Force, England High to Forgiving

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

Force, High, England, n. (1)

    ET11 5.182 8 From Barnard Castle I rode on the highway twenty-three miles from High Force...through the estate of the Duke of Cleveland.

force, n. (337)

    Nat 1.71 3 ...who can set limits to the remedial force of spirit?
    Nat 1.72 10 At present, man applies to nature but half his force.
    Nat 1.72 27 ...there are not wanting...occasional examples of the action of man upon nature with his entire force...
    Nat 1.73 16 The difference between the actual and the ideal force of man is happily figured by the schoolmen...
    AmS 1.99 12 [The great soul] can still fall back on this elemental force of living [his truths].
    AmS 1.99 17 Those...who dwell and act with him, will feel the force of [the great soul's] constitution in the doings and passages of the day...
    DSA 1.121 18 The child amidst his baubles is learning the action of... muscular force;...
    LE 1.180 3 ...[Napoleon] believed...in the...quite incalculable force of the soul.
    MN 1.195 18 It is [great men's] solitude, not their force, that makes them conspicuous.
    MN 1.219 15 What brought the pilgrims here? One man says, civil liberty;... and a third discovers that the motive force was plantation and trade.
    MN 1.221 23 The sanity of man needs the poise of this immanent force.
    MN 1.222 2 If you say, The acceptance of the vision is also the act of God... I admit the force of what you say.
    MR 1.254 18 Love...will accomplish that by imperceptible methods...which force could never achieve.
    LT 1.260 22 ...a negative imposed on the will of man by his condition, a deficiency in [man's] force, is the foundation on which [Conservatism] rests.
    LT 1.266 4 ...there will be fragments and hints of men, more than enough: bloated promises, which end in nothing or little. And then truly great men, but with some defect in their composition which neutralizes their whole force.
    LT 1.269 9 The leaders of the crusades against War...Government based on force...are the right successors of Luther, Knox...
    LT 1.276 20 The love which lifted men to the sight of these better ends was...the disposition to trust a principle more than a material force.
    LT 1.282 3 These terrors [of Sin and the Day of Judgment] have lost their force...
    LT 1.289 9 That reality, that causing force is moral.
    Con 1.323 2 A state of war or anarchy, in which law has little force, is so far valuable that it puts every man on trial.
    Con 1.325 21 To the intemperate and covetous person...mankind would pay no rent, no dividend, if force were once relaxed;...
    Tran 1.329 22 The materialist insists...on the force of circumstances and the animal wants of man;...
    Tran 1.334 15 ...the deity of man is...to need...no foreign force.
    YA 1.367 23 ...the whole force of all the arts goes to facilitate the decoration of lands and dwellings.
    YA 1.377 26 ...[Trade] is a very intellectual force.
    YA 1.378 1 [Trade] calls out all force of a certain kind that slumbered in the former dynasties.
    YA 1.389 17 ...the bold face and tardy repentance permitted to this local mischief [Repudiation] reveal a public mind so preoccupied with the love of gain that the common sentiment of indignation at fraud does not act with its natural force.
    SR 2.48 17 Do not think the youth has no force...
    SR 2.54 7 The objection to conforming to usages that have become dead to you is that it scatters your force.
    SR 2.54 14 ...under all these screens I have difficulty to detect the precise man you are: and of course so much force is withdrawn from your proper life.
    SR 2.56 19 ...when the unintelligent brute force that lies at the bottom of society is made to growl and mow, it needs the habit of magnanimity and religion to treat it godlike as a trifle of no concernment.
    SR 2.59 18 The force of character is cumulative.
    SR 2.62 2 ...the man in the street, finding no worth in himself which corresponds to the force which built a tower or sculptured a marble god, feels poor when he looks on these.
    SR 2.64 9 In that deep force...all things find their common origin.
    SR 2.75 19 ...we see that most natures...have an ambition out of all proportion to their practical force...
    SR 2.83 8 Your own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation;...
    Comp 2.99 19 He who by force of will or of thought is great and overlooks thousands, has the charges of that eminence.
    Comp 2.102 4 The value of the universe contrives to throw itself into every point. If the good is there, so is the evil;...if the force, so the limitation.
    Comp 2.125 22 We do not believe there is any force in to-day to rival or recreate that beautiful yesterday.
    Comp 2.126 13 ...the sure years reveal the deep remedial force that underlies all facts.
    SL 2.142 4 Somewhere, not only every orator but every man...should find or make a frank and hearty expression of what force and meaning is in him.
    SL 2.145 9 Everywhere [the man] may take what belongs to his spiritual estate...nor can all the force of men hinder him from taking so much.
    SL 2.161 20 This revisal or correction is a constant force...
    Lov1 2.177 20 The like force has the passion [of love] over all [the lover's] nature.
    Fdsp 2.197 6 No advantages, no powers, no gold or force, can be any match for [a man who stands united with his thought].
    Prd1 2.226 21 ...the inhabitants of these [northern] climates have always excelled the southerner in force.
    Prd1 2.236 8 ...let [a man]...feel the admonition to...keep a slender human word among the storms , distances and accidents that drive us hither and thither, and, by persistency, make the paltry force of one man reappear to redeem its pledge after months and years in the most distant climates.
    OS 2.272 20 ...time and space are but inverse measures of the force of the soul.
    Cir 2.304 6 The extent to which this generation of circles, wheel without wheel, will go, depends on the force or truth of the individual soul.
    Cir 2.304 18 ...in its first and narrowest pulses [the heart] already tends outward with a vast force...
    Cir 2.312 21 In my daily work I...do not believe in remedial force...
    Art1 2.360 5 In proportion to his force, the artist will find in his work an outlet for his proper character.
    Pt1 3.6 10 ...in our experience, the rays or appulses have sufficient force to arrive at the senses...
    Pt1 3.20 25 ...[the poet]...perceives...that within the form of every creature is a force impelling it to ascend into a higher form;...
    Exp 3.59 27 Under the oldest mouldiest conventions a man of native force prospers just as well as in the newest world...
    Exp 3.69 17 ...I can see nothing at last, in success or failure, than more or less of vital force supplied from the Eternal.
    Exp 3.77 14 The subject is the receiver of Godhead, and at every comparison must feel his being enhanced by that cryptic might. Though not in energy, yet by presence, this magazine of substance cannot be otherwise than felt; nor can any force of intellect attribute to the object the proper deity which sleeps or wakes forever in every subject.
    Exp 3.77 17 Never can love make consciousness and ascription equal in force.
    Chr1 3.89 23 This is that which we call Character,--a reserved force, which acts directly by presence and without means.
    Chr1 3.90 1 [Character] is conceived of as a certain undemonstrable force...
    Chr1 3.92 2 Our public assemblies are pretty good tests of manly force.
    Chr1 3.92 7 The same motive force [of character] appears in trade.
    Chr1 3.95 20 The will of the pure runs down from them into other natures, as water runs down from a higher into a lower vessel. This natural force is no more to be withstood than any other natural force.
    Chr1 3.95 21 The will of the pure runs down from them into other natures, as water runs down from a higher into a lower vessel. This natural force is no more to be withstood than any other natural force.
    Chr1 3.101 9 All things...attempt nothing they cannot do, except man only. He has pretension; he wishes and attempts things beyond his force.
    Chr1 3.110 16 He is a dull observer whose experience has not taught him the reality and force of magic, as well as of chemistry.
    Chr1 3.113 15 The ages are opening this moral force [of character]. All force is the shadow or symbol of that.
    Chr1 3.114 15 ...the mind requires...a force of character which will convert judge, jury, soldier and king;...
    Mrs1 3.122 1 [Good society]...is a compound result into which every great force enters as an ingredient...
    Mrs1 3.123 2 Beyond this fact of truth and real force, the word [gentleman] denotes good-nature or benevolence;...
    Mrs1 3.123 6 ...that is a natural result of personal force and love, that they should possess and dispense the goods of the world.
    Mrs1 3.123 13 ...personal force never goes out of fashion.
    Mrs1 3.123 18 The competition is transferred from war to politics and trade, but the personal force appears readily enough in these new arenas.
    Mrs1 3.140 24 ...besides personal force and so much perception as constitutes unerring taste, society demands in its patrician class another element...which it significantly terms good-nature...
    Mrs1 3.151 13 Was it Hafiz or Firdousi that said of his Persian Lilla, She was an elemental force...
    Nat2 3.182 27 If we consider how much we are nature's, we need not be superstitious about towns, as if that terrific or benefic force did not find us there also...
    Pol1 3.200 18 We are superstitious, and esteem the statute somewhat: so much life as it has in the character of living men is its force.
    Pol1 3.205 18 ...the attributes of a person, his wit and his moral energy, will exercise, under any law or extinguishing tyranny, their proper force...
    Pol1 3.205 24 The boundaries of personal influence it is impossible to fix, as persons are organs of moral or supernatural force.
    Pol1 3.212 6 The fact of two poles, of two forces, centripetal and centrifugal, is universal, and each force by its own activity develops the other.
    Pol1 3.214 15 ...whenever I find my dominion over myself not sufficient for me, and undertake the direction of [my neighbor] also, I...come into false relations to him. ... Love and nature cannot maintain the assumption; it must be executed by a practical lie, namely by force.
    Pol1 3.217 13 The gladiators in the lists of power feel, through all their frocks of force and simulation, the presence of worth.
    Pol1 3.219 14 ...the nature of the revolution is not affected by the vices of the revolters; for this is a purely moral force.
    Pol1 3.220 2 We must not...doubt that roads can be built, letters carried, and the fruit of labor secured, when the government of force is at an end.
    Pol1 3.220 8 ...let not the most conservative and timid fear anything from a premature surrender of the bayonet and the system of force.
    Pol1 3.220 11 ...there will always be a government of force where men are selfish;...
    Pol1 3.220 12 ...when [men] are pure enough to abjure the code of force they will be wise enough to see how these public ends...can be answered.
    Pol1 3.220 20 We...pay unwilling tribute to governments founded on force.
    NR 3.226 18 When I meet a pure intellectual force or a generosity of affection, I believe here then is man;...
