Fickle to Finch

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

fickle, adj. (2)

    MN 1.191 16 We are a puny and a fickle folk.
    ET7 5.121 18 ...the Englishman is not fickle.

fiction, n. (15)

    LE 1.157 1 ...the mark of American merit...in fiction...seems to be a certain grace without grandeur...
    LE 1.177 10 The scholar will feel that...the noblest fiction that was ever woven...lies enclosed in human life.
    Hist 2.9 10 Babylon, Troy, Tyre, Palestine, and even early Rome are passing already into fiction.
    Mrs1 3.148 10 High behavior is as rare in fiction as it is in fact.
    NER 3.285 9 The life of man is the true romance, which...will yield the imagination a higher joy than any fiction.
    NMW 4.252 9 He delighted to fascinate Josephine and her ladies...by the terrors of a fiction to which his voice and dramatic power lent every addition.
    GoW 4.280 13 The wonderful in [Goethe's Wilhelm Meister] is expressly treated as fiction and enthusiastic dreaming...
    GoW 4.290 18 The secret of genius is to suffer no fiction to exist for us;...
    ET11 5.196 26 The fiction with which the noble and the bystander equally please themselves [in England] is that the former is of unbroken descent from the Norman...
    ET14 5.246 13 The essays, the fiction and the poetry of the day [in England] have the like municipal limits.
    CbW 6.255 27 California gets peopled and subdued, civilized in this immoral way, and on this fiction a real prosperity is rooted and grown.
    DL 7.107 20 Fact is better than fiction...
    Dem1 10.12 13 One moment of a man's life is a fact so stupendous as to take the lustre out of all fiction.
    Plu 10.297 8 Whatever is eminent in fact or in fiction...drew [Plutarch's] attention...
    MMEm 10.411 23 How insipid is fiction to a mind touched with immortal views!

fictions, n. (8)

    Hist 2.34 10 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.
    ShP 4.212 13 ...few real men have left such distinct characters as [Shakespeare's] fictions.
    ET5 5.97 4 The nearer we look, the more artificial is [the Englishmen's] social system. Their law is a network of fictions.
    Ill 6.313 2 ...in Boston, in San Francisco, the carnival, the maquerade is at its height. Nobody drops his domino. The unities, the fictions of the piece it would be an impertinence to break.
    Clbs 7.241 20 Society seems to have agreed to treat fictions as realities...
    Clbs 7.241 21 Society seems to have agreed to treat fictions as realities, and realities as fictions;...
    Edc1 10.126 8 All the fairy tales of Aladdin...or the enchanted halls underground or in the sea, are only fictions to indicate the one miracle of intellectual enlargement.
    LLNE 10.336 2 ...the paramount source of the religious revolution was Modern Science; beginning with Copernicus, who destroyed the pagan fictions of the Church...

fictitious, adj. (1)

    ET14 5.234 5 [Swift] describes his fictitious persons as if for the police.

fiddle, n. (2)

    EWI 11.116 19 Throughout the island [Antigua], [the day after emancipation] there was not a single dance known of...nor so much as a fiddle played.
    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, as no music or fiddle was so much as thought of.

fiddlesticks, n. (1)

    ACri 12.287 14 ...when a great bank president was expounding the virtues of his party and of the government to a silent circle of bank pensioners, a grave Methodist exclaimed, Fiddlesticks!

fidelity, n. (37)

    LE 1.178 14 Believing, as in God, in the presence and favor of the grandest influences, let [the scholar] deserve that favor, and learn how to receive and use it, by fidelity also to the lower observances.
    MN 1.208 27 ...[a man's] health and erectness consist in the fidelity with which he transmits influences from the vast and universal to the point on which his genius can act.
    Con 1.308 6 ...you must show me a warrant like these stubborn facts in your own fidelity and labor...
    Con 1.308 11 To that fidelity and labor I pay homage.
    Con 1.324 19 If there be power...in fidelity...the north wind shall be purer... that I have lived.
    Tran 1.333 22 [The idealist] does not respect...property, otherwise than as a manifold symbol, illustrating with wonderful fidelity of details the laws of being;...
    Tran 1.343 25 ...it is a fidelity to this sentiment [Love] which has made common association distasteful to [Transcendentalists.]
    Hist 2.35 19 Lucy Ashton is another name for fidelity...
    Comp 2.99 25 Has [the man of genius] light? he must...always outrun that sympathy which gives him such keen satisfaction, by his fidelity to new revelations of the incessant soul.
    SL 2.164 5 Let us seek one peace by fidelity.
    Fdsp 2.205 17 ...we cannot forgive the poet if he...does not substantiate his romance by the municipal virtues of justice, punctuality, fidelity and pity.
    Pt1 3.13 7 ...let us...observe how nature, by worthier impulses, has insured the poet's fidelity to his office of announcement and affirming...
    Mrs1 3.148 11 Scott is praised for the fidelity with which he painted the demeanor and conversation of the superior classes.
    Nat2 3.186 14 ...this opaline lustre plays round the top of every toy to [the child's] eye to insure his fidelity...
    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...
    NER 3.279 8 ...the general purpose in the great number of persons is fidelity.
    UGM 4.26 17 The great, or such as...transcend fashions by their fidelity to universal ideas, are saviors from these federal errors...
    SwM 4.112 11 [Swedenborg]...sometimes sought to uncover those secret recesses where Nature is sitting at the fires in the depths of her laboratory; whilst the picture comes recommended by the hard fidelity with which it is based on practical anatomy.
    ShP 4.204 19 Coleridge and Goethe are the only critics who have expressed our convictions [about Shakespeare] with any adequate fidelity...
    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.
    ET12 5.210 4 ...I found here [at Oxford]...proof of the national fidelity and thoroughness.
    ET14 5.246 1 Hallam inspires respect by his knowledge and fidelity...
    CbW 6.277 5 There must be fidelity, and there must be adherence.
    WD 7.185 14 ...this is the progress of every earnest mind;...from local skills and the economy which reckons the amount of production per hour to the finer economy which respects the quality of what is done, and...the fidelity with which it flows from ourselves;...
    Suc 7.310 25 Which of [the most sanguine] has not...found themselves awkward or tedious or incapable of study, thought or heroism, and only hoped by good sense and fidelity to do what they could and pass unblamed?
    Supl 10.175 24 Life could not be carried on except by fidelity and good earnest;...
    SovE 10.202 5 With patience and fidelity to truth [a man] may work his way through, if only by coming against somebody who believes more fables than he does;...
    Schr 10.262 15 Stung by this intellectual conscience, we go to measure our tasks as scholars, and screw ourselves up to energy and fidelity...
    LLNE 10.347 23 Mr. Owen preached his doctrine of labor and reward, with the fidelity and devotion of a saint...
    HDC 11.67 14 ...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...bore witness to his purity and fidelity in his office.
    II 12.85 17 Within this magical power derived from fidelity to his nature, [man] adds also the mechanical force of perseverance.
    CInt 12.131 11 ...'t is very certain that an examination is yonder before us and an examining committee that cannot be escaped or deceived, that every scholar...must hear the questions proposed, and answer them by himself, and receive honor or dishonor according to the fidelity shown.
    MLit 12.309 1 In our fidelity to the higher truth we need not disown our debt, in our actual state of culture, in the twilights of experience, to these rude helpers.
    MLit 12.327 9 ...we claim for [Goethe] the praise...of fidelity to his intellectual nature.
    MLit 12.329 25 [We can fancy Goethe saying to himself] ...every keen beholder of life will justify my truth [in Wilhelm Meister], and will acquit me of prejudging the cause of humanity by painting it with this morose fidelity.
    WSL 12.347 18 ...the minuteness of [Landor's] verbal criticism gives a confidence in his fidelity when he speaks the language of meditation or of passion.
    Let 12.403 1 As if any taste or imagination could take the place of fidelity!

fidem, n. (1)

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

field, adj. (2)

    LE 1.174 8 ...set your habits to a life of solitude; then will the faculties rise fair and full within, like forest trees and field flowers;...
    EWI 11.119 11 ...[Sir Lionel Smith] defended the negro women [in Jamaica]; they should not be made to dig the cane-holes (which is the very hardest of the field work);...

field, n. (99)

    Nat 1.8 16 Miller owns this field...
    Nat 1.13 2 The field is at once [man's] floor, his work-yard, his play-ground, his garden, and his bed.
    Nat 1.13 12 ...the wind blows the vapor to the field;...
    Nat 1.18 14 ...in the same field, [the attentive eye] beholds, every hour, a picture which was never seen before...
    Nat 1.65 19 ...you cannot freely admire a noble landscape if laborers are digging in the field hard by.
    AmS 1.83 21 The planter, who is Man sent out into the field to gather food, is seldom cheered by any idea of the true dignity of his ministry.
    AmS 1.98 14 Colleges and books only copy the language which the field and the work-yard made.
    MN 1.203 9 ...total nature is growing like a field of maize in July;...
    MR 1.238 10 Every species of property is preyed on by its own enemies, as...a planted field by weeds...
    Con 1.306 19 ...[the youth] says, If I am born in the earth...have the goodness, gentlemen of this world, to show me...my field where to plant my corn...
    Con 1.306 21 ...[the youth] says, If I am born in the earth...have the goodness, gentlemen of this world, to show me...my pleasant ground where to build my cabin. Touch any wood, or field, or house-lot, on your peril, cry all the gentlemen of this world;...
    Con 1.318 12 ...beside that charity which should...engage [adult persons] to see that [the youth] has a free field and fair play on his entrance into life, we are bound to see that the society of which we compose a part, does not permit the formation...of views...injurious to the honor and welfare of mankind.
    Con 1.323 23 Is there not something shameful that I should owe my peaceful occupancy of my house and field, not to the knowledge of my countrymen that I am useful, but to their respect for sundry other reputable persons, I know not whom, whose joint virtue still keeps the law in good odor?
    Con 1.326 5 ...it is a happiness for mankind that innovation...has so free a field before it.
    Hist 2.32 11 Every animal of the barn-yard, the field and the forest...has contrived...to leave the print of its features and form in some one or other of these upright, heaven-facing speakers.
    SR 2.59 21 What makes the majesty of the heroes of the senate and the field...
    SR 2.77 27 The prayer of the farmer kneeling in his field to weed it, the prayer of the rower kneeling with the stroke of his oar, are true prayers...
    Prd1 2.225 13 We eat of the bread which grows in the field.
    Cir 2.312 12 The field cannot be well seen from within the field.
    Cir 2.312 13 The field cannot be well seen from within the field.
    Cir 2.313 11 ...steeped in the sea of beautiful forms which the field offers us, we may chance to cast a right glance back upon biography.
    Art1 2.368 12 ...it is [genius's] instinct to find beauty and holiness...in the field and road-side...
    Exp 3.47 2 ...my neighbor has fertile meadow, but my field, says the querulous farmer, only holds the world together.
    Mrs1 3.125 3 My gentleman...will...outgeneral veterans in the field...
    Mrs1 3.128 7 Great men are not commonly in [fashion's] halls; they are absent in the field...
    Mrs1 3.138 22 Other virtues are in request in the field and workyard, but a certain degree of taste is not to be spared in those we sit with.
    Mrs1 3.151 7 ...are there not women...who anoint our eyes and we see? We say things we never thought to have said;...we were children playing with children in a wide field of flowers.
    Nat2 3.174 26 A boy hears a military band play on the field at night, and he has kings and queens and famous chivalry palpably before him.
    Nat2 3.192 25 This or this [in nature] is but outskirt and a far-off reflection and echo of the triumph that has passed by, and is now at its glancing splendor and heyday, perchance in the neighboring fields, or, if you stand in the field, then in the adjacent woods.
    NR 3.232 20 I am very much struck in literature by the appearance that one person wrote all the books; as if the editor of a journal planted his body of reporters in different parts of the field of action...
    NR 3.246 6 ...every pumpkin in the field goes through every point of pumpkin history.
    NER 3.257 25 The old English rule was, All summer in the field, and all winter in the study.
    NER 3.264 21 ...it may easily be questioned...whether such a retreat [to associations] does not promise to become an asylum to those who have tried and failed, rather than a field to the strong;...
    UGM 4.19 18 [The great man's] class is extinguished with him. In some other and quite different field the next man will appear;...
    UGM 4.31 26 Fair play and an open field and freshest laurels to all who have won them!
    ShP 4.192 13 The best proof of [the Elizabethan theatre's] vitality is the crowd of writers which suddenly broke into this field;...
    NMW 4.232 12 [Bonaparte]...won his battles in his head before he won them on the field.
    NMW 4.238 9 This [Austrian] cavalry...required a quarter of an hour to arrive on the field of action...
    ET5 5.78 10 The English game is...fair play and open field...
    ET5 5.84 11 [The English] are neat husbands for ordering all their tools pertaining to house and field.
    ET5 5.86 10 ...the English can put more men into the rank, on the day of action, on the field of battle, than any other army.
    ET11 5.179 9 Cambridge is the bridge of the Cam; Sheffield the field of the river Sheaf;...
    ET13 5.217 6 [The English Church]...has coupled itself with the almanac, that no court can be held, no field ploughed, no horse shod, without some leave from the church.
    ET18 5.306 8 [The English]...are like a dull good horse which lets every nag pass him, but with whip and spur will run down every racer in the field.
    Wth 6.115 21 In an evil hour [a man] pulled down his wall and added a field to his homestead.
    Wth 6.121 5 I know...neither how to buy wood, nor what to do with...the field...when bought.
    Wth 6.123 9 ...the citizen comes to know that his predecessor the farmer built the house in the right spot for...the convenience to the pasture, the garden, the field and the road.
    Wsp 6.203 10 ...as [the Shakers] go with perfect sympathy to their tasks in the field or shop, so are they inclined for a ride or a journey at the same instant...
    CbW 6.246 23 ...whatever makes us either think or feel strongly...enlarges our field of action.
    CbW 6.254 19 Wars, fires, plagues...open a fair field to new men.
    Bty 6.291 10 ...the labors of hay-makers in the field...is becoming to the wise eye.
    Ill 6.311 21 ...the farmer in the field, the negro in the rice-swamp...ascribe a certain pleasure to their employment, which they themselves give it.
    Civ 7.22 14 There was once a giantess who had a daughter, and the child saw a husbandman ploughing in the field.
    Farm 7.135 16 So, year by year,/ [Farmers] fight the elements with elements,/ And by the order in the field disclose/ The order regnant in the yeoman's brain./
    Farm 7.136 4 [The farmer] planted where the deluge ploughed,/ His hired hands were wind and cloud;/ His eyes detect the Gods concealed/ In the hummock of the field./
    Farm 7.141 21 ...the true abolitionist is the farmer, who...stands all day in the field...making a product with which no forced labor can compete.
    WD 7.159 16 [Steam] already walks about the field like a man...
    Cour 7.256 16 How short a time since this whole nation rose every morning to read or hear the traits of courage of its sons and brothers in the field...
    Cour 7.267 26 There is a courage of the cabinet as well as a courage of the field;...
    Suc 7.308 17 I do not find...grisly photographs of the field on the day after the battle, fit subjects for cabinet pictures.
    PI 8.58 11 [The wind] is in the field, it is in the wood,/ Without hand, without foot,/ Without age, without season/...
    Res 8.139 18 Measure by barrels the spending of the brook that runs through your field.
    QO 8.202 21 When a man thinks happily, he finds no foot-track in the field he traverses.
    PPo 8.237 15 Many qualities go to make a good telescope,-as the largeness of the field...
    Imtl 8.338 9 I have a house, a closet which holds my books, a table, a garden, a field...
    Dem1 10.19 4 It would be easy in the political history of every time to furnish examples of this irregular success, men having a force which without virtue...yet makes them prevailing. No equal appears in the field against them.
    Aris 10.56 3 I am acquainted with persons who go attended with this ambient cloud. ... Their manners and behavior in the house and in the field are those of men at rest...
    Edc1 10.137 7 A new Adam in the garden, [the new man] is to name all the beasts in the field, all the gods in the sky.
    SovE 10.189 16 ...the warfare of beasts should be renewed in a finer field, for more excellent victories.
    MoL 10.257 24 I learn with joy and with deep respect that this college has sent its full quota to the field.
    Schr 10.273 27 If [the scholar] is not kindling his torch or collecting oil...in the field he will be shamed by mowers and reapers.
    EzRy 10.387 6 ...I well remember [Ezra Ripley's] his pleading, almost reproachful looks at the sky, when the thunder-gust was coming up to spoil his hay. He...looked at the cloud...and seemed to say, You know me; this field is mine...
    EzRy 10.393 1 [Ezra Ripley] watched with interest the garden, the field...
    Thor 10.456 23 ...[Thoreau]...threw himself heartily and childlike into the company of young people...whom he delighted to entertain...with the varied and endless anecdotes of his experiences by field and river...
    HDC 11.49 2 ...freedom and virtue, if they triumphed [in Concord], triumphed in a fair field.
    HDC 11.73 6 In the field where the western abutment of the old bridge [in Concord] may still be seen...the first organized resistance was made to the British arms.
    EWI 11.116 23 On the next Monday morning [after emancipation in the West Indies], with very few exceptions, every negro on every plantation was in the field at his work.
    War 11.173 10 [Shakespeare's lords] make what is in their minds the greatest sacrifice. They will, for an injurious word, peril all their state and wealth, and go to the field.
    FSLC 11.212 23 It was the praise of Athens, She could not lead countless armies into the field, but she knew how with a little band to defeat those who could.
    TPar 11.284 11 ...[Theodore Parker's] periods fall on you, stroke after stroke,/ Like the blows of a lumberer felling an oak,/ You forget the man wholly, you 're thankful to meet/ With a preacher who smacks of the field and the street/...
    SMC 11.358 13 I doubt not many of our soldiers could repeat the confession of a youth whom I knew in the beginning of the [Civil] war, who...went to the field, and died early.
    SMC 11.367 15 ...[the Thirty-second Regiment] grew at last...to an excellent reputation, attested...by the important position usually assigned them in the field.
    SMC 11.367 17 I have found many notes of [the Thirty-second Regiment' s] rough experience in the march and in the field.
    SMC 11.373 10 [George Prescott] was carried off the field to the division hospital...
    SMC 11.374 19 ...the [Thirty-second] regiment was mustered out in the field, at Washington, on the twenty-eighth of June...
    SHC 11.428 6 ...Here the green pines delight, the aspen droops/ Along the modest pathways, and those fair/ Pale asters of the season spread their plumes/ Around this field, fit garden for our tombs./
    SHC 11.428 18 ...Prison thy soul from malice, bar out pride,/ Nor these pale flowers nor this still field deride:/...
    SHC 11.429 12 [The committee] have thought that the taking possession of this field [Sleepy Hollow Cemetery] ought to be marked by a public meeting and religious rites...
    FRep 11.541 22 The genius of the country has marked out our true policy,-opportunity. Opportunity...of personal power, and not less of wealth; doors wide open. If I could have it,-free trade with all the world... hospitality of fair field and equal laws to all.
    PLT 12.43 15 There are times when...a farmer planting in his field is more suggestive to the mind than the Yosemite gorge or the Vatican would be in another hour.
    II 12.66 3 'T is very certain that a man's whole possibility is contained in that habitual first look which he casts on all objects. Here alone is the field of metaphysical discovery...
    CW 12.172 6 Still less did I know [when I bought my farm] what good and true neighbors I was buying...some of them now known the country through...and...other men not known widely but known at home, farmers... skilled in turning a swamp or a sand-bank into a fruitful field...
    Bost 12.196 6 ...the young farmers and mechanics, who work all summer in the field or shop, in the winter often go into a neighboring town to teach the district school arithmetic and grammar.
    Bost 12.210 2 As long as [Boston] cleaves to her liberty, her education and to her spiritual faith as the foundation of [material accumulations], she will teach the teachers and rule the rulers of America. Her mechanics, her farmers will toil better;...her troops will be the first in the field to vindicate the majesty of a free nation, and remain last on the field to secure it.
    Bost 12.210 3 As long as [Boston] cleaves to her liberty, her education and to her spiritual faith as the foundation of [material accumulations], she will teach the teachers and rule the rulers of America. Her mechanics, her farmers will toil better;...her troops will be the first in the field to vindicate the majesty of a free nation, and remain last on the field to secure it.
    Milt1 12.258 1 In the midst of London, [Milton] seems, like the creatures of the field and the forest, to have been tuned in concord with the order of the world;...
    AgMs 12.358 10 This man [Edmund Hosmer] always impresses me with respect, he is...so disdainful of all appearances; excellent and reverable in his old weather-worn cap and blue frock bedaubed with the soil of the field;...
    AgMs 12.359 27 I walked up and down the field, as [Edmund Hosmer] ploughed his furrow...
    Let 12.404 2 Apathies and total want of work...never will obtain any sympathy if there is...an unweeded patch in the garden; not to mention the graver absurdity of a youth of noble aims who can find no field for his energies, whilst the colossal wrongs of the Indian, of the Negro, of the emigrant, remain unmitigated...

