Engraft to Enthusiast's

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

engraft, v. (2)

    AmS 1.112 24 ...[Swedenborg] endeavored to engraft a purely philosophical Ethics on the popular Christianity of his time.
    Aris 10.36 18 ...all the deference of modern society to this idea of the Gentleman, and all the whimsical tyranny of Fashion which has continued to engraft itself on this reverence, is a secret homage to reality and love...

engrave, v. (1)

    EurB 12.366 5 The Pindar, the Shakspeare, the Dante...have...the eye to see...the test-objects of the microscope, and then the tongue to utter the same things in words that engrave them on all the ears of mankind.

engraved, v. (8)

    Nat2 3.189 4 Days and nights...of communion with angels of darkness and of light have engraved their shadowy characters on that tear-stained book.
    ET14 5.233 13 [The Englishman]...prefers his hot chop, with perfect security and convenience in the eating of it, to the chances of the amplest and Frenchiest bill of fare, engraved on embossed paper.
    ET16 5.284 9 We [Emerson and Carlyle] came to Wilton and to Wilton Hall...the frequent home of Sir Philip Sidney...where he conversed with Lord Brooke...who caused to be engraved on his tombstone, Here lies Fulke Greville, Lord Brooke, the friend of Sir Philip Sidney.
    ET17 5.297 10 A gentleman in London showed me a watch that once belonged to Milton, whose initials are engraved on its face.
    Cour 7.269 27 ...I remember the old professor, whose searching mind engraved every word he spoke on the memory of the class...
    PPo 8.245 10 ...[Hafiz] abounds in pregnant sentences which might be engraved on a sword-blade and almost on a ring.
    ALin 11.335 24 Adam Smith remarks that the axe, which in Houbraken's portraits of British kings and worthies is engraved under those who have suffered at the block, adds a certain lofty charm to the picture.
    Milt1 12.251 20 ...deeply as that peculiar state of society, in which and for which Milton wrote, has engraved itself in the remembrance of the world, it shares the destiny which overtakes everything local and personal in Nature;...

engraven, v. (1)

    PPo 8.240 15 Solomon had three talismans: first, the signet-ring by which he commanded the spirits, on the stone of which was engraven the name of God;...

engraver, n. (1)

    Wth 6.116 16 An engraver...should not lay stone walls.

engravers, n. (1)

    DL 7.131 13 I wish to bring home to my children and my friends copies of these admirable forms [Michelangelo's sibyle and prophets], which I can find in the shops of the engravers;...

engraves, v. (1)

    SL 2.159 3 What [a man] is engraves itself on his face...

engraving, n. (2)

    MAng1 12.221 9 Most of [Michelangelo's] designs, his contemporaries inform us, were made...in the style of an engraving on copper or wood;...
    MLit 12.324 9 With the sharpest eye for...engraving, medals, persons and manners, [Goethe] never stopped at surface...

engravings, n. (3)

    ET6 5.112 8 An Englishman of fashion is like one of those souvenirs... enriched with delicate engravings on thick hot-pressed paper...but with nothing in it worth reading or remembering.
    Wth 6.98 16 ...pictures, engravings, statues and casts, beside their first cost, entail expenses, as of galleries and keepers for the exhibition;...
    Bhr 6.174 10 It ought not to need to print in a reading-room a caution...to persons who look over fine engravings that they should be handled like cobwebs and butterflies' wings;...

engulf, v. (1)

    Trag 12.405 11 In the dark hours, our existence seems to be...a struggle against the encroaching All, which threatens surely to engulf us soon...

engulfed, v. (2)

    NMW 4.234 22 You are losing time, [Napoleon] cried; fire upon those masses; they must be engulfed: fire upon the ice!
    EPro 11.322 11 If [taxes] go to fill up this yawning Dismal Swamp, which engulfed armies and populations...then this taxation...is the best investment in which property-holder ever lodged his earnings.

enhance, v. (9)

    MR 1.241 21 ...where there is a fine organization, apt for poetry and philosophy, that individual finds himself compelled...to waste several days that he may enhance and glorify one;...
    Hist 2.14 4 In man we still trace the remains or hints of all that we esteem badges of servitude in the lower races; yet in him they enhance his nobleness and grace;...
    Fdsp 2.210 21 ...that scornful beauty of [your friend's] mien and action, do not pique yourself on reducing, but rather fortify and enhance.
    Pt1 3.19 24 The chief value of the new fact is to enhance the great and constant fact of Life...
    PPh 4.54 4 ...the infinitude of the Asiatic soul and the defining, result-loving, machine-making, surface-seeking, opera-going Europe,--Plato came to join, and, by contact, to enhance the energy of each.
    ET11 5.197 11 All the barriers to rank [in England] only whet the thirst and enhance the prize.
    FRO2 11.490 7 I find something stingy in the unwilling and disparaging admission of these foreign opinions...by our churchmen, as if only to enhance by their dimness the superior light of Christianity.
    PLT 12.13 17 I admire the Dutch, who burned half the harvest to enhance the price of the remainder.
    PLT 12.25 25 All great masters are chiefly distinguished by the power of adding a second, a third, and perhaps a fourth step in a continuous line. Many a man had taken the first step. With every additional step you enchance immensely the value of your first.

enhanced, adj. (1)

    QO 8.190 12 Each man is a hero and an oracle to somebody, and to that person whatever he says has an enhanced value.

enhanced, v. (9)

    YA 1.365 14 ...the value of timber-lands is enhanced.
    Exp 3.77 11 The subject is the receiver of Godhead, and at every comparison must feel his being enhanced by that cryptic might.
    Wth 6.98 21 ...the use which any man can make of [pictures, engravings, statues and casts] is rare, and their value...is much enhanced by the numbers of men who can share their enjoyment.
    Wth 6.103 22 Is [the dollar] not instantly enhanced by the increase of equity?
    Art2 7.43 26 The pulsation of a stretched string or wire gives the ear the pleasure of sweet sound, before yet the musician has enhanced this pleasure by concords and combinations.
    Comc 8.160 24 ...whilst the presence of the ideal discovers the difference [between rule and fact], the comedy is enhanced whenever that ideal is embodied visibly in a man.
    CPL 11.501 3 [Thoreau writes] I think the best parts of Shakspeare would only be enhanced by the most thrilling and affecting events.
    CInt 12.130 17 Go sit with the Hermit in you, who knows more than you do. You will find life enhanced...
    WSL 12.347 7 [Landor] has commented on a wide variety of writers, with a closeness and extent of view which has enhanced the value of those authors to his readers.

enhancement, n. (3)

    Nat2 3.173 17 Art and luxury have early learned that they must work as enhancement and sequel to this original beauty [of nature].
    Pow 6.57 23 What enhancement to all the water and land in England is the arrival of James Watt or Brunel!
    QO 8.196 14 It is a curious reflex effect of this enhancement of our thought by citing it from another, that many men can write better under a mask than for themselves;...

enhances, v. (5)

    Lov1 2.169 14 The introduction to this felicity [of Nature] is in a private and tender relation of one to one, which...seizes on man at one period...and... enhances the power of the senses...
    Fdsp 2.196 1 Every thing that is [our friend's]...fancy enhances.
    Pt1 3.5 8 Nature enhances her beauty, to the eye of loving men, from their belief that the poet is beholding her shows at the same time.
    Nat2 3.175 21 The muse herself betrays her son [the poor young poet], and enhances the gifts of wealth and well-born beauty by a radiation out of the air, and clouds, and forests that skirt the road...
    PLT 12.39 7 A man of talent has only to name any form or fact with which we are most familiar, and the strong light which he throws on it enhances it to all eyes.

enhancing, v. (1)

    OS 2.270 12 If we consider what happens...in the instructions of dreams, wherein often we see ourselves in masquerade,--the droll disguises only magnifying and enhancing a real element and forcing it on our distant notice,--we shall catch many hints that will broaden and lighten into knowledge of the secret of nature.

enigma, n. (5)

    MN 1.218 17 Here about us coils forever the ancient enigma...
    PPh 4.78 12 No power of genius has ever yet had the smallest success in explaining existence. The perfect enigma remains.
    PI 8.43 25 ...the poet creates his persons, and then watches and relates what they do and say. Such creation is poetry...and its possibility is an unfathomable enigma.
    Imtl 8.334 19 That the world is for [man's] education is the only sane solution of the enigma.
    EdAd 11.391 1 Will [a journal] measure itself with the chapter on Slavery, in some sort the special enigma of the time...

enigmatical, adj. (1)

    WD 7.180 19 The world is enigmatical...

enjoin, v. (2)

    LS 11.14 2 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.
    FSLC 11.191 3 ...if any human law should allow or enjoin us to commit a crime ([Blackstone's] instance is murder), we are bound to transgress that human law;...

enjoined, v. (7)

    Hist 2.22 15 Sacred cities, to which a periodical religious pilgrimage was enjoined...were the check on the old rovers;...
    Imtl 8.324 21 Morals must be enjoined...
    LS 11.14 5 We quote [St. Paul's] passage nowadays as if it enjoined attendance upon the [Lord's] Supper;...
    LS 11.17 1 You say, every time you celebrate the rite [the Lord's Supper], that Jesus enjoined it;...
    LS 11.17 21 ...the service [the Lord's Supper] does not stand upon the basis of a voluntary act, but is imposed by authority. It is an expression of gratitude to Christ, enjoined by Christ.
    LS 11.19 20 If I believed [the Lord's Supper] was enjoined by Jesus on his disciples, and that he even contemplated making permanent this mode of commemoration...and yet on trial it was disagreeable to my own feelings, I should not adopt it.
    LS 11.23 9 ...now...Christians must contend that it is...really a duty, to commemorate [Jesus] by a certain form [the Lord's Supper], whether that form be agreeable to their understandings or not. ... Is not this to make men,-to make ourselves,-forget that...not names, but righteousness and love are enjoined;...

enjoining, v. (2)

    LE 1.187 1 You will not fear that I am enjoining too stern an asceticism.
    Prch 10.235 16 The inevitable course of remark for us, when we meet each other for meditation on life and duty, is not so much the enjoining of this or that cure...

enjoins, v. (4)

    OS 2.275 19 ...there is a kind of descent and accommodation felt when we leave speaking of moral nature to urge a virtue which it enjoins.
    Grts 8.310 16 ...there is for each a Best Counsel which enjoins the fit word and the fit act for every moment.
    MMEm 10.419 19 ...so poor are some of those allotted to join me [Mary Moody Emerson] on the weary needy path, that 't is benevolence enjoins self-denial.
    LS 11.21 3 ...[Christianity]...enjoins practices that are their own justification;...

enjoy, v. (40)

    Nat 1.3 6 Why should not we also enjoy an original relation to the universe?
    Nat 1.48 5 Whether nature enjoy a substantial existence without, or is only in the apocalypse of the mind, it is alike useful and alike venerable to me.
    AmS 1.109 17 ...we cannot enjoy any thing for hankering to know whereof the pleasure consists;...
    DSA 1.120 4 ...[the world] is well worth the pith and heart of great men to subdue and enjoy it.
    LE 1.177 3 ...literary men...dealing with the organ of language...learn to enjoy the pride of playing with this splendid engine...
    MR 1.244 13 Give [any man's] mind a new image, and he flees into a solitary...garret to enjoy it...
    LT 1.283 22 The thinker...never invites me to be present with him at his invocation of truth, and to enjoy with him its proceeding into his mind.
    Fdsp 2.208 11 A man is reputed to have thought and eloquence; he cannot, for all that, say a word to his cousin or his uncle. ... Among those who enjoy his thought he will regain his tongue.
    Prd1 2.225 1 [Prudence] takes the laws of the world...as they are, and keeps these laws that it may enjoy their proper good.
    Cir 2.310 21 ...let us enjoy the cloven flame [of conversation] whilst it glows on our walls.
    Exp 3.59 18 [Life's] chief good is for well-mixed people who can enjoy what they find, without question.
    Mrs1 3.128 15 Fashion is made up...of those who through the value and virtue of somebody, have acquired...in their physical organization a certain health and excellence which secure to them, if not the highest power to work, yet high power to enjoy.
    Mrs1 3.148 26 Once or twice in a lifetime we are permitted to enjoy the charm of noble manners...
    NER 3.283 4 ...the man...whose advent men and events prepare and foreshow, is one who shall enjoy his connection with a higher life...
    NMW 4.252 5 [Napoleon] could enjoy every play of invention...as well as a stratagem in a campaign.
    ET8 5.130 11 [The English] are...in all things very much steeped in their temperament, like men hardly awaked from deep sleep, which they enjoy.
    ET8 5.142 17 [The English] are intellectual and deeply enjoy literature;...
    Ctr 6.156 27 We four, wrote Neander to his sacred friends, will enjoy at Halle the inward blessedness of a civitas Dei...
    Ill 6.310 21 ...on looking upwards [in the Mammoth Cave], I saw or seemed to see the night heaven thick with stars... ... ...I sat down on the rocky floor to enjoy the serene picture.
    Elo1 7.64 24 Young men...are eager to enjoy this sense of added power [of eloquence]...
    WD 7.184 5 There are people...who do not care so much for conditions as others, for they are always in one condition and enjoy themselves;...
    Suc 7.299 22 You walk on the beach and enjoy the animation of the picture.
    OA 7.318 2 Saadi found in a mosque at Damascus an old Persian of a hundred and fifty years, who was dying, and was saying to himself, I said, coming into the world by birth, I will enjoy myself for a few moments.
    SA 8.100 26 ...[there is in America the general belief that] if [the young American] have...quick eye for the opportunities which are always offering for investment, he can come to wealth, and in such good season as to enjoy as well as transmit it.
    SA 8.107 14 ...I believe that with all liberal and hopeful men there is a firm faith in the beneficent results which we really enjoy;...
    Comc 8.161 11 Prince Hal stands by, as the acute understanding, who sees the Right, and sympathizes with it, and in the heyday of youth feels also the full attractions of pleasure, and is thus eminently qualified to enjoy the joke.
    Aris 10.51 14 We do not expect [public representatives] to be saints, and it is very pleasing to see the instinct of mankind on this matter,-how much they will forgive to such as pay substantial service and work energetically after their kind; but they do not extend the same indulgence to those who claim and enjoy the same prerogative but render no returns.
    Edc1 10.138 1 Cannot we let people...enjoy life in their own way?
    Plu 10.311 23 Cannot the simple lover of truth enjoy the virtues of those he meets...
    LLNE 10.348 5 [Fourier] took his measure of that which all should and might enjoy...from the refinements of palaces, the wealth of universities and the triumphs of artists.
    LLNE 10.357 9 [Thoreau said] I love best to have each thing in its season only, and enjoy doing without it at all other times.
    LLNE 10.357 11 [Thoreau said] It is the greatest of all advantages to enjoy no advantage at all.
    MMEm 10.418 20 The evening is fine, but I [Mary Moody Emerson] dare not enjoy it.
    FRO2 11.490 23 I am glad to believe society contains a class of humble souls who enjoy the luxury of a religion that does not degrade;...
    CPL 11.499 25 [Mary Moody Emerson writes] I think that you never enjoy so much as in solitude with a book that meets the feelings...
    PLT 12.5 26 ...when I look at the tree or the river and have not yet definitely made out what they would say to me, they are by no means unimpressive. I wait for them, I enjoy them before they yet speak.
    CW 12.172 22 ...there are many who can enjoy to one that can create [a good garden].
    MAng1 12.241 17 ...[Michelangelo] knew that his spirit could only enjoy contentment after death.
    MAng1 12.243 6 ...are we not authorized to say that...here was a man [Michelangelo] who lived to demonstrate that to the human faculties, on every hand, worlds of grandeur and grace are opened...which, to see and enjoy, demands the severest discipline of all the physical, intellectual and moral faculties of the individual?
    PPr 12.381 10 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;...

enjoyed, v. (22)

    Nat 1.9 21 Crossing a bare common...I have enjoyed a perfect exhilaration.
    MN 1.200 24 ...thou must behold [nature] in a spirit as grand as that by which it exists, ere thou canst know the law. Known it will not be, but gladly beloved and enjoyed.
    SL 2.141 25 By doing his work [a man]...creates the taste by which he is enjoyed.
    OS 2.290 18 The more cultivated, in their account of their own experience, cull out the pleasing, poetic circumstance...the brilliant friend they know; still further on perhaps...the mountain lights, the mountain thoughts they enjoyed yesterday...
    Chr1 3.112 18 When each the other shall avoid,/ Shall each by each be most enjoyed./
    Nat2 3.173 10 ...I go with my friend to the shore of our little river, and with one stroke of the paddle I...pass into a delicate realm of sunset and moonlight... A holiday...the proudest, most heart-rejoicing festival that valor and beauty, power and taste, ever decked and enjoyed, establishes itself on the instant.
    UGM 4.20 22 ...there have been sane men, who enjoyed a rich and related existence.
    GoW 4.288 25 ...this man [Goethe] was entirely at home and happy in his century and the world. None was so fit to live, or more heartily enjoyed the game.
    ET8 5.128 24 The reputation of taciturnity [the English] have enjoyed for six or seven hundred years;...
    ET17 5.297 22 Who reads [Wordsworth] well will know that in following the strong bent of his genius, he was...self-assured that he should create the taste by which he is to be enjoyed.
    Wth 6.97 22 The socialism of our day has done good service in setting men on thinking how certain civilizing benefits, now only enjoyed by the opulent, can be enjoyed by all.
    Wth 6.97 23 The socialism of our day has done good service in setting men on thinking how certain civilizing benefits...can be enjoyed by all.
    OA 7.320 11 Few envy the consideration enjoyed by the oldest inhabitant.
    Imtl 8.323 16 Whilst [the sparrow] stays in our mansion, it feels not the winter storm; but when this short moment of happiness has been enjoyed, it is forced again into the same dreary tempest from which it had escaped...
    Imtl 8.337 24 ...I have enjoyed the benefits of all this complex machinery of arts and civilization...
    LLNE 10.343 25 ...The Dial...enjoyed its obscurity for four years.
    Carl 10.493 23 The literary, the fashionable, the political man...comes eagerly to see this man [Carlyle], whose fun they have heartily enjoyed... and are struck with despair at the first onset.
    War 11.163 1 There is no good now enjoyed by society that was not once as problematical and visionary as [peace].
    FSLC 11.202 16 I need not say how much I have enjoyed [Webster's] fame.
    CL 12.155 3 For my own part, says Linnaeus, I have enjoyed good health...
    Milt1 12.256 24 For the delineation of this heroic image of man, Milton enjoyed singular advantages.
    Milt1 12.273 18 [Milton] thought he could be famous only in proportion as he enjoyed the approbation of the good.

enjoyer, n. (3)

    ET5 5.74 13 ...we are forced to use the names [Saxon and Norman] a little mythically, one to represent the worker and the other the enjoyer.
    Comc 8.174 5 The same scourge whips the joker and the enjoyer of the joke.
    Imtl 8.350 16 [Yama said] Be a king, O Nachiketas! On the wide earth I will make thee the enjoyer of all desires.