    NR 3.230 24 ...universally, a good example of this social force is the veracity of language, which cannot be debauched.
    NR 3.239 24 Hence the immense benefit of party in politics, as it reveals faults of character in a chief, which the intellectual force of the persons... could not have seen.
    NER 3.265 27 ...concert is...neither more nor less potent, than individual force.
    NER 3.266 6 ...the force which moves the world is a new quality...
    NER 3.273 11 Berkeley, having listened to the many lively things [Lord Bathurst's guests] had to say...displayed his plan with such an astonishing and animating force of eloquence and enthusiasm that they were struck dumb...
    NER 3.281 23 ...every hinderance operates as a concentration of [a man's] force.
    UGM 4.13 25 ...all mental and moral force is a positive good.
    UGM 4.15 18 [The people] delight in a man. Here is a head and a trunk! What a front! what eyes! Atlantean shoulders, and the whole carriage heroic, with equal inward force to guide the great machine!
    UGM 4.17 12 When [the imagination] wakes, a man seems to multiply ten times or a thousand times his force.
    UGM 4.23 16 ...I find [a master] greater when he can abolish himself and all heroes, by letting in this element of reason...this subtilizer and irresistible upward force...
    UGM 4.24 16 Altogether independent of the intellectual force in each is the pride of opinion...
    UGM 4.34 25 We have never come at the true and best benefit of any genius so long as we believe him an original force.
    PPh 4.46 21 The progress is to accuracy, to skill, to truth, from blind force.
    SwM 4.99 26 [Swedenborg]...from this time [1716] for the next thirty years was employed in the composition and publication of his scientific works. With the like force he threw himself into theology.
    SwM 4.109 9 Creative force, like a musical composer, goes on unweariedly repeating a simple air or theme...
    SwM 4.122 2 ...by force of intellect, and in effect, [Swedenborg] is the last Father in the Church...
    SwM 4.143 14 With a force of many men, [Swedenborg] could never break the umbilical cord which held him to nature...
    MoS 4.151 26 The trade in our streets...thinks nothing of the force which necessitated traders and a trading planet to exist...
    NMW 4.229 13 ...Bonaparte superadded to this mineral and animal force, insight and generalization...
    NMW 4.230 5 ...a very small force, skilfully and rapidly manoeuvring so as always to bring two men against one at the point of engagement, will be an overmatch for a much larger body of men.
    NMW 4.245 22 ...as intellectual beings we feel the air purified by the electric shock, when material force is overthrown by intellectual energies.
    NMW 4.247 4 We can not...sufficiently congratulate ourselves on this strong and ready actor [Napoleon], who...showed us how much may be accomplished by the mere force of such virtues as all men possess in less degrees;...
    NMW 4.247 11 [Napoleon's] power does not consist in any wild or extravagant force;...
    GoW 4.282 6 It makes a great difference to the force of any sentence whether there be a man behind it
    GoW 4.282 15 ...through every clause and part of speech of a right book I meet the eyes of the most determined of men; his force and terror inundate every word;...
    ET1 5.13 25 [Coleridge said] There were only three things which the government had brought into that garden of delights [Sicily], namely, itch, pox and famine. Whereas in Malta, the force of law and mind was seen...
    ET4 5.45 25 The spawning force of the [English] race has sufficed to the colonization of great parts of the world;...
    ET4 5.46 3 [The English] have assimilating force...
    ET4 5.56 18 Bonaparte's art of war, namely of concentrating force on the point of attack, must always be theirs who have the choice of the battle-ground.
    ET4 5.66 27 ...[the blonde race's] accession to empire marks a new and finer epoch, wherein the old mineral force shall be subjugated at last by humanity...
    ET5 5.78 9 The English game is main force to main force...
    ET5 5.86 3 ...Wellington, when he came to the army in Spain, had every man weighed, first with accoutrements, and then without; believing that the force of an army depended on the weight and power of the individual soldiers...
    ET7 5.125 22 What influence the English have [in Europe] is by brute force of wealth and power;...
    ET8 5.132 1 Of that constitutional force which yields the supplies of the day, [the English] have more than enough;...
    ET8 5.141 10 The conservative, money-loving, lord-loving English are yet liberty-loving; and so freedom is safe: for they have more personal force than any other people.
    ET11 5.196 22 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;...
    ET14 5.236 12 The union of Saxon precision and Oriental soaring, of which Shakspeare is the perfect example, is shared in less degree by the writers of two centuries. I find...the whole writing of the time charged with a masculine force and freedom.
    ET14 5.236 26 I could cite from the seventeenth century [in England] sentences and phrases of edge not to be matched in the nineteenth. Their poets by simple force of mind equalized themselves with the accumulated science of ours.
    ET14 5.254 25 ...having attempted to domesticate and dress the Blessed Soul itself in English broadcloth and gaiters, [the English] are tormented with fear that herein lurks a force that will sweep their system away.
    ET14 5.260 13 ...the two complexions, or two styles of mind [in England]... are ever in counterpoise, interacting mutually...these two nations, of genius and of animal force...forever by their discord and their accord yield the power of the English State.
    ET15 5.262 12 The tendency in England towards social and political institutions like those of America, is inevitable, and the ability of its journals is the driving force.
    ET17 5.296 5 ...[Wordsworth's] conversation was not marked by special force or elevation.
    F 6.11 16 In certain men digestion and sex absorb the vital force...
    F 6.11 20 If, later, [these drones] give birth to some superior individual, with force enough to add to this animal a new aim...all the ancestors are gladly forgotten.
    F 6.12 7 Each [tendency] absorbs so much food and force as to become itself a new centre.
    F 6.12 9 The new talent draws off so rapidly the vital force that not enough remains for the animal functions...
    F 6.12 13 ...in the second generation, if the like genius appear, the health is visibly deteriorated and the generative force impaired.
    F 6.19 10 The force with which we resist these torrents of tendency looks so ridiculously inadequate...
    F 6.28 20 All great force is real and elemental.
    F 6.28 24 Where power is shown in will, it must rest on the universal force.
    F 6.29 1 ...the pure sympathy with universal ends is an infinite force...
    F 6.29 8 I know not what the word sublime means, if it be not the intimations...of a terrific force.
    F 6.29 25 There can be no driving force except through the conversion of the man into his will...
    F 6.30 12 The glance of [the hero's] eye has the force of sunbeams.
    F 6.32 3 ...every jet of chaos which threatens to exterminate us is convertible by intellect into wholesome force.
    F 6.43 19 To a subtle force [the wall] will stream into new forms...
    Pow 6.53 10 ...if there be such a tie that wherever the mind of man goes, nature will accompany him, perhaps there are men whose magnetisms are of that force to draw material and elemental powers...
    Pow 6.54 26 This gives force to the strong,--that the multitude have no habit of self-reliance or original action.
    Pow 6.57 13 This affirmative force [a broad, healthy, massive understanding] is in one and is not in another...
    Pow 6.58 22 There is always room for a man of force...
    Pow 6.61 2 We watch in children with pathetic interest the degree in which they possess recuperative force.
    Pow 6.64 13 The faster the ball falls to the sun, the force to fly off is by so much augmented.
    Pow 6.68 6 All the elements whose aid man calls in will sometimes become his masters, especially those of most subtle force.
    Pow 6.70 13 The best anecdotes of this [aboriginal] force are to be had from savage life...
    Pow 6.70 17 Physical force has no value where there is nothing else.
    Pow 6.72 5 What a force was coiled up in the skull of Napoleon!
    Pow 6.73 19 ...there are two economies which are the best succedanea which the case admits. The first is...concentrating our force on one or a few points;....
    Pow 6.74 13 ...you shall take what your brain can, and drop all the rest. Only so can that amount of vital force accumulate which can make the step from knowing to doing.
    Pow 6.77 15 ...in human action, against the spasm of energy we offset the continuity of drill. We spread the same amount of force over much time, instead of condensing it into a moment.
    Pow 6.80 15 ...this force or spirit, being the means relied on by Nature for bringing the work of the day about,--as far as we attach importance to household life and the prizes of the world, we must respect that.
    Pow 6.80 24 ...every man is efficient only as he is a container or vessel of this force [spirit]...
    Wth 6.86 15 A clever fellow was acquainted with the expansive force of steam;...
    Wth 6.102 7 I wish the farmer held [the dollar] dearer, and would spend it only for real bread; force for force.
    Ctr 6.140 6 ...men are valued precisely as they exert onward or meliorating force.
    Ctr 6.147 20 ...there is in every constitution a certain solstice...when there is required some foreign force...to prevent stagnation.
    Bhr 6.170 18 There are certain manners which are learned in good society, of that force that if a person have them, he or she must be considered...
    Bhr 6.172 1 When we reflect on [manners'] persuasive and cheering force;...we see what range the subject has...
    Bhr 6.172 17 We prize [manners] for their rough-plastic, abstergent force;...
    Bhr 6.173 19 ...these [bad manners] are social inflictions...which must be entrusted to the restraining force of custom and proverbs...
    Wsp 6.207 19 ...the old faiths which comforted nations...seem to have spent their force.
    Wsp 6.211 11 If a pickpocket intrude into the society of gentlemen, they exert what moral force they have...
    Wsp 6.217 9 ...not by our private but by our public force can we share and know the nature of things.
    Wsp 6.225 3 Here is a low political economy...excluding others by force...
    Wsp 6.232 27 It is incredible what force the will has in such cases;...
    CbW 6.258 25 ...great educators and lawgivers...esteem men of irregular and passional force the best timber.
    CbW 6.260 10 Charles James Fox said of England, The history of this country proves that we are not to expect from men in affluent circumstances the vigilance, energy and exertion without which the House of Commons would lose its greatest force and weight.
    Bty 6.285 25 The miller, the lawyer and the merchant dedicate themselves to their own details, and do not come out men of more force.
    Bty 6.299 26 A Greek epigram intimates that the force of love is not shown by the courting of beauty...
    Bty 6.305 23 ...the fact is familiar that...a phrase of poetry, plants wings at our shoulders; as if the Divinity, in his approaches...deigns to draw a truer line, which the mind knows and owns. This is that haughty force of beauty... which the poets praise...
