Excester to Exists

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

Excester, England, n. (1)

    ET11 5.179 12 Cambridge is the bridge of the Cam;...Exeter or Excester, the castra of the Ex;...

Exchange ['Change], n. (2)

    F 6.31 13 What good, honest, generous men at home, will be wolves and foxes on 'Change!
    Pow 6.79 1 Men whose opinion is valued on 'Change are only such as have a special experience...

exchange, n. (12)

    MN 1.214 12 Does the sunset landscape seem to you the place of Friendship,-those purple skies and lovely waters the amphitheatre dressed and garnished only for the exchange of thought and love of the purest souls? It is that.
    SR 2.84 21 What a contrast between the...American, with a...bill of exchange in his pocket, and the naked New Zealander...
    Fdsp 2.205 8 We chide the citizen because he makes love a commodity. It is an exchange of gifts...
    Chr1 3.111 11 I know nothing which life has to offer so satisfying as the profound good understanding which can subsist, after much exchange of good offices, between two virtuous men...
    Pol1 3.220 15 ...when [men] are pure enough to abjure the code of force they will be wise enough to see how these public ends...of commerce and the exchange of property...can be answered.
    Wth 6.102 4 In the city, where money follows...a lucky rise in exchange, [the dollar] comes to be looked on as light.
    Bty 6.283 26 ...we prize very humble utilities, a prudent husband, a good son...and perhaps reckon only his money value...as a sort of bill of exchange easily convertible into fine chambers...
    Art2 7.56 27 Popular institutions...the exchange...are the fruit of the equality and the boundless liberty of lucrative callings.
    Clbs 7.240 27 Every variety of gift...has its vent and exchange in conversation.
    LVB 11.91 1 The newspapers now inform us that...a treaty contracting for the exchange of all the Cherokee territory was pretended to be made by an agent on the part of the United States with some persons appearing on the part of the Cherokees;...
    FSLC 11.183 25 I cannot accept the railroad and telegraph in exchange for reason and charity.
    Wom 11.413 27 ...[Women] wish [love] to be an exchange of nobleness.

Exchange, n. (4)

    Tran 1.331 24 The sturdy capitalist, no matter how deep and square on blocks of Quincy granite he lays the foundations of his banking-house or Exchange, must set it ...on a mass of unknown materials and solidity...
    Pt1 3.41 24 Thou [O poet] shalt lie close hid with nature, and canst not be afforded to the Capitol or the Exchange.
    Supl 10.168 11 ...I do not know any advantage more conspicuous which a man owes to his experience in markets and the Exchange...than the caution and accuracy he acquires in his report of facts.
    EWI 11.142 18 [West Indian negroes] receive hints and advances from the whites that they will be gladly received as subscribers to the Exchange...

exchange, v. (19)

    MN 1.191 1 Let us exchange congratulations on the enjoyments and the promises of this literary anniversary.
    Tran 1.352 27 I wish to exchange this flash-of-lightning faith for continuous daylight...
    Lov1 2.172 13 Perhaps we never saw [the lovers] before and never shall meet them again. But we see them exchange a glance...and we are no longer strangers.
    Lov1 2.187 10 [Lovers]...exchange the passion which once could not lose sight of its object, for a cheerful disengaged furtherance, whether present or absent, of each other's designs.
    Chr1 3.113 2 Society is spoiled...if the associates are brought a mile to meet. And if it be not society, it is a mischievous, low, degrading jangle, though made up of the best. All the greatness of each is kept back, and every foible in painful activity, as if the Olympians should meet to exchange snuff-boxes.
    Nat2 3.179 27 Geology has...taught us to...exchange our Mosaic and Ptolemaic schemes for her large style.
    ET16 5.273 12 I was glad...to exchange a few reasonable words on the aspects of England with a man on whose genius I set a very high value [Carlyle]...
    ET19 5.310 22 I am not here to exchange civilities with you...
    Wth 6.114 5 ...it seems as if it were a great gain to exchange vanity for pride.
    Ctr 6.139 1 A soldier, a locksmith, a bank-clerk and a dancer could not exchange functions.
    Clbs 7.244 11 Every scholar is surrounded by wiser men than he--if they cannot write as well. Cannot they meet and exchange results to their mutual benefit and delight?
    Clbs 7.245 3 The man of thought...the man of manners and culture, whom you so much wish to find,--each of these is wishing to be found. Each wishes...to exchange his gifts for yours;...
    Clbs 7.249 15 ...l'homme de lettres is...not fond of giving away his seed-corn; but there is an infallible way to draw him out, namely, by having as good as he. If you have Tuscaroora and he Canada, he may exchange kernel for kernel.
    Imtl 8.330 9 Hear the opinion of Montesquieu: ... I do not wish to exchange the idea of immortality against that of the beatitude of one day.
    Aris 10.41 22 In the Norse Edda it appears as the curious but excellent policy of contending tribes, when tired of war, to exchange hostages...
    EWI 11.99 2 We are met to exchange congratulations on the anniversary of an event singular in the history of civilization;...
    EWI 11.101 14 If the Virginian piques himself...on the heavy Ethiopian manners of his house-servants...and would not exchange them for the more intelligent but precarious hired service of whites, I shall not refuse to show him that when their free-papers are made out, it will still be their interest to remain on his estate...
    ACri 12.286 15 Look at this forlorn caravan of travellers who wander over Europe dumb,-never exchange a word, in the mother tongue of either, with prince or peasant;...
    Trag 12.415 18 ...[the crucifixions of the middle passage] come to the obtuse and barbarous, to whom they are...only a little worse than the old sufferings. They exchange a cannibal war for the stench of the hold.

exchanged, v. (7)

    Fdsp 2.192 13 ...the old coat is exchanged for the new...
    Fdsp 2.212 25 Men have sometimes exchanged names with their friends...
    NR 3.238 7 ...our economical mother...gathering up into some man every property in the universe, establishes thousand-fold occult mutual attractions among her offspring, that all this wash and waste of power may be imparted and exchanged.
    ET2 5.31 27 Among the passengers [on the Washington Irving] there was some variety of talent and profession; we exchanged our experiences and all learned something.
    ET8 5.129 7 A Yorkshire mill-owner told me he had ridden more than once all the way from London to Leeds, in the first-class carriage, with the same persons, and no word exchanged.
    EWI 11.116 7 The [West Indian] planters informed us that [the day after emancipation] they went to the chapels where their own people were assembled...and exchanged the most hearty good wishes.
    Bost 12.184 5 Parsee, Mongol, Afghan, Israelite, Christian, have all... exchanged a good part of their patrimony of ideas for the notions, manner of seeing and habitual tone of Indian society.

exchangers, n. (1)

    Ctr 6.146 7 Some men are made for couriers, exchangers, envoys...

exchanges, n. (1)

    Wth 6.99 26 ...this accumulated skill in arts, cultures, harvestings, curings, manufactures, navigations, exchanges, constitutes the worth of our world to-day.

exchanging, v. (2)

    Lov1 2.184 18 From exchanging glances, [lovers] advance to acts of courtesy...
    SS 7.14 4 Society we must have; but let it be society, and not exchanging news...

exchequer, n. (3)

    Comp 2.119 12 ...compound interest on compound interest is the rate and usage of this exchequer.
    ET10 5.154 4 ...one of [England's] recent writers speaks...of the grave moral deterioration which follows an empty exchequer.
    ET13 5.222 16 The most sensible and well-informed [English] men possess the power of thinking just so far...as the chancellor of the exchequer in politics.

Exchequer, n. (1)

    ET10 5.155 16 From the Exchequer and the East India House to the huckster's shop, every thing [in England] prospers because it is solvent.

excitant, n. (1)

    Insp 8.284 13 ...I am glad that the atmosphere should be an excitant...

excitants, n. (1)

    Insp 8.290 18 Certain localities...are excitants of the muse.

excitation, n. (1)

    II 12.69 7 The whole art of man has been an art of excitation...

excite, v. (8)

    SL 2.162 15 Nor can you, if I am true, excite me to the least uneasiness by saying, [Epaminondas] acted and thou sittest still.
    SwM 4.103 19 Our books are false by being fragmentary: their sentences are...childish expressions of surprise or pleasure in nature; or, worse, owing a brief notoriety to their petulance, or aversion from the order of nature;-- being some curiosity or oddity...purposely framed to excite surprise...
    Elo2 8.124 1 In the vain and foolish exultation of the heart, which the brighter prospects of life will sometimes excite, the pensive portress of Science shall call you to the sober pleasures of her holy cell.
    PPo 8.250 24 A saint might lend an ear to the riotous fun of Falstaff; for it is not created to excite the animal appetites...
    Insp 8.293 13 ...two men of good mind will excite each other's activity...
    Grts 8.310 10 You are rightly fond of certain books or men that you have found to excite your reverence and emulation.
    FRep 11.533 11 If a temperate wise man should look over our American society, I think the first danger that would excite his alarm would be the European influences on this country.
    MAng1 12.232 12 Sir Joshua Reynolds...declared to the British Institution, I feel a self-congratulation in knowing myself capable of such sensations as [Michelangelo] intended to excite.

excited, adj. (5)

    Pt1 3.18 1 Bare lists of words are found suggestive to an imaginative and excited mind;...
    Nat2 3.170 17 The stems of pines, hemlocks and oaks almost gleam like iron on the excited eye.
    CbW 6.272 11 In excited conversation we have glimpses of the universe...
    Elo1 7.63 7 No one can survey the face of an excited assembly, without being apprised of new opportunity for painting in fire human thought...
    MMEm 10.414 13 Had I [Mary Moody Emerson] prospered in life, what a proud, excited being, even to feverishness, I might have been.

excited, v. (8)

    DSA 1.131 26 The sublime is excited in me by the great stoical doctrine, Obey thyself.
    Bhr 6.185 14 In the shallow company, easily excited, easily tired, here is the columnar Bernard;...
    Bhr 6.195 9 Marcus Scaurus was accused by Quintus Varius Hispanus, that he had excited the allies to take arms against the Republic.
    Bhr 6.195 14 ...[Marcus Scaurus], full of firmness and gravity, defended himself in this manner:--Quintus Varius Hispanus alleges that Marcus Scaurus...excited the allies to arms: Marcus Scaurus...denies it. There is no witness. Which do you believe, Romans?
    WD 7.170 11 There are days which are the carnival of the year. The angels assume flesh, and repeatedly become visible. The imagination of the gods is excited and rushes on every side into forms.
    Cour 7.267 8 Swedenborg has left this record of his king: Charles XII. of Sweden did not know...what that spurious valor and daring [was] that is excited by inebriating draughts...
    Elo2 8.118 27 Go into an assembly well excited...
    PLT 12.35 2 Ever at intervals leaps a word or fact to light which is no man' s invention, but the common instinct, making the revolutions that never go back. This is Instinct, and Inspiration is only this power excited...

excitement, n. (17)

    Pt1 3.28 27 That is not an inspiration, which we owe to narcotics, but some counterfeit excitement and fury.
    Nat2 3.185 11 ...without this violence of direction which men and women have...no excitement, no efficiency.
    Bty 6.288 24 ...the working of this deep instinct makes all the excitement... about works of art...
    Elo1 7.61 6 One man is brought to the boiling-point by the excitement of conversation in the parlor.
    Elo1 7.69 14 ...[the Sicilians]...were it only by the physical strength exerted in telling the story, keep the table in unbounded excitement.
    WD 7.173 12 Hume's doctrine was that...the girl equipped for her first ball, and the orator returning triumphant from the debate, had different means, but the same quantity of pleasant excitement.
    Clbs 7.232 2 ...[the lover of letters] seeks the company of those who have convivial talent. But the moment they meet, to be sure they begin to be something else than they were; they...try many fantastic tricks, under some superstition that there must be excitement and elevation;...
    OA 7.335 11 [John Adams] received a premature report of his son's election...without any excitement...
    PPo 8.239 17 When the bard improvised an amatory ditty, the young [Bedouin] chief's excitement was almost beyond control.
    PPo 8.239 26 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.
    Supl 10.164 12 Especially we note this tendency to extremes in the pleasant excitement of horror-mongers.
    MMEm 10.424 27 'T is not in the nature of existence, while there is a God, to be without the pale of excitement.
    EWI 11.119 3 The planter...has contracted in his indolent and luxurious climate the need of excitement by irritating and tormenting his slave.
    EWI 11.122 14 [Our] well-being consists in having...the excitement of a few parties and a few rides in a year.
    War 11.155 24 Idle and vacant minds want excitement...
    SMC 11.359 5 The older among us can well remember [George Prescott]... not a trace of fierceness, much less...of the devouring thirst for excitement;...
    PLT 12.54 5 ...without the violence of direction that men have...no excitement, no efficiency.

excitements, n. (2)

    HDC 11.38 18 The labors of a new plantation were paid by its excitements.
    HDC 11.66 19 The charges seem to have been made by the lovers of order and moderation against Mr. [Daniel] Bliss, as a favorer of religious excitements.

exciters, n. (1)

    Tran 1.358 18 Perhaps too there might be room [in society] for the exciters and monitors;...

excites, v. (6)

    Pt1 3.30 3 The metamorphosis excites in the beholder an emotion of joy.
    Chr1 3.105 8 Character repudiates intellect, yet excites it;...
    ET6 5.112 20 [The English] require a tone of voice that excites no attention in the room.
    Insp 8.284 8 Plutarch affirms that souls are naturally endowed with the faculty of prediction, and the chief cause that excites this faculty and virtue is a certain temperature of air and winds.
    SovE 10.198 5 ...Religion is...the emotion of reverence which the presence of the universal mind ever excites in the individual.
    CL 12.141 9 Plutarch thought [the air] contained the knowledge of the future. If it be true that souls are naturally endowed with the faculty of prediction, and that the chief cause that excites that faculty is a certain temperature of the air and winds, etc.

exciting, adj. (1)

    Pt1 3.39 7 [Artists] found or put themselves in certain conditions, as...the orator into the assembly of the people; and the others in such scenes as each has found exciting to his intellect; and each presently feels the new desire.

exciting, v. (2)

    PPh 4.69 14 ...beauty is the most lovely of all things, exciting hilarity and shedding desire and confidence through the universe wherever it enters...
    Comc 8.169 25 ...the painter Astley...going out of Rome one day with a party for a ramble in the Campagna and the weather proving hot, refused to take off his coat when his companions threw off theirs, but sweltered on; which exciting remark, his comrades playfully forced off his coat...

exclaim, v. (4)

    Cir 2.317 20 ...O circular philosopher, I hear some reader exclaim, you have arrived at a fine Pyrrhonism...
    NER 3.282 9 ...[our other self] holds uncontrollable communication with the enemy, and he answers civilly to us, but believes the spirit. We exclaim, There's a traitor in the house!...
    ET1 5.12 12 [Coleridge] went on defining, or rather refining...talked of trinism and tetrakism and much more, of which I only caught this, that the will was that by which a person is a person; because, if one should push me in the street, and so I should force the man next me into the kennel, I should at once exclaim I did not do it, sir, meaning it was not my will.
    Chr2 10.109 20 Fontenelle said: If the Deity should lay bare to the eyes of men the secret system of Nature...I am persuaded they...would exclaim, with disappointment, Is that all?

exclaimed, v. (12)

    SL 2.159 23 Confucius exclaimed,--How can a man be concealed? How can a man be concealed?
    NER 3.270 23 You remember the story of the poor woman who importuned King Philip of Macedon to grant her justice, which Philip refused: the woman exclaimed, I appeal...
    ET1 5.14 9 ...Montague, still talking with his back to the canvas, put up his hand and touched it, and exclaimed, By Heaven! this picture is not ten years old...
    ET7 5.125 7 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.
    ET9 5.149 17 An English lady on the Rhine hearing a German speaking of her party as foreigners, exclaimed, No, we are not foreigners; we are English; it is you that are foreigners.
    Boks 7.210 14 Earl Spencer...had paused a quarter of a minute, when Lord Althorp with long steps came to his side, as if to bring his father a fresh lance to renew the fight. Father and son whispered together, and Earl Spencer exclaimed, Two thousand two hundred and fifty pounds!
    PI 8.14 14 To the Parliament debating how to tax America, Burke exclaimed, Shear the wolf.
    SA 8.94 8 When they showed [Madame de Stael] the beautiful Lake Leman, she exclaimed, O for the gutter of the Rue de Bac!...
    Comc 8.168 11 That letter is A, said the teacher; A, drawled the boy. That is B, said the teacher; B, drawled the boy, and so on. That is W, said the teacher. The devil! exclaimed the boy; is that W?
    LLNE 10.367 12 The question which occurs to you had occurred much earlier to Fourier: How in this charming Elysium is the dirty work to be done? And long ago Fourier had exclaimed, Ah! I have it, and jumped with joy.
    MMEm 10.410 21 [Mary Moody Emerson] exclaimed, God has given you a voice that you might use it in the service of your fellow creatures.
    ACri 12.287 14 ...when a great bank president was expounding the virtues of his party and of the government to a silent circle of bank pensioners, a grave Methodist exclaimed, Fiddlesticks!

exclaiming, v. (3)

    NER 3.273 14 Berkeley, having listened to the many lively things [Lord Bathurst's guests] had to say...displayed his plan with such an astonishing and animating force of eloquence and enthusiasm that they...after some pause, rose up all together with earnestness, exclaiming, Let us set out with him immediately.
    Elo1 7.80 21 To talk of an overpowering mind rouses the same jealousy and defiance which one may observe round a table where anybody is recounting the marvellous anecdotes of mesmerism. Each auditor puts a final stroke to the discourse by exclaiming, Can he mesmerize me?
    Supl 10.163 17 [Those who share the superlative temerpament] go tearing, convulsed through life,-wailing, praying, exclaiming, swearing.

exclaims, v. (4)

    Tran 1.336 15 Afterwards, when Emilia charges him with the crime, Othello exclaims, You heard her say herself it was not I./
    Hsm1 2.245 8 When any Rodrigo, Pedro or Valerio enters [in the plays of the elder English dramatists]...the duke or governor exclaims, This is a gentleman...
    SwM 4.95 11 ...the Persian poet exclaims to a soul of this kind [of goodness],--Go boldly forth, and feast on being's banquet;/ Thou art the called,--the rest admitted with thee./
    EdAd 11.384 13 ...[the traveller in America] exclaims, What a negro-fine royalty is that of Jamschid and Solomon.

exclamation, n. (1)

    MN 1.198 4 What difference can it make whether [our glance at the realities around us] take the shape...of passionate exclamation...

exclamations, n. (2)

    FRep 11.529 17 The men, the women, all over this land shrill their exclamations of impatience and indignation at what is short-coming or is unbecoming in the government...
    MLit 12.317 24 There are facts...which drive young men into gardens and solitary places, and cause extravagant gestures, starts, distortions of the countenance and passionate exclamations;...

exclude, v. (23)