enjoying, n. (1)

    MMEm 10.422 4 [Time] is a goodly name for our notions of breathing, suffering, enjoying, acting.

enjoying, v. (9)

    Nat2 3.192 13 I have seen the softness and beauty of the summer clouds floating feathery overhead, enjoying, as it seemed, their height and privilege of motion...
    GoW 4.270 11 ...[the nineteenth century's] poet, is Goethe, a man quite domesticated in the century...enjoying its fruits...
    Comc 8.158 26 The perpetual game of humor is to look with considerate good nature at every object in existence...enjoying the figure which each self-satisfied particular creature cuts in the unrespecting All...
    Comc 8.161 4 ...Falstaff...is a character of the broadest comedy...cooly ignoring the Reason, whilst he invokes its name...only to make the fun perfect by enjoying the confusion betwixt Reason and the negation of Reason...
    MMEm 10.407 14 This seems a world rather of trying each others' dispositions than of enjoying each others' virtues.
    HDC 11.46 14 ...Concord and the other plantations found themselves separate and independent of Boston...enjoying, at the same time, a strict and loving fellowship with Boston...
    SMC 11.365 6 [George Prescott] had the satisfaction to see the whole regiment enjoying the protection of these tents.
    CPL 11.503 25 Every one of us is always in search of his friend, and when unexpectedly he finds a stranger enjoying the rare poet or thinker who is dear to his own solitude,-it is like finding a brother.
    Milt1 12.253 12 ...it would be great injustice to Milton to consider him as enjoying merely a critical reputation.

enjoyment, n. (21)

    Comp 2.110 22 The exclusive in fashionable life does not see that he excludes himself from enjoyment, in the attempt to appropriate it.
    SL 2.163 12 The good soul...unlocks new magazines of power and enjoyment to me every day.
    Art1 2.354 13 Until one thing comes out from the connection of things, there can be enjoyment, contemplation, but no thought.
    Art1 2.366 20 Art makes the same effort which a sensual prosperity makes; namely...to do up the work as unavoidable, and, hating it, pass on to enjoyment.
    Exp 3.52 19 ...the individual texture holds its dominion, if not to bias the moral judgments, yet to fix the measure of activity and of enjoyment.
    Chr1 3.111 25 Those relations to the best men...become, in the progress of the character, the most solid enjoyment.
    ET8 5.127 7 [The English], too, believe that where there is no enjoyment of life there can be no vigor and art in speech or thought;...
    ET14 5.251 27 The voice of [Englishmen's] modern muse has a slight hint of the steam-whistle, and the poem is created...by no means as the bird of a new morning which forgets the past world in the full enjoyment of that which is forming.
    Wth 6.98 22 ...the use which any man can make of [pictures, engravings, statues and casts] is rare, and their value...is much enhanced by the numbers of men who can share their enjoyment.
    Elo1 7.62 11 Each patient [taking nitrous-oxide gas] in turn exhibits similar symptoms...a selfish enjoyment of his sensations...
    SA 8.98 2 As soon as the company give in to this enjoyment [of jokes], we shall have no Olympus.
    Plu 10.321 1 ...I yet confess my enjoyment of this old version [of Plutarch's Morals]...
    LLNE 10.362 24 ...[Charles Newcomb was] a student and philosopher, who found his daily enjoyment not with the elders or his exact contemporaries so much as with the fine boys who were skating and playing ball or bird-hunting;...
    MMEm 10.432 4 Shame on me [Mary Moody Emerson] who have learned within three years to sit whole days in peace and enjoyment without the least apparent benefit to any...
    HDC 11.68 15 ...We cannot possibly view with indifference the...endeavors of the enemies of this...country, to rob us of those...rights, that we are obliged to no power, under heaven, for the enjoyment of;...
    EWI 11.121 7 All those who are acquainted with the state of the island [Jamaica] know that our emancipated population are...as much in the enjoyment of abundance...as any that we know of in any country.
    War 11.155 26 Bull-baiting, cockpits and the boxer's ring are the enjoyment of the part of society whose animal nature alone has been developed.
    EdAd 11.390 10 As soon as men have tasted the enjoyment of learning, friendship and virtue, for which the State exists, the prizes of office appear polluted...
    Milt1 12.247 10 ...the new-found book having in itself less attraction than any other work of Milton, the curiosity of the public as quickly subsided, and left the poet to the enjoyment of his permanent fame...
    Milt1 12.252 26 We think we have heard the recitation of [Milton's] verses by genius which found in them that which itself would say; recitation which told, in the diamond sharpness of every articulation, that now first was such perception and enjoyment possible;...
    Milt1 12.252 27 We think we have heard the recitation of [Milton's] verses by genius which found in them that which itself would say; recitation which told...that now first was such perception and enjoyment possible; the perception and enjoyment of all his varied rhythm...

enjoyments, n. (6)

    MN 1.191 1 Let us exchange congratulations on the enjoyments and the promises of this literary anniversary.
    NMW 4.225 25 [The man in the street] finds [Napoleon], like himself, by birth a citizen, who, by very intelligible merits, arrived as such a commanding position that he could indulge all those tastes which the common man possesses but is obliged to conceal and deny:...the refined enjoyments of pictures, statues...
    Wth 6.91 14 [A man] may fix his inventory of necessities and of enjoyments on what scale he pleases...
    DL 7.121 5 What is the hoop that holds [the eager, blushing boys] stanch? It is the iron band...of austerity, which, excluding them from the sensual enjoyments which make other boys too early old, has directed their activity in safe and right channels...
    Imtl 8.350 24 Nachiketas said [to Yama], All those [worldly] enjoyments are of yesterday.
    CPL 11.501 26 Everything that gives [a man] a new perception of beauty multiplies his pure enjoyments.

enjoys, v. (9)

    Con 1.325 25 ...if they could give their verdict, [mankind] would say that [the intemperate and covetous person's] self-indulgence and his oppression deserved punishment from society, and not that rich board and lodging he now enjoys.
    Prd1 2.223 3 Once in a long time, a man...sees and enjoys the symbol solidly...
    Prd1 2.226 9 The hard soil and four months of snow make the inhabitant of the northern temperate zone wiser and abler than his fellow who enjoys the fixed smile of the tropics.
    ET13 5.219 13 The [English] national temperament deeply enjoys the unbroken order and tradition of its church;...
    Suc 7.288 16 Men see the reward which the inventor enjoys, and they think, How shall we win that?
    PI 8.36 24 [The poet's] wreath and robe is to do what he enjoys;...
    PLT 12.40 2 ...the mind discovers some essential copula binding this [new] fact or change to a class of facts or changes, and enjoys the discovery as if coming to its own again.
    Mem 12.95 14 He who calls what is vanished back again into being enjoys a bliss like that of creating, says Neibuhr.
    WSL 12.344 21 [Landor]...serenely enjoys the victory of Nature over fortune.

enkindled, v. (1)

    Insp 8.274 25 Plato...notes that the perception is only accomplished by long familiarity with the objects of intellect, and a life according to the things themselves. Then a light...will on a sudden be enkindled...

enlarge, v. (11)

    YA 1.367 20 ...the new modes of travelling enlarge the opportunity of selection [of a seat]...
    YA 1.388 18 ...the college, the church, the hospital, the theatre, the hotel, the road, the ship of the capitalist,-whatever goes to secure, adorn, enlarge these is good;...
    Fdsp 2.194 26 High thanks I owe you, excellent lovers, who...enlarge the meaning of all my thoughts.
    NER 3.276 21 ...the swift moments we spend with [those who love us] are a compensation for a great deal of misery; they enlarge our life;...
    Pow 6.73 24 Enlarge not thy destiny, said the oracle...
    Bty 6.287 7 ...the varied power in all that well-known company that escort us through life,--we know how these forms thrill, paralyze, provoke, inspire and enlarge us.
    Bty 6.301 7 If a man...can enlarge knowledge,--'t is no matter whether his nose is parallel to his spine...
    LLNE 10.346 9 I think [the pilgrim] persisted for two years in his brave practice, but did not enlarge his church of believers.
    LS 11.16 10 We know...how often even the influence of Christ failed to enlarge [the primitive Church's] views.
    CL 12.165 26 The geology, the astronomy, the anatomy, are all good, but 't is all a half, and-enlarge it by astronomy never so far-remains a half.
    Milt1 12.259 11 ...to enlarge and enliven his elegant learning, [Milton] was sent into Italy...

enlarged, adj. (11)

    Art1 2.352 16 ...the artist must employ the symbols in use in his day and nation to convey his enlarged sense to his fellow-men.
    PPh 4.55 21 ...our enlarged powers at the approach and at the departure of a friend;...this command of two elements must explain the power and the charm of Plato.
    Elo1 7.64 24 Young men...are eager to enjoy this sense of added power and enlarged sympathetic existence [of eloquence]..
    Elo1 7.67 2 There is a tablet [in the audience] for every line [the orator] can inscribe, though he should mount to the highest levels. Humble persons are conscious of new illumination; narrow brows expand with enlarged affections;...
    PC 8.209 5 The war gave us the abolition of slavery, the success...of the Freedmen's Bureau. Add to these the new scope of social science;...the enlarged scale of charities to relieve local famine...
    Insp 8.271 10 In the mind we call this enlarged power Inspiration.
    Insp 8.289 8 ...our enlarged powers in the presence, or rather at the approach and at the departure of a friend...these are the types or conditions of this power [of novelty].
    Insp 8.293 14 In enlarged conversation we have suggestions that require new ways of living...
    EzRy 10.393 13 ...with states of enthusiasm or enlarged speculation, [Ezra Ripley] had no sympathy...
    War 11.153 19 [Alexander's conquest of the East] had the effect of uniting into one great interest the divided commonwealths of Greece, and infusing a new and more enlarged public spirit into the councils of their statesmen.
    PLT 12.58 11 The expansions [of the Intellect] are the invitations from heaven to try a larger sweep...and to leave all our past for this enlarged scope.

enlarged, v. (19)

    AmS 1.107 4 [The poor and the low] are content to be brushed like flies from the path of a great person, so that justice shall be done by him to that common nature which it is the dearest desire of all to see enlarged and glorified.
    DSA 1.125 24 ...deep melodies wander through [man's] soul from Supreme Wisdom. - Then he can worship, and be enlarged by his worship;...
    Comp 2.97 23 If the head and neck are enlarged, the trunk and extremities are cut short.
    Fdsp 2.216 17 ...thou art enlarged by thy own shining...
    Exp 3.49 8 ...something which I fancied was a part of me, which could not be...enlarged without enriching me, falls off from me and leaves no scar.
    NER 3.284 20 ...let a man fall into the divine circuits, and he is enlarged.
    ShP 4.193 13 ...so many rising geniuses have enlarged or altered [Elizabethan plays]...that no man can any longer claim copyright in this work of numbers.
    Wth 6.110 11 ...in the artificial system of society and of protected labor, which we...have adopted and enlarged, there come presently checks and stoppages.
    WD 7.161 22 When commerce is vastly enlarged, California and Australia expose the gold it needs.
    Clbs 7.229 26 If men are less when together than they are alone, they are also in some respects enlarged.
    Cour 7.273 5 The head is a half, a fraction, until it is enlarged and inspired by the moral sentiment.
    Suc 7.302 8 The world is enlarged for us, not by new objects...
    Imtl 8.343 11 If truth live, I live; if justice live, I live, said one of the old saints; and these by any man's suffering are enlarged and enthroned.
    SovE 10.184 22 The animal who is wholly kept down in Nature has no anxieties. By yielding, as he must do, to it, he is enlarged and reaches his highest point.
    LLNE 10.359 25 An old house on the place [Brook Farm] was enlarged...
    GSt 10.505 13 When one remembers...the wide correspondence, presently enlarged by printed circulars, then by newspapers established wholly or partly at [George Stearns's] own cost;...I think this single will was worth to the cause ten thousand ordinary partisans...
    FSLN 11.227 16 [The Fugitive Slave Law] was the question...whether the Negro shall be...a piece of money? Whether this system...shall be upheld and enlarged?
    PLT 12.18 18 The perceptions of a soul, its wondrous progeny, are born by the conversation, the marriage of souls; so nourished, so enlarged.
    CL 12.167 1 Matter, how immensely soever enlarged by the telescope, remains the lesser half.

enlargement, n. (17)

    MN 1.214 17 ...a man never sees the same object twice: with his own enlargement the object acquires new aspects.
    MR 1.240 2 ...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 the enlargement of his knowledge...
    Comp 2.125 8 ...in some happier mind [these revolutions] are incessant, and all worldly relations hang very loosely about him... Then there can be enlargement...
    OS 2.292 27 [God's presence] is...the infinite enlargement of the heart with a power of growth to a new infinity on every side.
    NER 3.277 21 ...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! for I could not say it otherwise than because a great enlargement had come to my heart and mind...
    PPh 4.68 1 Plato...saw the enlargement and nobility which come from truth itself and good itself...
    GoW 4.289 2 In this aim of culture, which is the genius of [Goethe's] works, is their power. The idea of absolute, eternal truth, without reference to my own enlargement by it, is higher.
    Boks 7.218 6 ...in our time the Ode of Wordsworth, and the poems and the prose of Goethe, have this enlargement [the imaginative element]...
    Comc 8.165 14 The Society in London...pestered the gallant rover [Capt. John Smith] with frequent solicitations...touching the conversion of the Indians, and the enlargement of the Church.
    PC 8.208 12 I will not say that American institutions have given a new enlargement to our idea of a finished man...
    PC 8.211 26 ...a new and healthful air regenerates the human mind, and imparts a sympathetic enlargement to its inventions and method.
    Edc1 10.126 9 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.
    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.
    War 11.166 2 ...the least change in the man will change his circumstances; the least enlargement of his ideas...
    Scot 11.465 2 [Scott] apprehended in advance the immense enlargement of the reading public...
    Milt1 12.275 23 ...in Paradise Regained, we have the most distinct marks of the progress of the poet's mind, in the revision and enlargement of his religious opinions.
    Let 12.402 10 ...least of all should we think a preternatural enlargement of the intellect a calamity.

enlargements, n. (6)

    UGM 4.17 20 ...we are entitled to these enlargements [of the imagination]...
    SwM 4.137 1 ...[Swedenborg's] judgments are those of a Swedish polemic, and his vast enlargements purchased by adamantine limitations.
    Wsp 6.213 18 To this [moral] sentiment belong vast and sudden enlargements of power.
    PI 8.26 2 [People] like to go...to Faneuil Hall, and be taught by Otis, Webster, or Kossuth...what great hearts they have...what new possible enlargements to their narrow horizons.
    Chr2 10.95 11 The moral element invites man to great enlargements...
    Wom 11.412 21 ...the starry crown of woman is in the power of her affection and sentiment, and the infinite enlargements to which they lead.

enlarges, v. (11)

    Lov1 2.170 17 ...[love] is a fire that kindling its first embers in the narrow nook of a private bosom...glows and enlarges...
    Lov1 2.183 20 In the procession of the soul from within outward, it enlarges its circles ever...
    Exp 3.79 24 The subject exists, the subject enlarges;...
    UGM 4.30 6 Presently a dot appears on the animal [the monad], which enlarges to a slit, and it becomes two perfect animals.
    NMW 4.239 5 [Bonaparte's] achievement of business...enlarges the known powers of man.
    Bhr 6.192 13 ...the victories of character are instant, and victories for all. Its greatness enlarges all.
    CbW 6.246 23 ...whatever makes us either think or feel strongly...enlarges our field of action.
    DL 7.129 24 ...whatever purifies and enlarges [the dweller], may well find place [in the household].
    Suc 7.309 24 As caloric to matter, so is love to mind; so it enlarges, and so it empowers it.
    Bost 12.209 4 ...thus our little city [Boston] thrives and enlarges...
    MAng1 12.228 3 [Michelangelo] finished the gigantic painting of the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in twenty months, a fact which enlarges, it has been said, the known powers of man.

enlarging, adj. (6)

    ET14 5.246 18 Dickens...with patriotic and still enlarging generosity, writes London tracts.
    Farm 7.151 7 There has been a nightmare bred in England of indigestion and spleen among the landlords and loom-lords, namely, the dogma that... the land is ever yielding less returns to enlarging hosts of eaters.
    PI 8.19 2 In the presence and conversation of a true poet, teeming with images to express his enlarging thought, his person, his form, grows larger to our fascinated eyes.
    Imtl 8.338 13 I have a house, a closet which holds my books, a table, a garden, a field: are these...a reason for refusing the angel who beckons me away,-as if there were no room or skill elsewhere that could reproduce for me as my like or my enlarging wants may require?
    TPar 11.293 2 ...[Theodore Parker] has gone down in early glory to his grave, to be a living and enlarging power, wherever learning, wit, honest valor and independence are honored.
    Bost 12.197 5 ...the necessity, which always presses the Northerner, of providing fuel and many clothes and tight houses and much food against the long winter...generates in him that spirit of detail which is not grand and enlarging...

enlarging, v. (6)

    ET4 5.46 6 ...[the English] are still aggressive and propagandist, enlarging the dominion of their arts and liberty.
    ET11 5.198 9 A multitude of English...are every day confronting the peers on a footing of equality, and outstripping them, as often, in the race of honor and influence. That cultivated class is large and ever enlarging.
    AKan 11.259 24 ...the adding of Cuba and Central America to the slave marts is enlarging the area of Freedom.
    II 12.78 4 ...it is the curious property of truth to be uncontainable and ever enlarging.
    Bost 12.197 8 As an antidote to the spirit of commerce and of economy, the religious spirit-always enlarging, firing man...was especially necessary to the culture of New England.
    WSL 12.341 8 In these busy days...a faithful scholar, receiving from past ages the treasures of wit and enlarging them by his own love, is a friend and consoler of mankind.

enlighten, v. (2)

    Chr2 10.109 5 ...when once it is perceived that the English missionaries in India...do not wish to enlighten but to Christianize the Hindoos,-it is seen at once how wide of Christ is English Christianity.
    EWI 11.115 24 The clergy and missionaries throughout the island [Antigua] were actively engaged, seizing the opportunity to enlighten the people on all the duties and responsibilities of their new relation...

enlightened, adj. (5)

    Chr2 10.112 10 Romanism in Europe does not represent the real opinion of enlightened men.
    GSt 10.505 2 ...enlightened enough to see a citizen's interest in the public affairs, and virtuous enough to obey to the uttermost the truth he saw,- [George Stearns] became, in the most natural manner, an indispensable power in the state.
    EWI 11.140 26 ...a more enlightened and humane opinion [of the negro] began to prevail.
    TPar 11.287 24 ...those came to [Theodore Parker] who found themselves expressed by him. And had they not met this enlightened mind...they would have suspected their opinions and suppressed them...
    Let 12.395 19 We do a great many selfish things every day; among them all let us do one thing of enlightened selfishness.

