Flowing to Forborne

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

flowing, adj. (25)

    Tran 1.356 26 [The Transcendentalist] is braced-up and stilted; all freedom and flowing genius...are quite out of the question;...
    Hist 2.22 24 A man of rude health and flowing spirits has the faculty of rapid domestication...
    Lov1 2.169 3 Nature...flowing...anticipates already a benevolence which shall lose all particular regards in its general light.
    OS 2.268 11 When I watch that flowing river, which, out of regions I see not, pours for a season its streams into me, I see that I am a pensioner;...
    OS 2.274 14 ...the web of events is the flowing robe in which [the soul] is clothed.
    OS 2.281 6 [Revelation] is an ebb of the individual rivulet before the flowing surges of the sea of life.
    Int 2.336 18 ...the power of picture or expression, in the most enriched and flowing nature, implies...a certain control over the spontaneous states...
    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 line to be a flowing point;...
    Pt1 3.37 2 He is the poet and shall draw us with love and terror, who sees through the flowing vest the firm nature, and can declare it.
    Mrs1 3.150 3 Woman, with her instinct of behavior, instantly detects in man...any want of that large, flowing and magnanimous deportment which is indispensable as an exterior in the hall.
    PNR 4.81 6 [Nature] waited tranquilly the flowing periods of paleontology...
    MoS 4.172 10 ...the interrogation of custom at all points...is the evidence of [the superior mind's] perception of the flowing power which remains itself in all changes.
    ET4 5.65 27 It is the fault of their forms that [the English] grow stocky... few tall, slender figures of flowing shape...
    ET4 5.66 19 The anecdote of the handsome captives which Saint Gregory found at Rome, A. D. 600, is matched by the testimony of the Norman chroniclers, five centuries later, who wondered at the beauty and long flowing hair of the young English captives.
    Pow 6.76 8 ...in our flowing affairs a decision must be made...
    Pow 6.77 1 Dr. Johnson said, in one his flowing sentences, Miserable beyond all names of wretchedness is that unhappy pair, who are doomed to reduce beforehand to the principles of abstract reason all the details of each domestic day.
    Pow 6.81 8 The world...has no casualty in all its vast and flowing curve.
    Ctr 6.129 11 Can rules or tutors educate/ The semigod whom we await?/ He must be musical,/ Tremulous, impressional,/ Alive to gentle influence/ Of landscape and of sky,/ And tender to the spirit-touch/ Of man's or maiden's eye:/ But, to his native centre fast,/ Shall into Future fuse the Past,/ And the world's flowing fates in his own mould recast./
    Art2 7.37 10 [All the departments of life] are sublime when seen as emanations of a Necessity...dissolving man as well as his works in its flowing beneficence.
    WD 7.163 21 Tantalus, who in old times was seen vainly trying to quench his thirst with a flowing stream which ebbed whenever he approached it, has been seen again lately.
    PC 8.223 16 Nature is brute but as this soul quickens it; Nature, always the effect, mind the flowing cause.
    Insp 8.267 1 That flowing river, which, out of regions I see not, pours for a season its streams into me.
    PerF 10.67 1 What central flowing forces, say,/ Make up thy splendor, matchless day?/
    Edc1 10.123 4 With the key of the secret he marches faster/ From strength to strength, and for night brings day,/ While classes or tribes too weak to master/ The flowing conditions of life, give way./
    Bost 12.182 3 The rocky nook with hilltops three/ Looked eastward from the farms,/ And twice each day the flowing sea/ Took Boston in its arms./

flowing, n. (5)

    Con 1.296 25 Thy oysters are barnacles and cockles, and with the next flowing of the tide they will be pebbles and sea-foam.
    Ill 6.320 14 ...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...
    WD 7.182 3 ...what has been best done in the world,--the works of genius,-- cost nothing. There is no painful effort, but it is the spontaneous flowing of the thought.
    PPo 8.261 9 Plunge in yon angry waves,/ Renouncing doubt and care;/ The flowing of the seven broad seas/ Shall never wet thy hair./
    Mem 12.91 9 Memory...holds together past and present...existing in both, abides in the flowing...

flowing, v. (29)

    LE 1.186 8 Bend to the persuasion which is flowing to you from every object in nature...
    Con 1.300 8 ...the superior beauty is with...the river which ever flowing yet is found in the same bed from age to age;...
    Tran 1.334 3 [The idealist's] experience inclines him to behold the procession of facts you call the world, as flowing perpetually outward from an invisible, unsounded centre in himself...
    YA 1.372 11 The sphere is flattened at the poles and swelled at the equator; a form flowing necessarily from the fluid state...
    Fdsp 2.195 2 High thanks I owe you, excellent lovers, who...enlarge the meaning of all my thoughts. These are...hymn, ode and epic, poetry still flowing...
    OS 2.284 6 In the flowing of love...there is no question of continuance.
    Cir 2.319 15 Infancy, youth, receptive, aspiring...abandons itself to the instruction flowing from all sides.
    Art1 2.365 7 ...true art is...always flowing.
    Pt1 3.20 23 ...through that better perception [the poet] stands one step nearer to things, and sees the flowing or metamorphosis;...
    Pt1 3.21 2 ...[the poet]...following with his eyes the life, uses the forms which express that life, and so his speech flows with the flowing of nature.
    Gts 3.163 3 The gift, to be true, must be the flowing of the giver unto me...
    Gts 3.163 4 The gift, to be true, must be the flowing of the giver unto me, correspondent to my flowing unto him.
    SwM 4.112 18 [Swedenborg] knows, if he only, the flowing of nature...
    ET2 5.33 1 When their privilege was disputed by the Dutch and other junior marines, on the plea that you could never...hold property in what was always flowing, the English did not stick to claim the channel, or the bottom of all the main...
    Wth 6.119 15 You think farm buildings and broad acres a solid property; but its value is flowing like water.
    Bhr 6.177 11 [Men] carry the liquor of life flowing up and down in these beautiful bottles...
    Bhr 6.180 19 One comes away from a company in which, it may easily happen...no important remark has been addressed to him, and yet, if in sympathy with the society, he shall not have a sense of this fact, such a stream of life has been flowing into him and out from him through the eyes.
    Bty 6.292 14 Beauty is the moment of transition, as if the form were just ready to flow into other forms. Any fixedness...is the reverse of flowing, and therefore deformed.
    Bty 6.293 25 To this streaming or flowing belongs the beauty that all circular movement has;...
    Farm 7.145 6 All things are flowing...
    PI 8.17 7 Poetry is the perpetual endeavor...to see that the object is always flowing away...
    PI 8.71 19 The nature of things is flowing, a metamorphosis.
    SovE 10.213 13 The man of this age must be matriculated in the university of sciences and tendencies flowing from all past periods.
    Schr 10.263 22 Language can hardly exaggerate the beautitude of the intellect flowing into the faculties.
    GSt 10.501 4 High virtue has such an air of nature and necessity that to thank its possessor would be to praise the water for flowing...
    FSLN 11.237 21 A man who steals another man's labor steals away his own faculties; his integrity, his humanity is flowing away from him.
    II 12.79 2 The whole ethics of thought is of this kind, flowing out of reverence of the source...
    Mem 12.90 12 ...[memory] is the cohesion which keeps things from falling into a lump, or flowing in waves.
    Mem 12.103 24 At this hour the stream is still flowing, though you hear it not;...

flowings, n. (1)

    PI 8.21 4 The poet contemplates the central identity, sees it undulate and roll this way and that, with divine flowings, through remotest things;...

flown, v. (4)

    Nat2 3.185 17 ...when now and then comes along some sad, sharp-eyed man, who sees how paltry a game is played, and refuses to play but blabs the secret;--how then? Is the bird flown?
    Ill 6.315 23 Bare and grim to tears is the lot of the children in the hovel I saw yesterday; yet not the less they hung it round with frippery romance... and talked of the dear cottage where so many joyful hours had flown.
    War 11.164 15 Observe the ideas of the present day...see...how timber, brick, lime and stone have flown into convenient shape, obedient to the master-idea reigning in the minds of many persons.
    RBur 11.438 8 Praise to the bard! his words are driven,/ Like flower-seeds by the far winds sown,/ Where'er, beneath the sky of heaven,/ The birds of fame have flown./ Halleck.

flows, v. (33)

    Nat 1.31 16 [Nature's] light flows into the mind evermore...
    Nat 1.44 6 The river, as it flows, resembles the air that flows over it;...
    Nat 1.44 7 The river, as it flows, resembles the air that flows over it;...
    AmS 1.105 11 ...in proportion as a man has any thing in him divine, the firmament flows before him...
    LE 1.165 4 ...an able man is nothing else than a good, free, vascular organization, whereinto the universal spirit freely flows;...
    LE 1.181 22 ...the lower faculties of man are subdued to docility; through which as an unobstructed channel the soul now easily and gladly flows?
    MN 1.210 8 [A man's] health and greatness consist in his being the channel through which heaven flows to earth...
    MN 1.211 2 What is best in any work of art but...that which flows from the hour and the occasion...
    MN 1.219 1 Genius...advertises us that it flows out of a deeper source than the foregoing silence...
    Con 1.296 17 Seest thou the great sea, how it ebbs and flows?...
    Con 1.325 19 To the intemperate and covetous person no love flows;...
    Hist 2.7 24 Praise is looked, homage tendered, love flows, from mute nature...
    Lov1 2.173 12 ...without any coquetry the happy, affectionate nature of woman flows out in this pretty gossip.
    OS 2.271 10 ...when [the soul] flows through [man's] affection, it is love.
    OS 2.288 1 The same Omniscience flows into the intellect and makes what we call genius.
    Pt1 3.21 1 ...[the poet]...following with his eyes the life, uses the forms which express that life, and so his speech flows with the flowing of nature.
    Pt1 3.27 17 ...if in any manner we can stimulate this instinct...the mind flows into and through things hardest and highest...
    Pt1 3.42 17 Wherever snow falls or water flows or birds fly...there is Beauty...shed for thee [O poet]...
    ET14 5.257 16 Color, like the dawn, flows over the horizon from [Tennyson's] pencil...
    Elo1 7.68 21 ...listen to a poor Irishwoman recounting some experience of hers. Her speech flows like a river...
    WD 7.185 15 ...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;...
    WD 7.185 18 ...this is the progress of every earnest mind;...from local skills...to the finer economy which respects the quality of what is done, and...the fidelity with which it flows from ourselves; then to the depth of thought it betrays, looking to its universality, or that its roots are in eternity, not in time. Then it flows from character...
    PI 8.43 27 The gushing fulness of speech belongs to the poet, and it flows from the lips of each of his magic beings in the thoughts and words peculiar to its nature.
    QO 8.179 20 The stream of affection flows broad and strong;...
    PPo 8.260 7 [Hafiz's] ingenuity never sleeps:-Ah, could I hide me in my song,/ To kiss thy lips from which it flows!/
    Insp 8.277 6 Swedenborg's genius was the perception of the doctrine that The Lord flows into the spirits of angels and of men;...
    Dem1 10.27 25 [Man] is sure...the circumambient soul which flows into him as into all...has not been searched.
    Aris 10.66 9 ...the American who would serve his country must...revisit the margin of that well from which his fathers drew waters of life and enthusiasm, the fountain I mean of the moral sentiments, the parent fountain from which this goodly Universe flows as a wave.
    EWI 11.139 8 The stream of human affairs flows its own way...
    PLT 12.15 15 We figure to ourselves Intellect as an ethereal sea, which ebbs and flows...
    Mem 12.104 1 At this hour the stream is still flowing, though you hear it not; the plants are still drinking their accustomed life and repaying it with their beautiful forms. But you need not wander thither. It flows for you, and they grow for you, in the returning images of former summers.
    MLit 12.332 19 Life for [Goethe]...has a gem or two more on its robe; but... no drop of healthier blood flows yet in its veins.
    Trag 12.415 8 [Our human being] is like a stream of water, which, if dammed up on one bank, overruns the other, and flows equally at its own convenience over sand, or mud, or marble.

fluency, n. (3)

    Lov1 2.179 25 The same fluency may be observed in every work of the plastic arts.
    Elo1 7.74 12 There is a petty lawyer's fluency...
    Dem1 10.7 23 [Dreams] seem to us to suggest an abundance and fluency of thought not familiar to the waking experience.

fluent, adj. (6)

    Chr1 3.91 12 [The people] cannot come at their ends by sending to Congress a learned, acute and fluent speaker, if he be not one who, before he was appointed by the people to represent them, was appointed by Almighty God to stand for a fact...
    GoW 4.282 5 Though [the writer] were dumb [his message] would speak. If not,--if there be no such God's word in the man,--what care we how adroit, how fluent, how brilliant he is?
    Elo2 8.119 11 The most...thought-paralyzing companion sometimes turns out in a public assembly to be a fluent, various and effective orator.
    PPo 8.247 11 [Hafiz's] was the fluent mind in which every thought and feeling came readily to the lips.
    FSLN 11.225 19 Who doubts the power of any fluent debater to defend either of our political parties...
    ACri 12.300 6 The power of the poet is...in using every fact in Nature...as a fluent symbol...

fluid, adj. (18)

    Nat 1.52 8 The [sensual man] esteems nature as rooted and fast; the [poet], as fluid...
    Nat 1.76 2 Nature is not fixed but fluid.
    Nat 1.76 4 ...to pure spirit [nature] is fluid...
    AmS 1.105 6 ...the world was plastic and fluid in the hands of God...
    YA 1.372 12 The sphere is flattened at the poles and swelled at the equator; a form flowing necessarily from the fluid state...
    Hist 2.13 1 Upborne and surrounded as we are by this all-creating nature, soft and fluid as a cloud or the air, why should we be such hard pedants, and magnify a few forms?
    Hist 2.21 11 ...all public facts are to be individualized, all private facts are to be generalized. Then at once History becomes fluid and true, and Biography deep and sublime.
    Comp 2.125 4 ...in some happier mind [these revolutions] are incessant, and all worldly relations hang very loosely about him, becoming as it were a transparent fluid membrane through which the living form is seen...
    SL 2.138 4 The wild fertility of nature is felt in comparing our rigid names and reputations with our fluid consciousness.
    SL 2.148 13 As in dreams, so in the scarcely less fluid events of the world every man sees himself in colossal...
    Cir 2.302 2 The universe is fluid and volatile.
    Cir 2.302 5 The law dissolves the fact and holds it fluid.
    Pol1 3.199 15 ...the old statesman knows that society is fluid;...
    NR 3.233 25 ...it was easy [at Handel's Messiah] to observe what efforts nature was making, through so many hoarse, wooden and imperfect persons, to produce beautiful voices, fluid and soul-guided men and women.
    UGM 4.9 10 A man is a centre for nature, running out threads of relation through every thing, fluid and solid...
    F 6.43 15 Every solid in the universe is ready to become fluid on the approach of the mind...
    Bty 6.301 18 There are faces so fluid with expression...that we can hardly find what the mere features really are.
    PI 8.30 22 ...colder moods...insinuate, or, as it were, muffle the fact to suit the poverty or caprice of their expression...being unable to fuse and mould their words and images to fluid obedience.

fluid, n. (6)

    AmS 1.98 23 That great principle of Undulation in nature, that shows itself...as yet more deeply ingrained in every atom and every fluid, is known to us under the name of Polarity...
    Art2 7.42 2 It is the law of fluids that prescribes the shape of the boat...and, in the finer fluid above, the form and tackle of the sails.
    PI 8.8 2 Anatomy, osteology, exhibit arrested or progessive ascent in each kind; the lower pointing to the higher forms, the higher to the highest, from the fluid in an elastic sack, from radiate, mollusk, articulate, vertebrate, up to man;...
    Insp 8.274 7 ...where is the Franklin with kite or rod for this fluid [inspiration]?...
    LLNE 10.352 12 [Fourier] treats man as...something that may be...made into solid or fluid or gas, at the will of the leader;...
    Bost 12.183 10 An aerial fluid streams all day, all night, from every flower and leaf...

fluids, n. (8)

    Comp 2.96 21 Polarity, or action and reaction, we meet in every part of nature;...in the equation of quantity and quality in the fluids of the animal body;...
    Comp 2.96 23 Polarity, or action and reaction, we meet in every part of nature;...in the undulations of fluids and of sound;...
    Pow 6.80 21 ...[spirit] is as much a subject of exact law and arithmetic as fluids and gases are;...
    Art2 7.41 27 It is the law of fluids that prescribes the shape of the boat...
    LLNE 10.350 7 Attractive Industry...would...cause the earth to yield healthy imponderable fluids to the solar system...
    LLNE 10.350 8 Attractive Industry...would...cause the earth to yield healthy imponderable fluids to the solar system, as now it yields noxious fluids.
    LLNE 10.350 14 ...the good Fourier knew what those creatures [the hyaena, the jackal, the gnat, the bug, the flea] should have been, had not the mould slipped, through the bad state of the atmosphere; caused no doubt by the same vicious imponderable fluids.
    FRep 11.514 19 The law of water and all fluids is true of wit.

