Exmouth to Explosive

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

Exmouth, England, n. (1)

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

exodus, n. (3)

    ET4 5.46 1 ...it remains to be seen whether [the English] can make good the exodus of millions from Great Britain...
    ET10 5.169 11 ...in the influx of tons of gold and silver; amid the chuckle of chancellors and financiers, it was found [in England]...that...the dreadful barometer of the poor-rates was touching the point of ruin. The poor-rate was sucking in the solvent classes and forcing an exodus of farmers and mechanics.
    WD 7.162 11 ...what can [our politics] help or hinder...when the nations are in exodus and flux?

Exodus, n. (2)

    Res 8.142 12 Here [in America] is man in the Garden of Eden; here the Genesis and the Exodus.
    CL 12.154 13 The sea is the chemist that...pulverizes old continents, and builds new;-forever redistributing the solid matter of the globe; and performs an analogous office in perpetual new transplanting of the races of men over the surface, the Exodus of nations.

exorbitant, adj. (3)

    LT 1.285 17 ...truly we shall find much to console us, when we consider the cause of [the speculators'] uneasiness. It is...the contrast of the dwarfish Actual with the exorbitant Idea.
    NR 3.225 20 We have such exorbitant eyes that on seeing the smallest arc we complete the curve...
    NMW 4.258 6 ...this exorbitant egotist [Napoleon] narrowed, impoverished and absorbed the power and existence of those who served him;...

exordiums, n. (1)

    FSLN 11.222 8 ...[Webster] knew perfectly well how to make such exordiums, episodes and perorations as might give perspective to his harangues without in the least embarrassing his march or confounding his transitions.

exoteric, adj. (2)

    GoW 4.263 23 A new thought or a crisis of passion apprises [the writer] that all that he has yet learned and written is exoteric...
    PI 8.30 26 All writings must be in a degree exoteric...

exotic, adj. (1)

    II 12.71 20 [Our companion] exhibits an exotic culture, as if he had his education in another planet.

expand, v. (18)

    Nat 1.52 24 ...all objects shrink and expand to serve the passion of the poet.
    Nat 1.59 7 I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons.
    DSA 1.130 19 [The soul] invites every man to expand to the full circle of the universe...
    Fdsp 2.209 19 Of course [your friend] has merits...that you cannot honor if you must needs hold him close to your person. Stand aside; give those merits room; let them mount and expand.
    Mrs1 3.153 18 Everything that is called fashion and courtesy humbles itself before...the heart of love. This is the royal blood, this the fire, which...will work after its kind and conquer and expand all that approaches it.
    GoW 4.278 27 In the progress of the story, the characters of the hero and heroine [of Sand's Consuelo] expand at a rate that shivers the porcelain chess-table of aristocratic convention...
    F 6.25 24 ...if truth come to our mind we suddenly expand to its dimensions...
    F 6.42 11 Events expand with the character.
    Elo1 7.67 1 There is a tablet [in the audience] for every line [the orator] can inscribe, though he should mount to the highest levels. Humble persons are conscious of new illumination; narrow brows expand with enlarged affections;...
    Clbs 7.249 2 I need only hint the value of the club for bringing masters in their several arts to compare and expand their views...
    SA 8.99 25 ...[manners and talk] require...plenty and ease,--since only so can certain finer and finest powers appear and expand.
    Elo2 8.132 12 ...the great ideas that suddenly expand at some moment the mind of mankind, indicate themselves by orators.
    Res 8.152 13 If I go into the woods in winter, and am shown the thirteen or fourteen species of willow that grow in Massachusetts, I learn that they quietly expand in the warmer days...
    QO 8.199 9 ...if we expand [Swedenborg's] image, does it not look as if we men were thinking and talking out of an enormous antiquity...
    Chr2 10.96 16 ...under the action of this sentiment of the Right, [a man's] heart and mind expand above himself, and above Nature.
    SHC 11.431 10 ...[trees] keep the earth habitable; their roots run down, like cattle, to the water-courses; their heads expand to feed the atmosphere.
    CPL 11.503 8 ...if you can kindle the imagination by a new thought... instantly you expand...
    Mem 12.92 6 What was an isolated, unrelated belief or conjecture, our later experience instructs us how to place in just connection with other views which confirm and expand it.

expanded, adj. (3)

    Art1 2.357 10 ...then is my eye opened to the eternal picture which nature paints in the street, with moving men and children...expanded, elfish...
    Ctr 6.140 11 There are people who can never understand...any second or expanded sense given to your words...
    Imtl 8.350 12 Yama said [to Nachiketas]...choose the wide expanded earth...

expanded, v. (2)

    MMEm 10.413 10 [I, Mary Moody Emerson] Met a lady in the morning walk, a foreigner,-conversed on the accomplishments of Miss T. My mind expanded with novel and innocent pleasure.
    Humb 11.457 18 The wonderful Humboldt, with his solid centre and expanded wings, marches like an army...

expander, n. (1)

    PC 8.228 22 Great love is the inventor and expander of the frozen powers...

expanding, adj. (8)

    AmS 1.86 26 ...[the scholar] shall look forward to an ever expanding knowledge as to a becoming creator.
    AmS 1.95 15 ...I dispose of [the world] within the circuit of my expanding life.
    MN 1.217 20 ...if the object [beloved] be not itself a living and expanding soul, [the lover] presently exhausts it.
    ET4 5.49 2 Trades and professions carve their own lines on face and form. Certain circumstances of English life are not less effective; as...the million opportunities and outlets for expanding and misplaced talent;...
    ET5 5.77 20 All the admirable expedients or means hit upon in England must be looked at as growths or irresistible offshoots of the expanding mind of the race.
    HDC 11.77 5 To you [veterans of the battle of Concord] belongs a better badge than stars and ribbons. This prospering country is your ornament, and this expanding nation is multiplying your praise with millions of tongues.
    Wom 11.424 15 All events of history are to be regarded as growths and offshoots of the expanding mind of the race...
    CL 12.140 26 We are very sensible of this [power of the air]...when, after much confinement to the house, we go abroad into the landscape, with any leisure to attend to its soothing and expanding influences.

expanding, v. (6)

    Nat 1.59 4 ...there is something ungrateful in expanding too curiously the particulars of the general proposition, that all culture tends to imbue us with idealism.
    YA 1.393 1 Instead of the open future expanding here before the eye of every boy to vastness, would they like the closing in of the future to a narrow slit of sky...
    Elo1 7.99 18 In its right exercise, [eloquence] is an elastic, unexhausted power...expanding with the expansion of our interests and affections.
    CSC 10.375 5 The still-living merit of the oldest New England families... encountered [at the Chardon Street Convention] the founders of families, fresh merit, emerging, and expanding the brows to a new breadth...
    Mem 12.93 4 [Memory] is a scripture written day by day from the birth of the man; all its records full of meanings which open as he lives on... expanding their sense as he advances...
    Milt1 12.278 24 We have offered no apology for expanding to such length our commentary on the character of John Milton;...

expands, v. (9)

    Lov1 2.177 21 [Love] expands the sentiment;...
    OS 2.274 27 ...by every throe of growth the man expands there where he works...
    Cir 2.304 13 ...if the soul is quick and strong it...expands another orbit on the great deep...
    Wth 6.86 19 The steam puffs and expands as before, but this time it is dragging all Michigan at its back to hungry New York and hungry England.
    Bty 6.288 16 ...the beauty which certain objects have for [man] is the friendly fire which expands the thought...
    PI 8.29 6 Fancy amuses; imagination expands and exalts us.
    Chr2 10.119 13 ...[the infant soul's] narrow chapel expands to the blue cathedral of the sky...
    SovE 10.184 26 The poor grub, in the hole of a tree, by yielding itself to Nature, goes blameless through its low part...expands into a beautiful form with rainbow wings...
    II 12.71 1 In the healthy mind, the thought...expands, varies, recruits itself with relations to all Nature...

expanse, n. (1)

    ET16 5.276 13 On the broad downs...not a house was visible, nothing but Stonehenge, which looked like a group of brown dwarfs in the wide expanse...

expansion, n. (21)

    MN 1.219 19 ...[the Puritans' motive for settlement] was the growth and expansion of the human race...
    Comp 2.125 15 ...to us...resisting, not cooperating with the divine expansion, this growth comes by shocks.
    Int 2.327 18 The growth of the intellect is spontaneous in every expansion.
    Exp 3.56 24 There is no power of expansion in men.
    Chr1 3.111 1 The coldest precisian cannot go abroad without encountering inexplicable influences. One man fastens an eye on him and...the secrets that make him wretched either to keep or to betray must be yielded;...and there are persons he cannot choose but remember, who gave a transcendent expansion to his thought...
    PNR 4.81 23 [Plato] represents...the power...of carrying up every fact to successive platforms and so disclosing in every fact a germ of expansion.
    NMW 4.242 14 ...a day of expansion and demand was come [in France].
    ET19 5.313 20 I see [England] in her old age...still daring to believe in her power of endurance and expansion.
    F 6.24 15 [A man] shall have not less the flow, the expansion, and the resistance of [the river, the oak, the mountain].
    Elo1 7.99 18 In its right exercise, [eloquence] is an elastic, unexhausted power...expanding with the expansion of our interests and affections.
    PI 8.49 14 [The elemental forces] furnish the poet with grander pairs and alternations, and will require an equal expansion in his metres.
    SA 8.84 26 ...just in proportion to the morality of a people will be the expansion of the credit system.
    Res 8.143 10 ...the immense expansion of trade has wanted every ounce of gold...
    Chr2 10.115 22 ...in every period of intellectual expansion, the Church ceases to draw into its clergy those who best belong there, the largest and freest minds...
    Chr2 10.119 22 If there is any tendency in national expansion to form character, religion will not be a loser.
    EWI 11.123 6 Our civility, England determines the style of, inasmuch...as we are the expansion of that people.
    War 11.151 5 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...
    EPro 11.315 17 Such moments of expansion [of liberty] in modern history were the Confession of Augsburg, the plantation of America...
    Bost 12.205 25 ...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.
    PPr 12.390 15 We have been civilizing very fast...and it has not appeared in literature; there has been no analogous expansion and recomposition in books.
    Let 12.392 22 Very unlooked-for political and social effects of the iron road are fast appearing. It will require an expansion of the police of the old world.

expansions, n. (11)

    MN 1.191 19 The rapid wealth which hundreds in the community acquire... by the incessant expansions of our population and arts, enchants the eyes of all the rest;...
    Cir 2.304 19 ...in its first and narrowest pulses [the heart] already tends...to immense and innumerable expansions.
    PNR 4.81 23 [Plato] represents...the power...of carrying up every fact to successive platforms and so disclosing in every fact a germ of expansion. These expansions are in the essence of thought.
    PNR 4.82 2 ...the Republic of Plato, by these expansions [of facts], may be said to require and so to anticipate the astronomy of Laplace.
    PNR 4.82 4 The expansions [of facts] are organic.
    PNR 4.82 10 These expansions or extensions [of facts] consist in continuing the spiritual sight where the horizon falls on our natural vision...
    Boks 7.206 15 Ximenes...Henry IV. of France, are [Charles V's] contemporaries. It is a time of seeds and expansions...
    Schr 10.288 8 ...gentlemen, there is plainly no end to these expansions [on the scholar].
    EdAd 11.383 8 ...this energetic race [Americans] derive an unprecedented material power...from the expansions effected by public schools, cheap postage and a cheap press...
    PLT 12.58 7 The daily history of the Intellect is this alternating of expansions and concentrations.
    PLT 12.58 8 The expansions [of the Intellect] are the invitations from heaven to try a larger sweep...

expansive, adj. (11)

    YA 1.371 11 It seems so easy for America to inspire and express the most expansive and humane spirit;...
    YA 1.390 9 That is [the hero's] nobility...always to throw himself...on the liberal, on the expansive side...
    MoS 4.185 3 The expansive nature of truth comes to our succor...
    ET14 5.245 15 ...[Hallam's] eye does not reach to the ideal standards...all new thought must be cast into the old moulds. The expansive element which creates literature is steadily denied.
    Wth 6.86 15 A clever fellow was acquainted with the expansive force of steam;...
    Ctr 6.160 9 Even a high dome, and the expansive interior of a cathedral, have a sensible effect on manners.
    WD 7.168 2 Czar Alexander was more expansive [than Bonaparte], and wished to call the Pacific my ocean;...
    Comc 8.173 5 What is nobler than the expansive sentiment of patriotism...
    PerF 10.71 23 ...gravity is as adhesive, heat as expansive...as on the first day.
    Prch 10.223 12 ...this [movement of religious opinion] of to-day has the best omens as being of the most expansive humanity...
    Bost 12.194 6 Who can read the fiery ejaculations of Saint Augustine...of Milton, of Bunyan even, without feeling how rich and expansive a culture... they owed to the promptings of this [Christian] sentiment;...

expansiveness, n. (1)

    ET14 5.258 7 That expansiveness which is the essence of the poetic element, [modern English poets] have not.

expatiated, v. (1)

    WSL 12.347 16 ...[Landor] has examined before he has expatiated...

expatiates, v. (1)

    Supl 10.175 14 [Nature] never expatiates, never goes into the reasons.

expatriated, v. (1)

    ET5 5.91 3 Sir John Herschel...expatriated himself for years at the Cape of Good Hope...

expect, v. (48)

    MN 1.196 15 The new book says, I will give you the key to nature, and we expect to go like a thunderbolt to the centre.
    YA 1.366 22 ...beside all the moral benefit which we may expect from the farmer's profession...this [inclination to withdraw from cities] promised the conquering of the soil...
    SR 2.52 2 Expect me not to show cause why I seek or why I exclude company.
    Comp 2.95 7 The legitimate inference the disciple would draw was...You sin now, we shall sin by and by; we would sin now, if we could; not being successful we expect our revenge to-morrow.
    SL 2.152 18 ...we know that these gentlemen will not communicate their own character and experience to the company. If we had reason to expect such a confidence we should go through all inconvenience and opposition.
    Fdsp 2.209 11 Leave to the diamond its ages to grow, nor expect to accelerate the births of the eternal.
    Prd1 2.226 1 ...if we go a-fishing we must expect a wet coat.
    Prd1 2.233 26 Is it not better that a man should accept the first pains and mortifications of this sort...as hints that he must expect no other good than the just fruit of his own labor and self-denial?
    Prd1 2.240 10 We are...too old to expect patronage of any greater or more powerful.
    Hsm1 2.260 10 ...we have the weakness to expect the sympathy of people in those actions whose excellence is that they outrun sympathy...
    Exp 3.68 4 You will not remember, [God] seems to say, and you will not expect.
    Gts 3.165 4 There are persons from whom we always expect fairy-tokens;...
    Gts 3.165 5 There are persons from whom we always expect fairy-tokens; let us not cease to expect them.
    Pol1 3.210 26 From neither party, when in power, has the world any benefit to expect in science, art, or humanity, at all commensurate with the resources of the nation.
    SwM 4.121 24 ...the dictionary of symbols is yet to be written. But the interpreter whom mankind must still expect, will find no predecessor who has approached so near to the true problem [as Swedenborg].
    MoS 4.179 21 [The young spirit] did not expect a sympathy with his thought from the village...
    ET13 5.221 23 The torpidity on the side of religion of the vigorous English understanding shows how much wit and folly can agree in one brain. Their religion is a quotation;...and any examination is interdicted with screams of terror. In good company you expect them to laugh at the fanaticism of the vulgar; but they do not; they are the vulgar.
    F 6.10 21 You may as well ask a loom which weaves huckabuck why it does not make cashmere, as expect poetry from this engineer...
    Pow 6.63 14 Men expect from good whigs put into office by the respectability of the country, much less skill to deal with Mexico...than from some strong transgressor, like Jefferson or Jackson...
    Pow 6.82 3 Are you so cunning, Mr. Profitloss, and do you expect to swindle your master and employer, in the web you weave?
    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. Nor do we expect anybody to be other than a faint copy of these heroes.
    Wsp 6.241 23 [Man] shall expect no cooperation...
    CbW 6.260 7 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.
    Cour 7.270 27 [John Brown] said, As soon as I hear one of my men say, Ah, let me only get my eye on such a man, I'll bring him down, I don't expect much aid in the fight from that talker.
    QO 8.178 5 We expect a great man to be a good reader;...
    QO 8.188 19 In opening a new book we often discover, from the unguarded devotion with which the writer gives his motto or text, all we have to expect from him.
    Aris 10.51 8 We do not expect [public representatives] to be saints...
    Edc1 10.133 18 When I see...that there is no sot or fop, ruffian or pedant into whom thoughts do not enter by passages which the individual never left open, I can expect any revolution in character.
    Supl 10.171 1 Men of the world value truth...not by its sacredness, but for its convenience. Of such, especially of diplomatists, one has a right to expect wit and ingenuity to avoid the lie if they must comply with the form.
    Plu 10.306 10 We are always interested in the man who treats the intellect well. We expect it from the philosopher...
    Plu 10.307 2 ...we expect this awe and reverence of the spiritual power from the philosopher in his closet...
    EzRy 10.392 21 Mr. N. F. is dead, and I expect to hear of the death of Mr. B. It is cruel to separate old people from their wives in this cold weather.
    MMEm 10.421 13 Alone, feeling strongly, fully, that I [Mary Moody Emerson] have deserved nothing; according to Adam Smith's idea of society, done nothing; doing nothing, never expect to;...
    MMEm 10.426 24 The idea of being no mate for those intellectualists I've [Mary Moody Emerson] loved to admire, is no pain. Hereafter the same solitary joy will go with me, were I not to live, as I expect, in the vision of the Infinite.
    MMEm 10.429 25 ...I [Mary Moody Emerson] am resigned to being nothing, never expect a palm, a laurel, hereafter.
    Thor 10.483 26 How can we expect a harvest of thought who have not had a seed-time of character?
    HDC 11.29 12 We will...pass that just verdict on [the deeds of our fathers] we expect from posterity on our own.
    HDC 11.30 9 Man's life, said the Witan to the Saxon king, is the sparrow that enters at a window...and flies out at another, and none knoweth whence he came, or whither he goes. The more reason...that we should recall the Past, and expect the Future.
    EWI 11.126 23 ...the [slave] trade could not be abolished whilst this hungry West Indian market...cried, More, more, bring me a hundred a day; [British merchants] could not expect any mitigation in the madness of the poor African war-chiefs.
    SMC 11.349 11 ...we can hardly expect a wide sympathy for the names and anecdotes which we delight to record.
    SMC 11.362 12 One day [George Prescott] writes, I expect to have a time this forenoon with the officer from West Point who drills us.
    FRO2 11.490 25 I am glad to believe society contains a class of humble souls...who think it the highest worship to expect of Heaven the most and the best;...
    CPL 11.504 4 We expect a great man to be a good reader...
    Milt1 12.264 9 His mind gave him, [Milton] said, that every free and gentle spirit, without that oath of chastity, ought to be born a knight; nor needed to expect the gilt spur...to stir him up, by his counsel and his arm, to secure and protect attempted innocence.
    Milt1 12.268 18 [Milton's] views of choice of profession, and choice in marriage, equally expect a divine leading.
    MLit 12.318 12 Those who cannot tell what they desire or expect still sigh and struggle with indefinite thoughts and vast wishes.
    EurB 12.365 10 We have ceased to expect that which [Wordsworth] cannot give.
    PPr 12.381 22 As we recall the topics [in Carlyle's Past and Present], we are struck with the force given to the plain truths;...the picture of Abbot Samson, the true governor, who is not there to expect reason and nobleness of others, he is there to give them of his own reason and nobleness;...

