insignificant or unmanly and effeminating.

effervescence, n. (2)

    OA 7.319 16 ...we one day discover that our literary talent was a youthful effervescence which we have now lost.
    FRep 11.530 12 The revolution [in America] is...the eternal effervescence of Nature.

effet, n. (1)

    UGM 4.6 21 Peu de moyens, beaucoup d'effet.

effete, adj. (7)

    YA 1.367 17 ...sculpture, painting, and religious and civil architecture have become effete...
    NR 3.240 17 Here is a new enterprise of Brook Farm...why so impatient to baptize them...Shakers, or by any known and effete name?
    ET14 5.243 12 ...history reckons epochs in which the intellect of famed races became effete.
    F 6.19 3 Famine, typhus, frost, war, suicide and effete races must be reckoned calculable parts of the system of the world.
    SA 8.77 2 When the old world is sterile/ And the ages are effete,/ He will from wrecks and sediment/ The fairer world complete./
    MoL 10.248 13 If churches are effete, it is because the new Heaven forms.
    Let 12.404 6 Apathies and total want of work...never will obtain any sympathy if there is...an unweeded patch in the garden; not to mention the graver absurdity of a youth of noble aims who can find no field for his energies, whilst...the religious, civil and judicial forms of the country are confessedly effete and offensive.

efficacy, n. (3)

    Chr1 3.112 6 Could we not deal with a few persons,--with one person,-- after the unwritten statutes, and make an experiment of their efficacy?
    Pow 6.71 23 We say...that [success] is of main efficacy in carrying on the world...
    EdAd 11.388 17 The young intriguers who drive in bar-rooms and town-meetings the trade of politics...have put the country into the position of an overgrown bully, and Massachusetts finds no heart or head to give weight and efficacy to her contrary judgment.

efficiency, n. (9)

    Nat2 3.185 11 ...without this violence of direction which men and women have...no excitement, no efficiency.
    Pol1 3.213 20 The wise man [the community] cannot find in nature, and it makes awkward but earnest efforts...to secure the advantages of efficiency and internal peace by confiding the government to one, who may himself select his agents.
    F 6.17 26 This kind of talent so abounds, this constructive tool-making efficiency, as if it adhered to the chemic atoms;...
    Ctr 6.131 19 Our efficiency depends so much on our concentration, that nature usually in the instances where a marked man is sent into the world, overloads him with bias...
    Elo1 7.89 7 Next to the knowledge of the fact and its law is method, which constitutes the genius and efficiency of all remarkable men.
    Suc 7.294 24 The time your rival spends in dressing up his work for effect... you spend in study and experiments towards real knowledge and efficiency.
    Elo2 8.115 4 ...in contrast with the efficiency [the orator] suggests, our actual life and society appears a dormitory.
    EPro 11.325 19 The malignant cry of the Secession press within the free states, and the recent action of the Confederate Congress, are decisive as to [the Emancipation Proclamation's] efficiency and correctness of aim.
    PLT 12.54 5 ...without the violence of direction that men have...no excitement, no efficiency.

efficient, adj. (9)

    AmS 1.88 14 ...neither can any artist entirely...write a book of pure thought, that shall be as efficient...to a remote posterity, as to contemporaries...
    Prd1 2.227 13 The good husband finds method as efficient in the packing of fire-wood in a shed...as in Peninsular campaigns...
    ET4 5.71 11 If in every efficient man there is first a fine animal, in the English race it is of the best breed...
    Pow 6.80 23 ...every man is efficient only as he is a container or vessel of this force [spirit]...
    DL 7.119 18 There was...never any [country in the world] where the state has made such efficient provision for popular education...
    Clbs 7.225 19 ...every healthy and efficient mind passes a large part of life in the company most easy to him.
    GSt 10.507 13 Almost I am ready to say to these mourners [of George Stearns], Be not too proud in your grief, when you remember that there is... not a Southern State in which the freedmen will not learn to-day from their preachers that one of their most efficient benefactors has departed...
    HDC 11.71 27 This body [the Provincial Congress]...adopted those efficient measures whose progress and issue belong to the history of the nation.
    EurB 12.377 12 Of the tales of fashionable life, by far the most agreeable and the most efficient was Vivian Grey.

Efficient Nature, n. (1)

    Nat2 3.179 10 ...let us not longer omit our homage to the Efficient Nature...

efficiently, adv. (1)

    SovE 10.203 12 [Our religion] visits us only on some exceptional and ceremonial occasion...perhaps on a sublime national victory or a peace. But that, be sure, is not the religion of the universal, unsleeping providence, which lurks in trifles...as efficiently as in our proclamations and successes.

effigies, n. (1)

    UGM 4.3 18 ...[great men's] works and effigies are in our houses...

effigy, n. (4)

    Fdsp 2.197 20 Thou [my friend] art not Being...thou art not my soul, but a picture and effigy of that.
    SwM 4.115 2 Every particular idea of man...is an image and effigy of him.
    MoS 4.166 24 As I look at [Montaigne's] effigy opposite the title-page, I seem to hear him say, You may play old Poz, if you will;...
    QO 8.197 21 ...James Hogg...is but a third-rate author, owing his fame to his effigy colossalized through the lens of John Wilson...

efflorescence, n. (2)

    WD 7.182 14 The masters of English lyric wrote their songs [for joy]. It was a fine efflorescence of fine powers;...
    LLNE 10.357 19 I regard these philanthropists as themselves the effects of the age in which we live, and...the efflorescence of the period and predicting a good fruit that ripens.

effluvia, n. (1)

    SwM 4.125 16 [To Swedenborg] Bird and beast is...emanation and effluvia of the minds and wills of men there present.

efflux, n. (4)

    AmS 1.90 20 Whatever talents may be, if the man create not, the pure efflux of the Deity is not his;...
    Cir 2.310 2 ...all nature is the rapid efflux of goodness executing and organizing itself.
    Boks 7.211 26 Now and then out of that affluence of [the German's] learning comes a fine sentence from Theophrastus, or Seneca, or Boethius, but no high method, no inspiring efflux.
    CL 12.157 10 Can you bottle the efflux of a June noon...

effluxion, n. (1)

    Schr 10.272 9 Gold and silver, says one of the Platonists, grow in the earth from the celestial gods,-an effluxion from them.

effort, n. (54)

    Nat 1.49 20 The first effort of thought tends to relax this despotism of the senses which binds us to nature as if we were a part of it...
    MR 1.248 23 ...it would be like dying of perfumes to sink in the effort to re-attach the deeds of every day to the holy and mysterious recesses of life.
    LT 1.271 9 The conscience of the Age demonstrates itself in this effort to raise the life of man by putting it in harmony with his idea of the Beautiful and the Just.
    LT 1.272 3 Out of this fair Idea in the mind springs the effort at the Perfect.
    LT 1.280 1 If, [the man of ideas] says, I am selfish, then is there slavery, or the effort to establish it, wherever I go.
    Tran 1.357 5 ...the strong spirits overpower those around them without effort.
    YA 1.372 22 Remark the unceasing effort throughout nature at somewhat better than the actual creatures...
    SR 2.47 26 ...we are...guides, redeemers and benefactors, obeying the Almighty effort...
    SL 2.133 10 ...education often wastes its effort in attempts to thwart and balk this natural magnetism...
    SL 2.139 22 Place yourself in the middle of the stream of power and wisdom...and you are without effort impelled to truth...
    SL 2.154 25 The permanence of all books is fixed by no effort...
    OS 2.278 10 We owe many valuable observations to people...who say the thing without effort which we want...
    OS 2.285 19 We know...whether that which we teach or behold is only an aspiration or is our honest effort also.
    Cir 2.304 7 ...it is the inert effort of each thought, having formed itself into a circular wave of circumstance...to heap itself on that ridge...
    Cir 2.307 4 The continual effort to raise himself above himself...betrays itself in a man's relations.
    Int 2.329 3 We are the prisoners of ideas. They...so fully engage us that we...gaze like children, without an effort to make them our own.
    Int 2.329 25 In every man's mind, some...facts remain, without effort on his part to imprint them, which others forget...
    Art1 2.363 5 The real value of the Iliad or the Transfiguration is as signs of power;...tokens of the everlasting effort to produce...
    Art1 2.366 17 Art makes the same effort which a sensual prosperity makes;...
    NR 3.236 1 [Persons] melt so fast into each other that...it needs an effort to treat them as individuals.
    NR 3.236 27 Everything must have its flower or effort at the beautiful...
    UGM 4.26 11 We learn of our contemporaries what they know without effort...
    PPh 4.78 8 ...admirable texts can be quoted on both sides of every great question from [Plato]. These things we are forced to say if we must consider the effort of Plato or of any philosopher to dispose of nature,-- which will not be disposed of.
    SwM 4.138 20 ...the divine effort is never relaxed;...
    ShP 4.213 5 ...[Shakespeare] is strong, as nature is strong, who lifts the land into mountain slopes without effort...
    ET11 5.186 20 [The English upper classes] have the sense of superiority, the absence of all the ambitious effort which disgusts in the aspiring classes...
    F 6.35 21 No statement of the Universe can have any soundness which does not admit [Fate's] ascending effort.
    Pow 6.54 13 ...belief in compensation...characterizes all valuable minds, and must control every effort that is made by an industrious one.
    Ctr 6.166 13 ...if one shall read the future of the race hinted in the organic effort of nature to mount and meliorate, and the corresponding impulse to the Better in the human being, we shall dare affirm that there is nothing he will not overcome and convert...
    Bty 6.298 11 That Beauty is the normal state is shown by the perpetual effort of nature to attain it.
    WD 7.181 26 We do not want factitious men, who can...turn their ability indifferently in any particular direction by the strong effort of will.
    WD 7.182 2 ...what has been best done in the world,--the works of genius,-- cost nothing. There is no painful effort...
    PI 8.72 11 The habit of saliency, or not pausing but going on, is a sort of importation or domestication of the Divine effort in a man.
    SA 8.91 23 ...in the effort to unfold our thought to a friend we make it clearer to ourselves...
    PC 8.226 25 There is anything but humiliation in the homage men pay to a great man; it is sympathy...effort to reach them...
    Insp 8.281 22 ...in writing a letter to a friend we may find that we rise to a thought and to a cordial power of expression that costs no effort...
    Dem1 10.23 9 ...the so-called fortunate man is one...who...waits his time, and without effort acts when the need is.
    PerF 10.77 21 Every valuable person who joins in an enterprise,-is it...the reform of some public abuse, or some effort of patriotism,-what he chiefly brings...is...his thoughts...
    PerF 10.84 18 The effort of men is to use [things] for private ends.
    Edc1 10.159 1 According to the depth from which you draw your life, such is the depth not only of your strenuous effort, but of your manners and presence.
    SovE 10.183 21 ...this self-help and self-creation [in plants and animals] proceed from the same original power which works remotely in grandest and meanest structures by the same design,-works in a lobster or a mite-worm as a wise man would if imprisoned in that poor form. 'T is the effort of God...in the extremest frontier of his universe.
    LS 11.18 4 ...I believe...that every effort to pay religious homage to more than one being goes to take away all right ideas.
    War 11.160 4 For ages...the human race has gone on under the tyranny...of this first brutish form of their effort to be men;...
    FSLC 11.208 6 ...the manifest interest of the slave states; the religious effort of the free states; the public opinion of the world;-all join to demand [emancipation].
    FSLN 11.221 7 ...[Webster] was, without effort, as superior to his most eminent rivals as they were to the humblest;...
    ACiv 11.299 25 Our whole history appears like a last effort of the Divine Providence in behalf of the human race;...
    PLT 12.51 2 We are forced to treat a great part of mankind as if they were a little deranged. We detect their mania and humor it, so that conversation soon becomes a tiresome effort.
    PLT 12.59 16 The habit...of not pausing but proceeding, is a sort of importation and domestication of the divine effort into a man.
    PLT 12.59 23 Inspiration is the continuation of the divine effort that built the man.
    PLT 12.63 2 I may well say this [identification of the Ego with the universe] is...the continuation of the divine effort.
    Milt1 12.256 1 ...we are tempted to say that art and not life seems to be the end of [German writers'] effort.
    Milt1 12.263 12 ...in [Milton's] severity is no grimace or effort.
    WSL 12.341 20 Literature is the effort of man to indemnify himself for the wrongs of his condition.
    PPr 12.383 10 Time stills the loud noise of opinions, sinks the small, raises the great, so that the true emerges without effort and in perfect harmony to all eyes;...

efforts, n. (27)

    Nat 1.41 20 ...a conspiring of parts and efforts to the production of an end is essential to any being.
    LE 1.179 23 [Napoleon] believed that the great captains of antiquity performed their exploits...by justly comparing the relation between...efforts and obstacles.
    MR 1.248 27 The power which is at once spring and regulator in all efforts of reform is the conviction that there is an infinite worthiness in man...
    LT 1.279 21 ...magnifying the importance of that wrong, [men] fancy that if that abuse were redressed all would go well, and they fill the land with clamor to correct it. Hence the missionary, and other religious efforts.
    Hist 2.34 19 Magic and all that is ascribed to it is a deep presentiment of the powers of science. The shoes of swiftness...the power...of understanding the voices of birds, are the obscure efforts of the mind in a right direction.
    OS 2.286 9 ...maugre our efforts or our imperfections, your genius will speak from you, and mine from me.
    Nat2 3.191 1 ...trade to all the world, country-house and cottage by the waterside, all for a little conversation, high, clear and spiritual! Could it not be had as well by beggars on the highway? No, all these things came from successive efforts of these beggars to remove friction from the wheels of life...
    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;...
    NR 3.233 22 ...it was easy [at Handel's Messiah] to observe what efforts nature was making, through so many hoarse, wooden and imperfect persons, to produce beautiful voices...
    NER 3.257 8 The same insatiable criticism may be traced in the efforts for the reform of Education.
    PPh 4.53 8 [The Greeks] saw before them...no Indian caste, superinduced by the efforts of Europe to throw it off.
    NMW 4.236 20 [Napoleon] was flung into the marsh at Arcola. The Austrians were between him and his troops...and he was brought off with desperate efforts.
    NMW 4.249 2 Read [Napoleon's] account, too, of the way in which battles are gained. In all battles a moment occurs when the bravest troops, after having made the greatest efforts, feel inclined to run.
    ET3 5.36 4 The Turk and Chinese also are making awkward efforts to be English.
    ET5 5.88 21 Tacitus says of the Germans, Powerful only in sudden efforts, they are impatient of toil and labor.
    ET9 5.150 7 [The English] have no curiosity about foreigners, and answer any information you may volunteer with Oh, Oh! until the informant makes up his mind that they shall die in their ignorance, for any help he will offer. There are really no limits to this conceit, though brighter men among them make painful efforts to be candid.
    F 6.42 3 ...the efforts which we make to escape from our destiny only serve to lead us into it...
    Pow 6.54 19 All the great captains, said Bonaparte, have performed vast achievements...by adjusting efforts to obstacles.
    Wsp 6.227 1 What I am and what I think is conveyed to you, in spite of my efforts to hold it back.
    Clbs 7.243 14 ...a history of clubs...tracing the efforts to secure liberal and refined conversation...would be an important chapter in history.
    PC 8.208 27 The war gave us the abolition of slavery, the success...of the Freedmen's Bureau. Add to these the new scope of social science;...the efforts for the suppression of intemperance;...
    MMEm 10.424 21 ...He who formed thy [Time's] web, who stretched thy warp from long ages, has graciously given man to throw his shuttle, or feel he does, and irradiate the filling woof with many a flowery rainbow,- labors, rather-evanescent efforts, which will wear like flowerets in brighter soils;...
    GSt 10.507 16 Almost I am ready to say to these mourners [of George Stearns], Be not too proud in your grief, when you remember...that, after all his efforts to serve men without appearing to do so, there is hardly a man in this country worth knowing who does not hold his name in exceptional honor.
    HDC 11.50 10 About ten years after the planting of Concord, efforts began to be made to civilize the Indians...
    HDC 11.51 8 Early efforts were made to instruct [the Indians]...
    MAng1 12.233 24 [Michelangelo] was conscious in his efforts of higher aims than to address the eye.
    Milt1 12.279 2 We have offered no apology for expanding to such length our commentary on the character of John Milton;...a man whom labor or danger never deterred from whatever efforts a love of the supreme interests of man prompted.

effrontery, n. (3)

    Schr 10.281 24 ...as we see the effrontery with which money and power carry their ends and ride over honesty and good meaning, patriotism and religion seem to shriek like ghosts.
    EzRy 10.388 18 When Put Merriam...had the effrontery to call on the Doctor [Ezra Ripley] as an old acquaintance, in the midst of general conversation Mr. Frost came in...
    JBS 11.280 13 I am not a little surprised at the easy effrontery with which political gentlemen, in and out of Congress, take it upon them to say that there are not a thousand men in the North who sympathize with John Brown.

effulgence, n. (1)

    ACri 12.290 27 In the Hindoo mythology, Viswaharman placed the sun on his lathe to grind off some of his effulgence, and in this manner reduced it to an eighth,-more was inseparable.

effulgent, adj. (1)

    SL 2.166 4 Let the great soul incarnated in some woman's form...sweep chambers and scour floors, and its effulgent daybeams cannot be muffled or hid...