Flume, Franconia, New Hamp (1)

    MMEm 10.401 20 Not far from [Mary Moody Emerson's] house was a brook running over a granite floor like the Franconia Flume...

flung, v. (7)

    YA 1.373 19 [Nature] flung us out in her plenty...
    SR 2.78 21 For [the self-helping man] all doors are flung wide;...
    NMW 4.236 18 [Napoleon] was flung into the marsh at Arcola.
    GoW 4.277 10 ...[Goethe] flung into literature, in his Mephistopheles, the first organic figure that has been added for some ages...
    Bty 6.279 9 [Seyd] smote the lake to feed his eye/ With the beryl beam of the broken wave./ He flung in pebbles well to hear/ The moment's music which they gave./
    EWI 11.110 23 In attempting to make its escape from the pursuit of a man-of- war, one ship flung five hundred slaves alive into the sea.
    EWI 11.128 12 For months and years the bill [on emanicipation in the West Indies] was debated...and, at last, the right triumphed...and the oppressor was flung out.

flushed, v. (2)

    MoS 4.149 12 A man is flushed with success, and bethinks himself what this good luck signifies.
    Bty 6.301 19 There are faces...so flushed and rippled by the play of thought, that we can hardly find what the mere features really are.

flushes, n. (1)

    Bty 6.304 27 The poets are quite right in decking their mistresses with the spoils of the landscape...flushes of morning and stars of night...

flushes, v. (1)

    MoS 4.169 11 In speaking of [Socrates], for once [Montaigne's] cheek flushes and his style rises to passion.

flute, n. (9)

    PPh 4.50 13 As one diffusive air, passing through the perforations of a flute, is distinguished as the notes of a scale, so the nature of the Great Spirit is single, though its forms be manifold [said Krishna]...
    SwM 4.103 4 There is beauty of a concert, as well as of a flute;...
    Bty 6.295 18 ...the flute is heard farther than the cart...
    Art2 7.44 26 A jumble of musical sounds on a viol or a flute...gives pleasure to the unskilful ear.
    Boks 7.213 23 [The imagination] has a flute which sets the atoms of our frame in a dance...
    PI 8.18 23 [The act of imagination] has a flute which sets the atoms of our frame in a dance.
    PI 8.52 1 With the first note of the flute or horn...we quit the world of common sense...
    Elo2 8.121 10 What character, what infinite variety belong to the voice! sometimes it is a flute, sometimes a trip-hammer;...
    PerF 10.80 13 ...[the prisoner] took his flute out of his pocket and began to play...

flutes, n. (1)

    Hsm1 2.247 23 We have a great many flutes and flageolets, but not often the sound of any fife.

flutter, n. (1)

    Schr 10.287 17 I invite you [scholars] not...to the flutter of gratified vanity...

flutter, v. (1)

    SwM 4.103 11 [Swedenborg's] stalwart presence would flutter the gowns of an university.

flutters, v. (2)

    MoS 4.175 5 What flutters the Church of Rome...may yet be very far from touching any principle of faith.
    HDC 11.30 4 Man's life, said the Witan to the Saxon king, is the sparrow that enters at a window, flutters round the house, and flies out at another...

flux, n. (9)

    Nat 1.27 1 Who looks upon a river in a meditative hour and is not reminded of the flux of all things?
    Exp 3.72 10 ...I have described life as a flux of moods...
    PPh 4.47 14 Before Pericles came the Seven Wise Masters, and we have the beginnings of geometry, metaphysics and ethics: then the partialists,-- deducing the origin of things from flux or water, or from air, or from fire, or from mind.
    PPh 4.56 15 ...The physical philosophers had sketched each his theory of the world; the theory of atoms, of fire, of flux, of spirit;...
    ET2 5.29 20 To the geologist...the land is in perpetual flux and change...
    F 6.44 3 The whole world is the flux of matter over the wires of thought to the poles or points where it would build.
    WD 7.162 11 ...what can [our politics] help or hinder...when the nations are in exodus and flux?
    PI 8.21 15 I think the use or value of poetry to be the suggestion it affords of the flux or fugaciousness of the poet.
    QO 8.200 1 ...all things are in flux.

flux, v. (1)

    F 6.43 16 Every solid in the universe is ready to become fluid on the approach of the mind, and the power to flux it is the measure of the mind.

fluxional, adj. (2)

    Pt1 3.34 16 ...all symbols are fluxional;...
    Mrs1 3.122 6 There is something equivocal in all the words in use to express the excellence of manners and social cultivation, because the quantities are fluxional...

fluxions, n. (2)

    UGM 4.9 8 Each man is by secret liking connected with some district of nature, whose agent and interpreter he is; as...Newton, of fluxions.
    MoS 4.160 14 The philosophy we want is one of fluxions and mobility.

fly, n. (9)

    Hist 2.13 13 Genius detects through the fly, through the caterpillar, through the grub, through the egg, the constant individual;...
    OS 2.274 22 The soul's advances are not made by gradation...but rather by ascension of state, such as can be represented by metamorphosis,--from the egg to the worm, from the worm to the fly.
    F 6.46 20 We wonder how the fly finds its mate...
    Wsp 6.222 25 The smallest fly will draw blood...
    CbW 6.269 19 A fly is as untamable as a hyena.
    PI 8.5 15 I believe this conviction makes the charm of chemistry,--that we have the same avoirdupois matter in an alembic, without a vestige of the old form; and in animal transformation not less, as in grub and fly...
    Insp 8.285 24 At last it has become summer,/ And at the first glimpse of morning/ The busy early fly stings me/ Out of my sweet slumber./
    Imtl 8.341 21 [The thinker] is but as a fly or a worm to this mountain, this continent, which his thoughts inhabit.
    PLT 12.59 27 The same course continues itself in the mind which we have witnessed in Nature, namely the carrying-on and completion of the metamorphosis from grub to worm, from worm to fly.

fly, v. (30)

    AmS 1.96 22 In its grub state, [the new deed] cannot fly...
    Fdsp 2.192 12 ...all things fly into their places...
    Art1 2.367 13 [Men] despatch the day's weary chores, and fly to voluptuous reveries.
    Pt1 3.42 17 Wherever snow falls or water flows or birds fly...there is Beauty...shed for thee [O poet]...
    Chr1 3.98 23 It is disgraceful to fly to events for confirmation of our truth and worth.
    Mrs1 3.152 21 [Youth] have yet to learn that [ our society's] seeming grandeur is shadowy and relative...its proudest gates will fly open at the approach of their courage and virtue.
    MoS 4.174 22 In the mount of vision, ere they have yet risen from their knees, [the saints] say...we must fly for relief to the suspected and reviled Intellect....
    ET2 5.27 6 [The good ship] has...left five sail behind her far on the edge of the west at sundown, which were far east of us at morn...and still we fly for our lives.
    ET10 5.158 3 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.
    Pow 6.59 26 ...when [the weaker party] himself is matched with some other antagonist, his own shafts fly well and hit.
    Pow 6.64 13 The faster the ball falls to the sun, the force to fly off is by so much augmented.
    Wth 6.121 19 How often we must remember the art of the surgeon, which, in replacing the broken bone, contents itself with releasing the parts from false position; they fly into place by the action of the muscles.
    CbW 6.248 24 Franklin said, Mankind...begin upon a thing, but, meeting with a difficulty, they fly from it discouraged;...
    Elo1 7.89 18 [The orator's] expressions...fly from mouth to mouth.
    Elo1 7.89 20 Where [the orator] looks, all things fly to their places.
    Boks 7.219 18 [The communications of the sacred books]...are living characters translatable into every tongue and form of life. I read them on lichens and bark;...they fly in birds, they creep in worms;...
    Clbs 7.245 9 There are those who have the instinct of a bat to fly against any lighted candle and put it out...
    PI 8.30 16 ...in poetry, the master rushes to deliver his thought, and the words and images fly to him to express it;...
    PI 8.50 1 Now try Spenser, Marlowe, Chapman, and see how wide they fly for weapons...
    Res 8.140 21 By his machines man...can fly like a hawk in the air;...
    PC 8.207 21 Science surpasses the old miracles of mythology, to fly with [men] over the sea...
    PC 8.215 7 ...[Roger Bacon] announced...machines to fly into the air like birds.
    Insp 8.292 4 The moth must fly to the lamp...
    Edc1 10.155 10 When [the naturalist] goes into the woods the birds fly before him...
    Prch 10.224 17 Let [the torpid heart] speak, and all these rebels will fly to their loyalty.
    MMEm 10.398 6 On earth I dream;-I die to be:/ Time! shake not thy bald head at me./ I challenge thee to hurry past,/ Or for my turn to fly too fast./
    PLT 12.22 7 A fish in like manner is man furnished to live in the sea; a thrush, to fly in the air;...
    II 12.70 15 If you press [those we call great men], they fly to a new topic...
    CL 12.151 7 The next day the Hylas were piping in every pool...and the first northward flight of the geese...who...fly low over the farms.
    CL 12.167 8 ...as soon as man knows himself as [Nature's] interpreter... then all things fly into place...

fly-away, n. (1)

    LE 1.171 14 ...Truth is such a fly-away...

flying, adj. (14)

    DSA 1.137 6 The faith should blend...with the flying cloud...
    LE 1.158 21 Over [the scholar] stream the flying constellations;...
    Comp 2.101 8 ...the naturalist...regards...a bird as a flying man, a tree as a rooted man.
    Cir 2.301 20 This fact [that around every circle another can be drawn], as far as it symbolizes the moral fact of the Unattainable, the flying Perfect... may conveniently serve us to connect many illustrations of human power in every department.
    Pt1 3.12 24 ...I, being myself a novice, am slow in perceiving that [the poet]...is merely bent that I should admire his skill to rise like a fowl or a flying fish...
    Exp 3.63 22 ...the exclusion...reaches the climbing, flying, gliding, feathered and four-footed man.
    Chr1 3.113 4 We chase some flying scheme...
    SwM 4.130 6 [Swedenborg] was painfully alive to the difference between knowing and doing, and this sensibility is incessantly expressed. Philosophers are, therefore, vipers...and flying serpents;...
    ET7 5.116 21 Private men [in England] keep their promises, never so trivial. Down goes the flying word on the tablets...
    ET19 5.312 27 Is it not true, sir, that the wise ancients did not praise the ship parting with flying colors from the port...
    Imtl 8.339 14 Every really able man...considers his work...as far short of what it should be. What is this Better, this flying Ideal, but the perpetual promise of his Creator?
    Supl 10.175 4 In all the years that I have sat in town and forest, I never saw...a flying man...
    PLT 12.5 11 Our metaphysics should be able to follow the flying force through all transformations...
    Mem 12.95 8 Never was truer fable than that of the Sibyl's writing on leaves which the wind scatters. The difference between men is that in one the memory with inconceivable swiftness flies after and recollects the flying leaves...

flying, v. (12)

    LE 1.168 4 The honking of the wild geese flying by night; the thin note of the companionable titmouse in the winter day;...all, are alike unattempted [by poets].
    Comp 2.91 11 The lonely Earth amid the balls/ That hurry through the eternal halls,/ A makeweight flying to the void,/ Supplemental asteroid,/ Or compensatory spark,/ Shoots across the neutral Dark./
    Pt1 3.23 23 The songs, thus flying immortal from their mortal parent, are pursued by clamorous flights of censures...
    ET2 5.28 18 In one week [the ship] has made 1467 miles, and now...is flying before the gray south wind eleven and a half knots the hour.
    Ctr 6.163 12 [The ancients] preferred the noble vessel...dismantled and unrigged, to her companion borne into harbor with colors flying and guns firing.
    Res 8.147 12 ...when fear has once possessed you, God ye good even! You think you are flying towards the poop when you are running towards the prow...
    PPo 8.241 7 ...the east wind, at [Solomon's] command, took up the carpet and transported with all that were upon it, whither he pleased,-the army of birds at the same time flying overhead and forming a canopy to shade them from the sun.
    Dem1 10.21 3 ...the fabled ring of Gyges...is simply mischievous. A new or private language...the desired discovery of the guided balloon, are of this kind. Tramps...flying through the air...can well be spared.
    Edc1 10.155 23 By and by the curiosity [of the creatures of nature] masters the fear, and they come swimming, creeping and flying towards [the naturalist];...
    LLNE 10.364 24 Letters were always flying not only from house to house [at Brook Farm], but from room to room.
    Thor 10.470 14 The redstart was flying about...
    Mem 12.90 9 As gravity holds matter from flying off into space, so memory gives stability to knowledge;...

flying-machines, n. (1)

    Let 12.393 5 ...when our correspondent proceeds to flying-machines, we have no longer the smallest taper-light of credible information and experience left...

fly-leaf, n. (1)

    MoS 4.163 24 ...the duplicate copy of Florio...turned out to have the autograph of Ben Jonson in the fly-leaf.

fly-leaves, n. (1)

    ET1 5.11 2 ...taking up Bishop Waterland's book, which lay on the table, [Coleridge] read with vehemence two or three pages written by himself in the fly-leaves...

fly-wheel, n. (1)

    MR 1.255 25 ...we have seen a few scattered up and down in time for the blessing of the world; men who have in the gravity of their nature a quality which answers to the fly-wheel in a mill...

foam, n. (6)

    UGM 4.19 12 We touch and go, and sip the foam of many lives.
    F 6.32 7 ...trim your bark, and the wave which drowned it will...carry it like its own foam...
    Bty 6.292 2 The Greeks fabled that Venus was born of the foam of the sea.
    PI 8.40 6 [Poetry] must be as new as foam and as old as the rock.
    Comc 8.170 1 ...on the back of [Astley's] waistcoat a gay cascade was thundering down the rocks with foam and rainbow...
    Pray 12.353 16 Shall we never ask the aim of all this hurry and foam...

foam, v. (1)

    Exp 3.85 6 ...I have not found that much was gained by manipular attempts to realize the world of thought. Many eager persons successively make an experiment in this way, and make themselves ridiculous. They acquire democratic manners, they foam at the mouth, they hate and deny.

foaming, adj. (1)

    Nat2 3.178 25 We see the foaming brook with compunction...

focal, adj. (3)

    Nat 1.46 10 We are associated in adolescent and adult life with some friends...whom we lack power to put at such focal distance from us, that we can mend or even analyze them.
    Exp 3.51 2 Of what use is genius, if the organ...cannot find a focal distance within the actual horizon of human life?
    SwM 4.102 19 A colossal soul, [Swedenborg]...requires a long focal distance to be seen;...

focus, n. (2)

    Hist 2.38 19 [Each man] shall collect into a focus the rays of nature.
    Exp 3.50 8 Life is a train of moods like a string of beads, and as we pass through them they prove to be many-colored lenses...and each shows only what lies in its focus.

fodder, n. (1)

    HDC 11.35 10 The great cost of cattle, and the sickening of [the pilgrims'] cattle upon such wild fodder as was never cut before;...are the other disasters enumerated by the historian [Edward Johnson].

foe, n. (9)

    PPh 4.49 17 The Same, the Same: friend and foe are of one stuff;...
    MoS 4.160 3 [The skeptic] is the considerer...believing that a man has too many enemies than that he can afford to be his own foe;...
    CbW 6.244 3 ...Fool and foe may harmless roam,/ Loved and lovers bide at home./
    Cour 7.279 1 The hunter raised his gun,--/ He knew one charge was all,--/ And through the boy's pursuing foe/ He sent his only ball./
    OA 7.324 7 All men carry seeds of all distempers through life latent, and we die without developing them...but if you are enfeebled by any cause, these sleeping seeds start and open. Meantime, at every stage we lose a foe.
    PPo 8.243 25 The secret that should not be blown/ Not one of thy nation must know;/ You may padlock the gate of a town,/ But never the mouth of a foe./
    PPo 8.259 2 Jami says,-A friend is he, who, hunted as a foe,/ So much the kindlier shows him than before;/ Throw stones at him, or ruder javelins throw,/ He builds with stone and steel a firmer floor./
    SovE 10.188 21 The cruelest foe is a masked benefactor.
    AsSu 11.246 1 His erring foe,/ Self-assured that he prevails,/ Looks from his victim lying low,/ And sees aloft the red right arm/ Redress the eternal scales./

foes, n. (6)

    NER 3.252 13 One apostle thought all men should go to farming...another that the mischief was in our diet, that we eat and drink damnation. These... were foes to the death to fermentation.
    SwM 4.136 16 The parish disputes in the Swedish church between the friends and foes of Luther and Melancthon...intrude themselves into [Swedenborg's] speculations...
    Wsp 6.199 1 This is he, who, felled by foes,/ Sprung harmless up, refreshed by blows/...
    PPo 8.251 14 Thy foes to hunt, thy enviers to strike down,/ Poises Arcturus aloft morning and evening his spear./
    Chr2 10.120 7 But I, father, says the wise Prahlada, in the Vishnu Purana, know neither friends nor foes, for I behold Kesava in all beings as in my own soul.
    Chr2 10.120 10 [Character] sees that a man's friends and his foes are of his own household, of his own person.

fog, n. (4)

    Int 2.326 8 In the fog of good and evil affections it is hard for man to walk forward in a straight line.
    ET3 5.39 23 The London fog aggravates the distempers of the sky...
    Elo1 7.87 21 ...the lawyers saved their rogue under the fog of a definition.
    PerF 10.73 26 It is curious to see how a creature so feeble and vulnerable as a man, who, unarmed, is no match for the wild beasts...none for a fog...is yet able to subdue to his will these terrific [natural] forces...

foggy, adj. (2)

    ET5 5.94 10 This foggy and rainy country [England] furnishes the world with astronomical observations.
    ET19 5.312 14 ...I was given to understand in my childhood that the British island from which my forefathers came was...a cold, foggy, mournful country...

fogs, n. (4)