    Ill 6.324 5 The early Greek philosophers Heraclitus and Xenophanes measured their force on this problem of identity.
    Civ 7.27 17 ...see [the carpenter] on the ground, dressing his timber under him. Now, not his feeble muscles but the force of gravity brings down the axe;...
    Civ 7.32 22 ...when I see how much each virtuous and gifted person, whom all men consider, lives affectionately with scores of excellent people who are not known far from home, and perhaps with great reason reckons these people his superiors in virtue and in the symmetry and force of their qualities,--I see what cubic values America has...
    Art2 7.41 6 Smeaton built Eddystone Lighthouse on the model of an oak-tree, as being the form in Nature best designed to resist a constant assailing force.
    Art2 7.42 18 ...we build a mill in such position as to set the north wind to play upon our instrument, or the elastic force of steam...
    Art2 7.42 20 ...in our handiwork, we do few things by muscular force...
    Art2 7.42 22 ...in our handiwork...we place ourselves in such attitudes as to bring the force of gravity...to bear upon the spade or the axe we wield.
    Art2 7.42 26 ...in all our operations we seek not to use our own, but to bring a quite infinite force to bear.
    Elo1 7.92 8 The listener cannot hide from himself that something has been shown him and the whole world which he did not wish to see; and as he cannot dispose of it, it disposes of him. The history of public men and affairs in America will readily furnish tragic examples of this fatal force.
    Elo1 7.92 11 For the triumphs of the art [of eloquence] somewhat more must still be required, namely a reinforcing of man from events, so as to give the double force of reason and destiny.
    Elo1 7.93 2 The possession the subject has of [the eloquent man's] mind is so entire that it insures an order of expression which is the order of Nature itself, and so the order of greatest force...
    DL 7.111 27 If we look at this matter [of housekeeping] curiously, it becomes dangerous. We need all the force of an idea to lift this load...
    Farm 7.146 21 Great is the force of a few simple arrangements;...
    WD 7.172 14 ...what a force of illusion begins life with us and attends us to the end!
    WD 7.173 14 This element of illusion lends all its force to hide the values of present time.
    Cour 7.266 15 Hear what women say of doing a task by sheer force of will: it costs them a fit of sickness.
    Suc 7.301 1 The mind yields sympathetically to the tendencies or law which...make the order of Nature; and in the perfection of this correspondence or expressiveness, the health and force of man consist.
    OA 7.322 12 We still feel the force of Socrates...
    OA 7.324 4 All men carry seeds of all distempers through life latent, and we die without developing them; such is the affirmative force of the constitution;...
    PI 8.4 23 Faraday...taught that when we should arrive at the...primordial elements...we should not find cubes, or prisms, or atoms, at all, but spherules of force.
    PI 8.6 23 Suppose there were in the ocean certain strong currents which drove a ship, caught in them, with a force that no skill of sailing with the best wind, and no strength of oars, or sails, or steam, could make any head against...
    PI 8.9 1 There is one animal, one plant, one matter and one force.
    PI 8.18 12 ...what is life? what is force? Push [the savans] hard and they will not be loquacious.
    PI 8.23 13 Good poetry...heightens every species of force in Nature...
    PI 8.34 22 'T is easy to repaint the mythology...of...the martyrdoms of mediaeval Europe; but to point out where the same creative force is now working in our own houses and public assemblies;...requires a subtile and commanding thought.
    PI 8.42 7 There was as much creative force then as now...
    PI 8.44 3 This force of representation so plants [the poet's] figures before him that he treats them as real;...
    PI 8.57 5 The metallic force of primitive words makes the superiority of the remains of the rude ages.
    PI 8.57 15 The original force...is in these ancient poems...
    PI 8.64 5 Is not poetry the little chamber in the brain where is generated the explosive force which, by gentle shocks, sets in action the intellectual world?
    PI 8.72 1 One would say of the force in the works of Nature, all depends on the battery.
    PI 8.73 2 The inexorable rule in the muses' court, either inspiration or silence, compels the bard to report only his supreme moments. It teaches the enormous force of a few words...
    SA 8.79 23 'T is an inestimable hint that I owe to a few persons of fine manners, that they make behavior the very first sign of force...
    SA 8.103 3 ...I have seen examples of new grace and power in address that honor the country. It was my fortune not long ago...to fall in with an American to be proud of. I said never was such force...combined with such domestic lovely behavior...
    Elo2 8.117 11 The special ingredients of this force [of eloquence] are clear perceptions; memory; power of statement; logic; imagination...
    Elo2 8.121 11 What character, what infinite variety belong to the voice!... what range of force!
    Elo2 8.124 22 Every one has felt how superior in force is the language of the street to that of the academy.
    Elo2 8.126 22 ...at a great heat [men] can all express themselves with an almost equal force.
    Res 8.147 21 Disorganization [good sense] confronts with organization, with police, with military force.
    Comc 8.163 8 ...no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.
    Comc 8.166 13 ...The mighty Tottipottymoy/ Sent to our elders an envoy,/ Complaining loudly of the breach/ Of league held forth by Brother Patch,/ Against the articles in force/ Between both churches, his and ours/...
    QO 8.189 21 Can we not help ourselves as discreetly by the force of two in literature?
    QO 8.201 27 [Genius] implies Will, or original force...
    PC 8.217 16 [Culture] is...the co-presence of the revolutionary force in intellect.
    PC 8.229 5 Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force...
    PC 8.231 20 The great heart will no more complain of the obstructions that make success hard, than of the iron walls of the gun which hinder the shot from scattering. It was walled round with iron tube with that purpose, to give it irresistible force in one direction.
    Insp 8.268 2 If with light head erect I sing,/ Though all the Muses lend their force,/ From my poor love of anything,/ The verse is weak and shallow as its source./
    Insp 8.276 27 See how the passions augment our force...
    Insp 8.282 10 ...it sometimes if rarely happens that after a season of decay or eclipse...the faculties revive to their fullest force.
    Insp 8.291 9 The times of force must be well husbanded...
    Grts 8.302 12 'T is...not Alexander, or Bonaparte or Count Moltke surely, who represent the highest force of mankind;...
    Grts 8.310 24 ...if the first rule is...to accept the work for which you were inwardly formed,-the second rule is concentration, which doubles its force.
    Grts 8.316 24 Intellect...will see the force of morals over men, if it does not itself obey.
    Dem1 10.18 17 ...a monstrous force goes out from [demonic individuals]...
    Dem1 10.19 2 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.
    Aris 10.42 19 The ancients were fond of ascribing to their nobles gigantic proportions and strength. The hero must have the force of ten men.
    PerF 10.68 2 No ray is dimmed, no atom worn,/ My oldest force is good as new,/ And the fresh rose on yonder thorn/ Gives back the bending heavens in dew./
    PerF 10.72 21 ...the laws of force apply to every form of it.
    PerF 10.72 26 What I have said of the inexorable persistance of every elemental force to remain itself...the same rule applies again strictly to this force of intellect;...
    PerF 10.73 1 What I have said of the inexorable persistance of every elemental force to remain itself...the same rule applies again strictly to this force of intellect;...
    PerF 10.74 7 No force but is [man's] force.
    PerF 10.74 8 No force but is [man's] force.
    PerF 10.74 16 ...if [man] should fight the sea and the whirlwind with his ship, he would snap his spars, tear his sails, and swamp his bark; but by cunningly dividing the force, tapping the tempest for a little side-wind, he uses the monsters...
    PerF 10.76 17 ...[man's] his ability and performance are according to his reception of these various streams of force.
    PerF 10.84 2 ...if you wish the force of the intellect, the force of the will, you must take their divine direction...
    PerF 10.88 18 ...the iron of iron, the fire of fire, the ether and source of all the elements is moral force.
    Chr2 10.97 1 Devout men...have used different images to suggest this latent [moral] force;...
    Chr2 10.111 19 ...with every repeater something of creative force is lost...
    Chr2 10.112 5 The constitution and law in America must be written on ethical principles, so that the entire power of the spiritual world can be enlisted...to repel every enemy as by force of Nature.
    Edc1 10.129 11 No dollar of property can be created without...some acquisition of knowledge and practical force.
    Edc1 10.157 10 Sympathy, the female force, which they must use who have not the first [will, the male power]...is more subtle and lasting and creative.
    SovE 10.183 3 Since the discovery of Oersted that galvanism and electricity and magnetism are only forms of one and the same force...we have continually suggested to us a larger generalization...
    SovE 10.204 7 The religion of seventy years ago was an iron belt to the mind, giving it concentration and force.
    SovE 10.205 23 If I miss the inspiration of the saints of Calvinism, or of Platonism, or Buddhism, our times are not up to theirs, or, more truly, have not yet their own legitimate force.
    SovE 10.211 15 If government could only stand by force...it is plain the government must be two to one in order to be secure...
    Prch 10.230 5 The man of practice or worldly force requires of the preacher a talent, a force, like his own;...
    Prch 10.230 6 The man of practice or worldly force requires of the preacher a talent, a force, like his own;...
    Prch 10.234 8 A vivid thought brings the power to paint it; and in proportion to the depth of its source is the force of its projection.
    MoL 10.247 3 [The scholar] represents intellectual or spiritual force.
    MoL 10.247 22 ...no decay has crept over the spiritual force which gives bias and period to boundless Nature.
    MoL 10.248 3 There is no unemployed force in Nature.
    MoL 10.250 19 ...what does the scholar represent? The organ of ideas, the subtle force which creates Nature and men and states;...
    MoL 10.252 24 Intellect measures itself by its counteraction to any accumulation of material force.
    MoL 10.252 26 The exertions of this force [intellect] are the eminent experiences...
    Schr 10.278 9 A very little intellectual force makes a disproportionately great impression...
    Schr 10.282 16 The spiritual nature exhibits itself so in its counteraction to any accumulation of material force.
    Plu 10.298 7 ...[Plutarch] is a chief example of the illumination of the intellect by the force of morals.