Egbert the Great, n. (1)

    ET3 5.35 25 A nation considerable for a thousand years since Egbert, [England] has, in the last centuries, obtained the ascendent...

egg, n. (21)

    Nat 1.16 6 ...almost all the individual forms [in nature] are agreeable to the eye, as is proved by our endless imitations of some of them, as...the egg...
    MN 1.199 12 The bird hastens to lay her egg: the egg hastens to be a bird.
    Hist 2.13 15 Genius detects through the fly, through the caterpillar, through the grub, through the egg, the constant individual;...
    Hist 2.36 17 ...the wings of an eagle in the egg presuppose air.
    OS 2.265 5 ...Yonder masterful cuckoo/ Crowds every egg out of the nest,/ Quick or dead, except its own;/...
    OS 2.274 21 The soul's advances are not made by gradation...but rather by ascension of state, such as can be represented by metamorphosis,--from the egg to the worm, from the worm to the fly.
    ET16 5.276 22 It looked as if the wide margin given in this crowded isle to this primeval temple [Stonehenge] were accorded by the veneration of the British race to the old egg out of which all their ecclesiastical structures and history had proceeded.
    F 6.14 13 All we know of the egg...is, another vesicle;...
    Bhr 6.169 19 There is always a best way of doing everything, if it be to boil an egg.
    WD 7.176 11 The order of changes in the egg determines the age of fossil strata.
    Cour 7.257 3 Break the egg of the young [snapping-turtle], and the little embryo...bites fiercely;...
    PI 8.5 15 I believe this conviction makes the charm of chemistry,--that we have the same avoirdupois matter in an alembic, without a vestige of the old form; and in animal transformation not less, as...in egg and bird...
    Res 8.148 5 What can a poor truckman, who is hired to groan and to hiss, do, when the orator shakes him into convulsions of laughter so that he cannot throw his egg?
    QO 8.185 11 Columbus's egg is claimed for Brunelleschi.
    Schr 10.272 5 The scholar has a deep ideal interest in the moving show around him. He knew the motley system in its egg.
    PLT 12.17 1 Leaving aside the question which was prior, egg or bird, I believe the mind is the creator of the world...
    CL 12.133 3 The air is wise, the wind thinks well,/ And all through which it blows;/ If plant or brain, if egg or shell,/ Or bird or biped knows./
    CL 12.165 5 [Agassiz] pretends to be only busy with the foldings of the yolk of a turtle's egg.
    Bost 12.188 10 Linnaeus, like a naturalist, esteeming the globe a big egg, called London the punctum saliens in the yolk of the world.
    Bost 12.193 6 The common eye cannot tell what the bird will be, from the egg...
    PPr 12.384 26 Here is a book [Carlyle's Past and Present] as full of treason as an egg is full of meat...

egg-glass, n. (1)

    PC 8.212 25 The old six thousand years of chronology become a kitchen clock, no more a measure of time than an hour-glass or an egg-glass...

eggs, n. (11)

    Nat 1.32 18 We are like travellers using the cinders of a volcano to roast their eggs.
    SwM 4.110 12 ...the circles of intellect relate to those of the heavens. Each law of nature has the like universality; eating...vortical motion, which is seen in eggs as in planets.
    ET5 5.95 10 The rivers, lakes and ponds [in England]...are artificially filled with the eggs of salmon, turbot and herring.
    ET6 5.104 5 Nothing but the most serious business could give one any counterweight to these Baresarks [the English], though they were only to order eggs and muffins for their breakfast.
    Elo1 7.96 6 [The woods and mountains] send us every year...some some sturdy countryman, on whom neither money...nor eggs...make any impression.
    WD 7.164 27 I saw a brave man...constructing his cabinet of drawers for shells, eggs, minerals, and mounted birds.
    Suc 7.285 2 [Linnaeus] studied the insects that infested the timber, and found that they laid their eggs in the logs within certain days in April...
    SA 8.96 17 ...things said for conversation are chalk eggs.
    LLNE 10.365 9 Eggs might be hatched in ovens, but the hen on her own account much preferred the old way.
    CL 12.136 26 ...[Linnaeus] summoned his class to go with him on excursions on foot into the country, to collect plants and insects, birds and eggs.
    CL 12.138 4 [Linnaeus] studied the insects that infested the timber, and found that they laid their eggs in the logs within certain days in April...

egg-shell, adj. [eggshell,] (2)

    CbW 6.271 21 ...if one comes who can...show [men]...what gifts they have...then we come out of our egg-shell existence into the great dome...
    SA 8.92 14 ...we are easily great with the loved and honored associate. We come out of our eggshell existence...

egg-shell, n. (1)

    Ill 6.321 21 Instead of the firmament of yesterday, which our eyes require, it is to-day an egg-shell which coops us in;...

egg-shells, n. (1)

    ET2 5.29 11 Look, what egg-shells are drifting all over [the sea]...

Egil, of Norway [Sturluson, (1)

    ET4 5.59 14 If [the Northman] cannot pick any other quarrel, he will get himself comfortably gored by a bull's horns, like Egil...

ego, Ille, n. (1)

    MLit 12.326 8 ...[Wieland says] what most remarkably in [Goethe's journal], as in all his other works, distinguishes him from Homer and Shakspeare is that the Me, the Ille ego, everywhere glimmers through...

Ego, n. (5)

    Dem1 10.20 10 The Ego partial makes the dream; the Ego total the interpretation.
    Dem1 10.20 11 The Ego partial makes the dream; the Ego total the interpretation.
    PLT 12.62 18 ...the highest behavior, consists in the identification of the Ego with the universe;...
    PLT 12.62 23 ...when a man says I hope, I find, I think, he might properly say, The human race, thinks or finds or hopes. And meantime he shall be able continually to keep sight of his biographical Ego,-I have a desk, I have an office...
    PLT 12.62 25 ...when a man says I hope, I find, I think, he might properly say, The human race, thinks or finds or hopes. And meantime he shall be able continually to keep sight of his biographical Ego...rhetoric or offset to his grand spiritual ego, without impertinence...

egotism, n. (47)

    Nat 1.10 8 Standing on the bare ground...all mean egotism vanishes.
    Con 1.299 17 ...[reform] runs to egotism and bloated self-conceit;...
    YA 1.375 27 An empire is an immense egotism.
    YA 1.376 17 ...this unpleasant egotism, Feudalism opposes and finally destroys.
    Fdsp 2.207 13 In good company the individuals merge their egotism into a social soul...
    Exp 3.50 24 Who cares what sensibility or discrimination a man has at some time shown...if he...is infected with egotism?...
    Mrs1 3.141 17 The favorites of society...are able men...who have no uncomfortable egotism...
    Nat2 3.188 1 Jacob Behmen and George Fox betray their egotism in the pertinacity of their controversial tracts...
    UGM 4.25 14 Great men are...a collyrium to clear our eyes from egotism...
    UGM 4.29 20 Compromise thy egotism.
    SwM 4.103 25 ...Swedenborg is systematic and respective of the world in every sentence;...and this admirable writing is pure from all pertness or egotism.
    MoS 4.155 24 The studious class are their own victims;...the night is without sleep, the day a fear of interruption,--pallor, squalor, hunger and egotism.
    ShP 4.213 1 ...[Shakespeare] has no discoverable egotism...
    ShP 4.215 20 ...there is not a trace of egotism [in Shakespeare].
    NMW 4.244 7 ...in spite of the detraction which his systematic egotism dictated toward the great captains who conquered with and for him, ample acknowledgements are made by [Napoleon] to Lannes, Duroc...
    NMW 4.257 26 Men found that [Napoleon's] absorbing egotism was deadly to all other men.
    ET10 5.164 25 Every whim of exaggerated egotism is put into stone and iron [in England]...
    Ctr 6.132 26 In the distemper known to physicians as chorea, the patient sometimes turns round and continues to spin slowly on one spot. Is egotism a metaphysical variety of this malady?
    Ctr 6.134 3 This goitre of egotism is so frequent among notable persons that we must infer some strong necessity in nature which it subserves;...
    Ctr 6.134 10 ...egotism has its root in the cardinal necessity by which each individual persists to be what he is.
    Ctr 6.139 3 The antidotes against this organic egotism are the range and variety of attractions, as gained by acquaintance with the world...
    CbW 6.257 24 We see those who surmount, by dint of some egotism or infatuation, obstacles from which the prudent recoil.
    Art2 7.49 10 So much as we can shove aside our egotism...and bring the omniscience of reason upon the subject before us, so perfect is the work [of art].
    DL 7.125 4 In each the circumstance signalized differs, but in each it is made the coals of an ever-burning egotism.
    Suc 7.289 9 We are great by exclusion, grasping and egotism.
    Suc 7.289 13 Egotism is a kind of buckram that gives momentary strength and concentration to men...
    Suc 7.295 15 He only who comes into this central intelligence, in which no egotism or exaggeration can be, comes into self-possession.
    PI 8.69 11 The egotism, the wit, is [in Faust] calculated.
    Imtl 8.342 18 Ignorant people confound reverence for the intuitions with egotism.
    Imtl 8.348 22 ...the man puts off the ignorance and tumultuous passions of youth; proceeding thence puts off the egotism of manhood...
    Imtl 8.348 27 ...the man puts off the ignorance and tumultuous passions of youth; proceeding thence puts off the egotism of manhood, and becomes at last a public and universal soul. He is...rising to realities; the outer relations and circumstances dying out, he entering deeper into God, God into him, until the last garment of egotism falls, and he is with God...
    Dem1 10.20 3 The demonologic is only a fine name for egotism;...
    Chr2 10.104 4 The populace drag down the gods to their own level, and give them their egotism;...
    MMEm 10.407 7 From the country [Mary Moody Emerson] writes to her sister in town, You cannot help saying that my epistle is a striking specimen of egotism.
    MMEm 10.431 2 I [Mary Moody Emerson] believe thus much, that [the greatest geniuses'] large perception consumed their egotism...
    EdAd 11.387 3 We have no sympathy with that boyish egotism, hoarse with cheering for one side, for one state, for one town...
    Shak1 11.451 22 [Shakespeare] dwarfs all writers without a solitary exception. No egotism.
    Shak1 11.451 22 The egotism of men is immense.
    Scot 11.467 2 [Scott's] strong good sense saved him...from nervous egotism...
    PLT 12.8 27 ...if you like to run away from this besetting sin of sedentary men, you can escape all this insane egotism by running into society...
    PLT 12.9 15 What with egotism on one side and levity on the other, we shall have no Olympus.
    PLT 12.39 25 ...the cloud of egotists drifting about are only interested in a success to their egotism.
    PLT 12.55 23 We see those who surmount by dint of egotism or infatuation obstacles from which the prudent recoil.
    CL 12.159 10 Nature kills egotism and conceit;...
    MLit 12.314 17 ...a man may recite passages of his life with no feeling of egotism.
    MLit 12.326 11 This subtle element of egotism in Goethe certainly does not seem to deform his compositions...
    MLit 12.326 19 [Goethe]...worked always to astonish, which is egotism, and therefore little.

egotisms, n. (1)

    F 6.26 27 'T is the majesty into which we have suddenly mounted...the scorn of egotisms...that engage us.

egotist, n. (3)

    YA 1.391 12 ...nothing is so weak as an egotist.
    NMW 4.258 6 ...this exorbitant egotist [Napoleon] narrowed, impoverished and absorbed the power and existence of those who served him;...
    Ctr 6.158 19 Though an egotist a outrance, [Bonaparte] could criticise a play...and give a just opinion.

egotistic, adj. (3)

    Prd1 2.221 18 ...where a man is not vain and egotistic you shall find what he has not by his praise.
    NMW 4.253 23 [Napoleon] is unjust to his generals; egotistic and monopolizing;...
    ET17 5.298 2 ...[Wordsworth] had egotistic puerilities in the choice and treatment of his subjects;...

egotistical, adj. (1)

    Mrs1 3.139 25 [Society]...hates quarrelsome, egotistical, solitary and gloomy people;...

egotists, n. (9)

    MN 1.195 21 If [great men] are prophets they are egotists;...
    MoS 4.162 10 ...I will, under the shield of this prince of egotists, offer, as an apology for electing him as the representative of skepticism, a word or two to explain how my love began and grew for this admirable gossip [Montaigne].
    GoW 4.286 8 ...the clouds of egotists drifting about [the intellectual man] are only interested in a low success.
    Ctr 6.132 20 The pest of society is egotists.
    Ctr 6.132 22 There are dull and bright, sacred and profane, coarse and fine egotists.
    Clbs 7.233 3 ...there are the gladiators, to whom [conversation] is always a battle;...then the heady men, the egotists...
    Suc 7.290 2 ...Nature utilizes misers, fanatics, show-men, egotists, to accomplish her ends;...
    PLT 12.7 26 ...the course of things makes the scholars either egotists or worldly and jocose.
    PLT 12.39 24 ...the cloud of egotists drifting about are only interested in a success to their egotism.

egress, n. (1)

    Int 2.342 24 The waters of the great deep have ingress and egress to the soul.

Egypt, Campaign in, n. (1)

    NMW 4.251 26 The most agreeable portion [of Bonaparte's memoirs] is the Campaign in Egypt.

Egypt, n. (40)

    Nat 1.58 21 [The Manichean and Plotinus] distrusted in themselves any looking back to these flesh-pots of Egypt.
    DSA 1.126 16 This [moral] thought dwelled always deepest in the minds of men in the devout and contemplative East; not alone in Palestine...but in Egypt...
    DSA 1.129 18 Christianity became a Mythus, as the poetic teaching of Greece and of Egypt, before.
    LE 1.159 14 ...the new man must feel that he...has not come into the world mortgaged to the opinions and usages of...Egypt.
    Hist 2.4 1 ...Egypt, Greece, Rome, Gaul, Britain, America, lie folded already in the first man.
    Hist 2.8 26 ...[each man] must transfer the point of view from which history is commonly read...to himself, and not deny his conviction that he is the court, and if England or Egypt have anything to say to him he will try the case;...
    Hist 2.9 18 This life of ours is stuck round with Egypt, Greece...as with so many flowers...
    Hist 2.14 7 ...Io, in Aeschylus, transformed to a cow, offends the imagination; but how changed when as Isis in Egypt she meets Osiris-Jove...
    SR 2.80 24 It is for want of self-culture that the superstition of Travelling, whose idols are Italy, England, Egypt, retains its fascination for all educated Americans.
    Comp 2.100 25 Under the primeval despots of Egypt, history honestly confesses that man must have been as free as culture could make him.
    Int 2.327 12 ...any record of our fancies or reflections, disentangled from the web of our unconsciousness, becomes an object impersonal and immortal. ... A better art than that of Egypt has taken fear and corruption out of it.
    Mrs1 3.130 7 ...come from year to year and see how permanent [the distinction of caste or fashion] is, in this Boston or New York life of man, where too it has not the least countenance from the law of the land. Not in Egypt or in India a firmer or more impassable line.
    Nat2 3.176 13 The stars at night stoop down over the brownest, homeliest common with all the spiritual magnificence which they shed...on the marble deserts of Egypt.
    PPh 4.42 21 Plato absorbed the learning of his time...and finding himself still capable of a larger synthesis...he travelled into Italy...then into Egypt...
    PPh 4.44 7 [Plato] travelled into Italy; then into Egypt...
    PPh 4.53 23 ...Plato, in Egypt and in Eastern pilgrimages, imbibed the idea of one Deity...
    ShP 4.194 11 Sculpture in Egypt and in Greece grew up in subordination to architecture.
    ShP 4.207 25 ...in [Shakespeare's] drama, as in all great works of art,--in the Cyclopaean architecture of Egypt and India...the Genius draws up the ladder after him...
    NMW 4.249 23 On the voyage to Egypt [Napoleon] liked, after dinner, to fix on three or four persons to support a proposition, and as many to oppose it.
    ET10 5.161 6 In Egypt, [steam] can plant forests, and bring rain after three thousand years.
    ET11 5.183 19 I was surprised to observe the very small attendance usually in the House of Lords. Out of five hundred and seventy-three peers, on ordinary days only twenty or thirty. Where are they? I asked. At home on their estates...or...in Egypt...
    ET12 5.203 10 In the Bodleian Library, Dr. Bandinel showed me the manuscript Plato...brought by Dr. Clarke from Egypt;...
    ET12 5.204 1 The oldest building here [at Oxford] is two hundred years younger than the frail manuscript brought by Dr. Clarke from Egypt.
    ET13 5.229 20 George Borrow summons the Gypsies to hear his discourse on the Hebrews in Egypt...
    CbW 6.249 24 In old Egypt it was established law that the vote of a prophet be reckoned equal to a hundred hands.
    Bty 6.288 27 ...the working of this deep instinct makes all the excitement... about works of art, which leads armies of vain travellers every year to Italy, Greece and Egypt.
    Civ 7.26 8 ...some of our grandest examples of men and of races come from the equatorial regions,--as the genius of Egypt, of India and of Arabia.
    WD 7.160 20 Egypt...now, it is said, thanks Mehemet Ali's irrigations and planted forests for late-returning showers.
    WD 7.175 11 ...that flexile clay of which these old brothers moulded their admirable symbols...was that clay which thou heldest but now in thy foolish hands, and threwest away to go and seek in vain in sepulchres, mummy-pits and old book-shops of Asia Minor, Egypt and England.
    QO 8.179 7 ...movable types, the kaleidoscope, the railway, the power-loom, etc., have been many times found and lost, from Egypt, China and Pompeii down;...
    QO 8.182 25 ...the surprising results of the new researches into the history of Egypt have opened to us the deep debt of the churches of Rome and England to the Egyptian hierology.
    Aris 10.48 27 In Rome or Greece what sums would not be paid for a superior slave, a confidential secretary and manager, an educated slave; a man of genius, a Moses educated in Egypt?
    MoL 10.253 19 All that is left of [Napoleon's Egyptian campaign] is the researches of those savans on the antiquities of Egypt...
    LS 11.9 19 It was the custom for the master of the feast [Passover] to break the bread and to bless it...and then to give the cup to all. Among the modern Jews...a hymn is also sung after this ceremony, specifying the twelve great works done by God for the deliverance of their fathers out of Egypt.
    EWI 11.101 27 In the oldest temples of Egypt, negro captives are painted on the tombs of kings, in such attitudes as to show that they are on the point of being executed;...
    ChiE 11.471 15 We had said of China, as the old prophet said of Egypt, Her strength is to sit still.
    CPL 11.497 16 ...though [Papyrus] hardly grows now in Egypt...I always remember with satisfaction that I saw that venerable plant in 1833...
    CPL 11.506 10 [Kepler writes] I will triumph over mankind by the honest confession that I have stolen the golden vases of the Egyptians to build up a tabernacle for my God far away from the confines of Egypt.
    ACri 12.302 17 [Channing] thinks Egypt a humbug...
    MLit 12.324 25 It was with [Goethe] a favorite task to find a theory of every institution, custom, art, work of art, which he observed. Witness his explanation...of the obelisk of Egypt, as growing out of a common natural fracture in the granite parallelopiped in Upper Egypt;...

