Emporium to Enemy's

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

emporium, n. (1)

    ACri 12.301 15 [The founder of New City] had transferred to that city [Chicago] the magnificent dreams which he had once communicated to me, and no longer remembered his first emporium.

empowered, v. (2)

    PPh 4.62 12 ...the Asia in [Plato's] mind was first heartily honored...and now, refreshed and empowered by this worship, the instinct of Europe... returns;...
    HDC 11.69 8 ...the British parliament have empowered the East India Company to export their tea into America...

empowers, v. (2)

    Wsp 6.234 5 The moral equalizes all: enriches, empowers all.
    Suc 7.309 25 As caloric to matter, so is love to mind; so it enlarges, and so it empowers it.

empress, n. (1)

    NMW 4.240 3 When the expenses of the empress...had accumulated great debts, Napoleon examined the bills of the creditors himself...

emptied, v. (4)

    Chr1 3.103 10 Love is inexhaustible, and if its estate is wasted, its granary emptied, still cheers and enriches...
    ET4 5.61 23 King Olaf said, When King Harold, my father, went westward to England, the chosen men in Norway followed him; but Norway was so emptied then, that such men have not since been to find in the country...
    Edc1 10.149 14 I have seen a carriage-maker's shop emptied of all its workmen into the street, to scrutinize a new pattern from New York.
    MMEm 10.420 24 ...sometimes I [Mary Moody Emerson] fancy that I am emptied and peeled to carry some seed to the ignorant...

empties, v. (1)

    ET10 5.161 12 ...[the Bank of England] refuses loans, and emigration empties the country;...

emptiest, adj. (2)

    SR 2.55 3 ...these airs of the bench are the emptiest affectation.
    MoS 4.177 26 There is a painful rumor in circulation that...free agency is the emptiest name.

emptiness, n. (2)

    LE 1.175 19 ...accept the hint...of spiritual emptiness and waste which true nature gives you...
    Tran 1.332 7 The sturdy capitalist...must set [his banking-house], at last... on a mass of unknown materials and solidity...which...goes spinning away... a bit of bullet, now glimmering, now darkling through a small cubic space on the edge of an unimaginable pit of emptiness.

empty, adj. (11)

    LE 1.157 4 ...the mark of American merit...in eloquence, seems...a vase of fair outline, but empty...
    SL 2.147 12 The world is very empty...
    SL 2.153 24 ...when the empty book has gathered all its praise...it still needs fuel to make fire.
    Cir 2.311 5 We all stand waiting, empty...
    MoS 4.174 12 My astonishing San Carlo thought the lawgivers and saints infected. They found the ark empty;...
    ET10 5.154 4 ...one of [England's] recent writers speaks...of the grave moral deterioration which follows an empty exchequer.
    ET11 5.193 22 [English noblemen]...keep [their houses] empty, aired, and the grounds mown and dressed, at a cost of four or five thousand pounds a year.
    OA 7.329 15 [The conchologist] labels shelves for classes, cells for species: all but a few are empty.
    PPo 8.237 10 The seven masters of the Persian Parnassus...have ceased to be empty names;...
    ACiv 11.298 6 ...who is this who tosses his empty head at this blessing in disguise...and calls labor vile...
    EdAd 11.386 9 It is a poor consideration...that political interests on so broad a scale as ours are administered...by...strict economists, quite empty of all superstition.

empty, v. (5)

    Comp 2.97 3 To empty here, you must condense there.
    F 6.24 8 Let [man] empty his breast of his windy conceits...
    Clbs 7.227 8 The understanding can no more empty itself by its own action than can a deal box.
    OA 7.322 4 ...if the life be true and noble, we have quite another sort of seniors than the frowzy, timorous, peevish dotards who are falsely old,-- namely, the men...who appearing in any street, the people empty their houses to gaze at and obey them...
    Res 8.145 10 The boat is full of water, and resists all your strength to drag it ashore and empty it.

emptyings, n. (1)

    Pow 6.60 18 If we will make bread, we must have contagion, yeast, emptyings, or what not, to induce fermentation into the dough;...

empyrean, n. (2)

    AmS 1.97 2 So is there...no event, in our private history, which shall not... astonish us by soaring from our body into the empyrean.
    Fdsp 2.216 19 ...thou art enlarged by thy own shining, and...dost soar and burn with the gods of the empyrean.

emulate, v. (3)

    DSA 1.141 27 What a cruel injustice it is to...that Law whose fatal sureness the astronomical orbits poorly emulate; - that it is travestied and depreciated...
    Lov1 2.188 3 ...nature and intellect and art emulate each other in the gifts and the melody they bring to the epithalamium.
    Ill 6.307 19 Know, the stars yonder,/ The stars everlasting,/ Are fugitive also,/ And emulate, vaulted,/ The lambent heat-lightning,/ And fire-fly's flight./

emulating, adj. (1)

    MLit 12.327 20 [Goethe's letters] cannot be read without shaming us into an emulating industry.

emulating, v. (1)

    Plu 10.312 3 Seneca...by...his own skill...of living with men of business and emulating their address in affairs...learned to temper his philosophy with facts.

emulation, n. (10)

    DSA 1.145 23 Friends enough you shall find who will hold up to your emulation Wesleys and Oberlins...
    Chr1 3.105 16 It is of no use to ape [character] or to contend with it. Somewhat is possible of resistance, and of persistence, and of creation, to this power, which will foil all emulation.
    UGM 4.26 6 We keep each other in countenance and exasperate by emulation the frenzy of the time.
    Boks 7.205 17 ...[Gibbon's] book is one of the conveniences of civilization...and, I think, will be sure to send the reader to his...Abstracts of my Readings, which will spur the laziest scholar to emulation of his prodigious performance.
    Clbs 7.243 9 It was the Marchioness of Rambouillet who first......piqued the emulation of Cardinal Richelieu to rival assemblies...
    Res 8.138 1 These examples [of man's victory over Nature]...call every man to emulation.
    Grts 8.310 11 You are rightly fond of certain books or men that you have found to excite your reverence and emulation.
    Edc1 10.154 2 The advantages of this system of emulation and display are so prompt and obvious...that it is not strange that this calomel of culture should be a popular medicine.
    LLNE 10.339 15 I attribute much importance to two papers of Dr. Channing, one on Milton and one on Napoleon, which were the first specimens in this country of that large criticism which in England had given power and fame to the Edinburgh Review. They were...immediately fruitful in provoking emulation which lifted the style of Journalism.
    Milt1 12.252 11 ...[Milton] kindles a love and emulation in us which he did not in foregoing generations.

emulous, adj. (5)

    UGM 4.14 3 We are emulous of all that man can do.
    ET18 5.304 26 The English designate the kingdoms emulous of free institutions, as the sentimental nations.
    Insp 8.293 3 We are emulous.
    War 11.153 1 The [early] leaders, picked men of a courage and vigor tried and augmented in fifty battles, are emulous to distinguish themselves above each other by new merits...
    ChiE 11.474 20 ...Sir Frederic Bruce attributed to Mr. Burlingame the merit of the happy reform in the relations of foreign governments to China. I am quite sure that I heard from Mr. Burlingame in New York...that the whole merit of it belonged to Sir Frederic Bruce. It appears that the ambassadors were emulous in their magnanimity.

enable, v. (13)

    DSA 1.133 2 ...it is a high benefit to enable me to do somewhat of myself.
    DSA 1.135 11 ...the man who aims to speak as books enable...babbles.
    MN 1.218 14 All your learning of all literatures would never enable you to anticipate one of its thoughts or expressions...
    NER 3.275 16 ...a naval and military honor...the acknowledgment of eminent merit,--have this lustre for each candidate that they enable him to walk erect and unashamed in the presence of some persons before whom he felt himself inferior.
    UGM 4.25 14 Great men are...a collyrium to clear our eyes from egotism and enable us to see other people and their works.
    ET14 5.247 21 [Macaulay] thinks...that, solid advantage, as he calls it, meaning always sensual benefit, is the only good. The eminent benefit of astronomy is the better navigation it creates to enable the fruit-ships to bring home their lemons and wine to the London grocer.
    Wth 6.106 19 ...for all that is consumed so much less remains in the basket and pot, but what is gone out of these is not wasted, but well spent, if it nourish [a man's] body and enable him to finish his task;...
    Elo1 7.80 9 A barrister in England is reputed to have made thirty or forty thousand pounds per annum in representing the claims of railroad companies before committees of the House of Commons. His clients pay not so much for legal as for manly accomplishments,--for courage, conduct and a commanding social position, which enable him to make their claims heard and respected.
    Boks 7.214 9 ...books that...distribute things...with as daring a freedom as we use in dreams...enable us to form an original judgment of our duties...
    Elo2 8.126 23 ...it costs a great heat to enable a heavy man to come up with those who have a quick sensibility.
    MMEm 10.421 24 ...a few lamps held out in the firmament enable us to talk of Time...
    AKan 11.256 23 ...the people of Kansas ask for bread, clothes, arms and men, to...enable them to stand against these enemies of the human race.
    Pray 12.353 9 These duties are not the life, but the means which enable us to show forth the life.

enabled, v. (6)

    ET10 5.161 20 Steam has enabled men to choose what law they will live under.
    SlHr 10.446 15 [Samuel Hoar] had a childlike innocence...which...enabled him to meet every comer with a free and disengaged courtesy that had no memory in it Of wrong and outrage with which the earth is filled./
    Thor 10.473 5 The farmers who employed [Thoreau] as a surveyor soon discovered...his knowledge of their lands...which enabled him to tell every farmer more than he knew before of his own farm;...
    HDC 11.60 20 ...it was only a great thaw in January, that melting the snow and opening the earth, enabled [King Philip's] poor followers to come at the ground-nuts, else they had starved.
    ALin 11.332 27 [Lincoln's good humor] enabled him to keep his secret;...
    Pray 12.351 9 Among the remains of Euripides we have this prayer: Thou God of all! infuse light into the souls of men, whereby they may be enabled to know what is the root whence all their evils spring, and by what means they may avoid them.

enables, v. (16)

    Nat 1.54 24 The perception of real affinities between events...enables the poet...to assert the predominance of the soul.
    MN 1.207 17 ...the union of foreign constitutions in him enables [a man] to do gladly and gracefully what the assembled human race could not have sufficed to do.
    SR 2.74 22 ...if I can discharge [my own perfect circle's] debts it enables me to dispense with the popular code.
    SwM 4.121 12 The central identity enables any one symbol to express successively all the qualities and shades of real being.
    GoW 4.283 4 This earnestness enables [the Germans] to outsee men of much more talent.
    ET6 5.109 3 Domesticity is the taproot which enables the nation [England] to branch wide and high.
    ET9 5.149 2 Their culture generally enables the travelled English to avoid any ridiculous extremes of this self-pleasing...
    Wth 6.112 5 Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other...
    Ctr 6.143 16 ...the being master of [minor skills] enables the youth to judge intelligently of much on which otherwise he would give a pedantic squint.
    DL 7.105 7 The child realizes to every man his own earliest remembrance, and so...enables us to live over the unconscious history...
    WD 7.160 5 How excellent are the mechanical aids we have applied to the human body, as...in the boldest promiser of all,--the transfusion of the blood,--which, in Paris, it was claimed, enables a man to change his blood as often as his linen!
    Cour 7.268 1 There is...a courage which enables one man to speak masterly to a hostile company, whilst another man who can easily face a cannon's mouth dares not open his own.
    PerF 10.74 27 [Man] is a planter...a lawgiver, 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.
    SMC 11.358 1 One [volunteer] wrote to his father these words: You may think it strange that I, who have always naturally rather shrunk from danger, should wish to enter the army; but there is a higher Power that... enables [men] to see their duty...
    FRep 11.527 8 The steady improvement of the public schools in the cities and the country enables the farmer or laborer to secure a precious primary education.
    PLT 12.23 23 ...A body in the act of combination or decomposition enables another body, with which it may be in contact, to enter into the same state.

enabling, v. (1)

    Cour 7.263 11 Use makes a better soldier than the most urgent considerations of duty,--familiarity with danger enabling him to estimate the danger.

enact, v. (6)

    MN 1.222 18 The only way into nature is to enact our best insight.
    MR 1.252 24 ...we enact the part of the selfish noble and king from the foundation of the world.
    F 6.42 2 The tendency of every man to enact all that is in his constitution is expressed in the old belief that the efforts which we make to escape from our destiny only serve to lead us into it...
    Boks 7.219 14 Friendship should give and take, solitude and time brood and ripen, heroes absorb and enact [the communications of the sacred books].
    HDC 11.81 22 It was put to the town of Concord, in October, 1776, by the Legislature, whether the existing house of representatives should enact a constitution for the State?
    ACiv 11.310 12 ...President Lincoln has proposed to Congress that the government shall cooperate with any state that shall enact a gradual abolishment of slavery.

enacted, v. (9)

    Hist 2.6 26 We sympathize in the great moments of history...because there law was enacted...for us...
    ET1 5.13 19 ...on learning that I had been in Malta and Sicily, [Coleridge] compared one island with the other, repeating what he had said to the Bishop of London when he returned from that country, that Sicily was an excellent school of political economy; for, in any town there, it only needed to ask what the government enacted, and reverse that, to know what ought to be done;...
    Chr2 10.93 2 ...courage is contempt of danger in the determination to see this good of the whole enacted;...
    Chr2 10.103 7 The [moral] sentiment never stops in pure vision, but will be enacted.
    HDC 11.43 5 [The Charter of the Company of Massachusetts Bay]... ordered that all fundamental laws should be enacted by the freemen of the colony.
    EWI 11.112 22 ...Be it enacted, that all and every person who, on the first August, 1834, shall be holden in slavery within any such British colony as aforesaid, shall upon and from and after the said first August, become and be to all intents and purposes free...
    FSLC 11.206 17 The Union is at an end as soon as an immoral law is enacted.
    FRep 11.523 2 [Americans] believe that what they have enacted they can repeal if they do not like it.
    Trag 12.408 7 ...in destiny, it is not the good of the whole or the best will that is enacted, but only one particular will.

enacting, v. (2)

    Ctr 6.140 25 ...we begin the uphill agitation for repeal of that of which we ought to have prevented the enacting.
    HDC 11.47 9 He is ill informed who expects, on running down the [New England] Town Records for two hundred years, to find...a metropolis of patriots, enacting wholesome and creditable laws.

enactment, n. (1)

    FSLC 11.195 4 ...the language of all permanent laws will be in contradiction to any immoral enactment.

enacts, v. (2)

    Hist 2.10 16 Every law which the state enacts indicates a fact in human nature; that is all.
    FSLC 11.187 12 Here is a statute [the Fugitive Slave Law] which enacts the crime of kidnapping...

enamel, n. (1)

    ET6 5.111 20 The Englishman is finished like a cowry or a murex. After the spire and the spines are formed...a juice exudes and a hard enamel varnishes every part.

enamelled, v. (1)

    Lov1 2.175 22 ...the figures, the motions, the words of the beloved object are...as Plutarch said, enamelled in fire...

enamelling, v. (1)

    PI 8.33 24 We want design, and do not forgive the bards if they have only the art of enamelling.

enamored, adj. (1)

    OS 2.276 5 The lover has no talent, no skill, which passes for quite nothing with his enamored maiden...

enamored, v. (3)

    DSA 1.134 25 The man enamored of this excellency [of the soul] becomes its priest or poet.
    SL 2.149 22 Gertrude is enamored of Guy;...
    Int 2.347 7 The angels are so enamored of the language that is spoken in heaven that they will not distort their lips with the hissing and unmusical dialects of men...

enamoured, adj. (1)

    Bty 6.297 26 ...the enamoured youth mixes [women's] form with moon and stars...

enamoured, v. (6)

    Grts 8.312 22 ...the highest wisdom does not concern itself with particular men, but with man enamoured with the law and the Eternal Source.
    Edc1 10.127 16 Enamoured of [sun's, moon's, plants', animals'] beauty, comforted by their convenience, [man] seeks them as ends...
    Thor 10.475 6 [Thoreau] was so enamoured of the spiritual beauty that he held all actual written poems in very light esteem in the comparison.
    MAng1 12.240 4 [Michelangelo] was deeply enamoured of the most accomplished lady of the time...
    MAng1 12.242 23 ...[Michelangelo's] was a soul so enamoured of grace that it could not stoop to meanness or depravity;...
    Milt1 12.263 16 [Milton] acknowledges to his friend Diodati, at the age of twenty-one, that he is enamoured...of moral perfection...

encamp, v. (1)

    CPL 11.504 16 The great Duke of Marlborough could not encamp without his Shakspeare.

encamped, v. (4)

    Nat2 3.190 7 We are encamped in nature, not domesticated.
    FSLN 11.235 17 The army of unright is encamped from pole to pole...
    SMC 11.363 27 Whilst [George Prescott's] regiment was encamped at Camp Andrew, near Alexandria, in June, 1861, marching orders came.
    MAng1 12.224 11 On the 24th of October, 1529, the Prince of Orange, general of Charles V., encamped on the hills surrounding the city [Florence]...

encampment, n. (2)

    PPo 8.239 23 Such [amatory] verses, chanted...by the girls of their encampment, will drive [Persian] warriors to the combat...
    HDC 11.35 17 The hardships of the journey and of the first encampment are certainly related by [the pilgrims'] contemporary with some air of romance...

encamps, v. (1)

    Con 1.318 1 ...an army encamps in a desert, and...creates a white city in an hour...

enchains, v. (1)

    Elo2 8.120 12 A good voice has a charm in speech as in song; sometimes of itself enchains attention...

enchant, v. (2)

    SL 2.150 5 ...Gertrude has Guy; but what now avails...how Roman his mien and manners, if...she has no aims, no conversation that can enchant her graceful lord?
    CInt 12.119 23 I wish to see that Mirabeau who knows how...to enchant men so that their will and purpose is in abeyance...

enchanted, adj. (5)

    Tran 1.339 8 ...[man] is balked when he tries to fling himself into this enchanted circle...
    UGM 4.9 22 It would seem as if each [creature and quality] waited, like the enchanted princess in fairy tales, for a destined human deliverer.
    Edc1 10.126 7 All the fairy tales of Aladdin...or the enchanted halls underground or in the sea, are only fictions to indicate the one miracle of intellectual enlargement.
    SovE 10.192 4 The student discovers one day that he lives in enchantment... and through this enchanted gallery he is led by unseen guides to read and learn the laws of Heaven.
    PLT 12.27 23 An individual body is the momentary arrest or fixation of certain atoms, which, after performing compulsory duty to this enchanted statue, are released again to flow in the currents of the world.

enchanted, v. (5)

    Supl 10.164 1 Like the French, [those with the superlative temperament] are enchanted, they are desolate, because you have got or have not got a shoe-string or a wafer you happen to want...
    ACiv 11.300 5 The evil you contend with has taken alarming proportions, and you still content yourself with parrying the blows it aims, but, as if enchanted, abstain from striking at the cause.
    PPr 12.381 7 As we recall the topics [in Carlyle's Past and Present], we are struck with the force given to the plain truths; the picture of the English nation all sitting enchanted...
    PPr 12.381 8 As we recall the topics [in Carlyle's Past and Present], we are struck with the force given to the plain truths; the picture of the English nation all sitting enchanted,-the poor, enchanted so that they cannot work, the rich, enchanted so that they cannot enjoy, and are rich in vain;...
    PPr 12.381 9 As we recall the topics [in Carlyle's Past and Present], we are struck with the force given to the plain truths; the picture of the English nation all sitting enchanted,-the poor, enchanted so that they cannot work, the rich, enchanted so that they cannot enjoy, and are rich in vain;...

