Exponent to Exuvial

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

exponent, n. (8)

    MN 1.201 11 There is...no detachment of an individual. Hence the catholic character which makes every leaf an exponent of the world.
    LT 1.261 13 The reason and influence of wealth...the tendencies which have acquired the name of Transcendentalism in Old and New England; the aspect of poetry, as the exponent and interpretation of these things;...these and other related topics will in turn come to be considered.
    Pt1 3.34 3 ...all books of the imagination endure, all which ascend to that truth that the writer sees nature beneath him, and uses it as his exponent.
    Pt1 3.40 19 Nothing walks, or creeps, or grows, or exists, which must not in turn arise and walk before [the poet] as exponent of his meaning.
    UGM 4.35 1 In the moment when [any genius] ceases to help us as a cause, he begins to help us more as an effect. Then he appears as an exponent of a vaster mind and will.
    PNR 4.82 17 Everywhere [Plato] stands on a path which...runs continuously round the universe. Therefore every word becomes an exponent of nature.
    Elo1 7.99 12 [Eloquence] may well stand as the exponent of all that is grand and immortal in the mind.
    FSLN 11.220 5 ...when a great man comes who knots up into himself the opinions and wishes of the people, it is so much easier to follow him as an exponent of this.

exponents, n. (1)

    Pt1 3.34 11 The poet did not stop at the color or the form, but read their meaning; neither may he rest in this meaning, but he makes the same objects exponents of his new thought.

export, v. (1)

    HDC 11.69 9 ...the British parliament have empowered the East India Company to export their tea into America...

exportation, n. (1)

    ET5 5.96 13 The English trade does not exist for the exportation of native products...

exports, n. (1)

    EWI 11.113 11 The Ministers, having estimated the slave products of the colonies in annual exports of sugar, rum and coffee, at 1,500,000 pounds per annum, estimated the total value of the slave property [in the West Indies] at 30,000,000 pounds sterling...

expose, v. (14)

    Tran 1.346 7 By their unconcealed dissatisfaction [youths] expose our poverty and the insignificance of man to man.
    YA 1.378 12 ...[Trade] converts Government into an Intelligence-Office, where every man may find what he wishes to buy, and expose what he has to sell;...
    Nat2 3.195 10 These [universal laws]...stand around us in nature forever embodied, a present sanity to expose and cure the insanity of men.
    UGM 4.17 1 ...these acts [of the intellect] expose the invisible organs and members of the mind...
    Bhr 6.177 10 Men are like Geneva watches with crystal faces which expose the whole movement.
    WD 7.157 14 The eye appreciates finer differences than art can expose.
    WD 7.161 22 When commerce is vastly enlarged, California and Australia expose the gold it needs.
    Clbs 7.241 14 We consider those...who think it the highest compliment they can pay a man...to expose to him the grand and cheerful secrets perhaps never opened to their daily companions...
    SA 8.95 22 Courage to ask questions; courage to expose our ignorance.
    Comc 8.169 20 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.
    Thor 10.456 1 [Thoreau] wanted a fallacy to expose...
    Wom 11.416 14 There was...no wrong [antagonism to Slavery] did not expose.
    CInt 12.129 3 When you say the times, the persons are prosaic...you expose your atheism.
    WSL 12.339 24 Before a well-dressed company [Landor] plunges his fingers into a cesspool, as if to expose the whiteness of his hands...

exposed, adj. (1)

    Trag 12.411 11 The most exposed classes, soldiers, sailors, paupers, are nowise destitute of animal spirits.

exposed, v. (17)

    Pt1 3.23 12 [Nature] makes a man; and having brought him to ripe age...she detaches from him a new self, that the kind may be safe from accidents to which the individual is exposed.
    Pt1 3.23 16 ...when the soul of the poet has come to ripeness of thought, [nature] detaches and sends away from it its poems or songs,--a fearless, sleepless, deathless progeny, which is not exposed to the accidents of the weary kingdom of time;...
    Pt1 3.40 3 What drops of all the sea of our science are baled up! and by what accident it is that these are exposed...
    Exp 3.69 5 The art of life...will not be exposed.
    NER 3.273 23 What is it we heartily wish of each other? Is it to be pleased and flattered? No, but to be convicted and exposed...
    ET18 5.300 24 In Irish districts [of England], men deteriorated in size and shape, the nose sunk, the gums were exposed...
    Cour 7.262 17 Lieutenant Ball...whispered, Courage, my dear boy! you will recover in a minute or so; I was just the same when I first went out in this way. It was as if an angel spoke to me. ... But I dare not think what would have become of me, if, at that moment, he had scoffed and exposed me.
    OA 7.317 14 ...in our old British legends of Arthur and the Round Table, his friend and counsellor, Merlin the Wise, is a babe found exposed in a basket by the river-side...
    SA 8.81 3 ...he who has not this fine garment of behavior is studious of dress, and then not less of house and furniture and pictures and gardens, in all which he hopes to lie perdu, and not be exposed.
    Res 8.145 20 Malus...was captain of a corps of engineers in Bonaparte's Egyptian campaign, which was heinously unprovided and exposed.
    QO 8.193 5 ...the moment there is the purpose of display, the fraud is exposed.
    Aris 10.57 15 It was objected to Gustavus that he...exposed himself to all dangers...
    PerF 10.87 14 ...the most quiet and protected life is at any moment exposed to incidents which test your firmness.
    Prch 10.221 8 The understanding...because it has exposed errors in a church, concludes that a church is an error;...
    Plu 10.300 6 ...though Plutarch is as plain-spoken [as Montaigne], his moral sentiment is always pure. What better praise has any writer received than he whom Montaigne finds frank in giving things, not words, dryly adding, it vexes me that he is so exposed to the spoil of those that are conversant with him.
    CInt 12.117 3 ...[the scholars]...gave degrees and literary and social honors to those whom they ought to have rebuked and exposed...
    MAng1 12.224 18 ...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...

exposes, v. (5)

    Con 1.299 24 Each [Conservatism and Reform] exposes the abuses of the other...
    Nat2 3.188 23 After some time has elapsed, [the young person] begins to wish to admit his friend to this hallowed experience [of keeping a diary], and with hesitation, yet with firmness, exposes the pages to his eye.
    ET13 5.229 14 Thackeray exposes the heartless high life.
    Comc 8.159 11 ...the human form...suggests to our imagination the perfection of truth or goodness, and exposes by contrast any halfness or imperfection.
    PPr 12.385 16 Worst of all for the party attacked, [Carlyle's Past and Present] bereaves them beforehand of all sympathy, by...impressing the reader with the conviction that the satirist himself has...a genuine respect for the basis of truth in those whom he exposes.

exposing, v. (7)

    LE 1.177 7 ...the world revenges itself by exposing...the folly of these... pedantic...creatures.
    YA 1.381 22 On one side is agricultural chemistry, coolly exposing the nonsense of our spendthrift agriculture...
    ET15 5.264 16 [TheLondon Times] has done bold and seasonable service in exposing frauds which threatened the commercial community.
    DL 7.123 10 [The women of Arthur's court]...said that the devil was in the mantle, for really the truth was in the mantle, and was exposing the ugliness which each would fain conceal.
    Comc 8.159 24 ...a prophet...or a philosopher...bring...the ideal whole, exposing all actual defect;...
    Grts 8.320 17 We are...forced to express our instinct of the truth by exposing the failures of experience.
    CL 12.140 13 The importance to the intellect of exposing the body and brain to the fine mineral and imponderable agents of the air makes the chief interest in the subject.

exposition, n. (5)

    Suc 7.301 4 If we follow this hint [of correspondence] into our intellectual education, we shall find that it is...not new dogmas, and a logical exposition of the world, that are our first need;...
    Plu 10.296 23 M. Leveque has given an exposition of [Plutarch's] moral philosophy...
    LLNE 10.349 1 As we listened to [Albert Brisbane's] exposition it appeared to us the sublime of mechanical philosophy;...
    Wom 11.415 25 ...another important step [for Woman] was made by the doctrine of Swedenborg, a sublime genius who gave a scientific exposition of the part played severally by man and woman in the world...
    PLT 12.47 9 The new sect stands for certain thoughts. We go to individual members for an exposition of them.

expositor, n. (2)

    Nat 1.65 5 [The world] is...the present expositor of the divine mind.
    ET13 5.225 25 It is the condition of a religion to require religion for its expositor.

expositors, n. (1)

    Nat 1.35 10 ...we must summon the aid of subtler and more vital expositors to make [the doctrine] plain.

expostulation, n. (1)

    Lov1 2.186 7 The soul which is in the soul of each [lover], craving a perfect beatitude, detects incongruities, defects and disproportion in the behaviour of the other. Hence arise surprise, expostulation and pain.

exposure, n. (11)

    YA 1.372 20 The census of the population is found to keep an invariable equality in the sexes, with a trifling predominance in favor of the male, as if to counterbalance the necessarily increased exposure of male life in war, navigation, and other accidents.
    Hsm1 2.261 1 There is no weakness or exposure for which we cannot find consolation in the thought--this is a part of my constitution...
    Farm 7.147 22 The roots that shot deepest, and the stems of happiest exposure, drew the nourishment from the rest...
    Boks 7.199 1 ...every fresh suggestion of modern humanity, is there [in Plato]. If the student wish to see...pitiless exposure of pedants...he shall be contented also.
    Comc 8.161 18 If the essence of the Comic be the contrast in the intellect between the idea and the false performance, there is good reason why we should be affected by the exposure.
    LLNE 10.352 15 [Fourier] treats man...as a vegetable, from which, though now a poor crab, a very good peach can by manure and exposure be in time produced...
    FSLC 11.200 6 ...it is cheering to behold what champions the emergency [of the Fugitive Slave Law] called to this poor black boy;...what exposure of the mischief of the law;...
    SMC 11.366 11 The regiment [Fifty-ninth Massachusetts] being formed of veterans, and in fields requiring great activity and exposure, suffered extraordinary losses;...
    CL 12.139 18 ...in choosing a farm, we like a southern exposure...
    Bost 12.196 20 New England lies in the cold and hostile latitude, which by shutting men up in houses and tight and heated rooms a large part of the year...takes from the muscles their suppleness, from the skin its exposure to the air;...
    PPr 12.381 11 As we recall the topics [in Carlyle's Past and Present], we are struck with the force given to the plain truths;...the exposure of the progress of fraud into all parts and social activities;...

exposures, n. (1)

    Dem1 10.19 7 It would be easy in the political history of every time to furnish examples of this irregular success, men having a force which without virtue...yet makes them prevailing. ... The crimes they commit, the exposures which follow...are strangely overlooked...

expound, v. (2)

    SL 2.132 22 It is quite another thing that [a man] should be able to... expound to another the theory of his self-union and freedom.
    Dem1 10.17 7 ...[the belief in luck] is not the power...which we...found college professorships to expound.

expounded, v. (4)

    Hist 2.28 18 The priestcraft...of the Magian, Brahmin, Druid, and Inca, is expounded in the individual's private life.
    Exp 3.70 10 The miracle of life which will not be expounded but will remain a miracle, introduces a new element.
    Wth 6.125 20 The counting-room maxims liberally expounded are laws of the universe.
    War 11.161 1 [The idea that there can be peace as well as war] is expounded, illustrated, defined, with different degrees of clearness;...

expounder, n. (2)

    Tran 1.331 5 Even the materialist Condillac, perhaps the most logical expounder of materialism, was constrained to say...it is always our own thought that we perceive.
    Schr 10.275 19 Nature could not leave herself without a seer and expounder.

expounders, n. (1)

    Int 2.345 25 ...I cannot recite...laws of the intellect, without remembering... the expounders of the principles of thought from age to age.

expounding, v. (2)

    PPh 4.76 1 ...expounding the laws of the state...[Plato] is literary, and never otherwise.
    ACri 12.287 12 ...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!

ex-President, n. (1)

    OA 7.332 2 I have lately found in an old note-book a record of a visit to ex-President John Adams, in 1825...

express, adj. (1)

    YA 1.385 21 ...the national Post Office is likely to go into disuse before the private telegraph and the express companies.

Express, Mark-Lane, n. (1)

    ET5 5.94 22 The Mark-Lane Express, or the Custom House Returns, bear out to the letter the vaunt of Pope...

express, v. (101)