expectant, adj. (7)

    UGM 4.9 21 The mass of creatures and of qualities are still hid and expectant.
    CbW 6.245 8 All the professions are timid and expectant agencies.
    PC 8.228 18 ...[science] does not surprise the moral sentiment. That was older, and awaited expectant these larger insights.
    Chr2 10.116 16 ...every church divides itself into a liberal and expectant class, on one side, and an unwilling and conservative class on the other.
    MMEm 10.424 11 Hail requiem of departed Time! Never was incumbent's funeral followed by expectant heir with more satisfaction.
    EPro 11.317 2 ...[Lincoln's] long-avowed expectant policy...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.
    Shak1 11.449 20 ...we pause expectant before the genius of Shakspeare- as if his biography were not yet written;...

expectant, n. (1)

    Plu 10.309 2 [Plutarch] is an eclectic in such sense as Montaigne was,- willing to be an expectant, not a dogmatist.

expectation, n. (39)

    AmS 1.81 18 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.
    LE 1.156 20 This country has not fulfilled what seemed the reasonable expectation of mankind.
    LE 1.187 13 [Thought] will impledge you to truth by the love and expectation of generous minds.
    MN 1.196 24 ...we do not take up a new book or meet a new man without a pulse-beat of expectation.
    Tran 1.346 25 ...[youths] pay you only this one compliment, of insatiable expectation;...
    Hist 2.8 6 I have no expectation that any man will read history aright who thinks that what was done in a remote age...has any deeper sense than what he is doing to-day.
    SR 2.72 22 Live no longer to the expectation of these deceived and deceiving people with whom we converse.
    Comp 2.96 14 I shall attempt...to record some facts that indicate the path of the law of Compensation; happy beyond my expectation if I shall truly draw the smallest arc of this circle.
    Comp 2.112 6 Of the like nature [to Fear] is that expectation of change which instantly follows the suspension of our voluntary activity.
    OS 2.287 23 All men stand continually in the expectation of the appearance of such a teacher [who speaks always from within].
    Exp 3.71 2 Bear with...with this coetaneous growth of the parts; they will one day be members, and obey one will. On that one will, on that secret cause, they nail our attention and hope. Life is hereby melted into an expectation or a religion.
    Chr1 3.89 20 ...somewhat resided in these men which begot an expectation that outran all their performance.
    Gts 3.163 18 ...the expectation of gratitude is mean...
    UGM 4.7 11 [The great] satisfy expectation and fall into place.
    ShP 4.192 19 The secure possession, by the stage, of the public mind, is of the first importance to the poet who works for it. He loses no time in idle experiments. Here is audience and expectation prepared.
    NMW 4.243 7 ...Napoleon said...Gentlemen, in the situation in which I stand, my only nobility is the rabble of the Faubourgs. Napoleon met this natural expectation.
    ET8 5.136 6 ...[the English] do not speak to expectation.
    ET13 5.226 11 Like the Quakers, [the wise legislator] may resist the separation of a class of priests, and create opportunity and expectation in the society to run to meet natural endowment in this kind.
    Bhr 6.175 6 A prince who is accustomed every day to be courted and deferred to by the highest grandees, acquires a corresponding expectation...
    Wsp 6.217 3 ...we very slowly admit in another man...an ear to hear acuter notes of right and wrong than we can. ... But, once satisfied of such superiority, we set no limit to our expectation of his genius.
    Art2 7.46 14 The effect of music belongs how much...if on the stage, to what went before in the play, or to the expectation of what shall come after.
    Comc 8.157 23 The balking of the intellect, the frustrated expectation...is comedy;...
    QO 8.202 18 A phrase or a single word is adduced, with honoring emphasis, from Pindar, Hesiod or Euripides, as precluding all argument, because thus had they said: importing that the bard spoke not his own, but the words of some god. True poets have always ascended to this lofty platform, and met this expectation.
    QO 8.203 13 Landsmen and sailors freshly come from the most civilized countries, and with no false expectation...yet about wild life, healthily receive and report what they saw...
    Insp 8.277 1 See how the passions augment our force,-anger, love, ambition!-sometimes sympathy, and the expectation of men.
    Dem1 10.15 21 The belief that particular individuals are attended by a good fortune which makes them desirable associates in any enterprise of uncertain success...influences all joint action of commerce and affairs, and a corresponding assurance in the individuals so distinguished meets and justifies the expectation of others by a boundless self-trust.
    Aris 10.51 6 The expectation and claims of mankind indicate the duties of this class [public respresentatives].
    Edc1 10.137 19 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.
    Supl 10.165 5 Horace Walpole relates that in the expectation, current in London a century ago, of a great earthquake, some people provided themselves with dresses for the occasion.
    LLNE 10.337 24 ...a certain success attended [Mesmerism], against all expectation.
    LLNE 10.339 6 There was...much vague expectation...
    LLNE 10.340 26 [Channing] found [at Warren's house] a well-chosen assembly of gentlemen variously distinguished;...they were...drawing gently towards their great expectation...
    LLNE 10.354 23 It is the worst of community that it must inevitably transform into charlatans the leaders, by the endeavor continually to meet the expectation and admiration of this eager crowd of men and women seeking they know not what.
    EzRy 10.385 11 ...on 15th May [1735] we have this [from Joseph Emerson]: Shay brought home; mending cost thirty shillings. Favored in this respect beyond expectation.
    Thor 10.457 24 In any circumstance it interested all bystanders to know what part Henry [Thoreau] would take, and what he would say; and he did not disappoint expectation...
    LS 11.15 15 ...this single expectation of a speedy reappearance of a temporal Messiah...would naturally tend to preserve the use of the rite [the Lord's Supper] when once established.
    AsSu 11.249 25 [Charles Sumner] has gone beyond the large expectation of his friends in his increasing ability and his manlier tone.
    FRep 11.525 12 In each new threat of faction the ballot has been, beyond expectation, right and decisive.
    PLT 12.47 10 The new sect stands for certain thoughts. We go to individual members for an exposition of them. Vain expectation.

expectations, n. (11)

    LE 1.185 23 When you shall say...I must eat the good of the land and let learning and romantic expectations go...then dies the man in you;...
    YA 1.371 19 ...[America] is a country...of expectations.
    Art1 2.362 14 The sweet and sublime face of Jesus [in Raphael's Transfiguration] is beyond praise, yet how it disappoints all florid expectations!
    Nat2 3.195 13 Our servitude to particulars betrays us into a hundred foolish expectations.
    Wth 6.124 14 The good merchant [finds] large gains, ships, stocks and money. The good poet [finds] fame and literary credit; but not either the other. Yet there is commonly a confusion of expectations on these points.
    DL 7.123 25 [Every man] observes...the humility of the expectations of the greatest part of men.
    Schr 10.266 16 ...for the moment it appears as if in former times learning and intellectual accomplishments had secured to the possessor greater rank and authority. If this were only the reaction from excessive expectations from literature, now disappointed, it were a just censure.
    MMEm 10.411 24 I [Mary Moody Emerson] am so small in my expectations, that a week of industry delights.
    Thor 10.452 17 ...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, and it required rare decision to...keep his solitary freedom at the cost of disappointing the natural expectations of his family and friends...
    Thor 10.484 2 Only he can be trusted with gifts who can present a face of bronze to expectations.
    FRO2 11.488 18 This positive, historical, authoritative scheme [of miraculous dispensation] is not consistent with our experience or our expectations.

expected, adj. (2)

    ET17 5.297 15 [A London gentleman] said he once showed [Milton's watch] to Wordsworth, who took it in one hand, then drew out his own watch and held it up with the other, before the company, but no one making the expected remark, he put back his own in silence.
    PC 8.226 18 The air does not rush to fill a vacuum with such speed as the mind to catch the expected fact.

expected, v. (21)

    LE 1.180 16 ...everything [was] expected from the valor and discipline of every platoon, in flank and centre [in Napoleon's army]...
    MR 1.231 1 ...it requires more vigor and resources than can be expected of every young man, to right himself in [the employments of commerce];...
    SL 2.156 11 You think because you...have given no opinion on the times... that your verdict is still expected with curiosity as a reserved wisdom.
    Fdsp 2.192 8 A commended stranger is expected and announced...
    Exp 3.74 24 Why should I fret myself because a circumstance has occurred which hinders my presence where I was expected?
    Nat2 3.192 6 Quite analogous to the deceits in life, there is, as might be expected, a similar effect on the eye from the face of external nature.
    ET6 5.113 21 [the dinner] is reserved to the end of the day, the family-hour being generally six, in London, and if any company is expected, one or two hours later.
    ET6 5.113 24 The guests [at dinner in London] are expected to arrive within half an hour of the time fixed by card of invitation...
    ET7 5.120 27 On the king's birthday, when each bishop was expected to offer the king a purse of gold, Latimer gave Henry VIII. a copy of the Vulgate, with a mark at the passage, Whoremongers and adulterers God will judge;...
    Wth 6.95 6 The rich man, says Saadi, is everywhere expected and at home.
    OA 7.333 17 We inquired when [John Adams] expected to see Mr. [John Quincy] Adams.
    Elo2 8.117 2 ...[the orator] gains his victory by prophecy, where [the people] expected repetition.
    Insp 8.271 8 Everything which we hear for the first time was expected by the mind;...
    Insp 8.271 9 Everything which we hear for the first time was expected by the mind; the newest discovery was expected.
    Grts 8.316 22 ...natural is really allied to moral power, and may always be expected to approach it by its own instincts.
    MMEm 10.404 11 [Mary Moody Emerson] writes to her nephew Charles Emerson, in 1833... I never expected connections and matrimony.
    Thor 10.468 7 [Thoreau]...told me that he expected to find yet the Victoria regia in Concord.
    HDC 11.30 25 I shall not be expected...to repeat the details of that oppression which drove our fathers out hither.
    FSLC 11.203 9 [Webster] indulged occasionally in excellent expression of the known feeling of the New England people [on slavery]: but, when expected and when pledged, he omitted to speak...
    FRO1 11.480 1 What strikes me in the sudden movement which brings together to-day so many separated friends,-separated but sympathetic,- and what I expected to find here [at the Free Religious Association], was some practical suggestions by which we were to reanimate and reorganize for ourselves the true Church...
    WSL 12.346 24 Only from a mind conversant with the First Philosophy can definitions be expected.

expecting, v. (5)

    Exp 3.62 3 ...I begin at the other extreme, expecting nothing, and am always full of thanks for moderate goods.
    MoS 4.156 1 If you come near [the studious classes] and see what conceits they entertain,--they...spend their days and nights...in expecting the homage of society to some precious scheme built on a truth, but destitute of proportion in its presentment...
    Cour 7.258 11 The Norse Sagas relate that when Bishop Magne reproved King Sigurd for his wicked divorce, the priest who attended the bishop, expecting every moment when the savage king would burst with rage and slay his superior, said that he saw the sky no bigger than a calf-skin.
    War 11.173 23 ...the man who...without any notice of his action abroad, expecting none, takes in solitude the right step uniformly...does not yield, in my imagination, to any man.
    FSLN 11.227 19 ...Mr. Webster and the country went for the application to these poor men [negroes] of quadruped law. People were expecting a totally different course from Mr. Webster.

expectoration, n. (1)

    Bhr 6.174 1 ...in the same country [on the banks of the Mississippi], in the pews of the churches little placards plead with the worshipper against the fury of expectoration.

expects, v. (3)

    Exp 3.61 27 I compared notes with one of my friends who expects everything of the universe...
    ET8 5.142 1 Nelson wrote from [English] hearts his homely telegraph, England expects every man to do his duty.
    HDC 11.47 6 He is ill informed who expects, on running down the [New England] Town Records for two hundred years, to find a church of saints...

expediencies, n. (1)

    Wom 11.421 7 The objection to [women's] voting is the same as is urged... against clergymen who take an active part in politics;-that if they are good clergymen they are unacquainted with the expediencies of politics...

expediency, n. (10)

    Con 1.318 22 ...[the conservative party] goes...for expediency in its measures, and not for the right.
    SR 2.54 20 I hear a preacher announce for his text and topic the expediency of one of the institutions of his church.
    Exp 3.64 26 Expediency of literature...is questioned;...
    LS 11.16 21 But it is said: Admit that the rite [the Lord's Supper] was not designed to be perpetual. What harm doth it? Here it stands...the undoubted occasion of much good; is it not better it should remain? This is the question of expediency.
    War 11.162 22 ...we never make much account of objections which merely respect the actual state of the world at this moment, but which admit the general expediency and permanent excellence of the project.
    War 11.167 15 Since the peace question has been before the public mind, those who affirm its right and expediency have naturally been met with objections more or less weighty.
    Wom 11.422 19 Every one is a half vote, but the next elector behind him brings the other or corresponding half in his hand: a reasonable result is had. Now there is no lack, I am sure, of the expediency...
    Wom 11.425 4 ...let [new opinions] make their way by the upper road, and not by the way of manufacturing public opinion, which lapses continually into expediency...
    CInt 12.117 25 I presently know...whether [my companion] stands for ideal justice, or for a timorous expediency.
    Milt1 12.273 8 [Milton] would...support preachers by voluntary contributions; requiring that such only should preach as have faith enough to accept so self-denying and precarious a mode of life, scorning to take thought for the aspects of prudence and expediency.

expedient, adj. (4)

    Pol1 3.207 21 We may be wise in asserting the advantage in modern times of the democratic form, but to other states of society, in which religion consecrated the monarchical, that and not this was expedient.
    LS 11.5 2 ...I was led to the conclusion that Jesus did not intend to establish an institution for perpetual observance when he ate the Passover with his disciples; and further, to the opinion, that it is not expedient to celebrate it as we do.
    HDC 11.55 5 In 1643, the colony was so numerous that it became expedient to divide it into four counties, Concord being included in Middlesex.
    SHC 11.432 26 Certainly the living need [a garden] more than the dead; indeed...it is given to the dead for the reaction of benefit on the living. But if the direct regard to the living be thought expedient, that is also in your power.

expedient, n. (11)

    Pol1 3.199 7 ...every law and usage was a man's expedient to meet a particular case;...
    PNR 4.80 13 Modern science...by the simple expedient of lighting up the vast background, generates a feeling of complacency and hope.
    ET5 5.98 2 For the administration of justice [in England], Sir Samuel Romilly's expedient for clearing the arrears of business in Chancery was, the Chancellor's staying away entirely from his court.
    ET15 5.272 12 If only [the London Times] dared...to show the right to be the only expedient...
    Civ 7.29 10 ...the astronomer, having by an observation fixed the place of a star,--by so simple an expedient as waiting six months and then repeating his observation, contrived to put the diameter of the earth's orbit...between his first observation and his second...
    Art2 7.39 1 ...from the simplest expedient of private prudence to the American Constitution;...Art is the spirit's voluntary use and combination of things to serve its end.
    Farm 7.147 9 Nature suggests every economical expedient somewhere on a great scale.
    QO 8.196 4 It is a familiar expedient of brilliant writers...the device of ascribing their own sentence to an imaginary person...
    II 12.70 23 ...[Inspiration] has the royal expedient to thrust Nature between him and you...
    MAng1 12.224 22 ...the Prince [of Orange] directed the artillery to demolish the tower [at San Miniato]. The artist [Michelangelo] hung mattresses of wool on the side exposed to the attack, and by means of a bold projecting cornice, from which they were suspended, a considerable space was left between them and the wall. This simple expedient was sufficient...
    PPr 12.388 24 How well-read, how adroit, that thousand arts in [Carlyle's] one art of writing; with his expedient for expressing those unproven opinions which he entertains but will not endorse, by summoning one of his men of straw from the cell,-and the respectable Sauerteig, or Teuffelsdrockh...says what is put into his mouth, and disappears.

expedients, n. (6)

    MR 1.251 2 To principles something else is possible that transcends all the power of expedients.
    ET5 5.77 18 All the admirable expedients or means hit upon in England must be looked at as growths or irresistible offshoots of the expanding mind of the race.
    ET10 5.168 25 ...Pitt, Peel and Robinson and their Parliaments...went to their graves in the belief that they were enriching the country which they were impoverishing. They congratulated each other on ruinous expedients.
    Wth 6.118 15 A system must be in every economy, or the best single expedients are of no avail.
    Cour 7.263 23 The terrific chances which make the hours and the minutes long to the passenger, [the sailor] whiles away by incessant application of expedients and repairs.
    Res 8.144 11 [The energetic man] sees expedients and means where we saw none.

expedit, v. (1)

    FSLC 11.191 19 Even the Canon Law says (in malis promissis non expedit servare fidem), Neither allegiance nor oath can bind to obey that which is wrong.

expedite, v. (2)

    Nat 1.32 14 Whilst we use this grand cipher to expedite the affairs of our pot and kettle, we feel that we have not yet put it to its use...
    Edc1 10.153 24 Our modes of Education aim to expedite...