enchanter, n. (4)

    DL 7.104 22 The small enchanter nothing can withstand...
    Boks 7.191 27 In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends, but they are imprisoned by an enchanter in these paper and leathern boxes;...
    Boks 7.192 6 ...as the enchanter has dressed [books], like battalions of infantry, in coat and jacket of one cut, by the thousand and ten thousand, your chance of hitting on the right one is to be computed by the arithmetical rule of Permutation and Combination...
    Supl 10.166 17 I hear without sympathy the complaint of young and ardent persons that they find life no region of romance, with no enchanter, no giant, no fairies, nor even muses.

enchanters, n. (1)

    WD 7.160 14 What of the grand tools with which we engineer, like kobolds and enchanters...

enchanting, adj. (5)

    Bhr 6.167 6 ...Graceful women, chosen men/ Dazzle every mortal:/ Their sweet and lofty countenance/ His enchanting food;/...
    Bty 6.296 25 French memoires of the sixteenth century celebrate the name of Pauline de Viguier, a...maiden who so fired the enthusiasm of her contemporaries by her enchanting form, that the citizens of her native city of Toulouse obtained the aid of the civil authorities to compel her to appear publicly on the balcony at least twice a week...
    Cour 7.257 15 ...[the child's] utter ignorance and weakness, and his enchanting indignation on such a small basis of capital compel every by-stander to take his part.
    Suc 7.300 10 How that element [color] washes the universe with its enchanting waves!
    Bost 12.185 2 There is great testimony of discriminating persons to the effect that Rome is endowed with the enchanting property of inspiring a longing in men there to live and there to die.

enchantment, n. (8)

    Nat 1.17 9 ...the active enchantment [of the sky] reaches my dust...
    SL 2.139 6 [The soul] has so infused its strong enchantment into nature that we prosper when we accept its advice...
    Lov1 2.169 9 The introduction to this felicity [of Nature] is in a private and tender relation of one to one, which is the enchantment of human life;...
    MoS 4.179 16 Shall I add, as one juggle of this enchantment, the stunning non-intercourse law which makes co-operation impossible?
    Farm 7.147 7 There is a great deal of enchantment in a chestnut rail or picketed pine boards.
    PI 8.61 27 Ah, sir, said Merlin [to Sir Gawaine]...neither shall I ever go out from hence, for in the world there is no such strong tower as this wherein I am confined; and it is...made by enchantment so strong that it can never be demolished while the world lasts;...
    Insp 8.291 12 ...the wise student will remember the prudence of Sir Tristram in Morte d' Arthur, who, having received from the fairy an enchantment of six hours of growing strength every day, took care to fight in the hours when his strength increased;...
    SovE 10.191 26 The student discovers one day that he lives in enchantment...

enchantments, n. (11)

    MN 1.213 6 ...man must be on his guard against this cup of enchantments...
    Lov1 2.175 7 ...no man ever forgot the visitations of that power to his heart and brain...which made...the morning and the night varied enchantments;...
    Pt1 3.15 12 ...if you please, every man is so far a poet as to be susceptible of these enchantments of nature;...
    Nat2 3.171 1 These enchantments [of nature] are medicinal...
    Nat2 3.173 26 He who knows the most; he who knows what sweets and virtues are in the ground, the waters, the plants, the heavens, and how to come at these enchantments,--is the rich and royal man.
    Nat2 3.176 3 We can find these enchantments [of the landscape] without visiting the Como Lake, or the Madeira Islands.
    ET5 5.77 7 Nobody landed on this spellbound island [England] with impunity. The enchantments of barren shingle and rough weather transformed every adventurer into a laborer.
    Ill 6.315 16 When the boys come into my yard for leave to gather horse-chestnuts, I own I...affect to grant the permission reluctantly, fearing that any moment they will find out the imposture of that showy chaff. But this tenderness is quite unnecessary; the enchantments are laid on very thick.
    CInt 12.130 7 Watch the breaking morning, the enchantments of the sunset.
    CW 12.171 14 ...every house on that long street [in Concord] has a back door, which leads down through the garden to the river-bank, when a skiff, or a dory, gives you, all summer, access to enchantments, new every day...
    WSL 12.343 14 Raphael and Homer feel that action is pitiful beside their enchantments.

enchantress, n. (1)

    Dem1 10.3 9 This soft enchantress [sleep] visits two children lying locked in each other's arms...

enchants, v. (3)

    Nat 1.77 4 As when the summer comes...the face of the earth becomes green before it, so shall the advancing spirit...carry with it...the song which enchants it;...
    MN 1.191 20 The rapid wealth which hundreds in the community acquire... enchants the eyes of all the rest;...
    Bty 6.305 16 ...[we do not know] why one feature or gesture enchants...

encircles, v. (1)

    MLit 12.324 15 ...a certain greatness encircles every fact [Goethe] treats;...

encircling, adj. (1)

    Dem1 10.3 16 Within the sweep of yon encircling wall/ How many a large creation of the night,/ Wide wilderness and mountain, rock and sea,/ Peopled with busy, transitory groups,/ Finds room to rise, and never feels the crowd./

enclose, v. (2)

    PI 8.52 24 We do not enclose watches in wooden, but in crystal cases...
    SHC 11.429 5 Citizens and Friends: The committee to whom was confided the charge of carrying out the wishes of the town [Concord] in opening the [Sleep Hollow] cemetary, having proceeded so far as to enclose the ground, and cut the necessary roads...have thought it fit to call the inhabitants together...

enclosed, v. (6)

    LE 1.177 12 The scholar will feel that...the heart and soul of beauty, lies enclosed in human life.
    Pt1 3.28 10 ...[these stimulants] help [man] to escape the custody...of that jail-yard of individual relations in which he is enclosed.
    ET10 5.167 17 The incessant repetition of the same hand-work dwarfs the man...to make a pin-polisher, a buckle-maker, or any other specialty; and presently...whole towns are sacrificed...when cotton takes the place of linen...or when commons are enclosed by landlords.
    Art2 7.55 5 The amphitheatre of the old Romans,--any one may see its origin who looks at the crowd running together to see any fight...in the street. The first comers gather round in a circle...and farther back they climb on fences or window-sills, and so make a cup of which the object of attention occupies the hollow area. The architect put benches in this, and enclosed the cup with a wall,--and behold a Coliseum!
    PI 8.61 29 Ah, sir, said Merlin [to Sir Gawaine]...there is no such strong tower as this wherein I am confined;...neither can I go out, nor can any one come in, save she who hath enclosed me here...
    SovE 10.208 21 The life of those once omnipotent traditions was really not in the legend, but in the moral sentiment and the metaphysical fact which the legends enclosed...

encloser, n. (1)

    Chr1 3.96 2 An individual is an encloser.

encloses, v. (1)

    Chr1 3.96 12 [A man] encloses the world...as a material basis for his character...

enclosing, v. (2)

    ET16 5.276 25 Stonehenge is a circular colonnade...enclosing a second and a third colonnade within.
    Farm 7.148 18 The high wall reflecting the heat back on the soil gives that acre a quadruple share of sunshine,--Enclosing in the garden square/ A dead and standing pool of air/...

enclosure, n. (5)

    ET1 5.16 8 When too much praise of any genius annoyed [Carlyle] he professed hugely to admire the talent shown by his pig. He had spent much time and contrivance in confining the poor beast to one enclosure in his pen, but pig, by great strokes of judgment, had found out how to let a board down, and had foiled him.
    ET1 5.24 7 ...[Wordsworth] led me into the enclosure of his clerk...
    ET16 5.277 15 Within the enclosure [of Stonehenge] grow buttercups, nettles...
    MLit 12.325 5 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 amphitheatre, which is the enclosure of the natural cup of heads that arranges itself round every spectacle in the street;...
    MLit 12.328 10 [Goethe's] are the bright and terrible eyes which meet the modern student...in every public enclosure.

enclosures, n. (1)

    ShP 4.191 23 ...extemporaneous enclosures at country fairs were the ready theatres of strolling players.

encompassed, v. (2)

    MoS 4.181 2 [To some minds] Heaven is within heaven, and sky over sky, and they are encompassed with divinities.
    EWI 11.131 6 The poorest fishing-smack that...hunts whale in the Southern ocean, should be encompassed by [Massachusetts's] laws with comfort and protection...

encounter, n. (5)

    Fdsp 2.193 15 What [is] so delicious as a just and firm encounter of two, in a thought...
    Fdsp 2.205 22 I much prefer the company of ploughboys and tin-peddlers to the silken and perfumed amity which celebrates its days of encounter by a frivolous display...
    SS 7.11 22 ...the one event which never loses its romance is the encounter with superior persons on terms allowing the happiest intercourse.
    ALin 11.331 16 [Lincoln] offered no shining qualities at the first encounter;...
    PLT 12.58 4 [People] entertain us for a time, but at the second or third encounter we have nothing more to learn.

encounter, v. (11)

    Tran 1.358 24 ...it may not be without its advantage that we should now and then encounter rare and gifted men...
    SL 2.151 1 ...only that soul can be my friend which I encounter on the line of my own march...
    Exp 3.80 3 Instead of feeling a poverty when we encounter a great man, let us treat the new-comer like a travelling geologist who passes through our estate and shows us good slate...in our brush pasture.
    Chr1 3.113 6 ...if suddenly we encounter a friend, we pause;...
    Mrs1 3.134 14 I may easily go into a great household where there is... excellent provision for comfort, luxury and taste, and yet not encounter there any Amphitryon who shall subordinate these appendages.
    ET1 5.4 24 The conditions of literary success...do not leave that frolic liberty which only can encounter a companion on the best terms.
    Comc 8.163 4 [Wit]...unless it encounter a mystic or a dumpish soul, goes everywhere heralded and harbingered by smiles and greetings.
    Aris 10.56 18 Rather let us be alone whilst we live, than encounter these lean kine.
    EzRy 10.382 10 [Ezra Ripley] had to encounter great difficulties, but, through a kind providence and the patronage of Dr. Forbes, he entered Harvard University, July, 1772.
    EPro 11.318 27 The virtues of a good magistrate...seem vastly more potent than the acts of bad governors, which are ever tempered by...the incessant resistance which fraud and violence encounter.
    Koss 11.400 23 Sir [Kossuth], whatever obstruction...you may encounter we congratulate you that you have known how to convert calamities into powers...

encountered, v. (10)

    Con 1.315 4 ...[Friar Bernard] encountered many travellers who greeted him courteously...
    Tran 1.351 20 In other places other men have encountered sharp trials, and behaved themselves well.
    Fdsp 2.203 7 I knew a man who under a certain religious frenzy...spoke to the conscience of every person he encountered...
    Chr1 3.99 25 ...[the ingenious man] shall stand stoutly in his place and let me...know that I have encountered a new and positive quality;...
    SS 7.12 7 ...if we recall the rare hours when we encountered the best persons, we then found ourselves...
    Cour 7.261 5 Tender, amiable boys, who had never encountered any rougher play than a base-ball match...were suddenly drawn up to face a bayonet charge or capture a battery.
    Res 8.144 17 It is out of the obstacles to be encountered that [the Indian, the sailor, the hunter] make the means of destroying them.
    QO 8.178 4 If we encountered a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he read.
    Chr2 10.101 17 A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us by its large scope.
    CSC 10.375 4 The still-living merit of the oldest New England families... encountered [at the Chardon Street Convention] the founders of families, fresh merit...

encountering, v. (1)

    Chr1 3.110 18 The coldest precisian cannot go abroad without encountering inexplicable influences.

encounters, n. (3)

    Con 1.306 4 ...when this great tendency [conservatism] comes to practical encounters, and is challenged by young men...it must needs seem injurious.
    Wsp 6.235 5 ...[Benedict said] in all the encounters that have yet chanced, I have not been weaponed for that particular occasion, and have been historically beaten;...
    SA 8.88 20 If...a man has not firm nerves...it is perhaps a wise economy to go to a good shop and dress himself irreproachably. He...may easily find that performance...a fortification that turns the scale in social encounters...

encounters, v. (1)

    Pow 6.59 4 ...when a man travels and encounters strangers every day...that happens which befalls when a strange ox is driven into a pen or pasture where cattle are kept; there is at once a trial of strength between the best pair of horns and the new-comer...

encourage, v. (4)

    Pol1 3.210 22 ...[the conservative party] does not...encourage science...
    ET7 5.120 23 ...one cannot think this festival [of St. George in Montreal] fruitless, if, all over the world, on the 23d of April, wherever two or three English are found, they meet to encourage each other in the nationality of veracity.
    Edc1 10.158 13 If a child [in the school] happens to show that he knows any fact...that interests him and you, hush all the classes and encourage him to tell it so that all may hear.
    HDC 11.78 16 ...say the plaintive records...it is Voted, that this town [Concord] encourage the inhabitants to supply the army, by paying two dollars per cord, over and above the General's [Washington's] price, to such as shall carry wood thither;...

encouraged, v. (4)

    ET12 5.208 10 It is contended by those who have been bred at Eton, Harrow, Rugby and Westminster...that, in their playgrounds...manly feelings and generous conduct are encouraged;...
    ET18 5.307 26 Every man [in England] is allowed and encouraged to be what he is...
    Grts 8.320 25 The man...who carries fate in his eye;-he it is whom we seek, encouraged in every good hour that here or hereafter he shall be found.
    Edc1 10.133 27 We are not encouraged when the law touches [education] with its fingers.

encouragement, n. (4)

    ET2 5.32 14 ...the captain [of the Washington Irving] drew the line of his course in red ink on his chart, for the encouragement or envy of future navigators.
    DL 7.115 13 [Man] should be visited in this his prison...with manly encouragement...
    Edc1 10.159 6 Work straight on in absolute duty, and you lend an arm and an encouragement to all the youth of the universe.
    FSLC 11.207 15 [Slavery] got Texas and now will have Cuba, and means to keep her majority. The experience of the past gives us no encouragement to lie by.

encouragements, n. (2)

    Chr1 3.114 3 We shall one day see...that...grandeur of character acts in the dark, and succors them who never saw it. What greatness has yet appeared is beginnings and encouragements to us in this direction.
    UGM 4.15 2 There is a power in love to divine another's destiny better than that other can, and, by heroic encouragements, hold him to his task.

encourager, n. (1)

    Cour 7.262 27 Knowledge is the encourager...

encourages, v. (6)

    Hsm1 2.259 26 The fair girl who repels interference by a decided and proud choice of influences...inspires every beholder with somewhat of her own nobleness. The silent heart encourages her;...
    NMW 4.246 2 Whatever appeals to the imagination, by transcending the ordinary limits of human ability, wonderfully encourages and liberates us.
    ET9 5.148 9 [This little superfluity of self-regard in the English brain]... encourages a frank and manly bearing...
    Wsp 6.237 12 In the Shakers...I find one piece of belief, in the doctrine which they faithfully hold that encourages them to open their doors to every wayfaring man who proposes to come among them;...
    Supl 10.175 7 ...Nature encourages no looseness...
    SMC 11.362 3 [George Prescott] never remits his care of the men, aiming to hold them to their good habits and to keep them cheerful. For the first point, he...encourages a temperance society which is formed in the camp.

encouraging, v. (2)

    Elo2 8.116 13 The silence and coldness after the meeting is opened and the purpose of it stated, are not encouraging.
    PPo 8.239 6 The favor of the climate, making subsistence easy and encouraging an outdoor life, allows to the Eastern nations a highly intellectual organization...

encroach, v. (2)

    DSA 1.147 25 ...the commanders encroach on us only...by our allowance and homage.
    Pol1 3.204 3 ...doubts have arisen whether too much weight had not been allowed in the laws to property, and such a structure given to our usages as allowed the rich to encroach on the poor...

encroached, v. (1)

    CL 12.137 11 [Linnaeus] went into Oland, and found that the farms on the shore were perpetually encroached on by the sea...

encroaches, v. (2)

    LT 1.261 1 I wish to consider well this affirmative side [Reform]...which encroaches on [Conservatism] every day...
    Trag 12.405 4 As the salt sea covers more than two thirds of the surface of the globe, so sorrow encroaches in man on felicity.

encroaching, adj. (2)

    NMW 4.224 8 The second [democratic] class is selfish also, encroaching, bold, self-relying...
    Trag 12.405 10 In the dark hours, our existence seems to be...a struggle against the encroaching All...

encroaching, v. (2)

    ET4 5.73 10 ...rich Englishmen have followed [William the Conqueror's] example...n encroaching on the tillage and commons with their game-preserves.
    SA 8.82 2 ...trying experiments, and at perfect leisure with these posture-masters and flatterers all day, [the babe] throws himself into all the attitudes that correspond to theirs. ... Are they encroaching? he is dignified and inexorable.

encroachment, n. (1)

    ET11 5.181 16 In evidence of the wealth amassed by ancient [English] families, the traveller is shown...lower down in the city [London], a few noble houses which still withstand in all their amplitude the encroachment of streets.

encroachments, n. (2)

    ET5 5.83 26 [The English] apply themselves...to resisting encroachments of sea, wind, travelling sands, cold and wet sub-soil;...
    FSLC 11.214 8 ...one, two, three occasions have just now occurred, and past, in either of which, if one man had...read the law with the eye of freedom, the dishonor of Massachusetts had been prevented, and a limit set to these encroachments [of slavery] forever.

encrust, v. (1)

    EPro 11.315 1 In so many arid forms which states encrust themselves with, once in a century...a poetic act and record occur.

encrusted, v. (1)

    GoW 4.271 14 Goethe was the philosopher of this [modern] multiplicity;... a manly mind, unembarrassed by the variety of coats of convention with which life had got encrusted...

encumber, v. (3)

    Hist 2.33 2 Those men who cannot answer by a superior wisdom these facts or questions of time, serve them. Facts encumber them...
    SR 2.85 19 ...it may be a question whether machinery does not encumber;...
    Dem1 10.5 12 The very landscape and scenery in a dream seem...like a coat or cloak of some other person to overlap and encumber the wearer;...

encumbered, v. (2)

    SL 2.136 26 Our society is encumbered by ponderous machinery...
    NR 3.234 9 In conversation, men are encumbered with personality, and talk too much.

encumbers, v. (1)

    Con 1.307 11 I will none of your law, returns the youth; it encumbers me.

encumbrance, n. (1)

    Prd1 2.233 6 The scholar shames us by his bifold life. Whilst something higher than prudence is active, he is admirable; when common sense is wanted, he is an encumbrance.

encyclopaedia, n. (9)