    Cir 2.311 13 The facts which loomed so large in the fogs of yesterday... have strangely changed their proportions.
    ET5 5.95 21 By cylindrical tiles and gutta-percha tubes, five millions of acres of bad land [in England] have been drained, and put on equality with the best, for rape-culture and grass. The climate too...is so far reached by this new action, that fogs and storms are said to disappear.
    ET11 5.196 20 This is the charter, or the chartism, which fogs and seas and rains proclaimed [in England],--that intellect and personal force should make the law;...
    CW 12.169 1 Not many men see beauty in the fogs/ Of close, low pine-woods in a river town;/...

foible, n. (6)

    Chr1 3.113 1 Society is spoiled...if the associates are brought a mile to meet. And if it be not society, it is a mischievous, low, degrading jangle, though made up of the best. All the greatness of each is kept back, and every foible in painful activity...
    NR 3.227 18 There is [no great man] without his foible.
    ET9 5.148 21 I remember a shrewd politician...told me that he had known several successful statesmen made by their foible.
    Ctr 6.150 15 It is the foible especially of American youth,--pretension.
    Suc 7.290 3 ...Nature utilizes misers, fanatics, show-men, egotists, to accomplish her ends; but we must not think better of the foible for that.
    ALin 11.337 4 Easy good nature has been the dangerous foible of the Republic...

foibles, n. (3)

    CbW 6.258 14 ...there is no man who is not indebted to his foibles;...
    Thor 10.480 24 ...these foibles [of Thoreau], real or apparent, were fast vanishing in the incessant growth of a spirit so robust and wise...
    Scot 11.467 1 [Scott's] strong good sense saved him from the faults and foibles incident to poets...

foil, v. (1)

    Chr1 3.105 16 It is of no use to ape [character] or to contend with it. Somewhat is possible of resistance, and of persistence, and of creation, to this power, which will foil all emulation.

foiled, v. (3)

    Fdsp 2.200 10 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./
    PPh 4.77 22 [Plato] has clapped copyright on the world. This is the ambition of individualism. But the mouthful proves too large. Boa constrictor has good will to eat it, but he is foiled.
    ET1 5.16 10 When too much praise of any genius annoyed [Carlyle] he professed hugely to admire the talent shown by his pig. He had spent much time and contrivance in confining the poor beast to one enclosure in his pen, but pig, by great strokes of judgment, had found out how to let a board down, and had foiled him.

foils, n. (1)

    Prd1 2.237 19 Entire self-possession may make a battle very little more dangerous to life than a match at foils...

foisted, v. (1)

    FRep 11.543 8 Justice satisfies everybody, and justice alone. No monopoly must be foisted in...

fold, v. (6)

    Civ 7.28 12 ...we managed...to fold up the letter in such invisible compact form as [Electricity] could carry in those invisible pockets of his...
    Chr2 10.89 1 Shun passion, fold the hands of thrift,/ Sit still, and Truth is near;/...
    SovE 10.189 5 ...a sublime confidence is fed at the bottom of the heart that...though we should fold our arms...the evils we suffer will at last end themselves through the incessant opposition of Nature to everything hurtful.
    FRep 11.530 24 The spread eagle must fold his foolish wings and be less of a peacock;...
    Mem 12.104 3 In low or bad company you fold yourself in your cloak... recall and surround yourself with the best associates and fairest hours of your life...
    Bost 12.182 8 The sea returning day by day/ Restores the world-wide mart;/ So let each dweller on the Bay/ Fold Boston in his heart./

folded, adj. (3)

    Prd1 2.235 26 When [a man] sees a folded and sealed scrap of paper float round the globe in a pine ship and come safe to the eye for which it was written...let him likewise feel the admonition to integrate his being across all these distracting forces...
    PI 8.55 11 Welcome, folded arms and fixed eyes/...
    Pray 12.353 12 Why should I feel reproved when a busy one enters the room? I am not idle, though I sit with folded hands...

folded, v. (8)

    Nat 1.61 18 Like the figure of Jesus, [Nature] stands with...hands folded upon the breast.
    Hist 2.4 2 ...Egypt, Greece, Rome, Gaul, Britain, America, lie folded already in the first man.
    SL 2.157 16 It was this conviction which Swedenborg expressed when he described a group of persons in the spiritual world endeavoring in vain to articulate a proposition which they did not believe; but they could not, though they twisted and folded their lips even to indignation.
    Nat2 3.167 2 The rounded world is fair to see,/ Nine times folded in mystery/...
    MMEm 10.425 1 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...

folding, v. (1)

    Humb 11.457 20 How [Humboldt] reaches...from law to law, folding away moons and asteroids and solar systems in the clauses and parentheses of his encyclopaedic paragraphs!

foldings, n. (1)

    CL 12.165 5 [Agassiz] pretends to be only busy with the foldings of the yolk of a turtle's egg.

folds, n. (4)

    Fdsp 2.203 4 We cover up our thought from [our fellow-man] under a hundred folds.
    SwM 4.124 1 Plato is a gownsman; his garment...is an academic robe, and hinders action with its voluminous folds.
    Cour 7.277 4 If you...see only an adamantine fate coiling its folds about Nature and man, then reflect that the best use of fate is to teach us courage...
    Elo2 8.113 27 In the folds of his brow, in the majesty of his mien, Nature has marked her son;...

foliage, n. (4)

    Con 1.300 25 ...the solid columnar stem, which lifts that bank of foliage into the air...is the gift and legacy of dead and buried years.
    MoS 4.182 1 These particular griefs and crimes are the foliage and fruit of such trees as we see growing.
    Thor 10.483 2 The tanager flies through the green foliage as if it would ignite the leaves.
    CPL 11.499 22 [Mary Moody Emerson writes] Is the melancholy bird of night, covered with the dark foliage of the willow and cypress, less gratified than the gay lark...

foliation, n. (1)

    CW 12.178 13 ...I am always glad to remember that in proportion to the foliation is the addition of wood.

folio, n. (1)

    EWI 11.127 23 ...when, in 1789, the first privy council report of evidence on the [slave] trade (a bulky folio...) was presented to the House of Commons, a late day being named for the discussion...Mr. Wilberforce, Mr. Pitt, the Prime Minister, and other gentlemen, took advantage of the postponement to retire into the country to read the report.

folios, n. (2)

    Cour 7.274 12 There are ever appearing in the world men who, almost as soon as they are born, take a bee-line to...the axe of the tyrant, like...Jesus and Socrates. Look...at the folios of the Brothers Bollandi...
    OA 7.330 21 We remember our old Greek Professor at Cambridge...amid his folios...

folk, n. (7)

    MN 1.191 16 We are a puny and a fickle folk.
    SR 2.51 17 ...never varnish your hard, uncharitable ambition with this incredible tenderness for black folk a thousand miles off.
    SL 2.136 10 Why should all give dollars? It is very inconvenient to us country folk...
    Prd1 2.238 16 Far off, men swell, bully and threaten; bring them hand to hand, and they are a feeble folk.
    ET1 5.17 21 [Carlyle] still returned to English pauperism...the selfish abdication by public men of all that public persons should perform. Government should direct poor men what to do. Poor Irish folk come wandering over these moors. My dame makes it a rule to give to every son of Adam bread to eat...
    Aris 10.29 18 Here may ye see wel, how that genterie/ Is not annexed to possession,/ Sith folk ne don their operation/ Alway, as doth the fire, lo, in his kind,/ For God it wot, men may full often find/ A lorde's son do shame and vilanie./
    CL 12.136 9 Chaucer notes of the month of April, Than longen folk to goon on pilgrymages,/ And palmers for to seken straunge strondes,/ To ferne halwes, couthe in sondry londes./

folks, n. (1)

    SMC 11.370 3 When Colonel Gurney, of the Ninth [Regiment], came to him the next day to tell him that folks are just beginning to appreciate the Thirty-second Regiment...Colonel Prescott notes in his journal,-Pity they have not found it out before it was all gone.

follies, n. (14)

    Fdsp 2.213 10 We may congratulate ourselves that the period...of follies...is passed in solitude...
    Exp 3.57 24 Divinity is behind our failures and follies also.
    UGM 4.25 16 ...there are vices and follies incident to whole populations and ages.
    MoS 4.152 18 After dinner...ideas are...follies of young men...
    ET9 5.151 24 Nature and destiny are always on the watch for our follies.
    Pow 6.81 17 ...in these [machines man] is forced to leave out his follies and hindrances...
    CbW 6.257 6 ...the friends of a gentleman brought to his notice the follies of his sons...
    FRep 11.517 9 ...a court or an aristocracy, which must always be a small minority, can more easily run into follies than a republic...
    FRep 11.527 24 Our institutions, of which the town is the unit, are educational... ... The result appears...in the...eagerness for novelty, even for all the follies of false science;...
    PLT 12.7 16 Bring the best wits together, and they are so impatient of each other, so vulgar, there is so much more than their wit,-such follies, gluttonies, partialities, age, care, and sleep, that you shall have no academy.
    Pray 12.355 6 I know that thou hast not created me and placed me here on earth, amidst its toils and troubles and the follies of those around me, and told me to be like thyself when I see so little of thee here to profit by;...
    PPr 12.387 2 ...the splendor of wit cannot outdazzle the calm daylight, which always shows every individual man in balance with his age, and able to work out his own salvation from all the follies of that...
    PPr 12.387 4 Each age has its own follies...
    PPr 12.387 10 ...after a short time, down go [the age's] follies and weakness and the memory of them;...

follow, v. (92)

    Nat 1.18 26 The tribes of birds and insects...follow each other...
    Nat 1.21 25 Willingly does [nature] follow [man's] steps with the rose and the violet...
    Nat 1.46 3 It were a pleasant inquiry to follow into detail [the human forms'] ministry to our education...
    AmS 1.97 24 Authors we have, in numbers...who...follow the trapper into the prairie...to replenish their merchantable stock.
    AmS 1.106 3 The unstable estimates of men crowd to him whose mind is filled with a truth, as the heaped waves of the Atlantic follow the moon.
    DSA 1.136 23 Where shall I hear words such as in elder ages drew men to leave all and follow...
    DSA 1.151 16 I look for the new Teacher that shall follow so far those shining laws that he shall see them come full circle;...
    MN 1.207 6 Follow the great man, and you shall see what the world has at heart in these ages.
    MR 1.228 12 ...I will not dissemble my hope that each person whom I address has felt his own call...to be in his place...a brave and upright man, who must...make it easier for all who follow him to go in honor and with benefit.
    LT 1.262 19 How I follow [persons] with aching heart, with pining desire!
    Tran 1.334 12 From...this beholding of all things in the mind, follow easily [the idealist's] whole ethics.
    Hist 2.22 9 The nomads of Asia follow the pasturage from month to month.
    SR 2.61 10 ...posterity seem to follow [a true man's] steps as a train of clients.
    SR 2.73 25 ...if we follow the truth it will bring us out safe at last.
    SR 2.78 22 ...[the self-helping man]...all eyes follow with desire.
    SR 2.82 16 ...our opinions, our tastes, our faculties, lean, and follow the Past...
    Comp 2.92 14 ...all that Nature made thy own,/ Floating in air or pent in stone,/ Will rive the hills and swim the sea/ And, like thy shadow, follow thee./
    Comp 2.103 9 The specific stripes may follow late after the offence...
    Comp 2.103 10 The specific stripes may follow late after the offence, but they follow because they accompany it.
    SL 2.146 15 Men feel and act the consequences of your doctrine without being able to show how they follow.
    SL 2.151 11 Let [the scholar] be great, and love shall follow him.
    Hsm1 2.247 10 Dor. O star of Rome! what gratitude can speak/ Fit words to follow such a deed as this?/
    Hsm1 2.263 15 We rapidly approach a brink over which no enemy can follow us...
    Int 2.343 17 Jesus says, Leave father, mother, house and lands, and follow me.
    Exp 3.54 18 I see not, if one be once caught in this trap of so-called sciences, any escape for the man from the links of the chain of physical necessity. Given such an embryo, such a history must follow.
    Chr1 3.97 20 The hero sees that the event is ancillary; it must follow him.
    Chr1 3.112 14 Friends also follow the laws of divine necessity;...
    Nat2 3.194 7 [Nature's] mighty orbit vaults like the fresh rainbow into the deep, but no archangel's wing was yet strong enough to follow it and report of the return of the curve.
    Pol1 3.200 9 ...the State must follow and not lead the character and progress of the citizen;...
    Pol1 3.204 11 ...there is an instinctive sense...that property will always follow persons;...
    PPh 4.70 1 When an artificer, [Plato] says, in the fabrication of any work, looks to that which always subsists according to the same; and, employing a model of this kind, expresses its idea and power in his work,--it must follow that his production should be beautiful.
    PNR 4.88 12 Shakspeare is a Platonist when he writes...He, that can endure/ To follow with allegiance a fallen lord,/ Does conquer him that did his master conquer,/ And earns a place in the story./
    MoS 4.154 23 I knew a philosopher of this kidney who was accustomed briefly to sum up his experience of human nature in saying, Mankind is a damned rascal: and the natural corollary is pretty sure to follow, The world lives by humbug, and so will I.
    ET14 5.252 26 ...a belief like that of Euler and Kepler, that experience must follow and not lead the laws of the mind;...the modern English mind repudiates.
    ET18 5.303 19 ...who would see...the explosion of their well-husbanded forces, must follow the swarms which pouring out now for two hundred years from the British islands, have sailed and rode and traded and planted through all climates...
    F 6.16 12 We follow the step of the Jew...
    F 6.45 27 If the threads are there, thought can follow and show them.
    Wth 6.89 16 The sea...offers its perilous aid and the power and empire that follow it...to [man's] craft and audacity.
    Ctr 6.146 12 ...if...nature has aimed to make a legged and winged creature, framed for locomotion, we must follow her hint...
    Bhr 6.192 7 We watched sympathetically [in earlier novels], step by step, [the boy's] climbing, until at last...the wedding day is fixed, and we follow the gala procession home to the bannered portal...
    Wsp 6.223 18 If you follow the suburban fashion in building a sumptuous-looking house for a little money, it will appear to all eyes as a cheap dear house.
    Bty 6.290 9 'T is a law of botany that in plants the same virtues follow the same forms.
    Bty 6.292 27 I have been told by persons of experience in matters of taste that the fashions follow a law of gradation...
    Bty 6.294 3 ...if we follow it out, this demand in our thought for an ever onward action is the argument for the immortality.
    Ill 6.320 5 One after the other we accept the mental laws, still resisting those which follow...
    Civ 7.23 16 The skilful combinations of civil government, though they usually follow natural leadings...require wisdom and conduct in the rulers...
    Art2 7.39 19 If we follow the popular distinction of works according to their aim, we should say, the Spirit, in its creation, aims at use or at beauty...
    Elo1 7.94 10 ...a fact-speaker of any kind, [the people] will long follow;...
    DL 7.109 15 A man's money should not follow the direction of his neighbor's money...
    Suc 7.301 2 If we follow this hint [of correspondence] into our intellectual education, we shall find that it is not propositions...that are our first need;...
    Suc 7.310 15 Despondency comes readily enough to the most sanguine. The cynic has only to follow their hint with his bitter confirmation...
    PI 8.20 24 The selection of the image is no more arbitrary than the power and significance of the image. The selection must follow fate.
    SA 8.100 18 As the search [for riches] may not be successful, I will follow after that which I love.
    Elo2 8.115 7 Uncommon boys follow uncommon men...
    Res 8.139 22 [Nature] shows us only surfaces, but she is million fathoms deep. What spaces! what durations! dealing with races as merely preparations of somewhat to follow;...
    QO 8.189 5 In literature, quotation is good only when the writer whom I follow goes my way...
    Grts 8.304 1 ...follow the path your genius traces like the galaxy of heaven for you to walk in.
    Imtl 8.323 21 ...we are as ignorant of the state which preceded our present existence as of that which will follow it.
    Imtl 8.328 25 ...spend yourself on the work before you, well assured that the right performance of this hour's duties will be the best preparation for the hours or ages that follow it...
    Imtl 8.334 2 After science begins, belief of permanence must follow in a healthy mind.
    Dem1 10.19 7 It would be easy in the political history of every time to furnish examples of this irregular success, men having a force which without virtue...yet makes them prevailing. ... The crimes they commit, the exposures which follow...are strangely overlooked...
    Dem1 10.23 20 ...the main ambition and genius being bestowed in one direction, the lesser spirit and involuntary aids within [a man's] sphere will follow.
    PerF 10.74 20 Look at [man]; you can give no guess at what power is in him. It never appears directly, but follow him and see his effects, see his productions.
    PerF 10.76 1 ...surprising and admirable effects follow [man] like a creator.
    PerF 10.81 16 See in a circle of school-girls one with...no special vivacity,-but she can so recite her adventures that she is never alone... Would you know where to find her? Listen for the laughter, follow the cheerful hum...
    Chr2 10.120 1 Whenever the sublimities of character shall be incarnated in a man, we may rely that awe and love and insatiable curiosity will follow his steps.
    Edc1 10.145 15 Happy this child...with a thought which...leads him, now into deserts, now into cities, the fool of an idea. Let him follow it in good and in evil report...
    SovE 10.205 10 ...the mass of the community indolently follow the old forms with childish scrupulosity...
    Schr 10.273 19 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...
    HDC 11.63 21 ...the country people came armed into Boston, on the afternoon (of Thursday, 18th April) in such rage and heat, as made us all tremble to think what would follow;...
    LVB 11.95 6 ...the steps of this crime [the relocation of the Cherokees] follow each other so fast...that the millions of virtuous citizens...have no place to interpose...
    EWI 11.115 15 I will not repeat to you the well-known paragraph, in which Messrs, Thome and Kimball...describe the occurrences of that night [of emancipation] in the island of Antigua. It has been quoted in every newspaper, and Dr. Channing has given it additional fame. But I must be indulged in quoting a few sentences from the pages that follow it...
    War 11.161 10 ...the fact that [the idea that there can be peace as well as war] has become so distinct to any small number of persons as to become a subject...of concert and discussion,-that is the commanding fact. This having come, much more will follow.
    FSLC 11.210 26 [Massachusetts] must follow no vicious examples.
    FSLN 11.220 5 ...when a great man comes who knots up into himself the opinions and wishes of the people, it is so much easier to follow him as an exponent of this.
    FSLN 11.232 8 I too think the musts are a safe company to follow...
    TPar 11.290 3 ...[Theodore Parker] insisted...that the essence of Christianity is its practical morals;...and if you combine it...with ordinary city ambitions to gloze over...leaving your principles at home to follow on the high seas or in Europe a supple complaisance to tyrants,-it is a hypocrisy...
    EPro 11.321 5 Not only will [Lincoln] repeat and follow up his stroke [the Emancipation Proclamation], but the nation will add its irresistible strength.
    EPro 11.324 7 The [Civil] war...brought with it the immense benefit of... disinfecting us of our habitual proclivity...to follow Southern leading.
    SMC 11.371 11 I must not follow the multiplied details that make the hard work of the next year.
    Wom 11.421 2 Those whom you [women] teach, and those whom you half teach, will fast enough make themselves...strong with their new insight, and votes will follow from all the dull.
    FRep 11.532 14 [Our people] follow a fact; they follow success...
    PLT 12.5 11 Our metaphysics should be able to follow the flying force through all transformations...
    PLT 12.45 19 [Thoughts] are the oracle; we are not to poke and drill and force, but to follow them.
    II 12.78 14 ...the practical rules of literature ought to follow from these views, namely, that all writing is by the grace of God;...
    II 12.86 6 Follow this leading, nor ask too curiously whither.
    II 12.86 7 Follow this leading, nor ask too curiously whither. To follow it is thy part.
    II 12.86 9 Follow this leading, nor ask too curiously whither. To follow it is thy part. And what if it lead, as men say, to an excess, to partiality, to individualism? Follow it still.
    CInt 12.120 20 [Demosthenes said] If it please you to note it...[my counsels to you] be of that nature as is sometimes not good for me to give, but are always good for you to follow.
    Bost 12.194 20 ...how much more attractive and true that this [Christian] piety should be the central trait and the stern virtues follow than that Stoicism should face the gods and put Jove on his defence.
    AgMs 12.360 18 [Farmers] could not afford to follow such advice as is given here [in the Agricultural Survey];...
    PPr 12.379 2 Here is Carlyle's new poem [Past and Present], his Iliad of English woes, to follow his poem on France...