enlightened, v. (3)

    AmS 1.106 5 For this self-trust, the reason is...darker than can be enlightened.
    NER 3.266 15 ...when [the individual's] will, enlightened by reason, is warped by his sense;...what concert can be?
    ET1 5.19 16 [Wordsworth] had much to say of America, the more that it gave occasion for his favorite topic,--that society is being enlightened by a superficial tuition, out of all proportion to its being restrained by moral culture.

enlightens, v. (2)

    Comp 2.120 6 ...every burned book or house enlightens the world;...
    OS 2.280 25 ...the soul's communication of truth is the highest event in nature, since it then does not give somewhat from itself, but it...passes into and becomes that man whom it enlightens;...

enlist, v. (3)

    Chr2 10.94 4 The antagonist nature is the individual...with appetites which...would enlist the entire spiritual faculty of the individual...
    Wom 11.416 5 Another step [for Woman] was the effect of the action of the age in the antagonism to Slavery. It was easy to enlist Woman in this;...
    Wom 11.416 6 Another step [for Woman] was the effect of the action of the age in the antagonism to Slavery. It was easy to enlist Woman in this; it was impossible not to enlist her.

enlisted, v. (8)

    ET11 5.192 2 ...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.
    ET13 5.219 20 ...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 10.112 4 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 hold the loyalty of the citizen...
    HDC 11.72 11 In January, 1775, a meeting was held [in Concord] for the enlisting of minute-men. Reverend William Emerson...preached to the people. Sixty men enlisted...
    HCom 11.344 13 A single company in the Forty-fourth Massachusetts Regiment contained thirty-five sons of Harvard. You all know as well as I the story of these dedicated men...whose fathers and mothers said of each slaughtered son, We gave him up when he enlisted.
    SMC 11.358 13 I doubt not many of our soldiers could repeat the confession of a youth whom I knew in the beginning of the [Civil] war, who enlisted in New York...
    SMC 11.366 1 This [old artillery] company...was later embodied in the Forty-Seventh Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteers, enlisted as nine months' men...
    SMC 11.366 19 In August, 1862...mainly through the personal example and influence of Mr. Sylvester Lovejoy, twelve men, including himself, were enlisted for three years...

enlisting, v. (3)

    HDC 11.72 9 In January, 1775, a meeting was held [in Concord] for the enlisting of minute-men.
    FSLN 11.235 6 Cromwell said, We can only resist the superior training of the King's soldiers, by enlisting godly men.
    SMC 11.367 4 Enlisting for three years, and remaining to the end of the war, these troops [Thirty-second Regiment] saw every variety of hard service...

enlistment, n. (2)

    HDC 11.71 19 It was...voted [in Concord], to raise one or more companies of minute-men, by enlistment...
    SMC 11.365 20 The three months of the enlistment expired a few days after the battle [of Bull Run].

enlists, v. (1)

    NMW 4.245 17 ...there is something in the success of grand talent which enlists an universal sympathy.

enliven, v. (2)

    Insp 8.285 2 ...at the right hour/ The lamp brings me pious light,/ That it, instead of Aurora or Phoebus,/ May enliven my quiet industry./
    Milt1 12.259 11 ...to enlarge and enliven his elegant learning, [Milton] was sent into Italy...

enlivened, v. (2)

    PI 8.12 5 [Conversation] is ever enlivened by inversion and trope.
    Insp 8.285 4 ...at the right hour/ The lamp brings me pious light,/ That it, instead of Aurora or Phoebus,/ May enliven my quiet industry./ But they left me lying in sleep/ Dull, and not to be enlivened/...

enlivens, v. (1)

    MN 1.206 24 England, France, and America read Parliamentary Debates, which no high genius now enlivens;...

enmities, n. (3)

    GoW 4.285 11 Enmities [Goethe] has none.
    OA 7.331 18 Much wider is spread the pleasure which old men take in completing their secular affairs...the agriculturist his experiments, and all old men in...reconciling enmities...
    MAng1 12.231 14 ...is there not something affecting in the spectacle of an old man [Michelangelo], on the verge of ninety years...surmounting by the dignity of his purposes all obstacles and all enmities...

enmity, n. (2)

    Comp 2.118 22 The same guards which protect us from disaster, defect and enmity, defend us, if we will, from selfishness and fraud.
    Chr2 10.120 27 [Character] indulges no enmity against any...

Enna, Sicily, n. (1)

    ACri 12.305 7 Once in the fields with the lowing cattle...and satisfying curves of the landscape, and I cannot tell whether this is Thessaly and Enna, or whether Concord and Acton.

ennoble, v. (2)

    NR 3.231 8 ...[general ideas] round and ennoble the most partial and sordid way of living.
    PPo 8.247 9 That hardihood and self-equality of every sound nature...are in Hafiz, and abundantly fortify and ennoble his tone.

ennobled, v. (8)

    DSA 1.122 13 He who does a good deed is instantly ennobled.
    DSA 1.136 26 Where shall...I feel ennobled by the offer of my uttermost action and passion?
    Elo2 8.114 27 ...how every listener gladly consents to be nothing in [the orator's] presence...and be steeped and ennobled in the new wine of this eloquence!
    Grts 8.317 14 Men are ennobled by morals and by intellect;...
    Aris 10.53 9 A man who has that possession of his means and that magnetism that he can at all times carry the convictions of a public assembly, we must respect, and he is thereby ennobled.
    MMEm 10.403 6 ...[Mary Moody Emerson] adored [genius] when ennobled by character.
    HDC 11.76 18 ...you, my fathers [veterans of battle of Concord], whom God and the history of your country have ennobled, may well bear a chief part in keeping this peaceful birthday of our town.
    Mem 12.103 16 The poor short lone fact dies at the birth. Memory catches it up into her heaven, and bathes it in immortal waters. Then a thousand times over it lives and acts again, each time transfigured, ennobled.

ennobles, v. (1)

    MoL 10.257 14 War ennobles the age.

ennobling, adj. (1)

    DL 7.128 10 ...the sufficient reply to the skeptic who doubts the competence of man to elevate and to be elevated is in that desire and power to stand in joyful and ennobling intercourse with individuals...

ennobling, v. (3)

    Aris 10.48 16 Ennobling of one family is good for one generation; not sure beyond.
    Aris 10.54 16 In the fine arts, I find none in the present age...who have achieved any nobility by ennobling the people.
    MoL 10.257 8 All of us have shared the new enthusiasm of country and of liberty which swept like a whirlwind through all souls at the outbreak of war, and brought, by ennobling us, an offset for its calamity.

ennui, n. (6)

    LE 1.163 7 ...in the...ennui of noon...behold Charles the Fifth's day;...
    Tran 1.341 8 ...[many intelligent and religious persons] prefer to ramble in the country and perish of ennui, to the degradation of such charities and such ambitions as the city can propose to them.
    ET11 5.183 18 I was surprised to observe the very small attendance usually in the House of Lords. Out of five hundred and seventy-three peers, on ordinary days only twenty or thirty. Where are they? I asked. At home on their estates, devoured by ennui...
    CbW 6.262 17 In our life and culture everything is worked up and comes in use,--passion, war, revolt, bankruptcy, and not less...insult, ennui and bad company.
    Imtl 8.334 16 ...never to know the Cause, the Giver, and infer his character and will! Of what import this vacant sky...these insignificant lives full of selfish loves and quarrels and ennui?
    Let 12.394 24 By the slightest possible concert, persevered in through four or five years, [the correspondents] think that a neighborhood might be formed of friends who would provoke each other to the best activity. They believe that this society would fill up the terrific chasm of ennui...

Ennui, n. (1)

    LT 1.284 13 This Ennui...this word of France has got a terrific significance.

ennuis, n. (1)

    Fdsp 2.193 21 The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed;...all tragedies, all ennuis vanish...

ennuyer, v. (1)

    ACri 12.290 13 The French have a neat phrase, that the secret of boring you is that of telling all,-Le secret d'ennuyer est celui de tout dire;...

enormity, n. (2)

    PC 8.215 19 ...a certain enormity of culture makes a man invisible to his contemporaries.
    LS 11.14 7 To make [his friends'] enormity plainer, [St. Paul] goes back to the origin of this religious feast [the Lord's Supper] to show what sort of feast that was...

enormous, adj. (28)

    MN 1.202 23 None of [the eminent souls] seen by himself...will justify the cost of that enormous apparatus of means by which this spotted and defective person was at last procured.
    Con 1.302 27 ...Wisdom attempts nothing enormous and disproportioned to its powers...
    YA 1.364 1 ...the locomotive and the steamboat, like enormous shuttles, shoot every day across the thousand various threads of national descent and employment...
    OS 2.267 18 What is the universal sense of want and ignorance, but the fine innuendo by which the soul makes its enormous claim?
    Chr1 3.87 3 Fixed on the enormous galaxy,/ Deeper and older seemed his eye:/...
    UGM 4.4 15 ...enormous populations, if they be beggars, are disgusting...
    ET3 5.40 3 It is...pretended that the enormous consumption of coal in the island [England] is also felt in modifying the general climate.
    ET5 5.95 19 By cylindrical tiles and gutta-percha tubes, five millions of acres of bad land [in England] have been drained, and put on equality with the best, for rape-culture and grass. The climate too, which was already believed to have become milder and drier by the enormous consumption of coal, is so far reached by this new action, that fogs and storms are said to disappear.
    ET8 5.139 12 Even the scale of expense on which people live...proves the tension of [English] muscle, when vast numbers are found who can each lift this enormous load.
    ET10 5.155 24 During the war from 1789 to 1815, whilst they complained that they...by dint of enormous taxes were subsidizing all the continent against France, the English were growing rich every year faster than any people ever grew before.
    Pow 6.61 24 ...[a timid man] discovers that the enormous elements of strength which are here in play make our politics unimportant.
    Pow 6.79 5 The friction in nature is so enormous that we cannot spare any power.
    Wth 6.83 11 ...well the primal pioneer/ Knew the strong task to it assigned,/ Patient through Heaven's enormous year/ To build in matter home for mind./
    Civ 7.32 25 ...I see what cubic values America has, and in these a better certificate of civilization than great cities or enormous wealth.
    Farm 7.147 26 The roots that shot deepest, and the stems of happiest exposure, drew the nourishment from the rest, until the less thrifty perished and manured the soil for the stronger, and the mammoth Sequoias rose to their enormous proportions.
    WD 7.159 8 Why need I speak of steam...with its enormous strength and delicate applicability...
    Suc 7.283 14 ...we are adding to an already enormous territory.
    Suc 7.307 20 What is this immortal demand for more, which belongs to our constitution? this enormous ideal?
    PI 8.73 2 The inexorable rule in the muses' court, either inspiration or silence, compels the bard to report only his supreme moments. It teaches the enormous force of a few words...
    Res 8.141 18 We have seen the railroad and telegraph subdue our enormous geography;...
    Res 8.146 24 [The determined man] reveals to us the enormous power of one man over masses of men;...
    QO 8.199 11 ...does it not look as if we men were thinking and talking out of an enormous antiquity...
    PC 8.223 24 Nature is an enormous system, but in mass and in particle curiously available to the humblest need of the little creature that walks on the earth!
    PC 8.225 7 Look out into the July night and see the broad belt of silver flame which flashes up the half of heaven, fresh and delicate as the bonfires of the meadow-flies. Yet the powers of numbers cannot compute its enormous age...
    Grts 8.314 10 Napoleon commands our respect by his enormous self-trust...
    Schr 10.270 7 'T is wonderful, 't is almost scandalous, this extraordinary favoritism shown to poets. I do not mean to excuse it. I admit the enormous partiality.
    HDC 11.55 16 The [Concord] river, at this period, seems to have caused some distress now by its overflow, now by its drought. A cold and wet summer blighted the corn; enormous flocks of pigeons beat down and eat up all sorts of English grain;...
    EdAd 11.386 25 ...who can see the continent...without putting new queries to Destiny as to the purpose for which...this sudden creation of enormous values is made?

enough, adj. (100)

    AmS 1.81 3 Our anniversary is one of hope, perhaps, not enough of labor.
    DSA 1.145 22 Friends enough you shall find who will hold up to your emulation Wesleys and Oberlins...
    LE 1.173 23 [The scholar's] own estimate must be measure enough...for him.
    LE 1.173 24 [The scholar's] own estimate must be measure enough, his own praise reward enough for him.
    LE 1.183 27 Truth shall be policy enough for [the scholar].
    MN 1.212 21 It is not enough that [the stars] are Jove, Mars, Orion, and the North Star, in the gravitating firmament;...
    MR 1.234 12 ...to earn money enough to buy [a farm] requires a sort of concentration toward money...
    LT 1.266 1 ...there will be fragments and hints of men, more than enough...
    YA 1.382 6 Here are Etzlers...who...undoubtingly affirm that the smallest union would make every man rich;-and, on the other side, a multitude of poor men and women seeking work, and who cannot find enough to pay their board.
    YA 1.383 21 One man...with [a dime]...buys corn enough to feed the world;...
    SL 2.136 19 ...it is time enough to answer questions when they are asked.
    SL 2.144 21 It is enough that these particulars speak to me.
    SL 2.154 19 There are not in the world at any time more than a dozen persons who read and understand Plato,--never enough to pay for an edition of his works;...
    Fdsp 2.202 5 ...he alone is victor who has truth enough in his constitution to preserve the delicacy of his beauty from the wear and tear of [Time, Want, Danger].
    Hsm1 2.255 15 The essence of greatness is the perception that virtue is enough.
    Pt1 3.6 11 ...in our experience, the rays or appulses have sufficient force to arrive at the senses, but not enough to reach the quick...
    Exp 3.45 23 We have enough [spirit] to live and bring the year about...
    Exp 3.58 11 We, I think, in these times, have had lessons enough of the futility of criticism.
    Exp 3.65 14 ...thou, God's darling! heed thy private dream; thou wilt not be missed in the scorning and scepticism; there are enough of them;...
    Chr1 3.102 6 It is not enough that the intellect should see the evils and their remedy.
    Gts 3.160 3 Men use to tell us that we love flattery...because it shows that we are of importance enough to be courted.
    Nat2 3.171 15 Cities give not the human senses room enough.
    Nat2 3.184 7 It is not enough that we should have matter...
    Pol1 3.218 15 Senators and presidents have climbed so high with pain enough...
    UGM 4.15 23 This pleasure of full expression to that which, [in the people' s] private experience, is usually cramped and obstructed...is the secret of the reader's joy in literary genius. Nothing is kept back. There is fire enough to fuse the mountain of ore.
    SwM 4.126 3 [To Swedenborg] They who place merit in good works seem to themselves to cut wood. I asked such, if they were not wearied? They replied, that they have not yet done work enough to merit heaven.
    NMW 4.229 6 To be sure there are men enough who are immersed in things...
    NMW 4.236 23 [Napoleon] fought sixty battles. He had never enough.
    GoW 4.265 6 If [the writer] have his incitements, there is, on the other side...need enough of his gift.
    GoW 4.274 13 [Goethe] had an extreme impatience of conjecture and of rhetoric. I have guesses enough of my own; if a man write a book, let him set down only what he knows.
    GoW 4.281 1 ...in all these countries [England, America and France], men of talent write from talent. It is enough if the understanding is occupied...
    ET1 5.4 17 The young scholar fancies it happiness enough to live with people who can give an inside to the world;...
    ET4 5.62 15 It took many generations to trim and comb and perfume the first boat-load of Norse pirates into...most noble Knights of the Garter; but every sparkle of ornament dates back to the Norse boat. There will be time enough to mellow this strength into civility and religion.
    ET6 5.110 9 Antiquity of usage is sanction enough [in England].
    ET8 5.132 3 Of that constitutional force which yields the supplies of the day, [the English] have more than enough;...
    ET10 5.160 22 ...there is wealth enough in England to support the entire population in idleness for one year.
    F 6.11 20 If, later, [these drones] give birth to some superior individual, with force enough to add to this animal a new aim...all the ancestors are gladly forgotten.
    F 6.12 10 The new talent draws off so rapidly the vital force that not enough remains for the animal functions...
    F 6.12 11 The new talent draws off so rapidly the vital force that not enough remains for the animal functions, hardly enough for health;...
    Pow 6.69 5 There are Oregons, Californias and Exploring Expeditions enough appertaining to America to find [men of this surcharge of arterial blood] in files to gnaw and in crocodiles to eat.
    Wth 6.88 14 ...[nature]...takes away warmth, laughter, sleep, friends and daylight, until [a man] has fought his way to his own loaf. Then, less peremptorily but still with sting enough, she urges him to the acquisition of such things as belong to him.
    Ctr 6.148 27 Aubrey writes, I have heard Thomas Hobbes say, that, in the Earl of Devon's house, in Derbyshire, there was a good library and books enough for him...
    Ctr 6.159 25 A cheerful intelligent face is the end of culture, and success enough.
    Wsp 6.211 6 Kossuth fled hither across the ocean to try if he could rouse the New World to a sympathy with European liberty. Ay, says New York, he made a handsome thing of it, enough to make him comfortable for life.
    SS 7.12 13 A cold sluggish blood thinks it has not facts enough to the purpose...
    WD 7.176 26 A general, said Bonaparte, always has troops enough, if he only knows how to employ those he has, and bivouacs with them.
    WD 7.178 1 Another illusion is that there is not time enough for our work.
    WD 7.178 11 A poor Indian chief of the Six Nations of New York made a wiser reply than any philosopher, to some one complaining that he had not enough time. Well, said Red Jacket, I suppose you have all there is.
    Boks 7.189 4 ...certainly there is dilettanteism enough...
    Clbs 7.232 6 No doubt [the shy hermit] does not make allowance enough for men of more active blood and habit.
    Cour 7.276 26 There is scope and cause and resistance enough for us in our proper work and circumstance.
    Suc 7.293 5 It is enough if you work in the right direction.
    Suc 7.298 1 We remember when in early youth the earth spoke and the heavens glowed; when an evening, any evening...was enough us;...
    PI 8.36 22 What are [the poet's] garland and singing-robes? What but a sensibility so keen that the scent of an elder-blow, or the timber-yard and corporation-works of a nest of pismires is event enough for him...
    PI 8.62 9 ...said Merlin...I have been fool enough to love another more than myself...
    SA 8.85 19 Life is not so short but that there is always time enough for courtesy.
    SA 8.95 17 ...there are trials enough of nerve and character...in privatest circles.
    SA 8.95 18 ...there are...brave choices enough of taking the part of truth...in privatest circles.
    Elo2 8.119 25 ...Jenny Lind, when in this country, complained of concert-rooms and town-halls, that they did not give her room enough to unroll her voice...
    Res 8.139 2 I like the sentiment of the poor woman who, coming...for the first time to the seashore...said she was glad for once in her life to see something which there was enough of.
    QO 8.178 3 Our high respect for a well-read man is praise enough of literature.
    PPo 8.247 14 We absorb elements enough, but have not leaves and lungs for healthy perspiration and growth.
    Aris 10.43 25 ...when the well-mixed man is born...with fire enough and earth enough...then no gift need be bestowed on him...
    Aris 10.48 18 Slavery had mischief enough to answer for, but it had this good in it,-the pricing of men.
    Edc1 10.138 3 You are trying to make that man another you. One's enough.
    Supl 10.164 22 Language should aim to describe the fact. It is not enough to suggest it and magnify it.
    Supl 10.169 8 Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech. They are never off their centres. As soon as they swell and paint and find truth not enough for them, softening of the brain has already begun.
    SovE 10.198 21 ...I see not why to these simple instincts, simple yet grand, all the heights and transcendencies of virtue and of enthusiasm are not open. There is power enough in them to move the world;...
    MoL 10.242 23 ...the wealth of the globe was here, too much work and not men enough to do it.
    MoL 10.255 17 It is not enough that the work [of art] should show a skilful hand...
    Plu 10.299 10 ...[Plutarch] is...enough a man of the world to give even the Devil his due...
    MMEm 10.400 16 [Mary Moody Emerson's] aunt and her husband...were getting old, and the husband a shiftless, easy man. There was...not always bread enough in the house.
    MMEm 10.415 21 ...I [Nature]...fed thee with my mallows, on the first young day of bread failing. More, I...from the solitary heart taught thee to say, at first womanhood, Alive with God is enough,-'t is rapture.
    SlHr 10.447 26 ...Mr. Hoar remarked that Judge Marshall could afford to lose brains enough to furnish three or four common men, before common men would find it out.
    Carl 10.489 11 If you would know precisely how [Carlyle] talks, just suppose Hugh Whelan (the gardener) had found leisure enough in addition to all his daily work to read Plato and Shakspeare...
    Carl 10.497 1 Czar Nicholas was [Carlyle's] hero; for in the ignominy of Europe, when...no man was found with conscience enough to fire a gun for his crown...one man remained who believed he was put there by God Almighty to govern his empire...
    LS 11.19 19 This mode of commemorating Christ [the Lord's Supper] is not suitable to me. That is reason enough why I should abandon it.
    FSLN 11.218 24 There is, no doubt, chaff enough in what [the newsboy] brings;...
    FSLN 11.220 19 There is always base ambition enough...
    FSLN 11.225 25 ...in this country one sees that there is always margin enough in the statute for a liberal judge to read one way and a servile judge another.
    FSLN 11.240 9 ...that is the stern edict of Providence, that liberty shall be no hasty fruit, but that...age on age, shall cast itself into the opposite scale, and not until liberty has slowly accumulated weight enough to countervail and preponderate against all this, can the sufficient recoil come.
    AKan 11.263 18 When [the country] is lost it will be time enough then for any who are luckless enough to remain alive to gather up their clothes and depart to some land where freedom exists.
    JBB 11.272 4 If judges cannot find law enough to maintain the sovereignty of the state...it is idle to compliment them as learned and venerable.
    JBS 11.277 23 [John Brown] said that he loved rough play, could never have rough play enough;...
    EPro 11.319 9 ...all men of African descent who have faculty enough to find their way to our lines are assured of the protection of American law.
    Wom 11.423 14 ...there is contamination enough [in politics]...
    FRep 11.526 26 ...instead of the doleful experience of the European economist, who tells us, In almost all countries the condition of the great body of the people is poor and miserable, here that same great body has arrived at a sloven plenty...tight roof and coals enough have been attained;...
    FRep 11.536 17 ...every man must have glimmer enough to keep him from knocking his head against the walls.
    PLT 12.25 11 Every man has material enough in his experience to exhaust the sagacity of Newton in working it out.
    PLT 12.15 25 Not having enough [thought] to support all the powers of a race, [Nature] thins all her stock...
    II 12.88 26 ...there is surely enough for the heart and the imagination in the [universal] religion itself.
    CInt 12.120 26 Need enough there is of such a band of priests of intellect and knowledge;...
    CL 12.146 22 Here [on Estabrook Farm]...the wide distance from any population is fence enough...
    Milt1 12.264 17 [Milton] states these things, he says, to show that...a certain reservedness of natural disposition and moral discipline...was enough to keep him in disdain of far less incontinences that these that had been charged on him.
    Milt1 12.273 6 [Milton] would...support preachers by voluntary contributions; requiring that such only should preach as have faith enough to accept so self-denying and precarious a mode of life...
    MLit 12.327 23 We think, when we contemplate the stupendous glory of the world, that it were life enough for one man merely to lift his hands and cry with Saint Augustine, Wrangle who pleases, I will wonder.
    MLit 12.329 7 We can fancy [Goethe] saying to himself: There are poets enough of the Ideal; let me paint the Actual...
    WSL 12.340 3 [Landor] has capital enough to have furnished the brain of fifty stock authors...
    WSL 12.343 7 Whatever can make for itself...the most profound and permanent existence in the hearts and heads of millions of men, must have a reason for its being. Its excellency is reason and vindication enough.
    Let 12.402 21 In all the cases we have ever seen where people were supposed to suffer from too much wit...it turned out that they had not wit enough.