    LLNE 10.328 5 In the law courts, crimes of fraud have taken the place of crimes of force.
    LLNE 10.348 26 Mr. Brisbane pushed his doctrine with all the force of memory, talent, honest faith and importunacy.
    LLNE 10.349 4 As we listened to [Albert Brisbane's] exposition it appeared to us the sublime of mechanical philosophy; for the system was the perfection of arrangement and contrivance. The force of arrangement could no farther go.
    LLNE 10.353 2 [Fourier's] mistake is that this particular order and series is to be imposed, by force or preaching and votes, on all men...
    SlHr 10.438 16 ...when...a deputation of gentlemen waited upon him in the hall to say they had come with the unanimous voice of the State to remove him by force...[Samuel Hoar] considered his duty discharged to the last point of possibility.
    SlHr 10.438 19 ...when the mob of Charleston was assembled in the streets before his hotel...[Samuel Hoar] considered his duty discharged to the last point of possibility. The force was apparent and irresistible;...
    SlHr 10.438 22 ...when the mob of Charleston was assembled in the streets before his hotel...[Samuel Hoar] considered his duty discharged to the last point of possibility. The force was apparent and irresistible;...and he said, Well, gentlemen, since it is your pleasure to use force, I must go.
    SlHr 10.442 1 ...a plain way [Samuel Hoar] had of putting his statement with all his might, and now and then borrowing the aid of...a farmer's phrase, whose force had imprinted it on his memory...
    Carl 10.494 22 A strong nature has a charm for [Carlyle], previous, it would seem, to all inquiry whether the force be divine or diabolic.
    EWI 11.116 12 At Grace Hill, [the day after emancipation in the West Indies] there were at least a thousand persons around the Moravian Chapel who could not get in. For once the house of God suffered violence, and the violent took it by force.
    EWI 11.132 16 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...
    EWI 11.137 23 This moral force perpetually reinforces and dignifies the friends of this cause [emancipation in the West Indies].
    EWI 11.139 13 There are now other energies than force, other than political, which no man in future can allow himself to disregard.
    EWI 11.139 17 A man is to make himself felt by his proper force.
    EWI 11.146 6 There have been moments in [emancipation in the West Indies], as well as in every piece of moral history...when it seemed doubtful whether brute force would not triumph in the eternal struggle.
    FSLC 11.185 15 Because of this preoccupied mind, the whole wealth and power of Boston...are thrown into the scale of crime: and the poor black boy...on arriving here finds all this force employed to catch him.
    FSLC 11.202 23 We delighted...in [Webster's] daylight statement, simple force;...
    FSLC 11.204 1 ...[Webster's] finely developed understanding only works truly and with all its force, when it stands for animal good; that is, for property.
    FSLN 11.223 23 If [Webster's] moral sensibility had been proportioned to the force of his understanding, what limits could have been set to his genius and beneficent power?
    JBS 11.279 5 [John Brown] grew up...having that force of thought and that sense of right which are the warp and woof of greatness.
    JBS 11.281 20 ...our blind statesmen go up and down...hunting for the origin of this new heresy [abolition]. They will need...a very strong force to root it out.
    EPro 11.319 15 The force of the act [the Emancipation Proclamation] is that it commits the country to this justice...
    EPro 11.323 27 The [Civil] war...brought with it the immense benefit of... preventing the whole force of Southern connection and influence throughout the North from distracting every city with endless confusion...
    EPro 11.324 3 The [Civil] war...brought with it the immense benefit of... preventing the whole force of Southern connection and influence throughout the North from distracting every city with endless confusion, detaching that force and reducing it to handfuls...
    SMC 11.355 10 The armies mustered in the North were as much missionaries to the mind of the country as they were carriers of material force...
    Wom 11.410 12 The spiritual force of man is as much shown in taste...as in his perception of truth.
    Wom 11.417 13 In all [literature], the body of the joke...is identical with Mahomet's opinion that women have not a sufficient moral or intellectual force to control the perturbations of their physical structure.
    Wom 11.424 17 ...this appearance of new opinions, their currency and force in many minds, is itself the wonderful fact.
    Wom 11.425 6 ...forever it is individual force that interests.
    Humb 11.457 5 Humboldt was one of those wonders of the world...who appear from time to time, as if to show us the possibilities of the human mind, the force and the range of the faculties...
    ChiE 11.471 17 ...by some wonderful force of race and national manners, the wars and revolutions that occur in [China's] annals have proved but momentary swells or surges on the pacific ocean of her history...
    FRO2 11.486 9 ...there is a force always at work to make the best better and the worst good.
    FRep 11.522 2 [The American] sits secure in the possession of his vast domain...sees its inevitable force unlocking itself in elemental order day by day...
    FRep 11.531 14 ...all advancement is by ideas, and not by brute force or mechanic force.
    FRep 11.531 15 ...all advancement is by ideas, and not by brute force or mechanic force.
    FRep 11.531 24 In this country...there is, at present...an extravagant confidence in our talent and activity, which becomes, whilst successful, a scornful materialism,-but with the fault, of course, that it has...no reserved force whereon to fall back when a reverse comes.
    FRep 11.535 4 ...the land and sea educate the people, and bring out presence of mind, self-reliance, and hundred-handed activity. These are the people for an emergency. They...can find a way out of any peril. This rough and ready force becomes them...
    FRep 11.538 3 Is it that Nature has only so much vital force, and must dilute it if it is to be multiplied into millions?
    FRep 11.540 18 ...the Constitution and the law in America must be written on ethical principles, so that the entire power of the spiritual world shall... repel the enemy as by force of nature.
    FRep 11.543 26 ...our little wherry is taken in tow by the ship of the great Admiral which...has the force to draw men and states and planets to their good.
    PLT 12.5 11 Our metaphysics should be able to follow the flying force through all transformations...
    PLT 12.15 19 We figure to ourselves Intellect as an ethereal sea...carrying its whole virtue into every creek and inlet which it bathes. To this sea every human house has a water front. But this force...is no fee or property of man or angel.
    PLT 12.18 1 ...as the sun is conceived to have made our system by hurling out from itself the outer rings of diffuse ether which slowly condensed into earths and moons, by a higher force of the same law the mind detaches minds...
    PLT 12.36 18 [Pan]...was not represented by any outward image; a terror sometimes, at others a placid omnipotence. Such homage did the Greek... pay to unscrutable force we call Instinct...
    PLT 12.52 4 I am familiar with cases...wherein the vital force being insufficient for the constitution, everything is neglected that can be spared;...
    PLT 12.62 14 Knowledge is plainly to be preferred before power, as being that which guides and directs its blind force and impetus;...
    II 12.69 22 Where is the yeast that will leaven this lump [Instinct]? Where the wine that will warm and open these silent lips? Where the fire that will light this combustible pile? That force or flame is alone to be considered;...
    II 12.72 27 Certain young men or maidens are thus to be screened from the evil influences of trade by force of money.
    II 12.81 2 ...the force of method and the force of will makes trade...
    II 12.85 19 Within this magical power derived from fidelity to his nature, [man] adds also the mechanical force of perseverance.
    Mem 12.106 20 [The bright school-girl's] is a bushel-basket memory of all unchosen knowledge...so that an old scholar, who knows what to do with a memory, is full of wonder and pity that this magical force should be squandered on such frippery.
    CInt 12.116 2 ...[the college] deals with a force which it cannot monopolize or confine;...
    CInt 12.116 5 ...[the college] deals with a force which It cannot monopolize or confine;... I have no doubt of the force, and for me the only question is, whether the force is inside.
    CInt 12.116 6 ...[the college] deals with a force which It cannot monopolize or confine;... I have no doubt of the force, and for me the only question is, whether the force is inside.
    CL 12.164 2 Nature speaks to the imagination; first, through her grand style,-the hint of immense force and unity which her works convey;...
    CL 12.167 4 The very science by which [matter] is shown to you argues the force of man.
    CW 12.170 9 The gentle deities/ Showed me the love of color and of sounds,/ The innumerable tenements of beauty,/ the miracle of generative force,/...
    Bost 12.183 23 Such is the assimilating force of the Indian climate that Sir Erskine Perry says the usage and opinion of the Hindoos so invades men of all castes and colors who deal with them that all take a Hindoo tint.
    MAng1 12.226 12 Michael Angelo made known his opinion that the bridge [Pons Palatinus] could not resist the force of the current;...
    Milt1 12.273 21 [Milton] admonished his friend not to admire military prowess, or things in which force is of most avail.
    Milt1 12.277 15 [Milton's] own conviction it is which gives such authority to his strain. Its reality is its force.
    ACri 12.288 5 I envy the boys the force of the double negative...
    MLit 12.309 13 Let us not forget the genial miraculous force we have known to proceed from a book.
    WSL 12.345 9 ...[Character] is a force which we all feel;...
    WSL 12.345 19 A moral force...[character] works directly and without means...
    EurB 12.377 7 ...high behavior fraternized with high behavior [in the society in Wilhelm Meister], without question of heraldry, and the only power recognized is the force of character.
    PPr 12.381 6 As we recall the topics [in Carlyle's Past and Present], we are struck with the force given to the plain truths;...
    PPr 12.382 1 As we recall the topics [in Carlyle's Past and Present], we are struck with the force given to the plain truths;... These things strike us with a force which reminds us of the morals of the Oriental or early Greek masters...
    PPr 12.385 27 [Carlyle's] humors are expressed with so much force of constitution that his fancies are more attractive and more credible than the sanity of duller men.
    Let 12.397 18 ...though the recuperative force in every man may be relied on infinitely, it must be relied on before it will exert itself.
    Let 12.404 20 A literature...is the affair of a power which works by a prodigality of life and force very dismaying to behold...
    Trag 12.407 16 ...universally, in uneducated and unreflecting persons on whom too the religious sentiment exerts little force, we discover traits of the same superstition [belief in Fate]...