Expedition, Argonautic, n. (1)

    Hist 2.39 6 I shall find in [a man] the Foreworld; in his childhood...the Argonautic Expedition...

Expedition, Exploring, n. (2)

    Mrs1 3.119 2 Our Exploring Expedition saw the Feejee islanders getting their dinner off human bones;...
    GoW 4.273 14 [Goethe] was the soul of his century. If that...had become... one great Exploring Expedition...this man's mind had ample chambers for the distribution of all.

Expedition, Exploring, Wilk (1)

    ET4 5.44 18 ...Mr. Pickering, who lately in our [Wilkes] Exploring Expedition thinks he saw all the kinds of men that can be on the planet, makes eleven [races].

expedition, n. (6)

    ET9 5.152 22 Amerigo Vespucci...whose highest naval rank was boatswain' s mate in an expedition that never sailed, managed in this lying world to supplant Columbus...
    ET16 5.282 24 The golden fleece again, of Jason, was the compass,--a bit of loadstone, easily supposed to be the only one in the world, and therefore naturally awakening the cupidity and ambition of the young heroes of a maritime nation to join in an expedition to obtain possession of this wise stone.
    Cour 7.262 3 Coleridge has preserved an anecdote of an officer in the British Navy who told him that when he, in his first boat expedition... accompanied Sir Alexander Ball, as we were rowing up to the vessel we were to attack...I was overpowered with fear...
    MoL 10.253 14 There is a proverb that Napoleon, when the Mameluke cavalry approached the French lines, ordered the grenadiers to the front, and the asses and the savans to fall into the hollow square. It made a good story, and circulated in that day. But how stands it now? The military expedition was a failure.
    HDC 11.57 26 This expedition [against the Niantic Indians] was but the introduction of the war with King Philip.
    Bost 12.192 6 In the journey of Rev. Peter Bulkeley and his company through the forest from Boston to Concord they fainted from the powerful odor of the stweefern in the sun;-like what befell, still earlier, Biorn and Thorfinn, Northmen, in their expedition to the same coast;...

Expedition, Pacific Explori (1)

    Thor 10.462 22 [Thoreau]...would have been competent to lead a Pacific Exploring Expedition;...

Expedition, Wilkes Explorin (1)

    Pow 6.58 17 ...Commander Wilkes appropriates the results of all the naturalists attached to the Expedition;...

Expeditions, Exploring, n. (2)

    Pow 6.69 5 There are Oregons, Californias and Exploring Expeditions enough appertaining to America to find [men of this surcharge of arterial blood] in files to gnaw and in crocodiles to eat.
    Wth 6.96 18 It is the interest of all that there should be Exploring Expeditions;...

expeditions, n. (3)

    NMW 4.248 14 If [the land-commander] allows himself to be guided by the commissaries [Napoleon remarks]...all his expeditions will fail.
    ET4 5.61 15 The continued draught of the best men in Norway, Sweden and Denmark to these piratical expeditions exhausted those countries...
    ET5 5.91 10 The [English] Admiralty sent out the Arctic expeditions year after year, in search of Sir John Franklin...

expel, v. (3)

    LE 1.174 5 ...expel companions;...
    Con 1.304 1 ...nothing but God will expel God.
    MoL 10.247 14 Disease alarms the family, but the physician sees in it a temporary mischief, which he can check and expel.

expend, v. (2)

    NER 3.261 6 ...in the assault on the kingdom of darkness [many reformers] expend all their energy on some accidental evil...
    ET8 5.132 9 [Young Englishmen]...cannot expend their quantities of waste strength on riding, hunting, swimming and fencing...

expended, v. (7)

    Prd1 2.234 7 ...as much wisdom may be expended on a private economy as on an empire...
    Chr1 3.104 18 The true charity of Goethe is to be inferred from the account he gave Dr. Eckermann of the way in which he had spent his fortune. Each bonmot of mine has cost a purse of gold. Half a million of my own money... the large income derived from my writings...have been expended to instruct me in what I now know.
    NER 3.268 26 We do not believe that...any influence of genius, will ever give depth of insight to a superficial mind. Having settled ourselves into this infidelity, our skill is expended to procure alleviations...
    ShP 4.191 9 Choose any other thing...out of the national feeling and history, and...[the great man's] powers would be expended in the first preparations.
    F 6.16 14 We see how much will has been expended to extinguish the Jew, in vain.
    Art2 7.44 15 The art [in sculpture and architecture] resides in the model, in the plan; for it is on that the genius of the artist is expended...
    HDC 11.82 22 This year, [Concord] expends 800 dollars for its poor; the last year it expended 900 dollars.

expending, v. (1)

    MR 1.233 1 [The general system of our trade] is not that which a man... meditates on with joy and self-approval in his hour of love and aspiration; but rather what he then puts out of sight, only showing the brilliant result, and atoning for the manner of acquiring, by the manner of expending it.

expenditure, n. (20)

    Con 1.324 7 If [the hero] have earned his bread...in the narrow and crooked ways which were all an evil law had left him, he will make it at least honorable by his expenditure.
    ET10 5.156 12 Every [English] household exhibits an exact economy, and nothing of that uncalculated headlong expenditure which families use in America.
    ET10 5.156 20 [In England] An economist, or a man who can...bring the year round with expenditure which expresses his character without embarrassing one day of his future, is already a master of life, and a freeman.
    ET13 5.214 5 [People's] loyalty to truth and their labor and expenditure rest on real foundations, and not on a national church.
    ET13 5.214 19 In the barbarous days of a nation, some cultus is formed or imported; altars are built...priests ordained. The education and expenditure of the country take that direction...
    Pow 6.80 26 ...never was any signal act or achievement in history but by this expenditure [of spirit].
    Ctr 6.165 7 ...a considerate man will reckon himself a subject of that secular melioration by which mankind is mollified, cured and refined; and will shun every expenditure of his forces on pleasure or gain which will jeopardize this social and secular accumulation.
    DL 7.109 1 Let us go to the sitting-room, the table-talk and the expenditure of our contemporaries.
    DL 7.109 18 I am not one thing and my expenditure another.
    DL 7.109 19 My expenditure is me.
    DL 7.109 19 That our expenditure and our character are twain, is the vice of society.
    DL 7.126 3 ...we hold fast, all our lives long, a faith...in clean and noble relations, notwithstanding our total inexperience of a true society. Certainly this was not the intention of Nature, to produce, with all this immense expenditure of means and power, so cheap and humble a result.
    Farm 7.142 2 We commonly say that the rich man...can afford independence of opinion and action;--and that is the theory of nobility. But it is the rich man in a true sense, that is to say, not the man of large income and large expenditure...
    Edc1 10.125 9 ...I praise New England because it is the country in the world where is the freest expenditure for education.
    SlHr 10.440 8 Though rich, [Samuel Hoar was] of a plainness and almost poverty of personal expenditure...
    Thor 10.458 8 In 1847, not approving some uses to which the public expenditure was applied, [Thoreau] refused to pay his town tax, and was put in jail.
    HDC 11.80 5 [Concord's] instructions to their representatives are full of loud complaints of...the excess of public expenditure.
    FRep 11.539 24 Power can be generous. The very grandeur of the means which offer themselves to us should suggest grandeur in the direction of our expenditure.
    EurB 12.371 13 [Tennyson] is...a tasteful bachelor who collects quaint staircases and groined ceilings. We have no right to such superfineness. We must not make our bread of pure sugar. These delicacies and splendors are then legitimate when they are the excess of substantial and necessary expenditure.
    Let 12.394 17 [The correspondents] do not wish a township or any large expenditure or incorporated association...

expends, v. (1)

    HDC 11.82 21 This year, [Concord] expends 800 dollars for its poor;...

expense, n. (54)

    MN 1.203 25 ...my [Nature's] aim is...by no means the pampering of a monstrous pericarp at the expense of all the other functions.
    MR 1.244 5 Our expense is almost all for conformity.
    MR 1.245 1 ...as soon as there is society, comfits and cushions will be left to slaves. Expense will be inventive and heroic.
    LT 1.290 20 You will absolve me from the charge of...the desire to say smart things at the expense of whomsoever, when you see that reality is all we prize...
    Con 1.311 3 [Existing institutions] have lost no time and spared no expense to collect libraries, museums, galleries, colleges, palaces, hospitals, observatories, cities.
    YA 1.373 15 ...Nature...uses a grinding economy...not a superfluous grain of sand, for all the ostentation she makes of expense and public works.
    YA 1.381 23 On one side is agricultural chemistry, coolly exposing the nonsense of our spendthrift agriculture and ruinous expense of manures...
    Prd1 2.234 6 Let [a man] control the habit of expense.
    Hsm1 2.251 6 [Heroism] is the avowal of the unschooled man that he finds a quality in him that is negligent of expense...
    Exp 3.84 20 To know a little would be worth the expense of this world.
    NER 3.264 9 The scheme [of the new communities] offers, by the economies of associated labor and expense, to make every member rich, on the same amount of property that, in separate families, would leave every member poor.
    SwM 4.100 8 [Swedenborg]...devoted himself to the writing and publication of his voluminous theological works, which were printed at his own expense...
    ET5 5.84 27 [The English] put the expense in the right place...
    ET5 5.91 20 Lord Elgin, at Athens, saw the imminent ruin of the Greek remains, set up his scaffoldings...and, after five years' labor to collect them, got his marbles on ship-board. The ship struck a rock and went to the bottom. He had them all fished up by divers, at a vast expense...
    ET6 5.107 16 ...[the Englishman] dearly loves his house. If he is rich, he buys a demesne and builds a hall; if he is in middle condition, he spares no expense on his house.
    ET8 5.139 8 Even the scale of expense on which people live...proves the tension of [English] muscle...
    ET10 5.170 14 England must be held responsible for the despotism of expense.
    ET10 5.170 24 A civility of trifles, of money and expense...takes place [in England]...
    ET10 5.171 3 ...the means of meeting a certain ponderous expense, is that which is considered by a youth in England emerging from his minority.
    ET10 5.171 8 A large family is reckoned a misfortune [in England]. And it is a consolation in the death of the young, that a source of expense is closed.
    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 expense and splendor...
    ET11 5.185 3 For the rest, the [English] nobility have the lead in matters of state and expense;...
    ET11 5.193 15 Even peers who are men of worth and public spirit [in England] are overtaken and embarrassed by their vast expense.
    ET11 5.195 10 Already...the English noble and squire were preparing for the career of the country-gentleman and his peaceable expense.
    ET12 5.204 27 The whole expense, says Professor Sewel, of ordinary college tuition at Oxford, is about sixteen guineas a year.
    ET13 5.226 26 The [English] curates are ill paid, and the prelates are overpaid. This abuse draws into the church the children of the nobility and other unfit persons who have a taste for expense.
    ET14 5.255 20 ...we have [in England] the factitious instead of the natural; tasteless expense, arts of comfort...
    F 6.7 12 You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughter-house is concealed...there is...race living at the expense of race.
    F 6.8 25 An expense of ends to means is fate;...
    Wth 6.91 6 ...when one observes in the hotels and palaces of our Atlantic capitals the habit of expense...he feels that when a man or a woman is driven to the wall, the chances of integrity are frightfully diminished;...
    Wth 6.105 2 If a talent is anywhere born into the world, the community of nations is enriched; and much more with a new degree of probity. The expense of crime...is so far stopped.
    Wth 6.110 19 The cost of the crime and the expense of courts and of prisons we must bear...
    Wth 6.112 1 ...each man's expense must proceed from his character.
    Wth 6.112 27 Spend for your expense, and retrench the expense which is not yours.
    Wth 6.113 1 Spend for your expense, and retrench the expense which is not yours.
    Wth 6.117 6 ...after expense has been fixed at a certain point, then new and steady rills of income, though never so small, being added, wealth begins.
    Wth 6.126 4 The merchant has but one rule, absorb and invest;...earnings must not go to increase expense...
    Bty 6.302 12 ...if a man...can take such advantages of nature that all her powers serve him; making use of geometry, instead of expense;...this is still the legitimate dominion of beauty.
    DL 7.109 14 There should be...the genius and love of the man so conspicuously marked in all his estate that the eye that knew him should read his character...in every expense.
    DL 7.110 3 All [the scholar's] expense is for Aristotle, Fabricius, Erasmus and Petrarch.
    DL 7.112 10 See, in families where there is both substance and taste, at what expense any favorite punctuality is maintained.
    DL 7.114 13 ...we desire to play the benefactor and the prince...with the man or woman of worth who alights at our door. How can we do this, if the wants of each day...constrain us to a continual vigilance lest we be betrayed into expense?
    DL 7.120 20 ...who can see unmoved...the cautious comparison of the attractive advertisement...of the discourse of a well-known speaker, with the expense of the entertainment;...
    Farm 7.139 17 It were as false for farmers to use a wholesale and massy expense, as for states to use a minute economy.
    SA 8.96 9 Let Nature bear the expense.
    Schr 10.279 6 Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character...
    HDC 11.79 15 The numbers [of of men for the Continental army], say [the General Assembly of Massachusetts], are large, but this Court has the fullest assurance that their brethren...will...fill up the numbers proportioned to the several towns. On that occasion, Concord furnished 67 men, paying them itself, at an expense of 622 pounds.
    HDC 11.79 22 The great expense of the [Revolutionary] war was borne with cheerfulness [by Concord]...
    HDC 11.82 17 If the community [Concord] stints its expense in small matters, it spends freely on great duties.
    EWI 11.130 13 ...I see...poor black men of obscure employment...in ships... freeborn as we,-whom the slave-laws of the States of South Carolina and Georgia and Louisiana have...shut up in jails so long as the vessel remained in port, with the stringent addition, that if the shipmaster fails to pay the costs of this official arrest and the board in jail, these citizens are to be sold for slaves, to pay that expense.
    TPar 11.285 5 I have the feeling that every man's biography is at his own expense.
    FRep 11.534 2 A man is coming, here as [in England], to value himself on what he can buy. Worst of all, his expense is not his own, but a far-off copy of Osborne House or the Elysee.
    PLT 12.50 13 ...each power is commonly at the expense of some other.
    MAng1 12.226 10 Nanni sold the travertine, and filled up the piers [of the Pons Palatinus] with gravel at small expense.

expenses, n. (11)

    PPh 4.72 21 [Socrates'] necessary expenses were exceedingly small...
    NMW 4.240 3 When the expenses of the empress...had accumulated great debts, Napoleon examined the bills of the creditors himself...
    ET2 5.25 18 The remuneration [for lectures in England] was equivalent to the fees at that time paid in this country for the like services. At all events it was sufficient to cover any travelling expenses...
    ET10 5.156 25 Lord Burleigh writes to his son that one ought never to devote more than two thirds of his income to the ordinary expenses of life...
    ET12 5.205 5 ...the expenses of private tuition [at Oxford] are reckoned at from 50 pounds to 70 pounds a year...
    Wth 6.98 18 ...pictures, engravings, statues and casts, beside their first cost, entail expenses, as of galleries and keepers for the exhibition;...
    Wth 6.113 9 ...it is a large stride to independence, when a man...has sunk the necessity for false expenses.
    SA 8.98 26 Everything is unseasonable which is private to two or three or any portion of the company. Tact...never intrudes...a tariff of expenses...
    Comc 8.169 17 The multiplication of artificial wants and expenses in civilized life, and the exaggeration of all trifling forms, present innumerable occasions for this discrepancy [between the man and his appearance] to expose itself.
    HDC 11.82 15 The public expenses [of Concord], for the last year, amounted to 4290 dollars;...
    AKan 11.257 9 I know people who are making haste to reduce their expenses and pay their debts...in preparation to save and earn for the benefit of the Kansas emigrants.

expensive, adj. (9)

    MR 1.252 9 Our distrust is very expensive.
    Nat2 3.173 21 I am grown expensive and sophisticated.
    ET5 5.88 6 ...it must be owned [the English] are capable of larger views; but the indulgence is expensive to them...
    F 6.7 11 You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughter-house is concealed...there is complicity, expensive races...
    Wth 6.85 15 [A man] is by constitution expensive...
    Bhr 6.182 17 Palaces interest us mainly in the exhibition of manners, which, in the idle and expensive society dwelling in them, are raised to a high art.
    MoL 10.245 14 Our industrial skill, arts ministering to convenience and luxury, have made life expensive...
    LLNE 10.360 18 [The projectors of Brook Farm] had the feeling that our ways of living were too conventional and expensive...
    HDC 11.80 12 The operation of a new government was dreaded [in Concord], lest it should prove expensive...

expensiveness, n. (2)

    Wsp 6.210 15 Let a man attain the highest and broadest culture that any American has possessed, then let him die by sea-storm...and all America will acquiesce...that after the education has gone far, such is the expensiveness of America that the best use to put a fine person to is to drown him to save his board.
    FRep 11.533 14 We buy much of Europe that does not make us better men; and mainly the expensiveness which is ruining that country.

experience, n. (274)

