Enticement to Es

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

enticement, n. (1)

    Nat2 3.192 8 There is in woods and waters a certain enticement and flattery...

entire, adj. (87)

    Nat 1.23 27 The standard of beauty is the entire circuit of natural forms...
    Nat 1.64 16 ...we learn that man has access to the entire mind of the Creator...
    Nat 1.66 11 ...the best read naturalist who lends an entire and devout attention to truth, will see that there remains much to learn of his relation to the world...
    Nat 1.66 17 ...the best read naturalist who lends an entire and devout attention to truth, will see that there remains much to learn of his relation to the world, and that it...is arrived at...by entire humility.
    Nat 1.72 27 ...there are not wanting...occasional examples of the action of man upon nature with his entire force...
    AmS 1.85 10 Therein [nature] resembles [the scholar's] own spirit, whose beginning, whose ending, he never can find, - so entire, so boundless.
    DSA 1.122 12 ...in the soul of man there is a justice whose retributions are instant and entire.
    DSA 1.133 19 ...with yet more entire consent of my human being, sounds in my ear the severe music of the bards that have sung of the true God in all ages.
    MR 1.246 10 [Infirm people] contrive everywhere to exhaust for their single comfort the entire means and appliances of that luxury to which our invention has yet attained.
    Hist 2.3 13 [The universal mind's] genius is illustrated by the entire series of days.
    Comp 2.97 10 The entire system of things gets represented in every particle.
    Comp 2.101 15 Every occupation, trade, art, transaction, is...a correlative of every other. Each one is an entire emblem of human life;...
    Comp 2.113 11 ...first or last you must pay your entire debt.
    SL 2.161 15 The epochs of our life are...in a thought which revises our entire manner of life...
    Fdsp 2.211 19 ...the least defect of self-possession vitiates...the entire relation [of friendship].
    Prd1 2.237 17 Entire self-possession may make a battle very little more dangerous to life than a match at foils...
    Hsm1 2.258 22 ...[many extraordinary young men] seem to throw contempt on our entire polity and social state;...
    OS 2.289 24 This energy [of the soul] does not descend into individual life on any other condition than entire possession.
    Cir 2.310 12 A new degree of culture would instantly revolutionize the entire system of human pursuits.
    Int 2.344 11 Entire self-reliance belongs to the intellect.
    Int 2.346 19 ...[the Greek philosophers' thought] commands the entire schedule and inventory of things for its illustration.
    Pt1 3.40 26 All the creatures by pairs and by tribes pour into [the poet's] mind as into a Noah's ark, to come forth again to people a new world. This is like the stock of air for our respiration or for the combustion of our fireplace; not a measure of gallons, but the entire atmosphere if wanted.
    Pol1 3.213 16 The wise man [the community] cannot find in nature, and it makes awkward but earnest efforts to secure his government by contrivance; as by causing the entire people to give their voices on every measure;...
    PPh 4.46 26 There is a moment in the history of every nation, when...the perceptive powers reach their ripeness and have not yet become microscopic: so that man, at that instant, extends across the entire scale...
    PPh 4.54 27 ...the union of impossibilities, which reappears in every object;, its real and its ideal power,--was now also transferred entire to the consciousness of a man [Plato].
    SwM 4.114 4 The ancient doctrine of Hippocrates, that the brain is a gland; and of Leucippus, that the atom may be known by the mass;...and which Malpighi had summed in his maxim that nature exists entire in leasts,--is a favorite thought of Swedenborg.
    SwM 4.114 12 It is a constant law of the organic body that large, compound, or visible forms exist and subsist from smaller, simpler and ultimately from invisible forms, which act similarly to the larger ones, but more perfectly and more universally; and the least forms so perfectly and universally as to involve an idea representative of their entire universe.
    SwM 4.134 14 The thousand-fold relation of men is not there [in Swedenborg's system of the world]. The interest that attaches in nature to each man...strong by his vices, often paralyzed by his virtues;--sinks into entire sympathy with his society.
    SwM 4.144 11 The entire want of poetry in so transcendent a mind [as Swedenborg's] betokens the disease...
    ET1 5.6 25 Here is my [Greenough's] theory of structure...the entire and immediate banishment of all make-shift and make-believe.
    ET1 5.12 27 I told [Coleridge] how excellent I thought [the Independent's pamphlet in The Friend] and how much I wished to see the entire work.
    ET1 5.22 17 ...[Wordsworth] recollected himself for a few moments and then stood forth and repeated...the three entire sonnets with great animation.
    ET4 5.62 4 It was a tardy recoil of these invasions [of Northmen], when...in 1807, Lord Cathcart, at Copenhagen, took the entire Danish fleet...
    ET10 5.160 23 ...there is wealth enough in England to support the entire population in idleness for one year.
    ET12 5.205 13 ...the known sympathy of entire Britain in what is done there [at the universities], justify a dedication to study in the undergraduate such as cannot easily be in America...
    ET13 5.218 3 The carved and pictured chapel--its entire surface animated with image and emblem--made the parish-church [in England] a sort of book and Bible to the people's eye.
    ET18 5.302 15 We cannot go deep enough into the biography of the spirit who never throws himself entire into one hero...
    F 6.20 3 The element running through entire nature, which we popularly call Fate, is known to us as limitation.
    Bhr 6.179 10 The mysterious communication established across a house between two entire strangers, moves all the springs of wonder.
    Ill 6.319 23 The intellect sees...that, in the endless striving and ascents, the metamorphosis is entire...
    Elo1 7.92 26 The possession the subject has of [the eloquent man's] mind is so entire that it insures an order of expression which is the order of Nature itself...
    DL 7.132 24 Does the consecration of Sunday confess the desecration of the entire week?
    Farm 7.143 26 The eternal rocks...have held their oxygen or lime...entire, as it was.
    Boks 7.206 1 To help us, perhaps a volume or two of M. Sismondi's Italian Republics will be as good as the entire sixteen.
    Suc 7.303 27 In [the lover's] surprise at the sudden and entire understanding that is between him and the beloved person, it occurs to him that they might somehow meet independently of time and place.
    PI 8.22 7 Genius certifies its entire possession of its thought, by translating it into a fact which perfectly represents it...
    SA 8.85 11 Wait till your affairs go better, and you have other means at hand; you will then ask in a different tone, and [your debtor] will treat your claim with entire respect.
    Res 8.147 8 ...it is the principal thing you are to beg at the hands of Almighty God, to preserve your understanding entire;...
    PC 8.212 18 Geology...has had the effect to throw an air of novelty and mushroom speed over entire history.
    PC 8.224 14 As language is in the alphabet, so is entire Nature...in one atom.
    PPo 8.247 5 That hardihood and self-equality of every sound nature, which result from the feeling that the spirit in him is entire and good as the world... are in Hafiz...
    Grts 8.307 23 [A man] is never happy nor strong until he...learns...to have the entire assurance of his own mind.
    Imtl 8.336 2 ...what are these delights in the vast and permanent and strong, but approximations and resemblances of what is entire and sufficing, creative and self-sustaining life?
    Imtl 8.340 14 [Truth] is self-sufficing, sound, entire.
    Aris 10.46 11 I know how steep the contrast of condition looks;...like entire chance...
    Chr2 10.94 5 The antagonist nature is the individual...with appetites which...would enlist the entire spiritual faculty of the individual...
    Chr2 10.94 21 We have no idea of power so simple and so entire as this [general mind].
    Chr2 10.112 3 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...
    Edc1 10.139 14 [Boys]...have no pedantry, but entire belief on experience.
    Edc1 10.140 24 ...every one desires that [the boy's] pure vigor of action and wealth of narrative...should be carried into the habit of the young man... with all its vivacity entire.
    Supl 10.163 8 ...it is a long way from the Maine Law to the heights of absolute self-command which respect the conservatism of the entire energies of the body, the mind, and the soul.
    SovE 10.197 2 ...I have never until now dreamed that this undertaking the entire management of my own affairs was not commendable.
    Prch 10.224 11 ...all that saints and churches and Bibles...have aimed at, is to...animate man to central and entire action.
    MoL 10.254 9 ...now not only all the statues of bronze in the temples of Aegina are destroyed, but...the very walls of the city are utterly gone; whilst the ode of Pindar, in praise of Pytheas, remains entire.
    EzRy 10.386 13 [Ezra Ripley's] prayers...are well remembered, and his own entire faith that these petitions were not to be overlooked...
    MMEm 10.400 24 [Mary Moody Emerson]...lived in entire solitude with these old people...
    MMEm 10.426 11 Sadness is better than walking talking acting somnambulism. Yes, this entire solitude with the Being who makes the powers of life!
    Thor 10.466 6 Mr. Thoreau dedicated his genius with such entire love to the fields, hills and waters of his native town, that he made them known and interesting to all reading Americans...
    GSt 10.503 3 ...[George Stearns] did not give money to excuse his entire preoccupation in his own pursuits...
    GSt 10.506 14 ...if [George Stearns] could not bring his associates to adopt his measure, he accepted with entire sweetness the next best measure which could secure their assent.
    HDC 11.47 13 In this open democracy [in New England], every opinion had utterance; every objection, every fact, every acre of land, every bushel of rye, its entire weight.
    LVB 11.91 13 It now appears that the government of the United States choose to hold the Cherokees to this sham treaty, and are proceeding to execute the same. Almost the entire Cherokee Nation stand up and say, This is not our act.
    FSLC 11.199 23 [The Fugitive Slave Law] has been like a university to the entire people.
    FSLN 11.218 21 [The newsboy] unfolds his magical sheets,-twopence a head his bread of knowledge costs-and instantly the entire rectangular assembly [in the railway car], fresh from their breakfast, are bending as one man to their second breakfast.
    FSLN 11.221 27 [Webster's appearance at Bunker Hill] was a place for behavior more than for speech, and Mr. Webster walked through his part with entire success.
    FRep 11.540 16 ...the Constitution and the law in America must be written on ethical principles, so that the entire power of the spiritual world shall hold the citizen loyal...
    PLT 12.15 24 [Intellect] is as the light, public and entire to each...
    PLT 12.28 20 [Nature] is immensely rich; [man] is welcome to her entire goods...
    II 12.86 5 There is but one only liberator in this life from the demons that invade us, and that is Endeavor,-earnest, entire, perennial endeavor.
    CW 12.174 2 [A thoughtful man] can spend the entire day therein [in his wood-lot], with hatchet or pruning-shears, making paths, without remorse of wasting time.
    MAng1 12.217 26 What other standard of the beautiful exists than the entire circuit of all harmonious proportions of the great system of Nature?
    MAng1 12.218 3 All particular beauties scattered up and down in Nature are only so far beautiful as they suggest more or less in themselves this entire circuit of harmonious proportions.
    MAng1 12.218 21 ...all men have an organization corresponding more or less to the entire system of Nature...
    MAng1 12.219 14 [Michelangelo] labored to express the beautiful, in the entire conviction that it was only to be attained by knowledge of the true.
    Milt1 12.271 4 Toland tells us...[Milton] used to tell those about him the entire satisfaction of his mind that he had constantly employed his strength and faculties in the defence of liberty...
    MLit 12.323 24 ...[Goethe] felt his entire right and duty to stand before and try and judge every fact in Nature.
    MLit 12.323 27 [Goethe] thought it necessary to dot round with his own pen the entire sphere of knowables;...

entirely, adv. (31)

    Nat 1.49 4 ...whilst we acquiesce entirely in the permanence of natural laws, the question of the absolute existence of nature still remains open.
    Nat 1.63 26 ...the dread universal essence, which is not wisdom, or love, or beauty, or power, but all in one, and each entirely, is that for which all things exist...
    AmS 1.88 11 ...neither can any artist entirely exclude the conventional...
    Tran 1.338 11 ...we have yet no man who has leaned entirely on his character...
    YA 1.385 22 The currency threatens to fall entirely into private hands.
    OS 2.280 10 If we...will act entirely...we know the particular thing, and every thing, and every man.
    OS 2.296 2 we have...no record of any character or mode of living that entirely contents us.
    Mrs1 3.150 14 ...I confide so entirely in [woman's] inspiring and musical nature, that I believe only herself can show us how she shall be served.
    PPh 4.70 24 Socrates and Plato are the double star which the most powerful instruments will not entirely separate.
    SwM 4.116 4 ...In our doctrine of Representations and Correspondences [says Swedenborg] we shall treat...of the astonishing things which occur... which correspond so entirely to supreme and spiritual things that one would swear that the physical world was purely symbolical of the spiritual world;...
    SwM 4.124 27 That metempsychosis which is familiar in the old mythology of the Greeks...in Swedenborg's mind has a more philosophic character. It is subjective, or depends entirely upon the thought of the person.
    SwM 4.143 20 It is remarkable that this man [Swedenborg]...remained entirely devoid of the whole apparatus of poetic expression...
    ShP 4.195 15 ...the amount of [Shakespeare's] indebtedness may be inferred from Malone's laborious computations in regard to the First, Second and Third parts of Henry VI., in which, out of 6043 lines, 1771 were written by some author preceding Shakspeare, 2373 by him, on the foundation laid by his predecessors, and 1899 were entirely his own.
    GoW 4.288 23 ...this man [Goethe] was entirely at home and happy in his century and the world.
    ET5 5.98 3 For the administration of justice [in England], Sir Samuel Romilly's expedient for clearing the arrears of business in Chancery was, the Chancellor's staying away entirely from his court.
    ET7 5.122 18 In February, 1848, [the English] said, Look, the French king and his party fell for want of a shot; they had not conscience to shoot, so entirely was the pith and heart of monarchy eaten out.
    ET8 5.128 3 ...[Englishmen's] well-known courage is entirely attributable to their digust of life.
    Wsp 6.212 14 ...the official men can in no wise help you in any question of to-day, they deriving entirely from the old dead things.
    Elo1 7.88 5 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 his trifling talk...did not impede, since he was entirely well meaning.
    SlHr 10.445 29 ...so entirely was [Samuel Hoar's] respect to the ground-plan and substructure of society a natural ability...that it was admirable...
    GSt 10.502 17 Mr. [George] Stearns...had the magnanimity to trust [John Brown] entirely...
    FSLN 11.223 13 What gratitude does every man feel to him who...who translates truth into language entirely plain and clear!
    ALin 11.335 18 Step by step [Lincoln] walked before [the American people];...an entirely public man;...
    Wom 11.407 12 ...[women] give entirely to their affections...
    Wom 11.415 19 A second epoch for Woman was in France,-entirely civil;...
    CPL 11.508 24 ...the whole assembly to whom I speak entirely sympathize in the feeling of this town [Concord] in regard to the new Library...
    PLT 12.6 19 My belief in the use of a course of philosophy is...that [the student] shall see in [the mind] the source of all traditions, and shall see each one of them as better or worse statement of its revelations; shall come to trust it entirely, as the only true;...
    II 12.82 6 Trust entirely the thought.
    Mem 12.104 4 In low or bad company you...withdraw yourelf entirely from all the doleful circumstance, recall and surround yourself with the best associates and fairest hours of your life...
    CW 12.173 3 You know [said Linnaeus]...that I live entirely in the Academy Garden;...
    MLit 12.330 4 ...because Nature is moral, that mind only can see, in which the same order entirely obtains.

entireness, n. (1)

    Fdsp 2.217 2 The essence of friendship is entireness...

entities, n. (1)

    Hist 2.33 19 These figures, [Goethe] would say, these Chirons, Griffins, Phorkyas, Helen and Leda, are somewhat, and do exert a specific influence on the mind. So far then are they eternal entities...

entitle, v. (5)

    SwM 4.124 7 The moral insight of Swedenborg...the announcement of ethical laws...entitle him to a place...among the lawgivers of mankind.
    SwM 4.139 16 For the anomalous pretension of Revelations of the other world,--only [Swedenborg's] probity and genius can entitle it to any serious regard.
    MoS 4.161 20 The terms of admission to this spectacle [of life] are, that [the wise skeptic] have...proof...that he has evinced the temper, stoutness and the range of qualities which...entitle him to fellowship and trust.
    PPo 8.247 6 That hardihood and self-equality of every sound nature...which entitle the poet to speak with authority...are in Hafiz...
    Milt1 12.255 24 The genius of France has not...yet culminated in any one head...into such perception of all the attributes of humanity as to entitle it to any rivalry in these lists [with Milton].

entitled, v. (48)