    Nat 1.25 14 Every word which is used to express a moral or intellectual fact...is found to be borrowed from some material appearance.
    Nat 1.25 20 We say the heart to express emotion...
    Nat 1.26 21 ...flowers express to us the delicate affections.
    Nat 1.44 19 Every universal truth which we express in words, implies or supposes every other truth.
    MN 1.198 6 What difference can it make whether [our glance at the realities around us] take the shape...of passionate exclamation, of scientific statement? These are forms merely. Through them we express...the fact that God has done thus or thus.
    LT 1.278 27 ...I desire to express the respect and joy I feel before this sublime connection of reforms now in their infancy around us...
    YA 1.371 10 It seems so easy for America to inspire and express the most expansive and humane spirit;...
    YA 1.379 19 ...the office of statute law should be to express and not to impede the mind of mankind.
    Hist 2.6 2 ...all [laws] express more or less distinctly some command of this supreme, illimitable essence [the universal nature].
    Hist 2.40 23 Broader and deeper we must write our annals...if we would trulier express our central and wide-related nature...
    SR 2.46 27 We but half express ourselves...
    OS 2.276 20 I live...with persons who...express a certain obedience to the great instincts to which I live.
    Cir 2.310 17 The parties [in conversation] are not to be judged by the spirit they partake and even express under this Pentecost.
    Cir 2.315 24 Blessed be nothing and The worse things are, the better they are are proverbs which express the transcendentalism of common life.
    Pt1 3.15 19 Is it only poets, and men of leisure and cultivation, who live with [nature]? No; but also hunters, farmers, grooms and butchers, though they express their affection in their choice of life and not in their choice of words.
    Pt1 3.21 1 ...[the poet]...following with his eyes the life, uses the forms which express that life...
    Pt1 3.24 17 [The sculptor] rose one day...before dawn, and saw the morning break...and for many days after, he strove to express this tranquillity...
    Pt1 3.27 9 The poet knows that he speaks adequately then only when he speaks...as the ancients were wont to express themselves, not with intellect alone but with the intellect inebriated by nectar.
    Pt1 3.38 27 The painter, the sculptor, the composer, the epic rhapsodist, the orator, all partake one desire, namely to express themselves symmetrically and abundantly...
    Exp 3.52 20 I thus express the law as it is read from the platform of ordinary life...
    Exp 3.56 6 A deduction must be made from the opinion which even the wise express on a new book or occurrence.
    Exp 3.82 22 The man at [Apollo's] feet asks for his interest in turmoils of the earth, into which his nature cannot enter. And the Eumenides there lying express pictorially this disparity.
    Mrs1 3.122 5 There is something equivocal in all the words in use to express the excellence of manners and social cultivation...
    Mrs1 3.122 9 The word gentleman has not any correlative abstract to express the quality.
    Mrs1 3.145 6 The forms of politeness universally express benevolence in superlative degrees.
    Nat2 3.196 4 ...the knowledge that we traverse the whole scale of being... and have some stake in every possibility, lends that sublime lustre to death, which philosophy and religion have too outwardly and literally striven to express in the popular doctrine of the immortality of the soul.
    Pol1 3.207 14 In this country we are very vain of our political institutions, which are singular in this, that they sprung, within the memory of living men, from the character and condition of the people, which they still express with sufficient fidelity...
    Pol1 3.214 11 ...whenever I find my dominion over myself not sufficient for me, and undertake the direction of [my neighbor] also, I...come into false relations to him. I may have so much more skill or strength than he that he cannot express adequately his sense of wrong, but it is a lie...
    NER 3.281 10 Let a clear, apprehensive mind...converse with the most commanding poetic genius, I think...the poet would confess that his creative imagination gave him no deep advantage, but only the superficial one that he could express himself and the other could not;...
    PPh 4.45 22 Children cry, scream and stamp with fury, unable to express their desires.
    PPh 4.46 14 ...[ardent young men and women] sigh and weep, write verses and walk alone,--fault of power to express their precise meaning.
    SwM 4.116 7 ...if we choose to express any natural truth in physical and definite vocal terms [says Swedenborg], and to convert these terms only into the corresponding and spiritual terms, we shall...elicit a spiritual truth or theological dogma...
    SwM 4.121 13 The central identity enables any one symbol to express successively all the qualities and shades of real being.
    SwM 4.126 5 [Swedenborg] delivers golden sayings which express with singular beauty the ethical laws;...
    MoS 4.181 20 The spiritualist finds himself driven to express his faith by a series of skepticisms.
    ShP 4.206 19 Betterton, Garrick, Kemble, Kean and Macready dedicate their lives to this genius [Shakespeare]; him they crown, elucidate, obey and express.
    GoW 4.281 19 If [the writer] can not rightly express himself to-day, the same things subsist and will open themselves to-morrow.
    ET8 5.136 9 Each of [the English] has an opinion which he feels it becomes him to express all the more that it differs from yours.
    ET13 5.227 7 Brougham...said, How will the reverend bishops...be able to express their due abhorrence of the crime of perjury...
    F 6.44 16 Certain ideas are in the air. We are...all impressionable, but some more than others, and these first express them.
    Pow 6.79 7 It is not question to express our thought, to elect our way, but to overcome resistances of the medium and material in everything we do.
    Bhr 6.181 27 The sculptor and Winckelmann and Lavater will tell you... how [the nose's] forms express strength or weakness of will...
    Bhr 6.185 15 In the shallow company, easily excited, easily tired, here is the columnar Bernard; the Alleghanies do not express more repose than his behavior.
    Bhr 6.185 24 ...[Blanche] can afford to express every thought by instant action.
    Bty 6.289 24 In the true mythology Love is an immortal child, and Beauty leads him as a guide: nor can we express a deeper sense than when we say, Beauty is the pilot of the young soul.
    Bty 6.305 2 ...whatsoever thing does not express to me the sea and sky...is somewhat forbidden and wrong.
    Ill 6.323 27 ...we transcend the circumstance continually and taste the real quality of existence; as in our employments, which only differ in the manifestations but express the same laws;...
    Ill 6.324 9 ...the Hindoos...express the liveliest feeling, both of the essential identity and of that illusion which they conceive variety to be.
    Art2 7.37 3 All departments of life at the present day...seem to feel, and to labor to express, the identity of their law.
    Elo1 7.82 7 If the talents for speaking exist, but not the strong personality, then there are good speakers who perfectly receive and express the will of the audience...
    Elo1 7.91 20 ...we...might well go round the world, to see...a man who, in prosecuting great designs, has an absolute command of the means of representing his ideas, and uses them only to express these;...
    DL 7.110 23 I am afraid that, so considered, our houses will not be found... to express the best thought.
    WD 7.167 7 The new study of the Sanskrit has shown us the origin of the old names of God...names of the sun...indicating that those ancient men, in their attempts to express the Supreme Power of the universe, called him the Day...
    Boks 7.199 6 [Plato] would suffice for the tuition of the race; to test their understanding, and to express their reason.
    Boks 7.218 12 ...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.
    Cour 7.269 14 The old principles which books exist to express are more beautiful than any book;...
    OA 7.317 10 If we look into the eyes of the youngest person we sometimes discover that...there is that in him which is the ancestor of all around him; which fact the Indian Vedas express when they say, He that can discriminate is the father of his father.
    PI 8.5 4 ...somewhat was murmured in our ear...that under chemistry was power and purpose: power and purpose ride on matter to the last atom. It was steeped in thought, did everywhere express thought;...
    PI 8.11 22 ...the aptness with which a river, a flower, a bird, fire, day or night, can express [man's] fortunes, is as if the world were only a disguised man...
    PI 8.14 22 This belief that the higher use of the material world is to furnish us types or pictures to express the thoughts of the mind, is carried to its logical extreme by the Hindoos...
    PI 8.17 4 Poetry is the perpetual endeavor to express the spirit of the thing...
    PI 8.18 4 ...a painter, a sculptor, a musician, can in their several ways express the same sentiment of anger, or love, or religion.
    PI 8.19 2 In the presence and conversation of a true poet, teeming with images to express his enlarging thought, his person, his form, grows larger to our fascinated eyes.
    PI 8.30 16 ...in poetry, the master rushes to deliver his thought, and the words and images fly to him to express it;...
    PI 8.38 8 A poet comes who...shows that Nature is only a language to express the laws...
    PI 8.53 13 Poetry being an attempt to express, not the common sense,--as the avoirdupois of the hero...but the beauty and soul in his aspect...runs into fable, personifies every fact...
    SA 8.86 14 In man or woman, the face and the person lose power when they are on the strain to express admiration.
    Elo2 8.110 5 ...whose mind soever is fully possessed with a fervent desire to know good things, and with the dearest charity to infuse the knowledge of them into others, when such a man would speak, his words, by what I can express...trip about him at command...
    Elo2 8.125 5 You say, If [the man in the street] could only express himself;...
    Elo2 8.126 21 ...at a great heat [men] can all express themselves with an almost equal force.
    Elo2 8.129 17 ...said [Lord Ashley], if I, who had no personal concern in the question, was so overpowered with my own apprehensions that I could not find words to express myself, what must be the case of one whose life depended on his own abilities to defend it?
    QO 8.197 8 We...could express ourselves in other people's phrases to finer purpose than they knew.
    PPo 8.250 9 ...if you mistake [Hafiz] for a low rioter, he turns short on you with verses which express the poverty of sensual joys...
    Insp 8.271 4 The poet cannot see a natural phenomenon which does not express to him a correspondent fact in his mental experience;...
    Grts 8.309 20 As [the Quakers] express [self-respect], it might be thus: I do not pretend to any commandment or large revelation...
    Grts 8.320 16 We are...forced to express our instinct of the truth by exposing the failures of experience.
    Aris 10.52 12 ...if the dressed and perfumed gentleman, who serves the people in no wise...go about to set ill examples and corrupt them, who shall blame them if they...express their unequivocal indignation and contempt?
    Chr2 10.96 26 Devout men, in the endeavor to express their convictions, have used different images to suggest this latent [moral] force;...
    Chr2 10.99 27 Some men's words I remember so well that I must often use them to express my thought.
    Chr2 10.102 20 We sometimes employ the word [character] to express the strong and consistent will of men of mixed motive...
    Edc1 10.132 3 The truth takes flesh in forms that can express it;...
    LS 11.19 7 We are not accustomed to express our thoughts or emotions by symbolical actions.
    EWI 11.117 27 I may here express a general remark, which the history of slavery seems to justify...
    FSLC 11.194 9 ...the womb conceives and the breasts give suck to thousands and millions of hairy babes formed not in the image of your statute, but in the image of the Universe;...necessitated to express first or last every feeling of the heart.
    FSLC 11.206 1 I suppose the Union can be left to take care of itself. As much real union as there is, the statutes will be sure to express;...
    Wom 11.404 5 Lo, when the Lord made North and South,/ And sun and moon ordained he,/ Forth bringing each by word of mouth/ In order of its dignity,/ Did man from the crude clay express/ By sequence, and, all else decreed,/ He formed the woman; nor might less/ Than Sabbath such a work succeed./ Coventry Patmore.
    PLT 12.42 19 Genius is a delicate sensibility to the laws of the world, adding the power to express them again in some new form.
    CInt 12.126 4 It is true that the University and the Church...do not express the sentiment of the popular politics and the popular optimism, whatever it be.
    CInt 12.128 11 Now if there be genius in the scholar, a delicate sensibility to the laws of the world, and the power to express them again in some new form, he is made to find his own way.
    CL 12.164 12 Every new perception of the method and beauty of Nature gives a new shock of surprise and pleasure;...secondly, because we have an instinct that they express a grander law.
    MAng1 12.216 12 [Michelangelo] is an eminent master in the four fine arts, Painting, Sculpture, Architecture and Poetry. In three of them by visible means, and in poetry by words, he strove to express the Idea of Beauty.
    MAng1 12.219 13 [Michelangelo] labored to express the beautiful, in the entire conviction that it was only to be attained by knowledge of the true.
    MAng1 12.230 17 ...[Michelangelo] aimed exclusively [in the Sistine Chapel ceiling frescoes], as a stern designer, to express the vigor and magnificence of his conceptions.
    MAng1 12.232 17 ...inimitable as his works are, [Michelangelo's] whole life confessed that his hand was all inadequate to express his thought.
    MAng1 12.232 26 The things proposed to [Michelangelo] in his imagination were such that, for not being able with his hands to express so grand and terrible conceptions, he often abandoned his work.
    MAng1 12.239 12 [Michelangelo] loved to express admiration of Titian...
    Milt1 12.261 4 ...[Milton]...bent [English] to express every trait of beauty, every shade of thought;...
    Milt1 12.262 9 ...[Milton] said...whose mind soever is fully possessed with a fervent desire to know good things, and with the dearest charity to infuse the knowledge of them into others, when such a man would speak, his words, by what I can express...trip about him at command...
    MLit 12.309 6 When we flout all particular books as initial merely, we truly express the privilege of spiritual nature...
    MLit 12.318 16 A wild striving to express a more inward and infinite sense characterizes the works of every art.
    Pray 12.354 26 I cannot express my gratitude for what thou hast been and continuest to be to me.

expressed, adj. (1)

    SwM 4.118 12 Why hear I the same sense from countless differing voices, and read one never quite expressed fact in endless picture-language?

expressed, v. (59)

    Nat 1.24 1 The standard of beauty is...the totality of nature; which the Italians expressed by defining beauty il piu nell' uno.
    DSA 1.135 21 From the views I have already expressed, you will infer the sad conviction...of the universal decay...of faith in society.
    Con 1.302 7 That which is best about conservatism, that which, though it cannot be expressed in detail, inspires reverence in all, is the Inevitable.
    Hist 2.14 22 We have the same national mind expressed for us again in [Greek] literature...
    SL 2.157 12 It was this conviction which Swedenborg expressed when he described a group of persons in the spiritual world endeavoring in vain to articulate a proposition which they did not believe;...
    Pt1 3.13 10 ...let us...observe how nature, by worthier impulses, has insured the poet's fidelity to his office of announcement and affirming, namely by the beauty of things, which becomes a new and higher beauty when expressed.
    Pt1 3.13 17 Things more excellent than every image, says Jamblichus, are expressed through images.
    Pt1 3.17 23 The meaner the type by which a law is expressed, the more pungent it is...
    Pt1 3.24 23 The poet also resigns himself to his mood, and that thought which agitated him is expressed...
    Pol1 3.201 19 The theory of politics...which [men] have expressed the best they could in their laws and in their revolutions, considers persons and property as the two objects for whose protection government exists.
    Pol1 3.211 18 Fisher Ames expressed the popular security more wisely...
    NER 3.282 14 ...although I have never expressed the truth, and although I have never heard the expression of it from any other, I know that the whole truth is here for me.
    PPh 4.54 6 Metaphysics and natural philosophy expressed the genius of Europe;...
    PNR 4.89 10 It was a high scheme, his absolute privilege for the best (which, to make emphatic, he expressed by community of women), as the premium which [Plato] would set on grandeur.
    SwM 4.112 23 Few knew as much about nature and her subtle manners [as Swedenborg], or expressed more subtly her goings.
    SwM 4.130 4 [Swedenborg] was painfully alive to the difference between knowing and doing, and this sensibility is incessantly expressed.
    ShP 4.204 18 Coleridge and Goethe are the only critics who have expressed our convictions [about Shakespeare] with any adequate fidelity...
    NMW 4.223 9 It is Swedenborg's theory...as it is sometimes expressed, every whole is made of similars;...
    NMW 4.228 4 Fontanes...expressed Napoleon's own sense, when...he addressed him,--Sire, the desire of perfection is the worst disease that ever afflicted the human mind.
    ET10 5.154 21 In 1809, the majority in Parliament expressed itself by the language of Mr. Fuller in the House of Commons, If you do not like the country, damn you, you can leave it.
    F 6.6 10 The Greek Tragedy expressed the same sense [of Fate].
    F 6.42 2 The tendency of every man to enact all that is in his constitution is expressed in the old belief that the efforts which we make to escape from our destiny only serve to lead us into it...
    Bhr 6.191 13 Jacobi said that when a man has fully expressed his thought, he has somewhat less possession of it.
    Wsp 6.236 11 Benedict went out to seek his friend, and met him on the way; but he expressed no surprise at any coincidences.
    Art2 7.51 26 The galleries of ancient sculpture in Naples and Rome strike no deeper conviction into the mind than the contrast of the purity, the severity expressed in these fine old heads, with the frivolity and grossness of the mob that exhibits and the mob that gazes at them.
    Elo1 7.82 27 This balance between the orator and the audience is expressed in what is called the pertinence of the speaker.
    Farm 7.153 17 ...the drawing-room heroes put down beside [the farmer] would shrivel in his presence; he solid and unexpressive, they expressed to gold-leaf.
    Boks 7.199 27 ...this book [Plutarch's Lives] has taken care of itself, and the opinion of the world is expressed in the innumerable cheap editions...
    OA 7.327 27 In old persons, when thus fully expressed, we often observe a fair, plump, perennial, waxen complexion...
    PI 8.20 1 Bacon expressed the same sense in his definition, Poetry accommodates the shows of things to the desires of the mind;...
    PI 8.32 23 Later, the thought, the happy image which expressed it and which was a true experience of the poet, recurs to mind...
    QO 8.184 16 ...a lady having expressed...a passionate wish to witness a great victory, [Wellington] replied: Madam, there is nothing so dreadful as a great victory,-excepting a great defeat.
    QO 8.190 22 The Comte de Crillon said one day to M. d'Allonville...If the universe and I professed one opinion and M. Necker expressed a contrary one, I should be at once convinced that the universe and I were mistaken.
    Grts 8.319 14 ...a very common [illusion] is the opinion you hear expressed in every village: O yes, If I lived in New York...there might be fit society;...
    Aris 10.39 16 I wish...men who...can feel and convey the sense which is only collectively or totally expressed by a population;...
    SovE 10.205 18 I do not think the summit of this age truly reached or expressed unless it attain the height which religion and philosophy reached in any former age.
    LLNE 10.368 2 [The members of Brook Farm] expressed...the conviction that plain dealing was the best defence of manners and moral between the sexes.
    Thor 10.469 2 I think [Thoreau's] fancy for referring everything to the meridian of Concord...was...a playful expression of his conviction...that the best place for each is where he stands. He expressed it once in this wise: I think nothing is to be hoped from you, if this bit of mould under your feet is not sweeter to you to eat than any other in this world, or in any world.
    HDC 11.50 13 About ten years after the planting of Concord, efforts began to be made to civilize the Indians, and to win them to the knowledge of the true God. This indeed, in so many words, is expressed in the charter of the colony as one of its ends;...
    EWI 11.121 2 ...in 1840 Sir Charles Metcalfe, the new governor of Jamaica, in his address to the Assembly expressed himself to that late exasperated body in these terms...
    EWI 11.141 10 On sight of these [African artifacts], says Clarkson, many sublime thoughts seemed to rush at once into [William Pitt's] mind, some of which he expressed;...
    War 11.156 21 ...Fontenelle expressed a volume of meaning when he said, I hate war, for it spoils conversation.
    War 11.172 19 I do not wonder at the dislike some of the friends of peace have expressed at Shakspeare.
    FSLC 11.213 14 ...the sting of the late disgraces [the Fugitive Slave Law] is that this royal position of Massachusetts was foully lost, that the well-known sentiment of her people was not expressed.
    AsSu 11.251 19 ...I wish, sir, that the high respects of this meeting shall be expressed to Mr. Sumner;...
    TPar 11.287 23 ...those came to [Theodore Parker] who found themselves expressed by him.
    SMC 11.368 10 ...at Fredericksburg...Lieutenant-Colonel Prescott loudly expressed his satisfaction at his comrades...
    PLT 12.35 21 The Instinct begins...at the surface of the earth, and works for the necessities of the human being; then ascends step by step to suggestions which are when expressed the intellectual and moral laws.
    PLT 12.37 15 We find ourselves expressed in Nature, but we cannot translate it into words.
    PLT 12.41 23 ...thought exists to be expressed.
    II 12.68 19 The Instinct begins at this low point at the surface of the earth... and then ascends, step by step, to suggestions, which are, when expressed, the intellectual and moral laws.
    CW 12.179 6 The man finds himself expressed in Nature.
    Bost 12.198 18 ...thoughts are expressed in every look or gesture...
    MAng1 12.220 21 Cardinal Farnese one day found [Michelangelo], when an old man, walking alone in the Coliseum, and expressed his surprise at finding him solitary amidst the ruins;...
    MAng1 12.239 11 [Michelangelo] often expressed his admiration of Cellini's bust of Altoviti.
    Milt1 12.268 12 The memorable covenant, which in his youth...[Milton] makes with God and his reader, expressed the faith of his old age.
    ACri 12.289 4 Burns took [the Devil] into compassion and expressed a blind wish for his reformation.
    PPr 12.385 27 [Carlyle's] humors are expressed with so much force of constitution that his fancies are more attractive and more credible than the sanity of duller men.
    Let 12.392 9 ...we have thought that we might clear our account [of correspondence] by writing a quarterly catholic letter to all and several who have...expressed a curiosity to know our opinion.

expressers, n. (1)

    Pt1 3.28 11 ...a great number of such as were professionally expressers of Beauty...have been more than others wont to lead a life of pleasure and indulgence;...

expresses, n. (1)

    ET15 5.266 22 ...[the London Times's] expresses outrun the despatches of the government.

expresses, v. (24)

    YA 1.374 2 ...that which expresses itself in our will is stronger than our will.
    SL 2.156 3 ...the intimated purpose, expresses character.
    Art1 2.351 13 [The painter] should know that the landscape has beauty for his eye because it expresses a thought which is to him good;...
    Pt1 3.26 4 This insight, which expresses itself by what is called Imagination, is a very high sort of seeing...
    Exp 3.82 15 In Flaxman's drawing of the Eumenides of Aeschylus, Orestes supplicates Apollo, whilst the Furies sleep on the threshold. The face of the god expresses a shade of regret and compassion, but is calm with the conviction of the irreconcilableness of the two spheres.
    Nat2 3.184 3 If the identity [in nature] expresses organized rest, the counter action runs also into organization.
    Pol1 3.212 16 Human nature expresses itself in [laws] as characteristically as in statues, or songs, or railroads;...
    NR 3.226 9 Each of the speakers [in a debate] expresses himself imperfectly;...
    NR 3.231 1 In any controversy concerning morals, an appeal may be made with safety to the sentiments which the language of the people expresses.
    PPh 4.56 3 Art expresses the one or the same by the different.
    PPh 4.58 8 ...the indignation towards popular government, in many of [Plato's] pieces, expresses a personal exasperation.
    PPh 4.69 27 When an artificer, [Plato] says, in the fabrication of any work, looks to that which always subsists according to the same; and, employing a model of this kind, expresses its idea and power in his work,--it must follow that his production should be beautiful.
    MoS 4.177 3 The word Fate...expresses the sense of mankind...that the laws of the world do not always befriend...us.
    NMW 4.223 4 ...Bonaparte...owes his predominance to the fidelity with which he expresses the tone of thought and belief, the aims of the masses of active and cultivated men.
    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.
    ET14 5.247 4 The brilliant Macaulay, who expresses the tone of the English governing classes of the day, explicitly teaches that good means good to eat, good to wear...
    Bhr 6.169 6 Life expresses.
    WD 7.172 5 ...nothing expresses that power which seems to work for beauty alone.
    PI 8.68 21 In proportion as a man's life comes into union with truth, his thoughts approach to a parallelism with the currents of natural laws, so that he easily expresses his meaning by natural symbols...
    Comc 8.163 15 Plutarch happily expresses the value of the jest as a legitimate weapon of the philosopher.
    QO 8.192 25 Whoever expresses to us a just thought makes ridiculous the pains of the critic who should tell him where such a word had been said before.
    Aris 10.65 21 To many the word [Gentleman] expresses only the outsides of cultivated men...
    ACri 12.289 17 The Devil in philosophy is absolute negation...in the popular mind, the Devil is a malignant person. Yet all our speech expresses the first sense.
    MLit 12.316 15 ...[the noble natural man] yields himself to your occasion and use, but his act expresses a reference to universal good.

