Evidence to Excessive

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

evidence, n. (43)

    Nat 1.4 19 Whenever a true theory appears, it will be its own evidence.
    Nat 1.60 18 ...not at all disturbed by chasms of historical evidence, [the soul] accepts from God the phenomenon [Christianity], as it finds it...
    Nat 1.62 22 Idealism acquaints us with the total disparity between the evidence of our own being and the evidence of the world's being.
    AmS 1.92 9 But for the evidence thence afforded to the philosophical doctrine of the identity of all minds, we should suppose some preestablished harmony...
    LT 1.273 23 To [some divine, the wealthy man] adheres...and...esteems his associating with him a sufficient evidence and commendatory of his own piety.
    SR 2.53 10 I ask primary evidence that you are a man...
    SL 2.153 2 ...the thing uttered in words is not therefore affirmed. It must affirm itself, or no forms of logic or of oath can give it evidence.
    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 2.287 17 The great distinction between teachers sacred or literary...is that one class speak from within...and the other class from without...or perhaps as acquainted with the fact on the evidence of third persons.
    Pt1 3.4 6 Theologians think it a pretty air-castle to talk of the spiritual meaning...of a city or a contract, but they prefer to come again to the solid ground of historical evidence;...
    Exp 3.53 14 ...the definition of spiritual should be, that which is its own evidence.
    MoS 4.156 16 [The skeptic says] If there is a wish for immortality, and no evidence, why not say just that?
    MoS 4.172 9 ...the interrogation of custom at all points...is the evidence of [the superior mind's] perception of the flowing power which remains itself in all changes.
    MoS 4.176 15 Is [a man's] belief in God and Duty no deeper than a stomach evidence?
    ShP 4.199 1 Show us the constituency, and the now invisible channels by which the senator is made aware of their wishes; the crowd of practical and knowing men, who, by correspondence or conversation, are feeding him with evidence, anecdotes and estimates...
    ET4 5.64 10 The torture of criminals, and the rack for extorting evidence, were slowly disused [in England].
    ET7 5.125 8 It is told of a good Sir John that he heard a case stated by counsel, and made up his mind; then the counsel for the other side taking their turn to speak, he found himself so unsettled and perplexed that he exclaimed, So help me God! I will never listen to evidence again.
    ET11 5.181 10 In evidence of the wealth amassed by ancient [English] families, the traveller is shown the palaces in Piccadilly...
    ET14 5.242 20 ...the very announcement...even of Dalton's doctrine of definite proportions, finds a sudden response in the mind, which remains a superior evidence to empirical demonstrations.
    Wsp 6.211 20 ...the same gentlemen who agree to discountenance the private rogue will be forward to show civilities and marks of respect to the public one; and no amount of evidence of his crimes will prevent them giving him ovations...
    Wsp 6.217 2 ...we very slowly admit in another man...an ear to hear acuter notes of right and wrong than we can. I think we listen suspiciously and very slowly to any evidence to that point.
    Wsp 6.241 5 Let us have nothing now which is not its own evidence.
    Elo1 7.65 5 That...which eloquence ought to reach, is not a particular skill in...neatly summing up evidence...
    PI 8.13 14 A happy symbol is a sort of evidence that your thought is just.
    Elo2 8.112 1 ...[in a debate] much power is to be exhibited which is not yet called into existence, but is to be suggested on the spot...at the appearance of new evidence...
    Imtl 8.332 15 ...the impulse which drew these minds to this inquiry [concerning immortality] through so many years was a better affirmative evidence than their failure to find a confirmation was negative.
    Imtl 8.334 26 The mind delights in immense time; delights...in mountain chains, and in the evidence of vast geologic periods which these give;...
    Imtl 8.346 4 The real evidence [of immortality] is too subtle...
    Dem1 10.13 9 For Spiritism, it shows that no man, almost, is fit to give evidence.
    SlHr 10.442 13 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.
    Thor 10.482 10 Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk.
    LS 11.21 5 ...if miracles may be said to have been [Christianity's] evidence to the first Christians, they are not its evidence to us, but the doctrines themselves;...
    LS 11.21 6 ...if miracles may be said to have been [Christianity's] evidence to the first Christians, they are not its evidence to us, but the doctrines themselves;...
    HDC 11.56 15 We have among us [says Peter Bulkeley] excess and...pride in apparel, daintiness in diet, and that in those who, in times past, would have been satisfied with bread. This is the sin of the lowest of the people. Better evidence could not be desired of the rapid growth of the settlement [Concord].
    EWI 11.127 20 It was a stately spectacle, to see the cause of human rights argued...with such a mass of evidence before that powerful people [the English].
    EWI 11.127 23 ...when, in 1789, the first privy council report of evidence on the [slave] trade...was presented to the House of Commons, a late day being named for the discussion...Mr. Wilberforce, Mr. Pitt, the Prime Minister, and other gentlemen, took advantage of the postponement to retire into the country to read the report.
    EWI 11.128 10 For months and years the bill [on emanicipation in the West Indies] was debated...by the first citizens of England, the foremost men of the earth;...every particle of evidence was sifted and laid in the scale;...
    FSLN 11.227 4 ...Vattel, Burke, Jefferson, do all affirm [that an immoral law cannot be valid], and I cite them, not that they can give evidence to what is indisputable...
    SHC 11.436 17 The evidence [of immortality] from intellect is as valid as the evidence from love.
    SHC 11.436 18 The evidence [of immortality] from intellect is as valid as the evidence from love.
    SHC 11.436 22 Our dissatisfaction with any other solution is the blazing evidence of immortality.
    MAng1 12.223 21 ...even at Venice, on defective evidence, [Michelangelo] is said to have given the plan of the bridge of the Rialto.
    EurB 12.373 3 We have heard it alleged with some evidence that the prominence given to intellectual power in Bulwer's romances has proved a main stimulus to mental culture in thousands of young men in England and America.

evidences, n. (4)

    OS 2.284 4 It was left to [Christ's] disciples...to teach the immortality of the soul as a doctrine, and maintain it by evidences.
    OS 2.284 9 No inspired man ever asks this question [concerning the immortality of the soul] or condescends to these evidences.
    ET10 5.153 4 In America there is a touch of shame when a man exhibits the evidences of large property...
    SlHr 10.445 5 [Samuel Hoar] saw what was essential, and refused whatever was not, so that no man embarrassed himself less with a needless array of books and evidences of contingent value.

evidences, v. (1)

    MoS 4.156 18 [The skeptic says] If there is a wish for immortality, and no evidence, why not say just that? If there are conflicting evidences, why not state them?

evident, adj. (15)

    Nat 1.65 8 As we degenerate, the contrast between us and our house is more evident.
    Hsm1 2.248 10 ...Simon Ockley's History of the Saracens recounts the prodigies of individual valor, with admiration all the more evident on the part of the narrator that he seems to think that his place in Christian Oxford requires of him some proper protestations of abhorrence.
    SwM 4.116 27 The fact [of Correspondence] thus explicitly stated [by Swedenborg] is implied...in the structure of language. Plato knew it, as is evident from his twice bisected line in the sixth book of the Republic.
    ET1 5.15 14 [Carlyle] was...self-possessed...clinging to his northern accent with evident relish;...
    ET1 5.24 1 [Wordsworth]...quoted, with evident pleasure, the verses addressed To the Skylark.
    ET6 5.106 17 I happened to arrive in England at the moment of a commercial crisis. But it was evident that let who will fail, England will not.
    ET13 5.214 6 ...English life, it is evident, does not grow out of the Athanasian creed...
    SS 7.3 15 ...[my new friend's] evident earnestness engaged my attention...
    Aris 10.35 19 The superiority in [my companion] is inferiority in me, and if this particular companion were wiped by a sponge out of Nature, my inferiority would still be made evident to me by other persons...
    SovE 10.205 1 I will not now go into the metaphysics of that reaction by which in history a period of belief is followed by an age of criticism, in which...an excessive respect for forms out of which the heart has departed becomes more obvious in the least religious minds. I will not now explore the causes of the result, but the fact must be conceded...and never more evident than in our American church.
    LLNE 10.328 3 Europe is strewn with wrecks; a constitution once a week. In social manners and morals the revolution is just as evident.
    FSLN 11.230 5 ...where...[liberty] becomes in a degree matter of concession and protection from their stronger neighbors, the incompatibility and offensiveness of the wrong will of course be most evident to the most cultivated.
    SMC 11.369 9 The Colonel [George Prescott] took evident pleasure in the fact that he could account for all his men.
    PLT 12.23 22 ...what a modern experimenter calls the contagious influence of chemical action is so true of mind that I have only to read the law that its application may be evident...
    WSL 12.344 25 [Landor] draws with evident pleasure the portrait of a man who never said anything right and never did anything wrong.

evidently, adv. (3)

    Hist 2.27 24 ...men of God have from time to time...made their commission felt in the heart and soul of the commonest hearer. Hence evidently the tripod, the priest, the priestess inspired by the divine afflatus.
    FSLC 11.191 26 All authors who have any conscience or modesty agree that a person ought not to obey such commands as are evidently contrary to the laws of God.
    CL 12.137 22 In Tornea, [Linnaeus] found the people suffering every spring from the loss of their cattle, which died by some frightful distemper, to the number of fifty or a hundred in a year. Linnaeus walked out to examine the meadow...and found it a bog, where the water-hemlock grew in abundance, and had evidently been cropped plentifully by the animals in feeding.

evil, adj. (51)

    AmS 1.109 15 Our age is bewailed as the age of Introversion. Must that needs be evil?
    MR 1.228 3 ...I will not dissemble my hope that each person whom I address has felt his own call to cast aside all evil customs...
    MR 1.234 3 ...the evil custom [of trade] reaches into the whole institution of property...
    LT 1.265 11 Could we...indicate those who most accurately represent every good and evil tendency of the general mind...we should have a series of sketches which would report to the next ages the color and quality of ours.
    LT 1.277 11 [The Reforms]...present no more poetic image to the mind than the evil tradition which they reprobated.
    Con 1.297 1 I see, rejoins Saturns [to Uranus]...thou art become an evil eye;...
    Con 1.324 6 If [the hero] have earned his bread...in the narrow and crooked ways which were all an evil law had left him, he will make it at least honorable by his expenditure.
    Comp 2.120 14 Every thing has two sides, a good and an evil.
    Comp 2.121 16 We feel defrauded of the retribution due to evil acts...
    SL 2.140 21 What business has [a man] with an evil trade?
    SL 2.148 6 We see our evil affections embodied in bad physiognomies.
    Hsm1. 2.252 2 ...[heroism's] ultimate objects are the last defiance of falsehood and wrong, and the power to bear all that can be inflicted by evil agents.
    Int 2.326 8 In the fog of good and evil affections it is hard for man to walk forward in a straight line.
    Pt1 3.18 18 ...we use defects and deformities to a sacred purpose, so expressing our sense that the evils of the world are such only to the evil eye.
    Exp 3.76 8 ...every evil and every good thing is a shadow which we cast.
    Gts 3.164 15 ...our action on each other, good as well as evil, is so incidental and at random that we can seldom hear the acknowledgments of any person who would thank us for a benefit, without some shame and humiliation.
    UGM 4.29 7 How superior [are children] in their security from infusions of evil persons...
    SwM 4.137 25 One man, you say, dreads erysipelas,--show him that this dread is evil...
    SwM 4.137 27 ...one [man] dreads hell,--show him that dread is evil.
    SwM 4.138 20 To what a painful perversion had Gothic theology arrived, that Swedenborg admitted no conversion for evil spirits!
    SwM 4.139 9 ...we feel the more generous spirit of the Indian Vishnu,--I am the same to all mankind. ... If one whose ways are altogether evil serve me alone, he is as respectable as the just man;...
    MoS 4.186 1 ...through evil agents...a great and beneficent tendency irresistibly streams.
    ET16 5.283 23 ...we [Emerson and Carlyle] set forth in our dog-cart over the downs for Wilton, Carlyle not suppressing some threats and evil omens on the proprietors...
    ET18 5.301 26 In Magna Charta it was ordained that all merchants shall have safe and secure conduct...to buy and sell by the ancient allowed customs, without any evil toll...
    Wth 6.115 20 In an evil hour [a man] pulled down his wall and added a field to his homestead.
    Ctr 6.150 23 [The man of the world] calls his employment by its lowest name, and so takes from evil tongues their sharpest weapon.
    Ctr 6.166 6 The time will come when the evil forms we have known can no more be organized.
    Wsp 6.201 4 Some of my friends have complained...that we...gave too much line to the evil spirit of the times;...
    Bty 6.283 17 A deep man...believes that the evil eye can wither...
    Bty 6.287 18 The ancients believed that a genius or demon took possession at birth of each mortal, to guide him; that these genii were sometimes seen as a flame of fire partly immersed in the bodies which they governed; on an evil man, resting on his head; in a good man, mixed with his substance.
    Civ 7.30 25 If we can thus ride in Olympian chariots by putting our works in the path of the celestial circuits, we can harness also evil agents...
    DL 7.115 12 [Man] should be visited in this his prison with rebuke to the evil demons...
    PI 8.48 2 Milton delights in these iterations:--Though fallen on evil days,/ On evil days though fallen, and evil tongues./
    PI 8.48 3 Milton delights in these iterations:--Though fallen on evil days,/ On evil days though fallen, and evil tongues./
    PPo 8.240 7 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, without the evil effect of either.
    PPo 8.241 21 Asaph, the vizier, at a certain time, lost the seal of Solomon, which one of the Dews or evil spirits found...
    Dem1 10.20 10 Dreams retain the infirmities of our character. The good genius may be there or not, our evil genius is sure to stay.
    Chr2 10.100 24 Men are forced by their own self-respect to give [some souls] a certain attention. Evil men shrink and pay involuntary homage by hiding or apologizing for their action.
    Chr2 10.104 1 [The religions we call false]...were affirmations of the conscience correcting the evil customs of their times.
    Edc1 10.145 16 Happy this child...with a thought which...leads him, now into deserts, now into cities, the fool of an idea. Let him follow it in good and in evil report, in good or bad company;...
    SovE 10.212 26 ...with what power [innocence] converts evil accidents into benefits;...
    MoL 10.241 17 ...let me use the occasion...to offer you some counsels...in regard to the career of letters...its high office in evil times.
    MoL 10.242 7 Are men perplexed with evil times?
    Plu 10.300 27 [Plutarch] believes in witchcraft and the evil eye...
    FSLN 11.223 16 Whether evil influences and the corruption of politics, or whether original infirmity, it was the misfortune of his country that with this large understanding [Webster] had not what is better than intellect...
    FSLN 11.239 13 ...For evil word shall evil word be said,/ For murder-stroke a murder-stroke be paid./ Who smites must smart./
    TPar 11.289 5 ...it was complained...that [Theodore Parker's] zeal burned with too hot a flame. It is so difficult, in evil times, to escape this charge!...
    II 12.72 27 Certain young men or maidens are thus to be screened from the evil influences of trade by force of money.
    II 12.86 1 Work and learn in evil days...
    Bost 12.192 25 ...in that time [of the settlement of Massachusetts] terrors of witchcraft, terrors of evil spirits, and a certain degree of terror still clouded the idea of God in the mind of the purest.
    Let 12.398 10 [American youths] are in the state of the young Persians, when that mighty Yezdam prophet addressed them and said, Behold the signs of evil days are come;...

evil, n. (66)