force, v. (24)

    SL 2.136 22 Do not shut up the young people against their will in a pew and force the children to ask them questions for an hour against their will.
    NER 3.278 11 We are haunted with a belief that you [reformers] have a secret which it would highliest advantage us to learn, and we would force you to impart it to us...
    ET1 5.12 11 [Coleridge] went on defining, or rather refining...talked of trinism and tetrakism and much more, of which I only caught this, that the will was that by which a person is a person; because, if one should push me in the street, and so I should force the man next me into the kennel, I should at once exclaim I did not do it, sir, meaning it was not my will.
    ET1 5.18 1 [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. ... They burned the stacks and so found a way to force the rich people to attend to them.
    ET7 5.125 27 The Italian is subtle, the Spaniard treacherous: tortures, it is said, could never wrest from an Egyptian the confession of a secret. None of these traits belong to the Englishman. His choler and conceit force every thing out.
    ET9 5.146 22 ...so help him God! [the Englishman] will force his island by-laws down the throat of great countries, like India, China, Canada, Australia...
    ET14 5.233 2 [The English muse] says, with De Stael, I tramp in the mire with wooden shoes, whenever they would force me into the clouds.
    ET14 5.250 5 The necessities of mental structure force all minds into a few categories;...
    Pow 6.56 27 [A strong pulse] is like the opportunity of a city like New York or Constantinople, which needs no diplomacy to force capital or genius or labor to it.
    Wth 6.111 17 Our nature and genius force us to respect ends...
    Bty 6.298 23 ...short legs which constrain us to short, mincing steps are a kind of personal insult and contumely to the owner; and long stilts...force him to stoop to the general level of mankind.
    Civ 7.30 26 If we can thus ride in Olympian chariots by putting our works in the path of the celestial circuits, we can harness also...the powers of darkness, and force them to serve against their will the ends of wisdom and virtue.
    Farm 7.154 3 Cities force growth and make men talkative and entertaining...
    SA 8.81 15 Balzac finely said: Kings themselves cannot force the exquisite politeness of distance to capitulate...
    SA 8.100 10 It is the sense of every human being that man...should arm himself with tools and force the elements to drudge for him and give him power.
    PC 8.230 25 Here you are set down, scholars and idealists...you are...under bad governments to force on them, by your persistence, good laws.
    Chr2 10.93 10 ...our first experiences in moral, as in intellectual nature, force us to discriminate a universal mind...
    Chr2 10.116 3 This charm in the Pagan moralists, of suggestion, the charm...of mere truth (easily disengaged from their historical accidents which nobody wishes to force on us), the New Testament loses by its connection with a church.
    Plu 10.322 4 It is a service to our Republic to publish a book that can force ambitious young men...to read the Laconic Apothegms [of Plutarch]...
    HDC 11.74 10 ...when the smoke began to rise from the village where the British were burning cannon-carriages and military stores, the Americans resolved to force their way into town.
    PLT 12.33 24 It does not need to pump your brains and force thought to think rightly.
    PLT 12.45 18 [Thoughts] are the oracle; we are not to poke and drill and force, but to follow them.
    CW 12.178 23 Cities force the growth and make [the man] talkative and entertaining...
    Let 12.394 15 [The correspondents] do not wish to force society into hated reforms...