    AmS 1.88 12 ...neither can any artist entirely exclude the conventional...
    LE 1.172 17 ...any particular portraiture does not in any manner exclude or forestall a new attempt...
    LT 1.260 16 ...to whom I will, will I give; and whom I will, I will exclude and starve: so says Conservatism;...
    SR 2.52 3 Expect me not to show cause why I seek or why I exclude company.
    SR 2.68 26 ...when you have life in yourself...the way, the thought, the good, shall be wholly strange and new. It shall exclude example and experience.
    Fdsp 2.214 27 We must...admit or exclude [society] on the slightest cause.
    Int 2.338 17 One would think...that good thought would be as familiar as air and water, and the gifts of each new hour would exclude the last.
    Art1 2.352 26 No man can quite exclude this element of Necessity from his labor.
    Exp 3.54 21 ...it is impossible that the creative power should exclude itself.
    Mrs1 3.125 7 ...[my gentleman] has the private entrance to all minds, and I could as easily exclude myself, as him.
    Mrs1 3.131 8 ...to exclude and mystify pretenders and send them into everlasting Coventry, is [fashion's] delight.
    Mrs1 3.145 11 What if the false gentleman contrives so to address his companion as civilly to exclude all others from his discourse, and also to make them feel excluded?
    UGM 4.28 20 ...every individual strives to grow and exclude and to exclude and grow, to the extremities of the universe...
    ET14 5.259 4 Might I [Warren Hastings]...venture to prescribe bounds to the latitude of criticism, I should exclude...all rules drawn from the ancient or modern literature of Europe...
    Ctr 6.133 22 Beware of the man who says, I am on the eve of a revelation. It is speedily punished, inasmuch as this habit invites men to humor it, and by treating the patient tenderly, to...exclude him from the great world of God's cheerful fallible men and women.
    Wsp 6.222 26 ...gossip is a weapon impossible to exclude from the privatest, highest, selectest.
    Clbs 7.231 2 Conversation in society is found to be on a platform so low as to exclude science, the saint and the poet.
    Clbs 7.245 20 It is always a practical difficulty with clubs to regulate the laws of election so as to exclude peremptorily every social nuisance.
    PC 8.232 15 ...wherever high society exists it is very well able to exclude pretenders.
    Insp 8.288 16 ...it is almost impossible for a house-keeper who is in the country a small farmer, to exclude interruptions...
    LS 11.18 11 I appeal, brethren, to your individual experience. In the moment when you make the least petition to God...do you not, in the very act, necessarily exclude all other beings from your thought?
    EWI 11.128 25 There are causes in the composition of the British legislature...which exclude much that is pitiful and injurious in other legislative assemblies.
    CPL 11.494 2 The bishop of Cavaillon, Petrarch's friend, in a playful experiment locked up the poet's library, intending to exclude him from it for three days...

excluded, adj. (2)

    Mrs1 3.129 10 If [aristocracy and fashion] provoke anger in the least favored class, and the excluded majority revenge themselves on the excluding minority by the strong hand and kill them, at once a new class finds itself at the top...
    NR 3.242 15 If we were not kept among surfaces, everything would be large and universal; now the excluded attributes burst in on us with the more brightness that they have been excluded.

excluded, v. (13)

    MR 1.234 10 Suppose a man is so unhappy as to be born a saint...and he is to get his living in the world; he finds himself excluded from all lucrative works;...
    YA 1.393 16 It is a questionable compensation to the embittered feeling of a proud commoner, the reflection that a fop...is himself also an aspirant excluded with the same ruthlessness from higher circles...
    Pt1 3.17 15 The vocabulary of an omniscient man would embrace words and images excluded from polite conversation.
    Mrs1 3.145 13 What if the false gentleman contrives so to address his companion as civilly to exclude all others from his discourse, and also to make them feel excluded?
    Mrs1 3.152 18 The constitution of our society makes it a giant's castle to the ambitious youth...whom it has excluded from its coveted honors and privileges.
    NR 3.242 16 If we were not kept among surfaces, everything would be large and universal; now the excluded attributes burst in on us with the more brightness that they have been excluded.
    ET5 5.79 27 [The English people] would hardly greet the good that did not logically fall,--as if it excluded their own merit...
    ET13 5.226 19 ...when wealth accrues to a chaplaincy, a bishopric, or rectorship, it requires moneyed men for its stewards, who will give it another direction than to the mystics of their day. Of course, money...will steadily work to unspiritualize and unchurch the people to whom it was bequeathed. The class certain to be excluded from all preferment are the religious...
    WD 7.162 6 Our selfishness...would have excluded from a quarter of the planet all that are not born on the soil of that quarter.
    Suc 7.294 1 ...Fulton knocked at the door of Napoleon with steam, and was rejected; and Napoleon lived long enough to know that he had excluded a greater power than his own.
    Prch 10.227 6 What is essential to the theologian is...not to allow himself to be excluded from any church.
    EzRy 10.388 15 [Ezra Ripley] said, on parting, I wish you and your brothers to come to this house as you have always done. You will not like to be excluded; I shall not like to be neglected.
    EdAd 11.393 17 ...good readers know that inspired pages are not written to fill a space, but for inevitable utterance; and to such our journal is freely and solicitously open, even though everything else be excluded.

excludes, v. (12)

    LT 1.270 26 ...each of these aspirations and attempts of the people for the Better is magnified by the natural exaggeration of its advocates, until it excludes the others from sight...
    YA 1.368 4 If the landscape is pleasing, the garden shows it,-if tame, it excludes it.
    Comp 2.110 21 The exclusive in fashionable life does not see that he excludes himself from enjoyment, in the attempt to appropriate it.
    ET4 5.52 25 ...what we think of when we talk of English traits really narrows itself to a small district. It excludes Ireland and Scotland and Wales...
    ET11 5.194 18 With the tribe of artistes, including the musical tribe, the patrician morgue [in England] keeps no terms, but excludes them.
    ET12 5.209 15 The definition of a public school [in England] is a school which excludes all that could fit a man for standing behind a counter.
    Clbs 7.245 15 A right rule for a club would be,--Admit no man whose presence excludes any one topic.
    SA 8.104 3 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;...
    Insp 8.273 17 A glimpse, a point of view that by its brightness excludes the purview is granted, but no panorama.
    Aris 10.47 3 ...while each [exerts his faculty], he excludes hard thoughts from the spectator.
    Aris 10.64 7 The exclusive excludes himself.
    WSL 12.343 10 Each kind of excellence takes place for its hour and excludes everything else.

excluding, adj. (2)

    DSA 1.133 5 ...the gift of God to the soul is not a vaunting, overpowering, excluding sanctity...
    Mrs1 3.129 11 If [aristocracy and fashion] provoke anger in the least favored class, and the excluded majority revenge themselves on the excluding minority by the strong hand and kill them, at once a new class finds itself at the top...

excluding, v. (5)

    Comp 2.121 3 Being is the vast affirmative, excluding negation...
    SwM 4.108 20 The mind is a finer body, and resumes its functions of feeding, digesting, absorbing, excluding and generating, in a new and ethereal element.
    Wsp 6.225 2 Here is a low political economy...excluding others by force...
    DL 7.121 4 What is the hoop that holds [the eager, blushing boys] stanch? It is the iron band...of austerity, which, excluding them from the sensual enjoyments which make other boys too early old, has directed their activity in safe and right channels...
    Comc 8.164 20 ...the religious sentiment is the most real and earnest thing in nature...excluding, when it appears, all other considerations...

exclusion, n. (11)

    LE 1.165 12 The condition of our incarnation in a private self seems to be a perpetual tendency...to obey the private impulse, to the exclusion of the law of universal being.
    Con 1.306 6 ...when this great tendency [conservatism]...is challenged by young men, to whom it is...a fact of hunger, distress, and exclusion from opportunities, it must needs seem injurious.
    Exp 3.63 21 We fancy that we are strangers, and not so intimately domesticated in the planet as the wild man and the wild beast and bird. But the exclusion reaches them also;...
    Mrs1 3.148 6 There must be romance of character, or the most fastidious exclusion of impertinencies will not avail.
    ET11 5.196 6 The great powers of industrial art have no exclusion of name or blood.
    CbW 6.247 7 [Fine society] is an exclusion and a precinct.
    SS 7.7 25 ...each of these potentates [Dante, Michaelangelo, Columbus] saw well the reason of his exclusion.
    Boks 7.190 10 ...there are...books...so nearly equal to the world which they paint, that though one shuts them with meaner ones, he feels his exclusion from them to accuse his way of living.
    Suc 7.289 9 We are great by exclusion...
    Elo2 8.125 8 ...[the man in the street]...can always get the ear of an audience to the exclusion of everybody else.
    FRep 11.518 23 Instead of character, there is a studious exclusion of character.

exclusionist, n. (1)

    Comp 2.110 23 The exclusionist in religion does not see that he shuts the door of heaven on himself, in striving to shut others out.

exclusions, n. (3)

    UGM 4.22 25 ...in these new fields there is room: here are no self-esteems, no exclusions.
    Clbs 7.240 4 What can you do with an eloquent man? No rules of debate... no exclusions...can be contrived that his first syllable will not set aside...
    SA 8.90 27 [The highly organized person] of all men would...feel that the exclusions are in the interest of the admissions...

exclusive, adj. (12)

    Nat 1.22 21 The intellectual and the active powers seem to succeed each other, and the exclusive activity of the one generates the exclusive activity of the other.
    Nat 1.22 22 The intellectual and the active powers seem to succeed each other, and the exclusive activity of the one generates the exclusive activity of the other.
    Mrs1 3.127 19 There exists a strict relation between the class of power and the exclusive and polished circles.
    PPh 4.48 26 [Unity's and Variety's] existence is mutually contradictory and exclusive;...
    MoS 4.150 17 The literary class is usually proud and exclusive.
    ET4 5.45 4 The British Empire is reckoned to contain (in 1848)...perhaps a fifth of the population of the globe... Perhaps forty of these millions are of British stock. Add the United States of America, which reckon...exclusive of slaves, 20,000,000...and you have a population of English descent and language of 60,000,000...
    Dem1 10.21 26 Great men feel that they are so by...falling back on what is humane; in renouncing family, clan, country and each exclusive and local connection...
    Dem1 10.24 5 Let [occult facts'] value as exclusive subjects of attention be judged of by the infallible test of the state of mind in which much notice of them leaves us.
    Aris 10.59 15 ...I hear the complaint of the aspirant...that there is no...stern exclusive Legion of Honor...
    LLNE 10.343 8 As these persons became in the common chances of society acquainted with each other, there resulted certainly strong friendships, which of course were exclusive in proportion to their heat...
    GSt 10.501 15 We recall the all but exclusive devotion of this excellent man [George Stearns] during the last twelve years to public and patriotic interests.
    FRep 11.531 9 I wish to see America, not like the old powers of the earth, grasping, exclusive and narrow...

exclusive, n. (2)

    Comp 2.110 20 The exclusive in fashionable life does not see that he excludes himself from enjoyment, in the attempt to appropriate it.
    Aris 10.64 7 The exclusive excludes himself.

exclusively, adv. (3)

    SwM 4.120 26 This design of exhibiting such correpondences [between heaven and earth]...was narrowed and defeated by the exclusively theologic direction which [Swedenborg's] inquiries took.
    HDC 11.83 22 [The Concord Town Records] exhibit a pleasing picture of a community almost exclusively agricultural...
    MAng1 12.230 16 ...[Michelangelo] aimed exclusively [in the Sistine Chapel ceiling frescoes], as a stern designer, to express the vigor and magnificence of his conceptions.

exclusiveness, n. (5)

    Cir 2.310 25 When each new speaker [in a conversation]...emancipates us from the oppression of the last speaker to oppress us with the greatness and exclusiveness of his own thought...we seem to recover our rights, to become men.
    NMW 4.258 21 As long as our civilization is essentially one of property... of exclusiveness, it will be mocked by delusions.
    ET11 5.184 23 In the army, the [English] nobility fill a large part of the high commissions, and give to these a tone...of exclusiveness.
    ET16 5.275 4 Still speaking of the Americans, Carlyle complained that they dislike the coldness and exclusiveness of the English...
    SS 7.14 13 Put any company of people together with freedom for conversation, and a rapid self-distribution takes place into sets and pairs. The best are accused of exclusiveness.

excommunicate, v. (1)

    NER 3.254 5 ...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...

excommunicated, v. (2)

    NER 3.254 10 ...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...
    Bhr 6.193 18 It is related by the monk Basle, that being excommunicated by the Pope, he was, at his death, sent in charge of an angel, to find a fit place of suffering in hell;...

excrementitious, adj. (1)

    SwM 4.131 26 ...[Swedenborg] saw...the excrementitious hells;...

excrescence, n. (1)

    CL 12.147 12 Evelyn quotes Lord Caernarvon's saying, Wood is an excrescence of the earth provided by God for the payment of debts.

excruciations, n. (1)

    Supl 10.165 3 Every favorite is not a cherub...nor agonies, excruciations nor ecstasies our daily bread.

excursion, n. (4)

    ET16 5.273 3 It had been agreed between my friend Mr. Carlyle and me, that before I left England we should make an excursion together to Stonehenge...
    Cour 7.261 6 Tender, amiable boys, who had never encountered any rougher play than a...fishing excursion, were suddenly drawn up to face a bayonet charge or capture a battery.
    SA 8.94 17 Sainte-Beuve tells us of the privileged circle at Coppet, that after making an excursion one day, the party returned in two coaches from Chambery to Aix...
    Thor 10.463 5 ...[Thoreau] seemed the only man of leisure in town, always ready for any excursion that promised well...

Excursion, The [William Wo (1)

    MLit 12.320 20 The Excursion awakened in every lover of Nature the right feeling.

Excursion [William Wordswor (1)

    ET1 5.23 17 I said Tinturn Abbey appeared to be the favorite poem with the public, but more contemplative readers preferred the first books of the Excursion, and the Sonnets.

excursions, n. (2)

    CInt 12.114 16 Milton congratulates the Parliament that, whilst London is besieged and blocked...inroads and excursions round...yet then are the people...more than at other times wholly taken up with the study of highest and most important matters to be reformed...
    CL 12.136 25 ...[Linnaeus] summoned his class to go with him on excursions on foot into the country...

excuse, n. (6)

    YA 1.394 18 That there are mitigations and practical alleviations to this rigor [of English aristocracy], is not an excuse for the rule.
    SL 2.140 19 It is not an excuse any longer for [a man's] deeds that they are the custom of his trade.
    Elo2 8.118 22 We have all attended meetings called for some object in which no one had beforehand any warm interest. Every speaker rose unwillingly, and even his speech was a bad excuse;...
    Grts 8.316 21 [The sense of the people] has this excuse, that natural is really allied to moral power...
    FSLC 11.189 12 I thought that every time a man goes back to his own thoughts, these angels receive him, talk with him...and that this owning of a law...constituted the explanation of life, the excuse and indemnity for the errors and calamities which sadden it.
    Milt1 12.277 8 The creations of Shakspeare are cast into the world of thought to no further end than to delight. Their intrinsic beauty is their excuse for being.

excuse, v. (10)

    SL 2.161 2 Common men are apologies for men; they...excuse themselves with prolix reasons...
    Mrs1 3.132 17 We are such lovers of self-reliance that we excuse in a man many sins if he will show us a complete satisfaction in his position...
    CbW 6.250 4 What a vicious practice is this of our politicians at Washington pairing off! as if one man who votes wrong going away, could excuse you, who mean to vote right, for going away;...
    Comc 8.165 25 Our brethren of New England use/ Choice malefactors to excuse/...
    Schr 10.270 6 'T is wonderful, 't is almost scandalous, this extraordinary favoritism shown to poets. I do not mean to excuse it.
    Plu 10.322 2 Were there not a sun, we might, for all the other stars, pass our days in the Reverend Dark, as Heraclitus calls it. I find a humor in the phrase which might well excuse its doubtful accuracy.
    SlHr 10.448 22 [Samuel Hoar] was as if on terms of honor with those nearest him, nor did he think a lifelong familiarity could excuse any omission of courtesy from him.
    GSt 10.503 3 ...[George Stearns] did not give money to excuse his entire preoccupation in his own pursuits...
    PLT 12.37 7 In its lower function, when it deals with the apparent world, [Instinct] is common sense. It requires the performance of all that is needful to the animal life and health. Then it...requires...that symmetry and connection which is imperative in all healthily constituted men, and the want of which the rare and brilliant sallies of irregular genius cannot excuse.
    PPr 12.387 26 ...the manifold and increasing dangers of the English State, may easily excuse some over-coloring of the picture;...

excused, v. (5)

    MoS 4.151 22 On the other part, the men of toil and trade and luxury,--the animal world...and the practical world, including the painful drudgeries which are never excused to philosopher or poet any more than to the rest,-- weigh heavily on the other side.
    Farm 7.137 11 ...every man has an exceptional respect for tillage, and a feeling...that he himself is only excused from it by some circumstance which made him delegate it for a time to other hands.
    Prch 10.232 25 ...the gigantic evils which seem to us so mischievous and so incurable will at last end themselves and rid the world of their presence, as all crime sooner or later must. But be that event for us soon or late, we are not excused from playing our short part in the best manner we can...
    Schr 10.284 7 ...the sure months are bringing [the scholar] to an examination-day in which nothing is remitted or excused...
    HDC 11.48 21 I shall be excused for confessing that I have set a value upon any symptom of meanness and private pique which I have met with in these antique books [Concord Town Records]...

excuses, n. (1)

    WD 7.177 25 [Our ancestors'] merit was...to honor the present moment; and we falsely make them excuses of the very habit which they hated and defied.

execration, n. (2)

    Hsm1 2.262 1 ...it behooves the wise man...to familiarize himself...with sounds of execration...
    ACri 12.288 21 What traveller has not listened to the vigor of...the deep stomach of an English drayman's execration.

execrations, n. (1)

    Cour 7.275 13 ...the rack, the fire, the hatred and execrations of our fellow men, appear trials beyond the endurance of common humanity;...

executable, adj. (1)

    Cir 2.311 1 O, what truths profound and executable only in ages and orbs, are supposed in the announcement of every truth!

execute, v. (28)