Egypt, Upper, n. (2)

    Art2 7.54 15 ...it has been remarked by Goethe that the granite breaks into parallelopipeds, which broken in two, one part would be an obelisk; that in Upper Egypt the inhabitants would naturally mark a memorable spot by setting up so conspicuous a stone.
    MLit 12.324 27 It was with [Goethe] a favorite task to find a theory of every institution, custom, art, work of art, which he observed. Witness his explanation...of the obelisk of Egypt, as growing out of a common natural fracture in the granite parallelopiped in Upper Egypt;...

Egyptian, adj. (19)

    MR 1.241 27 I would not quite forget the venerable counsel of the Egyptian mysteries...
    MR 1.253 18 To use an Egyptian metaphor, it is not [the people's] will for any long time, to raise the nails of wild beasts and to depress the heads of the sacred birds.
    Hist 2.19 19 The Indian and Egyptian temples still betray the mounds and subterranean houses of their forefathers.
    Hist 2.27 7 ...when a truth that fired the soul of Pindar fires mine, time is no more. When I feel that we two meet in a perception...why should I count Egyptian years?
    Fdsp 2.197 1 ...I must hazard the production of the bald fact amidst these pleasing reveries, though it should prove an Egyptian skull at our banquet.
    Art1 2.353 19 ...the artist's pen or chisel seems to have been held and guided by a gigantic hand to inscribe a line in the history of the human race. This circumstance gives a value to the Egyptian hieroglyphics...
    NR 3.232 9 The Eleusinian mysteries, the Egyptian architecture...show that there always were seeing and knowing men in the planet.
    NER 3.274 22 Caesar, just before the battle of Pharsalia, discourses with the Egyptian priest concerning the fountains of the Nile...
    ShP 4.218 8 The Egyptian verdict of the Shakspeare Societies comes to mind; that [Shakespeare] was a jovial actor and manager.
    ET11 5.188 19 In these [English] manors...the antiquary finds the frailest Roman jar or crumbling Egyptian mummy-case, without so much as a new layer of dust...
    ET17 5.294 10 At Ambleside in March, 1848, I was for a couple of days the guest of Miss Martineau, then newly returned from her Egyptian tour.
    Bhr 6.190 2 Under the humblest roof, the commonest person in plain clothes sits there massive, cheerful, yet formidable, like the Egyptian colossi.
    Boks 7.218 25 After the Hebrew and Greek Scriptures...[the sacred books] are...the Chinese Classic, of four books, containing the wisdom of Confucius and Mencius. Also such other books as have acquired a semi-canonical authority in the world, as expressing the highest sentiment and hope of nations. Such are the Hermes Trismegistus, pretending to be Egyptian remains; the Sentences of Epictetus;...
    Res 8.145 19 Malus...was captain of a corps of engineers in Bonaparte's Egyptian campaign...
    QO 8.179 12 ...the invention of yesterday of making wood indestructible by means of vapor of coal-oil or paraffine was suggested by the Egyptian method which has preserved its mummy-cases four thousand years.
    QO 8.182 27 ...the surprising results of the new researches into the history of Egypt have opened to us the deep debt of the churches of Rome and England to the Egyptian hierology.
    Imtl 8.324 4 The Egyptian people furnish us the earliest details of an established civilization...
    CInt 12.128 26 When you say the times, the persons are prosaic, where is the feudal, or the Saracenic, or Egyptian architecture?...you expose your atheism.
    Trag 12.411 26 The Egyptian sphinxes...have countenances expressive of complacency and repose...

Egyptian, n. (3)

    ET7 5.125 25 ...tortures, it is said, could never wrest from an Egyptian the confession of a secret.
    F 6.44 10 The quality of the thought differences the Egyptian and the Roman...
    MoL 10.243 21 The Egyptian built Thebes and Karnak on a scale which dwarfs our art...

Egyptian, Nubian, adj. (1)

    Hist 2.19 25 The custom of making houses and tombs in the living rock, says Heeren...determined very naturally the principal character of the Nubian Egyptian architecture to the colossal form which it assumed.

Egyptians, n. (7)

    Nat 1.34 15 [The relation between mind and matter] is the standing problem which has exercised the wonder and the study of every fine genius since the world began; from the era of the Egyptians...to that of Pythagoras...
    Con 1.304 18 ...the Egyptians and Chaldeans...passed among the junior tribes of Greece and Italy for sacred nations.
    SR 2.83 24 There is at this moment for you an utterance brave and grand as that of the...trowel of the Egyptians...
    Imtl 8.324 7 ...The Egyptians are the first of mankind who have affirmed the immortality of the soul.
    Imtl 8.325 2 ...the polity of the Egyptians...respected burial.
    Imtl 8.326 13 ...the barbarians who received the cross took the doctrine of the resurrection as the Egyptians took it.
    CPL 11.506 8 [Kepler writes] I will triumph over mankind by the honest confession that I have stolen the golden vases of the Egyptians to build up a tabernacle for my God far away from the confines of Egypt.

Eichhorn's, Johann Gottfrie (1)

    LLNE 10.335 23 In the pulpit Dr. Frothingham...had already made us acquainted...with the genius of Eichhorn's theologic criticism.

eider-down, n. (1)

    Res 8.144 23 The hunter, the soldier, rolls himself in his blanket, and the falling snow...is his eider-down...

eight, adj. (43)

    LT 1.274 9 [The wealthy man] entertains [the divine]...lodges him; his religion comes home at night, prays, is...sumptuously laid to sleep; rises... and after the malmsey...his religion walks abroad at eight...
    Mrs1 3.135 22 ...Napoleon...was not great enough, with eight hundred thousand troops at his back, to face a pair of freeborn eyes...
    NMW 4.238 4 At Montebello, [Napoleon said,] I ordered Kellermann to attack with eight hundred horse...
    ET2 5.27 7 The shortest sea-line from Boston to Liverpool is 2850 miles.
    ET2 5.33 18 There lay the green shore of Ireland, like some coast of plenty. We could see towns, towers, churches, harvests; but the curse of eight hundred years we could not discern.
    ET3 5.41 15 It is not down in the books...that fortunate day when a wave of the German Ocean burst the old isthmus which joined Kent and Cornwall to France...cutting off an island of eight hundred miles in length...
    ET4 5.52 7 Certain temperaments suit the sky and soil of England, say eight or ten or twenty varieties...
    ET4 5.52 8 Certain temperaments suit the sky and soil of England...as, out of a hundred pear-trees, eight or ten suit the soil of an orchard and thrive...
    ET5 5.91 6 Sir John Herschel...expatriated himself for years at the Cape of Good Hope, finished his inventory of the southern heaven, came home, and redacted it in eight years more;...
    ET10 5.159 25 Eight hundred years ago commerce had made [England] rich...
    ET11 5.177 8 The pretence is that the [English] noble is of unbroken descent from the Norman, and has never worked for eight hundred years.
    ET11 5.182 23 The possessions of the Earl of Lonsdale gave him eight seats in Parliament.
    ET11 5.188 9 I look with respect at houses six, seven, eight hundred, or, like Warwick Castle, nine hundred years old.
    ET11 5.197 2 The fiction with which the noble and the bystander equally please themselves [in England] is that the former is of unbroken descent from the Norman, and so has never worked for eight hundred years.
    ET13 5.215 9 In seeing old castles and cathedrals, I sometimes say, as to-day in front of Dundee Church tower, which is eight hundred years old, This was built by another and a better race than any that now look on it.
    ET15 5.265 26 ...[Mowbray Morris] told us...that, since February, the daily circulation [of the London Times] had increased by 8000 copies.
    ET18 5.302 22 ...what a proud chivalry is indicated in Collins's Peerage, through eight hundred years!
    F 6.10 11 In different hours a man represents each of several of his ancestors, as if there were seven or eight of us rolled up in each man's skin...
    F 6.10 12 In different hours a man represents each of several of his ancestors, as if there were seven or eight of us rolled up in each man's skin,-seven or eight ancestors at least;...
    Ctr 6.135 19 In Boston the question of life is the names of some eight or ten men.
    Ctr 6.135 26 In New York the question [of life] is of some other eight, or ten, or twenty [men].
    Ill 6.309 6 We traversed...the six or eight black miles from the mouth of the cavern [Mammoth Cave] to the innermost recess which tourists visit...
    Farm 7.139 22 In the town where I live, farms remain in the same families for seven and eight generations;...
    Boks 7.193 8 In 1858, the number of printed books in the Imperial Library at Paris was estimated at eight hundred thousand volumes...
    Suc 7.293 22 It is the dulness of the multitude that they cannot see the house in the ground-plan; the working, in the model of the projector. Whilst it is a thought...it is cried down, it is a chimera; but when it is a fact, and comes in the shape of eight per cent....they cry, It is the voice of God.
    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...
    LLNE 10.367 20 The children from six to eight [said Fourier]...shall do this last function of civilization [the dirty work].
    EzRy 10.381 12 The father [Noah Ripley] was born at Hingham [Connecticut], on the farm purchased by his ancestor, William Ripley, of England, at the first settlement of the town; which farm has been occupied by seven or eight generations.
    HDC 11.73 10 Eight hundred British soldiers...had marched from Boston to Concord;...
    HDC 11.74 24 Major Buttrick leaped from the ground, and gave the command to fire, which was repeated in a simultaneous cry by all his men. The Americans fired, and killed two men and wounded eight.
    HDC 11.82 19 The town [Concord] raises, this year, 1800 dollars for its public schools;...
    HDC 11.82 21 This year, [Concord] expends 800 dollars for its poor;...
    EWI 11.117 5 In June, 1835, the Ministers, Lord Aberdeen and Sir George Grey, declared to the Parliament...that now for ten months...only one black [in the West Indies] had been hurt in 800,000 negroes...
    War 11.159 16 When [Assacombuit] appeared at court, he lifted up his hand and said, This hand has slain a hundred and fifty of your majesty's enemies within the territories of New England. This so pleased the king that he...ordered a pension of eight livres a day to be paid him during life.
    EPro 11.324 15 If you could add, say [foreign critics], to your strength the whole army of England, of France and of Austria, you could not coerce eight millions of people to come under this government against their will.
    SMC 11.364 3 Whilst [George Prescott's] regiment was encamped at Camp Andrew, near Alexandria, in June, 1861, marching orders came. Colonel Lawrence sent for eight wagons...
    SMC 11.371 20 The [Thirty-second] regiment has been in the front and centre since the battle begun, eight and a half days ago...
    SMC 11.371 25 Every day, for the last eight days, there has been a terrible battle the whole length of the line.
    ChiE 11.473 13 ...[Confucius]...met the ingrained prudence of his nation by saying always, Bend one cubit to straighten eight.
    FRep 11.528 22 We have eight or ten religions in every large town...
    CL 12.138 25 [Linnaeus] examined eight thousand plants;...
    CL 12.141 27 In the English universities, the reading men are daily performing their punctual training in the boat-clubs...or, taking their famed constitutionals, walks of eight and ten miles.
    MAng1 12.244 14 The forehead of the bust [of Michelangelo]...is furrowed with eight deep wrinkles one above another.

eight-and-twenty, adj. (1)

    ET6 5.110 7 Holdship has been with me, said Lord Eldon, eight-and-twenty years, knows all my business and books.

eighteen, adj. (7)

    SwM 4.132 18 An ardent and contemplative young man, at eighteen or twenty years, might read once these books of Swedenborg...and then throw them aside for ever.
    NMW 4.243 17 Good God! [Napoleon] said, how rare men are! There are eighteen millions in Italy, and I have with difficulty found two...
    ET16 5.278 24 The chief mystery [of Stonehenge] is, that any mystery should have been allowed to settle on so remarkable a monument, in a country on which all the muses have kept their eyes now for eighteen hundred years.
    SA 8.84 20 As long as men are born babes they will live on credit for the first fourteen or eighteen years of their life.
    HDC 11.54 13 ...in 1676, there were five hundred and sixty-seven praying Indians, and in 1689, twenty-four Indian preachers, and eighteen assemblies.
    LVB 11.91 7 ...out of eighteen thousand souls composing the [Cherokee] nation, fifteen thousand six hundred and sixty-eight have protested against the so-called treaty.
    CPL 11.506 1 ...[Kepler] writes, It is now eighteen months since I got the first glimpse of light...

eighteenth, adj. (5)

    HDC 11.63 19 ...the country people came armed into Boston, on the afternoon (of Thursday, 18th April)...
    HDC 11.64 17 From the beginning to the middle of the eighteenth century, our records indicate no interruption of the tranquility of the inhabitants [of Concord]...
    FSLC 11.192 26 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.
    AKan 11.262 25 A harder task will the new revolution of the nineteenth century be than was the revolution of the eighteenth century.
    SMC 11.373 1 Early in the morning of the eighteenth [the Thirty-second Regiment] went to the front...

eighth, adj. (4)

    PNR 4.89 22 In his eighth book of the Republic, [Plato] throws a little mathematical dust in our eyes.
    SwM 4.102 6 It seems that [Swedenborg] anticipated much science of the nineteenth century; anticipated, in astronomy, the discovery of the seventh planet,--but, unhappily, not also of the eighth;...
    HDC 11.55 24 In 1643, one seventh or one eighth part of the inhabitants [of Concord] went to Connecticut with Reverend Mr. Jones...
    CPL 11.505 23 In 1618 (8th March) John Kepler came upon the discovery of the law connecting the mean distances of the planets with the periods of their revolution about the sun...

eighth, n. (2)

    Farm 7.148 13 In September, when the pears hang heaviest...comes usually a gusty day which...throws down the heaviest fruit in bruised heaps. The planter took the hint of the Sequoias...surrounded the orchard with a nursery of birches and evergreens. Thus he had the mountain basin in miniature; and his pears grew to the size of melons, and the vines beneath them ran an eighth of a mile.
    ACri 12.291 1 In the Hindoo mythology, Viswaharman placed the sun on his lathe to grind off some of his effulgence, and in this manner reduced it to an eighth,-more was inseparable.

eighty, adj. (14)

    Lov1 2.170 22 It matters not...whether we attempt to describe the passion [of love] at twenty, thirty, or at eighty years.
    GoW 4.272 16 [Goethe's Helena] are...elaborate forms to which the poet has confided the results of eighty years of observation.
    GoW 4.289 26 This cheerful laborer [Goethe]...without relaxation or rest... worked on for eighty years...
    Ctr 6.140 14 There are people who...remain literalists, after hearing the music and poetry and rhetoric and wit of seventy or eighty years.
    LLNE 10.350 18 It takes sixteen hundred and eighty men to make one Man, complete in all the faculties;...
    LLNE 10.360 14 I think the numbers of this mixed community [at Brook Farm] soon reached eighty or ninety souls.
    HDC 11.36 27 Roger Williams affirms that he has known [Indians] run between eighty and a hundred miles in a summer's day...
    FSLC 11.185 10 Because of this preoccupied mind, the whole wealth and power of Boston-two hundred thousand souls, and one hundred and eighty millions of money-are thrown into the scale of crime...
    ACiv 11.308 1 Why should not America be capable of a second stroke for the well-being of the human race, as eighty or ninety years ago she was for the first...
    SMC 11.352 15 ...this one violation [slavery] was a subtle poison, which in eighty years corrupted the whole overgrown body politic...
    SMC 11.369 23 Another incident [reported by George Prescott]: A friend of Lieutenant Barrow complains that we did not treat his body with respect, inasmuch as we did not send it home. ... There was no place nearer than Baltimore where we could have got a coffin, and I suppose it was eighty miles there.
    MAng1 12.229 1 At near eighty years, [Michelangelo] began in marble a group of four figures for a dead Christ...
    MAng1 12.241 23 At the age of eighty years, [Michelangelo] wrote to Vasari, sending him various spiritual sonnets he had written...
    MLit 12.327 17 In these days and in this country...it seems as if no book could so safely be put in the hands of young men as the letters of Goethe, which attest the incessant activity of this man, to eighty years...

eighty-fifth, adj. (1)

    SwM 4.101 10 ...[Swedenborg]...died in London, March 29, 1772, of apoplexy, in his eighty-fifth year.

eighty-five, adj. (1)

    OA 7.322 24 We still feel the force...of Newton, who made an important discovery for every one of his eighty-five years;...

eighty-four, adj. (1)

    OA 7.322 7 ...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 doge at eighty-four years...

eighty-one, adj. (1)

    PPh 4.44 13 [Plato]...died, as we have received it, in the act of writing, at eighty-one years.

eighty-two, adj. (1)

    HDC 11.78 27 When...the poor of Boston were quartered by the Provincial Congress on the neighboring country, Concord received 82 persons to its hospitality.

ejaculate, v. (2)

    DSA 1.126 11 The sentences of the oldest time, which ejaculate this piety, are still fresh and fragrant.
    PPo 8.250 10 ...if you mistake [Hafiz] for a low rioter, he turns short on you...to ejaculate with equal fire the most unpalatable affirmations of heroic sentiment and contempt for the world.

ejaculated, v. (3)

    Pt1 3.40 8 ...hence these throbs and heart-beatings in the orator...to the end namely that thought may be ejaculated as Logos, or Word.
    Exp 3.70 17 ...that which is coexistent, or ejaculated from a deeper cause, as yet far from being conscious, knows not its own tendency.
    Insp 8.287 4 Solitary converse with Nature; for thence are ejaculated sweet and dreadful words never uttered in libraries.

ejaculating, v. (1)

    PLT 12.28 9 'T is only the source that we can see;-the eternal mind... continually ejaculating its torrent into every artery and vein and veinlet of humanity.

ejaculations, n. (3)