expressing, v. (20)

    Cir 2.315 21 The poor and the low have their way of expressing the last facts of philosophy as well as you.
    Pt1 3.18 6 The poorest experience is rich enough for all the purposes of expressing thought.
    Pt1 3.18 16 ...we use defects and deformities to a sacred purpose, so expressing our sense that the evils of the world are such only to the evil eye.
    Mrs1 3.122 25 The gentleman is...lord of his own actions, and expressing that lordship in his behavior;...
    Mrs1 3.141 1 ...society demands in its patrician class another element... which it significantly terms good-nature,--expressing all degrees of generosity...
    MoS 4.154 27 The abstractionist and the materialist thus mutually exasperating each other, and the scoffer expressing the worst of materialism, there arises a third party to occupy the middle ground between these two, the skeptic, namely.
    ET9 5.148 27 There is also this benefit in brag, that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal.
    ET15 5.262 15 England is full of manly, clever, well-bred men who possess the talent of writing off-hand pungent paragraphs, expressing with clearness and courage their opinion on any person or performance.
    ET19 5.309 7 In looking over recently a newspaper-report of my remarks [at the Manchester Atheneaum Banquet], I incline to reprint it, as fitly expressing the feeling with which I entered England...
    Pow 6.65 22 The messages of the governors and the resolutions of the legislatures are a proverb for expressing a sham virtuous indignation, which, in the course of events, is sure to be belied.
    Elo1 7.74 15 There is a petty lawyer's fluency, which is sufficiently impressive...though it be...nothing more than a facility of expressing with accuracy and speed what everybody thinks and says more slowly;...
    Boks 7.218 23 After the Hebrew and Greek Scriptures...[the sacred books] are...the Chinese Classic, of four books, containing the wisdom of Confucius and Mencius. Also such other books as have acquired a semi-canonical authority in the world, as expressing the highest sentiment and hope of nations.
    Chr2 10.101 10 The Arabians delight in expressing the sympathy of the unseen world with holy men.
    Schr 10.274 26 It is the corruption of our generation that men...do not esteem life simply as a means of expressing a sentiment.
    Plu 10.320 9 I cannot close these notes without expressing my sense of the valuable service which the Editor [of Plutarch's Morals] has rendered to his Author and to his readers.
    HDC 11.46 24 ...the [Massachusetts Bay Colony's] towns learned...to exercise the right of expressing an opinion on every question before the country.
    War 11.175 19 ...the mind, once prepared for the reign of principles, will easily find modes of expressing its will.
    MLit 12.320 19 More than any poet [Wordsworth's] success has been...that of the idea which he shared with his coevals, and which he has rarely succeeded in adequately expressing.
    PPr 12.385 21 ...we may easily fail in expressing the general objection [to Carlyle's Past and Present] which we feel.
    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.

expression, n. (168)

    Nat 1.18 20 The state of the crop in the surrounding farms alters the expression of the earth from week to week.
    Nat 1.23 18 [A work of art] is the result or expression of nature, in miniature.
    Nat 1.23 21 ...the result or the expression of them all [the works of nature] is similar and single.
    Nat 1.24 18 Beauty...is one expression for the universe.
    Nat 1.24 25 [Beauty in nature] must stand...not as yet the last or highest expression of the final cause of Nature.
    Nat 1.26 23 Light and darkness are our familiar expression for knowledge and ignorance;...
    Nat 1.32 8 We are thus assisted by natural objects in the expression of particular meanings.
    Nat 1.50 1 When the eye of Reason opens, to outline and surface are at once added grace and expression.
    Nat 1.52 15 Shakspeare possesses the power of subordinating nature for the purposes of expression...
    DSA 1.126 15 This [moral] thought dwelled always deepest in the minds of men in the devout and contemplative East; not alone in Palestine, where it reached its purest expression...
    DSA 1.136 13 Preaching is the expression of the moral sentiment in application to the duties of life.
    DSA 1.139 17 ...each [poetic truth] is some select expression that broke out in a moment of piety from some stricken or jubilant soul...
    MN 1.205 11 ...let [the ocean] wash a shore where wise men dwell, and it is filled with expression;...
    Tran 1.337 21 ...if there is...any presentiment, any extravagance of faith, the spiritualist adopts it as most in nature. The oriental mind has always tended to this largeness. Buddhism is an expression of it.
    Tran 1.343 20 ...to behold in another the expression of a love so high that it assures itself,-assures itself also to me against every possible casualty except my unworthiness;-these are degrees on the scale of human happiness to which [Transcendentalists] have ascended;...
    YA 1.388 8 I find no expression in our state papers or legislative debate...of a high national feeling...
    Hist 2.15 2 ...we have [the Greek national mind expressed] once again in sculpture, the tongue on the balance of expression...
    Hist 2.34 12 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 2.55 17 We...acquire by degrees the gentlest asinine expression.
    SR 2.65 7 [Man] may err in the expression of [his involuntary perceptions]...
    SR 2.81 7 ...when [the wise man's]...duties...call him...into foreign lands, he...shall make men sensible by the expression of his countenance that he goes, the missionary of wisdom and virtue...
    SR 2.82 24 Beauty, convenience, grandeur of thought and quaint expression are as near to us as to any...
    Comp 2.108 26 Still more striking is the expression of this fact [of Compensation] in the proverbs of all nations...
    SL 2.142 3 Somewhere, not only every orator but every man...should find or make a frank and hearty expression of what force and meaning is in him.
    SL 2.156 22 No man need be deceived who will study the changes of expression.
    SL 2.159 11 [A man's] vice...cuts lines of mean expression in his cheek...
    Fdsp 2.192 2 The scholar sits down to write, and all his years of meditation do not furnish him with one...happy expression;...
    Cir 2.306 21 I see no reason why I should not have...the same power of expression, to-morrow.
    Int 2.336 17 ...the power of picture or expression...implies...a certain control over the spontaneous states...
    Art1 2.351 17 ...[the painter] will come to value the expression of nature and not nature itself...
    Art1 2.352 23 As far as the spiritual character of the period overpowers the artist and finds expression in his work, so far it will retain a certain grandeur...
    Art1 2.356 26 ...painting teaches me...the expression of form...
    Art1 2.358 2 ...with each moment [the artist] alters the whole air, attitude and expression of his clay.
    Art1 2.358 26 The best of beauty is...a wonderful expression through stone, or canvas, or musical sound, of the deepest and simplest attributes of our nature...
    Pt1 3.5 15 ...all men...stand in need of expression.
    Pt1 3.5 18 The man is only half himself, the other half is his expression.
    Pt1 3.5 20 ...adequate expression is rare.
    Pt1 3.7 19 ...some men, namely poets, are natural sayers, sent into the world to the end of expression...
    Pt1 3.13 21 Every line we can draw in the sand has expression;...
    Pt1 3.22 13 This expression or naming is not art, but a second nature...
    Pt1 3.24 24 The expression [of the poet's thoughts] is organic...
    Exp 3.66 6 [Scholars] are nature's victims of expression.
    Chr1 3.90 27 Man...in these examples [of men of character] appears...to be an expression of the same laws which control the tides and the sun...
    Mrs1 3.136 1 ...Napoleon...was wont, when he found himself observed, to discharge his face of all expression.
    Pol1 3.200 14 ...the form of government which prevails is the expression of what cultivation exists in the population which permits it.
    Pol1 3.218 10 ...we are constrained to reflect on our splendid moment with a certain humiliation...and not as...a fair expression of our permanent energy.
    NER 3.270 3 [A canine appetite for knowledge] gave the scholar certain powers of expression...
    NER 3.281 15 ...[lovers of truth] know...what a price of greatness the power of expression too often pays.
    NER 3.282 15 ...although I have never expressed the truth, and although I have never heard the expression of it from any other, I know that the whole truth is here for me.
    UGM 4.7 20 ...each legitimate idea makes its own channels and welcome... institutions for expression...
    UGM 4.15 19 This pleasure of full expression to that which, [in the people' s] private experience, is usually cramped and obstructed, runs...much higher...
    UGM 4.16 1 ...these unchoked channels and floodgates of expression [in Shakspeare] are only health or fortunate constitution.
    PPh 4.43 8 Plato...(though I doubt he wanted the decisive gift of lyric expression), mainly is not a poet because he chose to use the poetic gift to an ulterior purpose.
    PPh 4.49 10 The raptures of prayer and ecstasy of devotion lose all being in one Being. This tendency finds its highest expression in the religious writings of the East...
    PPh 4.75 27 [Plato] is intellectual in his aim; and therefore, in expression, literary.
    PPh 4.77 5 Plato would willingly have a Platonism, a known and accurate expression for the world...
    PNR 4.88 3 ...a very well-marked class of souls, namely those who delight in giving a spiritual, that is, an ethico-intellectual expression to every truth... are said to Platonize.
    SwM 4.135 10 The genius of Swedenborg...wasted itself in the endeavor to reanimate and conserve what...in the great secular Providence, was retiring from its prominence, before Western modes of thought and expression.
    SwM 4.143 21 It is remarkable that this man [Swedenborg]...remained entirely devoid of the whole apparatus of poetic expression...
    MoS 4.168 22 It is Cambridge men who correct themselves and begin again at every half sentence,...and swerve from the matter to the expression.
    MoS 4.170 5 Shall we say that Montaigne has...given the right and permanent expression of the human mind, on the conduct of life?
    ShP 4.213 11 This power of expression...makes [Shakespeare] the type of the poet...
    NMW 4.227 16 ...[a man of Napoleon's stamp] adopts the best measures... and not these alone, but on every happy and memorable expression.
    GoW 4.264 7 This striving after imitative expression...is significant of the aim of nature...
    GoW 4.265 9 Society has, at all times, the same want, namely of one sane man with adequate powers of expression to hold up each object of monomania in its right relations.
    GoW 4.285 22 [Goethe's] autobiography...is the expression of the idea... that a man exists for culture;...
    ET4 5.66 10 The bronze monuments of crusaders lying cross-legged in the Temple Church at London...please by...an expression blending good-nature, valor and refinement...which is daily seen in the streets of London.
    ET6 5.113 3 [The English] hate nonsense, sentimentalism and highflown expression;...
    ET14 5.232 10 ...[the English] delight in strong earthy expression...
    ET14 5.236 20 The more hearty and sturdy [English] expression may indicate that the savageness of the Norseman was not all gone.
    ET15 5.271 5 Punch is equally an expression of English good sense, as the London Times.
    F 6.10 6 We sometimes see a change of expression in our companion...
    Bhr 6.172 22 We prize [manners] for their rough-plastic, abstergent force;... to slough [people's] animal husks and habits;...teach them to stifle the base and choose the generous expression...
    Bhr 6.177 7 The whole economy of nature is bent on expression.
    Bhr 6.181 23 A man finds room in the few square inches of the face...for the expression of all his history and his wants.
    Bhr 6.189 1 A man who is sure of his point, carries a broad and contented expression...
    Bhr 6.189 5 ...you cannot rightly train one to an air and manner, except by making him the kind of man of whom that manner is the natural expression.
    Bhr 6.189 18 Not only is [your companion] larger, when at ease and his thoughts generous, but everything around him becomes variable with expression.
    Bhr 6.191 1 In this country...we have...a profusion of reading and writing and expression.
    Bty 6.292 9 The pleasure a palace or a temple gives the eye is, that an order and method has been communicated to stones, so that they...become tender or sublime with expression.
    Bty 6.298 8 ...we fear to fatigue [women], and acquire a facility of expression which passes from conversation into habit of style.
    Bty 6.299 22 Beauty, without expression, tires.
    Bty 6.301 14 This is the triumph of expression, degrading beauty...
    Bty 6.301 19 There are faces so fluid with expression...that we can hardly find what the mere features really are.
    Elo1 7.81 21 Personal ascendency may exist with or without adequate talent for its expression.
    Elo1 7.92 27 The possession the subject has of [the eloquent man's] mind is so entire that it insures an order of expression which is the order of Nature itself...
    Cour 7.265 24 Our affections and wishes for the external welfare of the hero tumultuously rush to expression in tears and outcries...
    OA 7.326 21 A third felicity of age is that it has found expression.
    PI 8.13 9 Vivacity of expression may indicate this high gift...
    PI 8.27 2 ...poetry is...the expression of a sound mind speaking after the ideal...
    PI 8.29 23 ...[Herbert, Swedenborg, Wordsworth] know that this correspondence of things to thoughts is far deeper than they can penetrate,-- defying adequate expression;...
    PI 8.30 10 The right poetic mood...shows a sharper insight: and the perception creates the strong expression of it...
    PI 8.30 19 ...colder moods...insinuate, or, as it were, muffle the fact to suit the poverty or caprice of their expression...
    PI 8.43 4 All the parts and forms of Nature are the expression or production of divine faculties...
    PI 8.54 21 Ever as the thought mounts, the expression mounts.
    PI 8.56 8 As the imagination is not a talent of some men but is the health of every man, so also is this joy of musical expression.
    SA 8.105 11 Now society in towns is infested by persons who, seeing that the sentiments please, counterfeit the expression of them.
    Elo2 8.117 18 As soon as a man shows rare power of expression...all the great interests...crowd to him to be their spokesman...
    Comc 8.170 22 In fine pictures the head sheds on the limbs the expression of the face.
    Comc 8.171 6 ...among the women in the street, you shall see one...wearing withal an expression of meek submission to her bonnet and dress;...
    Comc 8.171 8 ...among the women in the street, you shall see one...wearing withal an expression of meek submission to her bonnet and dress; and another whose dress obeys and heightens the expression of her form.
    QO 8.202 1 Genius is...the capacity of receiving just impressions from the external world, and the power of coordinating these after the laws of thought. It implies Will, or original force, for their right distribution and expression.
    PC 8.226 26 There is anything but humiliation in the homage men pay to a great man; it is...the expression of their hope of what they shall become...
    PPo 8.247 20 ...quick perception and corresponding expression...this generosity of ebb and flow satisfies...
    Insp 8.281 19 When we...have come to believe that an image or a happy turn of expression is no longer at our command, in writing a letter to a friend we may find that we rise...to a cordial power of expression that costs no effort...
    Insp 8.281 22 ...in writing a letter to a friend we may find that we rise to a thought and to a cordial power of expression that costs no effort...
    Imtl 8.330 21 ...I have in mind the expression of an older believer, who once said to me, The thought that this frail being is never to end is so overwhelming that my only shelter is God's presence.
    Aris 10.36 2 ...inequalities exist...in the powers of expression and action;...
    Aris 10.62 24 ...the genius of the House of Commons, its legitimate expression, is a sneer.
    Chr2 10.103 23 The [moral] sentiment...is the judge and measure of every expression of it...
    Supl 10.166 4 ...a face magnified in a concave mirror loses its expression.
    Supl 10.168 21 [The old head thinks] I will be as moderate as the fact, and will use the same expression, without color, which I received;...
    Supl 10.169 14 The low expression is strong and agreeable.
    Supl 10.173 3 The superlative is the excess of expression.
    Supl 10.173 6 ...fit expression is so rare that mankind have a superstitious value for it...
    Supl 10.173 10 ...it would seem the whole human race agree to value a man precisely in proportion to his power of expression;...
    Supl 10.176 11 ...the expression of character...is, in great degree, a matter of climate.
    Schr 10.270 11 ...all the human race have agreed to value a man according to his power of expression.
    Plu 10.304 3 Many examples might be cited [in Plutarch] of nervous expression and happy allusion...
    LLNE 10.332 7 [Everett's learning] was so coldly and weightily communicated...adorned with so many simple and austere beauties of expression ...that...this learning instantly took the highest place to our imagination...
    CSC 10.373 21 This [Chardon Street] Convention never...pretended to arrive at any result by the expression of its sense in formal resolutions;...
    Thor 10.468 26 I think [Thoreau's] fancy for referring everything to the meridian of Concord...was...a playful expression of his conviction of the indifferency of all places...
    Thor 10.476 20 [Thoreau's] riddles were worth the reading, and I confide that if at any time I do not understand the expression, it is yet just.
    LS 11.5 12 In St. Matthew's Gospel...are recorded the words of Jesus in giving bread and wine on that occasion [the Last Supper] to his disciples, but no expression occurs intimating that this feast was hereafter to be commemorated.
    LS 11.6 11 I doubt not, the expression [This do in remembrance of me.] was used by Jesus.
    LS 11.6 24 ...we must suppose that the expression, This do in remembrance of me, had come to the ear of Luke from some disciple who was present.
    LS 11.7 1 ...we must suppose that the expression, This do in remembrance of me, had come to the ear of Luke from some disciple who was present. What did it really signify? It is a prophetic and affectionate expression.
    LS 11.7 21 ...I cannot bring myself to believe that in the use of such an expression [This do in remembrance of me] [Jesus] looked beyond the living generation...
    LS 11.10 13 [Jesus] permitted himself to be anointed, declaring that it was for his interment. He washed the feet of his disciples. These are admitted to be symbolical actions and expressions. Here [at the Last Supper], in like manner, he calls the bread his body, and bids the disciples eat. He had used the same expression repeatedly before.
    LS 11.14 13 I have received of the Lord, [St. Paul] says, that which I delivered to you. By this expression it is often thought that a miraculous communication is implied;...
    LS 11.14 22 ...the import of [St. Paul's] expression is that he had received the story [of the Last Supper] of an eye-witness such as we also possess.
    LS 11.17 20 ...the service [the Lord's Supper] does not stand upon the basis of a voluntary act, but is imposed by authority. It is an expression of gratitude to Christ, enjoined by Christ.
    HDC 11.67 13 ...Mr. [Daniel] Bliss replied...I...used the word Mediator in some differing light from that you have given it; but I confess I was soon uneasy that I had used the word, lest some would put a wrong meaning thereupon. The Council admonished Mr. Bliss of some improprieties of expression...
    LVB 11.94 22 On the broaching of this question [of the moral character of government], a general expression of despondency, of disbelief that any good will accrue from a remonstrance on an act of fraud and robbery, appeared in those men to whom we naturally turn for aid and counsel.
    FSLC 11.180 7 Every hour brings us from distant quarters of the Union the expression of mortification at the late events in Massachusetts...
    FSLC 11.203 8 [Webster] indulged occasionally in excellent expression of the known feeling of the New England people [on slavery]...
    JBB 11.268 20 [John Brown] believes in two articles,-two instruments, shall I say?-the Golden Rule and the Declaration of Independence; and he used this expression in conversation here concerning them, Better that a whole generation of men, women and children should pass away by a violent death than that one word of either should be violated in this country.
    Koss 11.398 21 [The sympathy of Americans] is, in every expression, antagonized.
    Wom 11.406 11 Men remark figure: women always catch the expression.
    Wom 11.411 16 There is...no style adopted into the etiquette of courts, but was first the whim and the mere action of some brilliant woman, who charmed beholders by this new expression...
    Shak1 11.448 7 Wherever there are men, and in the degree in which they are civil-have...sensibility to beauty, music, the secrets of passion, and the liquid expression of thought, [Shakespeare] has risen to his place as the first poet of the world.
    FRO1 11.480 7 ...it is only on the basis of active duty, that worship finds expression.
    FRO2 11.485 2 Friends: I wish I could deserve anything of the kind expression of my friend, the President [of the Free Religious Association], and the kind good will which the audience signifies...
    FRep 11.509 3 There is a mystery in the soul of state/ Which hath an operation more divine/ Than breath or pen can give expression to./
    PLT 12.5 15 I believe in the existence of the material world as the expression of the spiritual or the real...
    PLT 12.41 19 It is [a perception's] nature to rush to expression...
    PLT 12.43 22 [Genius] is insatiable for expression.
    PLT 12.47 14 One meets contemplative men who dwell in a certain feeling and delight which are intellectual but wholly above their expression.
    CInt 12.118 26 ...I note that the British people are emigrating hither by thousands, which is a very sincere, and apt to be a very seriously considered expression of opinion.
    CL 12.153 6 The freedom [of the sea] makes the observer feel as a slave. Our expression is so thin and cramped!
    MAng1 12.221 27 There needs no better proof of our instinctive feeling of the immense expression of which the human figure is capable than the uniform tendency which the religion of every country has betrayed towards Anthropomorphism...
    MAng1 12.222 13 Our knowledge of [the human form's] highest expression we owe to the Fine Arts.
    Milt1 12.251 11 The weight of the thought [in Milton's Areopagitica] is equalled by the vivacity of the expression...
    Milt1 12.275 14 The Samson Agonistes is too broad an expression of [Milton's] private griefs to be mistaken...
    ACri 12.287 18 ...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...
    ACri 12.294 26 We cannot find that anything in [Shakespeare's] age was more worth expression than anything in ours;...
    ACri 12.304 27 A clear or natural expression by word or deed is that which we mean when we love and praise the antique.
    MLit 12.317 3 Of the perception now fast becoming a conscious fact,-that there is One Mind, and that all the powers and privileges which lie in any, lie in all;...literature is far the best expression.
    MLit 12.319 25 [Shelley]...shares with Richter, Chateaubriand, Manzoni and Wordsworth the feeling of the Infinite, which so labors for expression in their different genius.
    MLit 12.327 3 It is all design with [Goethe], just thought and instructed expression...
    MLit 12.334 5 Verily [the Doctrine of the Life of Man] will not long want articulate and melodious expression.
    WSL 12.348 10 There is no inadequacy or disagreeable contraction in [the dense writer's] sentence, any more than in a human face, where in a square space of a few inches is found room for every possible variety of expression.
    Pray 12.351 3 Many men have contributed a single expression, a single word to the language of devotion...
    Pray 12.352 2 ...what led us to these remembrances [of prayers] was the happy accident which in this undevout age lately brought us acquainted with two or three diaries, which attest...the eternity of the sentiment and its equality to itself through all the variety of expression.
    EurB 12.374 26 ...Mr. Bulwer's recent stories have given us who do not read novels occasion to think of this department of literature, supposed to be the natural fruit and expression of the age.
    PPr 12.379 20 ...the topic of English politics becomes the best vehicle for the expression of [Carlyle's] recent thinking...
    Trag 12.412 7 The Egyptian sphinxes...have countenances expressive of complacency and repose, an expression of health...
    Trag 12.413 11 A man should try Time, and his face should wear the expression of a just judge...