    DSA 1.122 9 These laws [of the soul] execute themselves.
    SL 2.135 15 ...we are begirt with laws which execute themselves.
    SL 2.161 19 The epochs of our life are...in a thought which...says,--Thus hast thou done, but it were better thus. And all our after years...according to their ability execute its will.
    Art1 2.367 2 ...the hand can never execute any thing higher than the character can inspire.
    Art1 2.367 15 [Men] eat and drink, that they may afterwards execute the ideal.
    Exp 3.69 22 The persons who compose our company...design and execute many things, and somewhat comes of it all, but an unlooked-for result.
    Mrs1 3.120 13 ...the salt, the dates, the ivory, and the gold, for which these horrible regions are visited, find their way into...countries where man... writes laws, and contrives to execute his will through the hands of many nations;...
    NR 3.235 11 It seems not worth while to execute with too much pains some one intellectual, or aesthetical, or civil feat...
    ET19 5.313 23 I see [England] in her old age...still daring to believe in her power of endurance and expansion. Seeing this, I say, All hail! mother of nations...still wise to entertain and swift to execute the policy which the mind and heart of mankind requires in the present hour...
    Pow 6.72 4 [The affirmative class] originate and execute all the great feats.
    Wth 6.93 12 Power is what [men of sense] want...power to execute their design, power to give legs and feet...to their thought;...
    Wsp 6.238 10 The great class...the rapt, the lost, the fools of ideas...suggest what they cannot execute.
    Elo1 7.65 19 Bring [the master orator] to his audience...and they shall carry and execute that which he bids them.
    DL 7.113 20 ...our idea of domestic well-being now needs wealth to execute it.
    Comc 8.158 8 An oak or a chestnut undertakes no function it cannot execute;...
    Insp 8.276 5 We must prize our own youth. Later, we want heat to execute our plans...
    Imtl 8.339 18 ...[men] want more time and land in which to execute their thoughts.
    Edc1 10.145 12 ...[the child] conceives that though not in this house or town, yet in some other house or town is the wise master who can put him in possession of the rules and instruments to execute his will.
    Schr 10.273 17 Other men are...heaving and carrying, each that he may peacefully execute the fine function by which they all are helped.
    LVB 11.91 13 It now appears that the government of the United States choose to hold the Cherokees to this sham treaty, and are proceeding to execute the same.
    EWI 11.131 21 The Governor of Massachusetts is a trifler;...the General Court is a dishonored body, if they make laws which they cannot execute.
    FSLC 11.192 1 Those governors of places who bravely refused to execute the barbarous orders of Charles IX. for the famous Massacre of St. Bartholomew, have been universally praised;...
    AKan 11.258 21 That is the theory of the American State, that it exists to execute the will of the citizens...
    SHC 11.436 15 Why is the fable of the Wandering Jew agreeable to men, but because they want more time and land to execute their thoughts in?
    Mem 12.102 14 There are more inventions in the thoughts of one happy day than ages could execute...
    MAng1 12.232 19 He alone, [Michelangelo] said, is an artist whose hands can perfectly execute what his mind has conceived;...
    Milt1 12.260 17 Michael Angelo calls him alone an artist, whose hands can execute what his mind has conceived.
    Trag 12.405 21 Projects that once we laughed and leapt to execute find us now sleepy and preparing to lie down in the snow.

executed, adj. (2)

    Pt1 3.25 27 ...a summer, with its harvest sown, reaped and stored, is an epic song, subordinating how many admirably executed parts.
    MoS 4.151 7 Picture, statue, temple, railroad, steam-engine, existed first in an artist's mind, without flaw, mistake, or friction, which impair the executed models.

executed, v. (21)

    Nat 1.37 14 ...good thoughts are no better than good dreams, unless they be executed!
    LE 1.159 8 Every presentiment of the mind is executed somewhere in a gigantic fact.
    MR 1.250 11 ...I see at once how paltry is all this generation of unbelievers, and what a house of cards their institutions are, and I see...what one great thought executed might effect.
    LT 1.272 23 The new voices in the wilderness...have revived a hope...that the thoughts of the mind may yet...be executed by the hands.
    Comp 2.94 7 [The preacher] assumed that judgment is not executed in this world;...
    Int 2.337 1 Not by any conscious imitation of particular forms are the grand strokes of the painter executed...
    Pol1 3.214 14 ...whenever I find my dominion over myself not sufficient for me, and undertake the direction of [my neighbor] also, I...come into false relations to him. ... Love and nature cannot maintain the assumption; it must be executed by a practical lie, namely by force.
    NER 3.271 21 [Genius's] own idea it never executed.
    UGM 4.7 17 Is a man in his place, he is constructive, fertile, magnetic, inundating armies with his purpose, which is thus executed.
    SwM 4.120 23 This design of exhibiting such correpondences [between heaven and earth], which, if adequately executed, would be the poem of the world...was narrowed and defeated by the exclusively theologic direction which [Swedenborg's] inquiries took.
    Wth 6.111 5 We cannot get rid of these [immigrant] people, and we cannot get rid of their will to be supported. That has become an inevitable element of our politics; for their votes, each of the dominant parties courts and assists them to get it executed.
    Art2 7.53 11 We feel, in seeing a noble building, which rhymes well, as we do in hearing a perfect song, that it...was one of the possible forms in the Divine mind, and is now only discovered and executed by the artist...
    PC 8.209 24 Men are now to be astonished by seeing acts of...Christian charity...executed by justices of the peace...
    HDC 11.58 22 John Monoco, a formidable savage, boasted that he...would burn Groton, Concord, Watertown and Boston; adding, what me will, me do. He did burn Groton, but before he had executed the remainder of his threat he was hanged...
    LVB 11.95 4 Our counsellors and old statesmen here say that ten years ago they would have staked their lives on the affirmation that the proposed Indian measures could not be executed;...
    EWI 11.102 2 In the oldest temples of Egypt, negro captives are painted on the tombs of kings, in such attitudes as to show that they are on the point of being executed;...
    War 11.171 14 [The peace principle] can never be defended, it can never be executed, by cowards.
    FSLC 11.195 25 A wicked law cannot be executed by good men...
    FSLC 11.196 1 A wicked law cannot be executed by good men, and must be by bad. Flagitious men must be employed, and every act of theirs is a stab at the public peace. It cannot be executed at such a cost...
    FRep 11.512 1 Flaxman, with his Greek taste, selected and combined the loveliest forms, which were executed in English clay [by Wedgewood];...
    MAng1 12.236 10 Amidst endless annoyances from the envy and interest of the office-holders and agents in the work whom he had displaced, [Michelangelo] steadily ripened and executed his vast ideas.

executes, v. (4)

    Mrs1 3.149 25 The open air and the fields, the street and public chambers are the places where Man executes his will;...
    Wsp 6.215 6 The true meaning of spiritual is...that law which executes itself...
    Chr2 10.94 15 He that speaks the truth executes no private function of an individual will...
    SovE 10.212 3 The mind as it opens transfers very fast its choice...from all that talent executes to the sentiment that fills the heart and dictates the future of nations.

executeth, v. (1)

    F 6.5 27 The Destinee.../ That executeth in the world over al,/ The purveiance that God hath seen beforne,/ So strong it is/...Yet sometime it shall fallen on a day/ That falleth not oft in a thousand yeer;/...

executing, v. (5)

    Cir 2.310 2 ...all nature is the rapid efflux of goodness executing and organizing itself.
    Pow 6.68 2 ...the energy for originating and executing work deforms itself by excess...
    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.
    War 11.164 26 You shall hear, some day, of a wild fancy which some man has in his brain, of the mischief of secret oaths. Come again one or two years afterwards, and you shall see it has built great houses of solid wood and brick and mortar. You shall see a hundred presses printing a million sheets;...this great body of matter thus executing that one man's wild thought.
    MAng1 12.216 3 [Michelangelo]...dying at the end of near ninety years... was engaged in executing his grand conceptions in the ineffaceable architecture of Saint Peter's.

execution, n. (19)

    LE 1.163 10 ...in the great idea and the puny execution;-behold Charles the Fifth's day;...
    Hsm1 2.246 1 ...Sophocles will not ask his life, although assured that a word will save him, and the execution of both [Sophocles and Dorigen] proceeds...
    ShP 4.213 22 [Shakespeare] carried his powerful execution into minute details...
    NMW 4.225 23 [The man in the street] finds [Napoleon], like himself, by birth a citizen, who, by very intelligible merits, arrived as such a commanding position that he could indulge all those tastes which the common man possesses but is obliged to conceal and deny:...the execution of his ideas...
    Clbs 7.239 24 When Henry III. (1217) plead duress against his people demanding confirmation and execution of the Charter, the reply was: If this were admitted, civil wars could never close but by the extirpation of one of the contending parties.
    OA 7.324 19 [With age] The passions have answered their purpose: that slight but dread overweight with which in each instance Nature secures the execution of her aim, drops off.
    PI 8.33 19 Great design belongs to a poem, and is better than any skill of execution...
    Supl 10.174 8 Children and thoughtless people...like to run to a house on fire, to a fight, to an execution;...
    Schr 10.275 3 ...Algernon Sidney wrote to his father from his prison a little before his execution: I have ever had in my mind that when God should cast me into such a condition as that I cannot save my life but by doing an indecent thing he shows me the time has come when I should resign it.
    LLNE 10.353 3 [Fourier's] mistake is that this particular order and series is to be imposed...on all men, and carried into rigid execution.
    HDC 11.71 17 On the 26th of the month [September, 1774], the whole town [Concord] resolved itself into a committee of safety...to aid all untainted magistrates in the execution of the laws of the land.
    FSLC 11.196 12 The first execution of the [Fugitive Slave] law, as was inevitable, was a little hesitating;...
    ACiv 11.309 8 Time, say the Indian Scriptures, drinketh up the essence of every great and noble action which ought to be performed, and which is delayed in the execution.
    PLT 12.47 25 Talent is habitual facility of execution.
    PLT 12.48 12 ...idea and execution are not often intrusted to the same head.
    Bost 12.208 3 I know that this history [of Massachusetts] contains many black lines of cruel injustice; murder, persecution, and execution of women for witchcraft.
    MAng1 12.231 12 ...is there not something affecting in the spectacle of an old man [Michelangelo], on the verge of ninety years, carrying steadily onward...his poetic conceptions into progressive execution...
    MAng1 12.236 21 In answer to the importunate solicitations of the Duke of Tuscany that he would come to Florence, [Michelangelo] replies...that he hoped he should shortly see the execution of his plans [for St. Peter's] brought to such a point that they could no longer be interfered with...
    EurB 12.365 12 [Wordsworth] has the merit of just moral perception, but not that of deft poetic execution.

executioner, n. (3)

    YA 1.380 10 ...the swelling cry of voices for the education of the people indicates that Government has other offices than those of banker and executioner.
    Hist 2.5 7 We, as we read, must become...martyr and executioner;...
    SS 7.3 13 Do you not see, [my new friend] said...that each of these scholars whom you have met at S---, though he were to be the last man, would, like the executioner in Hood's poem, guillotine the last but one?

executioners, n. (1)

    SovE 10.188 17 When we trace from the beginning, that ferocity has uses; only so are the conditions of the then world met, and these monsters are the scavengers, executioners, diggers...

executions, n. (3)

    ET4 5.63 10 The brutality of the manners in the [English] lower class appears in the boxing, bear-baiting, cock-fighting, love of executions...
    Suc 7.290 5 ...war, cannons and executions are used to clear the ground of bad, lumpish, irreclaimable savages, but always to the damage of the conquerors.
    Suc 7.308 16 I do not find executions or tortures or lazar-houses...fit subjects for cabinet pictures.

executive, adj. (11)

    LT 1.270 12 The political questions touching...the limits of the executive power;...are all pregnant with ethical conclusions;...
    PPh 4.52 2 ...if we dare...name the last tendency of both [unity and diversity], we might say, that the end of the one is escape from organization,--pure science; and the end of the other is...executive deity.
    ShP 4.212 2 For executive faculty, for creation, Shakspeare is unique.
    ET15 5.267 27 ...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...availed themselves of [the writers'] younger energy and eloquence to plead the cause. Both the council and the executive departments gain by this division.
    Pow 6.65 27 Philanthropic and religious bodies do not commonly make their executive officers out of saints.
    Elo1 7.76 5 ...this precious person makes a speech which is printed and read all over the Union, and he...takes the lead in the public mind over all these executive men...
    Chr2 10.93 12 Certain biases, talents, executive skills, are special to each individual;...
    LLNE 10.358 21 Why could not the like partnership be formed between the inventor and the man of executive talent everywhere?
    SlHr 10.445 13 [Samuel Hoar] was neither spiritualist nor man of genius nor of a literary nor an executive talent.
    GSt 10.504 13 I have heard...that [George Stearns] had great executive skill...
    ACiv 11.302 24 [The existing administration] is to be thanked for its angelic virtue, compared with any executive experiences with which we have been familiar.

Executive, American, n. (1)

    ACiv 11.310 15 [Lincoln's proposal of gradual abolition] marks the happiest day in the political year. The American Executive ranges itself for the first time on the side of freedom.

Executive Departments, n. (1)

    YA 1.378 10 Instead of a huge Army and Navy and Executive Departments, [Trade] converts Government into an Intelligence-Office...

executive, n. (3)

    Elo1 7.96 24 This man [the sturdy countryman]...is his own...legislature and executive.
    JBB 11.271 2 Great wealth, great population, men of talent in the executive, on the bench,-all the forms right...
    EPro 11.317 3 ...[Lincoln's] long-avowed expectant policy, as if he chose to be strictly the executive of the best public sentiment of the country...the firm tone in which he announces it...all these have bespoken such favor to the act [Emancipation Proclamation] that...we are beginning to think that we have underestimated the capacity and virtue which the Divine Providence has made an instrument of benefit so vast.

Executive, n. (1)

    LVB 11.95 16 ...a letter addressed as mine is [to Van Buren], and suggesting to the mind of the Executive the plain obligations of man, has a burlesque character in the apprehensions of some of my friends.

executor, n. (1)

    LVB 11.96 6 The potentate and the people perish before [the moral sentiment]; but with it, and as its executor, they are omnipotent.

executors, n. (1)

    ACiv 11.303 3 I wish I saw in the people that inspiration which, if government would not obey the same, would...create on the moment the means and executors it wanted.

exegesis, n. (1)

    ET12 5.211 11 No doubt much of the power and brilliancy of the reading-men [at Oxford] is merely constitutional or hygienic. With a hardier habit and resolute gymnastics...the American would arrives at as robust exegesis...

exegetical, adj. (1)

    LLNE 10.332 13 [Everett's learning] was so coldly and weightily communicated...that, though nothing could be conceived beforehand less attractive or indeed less fit for green boys...than exegetical discourses in the style of Voss and Wolff and Ruhnken...this learning instantly took the highest place to our imagination...

exempt, adj. (5)

    PPh 4.50 4 What is the great end of all [said Krishna], you shall now learn from me. It is soul...exempt from birth, growth and decay...
    PPh 4.56 25 Exempt from envy, [the Supreme Ordainer] wished that all things should be as much as possible like himself.
    PI 8.21 10 The poet contemplates the central identity...and, following it, can detect essential resemblances in natures never before compared. He can class them so audaciously because he is sensible of the sweep of the celestial stream, from which nothing is exempt.
    PI 8.37 19 ...let others be distracted with cares, [the poet] is exempt.
    MLit 12.335 1 From the necessity of loving none are exempt...

exempt, v. (1)

    LLNE 10.352 5 ...we could not exempt [Fourierism] from the criticism which we apply to so many projects for reform with which the brain of the age teems.

exempted, v. (2)

    ET11 5.195 20 In the university, the [English] noblemen are exempted from the public exercises for the degree...
    PI 8.40 10 The writer, like the priest, must be exempted from secular labor.

exemption, n. (3)

    Pol1 3.208 1 ...our institutions...have not any exemption from the practical defects which have discredited other forms.
    Wsp 6.220 27 ...[a man] does not see...that relation and connection are not somewhere and sometimes, but everywhere and always; no miscellany, no exemption, no anomaly...
    Schr 10.271 12 There could always be traced...some vestiges of a faith in genius, as in the exemption of a priesthood or bards or artists from taxes and tolls levied on other men;...

exempts, n. (2)

    PNR 4.89 12 It was a high scheme, his absolute privilege for the best...as the premium which [Plato] would set on grandeur. There shall be exempts of two kinds: first, those who by demerit have put themselves below protection,--outlaws;...
    Ill 6.316 22 'T is fine for us to point at one or another fine madman, as if there were any exempts.

exercise, n. (30)

    Nat 1.36 20 Our dealing with sensible objects is a constant exercise in the necessary lessons of difference...
    Nat 1.39 23 The exercise of the Will...is taught in every event.
    Nat 1.61 7 ...facts that end in the statement, cannot be all that is true of this brave lodging...wherein all [man's] faculties find appropriate and endless exercise.
    LE 1.179 1 Napoleon observed that [the English soldiers'] manner of handling their arms differed from the French exercise...
    MR 1.237 11 Is it possible that I, who get indefinite quantities of sugar...by simply signing my name...to a cheque...get the fair share of exercise to my faculties by that act which nature intended me...
    MR 1.241 23 ...where there is a fine organization, apt for poetry and philosophy, that individual...is better taught by a moderate and dainty exercise...than by the downright drudgery of the farmer and the smith.
    SR 2.76 19 Let a Stoic...tell men...that with the exercise of self-trust, new powers shall appear;...
    Int 2.336 23 ...the power of picture or expression...implies...a certain control over the spontaneous states, without which no production is possible. It is a conversion of all nature into the rhetoric of thought...with a strenuous exercise of choice.
    PPh 4.57 13 The mind of Plato...is to be apprehended by an original mind in the exercise of its original power.
    NMW 4.247 12 [Napoleon's] power does not consist...in any...singular power of persuasion; but in the exercise of common-sense on each emergency...
    ET8 5.130 16 [The English] are full of coarse strength, rude exercise, butcher's meat and sound sleep;...
    ET12 5.210 25 The diet and rough exercise [at Oxford] secure a certain amount of old Norse power.
    CbW 6.263 7 No...poverty, nor exercise, that can gain [health], must be grudged.
    Elo1 7.99 16 In its right exercise, [eloquence] is an elastic, unexhausted power...
    Insp 8.279 26 Health is the first muse, comprising the magical benefits of air, landscape and bodily exercise, on the mind.
    Insp 8.280 3 Plato thought exercise would almost cure a guilty conscience.
    Insp 8.281 11 ...I fancy that my logs...are a kind of muses. So of all the particulars of health and exercise and fit nutriment and tonics.
    Edc1 10.140 2 How we envy in later life the happy youths to whom their boisterous games and rough exercise furnish the precise element which frames and sets off their school and college tasks...
    MMEm 10.429 6 I [Mary Moody Emerson] have given up, the last year or two, the hope of dying. In the lowest ebb of health nothing is ominous; diet and exercise restore.
    Thor 10.456 4 [Thoreau]...required a little sense of victory...to call his powers into full exercise.
    HDC 11.42 15 ...this first recorded political act of our fathers, this tax assessed on its inhabitants by a town, is the most important event in their civil history, implying...the exercise of a sovereign power...
    Wom 11.416 26 ...the times are marked by the new attitude of Woman; urging...her rights of all kinds...as the right to education...to the exercise of the professions and of suffrage.
    FRep 11.544 15 ...every elegant art, every exercise of the imagination...will find their home in our institutions...
    PLT 12.46 22 Heaven is the exercise of the faculties...
    CL 12.136 5 ...the necessity of exercise and the nomadic instinct are always stirring the wish to travel...
    CL 12.142 2 ...Plato said of exercise that it would almost cure a guilty conscience.
    CL 12.143 16 ...De Quincey prefixes to this description of Wordsworth a little piece of advice which I wonder has not attracted more attention. ...if young ladies were aware of the magical transformations which can be wrought in the depth and sweetness of the eye by a few weeks' exercise, I fancy we should see their habits in this point altered greatly for the better.
    Bost 12.196 24 ...the New Englander...lacks that beauty and grace which the habit of living much in the air, and the activity of the limbs not in labor but in graceful exercise, tend to produce in climates nearer to the sun.
    Milt1 12.260 7 At nineteen years, in a college exercise, [Milton] addresses his native language, saying to it that it would be his choice to leave trifles for a grave argument...
    Milt1 12.265 15 [Milton's native honor] refined his amusements, which consisted in gardening, in exercise with the sword, and in playing on the organ.