followed, v. (52)

    Nat 1.22 26 ...each [of the intellectual and the active powers] prepares and will be followed by the other.
    Nat 1.29 26 The corruption of man is followed by the corruption of language.
    AmS 1.112 7 This idea [of Unity] has inspired the genius...in a newer time, of Goethe, Wordsworth, and Carlyle. This idea they have differently followed...
    DSA 1.147 8 Discharge to men the priestly office, and...you shall be followed with their love...
    LE 1.183 14 They [whom the student's thoughts have entertained or inflamed] find that he is a poor, ignorant man...now and then [emitting] a jet of luminous thought followed by total darkness;...
    MR 1.256 4 It is better that joy should be spread over all the day in the form of strength, than that it should be concentrated into ecstasies, full of danger and followed by reactions.
    SR 2.63 5 As great a stake depends on your private act to-day as followed [kings'] public and renowned steps.
    Hsm1 2.255 9 It is told of Brutus, that when he fell on his sword after the battle of Philippi, he quoted a line of Euripides,--O Virtue! I have followed thee through life, and I find thee at last but a shade.
    Mrs1 3.127 16 Thus grows up Fashion...the most feared and followed...
    NMW 4.235 4 My method was immediately followed by the adjoining batteries...
    ET4 5.61 22 King Olaf said, When King Harold, my father, went westward to England, the chosen men in Norway followed him;...
    ET4 5.73 9 ...rich Englishmen have followed [William the Conqueror's] example...in encroaching on the tillage and commons with their game-preserves.
    ET6 5.109 20 Mr. Cobbett attributes the huge popularity of Perceval...to the fact that he was wont to go to church every Sunday...followed by a long brood of children.
    ET14 5.237 27 The manner in which [the English] learned Greek and Latin...by lectures of a professor, followed by their own searchings,-- required a more robust memory, and cooperation of all the faculties;...
    ET14 5.243 13 These heights [of the Elizabethan age] were followed by a meanness and a descent of the mind into lower levels;...
    ET14 5.249 19 In the decomposition and asphyxia that followed all this materialism [in England], Carlyle was driven by his disgust at the pettiness and the cant, into the preaching of Fate.
    ET16 5.282 6 ...here is the high point of the theory: the Druids had the magnet; laid their courses by it; their cardinal points in Stonehenge, Ambresbury, and elsewhere...followed the variations of the compass.
    ET16 5.288 8 As I had thus taken in the conversation the saint's part, when dinner was announced, Carlyle refused to go out before me,--he was altogether too wicked. I planted my back against the wall, and our host [Arthur Helps] wittily rescued us from the dilemma, by saying he was the wickedest and would walk out first, then Carlyle followed, and I went last.
    ET17 5.291 21 At the landing in Liverpool, I found my Manchester correspondent awaiting me, a gentleman whose kind reception was followed by a train of friendly and effective attentions...
    ET19 5.309 13 Sir Archibald Alison, the historian, presided [at the Manchester Athenaeum Banquet], and opened the meeting with a speech. He was followed by Mr. Cobden, Lord Brackley and others...
    Wth 6.122 3 Mr. Stephenson...believing that the river knows the way, followed his valley as implicitly as our Western Railroad follows the Westfield River...
    Wsp 6.203 24 Nothing can exceed the anarchy that has followed in our skies.
    CbW 6.254 1 ...the cruel wars which followed the march of Alexander introduced the civility, language and arts of Greece into the savage East;...
    SS 7.3 8 In the conversation that followed, my new friend made some extraordinary confessions.
    SS 7.3 16 ...[my new friend's] evident earnestness engaged my attention, and in the weeks that followed we became better acquainted.
    DL 7.118 5 With a change of aim has followed a change of the whole scale by which men and things were wont to be measured.
    Farm 7.135 19 What these strong masters [farmers] wrote at large in miles,/ I followed in small copy in my acre;/...
    WD 7.169 6 In college terms, and in years that followed, the young graduate, when the Commencement anniversary returned, though he were in a swamp, would see a festive light...
    Cour 7.255 4 ...here is one who, seeing the wishes of men, knows how to come at their end;...and leads them in glad surprise to the very point where they would be: this man is followed with acclamation.
    Cour 7.278 6 A little Indian boy/ Followed him [George Nidiver] everywhere,/ Eager to share the hunter's joy,/ The hunter's meal to share./
    PI 8.21 18 A thought...pressed, followed, opened, dwarfs matter, custom, and all but itself.
    Insp 8.285 6 ...at the right hour/ The lamp brings me pious light,/ That it, instead of Aurora or Phoebus,/ May enliven my quiet industry./ But they left me lying in sleep/ Dull, and not to be enlivened,/ And after every late morning/ Followed unprofitable days./
    PerF 10.83 2 ...the mighty Intellect did not stoop to [the susceptible man] and become property, but he rose to it and followed its circuits.
    Supl 10.170 17 [The guest's] health was drunk with some acknowledgment of his distinguished services to both countries, and followed by nine cold hurrahs.
    Supl 10.171 5 ...I had been present...in the country at a cattle-show dinner, which followed an agricultural discourse delivered by a farmer...
    SovE 10.204 21 I will not now go into the metaphysics of that reaction by which in history a period of belief is followed by an age of criticism...
    MoL 10.246 26 There is an oracle current in the world, that nations die by suicide. The sign of it is the decay of thought. Niebuhr has given striking examples of that fatal portent; as in the loss of power of thought that followed the disasters of the Athenians in Sicily.
    LLNE 10.334 10 ...he [Everett] who was heard with such throbbing hearts and sparkling eyes in the lighted and crowded churches, did not let go his hearers when the church was dismissed, but the bright image of that eloquent form followed the boy home to his bed-chamber;...
    LLNE 10.353 21 Before such a man [as Plato or Christ] the whole world becomes Fourierized or Christized or humanized, and in obedience to [a man's] most private being he finds himself...acting in strict concert with all others who followed their private light.
    EzRy 10.381 13 Ezra Ripley followed the business of farming till sixteen years of age...
    EzRy 10.388 1 [Ezra Ripley said] When I came to this town, your great-grandfather was a substantial farmer in this very place...and an excellent citizen. Your grandfather followed him, and was a virtuous man.
    MMEm 10.424 11 Hail requiem of departed Time! Never was incumbent's funeral followed by expectant heir with more satisfaction.
    LS 11.22 15 ...that for which Jesus gave himself to be crucified; the end that animated the thousand martyrs and heroes who have followed his steps, was to redeem us from a formal religion...
    FSLC 11.197 1 The humiliating scandal of great men warping right into wrong [in the Fugitive Slave Law] was followed up very fast by the cities.
    FSLN 11.216 1 We that had loved him so, followed him, honoured him,/ Lived in his mild and magnificent eye,/ Learned his great language, caught his clear accents,/ Made him our pattern to live and to die!/
    FSLN 11.220 7 ...when a great man comes who knots up into himself the opinions and wishes of the people, it is so much easier to follow him as an exponent of this. He too is responsible; they will not be. It will always suffice to say,-I followed him.
    FSLN 11.226 24 [Webster's 7th of March Speech] was like the doleful speech falsely ascribed to the patriot Brutus: Virtue, I have followed thee through life, and I find thee but a shadow.
    HCom 11.340 15 ...They followed [Truth] and found her/ Where all may hope to find/ Not in the ashes of the burnt-out mind,/ But beautiful, with danger's sweetness round her./
    Wom 11.422 8 Each citizen has an interest and a view of his own, which, if followed out to the extreme, would leave no room for any other citizen.
    Shak1 11.452 8 [Periods fruitful of great men] are like the great wine years...which, it is said, are always followed by new vivacity in the politics of Europe.
    Bost 12.200 24 The American idea, Emancipation...has, of course, its sinister side...but if followed it leads to heavenly places.
    MAng1 12.225 9 ...[Michelangelo] was instantly followed with apologies and importunities to return [to Florence].

follower, n. (2)

    Nat 1.71 27 Now is man the follower of the sun, and woman the follower of the moon.
    OS 2.295 19 ...[the soul] is no follower;...

followers, n. (11)

    YA 1.376 25 Each chief attaches as many followers as he can...
    MoS 4.174 14 My astonishing San Carlo thought the lawgivers and saints infected. They found the ark empty; saw, and would not tell; and tried to choke off their approaching followers, by saying, Action, action, my dear fellows, is for you!
    ShP 4.214 25 ...the sentence [in Shakespeare] is so loaded with meaning and so linked with its foregoers and followers, that the logician is satisfied.
    NMW 4.257 7 Never was such a leader so endowed and so weaponed [as Napoleon]; never leader found such aids and followers.
    GoW 4.267 27 [The speculative and the practical faculties, say the Hindoos,] are but one, for for...the place which is gained by the followers of the one is gained by the followers of the other.
    GoW 4.268 1 [The speculative and the practical faculties, say the Hindoos,] are but one, for for...the place which is gained by the followers of the one is gained by the followers of the other.
    Cour 7.273 8 ...it is not the means on which we draw, as...multitudes of followers, that count, but the aims only.
    Aris 10.44 1 ...when the well-mixed man is born...he brings with him fortune, followers, love, power.
    LLNE 10.330 5 The popular religion of our fathers had received many severe shocks from the new times;...from the English philosophic theologians, Hartley and Priestley and Belsham, the followers of Locke;...
    HDC 11.60 20 ...it was only a great thaw in January, that melting the snow and opening the earth, enabled [King Philip's] poor followers to come at the ground-nuts, else they had starved.
    EdAd 11.390 13 As soon as men have tasted the enjoyment of learning, friendship and virtue, for which the State exists, the prizes of office appear polluted, and their followers outcasts.

following, adj. (33)

    Nat 1.12 4 Whoever considers the final cause of the world will discern a multitude of uses that enter as parts into that result. They all admit of being thrown into one of the following classes: Commodity; Beauty; Language; and Discipline.
    Nat 1.68 17 The following lines are part of [Herbert's] little poem on Man.
    DSA 1.129 7 ...what a distortion did [Jesus's] doctrine and memory suffer in the same, in the next, and the following ages!
    Comp 2.96 11 I shall attempt in this and the following chapter to record some facts that indicate the path of the law of Compensation;...
    Hsm1 2.245 19 ...there is in [the elder English dramatists'] plays a certain heroic cast of character and dialogue...wherein the speaker is...on such deep grounds of character, that the dialogue, on the slightest additional incident in the plot, rises naturally into poetry. Among many texts take the following.
    NER 3.267 23 ...the speculations of one generation are the history of the next following.
    ShP 4.195 24 The first play [Shakespeare's Henry VIII] was written by a superior, thoughtful man, with a vicious ear. I can mark his lines, and know well their cadence. See Wolsey's soliloquy, and the following scene with Cromwell...
    ShP 4.203 10 ...I find, among [Wotton's] correspondents and acquaintances, the following persons: Theodore Beza, Isaac Casaubon...
    NMW 4.234 15 Seruzier, a colonel of artillery, gives...the following sketch of a scene after the battle of Austerlitz.
    ET4 5.62 21 The mildness of the following ages has not quite effaced these traits of Odin;...
    ET8 5.139 24 The following passage from the Heimskringla might almost stand as a portrait of the modern Englishman...
    ET12 5.202 17 My friend Doctor J. gave me the following anecdote.
    Bhr 6.185 17 Here are the sweet following eyes of Cecile; it seemed always that she demanded the heart.
    Boks 7.206 10 The Life of the Emperor Charles V., by the useful Robertson, is still the key of the following age.
    OA 7.332 22 [John Adams said] I have lived now nearly a century (he was ninety in the following October);...
    Elo2 8.123 10 ...[John Quincy Adams] took such ground in the debates of the following session as to lose the sympathy of many of his constituents in Boston.
    PPo 8.243 21 Take, as specimens of these [Persian] gnomic verses, the following...
    PPo 8.254 17 And with still more vigor in the following lines: Oft have I said,/ I, a wanderer, do not stray from myself./
    PPo 8.255 7 In the following poem the soul is figured as the Phoenix alighting on Tuba, the Tree of Life...
    PPo 8.262 11 The following passages exhibit the strong tendency of the Persian poets to contemplative and religious poetry and to allegory.
    PPo 8.263 20 From this poem [Ferideddin Attar's Bird Conversations], written five hundred years ago, we cite the following passage...
    LLNE 10.325 19 It is not easy to date these eras of activity with any precision, but in this region one made itself remarked, say in 1820 and the twenty years following.
    CSC 10.373 11 The [Chardon Street] Convention...spent three days in the consideration of the Sabbath, and adjourned to a day in March of the following year [1841]...
    CSC 10.373 15 In March [1841]...a three-day' session [of the Chardon Street Convention] was holden in the same place, on the subject of the Church, and a third meeting fixed for the following November...
    EzRy 10.384 15 In March following [Joseph Emerson] notes: Had a safe and comfortable journey to York.
    HDC 11.63 7 [Edward Bulkeley's] youngest brother, Peter, was deputy from Concord, and was chosen speaker of the house of deputies in 1676. The following year, he was sent to England, with Mr. Stoughton, as agent for the Colony;...
    EWI 11.112 21 With these provisions and conditions, the bill [for emancipation in the West Indies] proceeds...in the following terms...
    SMC 11.373 11 [George Prescott] was carried off the field to the division hospital, and died on the following morning.
    SMC 11.376 14 ...I do not like to omit the testimony to the character of the Commander of the Thirty-second Massachusetts Regiment [George Prescott], given in the following letter by one of his soldiers...
    Scot 11.465 11 The tone of strength in Waverley...was more than justified by the superior genius of the following romances...
    Milt1 12.267 4 ...the following passage...indicates [Milton's] own perception of the doctrine of humility.
    EurB 12.378 6 I fear it was in part the influence of such pictures [as in Vivian Grey] on living society which made the style of manners of which we have so many pictures, as, for example, in the following account of the English fashionist.
    Let 12.399 21 ...in Theodore Mundt's account of Frederic Holderlin's Hyperion, we were not a little struck with the following Jeremiad of the despair of Germany...

following, n. (3)

    SA 8.83 15 One man can, by his voice, lead the cheer of a regiment; another will have no following.
    ACiv 11.299 27 ...a literal, slavish following of precedents...is not for those who at this hour lead the destinies of this people.
    FRep 11.514 13 In our popular politics you may note that each aspirant who rises above the crowd...soon learns...that the only title to [the party's] permanent respect, and to a larger following, is to see for himself what is the real public interest, and to stand for that;...

following, v. (30)