forced, adj. (3)

    SR 2.55 21 There is a mortifying experience in particular...I mean...the forced smile which we put on in company...
    Farm 7.141 23 ...the true abolitionist is the farmer, who...stands all day in the field...making a product with which no forced labor can compete.
    MAng1 12.227 26 The midnight battles, the forced marches, the winter campaigns of Julius Caesar or Charles XII. do not indicate greater strength of body or of mind [than Michelangelo's].

forced, v. (62)

    LE 1.165 16 The hero is great by means of the predominance of the universal nature;...he has only to be forced to act, and it acts.
    MR 1.239 25 ...we have now a puny, protected person, guarded by walls and curtains...who...is forced to spend so much time in guarding them, that he has quite lost sight of their original use, namely, to help him to his ends...
    Tran 1.343 18 ...to behold the beauty lodged in a human being, with such vivacity of apprehension that I am instantly forced home to inquire if I am not deformity itself;...these are degrees on the scale of human happiness to which [Transcendentalists] have ascended;...
    YA 1.384 10 ...one may say that aims so generous and so forced on [the Communities] by the times, will not be relinquished, even if these attempts fail...
    SR 2.46 9 ...we shall be forced to take with shame our own opinion from another.
    SR 2.82 11 Our minds travel when our bodies are forced to stay at home.
    Nat2 3.169 21 At the gates of the forest, the surprised man of the world is forced to leave his city estimates of great and small...
    PPh 4.78 7 ...admirable texts can be quoted on both sides of every great question from [Plato]. These things we are forced to say if we must consider the effort of Plato or of any philosopher to dispose of nature,-- which will not be disposed of.
    SwM 4.119 11 When [Swedenborg] attempted to announce the law most sanely, he was forced to couch it in parable.
    MoS 4.181 26 ...[the spiritualist] is forced to say, O, these things will be as they must be...
    MoS 4.185 22 We see, now, events forced on which seem to retard or retrograde the civility of ages.
    ShP 4.190 9 A great man...finds himself in the river of the thoughts and events, forced onward by the ideas and necessities of his contemporaries.
    ET1 5.3 12 For the first time for many months we were forced to check the saucy habit of travellers' criticism...
    ET4 5.57 22 [The heroes of the Norse Sagas] are substantial farmers whom the rough times have forced to defend their properties.
    ET5 5.74 11 ...we are forced to use the names [Saxon and Norman] a little mythically...
    ET5 5.75 11 Last of all the Norman or French-Dane arrived [in England], and formally conquered, harried and ruled the kingdom. A century later it came out that the Saxon...forced the baron to dictate Saxon terms to Norman kings;...
    ET5 5.93 2 [The English] have made...London...such a city that almost every active man, in any nation, finds himself at one time or other forced to visit it.
    ET9 5.152 4 A rogue and informer, [George of Cappadocia] got rich and was forced to run from justice.
    ET10 5.169 6 ...in the influx of tons of gold and silver; amid the chuckle of chancellors and financiers, it was found [in England]...that the yeoman was forced to sell his cow and pig, his tools and his acre of land;...
    ET18 5.305 5 I have sometimes seen [Englishmen] walk with my countrymen when I was forced to allow them every advantage...
    Pow 6.72 17 When Michel Angelo was forced to paint the Sistine Chapel in fresco...he went down into the Pope's gardens behind the Vatican, and with a shovel dug out ochres, red and yellow...
    Pow 6.81 17 ...in these [machines man] is forced to leave out his follies and hindrances...
    Wth 6.93 22 Few men on the planet have more truly belonged to it. But [Columbus] was forced to leave much of his map blank.
    Wth 6.105 8 If the Rothschilds at Paris do not accept bills, the people at Manchester...are forced into the highway...
    Wsp 6.201 9 I have no fears of being forced in my own despite to play as we say the devil's attorney.
    CbW 6.270 11 ...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...everybody on board is forced to assume strange and ridiculous attitudes, to balance the vehicle and prevent the upsetting.
    Elo1 7.66 4 ...in our experience we are forced to gather up the figure [of the orator] in fragments...
    Elo1 7.87 19 The judge was forced at last to rule something...
    WD 7.162 20 The science of power is forced to remember the power of science.
    Clbs 7.228 26 We remember the time...on a long journey in the old stage-coach, where, each passenger being forced to know every other... conversation naturally flowed...
    Suc 7.305 20 An Englishman of marked character and talent, who had brought with him hither one or two friends and a library of mystics, assured me that nobody and nothing of possible interest was left in England,--he had brought all that was alive away. I was forced to reply: No, next door to you probably, on the other side of the partition in the same house, was a greater man than any you had seen.
    PI 8.7 23 ...the severest analyzer...is forced to keep the poetic curve of Nature...
    PI 8.30 17 ...colder moods are forced to respect the ways of saying [the poet's thought]...
    Comc 8.169 26 ...[Astley's] comrades playfully forced off his coat...
    PC 8.222 14 We are told that in posting his books, after the French had measured on the earth a degree of the meridian, when [Newton] saw that his theoretic results were approximating that empirical one...he was so agitated that he was forced to call in an assistant to finish the computation.
    PC 8.231 2 Around that immovable persistency of yours, statesmen, legislatures, must revolve, denying you, but not less forced to obey.
    Insp 8.277 26 ...[Behmen said] though I could have written in a more accurate, fair and plain manner, the burning fire often forced forward with speed, and the hand and pen must hasten directly after it...
    Grts 8.320 16 We are...forced to express our instinct of the truth by exposing the failures of experience.
    Imtl 8.323 17 Whilst [the sparrow] stays in our mansion, it feels not the winter storm; but when this short moment of happiness has been enjoyed, it is forced again into the same dreary tempest from which it had escaped...
    Aris 10.65 15 ...it suffices...that...[the man of generous spirit] has an elevation of habit which ministers of empires will be forced to see and to remember.
    Chr2 10.100 22 Men are forced by their own self-respect to give [some souls] a certain attention.
    Chr2 10.118 14 ...in the new importance of the individual, when... presidents and governors are forced every moment to remember their constituencies;...society is threatened with actual granulation, religious as well as political.
    SovE 10.210 14 I know how delicate this [moral] principle is,-how difficult of adaptation to practical and social arrangements. It cannot be profaned; it cannot be forced;...
    Plu 10.301 6 I admire [Plutarch's] rapid and crowded style, as if he had such store of anecdotes of his heroes that he is forced to suppress more than he recounts...
    HDC 11.32 26 [The pilgrims] must...with their axes cut a road for their teams...forced to make long circuits too, to avoid hills and swamps.
    HDC 11.33 4 Sometimes passing through thickets where [the pilgrims'] hands are forced to make way for their bodies' passage...
    HDC 11.34 21 ...[the pilgrims] were forced to cut their bread very thin for a long season.
    HDC 11.39 8 Many [of the settlers of Concord] were forced to go barefoot and bareleg...
    War 11.157 16 Early in the eleventh and twelfth centuries, the Italian cities had grown so populous and strong that they forced the rural nobility to dismantle their castles...
    FSLC 11.179 5 The last year has forced us all into politics...
    FSLN 11.226 1 In the final hour, when he was forced by the peremptory necessity of the closing armies to take a side,-did [Webster] take the part of great principles...or the side of abuse and oppression and chaos?
    JBB 11.269 26 ...it is the reductio ad absurdum of Slavery, when the governor of Virginia is forced to hang a man [John Brown] whom he declares to be a man of the most integrity, truthfulness and courage he has ever met.
    ACiv 11.302 3 ...by the dislike of people to pay out a direct tax, governments are forced to render life costly by making them pay twice as much, hidden in the price of tea and sugar.
    EPro 11.325 4 ...those [Southern] states have shown every year a more hostile and aggressive temper, until the instinct of self-preservation forced us into the war.
    SMC 11.374 11 On the first of April, the [Thirty-second] regiment connected with Sheridan's cavalry, near the Five Forks, and took an important part in that battle which...forced the surrender of Lee.
    FRO1 11.478 3 We are all very sensible-it is forced on us every day-of the feeling that churches are outgrown;...
    CPL 11.504 10 Julius Caesar, when shipwrecked, and forced to swim for life, did not gather his gold, but took his Commentaries between his teeth and swam for the shore.
    FRep 11.534 17 In the planters of this country...the conditions of the country...forced them to a wonderful personal independence...
    PLT 12.50 25 We are forced to treat a great part of mankind as if they were a little deranged.
    Let 12.403 17 From Massachusetts to Illinois...the proofs of thrifty cultivation abound;-a result...owing...to the hard times, which, driving men out of cities and trade, forced them to take off their coats and go to work on the land;...

forceps, n. (1)

    Mem 12.97 19 A knife with a good spring, a forceps whose lips accurately meet and match...describe to us the difference between a person of quick and strong perception...and a heavy man who witnesses the same facts...

force-pumps, n. (2)

    ET10 5.158 11 Two centuries ago...the land was tilled by wooden ploughs. And it was to little purpose that [the English] had pit-coal, or that looms were improved, unless Watt and Stephenson had taught them to work force-pumps and power-looms by steam.
    Clbs 7.225 15 ...our tonics, our luxuries, are force-pumps which exhaust the strength they pretend to supply;...

forces, n. (72)