    Hist 2.3 24 A man is the whole encyclopaedia of facts.
    Cir 2.312 17 All the argument and all the wisdom is not in the encyclopaedia...
    Int 2.340 3 When we are young we spend much time and pains in filling our note-books...in the hope that in the course of a few years we shall have condensed into our encyclopaedia the net value of all the theories at which the world has yet arrived.
    GoW 4.287 22 [Goethe] is...a writer of occasional poems and of an encyclopaedia of sentences.
    Bhr 6.182 24 A calm and resolute bearing...and the art of hiding all uncomfortable feeling, are essential to the courtier; and Saint Simon and Cardinal de Retz and Roederer and an encyclopaedia of Memoires will instruct you...in those potent secrets.
    DL 7.106 25 ...Pilgrim's Progress...what a wardrobe to dress the whole world withal, are in this encyclopaedia of young thinking!
    OA 7.323 5 We still feel the force...of Humboldt, the encyclopaedia of science.
    Plu 10.297 7 Plutarch occupies a unique place in literature as an encyclopaedia of Greek and Roman antiquity.
    MLit 12.323 1 ...in [Goethe] this encyclopaedia of facts, which it has been the boast of the age to compile, wrought an equal effect.

encyclopaedic, adj. (1)

    Humb 11.457 22 How [Humboldt] reaches...from law to law, folding away moons and asteroids and solar systems in the clauses and parentheses of his encyclopaedic paragraphs!

encyclopaedical, adj. (2)

    GoW 4.272 4 [Goethe's] Helena...is...the work of one who found himself the master of histories, mythologies, philosophies, sciences and national literatures, in the encyclopaedical manner in which modern erudition... researches into Indian, Etruscan and all Cyclopean arts;...
    EdAd 11.391 13 Here is the standing problem of Natural Science, and the merits of her great interpreters to be determined; the encyclopaedical Humboldt, and the intrepid generalizations collected by the author of the Vestiges of Creation [Robert Chambers].

encyclopedia, n. (1)

    Pow 6.59 21 ...if [the weaker party] knew all the facts in the encyclopedia, it would not help him;...

end, n. (333)