    Nat 1.63 19 ...when, following the invisible steps of thought, we come to inquire, Whence is matter? and Whereto? many truths arise to us...
    DSA 1.125 15 [The sentiment of virtue] corrects the capital mistake of the infant man, who seeks to be great by following the great...
    MN 1.191 17 Avarice, hesitation, and following, are our diseases.
    Pt1 3.20 27 ...[the poet]...following with his eyes the life, uses the forms which express that life...
    Pt1 3.31 7 ...George Chapman, following [Timaeus], writes, So in our tree of man, whose nervie root/ Springs in his top;/...
    NER 3.263 27 Following or advancing beyond the ideas of St. Simon, of Fourier, and of Owen, three communities have already been formed in Massachusetts on kindred plans...
    PPh 4.59 7 In reading logarithms one is not more secure than in following Plato in his flights.
    PNR 4.87 2 The names of things, too, [to Plato] are fatal, following the nature of things.
    SwM 4.95 10 The Koran makes a distinct class of those...whose goodness has an influence on others, and pronounces this class to be the aim of creation: the other classes are admitted to the feast of being, only as following in the train of this.
    SwM 4.104 18 Malpighi, following the high doctrines of Hippocrates, Leucippus and Lucretius, had given emphasis to the dogma that nature works in leasts...
    NMW 4.223 12 Following [Swedenborg's] analogy, if any man is found to carry with him the power and affections of vast numbers, if Napoleon is France...it is because the people whom he sways are little Napoleons.
    ET5 5.80 15 ...[the English] have a supreme eye to facts, and theirs is...the logic of cooks, carpenters and chemists, following the sequence of nature...
    ET17 5.297 19 Who reads [Wordsworth] well will know that in following the strong bent of his genius, he was careless of the many, careless also of the few...
    ET18 5.303 22 ...who would see...the explosion of their well-husbanded forces, must follow the swarms which pouring out now for two hundred years from the British islands, have sailed and rode and traded and planted through all climates, mainly following the belt of empire...
    DL 7.133 23 ...whoso shall teach me how to eat my meat and take my repose and deal with men, without any shame following, will restore the life of man to splendor...
    Farm 7.148 23 The chemist comes to [the farmer's] aid every year by following out some new hint drawn from Nature...
    PI 8.14 23 ...[the Hindoos], following Buddha, have made it the central doctrine of their religion that what we call Nature...has no real existence...
    PI 8.21 5 The poet contemplates the central identity...and, following it, can detect essential resemblances in natures never before compared.
    Grts 8.310 14 I mean that there is for you the following of an inward leader...
    Edc1 10.154 11 ...the adoption of simple discipline and the following of nature, involves at once immense claims on the time, the thoughts, on the life of the teacher.
    EzRy 10.384 4 [Ezra Ripley] and his contemporaries...were believers in what is called a particular providence...following the narrowness of King David and the Jews...
    HDC 11.35 13 The great cost of cattle...the sufferings of the people [pilgrims] in the great snows and cold soon following;...are the other disasters enumerated by the historian [Edward Johnson].
    HDC 11.73 25 The British following [the minute-men] across the bridge, posted two companies...to guard the bridge...
    EWI 11.111 17 ...when...some Quakers, or Moravians, and Wesleyan and Baptist missionaries, following in the steps of Carey and Ward in the East Indies, had been moved to come [the the West Indies] and cheer the poor victim...these missionaries were persecuted by the planters...
    FSLC 11.203 21 Mr. Webster perhaps is only following the laws of his blood and constitution.
    PLT 12.20 6 This methodizing mind meets no resistance in its attempts. The scattered blocks, with which it strives to form a symmetrical structure, fit. This design following after finds with joy that like design went before.
    PLT 12.56 11 There are two theories of life;... One is activity...the following of that practical talent which we have...
    CL 12.139 6 ...if...we would, manlike, see what grows, or might grow, in Massachusetts...and following what is usually the natural suggestion of these pursuits, ponder the moral secrets which, in her solitudes, Nature has to whisper to us, we were better patriots and happier men.
    Milt1 12.277 27 ...according to Lord Bacon's definition of poetry, following that of Aristotle, Poetry...seeks to accommodate the shows of things to the desires of the mind...
    EurB 12.369 9 ...the spirit of literature and the modes of living and the conventional theories of the conduct of life were called in question [by Wordsworth] on wholly new grounds...from the lessons which the country muse taught a stout pedestrian...following a river from its parent rill down to the sea.

follows, v. (27)

    Comp 2.112 7 Of the like nature [to Fear] is that expectation of change which instantly follows the suspension of our voluntary activity.
    SL 2.151 8 The scholar...follows some giddy girl...
    Cir 2.305 21 Every several result is threatened and judged by that which follows.
    Nat2 3.192 27 The present object [in nature] shall give you this sense of stillness that follows a pageant which has just gone by.
    Pol1 3.201 15 The history of the State...follows at a distance the delicacy of culture and of aspiration.
    ET10 5.154 4 ...one of [England's] recent writers speaks...of the grave moral deterioration which follows an empty exchequer.
    F 6.20 10 ...Vishnu follows Maya through all her ascending changes...
    F 6.22 6 If Fate follows and limits Power, Power attends and antagonizes Fate.
    Wth 6.94 26 The reader of Humboldt's Cosmos follows the marches of a man whose eyes, ears and mind are armed by all the science, arts, and implements which mankind have anywhere accumulated...
    Wth 6.101 18 Money...follows the nature and fortunes of the owner.
    Wth 6.102 3 In the city, where money follows the skit of a pen...[the dollar] comes to be looked on as light.
    Wth 6.122 4 Mr. Stephenson...believing that the river knows the way, followed his valley as implicitly as our Western Railroad follows the Westfield River...
    SS 7.11 25 It by no means follows that we are not fit for society, because soirees are tedious and because the soiree finds us tedious.
    Art2 7.51 12 ...it follows that a study of admirable works of art sharpens our perceptions of the beauty of Nature;...
    Elo1 7.82 13 The audience [if there be personality in the orator]...follows like a child its preceptor...
    Aris 10.50 25 It is not sufficient that your work follows your genius...
    Chr2 10.107 12 ...it by no means follows, because those [earlier religious] offices are much disused, that the men and women are irreligious;...
    Prch 10.220 15 ...the virtuous sentiment appears arrayed against the nominal religion, and the true men are hunted as unbelievers, and burned. Then the good sense of the people wakes up so far as to take tacit part with them, to cast off reverence for the Church; and there follows an age of unbelief.
    MMEm 10.416 14 Folly follows me [Mary Moody Emerson] as the shadow does the form.
    HDC 11.77 1 ...the eye of affection and veneration follows you [veterans of the battle of Concord].
    War 11.165 27 It follows of course that the least change in the man will change his circumstances;...
    TPar 11.289 14 One fault [Theodore Parker] had, he...sometimes vexed [his friends] with the importunity of his good opinion, whilst they knew better the ebb which follows unfounded praise.
    Wom 11.412 27 The passion [of love], with all its grace and poetry, is profane to that which follows it.
    PLT 12.11 27 ...he who who contents himself with...recording only what facts he has observed...follows a system also...
    PLT 12.63 7 ...[identification of the Ego with the universe's] communication from one to another follows its own law...
    II 12.75 8 ...[the inner mind's] communication from one to another follows its own law...
    AgMs 12.360 8 ...it was easy to see that [Edmund Hosmer] felt toward the author [of the Agricultural Survey] much as soldiers do toward the historiographer who follows the camp...

folly, n. (41)

    LE 1.177 8 ...the world revenges itself by exposing, at every turn, the folly of these...pedantic...creatures.
    SR 2.72 1 All men have my blood and I all men's. Not for that will I adopt their petulance or folly...
    Comp 2.98 13 For every grain of wit there is a grain of folly.
    Fdsp 2.201 17 In one condemnation of folly stand the whole universe of men.
    Fdsp 2.212 3 There are innumerable degrees of folly and wisdom...
    Cir 2.316 1 ...one man's wisdom [is] another's folly;...
    Exp 3.57 22 Something is earned...by conversing with so much folly and defect.
    Chr1 3.115 16 Whilst [the holy sentiment] blooms, I will keep sabbath or holy time, and suspend my gloom and my folly and jokes.
    Nat2 3.187 12 ...each [man] has a vein of folly in his composition...
    Pol1 3.205 1 ...there are limitations beyond which the folly and ambition of governors cannot go.
    Pol1 3.207 6 The same necessity which secures the rights of person and property against the malignity or folly of the magistrate, determines the form and methods of governing, which are proper to each nation...
    UGM 4.29 13 ...if we indulge [children] to folly, they learn the limitation elsewhere.
    PPh 4.72 14 ...there was some story that under cover of folly, [Socrates] had, in the city government, when one day he chanced to hold a seat there, evinced a courage in opposing singly the popular voice, which had well-nigh ruined him.
    SwM 4.98 5 ...the men of God purchased their science by folly or pain.
    SwM 4.145 6 Do not rely...on compassion to folly...
    MoS 4.183 21 [The man of thought] is content...with triumph of folly and fraud.
    ShP 4.201 9 Every book supplies its time with one good word; every municipal law, every trade, every folly of the day;...
    ET1 5.10 23 ...[Coleridge] burst into a declamation on the folly and ignorance of Unitarianism...
    ET9 5.144 10 Every individual [in England] has his particular way of living, which he pushes to folly...
    ET13 5.221 20 The torpidity on the side of religion of the vigorous English understanding shows how much wit and folly can agree in one brain.
    CbW 6.262 16 In our life and culture everything is worked up and comes in use,--passion, war, revolt, bankruptcy, and not less, folly and blunders...
    CbW 6.269 20 ...folly in the sense of fun...can easily be borne;...
    CbW 6.270 16 ...let all the truth that is spoken or done be at the zero of indifferency, or truth itself will be folly.
    Bty 6.287 27 We know [our friends] have intervals of folly...
    Bty 6.299 4 Faces...are a record in sculpture of a thousand anecdotes of whim and folly.
    Ill 6.322 13 Like sick men in hospitals, we change only from bed to bed, from one folly to another;...
    OA 7.319 12 ...they who take the larger draughts [of the cup of time]...lose their stature, strength, beauty and senses, and end in folly and delirium.
    PI 8.55 6 Hence, all ye vain delights,/ As short as are the nights/ In which you spend your folly!/
    Grts 8.304 3 A sensible person will soon see the folly and wickedness of thinking to please.
    Aris 10.37 2 From the folly of too much association we must come back to the repose of self-reverence and trust.
    Edc1 10.136 22 ...let not the sallies of [the young man's] petulance or folly be checked with disgust or indignation or despair.
    Supl 10.175 22 Nature is always serious,-does not jest with us. Where we have begun in folly, we are brought quickly to plain dealing.
    SovE 10.184 14 ...all the animals show the same good sense in their humble walk that the man who is their enemy or friend does; and, if it be in smaller measure, yet it is not diminished, as his often is, by freak and folly.
    MMEm 10.416 14 Folly follows me [Mary Moody Emerson] as the shadow does the form.
    EWI 11.100 2 ...whether by the wisdom of its friends, or by the folly of its adversaries;...[emancipation] goes forward.
    EdAd 11.383 3 The material basis [of America] is of such extent that no folly of man can quite subvert it;...
    PLT 12.8 24 ...was there ever prophet burdened with a message to his people who did not cloud our gratitude by a strange confounding in his own mind of private folly with his public wisdom?
    PLT 12.9 2 ...if you like to run away from this besetting sin of sedentary men, you can escape all this insane egotism by running into society, where the manners and estimate of the world have corrected this folly...
    MLit 12.310 21 [The library of the Present Age] can hardly be characterized by any species of book, for...every whim and folly, has an organ.
    Let 12.395 26 But to be...prudent to secure to ourselves an injurious society, temptations to folly and despair, degrading examples, and enemies; and only abstinent when it is proposed to provide ourselves with guides, examples, lovers!
    Let 12.401 24 ...where the divine nature and the artist is crushed...every other planet is better than the earth. Men deteriorate, folly increases...

Folly, Praise of [Desideriu (1)

    CbW 6.253 3 [Good men] find...the governments, the churches, to be in the interest and the pay of the devil. And wise men have met this obstruction in their times...like Erasmus, with his book, The Praise of Folly;...

Folly, Praise of, n. (1)

    Boks 7.211 22 ...[the Germans] take any general topic, as...Praise of Folly, and write and quote without method or end.

Folsom, Abigail, n. (1)

    CSC 10.375 22 ...there was no want of female speakers [at the Chardon Street Convention];...that flea of Conventions, Mrs. Abigail Folsom, was but too ready with her interminable scroll.

folwe, v. (1)

    Aris 10.30 2 ...he that wol have prize of his genterie,/ For he was boren of a gentil house,/ And had his elders noble and virtuous,/ And n' ill hinselven do no gentil dedes,/ Ne folwe his gentil auncestrie, that dead is,/ He n' is not gentil, be he duke or erl;/...

fond, adj. (32)

    LT 1.280 13 We are all thankful [the denouncing philanthropist] has no more political power, as we are fond of liberty ourselves.
    Prd1 2.224 22 ...our existence...so fond of splendor and so tender to hunger and cold and debt, reads all its primary lessons out of these books.
    Gts 3.159 21 Nature does not cocker us; we are children, not pets; she is not fond;...
    PPh 4.71 13 The young men are prodigiously fond of [Socrates]...
    PPh 4.71 22 [Socrates]...was monstrously fond of Athens...
    NMW 4.250 8 [Napoleon] was very fond of talking of religion.
    NMW 4.250 26 Of medicine too [Bonaparte] was fond of talking...
    ET6 5.107 26 [The Englishman] is very fond of silver plate...
    ET7 5.119 3 [The English] are not fond of ornaments...
    Pow 6.75 17 ...I hope, said a good man to Rothschild, your children are not too fond of money and business; I am sure you would not wish that.--I am sure I should wish that; I wish them to give mind, soul, heart and body to business,--that is the way to be happy.
    Wth 6.100 24 Napoleon was fond of telling the story of the Marseilles banker who said to his visitor...Young man, you are too young to understand how masses are formed;...
    Ctr 6.152 20 The Italians are fond of red clothes...
    Bhr 6.167 17 Too weak to win, too fond to shun/ The tyrants or his doom,/ The much deceived Endymion/ Slips behind a tomb./
    SS 7.6 14 If [Archimedes and Newton] had been good fellows, fond of dancing, port and clubs, we should have had no Theory of the Sphere and no Principia.
    Clbs 7.249 12 We know that l'homme de lettres is...not fond of giving away his seed-corn;...
    Res 8.152 3 When [the scholar's] task requires the wiping out from memory all trivial fond records/ That youth and observation copied there,/ he must...go to wooded uplands...
    Insp 8.269 3 It was Watt who told King George III. that he dealt in an article of which kings were said to be fond,-Power.
    Grts 8.310 9 You are rightly fond of certain books or men...
    Aris 10.42 17 The ancients were fond of ascribing to their nobles gigantic proportions and strength.
    Supl 10.174 17 We are fond of dress, of ornament, of accomplishments, of talents...
    Schr 10.273 8 In this country we are fond of results and of short ways to them;...
    LLNE 10.343 15 From that time meetings were held for conversation...of people...fond of books...
    EzRy 10.385 4 [Joseph Emerson wrote] Have I done well to get me a shay? Have I not been proud or too fond of this convenience?
    EzRy 10.385 7 [Joseph Emerson wrote] Have I done well to get me a shay? ... Should I not be more in my study and less fond of diversion?
    EzRy 10.394 27 [Ezra Ripley] was...not fond of adventure or innovation.
    SlHr 10.440 2 [Samuel Hoar] was fond of farms and trees...
    SlHr 10.440 3 [Samuel Hoar] was...fond of birds...
    Thor 10.456 19 ...[Thoreau] was really fond of sympathy...
    HDC 11.27 7 Where are these men? asleep beneath their grounds:/ And strangers, fond as they, their furrows plough./
    Scot 11.464 5 ...I believe that many of those who read [Scott's books] in youth...will make some fond exception for Scott as for Byron.
    PLT 12.36 17 [Pan]...was not represented by any outward image; a terror sometimes, at others a placid omnipotence. Such homage did the Greek... not fond of the extravagant and unbounded-pay to unscrutable force we call Instinct...
    Pray 12.350 1 Not with fond shekels of the tested gold,/ Nor gems whose rates are either rich or poor/ As fancy values them; but with true prayers,/...

fondle, v. (1)

    Ctr 6.137 14 It is not a compliment but a disparagement...whenever [a man] appears, considerately to turn the conversation to the bantling he is known to fondle.

fondly, adv. (2)

    MMEm 10.404 25 ...wonderfully as [Mary Moody Emerson] varies and poetically repeats that image [of the angel of Death] in every page and day, yet not less fondly and sublimely she returns to the other,-the grandeur of humility and privation...
    MMEm 10.412 15 ...when Nature beams with such excess of beauty, when the heart thrills with hope in its Author...it exults, too fondly perhaps for a state of trial.

fondness, n. (1)

    Bost 12.188 21 I do not speak with any fondness, but with the language of coldest history, when I say that Boston commands attention as the town which was appointed in the destiny of nations to lead the civilization of North America.

fondnesses, n. (1)

    Fdsp 2.207 15 In good company the individuals merge their egotism into a social soul exactly co-extensive with the several consciousnesses there present. No partialities of friend to friend, no fondnesses of brother to sister...are there pertinent...