    Nat 1.20 8 ...[man] is entitled to the world by his constitution.
    Nat 1.20 25 ...are not these heroes entitled to add the beauty of the scene to the beauty of the deed?
    Nat 1.70 2 Every surmise and vaticination of the mind is entitled to a certain respect...
    AmS 1.90 5 [The active soul] every man is entitled to;...
    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.
    Chr1 3.102 9 We shall still postpone our existence, nor take the ground to which we are entitled, whilst it is only a thought and not a spirit that incites us.
    Pol1 3.209 20 The vice of our leading parties in this country...is that they do not plant themselves on the deep and necessary grounds to which they are respectively entitled...
    Pol1 3.213 4 Every man finds a sanction for his simplest claims and deeds, in decisions of his own mind, which he calls Truth and Holiness. In these decisions all the citizens find a perfect agreement, and only in these; not in what...what amount of land or of public aid each is entitled to claim.
    NR 3.241 9 ...our affections and our experience urge that every individual is entitled to honor...
    NR 3.241 16 The statesman looks at many, and compares the few habitually with others, and these look less. Yet are they not entitled to this generosity of reception?...
    UGM 4.10 18 We are entitled...to higher advantages.
    UGM 4.17 20 ...we are entitled to these enlargements [of the imagination]...
    UGM 4.20 7 Mankind have in all ages attached themselves to a few persons who...were entitled to the position of leaders and law-givers.
    PPh 4.39 1 Among secular books, Plato only is entitled to Omar's fanatical compliment to the Koran, when he said, Burn the libraries; for their value is in this book.
    ShP 4.198 13 It has come to be practically a sort of rule in literature, that a man having once shown himself capable of original writing, is entitled thenceforth to steal from the writings of others at discretion.
    NMW 4.245 12 The Revolution entitled the strong populace of the Faubourg St. Antoine, and every horse-boy and powder-monkey in the army, to look on Napoleon as flesh of his flesh...
    ET1 5.12 24 ...I proceeded to inquire [of Coleridge] if the extract from the Independent's pamphlet, in the third volume of the Friend, were a veritable quotation. He replied that it was really taken from a pamphlet in his possession entitled A Protest of one of the Independents, or something to that effect.
    ET3 5.38 15 The climate [in England] is warmer by many degrees than it is entitled to by latitude.
    Wth 6.112 23 I think we are entitled here to draw a straight line and say that society can never prosper but must always be bankrupt, until every man does that which he was created to do.
    Bty 6.287 25 ...every man is entitled to be valued by his best moment.
    Bty 6.298 15 ...we see faces every day which have a good type but have been marred in the casting; a proof that we are all entitled to beauty...
    SS 7.7 14 Now [a man who has fine traits] hardly seems entitled to marry;...
    Boks 7.191 14 ...in geometry, if you have read Euclid and Laplace,--your opinion has some value; if you do not know these, you are not entitled to give any opinion on the subject.
    Dem1 10.24 3 Coincidences, dreams, animal magnetism, omens, sacred lots, have great interest for some minds. They run into this twilight and say, There 's more than is dreamed of in your philosophy. Certainly these facts... deserve to be considered. But they are entitled only to a share of attention, and not a large share.
    Aris 10.53 10 [The eloquent man] is entitled to neglect trifles.
    PerF 10.87 7 If I have not my own respect, I am...not entitled to other men' s...
    LLNE 10.348 9 A man is entitled to pure air...
    EzRy 10.386 15 [Ezra Ripley's] prayers...are well remembered, and his own entire faith that these petitions were...entitled to a favorable answer.
    EzRy 10.394 2 Was a man a sot...or was there any cloud or suspicious circumstances in his behavior, the good pastor [Ezra Ripley] knew his way straight to that point, believing himself entitled to a full explanation...
    SlHr 10.442 15 Many good stories are still told of the perplexity of jurors who found the law and the evidence on one side, and yet Squire Hoar had said that he believed, on his conscience, his client entitled to a verdict.
    SlHr 10.442 19 ...what Middlesex jury, containing any God-fearing men in it, would hazard an opinion in flat contradiction to what Squire Hoar believed to be just? He was entitled to this respect;...
    Thor 10.476 22 [Thoreau's] poem entitled Sympathy reveals the tenderness under that triple steel of stoicism...
    LS 11.18 2 ...our opinions differ much respecting the nature and offices of Christ, and the degree of veneration to which he is entitled.
    LS 11.19 15 Most men find the bread and wine [of the Lord's Supper] no aid to devotion, and to some it is a painful impediment. ... The statement of this objection leads me to say that I think this difficulty...to be entitled to the greatest weight.
    EWI 11.112 8 The scheme of the Minister...proposed...that on 1st August, 1834, all persons [in the West Indies] now slaves should be entitled to be registered as apprenticed laborers...
    EWI 11.131 12 ...the fourth article of the Constitution of the United States ordains in terms, that, The citizens of each State shall be entitled to all privileges and immunities of citizens in the several States.
    ACiv 11.302 22 The existing administration is entitled to the utmost candor.
    EPro 11.317 19 [Lincoln] is well entitled to the most indulgent construction.
    Scot 11.463 9 ...to the rare tribute of a centennial anniversary of his birthday...[Scott] is not less entitled...
    Scot 11.463 11 ...to the rare tribute of a centennial anniversary of his birthday...[Scott] is not less entitled-perhaps he alone among literary men of this century is entitled...
    PLT 12.10 2 ...there is a certain beatitude...to which all men are entitled...
    PLT 12.53 8 I must think we are entitled to powers far transcending any that we possess;...
    II 12.74 7 Here is a famous Ode, which...lies in all memories as the high-water mark in the flood of thought in this age. What does the writer know of that? Converse with him, learn his opinions and hopes. He has long ago passed out of it, and perhaps his only concern with it is some copyright of an edition in which certain pages, so and so entitled, are contained.
    CL 12.143 5 The light which resides in [Wordsworth's eyes]...under favorable accidents...is more truly entitled to be held the light that never was on land or sea...
    Bost 12.208 14 ...a community, as a man, is entitled to be judged by his best.
    Bost 12.208 17 Boston too is sometimes pushed into a theatrical attitude of virtue, to which she is not entitled and which she cannot keep.
    Milt1 12.278 23 ...as many poems have been written upon unfit society... yet have not been proceeded against...so should [Milton's plea for freedom of divorce] receive that charity which an angelic soul, suffering more keenly than others from the unavoidable evils of human life, is entitled to.
    PPr 12.379 3 Here is Carlyle's new poem [Past and Present], his Iliad of English woes, to follow his poem on France, entitled the History of the French Revolution.

entitles, v. (5)

    PPh 4.42 24 This breadth [of synthesis] entitles [Plato] to stand as the representative of philosophy.
    ET11 5.184 13 ...the existence of the House of Peers as a branch of the government entitles them to fill half the Cabinet;...
    ET14 5.248 7 It is very certain...that if Lord Bacon had been only the sensualist his critic pretends, he would never have acquired the fame which now entitles him to this patronage.
    WD 7.172 8 ...with great propriety, Humboldt entitles his book, which recounts the last results of science, Cosmos.
    Aris 10.47 8 I never feel that any man occupies my place, but that the reason why I do not have what I wish, is, that I want the faculty which entitles.

entity, n. (2)

    Nat 1.43 9 [Xenophanes] was weary of seeing the same entity in the tedious variety of forms.
    PPh 4.61 25 [Plato] could prostrate himself on the earth and cover his eyes whilst he adored...that which is entity and nonentity.

entombed, v. (1)

    NMW 4.224 1 In our society there is a standing antagonism...between the interests of dead labor, that is, the labor of hands long ago still in the grave, which labor is now entombed in money stocks...and the interests of living labor...

entomology, n. (1)

    ET1 5.9 3 Landor despised entomology...

entrails, n. (4)

    SwM 4.113 25 The principle of all things, entrails made/ Of smallest entrails;.../
    SwM 4.113 26 The principle of all things, entrails made/ Of smallest entrails;.../
    Imtl 8.333 4 When Bonaparte insisted that the heart is one of the entrails... do we thank him for the gracious instruction?
    Bost 12.190 4 Massachusetts in particular, [John Smith] calls the paradise of these parts, notices its high mountain, and its river, which doth pierce many days' journey into the entrails of that country.

entrance, n. (17)

    MN 1.223 10 The entrance of this [great reality] into his mind seems to be the birth of man.
    LT 1.290 22 ...we are bound on our entrance into nature to speak for [reality].
    Con 1.318 12 ...beside that charity which should...engage [adult persons] to see that [the youth] has a free field and fair play on his entrance into life, we are bound to see that the society of which we compose a part, does not permit the formation...of views...injurious to the honor and welfare of mankind.
    Fdsp 2.202 26 Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins.
    Fdsp 2.209 27 Let us buy our entrance to this guild [of friendship] by a long probation.
    Exp 3.72 9 Since neither now nor yesterday began/ These thoughts, which have been ever, nor yet can/ A man be found who their first entrance knew./
    Chr1 3.109 8 The most credible pictures are those of majestic men who prevailed at their entrance...
    Chr1 3.110 25 The coldest precisian cannot go abroad without encountering inexplicable influences. One man fastens an eye on him and... the secrets that make him wretched either to keep or to betray must be yielded;...the entrance of a friend adds grace, boldness and eloquence to him;...
    Mrs1 3.125 6 ...[my gentleman] has the private entrance to all minds...
    UGM 4.20 15 In lucid intervals we say, Let there be an entrance opened for me into realities;...
    ET2 5.30 10 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;...
    Aris 10.59 25 The youth, having got through the first thickets that oppose his entrance into life...is left to himself...
    Plu 10.313 13 [Plutarch] cites...the memorable words of Antigone, in Sophocles, concerning the moral sentiment:-For neither now nor yesterday began/ These thoughts, which have been ever, nor yet can/ A man be found who their first entrance knew./
    EWI 11.107 16 In [the Quakers'] plain meeting-houses and prim dwellings this dismal agitation [against slavery] got entrance.
    EWI 11.140 8 The First of August [1834] marks the entrance of a new element into modern politics, namely, the civilization of the negro.
    FRep 11.528 26 ...a pew in a particular church gives an easier entrance to the subscription ball.
    PLT 12.10 4 ...there is a certain beatitude...to which all men are entitled... and to which their entrance must be in every way forwarded.

entrance, v. (1)

    SwM 4.127 9 [Swedenborg's Conjugal Love] came near to be the Hymn of Love, which Plato attempted in the Banquet; the love...which, as rightly celebrated, in its genesis, fruition and effect, might well entrance the souls...

entranced, adj. (1)

    PLT 12.56 17 There are two theories of life;... One is activity... The other is trust...consent to be nothing for eternity, entranced waiting...

entranced, v. (2)

    PI 8.64 25 Bring us...poetry which tastes the world and reports of it, upbuilding the world again in the thought;--Not with tickling rhymes,/ But high and noble matter, such as flies/ From brains entranced, and filled with ecstasies./
    Chr2 10.93 20 In bad men [the sense of Right and Wrong] is dormant, as health is in men entranced or drunken;...

entrances, n. (2)

    Nat 1.46 2 ...these [human forms] all rest...on the unfathomed sea of thought and virtue whereto they alone...are the entrances.
    ET16 5.278 1 ...the situation [of Stonehenge is] fixed astronomically,--the grand entrances...being placed exactly northeast...

entrances, v. (1)

    Edc1 10.145 13 Happy this child...with a thought which entrances him...

entrancing, adj. (1)

    MMEm 10.421 8 High, solemn, entrancing noon, prophetic of the approach of the Presiding Spirit of Autumn.

entrancing, v. (1)

    Aris 10.32 9 A reference to society is part of the idea of culture; science of a gentleman; art of a gentleman; poetry in a gentleman: intellectually held, that is, for their own sake...not for economy...but not over-intellectually, that is, not to ecstasy, entrancing the man, but redounding to his beauty and glory.

entrap, v. (1)

    UGM 4.6 8 We take a great deal of pains to waylay and entrap that which of itself will fall into our hands.

entreat, v. (5)

    Wth 6.93 27 [Columbus's] successors inherited his map, and inherited his fury to complete it. So the men of the mine, telegraph, mill, map and survey,--the monomaniacs who talk up their project in marts and offices and entreat men to subscribe...
    EWI 11.134 13 I entreat you, sirs, let not this stain attach, let not this misery accumulate any longer.
    FSLC 11.192 11 Sire, said the brave Orte, governor of Bayonne, in his letter...both [the inhabitants and soldiers] and I must humbly entreat your majesty to be pleased to employ your arms and lives in things that are possible...
    EdAd 11.393 17 We entreat the aid of every lover of truth and right...
    EdAd 11.393 19 We entreat the aid of every lover of truth and right, and let these principles entreat for us.

entreated, v. (3)

    SL 2.154 7 ...a public...not to be entreated...decides upon every man's title to fame.
    SlHr 10.443 1 ...in many a town it was asked, What does Squire Hoar think of this? and in political crises, he was entreated to write a few lines to make known to good men in Chelmsford, or Marlborough, or Shirley, what that opinion was.
    MAng1 12.235 6 On the death of San Gallo...Paul III. first entreated, then commanded the aged artist [Michelangelo] to assume the charge of this great work...

entreaty, n. (1)

    HDC 11.53 20 It is piteous to see [the Indians'] self-distrust in...their unanimous entreaty to Captain Willard, to be their Recorder...

entree, n. (1)

    ACri 12.286 1 Whitman is our American master, but has not...gained the entree of the sitting-rooms.

entrenched, v. (2)

    LT 1.260 8 Here is this great fact of Conservatism, entrenched in its immense redoubt...
    SR 2.85 21 ...it may be a question...whether we have not lost...by a Christianity, entrenched in establishments and forms, some vigor of wild virtue.

entrusted, v. (1)

    Bhr 6.173 19 ...these [bad manners] are social inflictions...which must be entrusted to the restraining force of custom and proverbs...

entry, n. (2)

    SL 2.148 11 My children, said an old man to his boys scared by a figure in the dark entry, my children, you will never see anything worse than yourselves.
    Lov1 2.172 23 ...to-day [the rude village boy] comes running into the entry and meets one fair child disposing her satchel;...

enumerate, v. (10)

    Chr1 3.104 21 ...it is but poor chat and gossip to go to enumerate traits of this simple and rapid power [of character]...
    Bty 6.289 8 I am warned by the ill fate of many philosophers not to attempt a definition of Beauty. I will rather enumerate a few of its qualities.
    Farm 7.152 20 ...we cannot enumerate the incidents and agents of the farm without reverting to their influence on the farmer.
    Insp 8.274 14 What metaphysician has undertaken to enumerate the tonics of the torpid mind...
    Grts 8.304 15 You shall not enumerate your brilliant acquaintances...
    Aris 10.40 1 I enumerate the claims by which men enter the superior class.
    PerF 10.69 23 ...I find it wholesome and invigorating to enumerate the resources we can command...
    CL 12.144 20 We may well enumerate what compensating advantages we have over that country [Illinois]...
    MLit 12.311 12 In order to any complete view of the literature of the present age, an inquiry should include what it quotes, what it writes and what it wishes to write. In our present attempt to enumerate some traits of the recent literature, we shall have somewhat to offer on each of these topics...
    MLit 12.315 25 Would you know the genius of the writer? Do not enumerate his talents or his feats, but ask thyself, What spirit is he of?

enumerated, v. (5)

    Chr1 3.103 17 It is only low merits that can be enumerated.
    ET11 5.185 12 If one asks...what service this class [English nobility] have rendered?--uses appear, or they would have perished long ago. Some of these are easily enumerated...
    HDC 11.35 14 The great cost of cattle...and the fear of the Pequots; are the other disasters enumerated by the historian [Edward Johnson].
    Bost 12.192 17 Any geologist or engineer is accustomed to face more serious dangers than any enumerated [by the Massachusetts colonists], excepting the hostile Indians.
    Trag 12.408 25 After we have enumerated famine, fever, inaptitude...we have not yet included the proper tragic element, which is Terror...

enumerates, v. (1)

    Elo1 7.94 13 The preacher enumerates his classes of men and I do not find my place therein; I suspect then that no man does.

enumerating, v. (3)

    Nat 1.5 2 In enumerating the values of nature and casting up their sum, I shall use the word in both senses;...
    ShP 4.203 19 ...I find, among [Wotton's] correspondents and acquaintances...Paul Sarpi, Arminius, with all of whom exists some token of his having communicated, without enumerating many others whom doubtless he saw...
    Bhr 6.178 14 ...in enumerating the names of persons or of countries...the eyes wink at each new name.

enumeration, n. (13)

    DSA 1.122 1 The moral traits which are all globed into every virtuous act and thought, - in speech we must...describe or suggest by painful enumeration of many particulars.
    DSA 1.122 5 ...let me guide your eye to the precise objects of the sentiment [of virtue] by an enumeration of some of those classes of facts in which this element is conspicuous.
    YA 1.389 3 I shall not need to go into an enumeration of our national defects and vices which require this Order of Censors in the State.
    Ctr 6.154 9 Suffer [people who scream and bewail] once to begin the enumeration of their infirmities and the sun will go down on the unfinished tale.
    Art2 7.43 8 Music, Eloquence, Poetry, Painting, Sculpture, Architecture. This is a rough enumeration of the Fine Arts.
    Elo1 7.85 6 The several talents which the orator employs...deserve a special enumeration.
    DL 7.112 3 The shortest enumeration of our wants in this rugged climate appalls us by the multitude of things not easy to be done.
    WD 7.165 27 Of course we resort to the enumeration of his arts and inventions as a measure of the worth of man.
    Elo2 8.121 5 Plutarch, in his enumeration of the ten Greek orators, is careful to mention their excellent voices...
    Imtl 8.333 24 ...proceeding to the enumeration of the few simple elements of the natural faith, the first fact that strikes us is our delight in permanence.
    PLT 12.3 4 ...in listening to Richard Owen's masterly enumeration of the parts and laws of the human body...one could not help admiring the irresponsible security and happiness of the attitude of the naturalist;...
    PLT 12.3 13 ...I thought-could not a similar [scientific] enumeration be made of the laws and powers of the Intellect...
    ACri 12.283 8 An enumeration of the few principal weapons of the poet or writer will at once suggest their value.

enumerations, n. (3)

    PI 8.22 26 ...Thomson's Seasons and the best parts of many old and many new poets are simply enumerations by a person who felt the beauty of the common sights and sounds...
    CL 12.164 22 ...the best passages of great poets, old and new, are often simple enumerations of some features of landscape.
    WSL 12.346 26 Mr. Landor's definitions are only enumerations of particulars;...

enunciate, v. (2)

    MN 1.199 3 How can I hope for better hap in my attempts to enunciate spiritual facts?
    PI 8.16 7 ...whenever you enunciate a natural law you discover that you have enunciated a law of the mind.

enunciated, v. (1)

    PI 8.16 8 ...whenever you enunciate a natural law you discover that you have enunciated a law of the mind.

enunciation, n. (1)

    EWI 11.135 27 The lives of the advocates [of emancipation in the West Indies] are pages of greatness, and the connection of the eminent senators with this question constitutes the immortalizing moments of those men's lives. The bare enunciation of the theses at which the lawyers and legislators arrived, gives a glow to the heart of the reader.