    Nat 1.4 9 Let us inquire, to what end is nature?
    Nat 1.24 16 The world thus exists to the soul to satisfy the desire of beauty. This element I call an ultimate end.
    Nat 1.34 26 A Fact is the end or last issue of spirit.
    Nat 1.37 2 Our dealing with sensible objects is a constant exercise in the necessary lessons...of combination to one end of manifold forces.
    Nat 1.41 8 This ethical character so penetrates the bone and marrow of nature, as to seem the end for which it was made.
    Nat 1.41 13 When a thing has served an end to the uttermost, it is wholly new for an ulterior service.
    Nat 1.41 15 In God, every end is converted into a new means.
    Nat 1.41 21 ...a conspiring of parts and efforts to the production of an end is essential to any being.
    Nat 1.47 4 To this one end of Discipline, all parts of nature conspire.
    Nat 1.47 7 A noble doubt perpetually suggests itself, - whether this end [Discipline] be not the Final Cause of the Universe;...
    Nat 1.47 20 The relations of parts and the end of the whole remaining the same, what is the difference, whether land and sea interact...or whether, without relations of time and space, the same appearances are inscribed in the constant faith of man?
    Nat 1.48 1 ...what is the difference, whether...worlds revolve and intermingle without number or end...or whether, without relations of time and space, the same appearances are inscribed in the constant faith of man?
    Nat 1.48 15 God...will not compromise the end of nature by permitting any inconsequence in its procession.
    Nat 1.55 4 ...[the poet] differs from the philosopher only herein, that the one proposes Beauty as his main end; the other Truth.
    Nat 1.60 12 [The soul] respects the end too much to immerse itself in the means.
    Nat 1.63 7 [If Idealism only deny the existence of matter] It leaves me in the splendid labyrinth of my perceptions, to wander without end.
    Nat 1.69 24 ...the end is lost sight of in attention to the means.
    AmS 1.82 22 It is one of those fables which out of an unknown antiquity convey an unlooked-for wisdom, that the gods...divided Man into men...just as the hand was divided into fingers, the better to answer its end.
    AmS 1.85 6 There is never a beginning, there is never an end, to the inexplicable continuity of this web of God...
    AmS 1.89 26 What is the one end [of books] which all means go to effect?
    AmS 1.98 5 Years are well spent...to the one end of mastering...a language by which to illustrate and embody our perceptions.
    DSA 1.121 10 When...[man] attains to say...Virtue, I am thine;...thee will I serve...that I may be not virtuous, but virtue; - then is the end of the creation answered...
    DSA 1.125 6 Thought may work cold and intransitive in things, and find no end or unity;...
    DSA 1.147 9 ...to this end, let us not aim at common degrees of merit.
    LE 1.175 12 The reason why an ingenious soul shuns society, is to the end of finding society.
    LE 1.176 25 A mistake of the main end to which they labor is incident to literary men...
    LE 1.180 24 ...when all tactics had come to an end then [Napoleon] dilated...
    MN 1.199 10 We can...never find the end of a thread;...
    MN 1.201 3 Nature can only be conceived as existing to a universal and not to a particular end;...
    MN 1.201 18 That no single end may be selected and nature judged thereby, appears from this...
    MN 1.201 20 ...if man himself be considered as the end...we see that it has not succeeded.
    MN 1.202 2 When we have spent our wonder in computing this wasteful hospitality with which boon Nature turns off new firmaments without end into her wide common...one can hardly help asking...whether it be quite worth while to...glut the innocent space with so poor an article.
    MN 1.202 9 When we...shorten the sight to look into this court of Louis Quatorze, and see the game that is played there...a gambling table...where the end is ever by some lie or fetch to outwit your rival...one can hardly help asking...whether it be quite worth while to...glut the innocent space with so poor an article.
    MN 1.203 21 ...Nature seems further to reply, I have ventured so great a stake as my success, in no single creature. I have not yet arrived at any end.
    MN 1.209 6 A man's wisdom is to know...that the best end must be superseded by a better.
    MN 1.212 3 Is it [man's] work in the world to study nature, or the laws of the world? Let him beware of proposing to himself any end.
    MN 1.214 27 The reforms whose fame now fills the land...are poor bitter things when prosecuted for themselves as an end.
    MN 1.215 26 ...there is no end to which your practical faculty can aim...that if pursued for itself, will not at last become carrion...
    MN 1.216 4 Your end should be one inapprehensible to the senses;...
    MN 1.218 8 Genius is its own end...
    LT 1.266 25 A little while this interval of wonder and comparison is permitted us, but to the end that we shall play a manly part.
    LT 1.280 17 I am not mortified by our vice;...it curses and swears, and I can see to the end of it;...
    LT 1.286 10 The spiritualist wishes this only, that the spiritual principle should be suffered to demonstrate itself to the end...
    Con 1.305 19 You quarrel with my conservatism, but it is to build up one of your own; it will have a new beginning, but the same course and end...
    Con 1.309 15 To the end of your power you will serve this lie which cheats you.
    Con 1.310 13 ...[existing institutions] do answer the end...
    Con 1.314 14 ...there is...no man who from the beginning to the end of his life maintains the defective institutions;...
    Con 1.317 23 ...man is the end of nature;...
    Con 1.324 3 [The hero's] greatness will shine and accomplish itself unto the end...
    Tran 1.330 26 [The idealist] does not deny the presence of this table, this chair...but he looks at these things...as the other end...
    Tran 1.335 27 [The Transcendentalist] wishes that the spiritual principle should be suffered to demonstrate itself to the end...
    Tran 1.347 1 ...if [these youths] only stand fast in this watch-tower, and persist in demanding unto the end, and without end, then are they terrible friends...
    Tran 1.347 2 ...if [these youths] only stand fast in this watch-tower, and persist in demanding unto the end, and without end, then are they terrible friends...
    YA 1.393 18 ...there is no end to the wheels within wheels of this spiral heaven [English aristocracy].
    Hist 2.11 13 Belzoni digs and measures in the mummy-pits and pyramids of Thebes until he can see the end of the difference between the monstrous work and himself.
    SR 2.52 15 ...the building of meeting-houses to the vain end to which many now stand;...though...I sometimes...give the dollar, it is a wicked dollar...
    SR 2.77 22 ...prayer as a means to effect a private end is meanness and theft.
    SR 2.80 5 ...in all unbalanced minds the classification...passes for the end...
    Comp 2.96 26 Superinduce magnetism at one end of a needle, the opposite magnetism takes place at the other end.
    Comp 2.97 2 Superinduce magnetism at one end of a needle, the opposite magnetism takes place at the other end.
    Comp 2.101 17 Every occupation, trade, art, transaction, is...a correlative of every other. Each one is an entire emblem of human life; of...its course and its end.
    Comp 2.103 16 ...means and ends...cannot be severed; for...the end preexists in the means...
    Comp 2.104 2 The ingenuity of man has always been dedicated to the solution of one problem,--how to detach the sensual sweet, the sensual strong, the sensual bright, etc., from the moral sweet, the moral deep, the moral fair; that is...to get a one end, without an other end.
    Comp 2.104 3 The ingenuity of man has always been dedicated to the solution of one problem,--how to detach the sensual sweet, the sensual strong, the sensual bright, etc., from the moral sweet, the moral deep, the moral fair; that is...to get a one end, without an other end.
    Comp 2.109 25 If you put a chain around the neck of a slave, the other end fastens itself around your own.
    Comp 2.110 4 We aim at a petty end quite aside from the public good...
    Comp 2.110 12 [Every opinion] is a thread-ball thrown at a mark, but the other end remains in the thrower's bag.
    Comp 2.113 16 Benefit is the end of nature.
    SL 2.149 26 Gertrude is enamored of Guy;...to live with him were life indeed...and heaven and earth are moved to that end.
    SL 2.160 4 ...the hero fears not that if he withhold the avowal of a just and brave act it will go unwitnessed and unloved. One knows it,--himself,--and is pledged by it...to nobleness of aim which will prove in the end a better proclamation of it than the relating of the incident.
    Lov1 2.180 18 ...personal beauty is then first charming and itself when it dissatisfies us with any end;...
    Lov1 2.180 19 ...personal beauty is then first charming and itself...when it becomes a story without an end;...
    Lov1 2.186 19 ...it is the nature and end of this relation [love], that [lovers] should represent the human race to each other.
    Lov1 2.187 17 At last [lovers] discover that all which at first drew them together...had a prospective end...
    Lov1 2.188 8 Thus are we put in training for a love...which seeks virtue and wisdom everywhere, to the end of increasing virtue and wisdom.
    Lov1 2.188 24 The soul may be trusted to the end.
    Fdsp 2.205 24 The end of friendship is a commerce the most strict and homely that can be joined;...
    Fdsp 2.208 15 Let me be alone to the end of the world, rather than that my friend should overstep...his real sympathy.
    Prd1 2.223 22 ...culture...aiming at the perfection of the man as the end, degrades every thing else...into means.
    Hsm1 2.245 9 When any Rodrigo, Pedro or Valerio enters [in the plays of the elder English dramatists]...the duke or governor exclaims, This is a gentleman,--and proffers civilities without end;...
    Hsm1 2.263 21 ...in the hour when we are deaf to the higher voices, who does not envy those who have seen safely to an end their manful endeavor?
    Cir 2.301 4 ...throughout nature this primary figure [the circle] is repeated without end.
    Cir 2.301 15 ...there is no end in nature...
    Cir 2.301 16 ...every end is a beginning;...
    Cir 2.304 4 The life of man is a self-evolving circle, which, from a ring imperceptibly small, rushes on all sides outwards to new and larger circles, and that without end.
    Int 2.330 5 Trust the instinct to the end...
    Int 2.330 6 By trusting [the instinct] to the end, it shall ripen into truth...
    Art1 2.363 20 Nothing less than the creation of man and nature is [art's] end.
    Pt1 3.7 19 ...some men, namely poets, are natural sayers, sent into the world to the end of expression...
    Pt1 3.16 5 A beauty not explicable is dearer than a beauty which we can see to the end of.
    Pt1 3.23 27 The songs...are pursued by clamorous flights of censures, which swarm in far greater numbers and threaten to devour them; but these last are not winged. At the end of a very short leap they fall plump down and rot...
    Pt1 3.24 6 ...nature has a higher end, in the production of new individuals, than security, namely ascension...
    Pt1 3.27 26 All men avail themselves of such means as they can, to add this extraordinary power to their normal powers; and to this end they prize conversation...
    Pt1 3.40 7 ...hence these throbs and heart-beatings in the orator...to the end namely that thought may be ejaculated as Logos, or Word.
    Exp 3.50 4 ...there is no end to illusion.
    Exp 3.60 6 ...to find the journey's end in every step of the road...is wisdom.
    Nat2 3.181 1 ...so poor is nature with all her craft, that from the beginning to the end of the universe she has but one stuff...
    Nat2 3.184 21 Nature, meanwhile, had not waited for the discussion, but, right or wrong, bestowed the impulse, and the balls rolled. It was no great affair, a mere push, but the astronomers were right in making much of it, for there is no end to the consequences of the act.
    Nat2 3.186 10 [Nature]...has secured the symmetrical growth of the [the child's] bodily frame by all these attitudes and exertions,--an end of the first importance...
    Nat2 3.187 7 The lover seeks in marriage his private felicity and perfection, with no prospective end;...
    Nat2 3.187 8 ...nature hides in [the lover's] happiness her own end...
    Nat2 3.190 5 Every end is prospective of some other end...
    Nat2 3.190 16 The hunger for wealth...fools the eager pursuer. What is the end sought?
    Nat2 3.191 17 ...it was known that men of thought and virtue...could lose good time whilst the room was getting warm in winter days. Unluckily, in the exertions necessary to remove these inconveniences...to remove friction has come to be the end.
    Pol1 3.202 14 Laban, who has flocks and herds, wishes them looked after by an officer on the frontiers...and pays a tax to that end.
    Pol1 3.204 12 ...there is an instinctive sense...that the highest end of government is the culture of men;...
    Pol1 3.214 6 Whilst I do what is fit for me, and abstain from what is unfit, my neighbor and I shall often...work together for a time to one end.
    Pol1 3.215 14 A man who cannot be acquainted with me...looking from afar at me ordains that a part of my labor shall go to this or that whimsical end...
    Pol1 3.216 4 That which...which freedom, cultivation, intercourse, revolutions, go to form and deliver, is character; that is the end of Nature, to reach unto this coronation of her king.
    Pol1 3.220 2 We must not...doubt that roads can be built, letters carried, and the fruit of labor secured, when the government of force is at an end.
    NR 3.245 1 The end and the means...life is made up of the intermixture and reaction of these two amicable powers...
    NER 3.262 18 ...you must make me feel that you...by your natural and supernatural advantages do easily see to the end of [the institution]...
    UGM 4.25 3 ...in the midst of this chuckle of self-gratulation, some figure goes by which Thersites too can love and admire. This is he that should marshal us the way we were going. There is no end to his aid.
    PPh 4.50 1 What is the great end of all [said Krishna], you shall now learn from me. It is soul...
    PPh 4.51 26 ...if we dare...name the last tendency of both [unity and diversity], we might say, that the end of the one is escape from organization...and the end of the other is the highest instrumentality...
    PPh 4.52 1 ...if we dare...name the last tendency of both [unity and diversity], we might say, that the end of the one is escape from organization,--pure science; and the end of the other is the highest instrumentality...
    PPh 4.76 27 Here is the world...perfect, not the smallest piece of chaos left, never a stitch nor an end...
    PNR 4.82 16 Everywhere [Plato] stands on a path which has no end...
    PNR 4.88 4 ...a very well-marked class of souls, namely those who delight in giving a spiritual, that is, an ethico-intellectual expression to every truth, by exhibiting an ulterior end which is yet legitimate to it,--are said to Platonize.
    SwM 4.107 16 The whole art of the plant is still to repeat leaf on leaf without end...
    SwM 4.107 21 In the animal, nature makes a vertebra, or a spine of vertebrae, and helps herself still by a new spine, with a limited power of modifying its form,--spine on spine, to the end of the world.
    SwM 4.108 2 Manifestly, at the end of the spine, Nature puts out smaller spines, as arms;...
    SwM 4.108 3 Manifestly, at the end of the spine, Nature puts out smaller spines, as arms; at the end of the arms, new spines, as hands;...
    SwM 4.108 4 Manifestly, at the end of the spine, Nature puts out smaller spines, as arms; at the end of the arms, new spines, as hands; at the other end, she repeats the process, as legs and feet.
    SwM 4.109 2 Every thing, at the end of one use, is taken up into the next...
    SwM 4.109 6 ...in nature is no end...
    SwM 4.109 7 ...every thing at the end of one use is lifted into a superior...
    SwM 4.111 27 [Swedenborg's Animal Kingdom] was written with the highest end...
    SwM 4.113 10 The pursuing the inquiry under the light of an end or final cause gives wonderful animation, a sort of personality to the whole writing [of Swedenborg].
    SwM 4.114 20 What was too small for the eye to detect was read by the aggregates; what was too large, by the units. There is no end to [Swedenborg's] application of the thought.
    SwM 4.118 3 One would say that as soon as men had the first hint that every sensible object...subsists not...finally to a material end, but as a picture-language to tell another story of beings and duties, other science would be put by...
    SwM 4.120 15 The very organic form resembles the end inscribed on it.
    MoS 4.182 27 [The spiritualist's far-sighted good-will] sees to the end of all transgression.
    ShP 4.206 6 We tell the chronicle of parentage...celebrity, death; and when we have come to an end of this gossip, no ray of relation appears between it and the goddess-born;...
    NMW 4.224 23 [Napoleon] had [the middle classes'] virtues and their vices; above all, he had their spirit or aim. That tendency is material, pointing at a sensual success and employing the richest and most various means to that end;...
    NMW 4.224 27 [Napoleon] had [the middle classes'] virtues and their vices; above all, he had their spirit or aim. That tendency is material... subordinating all intellectual and spiritual forces into means to a material success. To be the rich man, is the end.
    NMW 4.230 14 That common-sense which no sooner respects any end than it finds the means to effect it; the delight in the use of means;...make [Bonaparte] the natural organ and head of what I may almost call, from its extent, the modern party.
    NMW 4.233 8 Few men have any next; they...are ever at the end of their line...
    GoW 4.264 18 Nature has dearly at heart the formation of the speculative man, or scholar. It is an end never lost sight of...
    GoW 4.267 26 [The speculative and the practical faculties, say the Hindoos,] are but one, for for both obtain the selfsame end...
    GoW 4.280 17 ...[Goethe's Wilhelm Meister] remained [Novalis's] favorite reading to the end of his life.
    GoW 4.281 9 ...[the German intellect] has a certain probity, which never rests in a superficial performance, but asks steadily, To what end?
    GoW 4.290 22 The secret of genius is...first, last, midst and without end, to honor every truth by use.
    ET1 5.20 8 ...I fear [the Americans] are too much given to the making of money [said Wordsworth]; and secondly, to politics; that they make political distinction the end and not the means.
    ET4 5.55 6 ...the Celts or Sidonides are an old family, of whose beginning there is no memory, and their end is likely to be still more remote in the future;...
    ET4 5.58 19 ...[the Norsemen's] chief end of man is to murder or to be murdered;...
    ET4 5.59 26 The wind blew off the land, the ship flew, burning in clear flame, out between the islets into the ocean, and there was the right end of King Hake.
    ET5 5.89 26 To show capacity, A Frenchman described as the end of a speech in debate...
    ET5 5.99 25 These private, reserved, mute family-men [of England] can adopt a public end with all their heat...
    ET6 5.109 5 The motive and end of [Englishmen's] trade and empire is to guard the independence and privacy of their homes.
    ET6 5.113 20 [the dinner] is reserved to the end of the day, the family-hour being generally six, in London...
    ET8 5.128 23 [The English] are just as cold, quiet and composed, at the end, as at the beginning of dinner.
    ET12 5.203 14 In the Bodleian Library, Dr. Bandinel showed me...the first Bible printed at Mentz...and a duplicate of the same, which had been deficient in about twenty leaves at the end.
    ET12 5.211 18 English wealth falling on their school and university training, makes a systematic reading of the best authors, and to the end of a knowledge how the things whereof they treat really stand...
    ET13 5.215 19 The power of the religious sentiment [in England] put an end to human sacrifices, checked appetite...
    ET13 5.223 9 ...[the English clergyman] entertains your thought or your project with sympathy and praise. But if a second clergyman come in, the sympathy is at an end...
    ET14 5.233 4 ...the Englishman...takes hold of things by the right end...
    ET14 5.251 6 ...there is no end to the graces and amenities, wit, sensibility and erudition of the learned class [in England].
    ET18 5.301 16 [The English] have...put an end to human sacrifices in the East.
    ET18 5.307 25 The English have given importance to individuals, a principal end and fruit of every society.
    F 6.8 12 Providence has a wild, rough, incalculable road to its end...
    F 6.36 6 Liberation of the will...is the end and aim of this world.
    F 6.45 6 Moller...taught that the building which was fitted accurately to answer its end would turn out to be beautiful...
    F 6.48 8 Let us build altars to the Blessed Unity which...compels every atom to serve an universal end.
    Pow 6.54 1 A cultivated man...is the end to which nature works...
    Pow 6.59 17 The weaker party finds that none of his information or wit quite fits the occasion. He thought he knew this or that; he finds that he omitted to learn the end of it.
    Wth 6.93 14 Power is what [men of sense] want...power to execute their design...which, to a clear-sighted man, appears the end for which the universe exists...
    Wth 6.111 21 ...we can only give [means] any beauty by a reflection of the glory of the end.
    Wth 6.111 22 That is the good head, which serves the end and commands the means.
    Wth 6.111 25 The rabble are corrupted by their means; the means are too strong for them, and they desert their end.
    Wth 6.121 27 Of the two eminent engineers in the recent construction of railways in England, Mr. Brunel went straight...and so arriving at his end, at great pleasure to geometers, but with cost to his company.
    Ctr 6.134 21 He only is a well-made man who has a good determination. And the end of culture is not to destroy this, God forbid!...
    Ctr 6.136 4 All conversation is at an end when we have discharged ourselves of a dozen personalities...
    Ctr 6.159 25 A cheerful intelligent face is the end of culture...
    Bhr 6.172 19 We prize [manners] for their rough-plastic, abstergent force;... to get [people] washed, clothed, and set up on end;...
    Bhr 6.178 21 ...there is no end to the catalogue of [the eye's] performances...
    Bhr 6.189 23 ...go into the house; if the proprietor is constrained and deferring, 't is of no importance...how beautiful his grounds,--you quickly come to the end of all...
    CbW 6.262 19 Nature...works up every shred and ort and end into new creations;...
    CbW 6.266 26 ...who provoke pity like that excellent family party just arriving in their well-appointed carriage, as far from home and any honest end as ever?
    Bty 6.285 11 At the end of the seventh day the king inquired [of Tisso], From what cause hast thou become so emaciated?
    Bty 6.289 11 We ascribe beauty to that...which exactly answers its end;...
    Bty 6.290 12 ...in the construction of any fabric or organism any real increase of fitness to its end is an increase of beauty.
    Bty 6.295 20 ...see how surely a beautiful form...is copied and reproduced without end.
    Art2 7.38 4 [Action] rises in thought, to the end that it may uttered and acted.
    Art2 7.38 22 The conscious utterance of thought, by speech or action, to any end, is Art.
    Art2 7.39 5 ...Art is the spirit's voluntary use and combination of things to serve its end.
    Art2 7.43 1 Let us now consider this [natural] law as it affects the works that have beauty for their end...
    Art2 7.43 11 Architecture and eloquence are mixed arts, whose end is sometimes beauty and sometimes use.
    Art2 7.53 5 The most perfect form to answer an end is so far beautiful.
    Art2 7.57 6 ...as far as [popular institutions] accelerate the end of political freedom and national education, they are preparing the soil of man for fairer flowers and fruits in another age.
    Elo1 7.64 20 ...the end of eloquence is...to alter in a pair of hours...the convictions and habits of years.
    DL 7.111 22 A house kept to the end of prudence is laborious without joy;...
    DL 7.111 23 ...a house kept to the end of display is impossible to all but a few women...
    DL 7.113 3 The difficulties to be overcome [in housekeeping] must be freely admitted; they are many and great. Nor are they to be disposed of by any criticism or amendment of particulars taken one at a time, but only by the arrangement of the household to a higher end than those to which our dwellings are usually built and furnished.
    DL 7.117 15 ...a house should bear witness in all its economy that human culture is the end to which it is built and garnished.
    Farm 7.140 7 The farmer has...the appetite of health, and means to his end;...
    WD 7.172 15 ...what a force of illusion begins life with us and attends us to the end!
    WD 7.174 6 He is a strong man who can look [these passing hours] in the eye...who can know surely that one will be like another to the end of the world...
    WD 7.174 16 To what end, then, [man] asks, should I study languages, and traverse countries, to learn so simple truths?
    Boks 7.198 9 Of Plato I hesitate to speak, lest there should be no end.
    Boks 7.211 23 ...[the Germans] take any general topic...and write and quote without method or end.
    Boks 7.219 10 [The sacred books'] communications are not to be given or taken with the lips and the end of the tongue...
    Clbs 7.227 16 The physician helps [people] mainly...by healthy talk giving a right tone to the patient's mind. The dinner, the walk, the fireside, all have that for their main end.
    Cour 7.254 24 ...here is one who, seeing the wishes of men, knows how to come at their end;...
    OA 7.327 19 ...at the end of fifty years, [a man's] soul is appeased by seeing some sort of correspondence between his wish and his possession.
    OA 7.328 23 ...the young man's year is a heap of beginnings. At the end of a twelvemonth, he has nothing to show for it...
    OA 7.336 8 ...the inference from the working of intellect...at the end of life just ready to be born,--affirms the inspirations of affection and of the moral sentiment.
    PI 8.8 18 In geology, what a useful hint was given to the early inquirers on seeing in the possession of Professor Playfair a bough of a fossil tree which was perfect wood at one end and perfect mineral coal at the other.
    PI 8.22 2 This union of first and second sight reads Nature to the end of delight and of moral use.
    PI 8.28 13 ...as soon as this [inspired] soul...at leisure plays with the resemblances and types, for amusement, and not for its moral end, we call its action Fancy.
    PI 8.38 21 Ben Jonson said, The principal end of poetry is to inform men in the just reason of living.
    PI 8.47 26 ...all of them shall wax old like a garment; as a vesture shalt thou change them, and they shall be changed: but thou art the same, and thy years shall have no end.
    PI 8.54 7 [Poetry] must be its own end, or it is nothing.
    PI 8.74 25 The intellect...uses London and Paris and Berlin, East and West, to its end.
    SA 8.98 13 ...On the day of resurrection, those who have indulged in ridicule will be called to the door of Paradise, and have it shut in their faces when they reach it. Again, on their turning back, they will be called to another door, and again, on reaching it, will see it closed against them; and so on, ad infinitum, without end.
    Res 8.142 4 It was thought a fable, what Guthrie...told us, that in Taurida, in any piece of ground where springs of naphtha (or petroleum) obtain, by merely sticking an iron tube in the earth and applying a light to the upper end, the mineral oil will burn till the tube is decomposed...
    Res 8.146 26 ...one man whose eye commands the end in view and the means by which it can be attained, is...victor over all mankind who do not see the issue and the means.
    Comc 8.168 18 The pedantry of literature belongs to the same category [as that of religion and science]. In both cases there is a lie, when the mind... learning languages and reading books to the end of a better acquaintance with man, stops in the languages and books;...
    Comc 8.170 13 The same astonishment of the intellect at the disappearance of the man out of Nature...is the secret of all the fun...of the gay Rameau of Diderot, who believes...that the sole end of art, virtue and poetry is to put something for mastication between the upper and lower mandibles.
    Comc 8.173 15 ...there is no end to this analysis [of the Comic].
    Insp 8.270 11 They...cut off [the aboriginal man's] tail, set him on end... before he could begin to write his sad story...
    Imtl 8.325 8 The chief end of man being to be buried well, the arts most in request [in Egypt] were masonry and embalming...
    Imtl 8.330 18 I was lately told of young children who feel a certain terror at the assurance of life without end.
    Imtl 8.335 17 ...a century, when we have once made it familiar and compared it with a true antiquity, looks dwarfish and recent; and it does not help the matter adding numbers, if we see that it has an end...
    Imtl 8.336 9 Our passions, our endeavors, have something ridiculous and mocking, if we come to so hasty an end.
    Imtl 8.341 5 A farmer, a laborer, a mechanic, is driven by his work all day, but it ends at night; it has an end.
    Imtl 8.341 7 ...as far as the mechanic or farmer is also a scholar or thinker, his work has no end.
    Imtl 8.345 23 ...one abstains from writing or printing on the immortality of the soul, because, when he comes to the end of his statement, the hungry eyes that run through it will close disappointed;...
    Imtl 8.348 16 Here are people who cannot dispose of a day;...and will you offer them rolling ages without end?
    Dem1 10.20 27 ...the fabled ring of Gyges...is simply mischievous. A new or private language...the steam battery, so fatal as to put an end to war by the threat of universal murder;...are of this kind.
    Aris 10.37 1 ...a new respect for the sacredness of the individual man, is that antidote which must correct...the insane subordination of the end to the means.
    Chr2 10.92 19 He is immoral who is acting to any private end.
    Chr2 10.96 9 ...there is no man who will bargain to sell his life, say at the end of a year, for a million or ten millions of gold dollars in hand...
    Chr2 10.121 26 There is no end to the sufficiency of character.
    Edc1 10.125 5 The use of the world is that man may learn its laws. And the human race have wisely signified their sense of this, by calling wealth, means,-Man being the end.
    Edc1 10.130 1 [Is it not true] That...sickness, sorrow, success, all...unlock for us the concealed faculties of the mind? Whatever private or petty ends are frustrated, this end is always answered.
    Edc1 10.130 6 Whatever the man does, or whatever befalls him, opens another chamber in his soul,-that is, he has got a new feeling, a new thought, a new organ. Do we not see how amazingly for this end man is fitted to the world?
    Edc1 10.131 16 In some sort the end of life is that the man should take up the universe into himself...
    Edc1 10.143 20 By your tampering and thwarting and too much governing [the pupil] may be hindered from his end...
    Edc1 10.144 5 ...Respect the child, respect him to the end, but also respect yourself.
    Edc1 10.152 6 In these judgments one needs that foresight which was attributed to an eminent reformer, of whom it was said his patience could see in the bud of the aloe the blossom at the end of a hundred years.
    Supl 10.165 17 The books say, It made my hair stand on end! Who, in our municipal life, ever had such an experience?
    Prch 10.221 20 Unlovely, nay, frightful, is the solitude of the soul which is without God in the world. To...behold the horse, cow and bird, and to foresee an equal and speedy end to him and them;...
    Schr 10.267 8 Young men, I warn you...against chattering, meddlesome, rich and official people. If their doing came to any good end!
    Schr 10.270 16 Even the demonstrations of Nature for millenniums seem not to have attained their end, until this interpreter [the poet] arrives.
    Schr 10.280 14 When a man begins to dedicate himself to a particular function...the advance of his character and genius pauses; he has run to the end of his line;...
    Schr 10.282 19 ...it is the end of eloquence...to persuade a multitude of persons to renounce their opinions, and change the course of life.
    Schr 10.288 7 ...gentlemen, there is plainly no end to these expansions [on the scholar].
    LLNE 10.327 14 The association [of the time] is for power, merely,-for means; the end being the enlargement and independency of the individual.
    LLNE 10.351 22 The ability and earnestness of the advocate [Fourier] and his friends, the comprehensiveness of their theory, its apparent directness of proceeding to the end they would secure...commanded our attention and respect.
    LLNE 10.359 8 ...if one must study all the strokes to be laid, all the faults to be shunned in a building or work of art...there would be no end.
    LLNE 10.362 6 Mr. Ichabod Morton of Plymouth...came and built a house on [Brook] farm, and he, or members of his family, continued there to the end.
    EzRy 10.386 6 ...[Ezra Ripley] gave me anecdotes of the nine church members who had made a division in the church in the time of his predecessor, and showed me how every one of the nine had come to bad fortune or to a bad end.
    EzRy 10.389 3 [Ezra Ripley] had...the patient, continuing courtesy, carrying out every respectful attention to the end, which marks what is called the manners of the old school.
    EzRy 10.390 9 ...[Ezra Ripley] was...a great browbeater of the poor old fathers who still survived from the 19th of April, to the end that they should testify to his history as he had written it.
    SlHr 10.443 10 ...in his own town, if some important end was to be gained... all parties combined to send Mr. Hoar to the Legislature...
    SlHr 10.443 18 ...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, having answered our end, we passed him by...
    Thor 10.456 11 It seemed as if [Thoreau's] first instinct on hearing a proposition was to controvert it, so impatient was he of the limitations of our daily thought. This habit...is a little chilling to the social affections; and though the companion would in the end acquit him of any malice or untruth, yet it mars conversation.
    Thor 10.480 22 Pounding beans is good to the end of pounding empires one of these days;...
    Thor 10.480 23 Pounding beans is good to the end of pounding empires one of these days; but if, at the end of years, is it still only beans!
    Carl 10.497 15 [Carlyle] thinks it the only question for wise men...to address themselves to the problem of society. This confusion is the inevitable end of such falsehoods and nonsense as they have been embroiled with.
    LS 11.6 15 I have only brought these accounts [of the Last Supper] together, that you may judge whether it is likely that a solemn institution, to be continued to the end of time by all mankind...would have been established in this slight manner...
    LS 11.14 1 The end which [St. Paul] has in view...is not to enjoin upon his friends to observe the [Lord's] Supper, but to censure their abuse of it.
    LS 11.22 14 ...that for which Jesus gave himself to be crucified; the end that animated the thousand martyrs and heroes who have followed his steps, was to redeem us from a formal religion...
    LS 11.24 16 That is the end of my opposition [to the Lord's Supper], that I am not interested in it.
    LS 11.24 18 I am content that [the Lord's Supper] stand to the end of the world...
    HDC 11.33 9 Sometimes passing through thickets...and [the pilgrims'] feet clambering over the crossed trees, which when they missed, they sunk into an uncertain bottom in water, and wade up to their knees, tumbling sometimes higher, sometimes lower. At the end of this, they meet a scorching plain...
    HDC 11.56 25 The General Court, in 1647, to the end that learning may not be buried in the graves of our forefathers, Ordered, that every township after the Lord had increased them to the number of fifty house-holders, shall appoint one to teach all children to write and read;...
    HDC 11.60 15 With the tragical end of Philip, the war ended.
    HDC 11.79 16 The numbers [of of men for the Continental army], say [the General Assembly of Massachusetts], are large, but this Court has the fullest assurance that their brethren...will...fill up the numbers proportioned to the several towns. On that occasion, Concord furnished 67 men, paying them itself, at an expense of 622 pounds. And so on, with every levy, to the end of the war.
    EWI 11.111 1 There is no end to the tragic anecdotes in the municipal records of the [West Indian] colonies.
    EWI 11.112 18 ...the praedials [in the West Indies] should owe three fourths of the profits of their labor to their masters for six years, and the non-praedials for four years. The other fourth of the apprentice's time was to be his own, which he might sell to his master, or to other persons; and at the end of the term of years fixed, he should be free.
    EWI 11.132 26 ...the Union already is at an end when the first citizen of Massachusetts is thus outraged.
    EWI 11.135 21 [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.
    EWI 11.139 13 What great masses of men wish done, will be done; and they do not wish it for a freak, but because it is their state and natural end.
    War 11.160 11 [The human race] have nearly exhausted all the good and all the evil of this [first brutish] form: they have held as fast to this degradation as their worst enemy could desire; but all things have an end, and so has this.
    War 11.160 18 The sublime question has startled one and another happy soul in different quarters of the globe,-Cannot love be, as well as hate? Would not love answer the same end...
    War 11.167 22 ...chiefly it is said,-Either accept this principle [of peace] for better, for worse, carry it out to the end, and meet its absurd consequences; or else...give up the principle...
    War 11.168 19 ...no man, it may be presumed, ever embraced the cause of peace and philanthropy for the sole end and satisfaction of being plundered and slain.
    War 11.169 6 If you have a nation of men who have risen to that height of moral cultivation that they will not declare war or carry arms...you have a nation...of true, great and able men. Let me know more of that nation;... I shall find them...men whose influence is felt to the end of the earth;...
    FSLC 11.183 11 ...however neatly [Mr. Wolf] has been shaved, and tailored, and set up on end...he cannot be relied on at a pinch...
    FSLC 11.189 20 I thought it was this fair mystery, whose foundations are hidden in eternity, which made the basis of human society, and of law; and that to pretend anything else, as that the acquisition of property was the end of living, was to confound all distinctions...
    FSLC 11.205 10 In Mr. Webster's imagination the American Union was a huge Prince Rupert's drop, which, if so much as the smallest end be shivered off, the whole will snap into atoms.
    FSLC 11.206 17 The Union is at an end as soon as an immoral law is enacted.
    FSLC 11.207 8 What shall we do? First, abrogate this [Fugitive Slave] law; then, proceed to confine slavery to slave states, and help them effectually to make an end of it.
    FSLN 11.235 14 ...that I understand to be the end for which a soul exists in this world,-to be himself the counterbalance of all falsehood and all wrong.
    FSLN 11.237 8 The end for which man was made is not crime in any form...
    FSLN 11.237 15 A man who commits a crime defeats the end of his existence.
    FSLN 11.244 23 ...I hope we have reached the end of our unbelief...
    ACiv 11.306 6 We fancy that the endless debate...has brought the free states to some conviction...that by concert or by might we must put an end to [slavery].
    ACiv 11.307 11 ...[Slavery] will be unjust and violent to the end of the world.
    ACiv 11.309 15 The end of all political struggle is to establish morality as the basis of all legislation.
    ACiv 11.309 19 It is not free institutions, it is not a republic, it is not a democracy, that is the end...
    SMC 11.354 8 ...the moment you cry Every man to his tent, O Israel! the delusions of hope and fear are at an end;...
    SMC 11.367 5 Enlisting for three years, and remaining to the end of the war, these troops [Thirty-second Regiment] saw every variety of hard service...
    EdAd 11.386 15 Every material organization exists to a moral end...
    EdAd 11.387 23 Bad as it is, this freedom [in America] leads onward and upward,-to a Columbia of thought and art, which is the last and endless end of Columbus's adventure.
    EdAd 11.390 7 ...[man] lives in such connection with Thought and Fact that his bread is surely involved as one element thereof, but is not its end and aim.
    Wom 11.418 10 Nature's end, of maternity for twenty years, was of so supreme importance that it was to be secured at all events...
    SHC 11.434 18 ...when I think of the mystery of life...our ignorance of its beginning or its end...I think sometimes that the vault of the sky arching there upward...is only a Sleepy Hollow, with path of Suns, insead of foot-paths;...
    FRO1 11.477 5 I came [to the Free Religious Association], as I supposed myself summoned, to a little committee meeting, for some practical end...
    CPL 11.508 14 ...there is no end to the praise of books...
    FRep 11.513 22 As if the earth, water, gases, lightning and caloric had not a million energies, the discovery of any one of which could...put an end to war by the exterminating forces man can apply.
    FRep 11.528 14 In Mr. Webster's imagination the American Union was a huge Prince Rupert's drop, which will snap into atoms is so much as the smallest end be shivered off.
    FRep 11.536 7 The felon is the logical extreme of the epicure and coxcomb. Selfish luxury is the end of both...
    FRep 11.540 24 The end of all political struggle is to establish morality as the basis of all legislation.
    FRep 11.540 27 The end of all political struggle is to establish morality as the basis of all legislation. 'T is not free institutions, 't is not a democracy that is the end,-no, but only the means.
    FRep 11.542 9 The distinction and end of a soundly constituted man is his labor.
    FRep 11.542 11 Use is the end to which [man] exists.
    PLT 12.9 15 ...'t is a great vice in all countries, the sacrifice of scholars...to talk for the amusement of those who wish to be amused, though the stars of heaven must be plucked down and packed into rockets to this end.
    PLT 12.13 27 My metaphysics are to the end of use.
    PLT 12.23 13 Every scholar knows that he applies himself coldly and slowly at first to his task, but, with the progress of the work, the mind itself becomes heated, and sees far and wide as it approaches the end...
    II 12.68 27 To coax and woo the strong Instinct to bestir itself, and work its miracle, is the end of all wise endeavor.
    II 12.71 23 The poet works to an end above his will...
    II 12.72 19 It is this employment of new means-of means...as good as the end-that denotes the inspired man.
    Mem 12.96 4 We are told that Boileau having recited to Daguesseau one day an epistle or satire he had just been composing, Daguesseau tranquilly told him he knew it already, and in proof set himself to recite it from end to end.
    Mem 12.96 8 The mind disposes all its experience...to its ruling end;...
    CL 12.161 1 When I look at natural structures...I know that I am seeing an architecture and carpentry...which perfectly answers its end...
    Bost 12.195 13 The General Court of Massachusetts, in 1647, To the end that learning may not be buried in the graves of the forefathers, ordered, that every township, after the Lord has increased them to the number of fifty householders, shall appoint one to teach all children to write and read;...
    MAng1 12.216 2 [Michelangelo]...dying at the end of near ninety years, had not yet become old...
    MAng1 12.231 27 Polini put an end to all the various projects of repairs [to St. Peter's dome], by the satisfying sentence: The cupola does not start, and if it should start, nothing can be done but to pull it down.
    MAng1 12.241 15 Towards his end, there seems to have grown in [Michelangelo] an invincible appetite of dying...
    MAng1 12.241 26 At the age of eighty years, [Michelangelo] wrote to Vasari...and tells him he is at the end of his life...
    MAng1 12.242 26 ...art was to [Michelangelo] no means of livelihood or road to fame, but the end of living...
    Milt1 12.251 17 [Milton's Areopagitica] is valuable in history as an argument addressed to a government to produce a practical end...
    Milt1 12.255 27 ...we are tempted to say that art and not life seems to be the end of [German writers'] effort.
    Milt1 12.277 7 The creations of Shakspeare are cast into the world of thought to no further end than to delight.
    Milt1 12.277 12 Milton...exhausted the stores of his intellect for an end beyond, namely, to teach.
    Milt1 12.278 19 ...as many poems have been written upon unfit society... yet have not been proceeded against, though their end was hostile to the state; so should [Milton's plea for freedom of divorce] receive that charity which an angelic soul...is entitled to.
    MLit 12.319 4 In Byron...[the subjective tendency] predominates; but in Byron...it sees not its true end-an infinite good...
    Pray 12.353 19 Let the purpose for which I live be always before me; let every thought and word go to confirm and illuminate that end;...
    Let 12.400 14 There is nothing holy...which is not degraded to a mean end among this people [the Germans].
    Trag 12.406 27 The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an intellectual source is the belief in a brute Fate or Destiny; the belief that the order of Nature and events is controlled by a law...which holds on its way to the end, serving [man] if his wishes chance to lie in the same course...