expressions, n. (32)

    DSA 1.126 6 ...all the expressions of this [moral] sentiment are sacred...
    DSA 1.126 8 The expressions of this [moral] sentiment affect us more than all other compositions.
    DSA 1.130 25 ...[Jesus's] name is surrounded with expressions which were once sallies of admiration and love...
    MN 1.194 14 We ought to celebrate this hour by expressions of manly joy.
    MN 1.218 15 All your learning of all literatures would never enable you to anticipate one of its thoughts or expressions...
    Cir 2.308 11 Each new step we take in thought reconciles twenty seemingly discordant facts, as expressions of one law.
    Mrs1 3.126 20 The manners of this class [of doers] are observed and caught with devotion by men of taste. The association of these masters with each other and with men intelligent of their merits, is mutually agreeable and stimulating. The good forms, the happiest expressions of each, are repeated and adopted.
    SwM 4.103 14 Our books are false by being fragmentary: their sentences are...childish expressions of surprise or pleasure in nature;...
    ET6 5.104 12 The Englishman is very petulant and precise about his accommodation at inns and on the roads;...and loud and pungent in his expressions of impatience at any neglect.
    Ctr 6.151 9 How the imagination is piqued by anecdotes...of Goethe, who preferred trifling subjects and common expressions in intercourse with strangers...
    Bhr 6.182 12 ...[Balzac] says, The look, the voice, the respiration, and the attitude or walk, are identical. But, as it has not been given to man the power to stand guard at once over these four different simultaneous expressions of his thought, watch that one which speaks out the truth, and you will know the whole man.
    Bty 6.306 23 Wherever we begin, thither our steps tend: an ascent from the joy of a horse in his trappings...up to the perception of Plato that globe and universe are rude and early expressions of an all-dissolving Unity,--the first stair on the scale to the temple of the Mind.
    Elo1 7.86 4 ...the court and the county have really come together to arrive at these three or four memorable expressions which betrayed the mind and meaning of somebody.
    Elo1 7.89 17 [The orator's] expressions fix themselves in men's memories...
    DL 7.126 12 One is struck in every company...with the riches of Nature, when he...reads new expressions of face.
    Boks 7.219 4 All these [sacred] books are the majestic expressions of the universal conscience...
    Suc 7.302 23 The wise Socrates treats this matter [of sensibility] with a certain archness, yet with very marked expressions.
    PI 8.12 10 Nothing so marks a man as imaginative expressions.
    PI 8.50 18 ...every good reader will easily recall expressions or passages in works of pure science which have given him the same pleasure which he seeks in professed poets.
    SA 8.87 3 Sometimes, when in almost all expressions the Choctaw and the slave have been worked out of [a man], a coarse nature still betrays itself in his contemptible squeals of joy.
    SA 8.105 21 The warmer [the sentimentalists'] expressions, the colder we feel;...
    MMEm 10.403 21 ...certain expressions, when they marked a memorable state of mind in [Mary Moody Emerson's] experience, recurred to her afterwards...
    LS 11.9 21 ...still it may be asked, Why did Jesus make expressions so extraordinary and emphatic as these-This is my body which is broken for you. Take; eat.
    LS 11.9 25 ...still it may be asked, Why did Jesus make expressions so extraordinary and emphatic as these-This is my body which is broken for you. Take; eat. This is my blood which is shed for you. Drink it?-I reply they are not extraordinary expressions from him.
    LS 11.10 10 [Jesus] permitted himself to be anointed, declaring that it was for his interment. He washed the feet of his disciples. These are admitted to be symbolical actions and expressions.
    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.
    LS 11.12 26 ...[the disciples] were bound together by the memory of Christ, and nothing could be more natural than...that they, Jews like Jesus, should adopt his expressions and his types...
    LS 11.22 4 ...although for the satisfaction of others I have labored to show by the history that this rite [the Lord's Supper] was not intended to be perpetual; although I have gone back to weigh the expressions of Paul, I feel that here is the true point of view.
    EdAd 11.387 20 ...though it may not be easy to define [America's] influence, the men feel already its emancipating quality...even in the reckless and sinister politics, not less than in purer expressions.
    ACri 12.300 4 Idealism regards the world as symbolic, and all these symbols or forms as fugitive and convertible expressions.
    WSL 12.343 27 [Landor's] love of beauty...betrays itself in all petulant and contemptuous expressions.
    Pray 12.355 28 Let these few scattered leaves...stand as an example of innumerable similar expressions [prayers] which no mortal witness has reported...

expressive, adj. (4)

    F 6.43 19 To a subtle force [the wall] will stream into new forms, expressive of the character of the mind.
    Supl 10.173 11 ...to the most expressive man that has existed, namely, Shakspeare, [mankind] have awarded the highest place.
    MAng1 12.221 10 Most of [Michelangelo's] designs, his contemporaries inform us, were made...in the style of an engraving on copper or wood; a manner more expressive but not admitting of correction.
    Trag 12.412 6 The Egyptian sphinxes...have countenances expressive of complacency and repose...

expressiveness, n. (3)

    Bhr 6.177 1 A main fact in the history of manners is the wonderful expressiveness of the human body.
    DL 7.127 9 The first glance we meet may satisfy us...that no laws of line or surface can ever account for the inexhaustible expressiveness of form.
    Suc 7.301 1 The mind yields sympathetically to the tendencies or law which...make the order of Nature; and in the perfection of this correspondence or expressiveness, the health and force of man consist.

expressly, adv. (2)

    GoW 4.280 13 The wonderful in [Goethe's Wilhelm Meister] is expressly treated as fiction and enthusiastic dreaming...
    EdAd 11.393 12 The name [Massachusetts Quarterly Review] might convey the impression...that nothing is to be found here which was not written expressly for the Review;...

expressor, n. (1)

    ACri 12.295 2 We cannot...give any account of [Shakespeare's] existence, but only the fact that there was a wonderful symbolizer and expressor...

expressors, n. (3)

    Supl 10.173 14 The expressors are the gods of the world...
    Supl 10.173 15 The expressors are the gods of the world, but the men whom these expressors revere are the solid, balanced, undemonstrative citizens...
    Schr 10.263 2 I think the peculiar office of scholars...is to be...expressors themselves of that firm and cheerful temper...which reigns through the kingdoms of chemistry, vegetation and animal life.

express-rider, n. (1)

    Suc 7.311 27 This tranquil, well-founded, wide-seeing soul is no express-rider...

expulsion, n. (1)

    HDC 11.61 27 It is the misfortune of Concord to have permitted a disgraceful outrage upon the friendly Indians settled within its limits, in February, 1676, which ended in their forcible expulsion from the town.

expunged, adj. (1)

    Comp 2.120 7 ...every suppressed or expunged word reverberates through the earth from side to side.

exquisite, adj. (15)

    PPh 4.71 4 Socrates, a man...of a personal homeliness so remarkable as to be a cause of wit in others:--the rather that his broad good nature and exquisite taste for a joke invited the sally...
    ET8 5.136 25 [The English] have great range of scale, from ferocity to exquisite refinement.
    ET14 5.238 25 One hint of Franklin, or Watt, or Dalton, or Davy...was worth all [Bacon's] lifetime of exquisite trifles.
    Wth 6.116 16 An engraver, whose hands must be of an exquisite delicacy of stroke, should not lay stone walls.
    WD 7.157 24 ...there is no sense or organ which is not capable of exquisite performance.
    SA 8.81 15 Balzac finely said: Kings themselves cannot force the exquisite politeness of distance to capitulate...
    Supl 10.163 23 [Those with the superlative temperament] use the superlative of grammar: most perfect, most exquisite, most horrible.
    Supl 10.164 25 'T is very wearisome, this straining talk, these experiences all exquisite, intense and tremendous...
    Wom 11.412 8 There is no gift of Nature without some drawback. So, to women, this exquisite structure could not exist without its own penalty.
    FRep 11.512 14 The wine-merchant has his analyst and taster, the more exquisite the better.
    II 12.68 10 ...if you go to a gallery of pictures, or other works of fine art, the eye is dazzled and embarrassed by many excellences. The marble imposes on us; the exquisite details, we cannot tell if they be good or not;...
    CL 12.140 16 So exquisite is the structure of the cortical glands, said the old physiologist Malpighi, that when the atmosphere is ever so slightly vitiated or altered, the brain is the first part to sympathize...
    ACri 12.287 2 Into the exquisite refinement of his Academy, [Plato] introduces the low-born Socrates, relieving the purple diction by his perverse talk...
    ACri 12.288 17 ...some men swear with genius. I knew a poet in whose talent Nature carried this freak so far that his only graceful verses were pretty blasphemies. The better the worse, you will say; and I own it reminds one of Vathek's collection of monstrous men with...horns of exquisite polish.
    EurB 12.370 21 A critical friend of ours affirms that the vice which bereaved modern painters of their power is the ambition...to equal the masters in their exquisite finish, instead of their religious purpose.

exquisitely, adv. (4)

    SS 7.10 17 Now and then a man exquisitely made can live alone, and must;...
    Elo1 7.95 2 The power of Chatham, of Pericles, of Luther, rested on this strength of character, which...became sometimes exquisitely provoking and sometimes terrific to [their antagonists].
    PI 8.70 26 The poet is rare because he must be exquisitely vital and sympathetic, and, at the same time, immovably centred.
    PPo 8.239 13 The Persians and the Arabs...are exquisitely sensible to the pleasures of poetry.

extant, adj. (5)

    DSA 1.139 23 The prayers and even the dogmas of our church are...wholly insulated from anything now extant in the life and business of the people.
    LT 1.259 8 ...there is a great reason for the existence of every extant fact;...
    Art1 2.353 25 ...the whole extant product of the plastic arts has herein its highest value, as history;...
    ET14 5.232 14 This homeliness, veracity and plain style appear in the earliest extant [English literary] works and in the latest.
    Boks 7.193 11 ...the number of printed books extant to-day may easily exceed a million.

extemporaneous, adj. (3)

    SR 2.83 10 ...of the adopted talent of another you have only an extemporaneous half possession.
    Mrs1 3.124 13 The courage which girls exhibit is like...a sea-fight. The intellect relies on memory to make some supplies to face these extemporaneous squadrons.
    ShP 4.191 23 ...extemporaneous enclosures at country fairs were the ready theatres of strolling players.

extemporary, adj. (1)

    QO 8.196 11 ...Cardinal de Retz...described himself in an extemporary Latin sentence...

extempore, adj. (4)

    LE 1.166 5 Observe the phenomenon of extempore debate.
    Art1 2.365 14 All works of art should not be detached, but extempore performances.
    PNR 4.87 25 [Plato] kindled a fire so truly in the centre that we see the sphere illuminated...a theory so averaged, so modulated, that you would say the winds of ages had swept through this rhythmic structure, and not that it was the brief extempore blotting of one short-lived scribe.
    SS 7.14 25 Put Stubbs and Coleridge, Quintilian and Aunt Miriam, into pairs, and you make them all wretched. 'T is an extempore Sing-Sing built in a parlor.

extempore, adv. (2)

    Con 1.318 1 ...[man] takes along with him and puts out from himself the whole apparatus of society and condition extempore...
    LLNE 10.356 23 [Thoreau] lived extempore from hour to hour...

extemporized, v. (1)

    FRO1 11.478 26 ...the statistics of the American, the English and the German cities, showing that the mass of the population is leaving off going to church, indicate the necessity...that the Church should always be new and extemporized...

extemporizing, v. (1)

    FSLC 11.204 14 ...[Webster] has no faith in the power of self-government; none whatever in extemporizing a government.

extend, v. (11)

    Nat 1.28 25 ...the moment a ray of relation is seen to extend from [the ant] to man...then all its habits...become sublime.
    Hist 2.18 23 ...my companion pointed out to me a broad cloud, which might extend a quarter of a mile parallel to the horizon...
    Comp 2.113 6 [The borrower] may soon come to see...that the highest price he can pay for a thing is to ask for it. A wise man will extend this lesson to all parts of life...
    Pol1 3.209 2 A party is perpetually corrupted by personality. Whilst we absolve the association from dishonesty, we cannot extend the same charity to their leaders.
    UGM 4.13 2 We must extend the area of life and multiply our relations.
    Dem1 10.18 20 ...a monstrous force goes out from [demonic individuals], and they exert an incredible power over all creatures, and even over the elements; who shall say how far such an influence may extend?
    Aris 10.51 13 We do not expect [public representatives] to be saints, and it is very pleasing to see the instinct of mankind on this matter,-how much they will forgive to such as pay substantial service and work energetically after their kind; but they do not extend the same indulgence to those who claim and enjoy the same prerogative but render no returns.
    Schr 10.283 1 I wish...to see men's sense of duty extend to the cherishing and use of their intellectual powers...
    EWI 11.138 22 Up to this day...we bow low to [statesmen] as to the great. We cannot extend this deference to them any longer.
    FRep 11.532 6 See how fast [our people] extend the fleeting fabric of their trade...
    PLT 12.25 18 The commonest remark, if the man could only extend it a little, would make him a genius;...

extended, adj. (4)