Field of the Cloth of Gold, (1)

    PPr 12.390 5 Carlyle, in his strange, half-mad way, has entered the Field of the Cloth of Gold...

field-hand, n. (1)

    Aris 10.48 22 In the South a slave was bluntly but accurately valued at five hundred to a thousand dollars, if a good field-hand;...

Fielding, Henry, n. (1)

    Scot 11.466 24 In the number and variety of his characters [Scott] approaches Shakspeare. Other painters in verse or prose have thrown into literature a few type-figures; as...Sterne and Fielding;...

field-mice, n. (1)

    RBur 11.442 2 What a love of Nature [in Burns], and, shall I say it? of middle-class Nature. Not like...Moore, in the luxurious East, but in the homely landscape which the poor see around them...birds, hares, field-mice, thistles and heather...

Fields, Elysian, n. (2)

    Bhr 6.194 23 I am sorry, replies Napoleon [to his brother Joseph], you think you shall find your brother again only in the Elysian Fields.
    Boks 7.203 5 The imaginative scholar will find few stimulants to his brain like these writers [the Platonists]. He has entered the Elysian Fields;...

fields, n. (52)

    Nat 1.3 17 There is more wool and flax in the fields.
    Nat 1.10 21 The greatest delight which the fields and woods minister is the suggestion of an occult relation between man and the vegetable.
    Nat 1.42 9 ...[a farm] is a sacred emblem from the first furrow of spring to the last stack which the snow of winter overtakes in the fields.
    DSA 1.151 1 What hinders that now...in fields...you speak the very truth...
    LE 1.163 3 ...in the quiet of these gray fields...behold Charles the Fifth's day;...
    MR 1.231 16 ...it is only necessary to ask a few questions as to the progress of the articles of commerce from the fields where they grew, to our houses, to become aware that we eat and drink and wear perjury and fraud...
    MR 1.241 24 ...where there is a fine organization, apt for poetry and philosophy, that individual...is better taught by a moderate and dainty exercise, such as rambling in the fields...than by the downright drudgery of the farmer and the smith.
    LT 1.289 24 The granite is curiously concealed...under well-manured, arable fields...
    Hist 2.18 21 ...one summer day in the fields my companion pointed out to me a broad cloud...
    Comp 2.107 25 ...the belt which Ajax gave Hector dragged the Trojan hero over the fields at the wheels of the car of Achilles...
    SL 2.135 24 When we come out of the caucus...into the fields and woods, [nature] says to us, So hot? my little Sir.
    Cir 2.303 18 Nature...has a cause like all the rest; and when once I comprehend that, will these fields stretch so immovably wide...
    Chr1 3.102 1 I knew an amiable and accomplished person who undertook a practical reform, yet I was never able to find in him the enterprise of love he took in hand. ... All his action was tentative, a piece of the city carried out into the fields, and was the city still...
    Mrs1 3.129 4 The city would have died out, rotted and exploded, long ago, but that it was reinforced from the fields.
    Mrs1 3.149 24 The open air and the fields, the street and public chambers are the places where Man executes his will;...
    Nat2 3.169 17 The day, immeasurably long, sleeps over the broad hills and warm wide fields.
    Nat2 3.177 8 The fop of fields is no better than his brother of Broadway.
    Nat2 3.192 25 This or this [in nature] is but outskirt and a far-off reflection and echo of the triumph that has passed by, and is now at its glancing splendor and heyday, perchance in the neighboring fields...
    Nat2 3.195 2 All over the wide fields of earth grows the prunella or self-heal.
    Pol1 3.217 16 ...successes in those fields [of trade and ambition] are the poor amends, the fig-leaf with which the shamed soul attempts to hide its nakedness.
    UGM 4.16 17 Genius...by acquainting us with new fields of activity, cools our affection for the old.
    UGM 4.22 24 ...in these new fields there is room...
    ET1 5.24 16 [Wordsworth] then said he would show me a better way towards the inn; and he walked a good part of a mile...and finally parted from me with great kindness and returned across the fields.
    ET3 5.34 8 ...[English] fields have been combed and rolled till they appear to have been finished with a pencil instead of a plough.
    Wsp 6.237 20 ...[The Shakers] say, the Spirit will presently manifest to the man himself and to the society what manner of person he is, and whether he belongs among them. They do not receive him, they do not reject him. And not in vain have they...drudged in their fields...if they have truly learned thus much wisdom.
    Farm 7.149 2 ...the vines and stalks and stems may go sprawling about in the fields outside...
    PI 8.17 24 As soon as a man masters a principle and sees his facts in relation to it, fields, waters, skies, offer to clothe his thoughts in images.
    Dem1 10.5 24 In sleep one...shall walk alone in familiar fields and meadows...
    Schr 10.273 20 Other men are...heaving and carrying, each that he may peacefully execute the fine function by which they all are helped. Shall [the scholar] play, whilst their eyes follow him from far with reverence, attributing to him the delving in great fields of thought...
    Thor 10.450 4 It seemed as if the breezes brought him,/ It seemed as if the sparrows taught him/ As if by secret sign he knew/ Where in far fields the orchis grew./
    Thor 10.466 6 Mr. Thoreau dedicated his genius with such entire love to the fields, hills and waters of his native town, that he made them known and interesting to all reading Americans...
    Thor 10.468 17 See these weeds, [Thoreau] said, which have been hoed at by a million farmers...and just now come out triumphant over all lanes, pastures, fields and gardens...
    HDC 11.29 18 Who can tell how many thousand years, every day, the clouds have shaded these fields with their purple awning?
    HDC 11.29 24 ...the little society of men who now, for a few years, fish in this river, plough the fields it washes...shortly shall hurry from its banks as did their forefathers.
    HDC 11.73 1 In these peaceful fields [of Concord], for the first time since a hundred years, the drum and alarm-gun were heard...
    HDC 11.75 6 The militia and minute-men...ran...across the great fields, into the east quarter of the town [Concord]...
    SMC 11.347 3 They have shown what men may do,/ They have proved how men may die,-/ Count, who can, the fields they have pressed,/ Each face to the solemn sky! Brownell.
    SMC 11.348 5 Think you these felt no charms/ In their gray homesteads and embowered farms?/ ... In fields their boyish feet had known?/ In trees their fathers' hands had set,/ And which with them had grown,/ Widening each year their leafy coronet?/
    SMC 11.366 11 The regiment [Fifty-ninth Massachusetts] being formed of veterans, and in fields requiring great activity and exposure, suffered extraordinary losses;...
    SMC 11.374 25 Those who went through those dreadful fields [of the Civil War] and returned not deserve much more than all the honor we can pay.
    SMC 11.375 2 Those who went through those dreadful fields [of the Civil War] and returned not deserve much more than all the honor we can pay. But those also who went through the same fields, and returned alive, put just as much at hazard as those who died...
    SMC 11.375 19 Brave men! you [veterans of the Civil War] will hardly be called to see again fields as terrible as those you have already trampled with your victories.
    Koss 11.397 21 ...now, Sir [Kossuth], we are heartily glad to see you, at last, in these fields [of Concord].
    Mem 12.103 19 ...confined now in populous streets you behold again the green fields, the shadows of the gray birches;...
    CL 12.154 16 We may well yield us for a time to [the sea's] lessons. But the nomad instinct...persists to drive us to fresh fields and pastures new.
    CL 12.160 2 ...the speculators who rush for investment...are all more or less mad...these...persuade us to seek in the fields the health of the mind.
    CW 12.171 6 When I bought my farm...as little did I guess what sublime mornings and sunsets I was buying...what fields and lanes for a tramp.
    ACri 12.305 4 Once in the fields with the lowing cattle...and I cannot tell whether this is Thessaly and Enna, or whether Concord and Acton.
    EurB 12.371 22 ...[Ben Jonson] is a countryman at a harvest-home, attending his ox-cart from the fields...
    Trag 12.405 17 ...how the spirit seems already to contract its domain... leaving its planted fields to erasure and annihilation.

fiend, n. (1)

    Pow 6.60 21 ...the torpid artist seeks inspiration at any cost...by friend or by fiend...

fiends, n. (1)

    Pow 6.67 10 [Boniface] introduced all the fiends, male and female, into the town...