end, v. (28)

    Nat 1.61 4 ...facts that end in the statement, cannot be all that is true of this brave lodging...
    LT 1.266 2 ...there will be fragments and hints of men, more than enough: bloated promises, which end in nothing or little.
    YA 1.381 14 All this drudgery...to end in mortgages and the auctioneer's flag...
    Hsm1 2.246 17 ...[To die] is to end/ An old, stale, weary work and to commence/ A newer and a better..../
    Cir 2.308 23 Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet. Then all things are at risk. It is as when a conflagration has broken out in a great city, and no man knows...where it will end.
    Int 2.345 14 ...let us end these didactics.
    Art1 2.362 23 ...we must end with a frank confession that the arts, as we know them, are but initial.
    Exp 3.80 19 How long before our masquerade will end its noise of tambourines, laughter and shouting...
    ET8 5.135 4 [The English] hide virtues under vices, or the semblance of them. It is the misshapen hairy Scandinavian troll again, who...threshes The corn/ That ten day-laborers could not end,/ but it is done in the dark and with muttered maledictions.
    F 6.14 23 Lodged in the parent animal, [the vesicle] suffers changes which end in unsheathing miraculous capability in the unaltered vesicle...
    Ctr 6.161 8 A man who stands on a good footing with the heads of parties at Washington, reads...the guesses of provincial politicians with a key to the right and wrong in each statement, and sees well enough where all this will end.
    Civ 7.21 9 Where shall we begin or end the list of those feats of liberty and wit, each of which feats made an epoch of history?
    OA 7.319 12 ...they who take the larger draughts [of the cup of time]...lose their stature, strength, beauty and senses, and end in folly and delirium.
    Comc 8.173 8 ...when this [patriotic] enthusiasm is perceived to end in the very intelligible maxims of trade...the intellect feels again the half-man.
    Imtl 8.330 23 ...I have in mind the expression of an older believer, who once said to me, The thought that this frail being is never to end is so overwhelming that my only shelter is God's presence.
    Aris 10.34 25 The old French Revolution attracted to its first movement all the liberality, virtue, hope and poetry in Europe. By the abolition of kingship and aristocracy, tyranny, inequality and poverty would end.
    Aris 10.48 5 I told the Duke of Newcastle, says Bubb Dodington in his Memoirs, that it must end one way or another, it must not remain as it was; for I was determined to make some sort of a figure in life;...
    SovE 10.189 9 ...a sublime confidence is fed at the bottom of the heart that...though we should fold our arms...the evils we suffer will at last end themselves through the incessant opposition of Nature to everything hurtful.
    Prch 10.232 22 ...the gigantic evils which seem to us so mischievous and so incurable will at last end themselves...
    MoL 10.258 9 Slavery is broken, and, if we use our advantage, irretrievably. For such a gain, to end once for all that pest of all our free institutions, one generation might well be sacrificed;...
    MMEm 10.400 22 Later, another aunt [of Mary Moody Emerson], who had become insane, was brought hither [to Malden] to end her days.
    MMEm 10.416 22 I [Mary Moody Emerson] end days of fine health and cheerfulness without getting upward now.
    GSt 10.506 23 It is sad that such a life [as George Stearns's] should end prematurely;...
    HDC 11.45 26 The disputes between that forbearing man [John Winthrop] and the deputies are like the quarrels of girls, so much do they turn into complaints of unkindness, and end in such loving reconciliations.
    FSLC 11.208 14 Why not end this dangerous dispute [over slavery] on some ground of fair compensation on one side, and satisfaction on the other to the conscience of the free states?
    FSLN 11.226 10 Mr. Webster decided for Slavery, and that, when the aspect of the institution was...no longer feeble and apologetic and proposing soon to end itself...
    Bost 12.199 2 When one thinks of the enterprises that are attempted in the heats of youth...which have been so profoundly ventilated, but end in a protracted picnic...we see with new increased respect the solid, well-calculated scheme of these emigrants [to New England]...
    MLit 12.333 13 When one of these grand monads is incarnated whom Nature seems to design for eternal men and draw to her bosom, we think that...the trivial forms of daily life will now end...

End, West, London, England (1)

    CbW 6.260 25 ...a West End householder, is not the highest style of man;...

endanger, v. (2)

    PPo 8.238 17 ...the desert, the simoon, the mirage, the lion and the plague endanger [subsistence in the East]...
    Milt1 12.267 10 [Wrote Milton] Albeit I must confess to be half in doubt whether I should bring it forth or no, it being so contrary to the eye of the world, that I shall endanger either not to be regarded, or not to be understood. For who is there, almost, that measures wisdom by simplicity...

endangered, v. (1)

    War 11.157 3 Wherever there is no property, the people will put on the knapsack for bread; but trade is instantly endangered and destroyed.

endangers, v. (1)

    MR 1.239 24 ...we have now a puny, protected person, guarded by walls and curtains...and who...is made anxious by all that endangers those possessions...

endear, v. (2)

    YA 1.369 16 I look on such improvements [gardens] also as directly tending to endear the land to the inhabitant.
    EdAd 11.386 2 We hearken in vain for any profound voice...intelligently announcing duties which clothe life with joy, and endear the face of land and sea to men.

endeared, v. (3)

    PNR 4.88 22 The secret of [Plato's] popular success is the moral aim which endeared him to mankind.
    Plu 10.318 22 The union in Alexander of sublime courage with the refinement of his pure tastes...endeared him to Plutarch.
    RBur 11.441 15 ...[Burns] has endeared the farmhouse and cottage...

endearments, n. (3)

    Lov1 2.185 5 The lovers delight in endearments...
    Lov1 2.186 2 [The soul] arouses itself at last from these endearments, as toys...
    Elo2 8.122 1 ...there are persons of natural fascination, with...winning manners, almost endearments in their style;...

endears, v. (3)

    ET13 5.219 18 ...whilst [the Church] endears itself thus to men of more taste than activity, the stability of the English nation is passionately enlisted to its support...
    Chr2 10.95 24 This wonderful [moral] sentiment, which endears itself as it is obeyed, seems to be the fountain of the intellect;...
    EzRy 10.379 4 We love the venerable house/ Our fathers built to God:/ In Heaven are kept their grateful vows,/ Their dust endears the sod./

endeavor, n. (20)

    Hist 2.34 22 The preternatural prowess of the hero, the gift of perpetual youth, and the like, are alike the endeavor of the human spirit to bend the shows of things to the desires of the mind.
    Hsm1 2.263 21 ...in the hour when we are deaf to the higher voices, who does not envy those who have seen safely to an end their manful endeavor?
    Exp 3.85 14 ...there never was a right endeavor but it succeeded.
    NER 3.285 6 That which befits us...is...the endeavor to realize our aspirations.
    SwM 4.135 6 The genius of Swedenborg...wasted itself in the endeavor to reanimate and conserve what had already arrived at its natural term...
    Bty 6.292 5 Nothing interests us which is stark or bounded, but only...what is in act or endeavor to reach somewhat beyond.
    Ill 6.308 1 When thou dost return/ .../ Beholding.../ ...out of endeavor/ To change and to flow,/ The gas become solid,/ And phantoms and nothings/ Return to be things,/ And endless imbroglio/ Is law and the world,--/Then first shalt thou know,/ That in the wild turmoil,/ Horsed on the Proteus,/ Thou ridest to power,/ And to endurance./
    Boks 7.217 3 Money, and killing, and the Wandering Jew, and persuading the lover that his mistress is betrothed to another, these are the main-springs [of the novel]; new names, but no new qualities in the men and women. Hence the vain endeavor to keep any bit of this fairy gold which has rolled like a brook through our hands.
    Suc 7.311 1 ...this witty malefactor [the cynic] makes [the most sanguine's] little hope less with satire and skepticism, and slackens the springs of endeavor.
    PI 8.17 4 Poetry is the perpetual endeavor to express the spirit of the thing...
    Imtl 8.339 1 Most men...promise by their countenance and conversation and by their early endeavor much more than they ever perform...
    Chr2 10.96 26 Devout men, in the endeavor to express their convictions, have used different images to suggest this latent [moral] force;...
    LLNE 10.354 23 It is the worst of community that it must inevitably transform into charlatans the leaders, by the endeavor continually to meet the expectation and admiration of this eager crowd of men and women seeking they know not what.
    GSt 10.504 18 Plainly [George Stearns] was...a man whom disasters, which dishearten other men, only stimulated to new courage and endeavor.
    LS 11.17 21 [The Lord's Supper] is an expression of gratitude to Christ, enjoined by Christ. There is an endeavor to keep Jesus in mind, whilst yet the prayers are addressed to God.
    Wom 11.426 6 ...there are always a certain number of passionately loving fathers, brothers, husbands and sons who put their might into the endeavor to make a daughter, a wife, or a mother happy in the way that suits best.
    FRep 11.544 10 I could heartily wish that our will and endeavor were more active parties to the work.
    II 12.69 1 To coax and woo the strong Instinct to bestir itself, and work its miracle, is the end of all wise endeavor.
    II 12.86 5 There is but one only liberator in this life from the demons that invade us, and that is Endeavor,-earnest, entire, perennial endeavor.
    Milt1 12.259 8 [Milton's] father's care, seconded by his own endeavor, introduced him to a profound skill in all the treasures of Latin, Greek, Hebrew and Italian tongues;...

Endeavor, n. (1)

    II 12.86 4 There is but one only liberator in this life from the demons that invade us, and that is Endeavor...

endeavor, v. (11)

    DSA 1.128 15 I shall endeavor to discharge my duty to you on this occasion, by pointing out two errors in [the Christian church's] administration...
    LE 1.161 26 ...I will thank my great brothers so truly for the admonition of their being, as to endeavor also to be just and brave...
    LE 1.178 7 Let [the scholar] endeavor exactly...to solve the problem of that life which is set before him.
    SR 2.73 3 I shall endeavor to nourish my parents...
    Pol1 3.213 5 Every man finds a sanction for his simplest claims and deeds, in decisions of his own mind, which he calls Truth and Holiness. ... This truth and justice men presently endeavor to make application of to the measuring of land...
    PPh 4.60 25 ...looking to the truth, I shall endeavor in reality to live as virtuously as I can [said Plato];...
    NMW 4.249 12 You see [said Napoleon] that two armies are two bodies which meet and endeavor to frighten each other;...
    Pow 6.73 25 Enlarge not thy destiny, said the oracle, endeavor not to do more than is given thee in charge.
    Insp 8.283 18 Goethe said to Eckermann, I work more easily when the barometer is high than when it is low. Since I know this, I endeavor, when the barometer is low, to counteract the injurious effect by greater exertion...
    LS 11.5 3 ...I was led to the conclusion that Jesus did not intend to establish an institution for perpetual observance when he ate the Passover with his disciples; and further, to the opinion, that it is not expedient to celebrate it as we do. I shall now endeavor to state distinctly my reasons for these two opinions.
    MAng1 12.217 7 ...we shall endeavor by sketches from [Michelangelo's] life to show the direction and limitations of his search after this element [Beauty].

endeavored, v. (10)

    AmS 1.112 24 ...[Swedenborg] endeavored to engraft a purely philosophical Ethics on the popular Christianity of his time.
    Comp 2.108 3 ...when the Thasians erected a statue to Theagenes, a victor in the games, one of his rivals went to it by night and endeavored to throw it down...
    NR 3.248 11 ...I endeavored to show my good men that I liked everything by turns and nothing long;...
    WD 7.167 27 Bonaparte...endeavored to make the Mediterranean a French lake.
    Comc 8.174 10 The physician endeavored to cheer [his melancholy patient' s] spirits, and advised him to go to the theatre and see Carlini. He replied, I am Carlini.
    Plu 10.308 4 [Plutarch] says of Socrates that he endeavored to bring reason and things together...
    EWI 11.105 21 Granville Sharpe found [the West Indian slave] at his brother's and procured a place for him in an apothecary's shop. The master accidentally met his recovered slave, and instantly endeavored to get possession of him again.
    ACiv 11.297 14 ...standing on this doleful experience [slavery], these people have endeavored to reverse the natural sentiments of mankind, and to pronounce labor disgraceful...
    Shak1 11.447 3 We seriously endeavored...to draw out of their retirements a few rarer lovers of the muse...
    Milt1 12.279 8 ...are not all men fortified by the remembrance of...the angelic devotion of this man [Milton], who...endeavored...to carry out the life of man to new heights of spiritual grace and dignity...

endeavoring, v. (2)

    Nat 1.67 10 It is not so pertinent to man to know all the individuals of the animal kingdom, as it is to know whence and whereto is this tyrannizing unity in his constitution, which evermore separates and classifies things, endeavoring to reduce the most diverse to one form.
    SL 2.157 14 It was this conviction which Swedenborg expressed when he described a group of persons in the spiritual world endeavoring in vain to articulate a proposition which they did not believe;...

endeavors, n. (12)

    SR 2.78 6 Caratach...when admonished to inquire the mind of the god Audate, replies,--His hidden meaning lies in our endeavours;/...
    Comp 2.119 13 The history of persecution is a history of endeavors to cheat nature...
    Lov1 2.180 12 ...of poetry the success is not attained when it lulls and satisfies, but when it astonishes and fires us with new endeavors after the unattainable.
    Nat2 3.195 19 They say that by electro-magnetism your salad shall be grown from the seed whilst your fowl is roasting for dinner; it is a symbol of our modern aims and endeavors...
    Pol1 3.213 8 Every man finds a sanction for his simplest claims and deeds, in decisions of his own mind, which he calls Truth and Holiness. ... This truth and justice men presently endeavor to make application of to...the protection of life and property. Their first endeavors, no doubt, are very awkward.
    MoS 4.171 5 One man appears whose nature is to all men's eyes conserving and constructive; his presence supposes a well-ordered society, agriculture, trade, large institutions and empire. If these did not exist, they would begin to exist through his endeavors.
    F 6.36 8 ...where [man's] endeavors do not yet fully avail, they tell as tendency.
    CbW 6.264 18 ...whoever sees the law which distributes things...is animated to great desires and endeavors.
    Elo2 8.117 26 A worthy gentleman...listening to the debates of the General Assembly of the Scottish Kirk in Edinburgh, and eager to speak to the questions but utterly failing in his endeavors...went to [Dr. Hugh Blair] and offered him one thousand pounds sterling if he would teach him to speak with propriety in public.
    Imtl 8.336 7 Our passions, our endeavors, have something ridiculous and mocking, if we come to so hasty an end.
    HDC 11.68 10 ...in answer to letters received from the united committees of correspondence...the town [of Concord] say: We cannot possibly view with indifference the...endeavors of the enemies of this...country, to rob us of those rights, that are the distinguishing glory and felicity of this land;...
    Let 12.399 9 ...this class [of over-educated youth] is rapidly increasing by the infatuation of the active class, who...use all possible endeavors to secure to [their children] the same result.