envelope, v. (1)

    Nat 1.21 8 Ever does natural beauty steal in like air, and envelope great actions.

enveloped, v. (1)

    Nat2 3.196 25 ...wisdom is infused into every form. It has been poured into us as blood;...it enveloped us in dull, melancholy days...

envelopes, n. (1)

    SMC 11.360 23 After the first marches [in the Civil War] there is no letter-paper, there are no envelopes, no postage-stamps...

enveloping, adj. (2)

    LE 1.163 20 Do not foolishly ask of the inscrutable, obliterated past, what it cannot tell...but ask it of the enveloping Now;...
    OS 2.295 4 He that finds God a sweet enveloping thought to him never counts his company.

envelops, v. (1)

    Wom 11.412 18 [Women] emit from their pores a colored atmosphere...and see all objects through this warm-tinted mist that envelops them.

envenomed, adj. (2)

    HDC 11.61 13 A great defence [of Concord] undoubtedly was the village of Praying Indians, until this settlement fell a victim to the envenomed prejudice against their countrymen.
    JBB 11.271 13 ...the government, the judges, are an envenomed party...

enviable, adj. (3)

    SR 2.48 14 So God has...made [youth, puberty, and manhood] enviable and gracious...
    SL 2.143 10 What we call obscure condition or vulgar society is that condition and society...which you shall presently make as enviable and renowned as any.
    Nat2 3.183 5 The cool disengaged air of natural objects makes them enviable to us...

envied, v. (3)

    MN 1.211 7 We rather envied [a poet's] circumstance than his talent.
    Comp 2.124 12 ...the estate I so admired and envied is my own.
    SS 7.3 24 [My new friend] envied every drover and lumberman in the tavern their manly speech.

enviers, n. (1)

    PPo 8.251 14 Thy foes to hunt, thy enviers to strike down,/ Poises Arcturus aloft morning and evening his spear./

envies, n. (1)

    UGM 4.22 23 ...a man comes to measure his greatness by the regrets, envies and hatreds of his competitors.

envies, v. (1)

    PPo 8.256 28 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./

envious, adj. (4)

    Thor 10.468 2 [Thoreau] seemed a little envious of the Pole, for the coincident sunrise and sunset...
    CPL 11.496 12 ...I am not sure that when Boston learns the good deed of Mr. Munroe [building of Concord Library], it will not be a little envious...
    Mem 12.95 9 Never was truer fable than that of the Sibyl's writing on leaves which the wind scatters. The difference between men is that in one the memory with inconceivable swiftness flies after and recollects the flying leaves...and the envious Fate is baffled.
    Bost 12.205 22 The power of labor which belongs to the English race fell here...into a maritime country made for trade, where was no rival and no envious lawgiver.

environed, v. (3)

    Chr1 3.98 20 I am always environed by myself.
    Aris 10.60 11 The solitariest man who shares [a certain order of men's] spirit walks environed by them;...
    MLit 12.310 13 ...they say every man walks environed by his proper atmosphere...

environs, n. (1)

    MAng1 12.224 8 [Michelangelo] visited Bologna to inspect its celebrated fortifications, and, on his return, constructed a fortification on the heights of San Miniato, which commands the city and environs of Florence.

environs, v. (1)

    Fdsp 2.198 1 The soul environs itself with friends that it may enter into a grander self-acquaintance or solitude;...

envoy, n. (1)

    Comc 8.166 10 This precious brother having slain,/ In times of peace, an Indian,/ Not out of malice, but mere zeal/ (Because he was an infidel),/ The mighty Tottipottymoy/ Sent to our elders an envoy/...

envoys, n. (2)

    Nat 1.7 16 ...every night come out these envoys of beauty...
    Ctr 6.146 8 Some men are made for couriers, exchangers, envoys...

envy, n. (12)

    SR 2.46 12 There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance;...
    Pt1 3.42 13 Thou [O poet] shalt have...the sea for thy bath and navigation, without tax and without envy;...
    PPh 4.56 24 To the study of nature [Plato]...prefixes the dogma, Let us declare the cause which led the Supreme Ordainer to produce and compose the universe. He was good; and he who is good has no kind of envy.
    PPh 4.56 25 Exempt from envy, [the Supreme Ordainer] wished that all things should be as much as possible like himself.
    PPh 4.75 19 ...[Plato] was able...without envy to avail himself of the wit and weight of Socrates...
    ET2 5.32 14 ...the captain [of the Washington Irving] drew the line of his course in red ink on his chart, for the encouragement or envy of future navigators.
    ET11 5.175 27 ...the duel, which in peace still held [French and English nobles] to the risks of war, diminished the envy that in trading and studious nations would else have pried into their title.
    Pow 6.58 10 ...if [the plus man] have the accidental advantage of personal ascendency...then...without envy or resistance all his coadjutors and feeders will admit his right to absorb them.
    PPo 8.257 21 The sweet narcissus closed/ Its eye, with passion pressed;/ The tulips out of envy burned/ Moles in their scarlet breast./
    Aris 10.55 15 ...the thought has...no murder, no envy, no crime...
    CPL 11.507 23 The imagination...if it has not had...Homer or Scott, has drawn equal delight and terror from haunts and passages which you will hear of with envy.
    MAng1 12.236 8 Amidst endless annoyances from the envy and interest of the office-holders and agents in the work whom he had displaced, [Michelangelo] steadily ripened and executed his vast ideas.

envy, v. (7)

    Hsm1 2.263 20 ...in the hour when we are deaf to the higher voices, who does not envy those who have seen safely to an end their manful endeavor?
    Hsm1 2.263 27 Who does not sometimes envy the good and brave who are no more to suffer from the tumults of the natural world...
    ET5 5.94 24 Let India boast her palms, nor envy we/ The weeping amber, nor the spicy tree,/ While, by our oaks, those precious loads are borne,/ And realms commanded which those trees adorn./
    OA 7.320 10 Few envy the consideration enjoyed by the oldest inhabitant.
    Insp 8.288 25 I envy the abstraction of some scholars I have known...
    Edc1 10.140 1 How we envy in later life the happy youths to whom their boisterous games and rough exercise furnish the precise element which frames and sets off their school and college tasks...
    ACri 12.288 5 I envy the boys the force of the double negative...

Enweri, n. (2)

    PPo 8.237 8 The seven masters of the Persian Parnassus-Firdusi, Enweri, Nisami, Jelaleddin, Saadi, Hafiz and Jami-have ceased to be empty names;...
    PPo 8.258 7 This picture of the first days of Spring, from Enweri, seems to belong to Hafiz:-O'er the garden water goes the wind alone/ To rasp and to polish the cheek of the wave;/ The fire is quenched on the dear hearthstone,/ But it burns again on the tulips brave./

enwrapping, v. (1)

    Bhr 6.187 19 Here comes to me Roland, with a delicacy of sentiment leading and enwrapping him like a divine cloud or holy ghost.

Epaminondas, n. (16)

    DSA 1.133 14 When I see a majestic Epaminondas...I see beauty that is to be desired.
    Tran 1.337 5 I, [Jacobi] says, am...that godless person who, in opposition to an imaginary doctrine of calculation...would perjure myself like Epaminondas and John de Witt;...
    SL 2.162 11 I love and honor Epaminondas, but I do not wish to be Epaminondas.
    SL 2.162 12 I love and honor Epaminondas, but I do not wish to be Epaminondas.
    SL 2.162 18 Epaminondas, if he was the man I take him for, would have sat still with joy and peace, if his lot had been mine.
    SL 2.163 7 Shall I...imagine my being here impertinent? less pertinent than Epaminondas or Homer being there?...
    Hsm1 2.248 16 To [Plutarch] we owe the Brasidas, the Dion, the Epaminondas, the Scipio of old...
    Hsm1 2.257 25 Epaminondas, brave and affectionate, does not seem to us to need Olympus to die upon...
    Mrs1 3.126 1 Diogenes, Socrates, and Epaminondas, are gentlemen of the best blood...
    Ctr 6.151 6 How the imagination is piqued by anecdotes...of Epaminondas, who never says anything, but will listen eternally;...
    DL 7.116 1 The greatest man in history was the poorest. How was it...with Epaminondas?
    DL 7.133 15 ...the heroism which at this day would make on us the impression of Epaminondas and Phocion must be that of a domestic conqueror.
    Plu 10.304 22 Early this morning, asking Epaminondas about the manner of Lysis's burial, I found that Lysis had taught him as far as the incommunicable mysteries of our sect...
    Plu 10.305 3 The paths of life are large, but few are men directed by the Daemons. When Theanor had said this, he looked attentively on Epaminondas, as if he designed a fresh search into his nature and inclinations.
    Plu 10.318 1 What a trilogy is lost to mankind in [Plutarch's] Lives of Scipio, Epaminondas, and Pindar.
    Plu 10.318 12 ...wherever the Cid is relished, the legends of...Bonaparte, and Walter Scott's Chronicles in prose or verse,-there will Plutarch, who told the story of Leonidas...of...Epaminondas, Caesar, Cato and the rest, sit as...laureate of the ancient world.

Epeus [Virgil, Aeneid], n. (1)

    Aris 10.42 6 Epeus builds the wooden horse.

ephahs, n. (1)

    SwM 4.135 19 The excess of [Hebraic] influence shows itself [in Swedenborg] in the incongruous importation of a foreign rhetoric. What have I to do, asks the impatient reader, with...beryl and chalcedony; what with...ephahs and ephods;...

ephemera, n. (1)

    SR 2.60 2 Honor is venerable to us because it is no ephemera.

ephemeral, adj. (5)

    AmS 1.102 17 ...some ephemeral trade, or war, or man, is cried up by half mankind and cried down by the other half...
    YA 1.391 14 Nothing is mightier than we, when we are vehicles of a truth before which the State and the individual are alike ephemeral.
    SR 2.51 3 A man is to carry himself...as if every thing were titular and ephemeral but he.
    Scot 11.464 22 [Scott] made no pretension to the lofty style of Spenser, or Milton, or Wordsworth. Compared with their purified songs, purified of all ephemeral color or material, his were vers de societe.
    MLit 12.330 1 ...the ideal is truer than the actual. That is ephemeral, but this changes not.

ephemerals, n. (1)

    Cir 2.299 2 Nature centres into balls,/ And her proud ephemerals,/ Fast to surface and outside,/ Scan the profile of the sphere;/...

ephods, n. (1)

    SwM 4.135 20 The excess of [Hebraic] influence shows itself [in Swedenborg] in the incongruous importation of a foreign rhetoric. What have I to do, asks the impatient reader, with...beryl and chalcedony; what with...ephahs and ephods;...

Ephors, n. (1)

    Elo1 7.79 14 [The Grecian States] did not send to Lacedaemon for troops, but they said, Send us a commander; and...Brasidas, or Agis, was despatched by the Ephors.

epic, adj. (10)

    Hist 2.14 23 We have the same national mind expressed for us again in [Greek] literature, in epic and lyric poems...
    Cir 2.305 13 In the thought of to-morrow there is a power to...marshal thee to a heaven which no epic dream has yet depicted.
    Art1 2.365 18 Life may be lyric or epic...
    Pt1 3.25 26 ...a summer, with its harvest sown, reaped and stored, is an epic song...
    Pt1 3.29 2 Milton says that...the epic poet...must drink water out of a wooden bowl.
    Pt1 3.38 26 The painter, the sculptor, the composer, the epic rhapsodist, the orator, all partake one desire, namely to express themselves symmetrically and abundantly...
    Chr1 3.114 10 The ages have exulted in the manners of a youth...who, by the pure quality of his nature, shed an epic splendor around the facts of his death...
    Bty 6.279 16 [Seyd] heard a voice none else could hear/ From centred and from errant sphere./ The quaking earth did quake in rhyme,/ Seas ebbed and flowed in epic chime./
    Bost 12.204 12 In Massachusetts [Nature] did not want epic poems and dramas yet, but first, planters of towns...
    WSL 12.348 12 [Landor] is not epic or dramatic...

epic, n. (7)

    Comp 2.115 5 Human labor...from the sharpening of a stake to the construction of a city or an epic, is one immense illustration of the perfect compensation of the universe.
    Fdsp 2.195 2 High thanks I owe you, excellent lovers, who...enlarge the meaning of all my thoughts. These are...hymn, ode and epic, poetry still flowing...
    Art1 2.356 4 A good ballad draws my ear and heart whilst I listen, as much as an epic has done before.
    PPh 4.59 22 There is indeed no weapon in all the armory of wit which [Plato] did not possess and use,--epic, analysis, mania, intuition, music, satire and irony...
    ShP 4.192 2 ...as we could not hope to suppress newspapers now...neither then [in Shakespeare's time] could king, prelate, or puritan, alone or united, suppress an organ which was ballad, epic, newspaper, caucus, lecture, Punch and library, at the same time.
    Edc1 10.143 3 Do not spare to put novels into the hands of young people as an occasional holiday and experiment; but, above all, good poetry in all kinds, epic, tragedy, lyric.
    Milt1 12.263 10 [Milton] tells us...that he who would write an epic to the nations must eat beans and drink water.

Epic, n. (1)

    ShP 4.211 21 ...all the sweets and all the terrors of human lot lay in [Shakespeare's] mind as truly but as softly as the landscape lies on the eye. And the importance of this wisdom of life sinks the form, as of Drama or Epic, out of notice.

Epic Poetry, n. (1)

    FSLN 11.244 4 ...Liberty is...the Epic Poetry, the new religion, the chivalry of all gentlemen.

epical, adj. (2)

    AmS 1.113 9 ...[Swedenborg]...has given in epical parables a theory of insanity...
    DSA 1.151 13 ...[the Hebrew and Greek Scriptures] have no epical integrity;...

Epicharmian, adj. (1)

    Plu 10.309 16 ...[Plutarch]...despises the Epicharmian disputations...

epics, n. (6)

    NER 3.283 21 ...whether thy work be fine or coarse, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work...it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought...
    GoW 4.269 10 There have been times when [the writer] was a sacred person: he wrote...the epics...
    ET11 5.179 5 The names [of English towns and districts] are excellent,--an atmosphere of legendary melody spread over the land. Older than all epics and histories which clothe a nation, this undershirt sits close to the body.
    PPo 8.243 5 The Persians have epics and tales...
    MoL 10.243 19 The subtle Hindoo...produced the wonderful epics of which, in the present century, the translations have added new regions to thought.
    MLit 12.311 23 Our presses groan every year with new editions of all the select pieces of the first of mankind...opinions, epics, lyrics...

Epictetus, n. (2)

    Boks 7.218 26 After the Hebrew and Greek Scriptures...[the sacred books] are...the Chinese Classic, of four books, containing the wisdom of Confucius and Mencius. Also such other books as have acquired a semi-canonical authority in the world, as expressing the highest sentiment and hope of nations. Such are the Hermes Trismegistus...the Sentences of Epictetus; of Marcus Antoninus;...
    Aris 10.49 1 I don't know how much Epictetus was sold for...

epicure, n. (3)

    Res 8.151 4 ...the subject [the physiology of taste] is so large and exigent that a few particulars, and those the pleasures of the epicure, cannot satisfy.
    MoL 10.250 24 ...what does the scholar represent? The organ of ideas... imparting pulses of light and shocks of electricity, guidance and courage. So let his habits be formed, and all his economies heroic; no spoiled child, no drone, no epicure...
    FRep 11.536 6 The felon is the logical extreme of the epicure and coxcomb.

Epicurean, adj. (1)

    WSL 12.347 8 [Landor's] Dialogue on the Epicurean philosophy is a theory of the genius of Epicurus.

Epicurean, n. (1)

    Plu 10.319 12 If Plutarch...held the balance between the severe Stoic and the indulgent Epicurean, his humanity shines not less in his intercourse with his personal friends.

Epicureans, n. (1)

    Plu 10.314 1 To [Plutarch] the Epicureans are hateful...

epicures, n. (1)

    CbW 6.248 14 What quantities of fribbles, paupers, invalids, epicures, antiquaries, politicians, thieves and triflers of both sexes might be advantageously spared!

Epicurus, n. (3)

    ShP 4.216 1 Epicurus relates that poetry hath such charms that a lover might forsake his mistress to partake of them.
    Plu 10.316 2 [Plutarch] thought, with Epicurus, that it is more delightful to do than to receive a kindness.
    WSL 12.347 9 [Landor's] Dialogue on the Epicurean philosophy is a theory of the genius of Epicurus.