exercise, v. (12)

    Hsm1 2.261 22 ...not only need we breathe and exercise the soul by assuming the penalties of abstinence...
    OS 2.288 21 There is in all great poets a wisdom of humanity which is superior to any talents they exercise.
    Int 2.333 15 [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.
    Pol1 3.205 17 ...the attributes of a person, his wit and his moral energy, will exercise, under any law or extinguishing tyranny, their proper force...
    Pol1 3.221 25 ...there are now men...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...
    Comc 8.163 17 Men cannot exercise their rhetoric unless they speak...
    Edc1 10.135 1 We exercise [boys'] understandings to the apprehension and comparison of some facts...
    EzRy 10.385 4 [Joseph Emerson wrote] Have I done well to get me a shay? Have I not been proud or too fond of this convenience? Do I exercise the faith in the Divine care and protection which I ought to do?
    HDC 11.46 18 ...the [Massachusetts Bay Colony's] towns learned to exercise a sovereignty in the laying of taxes;...
    HDC 11.46 24 ...the [Massachusetts Bay Colony's] towns learned...to exercise the right of expressing an opinion on every question before the country.
    PLT 12.33 18 Newton did not exercise more ingenuity but less than another to see the world.
    MAng1 12.229 3 At near eighty years, [Michelangelo] began in marble a group of four figures for a dead Christ, because, he said, to exercise himself with the mallet was good for his health.

exercised, v. (8)

    Nat 1.34 12 [The relation between mind and matter] is the standing problem which has exercised the wonder and the study of every fine genius since the world began;...
    Tran 1.352 5 [Transcendentalists] are exercised in their own spirit with queries which acquaint them with all adversity...
    Pt1 3.3 13 [The umpires of tastes'] knowledge of the fine arts is...some limited judgment of color or form, which is exercised for amusement or for show.
    ET5 5.82 14 Philip de Commines says, Now, in my opinion, among all the sovereignties I know in the world, that in which the public good is best attended to, and the least violence exercised on the people, is that of England.
    ET10 5.164 12 ...the provisions to lock and transmit [English property] have exercised the cunningest heads in a profession which never admits a fool.
    Elo1 7.77 9 Face to face with a highwayman...can you bring yourself off safe by your wit exercised through speech?...
    Imtl 8.343 22 As soon as thought is exercised, this belief [in immortality] is inevitable;...
    Thor 10.452 14 ...whilst all his companions were...eager to begin some lucrative employment, it was inevitable that [Thoreau's] thoughts should be exercised on the same question...

exercises, n. (5)

    ET4 5.47 6 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...copy heedfully the training...what nursing, school, and exercises they had...
    ET4 5.70 7 [The English] think...that manly exercises are the foundation of that elevation of mind which gives one nature ascendant over another;...
    ET11 5.195 20 In the university, the [English] noblemen are exempted from the public exercises for the degree...
    LLNE 10.334 12 ...not a sentence was written in academic exercises...but showed the omnipresence of [Everett's] genius to youthful heads.
    CL 12.142 5 ...Plato said of exercise that it would almost cure a guilty conscience. For the living out of doors, and simple fare, and gymnastic exercises, and the morals of companions, produce the greatest effect on the way of virtue and of vice.

exercises, v. (4)

    SR 2.62 20 ...[man] is in the world a sort of sot, but now and then... exercises his reason...
    Fdsp 2.204 3 ...a friend is a sane man who exercises not my ingenuity, but me.
    OS 2.270 17 All goes to show that the soul in man is not an organ, but animates and exercises all the organs;...
    WSL 12.346 8 [Landor] exercises with a grandeur of spirit the office of writer...

exercising, v. (3)

    AmS 1.101 22 [The scholar] is to find consolation in exercising the highest functions of human nature.
    MR 1.235 22 Who could regret to see...a purer taste exercising a sensible effect on young men in their choice of occupation...
    LS 11.25 6 ...I am consoled by the hope that no time and no change can deprive me of the satisfaction of pursuing and exercising [the pastoral office's] highest functions.

exercitation, n. (1)

    Pow 6.79 4 More are made good by exercitation than by nature, said Democritus.

exercitations, n. (1)

    PPh 4.78 2 In view of eternal nature, Plato turns out of be philosophical exercitations.

exert, v. (22)

    MN 1.216 16 ...I need not go where you are, that you should exert magnetism on me.
    Hist 2.33 17 These figures, [Goethe] would say, these Chirons, Griffins, Phorkyas, Helen and Leda, are somewhat, and do exert a specific influence on the mind.
    Fdsp 2.195 8 ...the Genius of my life being thus social, the same affinity will exert its energy on whomsoever is as noble as these men and women...
    Exp 3.75 1 I exert the same quality of power in all places.
    Chr1 3.94 8 When the high cannot bring up the low to itself, it benumbs it, as man charms down the resistance of the lower animals. Men exert on each other a similar occult power.
    Pol1 3.205 9 [Persons and property] exert their power, as steadily as matter its attraction.
    ET6 5.106 25 The power and possession which surround [the English] are their own creation, and they exert the same commanding industry at this moment.
    ET14 5.252 16 [The English] exert every variety of talent on a lower ground...
    Wth 6.103 10 A dollar is rated for the corn it will buy, or to speak strictly... for the wit, probity and power which we eat bread and dwell in houses to share and exert.
    Ctr 6.140 6 ...men are valued precisely as they exert onward or meliorating force.
    Wsp 6.211 10 If a pickpocket intrude into the society of gentlemen, they exert what moral force they have...
    Bty 6.283 12 We do not think heroes can exert any more awful power than that surface-play which amuses us.
    Suc 7.302 13 This sensibility appears...in the power which form and color exert upon the soul;...
    Dem1 10.18 18 ...a monstrous force goes out from [demonic individuals], and they exert an incredible power over all creatures...
    Aris 10.47 2 The only relief that I know against the invidiousness of superior position is, that you exert your faculty;...
    SovE 10.198 27 While the immense energy of the sentiment of duty and the awe of the supernatural exert incomparable influence on the mind,-yet it is often perverted...
    EWI 11.117 15 It soon appeared in all the [West Indian] islands that the planters were disposed...to exert the same licentious despotism as before.
    FSLC 11.192 14 Sire, said the brave Orte, governor of Bayonne, in his letter...both [the inhabitants and soldiers] and I must humbly entreat your majesty to be pleased to employ your arms and lives in things that are possible, however hazardous they may be, and we will exert ourselves to the last drop of our blood.
    FRO2 11.487 18 All education is to accustom [man] to trust himself...exert the timid faculties until they are robust...
    PLT 12.53 7 I must think...this thrill of awe with which we watch the performance of genius, a sign of our own readiness to exert the like power.
    MLit 12.321 17 There is in [Wordsworth] that property common to all great poets, a wisdom of humanity, which is superior to any talents which they exert.
    Let 12.397 19 ...though the recuperative force in every man may be relied on infinitely, it must be relied on before it will exert itself.

exerted, v. (4)

    NMW 4.229 25 The art of war was the game in which [Bonaparte] exerted his arithmetic.
    GoW 4.280 22 In England and in America there is a respect for talent; if it is exerted in support of any ascertained or intelligible interest or party...the public is satisfied.
    Elo1 7.69 12 ...[the Sicilians]...were it only by the physical strength exerted in telling the story, keep the table in unbounded excitement.
    SMC 11.350 11 ...the virtues we are met to honor...were exerted for the protection of our common country...

exerting, v. (3)

    Grts 8.312 9 The day will come...when the eye...will indicate rank fast enough by exerting power.
    SovE 10.188 5 It is the same fact existing as sentiment and as will in the mind, which works in Nature as irresistible law, exerting influence over nations, intelligent beings...
    LLNE 10.330 10 The popular religion of our fathers had received many severe shocks from the new times;...from the slow but extraordinary influence of Swedenborg; a man...exerting a singular power over an important intellectual class;...

exertion, n. (14)

    MR 1.241 16 ...the amount of manual labor which is necessary to the maintenance of a family, indisposes and disqualifies for intellectual exertion.
    SL 2.140 26 There is one direction in which all space is open to [each man]. He has faculties silently inviting him thither to endless exertion.
    UGM 4.6 16 It costs a beautiful person no exertion to paint her image on our eyes;...
    ET14 5.236 5 The ardor and endurance of [English] study...and, generally, the easy exertion of power,--astonish...
    Pow 6.57 11 [A broad, healthy, massive understanding]...anticipates everybody's discovery; and if it do not command every fact of the genius and the scholar, it is because it...does not think them worth the exertion which you do.
    CbW 6.260 9 Charles James Fox said of England, The history of this country proves that we are not to expect from men in affluent circumstances the vigilance, energy and exertion without which the House of Commons would lose its greatest force and weight.
    Elo1 7.97 10 He who will train himself to mastery in this science of persuasion must lay the emphasis of education...on character and insight. Let him see...that when he has spoken he...has engaged himself to wholesome exertion.
    DL 7.111 2 [The citizen's] house ought to show us his honest opinion of what makes his well-being when he...forgets all affectation, compliance, and even exertion of will.
    Suc 7.302 3 Ah! if one could...find the day and its cheap means contenting, which only ask receptivity in you, and no strained exertion and cankering ambition...
    Insp 8.283 20 Goethe said to Eckermann, I work more easily when the barometer is high than when it is low. Since I know this, I endeavor, when the barometer is low, to counteract the injurious effect by greater exertion...
    PerF 10.85 19 [A survey of cosmical powers]...animates exertion;...
    HDC 11.80 2 The Town Records show how slowly the inhabitants [of Concord] recovered from the strain of excessive exertion [during the Revolution].
    Scot 11.467 11 Disasters only drove [Scott] to immense exertion.
    CL 12.155 26 I [Linnaeus] saw [Lap] men more than seventy years old put their heel on their own neck, without any exertion.

exertions, n. (10)

    Nat 1.73 13 These are examples of...the exertions of a power which exists not in time or space...
    AmS 1.81 19 Perhaps the time is already come...when the sluggard intellect of this continent will...fill the postponed expectation of the world with something better than the exertions of mechanical skill.
    Comp 2.114 22 These ends of labor cannot be answered but by real exertions of the mind...
    SL 2.150 8 ...the most meritorious exertions really avail very little with us;...
    Nat2 3.186 10 [Nature]...has secured the symmetrical growth of the [the child's] bodily frame by all these attitudes and exertions...
    Nat2 3.191 13 ...it was known that men of thought and virtue...could lose good time whilst the room was getting warm in winter days. Unluckily, in the exertions necessary to remove these inconveniences, the main attention has been diverted to this object;...
    Cour 7.261 10 Each [new soldier] whispers to himself: My exertions must be of small account to the result;...
    Aris 10.43 6 ...a sound body must be at the root of any excellence in manners and actions; a strong and supple frame which...generates the habit of relying on a supply of power for all extraordinary exertions.
    MoL 10.252 26 The exertions of this force [intellect] are the eminent experiences...
    Trag 12.416 11 Analogous supplies are made to those individuals whose character leads them to vast exertions of body and mind.

exerts, v. (8)

    Nat 1.53 26 ...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.
    Tran 1.337 11 ...I have assurance in myself that in pardoning these faults according to the letter, man exerts the sovereign right which the majesty of his being confers on him;...
    SR 2.63 22 The magnetism which all original action exerts is explained when we inquire the reason of self-trust.
    Comp 2.92 8 Laurel crowns cleave to deserts/ And power to him who power exerts;/...
    EWI 11.122 6 ...that faculty which is paramount in any period and exerts itself through the strongest nation, determines the civility of that age...
    EWI 11.139 20 The tendency of things runs steadily to this point, namely... to give [every man] so much power as he naturally exerts...
    FSLC 11.184 8 What is the use of courts, if...no judge exerts original jurisdiction...
    Trag 12.407 15 ...universally, in uneducated and unreflecting persons on whom too the religious sentiment exerts little force, we discover traits of the same superstition [belief in Fate]...

Exeter, England, n. (1)

    ET11 5.179 12 Cambridge is the bridge of the Cam;...Exeter or Excester, the castra of the Ex;...

Exeter-Hall, England, adj. (1)

    ET13 5.229 13 Dickens writes novels on Exeter-Hall humanity.

ex-governor, n. (1)

    ET9 5.148 21 ...an ex-governor of Illinois, said to me, If the man knew anything, he would sit in a corner and be modest;...

exhalation, n. (5)

    Cir 2.320 20 [The new position of the advancing man]...is itself an exhalation of the morning.
    PI 8.46 18 ...the length of lines in songs and poems is determined by the inhalation and exhalation of the lungs.
    PLT 12.24 26 The plant absorbs much nourishment from the ground in order to repair its own waste by exhalation...
    CL 12.141 13 The air that we breathe is an exhalation of all the solid material of the globe.
    Bost 12.183 9 The air that we breathe is an exhalation of all the solid material globe.

exhale, v. (3)

    Nat 1.76 26 The sordor and filths of nature, the sun shall dry up and the wind exhale.
    F 6.28 2 [The breath of will] is the air which all intellects inhale and exhale...
    Farm 7.145 10 [The plants] burn, that is, exhale and decompose their own bodies into the air and earth again.

exhales, v. (3)

    Wsp 6.232 1 ...when flowers reach their ripeness, incense exhales from them...
    Elo1 7.93 23 Eloquence must be grounded on the plainest narrative. Afterwards, it may warm itself until it exhales symbols of every kind and color...
    Aris 10.33 23 Some qualities [Nature] carefully fixes and transmits, but some, and those the finer, she exhales with the breath of the individual...

exhaling, v. (1)

    ShP 4.210 15 [Shakespeare] was...a brain exhaling thoughts and images...

exhaust, v. (15)

    AmS 1.97 15 I will not...exhaust one vein of thought...
    MR 1.246 9 [Infirm people] contrive everywhere to exhaust for their single comfort the entire means and appliances of that luxury to which our invention has yet attained.
    Int 2.343 27 Exhaust [new doctrines]...
    Clbs 7.225 15 ...our tonics, our luxuries, are force-pumps which exhaust the strength they pretend to supply;...
    Cour 7.265 1 ...we do not exhaust the subject [Courage] in the slight analysis;...
    OA 7.316 1 [Josiah Quincy's] speech led me to look over at home...Cicero' s famous essay [De Senectute]...rising at the conclusion to a lofty strain. But he does not exhaust the subject;...
    SA 8.78 1 I have heard my master say that a man cannot fully exhaust the abilities of his nature.--Confucius.
    Imtl 8.336 23 We are driven by instinct to hive innumerable experiences which are of no visible value, and we may revolve through many lives before we shall assimilate or exhaust them.
    Imtl 8.337 21 I have known admirable persons, without feeling that they exhaust the possibilities of virtue and talent.
    Dem1 10.10 4 It is no wonder that particular dreams and presentiments should fall out and be prophetic. The fallacy consists in selecting a few insignificant hints, when all are inspired with the same sense. As if one should exhaust his astonishment at the economy of his thumb-nail, and overlook the central causal miracle of his being a man.
    Edc1 10.131 15 In our condition are the roots of language and communication, and these instructions we never exhaust.
    SovE 10.201 2 You have perceived in the first fact of your conscious life here a miracle so astounding...as to exhaust wonder...
    FRep 11.511 13 The manufacturers rely on turbines of hydraulic perfection; the carpet-mill, of mordants and dyes which exhaust the skill of the chemist;...
    PLT 12.25 11 Every man has material enough in his experience to exhaust the sagacity of Newton in working it out.
    PLT 12.43 19 ...sensibility does not exhaust our idea of [genius].

exhausted, adj. (2)

    ET14 5.243 9 ...we find stumps of vast trees in our exhausted soils, and have received traditions of their ancient fertility to tillage...
    ET16 5.275 26 I told Carlyle that...I like the [English] people;...but meantime, I surely know that as soon as I return to Massachusetts I shall lapse at once into the feeling...that England, an old and exhausted island, must one day be contented, like other parents, to be strong only in her children.

exhausted, v. (26)

    Nat 1.39 20 ...weigh the problems suggested concerning...Geology, and judge whether the interest of natural science is likely to be soon exhausted.
    Nat 1.41 12 Nothing in nature is exhausted in its first use.
    Nat 1.61 3 Uses that are exhausted or that may be...cannot be all that is true of this brave lodging...
    AmS 1.99 2 When the artist has exhausted his materials...he has always the resource to live.
    AmS 1.99 25 Not out of those on whom systems of education have exhausted their culture, comes the helpful giant...to build the new...
    AmS 1.108 6 The books which once we valued more than the apple of the eye, we have quite exhausted.
    SR 2.86 17 Hudson and Behring accomplished so much in their fishing-boats as to astonish Parry and Franklin, whose equipment exhausted the resources of science and art.
    Prd1 2.233 21 ...who has not seen the tragedy of imprudent genius struggling for years with paltry pecuniary difficulties, at last sinking, chilled, exhausted and fruitless...
    Pt1 3.18 10 We are far from having exhausted the significance of the few symbols we use.
    Exp 3.46 4 We are like millers on the lower levels of a stream, when the factories above them have exhausted the water.
    NR 3.244 1 When [a man] has exhausted for the time the nourishment to be drawn from any one person or thing, that object is withdrawn from his observation...
    ET4 5.61 16 The continued draught of the best men in Norway, Sweden and Denmark to these piratical expeditions exhausted those countries...
    Bhr 6.184 24 ...the high-born Turk who came hither [to a dress circle] fancied...that all the talkers were brained and exhausted by the deoxygenated air;...
    PI 8.7 20 The electric word pronounced by John Hunter a hundred years ago, arrested and progressive development...gave the poetic key to Natural Science...a hint whose power is not yet exhausted...
    SA 8.101 23 In America, the necessity of...building every house and barn and fence, then church and town-house, exhausted such means as the Pilgrims brought...
    Res 8.149 9 ...when the mind has exhausted its energies for one employment, it is still fresh and capable of a different task.
    SovE 10.208 1 ...the most accomplished culture, or rapt holiness, never exhausted the claim of these lowly duties...
    MoL 10.256 25 ...this big-mouthed talker, among his dictionaries and Leipzig editions of Lysias, had lost his knowledge. But the President of the Bank...relates that at Virginia Springs this idol of the forum exhausted a trunkful of classic authors.
    Schr 10.288 8 ...gentlemen, there is plainly no end to these expansions [on the scholar]. I have exhausted your patience, and I have only begun.
    Thor 10.458 5 As soon as [Thoreau] had exhausted the advantages of that solitude [at Walden Pond], he abandoned it.
    Thor 10.485 6 ...[Thoreau] had in a short life exhausted the capabilities of this world;...
    War 11.160 8 [The human race] have nearly exhausted all the good and all the evil of this [first brutish] form...
    II 12.86 22 See the poor flies, lately so wanton, now fixed to the wall or the tree, exhausted and presently blown away.
    Milt1 12.277 11 Milton...exhausted the stores of his intellect for an end beyond, namely, to teach.
    ACri 12.298 24 ...[Carlyle's History of Frederick II is] a book...with new heroes, things unvoiced before-the German Plutarch, now that we have exhausted the Greek and Roman and British biography...
    Let 12.394 6 ...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, and with their company. They have exhausted all its benefit...