    Pt1 3.34 5 The religions of the world are the ejaculations of a few imaginative men.
    Boks 7.220 6 ...these ejaculations of the soul are uttered one or a few at a time...
    Bost 12.194 2 Who can read the fiery ejaculations of Saint Augustine...of Thomas a Kempis...without feeling how rich and expansive a culture...they owed to the promptings of this [Christian] sentiment;...

eke, v. (2)

    Wth 6.118 17 A farm is a good thing when it...does not need a salary or a shop to eke it out.
    Imtl 8.335 24 ...the nebular theory threatens [the sun's and the star's] duration also...and will make a shift to eke out a sort of eternity by succession...

eking, v. (1)

    Ill 6.310 26 I own I did not like the [Mammoth] cave so well for eking out its sublimities with this theatrical trick.

elaborate, adj. (4)

    SwM 4.135 27 The more coherent and elaborate the system, the less I like it.
    GoW 4.272 15 [Goethe's Helena] are...elaborate forms to which the poet has confided the results of eighty years of observation.
    ET5 5.96 25 [The Board of Trade of England] caused to be translated from foreign languages and illustrated by elaborate drawings, the most approved works of Munich, Berlin and Paris.
    PPr 12.383 17 The most elaborate history of to-day will have the oddest dislocated look in the next generation.

elaborate, v. (2)

    SwM 4.118 15 ...whether it be that these things will not be intellectually learned, or that many centuries must elaborate and compose so rare and opulent a soul,--there is no comet, rock-stratum...that, for itself, does not interest more scholars and classifiers than the meaning and upshot of the frame of things.
    ET3 5.42 25 ...there is such an artificial completeness in this nation of artificers [England] as if there were a design from the beginning to elaborate a bigger Birmingham.

elaborated, adj. (1)

    WSL 12.344 22 [Landor]...serenely enjoys the victory of Nature over fortune. Not only the elaborated story of Normanby, but the whimsical selection of his heads proves this taste.

elaborately, adv. (1)

    CW 12.173 13 ...nothing in Europe is more elaborately luxurious than the costly gardens...

elapsed, v. (4)

    Nat2 3.188 21 After some time has elapsed, [the young person] begins to wish to admit his friend to this hallowed experience [of keeping a diary]...
    ET5 5.91 8 Sir John Herschel...expatriated himself for years at the Cape of Good Hope, finished his inventory of the southern heaven, came home, and redacted it in eight years more;.--a work whose value does not begin until thirty years have elapsed...
    PLT 12.27 10 A man has been in Spain. The facts and thoughts which the traveller has found in that country gradually settle themselves into a determinate heap of one size and form and not another. That is what he knows and has to say of Spain; he cannot say it truly until a sufficient time for the arrangement of the particles has elapsed.
    Mem 12.108 26 If a great many thoughts pass through your mind, you will believe a long time has elapsed...

elastic, adj. (11)

    UGM 4.17 15 [The imagination]...inspires an audacious mental habit. We are as elastic as the gas of gunpowder...
    MoS 4.160 19 We want some coat woven of elastic steel...
    MoS 4.185 4 The expansive nature of truth comes to our succor, elastic, not to be surrounded.
    ShP 4.203 1 Ben Jonson...had no suspicion of the elastic fame whose first vibrations [Shakespeare] was attempting.
    ET8 5.134 20 ...here [in England] exists the best stock in the world...a race to which their fortunes flow, as if they alone had the elastic organization at once fine and robust enough for dominion;...
    Art2 7.42 18 ...we build a mill in such position as to set the north wind to play upon our instrument, or the elastic force of steam...
    Elo1 7.99 16 In its right exercise, [eloquence] is an elastic, unexhausted power...
    OA 7.317 23 Time is indeed the theatre and seat of illusion: nothing is so ductile and elastic.
    PI 8.8 3 Anatomy, osteology, exhibit arrested or progessive ascent in each kind; the lower pointing to the higher forms, the higher to the highest, from the fluid in an elastic sack, from radiate, mollusk, articulate, vertebrate, up to man;...
    Imtl 8.325 15 [The Greek] set his wit and taste, like elastic gas, under these mountains of stone [the pyramids], and lifted them.
    ACri 12.298 27 ...[Carlyle's History of Frederick II is] a book...with a range...of thought and wisdom so large, so colloquially elastic, that we not so much read a stereotype page as we see the eyes of the writer looking into ours...

elastic, n. (1)

    FRep 11.537 5 We want...men of elastic...

elasticity, n. (7)

    SL 2.164 2 All action is of an infinite elasticity...
    Exp 3.56 22 That immobility and absence of elasticity which we find in the arts, we find with more pain in the artist.
    ET19 5.314 6 ...if the courage of England goes with the chances of a commercial crisis, I will go back to the capes of Massachusetts and my own Indian stream, and say to my countrymen...the elasticity and hope of mankind must henceforth remain on the Alleghany ranges, or nowhere.
    Wsp 6.234 11 In the greatest destitution and calamity [the moral] surprises man with a feeling of elasticity which makes nothing of loss.
    Imtl 8.338 23 On the borders of the grave, the wise man looks forward with equal elasticity of mind, or hope;...
    Shak1 11.453 6 ...there are some men so born to live well that, in whatever company they fall,-high or low,-they fit well, and lead it!...I suppose because they have more humanity than talent, whilst they have quite as much of the last as any of the company. It would strike you as comic, if I should give my own customary examples of this elasticity...
    Trag 12.414 23 As the west wind...combs out the matted and dishevelled grass as it lay in night-locks on the ground, so we let in Time as a drying wind into the seed-field of thoughts which are dark and wet and low bent. Time restores to them temper and elasticity.

elated, v. (2)

    ShP 4.201 23 Elated with success and piqued by the growing interest of the problem, [the antiquaries] have left no bookstall unsearched...so keen was the hope to discover whether the boy Shakspeare poached or not...
    FRep 11.532 5 Our people are too slight and vain. They are easily elated and easily depressed.

elbow, n. (2)

    AmS 1.83 17 The state of society is one in which the members...strut about so many walking monsters, - a good finger, a neck, a stomach, an elbow, but never a man.
    NER 3.258 6 ...the shock of the electric spark in the elbow, outvalues all the theories;...

elbows, n. (2)

    Aris 10.53 12 ...[the eloquent man] may wear his coat out at elbows...if he will.
    II 12.82 5 A man of more comprehensive view can always see with good humor the seeming opposition of a powerful talent which has less comprehension. 'T is a strong paddy, who, with his burly elbows, is making place and way for him.

elder, adj. (10)

    DSA 1.136 22 Where shall I hear words such as in elder ages drew men to leave all and follow...
    Hsm1 2.245 1 In the elder English dramatists...there is a constant recognition of gentility...
    Mrs1 3.147 2 [The theory of society] says with the elder gods,-As Heaven and Earth are fairer far/ Than Chaos and blank Darkness, though once chiefs;/ .../ So on our heels a fresh perfection treads/...
    NER 3.253 17 ...the fertile forms of antinomianism among the elder puritans seemed to have their match in the plenty of the new harvest of reform.
    ET17 5.295 8 [Wordsworth] had thought an elder brother of Tennyson at first the better poet...
    HDC 11.61 6 The elder Bulkeley [Peter] was gone.
    ALin 11.328 26 Here [in Lincoln] was a type of the true elder race,/ And one of Plutarch's men talked with us face to face./ Lowell, Commemoration Ode.
    Bost 12.190 10 ...Dr. Mather writes of [Boston], The town hath indeed three elder Sisters in this colony, but it hath wonderfully outgrown them all...
    Bost 12.210 26 The elder President Adams has to divide voices of fame with the younger President Adams.
    Bost 12.211 2 The elder Otis could hardly excel the popular eloquence of the younger Otis;...

elder, n. (3)

    NMW 4.254 27 I do not even love my brothers [said Napoleon]: perhaps Joseph a little...because he is my elder;...
    HDC 11.36 12 Of the pith elder...[the Indians] made their arrow.
    Wom 11.415 17 [The equality of the sexes] is even more perfect in the later sect of the Shakers, where no business is broached or counselled without the intervention of one elder and one elderess.

Elder, n. (1)

    Wom 11.419 20 ...if a woman demand votes, offices and political equality with men, as among the Shakers an Elder and Elderess are of equal power... it must not be refused.

elder-blow, n. (1)

    PI 8.36 21 What are [the poet's] garland and singing-robes? What but a sensibility so keen that the scent of an elder-blow...is event enough for him...

elder-bushes, n. (1)

    WSL 12.337 21 ...[John Bull] wonders that [Americans] do not make elder-wine and cherry-bounce, since here are cherries, and every mile is crammed with elder-bushes.

elderess, n. (1)

    Wom 11.415 17 [The equality of the sexes] is even more perfect in the later sect of the Shakers, where no business is broached or counselled without the intervention of one elder and one elderess.

Elderess, n. (1)

    Wom 11.419 20 ...if a woman demand votes, offices and political equality with men, as among the Shakers an Elder and Elderess are of equal power... it must not be refused.

elderly, adj. (1)

    ET1 5.19 5 [Wordsworth's] daughters called in their father, a plain, elderly, white-haired man...

elders, n. (5)

    DSA 1.141 6 What life the public worship retains, it owes to the scattered company of pious men...who, sometimes accepting with too great tenderness the tenet of the elders, have not accepted from others...the genuine impulses of virtue...
    Comc 8.166 10 This precious brother having slain,/ In times of peace, an Indian,/ Not out of malice, but mere zeal/ (Because he was an infidel),/ The mighty Tottipottymoy/ Sent to our elders an envoy/...
    Aris 10.29 24 ...he that wol have prize of his genterie,/ For he was boren of a gentil house,/ And had his elders noble and virtuous,/ And n' ill hinselven do no gentil dedes,/ Ne folwe his gentil auncestrie, that dead is,/ He n' is not gentil, be he duke or erl;/...
    LLNE 10.362 25 ...[Charles Newcomb was] a student and philosopher, who found his daily enjoyment not with the elders or his exact contemporaries so much as with the fine boys who were skating and playing ball or bird-hunting;...
    EWI 11.147 3 I am sure that the good and wise elders, the ardent and generous youth, will not permit what is incidental and exceptional to withdraw their devotion from the essential and permanent characters of the question [of emancipation].

Elders, n. (1)

    Wsp 6.205 1 There is always some religion, some hope and fear extended into the invisible,--from the blind boding which nails a horseshoe to the mast or the threshold, up to the song of the Elders in the Apocalypse.

elder-wine, n. (1)

    WSL 12.337 19 ...[John Bull] wonders that [Americans] do not make elder-wine and cherry-bounce, since here are cherries, and every mile is crammed with elder-bushes.

eldest, adj. (4)

    Chr1 3.112 3 ...if we could abstain from asking anything of [men]...and content us with compelling them through the virtue of the eldest laws!
    PNR 4.85 6 This eldest Goethe [Plato]...delighted in revealing the real at the base of the accidental;...
    ET11 5.174 4 The Norwegian pirate got what he could and held it for his eldest son.
    Wth 6.117 27 The eldest son must inherit the [English] manor;...

Eldin, Scotland, n. (1)

    ET5 5.86 15 Clerk of Eldin's celebrated manoeuvre of breaking the line of sea-battle, and Nelson's feat of doubling...were only translations into naval tactics of Bonaparte's rule of concentration.

Eldon, Earl of [John Scott (1)

    NR 3.246 12 Lord Eldon said in his old age that if he were to begin life again, he would be damned but he would begin as agitator.

Eldon, Lord [John Scott], (6)

    ET5 5.90 17 They are excellent judges in England of a good worker, and when they find one, like...Mansfield, Pitt, Eldon...there is nothing too good or too high for him.
    ET5 5.97 24 The sovereignty of the seas is maintained [in England] by the impressment of seamen. The impressment of seamen, said Lord Eldon, is the life of our navy.
    ET6 5.110 7 Holdship has been with me, said Lord Eldon, eight-and-twenty years, knows all my business and books.
    ET7 5.123 9 The radical mob at Oxford cried after the tory Lord Eldon, There's old Eldon; cheer him; he never ratted.
    ET12 5.202 25 ...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.
    ET15 5.262 5 ...said Lord Mansfield to the Duke of Northumberland; mark my words; you and I shall not live to see it, but this young gentleman (Lord Eldon) may...but...these newspapers will most assuredly write the dukes of Northumberland out of their titles...

Eldons, n. (1)

    ET8 5.139 2 To understand the power of performance that is in their finest wits...in the Dugdales, Gibbons, Hallams, Eldons and Peels, one should see how English day-laborers hold out.

Eleans, n. (2)

    Plu 10.308 1 [Plutarch] thinks that he who has ideas of his own is a bad judge of another man's, it being true that the Eleans would be most proper judges of the Olympic games, were no Eleans gamesters.
    Plu 10.308 3 [Plutarch] thinks that he who has ideas of his own is a bad judge of another man's, it being true that the Eleans would be most proper judges of the Olympic games, were no Eleans gamesters.

elect, adj. (3)

    OS 2.274 24 The growths of genius are of a certain total character, that does not advance the elect individual first over John, then Adam, then Richard...
    Wth 6.92 1 The world is full of fops...and these will deliver the fop opinion...that it is much more respectable to spend without earning; and this doctrine of the snake will come also from the elect sons of light;...
    WD 7.169 27 The scholar must look long for the right hour for Plato's Timaeus. At last the elect morning arrives...

elect, n. (1)

    Ill 6.319 26 There is illusion that shall deceive even the elect.

elect, v. (13)

    Pol1 3.202 17 It seemed fit that Laban and Jacob should have equal rights to elect the officer who is to defend their persons...
    Pol1 3.202 19 It seemed fit...that Laban and not Jacob should elect the officer who is to guard the sheep and cattle.
    Pol1 3.204 20 We are kept by better guards than the vigilance of such magistrates as we commonly elect.
    ET13 5.227 18 The [English] Bishop is elected by the Dean and Prebends of the cathedral. The Queen sends these gentlemen a conge d'elire, or leave to elect;...
    ET13 5.227 19 The [English] Bishop is elected by the Dean and Prebends of the cathedral. The Queen sends these gentlemen a conge d'elire, or leave to elect; but also sends them the name of the person whom they are to elect.
    ET14 5.238 11 'T is a very old strife between those who elect to see identity and those who elect to see discrepancies;...
    ET14 5.238 12 'T is a very old strife between those who elect to see identity and those who elect to see discrepancies;...
    F 6.3 17 'T is fine for us to speculate and elect our course...
    Pow 6.74 11 You must elect your work;...
    Pow 6.79 7 It is not question to express our thought, to elect our way, but to overcome resistances of the medium and material in everything we do.
    Grts 8.316 19 We must have some charity for the sense of the people, which admires natural power, and will elect it over virtuous men who have less.
    Koss 11.399 5 You [Kossuth] do not elect, but you are elected by God and your genius to the task.
    Shak1 11.447 9 We seriously endeavored, besides our brothers and our seniors...to draw out of their retirements a few rarer lovers of the muse... whom this day [Shakespeare's anniversary] seemed to elect and challenge.

elected, v. (14)

    SwM 4.144 24 [Swedenborg] elected goodness as the clue to which the soul must cling in all this labyrinth of nature.
    ET8 5.136 20 On deliberate choice and from grounds of character, [the English hero] has elected his part to live and die for...
    ET13 5.227 15 The [English] Bishop is elected by the Dean and Prebends of the cathedral.
    Wsp 6.211 14 ...if an adventurer...procure himself to be elected to a post of trust...by the same arts as we detest in the house-thief,--the same gentlemen who agree to discountenance the private rogue will be forward to show civilities and marks of respect to the public one;...
    OA 7.322 7 ...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 doge at eighty-four years...
    OA 7.322 9 ...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...
    Elo2 8.122 27 In the early years of this century, Mr. [John Quincy] Adams... was elected Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory in Harvard College.
    SlHr 10.443 8 I am sorry to say [Samuel Hoar] could not be elected to Congress a second time from Middlesex.
    SlHr 10.443 19 ...in his own town, if some important end was to be gained... all parties combined to send Mr. Hoar to the Legislature...and, of course also...we elected somebody else at the next term.
    HDC 11.43 3 [The Charter of the Company of Massachusetts Bay]...gave [the freemen] the power of prescribing the manner in which freemen should be elected;...
    AsSu 11.249 8 ...in the long time when [Charles Sumner's] election was pending, he refused to take a single step to secure it. He would not so much as go up to the state house to shake hands with this or that person whose good will was reckoned important by his friends. He was elected.
    TPar 11.286 9 [Theodore Parker] elected his part of duty...
    Koss 11.399 6 ...you [Kossuth] are elected by God and your genius to the task.
    Scot 11.464 27 [Scott's] good sense probably elected the ballad to make his audience larger.

electing, v. (3)

    MoS 4.162 11 ...I will...offer, as an apology for electing him as the representative of skepticism, a word or two to explain how my love began and grew for this admirable gossip [Montaigne].
    ET19 5.311 17 This conscience is one element [which attracts an American to England], and the other is...that homage of man to man, running through all classes,--the electing of worthy persons to a certain fraternity...
    CPL 11.495 3 The people of Massachusetts prize the simple political arrangement of towns, each...electing its own officers...

election, adj. (1)

    MoS 4.152 1 The ward meetings, on election days, are not softened by any misgiving of the value of these ballotings.