Epicurus, Pleasure... [Plut (1)

    Plu 10.314 10 I can easily believe that an anxious soul may find in Plutarch' s chapter called Pleasure not attainable by Epicurus...a more sweet and reassuring argument on the immortality than in the Phaedo of Plato;...

epicycle, n. (1)

    LLNE 10.349 13 [Brisbane's plan]...wove its large Ptolemaic web of cycle and epicycle, of phalanx and phalanstery, with laudable assiduity.

epidemic, adj. (1)

    War 11.151 13 War, which to sane men at the present day begins to look like an epidemic insanity...when seen in the remote past...appears a part of the connection of events...

epidemic, n. (2)

    F 6.31 16 ...in an epidemic...[men] believe a malignant energy rules.
    HDC 11.36 8 Tahattawan, the Sachem [of the Massachusetts Indians]... lived near Nashawtuck, now Lee's Hill. Their tribe, once numerous, the epidemic had reduced.

epidermis, n. (1)

    F 6.9 13 ...mats of hair, the pigment of the epidermis betray character.

epigaea, n. (1)

    CL 12.162 6 Where is the Norway pine...where the epigaea, the linnaea, or sanguinaria...

epigram, n. (5)

    ET3 5.39 24 The London fog...sometimes justifies the epigram on the climate by an English wit, in a fine day, looking up a chimney; in a foul day, looking down one.
    Bty 6.299 25 A Greek epigram intimates that the force of love is not shown by the courting of beauty...
    QO 8.186 8 The fine verse in the old Scotch ballad of The Drowned Lovers...is a translation of Martial's epigram on Hero and Leander...
    PPo 8.238 13 A war is undertaken [in the East] for an epigram or a distich...
    Insp 8.295 6 A Greek epigram out of the anthology, a verse of Herrick or Lovelace, are in harmony both with sense and spirit.

epigrammatic, adj. (1)

    Mrs1 3.148 18 [Scott's] lords brave each other in smart epigrammatic speeches...

epigrams, n. (4)

    ET5 5.91 16 Lord Elgin, at Athens, saw the imminent ruin of the Greek remains, set up his scaffoldings, in spite of epigrams, and, after five years' labor to collect them, got his marbles on ship-board.
    PC 8.217 27 If [a man] has wit, he tempers the despotism by epigrams...
    PPo 8.243 6 ...for the most part, [the Persians] affect short poems and epigrams.
    Milt1 12.258 17 The form and the voice of Leonora Baroni seemed to have captivated [Milton] in Rome, and to her he addressed his Italian sonnets and Latin epigrams.

epilepsies, n. (1)

    Fdsp 2.199 24 After interviews have been compassed with long foresight we must be tormented presently...by epilepsies of wit and of animal spirits, in the heydey of friendship and thought.

Epiphania, Cilicia, n. (1)

    ET9 5.152 1 George of Cappadocia, born at Epiphania in Cilicia, was a low parasite...

Epiphany, n. (1)

    Edc1 10.132 23 ...presently the aroused intellect finds gold and gems in one of these scorned facts,-then finds...that a fact is an Epiphany of God.

episcopal, adj. (1)

    ET9 5.152 7 [George of Cappadocia] saved his money...and got promoted by a faction to the episcopal throne of Alexandria.

Episcopal Clergymen, n. (1)

    FSLC 11.181 4 I met the smoothest of Episcopal Clergymen the other day...

episodes, n. (1)

    FSLN 11.222 9 ...[Webster] knew perfectly well how to make such exordiums, episodes and perorations as might give perspective to his harangues without in the least embarrassing his march or confounding his transitions.

epistle, n. (2)

    MMEm 10.407 7 From the country [Mary Moody Emerson] writes to her sister in town, You cannot help saying that my epistle is a striking specimen of egotism.
    Mem 12.96 1 We are told that Boileau having recited to Daguesseau one day an epistle or satire he had just been composing, Daguesseau tranquilly told him he knew it already...

Epistle, Seventh [Plato], n (1)

    Insp 8.274 20 Plato, in his seventh Epistle, notes that the perception is only accomplished by long familiarity with the objects of intellect...

Epistle to the Corinthians, (2)

    LS 11.13 23 I am of opinion that it is wholly upon the Epistle to the Corinthians...that the ordinance [the Lord's Supper] stands.
    LS 11.14 2 The end which [St. Paul] has in view, in the eleventh chapter of the first Epistle [to the Corinthians], is not to enjoin upon his friends to observe the [Lord's] Supper, but to censure their abuse of it.

Epistles, Book of, n. (1)

    SMC 11.361 17 If Marshal Montluc's Memoirs are the Bible of soldiers, as Henry IV. of France said, Colonel Prescott might furnish the Book of Epistles.

epistles, n. (1)

    Let 12.392 5 ...we are very liable...to fall behind-hand in our correspondence; and a little more liable because in consequence of our editorial function we receive more epistles than our individual share...

Epistles, n. (1)

    Chr2 10.119 12 ...[the infant soul]...reads the original of the Ten Commandments, the original of Gospels and Epistles;...

epistolary, adj. (1)

    OA 7.331 2 In Goethe's Romance, Makaria, the central figure for wisdom and influence, pleases herself with withdrawing into solitude to astronomy and epistolary correspondence.

epitaph, n. (5)

    Mrs1 3.145 18 The epitaph of Sir Jenkin Grout is not wholly unintelligible to the present age...
    GoW 4.261 14 The rolling rock leaves its scratches on the mountain;...the fern and leaf their modest epitaph in the coal.
    PPo 8.252 12 ...this self-naming [in poetry] is not quite easy. We remember but two or three examples in English poetry...Jonson's epitaph on his son...
    MMEm 10.404 22 I used to propose that [Mary Moody Emerson's] epitaph should be: Here lies the angel of Death.
    HDC 11.65 1 ...in 1711, it was propounded at the [Concord] town-meeting, whether one of the three gentlemen lately improved here in preaching... shall be now chosen in the work of the ministry? Voted affirmatively. Mr. Whiting, who was chosen, was, we are told in his epitaph, a universal lover of mankind.

epithalamium, n. (1)

    Lov1 2.188 4 ...nature and intellect and art emulate each other in the gifts and the melody they bring to the epithalamium.

epithet, n. (3)

    NR 3.241 3 I think I have done well if I have acquired a new word from a good author; and my business with him is to find my own, though it were only to melt him down into an epithet or an image for daily use...
    NMW 4.256 7 ...[Napoleon] fully deserves the epithet of Jupiter Scapin, or a sort of Scamp Jupiter.
    Supl 10.168 19 ...the old head, after deceiving and being deceived many times, thinks, What's the use of having to unsay to-day what I said yesterday? I will not be responsible; I will not add an epithet.

epithets, n. (1)

    ET9 5.145 21 When [the Englishman] adds epithets of praise, his climax is, so English;...

epitome, n. (2)

    Nat 1.23 17 A work of art is an abstract or epitome of the world.
    ET18 5.299 5 London is the epitome of our times...

epitomize, v. (1)

    F 6.39 21 The times, the age, what is that but a few profound persons and a few active persons who epitomize the times?

epitomized, v. (1)

    Hist 2.10 7 What the former age has epitomized into a formula or rule for manipular convenience, [the mind] will lose all the good of verifying for itself, by means of the wall of that rule.

epoch, n. (12)

    Nat 1.70 23 In the cycle of the universal man...all history is but the epoch of one degradation.
    Hist 2.4 3 Epoch after epoch...are merely the application of [the first man' s] manifold spirit to the manifold world.
    Comp 2.126 18 The death of a dear friend, wife, brother, lover, which seemed nothing but privation, somewhat later assumes the aspect of a guide or genius; for it commonly...terminates an epoch of infancy or of youth which was waiting to be closed...
    PNR 4.81 14 ...Plato has the fortune in the history of mankind to mark an epoch.
    GoW 4.290 10 Goethe teaches...that the disadvantages of any epoch exist only to the faint-hearted.
    ET4 5.66 26 ...[the blonde race's] accession to empire marks a new and finer epoch...
    Bty 6.302 3 The lives of the Italian artists, who established a despotism of genius amidst the dukes and kings and mobs of their stormy epoch, prove how loyal men in all times are to a finer brain, a finer method than their own.
    Civ 7.21 11 Where shall we begin or end the list of those feats of liberty and wit, each of which feats made an epoch of history?
    War 11.161 5 The idea [that there can be peace as well as war] itself is the epoch;...
    ALin 11.335 13 There, by his courage, his justice...[Lincoln] stood a heroic figure in the centre of a heroic epoch.
    Wom 11.415 18 A second epoch for Woman was in France,-entirely civil;...
    Bost 12.194 24 These men [Christian writers] are a bridge to us between the unparalleled piety of the Hebrew epoch and our own.

epochs, n. (9)

    AmS 1.109 3 Historically, there is thought to be a difference in the ideas which predominate over successive epochs...
    LE 1.159 2 ...the epochs and heroes of chronology are pictorial images, in which [the scholar's] thoughts are told.
    SL 2.161 11 The epochs of our life are not in the visible facts of our choice of a calling...
    GoW 4.286 27 ...especially his relations to remarkable minds and to critical epochs of thought:--these [Goethe] magnifies.
    ET14 5.243 11 ...history reckons epochs in which the intellect of famed races became effete.
    DL 7.105 25 ...the rain, the ice, the frost, make epochs in [the child's] life.
    MMEm 10.421 25 ...a few lamps held out in the firmament enable us to talk of Time, make epochs, write histories...
    HDC 11.85 15 Every moment carries us farther from the two great epochs of public principle, the Planting, and the Revolution of the colony [of Massachusetts Bay].
    Milt1 12.277 16 What schools and epochs of common rhymers would it need to make a counterbalance to the severe oracles of [Milton's] muse...

equability, n. (1)

    ET8 5.134 9 ...here [in England] exists the best stock in the world...best for depth, range and equability;...

equable, adj. (1)

    WD 7.169 5 Cannot memory still descry the old school-house and its porch...and do you not recall that life...threw itself into nervous knots of glittering hours...and not spread itself abroad an equable felicity?

equably, adv. (1)

    MR 1.255 26 ...we have seen a few scattered up and down in time for the blessing of the world; men who have in the gravity of their nature a quality which answers to the fly-wheel in a mill, which distributes the motion equably over all the wheels...

equal, adj. (176)