enough, adv. (191)

    Nat 1.16 26 We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough.
    AmS 1.103 3 ...let [the scholar]...bide his own time, - happy enough if he can satisfy himself alone that this day he has seen something truly.
    AmS 1.109 13 ...a revolution in the leading idea may be distinctly enough traced.
    LE 1.170 9 ...every man, were life long enough, would write history for himself?
    LE 1.179 11 Feudalism and Orientalism had long enough thought it majestic to do nothing;...
    MN 1.208 3 If only [a man] sees, the world will be visible enough.
    Con 1.306 2 ...before this personal appeal, the innovator...must confess that no man is to be found good enough to be entitled to stand champion for the principle.
    Con 1.308 22 ...I am very peaceable, and on my private account could well enough die...
    Con 1.316 18 What you say of your planted, builded and decorated world is true enough...
    YA 1.395 11 ...we shall quickly enough advance out of all hearing of others' censures...
    SR 2.56 12 It is easy enough for a firm man who knows the world to brook the rage of the cultivated classes.
    SR 2.59 13 If I can be firm enough to-day to do right and scorn eyes, I must have done so much right before as to defend me now.
    SR 2.67 21 [Man] cannot be happy and strong until he too lives with nature...above time. This should be plain enough.
    Comp 2.96 8 If a man dogmatize in a mixed company on Providence and the divine laws, he is answered by a silence which conveys well enough to an observer the dissatisfaction of the hearer, but his incapacity to make his own statement.
    Lov1 2.173 1 Among the throng of girls [the village boy] runs rudely enough...
    Lov1 2.176 2 In the noon and the afternoon of life we still throb at the recollection of days when happiness was not happy enough...
    Lov1 2.176 6 In the noon and the afternoon of life we still throb at the recollection of days...when the day was not long enough, but the night too must be consumed in keen recollections;...
    Fdsp 2.200 18 [A delicate organization] would be lost if it knew itself before any of the best souls were yet ripe enough to know and own it.
    Hsm1 2.258 2 The Jerseys were handsome ground enough for Washington to tread...
    Cir 2.307 11 If [my friend] were high enough to slight me, then could I love him...
    Art1 2.364 1 Already History is old enough to witness the old age and disappearance of particular arts.
    Pt1 3.13 15 ...the carpenter's stretched cord, if you hold your ear close enough, is musical in the breeze.
    Pt1 3.18 5 The poorest experience is rich enough for all the purposes of expressing thought.
    Pt1 3.38 17 ...I am not wise enough for a national criticism...
    Exp 3.51 5 Of what use [is genius], if...the man does not care enough for results to stimulate him to experiment, and hold him up in it?...
    Exp 3.58 26 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.
    Chr1 3.113 8 ...if suddenly we encounter a friend, we pause; our heat and hurry look foolish enough;...
    Mrs1 3.122 22 ...our words intimate well enough the popular feeling that the appearance supposes a substance.
    Mrs1 3.123 19 The competition is transferred from war to politics and trade, but the personal force appears readily enough in these new arenas.
    Mrs1 3.135 22 ...Napoleon...was not great enough...to face a pair of freeborn eyes...
    Mrs1 3.153 10 ...we have lingered long enough in these painted courts.
    Mrs1 3.153 22 What is rich? Are you rich enough to help anybody?...
    Mrs1 3.153 24 Are you...rich enough to make the Canadian in his wagon... feel the noble exception of your presence and your house from the general bleakness and stoniness;...
    Nat2 3.169 19 To have lived through all [the day's] sunny hours, seems longevity enough.
    Nat2 3.192 18 ...the poet finds himself not near enough to his object.
    Nat2 3.194 6 [Nature's] mighty orbit vaults like the fresh rainbow into the deep, but no archangel's wing was yet strong enough to follow it and report of the return of the curve.
    Pol1 3.214 19 I can see well enough a great difference between my setting myself down to a self-control, and my going to make somebody else act after my views;...
    Pol1 3.220 12 ...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.
    Pol1 3.220 13 ...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 3.225 1 I cannot often enough say that a man is only a relative and representative nature.
    NR 3.225 3 Each [man] is a hint of the truth, but far enough from being that truth which yet he quite newly and inevitably suggests to us.
    NR 3.225 15 ...a society of men will cursorily represent well enough a certain quality and culture...
    NR 3.227 23 It is bad enough that our geniuses cannot do anything useful...
    NR 3.230 15 We conceive distinctly enough the French, the Spanish, the German genius...
    NR 3.235 5 ...[Mesmerism, Swedenborgism, Fourierism, and the Millennial Church]...are poor pretensions enough, but good criticism on the science, philosophy and preaching of the day.
    NR 3.238 22 In his childhood and youth [the recluse] has had many checks and censures, and thinks modestly enough of his own endowment.
    UGM 4.5 12 If now we proceed to inquire into the kinds of service we derive from others, let us be warned of the danger of modern studies, and begin low enough.
    UGM 4.15 14 The people cannot see [the hero] enough.
    UGM 4.19 10 Housekeepers say of a domestic who has been valuable, She had lived with me long enough.
    UGM 4.21 15 If I work in my garden and prune an apple-tree, I am well enough entertained...
    UGM 4.25 21 It is observed in old couples...that they grow like, and if they should live long enough we should not be able to know them apart.
    PPh 4.71 1 Socrates, a man of humble stem, but honest enough;...
    MoS 4.154 4 Life's well enough, but we shall be glad to get out of it...
    MoS 4.163 19 ...oddly enough, the duplicate copy of Florio...turned out to have the autograph of Ben Jonson in the fly-leaf.
    MoS 4.167 16 [I seem to hear Montaigne say] Our condition as men is risky and ticklish enough.
    ET1 5.5 4 I have...found writers superior to their books, and I cling to my first belief that a strong head will dispose fast enough of these impediments...
    ET2 5.30 9 Such discomfort and such danger as the narratives of the captain and mate disclose are bad enough as the costly fee we pay for entrance to Europe;...
    ET3 5.36 9 The influence of France is a constituent of modern civility, but not enough opposed to the English for the most wholesome effect.
    ET3 5.41 17 It is not down in the books...that fortunate day when a wave of the German Ocean burst the old isthmus which joined Kent and Cornwall to France...cutting off...a territory large enough for independence...
    ET8 5.129 2 ...a kind of pride in bad public speaking is noted in the House of Commons, as if they...thought they spoke well enough if they had the tone of gentlemen.
    ET8 5.134 21 ...here [in England] exists the best stock in the world...a race to which their fortunes flow, as if they alone had the elastic organization at once fine and robust enough for dominion;...
    ET9 5.147 11 ...I am afraid that English nature is so rank and aggressive as to be a little incompatible with every other. The world is not wide enough for two.
    ET9 5.149 9 It was said of Louis XIV., that his gait and air were becoming enough in so great a monarch, yet would have been ridiculous in another man;...
    ET12 5.205 19 Oxford is a little aristocracy in itself, numerous and dignified enough to rank with other estates in the realm;...
    ET14 5.243 1 ...[the Elizabethan age was] a period almost short enough to justify Ben Jonson's remark on Lord Bacon,--About his time, and within his view, were born all the wits that could honor a nation, or help study.
    ET15 5.264 22 ...the only limit to the circulation of The [London] Times is the impossibility of printing copies fast enough;...
    ET17 5.297 23 [Wordsworth] lived long enough to witness the revolution he had wrought...
    ET18 5.300 14 A bitter class-legislation gives power [in England] to those who are rich enough to buy a law.
    ET18 5.300 20 In [English] cities, the children are trained to beg, until they shall be old enough to rob.
    ET18 5.302 14 We cannot go deep enough into the biography of the spirit who never throws himself entire into one hero...
    ET19 5.309 9 In looking over recently a newspaper-report of my remarks [at the Manchester Atheneaum Banquet], I incline to reprint it, as fitly expressing the feeling with which I entered England, and which agrees well enough with the more deliberate results of better acquaintance recorded in the foregoing pages.
    F 6.15 9 Nature is the tyrannous circumstance...the conditions of a tool, like the locomotive, strong enough on its track, but which can do nothing but mischief off of it;...
    F 6.17 6 It is a rule that the most casual and extraordinary events, if the basis of population is broad enough, become matter of fixed calculation.
    F 6.36 22 This knot of nature is so well tied that nobody was ever cunning enough to find the two ends.
    F 6.40 24 ...we have not eyes sharp enough to descry the thread that ties cause and effect.
    Wth 6.107 6 Your paper is not fine or coarse enough...
    Wth 6.117 21 Want is a growing giant whom the coat of Have was never large enough to cover.
    Ctr 6.161 7 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.
    Wsp 6.222 14 ...after a little experience [the countryman] makes the discovery that there are no large cities,--none large enough to hide in;...
    Wsp 6.241 17 There will be a new church founded on moral science;...it will fast enough gather beauty, music, picture, poetry.
    CbW 6.273 10 Neither is life long enough for friendship.
    Bty 6.288 25 ...the working of this deep instinct makes all the excitement-- much of it superficial and absurd enough--about works of art...
    SS 7.4 6 For himself [my new friend] declared that he could not get enough alone to write a letter to a friend.
    SS 7.4 9 [My new friend] left the city; he hid himself in pastures. The solitary river was not solitary enough;...
    SS 7.4 12 [My new friend] could not enough conceal himself.
    SS 7.8 7 I have seen many a philosopher whose world is large enough for only one person.
    SS 7.13 18 So many men whom I know are degraded by their sympathies; their native aims being high enough, but their relation all too tender to the gross people about them.
    Civ 7.27 26 We had letters to send: couriers could not go fast enough nor far enough;...
    Elo1 7.77 10 Face to face with a highwayman...can you bring yourself off safe by your wit exercised through speech?--a problem easy enough to Caesar or Napoleon.
    Elo1 7.87 24 The parts [in the court-room trial] were so well cast and discriminated that it was an interesting game to watch. The government was well enough represented.
    Elo1 7.88 2 The judge [in the court-room trial] had a task beyond his preparation, yet his position remained real: he was there to represent a great reality,--the justice of states, which we could well enough see beetling over his head...
    DL 7.108 15 The physiognomy and phrenology of to-day are rash and mechanical systems enough...
    Farm 7.147 18 [The tree] did not grow on a ridge, but in a basin, where it found deep soil, cold enough and dry enough for the pine;...
    Farm 7.152 10 ...when...there is more skill, and tools and roads, the new generations are strong enough to open the lowlands...
    WD 7.162 16 ...ships were built capacious enough to carry the people of a county.
    Clbs 7.226 23 A man valuing himself as the organ of this or that dogma is a dull companion enough;...
    Clbs 7.228 16 How sweet those hours when the day was not long enough to communicate and compare our intellectual jewels...
    Clbs 7.236 7 Jesus spent his life in discoursing with humble people...and at least silencing those who were not generous enough to accept his thoughts.
    Clbs 7.239 2 It happened many years ago that an American chemist carried a letter of introduction to Dr. Dalton of Manchester, England...and was coolly enough received by the doctor in the laboratory where he was engaged.
    Clbs 7.242 6 I have known persons of rare ability who were heavy company to good social men who knew well enough how to draw out others of retiring habit;...
    Cour 7.264 3 The forest on fire looks discouraging enough to a citizen...
    Suc 7.294 1 ...Fulton knocked at the door of Napoleon with steam, and was rejected; and Napoleon lived long enough to know that he had excluded a greater power than his own.
    Suc 7.310 14 Despondency comes readily enough to the most sanguine.
    Suc 7.310 19 Despondency comes readily enough to the most sanguine. The cynic has only to follow their hint with his bitter confirmation, and they...go home with heavier step and premature age. They will themselves quickly enough give the hint he wants to the cold wretch.
    OA 7.320 17 Life is well enough...
    OA 7.330 2 We have an admirable line worthy of Horace...but have searched all probable and improbable books for it in vain. We consult the reading men: but, strangely enough, they who know everything know not this.
    OA 7.331 10 Bentley thought himself likely to live till fourscore,--long enough to read everything that was worth reading...
    PI 8.10 6 Sonnets of lovers are mad enough...
    PI 8.13 3 When some familiar truth or fact appears in a new dress...we cannot enough testify our surprise and pleasure.
    PI 8.25 20 Give [people]...Chevy Chase, or Tam O'Shanter, and they like these well enough.
    SA 8.96 13 A just feeling will fast enough supply fuel for discourse...
    Res 8.152 15 If I go into the woods in winter, and am shown the thirteen or fourteen species of willow that grow in Massachusetts, I learn that...though insignificant enough in the general bareness of the forest, yet a great change takes place in them between fall and spring;...
    QO 8.183 1 The borrowing [from the past] is often honest enough...
    PC 8.212 2 That cosmical west wind...is alone broad enough to carry to every city and suburb...the inspirations of this new hope of mankind.
    PC 8.232 4 Bad kings and governors help us, if only they are bad enough.
    PC 8.234 14 ...when I...consider the sound material of which the cultivated class here is made up...I cannot...doubt that the interests of science, of letters, of politics and humanity, are safe. I think their hands are strong enough to hold up the Republic.
    PPo 8.259 23 The Moon thought she knew her own orbit well enough;...
    Insp 8.269 21 In spring...the maple-trees flow with sugar, and you cannot get tubs fast enough;...
    Grts 8.312 9 The day will come...when the eye...will indicate rank fast enough by exerting power.
    Imtl 8.331 20 [One of the men] said that when he entered the Senate he became in a short time intimate with one of his colleagues, and, though attentive enough to the routine of public duty, they daily returned to each other...
    Dem1 10.10 18 Things are significant enough, Heaven knows;...
    Dem1 10.21 2 ...the fabled ring of Gyges...is simply mischievous. A new or private language...the desired discovery of the guided balloon, are of this kind. Tramps are troublesome enough in the city and in the highways, but tramps flying through the air...can well be spared.
    Aris 10.37 13 We like cool people, who...can survive the blow well enough if stock should rise or fall...
    Aris 10.41 6 An aristocracy is composed of simple and sincere men for whom Nature and ethics are strong enough...
    Aris 10.44 13 I see well enough that when I bring one man into an estate, he sees vague capabilities...
    Aris 10.44 24 If I bring another [man into an estate], he sees what he should do with it. He appreciates the...land fit for...pasturage, wood-lot, cranberry-meadow; but just as easily he...could lay his hand as readily on one as on another point in that series which opens the capability to the last point. The poet sees wishfully enough the result;...
    Aris 10.45 4 If we see tools in a magazine...we can predict well enough their destination;...
    PerF 10.80 20 ...[the prisoner] took his flute out of his pocket and began to play...and the prisoner was by general consent of court and officers allowed to go his way without any money. And I suppose, if he could have played loud enough, we here should have beat time...
    Chr2 10.114 8 The soul...asks...no new laws,-the old are good enough for it...
    Chr2 10.120 14 That which I hate and fear is really in myself, and no knife is long enough to reach to its heart.
    Edc1 10.132 17 Day creeps after day, each full of facts...that we cannot enough despise...
    Edc1 10.139 20 If I can pass with [boys], I can manage well enough with their fathers.
    SovE 10.199 11 It is the sturdiest prejudice in the public mind that religion is...a department...to which the tests and judgment men are ready enough to show on other things, do not apply.
    Prch 10.218 6 I see in those classes and those persons...who contain the activity of to-day and the assurance of to-morrow...a clear enough perception of the inadequacy of the popular religious statement to the wants of their heart and intellect...
    MoL 10.242 5 [The scholar]...is born one or two centuries too early for the rough and sensual population into which he is thrown. But the Heaven which sent him hither knew that well enough...
    Schr 10.268 9 Nature will fast enough instruct you in the occasion and the need...
    LLNE 10.323 2 Of old things all are over old,/ Of good things none are good enough;-/ We 'll show that we can help to frame/ A world of other stuff./ Rob Roy's Grave. Wordsworth.
    LLNE 10.365 8 Married women I believe uniformly decided against the community. It was to them like the brassy and lacquered life in hotels. The common school was well enough, but to the common nursery they had grave objections.
    MMEm 10.404 15 [Mary Moody Emerson] writes to her nephew Charles Emerson, in 1833... I scarcely feel the sympathies of this life enough to agitate the pool.
    MMEm 10.408 13 Our Delphian [Mary Moody Emerson] was fantastic enough, Heaven knows...
    Thor 10.461 25 From a box containing a bushel or more of loose pencils, [Thoreau] could take up with his hands fast enough just a dozen pencils at every grasp.
    GSt 10.505 2 ...enlightened enough to see a citizen's interest in the public affairs, and virtuous enough to obey to the uttermost the truth he saw,- [George Stearns] became, in the most natural manner, an indispensable power in the state.
    GSt 10.505 4 ...virtuous enough to obey to the uttermost the truth he saw,- [George Stearns] became, in the most natural manner, an indispensable power in the state.
    GSt 10.505 19 When one remembers...his immovable convictions,-I think this single will [George Stearns] was worth to the cause ten thousand ordinary partisans, well-disposed enough, but of feebler and interrupted action.
    GSt 10.506 25 ...when I consider that [George Stearns] lived long enough to see with his own eyes the salvation of his country...I count him happy among men.
    LS 11.15 13 In this manner we may see clearly enough how this ancient ordinance [the Lord's Supper] got its footing among the early Christians...
    HDC 11.34 1 [The pilgrims'] first temporary accommodation was rude enough.
    EWI 11.110 21 ...Slave ships] carried five, six, even seven hundred stowed in a ship built so narrow as to be unsafe, being made just broad enough on the beam to keep the sea.
    FSLC 11.206 8 The North likes the South well enough, for it knows its own advantages.
    FSLN 11.221 11 ...[Webster's] arrival in any place was an event which drew crowds of people, who went to satisfy their eyes, and could not see him enough.
    AKan 11.262 23 ...the hour is coming when the strongest will not be strong enough.
    AKan 11.263 19 When [the country] is lost it will be time enough then for any who are luckless enough to remain alive to gather up their clothes and depart to some land where freedom exists.
    JBB 11.271 17 ...the government, the judges...give...such protection as they gave to their own Commodore Paulding, when he was simple enough to mistake the formal instructions of his government for their real meaning.
    ACiv 11.300 9 The telegraph has been swift enough to announce our disasters.
    ACiv 11.303 25 The one power that has legs long enough and strong enough to wade across the Potomac offers itself at this hour;...
    ACiv 11.303 26 The one power that has legs long enough and strong enough to wade across the Potomac offers itself at this hour;...
    ACiv 11.303 27 ...the one [power] strong enough to bring all the civility up to the height of that which is best, prays now at the door of Congress for leave to move.
    ALin 11.336 7 Had [Lincoln] not lived long enough to keep the greatest promise that ever man made to his fellow men,-the practical abolition of slavery?
    HCom 11.344 4 When her blood is up, [Massachusetts] has a fist big enough to knock down an empire.
    SMC 11.350 16 The town [Concord] has thought fit to signify its honor for a few of its sons by raising an obelisk in the square. It is a simple pile enough...
    SMC 11.356 20 All sorts of men went to the [Civil] war,-the roughs...men for whom pleasure was not strong enough, but who wanted pain...
    Wom 11.420 27 Those whom you [women] teach, and those whom you half teach, will fast enough make themselves considered...
    SHC 11.436 16 Life is not long enough for art, nor long enough for friendship.
    Shak1 11.450 7 The student finds the solitariest place not solitary enough to read [Shakespeare];...
    Shak1 11.453 7 ...there are some men so born to live well that, in whatever company they fall,-high or low,-they fit well, and lead it!...I suppose because they have more humanity than talent, whilst they have quite as much of the last as any of the company. It would strike you as comic, if I should give my own customary examples of this elasticity, though striking enough to me.
    FRO1 11.478 9 The church is not large enough for the man;...
    FRO2 11.485 11 I think we have disputed long enough [about religion].
    FRep 11.523 17 The people are right-minded enough on ethical questions...
    FRep 11.529 12 The government...knows the leaders of the humblest class. The President comes near enough to these;...
    FRep 11.535 7 ...if we found [Westerners] clinging to English traditions, which are graceful enough at home...we should feel this...absurdly out of place.
    FRep 11.541 25 Let [men] compete, and success to the strongest, the wisest and the best. The land is wide enough, the soil has bread for all.
    PLT 12.7 13 Seek the literary circles...the men of splendor, of bon-mots, will they afford me satisfaction? I think you could not find a club of men acute and liberal enough in the world.
    PLT 12.19 19 So works the poor little blockhead manikin. He must arrange and dignify his shop or farm the best he can. At last he must be able to tell you it, or write it, translate it all clumsily enough into the new sky-language he calls thought.
    PLT 12.30 12 Echo the leaders and they will fast enough see that you have nothing for them.
    PLT 12.49 18 The difference is obvious enough in Talent between the speed of one man's action above another's.
    PLT 12.61 8 Ideal and practical...are never parallel. Each has...its proper dangers, obvious enough when the opposite element is deficient.
    II 12.76 16 Is it that we are such mountains of conceit that Heaven cannot enough mortify and snub us...
    II 12.84 5 [Men slow in finding their vocation] ripen too slowly than that the determination should appear in this brief life. As with our Catawbas and Isabellas at the eastward, the season is not quite long enough for them.
    Mem 12.94 13 You say the first words of the old song, and I finish the line and stanza. But where I have them, or what becomes of them when I am not thinking of them...never any man was so sharp-sighted, or could turn himself inside out quick enough to find.
    CL 12.155 23 ...after having climbed the Alps, whilst I [Linnaeus], a youth of twenty-five years, was spent and tired...these two old [Lap] men, one fifty, one seventy years...felt none of the inconveniences of the road, although they were both loaded heavily enough with my baggage.
    CL 12.156 23 Where is he who has senses fine enough to catch the inspiration of the landscape?
    Bost 12.184 20 Even at this day men are to be found superstitious enough to believe that to certain spots on the surface of the planet special powers attach...
    MAng1 12.215 18 The means, the materials of [Michelangelo's] activity, were coarse enough to be appreciated...
    EurB 12.370 23 The [modern] painters are not willing to paint ill enough;...
    EurB 12.373 16 ...we have read Mr. Bulwer enough to see that the story is rapid and interesting;...
    Let 12.397 25 More letters we have on the subject of the position of young men, which accord well enough with what we see and hear.
    Let 12.402 16 The balance of mind and body will redress itself fast enough.
    Trag 12.409 23 There are people who have an appetite for grief, pleasure is not strong enough and they crave pain...
    Trag 12.415 14 A tender American girl doubts of Divine Providence whilst she reads the horrors of the middle passage; and they are bad enough at the mildest;...