exhaustible, adj. (2)

    SR 2.80 5 ...in all unbalanced minds the classification...passes for the end and not for a speedily exhaustible means...
    Pt1 3.40 20 Comes [the poet] to that power, his genius is no longer exhaustible.

exhausting, adj. (6)

    PPh 4.40 2 Even the men of grander proportion suffer some deduction from the misfortune (shall I say?) of coming after this exhausting generalizer [Plato].
    NMW 4.242 25 ...even when the majority of the people had begun to ask whether they had really gained any thing under the exhausting levies of men and money of the new master [Napoleon], the whole talent of the country...took his part...
    ET3 5.38 19 Here [in England] is...a temperature which makes no exhausting demand on human strength...
    ET5 5.86 13 Before the bombardment of the Danish forts in the Baltic, Nelson spent day after day, himself, in the boats, on the exhausting service of sounding the channel.
    LLNE 10.344 5 ...some numbers [of The Dial] had an instant exhausting sale, because of papers by Theodore Parker.
    ALin 11.333 7 ...[good humor] is to a man of severe labor, in anxious and exhausting crises, the natural resorative...

exhausting, v. (1)

    Res 8.139 15 Is there any load which water cannot lift? If there be, try steam; or if not that, try electricity. Is there any exhausting of these means?

exhaustions, n. (1)

    Res 8.150 17 In this country we have not learned how to repair the exhaustions of our climate.

exhaustive, adj. (4)

    ET16 5.279 1 Some diligent Fellowes or Layard will arrive...at the whole history [of Stonehenge], by that exhaustive British sense and perseverance... which leaves its own Stonehenge...to the rabbits, whilst it opens pyramids and uncovers Nineveh.
    EdAd 11.384 11 [The traveller] reflects on...what levers, what pumps, what exhaustive analyses are applied to Nature [in America] for the benefit of masses of men.
    PLT 12.3 16 Could we have...the exhaustive accuracy of distribution which chemists use in their nomenclature...applied to a higher class of facts;...
    PLT 12.12 12 All these exhaustive theories appear indeed a false and vain attempt to introvert and analyze the Primal Thought.

exhausts, v. (3)

    MN 1.217 21 ...if the object [beloved] be not itself a living and expanding soul, [the lover] presently exhausts it.
    Art2 7.45 26 One consideration more exhausts I believe all the deductions from the genius of the artist in any given work.
    PerF 10.76 12 ...[man] exhausts by his use all the harvests...

exhibit, v. (31)

    LT 1.266 21 ...we are not permitted to stand as spectators of the pageant which the times exhibit;...
    SL 2.141 11 ...the more truly [a man] consults his own powers, the more difference will his work exhibit from the work of any other.
    Hsm1 2.255 20 ...that which takes my fancy most in the heroic class, is the good-humor and hilarity they exhibit.
    OS 2.285 27 Against their will [men] exhibit those decisive trifles by which character is read.
    Art1 2.355 5 This...power to fix the momentary eminency of an object...the painter and sculptor exhibit in color and in stone.
    Pt1 3.19 11 ...in a centred mind, it signifies nothing how many mechanical inventions you exhibit.
    Mrs1 3.124 11 The courage which girls exhibit is like a battle of Lundy's Lane...
    UGM 4.33 27 The genius of humanity is the right point of view of history. The qualities abide; the men who exhibit them have now more, now less, and pass away;...
    PPh 4.60 22 I, therefore, Callicles, am persuaded by these accounts [said Plato], and consider how I may exhibit my soul before the judge in a healthy condition.
    SwM 4.103 3 A drop of water has the properties of the sea, but cannot exhibit a storm.
    ShP 4.212 21 [A man of talents] has certain observations, opinions, topics, which have some accidental prominence, and which he disposes all to exhibit.
    GoW 4.264 14 ...nature has more splendid endowments for those whom she elects to a superior office; for the class of scholars or writers...who are impelled to exhibit the facts in order...
    ET5 5.90 21 Private persons [in England] exhibit...the same pertinacity as the nation showed in the coalitions in which it yoked Europe against the empire of Bonaparte...
    ET15 5.267 13 [The London Times's] consummate discretion and success exhibit the English skill of combination.
    Bhr 6.193 9 In all the superior people I have met I notice directness, truth spoken more truly, as if everything of obstruction, of malformation, had been trained away. What have they to conceal" What have they to exhibit"
    Elo1 7.62 3 Our county conventions often exhibit a small-pot-soon-hot style of eloquence.
    DL 7.119 17 There was never a country in the world which could so easily exhibit this heroism as ours;...
    PI 8.7 27 Anatomy, osteology, exhibit arrested or progessive ascent in each kind;...
    PI 8.8 5 Anatomy, osteology, exhibit arrested or progessive ascent in each kind; the lower pointing to the higher forms, the higher to the highest...as if the whole animal world were only a Hunterian museum to exhibit the genesis of mankind.
    PPo 8.262 11 The following passages exhibit the strong tendency of the Persian poets to contemplative and religious poetry and to allegory.
    Dem1 10.6 15 In a dream we have...the same torpidity of the highest power, the same unsurprised assent to the monstrous as these metamorphosed men [animals] exhibit.
    Aris 10.56 5 I am acquainted with persons who go attended with this ambient cloud. ... Their manners and behavior in the house and in the field are those of men at rest: what have they to conceal? what have they to exhibit?
    Thor 10.476 3 [Thoreau] had...an unwillingness to exhibit to profane eyes what was still sacred in his own...
    HDC 11.48 6 A man felt himself at liberty to exhibit, at town-meeting, feelings and actions that he would have been ashamed of anywhere but amongst his neighbors.
    HDC 11.83 21 [The Concord Town Records] exhibit a pleasing picture of a community almost exclusively agricultural...
    Wom 11.413 24 The first thing men think of, when they love, is to exhibit their usefulness and advantages to the object of their affection.
    FRO2 11.489 2 If you are childish, and exhibit your saint as a worker of wonders, a thaumaturgist, I am repelled.
    FRep 11.520 20 Parties...exhibit a surprising fugacity in creeping out of one snake-skin into another of equal ignominy and lubricity...
    CW 12.177 23 ...the naturalist has no barren places, no winter, and no night, pursuing his researches...in the night even, because the woods exhibit a whole new world of nocturnal animals;...
    Bost 12.185 8 ...if the character of the people [of Boston] has a larger range and greater versatility, causing them to exhibit equal dexterity in what are elsewhere reckoned incompatible works, perhaps they may thank their climate of extremes...
    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.

exhibited, v. (21)

    LE 1.178 23 Not the least instructive passage in modern history seems to me a trait of Napoleon exhibited to the English when he became their prisoner.
    Hist 2.24 20 The reverence exhibited [in the Grecian period] is for personal qualities;...
    SR 2.83 13 No man yet knows what [that which he can do best] is, nor can, till that person has exhibited it.
    OS 2.282 10 What was in the case of these remarkable persons a ravishment, has, in innumerable instances in common life, been exhibited in less striking manner.
    Art1 2.355 9 ...every object...may of course be so exhibited to us as to represent the world.
    PPh 4.57 11 The mind of Plato is not to be exhibited by a Chinese catalogue...
    PNR 4.82 27 Whatever [Plato] looks upon discloses a second sense, and ulterior senses. His...discernment of the little in the large and the large in the small; studying the state in the citizen and the citizen in the state; and leaving it doubtful whether he exhibited the Republic as an allegory on the education of the private soul;...
    SwM 4.105 3 ...the largest application of principles, had been exhibited by Leibnitz and Christian Wolff, in cosmology;...
    ET11 5.193 5 Dismal anecdotes abound...of great lords living by the showing of their houses, and of an old man wheeled in his chair from room to room, whilst his chambers are exhibited to the visitor for money;...
    Cour 7.254 12 Men admire...the power of better combination and foresight, however exhibited...
    Elo2 8.111 22 ...[in a debate] much power is to be exhibited which is not yet called into existence...
    MoL 10.243 1 America at large exhibited such a confusion as California showed in 1849...
    LLNE 10.333 4 In the pulpit...[Everett] gave the reins to his florid, quaint and affluent fancy. Then was exhibited all the richness of a rhetoric which we have never seen rivalled in this country.
    Thor 10.451 4 [Thoreau's] character exhibited occasional traits drawn from this [French] blood...
    Thor 10.451 20 After completing his experiments [on lead-pencils], [Thoreau] exhibited his work to chemists and artists in Boston...
    HDC 11.59 16 ...what chiefly interests me, in the annals of [King Philip's] war, is the grandeur of spirit exhibited by a few of the Indian chiefs.
    HDC 11.59 26 The virtues of patriotism and of prodigious courage and address were exhibited [in King Philip's war] on both sides...
    War 11.154 16 ...[war] is exhibited to us continually in the dumb show of brute nature...
    SMC 11.355 17 ...we have all heard passages of generous and exceptional behavior exhibited by individuals there [in the South] to our officers and men...
    Bost 12.206 1 ...there was never, I suppose, a more rapid expansion in population, wealth and all the elements of power, and in the citizens' consciousness of power and sustained assertion of it, than was exhibited here.
    MLit 12.316 25 Of the perception now fast becoming a conscious fact...that I, as a man, may claim and appropriate whatever of true or fair or good or strong has anywhere been exhibited;...literature is far the best expression.

exhibiting, v. (6)

    PNR 4.88 4 ...a very well-marked class of souls, namely those who delight in giving a spiritual, that is, an ethico-intellectual expression to every truth, by exhibiting an ulterior end which is yet legitimate to it,--are said to Platonize.
    SwM 4.120 22 This design of exhibiting such correpondences [between heaven and earth]...was narrowed and defeated by the exclusively theologic direction which [Swedenborg's] inquiries took.
    Wth 6.98 5 Every man wishes to see...the mountains and craters in the moon; yet how few can buy a telescope! and of those, scarcely one would like the trouble of keeping it in order and exhibiting it.
    DL 7.131 2 ...I think the public museum in each town will one day relieve the private house of this charge of owning and exhibiting [statues and pictures].
    PPo 8.238 6 [Life in the East's] elements are few and simple, not exhibiting the long range and undulation of European existence...
    Milt1 12.254 19 Better than any other [Milton] has discharged the office of every great man, namely...to draw after Nature a life of man, exhibiting such a composition of grace, of strength and of virtue, as poet had not described nor hero lived.

Exhibition, Academy, n. (1)

    ET4 5.53 2 The portraits that hang on the walls in the Academy Exhibition at London...are distinctive English...

exhibition, n. (25)

    MN 1.218 7 Talent...exists for exhibition...
    Con 1.310 22 It is trivial and merely superstitious to say that nothing is given you, no outfit, no exhibition;...
    Con 1.312 24 ...as soon as you put your gift to use, you shall have acre or acre's worth according to your exhibition of desert...
    Art1 2.354 6 We are immersed in beauty, but our eyes have no clear vision. It needs, by the exhibition of single traits, to assist and lead the dormant taste.
    Art1 2.366 12 ...the artist and the connoisseur now seek in art the exhibition of their talent...
    Chr1 3.105 6 Thence [from character] comes a new intellectual exaltation, to be again rebuked by some new exhibition of character.
    UGM 4.32 27 No man, in all the procession of famous men, is reason or illumination or that essence we were looking for; but is an exhibition, in some quarter, of new possibilities.
    MoS 4.149 11 Nothing so thin but has these two faces [sensation and morals], and when the observer has seen the obverse, he turns it over to see the reverse. Life is a pitching of this penny,--heads or tails. We never tire of this game, because there is still a slight shudder of astonishment at the exhibition of the other face...
    ShP 4.194 25 As soon as the statue was begun for itself, and with no reference to the temple or palace, the art began to decline: freak, extravagance and exhibition took the place of the old temperance.
    ET9 5.150 14 ...in books of science, one is surprised [in England] by the most innocent exhibition of unflinching nationality.
    Wth 6.98 18 ...pictures, engravings, statues and casts, beside their first cost, entail expenses, as of galleries and keepers for the exhibition;...
    Ctr 6.139 12 The hardiest skeptic...who has visited...the exhibition of the Industrious Fleas, will not deny the validity of education.
    Bhr 6.182 16 Palaces interest us mainly in the exhibition of manners...
    Art2 7.56 14 Now [the arts] languish, because their purpose is merely exhibition.
    Elo1 7.69 7 The traveller in Sicily needs no gayer melodramatic exhibition [of eloquence] than the table d'hote of his inn will afford him in the conversation of the joyous guests.
    Suc 7.291 26 ...whilst this self-truth is essential to the exhibition of the world and to the growth and glory of each mind, it is rare to find a man who believes his own thought...
    Suc 7.308 23 I think that some so-called sacred subjects must be treated with more genius than I have seen in the masters of Italian or Spanish art to be right pictures for houses and churches. Nature does not invite such exhibition.
    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...by the exhibition of an unlooked-for bias in the judges or in the audience.
    CSC 10.376 5 There was a great deal of wearisome speaking in each of those three-days' sessions [of the Chardon Street Convention], but relieved...especially by the exhibition of character, and by the victories of character.
    Thor 10.467 8 ...the turtle, frog, hyla and cricket, which make the banks [of the Concord River] vocal,-were all known to [Thoreau], and, as it were, townsmen and fellow creatures; so that he felt an absurdity or violence in any narrative of one of these by itself apart, and still more of...in the exhibition of its skeleton...
    FRO2 11.489 22 Whoever thinks a story gains...by adding something out of nature, robs it more than he adds. It is no longer an example...but an exhibition...
    II 12.80 17 We do not yet trust the unknown powers of thought. The whole world is nothing but an exhibition of the powers of this principle, which distributes men.
    MAng1 12.222 11 ...not the most swinish compost of mud and blood that was ever misnamed philosophy, can avail to hinder us from doing involuntary reverence to any exhibition of majesty or surpassing beauty in human clay.
    MAng1 12.223 5 Seeing these works [of art], we appreciate the taste which led Michael Angelo...to cover the walls of churches with unclothed figures, improper, says his biographer, for the place, but proper for the exhibition of all the pomp of his profound knowledge.
    MLit 12.316 5 Has [the writer] led thee to Nature because his own soul was too happy in beholding her power and love? Or is his passion for the wilderness only...the exhibition of a talent which only shines whilst you praise it;...

Exhibition, n. (1)

    ET8 5.135 24 Here [in England] was lately a cross-grained miser [Joseph Turner]...yet as true a worshipper of beauty in form and color as ever existed...and when he saw that the splendor of one of his pictures in the Exhibition dimmed his rival's that hung next it, secretly took a brush and blackened his own.

exhibitions, n. (4)

    SovE 10.201 4 You have perceived in the first fact of your conscious life here a miracle so astounding...as to...leave you no need of hunting here or there for any particular exhibitions of power.
    Prch 10.219 18 No age and no person is destitute of the [religious] sentiment, but in actual history its illustrious exhibitions are interrupted and periodical...
    MoL 10.245 18 Ernest Renan finds that Europe has thrice assembled for exhibitions of industry, and not a poem graced the occasion;...
    Schr 10.287 16 [The scholar] is still to decline how many glittering opportunities, and to retreat, and wait. So shall you find in this penury and absence of thought a purer splendor than ever clothed the exhibitions of wit.

Exhibitions, School, n. (1)

    CW 12.172 12 I did not know [when I bought my farm] what groups of interesting school-boys and fair school-girls were...to take hold of one's heart at the School Exhibitions.

exhibits, v. (18)

    Hist 2.30 26 ...where [the story of Prometheus] departs from the Calvinistic Christianity and exhibits him as the defier of Jove, it represents a state of mind which readily appears wherever the doctrine of Theism is taught in a crude, objective form...
    Pt1 3.14 22 The mighty heaven, said Proclus, exhibits, in its transfigurations, clear images of the splendor of intellectual perceptions;...
    Pol1 3.221 14 I do not call to mind a single human being who has steadily denied the authority of the laws, on the simple ground of his own moral nature. Such designs...are not entertained except avowedly as air-pictures. If the individual who exhibits them dare to think them practicable, he disgusts scholars and churchmen;...
    MoS 4.184 2 Charles Fourier announced that...every desire predicts its own satisfaction. Yet all experience exhibits the reverse of this;...
    ET9 5.145 27 This [English] arrogance habitually exhibits itself in allusions to the French.
    ET10 5.153 3 In America there is a touch of shame when a man exhibits the evidences of large property...
    ET10 5.156 10 Every [English] household exhibits an exact economy...
    Wth 6.106 6 The laws of nature play through trade, as a toy-battery exhibits the effects of electricity.
    Art2 7.52 1 The galleries of ancient sculpture in Naples and Rome strike no deeper conviction into the mind than the contrast of the purity, the severity expressed in these fine old heads, with the frivolity and grossness of the mob that exhibits and the mob that gazes at them.
    Elo1 7.62 7 Each patient [taking nitrous-oxide gas] in turn exhibits similar symptoms...
    Clbs 7.233 13 One of those conceited prigs who value Nature only as it feeds and exhibits them is equally a pest with the roysterers.
    SA 8.82 24 ...if the elegant are also intellectual, instantly the hesitating scholar...exhibits the best style of manners.
    Imtl 8.348 18 Within every man's thought is a higher thought,-within the character he exhibits to-day, a higher character.
    SovE 10.183 7 ...each of the great departments of Nature...exhibits the same laws on a different plane;...
    Schr 10.282 14 The spiritual nature exhibits itself so in its counteraction to any accumulation of material force.
    EWI 11.101 22 The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right...
    II 12.71 20 [Our companion] exhibits an exotic culture, as if he had his education in another planet.
    MLit 12.310 22 [The library of the Present Age] exhibits a vast carcass of tradition every year...

exhilarate, v. (1)

    Art1 2.363 23 Art should exhilarate...

exhilarated, v. (2)

    Mrs1 3.149 17 I have seen an individual...who exhilarated the fancy by flinging wide the doors of new modes of existence;...
    Dem1 10.24 9 Read a page of Cudworth or of Bacon, and we are exhilarated...

exhilarates, v. (2)

    Schr 10.263 6 Every natural power exhilarates;...
    CW 12.176 9 ...the perception of beauty always exhilarates...

exhilarating, adj. (2)

    Clbs 7.225 18 ...of all the cordials known to us, the best, safest and most exhilarating...is society;...
    PLT 12.26 22 ...no wine, music or exhilarating aids...avail at all to resist the palsy of mis-association.

exhilaration, n. (7)