Fontanes, Louis de, n. (1)

    NMW 4.228 4 Fontanes...expressed Napoleon's own sense, when...he addressed him,--Sire, the desire of perfection is the worst disease that ever afflicted the human mind.

Fontenelle, Bernard de Bovi (2)

    Chr2 10.109 13 Fontenelle said: If the Deity should lay bare to the eyes of men the secret system of Nature...I am persuaded they...would exclaim, with disappointment, Is that all?
    War 11.156 20 ...Fontenelle expressed a volume of meaning when he said, I hate war, for it spoils conversation.

Fontenelle, Bernard le Bouv (1)

    ET3 5.42 21 Fontenelle thought that nature had sometimes a little affectation;...

Fontenelle, Bernard le Bovi (2)

    Suc 7.302 16 Fontenelle said: There are three things about which I have curiosity, though I know nothing of them,--music, poetry and love.
    OA 7.322 25 We still feel the force...of Fontenelle...

Fonthill Abbey, England, n. (1)

    ET10 5.165 14 Strawberry Hill of Horace Walpole, Fonthill Abbey of Mr. Beckford, were freaks;...

food, n. (88)

    Nat 1.9 6 [The lover of nature's] intercourse with heaven and earth becomes part of his daily food.
    Nat 1.36 5 Space...food...give us sincerest lessons...whose meaning is unlimited.
    Nat 1.69 8 The whole is either our cupboard of food,/ Or cabinet of pleasure./
    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 1.92 14 ...[insects] lay up food before death for the young grub they shall never see.
    AmS 1.92 19 ...the human body can be nourished on any food...
    AmS 1.108 13 ...we crave a better and more abundant food.
    LE 1.172 2 ...the first observation you make...may open a new view of nature and of man, that...shall take up Greece, Rome, Stoicism, Eclecticism...as mere data and food for analysis...
    MN 1.209 27 If [a man] listen with insatiable ears...he becomes careless of his food and of his house...
    MR 1.231 13 ...nothing is left [the young man] but to begin the world anew, as he does who puts the spade into the ground for food.
    MR 1.247 15 If we...say,-I will neither eat nor drink nor wear nor touch any food or fabric which I do not know to be innocent...we shall stand still.
    Tran 1.337 9 I, [Jacobi] says, am...that godless person who, in opposition to an imaginary doctrine of calculation...would perjure myself like Epaminondas and John de Witt;...I would commit sacrilege with David; yea, and pluck ears of corn on the Sabbath, for no other reason than that I was fainting for lack of food.
    Tran 1.338 12 ...we have yet no man who has leaned entirely on his character, and eaten angel's food;...
    YA 1.365 27 The continent we inhabit is to be physic and food for our mind, as well as our body.
    Hist 2.40 16 ...what food or experience or succor have [Olympiads and Consulates] for the Esquimaux seal-hunter...
    Prd1 2.226 16 [The northerner] must brew, bake, salt and preserve his food...
    Hsm1. 2.252 23 ...the little man...is born red, and dies gray...laying traps for sweet food and strong wine...
    Exp 3.50 25 Who cares what sensibility or discrimination a man has at some time shown...if he...cannot go by food?...
    Exp 3.64 11 [Nature's] darlings, the great, the strong, the beautiful...do not come out of the Sunday School, nor weigh their food...
    Mrs1 3.141 6 Insight we must have, or we shall run against one another and miss the way to our food;...
    Pol1 3.197 3 All earth's fleece and food/ For their like are sold./
    NER 3.252 25 [Other reformers] attacked the system of agriculture, the use of animal manures in farming, and the tyranny of man over brute nature; these abuses polluted his food.
    UGM 4.7 13 What is good...makes for itself room, food and allies.
    UGM 4.7 19 ...each legitimate idea makes its own channels and welcome,-- harvests for food...
    UGM 4.8 22 ...plants convert the minerals into food for animals...
    UGM 4.10 10 ...hunger and food...circle us round in a wreath of pleasures...
    UGM 4.30 23 Why are the masses...food for knives and powder?
    PPh 4.41 26 What is a great man but one of great affinities, who takes up into himself all arts, sciences, all knowables, as his food?
    SwM 4.107 17 The whole art of the plant is still to repeat leaf on leaf without end, the more or less of heat, light, moisture and food determining the form it shall assume.
    MoS 4.178 2 We have been sopped and drugged...with food, with woman, with children...
    ShP 4.190 6 A great man does not wake up on some fine morning and say, I am full of life...I will ransack botany and find a new food for man...
    NMW 4.231 1 Such a man [as Bonaparte] was wanted, and such a man was born; a man...capable...of going many days together without rest or food except by snatches...
    ET4 5.47 5 In race, it is not the broad shoulders, or litheness, or stature that give advantage, but a symmetry that reaches as far as to the wit. Then the miracle and renown begin. Then first we care to...copy heedfully the training--what food they ate...
    ET4 5.48 25 Trades and professions carve their own lines on face and form. Certain circumstances of English life are not less effective; as...plenty of food;...
    ET4 5.53 18 In Ireland are the same climate and soil as in England, but less food...
    ET4 5.58 1 [The heroes of the Norse Sagas] are people...drawing half their food from the sea and half from the land.
    ET10 5.167 26 England is aghast at the disclosure of her fraud in the adulteration of food, of drugs...
    F 6.12 7 Each [tendency] absorbs so much food and force as to become itself a new centre.
    F 6.33 8 ...the wild beasts [man] makes useful for food...
    F 6.36 11 The whole circle of animal life...devouring war, war for food... pleases at a sufficient perspective.
    F 6.37 9 The long sleep...is regulated by the supply of food proper to the animal.
    F 6.37 12 [The animal]...regains its activity when its food is ready.
    F 6.37 18 There is adjustment between the animal and its food...
    F 6.37 21 [Man's] food is cooked when he arrives;...
    F 6.38 1 There are more belongings to every creature than his air and his food.
    F 6.39 27 The same fitness must be presumed between a man and the time and event, as...between a race of animals and the food it eats...
    F 6.49 8 Let us build altars to the Beautiful Necessity, which secures that all is made of one piece; that...food and eater are of one kind.
    Ctr 6.132 7 The physician Sanctorius spent his life in a pair of scales, weighing his food.
    Bhr 6.167 6 ...Graceful women, chosen men/ Dazzle every mortal:/ Their sweet and lofty countenance/ His enchanting food;/...
    DL 7.115 7 We owe to man higher succors than food and fire.
    Farm 7.137 5 The food which was not, [the farmer] causes to be.
    Farm 7.140 9 ...[the farmer] has...plenty of plain food;...
    Farm 7.140 18 Early marriages and the number of births are indissolubly connected with abundance of food;...
    Farm 7.149 3 ...the vines and stalks and stems may go sprawling about in the fields outside, [the farmer] will attend to the roots in his tub, gorge them with food that is good for them.
    WD 7.162 23 Malthus, when he stated that the mouths went on multiplying geometrically and the food only arithmetically, forgot to say that the human mind was also a factor in political economy...
    WD 7.178 5 ...though many creatures eat from one dish, each, according to its constitution, assimilates from the elements what belongs to it, whether time, or space, or light, or water, or food.
    Cour 7.267 23 The llama that will carry a load if you caress him, will refuse food and die if he is scourged.
    Suc 7.293 20 It is the dulness of the multitude that they cannot see the house in the ground-plan; the working, in the model of the projector. Whilst it is a thought, though it were...a new food...it is a chimera;...
    PI 8.52 11 We ask for food and fire...in prose;...
    PI 8.59 6 [Taliessin says] Of an enemy,--The cauldron of the sea was bordered round by his land, but it would not boil the food of a coward./
    SA 8.97 27 ...beware of jokes; too much temperance cannot be used: inestimable for sauce, but corrupting for food, we go away hollow and ashamed.
    SA 8.99 23 ...[manners and talk] require...human labor for food, clothes, house, tools...
    Res 8.143 17 ...it turns out that [the Chinaman] has sent home to China American food and tools and luxuries...
    Comc 8.171 10 More food for the Comic is afforded whenever the personal appearance, the face, form and manners, are subjects of thought with the man himself.
    QO 8.201 6 [The individual] must draw the elements into him for food...
    PPo 8.254 23 Give me what you will; I eat thistles as roses,/ And according to my food I grow and I give./
    Insp 8.281 6 ...wine, no doubt, and all fine food, as of delicate fruits, furnish some elemental wisdom.
    Imtl 8.337 2 ...the wish for food, the wish for motion...are not random whims...
    Imtl 8.337 6 ...the wish for food, the wish for motion, the wish for sleep, for society, for knowledge, are...grounded in the structure of the creature, and meant to be satisfied by food, by motion, by sleep, by society, by knowledge.
    LLNE 10.329 16 The warm swart Earth-spirit which made the strength of past ages...like a mother yielding food from her own breast instead of preparing it through chemic and culinary skill...all gone;...
    Thor 10.463 9 [Thoreau] liked and used the simplest food...
    Thor 10.466 20 ...the fishes [in the Concord River], and their spawning and nests, their manners, their food;...were all known to [Thoreau]...
    EWI 11.103 2 For the negro, was the slave-ship to begin with...bad food, and insufficiency of that;...
    EWI 11.143 12 Eaters and food are in the harmony of Nature;...
    War 11.152 1 ...in the infancy of society, when a thin population and improvidence make the supply of food and of shelter insufficient and very precarious...the necessities of the strong will certainly be satisfied at the cost of the weak...
    CPL 11.507 19 The imagination knows its own food in every pasture...
    PLT 12.21 27 If man has organs...for locomotion, for taking food...you shall find all the same in the muskrat.
    PLT 12.24 27 Increase [the plant's] food and it becomes fertile.
    PLT 12.32 18 Though the world is full of food we can take only the crumbs fit for us.
    PLT 12.33 1 A mind does not receive truth as a chest receives jewels that are put into it, but as the stomach takes up food into the system.
    PLT 12.33 2 A mind does not receive truth as a chest receives jewels that are put into it, but as the stomach takes up food into the system. It is no longer food, but flesh, and is assimilated.
    II 12.80 24 Plant the pitch-pine in a sand-bank, where is no food, and it thrives...
    Mem 12.93 9 As every creature is furnished with teeth to seize and eat, and with stomach to digest its food, so the memory is furnished with a perfect apparatus.
    Mem 12.107 2 When the body is in a quiescent state...in the moderation of food, it yields itself a willing medium to the intellect.
    CL 12.149 24 [The Indian] can draw...food and antidotes from a hundred plants.
    Bost 12.183 2 The old physiologists said, There is in the air a hidden food of life;...
    Bost 12.197 2 ...the necessity, which always presses the Northerner, of providing fuel and many clothes and tight houses and much food against the long winter, makes him anxiously frugal...
    ACri 12.295 21 ...if the English island had been larger and the Straits of Dover wider...they might have managed to feed on Shakspeare for some ages yet; as the camel in the desert is fed by his humps, in long absence from food.

foods, n. (3)

    WD 7.171 4 ...the treasures which Nature spent itself to amass...the earth with its foods;...are given immeasurably to all.
    Clbs 7.225 11 Varied foods, climates, beautiful objects...are the necessity of this exigent system of ours.
    ChiE 11.474 9 [Asian immigrants] send back to their friends, in China... new tools, machinery, new foods, etc....

fool, n. (30)

    LE 1.176 18 How mean to go blazing...in fashionable or political salons, the fool of society...
    LE 1.176 18 How mean to go blazing...in fashionable or political salons, the fool of society, the fool of notoriety...
    MN 1.210 1 If [a man] listen with insatiable ears...he is the fool of ideas...
    Tran 1.352 17 ...[the Transcendentalist says, my faith] is a certain brief experience, which...made me aware that I had played the fool with fools all this time...
    Tran 1.352 20 ...[the Transcendentalist says, my faith] is a certain brief experience, which...made me aware...that to me belonged trust, a child's trust, and obedience, and the worship of ideas, and I should never be fool more.
    YA 1.381 18 All this drudgery...to end in mortgages and the auctioneer's flag, and removing from bad to worse. It is time to have the thing looked into, and with a sifting criticism ascertained who is the fool.
    Comp 2.122 20 ...the true, the benevolent, the wise, is more a man and not less, than the fool and knave.
    SL 2.159 13 [A man's] vice...writes O fool! fool! on the forehead of a king.
    SL 2.159 16 A man may play the fool in the drifts of a desert, but every grain of sand shall seem to see.
    Int 2.344 22 I were a fool not to sacrifice a thousand Aeschyluses to my intellectual integrity.
    Pt1 3.41 26 ...thou [O poet] must pass for a fool and a churl for a long season.
    Exp 3.66 27 The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool.
    Chr1 3.115 24 ...when that love...which has vowed to itself that it will be a wretch and also a fool in this world sooner than soil its white hands by any compliances, comes into our streets and houses,--only the pure and aspiring can know its face...
    Mrs1 3.154 19 Osman had a humanity so broad and deep that although his speech was so bold and free with the Koran as to disgust all the dervishes, yet was there never...some fool who had cut off his beard...but fled at once to him;...
    Nat2 3.185 25 The child...the fool of his senses...lies down at night overpowered by the fatigue which this day of continual pretty madness has incurred.
    MoS 4.170 19 A book or statement which goes to show that there is no line, but...a hero born from a fool, a fool from a hero,--dispirits us.
    GoW 4.266 10 Ideas...at last make a fool of the possessor.
    ET10 5.164 14 ...the provisions to lock and transmit [English property] have exercised the cunningest heads in a profession which never admits a fool.
    ET11 5.196 3 Fuller records the observation of foreigners, that Englishmen, by making their children gentlemen before they are men, cause they are so seldom wise men. This cockering justifies Dr. Johnson's bitter apology for primogeniture, that it makes but one fool in a family.
    Wsp 6.241 2 There are two things, said Mahomet, which I abhor, the learned in his infidelities, and the fool in his devotions.
    CbW 6.244 3 ...Fool and foe may harmless roam,/ Loved and lovers bide at home./
    CbW 6.269 23 ...a virulent, aggressive fool taints the reason of a household.
    CbW 6.270 3 ...resistance only exasperates the acrid fool, who believes that...he only is right.
    Ill 6.325 6 Fooled thou must be, though wisest of the wise:/Then be the fool of virtue, not of vice./
    PI 8.62 7 How, Merlin, my good friend, said Sir Gawain, are you restrained so strongly that you cannot...make yourself visible to me; how can this happen, seeing that you are the wisest man in the world? Rather, said Merlin, the greatest fool;...
    PI 8.62 9 ...said Merlin...I have been fool enough to love another more than myself...
    SA 8.93 17 Shenstone gave no bad account of this influence [of women] in his description of the French woman:... She will draw wit out of a fool.
    Imtl 8.336 9 If not to be, how like the bells of a fool is the trump of fame!
    Edc1 10.145 15 Happy this child...with a thought which...leads him, now into deserts, now into cities, the fool of an idea.
    Schr 10.282 9 The orator too becomes a fool and a shadow before this light which lightens through him.

fool, v. (1)

    OA 7.313 16 ...if it be to [clouds] allowed/ To fool me with a shining cloud,/ So only new griefs are consoled/ By new delights, as old by old,/ Frankly I will be your guest,/ Count your change and cheer the best./

fooled, v. (2)

    Pol1 3.200 26 Nature...will not be fooled or abated of any jot of her authority by the pertest of her sons;...
    Ill 6.325 5 Fooled thou must be, though wisest of the wise:/Then be the fool of virtue, not of vice./

foolhardiness, n. (1)

    SlHr 10.437 12 ...[Samuel Hoar's] self-respect restrained him from any foolhardiness.

fooling, n. (1)

    Edc1 10.144 14 The two points in a boy's training are...to keep his naturel but stop off his uproar, fooling and horse-play;...

fooling, v. (1)

    CbW 6.269 21 ...fooling or dawdling can easily be borne;...

foolish, adj. (61)