    Nat 1.77 7 ...[the advancing spirit] shall draw...heroic acts, around its way, until evil is no more seen.
    AmS 1.113 8 ...[Swedenborg] showed the mysterious bond that allies moral evil to the foul material forms...
    DSA 1.120 26 [Man] learns...that to the good, to the perfect, he is born, low as he now lies in evil and weakness.
    DSA 1.123 5 By [the moral sentiment] a man is made the Providence to himself, dispensing good to his goodness, and evil to his sin.
    DSA 1.124 4 Evil is merely privative...
    DSA 1.124 6 All evil is so much death or nonentity.
    DSA 1.132 15 Noble provocations go out from [the divine bards], inviting me to resist evil;...
    MR 1.234 20 Inextricable seem to be the twinings and tendrils of this evil...
    LT 1.279 13 The great majority of men...are not aware of the evil that is around them...
    YA 1.378 15 This is the good and this the evil of trade, that it would put everything into market;...
    SR 2.78 12 ...attend your own work and already the evil begins to be repaired.
    Comp 2.98 9 Every sweet hath its sour; every evil its good.
    Comp 2.100 9 Though no checks to a new evil appear, the checks exist...
    Comp 2.102 3 The value of the universe contrives to throw itself into every point. If the good is there, so is the evil;...
    Comp 2.118 16 In general, every evil to which we do not succumb is a benefactor.
    Comp 2.120 19 The thoughtless say...What boots it to do well? there is one event to good and evil;...
    SL 2.132 12 Our young people are diseased with the theological problems of original sin, origin of evil, predestination and the like.
    SL 2.148 16 The good, compared to the evil which [every man] sees [in the world], is as his own good to his own evil.
    SL 2.148 17 The good, compared to the evil which [every man] sees [in the world], is as his own good to his own evil.
    Prd1 2.224 21 ...our existence...so alive to social good and evil...reads all its primary lessons out of these books.
    Hsm1 2.250 3 Towards all this external evil the man within the breast assumes a warlike attitude...
    Cir 2.315 11 ...with every precaution you take against such an evil you put yourself into the power of the evil.
    Cir 2.315 12 ...with every precaution you take against such an evil you put yourself into the power of the evil.
    Cir 2.318 6 ...no evil is pure...
    Pt1 3.31 20 ...John saw, in the Apocalypse, the ruin of the world through evil...
    Exp 3.79 19 The conscience must feel [sin] as essence, essential evil.
    NER 3.252 10 One apostle thought all men should go to farming, and another that no man should buy or sell, that the use of money was the cardinal evil;...
    NER 3.261 7 ...in the assault on the kingdom of darkness [many reformers] expend all their energy on some accidental evil...
    NER 3.261 23 It is handsomer to remain in the establishment better than the establishment, and to conduct that in the best manner, than to make a sally against evil by some single improvement, without supporting it by a total regeneration.
    NER 3.262 2 The wave of evil washes all our institutions alike.
    PPh 4.73 15 ...[Socrates] thought not any evil happened to men of such a magnitude as false opinion respecting the just and unjust.
    SwM 4.125 20 [To Swedenborg] They who are in evil and falsehood are afraid of all others.
    SwM 4.137 19 ...he does not know what evil is, or what good is, who thinks any ground remains to be occupied, after saying that evil is to be shunned as evil.
    SwM 4.137 21 ...he does not know what evil is, or what good is, who thinks any ground remains to be occupied, after saying that evil is to be shunned as evil.
    SwM 4.137 22 ...he does not know what evil is, or what good is, who thinks any ground remains to be occupied, after saying that evil is to be shunned as evil.
    SwM 4.138 10 Evil, according to old philosophers, is good in the making.
    ET1 5.21 12 Lucretius [Wordsworth] esteems a far higher poet than Virgil; not in his system, which is nothing, but in his power of illustration. Faith is necessary...to reconcile the foreknowledge of God with human evil.
    ET10 5.170 4 ...the evil [of England's wealth] requires a deeper cure...
    ET13 5.231 5 ...if religion be the doing of all good, and for its sake the suffering of all evil...that divine secret has existed in England from the days of Alfred...
    F 6.35 15 ...if evil is good in the making...we are reconciled.
    Pow 6.68 3 Whilst thus the energy for originating and executing work deforms itself by excess, and so our axe chops off our own fingers,--this evil is not without remedy.
    Pow 6.73 27 The one prudence in life is concentration; the one evil is dissipation;...
    Ctr 6.140 22 Politics is...a poor patching. We are always a little late. The evil is done, the law is passed...
    Wsp 6.235 21 When I went abroad [said Benedict], I kept company with every man on the road, for I knew that my evil and my good did not come from these...
    CbW 6.253 14 ...the first lesson of history is the good of evil.
    CbW 6.258 19 In the high prophetic phrase, He causes the wrath of man to praise him, and twists and wrenches our evil to our good.
    CbW 6.275 24 ...the evil [in our domestic service] increases from the ignorance and hostility of every ship-load of the immigrant population swarming into houses and farms.
    Civ 7.25 15 The skill that pervades complex details; the man that maintains himself;...these are examples of that tendency to combine antagonisms and utilize evil which is the index of high civilization.
    Suc 7.289 27 Nature knows how to convert evil to good;...
    Suc 7.307 15 It is true there is evil and good...
    OA 7.323 11 ...the chief evil of life is taken away in removing the grounds of fear.
    PC 8.233 3 [A man] cannot go from the good to the evil at pleasure, and then back again to the good.
    Chr2 10.119 20 No evil can come from reform which a deeper thought will not correct.
    Plu 10.313 6 When you are persuaded in your mind that you cannot either offer or perform anything more agreeable to the gods than the entertaining a right notion of them, you will then avoid superstition as a no less evil than atheism.
    SlHr 10.437 2 Here is a day on which more public good or evil is to be done than was ever done on any day.
    Carl 10.497 8 [Carlyle] was very serious about the bad times; he had seen this evil coming, but thought it would not come in his time.
    EWI 11.136 16 ...It is better to suffer every evil, than to consent to any.
    War 11.160 9 [The human race] have nearly exhausted all the good and all the evil of this [first brutish] form...
    ACiv 11.300 2 The evil you contend with has taken alarming proportions...
    Wom 11.415 1 When a daughter is born, says the Shiking, the old Sacred Book of China, she sleeps on the ground...she is incapable of evil or of good.
    FRep 11.519 22 We have seen the great party of property and education in the country drivelling and huckstering away...the dearest hopes of mankind;...imbecile as corpses when evil was to be prevented.
    PLT 12.55 15 We disown our debt to moral evil.
    CInt 12.130 25 Homage to truth discriminates good and evil.
    CL 12.137 25 [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].
    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?
    Let 12.398 18 ...[American youths] are educated above the work of their times and country, and disdain it. Many of the more acute minds pass into a lofty criticism of these things, which only embitters their sensibility to the evil...

evils, n. (32)

    DSA 1.149 25 The evils of the church that now is are manifest.
    MR 1.245 10 Now what help for these evils?
    Tran 1.342 27 ...if any one will take pains to talk with [these separators], he will find that this part is chosen...with some unwillingness...and as a choice of the less of two evils;...
    SL 2.135 11 ...we miscreate our own evils.
    Art1 2.366 13 ...the artist and the connoisseur now seek in art...an asylum from the evils of life.
    Pt1 3.18 17 ...we use defects and deformities to a sacred purpose, so expressing our sense that the evils of the world are such only to the evil eye.
    Chr1 3.102 7 It is not enough that the intellect should see the evils and their remedy.
    NER 3.253 14 [Other reformers] attacked the institution of marriage as the fountain of social evils.
    NER 3.253 23 ...there was sincere protesting against existing evils...
    PNR 4.85 24 Ethical science was new and vacant when Plato could write thus:...no one has yet sufficiently investigated...how, namely, that injustice is the greatest of all the evils that the soul has within it, and justice the greatest good.
    SwM 4.137 18 [Swedenborg's] cardinal position in morals is that evils should be shunned as sins.
    MoS 4.172 13 The superior mind will find itself equally at odds with the evils of society and with the projects that are offered to relieve them.
    ET3 5.34 4 Alfieri thought Italy and England the only countries worth living in; the former because there Nature...triumphs over the evils inflicted by the governments;...
    ET4 5.56 9 As [the Northmen] put out to sea again, the emperor [Charlemagne] gazed long after them, his eyes bathed in tears. I am tormented with sorrow, he said, when I foresee the evils they will bring on my posterity.
    F 6.23 25 They who talk much of destiny...invite the evils they fear.
    Pow 6.62 9 The same energy in the Greek Demos drew the remark that the evils of popular government appear greater than they are;...
    CbW 6.254 24 The sharpest evils are bent into that periodicity which makes the errors of planets...self-limiting.
    CbW 6.266 6 An old French verse runs, in my translation:--Some of your griefs you have cured,/ And the sharpest you still have survived;/ But what torments of pain you endured/ From evils that never arrived!/
    DL 7.117 8 ...if we begin by reforming particulars of our present system [of housekeeping], correcting a few evils and letting the rest stand, we shall soon give up in despair.
    PerF 10.73 19 ...we see the causes of evils and learn to parry them and use them as instruments, by knowledge...
    SovE 10.189 8 ...a sublime confidence is fed at the bottom of the heart that...though we should fold our arms...the evils we suffer will at last end themselves through the incessant opposition of Nature to everything hurtful.
    Prch 10.232 21 ...the gigantic evils which seem to us so mischievous and so incurable will at last end themselves...
    FSLC 11.203 5 ...as the activity and growth of slavery began to be offensively felt by [Webster's] constituents, the senator became less sensitive to these evils.
    FSLC 11.210 15 ...granting...that these evils [of slavery] are to be relieved only by the wisdom of God working in ages...still the question recurs, What must we do?
    JBB 11.271 20 The state judges fear collision between their two allegiances; but there are worse evils than collision;...
    PLT 12.33 7 As soon as our accumulation [of knowledge] overruns our invention or power to use, the evils of intellectual gluttony begin...
    Milt1 12.278 22 ...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.
    Pray 12.351 10 Among the remains of Euripides we have this prayer: Thou God of all! infuse light into the souls of men, whereby they may be enabled to know what is the root whence all their evils spring, and by what means they may avoid them.
    PPr 12.388 1 ...we at this distance are not so far removed from any of the specific evils [of the English State], and are deeply participant in too many, not to share the gloom and thank the love and courage of the counsellor [Carlyle].
    Trag 12.408 24 ...the essence of tragedy does not seem to me to lie in any list of particular evils.
    Trag 12.409 2 After we have enumerated...mutilation, rack, madness and loss of friends, we have not yet included the proper tragic element, which is Terror, and which does not respect definite evils but indefinite;...
    Trag 12.409 6 A low, haggard sprite sits by our side, casting the fashion of uncertain evils...

evince, v. (1)

    EurB 12.367 12 ...[Wordsworth's] poems evince a power of diction that is no more rivalled by his contemporaries than is his poetic insight.

evinced, adj. (1)

    Chr2 10.120 18 Confucius said one day to Ke Kang: Sir, in carrying on your government, why should you use killing at all? Let your evinced desires be for what is good, and the people will be good.

evinced, v. (4)

    Art1 2.363 26 Art should exhilarate...awakening in the beholder the same sense of universal relation and power which the work evinced in the artist...
    PPh 4.72 16 ...there was some story that under cover of folly, [Socrates] had, in the city government, when one day he chanced to hold a seat there, evinced a courage in opposing singly the popular voice, which had well-nigh ruined him.
    MoS 4.161 18 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.
    ET17 5.296 21 [Harriet Martineau] said that in [Wordsworth's] early house-keeping at the cottage where he first lived, he was accustomed to offer his friends bread and plainest fare; if they wanted anything more, they must pay him for their board. It was the rule of the house. I replied that it evinced English pluck more than any anecdote I knew.

evinces, v. (2)

    Dem1 10.22 9 A Highland chief, an Indian sachem or a feudal baron may fancy...that...when he acts, unheard-of success evinces the presence of rare agents;...
    Milt1 12.250 21 Though it evinces learning and critical skill, yet, as an historical argument, [Milton's Defence of the English People] cannot be valued with similar disquisitions of Robertson and Hallam...

eviscerated, v. (1)

    Int 2.327 13 ...any record of our fancies or reflections, disentangled from the web of our unconsciousness, becomes an object impersonal and immortal. ... It is eviscerated of care.

evoke, v. (2)

    YA 1.364 19 Railroad iron is a magician's rod, in its power to evoke the sleeping energies of land and water.
    PLT 12.24 9 ...the nervous and hysterical and animalized will produce a like series of symptoms in you, though no other persons ever evoke the like phenomena...

evoked, v. (2)

    CbW 6.256 26 What is the benefit done by a good King Alfred...compared with the involuntary blessing wrought on nations by the selfish capitalists who built the...network of the Mississippi Valley roads; which have evoked not only all the wealth of the soil, but the energy of millions of men.
    PC 8.210 20 Consider...what masters, each in his several province...the novel and powerful philanthropies, as well as...manufactures, the very inventions...have evoked!...

evokes, v. (1)

    ET10 5.157 1 The ambition to create value evokes every kind of ability [in England];...

evolution, n. (5)

    Exp 3.70 13 In the growth of the embryo, Sir Everard Home I think noticed that the evolution was not from one central point...
    NMW 4.230 3 ...[Bonaparte's] whole talent is strained by endless manoeuvre and evolution...
    Civ 7.19 10 [Civilization] implies the evolution of a highly organized man...
    Civ 7.26 25 The evolution of a highly destined society must be moral;...
    ACiv 11.299 15 Is...this evolution of man to the highest powers, only to give him sensibility...

evolve, v. (1)

    Wsp 6.213 11 There is a principle...which all speech aims to say, and all action to evolve...

evolved, v. (1)

    ET18 5.308 5 By this general activity and by this sacredness of individuals, [the English] have in seven hundred years evolved the principles of freedom.

evolves, v. (1)

    II 12.85 3 The source of thought evolves its own rules, its own virtues, its own religion.

Ex River, England, n. (2)

    ET11 5.179 13 Cambridge is the bridge of the Cam;...Exeter or Excester, the castra of the Ex;...
    ET11 5.179 14 Cambridge is the bridge of the Cam;...Exmouth, Dartmouth, Sidmouth, Teignmouth, the mouths of the Ex, Dart, Sid and Teign rivers.

exact, adj. (45)

    Nat 1.35 4 Material objects...are necessarily kinds of scoriae of the substantial thoughts of the Creator, which must always preserve an exact relation to their first origin;...
    AmS 1.93 17 History and exact science [the wise man] must learn by laborious reading.
    MR 1.232 18 ...the general system of our trade...is not measured by the exact law of reciprocity...
    Hist 2.34 8 ...when [the bard] seems to vent a mere caprice and wild romance, the issue is an exact allegory.
    SR 2.68 3 We are like children who repeat by rote the sentences of...tutors... painfully recollecting the exact words they spoke;...
    Comp 2.102 16 The world looks like a multiplication-table, or a mathematical equation, which, turn it how you will, balances itself. Take what figure you will, its exact value, not more nor less, still returns to you.
    Prd1 2.234 4 Let [a man] esteem...[Nature's] perfections the exact measure of our deviations.
    OS 2.268 5 The most exact calculator has no prescience that somewhat incalculable may not balk the very next moment.
    Mrs1 3.120 17 ...the salt, the dates, the ivory, and the gold, for which these horrible regions are visited, find their way into...countries where man... establishes a select society...which, without written laws or exact usage of any kind, perpetuates itself...
    SwM 4.106 23 ...[Swedenborg] held, in exact antagonism to the skeptics, that the wiser a man is, the more will he be a worshipper of the Deity.
    SwM 4.109 22 ...the terrible tabulation of the French statists brings every piece of whim and humor to be reducible also to exact numerical ratios.
    SwM 4.120 2 Having adopted the belief that certain books of the Old and New Testaments were exact allegories...[Swedenborg] employed his remaining years in extricating from the literal, the universal sense.
    ET4 5.54 9 We must use the popular category...for convenience, and not as exact and final.
    ET8 5.142 19 ...[the English] like well to have the world served up to them in...every mode of exact information...
    ET10 5.153 18 [The English] are under the Jewish law, and read with sonorous emphasis that...they shall have sons and daughters, flocks and herds, wine and oil. In exact proportion is the reproach of poverty.
    ET10 5.156 10 Every [English] household exhibits an exact economy...
    ET13 5.229 8 The popular press is flagitious in the exact measure of its sanctimony...
    ET14 5.242 1 In England these [generalizations]...do all have a kind of filial retrospect to Plato and the Greeks. Of this kind is...the Zoroastrian definition of poetry, mystical, yet exact, apparent pictures of unapparent natures;...
    ET15 5.267 22 ...the steadiness of the aim [of the London Times] suggests the belief that this fire is directed and fed by older engineers; as if persons of exact information, and with settled views of policy, supplied the writers with the basis of fact and the object to be attained...
    Pow 6.80 21 ...[spirit] is as much a subject of exact law and arithmetic as fluids and gases are;...
    Wth 6.116 18 Sir David Brewster gives exact instructions for microscopic observation...
    Bhr 6.181 11 ...each man carries in his eye the exact indication of his rank in the immense scale of men...
    Elo1 7.99 10 Eloquence...rests on laws the most exact and determinate.
    DL 7.132 18 Will [man] not see...that his economy, his labor, his good and bad fortune, his health and manners are all a curious and exact demonstration in miniature of the Genius of the Eternal Providence?
    WD 7.179 16 ...if a man is at once acquainted with the geometric foundations of things and with their festal splendor, his poetry is exact and his arithmetic musical.
    PI 8.4 17 Faraday, the most exact of natural philosophers, taught that when we should arrive at the...primordial elements...we should...find...spherules of force.
    PI 8.39 15 ...we demand of [the poet] what he demands of himself,-- veracity, first of all. But with that, he is the lawgiver, as being an exact reporter of the essential law.
    PI 8.49 8 ...the elemental forces have their...their own grand strains of harmony not less exact...
    QO 8.182 19 What divines had assumed as the distinctive revelations of Christianity, theologic criticism has matched by exact parallelisms from the Stoics and poets of Greece and Rome.
    Chr2 10.94 2 The antagonist nature is the individual, formed into a finite body of exact dimensions...
    Chr2 10.107 8 Fifty or a hundred years ago...an exact observance of the Sunday was kept in the houses of laymen as of clergymen.
    Supl 10.179 13 ...there is no question...that the warm sons of the Southeast have bent the neck under the yoke of the cold temperament and the exact understanding of the Northwestern races.
    LLNE 10.328 26 In science the French savant, exact, pitiless...travels into all nooks and islands...
    LLNE 10.362 25 ...[Charles Newcomb was] a student and philosopher, who found his daily enjoyment not with the elders or his exact contemporaries so much as with the fine boys who were skating and playing ball or bird-hunting;...
    Thor 10.452 19 ...it required rare decision to...keep [Thoreau's] solitary freedom at the cost of disappointing the natural expectations of his family and friends: all the more difficult that he...was exact in securing his own independence...
    Thor 10.478 18 It was easy to trace to the inexorable demand on all for exact truth that austerity which made this willing hermit [Thoreau] more solitary even than he wished.
    TPar 11.288 21 ...[the next generation] will read very intelligently in [Theodore Parker's] rough story, fortified with exact anecdotes...what part was taken by each actor [in Boston];...
    EdAd 11.391 17 Here is the balance to be adjusted between the exact French school of Cuvier, and the genial catholic theorists, Geoffroy St.-Hilaire, Goethe, Davy and Agassiz.
    Shak1 11.452 13 [Shakespeare's] birth marked a great wine year when wonderful grapes ripened in the vintage of God, when Shakspeare and Galileo were born within a few months of each other, and Cervantes was his exact contemporary...
    PLT 12.16 2 The grandeur of the impression the stars and heavenly bodies make on us is surely more valuable than our exact perception of a tub or a table on the ground.
    PLT 12.23 7 The momentum, which increases by exact laws in falling bodies, increases by the same rate in the intellectual action.
    PLT 12.45 24 There are men...who easily entertain ideas, but are not exact...
    Mem 12.101 4 ...what familiarity has been acquired with the genius of the language, and the writer, helps in fixing the exact meaning of the sentence.
    Milt1 12.263 14 [Milton] is innocent and exact, because his taste was so pure and delicate.
    MLit 12.311 15 In our present attempt to enumerate some traits of the recent literature...we cannot promise to set in very exact order what we have to say.

exact, v. (6)

    Tran 1.346 26 ...[these youths] aspire, they severely exact...
    Nat2 3.192 3 The appearance strikes the eye everywhere of an aimless society, of aimless nations. Were the ends of nature so great and cogent as to exact this immense sacrifice of men?
    GoW 4.290 21 The secret of genius is...to exact good faith, reality and a purpose;...
    ET5 5.90 10 The high civil and legal offices [in England] are...posts which exact frightful amounts of mental labor.
    ET5 5.92 6 Faithful performance of what is undertaken to be performed, [the English] honor in themselves, and exact in others...
    Schr 10.266 18 It was superstitious to exact too much from philosophers and the literary class.