    Nat 1.9 21 Crossing a bare common...I have enjoyed a perfect exhilaration.
    MR 1.237 1 When I go into my garden with a spade, and dig a bed, I feel such an exhilaration...that I discover that I have been defrauding myself all this time in letting others do for me what I should have done with my own hands.
    Fdsp 2.191 13 The effect of the indulgence of this human affection is a certain cordial exhilaration.
    Pt1 3.27 23 ...if in any manner we can stimulate this instinct...the mind flows into and through things hardest and highest, and the metamorphosis is possible. This is the reason why bards love wine...the fumes of sandalwood and tobacco, or whatever other procurers of animal exhilaration.
    Pt1 3.30 5 The use of symbols has a certain power of emancipation and exhilaration for all men.
    Bhr 6.195 22 I have seen manners that make a similar impression with personal beauty; that give the like exhilaration...
    Civ 7.33 13 ...it is frivolous to insist on the invention...of...percussion-caps and rubber-shoes, which are toys thrown off from that security, freedom and exhilaration which a healthy morality creates in society.

exhortation, n. (4)

    MN 1.194 27 Not exhortation, not argument becomes our lips...
    MN 1.198 3 What difference can it make whether [our glance at the realities around us] take the shape of exhortation...
    II 12.80 7 It is the exhortation of Zoroaster, Let the depth, the immortal depth of your soul lead you.
    PPr 12.381 17 As we recall the topics [in Carlyle's Past and Present], we are struck with the force given to the plain truths;...the exhortation to the workman that he shall respect the work and not the wages;...

exhortations, n. (1)

    EzRy 10.394 18 This intimate knowledge of families...and still more, his sympathy, made [Ezra Ripley] incomparable...in his exhortations and prayers.

exigencies, n. (2)

    Pow 6.62 22 The very word 'commerce'...is pinched to the cramp exigencies of English experience.
    WD 7.163 18 [Man] sees the skull of the English race changing from its Saxon type under the exigencies of American life.

exigency, n. (2)

    ET5 5.93 15 ...in the complications of the trade and politics of their vast empire, [the English] have been equal to every exigency...
    Elo1 7.76 24 What we really wish for is a mind equal to any exigency.

exigent, adj. (4)

    ET12 5.210 27 The diet and rough exercise [at Oxford] secure a certain amount of old Norse power. A fop will fight, and in exigent circumstances will play the manly part.
    Wsp 6.241 18 Was never stoicism so stern and exigent as this [new church founded on moral science] shall be.
    Clbs 7.225 14 Varied foods, climates, beautiful objects,--and especially the alternation of a large variety of objects,--are the necessity of this exigent system of ours.
    Res 8.151 3 ...the subject [the physiology of taste] is so large and exigent that a few particulars...cannot satisfy.

exile, n. (7)

    Art1 2.349 22 'T is the privilege of Art/ Thus to play its cheerful part,/ Man in Earth to acclimate/ And bend the exile to his fate/...
    NMW 4.239 19 [Napoleon] said that in their exile [the Bourbons] had learned nothing, and forgot nothing.
    ET7 5.121 22 ...the Englishman is not fickle. He had really made up his mind now for years as he read his newspaper, to hate and despise M. Guizot; and the altered position of the man as an illustrious exile and a guest in the country, makes no difference to him...
    ET11 5.193 7 Dismal anecdotes abound...of ruined dukes and earls living in exile for debt.
    ET15 5.272 20 ...[if the London Times would cleave to the right] its proud function, that of being...the defender of the exile and patriot against despots, would be more effectually discharged;...
    PI 8.59 7 To an exile on an island [Taliessin] says,--The heavy blue chain of the sea didst thou, O just man, endure.
    Koss 11.400 25 Sir [Kossuth]...we congratulate you that you have known how to convert...exile into a campaign...

exile, v. (1)

    ET11 5.181 2 The English go to their estates for grandeur. The French live at court, and exile themselves to their estates for economy.

exiled, adj. (1)

    Mrs1 3.144 14 ...here is...Tul Wil Shan, the exiled nabob of Nepaul, whose saddle is the new moon.

exiled, v. (2)

    Chr1 3.99 14 I revere the person who is riches; so that I cannot think of him as alone, or poor, or exiled, or unhappy, or a client...
    ET1 5.15 8 Carlyle was...as absolute a man of the world, unknown and exiled on that hill-farm, as if holding on his own terms what is best in London.

exiles, n. (4)

    ET18 5.302 5 ...this [English] shop-rule had one magnificent effect. It extends its cold unalterable courtesy to political exiles of every opinion...
    QO 8.188 8 A more subtle and severe criticism might suggest that...that multitudes of men do not live with Nature, but behold it as exiles.
    HDC 11.40 6 There is no people, said [the settlers of Concord's] pastor 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 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?

exist, v. (109)

    Nat 1.43 16 Not only resemblances exist in things whose analogy is obvious...but also in objects wherein there is great superficial unlikeness.
    Nat 1.57 19 We apprehend the absolute. As it were, for the first time, we exist.
    Nat 1.63 26 ...the dread universal essence...is that for which all things exist...
    AmS 1.84 15 ...do not all things exist for the student's behoof?
    AmS 1.115 26 A nation of men will for the first time exist...
    DSA 1.127 24 ...poetry, the ideal life, the holy life, exist as ancient history merely;...
    DSA 1.132 24 The world seems to [the simple] to exist for [the great and rich soul]...
    DSA 1.149 22 Let us thank God that such things [virtuous acts] exist.
    MN 1.204 2 ...the spirit and peculiarity of that impression nature makes on us is this, that it does not exist to any one or to any number of particular ends...
    MN 1.208 26 Whilst a necessity so great caused the man to exist, his health and erectness consist in the fidelity with which he transmits influences from the vast and universal to the point on which his genius can act.
    MN 1.218 25 ...when Genius arrives...it has no straining to describe, more than there is straining in nature to exist.
    MN 1.221 9 The lovers of goodness have been one class, the students of wisdom another; as if either could exist in any purity without the other.
    MN 1.223 20 ...these qualities did not now begin to exist...
    MR 1.250 24 ...the believer not only beholds his heaven to be possible, but already to begin to exist...
    LT 1.259 6 To appear in these aspects, [the present aspects of our social state] must first exist...
    Con 1.301 15 ...no man can continue to exist in whom both these elements [Conservatism and Reform] do not work...
    Con 1.316 8 The reformer concedes that these mitigations exist...
    Tran 1.335 20 ...if you ask me, Whence am I? I feel like other men my relation to that Fact which cannot be spoken, or defined, or even thought, but which exists, and will exist.
    Tran 1.343 14 ...[Transcendentalists] will own...that there are...persons whose faces are perhaps unknown to them, but whose fame and spirit have penetrated their solitude,-and for whose sake they wish to exist.
    YA 1.370 22 ...here shall laws and institutions exist on some scale of proportion to the majesty of nature.
    YA 1.373 5 This Genius or Destiny is of the sternest administration, though rumors exist of its secret tenderness.
    SR 2.64 17 We first share the life by which things exist...
    SR 2.67 7 These roses under my window...exist with God to-day.
    Comp 2.100 9 Though no checks to a new evil appear, the checks exist...
    Prd1 2.222 9 The world of the senses...does not exist for itself...
    OS 2.269 11 ...this deep power in which we exist...is not only self-sufficing and perfect in every hour...
    OS 2.283 5 In past oracles of the soul the understanding...undertakes to tell from God how long men shall exist...
    Exp 3.75 8 ...the elements already exist in many minds around you of a doctrine of life which shall transcend any written record we have.
    Exp 3.75 20 It is very unhappy...the discovery we have made that we exist.
    Chr1 3.96 5 All things exist in the man tinged with the manners of his soul.
    Mrs1 3.133 22 [Fops] pass also at their just rate; for how can they otherwise, in circles which exist as a sort of herald's office for the sifting of character.
    Nat2 3.182 15 If we had eyes to see it, a bit of stone from the city wall would certify us of the necessity that man must exist, as readily as the city.
    Nat2 3.195 8 These [universal laws], while they exist in the mind as ideas, stand around us in nature forever embodied...
    Pol1 3.212 13 ...everybody's interest requires that [a mob] should not exist...
    Pol1 3.213 26 All forms of government symbolize an immortal government...perfect where two men exist, perfect where there is only one man.
    NR 3.226 24 All persons exist to society by some shining trait of beauty or utility which they have.
    UGM 4.3 9 Nature seems to exist for the excellent.
    UGM 4.35 5 ...within the limits of human education and agency, we may say great men exist that there may be greater men.
    SwM 4.114 7 It is a constant law of the organic body that large, compound, or visible forms exist and subsist from smaller, simpler and ultimately from invisible forms...
    SwM 4.120 21 The reason why all and single things, in the heavens and on earth, are representative, is because they exist from an influx of the Lord, through heaven [said Swedenborg].
    SwM 4.138 12 That pure malignity can exist is the extreme proposition of unbelief.
    MoS 4.151 27 The trade in our streets...thinks nothing of the force which necessitated traders and a trading planet to exist...
    MoS 4.171 4 One man appears whose nature is to all men's eyes conserving and constructive; his presence supposes a well-ordered society, agriculture, trade, large institutions and empire. If these did not exist, they would begin to exist through his endeavors.
    MoS 4.171 5 One man appears whose nature is to all men's eyes conserving and constructive; his presence supposes a well-ordered society, agriculture, trade, large institutions and empire. If these did not exist, they would begin to exist through his endeavors.
    GoW 4.276 22 ...[Goethe] flies at the throat of this imp [the Devil]. He shall be real;...or he shall not exist.
    GoW 4.290 10 Goethe teaches...that the disadvantages of any epoch exist only to the faint-hearted.
    GoW 4.290 18 The secret of genius is to suffer no fiction to exist for us;...
    ET4 5.46 8 ...slavery does not exist under [the English].
    ET4 5.47 13 How came such men as...Francis Bacon, George Herbert, Henry Vane, to exist here [in England]?
    ET5 5.96 13 The English trade does not exist for the exportation of native products...
    ET9 5.144 5 Property is so perfect [in England] that it seems the craft of that race, and not to exist elsewhere.
    ET14 5.248 4 The critic [in England] hides his skepticism under the English cant of practical. To convince the reason, to touch the conscience, is romantic pretension. The fine arts fall to the ground. Beauty, except as luxurious commodity, does not exist.
    F 6.37 20 The like adjustments exist for man.
    Wth 6.97 3 ...it is each man's interest that...wealth or surplus product should exist somewhere...
    Wth 6.99 7 If properties of this kind [works of art] were owned by states, towns and lyceums, they would draw the bonds of neighborhood closer. A town would exist to an intellectual purpose.
    Ctr 6.150 11 The best bribe which London offers to-day to the imagination is that in such a vast variety of people and conditions one can believe there is room for persons of romantic character to exist...
    Wsp 6.210 21 It is believed by well-dressed proprietors...that the solid portion of society exist for the arts of comfort;...
    Wsp 6.242 5 Honor and fortune exist to him who always recognizes the neighborhood of the great,--always feels himself in the presence of high causes.
    Bty 6.300 13 If command...exist in the most deformed person, all the accidents that usually displease, please...
    Ill 6.320 2 Though the world exist from thought, thought is daunted in presence of the world.
    SS 7.12 9 ...if we recall the rare hours when we encountered the best persons, we then found ourselves, and then first society seemed to exist.
    Art2 7.52 11 Herein is the explanation of the analogies, which exist in all the arts. They are the reappearance of one mind, working in many materials...
    Elo1 7.81 20 Personal ascendency may exist with or without adequate talent for its expression.
    Elo1 7.82 5 If the talents for speaking exist, but not the strong personality, then there are good speakers who perfectly receive and express the will of the audience...
    Elo1 7.95 11 ...the conditions for eloquence always exist.
    DL 7.114 14 Give us wealth, and the home shall exist.
    DL 7.116 12 ...this voice of communities and ages, Give us wealth and the good household shall exist, is vicious...
    Boks 7.211 6 [Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy] is an inventory to remind us how many classes and species of facts exist...
    Cour 7.269 14 The old principles which books exist to express are more beautiful than any book;...
    PI 8.6 27 Such currents...exist in thoughts...that as soon as once thought begins, it refuses to remember whose brain it belongs to;...
    PI 8.8 9 Identity of law...perfect parallelism between the laws of Nature and the laws of thought exist.
    PI 8.10 26 Goethe did not believe that a great naturalist could exist without this faculty [of imagination].
    PI 8.17 7 Poetry is the perpetual endeavor...to pass the brute body and search the life and reason which causes it to exist;...
    PC 8.219 15 Every book is written with a constant secret reference to the few intelligent persons whom the writer believes to exist in the million.
    PC 8.231 14 Difficulties exist to be surmounted.
    PPo 8.237 13 That for which mainly books exist is communicated in these rich extracts [from Persian poetry].
    Insp 8.294 10 We esteem nations important, until we discover...later, that it is...at last...the lowliness, the outpouring, the large equality to truth of a single mind,-as if in the narrow walls of a human heart...the tribunal by which the universe is judged, found room to exist.
    Imtl 8.349 25 Nachiketas said, there is this inquiry. Some say the soul exists after the death of man; others say it does not exist.
    Dem1 10.19 26 ...[belief in the demonological] extends the popular idea of success to the very gods;...that fortunate men, fortunate youths exist, whose good is not virtue or the public good, but a private good...
    Dem1 10.25 1 Men...who had thought it the most natural thing in the world that they should exist in this orderly and replenished world, have been unable to suppress their amazement at the disclosures of the somnambulist.
    Aris 10.36 1 ...inequalities exist...in the powers of expression and action;...
    Aris 10.38 22 These distinctions [in men] exist, and they are deep...
    Aris 10.45 18 An aristocracy could not exist unless it were organic.
    Aris 10.59 22 A grand style of culture...does not exist...
    PerF 10.87 20 ...all beauty, all health, all intelligence exist by [our moral sentiment];...
    Chr2 10.98 12 How can [a man] exist to weave relations of joy and virtue with other souls...
    Prch 10.234 14 The supposed embarrassments to young clergymen exist only to feeble wills.
    MoL 10.255 11 ...in the narrow walls of a human heart...the tribunal by which the universe is judged, found room to exist.
    MMEm 10.422 7 We call [Time] by every name of fleeting, dreaming, vaporing imagery. Yet it is nothing. We exist in eternity.
    MMEm 10.430 19 Those economists (Adam Smith) who say...that, whatever disposition of virtue may exist, unless something is done for society, deserves no fame,-why, I [Mary Moody Emerson] am content with such paradoxical kind of facts;...
    SlHr 10.446 11 ...whilst [Samuel Hoar's] talent and his profession led him to guard the material wealth of society, a more disinterested person did not exist.
    LS 11.25 2 [The pastoral office] has some [duties] which it will always be my delight to discharge according to my ability, wherever I exist.
    FSLN 11.229 17 [Passage of the Fugitive Slave Law] showed...that while we reckoned ourselves a highly cultivated nation...the principles of culture and progress did not exist.
    FSLN 11.231 18 There are two forces in Nature, by whose antagonism we exist;...
    JBB 11.267 4 Gentlemen who have preceded me have well said that no wall of separation could here exist.
    ACiv 11.298 3 There is no interest in any country so imperative as that of labor; it covers all, and constitutions and goverments exist for that,-to protect and insure it to the laborer.
    ACiv 11.306 10 There does exist, perhaps, a popular will that the Union shall not be broken...
    Wom 11.412 9 There is no gift of Nature without some drawback. So, to women, this exquisite structure could not exist without its own penalty.
    RBur 11.439 11 ...I must trust to the inspirations of the theme [of the Burns Festival] to make a fitness which does not otherwise exist.
    FRO1 11.479 1 ...the Church should always be new and extemporized, because it is eternal and springs from the sentiment of men, or it does not exist.
    FRO2 11.486 18 ...St. Augustine writes: That which is now called the Christian religion...never did not exist from the planting of the human race until Christ came in the flesh...
    NHI 12.1 4 Bacon's perfect law of inquiry after truth was that...nothing should take place as event in life which did not also exist as truth in the mind.
    PLT 12.6 5 Whilst we converse with truths as thoughts, they exist also as plastic forces;...
    PLT 12.9 5 Here [in society]...the solidest merits must exist only for the entertainment of all.
    Mem 12.94 10 You say the first words of the old song, and I finish the line and stanza. But where I have them, or what becomes of them when I am not thinking of them for months and years that they should lie so still, as if they did not exist...never any man...could turn himself inside out quick enough to find.
    CInt 12.125 8 ...unless...the professor has a generous sympathy with genius...the best scholar, he for whom colleges exist, finds himself a stranger and an orphan therein.
    MAng1 12.219 6 Since Beauty is thus an abstraction of the harmony and proportion that reigns in all Nature, it is therefore studied in Nature, and not in what does not exist.
    Milt1 12.256 21 The muscles, the nerves and the flesh with which this skeleton is to be filled out and covered exist in [Milton's] works and must be sought there.
    ACri 12.283 17 ...Heaven, Hell, power, science, the Neant, exist to [the writer] as colors for his brush.

existed, v. (54)