endeavors, v. (3)

    Pt1 3.25 14 The sea...and every flower-bed, pre-exist or super-exist, in pre-cantations, which sail like odors in the air, and when any man goes by with an ear sufficiently fine, he overhears them and endeavors to write down the notes without diluting or depraving them.
    NMW 4.256 21 ...both parties [democrat and conservative] stand on the one ground of the supreme value of property, which one endeavors to get, and the other to keep.
    II 12.84 17 If you speak to the man, he turns his eyes from his own scene, and, slower or faster, endeavors to comprehend what you say.

ended, v. (23)

    YA 1.378 4 Feudalism is not ended yet.
    Exp 3.59 2 A political orator wittily compared our party promises to western roads, which opened stately enough...but soon became narrow and narrower and ended in a squirrel-track and ran up a tree.
    NER 3.271 24 The Iliad...the German anthem, when they are ended, the master casts behind him.
    NMW 4.242 14 The day of sleepy, selfish policy...was ended [in France]....
    ET13 5.230 24 Electricity cannot be made fast, mortared up and ended...
    ET17 5.294 17 We [Emerson and Martineau] found Mr. Wordsworth asleep on the sofa. He was at first silent and indisposed, as an old man suddenly waked before he had ended his nap;...
    F 6.33 1 ...the depopulation by cholera and small-pox is ended by drainage and vaccination;...
    Boks 7.210 18 ...Earl Spencer exclaimed, Two thousand two hundred and fifty pounds! An electric shock went through the assembly. And ten, quietly added the Marquis [of Blandford]. There ended the strife [for the Valdarfer Boccaccio].
    Clbs 7.244 20 If [my friend] were sure to find at No. 2000 Tremont Street what scholars were abroad after the morning studies were ended, Boston would shine as the New Jerusalem in his eyes.
    Suc 7.300 10 How that element [color] washes the universe with its enchanting waves! The sculptor had ended his work, and behold a new world of dream-like glory.
    Aris 10.38 6 How sturdy seem to us in the history, those...Burgundies and Guesclins of the old warlike ages! We can hardly believe...that an ague or fever...ended them.
    MoL 10.243 4 All the distinctions of profession and habit ended at the mines [of California].
    LLNE 10.341 2 [Channing] found [at Warren's house] a well-chosen assembly of gentlemen variously distinguished;...they were...drawing gently towards their great expectation, when a side-door opened, the whole company streamed in to an oyster supper...and so ended the first attempt to establish aesthetic society in Boston.
    MMEm 10.419 4 I [Mary Moody Emerson] walked to Captain Dexter's. Sick. Promised never to put that ring on. Ended miserably the month which began so worldly.
    Thor 10.459 11 ...the President [of Harvard University] found...the rules [of the Harvard Library] getting to look so ridiculous, that he ended by giving [Thoreau] a privilege which in his hands proved unlimited thereafter.
    HDC 11.60 16 With the tragical end of Philip, the war ended.
    HDC 11.61 26 It is the misfortune of Concord to have permitted a disgraceful outrage upon the friendly Indians settled within its limits, in February, 1676, which ended in their forcible expulsion from the town.
    FSLC 11.182 17 [The crisis over the Fugitive Slave Law] ended a good deal of nonsense we had been wont to hear and to repeat...
    EPro 11.316 13 [Movement toward liberty]...is as when an orator, having ended the compliments and pleasantries with which he conciliated attention...announces with vibrating voice the grand human principles involved;...
    FRep 11.537 25 ...[our civilization] has not ended nor given sign of ending in a hero.
    MLit 12.320 26 ...the interest of the poem [Wordsworth's The Excursion] ended almost with the narrative of the influences of Nature on the mind of the Boy, in the First Book.
    Pray 12.351 20 Wacic the Caliph...ended his life...with these words: O thou whose kingdom never passes away, pity one whose dignity is so transient.
    EurB 12.370 20 A critical friend of ours affirms that the vice which bereaved modern painters of their power is the ambition to begin where their fathers ended;...

endemic, adj. (2)

    EdAd 11.388 1 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.
    Wom 11.405 2 Among those movements which seem to be, now and then, endemic in the public mind...is that which has urged on society the benefits of action having for its object a benefit to the position of Woman.

ending, n. (1)

    AmS 1.85 10 Therein [nature] resembles [the scholar's] own spirit, whose beginning, whose ending, he never can find...

ending, v. (6)

    Nat 1.37 7 What tedious training...never ending, to form the common sense;...
    DSA 1.150 7 All attempts to contrive a system are as cold as the new worship introduced by the French to the goddess of Reason...ending to-morrow in madness and murder.
    Wth 6.105 17 Rothschild refuses the Russian loan, and there is peace and the harvests are saved. He takes it, and there is...an agitation through a large portion of mankind...ending in revolution and a new order.
    Elo2 8.131 25 ...in Germany we have seen a metaphysical zymosis culminating in Kant, Schelling, Schleiermacher, Schopenhauer, Hegel, and so ending.
    Imtl 8.345 17 ...it is not my duty to prove to myself the immortality of the soul. That knowledge is hidden very cunningly. Perhaps the archangels cannot find the secret of their existence, as the eye cannot see itself;-but, ending or endless, to live whilst I live.
    FRep 11.537 26 ...[our civilization] has not ended nor given sign of ending in a hero.

endless, adj. (54)

    Nat 1.13 15 ...thus the endless circulations of the divine charity nourish man.
    Nat 1.14 13 The catalogue [of useful arts] is endless...
    Nat 1.16 4 ...almost all the individual forms [in nature] are agreeable to the eye, as is proved by our endless imitations of some of them...
    Nat 1.43 5 All the endless variety of things make an identical impression.
    Nat 1.61 7 ...facts that end in the statement, cannot be all that is true of this brave lodging...wherein all [man's] faculties find appropriate and endless exercise.
    Nat 1.75 24 [The world] shall answer the endless inquiry of the intellect...
    MN 1.204 3 ...the spirit and peculiarity of that impression nature makes on us is this, that it does not exist to any one or to any number of particular ends, but to numberless and endless benefit;...
    LT 1.270 21 The student of history will hereafter compute the singular value of our endless discussion of questions to the mind of the period.
    LT 1.278 3 We...want...the spirit that sheds and showers...countless, endless actions.
    Hist 2.15 23 Nature is an endless combination and repetition of a very few laws.
    Hist 2.31 23 The philosophical perception of identity through endless mutations of form makes [man] know the Proteus.
    Hist 2.32 24 What is our life but an endless flight of winged facts or events?
    SR 2.77 14 Prayer...loses itself in endless mazes of natural and supernatural, and mediatorial and miraculous.
    SR 2.89 7 ...in the endless mutation, thou only firm column must presently appear the upholder of all that surrounds thee.
    Comp 2.93 7 The documents...from which the doctrine [of Compensation] is to be drawn, charmed my fancy by their endless variety...
    SL 2.137 1 Our society is encumbered by ponderous machinery, which resembles the endless aqueducts which the Romans built over hill and dale...
    SL 2.140 26 There is one direction in which all space is open to [each man]. He has faculties silently inviting him thither to endless exertion.
    Lov1 2.179 24 What else did Jean Paul Richter signify, when he said to music, Away! away! thou speakest to me of things which in all my endless life I have not found and shall not find.
    OS 2.294 12 ...one blood rolls uninterruptedly an endless circulation through all men...
    Cir 2.318 15 ...I simply experiment, an endless seeker with no Past at my back.
    PNR 4.86 4 [Plato] was born to behold the self-evolving power of spirit, endless, generator of new ends;...
    SwM 4.118 12 Why hear I the same sense from countless differing voices, and read one never quite expressed fact in endless picture-language?
    SwM 4.141 22 [Swedenborg's spiritual world] is...very like, in its endless power of lurid pictures, to the phenomena of dreaming...
    NMW 4.230 2 ...[Bonaparte's] whole talent is strained by endless manoeuvre and evolution...
    ET3 5.37 27 The innumerable details [in England]...hide all boundaries by the impression of magnificence and endless wealth.
    F 6.36 23 Nature is intricate, overlapped, interweaved and endless.
    Pow 6.79 21 ...to have learned the arts of reckoning, by endless adding and dividing, is the power of...the clerk.
    Wsp 6.242 4 ...the good Laws themselves are alive...they animate [man] with the leading of great duty, and an endless horizon.
    CbW 6.267 19 On experiment the horizon...leaves us on an endless common...
    CbW 6.276 16 ...why multiply these topics, and their illustrations, which are endless?
    Ill 6.308 6 When thou dost return/ .../ Beholding.../ ...out of endeavor/ To change and to flow,/ The gas become solid,/ And phantoms and nothings/ Return to be things,/ And endless imbroglio/ Is law and the world,--/Then first shalt thou know,/ That in the wild turmoil,/ Horsed on the Proteus,/ Thou ridest to power,/ And to endurance./
    Ill 6.314 18 ...I remember the quarrel of another youth with the confectioners, that when he racked his wit to choose the best comfits in the shops, in all the endless varieties of sweetmeat he could find only three flavors, or two.
    Ill 6.319 22 The intellect sees...that, in the endless striving and ascents, the metamorphosis is entire...
    Elo1 7.70 24 ...who does not remember in childhood some white or black or yellow Scheherezade, who, by that talent of telling endless feats of fairies and magicians and kings and queens, was more dear and wonderful to a circle of children than any orator in England or America is now?
    DL 7.113 9 ...is there any calamity...that more invokes the best good will to remove it, than this?...to hear an endless chatter and blast;...
    WD 7.155 3 Daughters of Time, the hypocritic days,/ Muffled and dumb like barefoot dervishes,/ And marching single in an endless file,/ Bring diadems and fagots in their hands./
    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.
    Imtl 8.338 19 As a hint of endless being, we may rank that novelty which perpetually attends life.
    Imtl 8.345 17 ...it is not my duty to prove to myself the immortality of the soul. That knowledge is hidden very cunningly. Perhaps the archangels cannot find the secret of their existence, as the eye cannot see itself;-but, ending or endless, to live whilst I live.
    Chr2 10.102 2 The world would run into endless routine, and forms incrust forms, till the life was gone.
    Edc1 10.153 21 ...there is always the temptation in large schools to omit the endless task of meeting the wants of each single mind...
    Plu 10.311 14 Plutarch is genial; with an endless interest in all human and divine things;...
    Thor 10.452 4 [Thoreau] resumed his endless walks and miscellaneous studies...
    Thor 10.456 23 ...[Thoreau]...threw himself heartily and childlike into the company of young people...whom he delighted to entertain...with the varied and endless anecdotes of his experiences by field and river...
    War 11.163 20 This vast apparatus of artillery,...this martial music and endless playing of marches and singing of military and naval songs seem to us to constitute an imposing actual, which will not yield in centuries to the feeble, deprecatory voices of a handful of friends of peace.
    FSLN 11.223 4 ...[Webster's] beauties of detail are endless.
    ACiv 11.306 1 We fancy that the endless debate...has brought the free states to some conviction that it can never go well with us whilst this mischief of slavery remains in our politics...
    EPro 11.324 2 The [Civil] war...brought with it the immense benefit of... preventing the whole force of Southern connection and influence throughout the North from distracting every city with endless confusion...
    EPro 11.326 9 Incertainties now crown themselves assured,/ And Peace proclaims olives of endless age./
    EdAd 11.387 23 Bad as it is, this freedom [in America] leads onward and upward,-to a Columbia of thought and art, which is the last and endless end of Columbus's adventure.
    Mem 12.109 26 If we occupy ourselves long on this wonderful faculty [memory], and see...the way in which new knowledge calls upon old knowledge...we cannot fail to draw thence a sublime hint that thus there must be an endless increase in the power of memory only through its use;...
    Bost 12.201 2 There is a Columbia of thought and art and character, which is the last and endless sequel of Columbus's adventure.
    MAng1 12.236 7 Amidst endless annoyances from the envy and interest of the office-holders and agents in the work whom he had displaced, [Michelangelo] steadily ripened and executed his vast ideas.
    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...in an endless variety of studies...

endless, n. (1)

    PLT 12.16 14 In my thought I seem to stand on the bank of a river and watch the endless flow of the stream...

endogenous, adj. (3)

    UGM 4.6 2 Man is that noble endogenous plant which grows, like the palm, from within outward.
    UGM 4.8 6 Man is endogenous...
    ET13 5.225 19 [Religion] is endogenous, like the skin and other vital organs.

endorse, v. (2)

    FSLC 11.211 25 The immense power of rectitude is apt to be forgotten in politics. But they who have brought the great wrong [the Fugitive Slave Law] on the country have not forgotten it. They avail themselves of the known probity and honor of Massachusetts, to endorse the statute.
    PPr 12.388 25 How well-read, how adroit, that thousand arts in [Carlyle's] one art of writing; with his expedient for expressing those unproven opinions which he entertains but will not endorse, by summoning one of his men of straw from the cell,-and the respectable Sauerteig, or Teuffelsdrockh...says what is put into his mouth, and disappears.

endorsed, v. (1)

    MoS 4.169 25 This book of Montaigne the world has endorsed by translating it into all tongues and printing seventy-five editions of it in Europe;...

endorsement, n. (1)

    Con 1.303 20 ...[the existing world] has the endorsement of nature...

endowed, adj. (2)

    Tran 1.359 22 ...the thoughts which these few hermits strove to proclaim... shall abide in beauty and strength...to invest themselves anew in other, perhaps higher endowed and happier mixed clay than ours...
    DL 7.124 19 I have seen finely endowed men at college festivals... returning, as it seemed, the same boys who went away.

endowed, v. (12)

    Chr1 3.107 25 There is a class of men...so eminently endowed with insight and virtue that they have been unanimously saluted as divine...
    SwM 4.130 19 ...this man [Swedenborg], profusely endowed in heart and mind, early fell into dangerous discord with himself.
    NMW 4.237 22 ...[Napoleon] did not hesitate to declare that he was himself eminently endowed with this two-o'clock-in-the-morning courage...
    NMW 4.257 6 Never was such a leader so endowed and so weaponed [as Napoleon];...
    ET7 5.117 3 Nature has endowed some animals with cunning...
    ET14 5.257 13 Tennyson is endowed precisely in points where Wordsworth wanted.
    Ill 6.317 27 ...the best soldiers, sea-captains and railway men have a gentleness when off duty, a good-natured admission that there are illusions, and who shall say that he is not their sport? We stigmatize the cast-iron fellows who cannot so detach themselves, as...fools of fate, with whatever powers endowed.
    Insp 8.284 7 Plutarch affirms that souls are naturally endowed with the faculty of prediction...
    Plu 10.307 21 [Plutarch] thinks that souls are naturally endowed with the faculty of prediction;...
    FSLC 11.209 17 Nothing is impracticable to this nation, which it shall set itself to do. Were ever men so endowed, so placed, so weaponed?
    CL 12.141 8 Plutarch thought [the air] contained the knowledge of the future. If it be true that souls are naturally endowed with the faculty of prediction, and that the chief cause that excites that faculty is a certain temperature of the air and winds, etc.
    Bost 12.185 2 There is great testimony of discriminating persons to the effect that Rome is endowed with the enchanting property of inspiring a longing in men there to live and there to die.

endowment, n. (8)

    LE 1.182 9 If [the scholar] have this twofold goodness,-the drill and the inspiration...then...the perfection of his endowment will appear in his compositions.
    Comp 2.93 13 The documents...from which the doctrine [of Compensation] is to be drawn...are the tools in our hands...the nature and endowment of all men.
    Int 2.330 14 ...the differences between men in natural endowment are insignificant in comparison with their common wealth.
    Mrs1 3.120 21 ...the salt, the dates, the ivory, and the gold, for which these horrible regions are visited, find their way into...countries where man... establishes a select society...which...adopts and makes its own whatever personal beauty or extraordinary native endowment anywhere appears.
    NR 3.238 23 In his childhood and youth [the recluse] has had many checks and censures, and thinks modestly enough of his own endowment.
    ShP 4.212 8 With [Shakespeare's] wisdom of life is the equal endowment of imaginative and of lyric power.
    ET13 5.226 12 Like the Quakers, [the wise legislator] may resist the separation of a class of priests, and create opportunity and expectation in the society to run to meet natural endowment in this kind.
    Cour 7.255 26 ...the pure article...cheerfulness in lonely adherence to the right, is the endowment of elevated characters.

endowments, n. (6)

    GoW 4.264 11 ...nature has more splendid endowments for those whom she elects to a superior office;...
    EWI 11.142 26 [The blacks] won the pity and respect which they have received [in the West Indies], by their powers and native endowments.
    Milt1 12.258 18 To these endowments it must be added that [Milton's] address and his conversation were worthy of his fame.
    Milt1 12.259 6 [Milton's] endowments received the benefit of a careful and happy discipline.
    MLit 12.332 7 That Goethe had not a moral perception proportionate to his other powers...is the cardinal fact of health or disease; since, lacking this, he...with divine endowments, drops by irreversible decree into the common history of genius.
    MLit 12.332 10 [Goethe] was content to...spend on common aims his splendid endowments...

endows, v. (1)

    ET9 5.144 7 A testator [in England] endows a dog or a rookery, and Europe cannot interfere with his absurdity.

ends, n. (116)