Election day, n. (1)

    WD 7.168 22 Remember what boys think in the morning of Election day...

election, n. (19)

    YA 1.371 6 A heterogeneous population crowding...to the great gates of North America...and quickly contributing...their vote to the election, it cannot be doubted that the legislation of this country should become more catholic and cosmopolitan than that of any other.
    SL 2.139 17 Certainly there is a possible right for you that precludes the need of balance and wilful election.
    SL 2.141 18 The pretence that [a man] has another call, a summons by name and personal election...is fanaticism...
    ET13 5.226 7 If in any manner [the wise legislator] can leave the election and paying of the priest to the people, he will do well.
    F 6.6 17 The broad ethics of Jesus were quickly narrowed to village theologies, which preach an election or favoritism.
    F 6.14 2 Probably the election goes by avoirdupois weight...
    Ill 6.325 1 In a crowded life of many parts and performers...the same elements offer the same choices to each new comer, and, according to his election, he fixes his fortune in absolute Nature.
    Clbs 7.245 20 It is always a practical difficulty with clubs to regulate the laws of election so as to exclude peremptorily every social nuisance.
    OA 7.332 3 I have lately found in an old note-book a record of a visit to ex-President John Adams, in 1825, soon after the election of his son to the Presidency.
    OA 7.335 11 [John Adams] received a premature report of his son's election...
    PerF 10.87 3 ...a sensitive politician suffers his ideas of the part New York or Pennsylvania or Ohio is to play in the future of the Union, to be fashioned by the election of rogues in some counties.
    SlHr 10.438 25 ...when the votes of the Free States, as shown in the recent election in the State of Pennsylvania, had disappointed the hopes of mankind...[Samuel Hoar] considered the question of justice and liberty, for his age, lost...
    HDC 11.42 27 The charter gave to the freemen of the Company of Massachusetts Bay the election of the Governor and Council of Assistants.
    AsSu 11.249 3 ...in the long time when [Charles Sumner's] election was pending, he refused to take a single step to secure it.
    FRep 11.523 15 ...if [Americans] should come to be interested in themselves and in their career, they would no more stay away from the election than from their own counting-room...
    FRep 11.524 6 The record of the election now and then alarms people by the all but unanimous choice of a rogue and a brawler.
    FRep 11.535 8 ...if we found [Westerners] clinging to English traditions... as the English Church...and distrust of popular election, we should feel this...absurdly out of place.
    CL 12.150 23 In March, the thaw...and the splendor of the icicles. On the pond there is a cannonade of a hundred guns, but it is not in honor of election of any President.
    EurB 12.367 18 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;...

electioneering, adj. (2)

    EWI 11.129 2 [The question of slavery in the West Idies] was not narrowed down [in England] to a paltry electioneering trap;...
    AsSu 11.250 2 I have heard that some of [Charles Sumner's] political friends tax him with indolence or negligence in refusing to make electioneering speeches...

elections, n. (10)

    LT 1.290 5 ...[the Moral Sentiment] is voted for at elections;...
    YA 1.385 15 There really seems a progress towards such a state of things in which this work shall be done by these natural workmen; and this, not certainly through any increased discretion shown by the citizens at elections...
    Chr1 3.91 5 ...in our political elections, where this element [character], if it appears at all, can only occur in its coarsest form, we sufficiently understand its incomparable rate.
    Edc1 10.139 15 [Boys'] elections at baseball or cricket are founded on merit...
    Prch 10.219 15 Perhaps there must be austere elections and determinations before any clear vision.
    MMEm 10.403 13 My opinion, [Mary Moody Emerson] writes, [is]...that the fiery depths of Calvinism, with its high and mysterious elections to eternal bliss...would have alone been fitted to fix [Byron's] imagination.
    EWI 11.134 22 ...if, most unhappily, the ambitious class of young men and political men have found out...that [these neglected victims] have...no strong vote to cast at the elections;...then let the citizens in their primary capacity take up [the negroes'] cause on this very ground...
    FSLC 11.199 15 There is...not a politician but is watching [slavery's] incalculable energy in the elections;...
    TPar 11.288 18 The next generation will care little for the chances of elections that govern governors now...
    EdAd 11.388 3 We have not been able to escape our national and endemic habit, and to be liberated from interest in the elections and in public affairs.

elective, adj. (5)

    MN 1.197 13 ...our arm is no more as strong as the frost, nor our will equivalent to gravity and the elective attractions.
    Cir 2.314 10 Has the naturalist or chemist learned his craft, who has explored the gravity of atoms and the elective affinities, who has not yet discerned the deeper law whereof this is only a partial or approximate statement...
    Pol1 3.203 21 At last it seemed settled that the rightful distinction was that the proprietors should have more elective franchise than non-proprietors...
    ET5 5.97 13 Purity in the elective Parliament [of England] is secured by the purchase of seats.
    ET13 5.227 5 Brougham, in a speech in the House of Commons on the Irish elective franchise, said, How will the reverend bishops of the other house be able to express their due abhorrence of the crime of perjury...

elector, n. (1)

    Wom 11.422 16 Every one is a half vote, but the next elector behind him brings the other or corresponding half in his hand...

electors, n. (2)

    NER 3.278 27 I remember standing at the polls one day when the anger of the political contest gave a certain grimness to the faces of the independent electors...
    Elo2 8.112 20 ...the political questions...find or form a class of men by nature and habit fit to discuss and deal with these measures, and make them intelligible and acceptable to the electors.

Electra [Sophocles, Electra (1)

    FSLC 11.193 13 If you starve or beat the orphan, in my presence, and I accuse your cruelty, can I help it? In the words of Electra...'T is you that say it, not I. You do the deeds, and your ungodly deeds find me the words.

electric, adj. (28)

    SR 2.78 16 We come to them who weep foolishly and sit down and cry for company, instead of imparting to them truth and health in rough electric shocks...
    Comp 2.91 8 Gauge of more and less through space/ Electric star and pencil plays./
    Int 2.325 1 Every substance is negatively electric to that which stands above it in the chemical tables...
    Int 2.325 5 ...electric fire dissolves air...
    Art1 2.368 18 ...[genius] will raise to a divine use...the electric jar...
    NER 3.258 5 ...the shock of the electric spark in the elbow, outvalues all the theories;...
    UGM 4.14 6 Cecil's saying of Sir Walter Raleigh, I know that he can toil terribly, is an electric touch.
    NMW 4.245 21 ...as intellectual beings we feel the air purified by the electric shock, when material force is overthrown by intellectual energies.
    ET5 5.99 11 An electric touch by any of their national ideas, melts [the English] into one family...
    ET18 5.303 26 ...who would see...the explosion of their well-husbanded forces, must follow the swarms...pouring out now for two hundred years from the British islands...carrying the Saxon seed, with its instinct...for arts and for thought,--acquiring under some skies a more electric energy than the native air allows...
    Pow 6.77 11 ...the galvanic stream, slow but continuous, is equal in power to the electric spark...
    Wth 6.84 21 ...Still, through [Matter's] motes and masses, draw/ Electric thrills and ties of Law/...
    WD 7.161 18 No sooner is the electric telegraph devised than gutta-percha, the very material it requires, is found.
    Boks 7.210 16 ...Earl Spencer exclaimed, Two thousand two hundred and fifty pounds! An electric shock went through the assembly.
    Clbs 7.250 8 ...glasses rubbed acquire electric power for a while.
    PI 8.7 12 The electric word pronounced by John Hunter a hundred years ago, arrested and progressive development...gave the poetic key to Natural Science...
    Insp 8.273 21 To-day the electric machine will not work, no spark will pass;...
    Insp 8.296 11 ...now one, now another landscape, form, color, or companion...strikes the electric chain with which we are darkly bound...
    Grts 8.317 22 The man who sells you a lamp shows you that the flame of oil, which contented you before, casts a strong shade in the path of the petroleum which he lights behind it; and this again casts a shadow in the path of the electric light.
    Aris 10.40 12 ...if the finders of parallax, of new planets, of steam power for boat and carriage, the finder of sulphuric ether and the electric telegraph...should keep their secrets...must not the whole race of mankind serve them as gods?
    PerF 10.70 22 Faraday said, A grain of water is known to have electric relations equivalent to a very powerful flash of lightning.
    Supl 10.179 6 There is no writing which has more electric power to unbind and animate the torpid intellect than the bold Eastern muse.
    HDC 11.84 6 These soiled and musty books [the Concord Town Records] are luminous and electric within.
    Humb 11.457 12 ...Humboldt's [natural powers] were all united, one electric chain...
    ChiE 11.471 12 All share the surprise and pleasure when the venerable Oriental dynasty...suddenly steps into the fellowship of nations. This auspicious event...is an irresistible result of the science which has given us the power of steam and the electric telegraph.
    CL 12.166 18 ...the imagination...does not impart its secret to inquisitive persons. Sometimes a parlor in which fine persons are found...answers our purpose still better. Striking the electric chain with which we are darkly bound...
    Bost 12.208 23 The climate [of Boston] is electric, good for wit and good for character.
    EurB 12.366 8 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.

electrical, adj. (2)

    Fdsp 2.197 27 Each electrical state superinduces the opposite.
    Wth 6.98 6 Every man wishes to see...the mountains and craters in the moon; yet how few can buy a telescope! and of those, scarcely one would like the trouble of keeping it in order and exhibiting it. So of electrical and chemical apparatus...

electricities, n. (1)

    CInt 12.129 8 Do not the electricities and the imponderable influences play with all their magic undulations?

electricity, n. (39)

    MN 1.222 23 Do what you know, and perception is converted into character...as these forest leaves absorb light, electricity, and volatile gases...
    Tran 1.358 20 Perhaps too there might be room [in society] for the exciters and monitors; collectors of the heavenly spark, with power to convey the electricity to others.
    Comp 2.96 24 Polarity, or action and reaction, we meet in every part of nature;...in the electricity, galvanism, and chemical affinity.
    Cir 2.302 25 See the investment of capital in aqueducts, made useless by hydraulics;...sails, by steam; steam, by electricity.
    Pt1 3.40 16 Stand there, [O poet,]...hissed and hooted, stand and strive, until at last rage draw out of thee that dream-power which every night shows thee is thine own; a power transcending all limit and privacy, and by virtue of which a man is the conductor of the whole river of electricity.
    Nat2 3.185 8 Without electricity the air would rot...
    NR 3.233 21 ...the master [Handel] overpowered the littleness and incapableness of the performers, and made them conductors of his electricity...
    UGM 4.8 25 The inventors of fire, electricity...severally make an easy way for all, through unknown and impossible confusions.
    ET13 5.230 21 Where dwells the religion [of England]? Tell me first where dwells electricity...
    ET13 5.230 23 Electricity cannot be made fast, mortared up and ended...
    F 6.32 20 ...the spasms of electricity...are awaiting you.
    F 6.33 12 Man moves in all modes...by electricity...
    Pow 6.68 7 All the elements whose aid man calls in will sometimes become his masters, especially those of most subtle force. Shall he then renounce steam, fire and electricity...
    Pow 6.70 22 The luxury...of electricity [is], not volleys of the charged cloud, but the manageable stream on the battery-wires.
    Wth 6.106 6 The laws of nature play through trade, as a toy-battery exhibits the effects of electricity.
    Wth 6.116 12 The genius of reading and of gardening are antagonistic, like resinous and vitreous electricity.
    SS 7.6 18 Each must stand on his glass tripod if he would keep his electricity.
    Elo1 7.63 6 ...a jar in a battery is charged with the whole electricity of the battery.
    Farm 7.143 15 You cannot...strip off from [an atom] the electricity, gravitation, chemic affinity...
    Clbs 7.250 3 Wisdom is like electricity.
    PI 8.9 3 ...galvanism, electricity and magnetism are varied forms of the selfsame energy.
    PI 8.70 15 O celestial Bacchus! drive them mad,--this multitude of vagabonds...hungry for poetry...perishing for want of electricity to vitalize this too much pasture...
    Elo2 8.115 24 [The orator's speech] is the electricity of action.
    Res 8.139 15 Is there any load which water cannot lift? If there be, try steam; or if not that, try electricity.
    Res 8.141 12 Here in America are all the wealth of soil, of timber, of mines and of the sea, put into the possession of a people who...have the secret of steam, of electricity;...
    PC 8.208 6 Who does not prefer the age...of coal, petroleum, cotton, steam, electricity, and the spectroscope?
    Insp 8.274 8 ...where is the Franklin with kite or rod for this fluid [inspiration]?-a Franklin who can draw off electricity from Jove himself...
    Aris 10.40 7 If the finders of glass, gunpowder, printing, electricity...should keep their secrets...must not the whole race of mankind serve them as gods?
    PerF 10.70 17 What agencies of electricity, gravity, light, affinity combine to make every plant what it is...
    PerF 10.78 25 I delight in tracing these wonderful [mental] powers, the electricity and gravity of the human world.
    PerF 10.81 18 See in a circle of school-girls one with...no special vivacity,-but she can so recite her adventures that she is never alone... Would you know where to find her? Listen for the laughter...see where is... a pretty crowd all bright with one electricity;...
    Chr2 10.121 11 ...the electricity goes round the world without a spark or a sound, until there is a break in the wire or the water chain.
    SovE 10.183 2 Since the discovery of Oersted that galvanism and electricity and magnetism are only forms of one and the same force...we have continually suggested to us a larger generalization...
    SovE 10.186 20 All forces are found in Nature united with that which they move...light is not massed aloof, nor electricity, nor gravity...
    MoL 10.247 20 Air, water, fire, iron, gold, wheat, electricity, animal fibre, have not lost a particle of power...
    MoL 10.250 21 ...what does the scholar represent? The organ of ideas... imparting pulses of light and shocks of electricity, guidance and courage.
    Schr 10.271 27 ...the world is made of thickened light and arrested electricity...
    PLT 12.27 16 Wisdom is like electricity.
    PPr 12.383 24 [The poet] must stand on his glass tripod, if he would keep his electricity.

Electricity, n. (2)

    Nat 1.39 18 ...weigh the problems suggested concerning...Electricity...and judge whether the interest of natural science is likely to be soon exhausted.
    Civ 7.28 3 ...we found out that the air and earth were full of Electricity...

electrified, v. (3)

    Elo1 7.90 6 Condense some daily experience into a glowing symbol, and an audience is electrified.
    SovE 10.187 16 The civil history of men might be traced by the successive meliorations as marked in higher moral generalizations;...at last came the day when...the nerves of the world were electrified by the proclamation that all men are born free and equal.
    MMEm 10.408 5 ...by society with [Mary Moody Emerson], one's mind is electrified and purged.

electrifies, v. (2)

    SA 8.93 19 Shenstone gave no bad account of this influence [of women] in his description of the French woman:... She strikes with such address the chords of self-love, that she...electrifies a body that appeared non-electric.
    Res 8.140 15 The marked events in history...each of these events electrifies the tribe to which it befalls;...

electro-magnetism, n. (1)

    Nat2 3.195 16 They say that by electro-magnetism your salad shall be grown from the seed whilst your fowl is roasting for dinner;...

elects, v. (2)

    GoW 4.264 11 ...nature has more splendid endowments for those whom she elects to a superior office;...
    Chr2 10.110 3 Paganism...writes the tracts, elects the minister, and persecutes the true believer.

electuary, n. (1)

    SovE 10.212 22 ...innocence is a wonderful electuary for purging the eyes to search the nature of those souls that pass before it.

eleemosynary, adj. (3)

    YA 1.374 5 [That serene Power] resists our meddling, eleemosynary contrivances.
    YA 1.374 15 We concoct eleemosynary systems, and it turns out that our charity increases pauperism.
    WD 7.180 2 That interpreter [of time] shall guide us from a menial and eleemosynary existence into riches and stability.

elegance, n. (27)

    MR 1.247 7 It is more elegant to answer one's own needs than to be richly served; inelegant perhaps it may look to-day, and to a few, but it is an elegance forever and to all.
    Hist 2.24 22 Luxury and elegance are not known [in the Grecian period].
    Mrs1 3.148 4 ...elegance comes of no breeding, but of birth.
    Nat2 3.173 22 I am grown expensive and sophisticated. I can no longer live without elegance, but a countryman shall be my master of revels.
    PPh 4.57 18 [Plato's] patrician polish, his intrinsic elegance...adorn the soundest health and strength of frame.
    ET15 5.267 18 The daily paper [London Times] is the work...chiefly, it is said, of young men recently from the University, and perhaps reading law in chambers in London. Hence the academic elegance and classic allusion which adorns its columns.
    Wth 6.92 7 The brave workman...must replace the grace or elegance forfeited, by the merit of the work done.
    Wsp 6.217 21 ...the heart is at once aware of the state of health or disease, which is the controlling state, that is, of sanity or of insanity; prior of course to all question of...the elegance of rhetoric.
    CbW 6.247 11 [Fine society] is...an affair...of gloves, cards and elegance in trifles.
    Bty 6.290 4 Elegance of form...marks some excellence of structure...
    DL 7.114 4 ...we desire the elegance of munificence;...
    SA 8.85 20 Self-command is the main elegance.
    Elo2 8.126 4 Dr. Johnson said, There is in every nation...a certain mode of phraseology so consonant to the analogy and principles of its respective language as to remain settled and unaltered. This style is to be sought in the common intercourse of life among those who speak...without ambition of elegance.
    Prch 10.218 14 ...elegance of taste and of manners and pursuit, a boundless ambition of intellect...all these [persons in whom I am accustomed to look for tendency and progress] have;...
    LLNE 10.331 4 [Everett] had an inspiration...which made him the master of elegance.
    SlHr 10.448 3 There was no elegance in [Samuel Hoar's] reading or tastes beyond the crystal clearness of his mind.
    SlHr 10.448 9 ...I find an elegance in [Samuel Hoar's] quiet but firm withdrawal from all business in the courts which he could drop without manifest detriment to the interests involved...
    Thor 10.481 6 [Thoreau] had many elegancies of his own, whilst he scoffed at conventional elegance.
    Wom 11.410 26 ...[man] invented...all luxuries and adornments, and the elegance of privacy, to increase the joys of society.
    CL 12.163 12 What truth, and what elegance belong to every fact of Nature, we know.
    CL 12.163 15 What truth, and what elegance belong to every fact of Nature, we know. And the study of them awakens the like truth and elegance in the student.
    Bost 12.197 14 In the midst of [New England's] laborious and economical and rude and awkward population, where is little elegance and no facility;... you shall not unfrequently meet that refinement which no education and no habit of society can bestow;...
    Bost 12.197 19 In the midst of [New England's] laborious and economical and rude and awkward population...you shall not unfrequently meet that refinement...which makes the elegance of wealth look stupid...
    Milt1 12.262 26 ...the foremost impression [Milton's] character makes is that of elegance.
    ACri 12.284 12 This [national] style is probably to be sought...among those who speak only to be understood, without ambition of elegance.
    EurB 12.370 3 The elegance, the wit and subtlety of this writer [Tennyson]...discriminate the musky poet of gardens and conservatories...
    Let 12.394 4 ...to fifteen letters on Communities, and the Prospects of Culture, and the destinies of the cultivated class,-what answer? Excellent reasons have been shown us why the writers, obviously persons of sincerity and elegance, should be dissatisfied with the life they lead...