    AmS 1.92 22 ...great and heroic men have existed who had almost no other information than by the printed page.
    MN 1.197 3 That which once existed in intellect as pure law, has now taken body as Nature.
    MN 1.197 5 [Pure law] existed already in the mind in solution;...
    Con 1.303 17 ...here [in the existing world] is sacred fact. This also was true, or it could not be: it had life in it, or it could not have existed;...
    Con 1.319 16 Now that a vicious system of trade has existed so long, it has stereotyped itself in the human generation, and misers are born.
    Tran 1.352 18 ...[the Transcendentalist says, my faith] is a certain brief experience, which...made me aware...that law existed for me and for all;...
    Hist 2.24 8 In [the Grecian state] existed those human forms which supplied the sculptor with his models of Hercules, Phoebus, and Jove;...
    SR 2.69 2 All persons that ever existed are [the soul's] forgotten ministers.
    Int 2.326 6 Intellect...discerns [the fact] as if it existed for its own sake.
    Int 2.335 14 [The thought] seems, for the time, to inherit all that has yet existed...
    Pol1 3.199 3 In dealing with the State we ought to remember that its institutions are not aboriginal, though they existed before we were born;...
    NR 3.248 20 Could [my good men] but once understand that I loved to know that they existed...yet...had no word or welcome for them when they came to see me...it would be a great satisfaction.
    MoS 4.151 5 Picture, statue, temple, railroad, steam-engine, existed first in an artist's mind...
    MoS 4.152 13 In England, the richest country that ever existed, property stands for more, compared with personal ability, than in any other.
    ShP 4.192 23 At the time when [Shakespeare] left Stratford and went up to London, a great body of stage-plays of all dates and writers existed in manuscript...
    ShP 4.193 25 Shakspeare...esteemed the mass of old plays waste stock, in which any experiment could be freely tried. Had the prestige which hedges about a modern tragedy existed, nothing could have been done.
    ShP 4.218 19 ...that this man of men [Shakespeare], he who gave to the science of the mind a new and larger subject than had ever existed...that he should not be wise for himself;--it must even go into the world's history that the best poet led an obscure and profane life, using his genius for the public amusement.
    ET4 5.46 26 ...we look to find in the son every mental and moral property that existed in the ancestor.
    ET4 5.70 22 [The English] are the most voracious people of prey that ever existed.
    ET5 5.100 18 The island [England] has produced two or three of the greatest men that ever existed...
    ET8 5.135 16 Here [in England] was lately a cross-grained miser [Joseph Turner]...yet as true a worshipper of beauty in form and color as ever existed...
    ET13 5.231 7 ...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...
    ET14 5.243 6 Such richness of genius had not existed more than once before [the Elizabethan age].
    ET14 5.252 13 ...even what is called philosophy and letters [in England] is mechanical in its structure...as if no vast hope, no religion, no song of joy, no wisdom, no analogy existed any more.
    Ctr 6.141 22 The best heads that ever existed...were well-read, universally educated men...
    Wsp 6.204 1 The stern old faiths have all pulverized. ... 'T is as flat anarchy in our ecclesiastic realms as that which existed in Massachusetts in the Revolution...
    Wsp 6.216 13 ...when heroes existed...the human soul was in earnest...
    WD 7.165 5 ...the political economist thinks 't is doubtful if all the mechanical inventions that ever existed have lightened the day's toil of one human being.
    WD 7.171 3 ...the treasures which Nature spent itself to amass,--the secular, refined, composite anatomy of man...which the prior races...existed to ripen;...are given immeasurably to all.
    OA 7.333 4 ...[John Adams]...added, My son has more political prudence that any man that I know who has existed in my time;...
    QO 8.180 13 The Paradise Lost had never existed but for these precursors [Virgil and Homer];...
    QO 8.198 25 Swedenborg threw a formidable theory into the world, that every soul existed in a society of souls...
    Imtl 8.324 12 ...where this belief [in immortality] once existed it would necessarily take a base form for the savage and a pure form for the wise;...
    Aris 10.61 11 The honor of a member consists in...in the pursuing undisturbed the career of a Brother, as if always in their presence, and as if no other existed.
    Aris 10.64 8 No great man has existed who did not rely on the sense and heart of mankind as represented by the good sense of the people...
    PerF 10.83 17 The last revelation of intellect and of sentiment is that in a manner it...makes known to [the man] that the spiritual powers are sufficient to him if no other being existed;...
    Chr2 10.98 26 There was a time when Christianity existed in one child.
    Supl 10.173 11 ...to the most expressive man that has existed, namely, Shakspeare, [mankind] have awarded the highest place.
    Plu 10.311 8 La Harpe said that Plutarch is the genius the most naturally moral that ever existed.
    LLNE 10.326 10 The modern mind believed that the nation existed for the individual...
    LLNE 10.368 16 The society at Brook Farm existed, I think, about six or seven years...
    EzRy 10.384 6 [Ezra Ripley] and his contemporaries...were believers in what is called a particular providence...following the narrowness of King David and the Jews, who thought the universe existed only or mainly for their church and congregation.
    SlHr 10.446 26 [Samuel Hoar] had his birth and breeding in a little country town, where the old religion existed in strictness...
    Thor 10.459 14 No truer American existed than Thoreau.
    FSLC 11.186 27 ...laws...are simply declaratory of a right which already existed...
    FSLN 11.230 14 In Massachusetts...there has always existed a predominant conservative spirit.
    AKan 11.262 7 California, a few years ago...had the best government that ever existed.
    JBB 11.270 22 [John Brown] believed in his ideas to that extent that he existed to put them all into action;...
    EPro 11.323 2 The war existed long before the cannonade of Sumter...
    RBur 11.440 15 No man existed who could look down on [Burns].
    FRO2 11.486 17 ...St. Augustine writes: That which is now called the Christian religion existed among the ancients...
    FRO2 11.486 21 ...St. Augustine writes: That which is now called the Christian religion...never did not exist from the planting of the human race until Christ came in the flesh, at which time the true religion which already existed began to be called Christianity.
    ACri 12.298 16 ...one would think, the English people would...signify, by crowning [Carlyle] with a chaplet of oak-leaves, their joy that such a head existed among them...
    WSL 12.343 22 Wherever genius or taste has existed...[Landor's] interest is sure to be commanded.

existence, n. (135)

    Nat 1.48 6 Whether nature enjoy a substantial existence without, or is only in the apocalypse of the mind, it is alike useful and alike venerable to me.
    Nat 1.49 6 ...whilst we acquiesce entirely in the permanence of natural laws, the question of the absolute existence of nature still remains open.
    Nat 1.49 11 It is the uniform effect of culture on the human mind...to attribute necessary existence to spirit;...
    Nat 1.49 16 To the senses and the unrenewed understanding, belongs a sort of instinctive belief in the absolute existence of nature.
    Nat 1.56 12 Intellectual science has been observed to beget invariably a doubt of the existence of matter.
    Nat 1.56 14 Turgot said, He that has never doubted the existence of matter, may be assured he has no aptitude for metaphysical inquiries.
    Nat 1.63 3 ...if it only deny the existence of matter, [Idealism] does not satisfy the demands of the spirit.
    LE 1.156 10 ...the fact of [the scholar's] existence and pursuits would be a happy omen.
    LE 1.176 4 We live in the sun and on the surface,-a thin, plausible, superficial existence...
    LT 1.259 8 ...there is a great reason for the existence of every extant fact;...
    LT 1.278 14 To the youth...full of compunction at his unprofitable existence, the temptation is always great to lend himself to public movements...
    Tran 1.334 7 [The idealist's] experience inclines him to behold the procession of facts you call the world, as flowing perpetually outward from an invisible, unsounded centre in himself...and necessitating him to regard all things as having a subjective or relative existence...
    SR 2.67 9 ...[the rose] is perfect in every moment of its existence.
    Comp 2.122 22 There is no tax on the good of virtue, for that is the incoming of God himself, or absolute existence...
    Lov1 2.178 16 ...[the maiden] teaches [the lover's] eye why Beauty was pictured with Loves and Graces attending her steps. Her existence makes the world rich.
    Lov1 2.180 15 Concerning [poetry] Landor inquires whether it is not to be referred to some purer state of sensation and existence.
    Fdsp 2.204 7 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;...
    Fdsp 2.211 8 To my friend I write a letter and from him I receive a letter. That seems to you a little. It suffices me. It is a spiritual gift... ... In these warm lines the heart will...pour out the prophecy of a godlier existence than all the annals of heroism have yet made good.
    Prd1 2.224 17 ...our existence, thus apparently attached in nature to the sun and the returning moon and the periods which they mark...reads all its primary lessons out of these books.
    Int 2.326 16 He who is immersed in what concerns person or place cannot see the problem of existence.
    Art1 2.354 20 Love and all the passions concentrate all existence around a single form.
    Art1 2.359 25 [The traveller who visits the Vatican galleries] studies the technical rules [of art] on these wonderful remains, but forgets...that each [work] came out of the solitary workshop of one artist, who toiled perhaps in ignorance of the existence of other sculpture...
    Art1 2.365 23 A true announcement of the law of creation...would carry art up into the kingdom of nature, and destroy its separate and contrasted existence.
    Exp 3.77 5 The great and crescive self...supplants all relative existence...
    Exp 3.79 20 The conscience must feel [sin] as essence, essential evil. This it is not; it has an objective existence, but no subjective.
    Chr1 3.102 8 We shall still postpone our existence...whilst it is only a thought and not a spirit that incites us.
    Mrs1 3.147 1 The theory of society supposes the existence and sovereignty of these [natural aristocrats].
    Mrs1 3.149 19 I have seen an individual...who exhilarated the fancy by flinging wide the doors of new modes of existence;...
    Nat2 3.193 8 It is the same among the men and women as among the silent trees; always a referred existence, an absence...
    NR 3.233 2 The modernness of all good books seems to give me an existence as wide as man.
    NR 3.238 2 ...our economical mother dispatches a new genius and habit of mind into every district and condition of existence...
    NER 3.278 3 ...we desire to be touched with that fire which shall command this ice to stream, and make our existence a benefit.
    UGM 4.5 13 We must not...deny the substantial existence of other people.
    UGM 4.20 22 ...there have been sane men, who enjoyed a rich and related existence.
    UGM 4.24 6 The worthless and offensive members of society, whose existence is a social pest, invariably think themselves the most ill-used people alive...
    UGM 4.34 22 All that respects the individual is temporary and prospective, like the individual himself, who is ascending out of his limits into a catholic existence.
    PPh 4.48 21 Urged by an opposite necessity, the mind returns from the one to that which is not one, but other or many;...and affirms the necessary existence of variety...
    PPh 4.48 25 [Unity's and Variety's] existence is mutually contradictory and exclusive;...
    PPh 4.78 11 No power of genius has ever yet had the smallest success in explaining existence.
    SwM 4.96 5 The soul having been often born, or, as the Hindoos say, travelling the path of existence through thousands of births...there is nothing of which she has not gained the knowledge...
    NMW 4.236 8 On any point of resistance [Bonaparte] concentrated squadron on squadron in overwhelming numbers until it was swept out of existence.
    NMW 4.258 7 ...this exorbitant egotist [Napoleon] narrowed, impoverished and absorbed the power and existence of those who served him;...
    GoW 4.273 20 [Goethe] has clothed our modern existence with poetry.
    ET1 5.18 16 ...[Carlyle]...saw how every event affects all the future. Christ died on the tree; that built Dunscore kirk yonder; that brought you and me together. Time has only a relative existence.
    ET5 5.81 20 Into this English logic...an infusion of justice enters, not so apparent in other races;--a belief in the existence of two sides...
    ET5 5.83 2 This [English] common-sense is a perception of all the conditions of our earthly existence;...
    ET5 5.98 10 The manners and customs of [English] society are artificial;... and we have a nation whose existence is a work of art;...
    ET8 5.130 18 [The English] are full of coarse strength, rude exercise, butcher's meat and sound sleep; and suspect any poetic insinuation or any hint for the conduct of life which reflects on this animal existence...
    ET11 5.184 11 ...the existence of the House of Peers as a branch of the government entitles them to fill half the Cabinet;...
    ET14 5.242 5 In England these [generalizations]...do all have a kind of filial retrospect to Plato and the Greeks. Of this kind is...the theory of Berkeley, that we have no certain assurance of the existence of matter;...
    ET15 5.271 22 [The London Times's] existence honors the people who dare to print all they know...
    ET18 5.302 10 ...this perfunctory hospitality puts...no check on that puissant nationality which makes their existence incompatible with all that is not English.
    F 6.12 26 It was a poetic attempt...to reconcile this despotism of race with liberty, which led the Hindoos to say, Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.
    F 6.49 21 Let us build...to the Necessity which rudely or softly educates [man] to the perception...that Law rules throughout existence;...
    Wth 6.126 25 The true thrift is always to spend on the higher plane; to invest and invest...that he may spend in spiritual creation and not in augmenting animal existence.
    Ctr 6.136 7 All conversation is at an end when we have discharged ourselves of a dozen personalities...which make up our American existence.
    Ctr 6.157 7 The more I know you [wrote Neander to his sacred friends], the more I dissatisfy and must dissatisfy all my wonted companions. Their very presence stupefies me. The common understanding withdraws itself from the one centre of all existence.
    Ctr 6.163 23 The longer we live the more we must endure the elementary existence of men and women;...
    Wsp 6.212 23 ...the multitude of the sick shall not make us deny the existence of health.
    Wsp 6.222 7 In a new nation and language, [the countryman's] sect...is lost. What! it is not then necessary to the order and existence of society?
    Wsp 6.238 20 The race of mankind have always offered at least this implied thanks for the gift of existence,--namely, the terror of its being taken away;...
    CbW 6.252 6 [The sane man's] existence is a perfect answer to all sentimental cavils.
    CbW 6.271 21 ...if one comes who can...show [men]...what gifts they have...then we come out of our egg-shell existence into the great dome...
    CbW 6.272 25 How [a friend] flings wide the doors of existence!
    Bty 6.291 2 ...the lustres of the sea-shell begin with its existence.
    Ill 6.323 26 ...we transcend the circumstance continually and taste the real quality of existence;...
    Elo1 7.64 25 Young men...are eager to enjoy this sense of added power and enlarged sympathetic existence [of eloquence]..
    WD 7.178 8 ...Peter and John are working up all existence into Peter and John.
    WD 7.180 3 That interpreter [of time] shall guide us from a menial and eleemosynary existence into riches and stability.
    WD 7.182 16 The masters of English lyric wrote their songs [for joy]. It was a fine efflorescence of fine powers; as was said of the letters of the Frenchwoman,--the charming accident of their more charming existence.
    WD 7.183 4 ...his memoir finished and read and printed, [the savant] retreats into his routinary existence...
    Clbs 7.237 3 ...though they know that there is in the speaker a degree...of insincerity and of talking for victory, yet the existence of character...is felt by the frivolous.
    Cour 7.275 11 ...the education of the will is the object of our existence.
    OA 7.324 24 To insure the existence of the race, [Nature] reinforces the sexual instinct...
    PI 8.3 17 The common sense which...takes...things as they appear,-- believes in the existence of matter...because it agrees with ourselves...
    PI 8.14 26 ...[the Hindoos]...have made it the central doctrine of their religion that what we call Nature...has no real existence...
    PI 8.43 20 ...a being whom we have called into life by magic arts, as soon as it has received existence acts independently of the master's impulse...
    SA 8.89 5 We want...a more inward existence to read the history of each other.
    SA 8.92 14 ...we are easily great with the loved and honored associate. We come out of our eggshell existence...
    SA 8.101 8 In Europe...it has been attempted to secure the existence of a superior class by hereditary nobility...
    Elo2 8.111 23 ...[in a debate] much power is to be exhibited which is not yet called into existence...
    Res 8.141 1 By his machines man...can recover the history of his race by the medals which the deluge, and every creature...has involuntarily dropped of its existence;...
    Comc 8.158 24 The perpetual game of humor is to look with considerate good nature at every object in existence, aloof...
    PC 8.207 8 The heart still beats with the public pulse of joy that the country has withstood the rude trial which threatened its existence...
    PC 8.221 22 To this material essence [centrality] answers Truth, in the intellectual world,-Truth...whose existence we cannot disimagine;...
    PPo 8.238 7 [Life in the East's] elements are few and simple, not exhibiting the long range and undulation of European existence...
    Imtl 8.323 21 ...we are as ignorant of the state which preceded our present existence as of that which will follow it.
    Imtl 8.327 16 We shall pass to the future existence as we enter into an agreeable dream.
    Imtl 8.338 25 On the borders of the grave, the wise man looks forward with equal elasticity of mind, or hope; and why not, after millions of years, on the verge of still newer existence?...
    Imtl 8.340 3 ...all our intellectual action...bestows a feeling of absolute existence.
    Imtl 8.342 5 To me, said Goethe, the eternal existence of my soul is proved from my idea of activity.
    Imtl 8.342 8 [Said Goethe] If I work incessantly till my death, Nature is bound to give me another form of existence...
    Imtl 8.345 16 ...it is not my duty to prove to myself the immortality of the soul. That knowledge is hidden very cunningly. Perhaps the archangels cannot find the secret of their existence...
    Aris 10.38 16 ...we wish to see those to whom existence is most adorned and attractive, foremost to peril it for their object...
    Aris 10.38 19 The existence of an upper class is not injurious, so long as it is dependent on merit.
    Aris 10.60 17 That highest good of rational existence is always coming to such as reject mean alliances.
    Chr2 10.91 21 ...the reason we must give for the existence of the world is, that it is for the benefit of all being.
    Chr2 10.122 2 To a well-principled man existence is victory.
    Edc1 10.132 1 ...truly the population of the globe has its origin in the aims which their existence is to serve;...
    Supl 10.167 18 Our customary and mechanical existence is not favorable to flights;...
    Supl 10.170 21 ...the great official...declared that he should remember this honor to the latest moment of his existence.
    SovE 10.194 6 [Good men] do not see that He [God], that It, is there, next and within;...that he is existence...
    SovE 10.200 25 You have meditated in silent wonder on your existence in this world.
    SovE 10.206 6 Superstitious persons we see with respect, because their whole existence is not bounded by their hats and their shoes...
    Prch 10.230 18 The existence of the Sunday, and the pulpit waiting for a weekly sermon, give [the young preacher] the very conditions, the pou sto he wants.
    LLNE 10.329 20 Instead of the social existence which all shared, was now separation.
    MMEm 10.413 4 I [Mary Moody Emerson] walked yesterday five or more miles, lost to mental or heart existence, through fatigue...
    MMEm 10.415 22 This morning rich in existence;...
    MMEm 10.416 7 I [Mary Moody Emerson] felt, till above twenty yeard old, as though Christianity were as necessary to the world as existence;...
    MMEm 10.421 13 Alone, feeling strongly, fully, that I [Mary Moody Emerson] have deserved nothing;...yet joying in existence...
    MMEm 10.424 26 'T is not in the nature of existence, while there is a God, to be without the pale of excitement.
    MMEm 10.426 14 Usefulness, if it requires action, seems less like existence than the desire of being absorbed in God, retaining consciousness.
    MMEm 10.427 19 ...if it were in the nature of things possible He could withdraw himself,-I [Mary Moody Emerson] would hold on to the faith that, at some moment of His existence, I was present...
    MMEm 10.428 1 Oh how weary in youth-more so scarcely now, not whenever I [Mary Moody Emerson] can breathe, as it seems, the atmosphere of the Omnipresence: then...honors, pleasures, labors, I always refuse, compared to this divine partaking of existence;...
    MMEm 10.429 12 [Mary Moody Emerson wrote] Tedious indisposition:- hoped, as it took a new form, it would open the cool, sweet grave. Now existence itself in any form is sweet.
    MMEm 10.431 17 While I [Mary Moody Emerson] am sympathizing in the government of God over the world, perhaps I lose nearer views. Well, I learned his existence a priori.
    Carl 10.495 18 There is nothing deeper in [Carlyle's] constitution...than the considerate, condescending good nature with which he looks at every object in existence...
    EWI 11.118 12 ...experience...shows the existence, beside the covetousness, of a bitterer element [in slavery], the love of power...
    FSLC 11.213 10 Every nation and every man bows, in spite of himself, to a higher mental and moral existence;...
    FSLN 11.237 16 A man who commits a crime defeats the end of his existence.
    ACiv 11.299 13 ...Why cannot the best civilization be extended over the whole country, since the disorder of the less-civilized portion menaces the existence of the country?
    EdAd 11.386 16 Every material organization exists to a moral end, which makes the reason of its existence.
    Wom 11.411 7 ...how should we better measure the gulf between the best intercourse of men in old Athens, in London, or in our American capitals,- between this and the hedgehog existence of diggers of worms, and the eaters of clay and offal,-than by signalizing just this department of taste or comeliness?
    SHC 11.434 19 ...when I think of the mystery of life...the speed of the changes of that glittering dream we call existence,-I think sometimes that the vault of the sky arching there upward...is only a Sleepy Hollow, with path of Suns, insea of foot-paths;...
    PLT 12.5 14 I believe in the existence of the material world as the expression of the spiritual or the real...
    PLT 12.6 10 Whilst we converse with truths as thoughts, they exist also as plastic forces; as...the genius or constitution of any part of Nature, which makes it what it is. The thought which was...part and parcel of the world, has...taken an independent existence.
    CL 12.155 6 ...says Linnaeus...as soon as I got upon the Norway Alps I seemed to have acquired a new existence.
    Bost 12.209 18 ...[Boston] owes its existence and its power to principles not of yesterday...
    Milt1 12.256 1 ...the idea of a purer existence than any he saw around him... inspired every act and every writing of John Milton.
    ACri 12.295 1 We cannot...give any account of [Shakespeare's] existence, but only the fact that there was a wonderful symbolizer and expressor...
    WSL 12.341 22 The existence of the poorest playwright and the humblest scrivener is a good omen.
    WSL 12.343 4 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.
    PPr 12.384 15 It is plain that...all the great classes of English society must read [Carlyle's Past and Present], even those whose existence it proscribes.
    Let 12.404 27 Many of the best must die of consumption...and many be stupid and insane, before the one great and fortunate life which they each predicted can shoot up into a thrifty and beneficent existence.
    Trag 12.405 9 In the dark hours, our existence seems to be a defensive war...