exacted, v. (3)

    NER 3.258 18 ...by a wonderful drowsiness of usage [the ancient languages] had exacted the study of all men.
    ET2 5.32 22 ...I think the white path of an Atlantic ship the right avenue to the palace front of this seafaring people [the English], who for hundreds of years...exacted toll and the striking sail from the ships of all other peoples.
    Insp 8.290 5 ...I remember that Thoreau, with his robust will, yet found certain trifles disturbing the delicacy of that health which composition exacted...

exacting, adj. (3)

    Tran 1.344 17 ...[the Transcendentalists] are the most exacting and extortionate critics.
    Tran 1.346 22 These exacting children advertise us of our wants.
    QO 8.178 9 We expect a great man to be a good reader; or in proportion to the spontaneous power should be the assimilating power. And though such are a more difficult and exacting class, they are not less eager.

exactitude, n. (2)

    ET14 5.234 14 Shakspeare, Spenser and Milton, in their loftiest ascents, have this national grip and exactitude of mind.
    Edc1 10.147 12 It is better to teach the child arithmetic and Latin grammar than rhetoric or moral philosophy, because they require exactitude of performance;...

exactly, adv. (31)

    LE 1.178 8 Let [the scholar] endeavor exactly...to solve the problem of that life which is set before him.
    MN 1.209 20 If the man will exactly obey [that well-known voice], it will adopt him...
    YA 1.381 20 ...the farmer is living in the same town with men who pretend to know exactly what he wants.
    Comp 2.109 20 Thou shalt be paid exactly for what thou hast done,
    SL 2.141 12 [A man's] ambition is exactly proportioned to his powers.
    Fdsp 2.207 13 In good company the individuals merge their egotism into a social soul exactly co-extensive with the several consciousnesses there present.
    Int 2.341 16 Exactly parallel is the whole rule of intellectual duty to the rule of moral duty.
    Chr1 3.101 5 All things work exactly according to their quality and according to their quantity;...
    Mrs1 3.141 17 The favorites of society...are able men...who exactly fill the hour and the company;...
    Pol1 3.221 21 ...there are now men...more exactly, I will say, I have just been conversing with one man, to whom no weight of adverse experience will make it for a moment appear impossible that thousands of human beings might exercise towards each other the grandest and simplest sentiments...
    NR 3.226 3 Exactly what the parties have already done they shall do again;...
    NER 3.266 25 ...in a celebrated experiment, by expiration and respiration exactly together, four persons lift a heavy man from the ground by the little finger only...
    SwM 4.117 15 [Correspondence] was involved...in the doctrine of identity and iteration, because the mental series exactly tallies with the material series.
    MoS 4.178 3 We have been sopped and drugged...with sciences, with events, which leave us exactly where they found us.
    ET16 5.278 2 ...the situation [of Stonehenge is] fixed astronomically,--the grand entrances...being placed exactly northeast...
    ET16 5.281 3 ...at the summer solstice, the sun rises exactly over the top of that [astronomical] stone [at Stonehenge]...
    ET16 5.282 1 [Stukeley] finds that the cursus on Salisbury Plain stretches across the downs like a line of latitude upon the globe, and the meridian line of Stonehenge passes exactly through the middle of this cursus.
    F 6.18 25 Punch makes exactly one capital joke a week;...
    Bhr 6.178 12 The eye obeys exactly the action of the mind.
    Bty 6.289 10 We ascribe beauty to that...which exactly answers its end;...
    Cour 7.262 26 The child is as much in danger from...a cat, as the soldier from...an ambush. ... Each is liable to panic, which is, exactly, the terror of ignorance surrendered to the imagination.
    Cour 7.277 19 I am permitted to enrich my chapter by adding an anecdote of pure courage from real life, as narrated in a ballad by a lady to whom all the particulars of the fact are exactly known.
    Dem1 10.23 14 Just as [the so-called fortunate man's] eye and hand work exactly together...so the main ambition and genius being bestowed in one direction, the lesser spirit and involuntary aids within his sphere will follow.
    PerF 10.71 4 The coal on your grate gives out in decomposing to-day exactly the same amount of light and heat which was taken from the sunshine in its formation in the leaves and boughs of the antediluvian tree.
    Supl 10.172 3 'T is very different, this weak and wearisome lie, from the stimulus to the fancy which is given by a romancing talker who does not mean to be exactly taken...
    LS 11.9 5 Jesus did not celebrate the Passover, and afterwards the [Last] Supper, but the Supper was the Passover. He did with his disciples exactly what every master of a family in Jerusalem was doing at the same hour with his household.
    War 11.164 4 Every nation and every man instantly surround themselves with a material apparatus which exactly corresponds to their moral state...
    FRep 11.536 23 Of no use are the men who study to do exactly as was done before...
    II 12.75 6 ...in order to win infallible verdicts from the inner mind, we must...not too exactly task and harness it.
    Mem 12.91 17 ...a piece of news I hear, has a value at this moment exactly proportioned to my skill to deal with it.
    Milt1 12.278 2 ...according to Lord Bacon's definition of poetry...Poetry, not finding the actual world exactly conformed to its idea of good and fair, seeks to accommodate the shows of things to the desires of the mind...

exactness, n. (3)

    F 6.19 7 These [laws of repression]...show a kind of mechanical exactness... in what we call casual...events.
    Supl 10.167 12 The English mind...values exactness...
    Thor 10.467 12 [Thoreau] liked to speak of the manners of the river...yet with exactness, and always to an observed fact.

exacts, v. (1)

    LT 1.278 23 ...a brave and cold neglect of the offices which prudence exacts, so it be done in a deep upper piety;...is the century which makes the gem.

exaggerate, v. (10)

    YA 1.383 11 ...[the Communities] exaggerate the importance of a favorite project of theirs...
    Nat2 3.176 4 We exaggerate the praises of local scenery.
    NR 3.234 8 There is no one who does not exaggerate.
    MoS 4.156 13 [The skeptic says] Why exaggerate the power of virtue?
    MoS 4.166 26 As I look at [Montaigne's] effigy opposite the title-page, I seem to hear him say...you may rail and exaggerate...
    ET14 5.260 3 I can well believe what I have often heard, that there are two nations in England; but it is not the Poor and the Rich, nor is it...the Celt and the Goth. These are each always becoming the other; for Robert Owen does not exaggerate the power of circumstance.
    CbW 6.277 25 It is inevitable to name particulars of virtue and of condition, and to exaggerate them.
    SovE 10.185 25 ...we exaggerate when we represent these two elements [belief and skepticism] as disunited;...
    Schr 10.263 21 Language can hardly exaggerate the beautitude of the intellect flowing into the faculties.
    CPL 11.496 21 ...it is not easy to exaggerate the utility of the beneficence which takes this form [building of a library].

exaggerated, adj. (6)

    SL 2.135 2 Could ever a man of prodigious mathematical genius convey to others any insight into his methods? If he could communicate that secret it would instantly lose its exaggerated value...
    OS 2.288 11 ...[scholars' and authors'] talent is some exaggerated faculty...
    ET10 5.164 24 Every whim of exaggerated egotism is put into stone and iron [in England]...
    CbW 6.271 10 The success which will content [men] is a bargain...a legacy and the like. With these objects, their conversation deals with surfaces... exaggerated bad news and the rain.
    Supl 10.174 6 Children and thoughtless people like exaggerated event and activity;...
    EurB 12.367 7 ...Wordsworth...though setting a private and exaggerated value on his compositions;...is really a master of the English language...

exaggerated, v. (8)

    LT 1.277 4 The young men who have been vexing society for these last years with regenerative methods...all exaggerated some special means...
    Cir 2.321 10 When we see the conqueror we do not think much of any one battle or success. We see that we had exaggerated the difficulty.
    SwM 4.123 10 [Swedenborg] is superfluously explanatory, and his feeling of the ignorance of men, strangely exaggerated.
    Clbs 7.248 6 The hospitalities of clubs are easily exaggerated.
    Supl 10.163 5 [The doctrine of temperance] is usually taught on a low platform...and its importance cannot be denied and hardly exaggerated.
    Supl 10.164 14 Bad news is always exaggerated...
    HDC 11.35 19 The hardships of the journey and of the first encampment are certainly related by [the pilgrims'] contemporary with some air of romance, yet they can scarcely be exaggerated.
    Bost 12.191 22 ...[the planters of Massachusetts] exaggerated their troubles.

exaggerates, v. (2)

    SwM 4.128 2 [Swedenborg] exaggerates the circumstance of marriage;...
    CInt 12.117 26 Society...exaggerates the merits of those who work to vulgar ends.

exaggerating, v. (1)

    Con 1.312 13 Is it not exaggerating a trifle to insist on a formal acknowledgment of your claims...

exaggeration, n. (32)

    AmS 1.92 17 I would not be hurried...by any exaggeration of instincts, to underrate the Book.
    DSA 1.130 15 ...[Christianity] is...an exaggeration of the personal...
    DSA 1.130 17 [Christianity] has dwelt, it dwells, with noxious exaggeration about the person of Jesus.
    DSA 1.147 23 There are...persons...to whom all we call art and artist, seems too nearly allied...to the exaggeration of the finite and selfish...
    LT 1.270 25 ...each of these aspirations and attempts of the people for the Better is magnified by the natural exaggeration of its advocates...
    LT 1.281 1 The exaggeration which our young people make of [the slave's] wrongs, characterizes themselves.
    SL 2.131 23 No man ever stated his griefs as lightly as he might. Allow for exaggeration in the most patient and sorely ridden hack that ever was driven.
    Int 2.339 14 How wearisome...any possessed mortal whose balance is lost by the exaggeration of a single topic.
    Chr1 3.108 5 [Divine persons] are usually received with ill-will...because they set a bound to the exaggeration that has been made of the personality of the last divine person.
    Nat2 3.184 27 Exaggeration is in the course of things.
    Nat2 3.185 13 Every act hath some falsehood of exaggeration in it.
    NR 3.227 11 Our exaggeration of all fine characters arises from the fact that we identify each in turn with the soul.
    MoS 4.171 24 Every superior mind...will know how to avail himself of the checks and balances in nature, as a natural weapon against the exaggeration and formalism of bigots and blockheads.
    Ctr 6.137 20 Culture kills [man's] exaggeration...
    CbW 6.258 1 The right partisan is a heady, narrow man, who, because he does not see many things, sees some one thing with heat and exaggeration...
    Suc 7.295 6 ...it is a nice point to discriminate this self-trust...from the disease to which it is allied,--the exaggeration of the part which we can play;...
    Suc 7.295 15 He only who comes into this central intelligence, in which no egotism or exaggeration can be, comes into self-possession.
    SA 8.86 10 'T is a rule of manners to avoid exaggeration.
    Elo2 8.118 16 ...this power [of eloquence] which so fascinates and astonishes and commands is only the exaggeration of a talent which is universal.
    Comc 8.169 18 The multiplication of artificial wants and expenses in civilized life, and the exaggeration of all trifling forms, present innumerable occasions for this discrepancy [between the man and his appearance] to expose itself.
    Dem1 10.20 4 The demonologic is only a fine name for egotism; an exaggeration namely of the individual...
    Chr2 10.115 12 ...[Jesus's disciples] hamper us with limitations of person and text. Every exaggeration of these is a violation of the soul's right...
    Supl 10.166 1 The exaggeration of which I complain makes plain fact the more welcome and refreshing.
    EWI 11.123 3 ...[the civility] of China and Japan [lay] in the last exaggeration of decorum and etiquette.
    AKan 11.256 8 ...these details that have come from Kansas are so horrible, that the hostile press have but one word in reply, namely, that it is all exaggeration...
    AKan 11.256 13 Do the Committee of Investigation say that the outrages [in Kansas] have been overstated? Does their dismal catalogue of private tragedies show it? Do the private letters? Is it an exaggeration, that Mr. Hopps of Somerville, Mr. Hoyt of Deerfield...have been murdered?
    ALin 11.334 23 It cannot be said there is any exaggeration of [Lincoln's] worth.
    SMC 11.367 21 In McClellan's retreat in the Peninsula, in July, 1862, it is all our men can do to draw their feet out of the mud. We marched one mile through mud, without exaggeration, one foot deep...
    Wom 11.417 5 ...this conspicuousness [of Woman] had its inconveniences. But it is cheap wit that has been spent on this subject; from Aristophanes... to Rabelais, in whom it is monstrous exaggeration of temperament...
    PLT 12.55 26 The right partisan is a heady man, who...sees some one thing with heat and exaggeration;...
    PPr 12.386 3 [Carlyle's] habitual exaggeration of the tone wearies whilst it stimulates.
    Trag 12.414 12 ...the world...hates all manner of exaggeration.

exaggerations, n. (5)

    LT 1.277 14 [The Reforms] mix the fire of the moral sentiment...with measureless exaggerations...
    SL 2.148 4 Hideous dreams are exaggerations of the sins of the day.
    Pt1 3.13 2 I...lead the life of exaggerations as before...
    Elo1 7.71 4 These legends [of story-tellers] are only exaggerations of real occurrences...
    Supl 10.166 6 ...I can well spare the exaggerations which appear to me screens to conceal ignorance.

exalt, v. (9)

    Tran 1.348 16 Deserve thy genius: exalt it.
    Comp 2.115 22 ...the high laws which each man sees implicated in those processes with which he is conversant...exalt his business to his imagination.
    Fdsp 2.198 4 ...[the soul] goes alone for a season that it may exalt its conversation or society.
    Art1 2.351 18 ...[the painter] will come to value the expression of nature and not nature itself, and so exalt in his copy the features that please him.
    Chr1 3.113 24 ...we do not know the majestic manners which belong to [a man], which appease and exalt the beholder.
    Bty 6.283 18 A deep man believes...that love can exalt talent;...
    DL 7.125 22 We do not know the majestic manners that belong to [a man], which appease and exalt the beholder.
    LS 11.20 23 ...to exalt particular forms...is unreasonable...
    FRO1 11.479 5 There is an element of childish infatuation in [the histories of the Church] which does not exalt our respect for man.

exaltation, n. (4)

    Chr1 3.105 5 Thence [from character] comes a new intellectual exaltation...
    UGM 4.32 4 Each is uneasy until he has...beheld his talent also in its last nobility and exaltation.
    WD 7.177 15 I knew a man in a certain religious exaltation who thought it an honor to wash his own face.
    PI 8.16 21 Mountains and oceans we think we understand;--yes, so long as they are contented to be such, and are safe with the geologist,--but when they are melted in Promethean alembics and come out men, and then, melted again, come out words, without any abatement, but with an exaltation of power!

exalted, adj. (10)

    Hist 2.39 2 [A man] shall walk...in a robe painted all over with wonderful events and experiences;--his own form and features by their exalted intelligence shall be that variegated vest.
    GoW 4.262 18 ...besides the universal joy of conversation, some men are born with exalted powers for this second creation. Men are born to write.
    Art2 7.51 18 [A work of great art] conspires with all exalted sentiments.
    OA 7.319 7 [The cup of time]...fills us with exalted dreams...
    Aris 10.34 20 ...if primogeniture, if heraldry, if money could secure such a result as superior and finished men, it would be the interest of all mankind to see that the steps were taken, the pains incurred. No taxation...no conferring of privileges never so exalted would be a price too large.
    Aris 10.62 7 ...[the true man] is to know...that there is a master grace and dignity communicated by exalted sentiments to a human form...
    LLNE 10.362 20 ...[Charles Newcomb's] mind [was] fed and overfed by whatever is exalted in genius...
    LS 11.18 23 ...a true disciple of Jesus will receive the light he gives most thankfully; but the thanks he offers, and which an exalted being will accept, are not compliments, commemorations...
    FRep 11.535 13 Here let there be what the earth waits for,-exalted manhood.
    Bost 12.184 22 Even at this day men are to be found superstitious enough to believe that to certain spots on the surface of the planet special powers attach, and an exalted influence on the genius of man.

exalted, n. (1)

    MMEm 10.413 14 Ah! were virtue, and that of dear heavenly meekness attached by any necessity to a lower rank of genteel people, who would sympathize with the exalted with satisfaction?

exalted, v. (12)

    Nat 1.30 27 The moment our discourse...is...exalted by thought, it clothes itself in images.
    Exp 3.70 6 The ancients...exalted Chance into a divinity;...
    UGM 4.19 25 When we are exalted by ideas, we do not owe this to Plato, but to the idea, to which also Plato was debtor.
    ET14 5.234 18 The Saxon materialism and narrowness, exalted into the sphere of intellect, makes the very genius of Shakspeare and Milton.
    Art2 7.46 3 [The temple] is exalted by the beauty of sunlight...
    DL 7.131 8 ...in the Sistine Chapel I see the grand sibyls and prophets, painted in fresco by Michel Angelo,--which have every day now for three hundred years...exalted the piety of what vast multitudes of men of all nations!
    Boks 7.203 9 ...[in the Platonists] the grand and pleasing figures of gods and daemons and daemoniacal men...and all the rest of the Platonic rhetoric, exalted a little under the African sun, sail before [the scholar's] eyes.
    QO 8.197 16 Dumont was exalted by being used by Mirabeau...
    Chr2 10.114 10 The soul...finds...the humblest lot exalted.
    EWI 11.123 1 ...[the civility] of Rome [lay] in military arts and virtues, exalted by a prodigious magnanimity;...
    PLT 12.60 27 ...each [mind and heart] is easily exalted in our thoughts till it serves to fill the universe and become the synonym of God...
    MAng1 12.217 4 ...in proportion as man rises above the servitude to wealth and a pursuit of mean pleasures, he perceives that what is most real is most beautiful, and that, by the contemplation of such objects, he is taught and exalted.

exalting, adj. (2)

    SL 2.147 13 The world...is indebted to this gilding, exalting soul for all its pride.
    NER 3.257 1 I find nothing healthful or exalting in the smooth conventions of society;...

exalting, v. (1)

    ET1 5.15 16 [Carlyle's] talk playfully exalting the familiar objects, put the companion at once into an acquaintance with his Lars and Lemurs...

exalts, v. (9)