    Nat 1.36 6 Space...the mechanical forces, give us sincerest lessons...whose meaning is unlimited.
    Nat 1.37 2 Our dealing with sensible objects is a constant exercise in the necessary lessons...of combination to one end of manifold forces.
    LT 1.263 8 [Persons] are an incalculable energy which countervails all other forces in nature...
    LT 1.268 16 ...this [conservative] class...blends itself with the brute forces of nature...
    Con 1.297 18 [The battle between Conservatism and Innovation] is ever thus. It is the counteraction of the centripetal and the centrifugal forces.
    Hist 2.4 17 ...the poise of my body depends on the equilibrium of centrifugal and centripetal forces...
    Comp 2.97 25 The theory of the mechanic forces is another example [of Compensation].
    Comp 2.117 23 The indignation which arms itself with secret forces does not awaken until we are pricked and stung and sorely assailed.
    Prd1 2.236 4 ...let [a man] likewise feel the admonition to integrate his being across all these distracting forces...
    Cir 2.316 16 For me...love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred; nor can i...concentrate my forces mechanically on the payment of moneys.
    Nat2 3.184 10 It is not enough that we should have matter, we must also have a single impulse, one shove to launch the mass and generate the harmony of the centrifugal and centripetal forces.
    Nat2 3.194 14 If we measure our individual forces against [Nature's] we may easily feel as if we were the sport of an insuperable destiny.
    Pol1 3.212 5 The fact of two poles, of two forces...is universal...
    UGM 4.30 1 Be another:...not a poet, but a Shaksperian. In vain, the wheels of tendency will not stop, nor will all the forces of inertia, fear, or of love itself hold thee there.
    PPh 4.47 1 There is a moment in the history of every nation, when...the perceptive powers reach their ripeness and have not yet become microscopic: so that man, at that instant...with his feet still planted on the immense forces of night, converses by his eyes and brain with solar and stellar creation.
    MoS 4.177 12 What front can we make against these unavoidable, victorious, maleficent forces?
    NMW 4.224 26 [Napoleon] had [the middle classes'] virtues and their vices; above all, he had their spirit or aim. That tendency is material... subordinating all intellectual and spiritual forces into means to a material success.
    NMW 4.229 26 [The art of war] consisted, according to [Bonaparte], in having always more forces than the enemy, on the point where the enemy is attacked, or where he attacks...
    NMW 4.230 4 ...[Bonaparte's] whole talent is strained by endless manoeuvre and evolution, to march always on the enemy at an angle, and destroy his forces in detail.
    NMW 4.232 19 I have gained some advantages over superior forces and when totally destitute of every thing [Bonaparte writes to the Directory], because...my actions were as prompt as my thoughts.
    ET4 5.48 14 ...whilst race works immortally to keep its own, it is resisted by other forces.
    ET4 5.49 8 It is easy to add to the counteracting forces to race.
    ET10 5.161 3 Steam twines huge cannon into wreaths...and vies with the volcanic forces which twisted the strata.
    ET10 5.165 18 ...the proudest result of this creation [of English property rights] has been the great and refined forces it has put at the disposal of the private citizen.
    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 6.25 7 ...there are also the noble creative forces.
    F 6.30 26 [The brave youth's] science is to make weapons and wings of these passions and retarding forces.
    F 6.35 11 A transcendent talent draws so largely on [a man's] forces as to lame him;...
    Pow 6.69 23 Strong race or strong individual rests at last on natural forces...
    Pow 6.80 5 Indifferent hacks and mediocrities tower, by pushing their forces to a lucrative point...
    Pow 6.81 1 If these forces [of spirit] and this husbandry are within reach of our will, and the laws of them can be read, we infer that all success and all conceivable benefit for man, is also, first or last, within his reach...
    Wth 6.85 22 The forces and the resistances are nature's...
    Ctr 6.165 7 ...a considerate man will reckon himself a subject of that secular melioration by which mankind is mollified, cured and refined; and will shun every expenditure of his forces on pleasure or gain which will jeopardize this social and secular accumulation.
    CbW 6.278 5 The man,--it is his attitude,--not feats, but forces...
    Civ 7.24 26 The ship, in its latest complete equipment, is an abridgment and compend of a nation's arts... No use can lessen the wonder of this control by so weak a creature of forces so prodigious.
    Civ 7.28 27 The forces of steam...galvanism, light, magnets, wind, fire, serve us day by day...
    Art2 7.42 14 All powerful action is performed by bringing the forces of Nature to bear upon our objects.
    WD 7.159 12 Why need I speak of steam...which...vies with the forces which upheaved and doubled over the geologic strata?
    PI 8.49 6 ...the elemental forces have their own periods and returns...
    Res 8.140 8 What power does Nature not owe to her duration, of amassing infinitesimals into cosmical forces!
    PC 8.206 1 From high to higher forces/ The scale of power uprears/...
    PC 8.211 15 The correlation of forces and the polarization of light have carried us to sublime generalizations...
    Imtl 8.342 3 ...courage or confidence in the mind comes to those who know by use its wonderful forces and inspirations and returns.
    Imtl 8.344 12 The doctrine [of immortality]...is grounded in the necessities and forces we possess.
    PerF 10.67 1 What central flowing forces, say,/ Make up thy splendor, matchless day?/
    PerF 10.69 18 Art is long, and life short, and [a man] must supply this disproportion by borrowing and applying to his task the energies of Nature. Reinforce his self-respect, show him...his arsenal of forces...
    PerF 10.71 16 The earliest hymns of the world were hymns to these natural forces.
    PerF 10.72 5 These [natural] forces are in an ascending series...
    PerF 10.72 12 Intellect and morals appear only the material forces on a higher plane.
    PerF 10.73 9 Whilst these [natural] forces act on us from the outside and we are not in their counsel, we call them Fate.
    PerF 10.74 3 It is curious to see how a creature so feeble and vulnerable as a man...is yet able to subdue to his will these terrific [natural] forces...
    PerF 10.76 1 All forces are [man's];...
    PerF 10.78 3 It would be easy to awake wonder by sketching the performance of each of these mental forces;...
    PerF 10.79 1 The power of persistence...is one of these [mental] forces which never loses its charm.
    PerF 10.83 21 The forces are infinite.
    Edc1 10.151 21 Is it not manifest...that...children should be treated as the high-born candidates of truth and virtue? So to regard the young child, the young man, requires...a patience that nothing but faith in the remedial forces of the soul can give.
    SovE 10.186 17 ...when I say that the world is made up of moral forces, these are not separate.
    SovE 10.186 17 All forces are found in Nature united with that which they move...
    SovE 10.192 18 The idea of right...lays itself out...in the level of the seas, in the action and reaction of forces.
    SovE 10.198 11 ...spontaneous graces and forces elevate [life] in every domestic circle...
    MoL 10.247 18 [The scholar] knows...that the forces which uphold and pervade [the world] are eternal.
    MoL 10.247 25 Nature...mocks at the puny forces of destruction.
    MoL 10.250 6 [Nature says to the American] I give you...the forest and the mine, the elemental forces, nervous energy.
    War 11.169 8 If you have a nation of men who have risen to that height of moral cultivation that they will not declare war or carry arms...you have a nation...of true, great and able men. Let me know more of that nation;... I shall find them...men whose very look and voice carry the sentence of honor and shame; and all forces yield to their energy and persuasion.
    FSLN 11.231 17 There are two forces in Nature, by whose antagonism we exist;...
    FSLN 11.237 3 ...that which is hurtful to the world will sink beneath all the opposing forces which it must exasperate.
    ACiv 11.309 26 It is the maxim of natural philosophers that the natural forces wear out in time all obstacles, and take place...
    FRep 11.513 23 As if the earth, water, gases, lightning and caloric had not a million energies, the discovery of any one of which could...put an end to war by the exterminating forces man can apply.
    PLT 12.6 5 Whilst we converse with truths as thoughts, they exist also as plastic forces;...
    PLT 12.31 21 There is no property or relation in that immense arsenal of forces which the earth is, but some man is at last found who affects this...
    II 12.70 3 Who knows not the insufficiency of our forces...
    PPr 12.386 17 One can hardly credit, whilst under the spell of this magician [Carlyle], that the world always had the same bankrupt look, to foregoing ages as to us-as of a failed world just re-collecting its old withered forces to begin again and try to do a little business.

forces, v. (4)

    Pow 6.73 21 ...the gardener, by severe pruning, forces the sap of the tree into one or two vigorous limbs...
    Wth 6.88 9 ...by making his wants less or his gains more, [a man] must draw himself out of that state of pain and insult in which [nature] forces the beggar to lie.
    Suc 7.309 4 Nature lays the ground-plan of each creature accurately...then veils it scrupulously. See how carefully she covers up the skeleton. ... She... forces death down underground, and makes haste to cover it up with leaves and vines...
    QO 8.180 11 ...Milton forces you to reflect how narrow are the limits of human invention.

forcible, adj. (8)