existences, n. (1)

    Con 1.309 2 All your aggregate existences are less to me a fact than is my own;...

existing, adj. (33)

    LE 1.172 15 I by no means aim in these remarks to disparage the merit of these or of any existing compositions;...
    MN 1.193 23 ...the sturdiest defender of existing institutions feels the terrific inflammability of this air...
    LT 1.269 3 The actors constitute that great army of martyrs who...compose the visible church of the existing generation.
    Con 1.303 10 ...the existing world is not a dream...
    Con 1.304 22 ...so deep is the foundation of the existing social system, that it leaves no one out of it.
    Con 1.310 7 ...precisely the defence which was set up for the British Constitution, namely that...it worked well...the same defence is set up for the existing institutions.
    YA 1.373 1 The population of the world is a conditional population; these are not the best, but the best that could live in the existing state of soils, gases, animals, and morals...
    YA 1.374 20 ...the existing generation are conspiring with a beneficence which in its working for coming generations, sacrifices the passing one;...
    Prd1 2.236 19 Prudence concerns the present time, persons, property and existing forms.
    Pol1 3.215 26 The antidote to this abuse of formal government is...the growth of the Individual;...of whom the existing government is, it must be owned, but a shabby imitation.
    NER 3.253 23 ...there was sincere protesting against existing evils...
    MoS 4.171 9 The nonconformist and the rebel say all manner of unanswerable things against the existing republic...
    MoS 4.172 6 Society does not like to have any breath of question blown on the existing order.
    ET4 5.44 8 ...this writer [Robert Knox] did not found his assumed races on any necessary law...nor did he...count with precision the existing races...
    ET10 5.162 2 The introduction of these elements [steam and money] gives new resources to existing [English] proprietors.
    ET14 5.256 13 ...if I should count the poets who have contributed to the Bible of existing England sentences of guidance and consolation which are still glowing and effective,--how few!
    SS 7.11 18 ...it is...so easy to come up to an existing standard;...
    PI 8.34 17 The...measure of poetic genius is the power...to convert those [superstitions] of the nineteenth century and of the existing nations into universal symbols.
    QO 8.187 27 ...shall we say that...the existing generation is invalided and degenerate?
    PC 8.213 15 ...each nation and period has done its full part to make up the result of existing civility.
    Aris 10.43 23 In a thousand cups of life, only one is the right mixture,-a fine adjustment to the existing elements.
    Aris 10.46 6 ...I am not going to argue the merits of gradation in the universe; the existing order of more or less.
    Plu 10.307 6 Whilst we expect this awe and reverence of the spiritual power from the philosopher in his closet, we praise it in...the man who lives on quiet terms with existing institutions...
    Carl 10.489 23 [Carlyle] has...the strong religious tinge you sometimes find in burly people. That, and all his qualities, have a certain virulence, coupled though it be in his case with the utmost impatience of Christendom and Jewdom and all existing presentments of the good old story.
    HDC 11.81 21 It was put to the town of Concord, in October, 1776, by the Legislature, whether the existing house of representatives should enact a constitution for the State?
    EWI 11.123 6 Our civility, England determines the style of, inasmuch as England is the strongest of the family of existing nations...
    EWI 11.144 1 If the black man is feeble and not important to the existing races...the black man must serve, and be exterminated.
    War 11.151 7 It has been a favorite study of modern philosophy...to watch the rising of a thought in one man's mind...its expansion and general reception, until it publishes itself to the world by destroying the existing laws and institutions...
    FSLN 11.241 10 Possession is sure to throw its stupid strength for existing power...
    ACiv 11.302 21 The existing administration is entitled to the utmost candor.
    Wom 11.423 8 As for the unsexing and contamination [of women in politics],-that only accuses our existing politics...
    PLT 12.15 13 Thirdly...I...attempt to show the relation of men of thought to the existing religion and civility of the present time.
    ACri 12.303 20 ...there is much in literature that draws us with a sublime charm-the superincumbent necessity by which each writer...is enriched by thoughts which flow from all past minds, shares the hopes of all existing minds;...

existing, v. (20)

    DSA 1.150 9 ...let the breath of new life be breathed by you through the forms already existing.
    MN 1.201 2 Nature can only be conceived as existing to a universal and not to a particular end;...
    Con 1.303 4 We have all a certain intellection or presentiment of reform existing in the mind, which does not yet descend into the character...
    Tran 1.343 11 ...[Transcendentalists] will own...that there are persons whom in their hearts they daily thank for existing...
    Cir 2.310 6 Much more obviously is history and the state of the world at any one time directly dependent on the intellectual classification then existing in the minds of men.
    SwM 4.128 12 I know how delicious is this cup of love,--I existing for you, you existing for me;...
    SwM 4.128 13 I know how delicious is this cup of love,--I existing for you, you existing for me;...
    ShP 4.200 4 There never was a time when there was not some translation [of the Bible] existing.
    ET4 5.61 4 ...decent and dignified men now existing boast their descent from these filthy thieves [the Normans]...
    ET5 5.98 27 It is the maxim of [English] economists, that the greater part in value of the wealth now existing in England has been produced by human hands within the last twelve months.
    ET14 5.259 19 ...there is at all times a minority of profound minds existing in the nation [England], capable of appreciating every soaring of intellect...
    F 6.45 26 This correlation really existing can be divined.
    Wsp 6.215 8 The true meaning of spiritual is...that law...which cannot be conceived as not existing.
    Wsp 6.232 16 Life is hardly respectable...if it has...no duties or affections that constitute a necessity of existing.
    Suc 7.300 5 ...the sand floor is...bent to be a...part of the astonishing astronomy, and existing at last to moral ends and from moral causes.
    PI 8.20 5 ...Swedenborg [expressed the same sense], when he said, There is nothing existing in human thought, even though relating to the most mysterious tenet of faith, but has combined with it a natural and sensuous image.
    Imtl 8.329 4 A man of thought is willing to die, willing to live; I suppose because he has seen the thread on which the beads are strung, and perceived that it reaches up and down, existing quite independently of the present illusions.
    SovE 10.188 3 It is the same fact existing as sentiment and as will in the mind, which works in Nature as irresistible law...
    FSLN 11.228 14 ...when allusion was made to the question of duty and the sanctions of morality, [Webster] very frankly said, at Albany, Some higher law, something existing somewhere between here and the third heaven,-I do not know where.
    Mem 12.91 8 Memory...holds together past and present...existing in both...

existit, v. (1)

    SwM 4.104 21 Malpighi...had given emphasis to the dogma that nature works in leasts,--tota in minimis existit natura.

exists, v. (108)

    Nat 1.24 14 The world thus exists to the soul to satisfy the desire of beauty.
    Nat 1.47 8 A noble doubt perpetually suggests itself...whether nature outwardly exists.
    Nat 1.55 8 The problem of philosophy...is, for all that exists conditionally, to find a ground unconditioned and absolute.
    Nat 1.73 13 These are examples of...the exertions of a power which exists not in time or space...
    Nat 1.76 8 Know then that the world exists for you.
    MN 1.200 22 ...thou must behold [nature] in a spirit as grand as that by which it exists, ere thou canst know the law.
    MN 1.218 6 Talent...exists for exhibition...
    Con 1.304 27 You who...are willing to...risk the indisputable good that exists, for the chance of better, live, move, and have your being in this [society]...
    Tran 1.335 19 ...if you ask me, Whence am I? I feel like other men my relation to that Fact which cannot be spoken, or defined, or even thought, but which exists, and will exist.
    Tran 1.339 2 Nature...exists primarily...
    YA 1.379 8 This beneficent tendency, omnipotent without violence, exists and works.
    Hist 2.8 11 The world exists for the education of each man.
    Hist 2.25 9 Throughout [Xenophon's] army exists a boundless liberty of speech.
    Hist 2.26 6 [Vases, tragedies, statues] have continued to be made in all ages, and are now, wherever a healthy physique exists;...
    Hist 2.31 4 ...where [the story of Prometheus]...exhibits him as the defier of Jove, it represents a state of mind which...seems the self-defence of man against this untruth, namely a discontent with the believed fact that a God exists...
    Hist 2.36 16 ...the fins of the fish foreshow that water exists...
    Hist 2.40 26 Broader and deeper we must write our annals...instead of this old chronology of selfishness and pride to which we have too long lent our eyes. Already that day exists for us...
    SR 2.61 27 Let [a man] not...skulk up and down with the air of...an interloper in the world which exists for him.
    Comp 2.123 9 ...there is no tax on the knowledge that the compensation exists...
    SL 2.139 3 O my brothers, God exists.
    SL 2.143 21 Let [a man] regard no good as solid but that...which must grow out of him as long as he exists.
    Hsm1 2.249 15 Unhappily no man exists who has not in his own person become to some amount a stockholder in the sin...
    Hsm1 2.262 8 More freedom exists for culture.
    Pt1 3.39 26 ...an admirable creative power exists in these intellections [of the poet]...
    Pt1 3.40 18 Nothing walks, or creeps, or grows, or exists, which must not in turn arise and walk before [the poet] as exponent of his meaning.
    Exp 3.79 24 The subject exists, the subject enlarges;...
    Exp 3.86 3 ...the true romance which the world exists to realize will be the transformation of genius into practical power.
    Mrs1 3.127 18 There exists a strict relation between the class of power and the exclusive and polished circles.
    Mrs1 3.150 22 ...by the firmness with which she treads her upward path, [woman] convinces the coarsest calculators that another road exists than that which their feet know.
    Nat2 3.181 12 Space exists to divide creatures;...
    Pol1 3.200 14 ...the form of government which prevails is the expression of what cultivation exists in the population which permits it.
    Pol1 3.201 22 The theory of politics...which [men] have expressed the best they could in their laws and in their revolutions, considers persons and property as the two objects for whose protection government exists.
    Pol1 3.216 6 To educate the wise man the State exists...
    NR 3.240 8 As long as any man exists, there is some need of him;...
    PPh 4.70 9 ...the Banquet [of Plato] is a teaching in the same spirit [of ascension]...that the love of the sexes is initial, and symbolizes at a distance the passion of the soul for that immense lake of beauty it exists to seek.
    SwM 4.114 4 The ancient doctrine of Hippocrates, that the brain is a gland; and of Leucippus, that the atom may be known by the mass;...and which Malpighi had summed in his maxim that nature exists entire in leasts,--is a favorite thought of Swedenborg.
    MoS 4.170 20 Seen or unseen, we believe the tie exists [between all things in life].
    MoS 4.182 19 I believe, [the spiritualist] says, in the moral design of the universe; it exists hospitably for the weal of souls;...
    ShP 4.203 17 ...I find, among [Wotton's] correspondents and acquaintances...Paul Sarpi, Arminius, with all of whom exists some token of his having communicated...
    NMW 4.240 11 ...[Napoleon] exists as captain and king only as far as the Revolution, or the interest of the industrious masses, found an organ and a leader in him.
    GoW 4.281 16 There must be a man behind the book; a personality...which exists to see and state things so, and not otherwise;...
    GoW 4.285 26 [Goethe's] autobiography...is the expression of the idea... that a man exists for culture;...
    ET4 5.46 8 ...slavery does not exist under [the English]. What oppression exists is incidental and temporary;...
    ET5 5.86 26 ...conscious that no race of better men exists, [the English] rely most on the simplest means...
    ET7 5.124 16 ...[Englishmen] affirm the one small fact they know, with the best faith in the world that nothing else exists.
    ET8 5.134 7 ...here [in England] exists the best stock in the world...
    ET12 5.207 1 Greek erudition exists on the Isis and Cam...
    ET12 5.213 5 Genius exists there [in the college] also...
    ET14 5.253 15 [English science] isolates the reptile or mullusk it assumes to explain; whilst reptile or mollusk only exists in system, in relation.
    ET14 5.256 19 The English have lost sight of the fact that poetry exists to speak the spiritual law...
    ET19 5.310 14 ...as for Dombey...there is no land where paper exists to print on, where it is not found;...
    F 6.47 7 ...one solution to the old knots of fate, freedom, and foreknowledge, exists;...
    Wth 6.89 12 The same correspondence that is between thirst in the stomach and water in the spring, exists between the whole of man and the whole of nature.
    Wth 6.93 15 Power is what [men of sense] want...power to execute their design...which, to a clear-sighted man, appears the end for which the universe exists...
    CbW 6.272 19 Add [to conversation] the consent of will and temperament, and there exists the covenant of friendship.
    SS 7.14 8 Society exists by chemical affinity, and not otherwise.
    Elo1 7.73 19 ...the power of detaining the ear by pleasing speech...often exists without higher merits.
    Farm 7.146 15 Water...transports vast boulders of rock in its iceberg a thousand miles. But its far greater power depends on its talent of becoming little, and entering the smallest holes and pores. By this agency, carrying in solution elements needful to every plant, the vegetable world exists.
    Farm 7.152 19 ...credit exists in the ratio of morality.
    WD 7.168 12 The days] are of the least pretension and of the greatest capacity of anything that exists.
    PI 8.10 13 Reptile or mollusk or man or angel only exists in system...
    PI 8.19 23 ...the world exists for thought...
    PI 8.21 1 ...shall we say that the imagination exists by sharing the ethereal currents?
    PI 8.33 11 We detect at once by [style] whether the writer has a firm grasp on his fact or thought,--exists at the moment for that alone...
    PI 8.47 12 ...human passion, seizing these constitutional tunes, aims to fill them with appropriate words, or marry music to thought, believing...that for every thought its proper melody or rhyme exists...
    PI 8.66 4 In poetry, said Goethe, only the really great and pure advances us, and this exists as a second nature...
    PI 8.75 2 The grandeur of our life exists in spite of us...
    SA 8.94 5 ...[Madame de Stael] said...Conversation, like talent, exists only in France.
    PC 8.226 13 Knowledge exists to be imparted.
    PC 8.232 15 ...wherever high society exists it is very well able to exclude pretenders.
    Imtl 8.349 24 Nachiketas said, there is this inquiry. Some say the soul exists after the death of man; others say it does not exist.
    Imtl 8.351 10 Believing this world exists, and not the other, the careless youth is subject to my [Death's] sway.
    Dem1 10.15 16 The belief that particular individuals are attended by a good fortune which makes them desirable associates in any enterprise of uncertain success, exists not only among those who take part in political and military projects...
    Chr2 10.93 21 ...inoperative, [the sense of Right and Wrong] exists underneath whatever vices and errors.
    Edc1 10.132 7 Whilst thus the world exists for the mind;...it becomes the office of a just education to awaken [man] to the knowledge of this fact.
    Edc1 10.137 22 A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune; an expectation which the child, if justice is done him, will nobly disappoint. By working on the theory that this resemblance exists, we shall do what in us lies to defeat his proper promise...
    SovE 10.183 23 ...this unity exists in the organization of insect, beast and bird, still ascending to man...
    SovE 10.192 14 The idea of right exists in the human mind...
    SovE 10.194 26 Wondrous state of man! never so happy as when he...exists only in obedience and love of the Author.
    Prch 10.230 14 The simple fact that the pulpit exists...assures that opportunity which is inestimable to young men, students of theology, for those large liberties.
    Schr 10.279 21 I declare anew from Heaven that truth exists new and beautiful and profitable forevermore.
    LVB 11.94 18 ...there exists in a great part of the Northern people a gloomy diffidence in the moral character of the government.
    EWI 11.121 16 ...every man's position [in Jamaica] is settled by the same circumstances which regulate that point in other free countries, where no difference of color exists.
    EWI 11.128 15 ...England has the advantage of trying the question [of slavery] at a wide distance from the spot where the nuisance exists;...
    EWI 11.134 27 ...government exists to defend the weak and the poor and the injured party;...
    FSLC 11.186 4 In every nation all the immorality that exists breeds plagues.
    FSLC 11.186 5 ...of the corrupt society that exists we have never been able to combine any pure prosperity.
    FSLC 11.204 3 [Webster] believes...that government exists for the protection of property.
    FSLN 11.232 20 ...the world exists, as I understand it, to teach the science of liberty...
    FSLN 11.235 15 ...that I understand to be the end for which a soul exists in this world,-to be himself the counterbalance of all falsehood and all wrong.
    FSLN 11.237 17 A man who commits a crime defeats the end of his existence. He was created for benefit, and he exists for harm;...
    FSLN 11.240 2 ...torpor exists here throughout the active classes on the subject of domestic slavery and its appalling aggressions.
    AKan 11.258 21 That is the theory of the American State, that it exists to execute the will of the citizens...
    AKan 11.263 21 When [the country] is lost it will be time enough then for any who are luckless enough to remain alive to gather up their clothes and depart to some land where freedom exists.
    EdAd 11.386 15 Every material organization exists to a moral end...
    EdAd 11.390 3 Not only man but Nature is injured by the imputation that man exists only to be fattened with bread...
    EdAd 11.390 12 As soon as men have tasted the enjoyment of learning, friendship and virtue, for which the State exists, the prizes of office appear polluted...
    Humb 11.456 4 If a life prolonged to an advanced period bring with it several inconveniences to the individual, there is a compensation in the delight of being able to compare older states of knowledge with that which now exists...
    FRep 11.516 26 ...while civil and social freedom exists [in America], nonsense even has a favorable effect.
    FRep 11.519 10 Man exists for his own sake, and not to add a laborer to the state.
    FRep 11.542 11 Use is the end to which [man] exists.
    FRep 11.542 12 As the tree exists for its fruit, so a man for his work.
    PLT 12.41 22 ...thought exists to be expressed.
    PLT 12.59 5 The universe exists only in transit...
    Mem 12.95 23 ...the power [of memory] exists in some marked and eminent degree in men of an ideal determination.
    CInt 12.126 11 ...that which [Harvard College] exists for, to be a fountain of novelties out of heaven...that it shall not be permitted to do or to think of.
    Bost 12.205 9 [The people of Massachusetts] accepted the divine ordination...that intelligent being exists to the utmost use;...
    MAng1 12.217 25 What other standard of the beautiful exists than the entire circuit of all harmonious proportions of the great system of Nature?

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