    Fdsp 2.192 22 The same idea exalts conversation with [the commended stranger].
    Art2 7.46 9 The pleasure of eloquence is in greatest part owing often to the stimulus of the occasion which produces it,--to the magic of sympathy, which exalts the feeling of each by radiating on him the feeling of all.
    Suc 7.302 12 This sensibility appears in the homage to beauty which exalts the faculties of youth;...
    PI 8.29 6 Fancy amuses; imagination expands and exalts us.
    HDC 11.86 22 The acknowledgment of the Supreme Being exalts the history of this people [of Concord].
    SMC 11.351 1 I shall say of this obelisk [the Concord Monument]...what Richter says of the volcano in the fair landscape of Naples: Vesuvius stands in this poem of Nature, and exalts everything, as war does the age.
    FRO1 11.479 22 ...as soon as every man is apprised of the Divine Presence within his own mind...then we have a religion that exalts...
    MAng1 12.216 1 A purity severe and even terrible goes out from the lofty productions of [Michelangelo's] pencil and his chisel, and again from the more perfect sculpture of his own life, which heals and exalts.
    ACri 12.290 16 What the poet omits exalts every syllable that he writes.

examination, n. (19)

    NR 3.225 13 The man momentarily stands for the thought, but will not bear examination;...
    ET2 5.32 7 ...under the best conditions, a voyage [at sea] is one of the severest tests to try a man. A college examination is nothing to it.
    ET12 5.204 20 The reading men [at Oxford]...two days before the examination, do no work...
    ET13 5.221 22 The torpidity on the side of religion of the vigorous English understanding shows how much wit and folly can agree in one brain. Their religion is a quotation;...and any examination is interdicted with screams of terror.
    Bhr 6.171 14 Your manners are always under examination...
    CbW 6.261 16 ...perhaps [the rich man] could pass a college examination, and take his degrees;...
    Elo1 7.85 23 ...in the examination of witnesses there usually leap out...three or four stubborn words or phrases which are the pith and fate of the business...
    Suc 7.304 24 To-day at the school examination the professor interrogates Sylvina in the history class about Odoacer and Alaric.
    Prch 10.221 1 ...this examination [of religion] resulting in the constant detection of errors, the flattered understanding assumes to judge all things...
    MoL 10.251 10 I chanced lately to be at West Point, and, after attending the examination in scientific classes, I went into the barracks.
    Thor 10.470 4 On the day I speak of [Thoreau] looked for the Menyanthes, detected it across the wide pool, and, on examination of the florets, decided that it had been in flower five days.
    GSt 10.504 4 [George Stearns's] examination before the United States Senate Committee on the Harper's Ferry Invasion...is a chapter well worth reading...
    LS 11.15 21 ...it does not appear from a careful examination of the account of the Last Supper in the Evangelists, that it was designed by Jesus to be perpetual;...
    PLT 12.10 22 The laws and powers of the Intellect have...a stupendous peculiarity, of being at once observers and observed. So that it is difficult to hold them fast, as objects of examination...
    CInt 12.130 27 ...the examination for admission and the examination for degrees and honors may be lax in this college and severe in that...but 't is very certain than an examination is yonder before us...
    CInt 12.131 1 ...the examination for admission and the examination for degrees and honors may be lax in this college and severe in that...but 't is very certain than an examination is yonder before us...
    CInt 12.131 5 ...'t is very certain that an examination is yonder before us and an examining committee that cannot be escaped or deceived...
    Let 12.393 3 When a railroad train shoots through Europe every day...it cannot stop every twenty or thirty miles at a German custom-house, for examination of property and passports.
    Let 12.396 13 It is not for nothing...that sincere persons of all parties are demanding somewhat vital and poetic of our stagnant society. How fantastic and unpresentable soever the theory has hitherto seemed, how swiftly shrinking from the examination of practical men, let us not lose the warning of that most significant dream.

Examination Papers, n. (1)

    ET12 5.210 10 I looked over the Examination Papers of the year 1848 [at Oxford]...

examination-day, n. (1)

    Schr 10.284 6 ...the sure months are bringing [the scholar] to an examination-day in which nothing is remitted or excused...

examinations, n. (2)

    EWI 11.127 26 ...when, in 1789, the first privy council report of evidence on the [slave] trade (a bulky folio embodying...all the examinations before the council) was presented to the House of Commons, a late day being named for the discussion...Mr. Wilberforce, Mr. Pitt, the Prime Minister, and other gentlemen, took advantage of the postponement to retire into the country to read the report.
    ChiE 11.473 19 I am sure that gentlemen around me bear in mind the bill... requiring that candidates for public offices shall first pass examinations on their literary qualifications for the same.

examine, v. (12)

    MR 1.243 19 The duty that every man...should call the institutions of society to account, and examine their fitness to him, gains in emphasis if we look at our modes of living.
    LT 1.260 6 Let us examine the pretensions of the attacking and defending parties.
    LT 1.265 8 Let us paint...the woman of the world who has tried and knows;-let us examine how well she knows.
    Lov1 2.178 5 ...let us examine a little nearer the nature of that influence [love] which is thus potent over the human youth.
    SwM 4.99 21 In 1721 [Swedenborg] journeyed over Europe to examine mines and smelting works.
    ET4 5.47 4 In race, it is not the broad shoulders, or litheness, or stature that give advantage, but a symmetry that reaches as far as to the wit. Then the miracle and renown begin. Then first we care to examine the pedigree...
    ET12 5.203 19 On proceeding afterwards to examine his purchase, [Dr. Bandinel] found the twenty deficient pages of his Mentz Bible, in perfect order;...
    DL 7.122 12 ...[Lord Falkland's] house was a university in a less volume, whither [the most polite and accurate men of Oxford University] came...to examine and refine those grosser propositions which laziness and consent made current in vulgar conversation.
    Thor 10.462 16 When I was planting forest trees, and had procured half a peck of acorns, [Thoreau]...proceeded to examine them...
    HDC 11.45 16 The bands of love and reverence, held fast the little state [the Massachusetts Bay Colony], whilst [the settlers] untied the great cords of authority to examine their soundness...
    CL 12.137 19 In Tornea, [Linnaeus] found the people suffering every spring from the loss of their cattle, which died by some frightful distemper, to the number of fifty or a hundred in a year. Linnaeus walked out to examine the meadow into which they were first turned out to grass...
    MAng1 12.231 26 Benedict XIV., during one of these panics, sent for the architect Marchese Polini to come to Rome and examine [St. Peter's dome].

examined, v. (9)

    NMW 4.240 5 When the expenses...of his palaces, had accumulated great debts, Napoleon examined the bills of the creditors himself...
    ET3 5.40 25 I have seen a kratometric chart designed to show that the city of Philadelphia was in the same thermic belt, and by inference in the same belt of empire, as the cities of Athens, Rome and London. It was drawn by a patriotic Philadelphian, and was examined with pleasure, under his showing, by the inhabitants of Chestnut Street.
    ET4 5.64 12 Of the [English] criminal statutes, Sir Samuel Romilly said, I have examined the codes of all nations, and ours is the worst...
    Ill 6.309 22 We...examined all the masterpieces which the four combined engineers, water, limestone, gravitation and time, could make in the dark [of the Mammoth Cave].
    Grts 8.317 1 When Gerald, Earl of Kildare, who was in rebellion against [Henry VII] was brought to London, and examined before the Privy Council, one said, All Ireland cannot govern this Earl. Then let this Earl govern all Ireland, replied the King.
    HDC 11.45 12 [The settlers of Concord] bore to John Winthrop, the Governor, a grave but hearty kindness. For the first time, men examined the powers of the chief whom they loved and revered.
    CL 12.138 25 [Linnaeus] examined eight thousand plants;...
    CL 12.138 26 [Linnaeus]...examined fishes, insects, birds, quadrupeds;...
    WSL 12.347 16 ...[Landor] has examined before he has expatiated...

examiners, n. (1)

    ET12 5.210 7 ...whether by cramming tutor or by examiners with prizes and foundational scholarships, education, according to the English notion of it, is arrived at [at Oxford].

examining, adj. (1)

    CInt 12.131 6 ...'t is very certain that an examination is yonder before us and an examining committee that cannot be escaped or deceived...

examining, v. (2)

    SR 2.54 24 Do I not know that with all this ostentation of examining the grounds of the institution [the preacher] will do no such thing?
    ET8 5.133 19 It was no bad description of the Briton generically, what was said two hundred years ago of one particular Oxford scholar: He was a very bold man...and would often speak his mind of particular persons then accidentally present, without examining the company he was in;...

example, n. (104)

    Nat 1.38 7 The whole character and fortune of the individual are affected by the least inequalities in the culture of the understanding; for example, in the perception of differences.
    DSA 1.123 9 The least admixture of a lie, - for example, the taint of vanity...will instantly vitiate the effect.
    LE 1.171 7 Take for example the French Eclecticism...there is an optical illusion in it.
    MN 1.193 9 Men...are continually yielding to this dazzling result of numbers, that which they would never yield to the solitary example of any one.
    MN 1.201 25 Read alternately...a treatise of astronomy, for example, with a volume of French Memoires pour servir.
    MR 1.251 8 Every great and commanding moment in the annals of the world is the triumph of some enthusiasm. The victories of the Arabs after Mahomet...is an example.
    Tran 1.338 10 ...of a purely spiritual life, history has afforded no example.
    Tran 1.346 4 We easily predict a fair future to each new candidate who enters the lists, but...by low aims and ill example do what we can to defeat this hope.
    YA 1.383 10 I think for example that [the Communities] exaggerate the importance of a favorite project of theirs...
    SR 2.68 27 ...when you have life in yourself...the way, the thought, the good, shall be wholly strange and new. It shall exclude example and experience.
    Comp 2.97 17 The reaction, so grand in the elements, is repeated within these small boundaries. For example, in the animal kingdom the physiologist has observed that no creatures are favorites...
    Comp 2.97 26 The theory of the mechanic forces is another example [of Compensation].
    Comp 2.103 20 Whilst thus the world...refuses to be disparted, we seek...to appropriate; for example,--to gratify the senses we sever the pleasure of the senses from the needs of the character.
    Comp 2.123 3 I no longer wish to meet a good I do not earn, for example to find a pot of buried gold...
    Hsm1 2.259 4 [Many extraordinary young men] found no example and no companion...
    Cir 2.305 9 ...the principle that seemed to explain nature will itself be included as one example of a bolder generalization.
    Int 2.331 17 For example, a man explores the basis of civil government.
    Art1 2.355 18 Presently we pass to some other object, which rounds itself into a whole as did the first; for example a well-laid garden;...
    Art1 2.362 9 The Transfiguration, by Raphael, is an eminent example of this peculiar merit [simplicity].
    Pt1 3.17 20 The circumcision is an example of the power of poetry to raise the low and offensive.
    Exp 3.85 8 ...I have not found that much was gained by manipular attempts to realize the world of thought. Many eager persons successively make an experiment in this way, and make themselves ridiculous. ... Worse, I observe that in the history of mankind there is never a solitary example of success,--taking their own tests of success.
    Mrs1 3.126 8 ...every collection of men furnishes some example of the class [of gentlemen];...
    Mrs1 3.130 3 We sometimes...feel that the moral sentiment rules man and nature. We think all other distinctions and ties will be slight and fugitive, this of caste or fashion for example;...
    Nat2 3.175 2 [A boy] hears the echoes of a horn in a hill country, in the Notch Mountains, for example, which converts the mountains into an Aeolian harp...
    NR 3.225 15 ...a society of men will cursorily represent well enough a certain quality and culture, for example, chivalry or beauty of manners;...
    NR 3.230 24 ...universally, a good example of this social force is the veracity of language, which cannot be debauched.
    NR 3.232 14 The world is full...of secret and public legions of honor; that of scholars, for example;...
    NR 3.233 4 Shakspeare's passages of passion (for example, in Lear and Hamlet) are in the very dialect of the present year.
    NER 3.255 9 In politics, for example, it is easy to see the progress of dissent.
    PPh 4.42 19 Plato absorbed the learning of his time...and finding himself still capable of a larger synthesis,--beyond all example then or since,--he traveled into Italy...
    PPh 4.56 13 To take an example:--The physical philosophers had sketched each his theory of the world;...
    PPh 4.66 18 A happier example of the stress laid on nature [by Plato] is in the dialogue with the young Theages...
    PPh 4.70 25 Socrates again, in his traits and genius, is the best example of that synthesis which constitutes Plato's extraordinary power.
    PNR 4.81 17 Plato's fame does not stand...on any thesis, as for example the immortality of the soul.
    SwM 4.98 10 In modern times no such remarkable example of this introverted mind has occurred as in Emanuel Swedenborg...
    SwM 4.105 14 ...the proximity of these geniuses, one or other of whom had introduced all his leading ideas, makes Swedenborg another example of the difficulty...of proving originality...
    SwM 4.119 12 When [Swedenborg] attempted to announce the law most sanely, he was forced to couch it in parable. Modern psychology offers no similar example of a deranged balance.
    MoS 4.169 22 [Montaigne says] Most of my actions are guided by example, not choice.
    ShP 4.213 27 ...[Shakespeare] is the chief example to prove that more or less of production...is a thing indifferent.
    NMW 4.248 14 An example of [Napoleon's] common-sense is what he says of the passage of the Alps in winter...
    GoW 4.276 10 Take the most remarkable example that could occur of [Goethe's] tendency to verify every term in popular use.
    GoW 4.277 23 Wilhelm Meister is a novel in every sense...called by its admirers the only delineation of modern society,--as if other novels, those of Scott for example, dealt with costume and condition, this with the spirit of life.
    ET4 5.73 9 ...rich Englishmen have followed [William the Conqueror's] example...in encroaching on the tillage and commons with their game-preserves.
    ET11 5.185 7 In general, all that is required of [English nobility] is...to give the example of that decorum so dear to the British heart.
    ET14 5.236 8 The union of Saxon precision and Oriental soaring, of which Shakspeare is the perfect example, is shared in less degree by the writers of two centuries.
    ET14 5.239 15 Bacon, in the structure of his mind, held...of the idealists, or (as we popularly say, naming from the best example) Platonists.
    ET16 5.288 12 On the way to Winchester...my friends asked many questions respecting American landscape, forests, houses,--my house, for example.
    ET17 5.296 14 Miss Martineau...praised [Wordsworth] to me...for having afforded to his country-neighbors an example of a modest household where comfort and culture were secured without any display.
    Pow 6.75 15 ...if we seek an example [of concentration] from trade,--I hope, said a good man to Rothschild, your children are not too fond of money and business; I am sure you would not wish that.--I am sure I should wish that; I wish them to give mind, soul, heart and body to business,--that is the way to be happy.
    Wth 6.97 23 The socialism of our day has done good service in setting men on thinking how certain civilizing benefits...can be enjoyed by all. For example, the providing to each man the means and apparatus of science and of the arts.
    Wth 6.109 15 There is an example of the compensations in the commercial history of this country.
    Ctr 6.143 14 These minor skills and accomplishments, for example, dancing, are tickets of admission to the dress-circle of mankind...
    Ctr 6.155 2 Wordsworth was praised to me in Westmoreland for having afforded to his country neighbors an example of a modest household where comfort and culture were secured without display.
    Civ 7.29 7 ...on a planet so small as ours, the want of an adequate base for astronomical measurements is early felt, as, for example, in detecting the parallax of a star.
    Art2 7.55 11 Heraldry, for example, and the ceremonies of a coronation, are a dignified repetition of the occurrences that might befall a dragoon and his footboy.
    Elo1 7.76 12 ...eloquence is attractive as an example of the magic of personal ascendency...
    Elo1 7.81 1 Does [any one] think that not possibly a man may come to him who shall persuade him out of his most settled determination?--for example, good sedate citizen as he is, to make a fanatic of him...
    DL 7.112 12 If the children, for example, are considered, dressed...then does the hospitality of the house suffer;...
    Boks 7.220 24 For example, how attractive is the whole literature of the Roman de la Rose, the Fabliaux, and the gaie science of the French Troubadours!
    SA 8.86 25 You have in you there a noisy, sensual savage, which you are to keep down, and turn all his strength to beauty. For example, what a seneschal and detective is laughter!
    Elo2 8.116 5 You go to a town-meeting where the people are called to some disagreeable duty, such as, for example, often occurred during the war...
    Elo2 8.124 16 ...in your struggles with the world...seek refuge...in the precepts and example of Him whose law is love...
    Elo2 8.125 9 ...[the man in the street]...can always get the ear of an audience to the exclusion of everybody else. Well, this is an example in point. That something which each man was created to say and do, he only or he best can tell you...
    Res 8.137 21 I am benefited by every observation of a victory of man over Nature;...by seeing that every healthy and resolute man is...a method coming into a confusion and drawing order out of it. We are touched and cheered by every such example.
    Res 8.144 24 Nature herself gives the hint and the example, if we have wit to take it.
    PC 8.213 24 ...each European nation...had its romantic era, and the productions of that era in each rose to about the same height. Take for an example in literature the Romance of Arthur, in Britain, or in the opposite province of Britanny; the Chanson de Roland, in France;...
    PPo 8.249 8 His complete intellectual emancipation [Hafiz] communicates to the reader. There is no example of such facility of allusion...
    Insp 8.275 20 ...ecstasy will be found...only an example on a higher plane of the same gentle gravitation by which stones fall and rivers run.
    Grts 8.313 8 Extremes meet, and there is no better example than the haughtiness of humility.
    Grts 8.318 23 Abraham Lincoln is perhaps the most remarkable example of this class [of great style of hero] that we have seen...
    Dem1 10.14 13 Let me add one more example of the same good sense...
    Dem1 10.17 26 I believed that I discovered in nature...somewhat which manifested itself only in contradiction, and therefore could not be grasped by a conception, much less by a word. ... This, which seemed to insert itself between all other things...I named the Demoniacal, after the example of the ancients...
    Aris 10.53 4 The first example [of Genius] that occurs is an extraordinary gift of eloquence.
    Edc1 10.142 4 There is no want of example of great men, great benefactors, who have been monks and hermits in habit.
    Plu 10.298 5 ...[Plutarch] is a chief example of the illumination of the intellect by the force of morals.
    Plu 10.300 14 Montaigne, whilst he grasps Etienne de la Boece with one hand, reaches back the other to Plutarch. These distant friendships...make the best example of the universal citizenship and fraternity of the human mind.
    Plu 10.303 4 ...it is in reading the fragments [Plutarch] has saved from lost authors that I have hailed another example of the sacred care which has unrolled in our times, and still searches and unrolls papyri from ruined libraries...
    LLNE 10.347 25 Fourier, almost as wonderful an example of the mathematical mind of France as La Place or Napoleon, turned a truly vast arithmetic to the question of social misery...
    MMEm 10.411 6 ...[Mary Moody Emerson] was...a quite clannish instrument, a pibroch, for example...
    MMEm 10.427 11 I sometimes fancy I detect in [Mary Moody Emerson's] writings a certain...polite and courtly homage to the name and dignity of Jesus...really veiling and betraying her organic dislike to any interference, any mediation between her and the Author of her being, assurance of whose direct dealing with her she incessantly invokes: for example, the parenthesis Saving thy presence, Priest and Medium of all this approach for a sinful creature!.
    SlHr 10.440 27 The strength and the beauty of the man [Samuel Hoar] lay in the natural goodness and justice of his mind, which...left an infantile innocence, of which we have no second or third example...
    GSt 10.499 3 Who, when great trials come,/ Nor seeks nor shunnes them; but doth calmly stay/ Till he the thing and the example weigh:/ All being brought into a summe/ What place or person calls for he doth pay./ George Herbert.
    GSt 10.504 8 [George Stearns's] examination before the United States Senate Committee on the Harper's Ferry Invasion...is a chapter well worth reading, as a shining example of the manner in which a truth-speaker baffles all statecraft...
    LS 11.11 12 Jesus washed the feet of his disciples, and told them that, as he had washed their feet, they ought to wash one another's feet; for he had given them an example...
    HDC 11.49 25 The British government has recently presented to the several public libraries of this country, copies of the splendid edition of the Domesday Book, and other ancient public records of England. I cannot but think that it would be a suitable acknowledgment of this national munificence, if the records of one of our towns,-of this town [Concord], for example,-should be printed, and presented to the governments of Europe;...
    HDC 11.62 1 It is the misfortune of Concord to have permitted a disgraceful outrage upon the friendly Indians settled within its limits, in February, 1676, which ended in their forcible expulsion from the town. This painful incident is but too just an example of the measure which the Indians have generally received from the whites.
    EWI 11.135 5 ...as an omen and assurance of success, I point to you the bright example which England set you [in emancipation in the West Indies]...
    War 11.166 3 ...the least change in the man will change his circumstances;...if, for example, he could be inspired with a tender kindness to the souls of men...
    SMC 11.363 5 I [George Prescott] told [the West Point officer] I had a good many young men in my company whose mothers asked me to look after them, and I should do so, and not allow them to hear such language, especially from an officer, whose duty it was to set them a better example.
    SMC 11.366 17 In August, 1862...mainly through the personal example and influence of Mr. Sylvester Lovejoy, twelve men, including himself, were enlisted for three years...
    RBur 11.442 14 ...[Burns] has made the Lowland Scotch a Doric dialect of fame. It is the only example in history of a language made classic by the genius of a single man.
    FRO1 11.480 14 What is best in the ancient religions was the sacred friendships between heroes, the Sacred Bands, and the relations of the Pythagorean disciples. Our Masonic institutions probably grew from the like origin. The close association which bound the first disciples of Jesus is another example;...
    FRO2 11.489 20 Whoever thinks a story gains...by adding something out of nature, robs it more than he adds. It is no longer an example...
    FRep 11.544 7 ...in seeing this felicity without example that has rested on the Union thus far, I find new confidence for the future.
    PLT 12.48 14 There is some incompatibility of good speculation and practice, for example, the failure of monasteries and Brook Farms.
    II 12.66 20 There is a singular credulity which no experience will cure us of, that another man has seen or may see somewhat more than we, of the primary facts; as for example, of the continuity of the individual...
    CInt 12.118 6 Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense and of simple justice...
    Milt1 12.266 21 [Milton] told the bishops that instead of showing the reason of their lowly condition from divine example and command, they seek to prove their high preeminence from human consent and authority.
    ACri 12.296 8 Herrick is a remarkable example of the low style.
    ACri 12.296 9 Herrick is a remarkable example of the low style. He is, therefore, a good example of the modernness of an old English writer.
    WSL 12.346 11 We do not recollect an example of more complete independence in literary history [than Landor].
    Pray 12.355 27 Let these few scattered leaves...stand as an example of innumerable similar expressions [prayers] which no mortal witness has reported...
    EurB 12.365 15 Many of [Wordsworth's] poems, as for example the Rylstone Doe, might be all improvised.
    EurB 12.378 5 I fear it was in part the influence of such pictures [as in Vivian Grey] on living society which made the style of manners of which we have so many pictures, as, for example, in the following account of the English fashionist.