elegancies, n. (2)

    Ctr 6.134 18 ...the student we speak to must have a mother-wit...which uses all books, arts, facilities, and elegancies of intercourse...
    Thor 10.481 5 [Thoreau] had many elegancies of his own...

elegancy, n. (5)

    Hsm1 2.254 19 ...[the hero] loves [his temperance] for its elegancy, not for its austerity.
    LLNE 10.362 22 ...[Charles Newcomb's] mind [was] fed and overfed by whatever is exalted in genius, whether...in Drama or Music, or in social accomplishment and elegancy;...
    EzRy 10.391 22 [Ezra Ripley] showed even in his fireside discourse traits of that pertinency and judgment, softening ever and anon into elegancy, which make the distinction of the scholar...
    Milt1 12.269 9 Milton...delicately bred in all the elegancy of art and learning, was set down in England in the stern, almost fanatic society of the Puritans.
    Milt1 12.269 19 ...[Milton] threw himself, the flower of elegancy, on the side of the reeking conventicle;...

elegant, adj. (34)

    MR 1.247 1 Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants and to serve them one's self...
    MR 1.247 4 It is more elegant to answer one's own needs than to be richly served;...
    YA 1.387 13 I think I see place and duties for a nobleman in every society; but it is...to guide and adorn life for the multitude...by elegant studies...
    Pt1 3.3 4 Those who are esteemed umpires of taste are often persons who... have an inclination for whatever is elegant;...
    Mrs1 3.131 18 A sainted soul is always elegant...
    Mrs1 3.149 13 I have seen an individual whose manners, though wholly within the conventions of elegant society, were never learned there...
    NR 3.232 26 I looked into Pope's Odyssey yesterday: it is as correct and elegant after our canon of to-day as if it were newly written.
    PPh 4.60 8 ...philosophy is an elegant thing, if any one modestly meddles with it [said Plato];...
    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.
    ET1 5.10 5 ...year after year the scholar must still go back to Landor for a multitude of elegant sentences;...
    ET14 5.245 8 Mr. Hallam, a learned and elegant scholar, has written the history of European literature for three centuries...
    Ctr 6.149 22 ...it requires a great many cultivated women,--saloons of bright, elegant, reading women...in order that you should have one Madame de Stael.
    Ctr 6.149 25 ...it requires a great many cultivated women...accustomed...to elegant society,--in order that you may have one Madame de Stael.
    CbW 6.246 27 We have a debt...to those who have refined life by elegant pursuits.
    Bty 6.291 25 In the midst of...a festal procession gay with banners, I saw a boy seize an old tin pan...and poising it on the top of a stick, he set it turning and made it describe the most elegant imaginable curves, and drew away attention from the decorated procession by this startling beauty.
    Bty 6.302 26 Things are pretty, graceful, rich, elegant, handsome, but, until they speak to the imagination, not yet beautiful.
    SA 8.107 15 ...I believe...that intelligence, manly enterprise, good education, virtuous life and elegant manners have been and are found here...
    Elo2 8.124 20 The orator must command the whole scale of the language, from the most elegant to the most low and vile.
    Elo2 8.131 14 You are a very elegant writer, but you can't write up what gravitates down.
    Res 8.151 15 Natural history is, in the country...at once elegant, immortal...
    Aris 10.55 10 What is it that makes the true knight? Loyalty to his thought. That makes...the elegant simplicity...which all men admire...
    Edc1 10.125 22 ...the poor man...is allowed to put his hand into the pocket of the rich, and say, You shall educate me...in the languages, in sciences, in the useful and in elegant arts.
    Edc1 10.132 19 Day creeps after day, each full of facts...that we cannot enough despise,-call heavy, prosaic and desert. The time we seek to kill: the attention it is elegant to divert from things around us.
    Edc1 10.134 11 If [a man] is jovial...if he is...elegant, witty...society has need of all these.
    MoL 10.257 1 You are a very elegant writer, but you can't write up what gravitates down.
    Thor 10.454 23 [Thoreau] had...no appetites, no passions, no taste for elegant trifles.
    FSLC 11.185 18 The learning of the universities, the culture of elegant society...are all combined to kidnap [the poor black boy.]
    Shak1 11.447 14 ...it is to us [The Saturday Club] a painful disappointment...that a well-known and honored compatriot, who first in Boston wrote elegant verse...Mr. Charles Sprague,-pleads the infirmities of age as an absolute bar to his presence with us.
    FRep 11.544 15 ...every useful, every elegant art...will find their home in our institutions...
    MAng1 12.223 16 Architecture is the bond that unites the elegant and the economical arts...
    Milt1 12.259 11 ...to enlarge and enliven his elegant learning, [Milton] was sent into Italy...
    WSL 12.338 11 Transfer these traits to a very elegant and accomplished mind, and we shall have no bad picture of Walter Savage Landor...
    WSL 12.338 19 [Landor is] A sharp, dogmatic man...a master of all elegant learning...
    EurB 12.372 1 Perhaps Tennyson is too quaint and elegant. What then?

elegant, n. (4)

    Nat2 3.175 16 That [the rich] have some high-fenced grove which they call a park; that they...go in coaches, keeping only the society of the elegant, to watering-places and to distant cities,--these make the groundwork from which [the poor young poet] has delineated estates of romance...
    SA 8.82 21 Intellectual men...are timid and heavy with the elegant.
    SA 8.82 22 ...if the elegant are also intellectual, instantly the hesitating scholar is inspired, transformed...
    Bost 12.198 11 ...no association with the elegant...can bestow that delicacy and grandeur of bearing which belong only to a mind accustomed to celestial conversation.

elegantly, adv. (1)

    Wom 11.423 25 ...when I read the list of men of intellect, of refined pursuits...and see what they have voted for and suffered to be voted for, I think no community was ever so politely and elegantly betrayed.

elegies, n. (1)

    Pow 6.68 12 Men of this surcharge of arterial blood cannot live on nuts, herb-tea, and elegies;...

elegy, n. (3)

    MoS 4.174 26 [The levity of intellect] is hobgoblin the first; and though it has been the subject of much elegy in our nineteenth century...I confess it is not very affecting to my imagination;...
    CPL 11.500 25 ...[Thoreau writes] the elegy itself is some victorious melody in you, escaping from the wreck.
    MLit 12.335 8 Man is not so far lost but that he suffers ever the great Discontent which is the elegy of his loss and the prediction of his recovery.

element, n. (140)

    Nat 1.19 22 The presence of a higher, namely, of the spiritual element is essential to [nature's] perfection.
    Nat 1.24 15 The world thus exists to the soul to satisfy the desire of beauty. This element I call an ultimate end.
    Nat 1.70 18 ...the element of spirit is eternity.
    AmS 1.107 6 [The poor and the low] sun themselves in the great man's light, and feel it to be their own element.
    DSA 1.122 6 ...let me guide your eye to the precise objects of the sentiment [of virtue] by an enumeration of some of those classes of facts in which this element is conspicuous.
    DSA 1.148 17 ...let us study the grand strokes of rectitude:...what is the highest form in which we know this beautiful element, a certain solidity of merit...
    Con 1.304 11 There is a natural sentiment and prepossession in favor...of barbarous and aboriginal usages, which is a homage to the element of necessity and divinity which is in them.
    YA 1.370 2 ...the nervous, rocky West is intruding a new and continental element into the national mind...
    YA 1.378 5 Feudalism is not ended yet. Our governments still partake largely of that element.
    YA 1.385 10 ...many people...are never happier than when difficult practical questions...are to be solved. All lies in light before them; they are in their element.
    SL 2.166 14 We are the photometers...that measure the accumulations of the subtle element.
    Lov1 2.185 25 The union which is thus effected [by love] and which adds a new value to every atom in nature--for it...bathes the soul in a new and sweeter element--is yet a temporary state.
    Fdsp 2.191 4 ...the whole human family is bathed with an element of love like a fine ether.
    Fdsp 2.204 13 The other element of friendship is tenderness.
    Prd1 2.227 26 One might find argument for optimism in the abundant flow of this saccharine element of pleasure in every suburb and extremity of the good world.
    Prd1 2.241 1 I do not know if all matter will be found to be made of one element...
    Hsm1 2.258 6 A great man makes his climate genial in the imagination of men, and its air the beloved element of all delicate spirits.
    Hsm1 2.262 4 ...the day never shines in which this element [heroism] may not work.
    OS 2.270 13 If we consider what happens...in the instructions of dreams, wherein often we see ourselves in masquerade,--the droll disguises only magnifying and enhancing a real element and forcing it on our distant notice,--we shall catch many hints that will broaden and lighten into knowledge of the secret of nature.
    Int 2.339 3 Truth is our element of life...
    Int 2.339 8 ...if a man fasten his attention on a single aspect of truth and apply himself to that alone for a long time, the truth becomes...not itself but falsehood; herein resembling the air, which is our natural element...but if a stream of the same be directed on the body for a time, it causes cold, fever, and even death.
    Int 2.342 20 As long as I hear truth I am bathed by a beautiful element...
    Art1 2.349 23 'T is the privilege of Art/ Thus to play its cheerful part,/ Man in Earth to acclimate/ And bend the exile to his fate,/ And, moulded of one element/ With the days and firmament,/ Teach him on these as stairs to climb/ And live on even terms with Time;/...
    Art1 2.352 26 No man can quite exclude this element of Necessity from his labor.
    Exp 3.70 11 The miracle of life which will not be expounded but will remain a miracle, introduces a new element.
    Exp 3.85 16 We must be very suspicious of the deceptions of the element of time.
    Chr1 3.91 5 ...in our political elections, where this element [character], if it appears at all, can only occur in its coarsest form, we sufficiently understand its incomparable rate.
    Chr1 3.95 16 All individual natures stand in a scale, according to the purity of this element [truth] in them.
    Chr1 3.97 1 ...[the action's] moral element preexisted in the actor...
    Mrs1 3.121 8 An element which unites all the most forcible persons of every country...must be an average result of the character and faculties universally found in men.
    Mrs1 3.140 26 ...society demands in its patrician class another element... which it significantly terms good-nature...
    Mrs1 3.151 18 [Lilla] was...like air or water, an element of such a great range of affinities that it combines readily with a thousand substances.
    Nat2 3.173 6 ...I go with my friend to the shore of our little river, and with one stroke of the paddle I...pass into a delicate realm of sunset and moonlight... We penetrate bodily this incredible beauty; we dip our hands in this painted element;...
    NER 3.252 17 It was in vain urged by the housewife...that fermentation develops the saccharine element in the grain...
    UGM 4.23 14 ...I find [a master] greater when he can abolish himself and all heroes, by letting in this element of reason...
    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, to import the other element, which Europe wanted, into the European mind.
    PPh 4.45 8 I am struck...with the extreme modernness of [Plato's] style and spirit. Here is the germ of that Europe we know so well... ... It has spread itself since into a hundred histories, but has added no new element.
    PPh 4.52 27 European civility is...delight...in comprehensible results. Pericles, Athens, Greece, had been working in this element with the joy of genius not yet chilled by any foresight of the detriment of an excess.
    SwM 4.108 21 The mind is a finer body, and resumes its functions of feeding, digesting, absorbing, excluding and generating, in a new and ethereal element.
    SwM 4.135 3 Palestine is ever the more valuable as a chapter in universal history, and ever the less an available element in education.
    SwM 4.137 23 I doubt not [Swedenborg] was led by the desire to insert the element of personality of Deity.
    MoS 4.182 6 The generosities of the day prove an intractable element for [the spiritualist].
    ShP 4.215 16 In the poet's mind the fact has gone quite over into the new element of thought, and has lost all that is exuvial.
    ET3 5.37 1 ...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...
    ET4 5.45 6 The British Empire is reckoned to contain (in 1848)...perhaps a fifth of the population of the globe... Perhaps forty of these millions are of British stock. Add the United States of America...in which the foreign element, however considerable, is rapidly assimilated, and you have a population of English descent and language of 60,000,000...
    ET4 5.49 9 It is easy to add to the counteracting forces to race. Credence is a main element.
    ET13 5.218 20 The reverence for the Scriptures is an element of civilization...
    ET13 5.226 1 The statesman knows that the religious element will not fail...
    ET13 5.228 15 The English Church, undermined by German criticism...was led logically back to Romanism. But that was an element which only hot heads could breathe;...
    ET14 5.234 21 The Saxon materialism and narrowness, exalted into the sphere of intellect, makes the very genius of Shakspeare and Milton. When it reaches the pure element, it treads the clouds as securely as the adamant.
    ET14 5.240 9 [Bacon] held this element [prima philosophia] essential...
    ET14 5.242 25 Not these particulars, but the mental plane or the atmosphere from which they emanate was the home and element of the writers and readers in what we loosely call the Elizabethan age...
    ET14 5.245 15 ...[Hallam's] eye does not reach to the ideal standards...all new thought must be cast into the old moulds. The expansive element which creates literature is steadily denied.
    ET14 5.248 10 It is because [Bacon]...basked in an element of contemplation out of all modern English atmospheric gauges, that he is impressive...
    ET14 5.258 8 That expansiveness which is the essence of the poetic element, [modern English poets] have not.
    ET19 5.311 14 This conscience is one element [which attracts an American to England]...
    F 6.20 3 The element running through entire nature, which we popularly call Fate, is known to us as limitation.
    F 6.33 14 Man...stands on tiptoe threatening to hunt the eagle in his own element.
    Pow 6.53 13 ...[power] is an element with which the world is so saturated... that no honest seeking goes unrewarded.
    Wth 6.83 5 Who shall tell what did befall,/ Far away in time, when once,/ Over the lifeless ball,/ Hung idle stars and suns?/ What god the element obeyed?/
    Wth 6.111 2 We cannot get rid of these [immigrant] people, and we cannot get rid of their will to be supported. That has become an inevitable element of our politics;...
    Bhr 6.170 12 The power of manners is incessant,--an element as unconcealable as fire.
    Bhr 6.183 17 The enthusiast is introduced to polished scholars in society and is chilled and silenced by finding himself not in their element.
    Wsp 6.204 14 ...the public and the private element...adhere to every soul...
    Wsp 6.219 13 ...though the new element of freedom and an individual has been admitted, yet the primordial atoms are prefigured and predetermined to moral issues...
    CbW 6.261 23 ...send [a rich man]...to Oregon; and if he have true faculty, this may be the element he wants...
    CbW 6.274 21 You cannot deal systematically with this fine element of society...
    Bty 6.282 16 Alchemy, which sought to transmute one element into another...that was in the right direction.
    Bty 6.306 1 All high beauty has a moral element in it...
    Ill 6.315 25 Women, more than all, are the element and kingdom of illusion.
    SS 7.1 21 ...[Seyd] shared the life of the element,/ The tie of blood and home was rent/...
    SS 7.16 4 ...a sound mind will derive its principles from insight...and will accept society as the natural element in which they are to be applied.
    Elo1 7.98 6 ...as soon as one acts for large masses, the moral element will and must be allowed for...
    WD 7.162 19 This thousand-handed art has introduced a new element into the state.
    WD 7.173 14 This element of illusion lends all its force to hide the values of present time.
    WD 7.185 9 ...this is the progress of every earnest mind;...from a respect to the works to a wise wonder at this mystic element of time in which he is conditioned;...
    Boks 7.216 22 We are [in the novel] cheated into laughter or wonder by feats which only oddly combine acts that we do every day. There is no new element, no power, no furtherance.
    Boks 7.217 25 Every good fable...every passage of love, and even philosophy and science, when they...are not detached and critical, have the imaginative element.
    Suc 7.300 9 How that element [color] washes the universe with its enchanting waves!
    OA 7.316 5 Cicero makes no reference to the illusions which cling to the element of time...
    PI 8.15 16 The endless passing of one element into new forms...explains the rank which the imagination holds in our catalogue of mental powers.
    Elo2 8.119 8 Go into an assembly well excited, some angry political meeting on the eve of a crisis. Then it appears that eloquence is as natural as swimming,--an art which all men might learn, though so few do. It only needs that they should be once well pushed off into the water...and henceforward they possess this new and wonderful element.
    Comc 8.161 23 [A perception of the Comic] appears to be an essential element in a fine character.
    PC 8.213 1 Geology itself is only chemistry with the element of time added;...
    PC 8.225 16 ...the moral element in man counterpoises this dismaying immensity and bereaves it of terror.
    Grts 8.309 20 If you have ever known a good mind among the Quakers, you will have found [self-respect] is the element of their faith.
    Grts 8.313 5 [Fame] is...that fine element by which the good become partners of the greatness of their superiors.
    Dem1 10.15 26 I have a lucky hand, sir, said Napoleon...those on whom I lay it are fit for anything. This faith is familiar in one form,-that often a certain abdication of prudence and foresight is an element of success;...
    Dem1 10.18 4 ...[the demonaical property]...forms in the moral world, though not an antagonist, yet a transverse element...
    Dem1 10.18 11 ...this demonic element appears most fruitful when it shows itself as the determining characteristic in an individual.
    Aris 10.31 21 [The best young men] do not yet covet political power...nor do they wish to be saints; for fear of partialism; but...the reconciling element...they find in the idea of gentleman.
    PerF 10.74 6 [Man's] whole frame is responsive to the world...every sense, every pore to a new element...
    PerF 10.76 8 ...[man] is warmed by the sun, and so of every element;...
    Chr2 10.95 10 The moral element invites man to great enlargements...
    Chr2 10.99 1 There was a time when Christianity existed in one child. But if the child had been killed by Herod, would the element have been lost?
    Chr2 10.121 23 ...Henry James affirms, that to give the feminine element in life its hard-earned but eternal supremacy over the masculine has been the secret inspiration of all past history.
    Edc1 10.134 16 Is not the Vast an element of the mind?
    Edc1 10.135 22 In affirming that the moral nature of man is the predominant element and should therefore be mainly consulted in the arrangements of a school, I am very far from wishing that it should swallow up all the other instincts and faculties of man.
    Edc1 10.140 3 How we envy in later life the happy youths to whom their boisterous games and rough exercise furnish the precise element which frames and sets off their school and college tasks...
    SovE 10.186 3 ...we exaggerate when we represent these two elements [belief and skepticism] as disunited; every man shares them both; but it is true that men generally are marked by a decided predominance of one or of the other element.
    SovE 10.186 5 ...in mature life the moral element steadily rises in the regard of all reasonable men.
    SovE 10.192 22 Strength enters just as much as the moral element prevails.
    SovE 10.210 18 Such experiments as we recall are those in which some sect or dogma made the tie [with the moral principle], and that was an artificial element, which chilled and checked the union.
    Prch 10.218 20 ...that religious submission and abandonment which give man a new element and being...it is not in churches, it is not in houses.
    Prch 10.228 5 Christianity taught the capacity, the element, to love the All-perfect without a stingy bargain for personal happiness.
    LLNE 10.344 14 Highly refined persons might easily miss in [Theodore Parker] the element of beauty.
    MMEm 10.426 4 How grand [the earth's] preparation for souls,-souls who were to feel the Divinity, before Science had...applied its steely analysis to that state of being which recognizes neither psychology nor element.
    MMEm 10.431 6 That greatest of all gifts, however small my [Mary Moody Emerson's] power of receiving,-the capacity, the element to love the All-perfect, without regard to personal happiness:-happiness?-'t is itself.
    Thor 10.474 27 [Thoreau] could not be deceived as to the presence or absence of the poetic element in any composition...
    HDC 11.39 16 ...[the settlers of Concord] might say with Higginson...that New England may boast of the element of fire, more than all the rest; for all Europe is not able to afford to make so great fires as New England.
    EWI 11.103 23 ...the crude element of good in human affairs must work and ripen...
    EWI 11.118 13 ...experience...shows the existence, beside the covetousness, of a bitterer element [in slavery], the love of power...
    EWI 11.140 9 The First of August [1834] marks the entrance of a new element into modern politics, namely, the civilization of the negro.
    EWI 11.144 4 ...if the black man carries in his bosom an indispensable element of a new and coming civilization; for the sake of that element, no wrong nor strength nor circumstance can hurt him...
    EWI 11.144 5 ...if the black man carries in his bosom an indispensable element of a new and coming civilization; for the sake of that element, no wrong nor strength nor circumstance can hurt him...
    FSLC 11.189 27 All arts, customs, societies, books, and laws, are good as they foster and concur with this spiritual element...
    TPar 11.286 26 ...we can hardly ascribe to [Theodore Parker's] mind the poetic element...
    EdAd 11.390 6 ...[man] lives in such connection with Thought and Fact that his bread is surely involved as one element thereof...
    Wom 11.412 12 ...[women] could not be such excellent artists in this element of fancy if they did not lend and give themselves to it.
    Shak1 11.452 25 ...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...
    FRO1 11.479 4 There is an element of childish infatuation in [the histories of the Church] which does not exalt our respect for man.
    PLT 12.15 4 First I wish to speak of the excellence of that element [Intellect]...
    PLT 12.17 8 I dare not deal with this element [Intellect] in its pure essence.
    PLT 12.61 8 Ideal and practical...are never parallel. Each has...its proper dangers, obvious enough when the opposite element is deficient.
    PLT 12.61 26 Strength enters as the moral element enters.
    MAng1 12.217 9 ...we shall endeavor by sketches from [Michelangelo's] life to show the direction and limitations of his search after this element [Beauty].
    MAng1 12.217 12 Can this charming element [Beauty] be so abstracted by the human mind as to become a distinct and permanent object?
    MAng1 12.218 18 In relation to this element of Beauty, the minds of men divide themselves into two classes.
    ACri 12.283 20 In this art [writing] modern society has introduced a new element, by introducing a new audience.
    MLit 12.316 17 Another element of the modern poetry akin to this subjective tendency...is the Feeling of the Infinite.
    MLit 12.326 10 This subtle element of egotism in Goethe certainly does not seem to deform his compositions...
    MLit 12.330 10 The least inequality of mixture [of Truth, Beauty and Goodness], the excess of one element over the other, in that degree diminishes the transparency of things...
    WSL 12.343 2 Whatever can make for itself an element, means, organs, servants and the most profound and permanent existence in the hearts and heads of millions of men, must have a reason for its being.
    WSL 12.343 24 ...wherever freedom and justice are threatened, which he values as the element in which genius may work, [Landor's] interest is sure to be commanded.
    WSL 12.346 1 It is a sufficient proof of the extreme delicacy of this element [character]...that it has so seldom been employed in the drama and in novels.
    EurB 12.376 20 ...a probity, a justice was to be [the society in Wilhelm Meister's] element...
    EurB 12.376 24 ...a perception of beauty was the equally indispensable element of the association [society in Wilhelm Meister]...
    Trag 12.406 21 The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an intellectual source is the belief in a brute Fate or Destiny;...
    Trag 12.408 16 After reason and faith have introduced a better public and private tradition, the tragic element is somewhat circumscribed.
    Trag 12.408 27 After we have enumerated...mutilation, rack, madness and loss of friends, we have not yet included the proper tragic element, which is Terror...