    Nat 1.70 6 A wise writer will feel that the ends of study and composition are best answered by announcing undiscovered regions of thought...
    DSA 1.124 15 Whilst a man seeks good ends, he is strong by the whole strength of nature.
    DSA 1.124 17 In so far as [a man] roves from these [good] ends, he bereaves himself of power...
    DSA 1.128 1 Life is comic or pitiful as soon as the high ends of being fade out of sight...
    LE 1.179 18 ...[Napoleon] had a faith...in the application of means to ends.
    LE 1.179 18 Means to ends, is the motto of all [Napoleon's] behavior.
    MN 1.200 26 ...the equal serving of innumerable ends without the least emphasis or preference to any...allows the understanding no place to work.
    MN 1.201 4 Nature can only be conceived as existing...to a universe of ends, and not to one...
    MN 1.204 3 ...the spirit and peculiarity of that impression nature makes on us is this, that it does not exist to any one or to any number of particular ends...
    MN 1.209 2 The ends are momentary;...
    MN 1.209 5 A man's wisdom is to know that all ends are momentary...
    MN 1.209 8 ...there is a mischievous tendency in [man] to transfer his thought from the life to the ends...
    MN 1.211 18 This ecstatical state seems to direct a regard...to the cause and not to the ends;...
    MN 1.218 6 Talent finds its models, methods, and ends, in society...
    MR 1.238 20 What [a man] gets only as fast as he wants for his own ends, does not embarrass him...
    MR 1.239 27 ...we have now a puny, protected person, guarded by walls and curtains...who...is forced to spend so much time in guarding them, that he has quite lost sight of their original use, namely, to help him to his ends...
    MR 1.242 17 ...for ends so sacred and dear some relaxation must be had...
    LT 1.276 17 The love which lifted men to the sight of these better ends was the true and best distinction of this time...
    Tran 1.339 11 ...genius and virtue predict in man the same absence of private ends and of condescension to circumstances...
    Tran 1.349 19 ...as no great ends are answered by the men, there is nothing noble in the arts by which they are maintained.
    Hist 2.11 17 When [Belzoni] has satisfied himself...that [Thebes] was made by such a person as he...to ends to which he himself should also have worked, the problem is solved;...
    SR 2.78 3 The prayer of the farmer kneeling in his field to weed it, the prayer of the rower kneeling with the stroke of his oar, are true prayers heard throughout nature, though for cheap ends.
    Comp 2.103 14 ...means and ends...cannot be severed;...
    Comp 2.104 7 The soul says, Have dominion over all things to the ends of virtue;...
    Comp 2.104 9 ...the body would have the power over things to its own ends.
    Comp 2.114 21 These ends of labor cannot be answered but by real exertions of the mind...
    SL 2.136 7 Our Sunday-schools and churches and pauper-societies are yokes to the neck. ... There are natural ways of arriving at the same ends at which these aim, but do not arrive.
    SL 2.156 24 When [a man] has base ends and speaks falsely, the eye is muddy and sometimes asquint.
    Prd1 2.227 9 The application of means to ends insures victory and the songs of victory not less in a farm or a shop than in the tactics of party or of war.
    Pt1 3.16 25 Some stars...on an old rag of bunting, blowing on the wind on a fort at the ends of the earth, shall make the blood tingle...
    Chr1 3.91 11 [The people] cannot come at their ends by sending to Congress a learned, acute and fluent speaker, if he be not one who, before he was appointed by the people to represent them, was appointed by Almighty God to stand for a fact...
    Chr1 3.93 24 This virtue [of character] draws the mind more when it appears in action to ends not so mixed.
    Mrs1 3.139 5 The average spirit of the energetic class is good sense, acting under certain limitations and to certain ends.
    Nat2 3.181 2 ...so poor is nature with all her craft, that from the beginning to the end of the universe she has but one stuff,--but one stuff with its two ends, to serve up all her dream-like variety.
    Nat2 3.182 22 The smoothest curled courtier in the boudoirs of a palace has an animal nature...omnipotent to its own ends...
    Nat2 3.190 17 The hunger for wealth...fools the eager pursuer. What is the end sought? Plainly to secure the ends of good sense and beauty from the intrusion of deformity or vulgarity of any kind.
    Nat2 3.191 4 Conversation, character, were the avowed ends [of wealth];...
    Nat2 3.191 9 Thought, virtue, beauty, were the ends [of wealth];...
    Nat2 3.192 3 The appearance strikes the eye everywhere of an aimless society, of aimless nations. Were the ends of nature so great and cogent as to exact this immense sacrifice of men?
    Pol1 3.210 9 [Party representatives] have not at heart the ends which give to the name of democracy what hope and virtue are in it.
    Pol1 3.210 13 ...[the spirit of our American radicalism] has no ulterior and divine ends...
    Pol1 3.214 27 ...all public ends look vague and quixotic beside private ones.
    Pol1 3.220 14 ...when [men] are pure enough to abjure the code of force they will be wise enough to see how these public ends...can be answered.
    NR 3.226 21 When I meet a pure intellectual force or a generosity of affection, I believe here then is man; and am presently mortified by the discovery that this individual is no more available to his own or to the general ends than his companions;...
    NER 3.259 3 ...the Good Spirit never cared for the colleges, and though all men and boys were now drilled in Latin, Greek and Mathematics, it...was now creating and feeding other matters at other ends of the world.
    NER 3.259 22 If the physician, the lawyer, the divine, never use [Greek and Latin] to come at their ends, I need never learn it to come at mine.
    NER 3.269 18 In [scholars'] experience the scholar was not raised by the sacred thoughts amongst which he dwelt, but used them to selfish ends.
    NER 3.277 20 ...surely the greatest good fortune that could befall me is precisely to be so moved by you that I should say, Take me and all mine, and use me and mine freely to your ends!...
    UGM 4.11 11 Each material thing...has its translation, through humanity, into the spiritual and necessary sphere where it plays a part as indestructible as any other. And to these, their ends, all things continually ascend.
    PNR 4.86 4 [Plato] was born to behold the self-evolving power of spirit, endless, generator of new ends;...
    SwM 4.104 6 The robust Aristotelian method...conversant with series and degree, with effects and ends...had trained a race of athletic philosophers.
    SwM 4.126 14 [Swedenborg] delivers golden sayings which express with singular beauty the ethical laws;...Ends always ascend as nature descends.
    MoS 4.185 21 ...although...the march of civilization is a train of felonies,-- yet, general ends are somehow answered.
    ShP 4.214 27 [Shakespeare's] means are as admirable as his ends;...
    NMW 4.233 11 Napoleon had been the first man of the world, if his ends had been purely public.
    GoW 4.279 5 ...[the hero and heroine of Sand's Consuelo] become the servants...of the most generous social ends;...
    ET5 5.82 24 Their self-respect...and their realistic logic or coupling of means to ends, have given [the English] the leadership of the modern world.
    ET5 5.83 9 ...in high departments [the English] are cramped and sterile. But the unconditional surrender to facts, and the choice of means to reach their ends, are as admirable as with ants and bees.
    ET14 5.240 3 Bacon, capable of ideas, yet devoted to ends, required in his map of the mind, first of all, universality...
    F 6.8 25 An expense of ends to means is fate;...
    F 6.29 1 ...the pure sympathy with universal ends is an infinite force...
    F 6.36 22 This knot of nature is so well tied that nobody was ever cunning enough to find the two ends.
    F 6.38 10 Nature...takes the shortest way to her ends.
    Pow 6.56 7 ...health or fulness answers its own ends and has to spare...
    Wth 6.111 17 Our nature and genius force us to respect ends...
    Ctr 6.157 11 The saint and poet seek privacy to ends the most public and universal...
    Wsp 6.234 27 [Benedict said] My ledger may show that I am in debt, cannot yet make my ends meet...
    CbW 6.248 1 See what a cometary train of auxiliaries man carries with him, of animals, plants, stones, gases and imponderable elements. Let us infer his ends from this pomp of means.
    SS 7.9 26 We must infer that the ends of thought were peremptory, if they were to be secured at such ruinous cost.
    Civ 7.27 2 What is moral? It is the respecting in action catholic or universal ends.
    Civ 7.30 4 To accomplish anything excellent the will must work for catholic and universal ends.
    Civ 7.30 27 If we can thus ride in Olympian chariots by putting our works in the path of the celestial circuits, we can harness also...the powers of darkness, and force them to serve against their will the ends of wisdom and virtue.
    Art2 7.41 2 It was said, in allusion to the great structures of the ancient Romans, the aqueducts and bridges, that their Art was a Nature working to municiple ends.
    Art2 7.43 21 ...[language] is not new-created by the poet for his own ends.
    Art2 7.52 13 [The arts] are the reappearance of one mind, working in many materials to many temporary ends.
    DL 7.111 18 The houses of the rich are confectioners' shops, where we get sweetmeats and wine; the houses of the poor are imitations of these to the extent of their ability. With these ends housekeeping is not beautiful;...
    DL 7.117 16 [A house] stands there under the sun and moon to ends analogous, and not less noble than theirs.
    DL 7.129 18 Beyond its primary ends of the conjugal, parental and amicable relations, the household should cherish the beautiful arts and the sentiment of veneration.
    DL 7.133 7 These are the consolations,--these are the ends to which the household is instituted...
    WD 7.160 27 ...there is no argument of theism better than the grandeur of ends brought about by paltry means.
    Suc 7.300 6 ...the sand floor is...bent to be a...part of the astonishing astronomy, and existing at last to moral ends and from moral causes.
    PI 8.3 6 ...we must feed, wash, plant, build. These are ends of necessity...
    PI 8.5 8 The ends of all are moral...
    PI 8.38 14 ...Milton, Hafiz, Ossian, the Welsh Bards;--these all deal with Nature and history as means and symbols, and not as ends.
    Dem1 10.23 5 ...the so-called fortunate man is one who, though not gifted... to act with grace or with understanding to great ends...relies on his instincts...
    Aris 10.61 13 Give up, once for all, the hope of approbation from the people in the street, if you are pursuing great ends.
    PerF 10.84 15 Things work to their ends, not to yours...
    PerF 10.84 19 The effort of men is to use [things] for private ends.
    PerF 10.85 22 ...[a survey of cosmical powers] warns us...out of an idolatry of forms, instead of working to simple ends...
    Chr2 10.92 18 Morals is the direction of the will on universal ends.
    Chr2 10.99 4 When the Master of the Universe has ends to fulfil, he impresses his will on the structure of minds.
    Edc1 10.127 17 Enamoured of [sun's, moon's, plants', animals'] beauty, comforted by their convenience, [man] seeks them as ends...
    Edc1 10.129 27 [Is it not true] That...sickness, sorrow, success, all...unlock for us the concealed faculties of the mind? Whatever private or petty ends are frustrated, this end is always answered.
    Schr 10.267 12 Action is legitimate and good; forever be it honored! right, original, private, necessary action...going forth to beneficent and as yet incalculable ends.
    Schr 10.274 18 One thing is for [the thoughtful man] settled, that he is to come at his ends.
    Schr 10.275 15 The ends I have hinted at made the scholar or spiritual man indispensable to the Republic or Commonwealth of Man.
    Schr 10.277 1 ...I delight...to see that men can come at their ends.
    Schr 10.281 25 ...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.
    Schr 10.283 24 ...trusted and obeyed in happy natures [mother-wit]... makes new means for its great ends.
    Schr 10.288 15 ...[the scholar's] ends give value to every means...
    Plu 10.312 24 Plutarch...thought it the top of wisdom...to reach in mirth the same ends which the most serious are proposing.
    HDC 11.50 14 About ten years after the planting of Concord, efforts began to be made to civilize the Indians, and to win them to the knowledge of the true God. This indeed, in so many words, is expressed in the charter of the colony as one of its ends;...
    War 11.155 9 Nature implants with life...perpetual struggle...to attain to a mastery and the security of a permanent, self-defended being; and to each creature these objects are made so dear that it risks its life continually in the struggle for these ends.
    FSLC 11.212 11 Let us respect the Union to all honest ends.
    JBS 11.279 14 [In John Brown's boyhood] was formed a romantic character...living to ideal ends...
    FRep 11.543 13 It is our part to carry out to the last the ends of liberty and justice.
    PLT 12.19 11 Our eating, trading, marrying, and learning are mistaken by us for ends and realities...
    PLT 12.61 11 Intellect...runs down into talent, selfish working for private ends...
    II 12.71 12 Novelty in the means by which we arrive at the old universal ends is the test of the presence of the highest power...
    II 12.72 1 The muse may be defined, Supervoluntary ends effected by supervoluntary means.
    CInt 12.117 27 Society...exaggerates the merits of those who work to vulgar ends.
    CInt 12.123 1 The Understanding is the name we give to the low, limitary power working to short ends...
    CInt 12.123 8 All [the Understanding's] activities are to short, personal ends...
    CL 12.155 19 ...after having climbed the Alps, whilst I [Linnaeus], a youth of twenty-five years...lay down as if to die in those ends of the world, these two old [Lap] men, one fifty, one seventy years...felt none of the inconveniences of the road...
    MLit 12.317 11 ...the street seems to be built, and the men and women in it moving, not in reference to pure and grand ends, but rather to very short and sordid ones.
    WSL 12.343 18 Whoever writes for the love of truth and beauty, and not with ulterior ends, belongs to this sacred class;...

ends, v. (20)

    LT 1.283 2 ...the criticism which is levelled at the laws and manners, ends in thought...
    Con 1.299 20 ...[reform] runs...to unnatural refining and elevation which ends in hypocrisy and sensual reaction.
    Comp 2.106 24 [Jove] cannot get his own thunders; Minerva keeps the key of them... A plain confession of the in-working of the All and of its moral aim. The Indian mythology ends in the same ethics;...
    Fdsp 2.195 17 I have often had fine fancies about persons which have given me delicious hours; but the joy ends in the day;...
    Exp 3.59 4 A political orator wittily compared our party promises to western roads, which opened stately enough...but soon became narrow and narrower and ended in a squirrel-track and ran up a tree. So does culture with us; it ends in headache.
    SwM 4.109 6 We are hard to please, and love nothing which ends;...
    ET4 5.44 14 ...you cannot draw the line where a race begins or ends.
    ET5 5.80 11 [The English]...cannot conceal their contempt for sallies of thought...whose steps they cannot count by their wonted rule. Neither do they reckon better a syllogism that ends in syllogism.
    ET14 5.247 24 It was a curious result, in which the civility and religion of England for a thousand years ends in denying morals and reducing the intellect to a sauce-pan.
    Wth 6.93 4 The life of pleasure is so ostentatious that a shallow observer must believe that this is the agreed best use of wealth, and, whatever is pretended, it ends in cosseting.
    Wth 6.118 16 A farm is a good thing when it begins and ends with itself...
    WD 7.165 24 ...Trade...ends in shameful defaulting, bubble and bankruptcy...
    Suc 7.290 2 ...Nature utilizes misers, fanatics, show-men, egotists, to accomplish her ends;...
    Suc 7.307 6 Every sound ends in music.
    Imtl 8.335 11 We...really are interested in nothing that ends.
    Imtl 8.341 5 A farmer, a laborer, a mechanic, is driven by his work all day, but it ends at night;...
    Dem1 10.25 22 ...this prodigious promiser [Animal Magnetism] ends always and always will...in a very small and smoky performance.
    SovE 10.186 25 It is the stomach of plants that development begins, and ends in the circles of the universe.
    FSLC 11.201 14 The fairest American fame ends in this filthy [Fugitive Slave] law.
    Milt1 12.253 7 The opposition to [a masterpiece of art], always greatest at first...at last, ends;...

endurable, adj. (1)

    Bhr 6.172 15 [Manners'] first service is very low,--when they are the minor morals; but 't is the beginning of civility,--to make us, I mean, endurable to each other.

endurance, n. (27)

    DSA 1.149 17 So it is...in unweariable endurance...that the angel is shown.
    LE 1.181 25 The good scholar will not refuse...to know...the uttermost secret of toil and endurance;...
    ET4 5.45 24 [The English] have...supreme endurance in war and in labor.
    ET4 5.55 7 ...[the Celts] have endurance and productiveness.
    ET4 5.65 6 The English at the present day have great vigor of body and endurance.
    ET5 5.87 4 ...[the English]...do not like ponderous and difficult tactics, but delight to bring the affair hand to hand; where the victory lies with the strength, courage and endurance of the individual combatants.
    ET9 5.147 17 The English have a steady courage that fits them for great attempts and endurance...
    ET12 5.207 20 [English students] have bottom, endurance, wind.
    ET14 5.235 27 The ardor and endurance of [English] study, the boldness and facility of their mental construction...astonish...
    ET19 5.312 17 ...I was given to understand in my childhood that the British island from which my forefathers came was...a...country, where nothing grew well in the open air but robust men and virtuous women, and these of a wonderful fibre and endurance;...
    ET19 5.313 19 I see [England] in her old age...still daring to believe in her power of endurance and expansion.
    Wth 6.126 18 The bread [a man] eats is first strength and animal spirits; it becomes...in still higher results, courage and endurance.
    Ill 6.308 12 When thou dost return/ .../ Beholding.../ ...out of endeavor/ To change and to flow,/ The gas become solid,/ And phantoms and nothings/ Return to be things,/ And endless imbroglio/ Is law and the world,--/Then first shalt thou know,/ That in the wild turmoil,/ Horsed on the Proteus,/ Thou ridest to power,/ And to endurance./
    SS 7.11 14 ...through sympathy we are capable of energy and endurance.
    Farm 7.140 4 This hard work [of the farm] will always be done...by men of endurance...
    Cour 7.256 6 What a memory of Poitiers and Crecy, and Bunker Hill, and Washington's endurance!
    Cour 7.267 24 The fury of onset is one, and of calm endurance another.
    Cour 7.275 14 ...the rack, the fire...appear trials beyond the endurance of common humanity;...
    PPo 8.256 24 Accept whatever befalls; uncover thy brow from thy locks;/ Never to me nor to thee was option imparted;/ Neither endurance nor truth belongs to the laugh of the rose./
    Aris 10.62 5 ...[the true man] is to know...that...wherever found, the old renown attaches to the virtues of simple faith and stanch endurance and clear perception and plain speech...
    War 11.156 9 In some parts of this country...the absorbing topic of all conversation is whipping; who fought, and which whipped? Of man, boy or beast, the only trait that much interests the speakers is the pugnacity. And why? Because the speaker has as yet no other image of manly activity and virtue, none of endurance...
    EPro 11.317 22 [Lincoln] is well entitled to the most indulgent construction. Forget...every mistake, every delay. In the extreme embarrassments of his part, call these endurance, wisdom, magnanimity;...
    EPro 11.320 22 The government has assured itself of the best constituency in the world...the strong arms of the mechanic, the endurance of farmers... all rally to its support.
    ALin 11.335 8 In four years...[Lincoln's] endurance, his fertility of resources, his magnanimity, were sorely tried...
    Humb 11.458 14 [Humboldt] belonged to that wonderful German nation, the foremost scholars in all history, who surpass all others in industry, space and endurance.
    CL 12.142 9 The qualifications of a professor [of walking] are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes...
    Let 12.401 13 On earth all is imperfect! is an old proverb of the German. Aye, but if one should say to these God-forsaken...that with them, truly, life is shallow and anxious and full of discord because they despise genius, which brings...cheerfulness into endurance...

endure, v. (18)

    SL 2.154 16 Blackmore, Kotzebue or Pollok may endure for a night...
    Pt1 3.34 1 ...all books of the imagination endure...
    NR 3.244 7 ...men feign themselves dead, and endure mock funerals and mournful obituaries...
    PNR 4.88 11 Shakspeare is a Platonist when he writes...He, that can endure/ To follow with allegiance a fallen lord,/ Does conquer him that did his master conquer,/ And earns a place in the story./
    Pow 6.68 21 Some men cannot endure an hour of calm at sea.
    Ctr 6.163 23 The longer we live the more we must endure the elementary existence of men and women;...
    Bty 6.295 4 Beauty is the quality which makes to endure.
    Civ 7.27 20 The farmer had much ill temper, laziness and shirking to endure from his hand-sawyers, until one day he bethought him to put his saw-mill on the edge of a waterfall;...
    Art2 7.41 16 Nothing droll, nothing whimsical will endure.
    PI 8.4 5 ...the most imaginative and abstracted person...never...seizes his wild charger by the tail. We should not pardon the blunder in another, nor endure it in ourselves.
    PI 8.47 22 They shall perish, but thou shalt endure...
    PI 8.59 9 To an exile on an island [Taliessin] says,--The heavy blue chain of the sea didst thou, O just man, endure.
    Imtl 8.330 27 The healthy state of mind is the love of life. What is so good, let it endure.
    PerF 10.87 19 ...things endure as they share [our moral sentiment];...
    MMEm 10.423 21 For the widows and orphans--Oh, I [Mary Moody Emerson] could give facts of the long-drawn years of imprisoned minds and hearts, which uneducated orphans endure!
    ALin 11.338 4 [Providence]...ordains that only that race which combines perfectly with the virtues of all shall endure.
    Bost 12.199 15 John Smith says...nothing would be done for a plantation, till about some hundred of your Brownists of England, Amsterdam and Leyden went to New Plymouth; whose humorous ignorances caused them for more than a year to endure a wonderful deal of misery, with an infinite patience.
    Trag 12.416 14 Napoleon said to one of his friends at St. Helena, Nature seems to have calculated that I should have great reverses to endure, for she has given me a temperament like a block of marble.