enough, n. (11)

    Tran 1.344 20 [The Transcendentalists'] quarrel with every man they meet is not with his kind, but with his degree. There is not enough of him,-that is the only fault.
    Pt1 3.39 25 Once having tasted this immortal ichor, [the poet] cannot have enough of it...
    MoS 4.154 9 Our meat will taste to-morrow as it did yesterday, and we may at last have had enough of it.
    NMW 4.258 9 ...the universal cry of France and of Europe in 1814 was, Enough of him; Assez de Bonaparte.
    ET12 5.207 10 [The Englishman] has enough to think of...
    Wsp 6.241 6 There is surely enough for the heart and imagination in the religion itself.
    OA 7.318 4 Saadi found in a mosque at Damascus an old Persian of a hundred and fifty years, who was dying, and was saying to himself, I said, coming into the world by birth, I will enjoy myself for a few moments. Alas! at the variegated table of life, I partook of a few mouthfuls, and the Fates said, Enough!
    PC 8.212 6 ...if any one say we have had enough of these boastful recitals, then I say, Happy is the land wherein benefits like these have grown trite and commonplace.
    PerF 10.86 21 The divine knowledge has ebbed out of us and we do not know enough to be free.
    LLNE 10.345 21 [The pilgrim] thought every one should labor at some necessary product, and as soon as he had made more than enough for himself...he should give of the commodity to any applicant...
    MMEm 10.420 4 'T is only now that I [Mary Moody Emerson] would not let--pay my hotel-bill. They have enough to do.

enow, adj. (2)

    PPo 8.256 26 The loving nightingale mourns;-cause enow for mourning;-/ Why envies the bird the streaming verses of Hafiz?/ Know that a god bestowed on him eloquent speech./
    Milt1 12.270 8 [Milton] told the Parliament that the imprimaturs of Lambeth House had been writ in Latin; for that our English...will not easily find servile letters enow to spell such a dictatory presumption.

enraged, adj. (3)

    Nat 1.26 18 An enraged man is a lion...
    ET8 5.131 2 ...you shall find in the common [English] people a surly indifference, sometimes gruffness and ill temper; and in minds of more power, magazines of inexhaustible war, challenging The ruggedest hour that time and spite dare bring/ To frown upon the enraged Northumberland./
    CbW 6.262 4 ...we go gladly to Faneuil Hall to be played upon by the stormy winds and strong fingers of enraged patriotism...

enraged, v. (2)

    Insp 8.278 18 Herrick said: 'T is not every day that I/ Fitted am to prophesy;/ No, but when the spirit fills/ The fantastic panicles,/ Full of fire, then I write/ As the Godhead doth indite./ Thus enraged, my lines are hurled,/ Like the Sibyl's, through the world;/...
    ACiv 11.303 11 There are Scriptures written invisibly on men's hearts, whose letters do not come out until they are enraged.

enrages, v. (1)

    Bhr 6.186 6 Society is very swift in its instincts, and, if you do not belong to it, resists and sneers at you, or quietly drops you. The first weapon enrages the party attacked;...

enrich, v. (8)

    DSA 1.123 7 Thefts never enrich;...
    UGM 4.13 2 ...every man, inasmuch as he has any science,--is a definer and map-maker of the latitudes and longitudes of our condition. These road-makers on every hand enrich us.
    ET14 5.237 11 ...these [English poets] were so quick and vital that they could charm and enrich by mean and vulgar objects.
    Wth 6.118 10 It is commonly observed that a sudden wealth, like a prize drawn in a lottery or a large bequest to a poor family, does not permanently enrich.
    WD 7.179 8 He only can enrich me who can recommend to me the space between sun and sun.
    Cour 7.277 16 I am permitted to enrich my chapter by adding an anecdote of pure courage from real life...
    PC 8.227 2 Great men shall not impoverish, but enrich us.
    Edc1 10.151 2 What discoverer of Nature's laws will [the college] prompt to enrich us by disclosing in the mind the statute which all matter must obey?

enriched, adj. (2)

    Int 2.336 17 ...the power of picture or expression, in the most enriched and flowing nature, implies...a certain control over the spontaneous states...
    Prch 10.234 9 A vivid thought brings the power to paint it; and in proportion to the depth of its source is the force of its projection. We are happy and enriched;...

enriched, v. (18)

    MN 1.210 12 It is pitiful to be an artist, when by forbearing to be artists we might be vessels...enriched by the circulations of omniscience and omnipresence.
    Prd1 2.239 7 What low, poor, paltry, hypocritical people an argument on religion will make of the pure and chosen souls! They will shuffle and crow...and not a thought has enriched either party...
    Int 2.341 9 ...though we make [the new thought] our own we instantly crave another; we are not really enriched.
    SwM 4.111 21 The admirable preliminary discourses with which Mr. Wilkinson has enriched these volumes [by Swedenborg], throw all the contemporary philosophy of England into shade...
    ET3 5.41 18 It is not down in the books...that fortunate day when a wave of the German Ocean burst the old isthmus which joined Kent and Cornwall to France...cutting off...a territory...enriched with every seed of national power...
    ET6 5.112 7 An Englishman of fashion is like one of those souvenirs... enriched with delicate engravings on thick hot-pressed paper...but with nothing in it worth reading or remembering.
    ET14 5.253 24 ...in England, one hermit finds this fact, and another finds that, and lives and dies ignorant of its value. There are great exceptions...of Richard Owen, who has...has enriched science with contributions of his own...
    Wth 6.105 1 If a talent is anywhere born into the world, the community of nations is enriched;...
    Wth 6.126 26 Nor is the man enriched, in repeating the old experiments of animal sensation;...
    Bhr 6.192 10 We watched sympathetically [in earlier novels], step by step, [the boy's] climbing, until at last...the wedding day is fixed, and we follow the gala procession home to the bannered portal, when the doors are slammed in our face and the poor reader is left outside in the cold, not enriched by so much as an idea or a virtuous impulse.
    Boks 7.199 15 ...who can overestimate the images with which Plato has enriched the minds of men...
    PC 8.210 24 Consider...what masters, each in his several province...the novel and powerful philanthropies, as well as...manufactures, the very inventions...have evoked!-all implying...the rapid addition to our society of a class of true nobles, by which the self-respect of each town and state is enriched.
    LLNE 10.332 7 [Everett's learning] was so coldly and weightily communicated...enriched with so many excellent digressions and significant quotations, that...this learning instantly took the highest place to our imagination...
    HDC 11.83 14 I hope that History [of Concord] will not long remain unknown. The author [Lemuel Shattuck]...has wisely enriched his pages with the resolutions, addresses and instructions to its agents...
    MAng1 12.222 22 There are now in Italy, both on canvas and in marble, forms and faces which the imagination is enriched by contemplating.
    MAng1 12.234 23 When the Pope suggested to him that the [Sistine] chapel would be enriched if the figures were ornamented with gold, Michael Angelo replied, In those days, gold was not worn; and the characters I have painted were neither rich nor desirous of wealth...
    ACri 12.303 18 ...there is much in literature that draws us with a sublime charm-the superincumbent necessity by which each writer...is enriched by thoughts which flow from all past minds, shares the hopes of all existing minds;...
    MLit 12.314 3 ...in all ages, and now more, the narrow-minded have no interest in anything but its relation to their personality. What will help them to be...flattered or pardoned or enriched;...

enriches, v. (5)

    Chr1 3.103 10 Love is inexhaustible, and if its estate is wasted, its granary emptied, still cheers and enriches...
    Chr1 3.104 26 A word warm from the heart enriches me.
    Wsp 6.234 5 The moral equalizes all: enriches, empowers all.
    Suc 7.283 23 Men are made each with some triumphant superiority, which... enriches the community with a new art;...
    PerF 10.82 20 The imagination enriches [the man], as if there were no other;...

enriching, v. (4)

    Exp 3.49 8 ...something which I fancied was a part of me, which could not be...enlarged without enriching me, falls off from me and leaves no scar.
    ET10 5.168 23 ...Pitt, Peel and Robinson and their Parliaments...went to their graves in the belief that they were enriching the country which they were impoverishing.
    ET13 5.226 6 The wise legislator...will shun the enriching of priests.
    SovE 10.213 3 ...to [innocence] come grandeur of situation and poetic perception, enriching all it deals with.

enroll, v. (2)

    Aris 10.60 4 ...there is an order of men, never quite absent, who enroll no names in their archives but such as are capable of truth.
    FRep 11.538 20 ...if the spirit which...put forth such gigantic energy in the charity of the Sanitary Commission, could be waked to the conserving and creating duty of making the laws just and humane, it were to enroll a great constituency of religious...obeyers of duty...

enrolled, v. (4)

    Mrs1 3.152 17 The constitution of our society makes it a giant's castle to the ambitious youth who have not found their names enrolled in its Golden Book...
    ET15 5.264 8 [The London Times] denounced and discredited the French Republic of 1848, and checked every sympathy with it in England, until it had enrolled 200,000 special constables to watch the Chartists...
    SMC 11.366 20 In August, 1862...twelve men...were enlisted for three years, and, being soon after enrolled in the Fortieth Massachusetts, went to the war;...
    WSL 12.341 25 A charm attaches to the most inferior names which have in any manner got themselves enrolled in the registers of the House of Fame...

Ens, n. (1)

    Nat 1.44 24 Every such truth is the absolute Ens seen from one side.