    Nat 1.21 24 Nature stretches out her arms to embrace man, only let his thoughts be of equal greatness.
    Nat 1.22 1 Only let [man's] thoughts be of equal scope, and the frame will suit the picture.
    Nat 1.33 5 The axioms of physics translate the laws of ethics. Thus... reaction is equal to action;...
    DSA 1.143 14 What was once a mere circumstance, that...the young and old, should meet one day as fellows in one house, in sign of an equal right in the soul, has come to be a paramount motive for going thither.
    LE 1.158 11 The resources of the scholar are co-extensive with nature and truth, yet can never be his unless claimed by him with an equal greatness of mind.
    LE 1.165 20 ...in [men] this disease of an excess of organization cheats them of equal issues.
    MN 1.200 10 ...in equal fulness...the dance of the hours goes forward still.
    MN 1.200 26 ...the equal serving of innumerable ends without the least emphasis or preference to any...allows the understanding no place to work.
    MN 1.223 15 I cannot tell if these wonderful qualities which house to-day in this mortal frame shall ever re-assemble in equal activity in a similar frame...
    Con 1.302 3 ...we must...suffer men...to pair off into insane parties, and learn the amount of truth each knows by the denial of an equal amount of truth.
    Con 1.307 9 We wrought for others under this law, and got our lands so. I repeat the question, Is your law just? Not quite just, but necessary. Moreover, it is juster now than it was when we were born; we have made it milder and more equal.
    Con 1.307 22 With equal earnestness and good faith, replies to this plaintiff an upholder of the establishment...
    Con 1.326 8 [The boldness of the hope men entertain] calms and cheers them with the picture of a simple and equal life of truth and piety.
    YA 1.384 8 ...the Communities aimed at a higher success in securing to all their members an equal and thorough education.
    SR 2.53 7 I much prefer that [my life] should be of a lower strain, so it be genuine and equal...
    Comp 2.98 10 Every faculty which is a receiver of pleasure has an equal penalty put on its abuse.
    Comp 2.116 14 ...the law holds with equal sureness for all right action.
    SL 2.138 10 Every man sees that he is that middle point whereof every thing may be affirmed and denied with equal reason.
    Fdsp 2.200 1 I ought to be equal to every relation.
    Fdsp 2.200 4 It makes no difference how many friends I have...if there be one to whom I am not equal.
    Fdsp 2.202 17 [Before a friend] I am arrived at last in the presence of a man so real and equal that I may drop even those undermost garments of dissimulation, courtesy, and second thought...
    Fdsp 2.204 8 A friend...is a sort of paradox in nature. I...who see nothing in nature whose existence I can affirm with equal evidence to my own, behold now the semblance of my being...reiterated in a foreign form;...
    OS 2.277 14 ...in groups where debate is earnest...the company become aware that the thought rises to an equal level in all bosoms...
    Pt1 3.7 1 ...the Universe has three children...which reappear under different names in every system of thought...but which we will call here the Knower, the Doer and the Sayer. These stand respectively for the love of truth, for the love of good, and for the love of beauty. These three are equal.
    Pt1 3.10 3 The thought and the form are equal in the order of time...
    Pt1 3.41 9 O poet! a new nobility is conferred in groves and pastures, and not in castles or by the sword-blade any longer. The conditions are hard, but equal.
    Exp 3.70 21 That which proceeds in succession might be remembered, but that which is coexistent, or ejaculated from a deeper cause, as yet far from being conscious, knows not its own tendency. So is it with us, now sceptical or without unity, because immersed in forms and effects all seeming to be of equal yet hostile value, and now religious, whilst in the reception of spiritual law.
    Exp 3.77 17 Never can love make consciousness and ascription equal in force.
    Chr1 3.101 13 Xenophon and his Ten Thousand were quite equal to what they attempted, and did it;...
    Chr1 3.101 14 Xenophon and his Ten Thousand were quite equal to what they attempted, and did it; so equal, that it was not suspected to be a grand and inimitable exploit.
    Chr1 3.101 19 Xenophon and his Ten Thousand were quite equal to what they attempted, and did it; so equal, that it was not suspected to be a grand and inimitable exploit. Yet there stands that fact unrepeated, a high-water mark in military history. Many have attempted it since, and not been equal to it.
    Mrs1 3.124 17 The rulers of society must be...equal to their versatile office...
    Mrs1 3.125 25 ...if the man of the people cannot speak on equal terms with the gentleman...he is not to be feared.
    Nat2 3.196 19 That power...which makes the whole and the particle its equal channel...distils its essence into every drop of rain.
    Pol1 3.201 23 Of persons, all have equal rights, in virtue of being identical in nature.
    Pol1 3.201 26 Whilst the rights of all as persons are equal, in virtue of their access to reason, their rights in property are very unequal.
    Pol1 3.202 17 It seemed fit that Laban and Jacob should have equal rights to elect the officer who is to defend their persons...
    Pol1 3.203 23 At last it seemed settled that the rightful distinction was that the proprietors should have more elective franchise than non-proprietors, on the Spartan principle of calling that which is just, equal; not that which is equal, just.
    Pol1 3.203 24 At last it seemed settled that the rightful distinction was that the proprietors should have more elective franchise than non-proprietors, on the Spartan principle of calling that which is just, equal; not that which is equal, just.
    Pol1 3.212 4 It makes no difference how many tons' weight of atmosphere presses on our heads, so long as the same pressure resists it within the lungs. Augment the mass a thousand-fold, it cannot begin to crush us, as long as reaction is equal to action.
    Pol1 3.218 1 ...each of us...can do somewhat useful, or graceful, or formidable, or amusing, or lucrative. That we do, as an apology to others and to ourselves for not reaching the mark of a good and equal life.
    NR 3.244 23 Love shows me the opulence of nature, by disclosing to me in my friend a hidden wealth, and I infer an equal depth of good in every other direction.
    NER 3.260 13 One tendency appears alike in the philosophical speculation and in the rudest democratical movements...the wish, namely, to...arrive at short methods; urged, as I suppose, by an intuition that the human spirit is equal to all emergencies alone...
    NER 3.261 4 ...[many reformers] are not equal to the work they pretend.
    NER 3.264 6 [The new communities] aim...to give an equal reward to labor and to talent...
    NER 3.274 4 We crave a sense of reality, though it comes in strokes of pain. I explain so...those excesses and errors into which souls of great vigor, but not equal insight, often fall.
    NER 3.280 19 ...as a man is equal to the Church and equal to the State, so he is equal to every other man.
    NER 3.280 20 ...as a man is equal to the Church and equal to the State, so he is equal to every other man.
    UGM 4.14 11 Cecil's saying of Sir Walter Raleigh, I know that he can toil terribly, is an electric touch. So are Clarendon's portraits,--of Hampden, who was...of parts not to be imposed on by the most subtle and sharp, and of a personal courage equal to his best parts;--of Falkland...
    UGM 4.15 17 [The people] delight in a man. Here is a head and a trunk! What a front! what eyes! Atlantean shoulders, and the whole carriage heroic, with equal inward force to guide the great machine!
    UGM 4.23 6 I applaud...an officer equal to his office;...
    UGM 4.31 27 ...heaven reserves an equal scope for every creature.
    SwM 4.132 8 It requires, for [Swedenborg's] just apprehension, almost a genius equal to his own.
    ShP 4.212 8 With [Shakespeare's] wisdom of life is the equal endowment of imaginative and of lyric power.
    ShP 4.219 17 The world still wants its poet-priest, a reconciler...who shall see, speak, and act, with equal inspiration.
    NMW 4.237 24 ...[Napoleon] did not hesitate to declare that he was himself eminently endowed with this two-o'clock-in-the-morning courage, and that he had met with few persons equal to himself in this respect.
    GoW 4.265 18 The ambitious and mercenary bring their last new mumbo-jumbo... and...easily succed in making it seen in a glare; and a multitude go mad about it, and they are not to be reproved or cured by the opposite multitude who are kept from this particular insanity by an equal frenzy on another crotchet.
    ET1 5.6 2 [Greenough] believed that the Greeks had wrought in schools or fraternities,--the genius of the master imparting his design to his friends, and inflaming them with it, and when his strength was spent, a new hand with equal heat continued the work;...
    ET1 5.6 4 [Greenough] believed that the Greeks had wrought in schools or fraternities,--the genius of the master imparting his design to his friends, and inflaming them with it, and when his strength was spent, a new hand with equal heat continued the work; and so by relays, until it was finished in every part with equal fire.
    ET5 5.93 15 ...in the complications of the trade and politics of their vast empire, [the English] have been equal to every exigency...
    ET5 5.96 6 The value of the houses in Britain is equal to the value of the soil.
    ET8 5.137 1 After running each tendency to an extreme, [the English] try another tack with equal heat.
    ET10 5.159 18 The power of machinery in Great Britain, in mills, has been computed to be equal to 600,000,000 men...
    ET12 5.209 4 The race of English gentlemen presents an appearance of manly vigor and form not elsewhere to be found among an equal number of persons.
    ET14 5.243 26 The later English want the faculty of Plato and Aristotle, of grouping men in natural classes by an insight of general laws, so deep that the rule is deduced with equal precision from few subjects...
    ET14 5.250 16 Wilkinson...the champion of Hahnemann, has brought to metaphysics and to physiology a native vigor, with a catholic perception of relations, equal to the highest attempts...
    ET15 5.268 1 Of two men of equal ability, the one who does not write but keeps his eye on the course of public affairs, will have the higher judicial wisdom.
    ET15 5.271 8 Many of [Punch's] caricatures are equal to the best pamphlets...
    ET17 5.292 6 An equal good fortune attended many later accidents of my journey [in England]...
    ET19 5.313 22 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, mother of heroes, with strength still equal to the time;...
    Pow 6.56 17 One man...is in sympathy with the course of things; can predict it. Whatever befalls, befalls him first; so that he is equal to whatever shall happen.
    Pow 6.61 22 A timid man...might easily believe that he and his country have seen their best days, and he hardens himself the best he can against the coming ruin. But after this has been foretold with equal confidence fifty times...he discovers that the enormous elements of strength which are here in play make our politics unimportant.
    Pow 6.74 24 The poet Campbell said that a man accustomed to work, was equal to any achievement he resolved on...
    Pow 6.77 11 ...the galvanic stream, slow but continuous, is equal in power to the electric spark...
    Pow 6.81 20 Let a man dare go to a loom and see if he be equal to it.
    Wth 6.89 19 Beware of me, [the sea] says, but if you can hold me, I am the key to all the lands. Fire offers, on its side, an equal power.
    Wth 6.105 25 Give no bounties, make equal laws, secure life and property, and you need not give alms.
    Ctr 6.144 25 Balls, riding, wine-parties and billiards pass to a poor boy for something fine and romantic, which they are not; and a free admission to them on an equal footing...would be worth ten times its cost, by undeceiving him.
    Bhr 6.178 5 The out-door life and hunting and labor give equal vigor to the human eye.
    Wsp 6.232 5 ...man is made equal to every event.
    CbW 6.249 25 In old Egypt it was established law that the vote of a prophet be reckoned equal to a hundred hands.
    CbW 6.274 14 ...it is who lives near us of equal social degree...these, and these only, shall be your life's companions;...
    Civ 7.34 10 ...if there be...a country...where the suffrage is not free or equal;--that country is...not civil, but barbarous;...
    Art2 7.37 16 On one side in primary communication with absolute truth through thought and instinct, the human mind on the other side tends, by an equal necessity, to the publication and embodiment of its thought...
    Elo1 7.76 24 What we really wish for is a mind equal to any exigency.
    Elo1 7.91 7 ...all these talents [of oratory]...have an equal power to ensnare and mislead the audience and the orator.
    DL 7.127 22 Whilst thus Nature and the hints we draw from man suggest... a household equal to the beauty and grandeur of this world, especially we learn the same lesson from those best relations to individual men which the heart is always prompting us to form.
    Farm 7.143 21 Nature...has a forelooking tenderness and equal regard to the next and the next, and the fourth and the fortieth age.
    Farm 7.146 2 Whilst all thus burns...it needs...a centripetence equal to the centrifugence;...
    WD 7.157 16 The apprentice clings to his foot-rule; a practised mechanic will measure by his thumb and his arm with equal precision;...
    WD 7.166 19 Look up the inventors. Each has his own knack; his genius is in veins and spots. But the great, equal, symmetrical brain...you shall not find.
    WD 7.174 9 The world is always equal to itself...
    WD 7.180 11 ...this curious, peering, itinerant, imitative America...will...sit at home with repose and deep joy on its face. The world has no such landscape...the future no equal second opportunity.
    Boks 7.190 8 ...there are...books...so nearly equal to the world which they paint, that though one shuts them with meaner ones, he feels his exclusion from them to accuse his way of living.
    Boks 7.204 7 ...in our Bible...it seems easy and inevitable to render the rhythm and music of the original into phrases of equal melody.
    Boks 7.220 4 ...Nature is always equal to herself...
    Suc 7.286 10 We have seen an American woman write a novel...which... was read with equal interest to three audiences, namely, in the parlor, in the kitchen and in the nursery of every house.
    Suc 7.307 17 It is true there is evil and good, night and day: but these are not equal.
    PI 8.45 21 Architecture gives the like pleasure [of rhyme] by the repetition of equal parts in a colonnade...
    PI 8.49 13 [The elemental forces] furnish the poet with grander pairs and alternations, and will require an equal expansion in his metres.
    PI 8.58 15 ...[The wind] is always of the same age with the ages of ages,/ And of equal breadth with the surface of the earth./
    PI 8.69 11 In the presence of Jove, Priapus may be allowed as an offset, but here [in Faust] he is an equal hero.
    Elo2 8.126 22 ...at a great heat [men] can all express themselves with an almost equal force.
    QO 8.177 8 If we go into a library or newsroom, we see the same function [of suction] of a higher plane, performed...with equal impatience of interruption...
    QO 8.178 10 He that borrows the aid of an equal understanding, said Burke, doubles his own;...
    QO 8.191 11 ...the worth of the sentences consists in their radiancy and equal aptitude to all intelligence.
    QO 8.194 21 The profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine until an equal mind and heart finds and publishes it.
    PC 8.213 18 The world is always equal to itself.
    PC 8.223 7 There is no use in Copernicus if the robust periodicity of the solar system does not show its equal perfection in the mental sphere...
    PPo 8.240 6 Elsewhere [Layard] adds, Poetry and flowers are the wine and spirits of the Arab; a couplet is equal to a bottle, and a rose to a dram...
    PPo 8.247 21 ...quick perception and corresponding expression, a constitution...which is equal to the needs of life...this generosity of ebb and flow satisfies...
    PPo 8.250 10 ...if you mistake [Hafiz] for a low rioter, he turns short on you...to ejaculate with equal fire the most unpalatable affirmations of heroic sentiment and contempt for the world.
    Grts 8.320 7 ...people are as those with whom they converse? And if all or any are heavy to me, that fact accuses me. Why complain, as if a man's debt to his inferiors were not at least equal to his debt to his superiors?
    Imtl 8.338 23 On the borders of the grave, the wise man looks forward with equal elasticity of mind, or hope;...
    PerF 10.76 19 We define Genius to be...a sensibility so equal that it receives accurately all impressions...
    Chr2 10.112 27 ...Nature, moral as well as material, is always equal to herself.
    Edc1 10.149 20 ...in literature,the young man who has taste...for noble thoughts...forgets all the world for the more learned friend,-who finds equal joy in dealing out his treasures.
    SovE 10.187 17 The civil history of men might be traced by the successive meliorations as marked in higher moral generalizations;...at last came the day when...the nerves of the world were electrified by the proclamation that all men are born free and equal.
    SovE 10.207 19 ...there is great centrality, a centripetence equal to the centrifugence.
    Prch 10.221 20 Unlovely, nay, frightful, is the solitude of the soul which is without God in the world. To...behold the horse, cow and bird, and to foresee an equal and speedy end to him and them;...
    Prch 10.222 23 We are in transition...to a worship which recognizes the true eternity of the law...its equal energy in what is called brute nature as in what is called sacred.
    MoL 10.247 18 [The scholar] knows that the world is always equal to itself;...
    MoL 10.258 12 Slavery is broken, and, if we use our advantage, irretrievably. For such a gain...one generation might well be sacrificed; perhaps it will; that...a new era of equal rights dawn on the universe.
    Plu 10.308 10 ...[Plutarch] chiefly liked that proportion which teaches us to account that which is just, equal; and not that which is equal, just.
    Plu 10.308 11 ...[Plutarch] chiefly liked that proportion which teaches us to account that which is just, equal; and not that which is equal, just.
    MMEm 10.420 8 Better anything than dishonest dependence, which... despoils friendship of equal connection.
    Thor 10.456 13 ...no equal companion stood in affectionate relations with one so pure and guileless [as Thoreau].
    Thor 10.475 6 ...[Thoreau] would have detected every live stanza or line in a volume [of poetry] and knew very well where to find an equal poetic charm in prose.
    Thor 10.478 25 [Thoreau] detected paltering as readily in dignified and prosperous persons as in beggars, and with equal scorn.
    LS 11.11 8 ...it is not a little singular that we should have preserved this rite [the Lord's Supper] and insisted upon perpetuating one symbolical act of Christ whilst we have totally neglected all others,-particularly one other which had at least an equal claim to our observance.
    HDC 11.46 23 ...the [Massachusetts Bay Colony's] towns learned to exercise a sovereignty in the laying of taxes...and, what seemed of at least equal importance, to exercise the right of expressing an opinion on every question before the country.
    HDC 11.50 8 Tell [the Continental nations] the Union has twenty-four States, and Massachusetts is one. Tell them...that in Concord are five hundred ratable polls, and every one has an equal vote.
    EWI 11.114 18 The reception of [emancipation] by the negro population [of the West Indies] was equal in nobleness to the deed.
    War 11.168 22 A man does not come the length of the spirit of martyrdom without...some equal motive...
    FSLC 11.178 8 ...[Eternal Rights] reach no term, they never sleep,/ In equal strength through space abide;/...
    FSLC 11.209 18 Nothing is impracticable to this nation, which it shall set itself to do. Were ever men so endowed, so placed, so weaponed? Their power of territory seconded by a genius equal to every work.
    FSLC 11.210 1 These thirty nations [the United States] are equal to any work...
    FSLC 11.213 8 ...it is confounding distinctions to speak of the geographic sections of this country as of equal civilization.
    FSLN 11.221 21 I remember [Webster's] appearance at Bunker's Hill. There was the Monument, and here was Webster. He knew well that...he was only to say plain and equal things...
    FSLN 11.222 22 [Webster] had a great and everywhere equal propriety.
    FSLN 11.240 19 [The free man] is a finished man;...equal to the world;...
    JBS 11.278 1 ...for [rough play] it needed that the playmates should be equal;...
    ALin 11.328 25 Nothing of Europe here,/ Or, then, of Europe fronting mornward still,/ Ere any names of Serf and Peer/ Could Nature's equal scheme deface;/...
    SMC 11.354 2 [A principle] lifts every population to an equal power and merit.
    SMC 11.354 10 The world is equal to itself.
    SMC 11.359 18 [George Prescott] was...engaged in common duties, but equal always to the occasion;...
    SMC 11.359 20 [George Prescott] was...engaged in common duties, but equal always to the occasion; and the [Civil] war showed him still equal...
    Koss 11.398 11 We [people of Concord] please ourselves that in you [Kossuth] we meet one whose temper was long since...made equal to all events;...
    Koss 11.399 18 ...hitherto, you [Kossuth] have had in all centuries and in all parties only the men of heart. I do not know but you will have the million yet. Then, may your strength be equal to your day.
    Wom 11.408 9 ...in general, no mastery in either of the fine arts...has yet been obtained by [women], equal to the mastery of men in the same.
    Wom 11.416 24 ...the times are marked by the new attitude of Woman; urging...her rights of all kinds...as the right to education...to equal rights of property...
    Wom 11.416 25 ...the times are marked by the new attitude of Woman; urging...her rights of all kinds...as the right to education...to equal rights in marriage...
    Wom 11.419 20 ...if a woman demand votes, offices and political equality with men, as among the Shakers an Elder and Elderess are of equal power... it must not be refused.
    Wom 11.424 1 I do not think it yet appears that women wish this equal share in public affairs.
    Shak1 11.452 2 There are periods fruitful of great men; others, barren;, or, as the world is always equal to itself, periods when the heat is latent,- others when it is given out.
    Scot 11.466 25 ...Scott portrayed with equal strength and success every figure in his crowded company.
    Scot 11.467 9 [Scott] was...equal to whatever event or fortune should try him.
    FRO1 11.477 19 ...[the Free Religious Association] has prompted an equal magnanimity, that thus invites all classes...to unite in a movement of benefit to men...
    CPL 11.497 2 If you consider what has befallen you when reading...a tragedy, or a novel, even, that deeply interested you...you will easily admit the wonderful property of books to make all towns equal...
    CPL 11.507 21 The imagination...if it has not had...Homer or Scott, has drawn equal delight and terror from haunts and passages which you will hear of with envy.
    FRep 11.520 22 Parties...exhibit a surprising fugacity in creeping out of one snake-skin into another of equal ignominy and lubricity...
    FRep 11.541 22 The genius of the country has marked out our true policy,-opportunity. Opportunity...of personal power, and not less of wealth; doors wide open. If I could have it,-free trade with all the world... hospitality of fair field and equal laws to all.
    II 12.66 14 All men are, in respect to this source of truth [consciousness]... equal in original science...
    II 12.79 22 I am sorry that we do not receive the higher gifts justly and greatly. The reception should be equal.
    Mem 12.91 1 It is essential to a locomotive that it can...run backward and forward with equal celerity.
    Mem 12.100 7 ...men of great presence of mind who are always equal to the occasion do not need to rely on what they have stored for use...
    CInt 12.128 17 I would have you rely on Nature ever,-wise, omnific, thousand-handed Nature, equal to each emergency...
    Bost 12.182 16 Let the blood of [Boston's] hundred thousands/ Throb in each manly vein,/ And the wits of all her wisest/ Make sunshine in her brain./ And each shall care for other,/ And each to each shall bend,/ To the poor a noble brother,/ To the good an equal friend./
    Bost 12.185 8 ...if the character of the people [of Boston] has a larger range and greater versatility, causing them to exhibit equal dexterity in what are elsewhere reckoned incompatible works, perhaps they may thank their climate of extremes...
    Bost 12.186 12 What Vasari said...of the republican city of Florence might be said of Boston;...all labor by every means to be foremost. We find...at least an equal freedom in our laws and customs...
    Bost 12.204 3 ...I do not find in our [New England] people, with all their education, a fair share of originality of thought;...not any...equal power of imagination.
    Milt1 12.259 3 ...as far as possible [writes Milton], I aim to show myself equal in thought and speech to what I have written, if I have written anything well.
    Milt1 12.276 22 ...the genius and office of Milton were...to ascend by the aids of his learning and his religion-by an equal perception, that is, of the past and the future-to a higher insight and more lively delineation of the heroic life of man.
    ACri 12.297 27 ...I think of [Carlyle] when I read the famous inscription on the pyramid, I King Saib built this pyramid. I, when I had built it, covered it with satin. Let him who cometh after me, and says he is equal to me, cover it with mats.
    MLit 12.323 3 ...in [Goethe] this encyclopaedia of facts, which it has been the boast of the age to compile, wrought an equal effect.
    Let 12.399 17 ...we should not know where to find in literature any record of...so much power without equal applicability, as our young men pretend to.

equal, adv. (1)

    EWI 11.121 12 ...men of all colors have equal rights in law [in Jamaica], and an equal footing in society...

Equal Labor, n. (1)

    MN 1.214 24 The reforms whose fame now fills the land with...Equal Labor...are poor bitter things when prosecuted for themselves as an end.

equal, n. (6)

    YA 1.368 17 ...the culture of years will never make the most painstaking apprentice [the man of genius's] equal...
    ShP 4.218 3 As long as the question is of talent and mental power, the world of men has not [Shakespeare's] equal to show.
    Ctr 6.144 19 I knew a leading man in a leading city, who, having set his heart on an education at the university and missed it, could never quite feel himself the equal of his own brothers who had gone thither.
    Elo2 8.128 18 This unmanliness [lack of eloquence] is so common a result of our half-education...allowing [a youth] to skulk from the games...and whatever else would lead him and keep him on even terms with boys, so that he can meet them as an equal, and lead in his turn,--that I wish his guardians to consider that they are thus preparing him to play a contemptible part when he is full-grown.
    Dem1 10.19 4 It would be easy in the political history of every time to furnish examples of this irregular success, men having a force which without virtue...yet makes them prevailing. No equal appears in the field against them.
    LLNE 10.341 25 Margaret Fuller, George Ripley...and many others...from time to time spent an afternoon at each other's houses in a serious conversation. With them was always...a man...who read Plato as an equal...

equal, v. (8)

    Chr1 3.89 9 The Gracchi, Agis, Cleomenes, and others of Plutarch's heroes, do not in the record of facts equal their own fame.
    Mrs1 3.149 10 ...by the moral quality radiating from his countenance [a man] may abolish all considerations of magnitude, and in his manners equal the majesty of the world.
    Pol1 3.208 5 What satire on government can equal the severity of censure conveyed in the word politic, which now for ages has signified cunning...
    PI 8.55 2 ...the masters sometimes rise above themselves to strains...which neither any competitor could outdo, nor the bard himself again equal.
    HDC 11.40 12 [The Concord settler's pastor said] If we look to number, we are the fewest;...if to wealth and riches, we are the poorest of all the people of God through the whole world. We cannot excel nor so much as equal other people in these things;...
    CPL 11.498 13 [Peter Bulkeley said] If we look to number, we are the fewest;...if to wealth and riches, we are the poorest of all the people of God through the whole world. We cannot excel, nor so much as equal other people in these things...
    Pray 12.354 14 That my weak hand may equal my firm faith,/ And my life practise more than my tongue saith;/ That my low conduct may not show,/ Nor my relenting lines,/ That I thy purpose did not know,/ Or overrated thy designs./
    EurB 12.370 20 A critical friend of ours affirms that the vice which bereaved modern painters of their power is the ambition...to equal the masters in their exquisite finish, instead of their religious purpose.

equalities, n. (1)

    SovE 10.192 16 The idea of right...lays itself out...in the equalities and periods of our system...

equality, n. (48)