examples, n. (93)

    Nat 1.14 14 ...the examples [of the useful arts are] so obvious, that I shall leave them to the reader's reflection...
    Nat 1.54 1 ...this power which [the poet] exerts to dwarf the great, to magnify the small, - might be illustrated by a thousand examples from [Shakspeare's] Plays.
    Nat 1.72 26 ...there are not wanting...occasional examples of the action of man upon nature with his entire force...
    Nat 1.73 1 Such examples [of the action of man upon nature with his entire force] are, the traditions of miracles in the earliest antiquity of all nations;...
    Nat 1.73 12 These are examples of Reason's momentary grasp of the sceptre;...
    MN 1.216 21 ...there are other examples of this total and supreme influence...
    LT 1.289 19 ...in all the details of our domestic or civil life is hidden the elemental reality, which ever and anon comes to the surface, and forms the grand men, who are the leaders and examples...of the race.
    Tran 1.350 12 A great man...will leave to those who like it the multiplication of examples.
    SR 2.70 21 Commerce, husbandry...engage my respect as examples of [virtue's] presence and impure action.
    Prd1 2.237 20 Examples are cited by soldiers of men who have seen the cannon pointed and the fire given to it, and who have stepped aside from the path of the ball.
    Int 2.333 16 [A person I knew] held the old; he holds the new; I had the habit of tacking together the old and the new which he did not use to exercise. This may hold in the great examples.
    Exp 3.66 5 ...nature causes each man's peculiarity to superabound. Here, among the farms, we adduce the scholars as examples of this treachery.
    Chr1 3.90 26 Man...in these examples [of men of character] appears to share the life of things...
    Chr1 3.110 15 ...there is no need to seek remote examples [of character].
    NER 3.255 22 ...the country is frequently affording solitary examples of resistance to the government...
    UGM 4.18 11 Especially when a mind of powerful method has instructed men, we find the examples of oppression.
    PNR 4.83 21 Whatever [Plato] looks upon discloses a second sense, and ulterior senses. ... More striking examples are his moral conclusions.
    SwM 4.97 19 In the chief examples of religious illumination somewhat morbid has mingled...
    SwM 4.116 19 [Swedenborg says] I intend hereafter to communicate a number of examples of such correspondences [between the natural and spiritual worlds]...
    SwM 4.140 10 ...the right examples are private experiences...
    MoS 4.175 22 ...as soon as each man attains the poise and vivacity which allow the whole machinery to play, he will not need extreme examples...
    ET6 5.109 2 Sir Samuel Romilly could not bear the death of his wife. Every class [in England] has its noble and tender examples.
    ET7 5.125 9 Any number of delightful examples of this English stolidity are the anecdotes of Europe.
    ET8 5.131 19 Of absolute stoutness no nation has more or better examples [than England].
    ET9 5.151 26 Nature trips us up when we strut; and there are curious examples in history on this very point of national pride.
    ET11 5.178 2 ...some curious examples are cited to show the stability of English families.
    ET11 5.186 1 ...when it happens that the spirit of the earl meets his rank and duties, we have the best examples of behavior.
    ET14 5.240 21 [Bacon] explained himself by giving various quaint examples of the summary or common laws of which each science has its own illustration.
    ET14 5.251 3 It would be easy to add exceptions to the limitary tone of English thought, and much more easy to adduce examples of excellence in particular veins;...
    F 6.41 26 We go to Herodotus and Plutarch for examples of Fate;...
    F 6.41 27 We go to Herodotus and Plutarch for examples of Fate; but we are examples.
    Ctr 6.133 25 Religious literature has eminent examples [of egotism]...
    Wsp 6.215 13 I can best indicate by examples those reactions by which every part of nature replies to the purpose of the actor...
    Wsp 6.221 21 ...let me suggest to [the reader] by a few examples what kind of a trust this is [in the moral sentiment], and how real.
    Civ 7.25 14 The skill that pervades complex details; the man that maintains himself;...these are examples of that tendency to combine antagonisms... which is the index of high civilization.
    Civ 7.26 7 ...some of our grandest examples of men and of races come from the equatorial regions...
    Civ 7.29 3 Our astronomy is full of examples of calling in the aid of these magnificent helpers.
    Elo1 7.73 16 In these examples [of eloquence], higher qualities have already entered...
    Elo1 7.79 16 It is easy to illustrate this overpowering personality by these examples of soldiers and kings;...
    Elo1 7.79 23 ...there are men of the most peaceful way of life...who are felt wherever they go...and these examples may be found on very humble platforms as well as on high ones.
    Elo1 7.89 26 By applying the habits of a higher style of thought to the common affairs of this world, [the orator] introduces beauty and magnificence wherever he goes. Such a power was Burke's, and of this genius we have had some brilliant examples in our own political and legal men.
    Elo1 7.92 8 The listener cannot hide from himself that something has been shown him and the whole world which he did not wish to see; and as he cannot dispose of it, it disposes of him. The history of public men and affairs in America will readily furnish tragic examples of this fatal force.
    WD 7.157 22 The sympathy of eye and hand by which an Indian or a practised slinger hits his mark with a stone, or a wood-chopper or a carpenter swings his axe to a hair-line on his log, are examples [that the eye appreciates finer differences than art can expose];...
    Boks 7.209 11 The annals of bibliography afford many examples of the delirious extent to which book-fancying can go...
    Boks 7.211 14 Out of a hundred examples, Cornelius Agrippa On the Vanity of Arts and Sciences is a specimen of that scribatiousness which grew to be the habit of the gluttonous readers of his time.
    Clbs 7.236 2 ...in the hagiology of each nation, the lawgiver was in each case some man...whose sympathy brought him face to face with the extremes of society. Jesus, Menu, the first Buddhist, Mahomet, Zertusht, Pythagoras, are examples.
    Clbs 7.247 4 [Manufacturers, merchants and shipmasters] have found virtue in the strangest homes; and in the rich store of their adventures are instances and examples which you have been seeking in vain for years...
    Cour 7.256 18 We have had examples of men who, for showing effective courage on a single occasion, have become a favorite spectacle to nations...
    Suc 7.287 2 Here are already quite different degrees of moral merit in these examples.
    OA 7.321 16 We have, it is true, examples of an accelerated pace by which young men achieved grand works;...
    OA 7.331 27 ...we have had robust centenarians, and examples of dignity and wisdom.
    PI 8.43 13 Better examples [of poetry] are Shakspeare's Ariel, his Caliban...
    PI 8.65 5 ...when we speak of the Poet in any high sense, we are driven to such examples as Zoroaster and Plato...with their moral burdens.
    SA 8.102 21 Our gentlemen of the old school...were bred after English types, and that style of breeding furnished fine examples in the last generation;...
    SA 8.102 26 ...I have seen examples of new grace and power in address that honor the country.
    Res 8.137 23 These examples [of man's victory over Nature] wake an infinite hope...
    Res 8.147 24 ...we have noted examples among our orators, who have... handled and controlled...a malignant mob, by superior manhood...
    QO 8.186 1 In romantic literature examples of this vamping abound.
    PPo 8.252 10 ...this self-naming [in poetry] is not quite easy. We remember but two or three examples in English poetry...
    Grts 8.316 12 We like the natural greatness of health and wild power. I confess that I am as much taken by it...sometimes...even in persons open to the suspicion of irregular and immoral living, in Bohemians,-as in more orderly examples.
    Grts 8.318 17 A great style of hero draws equally...all the extremes of society, till we say the very dogs believe in him. We have had such examples in this country, in Daniel Webster, Henry Clay...
    Grts 8.319 3 These may serve as local examples [of real heroes] to indicate a magnetism which is probably known better and finer to each scholar in the little Olympus of his own favorites...
    Grts 8.319 23 It is not examples of greatness, but sensibility to see them, that is wanting.
    Grts 8.319 27 ...any man filled with an idea or a purpose will find examples and illustrations and coadjutors wherever he goes.
    Dem1 10.19 1 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.
    Aris 10.52 10 ...if the dressed and perfumed gentleman, who serves the people in no wise...go about to set ill examples and corrupt them, who shall blame them if they burn his barns...
    Aris 10.54 5 The more familiar examples of this power [of eloquence] certainly are those who establish a wider dominion over men's minds than any speech can;...
    Aris 10.54 12 The more familiar examples of this power [of eloquence] certainly are those...who think, and paint, and laugh, and weep, in their eloquent closets, and then convert the world into a huge whispering-gallery, to...win smiles and tears from many generations. The eminent examples are Shakspeare, Cervantes...
    Aris 10.59 8 ...these [grand interests] are rare and difficult examples...
    Chr2 10.104 16 Every nation is degraded by the goblins it worships instead of this Deity. The Dionysia and Saturnalia of Greece and Rome...the vindictive mythology of Calvinism, are examples of this perversion.
    SovE 10.191 8 Humanity sits at the dread loom and throws the shuttle and fills it with joyful rainbows, until the sable ground is flowered all over with a woof of human industry and wisdom, virtuous examples, symbols of useful and generous arts...
    SovE 10.198 7 We go to famous books for our examples of character...
    MoL 10.246 25 There is an oracle current in the world, that nations die by suicide. The sign of it is the decay of thought. Niebuhr has given striking examples of that fatal portent;...
    Plu 10.296 5 Montesquieu...in his Pensees, declares, I am always charmed with Plutarch; in his writings are circumstances attached to persons, which give great pleasure; and adds examples.
    Plu 10.304 2 Many examples might be cited [in Plutarch] of nervous expression and happy allusion...
    EWI 11.128 16 ...England has the advantage of trying the question [of slavery] at a wide distance from the spot where the nuisance exists; the planters are not, excepting in rare examples, members of the legislature.
    FSLC 11.210 26 [Massachusetts] must follow no vicious examples.
    Shak1 11.453 6 ...there are some men so born to live well that, in whatever company they fall,-high or low,-they fit well, and lead it!...I suppose because they have more humanity than talent, whilst they have quite as much of the last as any of the company. It would strike you as comic, if I should give my own customary examples of this elasticity...
    Shak1 11.453 11 I could name in this very company...very good types [of men who live well in and lead any society], but in order to be parliamentary, Franklin, Burns and Walter Scott are examples of the rule;...
    CPL 11.496 15 Our founder [of the Concord Library] has found the many admirable examples which have lately honored the country...
    FRep 11.514 18 In our popular politics you may note that each aspirant who rises above the crowd...soon learns...that the only title...to a larger following, is to see for himself what is the real public interest, and to stand for that;-that is a principle, and all the cheering and hissing of the crowd must by and by accommodate itself to it. Our times easily afford you very good examples.
    II 12.67 11 To indicate a few examples of our recurrence to instinct instead of to the understanding: we can only judge safely of a discipline, of a book, of a man, or other influence, by the frame of mind it induces...
    Mem 12.105 26 ...in higher examples each man's memory is in the line of his action.
    Mem 12.106 4 Talk of memory and cite me these fine examples of Grotius and Daguesseau, and I think how awful is that power...
    Bost 12.198 3 We can show [in New England] native examples...who possess all the elements of noble behavior.
    Milt1 12.262 1 ...[Milton] said...I cannot say that I am...unacquainted with those examples which the prime authors of eloquence have written in any learned tongue...
    ACri 12.293 18 ...these cardinal rules of rhetoric find best examples in the great masters...
    MLit 12.325 12 It was with [Goethe] a favorite task to find a theory of every institution, custom, art, work of art, which he observed. Witness his explanation...of the domestic rural architecture in Italy; and many the like examples.
    MLit 12.329 20 [We can fancy Goethe saying to himself] ...out of many vices and misfortunes [in Wilhelm Meister], I have let a great success grow, as I had known in my own and many other examples.
    WSL 12.345 6 [Landor's] portraits, though mere sketches, must be valued as attempts in the very highest kind of narrative, which not only has very few examples to exhibit of any success, but very few competitors in the attempt.
    EurB 12.375 11 ...[the hero of a novel of costume or of circumstance] is greatly in want of a fortune or of a wife, and usually of both, and the business of the piece is to provide him suitably. This is the problem to be solved in thousands of English romances, including the Porter novels and the more splendid examples of the Edgeworth and Scott romances.
    Let 12.395 27 But to be...prudent to secure to ourselves an injurious society, temptations to folly and despair, degrading examples, and enemies; and only abstinent when it is proposed to provide ourselves with guides, examples, lovers!
    Let 12.396 2 But to be...prudent to secure to ourselves an injurious society, temptations to folly and despair, degrading examples, and enemies; and only abstinent when it is proposed to provide ourselves with guides, examples, lovers!

exasperate, v. (5)

    UGM 4.26 5 We keep each other in countenance and exasperate by emulation the frenzy of the time.
    FSLN 11.237 3 ...that which is hurtful to the world will sink beneath all the opposing forces which it must exasperate.
    ACiv 11.303 7 Better the war...should...punish us with burned capitals and slaughtered regiments, and so exasperate the people to energy...
    ACiv 11.303 8 Better the war...should...punish us with burned capitals and slaughtered regiments, and so...exasperate our nationality.
    FRep 11.517 1 The trance-mediums, the rebel paradoxes, exasperate the common sense.

exasperated, adj. (1)

    EWI 11.121 3 ...in 1840 Sir Charles Metcalfe, the new governor of Jamaica, in his address to the Assembly expressed himself to that late exasperated body in these terms...

exasperated, v. (4)

    ET13 5.216 8 The violence of the northern savages exasperated Christianity into power.
    PC 8.210 3 When classes are exasperated against each other, the peace of the world is always kept by striking a new note.
    PC 8.232 5 In England, it was the game-laws which exasperated the farmers to carry the Reform Bill.
    FRep 11.512 18 ...the interest nations took in our war was exasperated by the importance of the cotton trade.