Ense, Varnhagen von, n. (3)

    Chr2 10.105 22 Varnhagen von Ense, writing in Prussia in 1848, says: The Gospels belong to the most aggressive writings.
    Chr2 10.110 13 The time will come, says Varnhagen von Ense, when we shall treat the jokes and sallies against the myths and church-rituals of Christianity...good-naturedly...
    Chr2 10.112 22 Every age, says Varnhagen, has another sieve for the religious tradition...

ensemble, n. (1)

    FRep 11.512 10 The theatre avails itself of the best talent of poet, of painter, and of amateur of taste, to make the ensemble of dramatic effect.

enshrined, v. (3)

    AmS 1.108 15 The human mind cannot be enshrined in a person who shall set a barrier on any one side to this unbounded, unboundable empire.
    SL 2.166 9 ...lo! suddenly the great soul has enshrined itself in some other form...
    Prch 10.222 20 We are in transition, from the worship of the fathers which enshrined the law in a private and personal history...

ensign, n. (3)

    Wsp 6.234 3 Hafiz writes,--At the last day, men shall wear/ On their heads the dust,/ As ensign and as ornament/ Of their lowly trust.
    PI 8.64 17 Bring us...poetry which...is the gift to men of new images and symbols, each the ensign and oracle of an age;...
    Aris 10.58 20 ...I know no such unquestionable badge and ensign of a sovereign mind, as that tenacity of purpose which...changes never...

ensigns, n. (1)

    SovE 10.190 22 Shall I say then it were truer to see Necessity...covered with ensigns of woe...

enslave, v. (3)

    FSLC 11.195 8 By the law of Congress, March 2, 1807, it is piracy and murder, punishable by death, to enslave a man on the coast of Africa.
    FSLC 11.195 13 By law of Congress September, 1850, it is a high crime and misdemeanor, punishable with fine and imprisonment, to resist the reenslaving a man on the coast of America. Off soundings, it is piracy and murder to enslave him. On soundings, it is fine and prison not to reenslave.
    FSLC 11.195 21 ...it is a greater crime to reenslave a man who has shown himself fit for freedom, than to enslave him at first, when it might be pretended to be a mitigation of his lot as a captive in war.

enslaved, v. (1)

    Nat2 3.195 6 ...though we are always engaged with particulars, and often enslaved to them, we bring with us to every experiment the innate universal laws.

ensnare, v. (1)

    Elo1 7.91 8 ...all these talents [of oratory]...have an equal power to ensnare and mislead the audience and the orator.

ensouled, v. (2)

    Lov1 2.184 22 Passion beholds its object as a perfect unit. The soul is wholly embodied, and the body is wholly ensouled...
    PPo 8.264 4 The bird-soul was ashamed;/ [The birds'] body was quite annihilated;/ They had cleaned themselves from the dust,/ And were by the light ensouled./ What was, and was not,-the Past,-/ Was wiped out from their breast./

ensue, v. (3)

    MN 1.192 19 That splendid results ensue from the labors of stupid men, is the fruit of higher laws than their will...
    Int 2.337 18 ...as soon as we let our will go and let the unconscious states ensue, see what cunning draughtsmen we are!
    PPh 4.74 25 Crito bribed the jailer; but Socrates would not go out by treachery. Whatever inconvenience ensue, nothing is to be preferred before justice.

ensues, v. (2)

    LE 1.183 18 They [whom the student's thoughts have entertained or inflamed] find...that he cannot make of his infrequent illumination a portable taper to carry whither he would, and explain now this dark riddle, now that. Sorrow ensues.
    Exp 3.57 14 We do what we must...and would fain have the praise of having intended the result which ensues.

entail, n. (1)

    SA 8.101 10 In Europe...it has been attempted to secure the existence of a superior class by hereditary nobility, with estates transmitted by primogeniture and entail.

entail, v. (1)

    Wth 6.98 17 ...pictures, engravings, statues and casts, beside their first cost, entail expenses, as of galleries and keepers for the exhibition;...

entailed, adj. (1)

    FRep 11.535 8 ...if we found [Westerners] clinging to English traditions... as the English Church, and entailed estates...we should feel this...absurdly out of place.

entailed, v. (3)

    YA 1.378 27 ...the aristocracy of trade...is not entailed...
    SL 2.142 26 We think greatness entailed or organized in some places or duties...
    ET11 5.193 20 [English noblemen's] many houses eat them up. They cannot sell them, because they are entailed.

entails, n. (1)

    ET18 5.305 16 There is [in England] a drag of inertia which resists reform in every shape;...the abolition of slavery, of impressment, penal code and entails.

entangled, v. (2)

    LT 1.273 9 A wealthy man...finds religion to be a traffic so entangled...that of all mysteries he cannot skill to keep a stock going upon that trade.
    Let 12.404 10 As far as our correspondents have entangled their private griefs with the cause of American Literature, we counsel them to disengage themselves as fast as possible.

entanglements, n. (1)

    PPr 12.383 4 It requires great courage in a man of letters to handle the contemporary practical questions;...because of the infinite entanglements of the problem...

entangles, v. (1)

    PPo 8.248 10 ...it is only a few delicate spirits who are sufficient to see that the whole web of convention is the imbecility of those whom it entangles...

entangling, v. (1)

    ET5 5.80 24 [The English people's] practical vision is spacious, and they can hold many threads without entangling them.

entendeth, v. (1)

    Aris 10.29 6 Look who that is most virtuous alway,/ Prive and apert, and most entendeth aye/ To do the gentil dedes that he can,/ And take him for the greatest gentilman./

entendre, v. (1)

    Bhr 6.192 19 'T is a French definition of friendship, rien que s'entendre, good understanding.

enter, v. (67)

    Nat 1.12 3 Whoever considers the final cause of the world will discern a multitude of uses that enter as parts into that result.
    Nat 1.77 10 The kingdom of man over nature...he shall enter without more wonder than the blind man feels who is gradually restored to perfect sight.
    DSA 1.122 18 ...the safety of God, the immortality of God, the majesty of God, do enter into that man with justice.
    MN 1.193 22 Into our charmed circle, power cannot enter;...
    MR 1.244 26 Let the house rather be a temple of the Furies of Lacedaemon...which none but a Spartan may enter or so much as behold.
    Con 1.307 17 [The youth says] I do not wish to enter into your complex social system.
    Hist 2.20 23 Nor can any lover of nature enter the old piles of Oxford and the English cathedrals, without feeling that the forest overpowered the mind of the builder...
    SR 2.49 13 As soon as [a man] has once acted or spoken with eclat he is... watched by the sympathy or the hatred of hundreds, whose affections must now enter into his account.
    SR 2.49 25 These are the voices which we hear in solitude, but they grow faint and inaudible as we enter into the world.
    SR 2.72 17 ...let us enter into the state of war and wake Thor and Woden...
    SR 2.89 1 Not so, O friends! will the God deign to enter and inhabit you...
    Fdsp 2.198 2 The soul environs itself with friends that it may enter into a grander self-acquaintance or solitude;...
    Fdsp 2.207 25 No two men but being left alone with each other enter into simpler relations.
    Hsm1 2.258 24 ...[many extraordinary young men] enter an active profession and the forming Colossus shrinks to the common size of man.
    OS 2.296 24 [The soul saith] More and more the surges of everlasting nature enter into me...
    Art1 2.357 15 When I have seen fine statues and afterwards enter a public assembly, I understand well what he meant who said, When I have been reading Homer, all men look like giants.
    Pt1 3.33 3 ...how mean to study, when an emotion communicates to the intellect the power to sap and upheave nature; how great the perspective! nations, times, systems, enter and disappear...
    Exp 3.45 9 ...the Genius which according to the old belief stands at the door by which we enter, and gives us the lethe to drink, that we may tell no tales, mixed the cup too strongly...
    Exp 3.82 21 The man at [Apollo's] feet asks for his interest in turmoils of the earth, into which his nature cannot enter.
    Mrs1 3.119 15 If the house do not please [the inhabitants of Gournou], they walk out and enter another...
    Mrs1 3.137 3 I would have a man enter his house through a hall filled with heroic and sacred sculptures...
    Mrs1 3.143 17 ...a comic disparity would be felt, if we should enter the acknowledged first circles [of fashion] and apply these terrific standards of justice, beauty and benefit to the individuals actually found there.
    Nat2 3.173 4 ...I go with my friend to the shore of our little river, and with one stroke of the paddle I...pass into a delicate realm of sunset and moonlight, too bright almost for spotted man to enter without novitiate and probation.
    Pol1 3.218 24 If a man found himself so rich-natured that he could enter into strict relations with the best persons...could he...covet relations so hollow and pompous as those of a politician?
    NER 3.264 24 ...it may easily be questioned...whether the members [of associations] will not necessarily be fractions of men, because each finds that he cannot enter it without some compromise.
    UGM 4.17 4 ...we thus [through the acts of the intellect] enter a new gymnasium...
    PPh 4.58 18 Horsed on these winged steeds [poetry, prophecy, high insight], [Plato]...visits worlds which flesh cannot enter;...
    PPh 4.63 5 [Dialectic] is of that rank [said Plato] that no intellectual man will enter on any study for its own sake...
    MoS 4.179 18 The young spirit pants to enter society.
    NMW 4.238 18 [Bonaparte's] instructions to his secretary at the Tuileries are worth remembering. During the night, enter my chamber as seldom as possible.
    GoW 4.277 14 I have no design to enter into any analysis of [Goethe's] numerous works.
    ET3 5.37 14 As soon as you enter England...this little land stretches by an illusion to the dimensions of an empire.
    ET4 5.53 10 ...as you enter Scotland, the world's Englishman is no longer found.
    ET10 5.164 16 The [English] house is a castle which the king cannot enter.
    ET11 5.194 14 A man of wit [in England]...confessed to his friend that he could not enter [noblemen's] houses without being made to feel that they were great lords, and he a low plebeian.
    Pow 6.55 26 With adults, as with children, one class enter cordially into the game...
    Ctr 6.141 21 Books...must always enter into our notion of culture.
    Bhr 6.170 25 Give a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes. He has not the trouble of earning or owning them, they solicit him to enter and possess.
    Bty 6.285 19 These priests in the temple incessantly meditate on death; how can they enter into healthful diversions?
    Ill 6.315 12 When the boys come into my yard for leave to gather horse-chestnuts, I own I enter into nature's game...
    DL 7.108 27 Let us come then out of the public square and enter the domestic precinct.
    Comc 8.159 14 We have a primary association between perfectness and this [human] form. But the facts that occur when actual men enter do not make good this anticipation;...
    Imtl 8.327 16 We shall pass to the future existence as we enter into an agreeable dream.
    Aris 10.40 1 I enumerate the claims by which men enter the superior class.
    Aris 10.40 5 In every company one finds the best man; and if there be any question, it is decided the instant they enter into any practical enterprise.
    Chr2 10.115 26 ...in [the Church's] most liberal forms, when such [best and freest] minds enter it, they are coldly received...
    Edc1 10.126 13 ...when one and the same man...leaves...the stupor of the senses, to enter into the quasi-omniscience of high thought...all limits disappear.
    Edc1 10.133 16 When I see...that there is no sot or fop, ruffian or pedant into whom thoughts do not enter by passages which the individual never left open, I can expect any revolution in character.
    Edc1 10.154 17 ...only to think of using [simple discipline and the following of nature] implies character and profoundness; to enter on this course of discipline is to be good and great.
    Schr 10.271 6 Will [wealth]...make its Almacks too narrow for a wise man to enter?
    Schr 10.276 2 We cannot eat the granite nor drink hydrogen. They must be decompounded and recompounded into corn and water before they can enter our flesh.
    Plu 10.302 7 We sail on [Plutarch's] memory into the ports of every nation, enter into every private property...
    MMEm 10.409 10 ...so have I [Mary Moody Emerson] wandered from the cradle over...the cabinets of natural or moral philosophy, the recesses of ancient and modern lore. All say-Forbear to enter the pales of the initiated by birth, wealth, talents and patronage.
    MMEm 10.429 8 I [Mary Moody Emerson] enter my dear sixty the last of this month.
    LS 11.23 14 There remain some practical objections to the ordinance [the Lord's Supper], into which I shall not now enter.
    FSLC 11.198 1 ...here are gentlemen whose believed probity was the confidence and fortification of multitudes, who...have been drawn into the support of this foul business [the Fugitive Slave Law]. We poor men in the country who might once have thought it an honor to shake hands with them...would now shrink from their touch, nor could they enter our humblest doors.
    SMC 11.357 26 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;...
    Wom 11.421 10 The objection to [women's] voting is the same as is urged... against clergymen who take an active part in politics;-that...if they become good politicians they are worse clergymen. So of women, that they cannot enter this arena without being contaminated and unsexed.
    Wom 11.424 6 ...let [women] enter a school as freely as a church...
    Shak1 11.451 1 The palaces [Englishmen] compass earth and sea to enter, the magnificence and personages of royal and imperial abodes, are shabby imitations and caricatures of [Shakespeare's]...
    PLT 12.23 24 ...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.
    PLT 12.45 4 ...if [we converse] with high things...the interval becomes a gulf and we cannot enter into the highest good.
    II 12.74 11 When a young man asked old Goethe about Faust, he replied, What can I know of this? I ought rather to ask you, who are young, and can enter much better into that feeling.
    II 12.77 23 ...one day, though far off, you will attain the control of these [higher] states; you will enter them at will;...
    Mem 12.110 12 When we live...by obedience to the law of the mind instead of by passion, the Great Mind will enter into us...
    WSL 12.341 15 When we pronounce the names of...Ben Jonson and Isaak Walton; Dryden and Pope,-we...enter into a region of the purest pleasure accessible to human nature.
    Pray 12.350 4 ...with true prayers,/ That shall be up at heaven and enter there/ Ere sunrise; prayers from preserved souls,/ From fasting maids, whose minds are delicate/ To nothing temporal./ Shakspeare..

entered, v. (37)

    DSA 1.137 22 Men go, thought I, where they are wont to go, else had no soul entered the temple in the afternoon.
    LE 1.168 15 The man who...rambles in the woods, seems to be the first man that ever...entered a grove.
    Hist 2.16 24 ...by watching for a time [a child's] motions and plays, the painter enters into his nature and can then draw him at will in every attitude. So Roos entered into the inmost nature of a sheep.
    NER 3.270 2 A canine appetite for knowledge was generated...and this knowledge...never took the character of substantial, humane truth, blessing those whom it entered.
    PPh 4.74 20 Socrates entered the prison and took away all ignominy from the place...
    ET4 5.56 3 Charlemagne, halting one day in a town of Narbonnese Gaul, looked out of a window and saw a fleet of Northmen cruising in the Mediterranean. They even entered the port of the town where he was...
    ET8 5.142 5 ...to appease diseased or inflamed talent, the [English] army and navy may be entered...
    ET10 5.160 12 Forty thousand ships are entered in Lloyd's lists.
    ET15 5.264 13 [The London Times] has entered into each municipal, literary and social question...
    ET15 5.265 13 I went one day with a good friend to The [London] Times office, which was entered through a pretty garden-yard in Printing-House Square.
    ET19 5.309 8 In looking over recently a newspaper-report of my remarks [at the Manchester Atheneaum Banquet], I incline to reprint it, as fitly expressing the feeling with which I entered England...
    F 6.5 12 The Turk, who believes his doom is written on the iron leaf in the moment when he entered the world, rushes on the enemy's sabre with undivided will.
    Bty 6.287 21 [The ancients] thought the same genius, at the death of its ward, entered a new-born child...
    Elo1 7.73 17 In these examples [of eloquence], higher qualities have already entered...
    Boks 7.203 4 The imaginative scholar will find few stimulants to his brain like these writers [the Platonists]. He has entered the Elysian Fields;...
    OA 7.315 8 [Josiah Quincy]...entered at some length into an Apology for Old Age...
    Elo2 8.123 5 I remember, when, long after, I entered college, hearing the story of the numbers of coaches in which his friends came from Boston to hear [John Quincy Adams].
    Imtl 8.331 18 [One of the men] said that when he entered the Senate he became in a short time intimate with one of his colleagues...
    Aris 10.59 16 ...I hear the complaint of the aspirant...that there is no...stern exclusive Legion of Honor, to be entered only by long and real service...
    EzRy 10.382 12 ...[Ezra Ripley] entered Harvard University, July, 1772.
    EzRy 10.382 18 Many of the students [at Harvard] entered the [Revolutionary] army...
    HDC 11.52 23 ...here [at Concord] [Tahattawan and Waban] entered, by [John Eliot's] assistance, into an agreement to twenty-nine rules...
    HDC 11.57 20 This war [with the Niantic Indians] seems to have been... eluctantly entered by Massachusetts.
    HDC 11.64 9 Some interesting peculiarities in the manners and customs of the time appear in the town's [Concord's] books. Proposals of marriage were made by the parents of the parties, and minutes of such private agreements sometimes entered on the clerk's records.
    HDC 11.70 23 On the 27th June [1774], near three hundred persons... inhabitants of Concord, entered into a covenant...
    HDC 11.73 16 When [British troops] entered Concord, they found the militia and minute-men assembled...
    FSLC 11.197 5 New York advertised in Southern markets that it would go for slavery, and posted the names of merchants who would not. Boston, alarmed, entered into the same design.
    SMC 11.373 9 ...[George Prescott] was struck...by a musket-ball which entered his breast near the heart.
    II 12.74 16 ...I believe it is true in the experience of all men...that, for the memorable moments of life, we were in them, and not they in us. How they entered into me, let them say if they can; for I have gone over all the avenues of my flesh, and cannot find by which they entered, said Saint Augustine.
    II 12.74 19 ...I believe it is true in the experience of all men...that, for the memorable moments of life, we were in them, and not they in us. How they entered into me, let them say if they can; for I have gone over all the avenues of my flesh, and cannot find by which they entered, said Saint Augustine.
    Bost 12.191 17 ...the next colony planted itself at Salem, and the next at Weymouth; another at Medford; before these men...wisely judged that the best point for a city was at the bottom of a deep and islanded bay, where a copious river entered it...
    Milt1 12.259 19 ...probably no traveller ever entered that country of history [Italy] with better right to its hospitality [than Milton]...
    Milt1 12.278 7 ...according to Lord Bacon's definition of poetry...Poetry... seeks...to create an ideal world better than the world of experience. Such certainly is the explanation of Milton's tracts. Such is the apology to be entered for the plea for freedom of divorce;...
    WSL 12.341 17 When we pronounce the names of...Ben Jonson and Isaak Walton; Dryden and Pope,-we...enter into a region of the purest pleasure accessible to human nature. We have...entered that crystal sphere in which everything in the world of matter reappears, but transfigured and immortal.
    Pray 12.356 9 And being admonished to reflect upon myself, I entered into the very inward parts of my soul, by thy conduct;...
    Pray 12.356 11 I [Augustine] entered and discerned with the eye of my soul...even beyond my soul and mind itself, the Light unchangeable.
    PPr 12.390 4 Carlyle, in his strange, half-mad way, has entered the Field of the Cloth of Gold...

entering, v. (16)