Fiennes, n. (1)

    ET7 5.118 4 The mottoes of [English] families are monitory proverbs, as... Say and seal, of the house of Fiennes;...

fierce, adj. (21)

    Hist 2.24 19 The manners of [the Grecian] period are plain and fierce.
    Comp 2.98 27 Is a man too strong and fierce for society...Nature sends him a troop of pretty sons and daughters...
    SwM 4.94 22 Almost with a fierce haste [the moral sentiment] lays its empire on the man.
    ET3 5.43 9 The sea shall disjoin the people from others, and knit them to a fierce nationality.
    ET5 5.78 2 The island [England] was renowned in antiquity for its breed of mastiffs, so fierce that when their teeth were set you must cut their heads off to part them.
    ET8 5.134 23 ...here [in England] exists the best stock in the world...as if the burly inexpressive, now mute and contumacious, now fierce and sharp-tongued dragon, which once made the island light with his fiery breath, had bequeathed his ferocity to his conqueror.
    ET10 5.153 12 Haydon says, There is a fierce resolution [in England] to make every man live according to the means he possesses.
    Pow 6.65 1 ...the 'bruisers,' who have run the gauntlet of caucus and tavern through the county or the state,--have their own vices, but they have the good nature of strength and courage. Fierce and unscrupulous, they are usually frank and direct and above falsehood.
    Civ 7.17 16 ...The lynx, the rattlesnake, the flood, the fire:/ All the fierce enemies, ague, hunger, cold,/ This thin spruce roof, this clayed log wall,/ This wild plantation will suffice to chase./
    Cour 7.278 18 ...They see two grizzly bears/ With hunger fierce and fell/ Rush at them unawares/ Right down the narrow dell./
    PI 8.65 21 Dante was faithful [to Nature] when not carried away by his fierce hatreds.
    PPo 8.238 4 Life in the East is fierce, short, hazardous, and in extremes.
    Aris 10.34 26 The old French Revolution attracted to its first movement all the liberality, virtue, hope and poetry in Europe. By the abolition of kingship and aristocracy, tyranny, inequality and poverty would end. Alas! no; tyranny, inequality, poverty, stood as fast and fierce as ever.
    Chr2 10.106 3 ...in the hands...of fierce Gauls, [Christianity's] creeds were tainted with their barbarism.
    MoL 10.244 9 On the south and east shores of the Mediterranean Mahomet impressed his fierce genius how deeply into the manners, language and poetry of Arabia and Persia!
    LLNE 10.353 23 ...in a day of small, sour and fierce schemes, one is admonished and cheered by a project of such friendly aims [as Fourier's]...
    HDC 11.51 1 ...the secret of [the Indian's] amazing skill seemed to be that he partook of the nature and fierce instincts of the beasts he slew.
    JBB 11.266 15 Then [John Brown] grasped his trusty rifle, and boldly fought for Freedom;/ Smote from border unto border the fierce invading band/...
    PLT 12.50 3 The same functions which are perfect in our quadrupeds are seen slower performed in palaeontology. Many races it cost them to achieve the completion that is now in the life of one. Life had not yet so fierce a glow.
    Milt1 12.273 11 ...[Milton] frequented no church; probably from a disgust at the fierce spirit of the pulpits.
    MLit 12.329 20 [We can fancy Goethe saying to himself] Fierce churchmen and effeminate aspirants will chide and hate my name, but every keen beholder of life will justify my truth [in Wilhelm Meister]...

fiercely, adv. (2)

    Ill 6.317 19 'T is the charm of practical men that outside of their practicality are a certain poetry and play, as if they led the good horse Power by the bridle, and preferred to walk, though they can ride so fiercely.
    Cour 7.257 5 Break the egg of the young [snapping-turtle], and the little embryo, before yet the eyes are open, bites fiercely;...

fierceness, n. (1)

    SMC 11.359 3 The older among us can well remember [George Prescott]... not a trace of fierceness, much less of recklessness...

fiercer, adj. (1)

    Comp 2.100 17 If the government is a terrific democracy, the pressure is resisted by an over-charge of energy in the citizen, and life glows with a fiercer flame.

fierily, adv. (1)

    TPar 11.284 4 ...Every word that [Parker] speaks has been fierily furnaced/ In the blast of a life that has struggled in earnest/...

fiery, adj. (15)

    Lov1 2.184 19 From exchanging glances, [lovers] advance to acts...of gallantry, then to fiery passion...
    Cir 2.311 9 We all stand waiting, empty...surrounded by mighty symbols which are not symbols to us, but prose and trivial toys. Then cometh the god and converts the statues into fiery men...
    GoW 4.267 7 The fiery reformer embodies his aspiration in some rite or covenant...
    ET8 5.134 24 ...here [in England] exists the best stock in the world...as if the burly inexpressive, now mute and contumacious, now fierce and sharp-tongued dragon, which once made the island light with his fiery breath, had bequeathed his ferocity to his conqueror.
    Elo1 7.95 10 Some of [the eloquent men] were writers, like Burke; but most of them were not, and no record at all adequate to their fame remains. Besides, what is best is lost,--the fiery life of the moment.
    Elo1 7.97 21 ...[the eloquent man] is to convert [the people] into fiery apostles and publishers of the same wisdom.
    Elo2 8.114 13 ...you may find [the orator] in some lowly Bethel, by the seaside, where a hard-featured, scarred and wrinkled Methodist becomes the poet of the sailor and the fisherman, whilst he pours out the abundant streams of his thought through a language all glittering and fiery with imagination;...
    Edc1 10.151 4 What fiery soul will [the college] send out to warm a nation with his charity?
    SovE 10.195 1 The fiery soul said: Let me be a blot on this fair world, the obscurest, the loneliest sufferer, with one proviso,-that I know it is his agency.
    MoL 10.244 12 See the activity of the imagination in the Crusades: the front of morn was full of fiery shapes;...
    LLNE 10.346 12 These [19th Century] reformers were a new class. Instead of the fiery souls of the Puritans...these were gentle souls...
    MMEm 10.403 12 My opinion, [Mary Moody Emerson] writes, [is]...that the fiery depths of Calvinism...would have alone been fitted to fix [Byron' s] imagination.
    Bost 12.183 21 There are countries, said Howell, where the heaven is a fiery furnace or a blowing bellows, or a dropping sponge, most parts of the year.
    Bost 12.194 2 Who can read the fiery ejaculations of Saint Augustine...of Thomas a Kempis...without feeling how rich and expansive a culture...they owed to the promptings of this [Christian] sentiment;...
    ACri 12.281 1 To clothe the fiery thought/ In simple words succeeds,/ For still the craft of genius is/ To mask a king in weeds./

Fiesole, San Domenica di, (1)

    ET1 5.7 2 Greenough brought me, through a common friend, an invitation from Mr. Landor, who lived at San Domenica di Fiesole.

fife, n. (4)

    SR 2.60 13 Instead of the gong for dinner, let us hear a whistle from the Spartan fife.
    Hsm1 2.247 24 We have a great many flutes and flageolets, but not often the sound of any fife.
    Boks 7.200 26 ...the meeting of the Seven Wise Masters...is as clear as the voice of a fife...
    Aris 10.38 9 From the most accumulated culture we are always running back to the sound of any drum and fife.

Fife, Witch of, [James Hog (1)

    QO 8.197 20 ...James Hogg (except in his poems Kilmeny and The Witch of Fife) is but a third-rate author...

fifteen, adj. (20)

    NER 3.257 14 ...we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation-rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind...
    ET2 5.28 4 The mainmast [of our ship]...measured 115 feet;...
    ET2 5.32 9 Sea-days are long--these lack-lustre, joyless days which whistled over us; but they were few--only fifteen, as the captain counted...
    ET11 5.182 19 The Duke of Norfolk's park in Sussex is fifteen miles in circuit.
    ET16 5.290 4 [Winchester Cathedral] is very old: part of the crypt...was built fourteen or fifteen hundred years ago.
    Pow 6.55 23 If Eric is in robust health...at his departure from Greenland he will steer west, and his ships will reach Newfoundland. But take out Eric and put in a stronger and bolder man...and the ships will...sail...fifteen hundred miles further...
    Wth 6.114 1 A good pride is, as I reckon it, worth from five hundred to fifteen hundred a year.
    Wth 6.122 21 When a citizen...comes out and buys land in the country, his first thought is to a fine outlook from his windows;...a sunset every day, bathing...the peaks of Monadnoc and Uncanoonuc. What, thirty acres, and all this magnificence for fifteen hundred dollars!
    CbW 6.250 26 I once counted in a little neighborhood and found that every able-bodied man had say from twelve to fifteen persons dependent on him for material aid...
    Farm 7.147 13 ...Nature drops a pine-cone in Mariposa, and it lives fifteen centuries...
    WD 7.179 24 These passing fifteen minutes, men think, are time, not eternity;...
    MoL 10.256 19 [Senators and lawyers] read that they might know, did they not? Well, these men [who passed infamous laws] did not know. They blundered; they were utterly ignorant of that which every boy and girl of fifteen knows perfectly,-the rights of men and women.
    HDC 11.60 5 Two young farmers, Abraham and Isaac Shepherd, had set their sister Mary, a girl of fifteen years, to watch whilst they threshed grain in the barn.
    HDC 11.62 18 Before 1666, 15,000 acres had been added by grants of the General Court to the original territory of the town [Concord]...
    LVB 11.91 8 ...out of eighteen thousand souls composing the [Cherokee] nation, fifteen thousand six hundred and sixty-eight have protested against the so-called treaty.
    LVB 11.96 11 I write thus, sir [Van Buren]...to pray with one voice more that you, whose hands are strong with the delegated power of fifteen millions of men, will avert with that might the terrific injury which threatens the Cherokee tribe.
    ACiv 11.301 15 Here is a woman who has no other property [but slaves],- like a lady in Charleston I knew of, who owned fifteen sweeps and rode in her carriage.
    CW 12.174 16 In the arboretum you should have things...which people who read of them are hungry to see. Thus plant the Sequoia Gigantea...and set it on its way of ten or fifteen centuries.
    Milt1 12.247 23 It was very easy to remark an altered tone in the criticism when Milton reappeared as an author, fifteen years ago...
    Let 12.393 27 ...to fifteen letters on Communities, and the Prospects of Culture, and the destinies of the cultivated class,-what answer?

fifteenth, adj. (3)

    ET1 5.7 2 On the 15th May [1833] I dined with Mr. Landor.
    Pow 6.78 15 No genius can recite a ballad at first reading so well as mediocrity can at the fifteenth or twentieth reading.
    EzRy 10.385 9 ...on 15th May [1735] we have this [from Joseph Emerson]: Shay brought home; mending cost thirty shillings.

fifth, adj. (11)

    ET1 5.10 7 From London, on the 5th August [1833], I went to Highgate, and wrote a note to Mr. Coleridge...
    ET2 5.26 9 ...I took my berth in the packet-ship Washington Irving and sailed from Boston on Tuesday, 5th October, 1847.
    Ctr 6.132 9 Lord Coke valued Chaucer highly because the Canon Yeman's Tale illustrates the statute fifth Hen. IV. chap. 4, against alchemy.
    Elo1 7.61 12 One man is brought to the boiling-point by the excitement of conversation in the parlor. ... ...and a fifth [needs] nothing less than the grandeur of absolute ideas...
    DL 7.125 8 In each the circumstance signalized differs, but in each it is made the coals of an ever-burning egotism. In one, it was his going to sea;... in a fifth, his new diet and regimen;...
    EzRy 10.381 3 [Ezra Ripley] was the fifth of the nineteen children of Noah and Lydia (Kent) Ripley.
    EzRy 10.384 23 Then again, May 5th [1735, Joseph Emerson writes]: Went to the beach with three of the children.
    JBB 11.267 18 Captain John Brown is...the fifth in descent from Peter Brown...
    JBB 11.268 16 [John Brown] joins that perfect Puritan faith which brought his fifth ancestor to Plymouth Rock with his grandfather's ardor in the Revolution.
    SMC 11.371 16 On the third of May, [the Thirty-second Regiment] crossed the Rapidan for the fifth time.
    SMC 11.372 18 June fourth is marked in [George Prescott's] diary as An awful day;-two hundred men lost to the command; and not until the fifth of June comes at last a respite for a short space...

Fifth Avenue, New York Ci (1)

    CbW 6.260 24 A Fifth Avenue landlord...is not the highest style of man;...

Fifth, Harry, n. (1)

    Shak1 11.451 6 There are...no Bolingbrokes, no Cardinals, no Harry Fifth, in real Europe, like [Shakespeare's].

Fifth Massachusetts Regimen (1)

    SMC 11.365 14 It happened...that the Fifth Massachusetts was almost unofficered.

fifth, n. (1)

    ET4 5.44 21 The British Empire is reckoned to contain (in 1848)...perhaps a fifth of the population of the globe;...

fifties, n. (1)

    LLNE 10.350 27 ...fancy the earth planted with fifties and hundreds of these [Fourierist] phalanxes side by side...

fiftieth, adj. (1)

    SwM 4.130 23 ...after his fiftieth year, [Swedenborg] falls into jealousy of his intellect;...

fifty, adj. (67)