    Nat 1.31 8 [This imagery] is the blending of experience with the present action of the mind.
    Nat 1.38 3 ...[property] is hiving...experience in profounder laws.
    Nat 1.42 11 ...the sailor, the shepherd, the miner, the merchant...have each an experience precisely parallel...
    Nat 1.56 8 The sublime remark of Euler on his law of arches, This will be found contrary to all experience, yet is true; had already transferred nature into the mind...
    AmS 1.95 16 So much only of life as I know by experience, so much of the wilderness have I vanquished and planted...
    AmS 1.96 2 A strange process too, this by which experience is converted into thought...
    DSA 1.138 7 Not one fact in all his experience had [the preacher] yet imported into his doctrine.
    LE 1.170 8 Is it not the lesson of our experience that every man, were life long enough, would write history for himself?
    LE 1.174 14 The public can get public experience...
    LE 1.175 24 Digest and correct the past experience;...
    LE 1.184 3 Show frankly as a saint would do, your experience, methods, tools, and means.
    MN 1.206 4 The history of the genesis or the old mythology repeats itself in the experience of every child.
    MR 1.238 27 ...when [a man] comes to give all the goods he has year after year collected, in one estate to his son...and cannot give him the skill and experience which made or collected these...the son finds his hands full...
    MR 1.241 13 ...in the experience of all men of that class [the learned professions], the amount of manual labor which is necessary to the maintenance of a family, indisposes and disqualifies for intellectual exertion.
    LT 1.267 22 To-day always looks mean to the thoughtless, in the face of an uniform experience that all good and great and happy actions are made up precisely of these blank to-days.
    LT 1.289 7 To a true scholar the attraction of...the passages of his experience, is simply the information they yield him of this supreme nature which lurks within all.
    Con 1.301 22 Our experience, our perception is conditioned by the need to acquire in parts and in succession...
    Con 1.302 18 Here is the fact which men call Fate...necessitating the question whether the faculties of man will play him true in resisting the facts of universal experience?
    Con 1.326 7 The boldness of the hope men entertain transcends all former experience.
    Tran 1.329 15 As thinkers, mankind have ever divided into two sects, Materialists and Idealists; the first class founding on experience, the second on consciousness;...
    Tran 1.332 18 ...ask [the materialist] why he believes that an uniform experience will continue uniform...
    Tran 1.334 2 [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...
    Tran 1.340 3 ...the skeptical philosophy of Locke...insisted that there was nothing in the intellect which was not previously in the experience of the senses...
    Tran 1.340 6 ...Immanuel Kant...replied to the skeptical philosophy of Locke...by showing that there was a very important class of ideas or imperative forms, which did not come by experience, but through which experience was acquired;...
    Tran 1.340 7 ...Immanuel Kant...replied to the skeptical philosophy of Locke...by showing that there was a very important class of ideas or imperative forms, which did not come by experience, but through which experience was acquired;...
    Tran 1.340 19 ...the tendency to respect the intuitions and to give them, at least in our creed, all authority over our experience, has deeply colored the conversation and poetry of the present day;...
    Tran 1.346 18 ...in our experience, man is cheap...
    Tran 1.352 9 When I asked them concerning their private experience, [Transcendentalists] answered somewhat in this wise...
    Tran 1.352 13 ...[the Transcendentalist says, my faith] is a certain brief experience...
    Hist 2.4 10 If the whole of history is in one man, it is all to be explained from individual experience.
    Hist 2.4 22 Each new fact in [a man's] private experience flashes a light on what great bodies of men have done...
    Hist 2.5 8 We, as we read, must...fasten these images to some reality in our secret experience...
    Hist 2.9 27 We are always coming up with the emphatic facts of history in our private experience...
    Hist 2.18 7 The trivial experience of every day is always verifying some old prediction to us...
    Hist 2.38 5 No man can antedate his experience...
    Hist 2.38 18 [Each man] too shall pass through the whole cycle of experience.
    Hist 2.40 16 ...what food or experience or succor have [Olympiads and Consulates] for the Esquimaux seal-hunter...
    SR 2.55 18 There is a mortifying experience in particular...I mean the foolish face of praise...
    SR 2.68 27 ...when you have life in yourself...the way, the thought, the good, shall be wholly strange and new. It shall exclude example and experience.
    SR 2.87 16 The persons who make up a nation to-day, next year die, and their experience dies with them.
    Comp 2.95 27 [Men's] daily life gives [their theology] the lie. Every ingenuous and aspiring soul leaves the doctrine behind him in his own experience...
    SL 2.142 5 The common experience is that the man fits himself as well as he can to the customary details of that work or trade he falls into...
    SL 2.151 5 ...only that soul can be my friend which I encounter on the line of my own march, that soul [which]...native of the same celestial latitude, repeats in its own all my experience.
    SL 2.152 17 ...we know that these gentlemen will not communicate their own character and experience to the company.
    Lov1 2.169 23 The natural association of the sentiment of love with the heyday of the blood seems to require that in order to portray it in vivid tints, which every youth and maid should confess to be true to their throbbing experience, one must not be too old.
    Lov1 2.171 10 Each man sees over his own experience a certain stain of error...
    Lov1 2.171 20 ...all is sour if seen as experience.
    Lov1 2.174 18 ...it may seem to many men, in revising their experience, that they have no fairer page in their life's book than the delicious memory of some passages wherein affection contrived to give a witchcraft...to a parcel of accidental and trivial circumstances.
    Lov1 2.175 1 ...be our experience in particulars what it may, no man ever forgot the visitations of that power to his heart and brain, which created all things anew;...
    Fdsp 2.193 1 For long hours we can continue a series of sincere, graceful, rich communications [with a commended stranger], drawn from the oldest, secretest experience...
    Fdsp 2.201 14 ...after so many ages of experience, what do we know of nature or of ourselves?
    Fdsp 2.205 26 The end of friendship is a commerce...more strict than any of which we have experience.
    Prd1 2.221 14 We write from aspiration and antagonism, as well as from experience.
    Hsm1 2.259 18 Let the maiden, with erect soul...accept the hint of each new experience...
    OS 2.267 10 ...the argument which is always forthcoming to silence those who conceive extraordinary hopes of man, namely the appeal to experience, is for ever invalid and vain.
    OS 2.272 12 ...[the soul] contradicts all experience.
    OS 2.274 4 The things we now esteem fixed shall...detach themselves like ripe fruit from our experience...
    OS 2.277 5 Childhood and youth see all the world in [persons]. But the larger experience of man discovers the identical nature appearing through them all.
    OS 2.280 17 ...beyond this recognition of its own in particular passages of the individual's experience, [the soul] also reveals truth.
    OS 2.287 14 The great distinction between teachers sacred or literary...is that one class speak from within, or from experience...and the other class from without...
    OS 2.290 13 The more cultivated, in their account of their own experience, cull out the pleasing, poetic circumstance...
    OS 2.290 24 ...the soul that ascends to worship the great God...dwells...in the earnest experience of the common day...
    OS 2.295 21 Before the immense possibilities of man all mere experience... shrinks away.
    Int 2.336 25 [The imaginative vocabulary] does not flow from experience only or mainly...
    Int 2.338 2 Neither are the artist's copies from experience ever mere copies...
    Art1 2.361 14 When I came at last to Rome and saw with eyes the pictures, I found that genius...was the plain you and me I...had left at home in so many conversations. I had had the same experience already in a church at Naples.
    Pt1 3.4 9 ...even the poets are contented...to write poems from the fancy, at a safe distance from their own experience.
    Pt1 3.6 9 ...in our experience, the rays or appulses have sufficient force to arrive at the senses...
    Pt1 3.6 16 The poet is...the man...who...traverses the whole scale of experience...
    Pt1 3.10 6 ...[the poet] has a whole new experience to unfold;...
    Pt1 3.10 8 ...the experience of each new age requires a new confession...
    Pt1 3.18 5 The poorest experience is rich enough for all the purposes of expressing thought.
    Exp 3.51 20 Very mortifying is the reluctant experience that some unfriendly excess or imbecility neutralizes the promise of genius.
    Exp 3.62 22 ...in popular experience everything good is on the highway.
    Exp 3.67 15 To-morrow again every thing looks real and angular...and experience is hands and feet to every enterprise;...
    Exp 3.75 4 No man ever came to an experience which was satiating...
    Chr1 3.110 15 He is a dull observer whose experience has not taught him the reality and force of magic, as well as of chemistry.
    Mrs1 3.143 6 Fashion...is often, in all men's experience, only a ballroom code.
    Nat2 3.188 9 Each prophet comes presently...to esteem his hat and shoes sacred. However this may discredit such persons with the judicious, it helps them with the people, as it gives heat, pungency and publicity to their words. A similar experience is not infrequent in private life.
    Nat2 3.188 22 After some time has elapsed, [the young person] begins to wish to admit his friend to this hallowed experience [of keeping a diary]...
    Nat2 3.189 8 ...one may have impressive experience and yet may not know how to put his private fact into literature...
    Pol1 3.216 17 [The wise man] needs...no experience, for the life of the creator shoots through him...
    Pol1 3.221 23 ...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...
    NR 3.228 7 Our native love of reality joins with this [disillusioning] experience to teach us a little reserve...
    NR 3.241 8 ...our affections and our experience urge that every individual is entitled to honor...
    NR 3.242 23 Nature keeps herself whole and her representation complete in the experience of each mind.
    NER 3.269 15 In [scholars'] experience the scholar was not raised by the sacred thoughts amongst which he dwelt...
    NER 3.277 26 ...we hold on to our little properties...for the bread which they have in our experience yielded us...
    UGM 4.10 17 The eye repeats every day the first eulogy on things,--He saw that they were good. We know where to find them; and these performers are relished all the more, after a little experience of the pretending races.
    UGM 4.15 20 This pleasure of full expression to that which, [in the people' s] private experience, is usually cramped and obstructed, runs...much higher...
    UGM 4.31 11 ...bring to each [man] an intelligent person of another experience, and it is as if you let off water from a lake by cutting a lower basin.
    UGM 4.34 2 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; the qualities remain on another brow. No experience is more familiar.
    PPh 4.54 13 The reason why we do not at once believe in admirable souls is because they are not in our experience.
    PPh 4.55 23 ...the experience of poetic creativeness, which is not found in staying at home, nor yet in travelling, but in transitions from one to the other...this command of two elements must explain the power and the charm of Plato.
    SwM 4.95 17 The privilege of this caste [the saints] is an access to the secrets and structure of nature by some higher method than by experience.
    SwM 4.95 18 In common parlance, what one man is said to learn by experience, a man of extraordinary sagacity is said, without experience, to divine.
    SwM 4.95 20 In common parlance, what one man is said to learn by experience, a man of extraordinary sagacity is said, without experience, to divine.
    SwM 4.108 24 Here in the brain is all the process of alimentation repeated, in the acquiring, comparing, digesting and assimilating of experience.
    SwM 4.112 17 It is remarkable that this sublime genius [Swedenborg]...in a book [The Animal Kingdom] whose genius is a daring poetic synthesis, claims to confine himself to a rigid experience.
    MoS 4.154 21 I knew a philosopher of this kidney who was accustomed briefly to sum up his experience of human nature in saying, Mankind is a damned rascal...
    MoS 4.162 24 It seemed to me as if I had myself written the book [Montaigne's Essays], in some former life, so sincerely it spoke to my thought and experience.
    MoS 4.176 5 Presently a new experience gives a new turn to our thoughts...
    MoS 4.184 2 Charles Fourier announced that...every desire predicts its own satisfaction. Yet all experience exhibits the reverse of this;...
    MoS 4.185 2 In every house...this chasm is found,--between the largest promise of ideal power, and the shabby experience.
    ShP 4.208 15 Read the antique documents extricated, analyzed and compared by the assiduous Dyce and Collier, and now read one of [Shakespeare's] skyey sentences...which not your experience but the man within the breast has accepted as words of fate, and tell me if they match;...
    ShP 4.215 6 The finest poetry was first experience;...
    ShP 4.215 8 The finest poetry was first experience; but the thought has suffered a transformation since it was an experience.
    NMW 4.243 19 ...with larger experience, [Napoleon's] respect for mankind was not increased.
    GoW 4.285 14 Enemy of [Goethe] you may be,--if so you shall teach him aught which your good-will can not, were it only what experience will accrue from your ruin.
    ET4 5.50 1 ...all our experience is of the gradation and resolution of races...
    ET5 5.84 27 Every article of cutlery [in England] shows, in its shape, thought and long experience of workmen.
    ET14 5.252 25 ...a belief like that of Euler and Kepler, that experience must follow and not lead the laws of the mind;...the modern English mind repudiates.
    F 6.4 25 ...by firmly stating all that is agreeable to experience on one [topic], and doing the same justice to the opposing facts in the others, the true limitations will appear.
    F 6.29 2 Whoever has had experience of the moral sentiment cannot choose but believe in unlimited power.
    F 6.31 23 ...where [men] have not experience they run against [the friendly power] and hurt themselves.
    Pow 6.62 20 A Western lawyer of eminence said to me he wished it were a penal offence to bring an English law-book into a court in this country, so pernicious had he found in his experience our deference to English precedent.
    Pow 6.62 23 The very word 'commerce'...is pinched to the cramp exigencies of English experience.
    Pow 6.78 26 Cannot one converse better on a topic on which he has experience, than on one which is new?
    Pow 6.79 2 Men whose opinion is valued on 'Change are only such as have a special experience...
    Pow 6.79 24 I remarked in England, in confirmation of a frequent experience at home, that in literary circles, the men of trust and consideration...were...usually of a low and ordinary intellectuality...
    Wth 6.127 3 Nor is the man enriched...unless through new powers and ascending pleasures he knows himself by the actual experience of higher good to be already on the way to the highest.
    Ctr 6.143 13 [The boy] is infatuated for weeks with whist and chess; but presently will find out...that when he rises from the game too long played, he is vacant and forlorn and despises himself. Thenceforward it...has its due weight in his experience.
    Bhr 6.176 14 The obstinate prejudice in favor of blood...has some reason in common experience.
    Bhr 6.197 5 An old man who added an elevating culture to a large experience of life, said to me, When you come into the room, I think I will study how to make humanity beautiful to you.
    Wsp 6.222 12 ...after a little experience [the countryman] makes the discovery that there are no large cities...
    Wsp 6.238 24 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... The whole revelation that is vouchsafed us is the gentle trust, which, in our experience, we find will cover also with flowers the slopes of this chasm.
    Wsp 6.239 16 [Immortality] is a doctrine too great to rest...on any man's experience but our own.
    CbW 6.245 7 So much fate...enters into [life], that we doubt we can say anything out of our own experience whereby to help each other.
    CbW 6.270 21 How to live with unfit companions?--for with such, life is for the most part spent; and experience teaches little better than our earliest instinct of self-defence...
    CbW 6.271 3 Our habit of thought...is not satisfying; in the common experience I fear it is poor and squalid.
    CbW 6.272 4 Ask what is best in our experience, and we shall say, a few pieces of plain dealing with wise people.
    Bty 6.292 26 I have been told by persons of experience in matters of taste that the fashions follow a law of gradation...
    SS 7.10 11 ...this banishment to the rocks and echoes no metaphysics can make right or tolerable. This result is so against nature...that it must be corrected by a common sense and experience.
    Civ 7.32 15 ...when I...see...the invitation which experience and permanent causes open to youth and labor...I see what cubic values America has...
    Art2 7.37 18 ...the human mind...tends...to the publication and embodiment of its thought, modified and dwarfed by the impurity and untruth which in all our experience injure the individuality through which it passes.
    Elo1 7.66 2 [Eloquence] is a power...requiring in the orator a great range of faculty and experience...
    Elo1 7.66 4 ...in our experience we are forced to gather up the figure [of the orator] in fragments...
    Elo1 7.68 21 ...listen to a poor Irishwoman recounting some experience of hers.
    Elo1 7.75 16 ...one cannot wonder at the uneasiness sometimes manifested by trained statesmen, with large experience of public affairs, when they observe the disproportionate advantage suddenly given to oratory over the most solid and accumulated public service.
    Elo1 7.90 5 Condense some daily experience into a glowing symbol, and an audience is electrified.
    DL 7.105 9 The child realizes to every man his own earliest remembrance, and so...enables us to live over the unconscious history with a sympathy so tender as to be almost personal experience.
    DL 7.126 18 In our experience...beauty is not...the dower of man and of woman as invariably as sensation.
    WD 7.169 19 ...in the common experience of the scholar, the weathers fit his moods.
    Boks 7.190 1 ...there are books which are of that importance in a man's private experience as to verify for him the fables of Cornelius Agrippa...
    Boks 7.192 13 ...it happens in our experience that in this lottery [of books] there are at least fifty or a hundred blanks to a prize.
    Boks 7.218 13 ...I might as well not have begun as to leave out a class of books which are the best: I mean...the sacred books of each nation, which express for each the supreme result of their experience.
    Clbs 7.226 7 ...the staple of conversation is widely unlike in its circles. Sometimes it is facts...sometimes experience.
    Clbs 7.227 5 The experience of retired men is positive,--that we lose our days and are barren of thought for want of some person to talk with.
    Clbs 7.244 13 It was a pathetic experience when a genial and accomplished person said to me, looking from his country home to the capital of New England, There is a town of two hundred thousand people, and not a chair for me.
    Clbs 7.246 11 I knew a scholar, of some experience in camps, who said that he liked, in a barroom, to tell a few coon stories...
    Clbs 7.248 5 ...to a club met for conversation a supper is a good basis, as it...puts pedantry and business to the door. ...experienced men...sooner or later, impart all that is singular in their experience.
    Cour 7.263 19 To the sailor's experience every new circumstance suggests what he must do.
    Suc 7.285 11 ...leaving the coast [of Panama], the ship full of one hundred and fifty skilful seamen,--some of them...with too much experience of their craft and treachery to him,--the wise admiral [Columbus] kept his private record of his homeward path.
    Suc 7.301 24 ...I am more interested to know that when at last [Aristotle or Bacon or Kant] have hurled out their grand word, it is only some familiar experience of every man in the street.
    OA 7.318 25 From the point of sensuous experience...the estimate of age is low...
    OA 7.320 25 We know the value of experience.
    OA 7.328 7 ...a man does not live long and actively without costly additions of experience...
    PI 8.10 18 We use semblances of logic until experience puts us in possession of real logic.
    PI 8.11 24 ...the aptness with which a river, a flower, a bird, fire, day or night, can express [man's] fortunes, is as if the world...with a change of form, rendered to him all his experience.
    PI 8.24 25 It was sensation; when memory came, it was experience;...
    PI 8.31 10 The poet writes from a real experience...
    PI 8.32 24 Later, the thought, the happy image which expressed it and which was a true experience of the poet, recurs to mind...
    PI 8.50 5 Now try Spenser, Marlowe, Chapman, and see...how rich and lavish their profusion. In their rhythm is...a vortex, or musical tornado, which, falling on words and the experience of a learned mind, whirls these materials into the same grand order as planets and moons obey...
    PI 8.73 13 [Poets] are, in our experience, men of every degree of skill...
    SA 8.84 2 ...every change in our experience instantly indicates itself on our countenance and carriage...
    SA 8.88 24 ...I have heard with admiring submission the experience of the lady who declared that the sense of being perfectly well dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquillity which religion is powerless to bestow.
    SA 8.89 19 I suppose I give the experience of many when I give my own.
    SA 8.102 11 I often hear the business of a little town...discussed with a clearness and thoroughness...that would have satisfied me had it been in one of the larger capitals. I am sure each one of my readers has a parallel experience.
    SA 8.105 23 A little experience acquaints us with the unconvertibility of the sentimentalist...
    QO 8.197 4 You have had the like experience in conversation: the wit was in what you heard, not in what the speakers said.
    QO 8.200 11 Our knowledge is the amassed thought and experience of innumerable minds...
    QO 8.200 23 Every one of my writings [said Goethe] has been furnished to me by a thousand different persons, a thousand things: wise and foolish have brought me, without suspecting it, the offering of their thoughts, faculties and experience.
    PC 8.225 25 The sublime point of experience is the value of a sufficient man.
    PPo 8.247 18 An air of sterility...belongs to many who have both experience and wisdom.
    Insp 8.271 5 The poet cannot see a natural phenomenon which does not express to him a correspondent fact in his mental experience;...
    Insp 8.274 18 Of the modus of inspiration we have no knowledge. But in the experience of meditative men there is a certain agreement as to the conditions of reception.
    Insp 8.275 22 Experience identifies.
    Insp 8.281 14 The experience of writing letters is one of the keys to the modus of inspiration.
    Insp 8.289 11 ...the mixture of lie in truth, and the experience of poetic creativeness...these are the types or conditions of this power [of novelty].
    Insp 8.290 20 ...the experience of some good artists has taught them to prefer the smallest and plainest chamber...
    Insp 8.296 27 I value literary biography for the hints it furnishes from so many scholars...of...what gymnastic, what social practices their experience suggested and approved.
    Grts 8.302 10 What we commonly call greatness is only such in our barbarous or infant experience.
    Grts 8.308 18 This necessity...of speaking your private thought and experience, few young men apprehend.
    Grts 8.308 22 Set ten men to write their journal for one day, and nine of them will leave out their thought, or proper result,-that is, their net experience...
    Grts 8.308 23 Set ten men to write their journal for one day, and nine of them will...lose themselves in misreporting the supposed experience of other people.
    Grts 8.320 17 We are...forced to express our instinct of the truth by exposing the failures of experience.
    Imtl 8.327 15 Swedenborg described an intelligible heaven, by continuing the like employments in the like circumstances as those we know;... continuations of our earthly experience.
    Imtl 8.328 20 Cease from this antedating of your experience.
    Imtl 8.339 20 Take us as we are, with our experience, and transfer us to a new planet...
    Imtl 8.339 24 After we have found our depth [on a new planet], and assimilated what we could of the new experience, transfer us to a new scene.
    Imtl 8.344 22 My idea of heaven is that there is no melodrama in it at all; that it is wholly real. Here is the emphasis of conscience and experience;...
    Dem1 10.6 1 In sleep one shall travel certain roads...or shall walk alone in familiar fields and meadows, which road or which meadow in waking hours he never looked upon. This feature of dreams deserves the more attention from its singular resemblance to that obscure yet startling experience which almost every person confesses in daylight...
    Dem1 10.7 24 [Dreams] seem to us to suggest an abundance and fluency of thought not familiar to the waking experience.
    Dem1 10.9 4 We are let by this experience [of dreams] into the high region of Cause...
    Dem1 10.12 11 ...I find nothing in fables more astonishing than my experience in every hour.
    PerF 10.77 7 A few moral maxims confirmed by much experience would stand high on the list [of resources]...
    PerF 10.78 5 It would be easy to awake wonder by sketching the performance of each of these mental forces; as of the diving-bell of the Memory, which descends into the deeps of our past and oldest experience...
    Chr2 10.101 19 I am in the habit of thinking-not, I hope, out of partial experience...that to every serious mind Providence sends from time to time five or six or seven teachers who are of first importance to him...
    Edc1 10.139 15 [Boys]...have no pedantry, but entire belief on experience.
    Edc1 10.140 18 If [a boy] can turn his books to such picturesque account in his fishing and hunting, it is easy to see how his reading and experience... will interpenetrate each other.
    Edc1 10.141 10 ...[the boy] gladly enters a school which...requires of each only the flower of his nature and experience;...
    Edc1 10.143 13 ...our own experience instructs us that the secret of Education lies in respecting the pupil.
    Edc1 10.148 11 Whilst we all know in our own experience and apply natural methods in our own business,-in education our common sense fails us...
    Supl 10.165 18 The books say, It made my hair stand on end! Who, in our municipal life, ever had such an experience?
    Supl 10.168 11 ...I do not know any advantage more conspicuous which a man owes to his experience in markets...than the caution and accuracy he acquires in his report of facts.
    SovE 10.199 18 When I talked with an ardent missionary, and pointed out to him that his creed found no support in my experience, he replied, It is not so in your experience, but is so in the other world.
    SovE 10.199 19 When I talked with an ardent missionary, and pointed out to him that his creed found no support in my experience, he replied, It is not so in your experience, but is so in the other world.
    MoL 10.251 3 I wish the youth to be...a man dipped in the Styx of human experience, and made invulnerable so,-self-helping.
    Schr 10.266 8 [Nature]...comes in with a new ravishing experience and makes the old time ridiculous.
    Schr 10.268 23 ...the scholar finds in [the practical men] unlooked-for acceptance of his most paradoxical experience.
    Schr 10.283 11 [Whosoever looks with heed into his thoughts] will find there is somebody within him that knows more than he does...a mother-wit which does not learn by experience or by books, but knew it all already;...
    LLNE 10.356 18 [Thoreau]...fortified you at all times with an affirmative experience which refused to be set aside.
    LLNE 10.358 3 The large cities are phalansteries; and the theorists drew all their argument from facts already taking place in our experience.
    LLNE 10.365 13 It was a curious experience of the patrons and leaders of this noted community [Brook Farm]...that in every instance the newcomers showed themselves keenly alive to the advantages of the society...
    LLNE 10.368 2 [The members of Brook Farm] expressed, after much perilous experience, the conviction that plain dealing was the best defence of manners and moral between the sexes.
    LLNE 10.368 24 Some of [the partners] had spent on [Brook Farm] the accumulations of years. I suppose they all, at the moment, regarded it as a failure. I do not think they can so regard it now, but probably as an important chapter in their experience which has been of lifelong value.
    EzRy 10.392 25 ...[Ezra Ripley's] knowledge was an external experience...
    MMEm 10.403 22 ...certain expressions, when they marked a memorable state of mind in [Mary Moody Emerson's] experience, recurred to her afterwards...
    SlHr 10.440 6 ...no lesson of his experience was lost on [Samuel Hoar]...
    Thor 10.476 6 [Thoreau]...knew well how to throw a poetic veil over his experience.
    Thor 10.478 3 Thoreau...might fortify the convictions of prophets in the ethical laws by his holy living. It was an affirmative experience which refused to be set aside.
    LS 11.18 7 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?
    LVB 11.95 25 A man [Van Buren] with your experience in affairs must have seen cause to appreciate the futility of opposition to the moral sentiment.
    EWI 11.100 9 It has been in all men's experience a marked effect of the enterprise in behalf of the African, to generate an overbearing and defying spirit.
    EWI 11.118 10 We sometimes say...give [the planter] a machine that will yield him as much money as the slaves, and he will thankfully let them go. He has no love of slavery, but he wants luxury, and he will pay even this price of crime and danger for it. But I think experience does not warrant this favorable distinction...
    War 11.171 6 ...[peace] is to be accomplished by the spontaneous teaching, of the cultivated soul, in its secret experience and meditation,-that it is now time that it should pass out of the state of beast into the state of man;...
    FSLC 11.179 9 I have a new experience. I wake in the morning with a painful sensation...which, when traced home, is the odious remembrance of that ignominy which has fallen on Massachusetts...
    FSLC 11.179 16 I have lived all my life in this state [Massachusetts], and never had any experience of personal inconvenience from the laws, until now.
    FSLC 11.188 20 I thought that all men of all conditions had been made sharers of a certain experience, that in certain rare and retired moments they had been made to see how man is man...
    FSLC 11.207 14 [Slavery] got Texas and now will have Cuba, and means to keep her majority. The experience of the past gives us no encouragement to lie by.
    FSLN 11.217 14 The one thing not to be forgiven to intellectual persons is... to take their ideas from others. From this want of manly rest in their own and rash acceptance of other people's watchwords come the imbecility and fatigue of their conversation. For they cannot affirm these from any original experience...
    FSLN 11.226 16 ...a ghastly result of all those years of experience in affairs, this, that there was nothing better for the foremost American man [Webster] to tell his countrymen than that Slavery was now at that strength that they must beat down their conscience and become kidnappers for it.
    JBS 11.277 12 ...as soon as [people] read [John Brown's] own speeches and letters they are heartily contented,-such is the singleness of purpose which justifies him to the head and the heart of all. Taught by this experience, I mean, in the few remarks I have to make, to...let him speak for himself.
    ACiv 11.297 14 ...standing on this doleful experience [slavery], these people have endeavored to reverse the natural sentiments of mankind, and to pronounce labor disgraceful...
    ACiv 11.300 12 The journals have not suppressed the extent of the calamity. Neither was there any want of argument or of experience.
    ACiv 11.306 7 ...we have too much experience of the futility of an easy reliance on the momentary good dispositions of the public.
    ACiv 11.311 3 All experience agrees that [emancipation] should be immediate.
    HCom 11.342 19 The experience has been uniform that it is the gentle soul that makes the firm hero after all.
    SMC 11.367 17 I have found many notes of [the Thirty-second Regiment' s] rough experience in the march and in the field.
    SMC 11.371 14 ...the campaign in the Wilderness surpassed all their worst experience hitherto of the soldier's life.
    Shak1 11.452 21 In our ordinary experience of men there are some men so born to live well that, in whatever company they fall,-high or low,-they fit well, and lead it!...
    FRO2 11.488 17 This positive, historical, authoritative scheme [of miraculous dispensation] is not consistent with our experience or our expectations.
    FRep 11.522 1 [The American] sits secure in the possession of his vast domain, rich beyond all experience in resources...
    FRep 11.526 20 ...instead of the doleful experience of the European economist, who tells us, In almost all countries the condition of the great body of the people is poor and miserable, here that same great body has arrived at a sloven plenty...
    PLT 12.13 7 The inward analysis must be corrected by rough experience.
    PLT 12.25 11 Every man has material enough in his experience to exhaust the sagacity of Newton in working it out.
    PLT 12.32 10 Teach me never so much and I hear or retain only...what comports with my experience and my desire.
    PLT 12.62 2 Sensibility is the secret readiness to believe in all kinds of power, and the contempt of any experience we have not is the opposite pole.
    II 12.65 21 ...in each man's experience, from this spark [consciousness] torrents of light have once and again streamed...
    II 12.66 17 There is a singular credulity which no experience will cure us of...
    II 12.66 21 ...eye for eye, object for object [men's] experience is invariably identical in a million individuals.
    II 12.69 26 Here are we with all our world of facts and experience...all ready to be uttered, if only we could be set aglow.
    II 12.74 12 ...I believe it is true in the experience of all men...that, for the memorable moments of life, we were in them, and not they in us.
    Mem 12.92 4 What was an isolated, unrelated belief or conjecture, our later experience instructs us how to place in just connection with other views which confirm and expand it.
    Mem 12.95 12 This command of old facts, the clear beholding at will of what is best in our experience, is our splendid privilege.
    Mem 12.96 7 The mind disposes all its experience after its affection...
    Mem 12.100 23 A man would think twice about...reading a new paragraph, if he believed...that he lost a word or a thought for every word he gained. But the experience is not quite so bad.
    Mem 12.104 20 ...this power of sinking the pain of any experience and of recalling the saddest with tranquillity, and even with a wise pleasure, is familiar.
    Mem 12.106 24 He is a skilful doctor who can give me a recipe for the cure of a bad memory. And yet we have some hints from experience on this subject.
    Mem 12.109 8 You know what is told of the experience of some persons who have been recovered from drowning. They relate that their whole life's history seemed to pass before them in review.
    CL 12.153 13 At Niagara, I have noticed, that, as quick as I got out of the wetting of the Fall, all the grandeur changed into beauty. You cannot keep it grand, 't is so quickly beautiful; and the sea gave me the same experience.
    CL 12.154 27 It was said of [Samuel Johnson] that he preferred the Strand to the Garden of the Hesperides. But this is not the experience of imaginative men...
    CL 12.157 17 The gulf between our seeing and our doing is a symbol of that between faith and experience.
    CL 12.158 22 [Taking a walk] is a fine art, requiring rare gifts and much experience.
    Milt1 12.256 14 [Milton] declared that he who would aspire to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem;...not presuming to sing high praises of heroic men or famous cities, unless he have in himself the experience and the practice of all that which is praiseworthy.
    Milt1 12.278 5 ...according to Lord Bacon's definition of poetry...Poetry... seeks...to create an ideal world better than the world of experience.
    ACri 12.290 5 Dante is the professor that shall teach both the noble low style, the power of working up all his experience into heaven and hell; also the sculpture of compression.
    ACri 12.294 4 A man of experience altogether, [Shakespeare's] very sonnets are as solid and close to facts as the Banker's Gazette;...
    ACri 12.300 19 Whatever new object we see, we perceive to be only a new version of our familiar experience...
    MLit 12.309 3 In our fidelity to the higher truth we need not disown our debt, in our actual state of culture, in the twilights of experience, to these rude helpers.
    MLit 12.315 1 The great man, even whilst he relates a private fact personal to him, is really leading us away from him to an universal experience.
    MLit 12.330 13 The least inequality of mixture [of Truth, Beauty and Goodness], the excess of one element over the other, in that degree...makes the world opaque to the observer, and destroys so far the value of his experience.
    WSL 12.340 20 ...when we remember [Landor's] rich and ample page, wherein we are always sure to find...an experience to which nothing has occurred in vain...we wish to thank a benefactor of the reading world.
    Let 12.393 7 ...when our correspondent proceeds to flying-machines, we have no longer the smallest taper-light of credible information and experience left...