    Nat 1.68 1 The American who has been confined...to the sight of buildings designed after foreign models, is surprised on entering York Minster or St. Peter's at Rome, by the feeling that these structures are...faint copies of an invisible archetype.
    MR 1.230 18 The young man, on entering life, finds the way to lucrative employments blocked with abuses.
    LT 1.267 19 What further relations we sustain, what new lodges we are entering, is now unknown.
    Con 1.297 22 That which is was made by God, saith Conservatism. He is leaving that, he is entering this other, rejoins Innovation.
    Con 1.303 24 The contest between the Future and the Past is one between Divinity entering and Divinity departing.
    ET15 5.265 16 I went one day with a good friend to The [London] Times office, which was entered through a pretty garden-yard in Printing-House Square. We walked with some circumspection, as if we were entering a powder-mill;...
    ET16 5.289 4 Just before entering Winchester we stopped at the Church of Saint Cross...
    Bhr 6.169 15 What are [manners] but thought entering the hands and feet...
    Elo1 7.78 10 Julius Caesar said to Metellus, when that tribune interfered to hinder him from entering the Roman treasury, Young man, it is easier for me to put you to death than to say that I will;...
    Farm 7.146 13 Water...transports vast boulders of rock in its iceberg a thousand miles. But its far greater power depends on its talent of becoming little, and entering the smallest holes and pores.
    Imtl 8.348 26 ...the man puts off the ignorance and tumultuous passions of youth; proceeding thence puts off the egotism of manhood, and becomes at last a public and universal soul. He is...rising to realities; the outer relations and circumstances dying out, he entering deeper into God...
    Schr 10.270 25 Genius is a poor man and has no house, but see, this proud landlord who has built the palace...beseeches him to make it honorable by entering there and eating bread.
    MMEm 10.409 16 ...from the rays which burst forth when the crowd are entering these noble saloons, whilst I [Mary Moody Emerson] stand in the doors, I get a pleasing vision which is an earnest of the interminable skies where the mansions are prepared for the poor.
    War 11.158 13 The celebrated Cavendish...wrote thus...on his return from a voyage round the world: Sept. 1588. It hath pleased Almighty God to suffer me to circumpass the whole globe of the world, entering in at the Strait of Magellan, and returning by the Cape of Buena Esperanca;...
    FSLC 11.207 4 ...I conceive it demonstrated,-the necessity of common sense and justice entering into the laws.
    WSL 12.342 2 From the moment of entering a library and opening a desired book, we cease to be...men of care and fear.

entering-wedges, n. (1)

    GSt 10.503 1 [George Stearns's] first donations were only entering-wedges of his later;...

enterprise, n. (29)

    AmS 1.107 21 The main enterprise of the world for splendor...is the upbuilding of a man.
    MN 1.215 5 To every reform...early disgusts are incident...so that [the disciple]...hates the enterprise which lately seemed so fair...
    YA 1.382 24 At least an economical success seemed certain for the enterprise [the Associations]...
    Cir 2.308 5 As soon as you once come up with a man's limitations, it is all over with him. Has he talents? has he enterprise? has he knowledge? it boots not.
    Exp 3.67 15 To-morrow again every thing looks real and angular...and experience is hands and feet to every enterprise;...
    Chr1 3.101 24 I knew an amiable and accomplished person who undertook a practical reform, yet I was never able to find in him the enterprise of love he took in hand.
    NR 3.240 14 Here is a new enterprise of Brook Farm...why so impatient to baptize them Essenes...or by any known and effete name?
    NMW 4.244 16 ...[Napoleon] could not hide his satisfaction in receiving from [his generals] a seconding and support commensurate with the grandeur of his enterprise.
    ET1 5.16 3 [Carlyle] had names of his own for all the matters familiar to his discourse. Blackwood's was the sand magazine;...a piece of road near by, that marked some failed enterprise, was the grave of the last sixpence.
    ET4 5.51 1 Everything English is a fusion of distant and antagonistic elements. The language is mixed;...the currents of thought are counter... world-wide enterprise and devoted use and wont;...
    ET8 5.132 5 Of that constitutional force which yields the supplies of the day, [the English] have more than enough; the excess which creates... enterprise in trade...
    ET14 5.236 3 The ardor and endurance of [English] study...the enterprise or accosting of new subjects...astonish...
    Pow 6.57 17 On the neck of the young man, said Hafiz, sparkles no gem so gracious as enterprise.
    SA 8.107 14 ...I believe...that intelligence, manly enterprise, good education, virtuous life and elegant manners have been and are found here...
    QO 8.189 24 Certainly it only needs two well placed and well tempered for cooperation, to get somewhat far transcending any private enterprise!
    Dem1 10.15 15 The belief that particular individuals are attended by a good fortune which makes them desirable associates in any enterprise of uncertain success, exists not only among those who take part in political and military projects...
    Aris 10.40 6 In every company one finds the best man; and if there be any question, it is decided the instant they enter into any practical enterprise.
    PerF 10.77 18 Every valuable person who joins in an enterprise...what he chiefly brings...is...his thoughts...
    Thor 10.480 16 ...[Thoreau] seemed born for great enterprise and for command;...
    HDC 11.53 13 We, who see in the squalid remnants of the twenty tribes of Massachusetts, the final failure of this benevolent enterprise, can hardly learn without emotion the earnestness with which the most sensible individuals of the copper race held on to the new hope they had conceived...
    HDC 11.54 10 Such was...the success of the general enterprise [conversion of the Indians], that, in 1676, there were five hundred and sixty-seven praying Indians...
    EWI 11.100 10 It has been in all men's experience a marked effect of the enterprise in behalf of the African, to generate an overbearing and defying spirit.
    EWI 11.109 4 Mr. Pitt and Mr. Fox were drawn into the generous enterprise [emancipation of West Indian slaves].
    EWI 11.147 16 The genius of the Saxon race, friendly to liberty; the enterprise, the very muscular vigor of this nation, are inconsistent with slavery.
    War 11.175 21 There is the highest fitness in the place and time in which this enterprise [Congress of Nations] is begun.
    JBS 11.278 19 ...[John Brown's] enterprise to go into Virginia and run off five hundred or a thousand slaves was not a piece of spite or revenge...
    Wom 11.423 22 ...when I read the list of men...of social distinction, leading men of wealth and enterprise in the commercial community, and see what they have voted for and suffered to be voted for, I think no community was ever so politely and elegantly betrayed.
    FRep 11.532 26 Young men at thirty and even earlier...if they fail in their first enterprise throw up the game.
    Let 12.395 6 One of the [letter] writers relentingly says, What shall my uncles and aunts do without me? and desires distinctly to be understood...to propose...to begin the enterprise of concentration by concentrating all uncles and aunts in one delightful village by themselves!...

enterprises, n. (8)

    Tran 1.348 2 ...[Transcendentalists] do not willingly share...in the enterprises of education...
    Tran 1.354 24 In the eternal trinity of Truth, Goodness, and Beauty... [Transcendentalists] prefer to make Beauty the sign and head. Something of the same taste is observable in all the moral movements of the time, in the religious and benevolent enterprises.
    YA 1.386 6 If any man has a talent...for combining a hundred private enterprises to a general benefit, let him in the county-town...put up his sign-board, Mr. Smith, Governor...
    SR 2.75 25 If our young men miscarry in their first enterprises they lose all heart.
    PC 8.210 11 Consider...what variety...of enterprises public and private...the railroad, the telegraph...have evoked!...
    HDC 11.68 16 ...We cannot possibly view with indifference the...endeavors of the enemies of this...country, to rob us of those...rights, that we are obliged to no power, under heaven, for the enjoyment of; as they are the fruit of the heroic enterprises of the first settlers of these American colonies.
    Bost 12.198 25 When one thinks of the enterprises that are attempted in the heats of youth...we see with new increased respect the solid, well-calculated scheme of these emigrants [to New England]...
    Trag 12.406 14 Men and women at thirty years, and even earlier...if they fail in their first enterprises, they throw up the game.

enters, v. (41)

    Nat 1.39 7 What noble emotions dilate the mortal as he enters into the councils of the creation...
    LT 1.288 26 ...we do not know that...only as much as the law enters us, becomes us, are we living men...
    Tran 1.346 3 We easily predict a fair future to each new candidate who enters the lists...
    Tran 1.353 15 So little skill enters into these works...that it really signifies little what we do...
    YA 1.366 23 ...beside all the moral benefit which we may expect from the farmer's profession, when a man enters it considerately; this [inclination to withdraw from cities] promised the conquering of the soil...
    Hist 2.16 22 ...by watching for a time [a child's] motions and plays, the painter enters into his nature and can then draw him at will in every attitude.
    SR 2.70 17 Self-existence...constitutes the measure of good by the degree in which it enters into all lower forms.
    SL 2.157 26 ...into every assembly that a man enters, in every action he attempts, he is gauged and stamped.
    Lov1 2.182 15 ...so is the one beautiful soul only the door through which [the lover] enters to the society of all true and pure souls.
    Hsm1 2.245 7 When any Rodrigo, Pedro or Valerio enters [in the plays of the elder English dramatists]...the duke or governor exclaims, This is a gentleman...
    Int 2.327 20 God enters by a private door into every individual.
    Exp 3.51 27 Temperament also enters fully into the system of illusions...
    Mrs1 3.122 1 [Good society]...is a compound result into which every great force enters as an ingredient...
    PPh 4.69 16 ...beauty is the most lovely of all things, exciting hilarity and shedding desire and confidence through the universe wherever it enters, and it enters in some degree into all things...
    ShP 4.191 5 Men, nations, poets, artisans, women, all have worked for [the great man], and he enters into their labors.
    ET5 5.81 19 Into this English logic...an infusion of justice enters, not so apparent in other races;...
    ET10 5.162 20 Scandinavian Thor...in England...enters Parliament...
    Bhr 6.188 19 ...the sad realist knows these fellows [of position] at a glance, and they know him; as when in Paris the chief of the police enters a ball-room, so many diamonded pretenders shrink...
    CbW 6.245 5 So much fate...enters into [life], that we doubt we can say anything out of our own experience whereby to help each other.
    CbW 6.273 9 ...few writers have said anything better to this point [of friendship] than Hafiz...Thou learnest no secret until thou knowest friendship, since to the unsound no heavenly knowledge enters.
    Bty 6.305 5 Into every beautiful object there enters somewhat immeasurable and divine...
    Ill 6.312 15 In the life of the dreariest alderman, fancy enters into all details...
    Ill 6.325 10 The young mortal enters the hall of the firmament; there is he alone with [the gods] alone...
    Elo1 7.81 26 ...when [personal ascendency] is weaponed with a power of speech, it...supplies the imagination with fine materials. This circumstance enters into every consideration of the power of orators...
    OA 7.323 13 The insurance of a ship expires as she enters the harbor at home.
    OA 7.334 25 [John Adams]...enters bravely into long sentences...
    PPo 8.258 18 Hafiz says...to the unsound no heavenly knowledge enters.
    Imtl 8.323 12 Driven by the chilling tempest, a little sparrow enters at one door...
    Edc1 10.133 14 When I see the doors by which God enters into the mind;... I can expect any revolution in character.
    Edc1 10.141 7 ...[the boy] gladly enters a school which forbids conceit, affectation, emphasis and dulness...
    Supl 10.163 10 I wish to point at some of [the doctrine of temperance's] higher functions as it enters into mind and character.
    SovE 10.192 21 Strength enters just as much as the moral element prevails.
    MMEm 10.409 4 As a traveller enters some fine palace and finds all the doors closed, and he only allowed the use of some avenues and passages, so have I [Mary Moody Emerson] wandered from the cradle over the apartments of social affections...
    HDC 11.30 4 Man's life, said the Witan to the Saxon king, is the sparrow that enters at a window...
    FSLN 11.218 17 Look into the morning trains which, from every suburb, carry the business men into the city to their...work-yards and warehouses. With them enters the car-the newsboy, that humble priest of politics, finance, philosophy, and religion.
    PLT 12.29 9 ...[man] enters the world by one key.
    PLT 12.57 18 The men we know, poets, wits, writers, deal with their thoughts as jewellers with jewels, which they sell but must not wear. Like the carpenter, who gives up the key of the fine house he has built, and never enters it again.
    PLT 12.61 25 Strength enters as the moral element enters.
    PLT 12.61 26 Strength enters as the moral element enters.
    CW 12.174 1 If [a thoughtful man] suffer from accident or low spirits, his spirits rise when he enters [his wood-lot].
    Pray 12.353 11 Why should I feel reproved when a busy one enters the room?

entertain, v. (33)

    LE 1.155 6 A summons to celebrate with scholars a literary festival, is so alluring to me as to overcome the doubts I might well entertain of my ability to bring you any thought worthy of your attention.
    MN 1.223 9 What man seeing this [great reality], can...entertain a meaner subject?
    Con 1.326 6 The boldness of the hope men entertain transcends all former experience.
    Tran 1.344 3 ...[Transcendentalists] do not wish, as they are sincere and religious, to gratify any mere curiosity which you may entertain.
    Comp 2.117 17 Has [a man] a defect of temper that unfits him to live in society? Thereby he is driven to entertain himself alone...
    Fdsp 2.201 24 Happy is the house that shelters a friend! It might well be built...to entertain him a single day.
    Int 2.337 19 ...as soon as we let our will go and let the unconscious states ensue, see what cunning draughtsmen we are! We entertain ourselves with wonderful forms of men...
    Exp 3.85 19 It takes...a very little time to entertain a hope and an insight which becomes the light of our life.
    Chr1 3.90 6 [Character] is conceived of as a certain undemonstrable force... by whose impulses the man is guided...which is company for him, so that such men...can entertain themselves very well alone.
    Chr1 3.114 26 I do not forgive in my friends the failure to know a fine character and to entertain it with thankful hospitality.
    UGM 4.10 3 A magnet must be made man in some...Oersted, before the general mind can come to entertain its powers.
    SwM 4.105 10 [Swedenborg] had a capacity to entertain and vivify these volumes of thought.
    MoS 4.155 25 If you come near [the studious classes] and see what conceits they entertain,--they are abstractionists...
    MoS 4.162 9 ...the personal regard which I entertain for Montaigne may be unduly great...
    MoS 4.166 19 [Montaigne] makes no hesitation to entertain you with the records of his disease...
    MoS 4.180 22 Some minds are incapable of skepticism. The doubts they profess to entertain are rather a civility or accommodation to the common discourse of their company.
    ShP 4.198 15 Thought is the property of him who can entertain it...
    ET16 5.276 3 I told Carlyle that...I like the [English] people;...but meantime, I surely know that as soon as I return to Massachusetts I shall lapse at once into the feeling...that England...must one day be contented...to be strong only in her children. But this was a proposition which no Englishman of whatever condition can easily entertain.
    ET19 5.313 23 I see [England] in her old age...still daring to believe in her power of endurance and expansion. Seeing this, I say, All hail! mother of nations...still wise to entertain and swift to execute the policy which the mind and heart of mankind requires in the present hour...
    Comc 8.161 21 We have no deeper interest than...that we should be made aware by joke and by stroke of any lie we entertain.
    PPo 8.236 6 As Jelaleddin old and gray,/ [Saadi] seemed to bask, to dream and play/ Without remoter hope or fear/ Than still to entertain his ear/...
    Insp 8.297 5 [Scholars] are men whom a book could entertain...
    Schr 10.278 12 ...when one observes how eagerly our people entertain and discuss a new theory...one would draw a favorable inference as to their intellectual and spiritual tendencies.
    Thor 10.456 21 ...[Thoreau]...threw himself heartily and childlike into the company of young people...whom he delighted to entertain...
    LVB 11.92 15 The piety, the principle that is left in the United States... forbid us to entertain [the relocation of the Cherokees] as a fact.
    FSLC 11.204 20 [Webster] praises Adams and Jefferson, but it is a past Adams and Jefferson that his mind can entertain.
    FSLC 11.208 1 [Abolition] is really the project fit for this country to entertain and accomplish.
    CPL 11.505 13 A man, that strives to make himself a different thing from other men by much reading gains this chiefest good, that in all fortunes he hath something to entertain and comfort himself withal.
    FRep 11.522 26 [Americans] are carless of politics, because they do not entertain the possibility of being seriously caught in meshes of legislation.
    PLT 12.45 23 There are men...who easily entertain ideas, but are not exact...
    PLT 12.58 3 [People] entertain us for a time...
    MLit 12.313 16 Accustomed always to behold the presence of the universe in every part, the soul will not condescend to look at any new part as a stranger, but saith,-I know all already and what art thou? Show me thy relations to me, to all, and I will entertain thee also.
    Let 12.394 13 [The correspondents] do not entertain anything absurd or even difficult.

entertained, v. (19)

    LE 1.183 5 They whom [the student's] thoughts have entertained or inflamed, seek him before yet they have learned the hard conditions of thought.
    Con 1.319 24 If any man resist and set up a foolish hope he has entertained as good against the general despair, Society frowns on him...
    Chr1 3.99 21 ...if I go to see an ingenious man I shall think myself poorly entertained if he give me nimble pieces of benevolence and etiquette;...
    Pol1 3.221 13 I do not call to mind a single human being who has steadily denied the authority of the laws, on the simple ground of his own moral nature. Such designs...are not entertained except avowedly as air-pictures.
    UGM 4.21 15 If I work in my garden and prune an apple-tree, I am well enough entertained...
    PPh 4.72 21 [Socrates]...he is hardy as a soldier, and can live...usually, in the strictest sense, on bread and water, except when entertained by his friends.
    SwM 4.138 13 That pure malignity can exist is the extreme proposition of unbelief. It is not to be entertained by a rational agent;...
    ET1 5.8 12 [Landor] entertained us at once with reciting half a dozen hexameter lines of Julius Caesar's!...
    ET4 5.47 19 ...no genius can long or often utter any thing which is not invited and gladly entertained by men around him.
    ET8 5.129 27 In every [English] inn is the Commercial-Room, in which travellers, or bagmen who carry patterns and solicit orders for the manufacturers, are wont to be entertained.
    ET9 5.149 6 ...the natural disposition is fostered by the respect which [the English] find entertained in the world for English ability.
    ET12 5.201 8 Albert Alaskie...was entertained with stage-plays in the Refectory of Christ-Church [College, Oxford] in 1583.
    Bhr 6.187 21 Here comes to me Roland, with a delicacy of sentiment leading and enwrapping him like a divine cloud or holy ghost. 'T is a great destitution to both that this should not be entertained with large leisures...
    Elo1 7.72 7 I [Antenor] received [Ulysses and Menelaus] and entertained them at my house.
    Comc 8.172 13 Timur saw himself in the mirror and found his face quite too ugly. Therefore he began to weep; Chodscha also set himself to weep; and so they wept for two hours. On this, some courtiers...entertained [Timur] with strange stories in order to make him forget all about it.
    Aris 10.33 13 The terrible aristocracy that is in Nature. Real people dwelling with the real...then, far down, people of taste, people dwelling in a relation, or rumor, or influence of good and fair, entertained by it...and, far below these, gross and thoughtless, the animal man...
    LS 11.8 1 ...many opinions may be entertained of [Jesus's] intention, all consistent with the opinion that he did not design a perpetual ordinance [in the Lord's Supper].
    Wom 11.424 24 When new opinions appear, they will be entertained and respected, by every fair mind, according to their reasonableness...
    Let 12.398 26 ...companies of the best-educated young men in the Atlantic states every week take their departure for Europe;...simply because they shall so be...agreeably entertained for one or two years...