exasperates, v. (2)

    ET8 5.133 5 The Saxon melancholy in the vulgar rich and poor appears as gushes of ill-humor, which every check exasperates into sarcasm and vituperation.
    CbW 6.270 2 ...resistance only exasperates the acrid fool, who believes that...he only is right.

exasperating, v. (1)

    MoS 4.154 26 The abstractionist and the materialist thus mutually exasperating each other, and the scoffer expressing the worst of materialism, there arises a third party to occupy the middle ground between these two, the skeptic, namely.

exasperation, n. (2)

    AmS 1.95 23 ...exasperation, want, are instructors in eloquence and wisdom.
    PPh 4.58 8 ...the indignation towards popular government, in many of [Plato's] pieces, expresses a personal exasperation.

exasperations, n. (2)

    Pow 6.64 5 ...all kinds of power usually emerge at the same time;...the ecstasies of devotion with the exasperations of debauchery.
    Bost 12.192 11 [The Massachusetts colonists'] crops suffered from pigeons and mice. Nature has never again indulged in these exasperations.

excavate, v. (2)

    WD 7.163 4 ...we have a pretty artillery of tools now in our social arrangements: we...travel, grind, weave, forge, plant, till and excavate better [than our fathers did].
    FSLC 11.210 7 Let [the United States] confront this mountain of poison [slavery],-bore, blast, excavate, pulverize, and shovel it once for all, down into the bottomless Pit.

excavated, adj. (3)

    Hist 2.11 6 ...all curiosity respecting...the excavated cities...is the desire to do away this wild, savage, and preposterous There or Then...
    WD 7.174 19 History of ancient art, excavated cities, recovery of books and inscriptions,--yes, the works were beautiful, and the history worth knowing;...
    PerF 10.75 3 Where are the farmer's days gone? See, they are hid...in that excavated trench...

excavation, n. (2)

    ET5 5.91 24 In the same [English] spirit, were the excavation and research by Sir Charles Followes for the Xanthian monument...
    Imtl 8.325 8 The labor of races was spent [in Egypt] on the excavation of catacombs.

excavators, n. (1)

    Farm 7.146 4 The railroad dirt-cars are good excavators...

exceed, v. (10)

    Exp 3.56 27 Our friends early appear to us as representatives of certain ideas which they never pass or exceed.
    SwM 4.112 3 [Swedenborg's Animal Kingdom] was an anatomist's account of the human body, in the highest style of poetry. Nothing can exceed the bold and brilliant treatment of a subject usually so dry and repulsive.
    ET6 5.108 23 The romance does not exceed the height of noble passion in Mrs. Lucy Hutchinson, or in Lady Russell, or even as one discerns through the plain prose of Pepys's Diary, the sacred habit of an English wife.
    ET10 5.163 3 Some English private fortunes reach, and some exceed a million of dollars a year.
    F 6.37 20 [The animal] is not allowed to diminish in numbers, nor to exceed.
    Wsp 6.203 23 Nothing can exceed the anarchy that has followed in our skies.
    Boks 7.193 12 ...the number of printed books extant to-day may easily exceed a million.
    SA 8.91 8 That every well-dressed lady or gentleman should be at liberty to exceed ten minutes in his or her call on serious people, shows a civilization still rude.
    SovE 10.192 18 Nothing is allowed to exceed or absorb the rest;...
    EWI 11.117 25 The governors [of Jamaica]...were at constant quarrel with the angry and bilious island legislature. Nothing can exceed the ill humor and sulkiness of the addresses of this assembly.

exceeded, v. (3)

    PPh 4.62 2 [Plato] even stood ready, as in the Parmenides, to demonstrate that it was so,--that this Being exceeded the limits of intellect.
    ET18 5.307 22 The power of performance [in England] has not been exceeded...
    HDC 11.79 19 The taxes [in Concord], which, before the [Revolutionary] war, had not much exceeded 200 pounds per annum, amounted, in the year 1782, to 9544 dollars, in silver.

exceeding, adj. (2)

    Elo2 8.114 22 For the time, [the orator's] exceeding life throws all other gifts into shade...
    PLT 12.4 11 ...at last, it is only that exceeding and universal part [of Nature] which interests us...

exceeding, v. (5)

    ET4 5.58 6 A king among these [Norse] farmers has a varying power, sometimes not exceeding the authority of a sheriff.
    ET11 5.193 25 [English noblemen]...keep [their houses] empty, aired, and the grounds mown and dressed, at a cost of four or five thousand pounds a year. The spending is for a great part in servants, in many houses exceeding a hundred.
    CbW 6.256 18 The benefaction derived in Illinois and the great West from railroads is inestimable, and vastly exceeding any intentional philanthropy on record.
    HDC 11.65 11 ...in 1712, the selectmen agreed with Captain James Minott, for his son Timothy to keep the school at the school-house for the town of Concord, for half a year beginning 2d June; and if any scholar shall come, within the said time, for larning exceeding his son's ability, the said Captain doth agree to instruct them himself in the tongues, till the above said time be fulfilled;...
    HDC 11.65 21 It is an article in the selectmen's warrant for the town-meeting, to see if the town [Concord] will lay in for a representative not exceeding four pounds.

exceedingly, adv. (3)

    PPh 4.72 22 [Socrates'] necessary expenses were exceedingly small...
    SovE 10.206 26 We in America are charged...that...we...do exceedingly applaud and admire ourselves...
    CL 12.143 12 ...De Quincey prefixes to this description of Wordsworth a little piece of advice which I wonder has not attracted more attention. The depth and subtlety of the eyes varies exceedingly with the state of the stomach...

exceeds, v. (11)

    Nat2 3.195 1 Wherever the impulse exceeds, the Rest or Identity insinuates its compensation.
    Pol1 3.206 26 When the rich are outvoted...it is the joint treasury of the poor which exceeds their accumulations.
    GoW 4.262 3 In nature...the narrative is the print of the seal. It neither exceeds nor comes short of the fact.
    ET6 5.111 27 There is a prose in certain Englishmen which exceeds in wooden deadness all rivalry with other countrymen.
    ET16 5.289 20 The length of line [of Winchester Cathedral] exceeds that of any other English church;...
    F 6.32 23 The annual slaughter from typhus far exceeds that of war;...
    PI 8.31 6 ...high poetry exceeds the fact...
    PPo 8.239 27 Such [amatory] verses...will drive [Persian] warriors to the combat...or prove an ample reward on their return from the dangers of the ghazon, or the fight. The excitement they produce exceeds that of the grape.
    PerF 10.71 27 When the rain exceeds on the coast, there is drought on the prairie.
    Plu 10.316 12 [Plutarch's] excessive and fanciful humanity reminds one of Charles Lamb, whilst it much exceeds him.
    Carl 10.495 3 Nor can that decorum...in attaining which the Englishman exceeds all nations, win from [Carlyle] any obeisance.

excel, v. (17)

    Mrs1 3.147 10 ...as we show beyond that Heaven and Earth/ In form and shape compact and beautiful;/ .../ So on our heels a fresh perfection treads,/ A power more strong in beauty, born of us/ And fated to excel us.../
    ET5 5.89 15 When Thor and his companions arrive at Utgard, he is told that nobody is permitted to remain here, unless he understand some art, and excel in it all other men.
    ET9 5.150 20 In a tract on Corn, a most amiable...gentleman [William Spence] writes thus:--Though Britain, according to Bishop Berkeley's idea, were surrounded by a wall of brass ten thousand cubits in height, still she would as far excel the rest of the globe in riches, as she now does both in this secondary quality...
    Bhr 6.177 25 In some respects the animals excel us.
    Clbs 7.226 11 Some talkers excel in the precision with which they formulate their thoughts...
    Imtl 8.325 22 Nothing can excel the beauty of [the Greek's] sarcophagus.
    Supl 10.177 21 ...the Orientals excel in costly arts...
    HDC 11.40 6 There is no people, said [the settlers of Concord's] pastor... but will strive to excel in something. What can we excel in, if not in holiness?
    HDC 11.40 7 There is no people, said [the settlers of Concord's] pastor... but will strive to excel in something. What can we excel in, if not in holiness?
    HDC 11.40 11 [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;...
    HDC 11.40 15 ...[The Concord settler's pastor said] if we come short in grace and holiness too, we are the most despicable people under heaven. Strive we, therefore, herein to excel...
    FRO2 11.485 17 I am glad...that we are likely one day to forget our obstinate polemics in the ambition to excel each other in good works.
    CPL 11.498 7 There is no people, said [Peter Bulkeley] to his little flock of exiles, but will strive to excel in something. What can we excel in if not in holiness?
    CPL 11.498 8 There is no people, said [Peter Bulkeley] to his little flock of exiles, but will strive to excel in something. What can we excel in if not in holiness?
    CPL 11.498 12 [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...
    CPL 11.498 16 [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, and if we come short in grace and holiness too, we are the most despicable people under heaven. Strive we therefore herein to excel...
    Bost 12.211 3 The elder Otis could hardly excel the popular eloquence of the younger Otis;...

excelled, v. (3)

    Prd1 2.226 21 ...the inhabitants of these [northern] climates have always excelled the southerner in force.
    Plu 10.299 24 ...Montaigne excelled his master [Plutarch] in the point and surprise of his sentences.
    ALin 11.332 26 ...[Lincoln's] broad good humor, running easily into jocular talk, in which he delighted and in which he excelled, was a rich gift to this wise man.

excellence, n. (48)

    Nat 1.46 14 When much intercourse with a friend has supplied us with a standard of excellence...it is a sign to us that his office is closing...
    LT 1.286 13 The excellence of this class [spiritualists] consists in this, that they have believed;...
    Hsm1 2.260 12 ...we have the weakness to expect the sympathy of people in those actions whose excellence is that they outrun sympathy...
    Art1 2.356 13 ...excellence of all things is one.
    Mrs1 3.122 5 There is something equivocal in all the words in use to express the excellence of manners and social cultivation...
    Mrs1 3.128 13 Fashion is made up...of those who through the value and virtue of somebody, have acquired...in their physical organization a certain health and excellence which secure to them, if not the highest power to work, yet high power to enjoy.
    PPh 4.54 5 The excellence of Europe and Asia are in [Plato's] brain.
    PPh 4.69 23 [Plato] has the same regard to [wisdom] as the source of excellence in works of art.
    MoS 4.179 26 ...the excellence of each [man] is an inflamed individualism which separates him more.
    ShP 4.195 4 This balance-wheel, which the sculptor found in architecture, the perilous irritability of poetic talent found in the accumulated dramatic materials...which had a certain excellence which no single genius...could hope to create.
    ShP 4.200 21 The translation of Plutarch gets its excellence by being translation on translation.
    ShP 4.214 14 The sonnets [of Shakespeare], though their excellence is lost in the splendor of the dramas, are as inimitable as they;...
    ET14 5.251 3 It would be easy to add exceptions to the limitary tone of English thought, and much more easy to adduce examples of excellence in particular veins;...
    ET18 5.305 17 There is [in England] a drag of inertia which resists reform in every shape;...the abolition of slavery, of impressment, penal code and entails. They praise this drag, under the formula that it is the excellence of the British constitution that no law can anticipate the public opinion.
    F 6.42 7 ...a man likes better to be complimented on his position, as the proof of the last or total excellence, than on his merits.
    Wth 6.90 2 ...according to the excellence of the machinery in each human being is his attraction for the instruments he is to employ.
    Wth 6.112 12 Do your work, respecting the excellence of the work...
    Ctr 6.137 17 [Man's] excellence is facility of adaptation and of transition...
    Bty 6.290 6 Elegance of form...marks some excellence of structure...
    Bty 6.302 22 The radiance of the human form, though sometimes astonishing...in most, rapidly declines. But we remain lovers of it, only transferring our interest to interior excellence.
    Art2 7.50 19 ...every work of art, in proportion to its excellence, partakes of the precision of fate...
    Farm 7.154 7 What possesses interest for us is...[each man's] constitutional excellence.
    WD 7.166 22 Every [inventor]...is lamed by his excellence.
    Cour 7.255 6 The third excellence is courage...
    Suc 7.290 24 ...excellence is lost sight of in the hunger for sudden performance and praise.
    Suc 7.305 14 As our tenderness for youth and beauty gives a new and just importance to their fresh and manifold claims, so the like sensibility gives welcome to all excellence...
    PI 8.67 19 Do you think Burns...has opened no eyes and ears to...the dignity of man and the charm and excellence of woman?
    PI 8.69 1 Vexatious to find poets, who are by excellence the thinking and feeling of the world, deficient in truth of intellect and of affection.
    Aris 10.31 10 My concern with [Aristocracy] is that concern which all well-disposed persons will feel, that there should be model men,-true instead of spurious pictures of excellence...
    Aris 10.38 25 ...the power and excellence we describe are real.
    Aris 10.43 2 ...a sound body must be at the root of any excellence in manners and actions;...
    Chr2 10.97 14 The excellence of Jesus...is, that he affirms the Divinity in him and in us...
    SovE 10.189 11 The excellence of men consists in the completeness with which the lower system is taken up into the higher...
    MoL 10.245 23 A French prophet of our age, Fourier, predicted that one day...the rival portions of humanity would dispute each other's excellence in the manufacture of little cakes.
    SlHr 10.444 9 ...was it only the lot of excellence, that with aims so pure and single, [Samuel Hoar] seemed to pass out of life alone...
    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.
    Thor 10.482 9 I subjoin a few sentences taken from [Thoreau's] unpublished manuscripts, not only as records of his thought and feeling, but for their power of description and literary excellence...
    War 11.162 23 ...we never make much account of objections which merely respect the actual state of the world at this moment, but which admit the general expediency and permanent excellence of the project.
    PLT 12.15 3 First I wish to speak of the excellence of that element [Intellect]...
    II 12.82 17 All excellence is only an inflamed personality.
    Mem 12.100 6 [Defect of memory] is sometimes owing to excellence of genius.
    CW 12.174 12 In the arboretum you should have things which are of a solitary excellence...
    MAng1 12.225 19 The excellence of the [defense] works constructed by our artist [Michelangelo] has been approved by Vauban...
    Milt1 12.249 12 [Milton's tracts'] rhetorical excellence must also suffer some deduction.
    Milt1 12.249 27 Two of [Milton's] pieces may be excepted from this description, one for its faults, the other for its excellence.
    WSL 12.343 9 Each kind of excellence takes place for its hour and excludes everything else.
    PPr 12.385 19 ...the variety and excellence of the talent displayed in [Carlyle's Past and Present] is pretty sure to leave all special criticism in the wrong.
    PPr 12.388 14 One excellence [Carlyle] has in an age of Mammon and of criticism, that he never suffers the eye of his wonder to close.

excellences, n. (3)

    NR 3.228 10 Young people admire talents or particular excellences;...
    Wsp 6.227 12 Young people admire talents and particular excellences.
    II 12.68 9 ...if you go to a gallery of pictures, or other works of fine art, the eye is dazzled and embarrassed by many excellences.

excellencies, n. (2)

    PPh 4.57 8 Where there is great compass of wit, we usually find excellencies that combine easily in the living man...
    MAng1 12.218 16 Every great work of art seems to take up into itself the excellencies of all works...

Excellencies, n. (1)

    Pow 6.65 18 [The Hoosiers and the Suckers] see...how much crime the people will bear;...they have calculated but too justly upon their Excellencies the New England governors, and upon their Honors the New England legislators.

excellency, n. (4)

    DSA 1.134 25 The man enamored of this excellency [of the soul] becomes its priest or poet.
    DSA 1.139 19 ...each [poetic truth] is some select expression that broke out in a moment of piety from some stricken or jubilant soul, and its excellency made it remembered.
    LE 1.155 15 ...a scholar is...the excellency of his country...
    WSL 12.343 6 Whatever can make for itself...the most profound and permanent existence in the hearts and heads of millions of men, must have a reason for its being. Its excellency is reason and vindication enough.

excellent, adj. (138)