    Wth 6.125 15 ...there is no maxim of the merchant which does not admit of an extended sense...
    PC 8.223 21 All things admit of this extended sense...
    SovE 10.209 27 Here is contribution of money on a more extended and systematic scale than ever before to repair public disasters at a distance...
    War 11.153 7 New territory, augmented numbers and extended interests call out new virtues...

extended, v. (21)

    Nat 1.74 12 There are innocent men who worship God after the tradition of their fathers, but their sense of duty has not yet extended to the use of all their faculties.
    AmS 1.95 18 So much only of life as I know by experience...so far have I extended my being...
    Con 1.308 17 I find this vast network, which you call property, extended over the whole planet.
    PPh 4.72 8 ...[Socrates] showed one who was afraid to go on foot to Olympia, that it was no more than his daily walk within doors, if continuously extended, would easily reach.
    ET2 5.25 8 The occasion of my second visit to England was an invitation from some Mechanics' Institutes in Lancashire and Yorkshire, which...in 1847 had been linked into a Union, which embraced twenty or thirty towns and cities, and presently extended into the middle counties and northward into Scotland.
    ET5 5.92 2 The nation [England] sits in the immense city they have builded, a London extended into every man's mind...
    ET7 5.120 11 ...[Wellington] drudged for years on his military works at Lisbon, and from this base at last extended his gigantic lines to Waterloo...
    ET11 5.195 5 Elizabeth extended her thought to the future;...
    Ctr 6.141 6 Our arts and tools give to him who can handle them much the same advantage over the novice as if you extended his life...
    Wsp 6.204 25 There is always some religion, some hope and fear extended into the invisible...
    Res 8.151 6 [Taste] should be extended to gardens and grounds...
    PPo 8.242 9 Firdusi...has written in the Shah Nameh the annals...of Afrasiyab...whose shadow extended for miles...
    Dem1 10.9 17 ...[dreams] have a substantial truth. The same remark may be extended to the omens and coincidences which may have astonished us.
    Dem1 10.17 22 I believed that I discovered in nature...somewhat which manifested itself only in contradiction, and therefore could not be grasped by a conception, much less by a word. ... It seemed to deal at pleasure with the necessary elements of our constitution; it shortened time and extended space.
    LLNE 10.338 16 [Goethe] extended [his theory of metamorphosis] into anatomy and animal life...
    LLNE 10.338 21 Schelling and Oken introduced their ideal natural philosophy, Hegel his metaphysics, and extended it to Civil History.
    LS 11.13 2 ...[the disciples] were bound together by the memory of Christ, and nothing could be more natural than...that what was done with peculiar propriety by them, his personal friends, with less propriety should come to be extended to their companions also.
    LS 11.15 12 Elsewhere [St. Paul] tells [the primitive Church] that at that time [the second coming of Christ], the world would be burnt up with fire... so slow were the disciples...to receive the idea which we receive, that his second coming was...the dominion of his religion in the hearts of men, to be extended gradually over the whole world.
    LS 11.24 6 My brethren...have recommended, unanimously, an adherence to the present form [of the Lord's Supper]. I have therefore been compelled to consider whether it becomes me to administer it. I am clearly of opinion I ought not. This discourse has already been so far extended that I can only say that the reason of my determination is shortly this: It is my desire, in the office of a Christian minister, to do nothing which I cannot do with my
    ACiv 11.299 11 ...Why cannot the best civilization be extended over the whole country...
    Bost 12.189 15 The [Massachusetts Bay] territory...extended from the 40th to the 48th degree of north latitude...

extending, v. (2)

    SwM 4.133 9 There is an immense chain of intermediation [in Swedenborg' s system of the world], extending from centre to extremes, which bereaves every agency of all freedom and character.
    MLit 12.310 14 ...they say every man walks environed by his proper atmosphere, extending to some distance around him.

extends, v. (10)

    LE 1.155 23 ...the scholar by every thought he thinks extends his dominion into the general mind of men...
    LE 1.168 26 ...[when I see the daybreak] I am cheered by the...hour, that takes down the narrow walls of my soul, and extends its life and pulsation to the very horizon.
    PPh 4.46 26 There is a moment in the history of every nation, when...the perceptive powers reach their ripeness and have not yet become microscopic: so that man, at that instant, extends across the entire scale...
    GoW 4.271 3 The world extends itself like American trade.
    ET18 5.302 4 ...this [English] shop-rule had one magnificent effect. It extends its cold unalterable courtesy to political exiles of every opinion...
    Dem1 10.11 15 The jest and byword to an intelligent ear extends its meaning to the soul and to all time.
    Dem1 10.19 23 ...[belief in the demonological] extends the popular idea of success to the very gods;...
    Edc1 10.130 21 If Newton come and...perceive...that every atom in Nature draws to every other atom,-he extends the power of his mind...over every cubic atom of his native planet...
    HDC 11.38 16 [The Puritans] proceeded to build, under the shelter of the hill that extends for a mile along the north side of the Boston road, their first dwellings.
    MLit 12.320 8 ...the reason why [the true poet] can say one thing well is because his vision extends to the sight of all things...

extension, n. (20)

    Nat 1.36 11 Every property of matter is a school for the understanding...its extension...
    YA 1.385 26 It would be but an easy extension of our commercial system, to pay a private emperor a fee for services...
    YA 1.391 17 ...the development of our American internal resources, the extension to the utmost of the commercial system...are giving an aspect of greatness to the Future...
    PPh 4.52 23 European civility is...the extension of system...
    SwM 4.109 16 Gravitation, as explained by Newton, is good, but grander when we find chemistry only an extension of the law of masses into particles...
    ET18 5.305 13 There is [in England] a drag of inertia which resists reform in every shape;...extension of suffrage, Jewish franchise, Catholic emancipation...
    Pow 6.62 26 The commerce of rivers...must add an American extension to the pond-hole of admiralty.
    Wth 6.87 25 Wealth begins...in giving on all sides by tools and auxiliaries the greatest possible extension to our powers;...
    Bty 6.283 7 ...[a man] feels the antipodes and the pole as drops of his blood; they are the extension of his personality.
    Bty 6.284 1 The motive of science was the extension of man...
    WD 7.161 6 What shall we say of the ocean telegraph, that extension of the eye and ear...
    WD 7.183 18 It is the depth at which we live and not at all the surface extension that imports.
    PI 8.41 26 ...the poet sees...the large effect of laws which correspond to the inward laws which he knows, and so are but a kind of extension of himself.
    Imtl 8.342 22 [The mind's] goodness is the most generous extension of our private interests to the dignity and generosity of ideas.
    LLNE 10.336 17 Astronomy...compelled a certain extension and uplifting of our views of the Deity and his Providence.
    FSLC 11.198 12 [Under the Fugitive Slave Law, the bench] is the extension of the planter's whipping-post;...
    FRep 11.513 15 Our sleepy civilization, ever since Roger Bacon and Monk Schwartz invented gunpowder, has built its whole art of war...on that one compound,-all is an extension of a gun-barrel...
    PLT 12.24 11 ...the nervous and hysterical and animalized will produce a like series of symptoms in you...though you are conscious that they...are a sort of extension of the diseases of this particular person into you.
    Mem 12.107 13 ...'t is an old rule of scholars...'T is best knocking in the nail overnight and clinching it next morning. Only I should give extension to this rule and say, Yes, drive the nail this week and clinch it the next...
    EurB 12.372 27 ...the novels, which come to us in every ship from England, have an importance increased by the immense extension of their circulation through the new cheap press...

extensions, n. (2)

    PNR 4.82 11 These expansions or extensions [of facts] consist in continuing the spiritual sight where the horizon falls on our natural vision...
    WD 7.157 9 All the tools and engines on earth are only extensions of [the human body's] limbs and senses.

extensive, adj. (3)

    Nat 1.33 11 These propositions [in physics] have a much more extensive and universal sense when applied to human life...
    Supl 10.177 5 The ground of Paradise, said Mohammed, is extensive, and the plants of it are hallelujahs.
    FRO2 11.485 9 ...quite against my design and my will, I shall have to request the attention of the audience to a few written remarks, instead of the more extensive statement which I had hoped to offer them.

extent, n. (41)

    Nat 1.35 22 A new interest surprises us, whilst...we contemplate the fearful extent and multitude of objects;...
    AmS 1.103 11 ...he who has mastered any law in his private thoughts, is master to that extent of all men whose language he speaks...
    AmS 1.104 22 ...[the scholar] will...find in himself a perfect comprehension of [fear's] nature and extent;...
    AmS 1.107 22 The main enterprise of the world...for extent, is the upbuilding of a man.
    Tran 1.333 5 The materialist respects sensible masses...every mass, whether majority of numbers, or extent of space...
    Tran 1.340 12 The extraordinary profoundness and precision of that man's [Kant's] thinking have given vogue to his nomenclature...to that extent that whatever belongs to the class of intuitive thought is popularly called at the present day Transcendental.
    YA 1.365 18 Columbus alleged as a reason for seeking a continent in the West, that the harmony of nature required a great tract of land in the western hemisphere, to balance the known extent of land in the eastern;...
    SR 2.72 2 All men have my blood and I all men's. Not for that will I adopt their petulance or folly, even to the extent of being ashamed of it.
    Lov1 2.187 6 ...losing in violence what it gains in extent, [love] becomes a thorough good understanding.
    Cir 2.304 4 The extent to which this generation of circles...will go, depends on the force or truth of the individual soul.
    Mrs1 3.124 2 In a good lord there must first be a good animal, at least to the extent of yielding the incomparable advantage of animal spirits.
    PNR 4.80 9 Modern science, by the extent of its generalization, has learned to indemnify the student of man for the defects of individuals by tracing growth and ascent in races;...
    PNR 4.81 26 The naturalist would never help us to [the expansions of facts] by any discoveries of the extent of the universe...
    ShP 4.189 2 Great men are more distinguished by range and extent than by originality.
    NMW 4.230 21 That common-sense which no sooner respects any end than it finds the means to effect it;...the prudence with which all was seen and the energy with which all was done, make [Bonaparte] the natural organ and head of what I may almost call, from its extent, the modern party.
    ET5 5.100 5 In Germany there is one speech for the learned, and another for the masses, to that extent that, it is said, no sentiment or phrase from the works of any great German writer is ever heard among the lower classes.
    ET15 5.271 25 [The London Times's] existence honors the people who...do not wish to be flattered by hiding the extent of the public disaster.
    Elo1 7.90 2 The orator must be, to a certain extent, a poet.
    DL 7.104 10 Carry [the nestler] out of doors,--he is overpowered...by the extent of natural objects...
    DL 7.108 8 It is easier to...compute the square extent of a territory...than to come to the persons and dwellings of men and read their character...
    DL 7.111 17 The houses of the rich are confectioners' shops, where we get sweetmeats and wine; the houses of the poor are imitations of these to the extent of their ability.
    Boks 7.208 1 ...[Jonson] has really illustrated the England of his time, if not to the same extent yet much in the same way, as Walter Scott has celebrated the persons and places of Scotland.
    Boks 7.209 11 The annals of bibliography afford many examples of the delirious extent to which book-fancying can go...
    PI 8.22 4 Men are imaginative, but not overpowered by it to the extent of confounding its suggestions with external facts.
    Elo2 8.115 3 [Eloquence] instructs...that a man is...to the extent of his being, a power;...
    Grts 8.306 20 ...diamagnetism is a law of the mind, to the full extent of Faraday's idea;...
    Dem1 10.11 20 ...all productions of man are so anthropomorphous that not possibly can he invent any fable that shall not...be true in senses and to an extent never intended by the inventor.
    Schr 10.272 26 ...the allusions just now made to the extent of [the scholar' s] duties...may show that his place is no sinecure.
    LLNE 10.354 5 It argued singular courage, the adoption of Fourier's system, to even a limited extent...
    Thor 10.453 17 A natural skill for mensuration, growing out of...his habit of ascertaining the measures and distances of objects which interested him... the depth and extent of ponds and rivers...and his intimate knowledge of the territory about Concord, made [Thoreau] drift into the profession of land-surveyor.
    EWI 11.128 7 For months and years the bill [on emanicipation in the West Indies] was debated, with some consciousness of the extent of its relations...
    EWI 11.128 17 The extent of the [British] empire, and the magnitude and number of other questions crowding into court, keep this one [slavery] in balance...
    FSLC 11.212 5 The great game of the government has been to win the sanction of Massachusetts to the crime [the Fugitive Slave Law]. Hitherto they have succeeded only so far as to win Boston to a certain extent.
    JBB 11.270 22 [John Brown] believed in his ideas to that extent that he existed to put them all into action;...
    ACiv 11.300 10 The journals have not suppressed the extent of the calamity.
    EdAd 11.383 3 The material basis [of America] is of such extent that no folly of man can quite subvert it;...
    EdAd 11.384 6 ...the train...shows our traveller what tens of thousands of powerful and weaponed men...sit at large in this ample region, obscure from their numbers and the extent of the domain.
    FRep 11.542 4 Whilst every man can say I serve,-to the whole extent of my being I apply my faculty to the service of mankind in my especial place,-he therein sees and shows a reason for his being in the world...
    Mem 12.90 14 ...we like signs of riches and extent of nature in an individual.
    Bost 12.188 5 It was said of Rome in its proudest days...the extent of the city and of the world is the same...
    WSL 12.347 6 [Landor] has commented on a wide variety of writers, with a closeness and extent of view which has enhanced the value of those authors to his readers.

extenuation, n. (1)

    SR 2.53 1 [Men's] works are done as an apology or extenuation of their living in the world...

exterior, adj. (2)

    ET5 5.79 20 ...[Kenelm Digby] propounds, that syllogisms do breed, or rather are all the variety of man's life. ... Man, as he is man, doth nothing else but weave such chains. ...if he do aught beyond this, by breaking out into divers sorts of exterior actions, he findeth, nevertheless, in this linked sequel of simple discourses, the art, the cause, the rule, the bounds and the model of it.
    Trag 12.413 16 ...all melancholy, as all passion, belongs to the exterior life.

exterior, n. (4)

    Pt1 3.16 27 Some stars...on an old rag of bunting...shall make the blood tingle under the rudest or the most conventional exterior.
    Mrs1 3.150 5 Woman, with her instinct of behavior, instantly detects in man...any want of that large, flowing and magnanimous deportment which is indispensable as an exterior in the hall.
    Bhr 6.175 20 Don't be deceived by a facile exterior.
    WD 7.175 26 Real kings...affect a plain and poor exterior.

exterminate, v. (3)

    F 6.32 2 ...every jet of chaos which threatens to exterminate us is convertible by intellect into wholesome force.
    Wsp 6.238 2 Honor him...who does not shine, and would rather not. With eyes open, he makes the choice...of religion which churches stop their discords to burn and exterminate;...
    FSLC 11.208 11 We shall one day bring the States shoulder to shoulder and the citizens man to man to exterminate slavery.

exterminated, v. (2)

    HDC 11.54 19 The Pequots, the terror of the farmer, were exterminated in 1637.
    EWI 11.144 2 If the black man is...not on a parity with the best race, the black man must serve, and be exterminated.

exterminating, adj. (1)

    FRep 11.513 23 As if the earth, water, gases, lightning and caloric had not a million energies, the discovery of any one of which could...put an end to war by the exterminating forces man can apply.

external, adj. (57)