    YA 1.372 18 The census of the population is found to keep an invariable equality in the sexes...
    SR 2.86 1 A singular equality may be observed between the great men of the first and of the last ages;...
    Lov1 2.173 10 In the village [girls and boys] are on a perfect equality...
    Int 2.333 18 Perhaps, if we should meet Shakspeare we should...be conscious...of a great equality...
    NR 3.232 22 I am very much struck in literature by the appearance that one person wrote all the books;...but there is such equality and identity both of judgment and point of view in the narrative that it is plainly the work of one all-seeing, all-hearing gentleman.
    NER 3.275 20 ...having established his equality with class after class of those with whom he would live well, [a man] still finds certain others before whom he cannot possess himself...
    NER 3.279 18 If it were worth while to run into details this general doctrine of the latent but ever soliciting Spirit, it would be easy to adduce illustration in particulars of a man's equality to the Church...
    NER 3.279 19 If it were worth while to run into details this general doctrine of the latent but ever soliciting Spirit, it would be easy to adduce illustration in particulars of a man's equality to the Church, of his equality to the State, and of his equality to every other man.
    UGM 4.19 1 ...[a wise man] would establish [in our village] a sense of immovable equality...
    UGM 4.23 20 ...I find [a master] greater when he can abolish himself and all heroes, by letting in this element of reason...into our thoughts, destroying individualism; the power so great that the potentate is nothing. Then he is a...pontiff who preaches the equality of souls...
    PPh 4.61 5 [Plato] is a great average man; one who, to the best thinking, adds a proportion and equality in his faculties...
    ShP 4.213 7 ...[Shakespeare] is strong, as nature is strong, who lifts the land into mountain slopes without effort and by the same rule as she floats a bubble in the air, and likes as well to do the one as the other. This makes that equality of power in farce, tragedy, narrative, and love-songs;...
    NMW 4.241 25 [Napoleon] knew...how to philosophize on liberty and equality;...
    NMW 4.251 24 I admire...[Bonaparte's] own equality as a writer to his varying subject.
    ET1 5.4 27 It is probable you left some obscure comrade...with right mother-wit and equality to life, when you crossed sea and land to play bo-peep with celebrated scribes.
    ET5 5.82 17 ...in France, fraternity, equality, and indivisible unity are names for assassination.
    ET5 5.92 7 Faithful performance of what is undertaken to be performed, [the English] honor in themselves, and exact in others, as certificate of equality with themselves.
    ET5 5.95 16 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.
    ET6 5.114 24 ...our prevailing equality makes a prairie tameness...
    ET11 5.198 6 A multitude of English...are every day confronting the peers on a footing of equality...
    Wsp 6.217 12 Given the equality of two intellects,--which will form the most reliable judgments, the good, or the bad hearted?
    Wsp 6.234 8 Under the whip of the driver, the slave shall feel his equality with saints and heroes.
    Bty 6.285 26 The miller, the lawyer and the merchant dedicate themselves to their own details, and do not come out men of more force. Have they... the equality to any event which we demand in man...
    Art2 7.57 2 Popular institutions...and the immense harvest of economical inventions, are the fruit of the equality and the boundless liberty of lucrative callings.
    WD 7.183 11 ...all [Newton's] life was simple, wise and majestic. So was it in Archimedes, always self-same, like the sky. In Linnaeus, in Franklin, the like sweetness and equality...
    Cour 7.264 9 ...courage consists in equality to the problem before us.
    Cour 7.264 16 Courage is equality to the problem...
    PI 8.72 19 ...mark the equality of Shakspeare to the comic, the tender and sweet, and to the grand and terrible.
    SA 8.104 17 We have come...to know...the good will that is in the people, their conviction of the great moral advantages of...social equality...
    Elo2 8.126 19 Men differ so much in control of their faculties! You can find in many, and indeed in all, a certain fundamental equality.
    PC 8.213 7 ...I find not only this equality between new and old countries... but also a certain equivalence of the ages of history;...
    Insp 8.294 6 We esteem nations important, until we discover...later, that it is...at last...the lowliness, the outpouring, the large equality to truth of a single mind...
    PerF 10.70 8 See what your robust neighbor, who never feared to live in [the air], has got from it;...heartiness and equality to each event.
    PerF 10.76 24 ...the health of man is an equality of inlet and outlet...
    Chr2 10.116 7 This charm in the Pagan moralists, of suggestion, the charm...of mere truth...the New Testament loses by its connection with a church. Mankind cannot long suffer this loss, and the office of this age is to put all these writings on the eternal footing of equality of origin in the instincts of the human mind.
    SovE 10.190 17 For my part, said Napoleon, it is not the mystery of the incarnation which I discover in religion, but the mystery of social order, which associates with heaven that idea of equality which prevents the rich from destroying the poor.
    MoL 10.255 7 ...it is...not at last a few individuals or any heroes, but himself only, the large equality to truth of a single mind...
    LLNE 10.368 10 People cannot live together in any but necessary ways. The only candidates who will present themselves will be those who have tried the experiment of independence and ambition, and have failed; and none others will barter for the most comfortable equality the chance of superiority.
    MMEm 10.398 16 [Lucy Percy] prefers the conversation of men to that of women; not but she can talk on the fashions with her female friends, but she is too soon sensible...that preeminence shortens all equality.
    Thor 10.451 22 After completing his experiments [on lead-pencils], [Thoreau] exhibited his work to chemists and artists in Boston, and having obtained their certificates to its excellence and to its equality with the best London manufacture, he returned home contented.
    HDC 11.53 17 We, who see in the squalid remnants of the twenty tribes of Massachusetts...can hardly learn without emotion the earnestness with which the most sensible individuals of the copper race held on to the new hope they had conceived, of being elevated to equality with their civilized brother.
    Wom 11.415 13 After the deification of Woman in the Catholic Church, in the sixteenth or seventeenth century...the Quakers have the honor of having first established, in their discipline, the equality of the sexes.
    Wom 11.419 19 ...if a woman demand votes, offices and political equality with men...it must not be refused.
    PLT 12.50 4 Shakspeare astonishes by his equality in every play, act, scene or line.
    II 12.66 14 All men are, in respect to this source of truth [consciousness], on a certain footing of equality...
    Bost 12.204 21 [Liberty] was to be built on Religion, the Emancipator; Religion which teaches equality of all men in view of the spirit which created man.
    Pray 12.352 1 ...what led us to these remembrances [of prayers] was the happy accident which in this undevout age lately brought us acquainted with two or three diaries, which attest...the eternity of the sentiment and its equality to itself through all the variety of expression.
    Let 12.396 26 To live solitary and unexpressed is...painful in proportion to one's consciousness of ripeness and equality to the offices of friendship.

equalize, v. (2)

    Comp 2.98 23 The waves of the sea do not more speedily seek a level from their loftiest tossing than the varieties of condition tend to equalize themselves.
    LLNE 10.350 5 Attractive Industry...would equalize temperature, give health to the globe...

equalized, v. (1)

    ET14 5.236 27 I could cite from the seventeenth century [in England] sentences and phrases of edge not to be matched in the nineteenth. Their poets by simple force of mind equalized themselves with the accumulated science of ours.

equalizes, v. (1)

    Wsp 6.234 5 The moral equalizes all: enriches, empowers all.

equalled, v. (3)

    ET10 5.155 9 The respect for truth of facts in England is equalled only by the respect for wealth.
    MMEm 10.416 21 ...the simple principle which made me [Mary Moody Emerson] say...that, should He make me a blot on the fair face of his Creation, I should rejoice in His will, has never been equalled...
    Milt1 12.251 10 The weight of the thought [in Milton's Areopagitica] is equalled by the vivacity of the expression...

equally, adv. (52)

    Nat 1.9 15 Nature is a setting that fits equally well a comic or a mourning piece.
    DSA 1.125 18 [The sentiment of virtue] corrects the capital mistake of the infant man...by showing...that he, equally with every man, is an inlet into the deeps of Reason.
    Tran 1.350 7 Once possessed of the principle, it is equally easy to make four or forty thousand applications of it.
    Hist 2.14 11 The identity of history is equally instrinsic, the diversity equally obvious.
    Hist 2.14 12 The identity of history is equally instrinsic, the diversity equally obvious.
    Hist 2.16 15 If any one will but take pains to observe the variety of actions to which he is equally inclined in certain moods of mind, and those to which he is averse, he will see how deep is the chain of affinity.
    SR 2.53 21 This rule [of self-reliance], equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness.
    SR 2.69 23 This one fact the world hates; that the soul becomes; for that... shoves Jesus and Judas equally aside.
    Fdsp 2.208 17 I am equally balked by antagonism and by compliance.
    OS 2.269 9 ...within man is...the universal beauty, to which every part and particle is equally related;...
    OS 2.293 26 Has it not occurred to you that you have no right to go, unless you are equally willing to be prevented from going?
    Int 2.338 27 The intellect...demands integrity in every work. This is resisted equally by a man's devotion to a single thought and by his ambition to combine too many.
    Pt1 3.35 2 Either of these [symbols], or of a myriad more, are equally good to the person to whom they are significant.
    Mrs1 3.126 4 Diogenes, Socrates, and Epaminondas, are gentlemen...who have chosen the condition of poverty when that of wealth was equally open to them.
    Mrs1 3.141 12 A man who is happy [in the company], finds in every turn of the conversation equally lucky occasions for the introduction of that which he has to say.
    Mrs1 3.152 13 ...this Byzantine pile of chivalry or Fashion...is not equally pleasant to all spectators.
    Nat2 3.193 11 Is it that beauty...in persons and in landscape is equally inaccessible?
    UGM 4.31 7 We are equally served by receiving and by imparting.
    SwM 4.94 9 The human mind stands ever in perplexity, demanding intellect, demanding sanctity, impatient equally of each without the other.
    MoS 4.165 5 In [Montaigne's] times, books were written to one sex only... so that in a humorist a certain nakedness of statement was permitted, which our manners, of a literature addressed equally to both sexes, do not allow.
    MoS 4.172 12 The superior mind will find itself equally at odds with the evils of society and with the projects that are offered to relieve them.
    ShP 4.196 22 ...[the poet in illiterate times] comes to value his memory equally with his invention.
    ShP 4.196 27 [The poet in illiterate times] is...little solicitous whence his thoughts have been derived;...from whatever source, they are equally welcome to his uncritical audience.
    GoW 4.286 5 An intellectual man can see himself as a third person; therefore his faults and delusions interest him equally with his successes.
    ET5 5.81 5 In the [English] courts the independence of the judges and the loyalty of the suitors are equally excellent.
    ET9 5.152 26 ...[The Americans and the English] are equally badly off in our founders;...
    ET11 5.196 27 The fiction with which the noble and the bystander equally please themselves [in England] is that the former is of unbroken descent from the Norman...
    ET14 5.232 12 ...[the English] delight in strong earthy expression...and though spoken among princes, equally fit and welcome to the mob.
    ET14 5.259 10 Might I [Warren Hastings]...venture to prescribe bounds to the latitude of criticism, I should exclude...equally, all appeals to our revealed tenets of religion and moral duty.
    ET15 5.271 5 Punch is equally an expression of English good sense, as the London Times.
    ET16 5.279 14 To these conscious stones [of Stonehenge] we two pilgrims [Emerson and Carlyle] were alike known and near. We could equally well revere their old British meaning.
    Wsp 6.231 11 The man whose eyes are nailed, not on the nature of his act but on the wages, whether it be money, or office, or fame, is almost equally low.
    DL 7.116 21 Another age may divide the manual labor of the world more equally on all the members of society...
    Clbs 7.233 13 One of those conceited prigs who value Nature only as it feeds and exhibits them is equally a pest with the roysterers.
    Cour 7.277 2 ...there is no creed of an honest man, be he Christian, Turk or Gentoo, which does not equally preach it.
    PI 8.65 8 The Muse [of Poetry] shall be the counterpart of Nature, and equally rich.
    Comc 8.173 20 All our plans, managements, houses, poems...are equally imperfect and ridiculous.
    Insp 8.271 27 Inspiration is like yeast. 'T is no matter in which of half a dozen ways you procure the infection; you can apply one or the other equally well to your purpose, and get your loaf of bread.
    Grts 8.318 15 A great style of hero draws equally all classes...
    Plu 10.309 10 The part of each of the class [of the Greek philosophers] is as important as that of the master. They are like the baseball players, to whom the pitcher, the bat, the catcher and the scout are equally important.
    SlHr 10.445 2 [Samuel Hoar's] ability lay in the clear apprehension and the powerful statement of the material points of his case. He soon possessed it, and he never possessed it better, and he was equally ready at any moment to state the facts.
    Thor 10.460 11 ...idealist as he was...[Thoreau] found himself not only unrepresented in actual politics, but almost equally opposed to every class of reformers.
    Thor 10.462 11 [Thoreau] had a strong common sense, like that which Rose Flammock, the weaver's daughter in Scott's romance [The Betrothed], commends in her father, as resembling a yardstick, which, whilst it measures dowlas and diaper, can equally well measure tapestry and cloth of gold.
    Thor 10.474 10 [Thoreau] was equally interested in every natural fact.
    EdAd 11.386 26 ...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? This is equally the view of science and of patriotism.
    Wom 11.424 5 Let the public donations for education be equally shared by [women]...
    CPL 11.501 1 [Thoreau writes] It is a relief to read some true books wherein all are equally dead, equally alive.
    II 12.66 26 I know, of course, all the grounds on which any man affirms the immortality of the Soul. Fed from one spring, the water-tank is equally full in all the gardens...
    II 12.72 20 It is this employment of new means...that denotes the inspired man. This is equally obvious in all the fine arts;...
    Milt1 12.268 18 [Milton's] views of choice of profession, and choice in marriage, equally expect a divine leading.
    EurB 12.376 24 ...a perception of beauty was the equally indispensable element of the association [society in Wilhelm Meister]...
    Trag 12.415 8 [Our human being] is like a stream of water, which, if dammed up on one bank, overruns the other, and flows equally at its own convenience over sand, or mud, or marble.

equals, n. (5)

    NER 3.275 2 The same magnanimity shows itself...in the preference... which each man gives to the society of superiors over that of his equals.
    SwM 4.122 23 Instead of a religion which visited [Swedenborg] diplomatically three or four times...here was a teaching which accompanied him...into society, and showed by what affinities he was girt to his equals and his counterparts;...
    Ctr 6.137 6 Culture...puts [a man] among his equals and superiors...
    Clbs 7.232 20 Some men love only to talk where they are masters. ... They go rarely to thei their equals...
    Grts 8.320 8 If men were equals, the waters would not move;...

equals, v. (2)

    ET12 5.209 18 Oxford, which equals in wealth several of the smaller European states, shuts up the lectureships which were made public for all men thereunto to have concourse;...
    EurB 12.372 23 Ulysses [Tennyson] belongs to a high class of poetry, destined...to be more cultivated in the next generation. Oenone was a sketch of the same kind. One of the best specimens we have of the class is Wordsworth's Laodamia, of which no special merit it can possess equals the total merit of having selected such a subject in such a spirit.

equanimity, n. (1)

    F 6.41 12 ...as we do in dreams, with equanimity, the most absurd acts, so a drop more of wine in our cup of life will reconcile us to strange company and work.

equation, n. (3)

    Comp 2.96 20 Polarity, or action and reaction, we meet in every part of nature;...in the equation of quantity and quality in the fluids of the animal body;...
    Comp 2.102 15 The world looks like a multiplication-table, or a mathematical equation, which, turn it how you will, balances itself.
    Comp 2.116 17 All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation.

equator, n. (10)

    YA 1.372 11 The sphere is flattened at the poles and swelled at the equator;...
    Exp 3.62 20 We may climb into the thin and cold realm of pure geometry and lifeless science, or sink into that of sensation. Between these extremes is the equator of life...
    PNR 4.87 21 [Plato] kindled a fire so truly in the centre that we see the sphere illuminated, and can distinguish poles, equator and lines of latitude...
    ET2 5.28 22 Near the equator you can read small print by [the light of the sea-fire];...
    Pow 6.69 18 ...when [the young English] have no wars to breathe their riotous valors in, they seek for travels as dangerous as war...peeping into craters on the equator;...
    Wth 6.89 15 The sea, washing the equator and the poles, offers its perilous aid and the power and empire that follow it...to [man's] craft and audacity.
    Suc 7.303 16 ...the genial man is interested in every slipper that comes into the assembly. The passion, alike everywhere, creeps under the snows of Scandinavia, under the fires of the equator...
    SovE 10.193 8 All the tyrants and proprietors and monopolists of the world in vain set their shoulders to heave the bar [of Divine justice]. Settles for evermore the ponderous equator to its line...
    PLT 12.61 6 Ideal and practical, like eliptic and equator, are never parallel.
    Bost 12.185 12 ...if the character of the people [of Boston] has a larger range and greater versatility...perhaps they may thank their climate of extremes, which at one season gives them the splendor of the equator and a touch of Syria, and then runs down to a cold which approaches the temperature of the celestial spaces.

equatorial, adj. (1)

    Civ 7.26 8 ...some of our grandest examples of men and of races come from the equatorial regions...

equestrians, n. (1)

    F 6.47 10 A man must ride alternately on the horses of his private and his public nature, as the equestrians in the circus throw themselves nimbly from horse to horse...

equilibration, n. (1)

    MoS 4.171 21 Every superior mind will pass through this domain of equilibration [skepticism]...

equilibrium, n. (9)