    Nat 1.17 19 Not less excellent...was the charm...of a January sunset.
    Nat 1.66 19 ...there are far more excellent qualities in the student than preciseness and infallibility;...
    MN 1.223 3 Who shall dare think he has...missed anything excellent in the past, who seeth the admirable stars of possibility...glittering...in the vast West?
    MR 1.228 11 ...I will not dissemble my hope that each person whom I address has felt his own call...to be in his place...a brave and upright man, who must find or cut a straight road to everything excellent in the earth...
    LT 1.278 7 You have set your heart and face against society when you thought it wrong, and returned it frown for frown. Excellent: now can you afford to forget it...
    Con 1.316 10 Your words are excellent, but they do not tell the whole.
    Con 1.320 13 [Conservatism's] social and political action has no better aim;...not to sink the memory of the past in the glory of a new and more excellent creation;...
    YA 1.395 13 ...we shall quickly enough advance...into a new and more excellent social state than history has recorded.
    SR 2.53 14 ...for myself it makes no difference whether I do or forbear those actions which are reckoned excellent.
    Lov1 2.179 19 [Beauty's] nature is like opaline doves'-neck lustres, hovering and evanescent. Herein it resembles the most excellent things...
    Lov1 2.182 9 By conversation with that which is in itself excellent, magnanimous, lowly, and just, the lover comes to a warmer love of these nobilities...
    Fdsp 2.194 24 High thanks I owe you, excellent lovers...
    Hsm1 2.251 8 [Heroism] is the avowal of the unschooled man that he... knows that his will is higher and more excellent than all actual and all possible antagonists.
    OS 2.292 8 Souls like these make us feel that sincerity is more excellent than flattery.
    Cir 2.318 26 Forever [the central life] labors to create a life and thought as large and excellent as itself...
    Cir 2.321 6 Character makes...a cheerful, determined hour, which fortifies all the company by making them see that much is possible and excellent that was not thought of.
    Art1 2.356 8 From this succession of excellent objects [of art] we learn at last the immensity of the world...
    Pt1 3.13 16 Things more excellent than every image, says Jamblichus, are expressed through images.
    Pt1 3.38 7 If I have not found that excellent combination of gifts in my countrymen which I seek, neither could I aid myself to fix the idea of the poet by reading now and then in Chalmers's collection of five centuries of English poets.
    Exp 3.66 8 You who see the artist, the orator, the poet, too near, and find their life no more excellent than that of mechanics or farmers...conclude very reasonably that these arts are not for man, but are disease.
    Exp 3.71 12 When I converse with a profound mind...I am at first apprised of my vicinity to a new and excellent region of life.
    Chr1 3.99 8 That exultation [in events] is only to be checked by the foresight of an order of things so excellent as to throw all our prosperities into the deepest shade.
    Chr1 3.111 3 What is so excellent as strict relations of amity, when they spring from this deep root?
    Mrs1 3.125 13 The famous gentlemen of Asia and Europe have been of this strong type; Saladin...Pericles, and the lordliest personages. They...were too excellent themselves, to value any condition at a high rate.
    Mrs1 3.134 12 I may easily go into a great household where there is... excellent provision for comfort, luxury and taste, and yet not encounter there any Amphitryon who shall subordinate these appendages.
    Mrs1 3.143 9 ...so long as [fashion] is the highest circle in the imagination of the best heads on the planet, there is something necessary and excellent in it;...
    Mrs1 3.148 1 ...although excellent specimens of courtesy and high-breeding would gratify us in the assemblage [of the individuals who compose the purest circles of aristocracy in Europe], in particulars we should detect offence.
    Nat2 3.196 6 The reality is more excellent than the report.
    Pol1 3.220 3 Are our methods now so excellent that all competition is hopeless?...
    NER 3.254 12 ...it was directly in the spirit and genius of the age, what happened in one instance when a church censured and threatened to excommunicate one of its members...the threatened individual immediately excommunicated the church, in a public and formal process. This...was excellent when it was done the first time...
    NER 3.265 1 ...a grand phalanx of the best of the human race, banded for some catholic object; yes, excellent;...
    PPh 4.59 4 [Plato's] strength is like the momentum of a falling planet, and his discretion the return of its due and perfect curve,--so excellent is his Greek love of boundary and his skill in definition.
    PNR 4.80 2 The publication, in Mr. Bohn's Serial Library, of the excellent translations of Plato...gives us an occasion to take hastily a few more notes of the elevation and bearings of this fixed star;...
    SwM 4.102 13 [Swedenborg's] excellent English editor magnanimously lays no stress on his discoveries...
    SwM 4.110 3 Astronomy is excellent;...
    SwM 4.111 2 The scientific works [of Swedenborg] have just now been translated into English, in an excellent edition.
    SwM 4.124 18 The world has a sure chemistry, by which it extracts what is excellent in its children...
    SwM 4.146 2 ...if [Swedenborg] staggered under the trance of delight, the more excellent is the spectacle he saw...
    MoS 4.158 25 Excellent is culture for a savage;...
    MoS 4.161 9 Every thing that is excellent in mankind...[the wise skeptic] will see and judge.
    GoW 4.268 13 It is not from men excellent in any kind that disparagement of any other is to be looked for.
    GoW 4.283 17 However excellent [Goethe's] sentence is, he has somewhat better in view.
    ET1 5.11 21 When [Coleridge] saw Dr. Channing he had hinted to him that he was afraid he loved Christianity for what was lovely and excellent...
    ET1 5.12 26 I told [Coleridge] how excellent I thought [the Independent's pamphlet in The Friend]...
    ET1 5.13 17 ...on learning that I had been in Malta and Sicily, [Coleridge] compared one island with the other, repeating what he had said to the Bishop of London when he returned from that country, that Sicily was an excellent school of political economy;...
    ET2 5.25 19 ...the proposal [to lecture in England] offered an excellent opportunity of seeing the interior of England and Scotland...
    ET4 5.58 16 These Norsemen are excellent persons in the main...
    ET5 5.81 5 In the [English] courts the independence of the judges and the loyalty of the suitors are equally excellent.
    ET5 5.90 14 They are excellent judges in England of a good worker...
    ET10 5.163 11 Whatever is excellent and beautiful in civil, rural, or ecclesiastic architecture...the English noble crosses sea and land to see and to copy at home.
    ET11 5.179 3 The names [of English towns and districts] are excellent...
    ET17 5.292 12 My visit [to England] fell in the fortunate days when Mr. [George] Bancroft was the American Minister in London, and at his house, or through his good offices, I had easy access to excellent persons and to privileged places.
    Bhr 6.185 19 Nothing can be more excellent in kind than the Corinthian grace of Gertrude's manners...
    Wsp 6.205 25 King Olaf's mode of converting Eyvind to Christianity was to put a pan of glowing coals on his belly, which burst asunder. Wilt thou now, Eyvind, believe in Christ? asks Olaf, in excellent faith.
    CbW 6.256 8 In America...the inventions are excellent, but the inventors one is sometimes ashamed of.
    CbW 6.266 24 ...who provoke pity like that excellent family party just arriving in their well-appointed carriage, as far from home and any honest end as ever?
    Bty 6.290 4 ...the forms and colors of nature have a new charm for us in our perception that...each is a sign of some better health or more excellent action.
    Bty 6.292 17 Beautiful as is the symmetry of any form, if the form can move we seek a more excellent symmetry.
    Civ 7.30 2 To accomplish anything excellent the will must work for catholic and universal ends.
    Civ 7.32 19 ...when I see how much each virtuous and gifted person, whom all men consider, lives affectionately with scores of excellent people...I see what cubic values America has...
    Elo1 7.66 22 There is...something excellent in every audience,--the capacity of virtue.
    DL 7.118 23 I pray you, O excellent wife, not to cumber yourself and me to get a rich dinner for this man or this woman who has alighted at our gate...
    WD 7.159 26 How excellent are the mechanical aids we have applied to the human body...
    Boks 7.200 13 [Plutarch's] memory is like the Isthmian Games, where all that was excellent in Greece was assembled;...
    Boks 7.201 26 An excellent popular book is J. A. St. John's Ancient Greece;...
    Boks 7.203 24 The respectable and sometimes excellent translations of Bohn's Library have done for literature what railroads have done for internal intercourse.
    Clbs 7.245 27 A man of irreproachable behavior and excellent sense preferred on his travels taking his chance at a hotel for company...
    OA 7.321 2 A man of great employments and excellent performance used to assure me that he did not think a man worth anything until he was sixty;...
    PI 8.63 4 We are sometimes apprised that there is a mental power and creation more excellent that anything which is commonly called philosophy and literature;...
    SA 8.83 4 We think a man unable and desponding. It is only that he is misplaced. Put him with new companions, and they will find in him excellent qualities...
    SA 8.86 1 It is an excellent custom of the Quakers...the silent prayer before meals.
    SA 8.104 8 If [a people is] occupied in its own affairs and thoughts and men, with a heat which excludes almost the notice of any other people... they are sublime; and we know that in this abstraction they are executing excellent work.
    Elo2 8.121 6 Plutarch, in his enumeration of the ten Greek orators, is careful to mention their excellent voices...
    Elo2 8.122 24 ...a good indignation makes an excellent speech.
    Elo2 8.129 21 ...said [Lord Ashley], if I, who had no personal concern in the question, was so overpowered with my own apprehensions that I could not find words to express myself, what must be the case of one whose life depended on his own abilities to defend it? This happy turn did great service in promoting that excellent bill [regulating trials in cases of high treason].
    QO 8.188 26 In every kind of parasite, when Nature has finished an aphis, a teredo or a vampire bat,-an excellent sucking-pipe to tap another animal...the self-supplying organs wither and dwindle...
    QO 8.190 7 Each man of thought is surrounded by wiser men than he, if they cannot write as well. Cannot he and they combine? Cannot they...call their poem Beaumont and Fletcher, or the Theban Phalanx's? The city will for nine days or nine years make differences and sinister comparisons: there is a new and more excellent public that will bless the friends.
    QO 8.190 27 ...we value in Coleridge his excellent knowledge and quotations perhaps as much, possibly more, than his original suggestions.
    QO 8.197 13 ...Mr. Hallam is reported as mentioning at dinner one of his friends who had said, I don't know how it is, a thing that falls flat from me seems quite an excellent joke when given at second hand by Sheridan.
    Grts 8.307 7 ...none of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.
    Imtl 8.321 7 ...What is excellent,/ As God lives, is permanent;/...
    Imtl 8.342 24 Nothing seems to me so excellent as a belief in the laws.
    Dem1 10.5 8 A painful imperfection almost always attends [dreams]. The fairest forms, the most noble and excellent persons, are deformed by some pitiful and insane circumstance.
    Aris 10.41 21 In the Norse Edda it appears as the curious but excellent policy of contending tribes, when tired of war, to exchange hostages...
    Aris 10.59 12 I know the feeling of the most ingenious and excellent youth in America;...
    Edc1 10.146 20 ...[Fellowes] was able to reconstruct, in the British Museum...the perfect model of the Ionic trophy-monument...which had been destroyed by earthquakes, then by iconoclast Christians, then by savage Turks. But mark that in the task he had achieved an excellent education...
    SovE 10.189 17 ...the warfare of beasts should be renewed in a finer field, for more excellent victories.
    SovE 10.198 13 ...spontaneous graces and forces elevate [life] in every domestic circle, which are overlooked while we are reading something less excellent in old authors.
    MoL 10.246 16 Linnaeus or Robert Brown must not be set to raise gooseberries and cucumbers, though they be excellent botanists.
    MoL 10.246 21 A shrewd broker out of State Street visited a quiet countryman possessed of all the virtues, and...said, With your character now I could raise all this money at once, and make an excellent thing of it.
    Schr 10.262 1 ...in the worldly habits which harden us, we find with some surprise...that those excellent influences which men in all ages have called the Muse, or by some kindred name, come in to keep us warm and true;...
    Schr 10.277 18 It is excellent when the individual is ripened to that degree that he touches both the centre and the circumference...
    Schr 10.279 24 These gifts, these senses, these facilities are excellent as long as subordinated;...
    Plu 10.312 20 [Seneca's] thoughts are excellent, if only he had the right to say them.
    LLNE 10.332 8 [Everett's learning] was so coldly and weightily communicated...enriched with so many excellent digressions and significant quotations, that...this learning instantly took the highest place to our imagination...
    LLNE 10.335 20 In the pulpit Dr. Frothingham, an excellent classical and German scholar, had already made us acquainted...with the genius of Eichhorn's theologic criticism.
    LLNE 10.337 26 ...[Mesmerism] affirmed unity and connection between remote points, and as such was excellent criticism on the narrow and dead classification of what passed for science;...
    LLNE 10.341 1 [Channing] found [at Warren's house] a well-chosen assembly of gentlemen variously distinguished;...they were...drawing gently towards their great expectation, when a side-door opened, the whole company streamed in to an oyster supper, crowned by excellent wines;...
    LLNE 10.344 8 Theodore Parker was...an excellent scholar...
    LLNE 10.369 26 ...I am not less aware of that excellent and increasing circle of masters in arts and in song and in science, who cheer the intellect of our cities and this country to-day...
    EzRy 10.388 1 [Ezra Ripley said] When I came to this town, your great-grandfather was a substantial farmer in this very place...and an excellent citizen.
    EzRy 10.393 10 The usual experiences of men...[Ezra Ripley] studied them all, and sympathized so well in these that he was excellent company and counsel to all...
    Thor 10.464 10 ...there was an excellent wisdom in [Thoreau]...
    GSt 10.501 16 We recall the all but exclusive devotion of this excellent man [George Stearns] during the last twelve years to public and patriotic interests.
    HDC 11.36 21 [the Indians'] sight was so excellent, that, standing on the seashore, they often told of the coming of a ship at sea, sooner by one hour, yea, two hours' sail, than any Englishman that stood by, on purpose to look out.
    HDC 11.86 16 ...I believe this town [Concord] to have been the dwelling-place, in all times since its planting, of pious and excellent persons...
    EWI 11.124 11 The sugar [the negroes] raised was excellent: nobody tasted blood in it.
    EWI 11.124 16 The sugar [the negroes] raised was excellent: nobody tasted blood in it. The coffee was fragrant;...the cotton clothed the world. What! all raised by these men, and no wages? Excellent!
    EWI 11.130 23 ...the private interference of two excellent citizens of Boston has, I have ascertained, rescued several natives of this State from these Southern prisons.
    FSLC 11.203 8 [Webster] indulged occasionally in excellent expression of the known feeling of the New England people [on slavery]...
    FSLC 11.204 5 [Webster] looks at the Union as...a large farm, and is excellent in the completeness of his defence of it so far.
    FSLN 11.221 27 [Webster's] excellent organization...we shall not soon find again.
    FSLN 11.222 21 [Webster's] power...was not in excellent parts, but was total.
    FSLN 11.233 13 You relied on the Supreme Court. The law was right, excellent law for the lambs.
    ALin 11.331 23 ...[Lincoln]...was excellent in working out the sum for himself;...
    SMC 11.357 2 All sorts of men went to the [Civil] war...young men...of excellent education and polished manners...
    SMC 11.363 18 [George Prescott's] next point is to keep [his men] cheerful. 'T is better than medicine. He has games of baseball, and pitching quoits, and euchre, whilst part of the military discipline is sham fights. The best men...invent excellent means of their own.
    SMC 11.367 11 ...[the Thirty-second Regiment] grew at last...to an excellent reputation...
    SMC 11.368 25 Here [at the battle of Gettysburg] Francis Buttrick... Sergeant Appleton, an excellent soldier, were fatally wounded.
    Koss 11.399 19 ...everything great and excellent in the world is in minorities.
    Wom 11.412 11 ...[women] could not be such excellent artists in this element of fancy if they did not lend and give themselves to it.
    Shak1 11.448 26 [Shakespeare] fulfilled the famous prophecy of Socrates, that the poet most excellent in tragedy would be most excellent in comedy...
    Shak1 11.448 27 [Shakespeare] fulfilled the famous prophecy of Socrates, that the poet most excellent in tragedy would be most excellent in comedy...
    CPL 11.500 18 [Thoreau]...was an excellent reader.
    CPL 11.504 25 ...Napoleon was an excellent writer.
    PLT 12.9 21 Ever since the Norse heaven made the stern terms of admission that a man must do something excellent with his hands or feet... the same demand has been made in Norse earth.
    PLT 12.26 3 ...the blood of two trees being mixed a new and excellent fruit is produced.
    PLT 12.53 14 Every sincere man is right, or, to make him right, only needs a little larger dose of his own personality. Excellent in his own way by means of not apprehending the gift of another.
    CL 12.154 5 The seeing so excellent a spectacle [as the sea] is a certificate to the mind that all imaginable good shall yet be realized.
    CL 12.164 9 Every new perception of the method and beauty of Nature gives a new shock of surprise and pleasure; and always for this double reason: first, because they are so excellent in their primary fact...
    Milt1 12.257 17 ...[Milton] was accounted an excellent master of his rapier.
    Milt1 12.274 15 [Milton] beholds [man] as he walked in Eden:-His fair large front and eye sublime declared/ Absolute rule; and hyacinthine locks/ Round from his parted forelock manly hung/ Clustering, but not beneath his shoulders broad./ And the soul of this divine creature is excellent as his form.
    MLit 12.325 18 We are provoked with...the patronizing air with which [Goethe] vouchsafes to tolerate the genius and performances of other mortals, the good Hiller, our excellent Kant...
    AgMs 12.358 8 This man [Edmund Hosmer] always impresses me with respect, he is...so disdainful of all appearances; excellent and reverable in his old weather-worn cap and blue frock...
    PPr 12.385 14 Worst of all for the party attacked, [Carlyle's Past and Present] bereaves them beforehand of all sympathy, by...impressing the reader with the conviction that the satirist himself has the truest love for everything old and excellent in English land and institutions...
    PPr 12.388 5 ...nothing is more excellent in [Carlyle's Past and Present] as in all Mr. Carlyle's works than the attitude of the writer.
    Let 12.394 3 ...to fifteen letters on Communities, and the Prospects of Culture, and the destinies of the cultivated class,-what answer? Excellent reasons have been shown us why the writers...should be dissatisfied with the life they lead...
    Let 12.394 8 Excellent reasons [the correspondents] have shown why something better should be tried.

excellent, adv. (1)

    Elo1 7.84 7 Pepys says of Lord Clarendon...though he spoke indeed excellent well, yet his manner and freedom of doing it, as if he played with it, and was informing only all the rest of the company, was mighty pretty.

excellent, n. (1)

    UGM 4.3 9 Nature seems to exist for the excellent.

excellently, adv. (1)

    EurB 12.366 27 Coleridge excellently said of poetry, that poetry must first be good sense;...

excelling, adj. (1)

    PI 8.1 9 ...From blue mount and headland dim/ Friendly hands stretch forth to him,/ Him they beckon, him advise/ Of heavenlier prosperities/ And a more excelling grace/ And a truer bosom-glow/ Than the wine-fed feasters know./

excels, v. (1)

    Mrs1 3.150 8 ...at this moment I esteem it a chief felicity of this country, that it excels in women.

excepted, v. (2)

    MMEm 10.404 16 [Mary Moody Emerson] writes to her nephew Charles Emerson, in 1833... I scarcely feel the sympathies of this life enough to agitate the pool. This in general, one case or so excepted, and even this is a relation to God through you.
    Milt1 12.249 25 Two of [Milton's] pieces may be excepted from this description, one for its faults, the other for its excellence.

excepting, v. (3)

    QO 8.184 19 ...a lady having expressed in his presence a passionate wish to witness a great victory, [Wellington] replied: Madam, there is nothing so dreadful as a great victory,-excepting a great defeat.
    EWI 11.128 16 ...England has the advantage of trying the question [of slavery] at a wide distance from the spot where the nuisance exists; the planters are not, excepting in rare examples, members of the legislature.
    EWI 11.138 26 The secret cannot be kept, that the seats of power are filled by underlings, ignorant, timid and selfish to a degree to destroy all claim, excepting that on compassion, to the society of the just and generous.

exception, n. (25)