    YA 1.364 16 ...in this country [the railroad] has...anticipated by fifty years the planting of tracts of land...
    Hist 2.40 3 What connection do the books show between the fifty or sixty chemical elements and the historical eras?
    Lov1 2.187 25 Looking at these aims with which two persons, a man and a woman, so variously and correlatively gifted, are shut up in one house to spend in the nuptial society forty or fifty years, I do not wonder at the emphasis with which the heart prophesies this crisis from early infancy...
    Chr1 3.104 17 The true charity of Goethe is to be inferred from the account he gave Dr. Eckermann of the way in which he had spent his fortune. Each bonmot of mine has cost a purse of gold. Half a million of my own money... the large income derived from my writings for fifty years back, have been expended to instruct me in what I now know.
    Mrs1 3.128 22 The class of power, the working heroes...see...that the brilliant names of fashion run back to just such busy names as their own, fifty or sixty years ago.
    SwM 4.110 24 I own with some regret that [Swedenborg's] printed works amount to about fifty stout octavos...
    MoS 4.163 9 ...from a love of Montaigne, [John Sterling] had made a pilgrimage to his chateau...and, after two hundred and fifty years, had copied from the walls of his library the inscriptions which Montaigne had written there.
    MoS 4.178 27 ...we may, in fifty years, have half a dozen reasonable hours.
    NMW 4.226 21 Mirabeau read [Dumont's peroration]...and declared he would incorporate it into his harangue to-morrow, to the Assembly. It is impossible, said Dumont, as, unfortunately, I have shown it to Lord Elgin. If you have shown it to Lord Elgin and to fifty persons beside, I shall still speak it to-morrow...
    ET1 5.9 10 One room was full of pictures, which [Landor] likes to show, especially one piece, standing before which he said he would give fifty guineas to the man that would swear it was a Domenichino.
    ET2 5.27 7 The shortest sea-line from Boston to Liverpool is 2850 miles.
    ET2 5.27 8 The shortest sea-line from Boston to Liverpool is 2850 miles. This a steamer keeps, and saves 150 miles.
    ET2 5.28 1 Our ship was registered 750 tons...
    ET10 5.159 21 The power of machinery in Great Britain, in mills, has been computed to be equal to 600,000,000 men, one man being able by the aid of steam to do the work which required two hundred and fifty men to accomplish fifty years ago.
    ET11 5.178 4 [The English] proverb is, that fifty miles from London, a family will last a hundred years;...
    ET11 5.183 4 In 1786 the soil of England was owned by 250,000 corporations and proprietors;...
    ET11 5.184 8 ...why need [English peers] sit out the debate? Has not the Duke of Wellington, at this moment, their proxies--the proxies of fifty peers...
    ET12 5.205 6 ...the expenses of private tuition [at Oxford] are reckoned at from 50 pounds to 70 pounds a year...
    ET12 5.205 8 At Cambridge, 750 dollars a year is economical...
    ET12 5.206 17 The income of the nineteen colleges [at Oxford] is conjectured at 150,000 pounds a year.
    ET13 5.216 11 Bishop Wilfrid manumitted two hundred and fifty serfs, whom he found attached to the soil.
    ET15 5.269 18 ...I read, among the daily announcements [in the London Times], one offering a reward of fifty pounds to any person who would put a nobleman, described by name and title, late a member of Parliament, into any county jail in England...
    ET16 5.278 9 The sacrificial stone [at Stonehenge]...must have been brought one hundred and fifty miles.
    ET16 5.289 22 The length of line [of Winchester Cathedral] exceeds that of any other English church; being 556 feet, by 250 in breadth of transept.
    F 6.17 15 [Particular inventions] have all been invented over and over fifty times.
    Pow 6.61 22 A timid man...might easily believe that he and his country have seen their best days, and he hardens himself the best he can against the coming ruin. But after this has been foretold with equal confidence fifty times...he discovers that the enormous elements of strength which are here in play make our politics unimportant.
    Wth 6.122 22 When a citizen...comes out and buys land in the country, his first thought is to a fine outlook from his windows;...a sunset every day, bathing...the peaks of Monadnoc and Uncanoonuc. What, thirty acres, and all this magnificence for fifteen hundred dollars! It would be cheap at fifty thousand.
    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, ten, fifty, or a hundred years.
    CbW 6.250 13 Nature makes fifty poor melons for one that is good...
    DL 7.119 6 ...let this stranger...in your looks, in your accent and behavior, read...your thought and will...which he may well travel fifty miles...to behold.
    Farm 7.147 6 Plant fruit-trees by the roadside, and their fruit will never be allowed to ripen. Draw a pine fence about them, and for fifty years they mature for the owner their delicate fruit.
    WD 7.158 23 ...one might say that the inventions of the last fifty years counterpoise those of the fifty centuries before them.
    WD 7.158 24 ...one might say that the inventions of the last fifty years counterpoise those of the fifty centuries before them.
    Boks 7.192 14 ...it happens in our experience that in this lottery [of books] there are at least fifty or a hundred blanks to a prize.
    Boks 7.210 15 Earl Spencer...had paused a quarter of a minute, when Lord Althorp with long steps came to his side, as if to bring his father a fresh lance to renew the fight. Father and son whispered together, and Earl Spencer exclaimed, Two thousand two hundred and fifty pounds!
    Suc 7.285 10 ...leaving the coast [of Panama], the ship full of one hundred and fifty skilful seamen...the wise admiral [Columbus] kept his private record of his homeward path.
    OA 7.317 26 Saadi found in a mosque at Damascus an old Persian of a hundred and fifty years...
    OA 7.324 7 At fifty years, 't is said, afflicted citizens lose their sick-headaches.
    OA 7.327 19 ...at the end of fifty years, [a man's] soul is appeased by seeing some sort of correspondence between his wish and his possession.
    PI 8.45 6 ...I doubt if the best poet has yet written any five-act play that can compare in thoroughness of invention with this unwritten play in fifty acts, composed by the dullest snorer on the floor of the watch-house.
    PC 8.212 17 Geology, a science of forty or fifty summers, has had the effect to throw an air of novelty and mushroom speed over entire history.
    PPo 8.262 4 The falcon answered [the nightingale], Be all ear:/ I, experienced in affairs,/ See fifty things, say never one;/ But thee the people prizes not,/ Who, doing nothing, say'st a thousand./
    PPo 8.265 4 The Highest is a sun-mirror;/ Who comes to Him sees himself therein,/ Sees body and soul, and soul and body;/ When you came to the Simorg,/ Three therein appeared to you,/ And, had fifty of you come,/ So had you seen yourselves as many./ Him has none of us yet seen./
    Chr2 10.107 5 Fifty or a hundred years ago, prayers were said, morning and evening, in all families;...
    Edc1 10.146 16 ...[Fellowes] was able to reconstruct, in the British Museum...the perfect model of the Ionic trophy-monument, fifty years older than the Parthenon of Athens...
    Edc1 10.152 20 Whatever becomes of our method [of teaching], the conditions stand fast,-six hours, and thirty, fifty, or a hundred and fifty pupils.
    Edc1 10.152 21 Whatever becomes of our method [of teaching], the conditions stand fast,-six hours, and thirty, fifty, or a hundred and fifty pupils.
    Plu 10.311 10 'T is almost inevitable to compare Plutarch with Seneca, who, born fifty years earlier, was for many years his contemporary...
    Plu 10.321 3 ...I yet confess my enjoyment of this old version [of Plutarch's Morals], for its vigorous English style. The work of some forty or fifty University men...it is a monument of the English language...
    HDC 11.31 7 In consequence of [Laud's] famous proclamation setting up certain novelties in the rites of public worship, fifty godly ministers were suspended for contumacy...
    HDC 11.39 19 A poor servant [in Concord], that is to possess but fifty acres, may afford to give more wood for fire as good as the world yields, than many noblemen in England.
    HDC 11.54 26 ...in 1640, when the colony rate was 1200 pounds, Concord was assessed 50 pounds.
    HDC 11.57 1 The General Court, in 1647...Ordered, that every township after the Lord had increased them to the number of fifty house-holders, shall appoint one to teach all children to write and read;...
    War 11.152 27 The [early] leaders, picked men of a courage and vigor tried and augmented in fifty battles, are emulous to distinguish themselves above each other by new merits...
    War 11.159 13 When [Assacombuit] appeared at court, he lifted up his hand and said, This hand has slain a hundred and fifty of your majesty's enemies within the territories of New England.
    FSLC 11.210 3 These thirty nations [the United States] are equal to any work, and are every moment stronger. In twenty-five years they will be fifty millions.
    EdAd 11.383 22 A scholar who has been reading of the fabulous magnificence of Assyria and Persia...takes his seat in a railroad-car, where he is importuned by newsboys...with telegraphic despatches not yet fifty minutes old from Buffalo and Cincinnati.
    Shak1 11.447 16 ...it is to us [The Saturday Club] a painful disappointment...that a well-known and honored compatriot...whose American devotion through forty or fifty years to the affairs of a bank, has not been able to bury the fires of his genius,-Mr. Charles Sprague,- pleads the infirmities of age as an absolute bar to his presence with us.
    CL 12.137 18 In Tornea, [Linnaeus] found the people suffering every spring from the loss of their cattle, which died by some frightful distemper, to the number of fifty or a hundred in a year.
    CL 12.155 20 ...after having climbed the Alps, whilst I [Linnaeus], a youth of twenty-five years, was spent and tired...these two old [Lap] men, one fifty, one seventy years...felt none of the inconveniences of the road...
    Bost 12.195 16 The General Court of Massachusetts, in 1647, To the end that learning may not be buried in the graves of the forefathers, ordered, that every township, after the Lord has increased them to the number of fifty householders, shall appoint one to teach all children to write and read;...
    Bost 12.199 9 John Smith says, Thirty, forty, or fifty sail went yearly in America only to trade and fish...
    ACri 12.285 6 ...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.
    MLit 12.312 5 ...the prodigious growth and influence of the genius of Shakspeare, in the last one hundred and fifty years, is itself a fact of the first importance.
    WSL 12.340 4 [Landor] has capital enough to have furnished the brain of fifty stock authors...
    AgMs 12.362 11 ...Mr. D. [Elias Phinney]...would starve in two years on any one of fifty poor farms in this neighborhood...

fifty-eight, adj. (2)

    OA 7.333 12 When Mr. J. Q. Adams's age was mentioned, [John Adams] said, He is now fifty-eight...
    OA 7.333 15 ...[John Adams]...remarked that all the Presidents were of the same age, General Washington was about fifty-eight, and I was about fifty-eight...

fifty-five, adj. (2)

    ET2 5.28 5 The mainmast [of our ship]...measured 115 feet; the length of the deck from stem to stern, 155.
    Boks 7.209 16 For an autograph of Shakspeare one hundred and fifty-five guineas were given.

fifty-four, adj. (3)

    SwM 4.99 27 In 1743, when [Swedenborg] was fifty-four years old, what is called his illumination began.
    ET11 5.182 25 ...before the Reform of 1832, one hundred and fifty-four persons sent three hundred and seven members to Parliament.
    ET15 5.265 24 ...[Mowbray Morris] told us that the daily printing [of the London Times] was then 35,000 copies; that on the 1st March, 1848, the greatest number ever printed--54,000--were issued;...

fifty-fourth, adj. (1)

    SwM 4.118 22 In his fifty-fourth year these thoughts [about Correspondence] held [Swedenborg] fast...

Fifty-ninth Regiment, n. (1)

    SMC 11.366 8 Captain Humphrey H. Buttrick, lieutenant in this [Forty-seventh] regiment...went out again in August, 1864, a captain in the Fifty-ninth Massachusetts...

fifty-seven, adj. (1)

    Exp 3.63 8 A collector recently bought at public auction, in London, for one hundred and fifty-seven guineas, an autograph of Shakspeare;...

fifty-six, adj. (1)

    ET16 5.289 22 The length of line [of Winchester Cathedral] exceeds that of any other English church; being 556 feet, by 250 in breadth of transept.

fifty-three, adj. (1)

    ET16 5.279 24 ...[Carlyle] reads little, he says, in these last years, but Acta Sanctorum; the fifty-three volumes of which are in the London Library.

fig, adj. (3)

    AmS 1.91 21 ...A fig tree, looking on a fig tree, becometh fruitful.
    AmS 1.91 22 ...A fig tree, looking on a fig tree, becometh fruitful.
    Pt1 3.31 21 ...John saw, in the Apocalypse...the stars fall from heaven as the fig tree casteth her untimely fruit;...

Fight, Concord, n. (1)

    MMEm 10.400 2 When introduced to Lafayette at Portland, [Mary Moody Emerson] told him that she was in arms at the Concord Fight.

fight, n. (22)

    Con 1.295 17 ...now [Conservatism], now [Innovation] gets the day, and still the fight renews itself as if for the first time...
    Fdsp 2.200 9 The valiant warrior famoused for fight,/ After a hundred victories, once foiled,/ Is from the book of honor razed quite/ And all the rest forgot for which he toiled./
    Exp 3.65 2 ...lawfulness of writing down a thought, is questioned; much is to say on both sides, and, while the fight waxes hot, thou, dearest scholar, stick to thy foolish task...
    NMW 4.246 21 [Napoleon's] army, on the night of the battle of Austerlitz... presented him with a bouquet of forty standards taken in the fight.
    ET4 5.56 21 The men who have built a ship and invented the rig, cordage, sail, compass and pump;...have acquired much more than a ship. Now arm them and every shore is at their mercy. ... Of course they come into the fight from a higher ground of power than the land-nations;...
    ET4 5.63 8 Dear to the English heart is a fair stand-up fight.
    Art2 7.54 26 The amphitheatre of the old Romans,--any one may see its origin who looks at the crowd running together to see any fight, sickness, or odd appearance in the street.
    Boks 7.210 13 Earl Spencer...had paused a quarter of a minute, when Lord Althorp with long steps came to his side, as if to bring his father a fresh lance to renew the fight.
    Cour 7.266 23 Undoubtedly there is...a warlike blood, which loves a fight...
    Cour 7.267 14 It was told of the Prince of Conde that there not being a more furious man in the world, danger in fight never disturbs him more than just to make him civil...
    Cour 7.271 1 [John Brown] said, As soon as I hear one of my men say, Ah, let me only get my eye on such a man, I'll bring him down, I don't expect much aid in the fight from that talker.
    Elo2 8.116 2 I must feel that the speaker...comes for something,--it is a cry on the perilous edge of the fight,--or let him be silent.
    PPo 8.239 26 Such [amatory] verses...will drive [Persian] warriors to the combat...or prove an ample reward on their return from the dangers of the ghazon, or the fight.
    PerF 10.82 1 ...when the soldier comes home from the fight, he fills all eyes.
    Supl 10.174 8 Children and thoughtless people...like to run to a house on fire, to a fight, to an execution;...
    Plu 10.314 20 [Plutarch's] grand perceptions of duty lead him...to a fight with fortune;...
    Plu 10.314 27 ...[Plutarch] makes a fight against Fortune whenever she is named.
    Plu 10.315 7 ...this Stoic [Plutarch] in his fight with Fortune...is gentle as a woman when other strings are touched.
    HDC 11.76 22 You [veterans of the battle of Concord] have fought a good fight.
    HDC 11.77 23 I have found within a few days, among some family papers, [William Emerson's] almanac of 1775, in a blank leaf of which he has written a narrative of the fight [battle of Concord];...
    SMC 11.371 22 The [Thirty-second] regiment has been in the front and centre since the battle begun...and is now building breastworks on the Fredericksburg road. This has been the hardest fight the world ever knew.
    SMC 11.374 1 At Dabney's Mills, in a sharp fight, [the Thirty-second Regiment] lost seventy-four killed, wounded and missing.

fight, v. (48)

    YA 1.389 23 ...we want justice, with heart of steel, to fight down the proud.
    Hist 2.22 3 ...in these late and civil countries of England and America these propensities [Nomadism and Agriculture] still fight out the old battle...
    SL 2.149 19 What avails it to fight with the eternal laws of mind...
    NR 3.240 9 As long as any man exists, there is some need of him; let him fight for his own.
    UGM 4.7 20 ...each legitimate idea makes its own channels and welcome... weapons to fight with...
    UGM 4.13 14 Napoleon said, You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.
    GoW 4.285 19 [Goethe] can not hate anybody; his time is worth too much. Temperamental antagonisms may be suffered, but like feuds of emperors, who fight dignifiedly across kingdoms.
    ET4 5.57 8 In Norway, no Persian masses fight and perish to aggrandize a king...
    ET5 5.87 23 ...if you offer to lay hand on [the Englishman's] day's wages... or his shop, he will fight to the Judgment.
    ET6 5.102 8 On the day of my arrival at Liverpool, a gentleman, in describing to me the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, happened to say, Lord Clarendon has pluck like a cock and will fight till he dies;...
    ET8 5.131 16 Wellington said of the young coxcombs of the Life-Guards, delicately brought up, But the puppies fight well;...
    ET9 5.149 22 [The English] tell you daily in London the story of the Frenchman and Englishman who quarrelled. Both were unwilling to fight...
    ET9 5.149 24 ...at last it was agreed that [the Frenchman and the Englishman] should fight alone...
    ET12 5.210 26 The diet and rough exercise [at Oxford] secure a certain amount of old Norse power. A fop will fight, and in exigent circumstances will play the manly part.
    ET13 5.214 22 ...when wealth, refinement, great men, and ties to the world supervene, [a nation's] prudent men say, Why fight against Fate, or lift these absurdities [of religion] which are now mountainous?
    F 6.44 8 The races of men rise out of the ground...and divides into parties... angry to fight for this metaphysical abstraction.
    Bhr 6.183 22 ...if [the enthusiast] finds the scholar apart from his companions...the scholar has no defence, but must deal on his terms. Now they must fight the battle out on their private strength.
    Wsp 6.235 9 ...[Benedict said] in all the encounters that have yet chanced, I have not been weaponed for that particular occasion, and have been historically beaten; and yet I know all the time that I...shall certainly fight when my hour comes, and shall beat.
    Farm 7.135 15 So, year by year,/ [Farmers] fight the elements with elements/...
    WD 7.160 16 In Massachusetts we fight the sea successfully with beach-grass and broom...
    Clbs 7.233 2 ...there are the gladiators, to whom [conversation] is always a battle; 't is no matter on which side, they fight for victory;...
    Clbs 7.240 8 You may condemn [the eloquent man's] book, but can you fight against his thought?
    Cour 7.264 4 The forest on fire looks discouraging enough to a citizen: the farmer is skilful to fight it.
    Cour 7.267 21 The dog that scorns to fight, will fight for his master.
    PI 8.33 4 Homer has his own [important passages],--One omen is best, to fight for one's country;/...
    PI 8.46 15 Soldiers can march better and fight better for the drum and trumpet.
    SA 8.97 24 ...[in the man of genius] is...always some weary, captious paradox to fight you with...
    SA 8.106 8 Another cure [for the disease of sentimentalism] would be to fight fire with fire, to match a sentimentalist with a sentimentalist.
    Elo2 8.131 1 ...great generals do not fight many battles, but conquer by tactics...
    PPo 8.242 13 ...when [Afrasiyab] came to fight against the generals of Kaus, he was but an insect in the grasp of Rustem...
    Insp 8.291 14 ...the wise student will remember the prudence of Sir Tristram in Morte d' Arthur, who...took care to fight in the hours when his strength increased;...
    Dem1 10.13 24 When Hector is told that the omens are unpropitious, he replies,-One omen is the best, to fight for one's country./
    PerF 10.74 13 ...if [man] should fight the sea and the whirlwind with his ship, he would snap his spars, tear his sails, and swamp his bark;...
    PerF 10.85 5 ...a military genius, instead of using that to defend his country, he says, I will fight the battle so as to give me place and political consideration;...
    Schr 10.274 14 Let [men of thought] fight by their strength, not by their weakness.
    Thor 10.454 22 [Thoreau] had no temptations to fight against...
    War 11.154 22 The microscope reveals miniature butchery in atomies and infinitely small biters that swim and fight in an illuminated drop of water;...
    FSLN 11.237 7 Everything turns soldier to fight you down.
    ACiv 11.305 1 ...as long as we fight without any affirmative step taken by the government...[the Southerners] and we fight on the same side, for slavery.
    ACiv 11.305 4 ...as long as we fight without...any word intimating forfeiture in the rebel states of their old privileges, under the law, [the Southerners] and we fight on the same side, for slavery.
    EPro 11.320 7 The President [Lincoln] by this act [the Emancipation Proclamation] has paroled all the slaves in America; they will no more fight against us...
    SMC 11.372 13 If those writers could be here and fight all day, and sleep in the trenches, and be called up several times in the night by picket-firing, they would not call [the Army of the Potomac] inactive.
    SMC 11.373 18 One of [George Prescott's] townsmen and comrades...uses these words: He was one of the few men who fight for principle.
    SMC 11.373 19 One of [George Prescott's] townsmen and comrades...uses these words: He was one of the few men who fight for principle. He did not fight for glory, honor, nor money...
    Koss 11.399 27 We [people of Concord] know the austere condition of liberty...that it is always slipping from those who boast it to those who fight for it...
    Wom 11.410 20 ...[the horse and ox]...say no thanks, but fight down whatever opposes their appetite.
    II 12.81 15 ...the races of men rise out of the ground...divided beforehand into parties ready armed and angry to fight for they know not what.
    II 12.85 5 [The source of thought's] whole equipment is new, and it can only fight with its own weapons.