    Hist 2.4 16 ...the poise of my body depends on the equilibrium of centrifugal and centripetal forces...
    MoS 4.166 21 [Montaigne] took and kept this position of equilibrium.
    Wth 6.94 12 Each of these idealists, working after his thought, would make it tyrannical, if he could. He is met and antagonized by other speculators as hot as he. The equilibrium is preserved by these counteractions...
    Wth 6.106 8 The level of the sea is not more surely kept than is the equilibrium of value in society by the demand and supply;...
    Bty 6.292 18 The interruption of equilibrium stimulates the eye to desire the restoration of symmetry...
    Bty 6.292 24 This is the theory of dancing, to recover continually in changes the lost equilibrium...
    SovE 10.192 15 The idea of right...lays itself out in the equilibrium of Nature...
    Trag 12.412 19 All that life demands of us through the greater part of the day is an equilibrium...
    Trag 12.414 11 ...the world will be in equilibrium...

equinox, n. (4)

    SR 2.85 13 ...the equinox [the man in the street] knows as little;...
    NR 3.231 15 ...morning and night, solstice and equinox, geometry, astronomy and all the lovely accidents of nature play through [the day-laborer's] mind.
    CW 12.176 23 A man...should know the solstice and the equinox...
    Milt1 12.258 4 ...[Milton] believed, his poetic vein only flowed from the autumnal to the vernal equinox;...

equinoxes, n. (4)

    ET10 5.157 18 Six hundred years ago, Roger Bacon explained the precession of the equinoxes...
    F 6.7 15 The planet is liable to...precessions of equinoxes.
    F 6.18 17 Mahometan and Chinese know what we know...of the precession of the equinoxes.
    PC 8.214 26 Six hundred years ago Roger Bacon explained the precession of the equinoxes and the necessity of reform in the calendar;...

equip, v. (1)

    SR 2.55 14 ...nature is not slow to equip us in the prison-uniform of the party to which we adhere.

equipage, n. (10)

    SR 2.62 6 To [the man in the street] a palace, a statue, or a costly book have an alien and forbidding air, much like a gay equipage...
    Mrs1 3.135 1 Everybody we know surrounds himself with a fine house, fine books, conservatory, gardens, equipage and all manner of toys...
    Nat2 3.190 22 ...these servants, this kitchen, these stables, horses and equipage...all for a little conversation, high, clear and spiritual!
    PPh 4.59 17 ...the rich man...has that one dress, or equipage, or instrument, which is fit for the hour and the need;...
    ET7 5.119 16 Plain rich clothes, plain rich equipage, plain rich finish throughout their house and belongings mark the English truth.
    Wth 6.113 16 Montaigne said, When he was a younger brother, he went brave in dress and equipage...
    CbW 6.274 6 It makes no difference, in looking back five years...whether you...have been carried in a neat equipage or in a ridiculous truck...
    Comc 8.170 8 The same astonishment of the intellect at the disappearance of the man out of Nature, through some superstition of his house or equipage...is the secret of all the fun that circulates concerning eminent fops and fashionists...
    QO 8.189 7 In literature, quotation is good only when the writer whom I follow goes my way, being better mounted than I, gives me a cast, as we say; but if I like the gay equipage so well as to go out of my road, I had better have gone afoot.
    EWI 11.122 18 The owner of a New York manor imitates the mansion and equipage of the London nobleman;...

equipages, n. (4)

    ET3 5.37 25 The innumerable details [in England]...the multitudes of rich and of remarkable people, the servants and equipages...hide all boundaries by the impression of magnificence and endless wealth.
    Ctr 6.152 24 The English have a plain taste. The equipages of the grandees are plain.
    Wsp 6.223 15 If you spend for show...on pictures or on equipages, it will so appear.
    Insp 8.272 18 Fine clothes, equipages...cannot cover up real poverty and insignificance...

equipment, n. (9)

    SR 2.86 17 Hudson and Behring accomplished so much in their fishing-boats as to astonish Parry and Franklin, whose equipment exhausted the resources of science and art.
    ET5 5.85 3 The admirable equipment of [Englishmen's] arctic ships carries London to the pole.
    Wth 6.112 8 [Each man] wants an equipment of means and tools proper to his talent.
    Civ 7.24 17 The ship, in its latest complete equipment, is an abridgment and compend of a nation's arts...
    Elo1 7.85 3 ...the splendid weapons which went to the equipment of Demosthenes, of Aeschines...deserve a special enumeration.
    Clbs 7.235 2 Our fortunes in the world are as our mental equipment for this competition [in right company] is.
    PLT 12.29 10 [Man's] equipment, though new, is complete;...
    II 12.85 5 [The source of thought's] whole equipment is new...
    ACri 12.283 14 On the writer the choicest influences are concentrated,- nothing that does not go to his costly equipment...

equipments, n. (2)

    ET4 5.62 5 It was a tardy recoil of these invasions [of Northmen], when...in 1807, Lord Cathcart, at Copenhagen, took the entire Danish fleet...and all the equipments from the Arsenal...
    Bost 12.186 21 ...New Bedford is not nearer to the whales than New London or Portland, yet they have all the equipments for a whaler ready...

equipoise, n. (1)

    EdAd 11.392 25 The health which we call Virtue is an equipoise which easily redresses itself...

equipollence, n. (1)

    PC 8.215 17 As we find thus a certain equivalence in the ages, there is also an equipollence of individual genius to the nation which it represents.

equipollent, adj. (1)

    PC 8.217 5 I find the single mind equipollent to a multitude of minds...

equipped, v. (6)

    MR 1.251 13 [The Arabs] were miserably equipped, miserably fed.
    WD 7.173 10 Hume's doctrine was that...the girl equipped for her first ball, and the orator returning triumphant from the debate, had different means, but the same quantity of pleasant excitement.
    PI 8.13 2 When some familiar truth or fact appears...equipped with a grand pair of ballooning wings, we cannot enough testify our surprise and pleasure.
    Schr 10.278 23 [The scholar] is not cheaply equipped.
    Thor 10.461 8 ...Mr. Thoreau was equipped with a most adapted and serviceable body.
    Bost 12.204 11 When [Nature] has work to do, she qualifies men for that and sends them equipped for that.

equips, v. (2)

    Nat2 3.181 9 [Nature] arms and equips an animal to find its place and living in the earth...
    Nat2 3.181 11 [Nature] arms and equips an animal to find its place and living in the earth, and at the same time she arms and equips another animal to destroy it.

equitable, adj. (4)

    MR 1.254 4 ...the equitable rule is, that no one should take more than his share...
    Pol1 3.203 4 ...so long as it comes to the owners in the direct way, no other opinion would arise in any equitable community than that property should make the law for property, and persons the law for persons.
    Elo1 7.88 25 ...I read without surprise that the black-letter lawyers of the day sneered at [Lord Mansfield's] equitable decisions...
    LVB 11.89 17 ...the circumstance that my name will be utterly unknown to you [Van Buren] will only give the fairer chance to your equitable construction of what I have to say.

equitation, n. (1)

    ET11 5.195 1 ...[English nobles] were expert in every species of equitation...

equity, n. (17)

    LT 1.270 5 The Temperance-question...drawing with it all the curious ethics...of the Wine-question, of the equity of the manufacture and the trade, is a gymnastic training to the casuistry and conscience of the time.
    LT 1.286 2 The revolutions that impend over society are...from new modes of thinking, which shall...replace all property within the dominion of reason and equity.
    Comp 2.102 11 Justice is not postponed. A perfect equity adjusts its balance in all parts of life.
    Comp 2.111 6 All infractions of love and equity in our social relations are speedily punished.
    Exp 3.54 11 Temperament is the veto or limitation-power in the constitution...absurdly offered as a bar to original equity.
    Exp 3.64 21 Whilst the debate goes forward on the equity of commerce... New and Old England may keep shop.
    Chr1 3.92 27 The habit of [the natural merchant's] mind is a reference to standards of natural equity and public advantage;...
    Pol1 3.204 16 If it be not easy to settle the equity of this question [of property], the peril is less when we take note of our natural defenses.
    UGM 4.22 5 ...if there should appear in the company some gentle soul who...certifies me of the equity which checkmates every false player...that man liberates me;...
    Wth 6.103 23 Is [the dollar] not instantly enhanced by the increase of equity?
    Wth 6.103 25 Is [the dollar] not instantly enhanced by the increase of equity? If a trader refuses to sell his vote...he makes so much more equity in Massachusetts;...
    DL 7.117 11 ...our social forms are very far from truth and equity.
    PC 8.230 24 Here you are set down, scholars and idealists...amongst angry politicians...you are to make valid the large considerations of equity and good sense;...
    EWI 11.106 12 ...when [Granville Sharpe] brought the case of George Somerset, another slave, before Lord Mansfield, the slavish decisions were set aside, and equity affirmed.
    FSLC 11.179 23 There are men who are as sure indexes of the equity of legislation...as the barometer is of the weight of the air...
    EPro 11.319 18 The force of the act [the Emancipation Proclamation] is... that it compels the innumerable officers...of the Republic to range themselves on the line of this equity.
    Shak1 11.451 17 What a great heart of equity is [Shakespeare]!

equivalence, n. (6)

    Cir 2.317 21 ...O circular philosopher, I hear some reader exclaim, you have arrived...at an equivalence and indifferency of all actions...
    GoW 4.290 9 Goethe teaches...the equivalence of all times;...
    PC 8.213 9 ...I find not only this equality between new and old countries... but also a certain equivalence of the ages of history;...
    PC 8.215 16 As we find thus a certain equivalence in the ages, there is also an equipollence of individual genius to the nation which it represents.
    PC 8.220 24 ...the next step in the series is the equivalence of the soul to Nature.
    MLit 12.328 21 ...what shall we think of that absence of the moral sentiment, that singular equivalence to him of good and evil in action, which discredit [Goethe's] compositions to the pure?

equivalent, adj. (7)

    MN 1.197 12 ...our arm is no more as strong as the frost, nor our will equivalent to gravity and the elective attractions.
    Pt1 3.35 5 Either of these [symbols], or of a myriad more, are equally good to the person to whom they are significant. Only they must...be very willingly translated into the equivalent terms which others use.
    ET2 5.25 15 The remuneration [for lectures in England] was equivalent to the fees at that time paid in this country for the like services.
    Wth 6.85 21 ...a better order is equivalent to vast amounts of brute labor.
    PerF 10.70 22 Faraday said, A grain of water is known to have electric relations equivalent to a very powerful flash of lightning.
    FRep 11.513 9 ...it is not...the whole magazine of material nature that can give the sum of power, but the infinite applicability of these things in the hands of thinking man, every new application being equivalent to a new material.
    Mem 12.108 23 The acceleration of mental process is equivalent to the lengthening of life.

equivalent, n. (2)

    ET3 5.37 18 As soon as you enter England, which, with Wales, is no larger than the State of Georgia, this little land stretches by an illusion to the dimensions of an empire. Add South Carolina, and you have more than an equivalent for the area of Scotland.
    ET10 5.160 11 The steam-pipe has added to [England's] population and wealth the equivalent of four or five Englands.

equivocal, adj. (4)

    Mrs1 3.122 4 There is something equivocal in all the words in use to express the excellence of manners and social cultivation...
    Mrs1 3.127 14 Thus grows up Fashion, an equivocal semblance...
    NER 3.279 5 I suppose considerate observers, looking at the masses of men in their blameless and in their equivocal actions, will assent, that...the general purpose in the great number of persons is fidelity.
    FRep 11.518 11 ...liberal congresses and legislatures ordain...equivocal, interested and vicious measures.

equivocation, n. (1)

    ET7 5.118 11 [The English] hate shuffling and equivocation...

era, n. (29)

    Nat 1.9 4 The lover of nature is he...who has retained the spirit of infancy even into the era of manhood.
    Nat 1.14 2 By the aggregate of these aids [of the useful arts], how is the face of the world changed, from the era of Noah to that of Napoleon!
    Nat 1.34 14 [The relation between mind and matter] is the standing problem which has exercised the wonder and the study of every fine genius since the world began; from the era of the Egyptians...to that of Pythagoras...
    AmS 1.110 11 If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not...when the historic glories of the old can be compensated by the rich possibilities of the new era?
    Hist 2.4 27 Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind, and when the same thought occurs to another man, it is the key to that era.
    Hist 2.21 16 ...the Persian court in its magnificent era never gave over the nomadism of its barbarous tribes...
    Hist 2.24 6 The Grecian state is the era of the bodily nature...
    Int 2.331 4 At last comes the era of reflection...
    Nat2 3.195 13 We anticipate a new era from the invention of a locomotive...
    NER 3.258 22 ...the Mathematics had a momentary importance at some era of activity in physical science.
    PNR 4.86 2 [Plato's] definition of ideas...marks an era in the world.
    ET8 5.135 22 Here [in England] was lately a cross-grained miser [Joseph Turner]...yet as true a worshipper of beauty in form and color as ever existed...making an era in painting;...
    ET14 5.249 5 ...the misfortune of [Coleridge's] life, his vast attempts but most inadequate performings...seems to mark the closing of an era.
    Farm 7.150 14 These [drainage] tiles are political economists, confuters of Malthus and Ricardo; they are so many Young Americans announcing a better era,--more bread.
    WD 7.179 19 ...him I reckon the most learned scholar, not who can unearth for me the buried dynasties of Sesostris and Ptolemy, the Sothiac era...
    Boks 7.207 1 ...in the Elizabethan era [the scholar] is at the richest period of the English mind...
    PC 8.213 22 ...each European nation, after the breaking up of the Roman Empire, had its romantic era...
    PC 8.213 22 ...each European nation...had its romantic era, and the productions of that era in each rose to about the same height.
    PC 8.216 25 ...in his own days [Michelangelo's] friends were few; and you would need to hunt him in a conventicle with the Methodists of the era...
    Imtl 8.323 1 In the year 626 of our era, when Edwin, the Anglo-Saxon king, was deliberating on receiving the Christian missionaries, one of his nobles said to him: The present life of man, O king, compared with that space of time beyond...reminds me of one of your winter feasts...
    Prch 10.228 9 An era in human history is the life of Jesus;...
    MoL 10.258 12 Slavery is broken, and, if we use our advantage, irretrievably. For such a gain...one generation might well be sacrificed; perhaps it will; that...a new era of equal rights dawn on the universe.
    Plu 10.293 9 It is agreed that he was born about the year 50 of the Christian era.
    ACiv 11.306 26 Neither do I doubt, is such a composition should take place, that the Southerners will come back quietly and politely, leaving their haughty dictation. It will be an era of good feelings.
    HCom 11.345 4 We see...a new era...
    Scot 11.465 3 [Scott] apprehended in advance the immense enlargement of the reading public, which almost dates from the era of his books...
    ChiE 11.471 10 All share the surprise and pleasure when the venerable Oriental dynasty...suddenly steps into the fellowship of nations. This auspicious event, considered in connection with the late innovations in Japan, marks a new era...
    Bost 12.193 20 [The Massachusetts colonists] were precisely the idealists of England; the most religious in a religious era.
    MLit 12.322 12 ...of all men he who has united in himself...the tendencies of the era, is the German poet, naturalist and philosopher, Goethe.

eradicate, v. (1)

    CL 12.137 27 [Linnaeus] showed [the people of Tornea] that the whole evil [of dying cattle] might be prevented by employing a woman for a month to eradicate the noxious plants [water-hemlock].

eradicates, v. (1)

    Wth 6.114 3 ...pride eradicates so many vices...that is seems as if it were a great gain to exchange vanity for pride.

eradication, n. (1)

    Hsm1 2.256 18 The great will not condescend to take any thing seriously; all must be as gay as the song of a canary, though it were...the eradication of old and foolish churches and nations...

eras, n. (8)

    Hist 2.9 24 I can find...the genius and creative principle of each and of all eras, in my own mind.
    Hist 2.40 4 What connection do the books show between the fifty or sixty chemical elements and the historical eras?
    ShP 4.213 17 This [power of expression] is that which throws [Shakespeare] into natural history...as announcing new eras and ameliorations.
    GoW 4.290 12 Genius hovers with [Goethe's] sunshine and music close by the darkest and deafest eras.
    Wth 6.125 25 The merchant's economy is a coarse symbol of the soul's economy. ... It is to invest income; that is to say, to take up particulars into generals; days into integral eras...of its life...
    Elo2 8.131 26 ...in Germany we have seen a metaphysical zymosis culminating in Kant, Schelling, Schleiermacher, Schopenhauer, Hegel, and so ending. To this we might add the great eras not only of painters but of orators.
    LLNE 10.325 17 It is not easy to date these eras of activity with any precision...
    EdAd 11.385 16 Where is...the voice of aboriginal nations opening new eras with hymns of lofty cheer?

Erasmus, Desiderius, n. (8)

    PPh 4.39 19 ...every brisk young man who says in succession fine things to each reluctant generation,--Boethius...Erasmus...is some reader of Plato...
    ET12 5.201 3 Hither [to Oxford] came Erasmus, with delight, in 1497.
    CbW 6.253 2 [Good men] find...the governments, the churches, to be in the interest and the pay of the devil. And wise men have met this obstruction in their times...like Erasmus, with his book, The Praise of Folly;...
    DL 7.110 4 All [the scholar's] expense is for Aristotle, Fabricius, Erasmus and Petrarch.
    Boks 7.196 1 ...I know beforehand that Pindar...Erasmus, More, will be superior to the average intellect.
    Boks 7.206 12 Ximenes...Erasmus...are [Charles V's] contemporaries.
    PC 8.218 18 Some...Erasmus, Beranger, Bettine von Arnim...is always allowed.
    WSL 12.341 12 When we pronounce the names of...Erasmus, Scaliger and Montaigne;...we...enter into a region of the purest pleasure accessible to human nature.

Erasmus's, Desiderius, n. (1)

    Milt1 12.251 9 [Milton's Areopagitica] is, as Luther said of one of Melancthon's writings...not like Erasmus's sentences, which were made, not grown.

erasure, n. (2)

    Plu 10.298 19 ...[Plutarch]...declares in a letter written to his wife that he finds scarcely an erasure, as in a book well-written, in the happiness of his life.
    Trag 12.405 17 ...how the spirit seems already to contract its domain... leaving its planted fields to erasure and annihilation.