entertainer, n. (3)

    LT 1.274 10 [The wealthy man] entertains [the divine]...lodges him; his religion comes home at night, prays, is...sumptuously laid to sleep; rises... and after the malmsey...his religion walks abroad at eight, and leaves his kind entertainer in the shop, trading all day without his religion.
    ET15 5.266 3 Our entertainer [at the London Times] confided us to a courteous assistant to show us the establishment...
    Plu 10.319 21 The guests not invited to a private board by the entertainer, but introduced by a guest as his companions, the Greek called shadows;...

entertaining, adj. (9)

    MoS 4.167 27 The Essays...are an entertaining soliloquy on every random topic that comes into [Montaigne's] head;...
    Farm 7.154 4 Cities force growth and make men talkative and entertaining...
    SA 8.87 7 It is necessary for the purification of drawing-rooms that these entertaining explosions [of laughter] should be under strict control.
    Insp 8.292 20 ...in discourse with a friend, our thought...allows itself to be seen as a thought, in a manner as new and entertaining to us as to our companions.
    LLNE 10.348 18 [Fourier's] ciphering goes...into stars, atmospheres and animals, and men and women, and classes of every character. It was the most entertaining of French romances...
    MMEm 10.402 21 Nobody can...recall the conversation of old-school people, without seeing that Milton and Young had a religious authority in their mind, and nowise the slight, merely entertaining quality of modern bards.
    CL 12.151 25 The world has nothing to offer more rich or entertaining than the days which October always brings us...
    CW 12.178 24 Cities force the growth and make [the man] talkative and entertaining...
    AgMs 12.360 25 The account [in the Agricultural Survey] of the maple sugar,-that is very good and entertaining...

entertaining, v. (3)

    Mrs1 3.139 23 ...fashion is...not good sense private, but good sense entertaining company.
    Boks 7.200 26 ...the meeting of the Seven Wise Masters...is as... entertaining as a French novel.
    Plu 10.313 4 When you are persuaded in your mind that you cannot either offer or perform anything more agreeable to the gods than the entertaining a right notion of them, you will then avoid superstition as a no less evil than atheism.

entertainment, n. (24)

    SL 2.139 15 Why need you choose so painfully your...modes of action and of entertainment?
    Fdsp 2.204 4 My friend gives me entertainment without requiring any stipulation on my part.
    Exp 3.84 18 I am very content with knowing, if only I could know. That is an august entertainment...
    Mrs1 3.152 13 ...this Byzantine pile of chivalry or Fashion, which seems so fair and picturesque to those who look at the contemporary facts for science or for entertainment, is not equally pleasant to all spectators.
    NER 3.278 16 The entertainment of the proposition of depravity is the last profligacy and profanation.
    MoS 4.179 23 ...[the young spirit] went with [his thought] to the chosen and intelligent, and found no entertainment for it...
    GoW 4.278 12 ...those who look in [Goethe's Wilhelm Meister] for the entertainment they find in a romance, are disappointed.
    ET6 5.113 18 ...[the English] would sooner give five or six ducats to provide an entertainment for a person, than a groat to assist him in any distress.
    Bhr 6.184 15 The theatre in which this science of manners has a formal importance is not with us a court, but dress-circles, wherein, after the close of the day's business, men and women meet...for mutual entertainment...
    Wsp 6.236 2 If the thought come, I would give it entertainment [said Benedict].
    DL 7.118 3 The diet of the house does not create its order, but knowledge, character, action, absorb so much life and yield so much entertainment that the refectory has ceased to be so curiously studied.
    DL 7.119 20 There was never a country in the world...where intellectual entertainment is so within reach of youthful ambition.
    DL 7.120 20 ...who can see unmoved...the cautious comparison of the attractive advertisement...of the discourse of a well-known speaker, with the expense of the entertainment;...
    Boks 7.205 6 [Horace, Tacitus, Martial] will bring [the student] to Gibbon, who will...convey him with abundant entertainment down...through fourteen hundred years of time.
    PI 8.36 8 ...there is entertainment and room for talent in the artist's selection of ancient or remote subjects;...
    Dem1 10.4 27 When newly awaked from lively dreams...give us...one hint, and we should repossess the whole; hours of this strange entertainment would come trooping back to us;...
    Chr2 10.103 9 [The moral sentiment] is not only insight...or an entertainment...but it is a sovereign rule...
    Chr2 10.105 1 The religion of one age is the literary entertainment of the next.
    MoL 10.244 15 Dramatic mysteries were the entertainment of the people [in the Middle Ages].
    Plu 10.320 6 [Plutarch] thought it wonderful that a man having a muse in his own breast, and all the pleasantness that would fit an entertainment, would have pipes and harps play...
    CPL 11.501 14 [Literature] is thought to be the harmless entertainment of a few fanciful persons...
    CPL 11.506 18 In books I have the history or the energy of the past. Angels they are to us of entertainment, sympathy and provocation.
    PLT 12.9 5 Here [in society]...the solidest merits must exist only for the entertainment of all.
    Bost 12.193 18 [The Massachusetts colonists] read Milton, Thomas a Kempis, Bunyan and Flavel with religious awe and delight, not for entertainment.

Entertainments, Arabian Nig (3)

    ShP 4.201 2 Vedas, Aesop's Fables, Pilpay, Arabian Nights, Cid, Iliad, Robin Hood, Scottish Minstrelsy, are not the work of single men.
    Elo1 7.70 18 The whole world knows pretty well the style of these [Eastern] improvisators, and how fascinating they are, in our translations of the Arabian Nights.
    DL 7.106 20 The Arabian Nights' Entertainments...what mines of thought and emotion...are in this encyclopaedia of young thinking!

Entertainments, Arabian Nig (1)

    PC 8.214 2 ...each European nation...had its romantic era, and the productions of that era in each rose to about the same height. Take for an example in literature the Romance of Arthur, in Britain...the Norse Sagas, in Scandinavia; and, I may add, the Arabian Nights, on the African coast.

entertainments, n. (11)

    DSA 1.120 19 These works of thought have been the entertainments of the human spirit in all ages.
    MR 1.236 20 We must have a basis for...our delicate entertainments of poetry and philosophy, in the work of our hands.
    MR 1.246 13 Sofas, ottomans, stoves, wine, game-fowl, spices, perfumes, rides, the theatre, entertainments,-all these [infirm people] want...
    ShP 4.191 17 Shakspeare's youth fell in a time when the English people were importunate for dramatic entertainments.
    ShP 4.217 14 [Shakespeare] converted the elements which waited on his command, into entertainments.
    DL 7.106 7 What entertainments make every day bright and short for the fine freshman!
    Farm 7.139 14 [The farmer's] entertainments, his liberties and his spending must be on a farmer's scale, and not on a merchant's.
    WD 7.173 27 How difficult to deal erect with [these passing hours]! The events they bring, their trade, entertainments and gossip...all throw dust in the eyes and distract attention.
    Imtl 8.327 14 Swedenborg described an intelligible heaven, by continuing the like employments in the like circumstances as those we know; men in societies, in houses, towns, trades, entertainments;...
    CInt 12.130 18 Go sit with the Hermit in you, who knows more than you do. You will find...doors opened to grander entertainments.
    WSL 12.341 6 In these busy days...when there is so little disposition...to any but the most superficial intellectual entertainments, a faithful scholar... is a friend and consoler of mankind.

entertains, v. (4)

    LT 1.274 1 [The wealthy man] entertains [the divine]...
    Mrs1 3.139 5 [The spirit of the energetic class] entertains every natural gift.
    ET13 5.223 7 ...[the English clergyman] entertains your thought or your project with sympathy and praise.
    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.

enthrone, v. (3)

    PLT 12.58 16 The condition of sanity is...to enthrone the instinct.
    CInt 12.115 10 ...if the intellectual interest be, as I hold, no hypocrisy, but the only reality,-then it behooves us to enthrone it, obey it;...
    CInt 12.123 12 Will you let me say to you what I think is the organic law of learning? It is...to enthrone the Instinct.

enthroned, v. (2)

    Imtl 8.343 11 If truth live, I live; if justice live, I live, said one of the old saints; and these by any man's suffering are enlarged and enthroned.
    Edc1 10.135 26 [The moral nature] should be enthroned in [man's] mind...

enthrones, v. (1)

    MAng1 12.240 19 [Michelangelo] enthrones his mistress as a benignant angel...

enthronization, n. (1)

    ET13 5.218 9 In York minster, on the day of the enthronization of the new archbishop, I heard the service of evening prayer read and chanted in the choir.

enthusiasm, n. (61)

    Nat 1.73 6 Such examples [of the action of man upon nature with his entire force] are...the miracles of enthusiasm...
    DSA 1.131 3 ...the language that describes Christ...is not the style of... enthusiasm...
    MN 1.210 25 ...as far as we can trace the natural history of the soul, its health consists...in the fact that enthusiasm is organized therein.
    MN 1.217 2 What is Love, and why is it the chief good, but because it is an overpowering enthusiasm?
    MR 1.251 5 Every great and commanding moment in the annals of the world is the triumph of some enthusiasm.
    Tran 1.349 14 Few persons have any magnificence of nature to inspire enthusiasm...
    Lov1 2.169 10 The introduction to this felicity [of Nature] is in a private and tender relation of one to one, which...like a certain divine rage and enthusiasm, seizes on man at one period...
    OS 2.281 18 ...a certain enthusiasm attends the individual's consciousness of that divine presence [the soul].
    OS 2.281 20 ...a certain enthusiasm attends the individual's consciousness of that divine presence [the soul]. The character and duration of this enthusiasm vary with the state of the individual...
    OS 2.282 12 Everywhere the history of religion betrays a tendency to enthusiasm.
    Cir 2.321 26 Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
    Chr1 3.102 3 I knew an amiable and accomplished person who undertook a practical reform, yet I was never able to find in him the enterprise of love he took in hand. ... All his action was tentative, a piece of the city carried out into the fields, and was the city still...and could not inspire enthusiasm.
    Pol1 3.209 16 Parties of principle...degenerate into personalities, or would inspire enthusiasm.
    Pol1 3.221 19 Not the less does nature continue to fill the heart of youth with suggestions of this enthusiasm...
    NER 3.273 11 Berkeley, having listened to the many lively things [Lord Bathurst's guests] had to say...displayed his plan with such an astonishing and animating force of eloquence and enthusiasm that they were struck dumb...
    NMW 4.247 11 [Napoleon's] power does not consist...in any enthusiasm like Mahomet's...
    GoW 4.267 15 ...although [the Quaker and the Shaker] each prates of spirit, there is no spirit, but repetition, which is anti-spiritual. But where are his new things of to-day? In actions of enthusiasm this drawback appears...
    ET6 5.112 18 Cold, repressive manners prevail [in England]. No enthusiasm is permitted except at the opera.
    ET13 5.219 24 Good churches are not built by bad men; at least there must be probity and enthusiasm somewhere in the society.
    ET14 5.254 7 [Natural science in England] stands in strong contrast with the genius of the Germans, those semi-Greeks, who...by means of their height of view, preserve their enthusiasm and think for Europe.
    Wsp 6.208 8 In our large cities the population is godless, materialized,--no bond, no fellow-feeling, no enthusiasm.
    Bty 6.286 10 At the birth of Winckelmann...side by side with this arid, departmental, post mortem science, rose an enthusiasm in the study of Beauty;...
    Bty 6.296 24 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...
    Civ 7.26 20 There can be no high civility without a deep morality, though it may not always call itself by that name, but sometimes...the enthusiasm of some religious sect which imputes its virtue to its dogma;...
    Art2 7.56 1 These arts have their origin always in some enthusiasm...
    Art2 7.56 11 ...all [the arts] sprang out of some genuine enthusiasm...
    Art2 7.56 23 In this country, at this time...the arts, the daughters of enthusiasm, do not flourish.
    Elo1 7.61 8 One man is brought to the boiling-point by the excitement of conversation in the parlor. The waters, of course, are not very deep. He has a two-inch enthusiasm...
    OA 7.334 20 We asked if at Whitefield's return the same popularity continued.--Not the same fury, [John Adams] said, not the same wild enthusiasm as before...
    Comc 8.173 7 ...when this [patriotic] enthusiasm is perceived to end in the very intelligible maxims of trade...the intellect feels again the half-man.
    PC 8.229 21 Enthusiasm is the leaping lightning...
    Insp 8.275 4 What is a man good for without enthusiasm? and what is enthusiasm but this daring of ruin for its object?
    Insp 8.290 1 George Sand says, I have no enthusiasm for Nature which the slightest chill will not instantly destroy.
    Grts 8.318 14 ...there are always men who...inspire universal enthusiasm.
    Aris 10.66 6 ...the American who would serve his country must...revisit the margin of that well from which his fathers drew waters of life and enthusiasm...
    Chr2 10.96 23 Though Love repine, and Reason chafe,/ There came a voice without reply,/ 'T is man's perdition to be safe,/ When for the truth he ought to die./ Such is the difference of the action of the heart within and of the senses without. One is enthusiasm, and the other more or less amounts of horse-power.
    Chr2 10.113 1 Ideas always generate enthusiasm.
    Edc1 10.147 1 Nor are the two elements, enthusiasm and drill, incompatible.
    Edc1 10.150 10 Appetite and indolence [young men] have, but no enthusiasm.
    Supl 10.171 20 Enthusiasm is the height of man;...
    SovE 10.198 20 ...I see not why to these simple instincts, simple yet grand, all the heights and transcendencies of virtue and of enthusiasm are not open.
    SovE 10.204 11 A sleep creeps over the great functions of man. Enthusiasm goes out.
    MoL 10.257 5 All of us have shared the new enthusiasm of country and of liberty which swept like a whirlwind through all souls at the outbreak of war...
    Schr 10.287 19 I invite you [scholars]...to bareness, to power, to enthusiasm...
    LLNE 10.347 20 ...truly I honor the generous ideas of the Socialists, the magnificence of their theories and the enthusiasm with which they have been urged.
    CSC 10.374 18 ...a great deal of confusion, eccentricity and freak appeared [at the Chardon Street Convention], as well as of zeal and enthusiasm.
    EzRy 10.393 12 ...with states of enthusiasm or enlarged speculation, [Ezra Ripley] had no sympathy...
    Carl 10.491 16 [Carlyle] treats [young men] with contempt;...they will eat vegetables and drink water, and he is a Scotchman who thinks English national character has a pure enthusiasm for beef and mutton...
    Carl 10.495 13 In proportion to the peals of laughter amid which [Carlyle] strips the plumes of a pretender...does he worship whatever enthusiasm, fortitude, love or other sign of a good nature is in a man.
    HDC 11.77 18 ...[William Emerson]...is said to have deeply inspired many of his people with his own enthusiasm [for the Revolution].
    EWI 11.109 21 These debates [on West Indian slavery] are instructive, as they show on what grounds the trade was assailed and defended. Everything generous, wise and sprightly is sure to come to the attack. On the other part are found cold prudence, bare-faced selfishness and silent votes. But the nation was aroused to enthusiasm.
    HCom 11.343 9 ...the infusion of culture and tender humanity from these scholars and idealists who went to the war in their own despite...had its signal and lasting effect. It was found that enthusiasm was a more potent ally than science and munitions of war without it.
    HCom 11.343 14 It is a principle of war, said Napoleon, that when you can use the thunderbolt you must prefer it to the cannon. Enthusiasm was the thunderbolt [in the Civil War].
    EdAd 11.391 2 Will [a journal] measure itself with the chapter on Slavery, in some sort the special enigma of the time, as it has provoked against it a sort of inspiration and enthusiasm singular in modern history?
    FRO1 11.478 10 ...[the church] cannot inspire the enthusiasm which is the parent of everything good in history...
    FRO1 11.478 12 ...[the church] cannot inspire the enthusiasm...which makes the romance of history. For that enthusiasm you must have something greater than yourselves, and not less.
    CInt 12.125 16 In the romance Spiridion...we had...the story of a young saint who comes into a convent for her education...but inspired with an enthusiasm which finds nothing there to feed it, it turns out in a few days that every hand is against this young votary.
    CInt 12.127 3 ...here [in the college] Imagination should be greeted with the problems in which it delights;...here...enthusiasm for liberty and wisdom should breed enthusiasm and form heroes for the state.
    CInt 12.127 4 ...here [in the college] Imagination should be greeted with the problems in which it delights;...here...enthusiasm for liberty and wisdom should breed enthusiasm and form heroes for the state.
    CL 12.140 3 I have no enthusiasm for Nature, said a French writer, which the slightest chill will not instantly destroy.
    Milt1 12.255 10 The man of Locke is virtuous without enthusiasm...

enthusiasms, n. (1)

    MoS 4.169 7 [Montaigne's] writing has no enthusiasms...

enthusiast, n. (4)

    Bhr 6.183 14 The enthusiast is introduced to polished scholars in society and is chilled and silenced by finding himself not in their element.
    Edc1 10.146 23 ...[Fellowes] was able to reconstruct, in the British Museum...the perfect model of the Ionic trophy-monument...which had been destroyed by earthquakes, then by iconoclast Christians, then by savage Turks. But mark that in the task...the enthusiast had found the master, the masters, whom he sought.
    MMEm 10.421 4 There was great truth in what a pious enthusiast said, that, if God should cast him into hell, he would yet clasp his hands around Him.
    GSt 10.506 10 There [George Stearns] sat in the council...an enthusiast only in his love of freedom and the good of men;...

enthusiastic, adj. (6)

    PPh 4.74 14 This hard-headed humorist [Socrates]...turns out...to be either insane, or at least, under cover of this play, enthusiastic in his religion.
    GoW 4.280 13 The wonderful in [Goethe's Wilhelm Meister] is expressly treated as fiction and enthusiastic dreaming...
    Schr 10.271 14 There could always be traced...some vestiges of a faith in genius, as...in enthusiastic homage;...
    II 12.83 12 An enthusiastic workman dignifies his art and arrives at results.
    Milt1 12.257 19 [Milton's] ear for music was so acute that he was not only enthusiastic in his love, but a skilful performer himself;...
    MLit 12.326 2 The fair hearers [says Wieland] were enthusiastic at the nature in this piece [Goethe's journal];...

enthusiastically, adv. (1)

    FSLC 11.209 2 'T is said [buying the slaves] will cost two thousand millions of dollars. Was there ever any contribution that was so enthusiastically paid as this will be?

enthusiasts, n. (1)

    Plu 10.306 26 Plato and Plotinus are enthusiasts, who honor the race;...

enthusiast's, n. (1)

    Bhr 6.183 20 ...if [the enthusiast] finds the scholar apart from his companions, it is then the enthusiast's turn...

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