    DSA 1.121 15 ...this homely game of life we play, covers, under what seem foolish details, principles that astonish.
    LE 1.175 15 [Society's] foolish routine, an indefinite multiplication of balls...can teach you no more than a few can.
    MN 1.202 18 ...we feel not much otherwise if, instead of beholding foolish nations, we take the great and wise men...and narrowly inspect their biography.
    MN 1.217 8 ...[Love] is that in which the individual is no longer his own foolish master...
    MR 1.250 21 As we cannot make a planet...by means of the best... engineers' tools...so neither can we ever construct that heavenly society you prate of out of foolish, sick, selfish men and women, such as we know them to be.
    Con 1.301 17 ...men are...very foolish children...
    Con 1.319 23 If any man resist and set up a foolish hope he has entertained as good against the general despair, Society frowns on him...
    Tran 1.356 23 ...[these old guardians] have but one mood on the subject, namely, that Antony is very perverse,-that it is quite as much as Antony can do to...abstain from what he thinks foolish...
    SR 2.52 7 I tell thee, thou foolish philanthropist, that I grudge the dollar...I give to such men as do not belong to me...
    SR 2.55 20 There is a mortifying experience in particular...I mean the foolish face of praise...
    SR 2.57 17 A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds...
    SR 2.79 5 [Men] say with those foolish Israelites, Let not God speak to us, lest we die.
    Comp 2.118 26 Men suffer all their life under the foolish superstition that they can be cheated.
    SL 2.131 10 The river-bank...the foolish person...have a grace in the past.
    SL 2.142 19 Foolish, whenever you take the meanness and formality of that thing you do...
    SL 2.159 19 [A man] may be a solitary eater, but he cannot keep his foolish counsel.
    Fdsp 2.213 16 Our impatience betrays us into rash and foolish alliances...
    Fdsp 2.213 26 It is foolish to be afraid of making our ties too spiritual...
    Hsm1 2.256 18 The great will not condescend to take any thing seriously; all must be as gay as the song of a canary, though it were...the eradication of old and foolish churches and nations...
    OS 2.279 18 Foolish people ask you, when you have spoken what they do not wish to hear, How do you know it is truth, and not an error of your own?
    Int 2.334 20 ...we begin to suspect that the biography of the one foolish person we know is, in reality, nothing less than the miniature paraphrase of the hundred volumes of the Universal History.
    Art1 2.361 17 [At Naples] I...said to myself--Thou foolish child, hast thou come out hither...to find that which was perfect to thee there at home?
    Exp 3.65 3 ...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...
    Chr1 3.113 8 ...if suddenly we encounter a friend, we pause; our heat and hurry look foolish enough;...
    Mrs1 3.137 26 Must we have a good understanding with one another's palates? as foolish people who have lived long together know when each wants salt or sugar.
    Nat2 3.169 22 At the gates of the forest, the surprised man of the world is forced to leave his city estimates of great and small, wise and foolish.
    Nat2 3.195 4 After every foolish day we sleep off the fumes and furies of its hours;...
    Nat2 3.195 12 Our servitude to particulars betrays us into a hundred foolish expectations.
    Pol1 3.200 7 ...foolish legislation is a rope of sand which perishes in the twisting;...
    Pol1 3.204 21 Society always consists in greatest part of young and foolish persons.
    NER 3.273 17 It is a foolish cowardice which keeps us from trusting [men]...
    UGM 4.29 3 Nothing is more marked than the power by which individuals are guarded from individuals, in a world...where children seem so much at the mercy of their foolish parents...
    ShP 4.197 3 Other men say wise things as well as [the poet]; only they say a good many foolish things, and do not know when they have spoken wisely.
    NMW 4.252 25 The consternation of the dull and conservative classes, the terror of the foolish old men and old women of the Roman conclave...make [Napoleon's] history bright and commanding.
    ET6 5.109 15 This [English] taste for house and parish merits has of course its doting and foolish side.
    ET8 5.134 13 ...here [in England] exists the best stock in the world...men of...strong instincts, yet apt for culture;...wise minority, as well as foolish majority;...
    ET18 5.307 12 ...retrospectively, we may strike the balance and prefer one Alfred, one Shakspeare, one Milton, one Sidney, one Raleigh, one Wellington, to a million foolish democrats.
    F 6.48 16 There is no need for foolish amateurs to fetch me to admire a garden of flowers...
    Wth 6.123 12 Use has made the farmer wise, and the foolish citizen learns to take his counsel.
    Bhr 6.191 27 The novels used to lead us on to a foolish interest in the fortunes of the boy and girl they described.
    CbW 6.270 10 ...resistance only exasperates the acrid fool, who believes that...he only is right. Hence all the dozen inmates [of his household] are soon perverted...into...repairers of this one malefactor; like a boat about to be overset, or a carriage run away with,--not only the foolish pilot or driver, but everybody on board is forced to assume strange and ridiculous attitudes, to balance the vehicle and prevent the upsetting.
    CbW 6.275 17 Our domestic service is usually a foolish fracas of unreasonable demand on one side and shirking on the other.
    Elo1 7.72 22 ...when the wise Ulysses arose and stood and looked down... you would say it was some angry or foolish man;...
    WD 7.175 9 ...that flexile clay of which these old brothers moulded their admirable symbols...was that clay which thou heldest but now in thy foolish hands...
    Boks 7.196 16 Now and then, by rarest luck, is some foolish Grub Street is the gem we want.
    Elo2 8.123 27 In the vain and foolish exultation of the heart...the pensive portress of Science shall call you to the sober pleasures of her holy cell.
    QO 8.200 22 Every one of my writings [said Goethe] has been furnished to me by a thousand different persons, a thousand things: wise and foolish have brought me, without suspecting it, the offering of their thoughts, faculties and experience.
    PC 8.220 19 How much more are...the wise and good souls...than the foolish and sensual millions around them!
    Dem1 10.15 2 The Jew [Masollam]...bent his bow and shot the bird to the ground. This act offended the augur and some others, and they began to utter imprecations against the Jew. But he replied, Wherefore? Why are you so foolish as to take care of this unfortunate bird?
    MMEm 10.408 11 [Mary Moody Emerson] is...a Bible...wherein are sentences of condemnation, promises and covenants of love that make foolish the wisdom of the world with the power of God.
    MMEm 10.417 15 ...Malden [alluding to the sale of her farm]. Last night I [Mary Moody Emerson] spoke two sentences about that foolish place...
    LS 11.20 21 I am not so foolish as to declaim against forms.
    EWI 11.143 24 If [men] are rude and foolish, down they must go.
    FSLN 11.235 1 To make good the cause of Freedom, you must draw off from all foolish trust in others.
    AsSu 11.248 22 ...it will only do to send foolish persons to Washington, if you wish them to be safe.
    ACiv 11.308 23 What is so foolish as the terror lest the blacks should be made furious by freedom and wages?
    FRep 11.530 24 The spread eagle must fold his foolish wings and be less of a peacock;...
    EurB 12.375 13 It is curious how sleepy and foolish we are, that these tales [novels of costume or of circumstance] will so take us.
    EurB 12.375 15 Again and again we have been caught in that old foolish trap [the novel of costume of circumstance].
    PPr 12.382 8 It is not by sitting still at a grand distance and calling the human race larvae, that men are to be helped, nor by helping the depraved after their own foolish fashion...
    PPr 12.387 4 Each age has its own follies, as its majority is made up of foolish young people;...

foolish, n. (1)

    Nat 1.38 18 The foolish have no range in their scale...

foolishly, adv. (5)

    DSA 1.139 16 There is poetic truth concealed in all the commonplaces of prayer and of sermons, and though foolishly spoken, they may be wisely heard;...
    LE 1.163 17 Do not foolishly ask of the inscrutable, obliterated past, what it cannot tell...
    SR 2.78 14 We come to them who weep foolishly...
    SL 2.150 24 We foolishly think in our days of sin that we must court friends by compliance to the customs of society...
    SA 8.96 16 When people come to see us, we foolishly prattle, lest we be inhospitable.

foolishness, n. (1)

    Pray 12.352 24 ...O my Father...thou dost not steal my time by foolishness.

fools, n. (19)

    Nat 1.62 5 ...when we try to define and describe [God]...we are as helpless as fools and savages.
    Tran 1.352 17 ...[the Transcendentalist says, my faith] is a certain brief experience, which...made me aware that I had played the fool with fools all this time...
    SR 2.52 14 ...the education at college of fools;...though...I sometimes...give the dollar, it is a wicked dollar...
    Pt1 3.12 12 ...now I shall see men and women, and know the signs by which they may be discerned from fools and satans.
    Exp 3.49 24 [Nature]...likes that we should be her fools and playmates.
    Nat2 3.193 23 Are we tickled trout, and fools of nature?
    MoS 4.183 20 [The man of thought] is content...with sots and fools...
    NMW 4.243 14 ...[Napoleon] undoubtedly felt...an impatience of fools and underlings.
    ET7 5.123 25 ...suspicion will make fools of nations as of citizens.
    Bhr 6.186 1 Manners have been somewhat cynically defined to be a contrivance of wise men to keep fools at a distance.
    Wsp 6.238 9 The great class...the rapt, the lost, the fools of ideas...suggest what they cannot execute.
    CbW 6.253 5 They were the fools who cried against me...wrote the Chevalier de Boufflers to Grimm;...
    CbW 6.253 7 They were the fools who cried against me...wrote the Chevalier de Boufflers to Grimm; aye, but the but the fools have the advantage of numbers...
    Ill 6.317 27 ...the best soldiers, sea-captains and railway men have a gentleness when off duty, a good-natured admission that there are illusions, and who shall say that he is not their sport? We stigmatize the cast-iron fellows who cannot so detach themselves, as...fools of fate...
    PC 8.230 17 Here you are set down, scholars and idealists...amidst fools and blind, to see the right done;...
    LLNE 10.348 12 A man is entitled...to the air of good conversation in his bringing up, and not, as we or so many of us, to the poor-smell and musty chambers, cats and fools.
    MMEm 10.418 22 The moon and stars reproach me, because I [Mary Moody Emerson] had to do with mean fools.
    ACri 12.290 9 The next virtue of rhetoric is compression, the science of omitting, which makes good the old verse of Hesiod, Fools, they did not know that half was better than the whole.
    ACri 12.294 1 I do not mean that [Shakespeare]...exults in bringing the street itself...on the scene, with Falstaff and Touchstone and Trinulo and the fools;...

fool's, n. (2)

    SR 2.81 22 Travelling is a fool's paradise.
    UGM 4.20 16 In lucid intervals we say, Let there be an entrance opened for me into realities; I have worn the fool's cap too long.

fools, v. (1)

    Nat2 3.190 15 The hunger for wealth...fools the eager pursuer.

foot, n. (60)

    Nat 1.58 7 [Religion and Ethics] both put nature under foot.
    Nat 1.68 23 ...head with foot hath private amity/...
    AmS 1.110 25 That which had been negligently trodden under foot...is suddenly found to be richer than all foreign parts.
    MR 1.231 3 ...it requires more vigor and resources than can be expected of every young man, to right himself in [the employments of commerce];...he cannot move hand or foot in them.
    MR 1.247 13 If we suddenly plant our foot and say,-I will neither eat nor drink nor wear nor touch any food or fabric which I do not know to be innocent...we shall stand still.
    LT 1.282 19 [The men of other periods] planted their foot strong, and doubted nothing.
    Con 1.299 5 It makes a great difference to your figure and to your thought whether your foot is advancing or receding.
    Con 1.299 6 Conservatism never puts the foot forward;...
    Hist 2.39 22 ...see...the fungus under foot...
    Lov1 2.177 13 ...[the lover] talks with the brook that wets his foot.
    Prd1 2.233 8 The scholar shames us by his bifold life. ... Yesterday, Caesar was not so great; to-day, the felon at the gallows' foot is not more miserable.
    Prd1 2.234 15 There is nothing [a man] will not be the better for knowing, were it only...the State-Street prudence of buying by the acre to sell by the foot;...
    Nat2 3.193 4 ...what recesses of ineffable pomp and loveliness in the sunset! But who can go where they are, or lay his hand or plant his foot thereon?
    NR 3.231 12 The day-laborer is reckoned as standing at the foot of the social scale...
    PPh 4.72 6 ...[Socrates] showed one who was afraid to go on foot to Olympia, that it was no more than his daily walk within doors, if continuously extended, would easily reach.
    GoW 4.261 16 Not a foot steps into the snow...but prints...a map of its march.
    GoW 4.276 24 ...[Goethe] stripped [the Devil] of mythologic gear, of horns, cloven foot, harpoon tail, brimstone and blue-fire...
    ET1 5.20 17 My [Wordsworth's] friend Colonel Hamilton, at the foot of the hill, who was a year in America, assures me that the newspapers are atrocious...
    ET5 5.78 9 The English game is...the planting of foot to foot...
    ET5 5.101 25 ...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.
    F 6.12 1 Now and then one has a new cell or camarilla opened in his brain... a good foot for dancing...
    F 6.14 26 Lodged in the parent animal...[the vesicle] unlocks itself to fish, bird, or quadruped, head and foot...
    F 6.20 22 When the gods in the Norse heaven were unable to bind the Fenris Wolf with steel...they put round his foot a limp band...and this held him;...
    F 6.47 12 A man must ride alternately on the horses of his private and his public nature, as the equestrians in the circus...plant one foot on the back of one [horse] and the other foot on the back of the other.
    F 6.47 13 A man must ride alternately on the horses of his private and his public nature, as the equestrians in the circus...plant one foot on the back of one [horse] and the other foot on the back of the other.
    Wth 6.121 1 The rule is...to learn practically the secret...that things...will show to the watchful their own law. Nobody need stir hand or foot.
    Elo1 7.83 18 ...let Bacon speak and wise men would rather listen though the revolution of kingdoms was on foot.
    Clbs 7.247 22 ...it was explained to me...that it was impossible to set any public charity on foot unless through a tavern dinner.
    Suc 7.287 14 The [Norse] mother says to her son:--Success shall be in thy courser tall,/ Success in thyself, which is best of all,/ Success in thy hand, success in thy foot,/...
    PI 8.10 23 The poet gives us the eminent experiences only,--a god stepping from peak to peak, nor planting his foot but on a mountain.
    PI 8.58 12 [The wind] is in the field, it is in the wood,/ Without hand, without foot,/ Without age, without season/...
    SA 8.95 27 The great gain is...to find a companion who knows what you do not; to tilt with him and be overthrown, horse and foot...
    Elo2 8.115 20 The orator must ever stand with forward foot...
    Comc 8.172 3 ...Timur...had a blind eye and a lame foot.
    PC 8.233 8 [Swedenborg] saw in vision the angels and the devils; but these two companies stood...foot to foot...
    Dem1 10.11 12 Head with foot hath private amity,/ And both with moons and tides./
    PerF 10.79 9 [The persistent man] is his own apprentice, and more time gives a great addition of power, just as a falling body acquires momentum with every foot of the fall.
    SovE 10.193 12 He that plants his foot here [on belief in Divine justice] passes at once out of the kingdom of illusions.
    Prch 10.233 21 Inspiration will have...the forward foot...
    Plu 10.315 23 The Arcadian prophet, of whom Herodotus speaks, was obliged to make a wooden foot in place of that which had been chopped off.
    Plu 10.315 27 A brother, embroiled with his brother, going to seek in the street a stranger who can take his place, resembles him who will cut off his foot to give himself one of wood.
    LLNE 10.355 3 It was easy to see what must be the fate of this fine system [of Fourier's] in any serious and comprehensive attempt to set it on foot in this country.
    MMEm 10.401 17 Finally [Mary Moody Emerson's farm] was sold, and its price invested in a share of a farm in Maine, where she lived as a boarder with her sister, for many years. It was...within sight of the White Mountains, with a little lake in front at the foot of a high hill called Bear Mountain.
    Thor 10.464 3 At Mount Washington...Thoreau had a bad fall, and sprained his foot.
    Thor 10.484 16 There is a flower known to botanists...which grows on the most inaccessible cliffs of the Tyrolese mountains...and which the hunter... climbs the cliffs to gather, and is sometimes found dead at the foot, with the flower in his hand.
    HDC 11.32 23 ...the Indian paths leading up and down the country were a foot broad.
    HDC 11.57 15 In 1654, the four united New England Colonies agreed to raise 270 foot and 40 horse, to reduce Ninigret, Sachem of the Niantics...
    EWI 11.132 20 The Congress should instruct the President to send to those ports of Charleston, Savannah and New Orleans such orders and such force as should release, forthwith, all such citizens of Massachusetts as were holden in prison without the allegation of any crime, and should set on foot the strictest inquisition to discover where such persons...may now be.
    EWI 11.136 5 Lord Chancellor Northington is the author of the famous sentence, As soon as any man puts his foot on English ground, he becomes free.
    HCom 11.342 9 The revolutions carry their own points, sometimes to the ruin of those who set them on foot.
    SMC 11.367 21 In McClellan's retreat in the Peninsula, in July, 1862, it is all our men can do to draw their feet out of the mud. We marched one mile through mud, without exaggeration, one foot deep...
    EdAd 11.387 8 Every foot of soil has its proper quality;...
    CPL 11.502 25 If you sprain your foot, you will presently come to think that Nature has sprained hers.
    PLT 12.49 16 The pace of Nature is so slow. Why not from strength to strength...and not as now with this retardation-as if Nature had sprained her foot...
    II 12.78 2 ...this reminds me to add one more trait of the inspired state, namely, incessant advance,-the forward foot.
    CL 12.136 25 ...[Linnaeus] summoned his class to go with him on excursions on foot into the country...
    Bost 12.190 22 In our beautiful [Boston] bay...with its waters bounded and marked by lighthouses, buoys and sea-marks; every foot sounded and charted;...a good boatman can easily find his way for the first time to the State House...
    MAng1 12.229 24 In the church called the Minerva, at Rome, is [Michelangelo's] Christ; an object of so much devotion to the people that the right foot has been shod with a brazen sandal to prevent it from being kissed away.
    MAng1 12.230 13 Every one of these pieces [in the Sistine Chapel ceiling]...every hand and foot and finger, is a study of anatomy and design.
    EurB 12.368 7 [Wordsworth] sat at the foot of Helvellyn and on the margin of Windermere, and took their lustrous mornings and their sublime midnights for his theme...

football, n. (4)

    Prd1 2.237 19 Entire self-possession may make a battle very little more dangerous to life than a match at foils or at football.
    Ctr 6.143 23 ...football, cricket...are lessons in the art of power...
    SlHr 10.438 9 [Samuel Hoar] was advised to withdraw to private lodgings [in Charleston], which were eagerly offered him by friends. He...refused the offers, saying that...he had rather the boys should troll his old head like a football in their streets, than that he should hide it.
    PPr 12.385 1 Here is a book [Carlyle's Past and Present] as full of treason as an egg is full of meat, and every lordship and worship and high form and ceremony of English conservatism tossed like a football into the air...