fighter, n. (2)

    Suc 7.287 8 The Norseman was a restless rider, fighter, free-booter.
    PLT 12.62 7 The measure of mental health is the disposition to find good everywhere, good and order, analogy, health and benefit,-the love of truth, tendency to be in the right, no fighter for victory...

fighting, adj. (2)

    Cour 7.266 27 In every school there are certain fighting boys;...
    War 11.155 23 It is the ignorant and childish part of mankind that is the fighting part.

fighting, n. (3)

    Aris 10.52 2 To a right aristocracy...everything will be permitted and pardoned,-gaming, drinking, fighting, luxury.
    War 11.158 3 ...we read with astonishment of the beastly fighting of the old times.
    SMC 11.371 27 Every day, for the last eight days, there has been a terrible battle the whole length of the line. One day they drove us; but it has been regular bull-dog fighting.

fighting, v. (7)

    Nat 1.50 25 The men, the women, - talking, running, bartering, fighting... are unrealized at once [when seen from a coach]...
    Hist 2.35 18 We may all shoot a wild bull that would toss the good and beautiful, by fighting down the unjust and sensual.
    NMW 4.235 22 ...if fighting be the best mode of adjusting national differences...certainly Bonaparte was right in making it thorough.
    Pow 6.55 7 During...trials of strength, wrestling, fighting, a large amount of blood is collected in the arteries...
    Schr 10.274 10 Men of thought fail in fighting down malignity, because they wear other armor than their own.
    HCom 11.339 13 We grudge them not, our dearest, bravest, best,-/ Let but the quarrel's issue stand confest:/ 'T is Earth's old slave-God battling for his crown/ And Freedom fighting with her visor down./ Holmes.
    SMC 11.372 10 We [Thirty-second Regiment] have been in the first line twenty-six days, and fighting every day but two;...

fights, n. (2)

    Pow 6.70 16 ...who cares for fallings-out of assassins and fights of bears or grindings of icebergs?
    SMC 11.363 16 [George Prescott's] next point is to keep [his men] cheerful. 'T is better than medicine. He has games of baseball, and pitching quoits, and euchre, whilst part of the military discipline is sham fights.

fights, v. (5)

    NMW 4.245 25 As soon as we are removed out of the reach of local and accidental partialities, Man feels that Napoleon fights for him;...
    Grts 8.314 22 ...one fights with cannon as with fists;...
    PerF 10.84 16 Things work to their ends...and will certainly defeat any adventurer who fights against this ordination.
    War 11.166 26 At a certain stage of his progress, the man fights...
    FSLC 11.195 5 ...the language of all permanent laws will be in contradiction to any immoral enactment. And thus it happens here [with the Fugitive Slave Law]: Statute fights against Statute.

fig-leaf, n. (1)

    Pol1 3.217 17 ...successes in those fields [of trade and ambition] are the poor amends, the fig-leaf with which the shamed soul attempts to hide its nakedness.

figment, n. (1)

    SL 2.138 15 There is no permanent wise man except in the figment of the Stoics.

figs, n. (3)

    LT 1.274 8 [The wealthy man] entertains [the divine]...lodges him; his religion comes home at night, prays, is...sumptuously laid to sleep; rises...is better breakfasted than he whose morning appetite would have gladly fed on green figs between Bethany and Jerusalem...
    Pt1 3.35 22 The figs become grapes whilst [Swedenborg] eats them.
    Supl 10.163 22 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. Their good people are phoenixes; their naughty are like the prophet's figs.

fig-tree, n. (1)

    PPo 8.257 1 The cedar, the cypress, the palm, the olive and fig-tree...are never wanting in these musky verses [of Hafiz]...

figurative, adj. (2)

    PI 8.12 11 A figurative statement arrests attention...
    PI 8.17 20 The term genius, when used with emphasis, implies imagination; use of symbols, figurative speech.

figuratively, adv. (1)

    Insp 8.294 19 Words used in a new sense and figuratively, dart a delightful lustre;...

figure, n. (77)

    Nat 1.22 3 A virtuous man...makes the central figure of the visible sphere.
    Nat 1.36 12 Every property of matter is a school for the understanding...its figure...
    Nat 1.51 8 In a camera obscura, the butcher's cart, and the figure of one of our own family amuse us.
    Nat 1.61 17 Like the figure of Jesus, [Nature] stands with bended head...
    Con 1.299 4 It makes a great difference to your figure and to your thought whether your foot is advancing or receding.
    Hist 2.13 4 Why should we make account...of figure?
    Hist 2.15 8 ...we have [the Greek national mind expressed] once again in sculpture...a multitude of forms...like votaries performing some religious dance before the gods, and, though in convulsive pain or mortal combat, never daring to break the figure and decorum of their dance.
    SR 2.55 16 We come to wear one cut of face and figure...
    Comp 2.102 16 The world looks like a multiplication-table, or a mathematical equation, which, turn it how you will, balances itself. Take what figure you will, its exact value, not more nor less, still returns to you.
    SL 2.140 6 I say, do not choose; but that is a figure of speech by which I would distinguish what is commonly called choice among men, and which is a partial act...and not a whole act of the man.
    SL 2.146 17 Show us an arc of the curve, and a good mathematician will find out the whole figure.
    SL 2.148 10 My children, said an old man to his boys scared by a figure in the dark entry, my children, you will never see anything worse than yourselves.
    Hsm1 2.261 7 Has nature covenanted with me that I should...never make a ridiculous figure?
    Cir 2.301 3 ...throughout nature this primary figure [the circle] is repeated without end.
    Cir 2.302 11 The Greek sculpture is all melted away, as if it had been statues of ice; here and there a solitary figure or fragment remaining...
    Art1 2.366 14 Men are not well pleased with the figure they make in their own imaginations, and they flee to art...
    Pt1 3.16 23 Some stars...or other figure...on an old rag of bunting...shall make the blood tingle...
    Pt1 3.30 21 ...the metamorphosis once seen, we divine that it does not stop. I will not now consider how much this makes the charm of algebra and the mathematics, which also have their tropes, but it is felt in every definition; as when...Plato defines...a figure to be a bound of solid;...
    Pt1 3.33 4 ...how mean to study, when an emotion communicates to the intellect the power to sap and upheave nature; how great the perspective! nations, times, systems, enter and disappear like threads in tapestry of large figure and many colors;...
    Chr1 3.89 11 Sir Philip Sidney, the Earl of Essex, Sir Walter Raleigh, are men of great figure and of few deeds.
    Mrs1 3.120 27 ...in English literature half the drama, and all the novels... paint this figure [of the gentleman].
    NR 3.229 19 We adjust our instrument for general observation, and sweep the heavens as easily as we pick out a single figure in the terrestrial landscape.
    UGM 4.24 27 ...in the midst of this chuckle of self-gratulation, some figure goes by which Thersites too can love and admire.
    UGM 4.33 2 No man, in all the procession of famous men, is reason or illumination or that essence we were looking for; but is an exhibition, in some quarter, of new possibilities. Could we one day complete the immense figure which these flagrant points compose!
    PPh 4.70 17 ...[Plato] constantly affirms...that the greatest goods...are assigned to us by a divine gift. This leads me to that central figure which he has established in his Academy as the organ through which every considered opinion shall be announced...
    PPh 4.75 10 ...the figure of Socrates by a necessity placed itself in the foreground of the scene, as the fittest dispenser of the intellectual treasures [Plato] had to communicate.
    PNR 4.83 3 Whatever [Plato] looks upon discloses a second sense, and ulterior senses. His...beautiful definitions of ideas, of time, of form, of figure, of the line...
    ShP 4.215 12 Cultivated men often attain a good degree of skill in writing verses; but it is easy to read, through their poems, their personal history: any one acquainted with the parties can name every figure;...
    GoW 4.277 11 ...[Goethe] flung into literature, in his Mephistopheles, the first organic figure that has been added for some ages...
    ET1 5.5 21 [Greenough's] face was so handsome and his person so well formed that he might be pardoned, if, as was alleged, the face of his Medora and the figure of a colossal Achilles in clay, were idealizations of his own.
    ET4 5.68 7 Admiral Rodney's figure approached to delicacy and effeminacy...
    ET11 5.197 18 The lawyers, said Burke, are only birds of passage in this House of Commons, and then added, with a new figure, they have their best bower anchor in the House of Lords.
    Ctr 6.154 24 How can you mind...the figure you make in company...when you think how paltry are the machinery and the workers?
    Bhr 6.169 2 The soul which animates nature is not less significantly published in the figure...of animated bodies, than in its last vehicle of articulate speech.
    Bty 6.289 14 ...the figure of Cupid is drawn with a bandage round his eyes.
    Bty 6.290 5 Elegance of form in bird or beast, or in the human figure, marks some excellence of structure...
    Bty 6.299 16 ...we can pardon pride, when a woman possesses such a figure that wherever she stands...she confers a favor on the world.
    Elo1 7.66 5 ...in our experience we are forced to gather up the figure [of the orator] in fragments...
    Elo1 7.71 14 Homer specially delighted in drawing the same figure [of the orator].
    DL 7.126 25 Every face, every figure, suggests its own right and sound estate.
    OA 7.330 27 In Goethe's Romance, Makaria, the central figure for wisdom and influence, pleases herself with withdrawing into solitude to astronomy and epistolary correspondence.
    PI 8.11 5 ...the secondary use [of a fact], as it is a figure or illustration of my thought, it the real worth.
    PI 8.13 26 The Vedas, the Edda, the Koran, are each remembered by their happiest figure.
    PI 8.14 8 Saint John gave us the Christian figure of souls washed in the blood of Christ.
    PI 8.45 24 In society you have this figure [of rhyme] in a bridal company, where a choir of white-robed maidens give the charm of living statues;...
    PI 8.70 8 In a cotillon some persons dance and others await their turn when the music and the figure come to them.
    PI 8.70 11 In the dance of God there is not one of the chorus but can and will begin to spin...whenever the music and figure reach his place and duty.
    SA 8.80 9 The staple figure in novels is the man of aplomb...
    Comc 8.158 26 The perpetual game of humor is to look with considerate good nature at every object in existence...enjoying the figure which each self-satisfied particular creature cuts in the unrespecting All...
    Comc 8.171 19 A lady of high rank, but of lean figure, had given the Countess Dulauloy the nickname of Le Grenadier tricolore, in allusion to her tall figure...
    Comc 8.171 21 A lady of high rank, but of lean figure, had given the Countess Dulauloy the nickname of Le Grenadier tricolore, in allusion to her tall figure...
    PC 8.233 5 There is a text in Swedenborg which tells in figure the plain truth.
    PPo 8.240 11 The principal figure in the allusions of Eastern poetry is Solomon.
    Insp 8.270 6 The aboriginal man...is not an engaging figure.
    Dem1 10.10 18 ...under every tree in the speckled sunshine and shade no man notices that every spot of light is a perfect image of the sun, until in some hour the moon eclipses the luminary; and then first we notice that the spots of light...correspond to the changed figure of the sun.
    Aris 10.48 3 Every Frenchman would have a career. We English are not any better with our love of making a figure.
    Aris 10.48 7 I told the Duke of Newcastle, says Bubb Dodington in his Memoirs, that...I was determined to make some sort of a figure in life;...
    Aris 10.48 9 I told the Duke of Newcastle, says Bubb Dodington in his Memoirs, that...I was determined to make some sort of a figure in life; I earnestly wished it might be under his protection, but if that could not be, I must make some figure;...
    Aris 10.48 11 I told the Duke of Newcastle, says Bubb Dodington in his Memoirs, that...I was determined to make some sort of a figure in life;... what it would be I could not determine yet;...but some figure I was resolved to make.
    MMEm 10.428 17 ...[Mary Moody Emerson]...delighted herself with the discovery of the figure of a coffin made every evening on their sidewalk, by the shadow of a church tower which adjoined the house.
    Carl 10.490 15 [Carlyle]...is a very national figure...
    FSLN 11.221 5 [Webster's] countenance, his figure, and his manners were all in so grand a style, that he was, without effort, as superior to his most eminent rivals as they were to the humblest;...
    FSLN 11.221 15 [Webster] was there in his Adamitic capacity, as if he alone of all men...was a fit figure in the landscape.
    ALin 11.335 13 There, by his courage, his justice...[Lincoln] stood a heroic figure in the centre of a heroic epoch.
    Wom 11.403 6 ...there in the parlor sits/ Some figure in noble guise,-/ Our Angel in a stranger's form;/ Or Woman's pleading eyes./
    Wom 11.406 11 Men remark figure...
    Scot 11.466 26 ...Scott portrayed with equal strength and success every figure in his crowded company.
    PLT 12.23 4 From whatever side we look at Nature we seem to be exploring the figure of a disguised man.
    CInt 12.125 24 ...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...
    CInt 12.127 25 ...I thought...a college was to teach you geometry, or the lovely laws of space and figure;...
    MAng1 12.221 14 When Michael Angelo would begin a statue, he made first on paper the skeleton; afterwards, upon another paper, the same figure clothed with muscles.
    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 12.228 18 [Michelangelo] used to make to a single figure nine, ten, or twelve heads before he could satisfy himself...
    MAng1 12.229 19 [Michelangelo's Moses]...is designed to embody the Hebrew Law. The law-giver is supposed to gaze upon the worshippers of the golden calf. The majestic wrath of the figure daunts the beholder.
    MAng1 12.230 13 Every one of these pieces [in the Sistine Chapel ceiling], every figure...is a study of anatomy and design.
    ACri 12.299 5 ...[in Carlyle's History of Frederick II] we see the eyes of the writer looking into ours, whilst he is humming and chuckling... stereoscoping every figure that passes...
    AgMs 12.363 13 The true men of skill, the poor farmers...are the only right subjects of this Report [Agricultural Survey of the Commonwealth]; yet these make no figure in it.

figure, v. (6)

    CbW 6.263 10 I figure [sickness] as a pale, wailing, distracted phantom...
    Bty 6.304 9 Facts which had never before left their stark common sense suddenly figure as Eleusinian mysteries.
    DL 7.129 4 ...we figure to ourselves...that when men shall meet as they should...it shall be the festival of Nature...
    PI 8.65 9 We know Nature and figure her exuberant, tranquil, magnificent in her fertility...
    PLT 12.15 14 We figure to ourselves Intellect as an ethereal sea...
    Mem 12.93 18 We figure [memory] as if the mind were a kind of looking-glass...

figured, v. (4)