    Nat 1.58 23 ...[the theosophists] might all say of matter, what Michael Angelo said of external beauty...
    Nat 1.59 2 It appears that motion...and religion, all tend to affect our convictions of the reality of the external world.
    Nat 1.59 19 Children, it is true, believe in the external world.
    MR 1.236 24 Manual labor is the study of the external world.
    Tran 1.332 25 In the order of thought, the materialist takes his departure from the external world...
    Hist 2.35 24 ...along with the civil and metaphysical history of man, another history goes daily forward,--that of the external world...
    SR 2.69 26 To talk of reliance is a poor external way of speaking.
    Comp 2.123 5 I do not wish more external goods...
    SL 2.135 17 The face of external nature teaches the same lesson.
    Lov1 2.184 15 Little think the youth and maiden who are glancing at each other...of the precious fruit long hereafter to proceed from this new, quite external stimulus.
    Prd1 2.239 26 ...really and underneath their external diversities, all men are of one heart and mind.
    Hsm1 2.250 3 Towards all this external evil the man within the breast assumes a warlike attitude...
    Hsm1 2.251 23 ...every heroic act measures itself by its contempt of some external good.
    OS 2.274 1 ...we say...that a day of certain political, moral, social reforms is at hand, and the like, when we mean that in the nature of things one of the facts we contemplate is external and fugitive, and the other is permanent and connate with the soul.
    OS 2.278 27 ...[men] resemble those Arabian sheiks who dwell in mean houses and affect an external poverty...
    Nat2 3.180 7 Now we learn what patient periods must round themselves before the rock is formed; then before the rock is broken, and the first lichen race has disintegrated the thinnest external plate into soil...
    Nat2 3.192 7 Quite analogous to the deceits in life, there is...a similar effect on the eye from the face of external nature.
    PPh 4.43 17 Plato especially has no external biography.
    ShP 4.195 18 Malone's sentence is an important piece of external history.
    ShP 4.208 20 ...though our external history is so meagre, yet, with Shakspeare for biographer...we have really the information [about Shakespeare] which is material;...
    GoW 4.270 8 I described Bonaparte as a representative of the popular external life and aims of the nineteenth century.
    GoW 4.286 12 This idea [that a man exists for culture] reigns in [Goethe's] Dichtung und Wahrheit and directs the selection of incidents; and nowise the external importance of events...
    GoW 4.289 22 This cheerful laborer [Goethe], with no external popularity or provocation...tasked himself with stints for a giant...
    Wsp 6.223 2 From these low external penalties the scale ascends.
    SS 7.9 13 ...though there be for heroes this moral union, yet they too are as far off as ever from an intellectual union, and the moral union is for comparatively low and external purposes...
    Art2 7.47 22 ...the power of Nature predominates over the human will in all works of even the fine arts, in all that respects their material and external circumstances.
    Cour 7.265 23 Our affections and wishes for the external welfare of the hero tumultuously rush to expression in tears and outcries...
    Suc 7.311 8 There is an external life...
    PI 8.14 26 ...[the Hindoos]...have made it the central doctrine of their religion that what we call Nature, the external world, has no real existence...
    PI 8.22 5 Men are imaginative, but not overpowered by it to the extent of confounding its suggestions with external facts.
    SA 8.99 21 Manners are external;...
    SA 8.101 14 That method [of hereditary nobility] secured...a certain external culture and good taste;...
    QO 8.201 25 Genius is...the capacity of receiving just impressions from the external world...
    Dem1 10.16 4 We do not think the young will be forsaken; but he is fast approaching the age when the sub-miraculous external protection and leading are withdrawn and he is committed to his own care.
    Chr2 10.93 8 If from these external statements we seek to come a little nearer to the fact, our first experiences in moral, as in intellectual nature, force us to discriminate a universal mind...
    Chr2 10.115 20 Every exaggeration of [person and text]...inclines the manly reader to lay down the New Testament, to take up the Pagan philosophers. It is not that the Upanishads or the Maxims of Antoninus are better, but that they do not invade his freedom; because they are only suggestions, whilst the other adds the inadmissible claim...of an external command, where command cannot be.
    Edc1 10.128 9 Here is a world...fenced and planted with civil partitions and properties, which all put new restraints on the young inhabitant. He too must come into this magic circle of relations, and know...the desire of external good...
    Plu 10.320 7 [Plutarch] thought it wonderful that a man having a muse in his own breast...would have pipes and harps play, and by that external noise destroy all the sweetness that was proper and his own.
    LLNE 10.368 15 Few people can live together on their merits. There must be kindred...or other external tie.
    EzRy 10.392 25 ...[Ezra Ripley's] knowledge was an external experience...
    MMEm 10.426 7 The mystic dream which is shed over the season. O, to dream more deeply; to lose external objects a little more!
    War 11.166 10 ...the least change in the man will change his circumstances;...if, for example, he...should come to feel that every man was another self with whom he might come to join, as left hand works with right. Every degree of the ascendency of this feeling would cause the most striking changes of external things...
    FRep 11.532 11 Our people act...from external impulse.
    Mem 12.96 25 This thread or order of remembering, this classification, distributes men, one remembering by shop-rule or interest;...one by trifling external marks...
    Bost 12.196 18 New England lies in the cold and hostile latitude, which by shutting men up in houses and tight and heated rooms a large part of the year...defrauds the human being in some degree of his relations to external nature;...
    Bost 12.198 9 No external advantages...can bestow that delicacy and grandeur of bearing which belong only to a mind accustomed to celestial conversation.
    Bost 12.198 16 No external advantages...can bestow that delicacy and grandeur of bearing which belong only to a mind accustomed to celestial conversation. All else is coarse and external;...
    MAng1 12.218 14 A beautiful person...appears to have truer conformity to all pleasing objects in external Nature than another.
    MAng1 12.232 15 A man of such habits and such deeds [as Michelangelo] made good his pretensions to a perception and to delineation of external beauty.
    MAng1 12.233 13 ...let no man suppose that the images which [Michelangelo's] spirit worshipped were mere transcripts of external grace...
    MAng1 12.233 19 [Michelangelo] called external grace the frail and weary weed, in which God dresses the soul which he has called into Time.
    Milt1 12.256 17 Nor is there in literature a more noble outline of a wise external education than that which [Milton] drew up, at the age of thirty-six, in his Letter to Samuel Hartlib.
    Milt1 12.257 26 With these keen perceptions, [Milton] naturally received... a rare susceptibility to impressions from external beauty.
    MLit 12.331 20 Poetry is with Goethe thus external...
    Pray 12.351 16 In the Phaedrus of Plato, we find this petition in the mouth of Socrates: O gracious Pan!...grant...that those external things which I have may be such as may best agree with a right internal disposition of mine;...
    EurB 12.366 27 In the debates on the Copyright Bill...Mr. Sergeant Wakley, the coroner, quoted Wordsworth's poetry in derision, and asked the roaring House of Commons...whether a man should have public reward for writing such stuff. Homer, Horace, Milton and Chaucer would defy the coroner. Whilst they have wisdom to the wise, he would see that to the external they have external meaning.
    EurB 12.377 10 The novels of Fashion, of Disraeli, Mrs. Gore, Mr. Ward, belong to the class of novels of costume, because the aim is purely external success.

external, n. (2)

    PI 8.16 13 Swedenborg saw gravity to be only an external of the irresistible attractions of affection and faith.
    EurB 12.366 26 In the debates on the Copyright Bill...Mr. Sergeant Wakley, the coroner, quoted Wordsworth's poetry in derision, and asked the roaring House of Commons...whether a man should have public reward for writing such stuff. Homer, Horace, Milton and Chaucer would defy the coroner. Whilst they have wisdom to the wise, he would see that to the external they have external meaning.

External Nature, n. (1)

    CL 12.165 24 External Nature is only a half.

externality, n. (2)

    ET6 5.112 2 There is a prose in certain Englishmen which exceeds in wooden deadness all rivalry with other countrymen. There is a knell in the conceit and externality of their voice, which seems to say, Leave all hope behind.
    Wsp 6.210 4 What [proof of infidelity], like the externality of churches...

externally, adv. (3)

    Hist 2.7 5 We honor the rich because they have externally the freedom, power, and grace which we feel to be proper to man, proper to us.
    SL 2.134 23 That which externally seemed will and immovableness was willingness and self-annihilation.
    Prd1 2.225 10 Here is a planted globe...fenced and distributed externally with civil partitions and properties...

externals, n. (1)

    MMEm 10.418 17 Not a prospect but is dark on earth, as to knowledge and joy from externals...

externization, n. (1)

    Pt1 3.14 15 The Universe is the externization of the soul.

externize, v. (1)

    PLT 12.41 23 That which cannot externize itself is not thought.

externized, v. (2)

    Nat 1.71 18 ...the periods of [man's] actions externized themselves into day and night...
    LLNE 10.352 26 There is an order in which in a sound mind the faculties always appear, and which, according to the strength of the individual, they seek to realize in the surrounding world. The value of Fourier's system is that it is a statement of such an order externized...

extinct, adj. (4)

    DSA 1.135 26 The Church seems to totter to its fall, almost all life extinct.
    Mrs1 3.145 27 Even the line of heroes is not utterly extinct.
    ET5 5.95 1 The native [English] cattle are extinct, but the island is full of artificial breeds.
    ET11 5.188 17 I pardoned high park-fences [in England], when I saw that... these have preserved...breeds of cattle elsewhere extinct.

extinction, n. (3)

    ET11 5.197 6 ...the analysis of the [English] peerage and gentry shows the rapid decay and extinction of old families...
    CPL 11.502 5 It was the symbolical custom of the ancient Mexican priests, after the annual extinction of the household fires of their land, to procure in the temple fire from the sun...
    FRep 11.515 22 ...the culmination of these triumphs of humanity-and which did virtually include the extinction of slavery-is the planting of America.

extingtuish, v. (1)

    FRep 11.534 1.534 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. The tendency of this is...to extinguish individualism and choke up all the channels of inspiration from God in man.

extinguish, v. (2)

    F 6.16 15 We see how much will has been expended to extinguish the Jew, in vain.
    MAng1 12.241 3 [Condivi wrote] As for me...this I know very well, that in a long intimacy, I never heard from [Michelangelo's] mouth a single word that was not perfectly decorous, and having for its object to extinguish in youth every improper desire...

extinguished, v. (9)

    Hist 2.33 5 Those men who cannot answer by a superior wisdom these facts or questions of time, serve them. Facts...tyrannize over them, and make the men of routine...in whom a literal obedience to facts has extinguished every spark of that light by which man is truly man.
    Mrs1 3.144 11 ...here is...Signor Torre del Greco, who extinguished Vesuvius by pouring into it the Bay of Naples;...
    UGM 4.19 16 [The great man's] class is extinguished with him.
    ET13 5.215 15 ...plainly there has been great power of sentiment at work in this island [England], of which these [religious] buildings are the proofs; as volcanic basalts show the work of fire which has been extinguished for ages.
    Ill 6.310 12 On arriving at what is called the Star-Chamber [in the Mammoth Cave], our lamps were taken from us by the guide and extinguished or put aside...
    Civ 7.20 3 ...in mankind to-day the savage tribes are gradually extinguished rather than civilized.
    Cour 7.276 7 ...there are melancholy skeptics with a taste for carrion who batten on the hideous facts in history...devilish lives...men in whom every ray of humanity was extinguished...
    MMEm 10.422 9 Dissolve the body and the night is gone, the stars are extinguished...
    FRep 11.525 26 Nature...spends individuals and races prodigally to prepare new individuals and races. The lower kinds are one after one extinguished;...

extinguishes, v. (1)

    Cir 2.314 24 The same law of eternal procession...extinguishes each [virtue] in the light of a better.

extinguishing, adj. (1)

    Pol1 3.205 17 ...the attributes of a person, his wit and his moral energy, will exercise, under any law or extinguishing tyranny, their proper force...

extinguishing, v. (1)

    Lov1 2.182 6 ...by this love [of beauty] extinguishing the base affection... [the lovers] become pure and hallowed.

extirpate, v. (1)

    LE 1.155 13 Neither years nor books have yet availed to extirpate a prejudice then rooted in me...

extirpates, v. (1)

    MoS 4.175 10 ...though philosophy extirpates bugbears, yet it supplies the natural checks of vice, and polarity to the soul.

extirpation, n. (4)

    Clbs 7.239 27 When Henry III. (1217) plead duress against his people demanding confirmation and execution of the Charter, the reply was: If this were admitted, civil wars could never close but by the extirpation of one of the contending parties.
    PI 8.50 23 Richard Owen...said:--All hitherto observed causes of extirpation point either to continuous slowly operating geologic changes, or to no greater sudden cause than the, so to speak, spectral appearance of mankind on a limited tract of land not before inhabited.
    AKan 11.261 25 ...I borrow the language of an eminent man...If that be law, let the ploughshare be run under the foundations of the Capitol;-and if that be Government, extirpation is the only cure.
    SMC 11.352 17 ...this one violation [slavery] was a subtle poison, which in eighty years...brought the alternative of extirpation of the poison or ruin to the Republic.

extol, v. (4)

    Hsm1 2.251 25 ...[every heroic act] finds its own success at last, and then the prudent also extol.
    OS 2.289 15 ...we...feel that the splendid works which [Shakspeare] has created, and which in other hours we extol as a sort of self-existent poetry, take no stronger hold of real nature than the shadow of a passing traveller on the rock.
    Bhr 6.184 19 ...to earnest persons...we cannot extol [dress circles] highly.
    Suc 7.287 19 These feats that we extol do not signify so much as we say.

extolling, v. (1)

    Thor 10.467 19 One of the weapons [Thoreau] used...was a whim which grew on him by indulgence...namely, of extolling his own town and neighborhood as the most favored centre for natural observation.

extols, v. (1)

    Chr2 10.122 10 [Character] extols humility...

extort, v. (6)

    Nat 1.8 2 Neither does the wisest man extort [nature's] secret...
    Comp 2.114 24 The cheat, the defaulter, the gambler, cannot extort the knowledge of material and moral nature which his honest care and pains yield to the operative.
    ET5 5.75 22 The power of the Saxon-Danes...so vivacious as to extort charters from the kings, stood on the strong personality of these people.
    Ctr 6.133 8 [Egotists] like sickness, because physical pain will extort some show of interest from the bystanders...
    Civ 7.17 25 Now speed the gay celerities of art,/ What in the desert was impossible/ Within four walls is possible again,/--Culture and libraries, mysteries of skill,/ Traditioned fame of masters, eager strife/ Of keen competing youths, joined or alone,/ To outdo each other and extort applause./
    II 12.69 8 The whole art of man has been...to provoke, to extort speech from the drowsy genius.

extorted, adj. (1)

    Prd1 2.239 24 The thought...[in dispute]...bears extorted, hoarse, and half witness.

extorting, v. (2)

    ET4 5.64 10 The torture of criminals, and the rack for extorting evidence, were slowly disused [in England].
    FSLC 11.209 25 Chemistry is extorting new aids.

extortionate, adj. (1)

    Tran 1.344 17 ...[the Transcendentalists] are the most exacting and extortionate critics.

extorts, v. (6)

    MR 1.241 9 ...he only can become a master, who...by real cunning extorts from nature its sceptre.
    NER 3.275 24 ...having established his equality with class after class of those with whom he would live well, [a man] still finds certain others before whom he cannot possess himself, because they have somewhat fairer, somewhat grander, somewhat purer, which extorts homage of him.
    F 6.33 5 ...whilst art draws out the venom, it commonly extorts some benefit from the vanquished enemy.
    F 6.36 3 ...the love and praise [man] extorts from his fellows, are certificates of advance out of fate into freedom.
    GSt 10.504 9 [George Stearns's] examination before the United States Senate Committee on the Harper's Ferry Invasion...is a chapter well worth reading, as a shining example of the manner in which a truth-speaker... extorts at last a reluctant homage from the bitterest adversaries.
    FSLC 11.182 12 Just now a friend came into my house and said, If this [Fugitive Slave] law shall be repealed I shall be glad that I have lived; if not I shall be sorry that I was born. What kind of law is that which extorts language like this from the heart of a free and civilized people?

extract, n. (2)

    ET1 5.12 20 ...I proceeded to inquire [of Coleridge] if the extract from the Independent's pamphlet, in the third volume of the Friend, were a veritable quotation.
    SMC 11.370 11 Let me add an extract from the official report of the brigade commander...

extract, v. (2)

    SL 2.143 2 We...do not see that Paganini can extract rapture from a catgut...
    Ctr 6.145 17 Can we never extract this tape-worm of Europe from the brain of our countrymen?

extracted, v. (1)

    CL 12.138 24 [Linnaeus] found out that a terrible distemper which sometimes proves fatal in the north of Europe, was occasioned by an animalcule...which falls from the air on the face, or hand, or other uncovered part, burrows into it, multiplies and kills the sufferer. By timely attention, it is easily extracted.

Extracts from my Journal [E (1)

    Boks 7.205 15 ...[Gibbon's] book is one of the conveniences of civilization...and, I think, will be sure to send the reader to his...Extracts from my Journal...

extracts, n. (5)

    LE 1.170 10 What else do these volumes of extracts and manuscript commentaries, that every scholar writes, indicate?
    LT 1.275 14 A great deal of the profoundest thinking of antiquity...is now re-appearing in extracts and allusions...
    ET1 5.23 8 I told [Wordsworth] how much the few printed extracts had quickened the desire to possess his unpublished poems.
    PPo 8.237 13 That for which mainly books exist is communicated in these rich extracts [from Persian poetry].
    HDC 11.68 5 It would be impossible on this occasion to recite all these patriotic papers [of Concord]. I must content myself with a few brief extracts.

extracts, v. (1)

    SwM 4.124 18 The world has a sure chemistry, by which it extracts what is excellent in its children...

extraordinary, adj. (71)