experienced, adj. (4)

    Comp 2.112 14 Experienced men of the world know very well that it is best to pay scot and lot as they go along...
    SL 2.156 27 I have heard an experienced counsellor say that he never feared the effect upon a jury of a lawyer who does not believe in his heart that his client ought to have a verdict.
    Clbs 7.248 3 ...to a club met for conversation a supper is a good basis, as it...puts pedantry and business to the door. ...experienced men meet with the freedom of boys...
    Mem 12.102 1 The experienced and cultivated man is lodged in a hall hung with pictures which every new day retouches...

experienced, v. (5)

    LT 1.263 5 I do not wonder at the miracles which poetry attributes to the music of Orpheus, when I remember what I have experienced from the varied notes of the human voice.
    Gts 3.159 7 I do not think this general insolvency [of the world]...to be the reason of the difficulty experienced at Christmas and New Year and other times, in bestowing gifts;...
    PPo 8.262 3 The falcon answered [the nightingale], Be all ear:/ I, experienced in affairs,/ See fifty things, say never one;/ But thee the people prizes not,/ Who, doing nothing, say'st a thousand./
    Insp 8.272 24 ...not the immortality of the private soul is incredible, after we have experienced an insight...
    HDC 11.37 15 The faithful dealing and brave good will, which, during the life of the friendly Massasoit, [the English] uniformly experienced at Plymouth and at Boston, went to their hearts.

experiences, n. (57)