    Nat 1.73 17 The difference between the actual and the ideal force of man is happily figured by the schoolmen...
    PPo 8.240 17 Solomon had three talismans...second, the glass in which he saw the secrets of his enemies and the causes of all things, figured;...
    PPo 8.255 7 In the following poem the soul is figured as the Phoenix alighting on Tuba, the Tree of Life...
    Imtl 8.324 22 ...among rude men moral judgments were rudely figured under the forms of dogs and whips...

figures, n. (60)

    Nat 1.29 6 ...savages...converse in figures.
    DSA 1.129 13 ...the figures of [Jesus's] rhetoric have usurped the place of his truth;...
    LT 1.262 7 They indicate,-these...figures of the only race in which there are individuals or changes, how far on the Fate has gone...
    Tran 1.332 12 One thing at least, [the materialist] says, is certain...that figures do not lie;...
    Tran 1.332 20 ...ask [the materialist]...on what grounds he founds his faith in his figures...
    Hist 2.33 15 These figures, [Goethe] would say, these Chirons, Griffins, Phorkyas, Helen and Leda, are somewhat, and do exert a specific influence on the mind.
    Lov1 2.175 19 ...the figures, the motions, the words of the beloved object are not, like other images, written in water...
    Prd1 2.229 14 The last Grand Duke of Weimar...said,--I have sometimes remarked in the presence of great works of art...how much a certain property contributes to the effect which gives life to the figures, and to the life an irresistible truth.
    Prd1 2.229 16 This property [which gives life to the figures in a painting] is the hitting, in all the figures we draw, the right centre of gravity.
    Prd1 2.229 17 This property [which gives life to the figures in a painting] is the hitting, in all the figures we draw, the right centre of gravity. I mean the placing the figures firm upon their feet...
    Prd1 2.229 20 Even lifeless figures, as vessels and stools--let them be drawn ever so correctly--lose all effect so soon as they lack the resting upon their centre of gravity...
    Prd1 2.230 6 ...beside all the resistless beauty of form, [the Raphael in the Dresden gallery] possesses in the highest degree the property of the perpendicularity of all the figures.
    Prd1 2.230 7 This perpendicularity we demand of all the figures in this picture of life.
    OS 2.274 6 The landscape, the figures...are facts as fugitive as any institution past...
    Art1 2.356 20 The best pictures are rude draughts of a few of the miraculous dots and lines and dyes which make up the everchanging landscape with figures amidst which we dwell.
    Art1 2.357 26 No mannerist made these varied groups and diverse original single figures.
    Art1 2.366 5 The old tragic Necessity, which...furnishes the sole apology for the intrusion of such anomalous figures [as Venuses and Cupids] into nature...no longer dignifies the chisel or the pencil.
    Pt1 3.39 5 [Artists] found or put themselves in certain conditions, as, the painter and sculptor before some impressive human figures;...and each presently feels the new desire.
    Exp 3.58 20 At Education Farm the noblest theory of life sat on the noblest figures of young men and maidens, quite powerless and melancholy.
    Exp 3.80 15 If you could look with [the kitten's] eyes you might see her surrounded with hundreds of figures performing complex dramas...
    Nat2 3.178 8 ...the beauty of nature must always seem unreal and mocking, until the landscape has human figures that are as good as itself.
    UGM 4.34 11 Once [our teachers] were angels of knowledge, and their figures touched the sky.
    SwM 4.133 17 All [Swedenborg's] figures speak one speech.
    SwM 4.142 5 Shall the archangels be less majestic and sweet than the figures that have actually walked the earth?
    ShP 4.194 18 [Sculpture in Egypt and in Greece] was the ornament of the temple wall: at first a rude relief carved on pediments, then the relief became bolder and a head or arm was projected from the wall; the groups being still arranged with reference to the building, which serves also as a frame to hold the figures;...
    ShP 4.214 8 Here [in Shakespeare] is perfect representation, at last; and now let the world of figures sit for their portraits.
    ET4 5.53 2 ...the figures in Punch's drawings of the public men or of the club-houses...are distinctive English...
    ET4 5.65 18 I remarked the stoutness [of the English] on my first landing at Liverpool; porter, drayman, coachman, guard,--what substantial, respectable, grandfatherly figures...
    ET4 5.65 27 It is the fault of their forms that [the English] grow stocky... few tall, slender figures of flowing shape...
    ET10 5.160 8 ...when, to this labor and trade and these native resources [of England] was added this goblin of steam...the amassing of property has run out of all figures.
    ET10 5.160 21 ...a better measure than these sounding figures is the estimate that there is wealth enough in England to support the entire population in idleness for one year.
    F 6.26 18 ...'t is all toy figures in a toy house.
    F 6.46 8 ...if the soule of proper kind/ Be so parfite as men find,/ That it wot what is to come,/ And that he warneth all and some/ Of everiche of hir aventures,/ By avisions or figures;/...
    Pow 6.73 3 Michel [Angelo] was wont to draw his figures first in skeleton...
    Bty 6.282 27 The human heart...is larger than can be measured by the pompous figures of the astronomer.
    Bty 6.295 11 Let an artist scrawl a few lines or figures on the back of a letter, and that scrap of paper is rescued from danger...
    WD 7.168 13 [The days] come and go like muffled and veiled figures...
    Boks 7.203 6 ...[in the Platonists] the grand and pleasing figures of gods and daemons and daemoniacal men...sail before [the scholar's] eyes.
    Boks 7.214 19 These stories [novels] are to the plots of real life what the figures in La Belle Assemblee...are to portraits.
    Boks 7.216 16 ...the novelist plucks this event here and that fortune there, and ties them rashly to his figures...
    Suc 7.300 7 The world is not made up to the eye of figures, that is, only half;...
    OA 7.326 27 Michel Angelo's head is full of masculine and gigantic figures as gods walking...
    PI 8.44 4 This force of representation so plants [the poet's] figures before him that he treats them as real;...
    PI 8.44 26 In dreams we are true poets; we create the persons of the drama; we give them appropriate figures, faces, costume;...
    PC 8.222 13 We are told that in posting his books, after the French had measured on the earth a degree of the meridian, when [Newton] saw that his theoretic results were approximating that empirical one, his hand shook, the figures danced...
    PerF 10.80 1 The geometer shows us the true order in figures;...
    Thor 10.482 4 Thank God, [Thoreau] said, they cannot cut down the clouds! All kinds of figures are drawn on the blue ground with this fibrous white paint.
    EWI 11.129 22 As I have walked in the pastures and along the edge of woods, I could not keep my imagination on those agreeable figures, for other images that intruded on me.
    FSLC 11.210 11 ...grant that the heart of financiers, accustomed to practical figures, shrinks within them at these colossal amounts, and the embarrassments which complicate the problem [abolition];...
    PLT 12.49 7 I once found Page the painter modelling his figures in clay... before he painted them on canvas.
    CL 12.166 3 Astronomy is a cold, desert science, with all its pompous figures...
    MAng1 12.223 4 Seeing these works [of art], we appreciate the taste which led Michael Angelo...to cover the walls of churches with unclothed figures...
    MAng1 12.228 25 [Michelangelo] was accustomed to say, Those figures alone are good from which the labor is scraped off when the scaffolding is taken away.
    MAng1 12.229 2 At near eighty years, [Michelangelo] began in marble a group of four figures for a dead Christ...
    MAng1 12.234 12 When [Michelangelo] was informed that Paul IV. desired he should paint again the side of the chapel where the Last Judgment was painted, because of the indecorous nudity of the figures, he replied, Tell the Pope that this is easily done. Let him reform the world and he will find the pictures will reform themselves.
    MAng1 12.234 19 [Michelangelo] saw clearly that if the corrupt and vulgar eyes that could see nothing but indecorum in his terrific prophets and angels could be purified as his own were pure, they would only find occasion for devotion in the same figures.
    MAng1 12.234 21 As [Michelangelo] refused to undo his work [The Last Judgment], Daniel di Volterra was employed to clothe the figures;...
    MAng1 12.234 24 When the Pope suggested to him that the [Sistine] chapel would be enriched if the figures were ornamented with gold, Michael Angelo replied, In those days, gold was not worn; and the characters I have painted were neither rich nor desirous of wealth...
    MLit 12.335 10 In the gay saloon [man] laments that these figures are not what Raphael and Guercino painted.
    Trag 12.414 15 Time the consoler...dries the freshest tears by obtruding new figures, new costumes, new roads, on our eye, new voices on our ear.

figures, v. (2)

    Art1 2.352 8 What is a man but a finer and compacter landscape than the horizon figures...
    FSLC 11.180 15 ...The Boston of the American Revolution, which figures so proudly in John Adams's Diary...Boston...must bow its ancient honor in the dust...

filament, n. (1)

    QO 8.181 26 ...what we daily observe in regard to the bon-mots that circulate in society,-that every talker helps a story in repeating it, until, at last, from the slenderest filament of fact a good fable is constructed,-the same growth befalls mythology...

file, n. (9)

    LE 1.178 25 On coming on board the Bellerophon, a file of English soldiers drawn up on deck gave [Napoleon] a military salute.
    Nat2 3.190 23 ...this bank-stock and file of mortgages;...all for a little conversation, high, clear and spiritual!
    ShP 4.201 26 Elated with success and piqued by the growing interest of the problem, [the antiquaries] have left...no file of old yellow accounts to decompose in damp and worms, so keen was the hope to discover whether the boy Shakspeare poached or not...
    ShP 4.207 21 The forest of Arden...the antres vast and desarts idle of Othello's captivity,--where is...the chancellor's file of accounts...that has kept one word of those transcendent secrets?
    ET5 5.101 26 ...whilst in some directions [the English] do not represent the modern spirit but constitute it;--this vanguard of civility and power they coldly hold, marching in phalanx, lockstep, foot after foot, file after file of heroes, ten thousand deep.
    Bhr 6.187 5 A person of strong mind comes to perceive that for him an immunity is secured so long as he renders to society that service which is native and proper to him,--an immunity from all the observances, yea, and duties, which society so tyrannically imposes on the rank and file of its members.
    WD 7.155 3 Daughters of Time, the hypocritic days,/ Muffled and dumb like barefoot dervishes,/ And marching single in an endless file,/ Bring diadems and fagots in their hands./
    Imtl 8.336 17 Will you...educate your children to be adepts in their several arts, and, as soon as they are ready to produce a masterpiece, call out a file of soldiers to shoot them down?
    Aris 10.45 2 If we see tools in a magazine, as a file, an anchor, a plough... we can predict well enough their destination;...

files, n. (5)

    Prd1 2.227 15 The good husband finds method as efficient...in the harvesting of fruits in the cellar, as in...the files of the Department of State.
    Pow 6.69 6 There are Oregons, Californias and Exploring Expeditions enough appertaining to America to find [men of this surcharge of arterial blood] in files to gnaw and in crocodiles to eat.
    Elo2 8.110 7 ...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...in well-ordered files, as he would wish, fall aptly into their own places.--Milton.
    MAng1 12.227 13 ...[Michelangelo] made with his own hand...the files... and all other irons and instruments which he needed in sculpture;...
    Milt1 12.262 11 ...[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...in well-ordered files...fall aptly into their own places.

filial, adj. (2)

    Nat 1.37 16 The same good office is performed by Property and its filial systems of debt and credit.
    ET14 5.241 22 A few generalizations always circulate in the world...and these are in the world constants, like the Copernican and Newtonian theories in physics. In England these...do all have a kind of filial retrospect to Plato and the Greeks.

filibusters, n. (1)

    CL 12.135 6 [Earth-hunger] is not less visible in that branch of the family which inhabits America. Nor is it confined to farmers, speculators, and filibusters, or conquerors.

filigree, n. (1)

    DSA 1.150 6 All attempts to contrive a system are as cold as the new worship introduced by the French to the goddess of Reason, - to-day, pasteboard and filigree...

filing, n. (1)

    NR 3.228 25 ...men are steel-filings. Yet we unjustly select a particle, and say, O steel-filing number one!...what prodigious virtues are these of thine!... Whilst we speak the loadstone is withdrawn; down falls our filing in a heap with the rest...

filings, n. (2)

    Wth 6.126 2 The merchant has but one rule, absorb and invest;...the scraps and filings must be gathered back into the crucible;...
    PI 8.13 7 When some familiar truth or fact appears in a new dress...we cannot enough testify our surprise and pleasure. It is like the new virtue shown in some unprized old property, as when a boy finds that his pocket-knife will attract steel filings...

fill, n. (2)

    Exp 3.59 10 Objections and criticism we have had our fill of.
    SA 8.98 19 ...even if you could trust yourself on that perilous topic [sickness], beware of unmuzzling a valetudinarian, who will soon give you your fill of it.

fill, v. (68)