    Tran 1.340 9 The extraordinary profoundness and precision of that man's [Kant's] thinking have given vogue to his nomenclature...
    Tran 1.347 7 With this passion for what is great and extraordinary, it cannot be wondered at that [Transcendentalists] are repelled by vulgarity and frivolity in people.
    YA 1.370 7 Without looking...into those extraordinary social influences which are now acting in precisely this direction...I think we must regard the land as a commanding and increasing power on the citizen...
    YA 1.394 21 Commanding worth and personal power must sit crowned in all companies, nor will extraordinary persons be slighted or affronted in any company of civilized men.
    SL 2.134 10 Men of an extraordinary success, in their honest moments, have always sung, Not unto us, not unto us.
    SL 2.141 19 The pretence that [a man] has another call, a summons by... outward signs that mark him extraordinary...is fanaticism...
    Hsm1 2.258 16 We have seen or heard of many extraordinary young men who never ripened...
    Hsm1 2.258 18 We have seen or heard of many extraordinary young men... whose performance in actual life was not extraordinary.
    OS 2.267 9 ...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.
    Pt1 3.27 24 All men avail themselves of such means as they can, to add this extraordinary power to their normal powers;...
    Exp 3.61 12 ...a thoughtful man...cannot without affectation deny to any set of men and women a sensibility to extraordinary merit.
    Chr1 3.93 27 In all cases [character] is an extraordinary and incomputable agent.
    Mrs1 3.120 20 ...the salt, the dates, the ivory, and the gold, for which these horrible regions are visited, find their way into...countries where man... establishes a select society...which...adopts and makes its own whatever personal beauty or extraordinary native endowment anywhere appears.
    PPh 4.70 26 Socrates again, in his traits and genius, is the best example of that synthesis which constitutes Plato's extraordinary power.
    SwM 4.95 19 In common parlance, what one man is said to learn by experience, a man of extraordinary sagacity is said, without experience, to divine.
    SwM 4.99 6 [Swedenborg's] youth and training could not fail to be extraordinary.
    SwM 4.100 22 [Swedenborg's] rare science and practical skill, and the added fame...of extraordinary religious knowledge and gifts, drew to him queens, nobles, clergy...
    ShP 4.195 4 This balance-wheel, which the sculptor found in architecture, the perilous irritability of poetic talent found in the accumulated dramatic materials...which had a certain excellence which no single genius, however extraordinary, could hope to create.
    NMW 4.233 12 ...[Napoleon] inspires confidence and vigor by the extraordinary unity of his action.
    ET1 5.15 11 [Carlyle] was...self-possessed and holding his extraordinary powers of conversation in easy command;...
    ET7 5.123 14 [The English] are very liable in their politics to extraordinary delusions;...
    ET9 5.148 25 ...an ex-governor of Illinois, said to me, If the man knew anything, he would sit in a corner and be modest; but he is such an ignorant peacock that he goes bustling up and down and hits on extraordinary discoveries.
    ET9 5.149 14 ...[the English] feel themselves at liberty to assume the most extraordinary tone on the subject of English merits.
    ET10 5.156 26 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, since the extraordinary will be certain to absorb the other third.
    F 6.17 5 It is a rule that the most casual and extraordinary events...become matter of fixed calculation.
    Pow 6.55 15 For performance of great mark, it needs extraordinary health.
    Wth 6.110 4 Britain, France and Germany, which our extraordinary profits had impoverished, send out, attracted by the fame of our advantages, first their thousands, then their millions of poor people, to share the crop.
    Wsp 6.205 7 In all ages, souls out of time, extraordinary, prophetic, are born...
    Wsp 6.207 3 The religion of the early English poets is anomalous, so devout and so blasphemous, in the same breath. Such is Chaucer's extraordinary confusion of heaven and earth in the picture of Dido...
    Wsp 6.216 11 ...when there was any extraordinary power of performance... the human soul was in earnest...
    Wsp 6.216 21 ...any extraordinary degree of beauty in man or woman involves a moral charm.
    Wsp 6.217 26 The bias of errors of principle carries away men into perilous courses as soon as their will does not control their passion or talent. Hence the extraordinary blunders and final wrong-head into which men spoiled by ambition usually fall.
    SS 7.3 9 In the conversation that followed, my new friend made some extraordinary confessions.
    SS 7.6 22 Even Swedenborg...who reprobates to weariness the danger and vice of pure intellect, is constrained to make an extraordinary exception: There are also angels who do not live consociated...
    Elo1 7.78 16 In earlier days, [Julius Caesar] was taken by pirates. What then? He threw himself into their ship, established the most extraordinary intimacies...
    Elo1 7.80 15 ...among our cool and calculating people...there is a good deal of skepticism as to extraordinary influence.
    Elo1 7.91 3 If you arm the man with the extraordinary weapons of this art [of oratory]...all these talents...have an equal power to ensnare and mislead the audience and the orator.
    Boks 7.189 10 In Plato's Gorgias, Socrates says: The shipmaster walks in a modest garb near the sea, after bringing his passengers from Aegina or from Pontus; not thinking he has done anything extraordinary...
    Suc 7.291 24 ...[every man] is to dare...not help others as they would direct him, but as he knows his helpful power to be. To do otherwise is to neutralize all those extraordinary special talents distributed among men.
    OA 7.326 7 If [the old lawyer] should on a new occasion rise quite beyond his mark and achieve somewhat great and extraordinary, that, of course, would instantly tell;...
    PI 8.20 19 All that is wondrous in Swedenborg is not his invention, but his extraordinary perception;...
    PI 8.27 13 In some individuals this insight or second sight has an extraordinary reach...
    SA 8.93 26 Madame de Stael...was the most extraordinary converser that was known in her time...
    Comc 8.170 25 In Raphael's Angel driving Heliodorus from the Temple, the crest of the helmet is so remarkable, that but for the extraordinary energy of the face, it would draw the eye too much;...
    QO 8.190 17 ...men of extraordinary genius acquire an almost absolute ascendant over their nearest companions.
    PPo 8.244 12 Hafiz...in his extraordinary gifts adds to some of the attributes of Pindar, Anacreon, Horace and Burns, the insight of a mystic...
    Grts 8.305 12 Others find a charm...in the elements of which the whole world is made. These lately have stimulus to their study through the extraordinary revelations of the spectroscope that the sun and the planets are made in part or in whole of the same elements as the earth is.
    Aris 10.43 6 ...a sound body must be at the root of any excellence in manners and actions; a strong and supple frame which...generates the habit of relying on a supply of power for all extraordinary exertions.
    Aris 10.53 4 The first example [of Genius] that occurs is an extraordinary gift of eloquence.
    SovE 10.214 4 ...it seems as if whatever is most affecting and sublime in our intercourse, in our happiness, and in our losses, tended steadily to uplift us to a life so extraordinary, and, one might say, superhuman.
    Schr 10.270 5 'T is wonderful, 't is almost scandalous, this extraordinary favoritism shown to poets.
    LLNE 10.330 7 The popular religion of our fathers had received many severe shocks from the new times;...from the English philosophic theologians...and then...from the slow but extraordinary influence of Swedenborg;...
    EzRy 10.393 12 With extraordinary states of mind...[Ezra Ripley] had no sympathy...
    Carl 10.489 2 Thomas Carlyle is...as extraordinary in his conversation as in his writing...
    GSt 10.502 11 [George Stearns] was the more engaged to this cause [of Kansas] by making in 1857 the acquaintance of Captain John Brown, who was not only an extraordinary man, but one who had a rare magnetism for men of character...
    LS 11.9 21 ...still it may be asked, Why did Jesus make expressions so extraordinary and emphatic as these-This is my body which is broken for you. Take; eat.
    LS 11.9 25 ...still it may be asked, Why did Jesus make expressions so extraordinary and emphatic as these-This is my body which is broken for you. Take; eat. This is my blood which is shed for you. Drink it?-I reply they are not extraordinary expressions from him.
    HDC 11.76 20 You [veterans of the battle of Concord] are indeed extraordinary heroes.
    EWI 11.132 13 Let the senators and representatives of the State [of Massachusetts]...go in a body before the Congress and say that they have a demand to make on them, so imperative that all functions of government must stop until it is satisfied. If ordinary legislation cannot reach it, then extraordinary must be applied.
    ALin 11.331 14 A plain man of the people, an extraordinary fortune attended [Lincoln].
    SMC 11.366 12 The regiment [Fifty-ninth Massachusetts] being formed of veterans, and in fields requiring great activity and exposure, suffered extraordinary losses;...
    Koss 11.397 8 ...[the people of Concord]...have been hungry to see the man whose extraordinary eloquence is seconded by the splendor and solidity of his actions [Kossuth].
    FRO2 11.486 13 We have had not long since presented to us by Max Muller a valuable paragraph from St. Augustine, not at all extraordinary in itself...
    FRep 11.522 22 I think this levity is a reaction on the [American] people from the extraordinary advantages and invitations of their condition.
    CInt 12.125 25 ...how often we have had repeated the trials of the young man who made no figure at college because his own methods were new and extraordinary...
    MAng1 12.215 6 [Michelangelo] accomplished extraordinary works;...
    MAng1 12.215 7 ...[Michelangelo] uttered extraordinary words;...
    Milt1 12.259 26 Among the advantages of his foreign travel, Milton certainly did not count it the least that it contributed to forge and polish that great weapon of which he acquired such extraordinary mastery,-his power of language.
    ACri 12.285 4 ...when I read of various extraordinary polyglots...who can understand fifty languages, I answer that I shall be glad and surprised to find that they know one.
    ACri 12.298 18 ...one would think...a sympathizing and much-reading America would make a new treaty or send a minister extraordinary to offer congratulations of honoring delight to England in acknowledgment of such a donation [as Carlyle's History of Frederick II];...
    MLit 12.322 11 ...of all men he who has united in himself, and that in the most extraordinary degree, the tendencies of the era, is the German poet, naturalist and philosopher, Goethe.

extraordinary, n. (1)

    Pt1 3.32 10 I think nothing is of any value in books excepting the transcendental and extraordinary.

extravagance, n. (8)

    MR 1.229 3 What if...the reformers tend to idealism? That only shows the extravagance of the abuses which have driven the mind into the opposite extreme.
    Tran 1.337 18 ...if there is...any presentiment, any extravagance of faith, the spiritualist adopts it as most in nature.
    Exp 3.80 10 The partial action of each strong mind in one direction is a telescope for the objects on which it is pointed. But every other part of knowledge is to be pushed to the same extravagance, ere the soul attains her due sphericity.
    ShP 4.194 24 As soon as the statue was begun for itself, and with no reference to the temple or palace, the art began to decline: freak, extravagance and exhibition took the place of the old temperance.
    Wsp 6.208 23 A silent revolution has loosed the tension of the old religious sects, and in place of the gravity and permanence of those societies of opinion, they run into freak and extravagance.
    Dem1 10.7 21 [Dreams'] extravagance from nature is yet within a higher nature.
    Supl 10.168 4 All our manner of life is on a secure and moderate pattern, such as can last. Violence and extravagance are, once for all, distasteful;...
    MAng1 12.226 21 ...besides the sublimity and even extravagance of Michael Angelo, he possessed an unexpected dexterity in minute mechanical contrivances.

extravagances, n. (3)

    LT 1.283 16 ...the current literature and poetry with perverse ingenuity draw us away from life to solitude and meditation. This could well be borne...if the men were ravished by their thought, and hurried into ascetic extravagances.
    Art1 2.366 9 The old tragic Necessity, which...furnishes the sole apology for the intrusion of such anomalous figures [as Venuses and Cupids] into nature,--namely...that the artist was drunk with a passion for form which... vented itself in these fine extravagances,--no longer dignifies the chisel or the pencil.
    Aris 10.51 20 The day is darkened...when genius grows...reckless of its fine duties of being Saint, Prophet, Inspirer to its humble fellows, balks their respect and confounds their understanding by silly extravagances.

extravagant, adj. (19)

    MR 1.247 10 I do not wish to push my criticism on the state of things around me to that extravagant mark that shall compel me to suicide...
    Tran 1.344 14 ...it seems as if this loneliness, and not this love, would prevail in [the Transcendentalists'] circumstances, because of the extravagant demand they make on human nature.
    Tran 1.345 14 ...we...inquire...where are they who represented to the last generation that extravagant hope which a few happy aspirants suggest to ours?
    Hist 2.27 19 Rare, extravagant spirits come by us at intervals...
    SL 2.164 20 I can think of nothing to fill my time with, and I find the Life of Brant. It is a very extravagant compliment to pay to Brant...
    SL 2.165 18 If the poet write a true drama, then he is Caesar...then the selfsame strain of thought...motions as swift, mounting, extravagant...these all are his...
    Hsm1 2.260 19 ...congratulate yourself if you have done something strange and extravagant and broken the monotony of a decorous age.
    Pol1 3.206 3 A nation of men unanimously bent on freedom or conquest can easily...achieve extravagant actions, out of all proportion to their means;...
    NMW 4.247 10 [Napoleon's] power does not consist in any wild or extravagant force;...
    ET4 5.73 14 The severity of the [English] game-laws certainly indicates an extravagant sympathy of the nation with horses and hunters.
    ET12 5.205 9 At Cambridge, 750 dollars a year is economical, and 1500 dollars not extravagant.
    Elo1 7.70 15 It is said that the Khans or story-tellers in Ispahan and other cities of the East, attain a controlling power over their audience, keeping them for many hours attentive to the most fanciful and extravagant adventures.
    Carl 10.494 26 [Carlyle] preaches, as by cannonade, the doctrine that every noble nature...however extravagant, will keep its orbit and return from far.
    HDC 11.75 15 In all the anecdotes of that day's [April 19, 1775] events we may discern the natural action of the people. It was not an extravagant ebullition of feeling...
    FSLC 11.184 17 The levity of the public mind has been shown in the past year by the most extravagant actions.
    FRep 11.531 20 In this country...there is, at present...an extravagant confidence in our talent and activity...
    Milt1 12.274 23 [Milton's] fancy is never transcendent, extravagant;...
    Milt1 12.278 11 [Milton's plea for freedom of divorce] was a sally of the extravagant spirit of the time...
    MLit 12.317 23 There are facts...which drive young men into gardens and solitary places, and cause extravagant gestures, starts, distortions of the countenance and passionate exclamations;...

extravagant, n. (1)

    PLT 12.36 17 [Pan]...was not represented by any outward image; a terror sometimes, at others a placid omnipotence. Such homage did the Greek... not fond of the extravagant and unbounded-pay to unscrutable force we call Instinct...

extreme, adj. (56)

    Nat 1.37 4 Proportioned to the importance of the organ to be formed, is the extreme care with which its tuition is provided...
    LE 1.186 5 It is this domineering temper of the sensual world that creates the extreme need of the priests of science;...
    MR 1.229 1 What if some of the objections whereby our institutions are assailed are extreme and speculative...
    LT 1.262 2 What is the reason to be given for this extreme attraction which persons have for us...
    Tran 1.345 5 ...this masterpiece is the result of such an extreme delicacy that the most unobserved flaw in the boy will neutralize the most aspiring genius, and spoil the work.
    Comp 2.95 4 The legitimate inference the disciple would draw was...to push it to its extreme import,--You sin now, we shall sin by and by;...
    Fdsp 2.195 11 I confess to an extreme tenderness of nature on this point [of friendship].
    Cir 2.318 7 ...no evil is pure, nor hell itself without its extreme satisfactions.
    Pt1 3.31 11 ...Orpheus speaks of hoariness as that white flower which marks extreme old age;...
    Exp 3.53 12 The physicians say they are not materialists; but they are:-- Spirit is matter reduced to an extreme thinness: O so thin!
    Mrs1 3.153 1 For the present distress...of those who are predisposed to suffer from the tyrannies of this caprice [of society], there are easy remedies. To remove your residence a couple of miles, or at most four, will commonly relieve the most extreme susceptibility.
    PPh 4.45 2 I am struck...with the extreme modernness of [Plato's] style and spirit.
    SwM 4.138 12 That pure malignity can exist is the extreme proposition of unbelief.
    MoS 4.175 22 ...as soon as each man attains the poise and vivacity which allow the whole machinery to play, he will not need extreme examples...
    NMW 4.248 25 The winter, says Napoleon, is not the most unfavorable season for the passage of lofty mountains. The snow is then firm...and there is nothing to fear from avalanches, the real and only danger to be apprehended in the Alps. On these high mountains there are often very fine days in December...with an extreme calmness in the air.
    GoW 4.274 12 [Goethe] had an extreme impatience of conjecture and of rhetoric.
    GoW 4.279 11 ...at last the hero [of Sand's Consuelo]...no longer answers to his own titled name; it sounds foreign and remote in his ear. I am only man, he says; I breathe and work for man; and this in poverty and extreme sacrifices.
    ET7 5.118 8 ...to give the lie is the extreme insult [in England].
    ET8 5.131 13 [Englishmen's] looks bespeak an invincible stoutness: they have extreme difficulty to run away...
    ET16 5.273 7 It seemed a bringing together of extreme points, to visit the oldest religious monument in Britain in company with her latest thinker...
    F 6.4 10 ...our geometry cannot span these extreme points and reconcile them.
    Bhr 6.175 23 We had in Massachusetts an old statesman who had sat all his life...in chairs of state without overcoming an extreme irritability of face, voice and bearing;...
    SS 7.15 12 ...nature delights to put us between extreme antagonisms...
    Civ 7.31 4 What a benefit would the American government, not yet relieved of its extreme need, render to itself...if it would tax whiskey and rum almost to the point of prohibition!
    WD 7.184 27 Apollo stretched his bow and shot his arrow into the extreme west.
    Clbs 7.247 13 I remember a social experiment...wherein it appeared that each of the members fancied he was in need of society, but himself unpresentable. On trial they all found that they could be tolerated by, and could tolerate, each other. Nay, the tendency to extreme self-respect which hesitated to join in a club was running rapidly down to abject admiration of each other, when the club was broken up by new combinations.
    Cour 7.255 11 The third excellence is courage, the perfect will...which...is never quite itself until the hazard is extreme;...
    Suc 7.303 22 ...what is specially true of love is that it is a state of extreme impressionability;...
    OA 7.332 6 I have lately found in an old note-book a record of a visit to ex-President John Adams, in 1825, soon after the election of his son to the Presidency. It...reports a moment in the life of a heroic person, who, in extreme old age, appeared still erect and worthy of his fame.
    PI 8.32 8 ...so extreme were the times and manners of mankind, that you must admit miracles, for the times constituted a case.
    QO 8.177 4 Whoever looks...at flies, aphides, gnats and innumerable parasites...must have remarked the extreme content they take in suction...
    QO 8.179 18 The highest statement of new philosophy complacently caps itself with some prophetic maxim from the oldest learning. There is something mortifying in this perpetual circle. This extreme economy argues a very small capital of invention.
    Chr2 10.93 22 The extreme simplicity of this [moral] intuition embarrasses every attempt at analysis.
    Edc1 10.140 6 In their fun and extreme freak [boys] hit on the topmost sense of Horace.
    Plu 10.311 2 ...[Plutarch's] extreme interest in every trait of character and his broad humanity, lead him constantly to Morals...
    LLNE 10.332 18 All [Everett's] auditors felt the extreme beauty and dignity of the manner...
    EzRy 10.395 4 ...devout, but with an extreme love of order, [Ezra Ripley] adopted heartily...the creed and catechism of the fathers...
    GSt 10.501 21 ...[George Stearns's] extreme interest in the national politics...engaged him to scan the fortunes of freedom with keener attention.
    HDC 11.80 6 [Concord's] instructions to their representatives are full of loud complaints of...the excess of public expenditure. They may be pardoned, under such distress, for the mistakes of an extreme frugality.
    EWI 11.141 7 Mr. Clarkson, early in his career, made a collection of African productions and manufactures, as specimens of the arts and culture of the negro; comprising cloths and loom...pipe-bowls and trinkets. These he showed to Mr. Pitt, who saw and handled them with extreme interest.
    War 11.161 26 That the project of peace should appear visionary to great numbers of sensible men;...should appear to the grave and good-natured to be embarrassed with extreme practical difficulties,-is very natural.
    War 11.168 11 In reply to this charge of absurdity on the extreme peace doctrine, as shown in the supposed consequences, I wish to say that such deductions consider only one half of the fact.
    War 11.169 20 In the second place, as far as [the charge of absurdity on the extreme peace doctrine] respects individual action in difficult and extreme cases, I will say, such cases seldom or never occur to the good and just man;...
    War 11.169 26 A wise man will never...decide beforehand what he shall do in a given extreme event.
    FSLN 11.230 26 [Reasonably men] answered...that...each was vying with his neighbor to lead the [Democratic] party, by proposing the worst measure, and they threw themselves on the extreme conservatism, as a drag on the wheel...
    JBB 11.267 9 ...this sudden interest in the hero of Harper's Ferry has provoked an extreme curiosity in all parts of the Republic, in regard to the details of his history.
    ACiv 11.308 4 Why should not America be capable...of an affirmative step in the interests of human civility, urged on her...by her own extreme perils?
    EPro 11.316 27 The extreme moderation with which the President [Lincoln] advanced to his design,-his long-avowed expectant policy...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.
    EPro 11.317 6 ...so fair a mind that none ever listened so patiently to such extreme varieties of opinion,-so reticent...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.
    EPro 11.317 21 [Lincoln] is well entitled to the most indulgent construction. Forget...every mistake, every delay. In the extreme embarrassments of his part, call these endurance, wisdom, magnanimity;...
    SMC 11.371 6 After Gettysburg, the Thirty-second Regiment saw hard service...crossing the Rapidan, and suffering from such extreme cold, a few days later, at Mine Run, that the men were compelled to break rank and run in circles...
    Scot 11.466 18 From these originals [Scott] drew so genially his Jeanie Deans, his Dinmonts...making these, too, the pivots on which the plots of his stories turn; and meantime without one word of brag of...this extreme sympathy reaching down to every beggar and beggar's dog...
    FRep 11.533 1 The source of mischief is the extreme difficulty with which men are roused from the torpor of every day.
    MAng1 12.237 12 ...[Michelangelo]...in old age speaks with extreme pleasure of his residence with the hermits in the mountains of Spoleto;...
    WSL 12.345 27 It is a sufficient proof of the extreme delicacy of this element [character]...that it has so seldom been employed in the drama and in novels.
    Trag 12.411 23 [A man...should keep as much as possible the reins in his own hands, rarely giving way to extreme emotion of joy or grief.