    LE 1.174 15 ...[the public] wish the scholar to replace to them those... divine experiences of which they have been defrauded by dwelling in the street.
    Hist 2.27 11 The student interprets...the days of maritime adventure and circumnavigation by quite parallel miniature experiences of his own.
    Hist 2.39 1 [A man] shall walk...in a robe painted all over with wonderful events and experiences;...
    Prd1 2.226 5 We are instructed by these petty experiences which usurp the hours and years.
    OS 2.267 7 ...there is a depth in those brief moments [of faith] which constrains us to ascribe more reality to them than to all other experiences.
    OS 2.282 16 The rapture of the Moravian and Quietist;...the experiences of the Methodists, are varying forms of that shudder of awe and delight with which the individual soul always mingles with the universal soul.
    Int 2.330 17 Do you think the porter and the cook have...no experiences... for you?
    Int 2.333 9 I knew...a person...who, seeing my whim for writing, fancied that my experiences had somewhat superior;...
    Int 2.333 10 I knew...a person...who, seeing my whim for writing, fancied that my experiences had somewhat superior; whilst I saw that his experiences were as good as mine.
    Pt1 3.36 26 ...if any poet has witnessed the transformation he doubtless found it in harmony with various experiences.
    Exp 3.68 13 Our chief experiences have been casual.
    NER 3.281 24 These and the like experiences intimate that man stands in strict connection with a higher fact never yet manifested.
    SwM 4.140 11 ...the right examples are private experiences...
    MoS 4.179 5 Experiences...are nothing to the purpose;...
    GoW 4.261 7 [The writer's] office is a reception of the facts into the mind, and then a selection of the eminent and characteristic experiences.
    GoW 4.262 14 The facts do not lie in [the memory] inert; but some subside and others shine; so that we soon have a new picture, composed of the eminent experiences.
    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.
    ET16 5.273 11 I was glad to sum up a little my experiences, and to exchange a few reasonable words on the aspects of England with a man on whose genius I set a very high value [Carlyle]...
    F 6.25 12 We have successive experiences so important that the new forgets the old...
    Bhr 6.195 23 I have seen manners that make a similar impression with personal beauty;...and in memorable experiences they are suddenly better than beauty...
    Ill 6.310 27 I own I did not like the [Mammoth] cave so well for eking out its sublimities with this theatrical trick. But I have had many experiences like it, before and since;...
    WD 7.174 11 ...every man in moments of deeper thought is apprised that he is repeating the experiences of the people in the streets of Thebes or Byzantium.
    Boks 7.190 5 ...there are books which are of that importance in a man's private experience as to verify for him the fables...of the old Orpheus of Thrace,--books which take rank in our life with parents and lovers and passionate experiences...
    Clbs 7.235 6 Yonder is a man who can answer the questions which I cannot. Is it so? Hence comes to me boundless curiosity to know his experiences and his wit.
    Cour 7.257 26 A large majority of men...never come to the rough experiences that make the Indian, the soldier or frontiersman self-subsistent and fearless.
    OA 7.328 26 Our instincts drove us to hive innumerable experiences...
    PI 8.10 21 The poet gives us the eminent experiences only...
    PI 8.24 11 The senses collect the surface facts of matter. The intellect acts on these brute reports, and obtains from them results which are the essence or intellectual form of the experiences.
    PI 8.24 14 [The intellect] knows that these transfigured results are not the brute experiences...
    PI 8.44 22 ...the dunce has experiences that may explain Shakspeare to him...
    SA 8.93 2 If every one recalled his experiences, he might find the best in the speech of superior women...
    Elo2 8.115 9 ...I think every one of us can remember when our first experiences made us for a time the victim and worshipper of the first master of this art [of eloquence] whom we happened to hear in the court-house or in the caucus.
    Insp 8.270 8 We are very glad...that [the aboriginal man's] doleful experiences were got through with so very long ago.
    Imtl 8.329 12 The experiences of the soul will fast outgrow this alarm [of death].
    Imtl 8.336 20 We are driven by instinct to hive innumerable experiences which are of no visible value...
    Imtl 8.337 13 The love of life...seems to indicate, like all our other experiences, a conviction of immense resources and possibilities proper to us...
    Dem1 10.3 3 The name Demonology covers dreams, omens, coincidences, luck, sortilege, magic and other experiences which shun rather than court inquiry...
    Dem1 10.18 27 ...[demonic individuals] are not to be conquered save by the universe itself, against which they have taken up arms. Out of such experiences doubtless arose the strange, monstrous proverb, Nobody against God but God.
    Chr2 10.93 9 ...our first experiences in moral, as in intellectual nature, force us to discriminate a universal mind...
    Chr2 10.98 9 ...I may easily speak of that adorable nature, there where only I behold it in my dim experiences, in such terms as shall seem to the frivolous...as profane.
    Chr2 10.115 2 ...I find in the eminent experiences in all times a substantial agreement.
    Supl 10.164 24 'T is very wearisome, this straining talk, these experiences all exquisite, intense and tremendous...
    SovE 10.199 9 It is the sturdiest prejudice in the public mind that religion is...a department distinct from all other experiences...
    MoL 10.242 12 [The inviolate soul] is a learner of...the experiences of history;...
    MoL 10.252 27 The exertions of this force [intellect] are the eminent experiences...
    Schr 10.273 10 In our experiences, learning is not learned, nor is genius wise.
    EzRy 10.393 6 The usual experiences of men...[Ezra Ripley] studied them all...
    Thor 10.456 23 ...[Thoreau]...threw himself heartily and childlike into the company of young people...whom he delighted to entertain...with the varied and endless anecdotes of his experiences by field and river...
    TPar 11.285 21 He whose voice will not be heard here again [Theodore Parker] could well afford to tell his experiences;...
    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.
    RBur 11.441 14 [Burns] has given voice to all the experiences of common life;...
    PLT 12.52 23 Such concentration of experiences is in every great work...
    Mem 12.97 18 We can help ourselves to the modus of mental processes only by coarse material experiences.
    Mem 12.97 27 A knife with a good spring, a forceps...the teeth or jaws of which fit and play perfectly, as compared with the same tools when badly put together, describe to us the difference between a person of quick and strong perception...and a heavy man who...shares experiences like theirs.
    Mem 12.102 7 We learn early that there is great disparity of value between our experiences;...
    Mem 12.109 1 In dreams a rush...of seeming experiences...and when we start up and look at the watch, instead of a long night we are surprised to find it was a short nap.
    Pray 12.356 3 Might [these prayers] be suggestion to many a heart of yet higher secret experiences which are ineffable!

experiences, v. (1)

    GoW 4.262 23 Whatever [the writer] beholds or experiences, comes to him as a model and sits for its picture.

experiment, n. (51)

    LE 1.177 19 All action is an experiment upon [the laws of human life].
    MN 1.202 14 ...one can hardly help asking if this planet is a fair specimen of the so generous astronomy, and if so, whether the experiment have not failed...
    MN 1.211 23 [This ecstatic state] respects...poetry, and not experiment;...
    Tran 1.349 21 ...[Transcendentalists] have made the experiment and found that from the liberal professions to the coarsest manual labor...there is a spirit of cowardly compromise...
    Comp 2.105 19 So signal is the failure of all attempts to make this separation of the good from the tax, that the experiment would not be tried... but for the circumstance that when the disease began in the will...the intellect is at once infected...
    Exp 3.78 10 ...that which we call sin in others is experiment for us.
    Exp 3.85 4 ...I have not found that much was gained by manipular attempts to realize the world of thought. Many eager persons successively make an experiment in this way, and make themselves ridiculous.
    Chr1 3.112 6 Could we not deal with a few persons,--with one person,-- after the unwritten statutes, and make an experiment of their efficacy?
    Nat2 3.183 26 Common sense...recognizes the fact at first sight in chemical experiment.
    Nat2 3.195 7 ...though we are always engaged with particulars...we bring with us to every experiment the innate universal laws.
    NR 3.233 14 I read Proclus...for a mechanical help to the fancy and the imagination. I read for the lustres, as if one should use a fine picture in a chromatic experiment, for its rich colors.
    NER 3.255 16 ...the country is full of kings. Hands off! let there be no control and no interference in the administration of the affairs of this kingdom of me. Hence the growth of the doctrine and of the party of Free Trade, and the willingness to try that experiment...
    NER 3.266 24 ...in a celebrated experiment, by expiration and respiration exactly together, four persons lift a heavy man from the ground by the little finger only...
    NER 3.280 9 The familiar experiment called the hydrostatic paradox, in which a capillary column of water balances the ocean, is a symbol of the relation of one man to the whole family of men.
    SwM 4.145 21 By the science of experiment and use, [Swedenborg] made his first steps...
    ShP 4.193 23 Shakspeare...esteemed the mass of old plays waste stock, in which any experiment could be freely tried.
    NMW 4.257 3 Here [in Napoleon] was an experiment...of the powers of intellect without conscience.
    NMW 4.258 16 Every experiment...that has a sensual and selfish aim, will fail.
    GoW 4.267 6 The first act, which was to be an experiment, becomes a sacrament.
    ET14 5.238 24 One hint of Franklin, or Watt, or Dalton, or Davy, or any one who had a talent for experiment, was worth all [Bacon's] lifetime of exquisite trifles.
    ET14 5.254 9 No hope, no sublime augury cheers the [English] student, no secure striding from experiment onward to a foreseen law...
    Wth 6.114 26 We had in this region, twenty years ago...a passionate desire to...unite farming to intellectual pursuits. Many effected their purpose and made the experiment...
    Wsp 6.220 15 Strong men believe in cause and effect. The man was born to do it, and his father was born to be the father of him and of his deed; and by looking narrowly you shall see...it was all...an experiment in chemistry.
    CbW 6.267 17 On experiment the horizon flies before us...
    Bty 6.293 9 ...many a good experiment, born of good sense and destined to succeed, fails only because it is offensively sudden.
    SS 7.14 19 All conversation is a magnetic experiment.
    Civ 7.17 6 We praise the guide, we praise the forest life:/ But will we sacrifice our dear-bought lore/ Of books and arts and trained experiment/...
    Elo1 7.62 5 Our county conventions often exhibit a small-pot-soon-hot style of eloquence. We are too much reminded of a medical experiment where a series of patients are taking nitrous-oxide gas.
    Clbs 7.247 8 I remember a social experiment in this direction, wherein it appeared that each of the members fancied he was in need of society, but himself unpresentable.
    Suc 7.304 7 ...it occurs to [the lover] that [he and his beloved] might somehow meet independently of time and place. How delicious the belief that he could...hold instant and sempiternal communication! In solitude, in banishment...the experiment was eagerly tried.
    SA 8.90 10 The life of these persons was conducted in the same calm and affirmative manner as their discourse. Life with them was an experiment continually varied...
    SA 8.97 22 Here [in the man of genius] is...strong understanding, and the higher gifts, the insight of the real, or from the real, and the moral rectitude which belongs to it: but all this and all his resources of wit and invention are lost to me in every experiment that I make to hold intercourse with his mind;...
    Insp 8.296 20 ...I can never remember the circumstances to which I owe [a generalization], so as to repeat the experiment or put myself in the conditions...
    Aris 10.61 19 By experiment...[the generous soul] has made a place for himself in the world;...
    Edc1 10.143 2 Do not spare to put novels into the hands of young people as an occasional holiday and experiment;...
    Supl 10.175 12 ...Nature...crystallizes in water at one invariable angle...in granite at one; and if you omit the smallest condition, the experiment will not succeed.
    SovE 10.184 8 Experiment shows that the bird and the dog reason as the hunter does...
    LLNE 10.329 9 Experiment is credible; antiquity is grown ridiculous.
    LLNE 10.333 12 [Everett] abounded...even in a sort of defying experiment of his own wit and skill in giving an oracular weight to Hebrew or Rabbinical words;...
    LLNE 10.340 18 [Channing] had earlier talked with Dr. John Collins Warren on the like purpose [of bringing thoughtful people together], who admitted the wisdom of the design and undertook to aid him in making the experiment.
    LLNE 10.358 11 Society in England and in America is trying the [Fourierist] experiment again in small pieces...
    LLNE 10.360 16 [Brook Farm] was a noble and generous movement in the projectors, to try an experiment of better living.
    LLNE 10.363 24 Rev. William Henry Channing...was...in perfect sympathy with this experiment [at Brook Farm].
    LLNE 10.368 8 People cannot live together in any but necessary ways. The only candidates who will present themselves will be those who have tried the experiment of independence and ambition, and have failed;...
    Thor 10.462 19 When I was planting forest trees, and had procured half a peck of acorns, [Thoreau]...proceeded to...select the sound ones. But finding this took time, he said, I think if you put them all into water the good ones will sink; which experiment we tried with success.
    EWI 11.118 24 It is vain to get rid of [spoiled children] by not minding them: if purring and humming is not noticed, they squeal and screech; then if you chide and console them, they find the experiment succeeds, and they begin again.
    CPL 11.494 2 The bishop of Cavaillon, Petrarch's friend, in a playful experiment locked up the poet's library...
    CL 12.158 2 There are probably many in this audience who have tried the experiment on a hilltop...of bending the head so as to look at the landscape with your eyes upside down.
    CL 12.158 10 My companion and I...agreed that russet was the hue of Massachusetts, but on trying this experiment of inverting the view he said, There is the Campagna! and Italy is Massachusetts upside down.
    EurB 12.373 21 ...[Bulwer's] novels are marked...with a courage of experiment which in each instance had its degree of success.
    PPr 12.390 27 [Carlyle's style] is the first experiment, and something of rudeness and haste must be pardoned to so great an achievement.

experiment, v. (3)

    Cir 2.318 14 ...I simply experiment...
    Exp 3.51 6 Of what use [is genius], if...the man does not care enough for results to stimulate him to experiment, and hold him up in it?...
    Schr 10.268 4 ...I rather wish you to experiment boldly...

experimental, adj. (1)

    NER 3.258 3 The lessons of science should be experimental...

experimented, v. (2)

    SwM 4.107 1 ...[Swedenborg] was a believer in the Identity-philosophy... which he experimented with and established through years of labor...
    Res 8.138 21 ...if you tell me...that man only rightly knows himself as far as he has experimented on things,--I am invigorated...

experimenter, n. (4)

    Cir 2.318 10 ...let me remind the reader that I am only an experimenter.
    NER 3.284 17 Suppress for a few days your criticism on the insufficiency of this or that teacher or experimenter...
    SA 8.85 1 There is even a little rule of prudence for the young experimenter which Dr. Franklin omitted to set down...
    PLT 12.23 19 ...what a modern experimenter calls the contagious influence of chemical action is so true of mind that I have only to read the law that its application may be evident...

experimenting, adj. (1)

    ET14 5.260 9 ...the two complexions, or two styles of mind [in England],-- the perceptive class, and the practical finality class,--are ever in counterpoise, interacting mutually...one studious, contemplative, experimenting; the other, the ungrateful pupil, scornful of the source whilst availing itself of the knowledge for gain;...

experimenting, n. (3)

    LT 1.275 16 See how daring is the reading, the speculation, the experimenting of the time.
    WD 7.183 27 There are people who do not need much experimenting;...
    Res 8.150 11 I should like to have the statistics of bold experimenting on the husbandry of mental power.

experimenting, v. (2)

    NER 3.251 8 Whoever has had opportunity of acquaintance with society in New England during the last twenty-five years...will have been struck with the great activity of thought and experimenting.
    ET15 5.263 5 [Writing for English journals] comes of the crowded state of the professions, the violent interest which all men take in politics, the facility of experimenting in the journals...

experiments, n. (31)

    Nat 1.67 1 ...a dream may let us deeper into the secret of nature than a hundred concerted experiments.
    Con 1.303 26 You are welcome to try your experiments...
    YA 1.382 12 The science is confident, and surely the poverty is real. If any means could be found to bring these two together! This was one design of the projectors of the Associations which are now making their first feeble experiments.
    OS 2.267 24 In [philosophy's] experiments there has always remained, in the last analysis, a residuum it could not resolve.
    NER 3.266 20 The world is awaking to the idea of union, and these experiments [of association] show what it is thinking of.
    SwM 4.102 8 It seems that [Swedenborg] anticipated much science of the nineteenth century; anticipated...in magnetism, some important experiments and conclusions of later students;...
    SwM 4.110 21 ...[Swedenborg] must be reckoned a leader in that revolution, which, by giving to science an idea, has given to an aimless accumulation of experiments, guidance and form and a beating heart.
    ShP 4.192 19 The secure possession, by the stage, of the public mind, is of the first importance to the poet who works for it. He loses no time in idle experiments.
    NMW 4.258 15 It was...the eternal law of man and of the world which baulked and ruined [Napoleon]; and the result, in a million experiments, will be the same.
    ET14 5.238 22 [Bacon's] centuries of observations on useful science, and his experiments, I suppose, were worth nothing.
    F 6.3 21 After many experiments we find that we must begin [reform] earlier...
    F 6.20 1 A man's power is hooped in by a necessity which, by many experiments, he touches on every side until he learns its arc.
    Wth 6.126 26 Nor is the man enriched, in repeating the old experiments of animal sensation;...
    Civ 7.28 11 ...after much thought and many experiments we managed to meet the conditions, and to fold up the letter in such invisible compact form as [Electricity] could carry in those invisible pockets of his...
    Suc 7.294 23 The time your rival spends in dressing up his work for effect... you spend in study and experiments towards real knowledge and efficiency.
    OA 7.331 15 Much wider is spread the pleasure which old men take in completing their secular affairs...the agriculturist his experiments...
    SA 8.81 24 ...trying experiments, and at perfect leisure with these posture-masters and flatterers all day, [the babe] throws himself into all the attitudes that correspond to theirs.
    SA 8.97 3 When Molyneux fancied that the observations of the nutation of the earth's axis destroyed Newton's theory of gravitation, he tried to break it softly to Sir Isaac, who only answered, It may be so, there's no arguing against facts and experiments.
    Res 8.137 14 ...whether searched by the plough of Adam...the surveyor's chain of Picard, or the submarine telegraph,--to every one of these experiments [the earth] makes a gracious response.
    PC 8.227 12 The dreams of the night supplement by their divination the imperfect experiments of the day.
    Grts 8.306 10 ...[Faraday] showed us various experiments on certain gases...
    Grts 8.306 14 ...further experiments led [Faraday] to the theory that every chemical substance would be found to have its own, and a different, polarity.
    Grts 8.306 17 I do not know how far [Faraday's] experiments and others have been pushed in this matter [of Diamagnetism]...
    Grts 8.315 6 We perhaps look on [intellect's] crimes as experiments of a universal student;...
    PerF 10.82 15 The story of Orpheus, of Arion, of the Arabian minstrel, are not fables, but experiments on the same iron at white heat.
    Edc1 10.148 18 The natural method [of education] forever confutes our experiments...
    SovE 10.210 16 Such experiments as we recall are those in which some sect or dogma made the tie [with the moral principle]...
    LLNE 10.345 26 ...we were curious to know how [the pilgrim] sped in his experiments on the neighbor...
    Thor 10.451 19 After completing his experiments [on lead-pencils], [Thoreau] exhibited his work to chemists and artists in Boston...
    Thor 10.466 17 The result of the recent survey of the Water Commissioners appointed by the State of Massachusetts [Thoreau] had reached by his private experiments...
    II 12.76 6 ...Van Mons of Belgium, after all his experiments at crossing and refining his fruit, arrived at last at the most complete trust in the native power.