    DSA 1.141 14 ...with whatever exception, it is still true that tradition characterizes the preaching of this country;...
    SR 2.52 23 Virtues are, in the popular estimate, rather the exception than the rule.
    Prd1 2.230 24 We must...ask why health and beauty and genius should now be the exception rather than the rule of human nature?
    Prd1 2.237 7 ...treat [men] greatly and they will show themselves great, though they make an exception in your favor to all their rules of trade.
    Exp 3.52 22 I thus express the law as it is read from the platform of ordinary life, but must not leave it without noticing the capital exception.
    Exp 3.74 2 It is for us to believe in the rule, not in the exception.
    Mrs1 3.154 3 Are you...rich enough to make...even the poor insane or besotted wreck of man or woman, feel the noble exception of your presence and your house from the general bleakness and stoniness;...
    NER 3.284 2 As soon as a man is wonted...to see how this high will prevails without an exception or an interval, he settles himself into serenity.
    MoS 4.165 15 There is no man, in [Montaigne's] opinion, who has not deserved hanging five or six times; and he pretends no exception in his own behalf.
    MoS 4.169 9 [Montaigne's] writing has no enthusiasms, no aspiration; contented, self-respecting and keeping the middle of the road. There is but one exception,--in his love for Socrates.
    ET1 5.7 21 ...[Landor]...is well content to impress, if possible, his English whim upon the immutable past. No great man ever had a great son, if Philip and Alexander be not an exception;...
    ET9 5.151 2 America is the paradise of the [English] economists; is the favorable exception invariably quoted to the rules of ruin;...
    F 6.48 26 If we thought men were free in the sense that in a single exception one fantastical will could prevail over the law of things, it were all one as if a child's hand could pull down the sun.
    CbW 6.276 9 If you deal generously, the other, though selfish and unjust, will make an exception in your favor...
    SS 7.6 22 Even Swedenborg...who reprobates to weariness the danger and vice of pure intellect, is constrained to make an extraordinary exception: There are also angels who do not live consociated...
    Boks 7.215 25 The question there [in Jane Eyre] answered in regard to a vicious marriage will always be treated according to the habit of the party. A person of commanding individualism will answer it as Rochester does... magnifying the exception into a rule, dwarfing the world into an exception.
    Boks 7.215 26 The question there [in Jane Eyre] answered in regard to a vicious marriage will always be treated according to the habit of the party. A person of commanding individualism will answer it as Rochester does... magnifying the exception into a rule, dwarfing the world into an exception.
    Comc 8.158 3 With the trifling exception of the stratagems of a few beasts and birds, there is no seeming, no halfness in Nature, until the appearance of man.
    Insp 8.270 2 The hunter on the prairie, at the right season, has no need of choosing his ground;...he is everywhere near his game. But the favorable conditions are rather the exception than the rule.
    FSLN 11.238 6 The habit of mind of traders in power would not be esteemed favorable to delicate moral perception. American slavery affords no exception to this rule.
    SMC 11.352 10 ...after the quarrel [American Revolution] began, the Americans took higher ground, and stood for political independence. But in the necessities of the hour, they...winked at a practical exception to the Bill of Rights they had drawn up.
    SMC 11.352 11 ...after the quarrel [American Revolution] began, the Americans took higher ground, and stood for political independence. But in the necessities of the hour, they...winked at a practical exception to the Bill of Rights they had drawn up. They winked at the exception...
    Shak1 11.451 21 [Shakespeare] dwarfs all writers without a solitary exception.
    Scot 11.464 5 ...I believe that many of those who read [Scott's books] in youth...will make some fond exception for Scott as for Byron.
    MLit 12.321 3 ...the interest of the poem [Wordsworth's The Excursion] ended almost with the narrative of the influences of Nature on the mind of the Boy, in the First Book. Obviously for that passage the poem was written, and with the exception of this and of a few strains of the like character in the sequel, the whole poem was dull.

exceptionable, adj. (1)

    ACiv 11.299 23 We live in a new and exceptionable age.

exceptional, adj. (18)

    ET14 5.257 4 The exceptional fact of the period is the genius of Wordsworth.
    F 6.8 18 Will you say, the disasters which threaten mankind are exceptional...
    Bhr 6.175 9 There are always exceptional people and modes.
    Farm 7.137 9 ...every man has an exceptional respect for tillage...
    Clbs 7.230 23 ...I seldom meet with a reading and thoughtful person but he tells me, as if it were his exceptional mishap, that he has no companion.
    PC 8.226 6 The benefactors we have indicated were exceptional men...
    PC 8.226 7 The benefactors we have indicated were exceptional men, and great because exceptional.
    Chr2 10.121 10 Command is exceptional, and marks some break in the link of reason;...
    SovE 10.203 5 [Our religion] visits us only on some exceptional and ceremonial occasion...
    Thor 10.460 15 One man [John Brown], whose personal acquaintance he had formed, [Thoreau] honored with exceptional regard.
    GSt 10.507 18 Almost I am ready to say to these mourners [of George Stearns], Be not too proud in your grief, when you remember...that...there is hardly a man in this country worth knowing who does not hold his name in exceptional honor.
    EWI 11.147 5 I am sure that the good and wise elders, the ardent and generous youth, will not permit what is incidental and exceptional to withdraw their devotion from the essential and permanent characters of the question [of emancipation].
    AsSu 11.248 27 Mr. Sumner's position is exceptional in its honor.
    SMC 11.355 16 ...we have all heard passages of generous and exceptional behavior exhibited by individuals there [in the South] to our officers and men...
    EdAd 11.388 7 ...we believe politics to be nowise accidental or exceptional...
    RBur 11.441 7 [Burns] is an exceptional genius.
    Scot 11.463 11 ...to the rare tribute of a centennial anniversary of his birthday...[Scott] is not less entitled...by the exceptional debt which all English-speaking men have gladly owed to his character and genius.
    Bost 12.210 13 Washington has seemed an exceptional virtue.

exceptions, n. (17)

    DSA 1.141 10 ...the exceptions are not so much to be found in a few eminent preachers...
    MR 1.232 14 ...the general system of our trade (apart from the blacker traits, which, I hope, are exceptions...) is a system of selfishness;...
    Comp 2.98 20 Nature hates monopolies and exceptions.
    Chr1 3.104 9 A man is a poor creature if he is to be measured [by a list of specifications of benefit]. For all these of course are exceptions...
    NR 3.234 22 We obey the same intellectual integrity when we study in exceptions the law of the world.
    UGM 4.26 20 [The great] are the exceptions which we want...
    ET4 5.51 8 Everything English is a fusion of distant and antagonistic elements. The language is mixed;...a country of extemes...nothing can be praised in it without damning exceptions...
    ET14 5.251 1 It would be easy to add exceptions to the limitary tone of English thought...
    ET14 5.253 20 ...in England, one hermit finds this fact, and another finds that, and lives and dies ignorant of its value. There are great exceptions...
    Wsp 6.220 24 ...[a man] does not see...that fortunes are not exceptions but fruit;...
    OA 7.321 20 We have, it is true, examples of an accelerated pace by which young men achieved grand works; as...in...Pascal, Burns and Byron; but these are rare exceptions.
    PI 8.32 14 ...the poet affirms the laws, prose busies itself with exceptions...
    Plu 10.294 6 ...[Plutarch]...with one or two doubtful exceptions, never quotes a Latin book;...
    EWI 11.116 22 On the next Monday morning [after emancipation in the West Indies], with very few exceptions, every negro on every plantation was in the field at his work.
    EWI 11.134 1 ...whilst our very amiable and very innocent representatives... at Washington are...very eloquent at dinners and at caucuses, there is a disastrous want of men from New England. I would gladly make exceptions...
    FSLC 11.181 17 The panic [over the Fugitive Slave Law] has paralyzed the journals, with the fewest exceptions...
    Wom 11.408 4 ...up to recent times, in no art or science, nor in painting, poetry or music, have [women] produced a masterpiece. Till the new education and larger opportunities of very modern times, this position, with the fewest possible exceptions, has always been true.

excess, n. (64)

    Nat 1.23 12 Others have the same love [of nature] in such excess, that... they seek to embody it in new forms.
    LE 1.165 19 ...in [men] this disease of an excess of organization cheats them of equal issues.
    MN 1.204 7 ...the spirit and peculiarity of that impression nature makes on us is this, that...the whole...obeys that redundancy or excess of life which in conscious beings we call ecstasy.
    LT 1.282 27 Can there be too much intellect? We have never met with any such excess.
    Tran 1.338 25 Shall we say then that Transcendentalism is the Saturnalia or excess of Faith;...
    YA 1.372 4 [That Genius] indicates itself by a small excess of good...
    Hist 2.23 8 ...this intellectual nomadism, in its excess, bankrupts the mind...
    Comp 2.98 7 Every excess causes a defect;...
    Comp 2.98 8 Every excess causes a defect; every defect an excess.
    Comp 2.122 9 There can be no excess to love...
    OS 2.282 3 A certain tendency to insanity has always attended the opening of the religious sense in men, as if they had been blasted with excess of light.
    Int 2.344 3 ...let [new doctrines] not go until their blessing be won, and after a short season the dismay will be overpast, the excess of influence withdrawn...
    Pt1 3.6 2 ...there is some...excess of phlegm in our constitution which does not suffer [sun, stars, earth, water] to yield the due effect.
    Pt1 3.35 15 ...all religious error consisted in making the symbol too stark and solid, and was at last nothing but an excess of the organ of language.
    Exp 3.51 20 Very mortifying is the reluctant experience that some unfriendly excess or imbecility neutralizes the promise of genius.
    Exp 3.54 10 Temperament is the veto or limitation-power in the constitution, very justly applied to restrain an opposite excess in the constitution...
    Exp 3.60 4 Life itself is a mixture of power and form, and will not bear the least excess of either.
    Exp 3.61 20 The fine young people despise life, but in me...to whom a day is a sound and solid good, it is a great excess of politeness to look scornful and cry for company.
    Exp 3.65 26 Each of these elements [power and form] in excess makes a mischief as hurtful as its defect.
    Exp 3.66 1 Everything runs to excess;...
    Exp 3.66 26 The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool.
    Chr1 3.94 1 The excess of physical strength is paralyzed by [character].
    Chr1 3.107 22 [Nature] makes very light of gospels and prophets, as one who has a great many more to produce and no excess of time to spare on any one.
    Mrs1 3.136 26 I prefer a tendency to stateliness to an excess of fellowship.
    Nat2 3.176 25 ...it is very easy to outrun the sympathy of readers on this topic, which schoolmen called natura naturata, or nature passive. One can hardly speak directly of it without excess.
    Nat2 3.185 2 Nature sends no creature, no man into the world, without adding a small excess of his proper quality.
    Nat2 3.185 20 ...the wary Nature sends a new troop of fairer forms, of lordlier youths, with a little more excess of direction to hold them fast to their several aim;...
    Nat2 3.186 27 The excess of fear with which the animal frame is hedged round...protects us...from some one real danger at last.
    UGM 4.27 3 ...a new danger appears in the excess of influence of the great man.
    PPh 4.53 1 European civility is...delight...in comprehensible results. Pericles, Athens, Greece, had been working in this element with the joy of genius not yet chilled by any foresight of the detriment of an excess.
    SwM 4.134 26 That Hebrew muse, which taught the lore of right and wrong to men, had the same excess of influence for [Swedenborg] it has had for the nations.
    SwM 4.135 15 The excess of [Hebraic] influence shows itself [in Swedenborg] in the incongruous importation of a foreign rhetoric.
    ShP 4.205 18 ...[Shakespeare]...in all respects appears as a good husband, with no reputation for eccentricity or excess.
    ET8 5.132 3 Of that constitutional force which yields the supplies of the day, [the English] have more than enough; the excess which creates courage on fortitude...
    ET8 5.137 25 [The English] are testy and headstrong through an excess of will and bias;...
    F 6.4 27 Any excess of emphasis on one part would be corrected...
    Pow 6.68 2 ...the energy for originating and executing work deforms itself by excess...
    Pow 6.69 20 The excess of virility has the same importance in general history as in private and industrial life.
    Pow 6.71 26 We say...that [success] is of main efficacy in carrying on the world, and though rarely found in the right state for an article of commerce, but oftener in the super-saturate or excess which makes it dangerous and destructive,--yet it cannot be spared...
    Ctr 6.131 16 ...any excess of power in one part is usually paid for at once by some defect in a contiguous part.
    Wsp 6.201 6 Some of my friends have complained...that we ran Cudworth' s risk of making, by excess of candor, the argument of atheism so strong that he could not answer it.
    CbW 6.251 25 The coxcomb and bully and thief class are allowed as proletaries, every one of their vices being the excess or acridity of a virtue.
    Farm 7.139 6 The lesson one learns in fishing, yachting, hunting or planting is the manners of Nature; patience with...excess or lack of water...
    Boks 7.211 9 Neither is a dictionary a bad book to read. There is no cant in it, no excess of explanation...
    OA 7.328 20 Youth has an excess of sensibility...
    Elo2 8.119 13 The most...thought-paralyzing companion sometimes turns out in a public assembly to be a fluent, various and effective orator. Now you find what all that excess of power which so chafed and fretted you in a tete-a-tete with him was for.
    Comc 8.162 9 ...the sensibility to the ludicrous may run into excess.
    Aris 10.46 10 I know how steep the contrast of condition looks; such excess here and such destitution there;...
    Aris 10.47 23 Whoever wants more power than is the legitimate attraction of his faculty, is a politician, and must pay for that excess;...
    PerF 10.76 21 We define Genius to be...a sensibility so equal that it receives accurately all impressions, and can truly report them, without excess or loss, as it received.
    Supl 10.173 3 The superlative is the excess of expression.
    Supl 10.179 5 The Northern genius finds itself singularly refreshed and stimulated by the breadth and luxuriance of Eastern imagery and modes of thinking, which go to check...the excess of our detail.
    MMEm 10.412 12 ...when Nature beams with such excess of beauty, when the heart thrills with hope in its Author...it exults, too fondly perhaps for a state of trial.
    HDC 11.56 11 We have among us excess and pride of life [says Peter Bulkeley];...
    HDC 11.80 4 [Concord's] instructions to their representatives are full of loud complaints of...the excess of public expenditure.
    FSLN 11.238 7 No excess of good nature or of tenderness in individuals has been able to give a new character to the system [of slavery]...
    FRep 11.522 9 [The American] sits secure in the possession of his vast domain...and feels the security that there can be...no danger from any excess of importation of art or learning into a country of such native strength...
    PLT 12.50 18 The excess of individualism, when it is not corrected...makes that vice which we stigmatize as monotones, men of one idea...
    II 12.86 8 Follow this leading, nor ask too curiously whither. To follow it is thy part. And what if it lead, as men say, to an excess, to partiality, to individualism? Follow it still.
    CL 12.155 9 ...says Linnaeus...as soon as I got upon the Norway Alps I seemed to have acquired a new existence. I felt as if relieved from a heavy burden. Then, spending a few days in the low country of Norway, though without committing the least excess, my languor or heaviness returned.
    ACri 12.290 23 There is hardly danger in America of excess of condensation;...
    MLit 12.330 9 The least inequality of mixture [of Truth, Beauty and Goodness], the excess of one element over the other, in that degree diminishes the transparency of things...
    EurB 12.371 12 [Tennyson] is...a tasteful bachelor who collects quaint staircases and groined ceilings. We have no right to such superfineness. We must not make our bread of pure sugar. These delicacies and splendors are then legitimate when they are the excess of substantial and necessary expenditure.
    PPr 12.386 24 It was perhaps inseparable from the attempt to write a book of wit and imagination on English politics that a certain local emphasis and love of effect...should appear,-producing on the reader a feeling of forlornness by the excess of value attributed to circumstances.

excesses, n. (2)

    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.
    II 12.66 10 None of the metaphysicians have prospered in describing this power [consciousness], which...is the corrector of private excesses and mistakes;...

excessive, adj. (17)

    LE 1.186 13 ...the vice of the times and the country is an excessive pretension...
    Tran 1.338 27 Shall we say then that Transcendentalism is...the presentiment of a faith proper to man in his integrity, excessive only when his imperfect obedience hinders the satisfaction of his wish?
    UGM 4.29 15 We need not fear excessive influence.
    PPh 4.52 7 A too rapid unification, and an excessive appliance to parts and particulars, are the twin dangers of speculation.
    SwM 4.119 7 ...whatever [Swedenborg] saw, through some excessive determination to form in his constitution, he saw not abstractly, but in pictures...
    SwM 4.124 11 That slow but commanding influence which [Swedenborg] has acquired, like that of other religious geniuses, must be excessive also...
    ET15 5.265 9 The proprietors [of the London Times], who had already complained that [John Walter's] charges for printing were excessive, found that they were in his power...
    ET19 5.311 24 This conscience is one element [which attracts an American to England], and the other is...that homage of man to man, running through all classes...which stands in strong contrast with the superficial attachments of other races, their excessive courtesy and short-lived connection.
    DL 7.122 7 ...[the most polite and accurate men of Oxford University] found such an immenseness of wit and such a solidity of judgment in [Lord Falkland]...such vast knowledge that he was not ignorant in anything, yet such an excessive humility...that they frequently resorted and dwelt with him...
    Comc 8.174 8 When Carlini was convulsing Naples with laughter, a patient waited on a physician in that city, to obtain some remedy for excessive melancholy...
    SovE 10.204 23 I will not now go into the metaphysics of that reaction by which in history a period of belief is followed by an age of criticism, in which...an excessive respect for forms out of which the heart has departed becomes more obvious in the least religious minds.
    Schr 10.266 16 ...for the moment it appears as if in former times learning and intellectual accomplishments had secured to the possessor greater rank and authority. If this were only the reaction from excessive expectations from literature, now disappointed, it were a just censure.
    Plu 10.316 11 [Plutarch's] excessive and fanciful humanity reminds one of Charles Lamb...
    GSt 10.506 20 ...the excessive toil and anxieties, into which [George Stearns's] ardent spirit led him, overtasked his strength...
    HDC 11.80 2 The Town Records show how slowly the inhabitants [of Concord] recovered from the strain of excessive exertion [during the Revolution].
    EWI 11.127 14 These considerations...had their weight [in emancipation in the West Indies]; the interest of trade, the interest of the revenue, and...the good fame of the action. It was inevitable that men should feel these motives. But they do not appear to have had an excessive or unreasonable weight.
    TPar 11.286 18 ...[Theodore Parker's] information would have been excessive, but for the noble use he made of it ever in the interest of humanity.

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