foot-board, n. (1)

    Prch 10.233 17 ...if I had to counsel a young preacher, I should say: When there is any difference felt between the foot-board of the pulpit and the floor of the parlor, you have not yet said that which you should say.

footboy, n. (1)

    Art2 7.55 14 Heraldry...and the ceremonies of a coronation, are a dignified repetition of the occurrences that might befall a dragoon and his footboy.

foothold, n. (2)

    Con 1.319 19 ...now that sickness has got such a foothold, leprosy has grown cunning, has got into the ballot-box;...
    EWI 11.126 19 ...[British merchants] saw further that the slave-trade, by keeping in barbarism the whole coast of eastern Africa, deprives them of countries and nations of customers, if once freedom and civility and European manners could get a foothold there.

footing, n. (21)

    LT 1.273 1 ...the thought that [these ideas] can ever have any footing in real life, seems long since to have been exploded by all judicious persons.
    Hist 2.32 13 Every animal...has contrived to get a footing and to leave the print of its features and form in some one or other of these upright, heaven-facing speakers.
    Comp 2.115 20 ...the high laws which each man sees implicated in those processes with which he is conversant, the stern ethics...which stand as manifest in the footing of the shop-bill as in the history of a state,--do recommend to him his trade...
    Prd1 2.237 4 ...frankness...puts the parties on a convenient footing...
    Prd1 2.240 2 Wisdom will never let us stand with any man or men on an unfriendly footing.
    Mrs1 3.144 21 The artist, the scholar, and, in general, the clerisy, win their way up into these places [of fashion] and get represented here, somewhat on this footing of conquest.
    ET4 5.54 5 ...it is fine for us to speculate in face of unbroken traditions, though vague and losing themselves in fable. The traditions have got footing, and refused to be disturbed.
    ET11 5.198 6 A multitude of English...are every day confronting the peers on a footing of equality...
    Ctr 6.144 25 Balls, riding, wine-parties and billiards pass to a poor boy for something fine and romantic, which they are not; and a free admission to them on an equal footing...would be worth ten times its cost, by undeceiving him.
    Ctr 6.161 3 A man who stands on a good footing with the heads of parties at Washington, reads the rumors of the newspapers...with a key to the right and wrong in each statement, and sees well enough where all this will end.
    WD 7.160 11 What of this dapper caoutchouc and gutta-percha, which make...rain-proof coats for all climates, which teach us to defy the wet, and put every man on a footing with the beaver and the crocodile?
    Clbs 7.246 13 I knew a scholar...who said that he liked, in a barroom, to tell a few coon stories and put himself on a good footing with the company;...
    Chr2 10.116 7 This charm in the Pagan moralists, of suggestion, the charm...of mere truth...the New Testament loses by its connection with a church. Mankind cannot long suffer this loss, and the office of this age is to put all these writings on the eternal footing of equality of origin in the instincts of the human mind.
    LS 11.15 14 In this manner we may see clearly enough how this ancient ordinance [the Lord's Supper] got its footing among the early Christians...
    EWI 11.101 8 If there be any man...who would not so much as part with his ice-cream, to save [a race of men] from rapine and manacles, I think I must not hesitate to satisfy that man that also his cream and vanilla are safer and cheaper by placing the negro nation on a fair footing than by robbing them.
    EWI 11.121 12 ...men of all colors have equal rights in law [in Jamaica], and an equal footing in society...
    FSLC 11.187 13 Here is a statute [the Fugitive Slave Law] which enacts the crime of kidnapping,-a crime on one footing with arson and murder.
    ACiv 11.304 26 ...the South...is almost on a footing in effective war-population with the North.
    II 12.66 14 All men are, in respect to this source of truth [consciousness], on a certain footing of equality...
    CL 12.159 18 In [the Persians'] belief, wild beasts, especially gazelles, collect around an insane person, and live with him on a friendly footing.
    ACri 12.297 1 [Herrick] has, and knows that he has...a perfect, plain style, from which he can soar to a fine, lyric delicacy, or descend to coarsest sarcasm, without losing his firm footing.

footman, n. (2)

    MR 1.228 7 ...I will not dissemble my hope that each person whom I address has felt his own call...to be in his place...a benefactor, not content to slip along through the world like a footman or a spy...
    Exp 3.63 3 ...the Transfiguration...the Communion of Saint Jerome, and what are as transcendent as these, are on the walls of the Vatican, the Uffizi, or the Louvre, where every footman may see them;...

footmen, n. (1)

    PerF 10.84 24 [Men]...would like to have Aladdin's lamp to compel darkness, and iron-bound doors, and hostile armies, and lions and serpents to serve them like footmen.

foot-paths, n. (1)

    SHC 11.434 23 ...I think sometimes that the vault of the sky arching there upward...is only a Sleepy Hollow, with path of Suns, insead of foot-paths;...

footprint, n. (1)

    PC 8.224 19 The good wit finds the law from a single observation,-the law, and its limitations, and its correspondences,-as the farmer finds his cattle by a footprint.

footprints, n. (1)

    SR 2.68 23 ...when you have life in yourself...you shall not discern the footprints of any other;...

foot-rule, n. [footrule,] (5)

    Comp 2.115 19 ...the high laws which each man sees implicated in those processes with which he is conversant, the stern ethics...which are measured out by his plumb and foot-rule...do recommend to him his trade...
    ET8 5.132 22 ...[young Englishmen]...measure with an English footrule every cell of the Inquisition...
    WD 7.157 14 The apprentice clings to his foot-rule;...
    PI 8.23 26 The senses imprison us, and we help them with metres as limitary,--with a pair of scales and a foot-rule and a clock.
    Dem1 10.27 4 [The demonologic] is a lawless world. ...a droll bedlam, where...the actors and spectators have no conscience or reflection, no police, no foot-rule, no sanity...

foot-service, n. (1)

    ET4 5.72 22 ...the genius of the English hath always more inclined them to foot-service...

footstep, n. (1)

    Koss 11.397 24 ...[the people of Concord] think that the graves of our heroes around us throb to-day to a footstep that sounded like their own...

footsteps, n. (2)

    Prch 10.222 1 To see men pursuing in faith their varied action...what are they to...the man who hears only the sound of his own footsteps in God's resplendent creation?
    EdAd 11.382 7 The old men studied magic in the flowers,/ And human fortunes in astronomy,/ And an omnipotence in chemistry,/ Preferring things to names, for these were men,/ Were unitarians of the united world,/ And, wheresoever their clear eye-beams fell,/ They caught the footsteps of the Same./

foot-stone, n. (1)

    HDC 11.74 25 A head-stone and a foot-stone, on this bank of the river, mark the place where these first victims [of the American Revolution] lie.

foot-track, n. (2)

    Comp 2.116 9 [Commit a crime and] You...cannot wipe out the foot-track... so as to leave no inlet or clew.
    QO 8.202 21 When a man thinks happily, he finds no foot-track in the field he traverses.

footway, n. (1)

    PPo 8.246 21 The Builder of heaven/ Hath sundered the earth,/ So that no footway/ Leads out of it forth./

fop, adj. (2)

    Wth 6.91 23 The world is full of fops...who had persuaded beauties and men of genius to wear their fop livery;...
    Wth 6.91 24 The world is full of fops...and these will deliver the fop opinion...

fop, n. (15)

    MN 1.202 10 When we...look into this court of Louis Quatorze, and see the game that is played there...a gambling table...where the end is ever...to... ruin [your rival] with this solemn fop in wig and stars,-the king;-one can hardly help asking...whether it be quite worth while to...glut the innocent space with so poor an article.
    YA 1.393 14 It is a questionable compensation to the embittered feeling of a proud commoner, the reflection that a fop...is himself also an aspirant excluded with the same ruthlessness from higher circles...
    SL 2.158 12 A fop may sit in any chair of the world...
    Exp 3.76 10 ...the fop contrived to dress his bailiffs in his livery...
    Mrs1 3.133 20 ...do not...imagine that a fop can be the dispenser of honor and shame.
    Nat2 3.177 8 The fop of fields is no better than his brother of Broadway.
    ShP 4.201 7 Vedas, Aesop's Fables, Pilpay, Arabian Nights, Cid, Iliad, Robin Hood, Scottish Minstrelsy, are not the work of single men. In the composition of such works...the mason, the carpenter, the merchant, the farmer, the fop, all think for us.
    ET6 5.113 4 Even Brummel, [the Englishmen's] fop, was marked by the severest simplicity in dress.
    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.
    Bhr 6.175 11 Claverhouse is a fop...
    Ill 6.311 22 ...the fop in the street, the hunter in the woods...ascribe a certain pleasure to their employment, which they themselves give it.
    PC 8.209 25 The fop is unable to cut the patriot in the street;...
    Aris 10.63 25 ...shame to the fop of learning and philosophy...
    Edc1 10.133 15 When I see...that there is no sot or fop, ruffian or pedant into whom thoughts do not enter by passages which the individual never left open, I can expect any revolution in character.
    Thor 10.465 26 Admiring friends offered to carry [Thoreau] at their own cost...to South America. But though nothing could be more grave or considered than his refusals, they remind one...of that fop Brummel's reply to the gentleman who offered him his carriage in a shower, But where will you ride, then?...

fopperies, n. (1)

    SwM 4.140 16 ...Swedenborg's revelation is a confounding of planes,--a capital offence in so learned a categorist. This is...to carry individualism and its fopperies into the realm of essences and generals...

foppish, adj. (1)

    SovE 10.204 4 There was in the last century a serious habitual reference to the spiritual world...compared with which our liberation looks a little foppish and dapper.

foppishly, adv. (1)

    Ill 6.310 4 The mysteries and scenery of the [Mammoth] cave had the same dignity that belongs to all natural objects, and which shames the fine things to which we foppishly compare them.

fops, n. (5)

    ET11 5.194 4 [English noblemen] might be little Providences on earth, said my friend, and they are, for the most part, jockeys and fops.
    Wth 6.91 21 The world is full of fops who never did anything...
    Comc 8.170 11 The same astonishment of the intellect at the disappearance of the man out of Nature...is the secret of all the fun that circulates concerning eminent fops and fashionists...
    TPar 11.291 14 Fops...will utter the fop's opinion...
    TPar 11.291 17 ...[Theodore Parker's] manly enemies, who despised the fops, honored him;...

fop's, n. (1)

    TPar 11.291 15 Fops, whether in hotels or churches, will utter the fop's opinion...

forays, n. (1)

    CbW 6.256 5 ...out of Sabine rapes, and out of robbers' forays, real Romes and their heroisms come in fulness of time.

forbade, v. (2)

    SS 7.5 19 [My friend] admired in Newton not so much his theory of the moon as his letter to Collins, in which he forbade him to insert his name with the solution of the problem in the Philosophical Transactions...
    HDC 11.71 10 In September [1774]...the inhabitants [of Concord]...forbade the justices to open the court of sessions.

forbear, v. (8)

    SR 2.53 13 ...for myself it makes no difference whether I do or forbear those actions which are reckoned excellent.
    Int 2.332 11 ...now you must labor with your brains, and now you must forbear your activity and see what the great Soul showeth.
    GoW 4.283 20 [Goethe] has the formidable independence which converse with truth gives: hear you, or forbear, his fact abides;...
    Plu 10.304 8 ...I cannot forbear to cite one or two sentences [from Plutarch] which none who reads them will forget.
    LLNE 10.354 8 The Stoic said, Forbear, Fourier said, Indulge.
    MMEm 10.409 10 ...so have I [Mary Moody Emerson] wandered from the cradle over...the cabinets of natural or moral philosophy, the recesses of ancient and modern lore. All say-Forbear to enter the pales of the initiated by birth, wealth, talents and patronage.
    HDC 11.66 21 The charges seem to have been made by the lovers of order and moderation against Mr. [Daniel] Bliss, as a favorer of religious excitements. His answer to one of the counts breathes such true piety that I cannot forbear to quote it.
    RBur 11.439 3 ...I do not know by what untoward accident it has chanced, and I forbear to inquire, that...it should fall to me, the worst Scotsman of all, to receive your commands...to respond to the sentiment just offered, and which indeed makes the occasion [the Burns Festival].

forbearance, n. (4)

    Exp 3.76 25 By love on one part and by forbearance to press objection on the other part, it is for a time settled that we will look at [Jesus] in the centre of the horizon...
    ET18 5.306 20 ...any forbearance from [an Englishman's] superiors surprises him...
    Edc1 10.136 21 Let [the young man] be led up with a long-sighted forbearance...
    Milt1 12.265 23 There is a forbearance even in [Milton's] polemics.

forbearing, adj. (2)

    HDC 11.45 24 The disputes between that forbearing man [John Winthrop] and the deputies are like the quarrels of girls...
    Let 12.395 25 But to be prudent in all the particulars of life, and in this one thing alone religiously forbearing;...and only abstinent when it is proposed to provide ourselves with guides, examples, lovers!

forbearing, n. (1)

    Chr1 3.112 8 Could we not pay our friend the compliment of truth, of silence, of forbearing?

forbearing, v. (2)

    MN 1.210 10 It is pitiful to be an artist, when by forbearing to be artists we might be vessels filled with the divine overflowings...
    SA 8.99 15 When men consult you, it is...that they wish you...to apply your habitual view, your wisdom, to the present question, forbearing all pedantries...

Forbes, Edward, n. (1)

    ET17 5.293 3 Every day in London gave me new opportunities of meeting men and women who give splendor to society. I saw...among the men of science...Babbage and Edward Forbes.

Forbes, Rev. Dr., n. (2)

    EzRy 10.381 19 ...[Ezra Ripley's] father agreed with the late Rev. Dr. Forbes of Gloucester...to fit Ezra for college...
    EzRy 10.382 12 ...through a kind providence and the patronage of Dr. Forbes, [Ezra Ripley] entered Harvard University, July, 1772.

forbid, v. (9)

    MoS 4.157 14 Who shall forbid a wise skepticism...
    Ctr 6.134 22 He only is a well-made man who has a good determination. And the end of culture is not to destroy this, God forbid!...
    PPo 8.244 3 On earth's wide thoroughfares below/ Two only men contented go:/ Who knows what 's right and what 's forbid,/ And he from whom is knowledge hid./
    PPo 8.259 13 ...the celerity of flight and allusion which our colder muses forbid, is habitual to [Hafiz].
    HDC 11.47 10 He is ill informed who expects, on running down the [New England] Town Records for two hundred years, to find...a metropolis of patriots, enacting wholesome and creditable laws. The constitution of the towns forbid it.
    HDC 11.80 9 [The people of Concord] fell into a common error...that the remedy was, to forbid the great importation of foreign commodities...
    LVB 11.92 15 The piety, the principle that is left in the United States... forbid us to entertain [the relocation of the Cherokees] as a fact.
    Koss 11.397 3 Sir [Kossuth],-The fatigue of your many public visits... forbid us to detain you long.
    Let 12.395 20 It were fit to forbid concert and calculation in this particular, if that were our system...

forbidden, adj. (2)

    Hsm1 2.257 3 ...the power of a romance over the boy who grasps the forbidden book under his bench at school, our delight in the hero, is the main fact to our purpose.
    Bty 6.305 3 ...whatsoever thing does not express to me the sea and sky, day and night, is somewhat forbidden and wrong.

forbidden, v. (5)

    ET15 5.267 1 I was told of the dexterity of one of [the London Times's] reporters, who, finding himself...where the magistrates had strictly forbidden reporters, put his hands into his coat-pocket, and with pencil in one hand and tablet in the other, did his work.
    Bhr 6.196 17 ...there is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers.
    Supl 10.164 27 'T is very wearisome, this straining talk, these experiences all exquisite, intense and tremendous,-The best I ever saw; I never in my life! One wishes these terms gazetted and forbidden.
    LS 11.3 17 In the Catholic Church, infants were at one time permitted and then forbidden to partake [of the Lord's Supper]...
    EWI 11.111 24 ...these missionaries [to the West Indies] were persecuted by the planters...and the negroes furiously forbidden to go near them.

forbidding, adj. (1)

    SR 2.62 5 To [the man in the street] a palace, a statue, or a costly book have an alien and forbidding air...

forbidding, v. (1)

    ET10 5.154 24 When Sir S. Romilly proposed his bill forbidding parish officers to bind children apprentices at a greater distance than forty miles from their home, Peel opposed...

forbids, v. (4)

    SA 8.77 5 He forbids to despair;/ His cheeks mantle with mirth;/ And the unimagined good of men/ Is yeaning at the birth./
    Chr2 10.94 14 Every hour puts the individual in a position where his wishes aim at something which the sentiment of duty forbids him to seek.
    Edc1 10.141 8 ...[the boy] gladly enters a school which forbids conceit, affectation, emphasis and dulness...
    FSLC 11.195 18 ...the crime which the second law [the Fugitive Slave Law] ordains is greater than the crime which the first law forbids under penalty of the gibbet.

forbore, v. (1)

    Tran 1.359 19 ...the thoughts which these few hermits strove to proclaim... not only by what they did, but by what they forbore to do, shall abide in beauty and strength...

forborne, v. (4)

    MN 1.222 7 ...the solicitations of this spirit, as long as there is life, are never forborne.
    Exp 3.72 19 ...the question ever is, not what you have done or forborne, but at whose command you have done or forborne it.
    Exp 3.72 20 ...the question ever is, not what you have done or forborne, but at whose command you have done or forborne it.
    Let 12.404 23 The pruning in the wild gardens of Nature is never forborne.

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