experiments, v. (1)

    Aris 10.58 9 ...a hero's, a man's success is made up of failures, because he experiments and ventures every day...

expert, adj. (6)

    ET3 5.41 21 It is not down in the books...that fortunate day when a wave of the German Ocean burst the old isthmus which joined Kent and Cornwall to France...cutting off...a territory...so near that it can see the harvests of the continent, and so far that who would cross the strait must be an expert mariner...
    ET4 5.72 15 In the Danish invasions the marauders seized upon horses where they landed, and were at once converted into a body of expert cavalry.
    ET11 5.194 27 ...[English nobles] were expert in every species of equitation...
    Cour 7.269 16 ...out of love of the reality [the scholar] is an expert judge how far the book has approached it...
    Aris 10.42 12 In 1373, in writs of summons of members of Parliament, the sheriff of every county is to cause two dubbed knights, or the most worthy esquires, the most expert in feats of arms...to be returned.
    FSLC 11.207 17 ...will any expert statesman furnish us a plan for the summary or gradual winding up of slavery, so far as the Republic is its patron?

expert, n. (1)

    PNR 4.81 18 [Plato] is more than an expert...

experts, n. (2)

    Civ 7.17 3 We flee away from cities, but we bring/ The best of cities with us, these learned classifiers/ Men knowing what they seek, armed eyes of experts./
    Edc1 10.146 10 ...[Fellowes] read history and studied ancient art to explain his stones;...he called in the succor...of experts in coins, of scholars and connoisseurs;...

expiate, v. (2)

    SR 2.53 4 I do not wish to expiate, but to live.
    ET1 5.24 26 It is not very rare to find persons loving sympathy and ease, who expatiate their departure from the common in one direction, by their conformity in every other.

expiating, v. (1)

    ET18 5.304 4 [The English] are expiating the wrongs of India by benefits;...

expiation, n. (3)

    SR 2.52 26 Men do what is called a good action...much as they would pay a fine in expiation of daily non-appearance on parade.
    Hsm1 2.249 18 Unhappily no man exists who has not in his own person become to some amount a stockholder in the sin, and so made himself liable to a share in the expiation.
    Pol1 3.218 7 Our talent is a sort of expiation...

expiration, n. (2)

    Comp 2.96 19 Polarity, or action and reaction, we meet in every part of nature;...in the inspiration and expiration of plants and animals;...
    NER 3.266 25 ...in a celebrated experiment, by expiration and respiration exactly together, four persons lift a heavy man from the ground by the little finger only...

expire, v. (1)

    Int 2.332 8 It seems as if the law of the intellect resembled that law of nature by which we now inspire, now expire the breath;...

expired, v. (3)

    Pt1 3.11 2 It is much to know that poetry has been written this very day, under this very roof, by your side. What! that wonderful spirit has not expired!
    EzRy 10.383 12 [Ezra Ripley] was identified with the ideas and forms of the New England Church, which expired about the same time with him...
    SMC 11.365 20 The three months of the enlistment expired a few days after the battle [of Bull Run].

expires, v. (3)

    OS 2.275 5 With each divine impulse the mind...comes out into eternity, and inspires and expires its air.
    Pol1 3.216 7 ...with the appearance of the wise man the State expires.
    OA 7.323 13 The insurance of a ship expires as she enters the harbor at home.

expiring, adj. (1)

    Tran 1.336 12 In the play of Othello, the expiring Desdemona absolves her husband of the murder, to her attendant Emilia.

expiring, v. (1)

    AmS 1.98 20 That great principle of Undulation in nature, that shows itself in the inspiring and expiring of the breath;...is known to us under the name of Polarity...

explain, v. (41)

    Nat 1.4 20 [A true theory's] test is, that it will explain all phenomena.
    Nat 1.67 17 I cannot greatly honor minuteness in details, so long as there is no hint to explain the relation between things and thoughts;...
    LE 1.183 17 They [whom the student's thoughts have entertained or inflamed] find...that he cannot make of his infrequent illumination a portable taper to carry whither he would, and explain now this dark riddle, now that.
    Hist 2.34 11 All the fictions of the Middle Age explain themselves as a masked or frolic expression of that which in grave earnest the mind of that period toiled to achieve.
    SR 2.59 9 Your genuine action will explain itself and will explain your other genuine actions.
    OS 2.267 12 We give up the past to the objector, and yet we hope. He must explain this hope.
    Cir 2.305 8 ...the principle that seemed to explain nature will itself be included as one example of a bolder generalization.
    Exp 3.74 15 [Just persons] refuse to explain themselves...
    NER 3.274 2 We crave a sense of reality, though it comes in strokes of pain. I explain so...those excesses and errors into which souls of great vigor, but not equal insight, often fall.
    UGM 4.7 21 ...each legitimate idea makes its own channels and welcome... disciples to explain it.
    PPh 4.46 5 As soon as, with culture...[men and women] see [things] no longer in lumps and masses but accurately distributed, they desist from that weak vehemence and explain their meaning in detail.
    PPh 4.56 1 ...the experience of poetic creativeness, which is not found in staying at home, nor yet in travelling, but in transitions from one to the other, which must therefore be adroitly managed to present as much transitional surface as possible; this command of two elements must explain the power and the charm of Plato.
    SwM 4.135 25 The excess of [Hebraic] influence shows itself [in Swedenborg] in the incongruous importation of a foreign rhetoric. What have I to do, asks the impatient reader, with...beryl and chalcedony;...what with...behemoth and unicorn? ... The more learning you bring to explain them, the more glaring the impertinence.
    MoS 4.162 12 ...I will...offer...a word or two to explain how my love began and grew for this admirable gossip [Montaigne].
    ET1 5.21 10 Lucretius [Wordsworth] esteems a far higher poet than Virgil; not in his system, which is nothing, but in his power of illustration. Faith is necessary to explain anything...
    ET14 5.253 15 [English science] isolates the reptile or mullusk it assumes to explain;...
    F 6.10 23 Ask the digger in the ditch to explain Newton's laws;...
    Ctr 6.132 13 A freemason, not long since, set out to explain to this country that the principal cause of the success of General Washington was the aid he derived from the freemasons.
    Wsp 6.230 6 ...if you cannot argue or explain yourself to the other party, cleave to the truth...and you gain a station from which you cannot be dislodged.
    DL 7.107 25 Do you think any rhetoric or any romance would get your ear from the wise gypsy...who could explain your misfortunes, your fevers... and in every explanation, not sever you from the whole, but unite you to it?
    Boks 7.205 24 There is...Dante's Vita Nuova, to explain Dante and Beatrice;...
    Suc 7.302 15 This sensibility appears...when we see...features that explain the Phidian sculpture.
    PI 8.10 10 [Science] assumed to explain a reptile or mollusk, and isolated it...
    PI 8.44 23 ...the dunce has experiences that may explain Shakspeare to him...
    PC 8.226 16 The inquisitiveness of the child to hear runs to meet the eagerness of the parent to explain.
    Insp 8.284 16 The fine influences of the morning few can explain, but all will admit.
    Dem1 10.11 22 ...all the bravest tales of Homer and the poets, modern philosophers can explain with profound judgment of law and state and ethics.
    Dem1 10.27 22 ...I think the numberless forms in which this superstition [demonology] has reappeared...betrays [man's] conviction that behind all your explanations is a vast and potent and living Nature...which you cannot explain.
    Edc1 10.136 19 The old man thinks the young man has no distinct purpose, for he could never get anything intelligible and earnest out of him. Perhaps the young man does not think it worth his while to explain himself to so hard and inapprehensive a confessor.
    Edc1 10.145 5 This is the perpetual romance of new life...when [God] sends into quiet houses a young soul...looking for something which is not there, but which ought to be there...he makes wild attempts to explain himself and invoke the aid and consent of the bystanders.
    Edc1 10.146 6 ...[Fellowes] read history and studied ancient art to explain his stones;...
    Prch 10.232 13 The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain;...
    Schr 10.288 12 ...it is so much easier to say many things than to explain one.
    Koss 11.400 19 ...it is not those who live idly in the city called after his name, but those who, all over the world, think and act like him, who can claim to explain the sentiment of Washington.
    Wom 11.406 9 Weirdes all, said the Edda, Frigga knoweth, though she telleth them never. That is to say, all wisdoms Woman knows; though she... does not explain them as discoveries, like the understanding of man.
    RBur 11.440 1 I can only explain this singular unanimity [to celebrate Burns's anniversary] in a race which rarely acts together...by the fact that Robert Burns...represents in the mind of men to-day that great uprising of the middle class...
    FRep 11.540 9 We shall not make coups d'etat and afterwards explain and pay...
    PLT 12.55 19 The curses of malignity and despair are important criticism, which must be heeded until [a man] can explain and rightly silence them.
    CL 12.165 12 Swedenborg or Behman or Plato tried...to explain what rock, what sand, what wood, what fire signified in regard to man.
    ACri 12.287 17 ...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! The whole party were surprised and cheered...though it would be difficult to explain the propriety of the expression...
    MLit 12.329 2 All great men have written proudly, nor cared to explain.

explained, v. (30)

    Hist 2.4 10 If the whole of history is in one man, it is all to be explained from individual experience.
    Hist 2.4 19 ...the hours should be instructed by the ages and the ages explained by the hours.
    Hist 2.17 1 I knew a draughtsman employed in a public survey who found that he could not sketch the rocks until their geological structure was first explained to him.
    Hist 2.17 16 ...the history of art and of literature, must be explained from individual history, or must remain words.
    Hist 2.28 25 The cramping influence of a hard formalist on a young child... is a familiar fact, explained to the child when he becomes a man, only by seeing that the oppressor of his youth is himself a child tyrannized over by those names and words and forms of whose influence he was merely the organ to the youth.
    SR 2.63 23 The magnetism which all original action exerts is explained when we inquire the reason of self-trust.
    Exp 3.74 12 I am explained without explaining...
    Nat2 3.193 27 To the intelligent, nature converts itself into a vast promise, and will not be rashly explained.
    SwM 4.109 14 Gravitation, as explained by Newton, is good...
    SwM 4.117 13 ...[Correspondence] was involved, as we explained already, in the doctrine of identity and iteration...
    SwM 4.140 7 The illuminated Quakers explained their Light, not as somewhat which leads to any action...
    GoW 4.274 18 [Goethe] has explained the distinction between the antique and the modern spirit and art.
    ET7 5.123 5 When Castlereagh dissuaded Lord Wellington from going to the king's levee until the unpopular Cintra business had been explained, he replied, You furnish me a reason for going.
    ET10 5.157 17 Six hundred years ago, Roger Bacon explained the precession of the equinoxes...
    ET13 5.214 1 No people at the present day can be explained by their national religion.
    ET14 5.240 20 [Bacon] explained himself by giving various quaint examples of the summary or common laws of which each science has its own illustration.
    ET16 5.281 15 ...was [Stonehenge] a Roman work, as Inigo Jones explained to King James;...
    ET17 5.293 20 Among the privileges of London, I recall with pleasure two or three signal days...one at the Museum, where Sir Charles Fellowes explained in detail the history of his Ionic trophy-monument;...
    Wsp 6.233 10 [A gentleman] found [William of Orange] directing the operation of his gunners, and having explained his errand and received his answer, the king said, Do you not know, sir, that every moment you spend here is at the risk of your life?
    Clbs 7.247 20 ...it was explained to me...that it was impossible to set any public charity on foot unless through a tavern dinner.
    Res 8.146 3 [Tissenet]...explained to [the Indians] that he was a great medicine-man...
    PC 8.214 25 Six hundred years ago Roger Bacon explained the precession of the equinoxes and the necessity of reform in the calendar;...
    Imtl 8.327 8 ...Swedenborg...explained his opinion of the history and destiny of souls in a narrative form...
    Imtl 8.347 22 Jesus explained nothing, but the influence of him took people out of time, and they felt eternal.
    LLNE 10.345 15 [The pilgrim]...explained with simple warmth the belief of himself...of the vast mischief of our insidious coin.
    Thor 10.458 26 Mr. Thoreau explained to the President [of Harvard University] that the railroad had destroyed the old scale of distances...
    Thor 10.477 23 ...the same isolation which belonged to his original thinking and living detached [Thoreau] from the social religious forms. This is neither to be censured nor regretted. Aristotle long ago explained it, when he said, One who surpasses his fellow citizens in virtue is no longer a part of the city. Their law is not for him, since he is a law to himself.
    EWI 11.114 20 The negroes [of the West Indies] were called together by the missionaries and by the planters, and the news [of emancipation] explained to them.
    FRep 11.511 8 The sailors sail by chronometers that do not lose two or three seconds in a year, ever since Newton explained to Parliament that the way to improve navigation was to get good watches...
    CL 12.158 13 The effect [of viewing the landscape upside down] is remarkable, and perhaps is not explained.

explainers, n. (1)

    CbW 6.270 7 ...resistance only exasperates the acrid fool, who believes that...he only is right. Hence all the dozen inmates [of his household] are soon perverted...into...explainers...of this one malefactor;...

explaining, adj. (1)

    Int 2.347 4 ...nor do [the Greek philosophers] ever relent so much as to insert a popular or explaining sentence...

explaining, v. (9)

    Exp 3.74 12 I am explained without explaining...
    PPh 4.78 11 No power of genius has ever yet had the smallest success in explaining existence.
    SwM 4.119 2 ...[Swedenborg's] ecstasy connected itself with just this office of explaining the moral import of the sensible world.
    Bhr 6.191 16 In explaining his thought to others, [a man] explains it to himself...
    Boks 7.207 15 [The scholar] will not repent the time he gives to Bacon,-- not if he read...all the Letters (especially those to the Earl of Devonshire, explaining the Essex business)...
    Dem1 10.27 9 ...far be from me the lust of explaining away all which appeals to the imagination...
    Humb 11.458 10 When [Humboldt] was stopped in Spain and could not get away, he turned round and interpreted their mountain system, explaining the past history of the continent of Europe.
    Mem 12.93 3 [Memory] is a scripture written day by day from the birth of the man; all its records full of meanings which open as he lives on, explaining each other, explaining the world to him...
    Mem 12.101 6 So is it with every fact in a new science: they are mutually explaining...

explains, v. (12)

    AmS 1.112 13 The near explains the far.
    Hist 2.28 3 Jesus astonishes and overpowers sensual people. They cannot unite him to history, or reconcile him with themselves. As they come to revere their intuitions and aspire to live holily, their own piety explains every fact...
    SR 2.59 10 Your conformity explains nothing.
    Art1 2.358 8 The reference of all production at last to an aboriginal Power explains the traits common to all works of the highest art...
    Nat2 3.180 23 A little water made to rotate in a cup explains the formation of the simpler shells;...
    PNR 4.84 23 Whatever [Plato] looks upon discloses a second sense, and ulterior senses. ... This second sight explains the stress laid on geometry.
    SwM 4.106 18 The thoughts in which [Swedenborg] lived were, the universality of each law in nature;...the fine secret that little explains large, and large, little;...
    NMW 4.241 15 The best document of [Napoleon's] relation to his troops is the order of the day on the morning of the battle of Austerlitz, in which Napoleon promises the troops that he will keep his person out of reach of fire. This declaration...sufficiently explains the devotion of the army to their leader.
    F 6.44 16 Certain ideas are in the air. ... This explains the curious contemporaneousness of inventions and discoveries.
    Bhr 6.191 17 In explaining his thought to others, [a man] explains it to himself...
    PI 8.15 17 The endless passing of one element into new forms...explains the rank which the imagination holds in our catalogue of mental powers.
    PI 8.45 18 ...no matter what objects are near [water]...they become beautiful by being reflected. It is rhyme to the eye, and explains the charm of rhyme to the ear.

explanation, n. (25)

    DSA 1.119 18 ...the never-broken silence with which the old bounty goes forward has not yielded yet one word of explanation.
    LE 1.178 18 This lesson is taught with emphasis in the life of the great actor of this age, and affords the explanation of his success.
    MN 1.194 25 ...the wit of man...his art, is the grace and presence of God. It is beyond explanation.
    SR 2.52 2 ...we cannot spend the day in explanation.
    Exp 3.73 9 I fully understand language, [Mencius] said, and nourish well my vast-flowing vigor. I beg to ask what you call vast-flowing vigor? said his companion. The explanation, replied Mencius, is difficult.
    Chr1 3.108 20 ...we should not require rash explanation, either on the popular ethics, or on our own, of [character's] action.
    NR 3.248 5 My companion assumes to know my mood and habit of thought, and we go on from explanation to explanation until all is said which words can...
    UGM 4.6 25 [The great man] must be related to us, and our life receive from him some promise of explanation.
    ET4 5.65 2 As early as the [Norman] conquest it is remarked, in explanation of the wealth of England, that [England's] merchants trade to all countries.
    F 6.42 19 ...in each town there is some man who is...an explanation of the... ways of living and society of that town.
    Art2 7.52 10 Herein is the explanation of the analogies, which exist in all the arts. They are the reappearance of one mind, working in many materials...
    Art2 7.52 21 Herein we have an explanation of the necessity that reigns in all the kingdom of Art. Arising out of eternal Reason...whatever is beautiful rests on the foundation of the necessary.
    DL 7.108 1 Do you think any rhetoric or any romance would get your ear from the wise gypsy...who could explain...your habits of thought, your tastes, and in every explanation, not sever you from the whole, but unite you to it?
    Boks 7.211 10 Neither is a dictionary a bad book to read. There is no cant in it, no excess of explanation...
    Clbs 7.247 19 The use of the hospitality of the club hardly needs explanation.
    Imtl 8.348 4 ...[Jesus] is very abstemious of explanation...
    Plu 10.310 12 The explanation of the rainbow, of the floods of the Nile, and of the remora, etc. [in Plutarch], are just;...
    LLNE 10.337 20 On the heels of this intruder [Phrenology] came Mesmerism, which...attempted the explanation of miracle and prophecy...
    EzRy 10.394 3 Was a man a sot...or was there any cloud or suspicious circumstances in his behavior, the good pastor [Ezra Ripley] knew his way straight to that point, believing himself entitled to a full explanation...
    FSLC 11.189 11 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...
    PLT 12.3 6 ...in listening to...Michael Faraday's explanation of magnetic powers...one could not help admiring the irresponsible security and happiness of the attitude of the naturalist;...
    CL 12.140 27 The power of the air was the first explanation offered by the early philosophers of the mutual understanding that men have.
    Milt1 12.278 6 ...according to Lord Bacon's definition of poetry...Poetry... seeks...to create an ideal world better than the world of experience. Such certainly is the explanation of Milton's tracts.
    MLit 12.324 23 It was with [Goethe] a favorite task to find a theory of every institution, custom, art, work of art, which he observed. Witness his explanation of the Italian mode of reckoning the hours of the day, as growing out of the Italian climate;...
    WSL 12.347 25 [Landor] never stoops to explanation...