extreme, n. (16)

    LE 1.182 21 If [the man of genius] be defective at either extreme of the scale, his philosophy will seem low and utilitarian...
    MR 1.229 4 What if...the reformers tend to idealism? That only shows the extravagance of the abuses which have driven the mind into the opposite extreme.
    Con 1.319 9 The idealist retorts that the conservative falls into a far more noxious error in the other extreme.
    Prd1 2.235 5 Our Yankee trade is reputed to be very much on the extreme of this prudence.
    Hsm1 2.250 21 ...[heroism] is the extreme of individual nature.
    Hsm1 2.253 15 Ibn Haukal, the Arabian geographer, describes a heroic extreme in the hospitality of Sogd, in Bukharia.
    Exp 3.62 3 ...I begin at the other extreme, expecting nothing, and am always full of thanks for moderate goods.
    GoW 4.290 6 Man is the most composite of all creatures; the wheel-insect, volvox globator, is at the other extreme.
    ET6 5.112 26 Pretension and vaporing are once for all distasteful [in England]. They keep to the other extreme of low tone in dress and manners.
    ET8 5.136 27 After running each tendency to an extreme, [the English] try another tack with equal heat.
    Civ 7.19 6 A certain degree of progress from the rudest state in which man is found...a cannibal, and eater of pounded snails, worms and offal,--a certain degree of progress from this extreme is called Civilization.
    PI 8.14 23 This belief that the higher use of the material world is to furnish us types or pictures to express the thoughts of the mind, is carried to its logical extreme by the Hindoos...
    LLNE 10.355 13 There is...to every theory a tendency to run to an extreme...
    MMEm 10.413 20 A mediocre mind will be deranged in either extreme of wealth or poverty...
    Wom 11.422 9 Each citizen has an interest and a view of his own, which, if followed out to the extreme, would leave no room for any other citizen.
    FRep 11.536 6 The felon is the logical extreme of the epicure and coxcomb.

extremely, adv. (2)

    ET13 5.224 26 The bill for the naturalization of the Jews [in England] (in 1753) was resisted...by petition from the city of London, reprobating this bill, as tending extremely to the dishonor of the Christian religion...
    ET13 5.225 1 The bill for the naturalization of the Jews [in England] (in 1753) was resisted...by petition from the city of London, reprobating this bill, as...extremely injurious to the interests and commerce of the kingdom in general...

extremes, n. (36)

    YA 1.392 20 ...it is not strange that our youths and maidens should burn to see the picturesque extremes of an antiquated country.
    Hsm1 2.261 17 ...to live with some rigor of temperance, or some extremes of generosity, seems to be an asceticism which common good-nature would appoint to those who are at ease and in plenty...
    Cir 2.308 16 ...discordant opinions are reconciled by being seen to be two extremes of one principle...
    Exp 3.45 2 Where do we find ourselves? In a series of which we do not know the extremes, and believe that it has none.
    Exp 3.62 20 We may climb into the thin and cold realm of pure geometry and lifeless science, or sink into that of sensation. Between these extremes is the equator of life...
    SwM 4.133 9 There is an immense chain of intermediation [in Swedenborg' s system of the world], extending from centre to extremes, which bereaves every agency of all freedom and character.
    MoS 4.155 3 The abstractionist and the materialist thus mutually exasperating each other, and the scoffer expressing the worst of materialism, there arises a third party to occupy the middle ground between these two, the skeptic, namely. He finds both wrong by being in extremes.
    MoS 4.155 11 Am I an ox, or a dray?--you are both in extremes, [the skeptic] says.
    MoS 4.156 7 [The skeptic says] I know that human strength is not in extremes, but in avoiding extremes.
    MoS 4.156 8 [The skeptic says] I know that human strength is not in extremes, but in avoiding extremes.
    MoS 4.161 26 ...some condition between the extremes, and having, itself, a positive quality; some stark and sufficient man...is the fit person to occupy this ground of speculation.
    ET4 5.44 10 The individuals at the extremes of divergence in one race of men are as unlike as the wolf to the lapdog.
    ET4 5.51 5 Everything English is a fusion of distant and antagonistic elements. The language is mixed;...a country of extemes...
    ET4 5.67 27 The English delight in the antagonism which combines in one person the extremes of courage and tenderness.
    ET4 5.69 23 The extremes of poverty and ascetic penance, it would seem, never reach cold water in England.
    ET9 5.149 4 Their culture generally enables the travelled English to avoid any ridiculous extremes of this self-pleasing...
    F 6.12 27 I find the coincidence of the extremes of Eastern and Western speculation in the daring statement of Schelling...
    Ctr 6.137 19 [Man's] excellence is facility...of transition...to wide contrasts and extremes.
    Wsp 6.214 14 I have seen, said a traveller who had known the extremes of society, I have seen human nature in all its forms; it is everywhere the same...
    Bty 6.289 12 We ascribe beauty to that...which is the mean of many extremes.
    Clbs 7.235 27 ...in the hagiology of each nation, the lawgiver was in each case some man of eloquent tongue, whose sympathy brought him face to face with the extremes of society.
    PI 8.65 14 All [Nature's] kinds share the attributes of the selectest extremes.
    PPo 8.238 5 Life in the East is fierce, short, hazardous, and in extremes.
    PPo 8.238 25 The temperament of the people [in the East] agrees with this life in extremes.
    Grts 8.313 8 Extremes meet...
    Grts 8.318 15 A great style of hero draws equally...all the extremes of society...
    Aris 10.35 1 We...put faith...in the Republican principle carried out to the extremes of practice in universal suffrage...
    Supl 10.163 20 We talk, sometimes, with people whose conversation would lead you to suppose that they had lived in a museum, where all the objects were monsters and extremes.
    Supl 10.164 11 Especially we note this tendency to extremes in the pleasant excitement of horror-mongers.
    Supl 10.177 12 The costume [of the East], the articles in which wealth is displayed, are in the same extremes.
    MMEm 10.413 17 A mediocrity does seem to me [Mary Moody Emerson] more distant from eminent virtue than the extremes of station;...
    Thor 10.478 17 [Thoreau's] virtues...sometimes ran into extremes.
    Shak1 11.450 1 ...Shakspeare, by his transcendant reach of thought, so unites the extremes, that, whilst he has kept the theatre now for three centuries...he is yet to all wise men the companion of the closet.
    CInt 12.111 4 ...Merlin's mighty line/ Extremes of nature reconciled-/ Bereaved a tyrant of his will,/ And made the lion mild./
    Bost 12.185 11 ...if the character of the people [of Boston] has a larger range and greater versatility...perhaps they may thank their climate of extremes...
    MAng1 12.230 25 Of [Michelangelo's] designs, the most celebrated is the cartoon representing soldiers coming out of the bath and arming themselves; an incident of the war of Pisa. The wonderful merit of this drawing, which contrasts the extremes of relaxation and vigor, is conspicuous even in the coarsest prints.

extremest, adj. (2)

    PerF 10.88 8 ...the cause of right for which we labor...will know how to compensate our extremest sacrifice.
    SovE 10.183 22 ...this self-help and self-creation [in plants and animals] proceed from the same original power which works remotely in grandest and meanest structures by the same design,-works in a lobster or a mite-worm as a wise man would if imprisoned in that poor form. 'T is the effort of God...in the extremest frontier of his universe.

extremist, n. (1)

    Plu 10.308 25 'T is a temperance, not an eclecticism, which makes [Plutarch] adverse to the severe Stoic, or the Gymnosophist, or Diogenes, or any other extremist.

extremists, n. (1)

    Bost 12.202 18 The soul of a political party is by no means usually the officers and pets of the party, who...spend the salaries. No, but the theorists and extremists...

extremities, n. (10)

    AmS 1.111 6 It is a sign...of new vigor when the extremities are made active...
    AmS 1.111 21 ...show me the sublime presence of the highest spiritual cause lurking...in these suburbs and extremities of nature;...
    Comp 2.97 24 If the head and neck are enlarged, the trunk and extremities are cut short.
    UGM 4.28 21 ...every individual strives to grow and exclude and to exclude and grow, to the extremities of the universe...
    PPh 4.49 4 ...each [Unity and Variety] so fast slides into the other that we can never say what is one, and what it is not. The Proteus is as nimble... when we contemplate the one, the true, the good,--as in the surfaces and extremities of matter.
    SwM 4.108 8 At the top of the column [the spine] [Nature] puts out another spine, which doubles or loops itself over...into a ball, and forms the skull, with extremities again...
    Pow 6.61 17 A timid man...observing...sectional interests...with a mind made up to desperate extremities...might easily believe that he and his country have seen their best days...
    Cour 7.265 13 Bodily pain is superficial, seated usually in the skin and the extremities...
    SA 8.82 17 ...we are awkward for want of thought. The inspiration is scanty, and does not arrive at the extremities.
    PLT 12.35 27 ...what else [than Instinct] was it they represented in Pan... who was not yet completely finished in godlike form...wanting the extremities;...

extremity, n. (7)

    Prd1 2.227 27 One might find argument for optimism in the abundant flow of this saccharine element of pleasure in every suburb and extremity of the good world.
    NER 3.278 13 We are haunted with a belief that you [reformers] have a secret which it would highliest advantage us to learn, and we would force you to impart it to us, though it should bring us to prison or to worse extremity.
    NMW 4.231 9 My hand of iron, [Bonaparte] said, was not at the extremity of my arm, it was immediately connected with my head.
    ET11 5.180 27 Mirabeau wrote prophetically from England, in 1784, If revolution break out in France, I tremble for the aristocracy: their chateaux will be reduced to ashes and their blood be spilt in torrents. The English tenant would defend his lord to the last extremity.
    PPo 8.238 22 My father's empire, said Cyrus to Xenophon, is so large that people perish with cold at one extremity whilst they are suffocated with heat at the other.
    EzRy 10.392 17 ...Save us from the extremity of cold and these violent sudden changes.
    HDC 11.61 20 When the Dutch, or the French, or the English royalist disagreed with the [Massachusetts Bay] Colony, there was always found a Dutch, or French, or tory party,-an earnest minority,-to keep things from extremity.

extricate, v. (4)

    LT 1.270 17 ...it is well if government and our social order can extricate themselves from these alembics and find themselves still government and social order.
    MoL 10.257 3 It is impossible to extricate oneself from the questions in which our age is involved.
    AKan 11.255 11 ...it is impossible for the most recluse to extricate himself from the questions of the times.
    FRep 11.539 7 It is not possible to extricate yourself from the questions in which your age is involved.

extricated, v. (4)

    MR 1.240 16 Only such persons interest us...who have stood in the jaws of need, and have by their own wit and might extricated themselves...
    ShP 4.208 10 Read the antique documents extricated, analyzed and compared by the assiduous Dyce and Collier, and now read one of [Shakespeare's] skyey sentences...and tell me if they match;...
    Prch 10.218 25 ...when we have extricated ourselves from all the embarrassments of the social problem, the oracle does not yet emit any light on the mode of individual life.
    EdAd 11.389 9 We have a bad war, many victories, each of which converts the country into an immense chanticleer; and a very insincere political opposition. The country needs to be extricated from its delirium at once.

extricating, v. (2)

    LE 1.177 5 Extricating themselves from the tasks of the world, the world revenges itself by exposing...the folly of these...pedantic...creatures.
    SwM 4.120 4 Having adopted the belief that certain books of the Old and New Testaments were exact allegories...[Swedenborg] employed his remaining years in extricating from the literal, the universal sense.

extrudes, v. (4)

    Lov1 2.178 17 ...[the maiden] extrudes all other persons from [the lover's] attention as cheap and unworthy...
    Fdsp 2.197 25 Is it not that the soul puts forth friends as the tree puts forth leaves, and presently, by the germination of new buds, extrudes the old leaf?
    ET13 5.223 1 [The English university] ripens a bishop, and extrudes a philosopher.
    SovE 10.187 18 The bud extrudes the old leaf...

exuberance, n. (4)

    NR 3.239 21 Jesus would absorb the race; but Tom Paine or the coarsest blasphemer helps humanity by resisting this exuberance of power.
    Elo1 7.68 10 ...as we must be fed and warmed before we can do any work well,--even the best,--so is this semi-animal exuberance [in the orator], like a good stove, of the first necessity in a cold house.
    Aris 10.31 17 [The best young men] do not yet covet...any exuberance of wealth, wealth that costs too much;...
    MoL 10.248 2 Man makes no more impression on [Nature's] wealth than the caterpillar or the cankerworm whose petty ravage...is insignificant in the vast exuberance of the summer.

exuberances, n. (1)

    Pt1 3.18 21 In the old mythology...defects are ascribed to divine natures, as...blindness to Cupid, and the like,--to signify exuberances.

exuberant, adj. (4)

    PI 8.65 9 We know Nature and figure her exuberant, tranquil, magnificent in her fertility...
    Dem1 10.22 14 A Highland chief, an Indian sachem or a feudal baron may fancy...that...when he dies, banshees will announce his fate to kinsmen in foreign parts. What more facile than to project this exuberant selfhood into the region where individuality is forever bounded by generic and cosmical laws?
    MoL 10.247 24 Nature is rich, exuberant...
    PPr 12.390 2 Plato is the purple ancient, and Bacon and Milton the moderns of the richest strains. Burke sometimes reaches to that exuberant fulness, though deficient in depth.

exude, v. (1)

    F 6.42 10 A man will see his character emitted in the events...which exude from and accompany him.

exudes, v. (1)

    ET6 5.111 19 The Englishman is finished like a cowry or a murex. After the spire and the spines are formed...a juice exudes and a hard enamel varnishes every part.

exuding, v. (1)

    LE 1.168 10 ...the pine throwing out its pollen for the benefit of the next century; the turpentine exuding from the tree...all, are alike unattempted [by poets].

exult, v. (4)

    Lov1 2.185 13 ...adding up costly advantages...[lovers] exult in discovering that...they would give all as a ransom for the beautiful, the beloved head...
    UGM 4.26 25 ...we feed on genius...and exult in the depth of nature in that direction in which he leads us.
    MoS 4.182 23 [The wise and magninimous] will exult in [the spiritualist's] far-sighted good-will that can abandon to the adversary all the ground of tradition and common belief...
    MMEm 10.418 3 My [Mary Moody Emerson's] uncle has been the means of lessening my property. Ridiculous to wound him for that. He was honestly seeking his own. But at last, this very night, the bargain is closed, and I am delighted with myself:-my dear self has done well. Never did I so exult in a trifle.

exultation, n. (4)

    MN 1.223 1 The doctrine of this Supreme Presence is a cry of joy and exultation.
    Hist 2.38 4 Who knows himself before he...has shared the throb of thousands in a national exultation or alarm?
    Chr1 3.99 7 That exultation [in events] is only to be checked by the foresight of an order of things so excellent as to throw all our prosperities into the deepest shade.
    Elo2 8.123 27 In the vain and foolish exultation of the heart...the pensive portress of Science shall call you to the sober pleasures of her holy cell.

exulted, v. (2)

    Chr1 3.114 6 The ages have exulted in the manners of a youth who owed nothing to fortune...
    Elo2 8.119 26 ...Jenny Lind, when in this country, complained of concert-rooms and town-halls, that they did not give her room enough to unroll her voice, and exulted in the opportunity given her in the great halls she found sometimes built over a railroad depot.

exults, v. (3)

    Ctr 6.157 26 ...the poor little poet hearkens only to [praise], and rejects the censure as proving incapacity in the critic. But the poet cultivated becomes a stockholder in both companies,--say Mr. Curfew in the Curfew stock, and in the humanity stock,--and, in the last, exults as much in the demonstration of the unsoundness of Curfew, as his interest in the former gives him pleasure in the currency of Curfew.
    MMEm 10.412 15 ...when Nature beams with such excess of beauty, when the heart thrills with hope in its Author...it exults, too fondly perhaps for a state of trial.
    ACri 12.293 25 I do not mean that [Shakespeare]...exults in bringing the street itself...on the scene...

exuvial, adj. (1)

    ShP 4.215 17 In the poet's mind the fact has gone quite over into the new element of thought, and has lost all that is exuvial.

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