endured, v. (6)

    Art1 2.360 20 ...that house and weather and manner of living which poverty and the fate of birth have made at once so odious and so dear...in the narrow lodging where [the artist] has endured the constraints and seeming of a city poverty, will serve as well as any other condition as the symbol of a thought which pours itself indifferently through all.
    CbW 6.266 5 An old French verse runs, in my translation:--Some of your griefs you have cured,/ And the sharpest you still have survived;/ But what torments of pain you endured/ From evils that never arrived!/
    Prch 10.219 14 It looks as if there were much doubt, much waiting, to be endured by the best.
    EWI 11.124 3 What if [slavery] cost a few unpleasant scenes on the coast of Africa? That was a great way off; and the scenes could be endured by some sturdy, unscrupulous fellows...
    ACiv 11.306 22 ...what kind of peace shall at that moment be easiest attained, [the people] will make concessions for it,-will give up the slaves, and the whole torment of the past half-century will come back to be endured anew.
    MAng1 12.227 25 [Michelangelo's] diligence was so great that it is wonderful how he endured its fatigues.

endures, v. (4)

    AmS 1.88 1 [Nature] now endures, it now flies...
    ET8 5.143 2 ...the history of the [English] nation discloses, at every turn, this original predilection for private independence, and however this inclination may have been disturbed by the bribes with which their vast colonial power has warped men out of orbit, the inclination endures...
    Prch 10.236 26 The Sabbath changes its forms from age to age, but the substantial benefit endures.
    War 11.152 21 On its own scale, on the virtues it loves, [war] endures no counterfeit...

enduring, adj. (3)

    Bty 6.289 13 [Beauty] is the most enduring quality...
    Imtl 8.346 19 ...only by rare integrity, by a man permeated and perfumed with airs of heaven,-with manliest or womanliest enduring love,-can the vision [of immortality] be clear to a use the most sublime.
    SMC 11.348 15 Yea, many a tie, through iteration sweet,/ Strove to detain their fatal feet;/ And yet the enduring half they chose,/ Whose choice decides a man life's slave or king,/ The invisible things of God before the seen and known:/ Therefore their memory inspiration blows/ With echoes gathering on from zone to zone;/...

enduring, v. (3)

    Fdsp 2.213 7 ...a sublime hope cheers ever the faithful heart, that elsewhere...souls are now acting, enduring and daring, which can love us and which we can love.
    ET8 5.131 23 [The English] are good at storming redoubts...but not, I think, at enduring the rack...
    PerF 10.78 26 The power...of enduring defeat and of gaining victory by defeats, is one of these [mental] forces which never loses its charm.

Endymion, n. (1)

    Bhr 6.167 19 Too weak to win, too fond to shun/ The tyrants or his doom,/ The much deceived Endymion/ Slips behind a tomb./

enemies, n. (53)

    Nat 1.76 23 A correspondent revolution in things will attend the influx of the spirit. So fast will disagreeable appearances...mad-houses, prisons, enemies, vanish;...
    MR 1.238 6 Every species of property is preyed on by its own enemies...
    MR 1.238 15 ...whoever takes any of these things [species of property] into his possession, takes the charge of defending them from this troop of enemies...
    MR 1.239 4 ...when [a man] comes to give all the goods he has year after year collected, in one estate to his son...the son finds his hands full,-not to use these things, but to...defend them from their natural enemies.
    MR 1.239 6 [Property's] enemies will not remit;...
    MR 1.254 11 Love would put a new face on this weary old world in which we dwell as pagans and enemies too long...
    Comp 2.101 16 Every occupation, trade, art, transaction, is...a correlative of every other. Each one is an entire emblem of human life; of...its enemies...
    Comp 2.116 23 ...the royal armies sent against Napoleon, when he approached cast down their colors and from enemies became friends...
    Comp 2.118 16 ...as soon as honeyed words of praise are spoken for me I feel as one that lies unprotected before his enemies.
    SL 2.132 20 These [problems of original sin, origin of evil, predestination and the like] are the soul's mumps and measles and whooping-coughs, and those who have not caught them cannot describe their health or prescribe the cure. A simple mind will not know these enemies.
    Hsm1 2.250 6 Towards all this external evil the man within the breast... affirms his ability to cope single-handed with the infinite army of enemies.
    Hsm1 2.255 24 ...these rare [heroic] souls set opinion, success, and life at so cheap a rate that they will not soothe their enemies by petitions...
    NER 3.271 16 ...[every man] he puts himself on the side of his enemies...
    MoS 4.160 2 [The skeptic] is the considerer...believing that a man has too many enemies than that he can afford to be his own foe;...
    NMW 4.231 23 Nothing has been more simple than my elevation [said Bonaparte]...it was owing to the peculiarity of the times and to my reputation of having fought well against the enemies of my country.
    ET5 5.82 21 Montesquieu said, England is the freest country in the world. If a man in England had as many enemies as hairs on his head, no harm would happen to him.
    ET13 5.225 8 The new age has new desires, new enemies, new trades, new charities...
    F 6.45 21 A strong, astringent, bilious nature has more truculent enemies than the slugs and moths that fret my leaves.
    Pow 6.60 6 Health is good,--power, life, that resists disease, poison and all enemies...
    Wth 6.108 15 You may not see that the fine pear costs you a shilling, but it costs the community so much. The shilling represents the number of enemies the pear has...
    Ctr 6.162 21 [The finished man of the world] has neither friends nor enemies...
    Ctr 6.166 9 [Man] is to convert...all enemies into power.
    Wsp 6.235 14 A man, says Vishnu Sarma, who having well compared his own strength or weakness with that of others, after all doth not know the difference, is easily overcome by his enemies.
    CbW 6.255 3 ...without enemies, no hero.
    Civ 7.17 16 ...The lynx, the rattlesnake, the flood, the fire:/ All the fierce enemies, ague, hunger, cold,/ This thin spruce roof, this clayed log wall,/ This wild plantation will suffice to chase./
    Civ 7.21 17 ...a nomad, will die with no more estate than the wolf or the horse leaves. But so simple a labor as a house being achieved, his chief enemies are kept at bay.
    Cour 7.271 12 The true temper has genial influences. It makes a bond of union between enemies.
    Cour 7.271 21 If opportunity allowed, [Governor Wise and John Brown] would...desert their former companions. Enemies would become affectionate.
    PI 8.59 21 [Odin] could make his enemies in battle blind or deaf...
    Elo2 8.113 6 ...[the eloquent man]...of enemies makes friends...
    PPo 8.240 16 Solomon had three talismans...second, the glass in which he saw the secrets of his enemies and the causes of all things, figured;...
    Chr2 10.120 5 [Character]...domesticates itself with strangers and enemies.
    Chr2 10.120 12 What would it avail me, if I could destroy my enemies?
    Edc1 10.135 19 A man is a little thing whilst he works by and for himself, but, when he gives voice to the rules of love and justice, is godlike...and all men, though his enemies, are made his friends and obey it as their own.
    HDC 11.68 11 ...in answer to letters received from the united committees of correspondence...the town [of Concord] say: We cannot possibly view with indifference the...endeavors of the enemies of this...country, to rob us of those rights, that are the distinguishing glory and felicity of this land;...
    HDC 11.70 8 ...if any person or persons...shall...be factors for the East India Company, we will treat them...as enemies to their country...
    LVB 11.90 17 ...notwithstanding the unaccountable apathy with which of late years the Indians have been sometimes abandoned to their enemies, it is not to be doubted that it is the good pleasure and the understanding of all humane persons in the Republic...that they shall be duly cared for;...
    EWI 11.146 23 ...some degree of despondency is pardonable, when [the negro] observes the men of conscience and intellect...hotly offended by whatever incidental petulances or infirmities of indiscreet defenders of the negro, as to permit themselves to be ranged with the enemies of the human race;...
    War 11.157 6 ...trade...gives the parties the knowledge that these enemies over sea or over the mountain are such men as we;...
    War 11.159 13 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.
    FSLC 11.184 26 Here are humane people who have tears for misery, an open purse for want; who should have been the defenders of the poor man, are found his embittered enemies...merely from party ties.
    FSLC 11.188 11 ...all men that are born are, in proportion to their power of thought and their moral sensibility, found to be the natural enemies of this [Fugitive Slave] law.
    AsSu 11.249 18 [Charles Sumner] meekly bore...the hatred of his enemies...
    AsSu 11.250 5 ...more to [Charles Sumner's] honor are the faults which his enemies lay to his charge.
    AKan 11.256 24 ...the people of Kansas ask for bread, clothes, arms and men, to...enable them to stand against these enemies of the human race.
    TPar 11.291 16 ...[Theodore Parker's] manly enemies...honored him;...
    ACiv 11.305 25 Instantly, the armies that now confront you must run home to protect their estates, and must stay there, and your enemies will disappear.
    ALin 11.337 5 Easy good nature has been the dangerous foible of the Republic, and it was necessary that its enemies should outrage it...to secure the salvation of this country in the next ages.
    II 12.88 7 The Buddhist who finds gods masked in all his friends and enemies...is calm.
    Milt1 12.257 2 Perfections of body and of mind are attributed to [Milton] by his biographers, that if the anecdotes...had not been in part furnished or corroborated by political enemies, would lead us to suspect the portraits were ideal...
    Milt1 12.268 2 [Milton] returned into his revolutionized country, and assumed an honest and useful task, by which he might serve the state daily... whilst he launched from time to time his formidable bolts against the enemies of liberty.
    MLit 12.336 3 Religion will bind again these that were sometime frivolous, customary, enemies...
    Let 12.395 27 But to be...prudent to secure to ourselves an injurious society, temptations to folly and despair, degrading examples, and enemies; and only abstinent when it is proposed to provide ourselves with guides, examples, lovers!

enemy, n. (62)

    Nat 1.60 24 No man is [the soul's] enemy.
    AmS 1.91 5 Genius is always sufficiently the enemy of genius by over-influence.
    AmS 1.107 26 The private life of one man shall be...more formidable to its enemy...than any kingdom in history.
    Comp 2.118 19 ...the Sandwich Islander believes that the strength and valor of the enemy he kills passes into himself...
    Fdsp 2.210 25 Let [your friend] be to thee for ever a sort of beautiful enemy...
    Prd1 2.230 19 There is a certain fatal dislocation in our relation to nature... making every law our enemy...
    Hsm1 2.263 15 We rapidly approach a brink over which no enemy can follow us...
    Exp 3.66 24 ...if one remembers how innocently he began to be an artist, he perceives that nature joined with his enemy.
    Mrs1 3.145 21 The epitaph of Sir Jenkin Grout is not wholly unintelligible to the present age: Here lies Sir Jenkin Grout, who loved his friend and persuaded his enemy;...
    NER 3.282 8 ...[our other self] holds uncontrollable communication with the enemy...
    UGM 4.13 14 Napoleon said, You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.
    NMW 4.229 27 [The art of war] consisted, according to [Bonaparte], in having always more forces than the enemy, on the point where the enemy is attacked, or where he attacks...
    NMW 4.230 3 ...[Bonaparte's] whole talent is strained by endless manoeuvre and evolution, to march always on the enemy at an angle...
    GoW 4.285 12 Enemy of [Goethe] you may be,--if so you shall teach him aught which your good-will can not...
    GoW 4.285 15 Enemy of [Goethe] you may be,--if so you shall teach him aught which your good-will can not, were it only what experience will accrue from your ruin. Enemy and welcome, but enemy on high terms.
    ET11 5.175 23 The war-lord earned his honors, and no donation of land was large, as long as it brought the duty of protecting it, hour by hour, against a terrible enemy.
    ET11 5.178 7 [The English] proverb is, that fifty miles from London, a family will last a hundred years;...but I doubt that steam, the enemy of time as well as of space, will disturb these ancient rules.
    ET11 5.192 3 ...the English Channel was swept and London threatened by the Dutch fleet, manned too by English sailors, who, having been cheated of their pay for years by the king, enlisted with the enemy.
    ET15 5.261 15 A relentless inquisition [the newspaper] drags every secret to the day...and no weakness can be taken advantage of by an enemy, since the whole people are already forewarned.
    F 6.33 5 ...whilst art draws out the venom, it commonly extorts some benefit from the vanquished enemy.
    F 6.33 19 Every pot made by any human potter or brazier had a hole in its cover, to let off the enemy...
    F 6.37 18 There is adjustment between the animal and...its enemy.
    F 6.49 7 Let us build altars to the Beautiful Necessity, which secures that all is made of one piece; that...friend and enemy...are of one kind.
    Ctr 6.162 14 Don't be so tender at making an enemy now and then.
    Wsp 6.235 1 [Benedict said] My ledger may show that I am in debt, cannot yet make my ends meet and vanquish the enemy so.
    CbW 6.273 4 ...He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare,/ And he who has one enemy shall meet him everywhere./
    Farm 7.151 13 The first planter, the savage...looking chiefly to safety from his enemy...takes poor land.
    WD 7.159 7 Why need I speak of steam, the enemy of space and time...
    Cour 7.263 15 ...every soldier killed costs the enemy his weight in lead.
    Cour 7.264 22 The general must stimulate the mind of his soldiers to the perception that they are men, and the enemy is no more.
    PI 8.59 4 [Taliessin says] Of an enemy,--The cauldron of the sea was bordered round by his land, but it would not boil the food of a coward./
    Res 8.147 14 ...when fear has once possessed you, God ye good even! You think you are flying towards the poop when you are running towards the prow, and for one enemy think you have ten before your eyes...
    Res 8.153 3 ...in spite of accident and enemy, [the willows'] gentle persistency lives when the oak is shattered by storm...
    PC 8.232 10 In the Rebellion, who were our best allies? Always the enemy.
    PPo 8.242 20 The gripe of [Rustem's] hand cracked the sinews of an enemy.
    Aris 10.51 5 ...if [Will] is not in you, you had better not put yourself in places where not to have it is to be a public enemy.
    Chr2 10.112 5 The constitution and law in America must be written on ethical principles, so that the entire power of the spiritual world can be enlisted...to repel every enemy as by force of Nature.
    SovE 10.184 12 ...all the animals show the same good sense in their humble walk that the man who is their enemy or friend does;...
    SovE 10.206 18 ...[the Orientals] will not turn on their heel to avoid famine, plague or the sword of the enemy.
    Prch 10.220 23 ...the sober eye finds something ghastly in this [religious] empiricism. At first, delighted with the triumph of the intellect...we are like...soldiers who rush to battle; but...when the enemy lies cold in his blood at our feet; we are alarmed at our solitude;...
    Prch 10.220 27 ...the sober eye finds something ghastly in this [religious] empiricism. At first, delighted with the triumph of the intellect...we are like...soldiers who rush to battle; but...when the enemy lies cold in his blood at our feet;...the face seems no longer that of an enemy.
    Schr 10.286 10 [The scholar] must...ride at anchor and vanquish every enemy whom his small arms cannot reach, by the grand resistance of submission...
    Plu 10.310 22 Knowing and not knowing is the affirmative or negative of the dog; knowing you is to be your friend; not knowing you, your enemy.
    LLNE 10.355 27 ...the men of science, art, intellect, are pretty sure to degenerate into selfish housekeepers, dependent on wine, coffee, furnace-heat, gas-light and fine furniture. Then instantly things swing the other way, and we suddenly find...that we have opened the wrong door and let the enemy into the castle;...
    HDC 11.58 15 ...[Simon Willard] fought with disadvantage against an enemy who must be hunted before every battle.
    HDC 11.58 24 A still more formidable enemy [of Concord] was removed... by the capture of Canonchet, the faithful ally of Philip...
    HDC 11.73 21 This little battalion [of minute-men]...retreated before the enemy to the high land on the other bank of the river...
    HDC 11.75 8 The militia and minute-men...ran...into the east quarter of the town [Concord], to waylay the enemy...
    HDC 11.76 2 Captain Charles Miles, who was wounded in the pursuit of the enemy [at Concord bridge] told my venerable friend who sits by me, that he went to the services of that day, with the same seriousness and acknowledgment of God, which he carried to church.
    War 11.160 10 [The human race] have nearly exhausted all the good and all the evil of this [first brutish] form: they have held as fast to this degradation as their worst enemy could desire;...
    AKan 11.263 2 I think the American Revolution bought its glory cheap. If the problem was new, it was simple. If there were few people, they were united, and the enemy three thousand miles off.
    TPar 11.289 2 [Theodore Parker] never kept back the truth for fear to make an enemy.
    ACiv 11.300 16 If the war brought any surprise to the North, it was not the fault of sentinels on the watch-tower, who had furnished full details of the designs, the muster and the means of the enemy.
    ACiv 11.305 5 ...if we conquer the enemy [the South],-what then?
    EPro 11.325 8 ...the aim of the war on our part is...to destroy the piratic feature in [Southern society] which makes it our enemy only as it is the enemy of the human race...
    ALin 11.337 21 There is a serene Providence which rules the fate of nations, which...thrusts aside enemy and obstruction...
    SMC 11.373 6 After driving the enemy from the railroad...[George Prescott] was struck...by a musket-ball...
    FRep 11.540 17 ...the Constitution and the law in America must be written on ethical principles, so that the entire power of the spiritual world shall... repel the enemy as by force of nature.
    PLT 12.22 24 How lately the hunter was the poor creature's organic enemy;...
    CL 12.147 11 ...the wood-lot yields its gentle rent of six per cent....when the owner sleeps or travels, and it is subject to no enemy but fire.
    Let 12.400 26 Full of love, talent and hope spring up the darlings of the muse among the Germans; some seven years later, and...they are like a soil which an enemy has sown with poison...
    Trag 12.411 3 A panic such as frequently in ancient or savage nations put a troop or an army to flight without an enemy; a fear of ghosts...are no tragedy...

enemy's, n. (5)

    NMW 4.236 12 To a regiment of horse-chasseurs at Lobenstein...Napoleon said, My lads, you must not fear death; when soldiers brave death, they drive him into the enemy's ranks.
    ET5 5.86 19 Clerk of Eldin's celebrated manoeuvre of breaking the line of sea-battle, and Nelson's feat of doubling, or stationing his ships one on the outer bow and another on the outer quarter of each of the enemy's, were only translations into naval tactics of Bonaparte's rule of concentration.
    ET5 5.87 8 ...[the English] fundamentally believe that the best strategem in naval war is to lay your ship close alongside of the enemy's ship and bring all your guns to bear on him...
    F 6.5 12 The Turk...rushes on the enemy's sabre with undivided will.
    HDC 11.74 6 ...Major Buttrick found himself superior in number to the enemy's party at the bridge [at Concord].

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