explanations, n. (3)

    Chr1 3.102 27 New actions are the only apologies and explanations of old ones which the noble can bear to offer or to receive.
    ET1 5.11 5 When [Coleridge] stopped to take breath, I interposed that whilst I highly valued all his explanations, I was bound to tell him that I was born and bred a Unitarian.
    Dem1 10.27 20 ...I think the numberless forms in which this superstition [demonology] has reappeared...betrays [man's] conviction that behind all your explanations is a vast and potent and living Nature...

explanatory, adj. (2)

    SwM 4.123 9 [Swedenborg] is superfluously explanatory...
    LS 11.10 27 [Jesus] closed his discourse [at Capernaum] with these explanatory expressions: The flesh profiteth nothing; the words that I speak to you, they are spirit and they are life.

explicable, adj. (3)

    Hist 2.3 14 Man is explicable by nothing less than all his history.
    Pt1 3.16 4 A beauty not explicable is dearer than a beauty which we can see to the end of.
    PLT 12.20 22 ...mind, our mind, or mind like ours, reappears to us in our study of Nature, Nature being everywhere formed after a method which we can well understand, and all the parts, to the most remote, allied or explicable...

explication, n. (2)

    PNR 4.86 10 ...the fact of knowledge and ideas reveals to [Plato] the fact of eternity; and the doctrine of reminiscence he offers as the most probable particular explication.
    PNR 4.86 13 ...the connection between our knowledge and the abyss of being is still real, and the explication must be not less magnificent.

explicit, adj. (6)

    PPh 4.66 8 The Koran is explicit on this point of caste.
    SA 8.91 12 A universal etiquette should fix an iron limit after which a moment should not be allowed without explicit leave granted on request of either the giver or receiver of the visit.
    Prch 10.218 8 I see in those classes and those persons...who contain the activity of to-day and the assurance of to-morrow...a clear enough perception of the inadequacy of the popular religious statement to the wants of their heart and intellect, and explicit declarations of this fact.
    HDC 11.69 5 ...the purchasing commodities subject to such illegal taxation is an explicit, though an impious and sordid resignation of the liberties of this free and happy people.
    EWI 11.142 11 The recent testimonies...of Gurney, of Philippo, are very explicit on this point, the capacity and the success of the colored and the black population [in the West Indies]...
    FSLC 11.203 18 ...very unexpectedly to the whole Union, on the 7th March, 1850, in opposition to his education, association, and to all his own most explicit language for thirty years, [Webster] crossed the line, and became the head of the slavery party in this country.

explicitly, adv. (3)

    SwM 4.116 24 The fact [of Correspondence] thus explicitly stated [by Swedenborg] is implied in all poetry...
    ET14 5.247 6 The brilliant Macaulay...explicitly teaches that good means good to eat, good to wear...
    LS 11.11 19 I ask any person who believes the [Lord's] Supper to have been designed by Jesus to be commemorated forever, to go and read the account of it in the other Gospels, and then compare with it the account of this transaction [Christ's washing the disciples' feet] in St. John, and tell me if this be not much more explicitly authorized than the Supper.

explode, v. (2)

    Carl 10.490 4 [Carlyle] talks like a very unhappy man...meditating how to undermine and explode the whole world of nonsense which torments him.
    MLit 12.330 25 The vicious conventions...which the poet should explode at his touch, stand [in Wilhelm Meister] for all they are worth in the newspaper.

exploded, v. (3)

    LT 1.273 3 ...the thought that [these ideas] can ever have any footing in real life, seems long since to have been exploded by all judicious persons.
    Mrs1 3.129 3 The city would have died out, rotted and exploded, long ago, but that it was reinforced from the fields.
    ET12 5.209 14 These seminaries [English public schools] are finishing schools for the upper classes, and not for the poor. The useful is exploded.

explodes, v. (1)

    F 6.22 20 ...the lightning which explodes and fashions planets...is in [man].

exploding, v. (1)

    FSLC 11.193 18 Will you...blame the air for rushing in where a vacuum is made or the boiler for exploding under pressure of steam?

exploit, n. (2)

    Chr1 3.101 16 Xenophon and his Ten Thousand were quite equal to what they attempted, and did it; so equal, that it was not suspected to be a grand and inimitable exploit.
    Pow 6.80 27 [Spirit] is...not the fame, but the exploit.

exploits, n. (6)

    LE 1.179 21 [Napoleon] believed that the great captains of antiquity performed their exploits only by correct combinations...
    Chr1 3.89 14 We cannot find the smallest part of the personal weight of Washington in the narrative of his exploits.
    ET6 5.107 25 ...with the national tendency to sit fast in the same spot for many generations, [the Englishman's house] comes to be, in the course of time, a museum of...trophies of the adventures and exploits of the family.
    ET11 5.174 20 The foundations of these [noble English] families lie deep in Norwegian exploits by sea and Saxon sturdiness on land.
    Clbs 7.231 13 Among the men of wit and learning, [the lover of letters] could not withhold his homage from the gayety, grasp of memory, luck, splendor and speed; such exploits of discourse, such feats of society!
    Res 8.149 27 Whether larger or less, these strokes and all exploits rest at last on the wonderful structure of the mind.

exploration, n. (3)

    DSA 1.141 20 ...historical Christianity destroys the power of preaching, by withdrawing it from the exploration of the moral nature of man;...
    Cour 7.276 11 ...[the hideous facts in history] require of us...an unresting exploration of final causes.
    CL 12.165 21 If we believed that Nature was...some rock on which souls wandering in the Universe were shipwrecked, we should think all exploration of it frivolous waste of time.

explorations, n. (2)

    PC 8.210 15 Consider...what masters, each in his several province...the mines, the inland and marine explorations...have evoked!...
    Insp 8.295 27 Books of natural science...explorations of the sea, of meteors, of astronomy,-all the better if written without literary aim or ambition.

explore, v. (31)

    Nat 1.12 14 The misery of man appears like childish petulance, when we explore the steady and prodigal provision that has been made for his support and delight...
    AmS 1.111 11 ...I explore and sit at the feet of the familiar...
    LE 1.185 19 If...God have called any of you to explore truth and beauty, be bold, be firm, be true.
    LE 1.186 15 Explore, and explore.
    LE 1.186 16 Explore, and explore.
    MN 1.197 20 ...we explore the face of the sun in a pool, when our eyes cannot brook his direct splendors.
    MR 1.248 4 We are to revise the whole of our social structure, the State, the school...and explore their foundations in our own nature;...
    LT 1.259 21 Nature itself seems...to invite us to explore the meaning of the conspicuous facts of the day.
    Hist 2.38 11 I will not now go behind the general statement to explore the reason of this correspondency.
    SR 2.50 10 He who would gather immortal palms must not be hindered by the name of goodness, but must explore if it be goodness.
    Hsm1 2.248 13 ...if we explore the literature of Heroism we shall quickly come to Plutarch...
    Pt1 3.4 11 ...the highest minds of the world have never ceased to explore the double meaning...of every sensuous fact;...
    Mrs1 3.138 11 The flower of courtesy does not very well bide handling, but if we dare to open another leaf and explore what parts go to its conformation, we shall find also an intellectual quality.
    NR 3.233 15 'T is not Proclus, but a piece of nature and fate that I explore.
    UGM 4.19 14 When nature removes a great man, people explore the horizon for a successor;...
    ShP 4.217 10 [Shakespeare]...never took the step which seemed inevitable to such genius, namely to explore the virtue which resides in these [natural] symbols and imparts this power:--what is that which they themselves say?
    ET10 5.166 10 Such as we have seen is the wealth of England; a mighty mass, and made good in whatever details we care to explore.
    ET11 5.192 14 The sycophancy and sale of votes and honor, for place and title;...the splendor of the titles, and the apathy of the nation; are instructive, and make the reader pause and explore the firm bounds which [in England] confined these vices to a handful of rich men.
    Bhr 6.167 10 ...Graceful women, chosen men/ Dazzle every mortal:/ Their sweet and lofty countenance/ His enchanting food;/ He need not go to them, their forms/ Beset his solitude./ He looketh seldom in their face,/ His eyes explore the ground/...
    CbW 6.268 8 [The young people] explore a farm, but the house is small...
    Boks 7.198 19 In Plato you explore modern Europe in its causes and seed...
    Comc 8.173 23 ...explore the whole of Nature...
    Dem1 10.17 3 This faith...in the particular of lucky days and fortunate persons...this supposed power runs athwart the recognized agencies...which science and religion explore.
    SovE 10.204 26 I will not now go into the metaphysics of that reaction by which in history a period of belief is followed by an age of criticism, in which...an excessive respect for forms out of which the heart has departed becomes more obvious in the least religious minds. I will not now explore the causes of the result, but the fact must be conceded as of frequent occurrence...
    HCom 11.341 11 I see thankfully those that are here, but dim eyes in vain explore for some who are not.
    Wom 11.416 14 There was...no right [antagonism to Slavery] did not explore...
    PLT 12.47 27 The various talents are...each related to that part of nature it is to explore and utilize.
    CInt 12.112 5 I know the mighty bards,/ I listen when they sing,/ And now I know/ The secret store/ Which these explore/ When they with torch of genius pierce/ The tenfold clouds that cover/ The riches of the universe/ From God's adoring lover./
    CInt 12.112 17 ...if to me it is not given/ To fetch one ingot hence/ Of the unfading gold of Heaven/ [God's] merchants may dispense,/ Yet well I know the royal mine/ And know the sparkle of its ore,/ Know Heaven's truths from lies that shine-/ Explored, they teach us to explore./
    CW 12.176 27 This is my ideal of the powers of wealth. Find out what lake or sea Agassiz wishes to explore, and offer to carry him there...
    ACri 12.286 22 Look at this forlorn caravan of travellers who wander over Europe dumb...condemned to the company of a courier and of the padrone when they cannot take refuge in the society of countrymen. A well-chosen series of stereoscopic views would have served a better purpose, which they can explore at home...

explored, v. (12)

    Nat 1.39 14 ...we are impressed and even daunted by the immense Universe to be explored.
    AmS 1.110 23 ...the near, the low, the common, was explored and poetized.
    DSA 1.134 6 ...the Moral Nature, that Law of laws whose revelations introduce greatness...into the open soul, is not explored...
    Con 1.304 19 ...the Egyptians and Chaldeans, whose origin could not be explored, passed among the junior tribes of Greece and Italy for sacred nations.
    YA 1.365 13 ...the mineral riches are explored;...
    Cir 2.314 9 Has the naturalist or chemist learned his craft, who has explored the gravity of atoms and the elective affinities, who has not yet discerned the deeper law whereof this is only a partial or approximate statement...
    Chr1 3.105 25 Two persons lately...have given me occasion for thought. When I explored the source of their sanctity and charm for the imagination, it seemed as if each answered, From my non-conformity...
    NR 3.245 24 ...each man's genius being nearly and affectionately explored, he is justified in his individuality...
    ET4 5.68 17 ...Sir Edward Parry said of Sir John Franklin, that if he found Wellington Sound open, he explored it;...
    Plu 10.297 2 ...M. Fustel de Coulanges has explored from its roots in the Aryan race, then in their Greek and Roman descendants, the primaeval religion of the household.
    CInt 12.112 17 ...if to me it is not given/ To fetch one ingot hence/ Of the unfading gold of Heaven/ [God's] merchants may dispense,/ Yet well I know the royal mine/ And know the sparkle of its ore,/ Know Heaven's truths from lies that shine-/ Explored, they teach us to explore./
    CL 12.136 20 Linnaeus, early in life, read a discourse at the University of Upsala on the necessity of travelling in one's own country, based on the conviction...that in every district were swamps, or beaches, or rocks, or mountains, which...if explored, and turned to account, were capable of yielding immense benefit.

explorer, n. (2)

    UGM 4.19 21 [The great man's] class is extinguished with him. In some other and quite different field the next man will appear; not Jefferson, not Franklin, but now a great salesman...then a buffalo-hunting explorer...
    OA 7.330 7 Time, yes, that is...the unweariable explorer...

explorers, n. (1)

    Pow 6.70 14 The best anecdotes of this [aboriginal] force are to be had from savage life, in explorers, soldiers and buccaneers.

explores, v. (4)

    LT 1.287 12 Is there not something comprehensive in the grasp of a society...which explores the subtlest and most universal problems?
    Int 2.331 17 ...a man explores the basis of civil government.
    DL 7.104 17 With an acoustic apparatus of whistle and rattle [the child] explores the laws of sound.
    PLT 12.4 26 No matter how far or how high science explores, it adopts the method of the universe as fast as it appears;...

exploring, adj. (1)

    MLit 12.318 8 [The educated and susceptible] betray this impatience [with the poverty of our dogmas of religion and philosophy] by fleeing for resource to a conversation with Nature, which is courted in a certain moody and exploring spirit...

Exploring Expedition, n. (2)

    Mrs1 3.119 2 Our Exploring Expedition saw the Feejee islanders getting their dinner off human bones;...
    GoW 4.273 14 [Goethe] was the soul of his century. If that...had become... one great Exploring Expedition...this man's mind had ample chambers for the distribution of all.

Exploring Expedition, Pacif (1)

    Thor 10.462 22 [Thoreau]...would have been competent to lead a Pacific Exploring Expedition;...

Exploring Expedition, Wilke (2)

    ET4 5.44 18 ...Mr. Pickering, who lately in our [Wilkes] Exploring Expedition thinks he saw all the kinds of men that can be on the planet, makes eleven [races].
    Pow 6.58 17 ...Commander Wilkes appropriates the results of all the naturalists attached to the Expedition;...

Exploring Expeditions, n. (2)

    Pow 6.69 5 There are Oregons, Californias and Exploring Expeditions enough appertaining to America to find [men of this surcharge of arterial blood] in files to gnaw and in crocodiles to eat.
    Wth 6.96 18 It is the interest of all that there should be Exploring Expeditions;...

exploring, v. (11)

    MN 1.197 24 ...it were some suitable paean if we should piously celebrate this hour by exploring the method of nature.
    Hist 2.37 13 One may say a gravitating solar system is already prophesied in the nature of Newton's mind. Not less does the brain of Davy or of Gay-Lussac, from childhood exploring the affinities and repulsions of particles, anticipate the laws of organization.
    Ill 6.309 3 Some years ago...I spent a long summer day in exploring the Mammoth Cave in Kentucky.
    Clbs 7.230 25 ...I seldom meet with a reading and thoughtful person but he tells me...that he has no companion. Suppose such a one to go out exploring different circles in search of this wise and genial counterpart,--he might inquire far and wide.
    Cour 7.254 17 Men admire...the power of better combination and foresight...whether it only plays a game of chess...or whether, exploring the chemical elements whereof we and the world are made, and seeing their secret, Franklin draws off the lightning in his hand;...
    SovE 10.205 16 ...freedom has its own guards, and, as soon as in the vulgar it runs to license, sets all reasonable men on exploring those guards.
    HDC 11.33 26 Johnson...intimates that [the pilgrims] consumed many days in exploring the country, to select the best place for the town.
    HDC 11.45 4 I esteem it the happiness of this country that its settlers, whilst they were exploring their granted and natural rights...were united by personal affection.
    EdAd 11.390 18 A journal that would meet the real wants of this time must have a courage and power sufficient to solve the problems which the great groping society around us...is dumbly exploring.
    SHC 11.431 19 You can almost see behind these pines the Indian with bow and arrow lurking yet exploring the traces of the old trail.
    PLT 12.23 4 From whatever side we look at Nature we seem to be exploring the figure of a disguised man.

explosion, n. (2)

    ET10 5.168 13 Steam from the first hissed and screamed to warn him; it was dreadful with its explosion, and crushed the engineer.
    ET18 5.303 18 ...who would see...the explosion of their well-husbanded forces, must follow the swarms which pouring out now for two hundred years from the British islands, have sailed and rode and traded and planted through all climates...

explosions, n. (5)

    F 6.33 8 ...the chemic explosions are controlled like [man's] watch.
    Elo1 7.92 16 For the explosions and eruptions, there must be accumulations of heat somewhere...
    SA 8.87 7 It is necessary for the purification of drawing-rooms that these entertaining explosions [of laughter] should be under strict control.
    Comc 8.162 10 Men celebrate their perception of halfness and a latent lie by the peculiar explosions of laughter.
    FRep 11.515 13 When the cannon is aimed by ideas...when men die for what they live for...then the cannon articulates its explosions with the voice of a man...and the better code of laws at last records the victory.

explosive, adj. (3)

    Pow 6.68 27 [Men of this surcharge of arterial blood's] friends and governors must see that some vent for their explosive complexion is provided.
    PI 8.64 5 Is not poetry the little chamber in the brain where is generated the explosive force which, by gentle shocks, sets in action the intellectual world?
    Edc1 10.150 18 ...the youth of genius...are irritable, uncertain, explosive, solitary...

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