elemental, adj. (21)

    Nat 1.72 5 [Man] perceives that...if still he have elemental power...it is not inferior but superior to his will.
    AmS 1.99 12 [The great soul] can still fall back on this elemental force of living [his truths].
    LT 1.289 17 ...in all the details of our domestic or civil life is hidden the elemental reality...
    SR 2.79 21 ...[creeds and churches] are also classifications of some powerful mind acting on the elemental thought of duty...
    Cir 2.313 10 Cleansed by the elemental light and wind...we may chance to cast a right glance back upon biography.
    Mrs1 3.151 12 Was it Hafiz or Firdousi that said of his Persian Lilla, She was an elemental force...
    UGM 4.9 11 A man is a centre for nature, running out threads of relation through every thing, fluid and solid, material and elemental.
    UGM 4.33 4 The study of many individuals leads us to an elemental region wherein the individual is lost...
    F 6.22 21 On one side elemental order...and on the other part thought...
    F 6.28 21 All great force is real and elemental.
    Pow 6.53 10 ...if there be such a tie that wherever the mind of man goes, nature will accompany him, perhaps there are men whose magnetisms are of that force to draw material and elemental powers...
    Wsp 6.218 24 We have learned the manners...of the mineral and elemental kingdoms...
    PI 8.29 24 ...[Herbert, Swedenborg, Wordsworth] know that this correspondence of things to thoughts...is elemental...
    PI 8.49 5 ...the elemental forces have their own periods and returns...
    Insp 8.281 6 ...wine, no doubt, and all fine food, as of delicate fruits, furnish some elemental wisdom.
    Imtl 8.333 18 Here is this wonderful thought. But whence came it? Who put it in the mind? It was not I, it was not you; it is elemental...
    PerF 10.72 25 What I have said of the inexorable persistance of every elemental force to remain itself...the same rule applies again strictly to this force of intellect;...
    MoL 10.250 6 [Nature says to the American] I give you...the forest and the mine, the elemental forces, nervous energy.
    Schr 10.285 15 ...[Genius]...flings itself on real elemental things...
    ChiE 11.471 16 [China's] people had such elemental conservatism that by some wonderful force of race and national manners, the wars and revolutions that occur in her annals have proved but momentary swells or surges on the pacific ocean of her history...
    FRep 11.522 2 [The American] sits secure in the possession of his vast domain...sees its inevitable force unlocking itself in elemental order day by day...

elementary, adj. (3)

    Ctr 6.163 23 The longer we live the more we must endure the elementary existence of men and women;...
    PLT 12.14 21 ...philosophy is still rude and elementary.
    Bost 12.195 24 The universality of an elementary education in New England is her praise and her power in the whole world.

elements, n. (112)

    Nat 1.17 11 How does Nature deify us with a few and cheap elements!
    Nat 1.29 10 The same symbols are found to make the original elements of all languages.
    AmS 1.93 20 Colleges...have their indispensable office, - to teach elements.
    MN 1.193 25 ...the sturdiest defender of existing institutions feels the terrific inflammability of this air which condenses heat in every corner that may restore to the elements the fabric of ages.
    Con 1.300 2 Nature does not give the crown of its approbation, namely, beauty, to any action or emblem or actor but to one which combines both these elements [Conservatism and Reform];...
    Con 1.301 1 In nature, each of these elements [Conservatism and Reform] being always present, each theory has a natural support.
    Con 1.301 15 ...no man can continue to exist in whom both these elements [Conservatism and Reform] do not work...
    Hist 2.23 12 The home-keeping wit...is that continence or content which finds all the elements of life in its own soil;...
    Hist 2.34 17 Magic and all that is ascribed to it is a deep presentiment of the powers of science. The shoes of swiftness...the power of subduing the elements...are the obscure efforts of the mind in a right direction.
    Hist 2.40 3 What connection do the books show between the fifty or sixty chemical elements and the historical eras?
    SR 2.64 1 What is the nature and power of that science-baffling star... without calculable elements...
    Comp 2.97 16 The reaction, so grand in the elements, is repeated within these small boundaries.
    Fdsp 2.202 10 There are two elements that go to the composition of friendship...
    OS 2.284 2 It was left to [Christ's] disciples to sever duration from the moral elements...
    Int 2.334 26 In the intellect constructive...we observe the same balance of two elements as in intellect receptive.
    Exp 3.65 23 Human life is made up of the two elements, power and form...
    Exp 3.65 26 Each of these elements [power and form] in excess makes a mischief as hurtful as its defect.
    Exp 3.70 5 The ancients, struck with this irreducibleness of the elements of human life to calculation, exalted Chance into a divinity;...
    Exp 3.75 8 ...the elements already exist in many minds around you of a doctrine of life which shall transcend any written record we have.
    Nat2 3.181 16 ...the artist still goes back for materials and begins again with the first elements on the most advanced stage;...
    NR 3.229 16 We are amphibious creatures, weaponed for two elements...
    NR 3.229 21 We are practically skilful in detecting elements for which we have no place in our theory, and no name.
    UGM 4.5 6 [Man] believes that the great material elements had their origin from his thought.
    PPh 4.48 24 These strictly-blended elements [Unity and Variety] it is the problem of thought to separate and to reconcile.
    PPh 4.54 10 Metaphysics and natural philosophy expressed the genius of Europe; [Plato] substructs the religion of Asia, as the base. In short, a balanced soul was born, perceptive of the two elements.
    PPh 4.56 1 ...the experience of poetic creativeness, which is not found in staying at home, nor yet in travelling, but in transitions from one to the other, which must therefore be adroitly managed to present as much transitional surface as possible; this command of two elements must explain the power and the charm of Plato.
    PPh 4.77 15 ...elements, planet itself, laws of planet and of men, have passed through this man [Plato] as bread into his body, and become no longer bread, but body...
    PNR 4.85 5 [Plato] saw...that the world was throughout mathematical;... there is just so much water and slate and magnesia; not less are the proportions constant of the moral elements.
    SwM 4.127 3 Of this book [Swedenborg's Conjugal Love] one would say that with the highest elements it has failed of success.
    MoS 4.160 23 An angular, dogmatic house would be rent to chips and splinters in this storm of many elements.
    ShP 4.217 13 [Shakespeare] converted the elements which waited on his command, into entertainments.
    GoW 4.285 4 The lurking daemons sat to [Goethe], and the saint who saw the daemons; and the metaphysical elements took form.
    GoW 4.290 3 ...the highest simplicity of structure is produced, not by a few elements, but by the highest complexity.
    ET3 5.35 10 What are the elements of that power which the English hold over other nations?
    ET4 5.50 22 Everything English is a fusion of distant and antagonistic elements.
    ET8 5.136 22 This [English] race has added new elements to humanity and has a deeper root in the world.
    ET10 5.162 1 The introduction of these elements [steam and money] gives new resources to existing [English] proprietors.
    F 6.7 1 ...the elements...respect no persons.
    F 6.21 23 ...we must...seek to do justice to the other elements as well.
    F 6.24 7 Rude and invincible except by themselves are the elements.
    F 6.47 26 ...by the cunning co-presence of two elements...whatever lames or paralyzes you draws in with it the divinity...to repay.
    F 6.49 14 Why should we fear to be crushed by savage elements...
    F 6.49 15 Why should we fear to be crushed by savage elements, we who are made up of the same elements?
    Pow 6.61 25 ...[a timid man] discovers that the enormous elements of strength which are here in play make our politics unimportant.
    Pow 6.64 6 The same elements are always present...
    Pow 6.68 4 All the elements whose aid man calls in will sometimes become his masters...
    Wth 6.89 13 The same correspondence that is between thirst in the stomach and water in the spring, exists between the whole of man and the whole of nature. The elements offer their service to him.
    Wsp 6.240 15 ...the last lesson of life, the choral song which rises from all elements and all angels, is a voluntary obedience, a necessitated freedom.
    CbW 6.247 27 See what a cometary train of auxiliaries man carries with him, of animals, plants, stones, gases and imponderable elements.
    Bty 6.283 3 All the elements pour through [a man's] system;...
    Ill 6.320 17 With such volatile elements to work in, 't is no wonder if our estimates are loose and floating.
    Ill 6.324 27 In a crowded life of many parts and performers...the same elements offer the same choices to each new comer...
    Civ 7.27 11 ...all our strength and success in the work of our hands depend on our borrowing the aid of the elements.
    Civ 7.28 27 That is the way we are strong, by borrowing the might of the elements.
    Civ 7.29 27 ...as our handiworks borrow the elements, so all our social and political action leans on principles.
    DL 7.133 19 He who shall bravely and gracefully...show men how to lead a clean, handsome and heroic life amid the beggarly elements of our cities and villages;...will restore the life of man to splendor...
    Farm 7.135 15 So, year by year,/ [Farmers] fight the elements with elements/...
    Farm 7.146 14 Water...transports vast boulders of rock in its iceberg a thousand miles. But its far greater power depends on its talent of becoming little, and entering the smallest holes and pores. By this agency, carrying in solution elements needful to every plant, the vegetable world exists.
    Farm 7.152 26 The great elements with which [the farmer] deals cannot leave him unaffected...
    WD 7.161 13 There does not seem any limit to these new informations of the same Spirit that made the elements at first...
    WD 7.172 21 The Hindoos represent Maia, the illusory energy of Vishnu, as one of his principal attributes. As if, in this gale of warring elements which life is, it was necessary to bind souls to human life as mariners in a tempest lash themselves to the mast and bulwarks of a ship...
    WD 7.178 4 ...though many creatures eat from one dish, each, according to its constitution, assimilates from the elements what belongs to it...
    Cour 7.254 17 Men admire...the power of better combination and foresight...whether it only plays a game of chess...or whether, exploring the chemical elements whereof we and the world are made, and seeing their secret, Franklin draws off the lightning in his hand;...
    Suc 7.299 24 You walk on the beach and enjoy the animation of the picture. Scoop up a little water in the hollow of your palm, take up a handful of shore sand; well, these are the elements.
    PI 8.4 19 Faraday...taught that when we should arrive at the...primordial elements...we should...find...spherules of force.
    PI 8.41 24 ...the poet sees...the interaction of the elements...
    SA 8.100 10 It is the sense of every human being that man...should arm himself with tools and force the elements to drudge for him and give him power.
    QO 8.201 5 [The individual] must draw the elements into him for food...
    QO 8.201 9 ...however received, these elements pass into the substance of [the individual's] constitution...
    PPo 8.238 5 [Life in the East's] elements are few and simple...
    PPo 8.247 14 We absorb elements enough, but have not leaves and lungs for healthy perspiration and growth.
    Grts 8.305 10 Others find a charm and a profession in the natural history of man and the mammalia or related animals;...others in the elements of which the whole world is made.
    Grts 8.305 15 ...the sun and the planets are made in part or in whole of the same elements as the earth is.
    Grts 8.317 15 Men are ennobled by morals and by intellect; but those two elements know each other...
    Imtl 8.333 25 ...proceeding to the enumeration of the few simple elements of the natural faith, the first fact that strikes us is our delight in permanence.
    Imtl 8.334 14 ...never to know the Cause, the Giver, and infer his character and will! Of what import this vacant sky, these puffing elements...
    Dem1 10.8 20 [Dreams] are the maturation often of opinions not consciously carried out to statements, but whereof we already possessed the elements.
    Dem1 10.17 21 I believed that I discovered in nature...somewhat which manifested itself only in contradiction, and therefore could not be grasped by a conception, much less by a word. ... It seemed to deal at pleasure with the necessary elements of our constitution;...
    Dem1 10.18 19 ...a monstrous force goes out from [demonic individuals], and they exert an incredible power over all creatures, and even over the elements;...
    Dem1 10.22 26 Every fact in which the moral elements intermingle is not the less under the dominion of fatal law.
    Dem1 10.23 11 ...the so-called fortunate man is one...who...waits his time, and without effort acts when the need is. If to this you add a fitness to the society around him, you have the elements of fortune;...
    Aris 10.43 23 In a thousand cups of life, only one is the right mixture,-a fine adjustment to the existing elements.
    PerF 10.71 22 The sun has lost no beams, the earth no elements;...
    PerF 10.72 9 ...behind all these [natural forces] are finer elements...
    PerF 10.74 27 [Man] is a planter...a builder of towns;-and each of these by dint of a wonderful method or series that resides in him and enables him to work on the material elements.
    PerF 10.88 18 ...the iron of iron, the fire of fire, the ether and source of all the elements is moral force.
    Edc1 10.125 21 ...the poor man...is allowed to put his hand into the pocket of the rich, and say, You shall educate me...not alone in the elements, but... in the languages...
    Edc1 10.127 22 This apparatus of wants and faculties, this craving body, whose organs ask all the elements and all the functions of Nature for their satisfaction, educate the wondrous creature which they satisfy with light, with heat...
    Edc1 10.134 2 Whatever elements are in [man] [education] should foster and demonstrate.
    Edc1 10.147 1 Nor are the two elements, enthusiasm and drill, incompatible.
    Edc1 10.153 16 ...[the gentle teacher, who wished to be a Providence to youth's]...love of learning is lost in the routine of grammars and books of elements.
    SovE 10.185 26 ...we exaggerate when we represent these two elements [belief and skepticism] as disunited;...
    SovE 10.190 24 Shall I say then it were truer to see Necessity...stretching her dark warp across the universe? These threads are Nature's pernicious elements...
    SovE 10.197 14 What is this intoxicating sentiment...that makes this doll... peer and master of the elements?
    LS 11.4 10 In the Church of England, Archbishops Laud and Wake maintained that the elements [of the Lord's Supper] were an Eucharist, or sacrifice of Thanksgiving to God;...
    LS 11.18 27 ...the use of the elements [of the Lord's Supper]...is foreign and unsuited to affect us.
    LS 11.23 22 ...I have proposed to the brethren of the Church to drop the use of the elements and the claim of authority in the administration of this ordinance [the Lord's Supper]...
    HDC 11.39 14 ...[the settlers of Concord] might say with Higginson, after his description of the other elements, that...all Europe is not able to afford to make so great fires as New England.
    EWI 11.122 24 There have been nations elevated by great sentiments. Such was the civility of Sparta and the Dorian race, whilst it was defective in some of the chief elements of ours.
    ACiv 11.310 5 Nature works through her appointed elements;...
    SMC 11.351 6 The art of the architect and the sense of the town have made these dumb stones [of the Concord Monument] speak; have...converted these elements from a secular to a sacred and spiritual use;...
    EdAd 11.382 11 The injured elements say, Not in us;/ And night and day, ocean and continent,/ Fire, plant and mineral say, Not in us;/ And haughtily return us stare for stare./
    FRep 11.517 27 Hitherto government has been that of the single person or of the aristocracy. In this country the attempt to resist these elements, it is asserted, must throw us into the government...of an inferior class of professional politicians...
    PLT 12.32 1 ...each tree can secrete from the soil the elements that form a peach, a lemon, or a cocoa-nut, according to its kind...
    PLT 12.60 25 These elements [mind and heart] always coexist in every normal individual...
    CL 12.166 26 ...[a parlor in which fine persons are found] again is Nature, and there we have again the charm which landscape gives us, in a finer form; but the persons...must...have manners that speak of reality and great elements...
    CW 12.176 15 ...it is much better to learn the elements of geology, of botany...by word of mouth from a companion than dully from a book.
    Bost 12.198 5 We can show [in New England] native examples...who possess all the elements of noble behavior.
    Bost 12.200 2 What should hinder that this America...what should hinder that this New Atlantis should have...its gardens fit for human abode, where all elements were right for the health, power and virtue of man?
    Bost 12.205 26 ...there was never, I suppose, a more rapid expansion in population, wealth and all the elements of power, and in the citizens' consciousness of power and sustained assertion of it, than was exhibited here.
    MAng1 12.238 27 It has been the defect of some great men that they did not duly appreciate or did not confess the talents and virtues of others, and so lacked...one of the best elements of humanity.
    Trag 12.406 20 What are the conspicuous tragic elements in human nature?