    Nat 1.45 4 A right action seems to fill the eye...
    Nat 1.54 20 ...the approaching tide/ Will shortly fill the reasonable shores/ That now lie foul and muddy./
    AmS 1.81 17 Perhaps the time is already come...when the sluggard intellect of this continent will...fill the postponed expectation of the world with something better than the exertions of mechanical skill.
    DSA 1.136 26 Where shall I hear these august laws of moral being so pronounced as to fill my ear...
    LE 1.157 5 ...the mark of American merit...in eloquence, seems...a vase of fair outline, but empty,-which whoso sees may fill with what wit and character is in him...
    MN 1.212 26 ...[the stars] would have such poets as Newton, Herschel and Laplace, that they may re-exist and re-appear in the finer world of rational souls, and fill that realm with their fame.
    MR 1.239 7 ...rust, mould, vermin, rain, sun, freshet, fire, all...fill [the heir] with vexation...
    LT 1.279 19 ...magnifying the importance of that wrong, [men] fancy that if that abuse were redressed all would go well, and they fill the land with clamor to correct it.
    Con 1.309 18 Your want is a gulf which the possession of the broad earth would not fill.
    YA 1.369 3 In Europe...the land is full of men...whose interest and pride it is...to fill [their estates] with every convenience and ornament.
    SR 2.66 1 It must be that when God speaketh he should...fill the world with his voice;...
    SR 2.73 5 ...these [family] relations I must fill after a new and unprecedented way.
    SL 2.164 19 I can think of nothing to fill my time with, and I find the Life of Brant.
    Fdsp 2.215 23 ...if you come, perhaps you will fill my mind only with new visions;...
    Hsm1 2.258 8 The pictures which fill the imagination in reading the actions of Pericles...teach us how needlessly mean our life is;...
    Cir 2.312 5 We fill ourselves with ancient learning...only that we may wiselier see French, English and American houses and modes of living.
    Pt1 3.29 6 We fill the hands and nurseries of our children with all manner of dolls, drums and horses;...
    Pt1 3.29 23 If thou fill thy brain with Boston and New York...thou shalt find no radiance of wisdom in the lonely waste of the pine woods.
    Exp 3.59 22 To fill the hour,--that is happiness;...
    Exp 3.59 23 To fill the hour,--that is happiness; to fill the hour and leave no crevice for a repentance or an approval.
    Exp 3.73 13 This vigor is...in the highest degree unbending. Nourish it correctly and do it no injury, and it will fill up the vacancy between heaven and earth.
    Mrs1 3.137 21 Proportionate is our disgust at those invaders who fill a studious house with blast and running...
    Mrs1 3.141 17 The favorites of society...are able men...who exactly fill the hour and the company;...
    Mrs1 3.150 26 ...are there not women who fill our vase with wine and roses to the brim...
    Pol1 3.221 18 Not the less does nature continue to fill the heart of youth with suggestions of this enthusiasm...
    SwM 4.143 25 Was [Swedenborg] like Saadi, who, in his vision, designed to fill his lap with the celestial flowers, as presents for his friends;...
    NMW 4.252 14 I call Napoleon the agent or attorney...of the throng who fill the markets, shops, counting-houses, manufactories, ships, of the modern world...
    GoW 4.263 13 Vexations and a tempest of passion only fill [the writer's] sail;...
    ET3 5.36 13 See what books fill our libraries.
    ET3 5.42 19 In the variety of surface, Britain is a miniature of Europe, having...in Westmoreland and Cumberland a pocket Switzerland, in which the lakes and mountains are on a sufficient scale to fill the eye and touch the imagination.
    ET5 5.93 23 [The English] have a wealth of men to fill important posts...
    ET8 5.142 22 [The English]...can direct and fill their own day...
    ET11 5.184 13 ...the existence of the House of Peers as a branch of the government entitles them to fill half the Cabinet;...
    ET11 5.184 21 In the army, the [English] nobility fill a large part of the high commissions...
    ET12 5.213 1 ...I should as soon think of quarrelling with the janitor for not magnifying his office by hostile sallies into the street...as of quarrelling with the professors...for not attempting themselves to fill their vacant shelves as original writers.
    Wth 6.118 22 A farm is a good thing when it...does not need a salary or a shop to eke it out. Thus, the cattle are a main link in the chain-ring. If the non-conformist or aesthetic farmer leaves out the cattle and does not also leave out the want which the cattle must supply, he must fill the gap by begging or stealing.
    Wth 6.122 27 ...the man who is to level the ground thinks it will take many hundred loads of gravel to fill the hollow to the road.
    Ctr 6.145 20 He that does not fill a place at home, cannot abroad.
    Wsp 6.202 22 We may well give skepticism as much line as we can. The spirit will return and fill us.
    Elo1 7.87 7 ...[the state's attorney] revenged himself...on the judge, by requiring the court to define what salvage was. The court...said everything it could think of to fill the time...
    WD 7.181 17 Just to fill the hour,--that is happiness.
    WD 7.181 18 Fill my hour, ye gods, so that I shall not say, whilst I have done this, Behold, also, an hour of my life is gone,--but rather, I have lived an hour.
    Suc 7.296 3 'T is the fulness of man that...makes his Bibles and Shakspeares and Homers so great. The joyful reader borrows of his own ideas to fill their faulty outline...
    PI 8.47 2 I think you will also find a charm heroic, plaintive, pathetic, in these cadences [of common English metres], and be at once set on searching for the words that can rightly fill these vacant beats.
    PI 8.47 8 ...human passion, seizing these constitutional tunes, aims to fill them with appropriate words...
    PI 8.75 6 ...the involuntary part of [men's] life is so much as to fill the mind...
    QO 8.180 3 In this delay and vacancy of thought we must make the best amends we can by seeking the wisdom of others to fill the time.
    PC 8.226 17 The air does not rush to fill a vacuum with such speed as the mind to catch the expected fact.
    Imtl 8.344 1 ...[the belief in immortality] must have the assurance of a man' s faculties that they can fill a larger theatre...than Nature here allows him.
    Prch 10.230 22 The existence of the Sunday, and the pulpit waiting for a weekly sermon, give [the young preacher] the very conditions, the pou sto he wants. That must be filled, and he is armed to fill it.
    Schr 10.263 12 The scholar is here to fill others with love and courage...
    Schr 10.285 4 Men of talent fill the eye with their pretension.
    Plu 10.322 12 ...as it was the desire of these old patriots to fill with their majestic spirit all Sparta or Rome...we hasten to offer them to the American people.
    MMEm 10.425 2 When the dreamy pages of life seem all turned and folded down to very weariness, even this idea of those who fill the hour with crowded virtues, lifts the spectator to other worlds...
    Thor 10.466 21 ...the shad-flies which fill the air on a certain evening once a year...were all known by [Thoreau]...
    HDC 11.79 12 The numbers [of of men for the Continental army], say [the General Assembly of Massachusetts], are large, but this Court has the fullest assurance that their brethren...will...fill up the numbers proportioned to the several towns.
    HDC 11.86 8 The merit of those who fill a space in the world's history... sheds a perfume less sweet than do the sacrifices of private virtue.
    LVB 11.89 1 Sir [Van Buren]: The seat you fill places you in a relation of credit and nearness to every citizen.
    LVB 11.89 20 ...my communication respects the sinister rumors that fill this part of the country concerning the Cherokee people.
    EWI 11.126 10 It was very easy for manufacturers...to see that...if the slaves [in the West Indies] had wages, the slaves would be clothed, would build houses, would fill them with tools...
    EPro 11.314 6 Pay ransom to the owner/ And fill the bag to the brim./ Who is the owner? The slave is the owner,/ And ever was. Pay him./
    EPro 11.322 10 If [taxes] go to fill up this yawning Dismal Swamp, which engulfed armies and populations...then this taxation...is the best investment in which property-holder ever lodged his earnings.
    EdAd 11.393 14 ...good readers know that inspired pages are not written to fill a space...
    PLT 12.61 1 ...each [mind and heart] is easily exalted in our thoughts till it serves to fill the universe and become the synonym of God...
    CInt 12.119 22 I wish to see that Mirabeau who knows how to seize the heart-strings of the people...to fill them with himself...
    CL 12.148 25 Our Aryan progenitors in Asia celebrated the winds as the conveying Maruts, traversers of places difficult of access. ... Wherever they pass, they fill the way with clamor.
    Bost 12.202 17 The soul of a political party is by no means usually the officers and pets of the party, who...fill the high seats...
    Let 12.394 24 By the slightest possible concert, persevered in through four or five years, [the correspondents] think that a neighborhood might be formed of friends who would provoke each other to the best activity. They believe that this society would fill up the terrific chasm of ennui...

filled, v. (63)

    Nat 1.24 13 Thus in art does Nature work through the will of a man filled with the beauty of her first works.
    Nat 1.71 14 [Man] filled nature with his overflowing currents.
    AmS 1.97 6 ...many another fact that once filled the whole sky, are gone already;...
    AmS 1.106 1 The unstable estimates of men crowd to him whose mind is filled with a truth...
    LE 1.162 26 [The youth] is curious concerning that man's day. What filled it?...
    MN 1.205 11 ...let [the ocean] wash a shore where wise men dwell, and it is filled with expression;...
    MN 1.210 11 It is pitiful to be an artist, when by forbearing to be artists we might be vessels filled with the divine overflowings...
    MN 1.219 27 ...let [a man] be filled with awe and dread before the Vast and the Divine...and our eye is riveted to the chain of events.
    Prd1 2.223 10 The world is filled with the proverbs and acts and winkings of a base prudence...
    Cir 2.312 23 ...some Petrarch or Ariosto, filled with the new wine of his imagination, writes me an ode or a brisk romance...
    Pt1 3.37 8 If we filled the day with bravery, we should not shrink from celebrating it.
    Chr1 3.113 19 Men write their names on the world as they are filled with [the force of character].
    Mrs1 3.127 20 There exists a strict relation between the class of power and the exclusive and polished circles. The last are always filled or filling from the first.
    Mrs1 3.137 3 I would have a man enter his house through a hall filled with heroic and sacred sculptures...
    Nat2 3.178 12 It is when...the house is filled with grooms and gazers, that we turn from the people to find relief in the majestic men that are suggested by the pictures and the architecture.
    SwM 4.104 13 ...Descartes...had filled Europe with the leading thought of vortical motion, as the secret of nature.
    MoS 4.184 7 [The divine Providence] has shown the heaven and earth to every child and filled him with a desire for the whole;...
    MoS 4.184 9 [The divine Providence] has shown the heaven and earth to every child and filled him with a desire for the whole;...a hunger, as of space to be filled with planets;...
    ShP 4.191 3 The human race has gone out before [the great man], sunk the hills, filled the hollows and bridged the rivers.
    ShP 4.210 18 Had [Shakespeare] been less, we should have had to consider how well he filled his place...
    NMW 4.241 2 [Napoleon] filled the troops with his spirit...
    GoW 4.281 3 ...in all these countries [England, America and France], men of talent write from talent. It is enough if...the taste [is] propitiated,--so many columns, so many hours, filled in a lively and creditable way.
    ET2 5.29 12 Look, what egg-shells are drifting all over [the sea], each one, like ours, filled with men in ecstasies of terror...
    ET5 5.95 10 The rivers, lakes and ponds [in England]...are artificially filled with the eggs of salmon, turbot and herring.
    ET6 5.107 18 ...within, [the Englishman's house] is...filled with good furniture.
    ET13 5.219 26 These [English] minsters were neither built nor filled by atheists.
    ET14 5.256 4 How many volumes of well-bred metre we must jingle through, before we can be filled, taught, renewed!
    F 6.7 27 The cholera, the small-pox, have proved as mortal to some tribes as a frost to the crickets, which, having filled the summer with noise, are silenced by the fall of the temperature of one night.
    F 6.25 3 A tube made of a film of glass can resist the shock of the ocean if filled with the same water.
    Pow 6.66 6 The communities hitherto founded by socialists...are only possible by installing Judas as steward. The rest of the offices may be filled by good burgesses.
    Wth 6.113 3 Allston the painter was wont to say that he built a plain house, and filled it with plain furniture, because he would hold out no bribe to any to visit him who had not similar tastes to his own.
    Elo1 7.66 13 There are many audiences in every public assembly, each one of which rules in turn. If anything comic and coarse is spoken, you shall see the emergence of the boys and rowdies, so loud and vivacious that you might think the house was filled with them.
    WD 7.172 2 Kinde was the old English term, which...filled only half the range of our fine Latin word, with its delicate future tense,--natura, about to be born...
    PI 8.39 24 Michel Angelo is largely filled with the Creator that made and makes men.
    PI 8.64 25 Bring us...poetry which tastes the world and reports of it, upbuilding the world again in the thought;--Not with tickling rhymes,/ But high and noble matter, such as flies/ From brains entranced, and filled with ecstasies./
    QO 8.183 9 Thirty years ago, when Mr. Webster at the bar or in the Senate filled the eyes and minds of young men, you might often hear cited as Mr. Webster's three rules: first, never to do to-day what he could defer till to-morrow;...
    QO 8.199 13 ...does it not look...as if we stood, not in a coterie of prompters that filled a sitting-room, but in a circle of intelligences...
    Grts 8.319 26 ...any man filled with an idea or a purpose will find examples and illustrations and coadjutors wherever he goes.
    Dem1 10.11 7 ...the atmosphere of a summer morning is filled with innumerable gossamer threads running in every direction...
    Edc1 10.127 2 For a thousand years the islands and forests of a great part of the world have been filled with savages...
    SovE 10.193 15 Others may well suffer in the hideous picture of crime with which earth is filled...
    Prch 10.230 21 The existence of the Sunday, and the pulpit waiting for a weekly sermon, give [the young preacher] the very conditions, the pou sto he wants. That must be filled, and he is armed to fill it.
    LLNE 10.334 16 ...boys filled their mouths with arguments to prove that the orator [Everett] had a heart.
    EzRy 10.379 8 We love the venerable house/ Our fathers built to God:/ In Heaven are kept their grateful vows,/ Their dust endears the sod./ From humble tenements around/ Came up the pensive train,/ And in the church a blessing found/ That filled their homes again./
    SlHr 10.446 17 [Samuel Hoar] had a childlike innocence...which...enabled him to meet every comer with a free and disengaged courtesy that had no memory in it Of wrong and outrage with which the earth is filled./
    Thor 10.460 25 The hall was filled at an early hour by people of all parties, and [Thoreau's] earnest eulogy of the hero [John Brown] was heard by all respectfully...
    HDC 11.67 2 ...Mr. [Daniel] Bliss replied...I was filled with wonder, that such a sinful and worthless worm as I am, was allowed to represent Christ...
    EWI 11.106 8 ...[Granville Sharpe] so filled the heads and hearts of his advocates that when he brought the case of George Somerset, another slave, before Lord Mansfield, the slavish decisions were set aside, and equity affirmed.
    EWI 11.120 23 Though joy beamed on every countenance, [emancipation day in Jamaica] was throughout tempered with solemn thankfulness to God, and the churches and chapels were everywhere filled with these happy people in humble offering of praise.
    EWI 11.136 10 Granville Sharpe filled the ear of the judges with the sound principles that had from time to time been affirmed by the legal authorities...
    EWI 11.138 24 The secret cannot be kept, that the seats of power are filled by underlings...
    SMC 11.365 19 It happened...that the Fifth Massachusetts was almost unofficered. The colonel was, early in the day, disabled by a casualty; the lieutenant-colonel, the major and the adjutant were already transferred to new regiments, and their places were not yet filled.
    Shak1 11.446 1 England's genius filled all measure/ Of heart and soul, of strength and pleasure,/ Gave to mind its emperor/ And life was larger than before;/...
    FRep 11.538 23 ...if the spirit which...put forth such gigantic energy in the charity of the Sanitary Commission, could be waked to the conserving and creating duty of making the laws just and humane, it were to enroll a great constituency of...faithful...lovers of men, filled with loyalty to each other...
    CInt 12.128 4 This, then, is the theory of Education, the happy meeting of the young soul, filled with the desire, with the living teacher...
    Bost 12.193 14 ...these Englishmen [who settled Massachusetts], with the Middle Ages still obscuring their reason, were filled with Christian thought.
    Bost 12.207 13 The Massachusetts colony grew and filled its own borders with a denser population than any other American State...
    Bost 12.211 14 [Boston] has grown great. She is filled with strangers, but she can only prosper by adhering to her faith.
    MAng1 12.226 9 Nanni sold the travertine, and filled up the piers [of the Pons Palatinus] with gravel at small expense.
    Milt1 12.247 4 For a short time the literary journals were filled with disquisitions on [Milton's] genius;...
    Milt1 12.256 20 The muscles, the nerves and the flesh with which this skeleton is to be filled out and covered exist in [Milton's] works and must be sought there.
    EurB 12.373 13 ...we can easily believe that the behavior of the ball-room and of the hotel has not failed to draw some addition of dignity and grace from the fair ideals with which the imagination of a novelist has filled the heads of the most imitative class.
    Trag 12.411 19 ...the frailest glass bell will support a weight of a thousand pounds of water at the bottom of a river or sea, if filled with the same.

fillet, n. (1)

    WD 7.155 11 I, in my pleached garden, watched the pomp,/ Forgot my morning wishes, hastily/ Took a few herbs and apples, and the Day/ Turned and departed silent. I, too late,/ Under her solemn fillet saw the scorn./

fillets, n. (1)

    Boks 7.200 18 [Plutarch's] memory is like the Isthmian Games...and you are stimulated and recruited...by the passing of fillets, parsley and laurel wreaths, chariots, armor, sacred cups and utensils of sacrifice.

filling, adj. (1)

    MMEm 10.424 20 ...He who formed thy [Time's] web, who stretched thy warp from long ages, has graciously given man to throw his shuttle, or feel he does, and irradiate the filling woof with many a flowery rainbow,- labors, rather...

filling, v. (5)

    Int 2.339 27 When we are young we spend much time and pains in filling our note-books with all definitions of Religion, Love, Poetry, Politics, Art...
    Mrs1 3.127 20 There exists a strict relation between the class of power and the exclusive and polished circles. The last are always filled or filling from the first.
    NER 3.268 19 ...the ground on which eminent public servants urge the claims of popular education is fear; This country is filling up with thousands and millions of voters, and you must educate them to keep them from our throats.
    Suc 7.300 19 ...the affections make some little web of cottage and fireside populous, important, and filling the main space in our history.
    CL 12.152 3 ...[in October] all the trees are wind-harps, filling the air with music;...

fills, v. (35)