Erebus, n. (1)

    ACri 12.289 21 Natural science gives us the inks, the shades; ink of Erebus-night of Chaos.

erect, adj. (24)

    Con 1.317 2 ...the erect, formidable valor of some Dorian townsmen in the town of Sparta;...sufficed to build what you call society on the spot and in the instant when the sound mind in a sound body appeared.
    Tran 1.334 25 ...let the soul be erect, and all things will go well.
    SR 2.89 14 He who knows that power is inborn...stands in the erect position...
    Comp 2.99 16 ...[the President] is content to eat dust before the real masters who stand erect behind the throne.
    Fdsp 2.203 24 We can seldom go erect.
    Hsm1 2.259 16 Let the maiden, with erect soul, walk serenely on her way...
    Mrs1 3.151 26 ...no princess could surpass [Lilla's] clear and erect demeanor on each occasion.
    Nat2 3.178 20 ...nature is erect...
    NER 3.275 4 All that [a man] has will he give for an erect demeanor in every company and on each occasion.
    NER 3.275 16 ...a naval and military honor...the acknowledgment of eminent merit,--have this lustre for each candidate that they enable him to walk erect and unashamed in the presence of some persons before whom he felt himself inferior.
    PPh 4.62 6 Having paid his homage, as for the human race, to the Illimitable, [Plato] then stood erect, and for the human race affirmed, And yet things are knowable!...
    SwM 4.107 24 A poetic anatomist, in our own day, teaches that a snake, being a horizontal line, and man, being an erect line, constitute a right angle;...
    ShP 4.216 6 ...Chaucer is glad and erect;...
    Ctr 6.166 2 Half engaged in the soil, pawing to get free, man needs all the music that can be brought to disengage him. If Love, red Love, with tears and joy;...by loud taps on the tough chrysalis can break its walls and let the new creature emerge erect and free,--make way and sing paean!
    CbW 6.257 17 ...one would say that a good understanding would suffice as well as moral sensibility to keep one erect;...
    WD 7.173 26 How difficult to deal erect with [these passing hours]!
    OA 7.332 7 I have lately found in an old note-book a record of a visit to ex-President John Adams, in 1825, soon after the election of his son to the Presidency. It...reports a moment in the life of a heroic person, who, in extreme old age, appeared still erect and worthy of his fame.
    Insp 8.268 1 If with light head erect I sing,/ Though all the Muses lend their force,/ From my poor love of anything,/ The verse is weak and shallow as its source./
    Carl 10.498 4 ...in England, where the morgue of aristocracy has very slowly admitted scholars into society...[Carlyle] has carried himself erect...
    HDC 11.50 22 The man of the woods might well draw on himself the compassion of the planters. His erect and perfect form...was found joined to a dwindled soul.
    Milt1 12.253 27 Milton stands erect, commanding...
    Milt1 12.257 12 Wood, [Milton's] political opponent, relates that his deportment was affable, his gait erect and manly...
    WSL 12.337 2 We sometimes meet in a stage-coach in New England an erect, muscular man...whose nervous speech instantly betrays the English traveller;...
    AgMs 12.359 25 ...[Edmund Hosmer] is a man...of an erect good sense and independent spirit...

erect, v. (3)

    Civ 7.30 7 A puny creature, walled in on every side, as Daniel wrote,-- Unless above himself he can/ Erect himself, how poor a thing is man!/...
    MoL 10.254 2 [Pytheas] came to the poet Pindar and wished him to write an ode in his praise, and inquired what was the price of a poem. Pindar replied that he should give him one talent, about a thousand dollars of our money. A talent! cried Pytheas, why, for so much money I can erect a statue of bronze in the temple.
    Plu 10.315 10 To erect a trophy in the soul against anger is that which none but a great and victorious puissance is able to achieve.

erected, v. (5)

    Comp 2.108 1 ...when the Thasians erected a statue to Theagenes, a victor in the games, one of his rivals went to it by night and endeavored to throw it down...
    ET5 5.74 21 [The Roman] disembarked his legions [in England], erected his camps and towers...
    ET5 5.96 3 The markets created by the manufacturing population [in England] have erected agriculture into a great thriving and spending industry.
    Wsp 6.209 24 In Italy, Mr. Gladstone said of the late King of Naples, It has been a proverb that he has erected the negation of God into a system of government.
    Supl 10.178 11 The political economist defies us to show...a shore where pearls are found on which good schools are erected.

erection, n. (2)

    EWI 11.121 19 [Charles Metcalfe] further describes the erection of numerous churches, chapels and schools which the new population [of Jamaica] required...
    MAng1 12.224 4 When the Florentines united themselves with Venice, England and France, to oppose the power of the Emperor Charles V., Michael Angelo was appointed Military Architect and Engineer, to superintend the erection of the necessary works.

erections, n. (1)

    PI 8.51 18 Time...is now dominant and...looketh unto Memphis and old Thebes, while his sister Oblivion reclineth semi-somnous on a pyramid... making puzzles of Titanian erections...

erectness, n. (3)

    MN 1.208 26 ...[a man's] health and erectness consist in the fidelity with which he transmits influences from the vast and universal to the point on which his genius can act.
    Elo1 7.91 23 ...we...might well go round the world, to see...a man...amid the inconceivable levity of human beings, never for an instant warped from his erectness.
    SlHr 10.443 22 [Samuel Hoar] retained to the last the erectness of his tall but slender form...

Erfurt, Prussia, n. (1)

    NMW 4.246 25 Perhaps it is a little puerile, the pleasure [Napoleon] took in making these contrasts glaring; as when he pleased himself with making kings wait in his antechambers...at Paris and at Erfurt.

Eric, n. (2)

    Pow 6.55 16 If Eric is in robust health...at his departure from Greenland he will steer west, and his ships will reach Newfoundland.
    Pow 6.55 20 If Eric is in robust health...at his departure from Greenland he will steer west, and his ships will reach Newfoundland. But take out Eric and put in a stronger and bolder man...and the ships will...sail six hundred... miles further...

Eric, of Norway [Sturluson, (1)

    ET4 5.59 3 Another pair [of Norse kings] ride out on a morning for a frolic, and finding no weapon near, will take the bits out of their horses' mouths and crush each other's heads with them, as did Alaric and Eric.

erl, n. (1)

    Aris 10.30 3 ...he that wol have prize of his genterie,/ For he was boren of a gentil house,/ And had his elders noble and virtuous,/ And n' ill hinselven do no gentil dedes,/ Ne folwe his gentil auncestrie, that dead is,/ He n' is not gentil, be he duke or erl;/...

ermine, n. (1)

    ET11 5.177 15 The lawyer, the farmer, the silk-mercer lies perdu under the coronet, and winks to the antiquary to say nothing; especially skilful lawyers, nobody's sons, who did some piece of work at a nice moment for government and were rewarded with ermine.

Eros, n. (2)

    Bty 6.279 18 In dens of passion, and pits of woe, [Seyd] saw strong Eros struggling through/...
    Suc 7.303 19 Lofn is as puissant a divinity in the Norse Edda as...Eros in the Greek, or Cupid in the Latin heaven.

erotic, adj. (1)

    PPo 8.249 18 We do not wish to...try to make mystical divinity out of the Song of Solomon, much less out of the erotic and bacchanalian songs of Hafiz.

err, v. (2)

    SR 2.65 7 [Man] may err in the expression of [his involuntary perceptions]...
    PI 8.48 6 Was I deceived, or did a sable cloud/ Turn forth its silver lining on the night?/ I did not err, there does a sable cloud/ Turn forth its silver lining on the night./ Comus.

errand, n. (8)

    LE 1.156 26 Men looked...that nature...should reimburse itself by a brood of Titans, who should...run up the mountains of the West with the errand of genius and love.
    MN 1.220 12 ...the spirit's holy errand through us absorbed the thought.
    Pt1 3.38 19 ...I am not wise enough for a national criticism, and must use the old largeness a little longer, to discharge my errand from the muse to the poet concerning his art.
    Wsp 6.233 10 [A gentleman] found [William of Orange] directing the operation of his gunners, and having explained his errand and received his answer, the king said, Do you not know, sir, that every moment you spend here is at the risk of your life?
    CbW 6.275 20 A man of wit was asked, in the train, what was his errand in the city.
    MMEm 10.406 20 [Mary Moody Emerson] tired presently of dull conversations, and asked to be read to, and so disposed of the visitor. If the voice or the reading tired her, she would ask the friend if he or she would do an errand for her, and so dismiss them.
    MMEm 10.415 14 ...I [Nature] comforted thee when going on the daily errand...
    PLT 12.41 21 [A perception] is impatient to put on its sandals and be gone on its errand...

Errand, Soul's [Walter Ral (1)

    MoS 4.172 22 [The wise skeptic's] politics are those of the Soul's Errand of Sir Walter Raleigh;...

errands, n. (3)

    Nat 1.14 6 [The private poor man] goes to the post-office, and the human race run on his errands;...
    MN 1.203 17 Why should not then these messieurs of Versailles strut and plot for tabourets and ribbons, for a season, without prejudice to their faculty to run on better errands by and by?
    Art1 2.368 24 When its errands are noble and adequate, a steamboat...is a step of man into harmony with nature.

errant, adj. (1)

    Bty 6.279 14 [Seyd] heard a voice none else could hear/ From centred and from errant sphere./

erreur, n. (2)

    CbW 6.257 22 Croyez moi, l'erreur aussi a son merite, said Voltaire.
    PLT 12.55 21 Croyez moi, l'erreur aussi a son merite, said Voltaire.

erring, adj. (2)

    AsSu 11.246 1 His erring foe,/ Self-assured that he prevails,/ Looks from his victim lying low,/ And sees aloft the red right arm/ Redress the eternal scales./
    HCom 11.342 13 The war gave back integrity to this erring and immoral nation.

error, n. (22)

    AmS 1.104 27 ...what overgrown error you behold is there only by sufferance...
    DSA 1.130 11 Historical Christianity has fallen into the error that corrupts all attempts to communicate religion.
    Con 1.319 8 The idealist retorts that the conservative falls into a far more noxious error in the other extreme.
    Tran 1.348 21 The good, the illuminated, sit apart from the rest...as if they thought that by sitting very grand in their chairs, the very brokers, attorneys, and congressmen would see the error of their ways, and flock to them.
    Lov1 2.171 10 Each man sees over his own experience a certain stain of error...
    OS 2.279 21 Foolish people ask you, when you have spoken what they do not wish to hear, How do you know it is truth, and not an error of your own?
    Pt1 3.35 13 ...all religious error consisted in making the symbol too stark and solid...
    NER 3.277 2 ...every man at heart...wishes to be convicted of his error...
    UGM 4.6 15 ...[other than great men] must...keep a vigilant eye on many sources of error.
    Wsp 6.212 10 Forgetful that a little measure is a great error...[ even well-disposed, good sort of people] go on choosing the dead men of routine.
    Imtl 8.330 6 Hear the opinion of Montesquieu: If the immortality of the soul were an error, I should be sorry not to believe it.
    Chr2 10.104 27 ...sometimes also [the moral sentiment] is the source, in natures less pure, of sneers and flippant jokes of common people, who feel that the forms and dogmas are not true for them, though they do not see where the error lies.
    Prch 10.221 9 The understanding...because it has exposed errors in a church, concludes that a church is an error;...
    MMEm 10.412 4 I [Mary Moody Emerson] am so small in my expectations, that a week of industry delights. Rose before light every morn;...washed, carded, cleaned house, and baked. To-day cannot recall an error...
    LS 11.15 1 ...[St. Paul's] mind had not escaped the prevalent error of the primitive Church, the belief, namely, that the second coming of Christ would shortly occur...
    HDC 11.49 17 ...in the clock on the church, [the people of Concord] read their own power, and consider, at leisure, the wisdom and error of their judgments.
    HDC 11.80 7 [The people of Concord] fell into a common error...that the remedy was, to forbid the great importation of foreign commodities...
    War 11.164 7 Observe how every truth and every error...clothes itself with societies, houses, cities...
    FSLC 11.213 14 ...the sting of the late disgraces [the Fugitive Slave Law] is that this royal position of Massachusetts was foully lost, that the well-known sentiment of her people was not expressed. Let us correct this error.
    PLT 12.18 10 There are...minds that produce their thoughts complete men, like armed soldiers, ready and swift to go out to resist and conquer all the armies of error...
    MLit 12.329 15 [We can fancy Goethe saying to himself] I have given my characters [in Wilhelm Meister] a bias to error. Men have the same.
    Let 12.397 21 As long as [a man] sleeps in the shade of the present error, the after-nature does not betray its resources.

errors, n. (25)

    DSA 1.128 16 I shall endeavor to discharge my duty to you on this occasion, by pointing out two errors in [the Christian church's] administration...
    DSA 1.143 16 ...in these two errors...I find the causes of a decaying church...
    YA 1.366 2 The land...is to repair the errors of a scholastic and traditional education...
    Comp 2.98 1 The periodic or compensating errors of the planets is another instance [of Compensation].
    SL 2.155 21 ...all things are [Truth's] organs,--not only dust and stones, but errors and lies.
    OS 2.268 18 The Supreme Critic on the errors of the past and the present... is that great nature in which we rest...
    Exp 3.75 26 ...we have no means of correcting these colored and distorting lenses which we are, or of computing the amount of their errors.
    NER 3.261 9 It is of little moment that one or two or twenty errors of our social system be corrected...
    NER 3.274 3 We crave a sense of reality, though it comes in strokes of pain. I explain so...those excesses and errors into which souls of great vigor, but not equal insight, often fall.
    UGM 4.26 19 The great, or such as...transcend fashions by their fidelity to universal ideas, are saviors from these federal errors...
    SwM 4.124 5 The moral insight of Swedenborg, the correction of popular errors...take him out of comparison with any other modern writer...
    MoS 4.161 4 We are...compensated or periodic errors...
    NMW 4.240 6 When the expenses...of his palaces, had accumulated great debts, Napoleon examined the bills of the creditors himself, detected overcharges and errors...
    Wsp 6.217 24 The bias of errors of principle carries away men into perilous courses as soon as their will does not control their passion or talent.
    CbW 6.254 25 The sharpest evils are bent into that periodicity which makes the errors of planets...self-limiting.
    PC 8.223 8 There is no use in Copernicus if the robust periodicity of the solar system does not show its equal perfection in the mental sphere...the compensatory errors...
    Chr2 10.93 22 ...inoperative, [the sense of Right and Wrong] exists underneath whatever vices and errors.
    Supl 10.175 8 ...Nature encourages no looseness, pardons no errors;...
    Prch 10.221 3 ...this examination [of religion] resulting in the constant detection of errors, the flattered understanding assumes to judge all things...
    Prch 10.221 8 The understanding...because it has exposed errors in a church, concludes that a church is an error;...
    Prch 10.235 17 The inevitable course of remark for us, when we meet each other for meditation on life and duty, is not so much the...burning out of our errors of practice...
    MoL 10.250 2 Nature says to the American: I understand mensuration and numbers; I compute...the curve and the errors of planets, the balance of attraction and recoil. I have measured out to you by weight and tally the powers you need.
    LLNE 10.336 23 ...the religious nature in man was not affected by these errors in his understanding.
    Carl 10.497 24 ...[Carlyle] has stood for the people...teaching the nobles their peremptory duties. His errors of opinion are as nothing in comparison with this merit...
    FSLC 11.189 12 I thought that every time a man goes back to his own thoughts, these angels receive him, talk with him...and that this owning of a law...constituted the explanation of life, the excuse and indemnity for the errors and calamities which sadden it.

Errors, Three, n. (1)

    LLNE 10.347 8 [Robert Owen's] love of men made us forget his Three Errors.

errs, v. (1)

    AmS 1.84 19 In life, too often, the scholar errs with mankind...

Erskine, Thomas, n. [Erskine,] (2)

    ET18 5.306 26 It was pleaded in mitigation of the rotten borough [in England]...that substantial justice was done. Fox...Erskine, Wilberforce... were by this means sent to Parliament...
    Elo2 8.117 18 As soon as a man shows rare power of expression, like Chatham, Erskine, Patrick Henry, Webster, or Phillips, all the great interests...crowd to him to be their spokesman...

erudition, n. (6)

    SL 2.138 6 We pass in the world...for erudition and piety...
    GoW 4.272 5 [Goethe's] Helena...is...the work of one who found himself the master of histories, mythologies, philosophies, sciences and national literatures, in the encyclopaedical manner in which modern erudition... researches into Indian, Etruscan and all Cyclopean arts;...
    ET10 5.170 24 ...an erudition of sensation takes place [in England]...
    ET12 5.207 1 Greek erudition exists on the Isis and Cam...
    ET14 5.251 7 ...there is no end to the graces and amenities, wit, sensibility and erudition of the learned class [in England].
    LLNE 10.332 24 In the lecture-room, [Everett]...pleased himself with the play of detailing erudition in a style of perfect simplicity.

eruptions, n. (1)

    Elo1 7.92 16 For the explosions and eruptions, there must be accumulations of heat somewhere...

Erwin of Steinbach, n. (2)

    Hist 2.17 24 Strasburg Cathedral is a material counterpart of the soul of Erwin of Steinbach.
    Suc 7.284 2 ...Erwin of Steinbach could build a minster;...

erysipelas, n. (1)

    SwM 4.137 25 One man, you say, dreads erysipelas,--show him that this dread is evil...

es, v. (1)

    ET1 5.23 23 [Wordsworth] preferred such of his poems as touched the affections, to any others; for...whatever combined a truth with an affection was ktema es aei, good to-day and good forever.

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