elephant, n. (8)

    Nat 1.44 1 In Haydn's oratorios, the notes present to the imagination not only motions, as of...the elephant, but colors also;...
    ET4 5.71 1 The more vigorous [Englishmen] run out of the island...to Africa and Australia, to hunt with fury...with dog, with horse, with elephant or with dromedary, all the game that is in nature.
    F 6.20 12 ...Vishnu follows Maya through all her ascending changes, from insect and crawfish up to elephant;...
    Pow 6.69 13 ...when [the young English] have no wars to breathe their riotous valors in, they seek for travels as dangerous as war...hunting lion, rhinoceros, elephant, in South Africa;...
    PPo 8.242 8 Firdusi...has written in the Shah Nameh the annals...of Afrasiyab, strong as an elephant...
    PPo 8.258 24 Wisdom is like the elephant,/ Lofty and rare inhabitant:/ He dwells in deserts or in courts;/ With hucksters he has no resorts./
    PPo 8.265 9 Ants see not the Pleiades./ Can the gnat grasp with his teeth/ The body of the elephant?/
    CL 12.160 25 When I look at natural structures, as at a tree...or the anatomy of an elephant, I know that I am seeing an architecture and carpentry which has no sham...

elephantiasis, n. (1)

    Ctr 6.134 1 ...if we run over our private list of poets, critics, philanthropists and philosophers, we shall find them infected with this dropsy and elephantiasis [egotism]...

elephants, n. (7)

    ET16 5.278 16 I, who had just come from Professor Sedgwick's Cambridge Museum of megatheria and mastodons, was ready to maintain that some cleverer elephants or mylodonta had borne off and laid these rocks [of Stonehenge] one on another.
    Imtl 8.350 11 Yama said [to Nachiketas]...choose elephants and gold and horses;...
    Imtl 8.350 26 Nachiketas said [to Yama], All those [worldly] enjoyments are of yesterday. With thee remain thy horses and elephants...
    Supl 10.174 25 Nor is there in Nature itself any swell, any brag, any strain or shock, but a firm common sense through all her elephants and lions...
    Supl 10.177 26 ...the Orientals excel...in the training of slaves, elephants and camels...
    Humb 11.458 20 ...Cuvier tells us of fossil elephants;
    Humb 11.458 22 ...Cuvier tells us of fossil elephants; that Germany has furnished the greatest number;-not because there are more elephants in Germany...

Eleusinian, adj. (3)

    NR 3.232 8 The Eleusinian mysteries...show that there always were seeing and knowing men in the planet.
    SwM 4.132 15 The wise people of the Greek race were accustomed to lead the most intelligent and virtuous young men...through the Eleusinian mysteries...
    Bty 6.304 9 Facts which had never before left their stark common sense suddenly figure as Eleusinian mysteries.

elevate, v. (5)

    Civ 7.33 7 ...in Judaea, the advent of Jesus, and, in modern Christendom, of the realists Huss, Savonarola and Luther,--are casual facts which...elevate the rule of life.
    DL 7.128 8 ...the sufficient reply to the skeptic who doubts the competence of man to elevate and to be elevated is in that desire and power to stand in joyful and ennobling intercourse with individuals...
    Chr2 10.101 25 ...to every serious mind Providence sends from time to time five or six or seven teachers who are of first importance to him in the lessons they have to impart. The highest of these...elevate by sentiment and by their habitual grandeur of view.
    SovE 10.198 11 ...spontaneous graces and forces elevate [life] in every domestic circle...
    FRO2 11.489 12 ...do not attempt to elevate [the lesson of the New Testament] out of humanity, by saying, This was not a man...

elevated, adj. (7)

    ET17 5.293 8 It is not in distinguished circles that wisdom and elevated characters are usually found...
    Cour 7.255 26 ...the pure article...cheerfulness in lonely adherence to the right, is the endowment of elevated characters.
    Aris 10.57 17 ...a soul on which elevated duties are laid will so realize its special and lofty duties as not to be in danger of assuming through a low generosity those which do not belong to it.
    EWI 11.145 17 There remains the very elevated consideration which the subject [emancipation] opens...
    JBB 11.269 19 Nothing can resist the sympathy which all elevated minds must feel with [John] Brown...
    Milt1 12.250 4 Only its general aim, and a few elevated passages, can save [Milton's Defence of the English People].
    WSL 12.347 2 ...it is not from the highest Alps or Andes but from less elevated summits that the most attractive landscape is commanded...

elevated, v. (7)

    MR 1.227 18 ...every man should be open to ecstacy or a divine illumination, and his daily walk elevated by intercourse with the spiritual world.
    ET14 5.259 13 [Warren Hasting] goes to bespeak indulgence to...passages elevated to a tract of sublimity into which our habits of judgment will find it difficult to pursue them.
    DL 7.128 9 ...the sufficient reply to the skeptic who doubts the competence of man to elevate and to be elevated is in that desire and power to stand in joyful and ennobling intercourse with individuals...
    PI 8.35 15 The test of the poet is the power to take the passing day...and hold it up to a divine reason, till he sees it...to be related to astronomy and history and the eternal order of the world. Then the dry twig blossoms in his hand. He is calmed and elevated.
    Chr2 10.101 3 They who deal with [a man of profound moral sentiment] are elevated with joy and hope;...
    HDC 11.53 17 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, of being elevated to equality with their civilized brother.
    EWI 11.122 21 There have been nations elevated by great sentiments.

elevates, v. (5)

    Ctr 6.160 8 ...the presence of mountains...elevates our friendships.
    QO 8.178 12 ...he that uses [the understanding] of a superior elevates his own to the stature of that he contemplates.
    EWI 11.141 13 On sight of these [African artifacts], says Clarkson, many sublime thoughts seemed to rush at once into [William Pitt's] mind, some of which he expressed; and hence appeared to arise a project which was always dear to him, of the civilization of Africa,-a dream which forever elevates his fame.
    ACiv 11.307 21 Emancipation at one stroke elevates the poor-white of the South...
    FRep 11.522 18 [The American] is easily fed with wheat and game, with Ohio wine, but his brain is also pampered by finer draughts, by political power and by the power in the railroad board, in the mills, or the banks. This elevates his spirits...

elevating, adj. (1)

    Bhr 6.197 4 An old man who added an elevating culture to a large experience of life, said to me, When you come into the room, I think I will study how to make humanity beautiful to you.

elevating, v. (4)

    NMW 4.235 1 In vain several officers and myself were placed on the slope of a hill to produce the effect: their balls and mine rolled upon the ice without breaking it up. Seeing that, I tried a simple method of elevating light howitzers.
    PI 8.66 5 In poetry, said Goethe, only the really great and pure advances us, and this exists as a second nature, either elevating us to itself, or rejecting us.
    PC 8.224 24 Nature is sanative, refining, elevating.
    Aris 10.49 21 I think that the community...will be the best measure and the justest judge of the citizen...better than any statute elevating families to hereditary distinction...

elevation, n. (33)

    AmS 1.110 19 ...the same movement which effected the elevation of what was called the lowest class in the state, assumed in literature a very marked...aspect.
    LE 1.174 20 It is the noble, manlike, just thought, which is the superiority demanded of you, and not crowds but solitude confers this elevation.
    MR 1.256 14 ...the great man [is] very willing to lose particular powers and talents, so that he gain in the elevation of his life.
    LT 1.280 23 Give the slave the least elevation of religious sentiment, and he is no slave;...
    Con 1.299 19 ...[reform] runs...to unnatural refining and elevation...
    SR 2.72 4 ...your isolation...must be elevation.
    SL 2.143 16 To make habitually a new estimate,--that is elevation.
    SL 2.147 22 ...it is not observed that the keepers of Roman galleries or the valets of painters have any elevation of thought...
    OS 2.291 26 I do not wonder that these [simple] men go to see Cromwell and Christina and Charles the Second and James the First and the Grand Turk. For they are, in their own elevation, the fellows of kings...
    Int 2.346 21 ...what marks [Greek philosophers' thought's] elevation and has even a comic look to us, is the innocent serenity with which these babe-like Jupiters sit in their clouds...
    Pt1 3.14 27 ...science always goes abreast with the just elevation of the man...
    PPh 4.44 15 We are to account for the supreme elevation of this man [Plato] in the intellectual history of our race...
    PNR 4.80 5 The publication, in Mr. Bohn's Serial Library, of the excellent translations of Plato...gives us an occasion to take hastily a few more notes of the elevation and bearings of this fixed star;...
    NMW 4.231 20 Nothing has been more simple than my elevation [said Bonaparte]...
    ET1 5.5 24 ...all [Greenough's] opinions had elevation and magnanimity.
    ET1 5.24 23 To judge from a single conversation, [Wordsworth] made the impression...of one who paid for his rare elevation by general tameness and conformity.
    ET4 5.70 8 [The English] think...that manly exercises are the foundation of that elevation of mind which gives one nature ascendant over another;...
    ET14 5.235 1 It is a tacit rule of the [English] language to make the frame or skeleton of Saxon words, and, when elevation or ornament is sought, to interweave Roman, but sparingly;...
    ET14 5.237 21 The unique fact in literary history, the unsurprised reception of Shakspeare;...seems to demonstrate an elevation in the mind of the people.
    ET17 5.296 6 ...[Wordsworth's] conversation was not marked by special force or elevation.
    Ctr 6.153 10 [The countryman] has lost [in the city] the lines of grandeur of the horizon, hills and plains, and with them sobriety and elevation.
    Ctr 6.161 14 ...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. Plato says Pericles owed this elevation to the lessons of Anaxagoras.
    Clbs 7.232 3 ...[the lover of letters] seeks the company of those who have convivial talent. But the moment they meet, to be sure they begin to be something else than they were; they...try many fantastic tricks, under some superstition that there must be excitement and elevation;...
    PI 8.40 24 Now at this rare elevation above his usual sphere, [the poet] has come into new circulations...
    PI 8.52 13 ...we talk of our work, our tools and material necessities, in prose; that is, without any elevation or aim at beauty;...
    QO 8.181 8 ...scholars will recognize [Swedenborg's, Behmen's, Spinoza' s] dogmas as reappearing in men of a similar intellectual elevation throughout history.
    Aris 10.39 20 I wish...men...who would find their fellows in persons of real elevation of whatever kind of speculative or practical ability.
    Aris 10.54 18 Elevation of sentiment, refining and inspiring the manners, must really take the place of every distinction...
    Aris 10.65 14 ...it suffices...that...[the man of generous spirit] has an elevation of habit which ministers of empires will be forced to see and to remember.
    MMEm 10.433 9 ...every banker, shopkeeper and wood-sawer has a stake in the elevation of the moral code by saint and prophet.
    EWI 11.135 22 [Emancipation in the West Indies] was the masters revolting from their mastery. The slave-holder said, I will not hold slaves. The end was noble and the means were pure. Hence the elevation and pathos of this chapter of history.
    War 11.174 18 If peace is to be maintained, it must be by brave men...men who have, by their intellectual insight or else by their moral elevation, attained such a perception of their own intrinsic worth that they do not think property or their own body a sufficient good to be saved by such dereliction of principle as treating a man like a sheep.
    Bost 12.210 7 In an age of trade and material prosperity, we have stood a little stupefied by the elevation of our ancestors.

elevations, n. (3)

    UGM 4.26 14 We learn of our contemporaries what they know...almost through the pores of the skin. We catch it by sympathy, or as a wife arrives at the intellectual and moral elevations of her husband.
    ET14 5.234 22 Even in its elevations materialistic, [England's] poetry is common sense inspired;...
    Boks 7.217 11 ...this passion for romance, and this disappointment, show how much we need real elevations and pure poetry...

eleven, adj. (4)

    ET2 5.28 19 In one week [the ship] has made 1467 miles, and now...is flying before the gray south wind eleven and a half knots the hour.
    ET4 5.44 19 ...Mr. Pickering, who lately in our [Wilkes] Exploring Expedition thinks he saw all the kinds of men that can be on the planet, makes eleven [races].
    SMC 11.367 25 At Fredericksburg we lay eleven hours in one spot without moving...
    SHC 11.433 21 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, side by side, the eleven oaks of Massachusetts;...

eleventh, adj. (6)

    ET4 5.61 11 England yielded to the Danes and Northmen in the tenth and eleventh centuries...
    ET6 5.110 1 [The English] repeated the ceremonies of the eleventh century in the coronation of the present Queen.
    ET13 5.220 9 Heats and genial periods arrive in history...as in the eleventh, twelfth, thirteenth, and again in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries [in England]...
    LS 11.14 1 The end which [St. Paul] has in view, in the eleventh chapter of the first Epistle [to the Corinthians], is not to enjoin upon his friends to observe the [Lord's] Supper, but to censure their abuse of it.
    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...
    FSLC 11.194 23 ...unless you can draw a sponge over those seditious Ten Commandments which are the root of our European and American civilization; and over that eleventh commandment, Do unto others as you would have them do to you, your labor [the Fugitive Slave Law] is vain.

elfin, adj. (1)

    Hist 2.35 5 ...all the postulates of elfin annals...I find true in Concord...

elfish, adj. (1)

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

Elgin, Lord [Thomas Bruce] [Elgin] (5)

    NMW 4.226 13 It struck Dumont that he could fit [Mirabeau's speech] with a peroration, which he wrote in pencil immediately, and showed it to Lord Elgin...
    NMW 4.226 14 It struck Dumont that he could fit [Mirabeau's speech] with a peroration, which he wrote in pencil immediately, and showed it to Lord Elgin, who sat by him. Lord Elgin approved it...
    NMW 4.226 20 Mirabeau read [Dumont's peroration]...and declared he would incorporate it into his harangue to-morrow, to the Assembly. It is impossible, said Dumont, as, unfortunately, I have shown it to Lord Elgin.
    NMW 4.226 21 Mirabeau read [Dumont's peroration]...and declared he would incorporate it into his harangue to-morrow, to the Assembly. It is impossible, said Dumont, as, unfortunately, I have shown it to Lord Elgin. If you have shown it to Lord Elgin and to fifty persons beside, I shall still speak it to-morrow...
    ET5 5.91 14 Lord Elgin, at Athens, saw the imminent ruin of the Greek remains...

elicit, v. (1)

    SwM 4.116 11 ...if we choose to express any natural truth in physical and definite vocal terms [says Swedenborg], and to convert these terms only into the corresponding and spiritual terms, we shall...elicit a spiritual truth or theological dogma...

elicits, v. (1)

    Ctr 6.157 14 Here is a new poem, which elicits a good many comments in the journals and in conversation.

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