    Nat 1.71 21 ...having made for himself this huge shell...[man] no longer fills the veins and veinlets...
    MN 1.214 22 The reforms whose fame now fills the land...are poor bitter things when prosecuted for themselves as an end.
    SR 2.59 21 What makes the majesty of the heroes of the senate and the field, which so fills the imagination?
    SL 2.147 14 Earth fills her lap with splendors not her own.
    Fdsp 2.193 22 The moment we indulge our affections...nothing fills the proceeding eternity but the forms all radiant of beloved persons.
    Cir 2.304 26 The man finishes his story...how it puts a new face on all things! He fills the sky.
    Art1 2.356 1 A squirrel leaping from bough to bough...fills the eye not less than a lion...
    Mrs1 3.151 1 ...are there not women who fill our vase with wine and roses to the brim, so that the wine runs over and fills the house with perfume;...
    Nat2 3.186 22 ...[the vegetable life] fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds...
    NR 3.223 10 Not less are summer mornings dear/ To every child they wake,/ And each with novel life his sphere/ Fills for his proper sake./
    SwM 4.109 13 Creative force, like a musical composer, goes on unweariedly repeating a simple air or theme...ten thousand times reverberated, till it fills earth and heaven with the chant.
    ET10 5.162 6 ...the engineer [in England] sees that every stroke of the steam-piston gives value to the duke's land, fills it with tenants;...
    ET12 5.205 25 This aristocracy [at Oxford]...fills places, as they fall vacant, from the body of students.
    F 6.38 26 The smallest candle fills a mile with its rays...
    F 6.42 18 [Man] looks like a piece of luck, but is...the mosaic, angulated and ground to fit into the gap he fills.
    Civ 7.23 7 The division of labor...fills the State with useful and happy laborers;...
    Elo1 7.63 4 [An audience's] sympathy gives them a certain social organism, which fills each member, in his own degree...
    OA 7.319 7 [The cup of time]...fills us with exalted dreams...
    OA 7.329 15 [The conchologist] labels shelves for classes, cells for species: all but a few are empty. But every year fills some blanks...
    PI 8.54 23 ...the poem is made up of lines each of which fills the ear of the poet in its turn...
    SA 8.95 7 Conversation fills all gaps...
    Elo2 8.113 6 ...[the eloquent man]...fills desponding men with hope and joy.
    QO 8.183 5 What [a great man] quotes, he fills with his own voice and humor...
    Insp 8.278 14 Herrick said: 'T is not every day that I/ Fitted am to prophesy;/ No, but when the spirit fills/ The fantastic panicles,/ Full of fire, then I write/ As the Godhead doth indite./
    PerF 10.75 12 [Labor] is twisted and screwed into fragrant hay which fills the barn.
    PerF 10.82 1 ...when the soldier comes home from the fight, he fills all eyes.
    Edc1 10.137 1 Nature, when she sends a new mind into the world, fills it beforehand with a desire for that which she wishes it to know and do.
    SovE 10.191 6 Humanity sits at the dread loom and throws the shuttle and fills it with joyful rainbows...
    SovE 10.212 3 The mind as it opens transfers very fast its choice...from all that talent executes to the sentiment that fills the heart and dictates the future of nations.
    Plu 10.307 2 ...the logic of the sophists and materialists...fills us with disgust.
    ACiv 11.298 23 The state of the country fills us with anxiety and stern duties.
    Wom 11.423 15 ...there is contamination enough [in politics], but it rots the men now, and fills the air with stench.
    CInt 12.119 12 I value dearly the poet who knows his art so well that, when his voice vibrates, it fills the hearer with sympathetic song...
    MLit 12.310 12 Over every true poem lingers a certain wild beauty, immeasurable; a happiness lightsome and delicious fills the heart and brain...
    Trag 12.416 3 It is my duty, says Sir Charles Bell, to visit certain wards of the hospital where there is no patient admitted but with that complaint which most fills the imagination with the idea of insupportable pain and certain death.

film, n. (3)

    F 6.25 2 A tube made of a film of glass can resist the shock of the ocean if filled with the same water.
    Farm 7.143 2 Long before [the farmer] was born, the sun of ages... mellowed his land...covered it with vegetable film...
    Chr2 10.112 20 The walls of the temple are wasted and thin, and, at last, only a film of whitewash...

filtered, v. (2)

    ET1 5.13 5 I told [Coleridge] how excellent I thought [the Independent's pamphlet in The Friend] and how much I wished to see the entire work. Yes, he said, the man was a chaos of truths, but lacked the knowledge that God was a God of order. Yet the passage would no doubt strike you more in the quotation than in the original, for I have filtered it.
    RBur 11.442 20 ...[Burns] had that secret of genius to draw from the bottom of society the strength of its speech, and astonish the ears of the polite with these artless words...filtered of all offence through his beauty.

filth, n. (1)

    SwM 4.132 3 Except Rabelais and Dean Swift nobody ever had such science of filth and corruption [as did Swedenborg].

filths, n. (1)

    Nat 1.76 25 The sordor and filths of nature, the sun shall dry up...

filthy, adj. (5)

    NMW 4.251 9 Corvisart candidly agreed with me [said Bonaparte] that all your filthy mixtures are good for nothing.
    ET4 5.61 5 ...decent and dignified men now existing boast their descent from these filthy thieves [the Normans]...
    SovE 10.184 26 The poor grub, in the hole of a tree, by yielding itself to Nature, goes blameless through its low part...casts its filthy hull...
    EWI 11.103 1 For the negro, was the slave-ship to begin with, in whose filthy hold he sat in irons...
    FSLC 11.201 14 The fairest American fame ends in this filthy [Fugitive Slave] law.

filtration, n. (1)

    Boks 7.195 3 Nature is always clarifying her water and her wine. No filtration can be so perfect.

final, adj. (43)

    Nat 1.12 1 Whoever considers the final cause of the world will discern a multitude of uses that enter as parts into that result.
    Nat 1.24 25 [Beauty in nature] must stand...not as yet the last or highest expression of the final cause of Nature.
    Nat 1.35 19 ...every form [shall be] significant of [the world's] hidden life and final cause.
    AmS 1.98 16 ...the final value of action...is that it is a resource.
    LE 1.172 8 ...a wise man will never esteem [the book of philosophy] anything final and transcending.
    MN 1.201 21 ...if...it be assumed that the final cause of the world is to make holy or wise or beautiful men, we see that it has not succeeded.
    MN 1.203 6 We can point nowhere to anything final;...
    MN 1.211 6 It was always the theory of literature that the word of a poet was authoritative and final.
    Con 1.298 12 ...innovation is always...sure of final success.
    Con 1.322 16 ...if it still be asked in this necessity of partial organization, which party, on the whole, has the highest claims on our sympathy,-I bring it home to the private heart, where all such questions must have their final arbitrament.
    Tran 1.329 18 ...the second class [Idealists] perceive that the senses are not final...
    SL 2.154 4 They who make up the final verdict upon every book are not the partial and noisy readers of the hour when it appears...
    Prd1 2.222 22 One class live to the utility of the symbol, esteeming health and wealth a final good.
    Prd1 2.224 9 The spurious prudence, making the senses final, is the god of sots and cowards...
    Prd1 2.228 6 If you think the senses final, obey their law.
    Cir 2.304 25 The man finishes his story,--how good! how final!...
    Cir 2.314 17 ...the goods which belong to you gravitate to you and need not be pursued with pains and cost? Yet is that statement approximate also, and not final.
    Cir 2.316 26 There is no virtue which is final;...
    Exp 3.54 14 On its own level, or in view of nature, temperament is final.
    Nat2 3.190 6 Every end is prospective of some other end, which is also temporary; a round and final success nowhere.
    SwM 4.113 10 The pursuing the inquiry under the light of an end or final cause gives wonderful animation, a sort of personality to the whole writing [of Swedenborg].
    MoS 4.183 4 The final solution in which skepticism is lost, is in the moral sentiment...
    ShP 4.201 18 We have to thank the researches of antiquaries, and the Shakspeare Society, for ascertaining the steps of the English drama, from the Mysteries...and the final detachment from the church...down to the possession of the stage by the very pieces which Shakspeare altered, remodelled and finally made his own.
    ET4 5.54 10 We must use the popular category...for convenience, and not as exact and final.
    ET4 5.67 2 [The blonde race] is not a final race...
    ET7 5.124 18 ...as [Englishmen's] own belief in guineas is perfect, they readily, on all occasions, apply the pecuniary argument as final.
    ET10 5.153 6 ...the Englishman...esteems [wealth] a final certificate.
    Wsp 6.217 27 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.
    Elo1 7.80 20 To talk of an overpowering mind rouses the same jealousy and defiance which one may observe round a table where anybody is recounting the marvellous anecdotes of mesmerism. Each auditor puts a final stroke to the discourse by exclaiming, Can he mesmerize me?
    Cour 7.276 12 ...[the hideous facts in history] require of us...an unresting exploration of final causes.
    Suc 7.307 17 The day is great and final.
    PI 8.4 10 ...whilst we deal with this [existence of matter] as finality, early hints are given that we are not to stay here;...a warning that this magnificent hotel and conveniency we call Nature is not final.
    PI 8.6 4 ...we see...that the secret cords or laws show their well-known virtue through every variety...and the interest is gradually transferred from the forms to the lurking method. This hint...upsets...the common sense side of religion and literature, which are all founded on low nature,--on the clearest and most economical mode of administering the material world, considered as final.
    PI 8.19 8 Whilst common sense looks at things or visible Nature as real and final facts, poetry, or the imagination which dictates it, is a second sight...
    Supl 10.179 9 If it come back...to the question of final superiority, it is too plain that there is no question that the star of empire rolls West...
    MMEm 10.421 1 Hard to contend for a health which is daily used in petition for a final close.
    HDC 11.53 12 We, who see in the squalid remnants of the twenty tribes of Massachusetts, the final failure of this benevolent enterprise, can hardly learn without emotion the earnestness with which the most sensible individuals of the copper race held on to the new hope they had conceived...
    FSLC 11.198 23 Mr. Webster's measure [the Fugitive Slave Law] was, he told us, final.
    FSLC 11.198 27 Mr. Webster's measure [the Fugitive Slave Law] was, he told us, final. It was a pacification...a measure of conciliation and adjustment. These were his words at different times: there was to be no parleying more; it was irrepealable. Does it look final now?
    FSLC 11.199 1 [Webster's] final settlement has dislocated the foundations.
    FSLN 11.226 1 In the final hour...did [Webster] take the part of great principles...or the side of abuse and oppression and chaos?
    SHC 11.434 5 ...[Sleepy Hollow] was inevitably chosen by [the people of Concord] when the design of a new cemetery was broached...as the fit place for their final repose.
    PLT 12.19 15 ...when we have come, by a divine leading, into the inner firmament, we are apprised of the unreality or representative character of what we esteemed final.

Final Cause, n. (1)

    Nat 1.47 7 A noble doubt perpetually suggests itself, - whether this end [Discipline] be not the Final Cause of the Universe;...

finalities, n. (2)

    Bty 6.282 21 Bugs and stamens and spores...are not finalities;...
    Ill 6.320 13 ...what avails it that...our pretension of property and even of self-hood are fading with the rest, if, at last, even our thoughts are not finalities...

finality, n. (5)

    ET6 5.110 23 As soon as [the English] have rid themselves of some grievance and settled the better practice, they make haste to fix it as a finality...
    ET14 5.260 6 ...the two complexions, or two styles of mind [in England],-- the perceptive class, and the practical finality class,--are ever in counterpoise...
    Ill 6.320 15 ...what avails it that...our pretension of property and even of self-hood are fading with the rest, if, at last, even our thoughts are not finalities, but the incessant flowing and ascension reach these also, and each thought which yesterday was a finality, to-day is yielding to a larger generalization?
    PI 8.4 6 ...whilst we deal with this [existence of matter] as finality, early hints are given that we are not to stay here;...
    PI 8.4 27 ...somewhat was murmured in our ear that dwindled astronomy into a toy;--that too was no finality;...

finally, adv. (16)

    Nat 1.57 24 Finally, religion and ethics...have an analogous effect with all lower culture...
    AmS 1.84 16 ...finally, is not the true scholar the only true master?
    YA 1.376 18 ...this unpleasant egotism, Feudalism opposes and finally destroys.
    SwM 4.118 3 One would say that as soon as men had the first hint that every sensible object...subsists not...finally to a material end, but as a picture-language to tell another story of beings and duties, other science would be put by...
    ShP 4.201 23 We have to thank the researches of antiquaries, and the Shakspeare Society, for ascertaining the steps of the English drama, from the Mysteries...down to the possession of the stage by the very pieces which Shakspeare altered, remodelled and finally made his own.
    ET1 5.24 15 [Wordsworth] then said he would show me a better way towards the inn; and he walked a good part of a mile...and finally parted from me with great kindness and returned across the fields.
    ET10 5.158 1 Finally, [Roger Bacon announced] it would not be impossible to make machines which by means of a suit of wings, should fly in the air in the manner of birds.
    ET18 5.304 9 [The English] are expiating the wrongs of India by benefits;... in the instruction of the people, to qualify them for self-government, when the British power shall be finally called home.
    Prch 10.220 8 In proportion to a man's want of goodness...the Deity becomes more objective, until finally flat idolatry prevails.
    Schr 10.286 5 Genius delights only in statements which are themselves true...which society cannot dispose of or forget, but which...will and must be finally obeyed and done.
    MMEm 10.401 12 Finally [Mary Moody Emerson's farm] was sold...
    LS 11.4 16 ...finally, it is now near two hundred years since the Society of Quakers denied the authority of the rite [the Lord's Supper] altogether...
    War 11.153 9 New territory, augmented numbers and extended interests call out new virtues and abilities, and the tribe makes long strides. And, finally, when much progress has been made, all its secrets of wisdom and art are disseminated by its invasions.
    War 11.155 17 ...the appearance of the other instincts [than self-help] immediately modifies and controls this; turns its energies into harmless, useful and high courses...and, finally, takes out its fangs.
    War 11.157 24 ...finally, the art of war...has made...battles less frequent and less murderous.
    Scot 11.464 4 ...I believe that many of those who read [Scott's books] in youth, when, later, they come to dismiss finally their school-days' library, will make some fond exception for Scott as for Byron.

finance, n. (3)

    SwM 4.100 18 At the Diet of 1751...the most solid memorials on finance were from [Swedenborg's] pen.
    ET7 5.116 18 ...any slipperiness in the [English] government of political faith, or any repudiation or crookedness in matters of finance, would bring the whole nation to a committee of inquiry and reform.
    FSLN 11.218 18 Look into the morning trains which, from every suburb, carry the business men into the city to their...work-yards and warehouses. With them enters the car-the newsboy, that humble priest of politics, finance, philosophy, and religion.

finances, n. (1)

    Suc 7.284 23 There is nothing in war, said Napoleon, which I cannot do by my own hands. ... In administration, it is I alone who have arranged the finances, as you know

financial, adj. (2)

    ET10 5.169 12 What befalls from the violence of financial crises, befalls daily in the violence of artificial legislation.
    HDC 11.84 16 ...it is to be remembered that a town is, in many respects, a financial corporation.

financiers, n. (2)

    ET10 5.169 5 ...in the influx of tons of gold and silver; amid the chuckle of chancellors and financiers, it was found [in England] that bread rose to famine prices...
    FSLC 11.210 10 ...grant that the heart of financiers...shrinks within them at these colossal amounts, and the embarrassments which complicate the problem [abolition];...

finch, n. (1)

    SHC 11.435 24 Our use [of Sleepy Hollow] will not displace the old tenants. The well-beloved birds will not sing one song the less...the oriole, robin, purple finch, bluebird, thrush...will find out the hospitality and protection from the gun of this asylum...

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