    Mrs1 3.121 9 An element which unites all the most forcible persons of every country...must be an average result of the character and faculties universally found in men.
    NR 3.230 21 ...[the language] is a sort of monument to which each forcible individual in a course of many hundred years has contributed a stone.
    ET4 5.45 14 [The English] are free forcible men...
    ET14 5.251 12 ...literary reputations have been achieved [in England] by forcible men, whose relation to literature was purely accidental...
    Pow 6.65 11 Men in power...may be had cheap for any opinion, for any purpose; and if it be only a question between the most civil and the most forcible, I lean to the last.
    Supl 10.169 12 I am daily struck with the forcible understatement of people who have no literary habit.
    HDC 11.61 26 It is the misfortune of Concord to have permitted a disgraceful outrage upon the friendly Indians settled within its limits, in February, 1676, which ended in their forcible expulsion from the town.
    ACri 12.288 1 Who has not heard in the street how forcible is bosh, gammon and gas.

forcibly, adv. (3)

    MN 1.195 12 We are forcibly reminded of the old want.
    SL 2.135 5 The lesson is forcibly taught by these observations that our life might be much easier and simpler than we make it;...
    PPh 4.75 8 The rare coincidence [in Socrates], in one ugly body, of...the keen street and market debater with the sweetest saint known to any history at that time, had forcibly struck the mind of Plato...

forcing, v. (5)

    OS 2.270 13 If we consider what happens...in the instructions of dreams, wherein often we see ourselves in masquerade,--the droll disguises only magnifying and enhancing a real element and forcing it on our distant notice,--we shall catch many hints that will broaden and lighten into knowledge of the secret of nature.
    ET10 5.169 11 ...in the influx of tons of gold and silver; amid the chuckle of chancellors and financiers, it was found [in England]...that...the dreadful barometer of the poor-rates was touching the point of ruin. The poor-rate was sucking in the solvent classes and forcing an exodus of farmers and mechanics.
    Bhr 6.193 26 ...when [the monk Basle] came to discourse with [uncivil angels], instead of contradicting or forcing him, they took his part...
    SMC 11.358 17 Before [the youth's] departure [to the Civil War] he confided to his sister...that he had long trained himself by forcing himself, on the suspicion of any near danger, to go directly up to it...
    PLT 12.12 2 ...he who who contents himself with...recording only what facts he has observed...follows...a system as grand as any other, though he does not interfere with its vast curves by prematurely forcing them into a circle or ellipse...

Ford, John, n. (2)

    Boks 7.207 6 Here [in the Elizabethan era the scholar] has Shakspeare... Ford...
    Boks 7.218 3 The Greek fables...the English drama of Shakspeare, Beaumont and Fletcher, and Ford...have this enlargement [the imaginative element]...

ford, n. (1)

    Res 8.144 19 The sailor by his boat and sail makes a ford out of deepest waters.

fording, v. (1)

    NMW 4.246 13 ...[Napoleon's] inexhaustible resource:--what events! what romantic pictures! what strange situations!...fording the Red Sea;...

Ford, John, n. (1)

    ShP 4.192 15 The best proof of [the Elizabethan theatre's] vitality is the crowd of writers which suddenly broke into this field; Kyd, Marlow, Greene, Jonson, Chapman, Decker, Webster, Heywood, Middleton, Peele, Ford, Massinger, Beaumont and Fletcher.

fords, n. (1)

    ET3 5.34 18 The long habitation of a powerful and ingenious race has turned every rood of land [in England] to its best use, has found all the capabilities...the fords, the navigable waters;...

fore, n. (1)

    ACiv 11.296 1 To the mizzen, the main, and the fore/ Up with it once more!-/ The old tri-color,/ The ribbon of power,/ The white, blue and red which the nations adore!/

forearmed, v. (1)

    MR 1.243 10 [The man with a strong bias to the contemplative life] must... postpone his self-indulgence, forewarned and forearmed against...the taste for luxury.

forebode, v. (1)

    Int 2.331 22 We all but apprehend, we dimly forebode the truth.

forebodings, n. (2)

    Dem1 10.9 2 Why...should not symptoms, auguries, forebodings be...
    JBB 11.269 24 ...if [John Brown] must suffer, he must drag official gentlemen into an immortality most undesirable, of which they have already some disagreeable forebodings.

foreborne, v. (1)

    Art2 7.38 12 ...[speech and action] cannot be foreborne.

forecast, n. (1)

    Aris 10.46 3 Dull people think it Fortune that makes one rich and another poor. Is it? Yes, but the fortune was...in the balance or adjustment between devotion to what is agreeable to-day and the forecast of what will be valuable to-morrow.

forecasting, v. (1)

    Thor 10.454 17 Perhaps [Thoreau] fell into his way of living without forecasting it much...

forecastle, n. (2)

    Grts 8.305 18 ...there is the boy who is born with a taste for the sea, and must go thither if he has to run away from his father's house to the forecastle;...
    CL 12.161 9 The college is not so wise as the mechanic's shop, nor the quarter-deck as the forecastle.

foreclosed, v. (2)

    DSA 1.131 16 One would rather be A pagan, suckled in a creed outworn,/ than to be defrauded of his manly right in coming into nature and finding... even virtue and truth foreclosed...
    Edc1 10.133 11 [If I have renounced the search of truth] I am as a bankrupt to whom brilliant opportunities offer in vain. He has just foreclosed his freedom...

forefathers, n. (17)

    LT 1.281 27 Our forefathers walked in the world and went to their graves tormented with the fear of Sin...
    LT 1.285 3 What has checked in this age the animal spirits which gave to our forefathers their bounding pulse?
    Hist 2.19 21 The Indian and Egyptian temples still betray the mounds and subterranean houses of their forefathers.
    ET9 5.147 15 ...it must be admitted, the island [England] offers a daily worship to the old Norse god Brage, celebrated among our Scandinavian forefathers for his eloquence and majestic air.
    ET19 5.312 11 ...I was given to understand in my childhood that the British island from which my forefathers came was no lotus-garden...
    Ctr 6.137 14 In the Norse heaven of our forefathers, Thor's house had five hundred and forty floors;...
    Wsp 6.205 20 Among our Norse forefathers, King Olaf's mode of converting Eyvind to Christianity was to put a pan of glowing coals on his belly...
    CbW 6.243 5 ...The forefathers this land who found/ Failed to plant the vantage-ground;/...
    Civ 7.22 10 Another step in civility is the change from war, hunting and pasturage, to agriculture. Our Scandinavian forefathers have left us a significant legend to convey their sense of the importance of this step.
    SovE 10.205 5 To a self-denying, ardent church, delighting in rites and ordinances, has succeeded a cold, intellectual race, who analyze the prayer and psalm of their forefathers...
    Plu 10.303 16 ...it is in reading the fragments [Plutarch] has saved from lost authors that I have hailed another example of...the benign Providence which...allows us to witness...the deciphering of forgotten languages, so to complete the annals of the forefathers of Asia, Africa and Europe.
    HDC 11.30 2 ...the little society of men who now, for a few years, fish in this river...shortly shall hurry from its banks as did their forefathers.
    HDC 11.53 24 Their forefathers, the Indians told [John] Eliot, did know God, but after this, they fell into a deep sleep...
    HDC 11.56 26 The General Court, in 1647, to the end that learning may not be buried in the graves of our forefathers, Ordered, that every township after the Lord had increased them to the number of fifty house-holders, shall appoint one to teach all children to write and read;...
    HCom 11.344 19 [Harvard men] might say, with their forefathers the old Norse Vikings, We sung the mass of lances from morning until evening.
    Shak1 11.453 16 Had [Shakespeare's plays] been published earlier, our forefathers, or the most poetical among them, might have stayed at home to read them.
    Bost 12.195 14 The General Court of Massachusetts, in 1647, To the end that learning may not be buried in the graves of the forefathers, ordered, that every township, after the Lord has increased them to the number of fifty householders, shall appoint one to teach all children to write and read;...

forego, v. (5)

    AmS 1.101 9 ...[the scholar] must...often forego the living for the dead.
    MN 1.208 10 Hereto was [a man] born...to do an office which nature could not forego...
    OS 2.284 24 The only mode of obtaining an answer to these questions of the senses is to forego all low curiosity...
    Int 2.341 20 [The scholar] must worship truth, and forego all things for that...
    SwM 4.128 21 ...we pity those who can forego the magnificence of nature for candle-light and cards.

foregoers, n. (2)

    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.
    QO 8.180 18 ...if we find in India or Arabia a book out of our horizon of thought and tradition, we are soon taught by new researches in its native country to discover its foregoers...

foregoing, adj. (10)

    Nat 1.3 3 The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face to face;...
    MN 1.206 2 An individual man is a fruit which it cost all the foregoing ages to form and ripen.
    MN 1.219 2 Genius...advertises us that it flows out of a deeper source than the foregoing silence...
    LT 1.266 17 ...when we stand by the seashore...a wave comes up the beach far higher than any foregoing one, and recedes;...
    Fdsp 2.214 21 [A friend] is the child of all my foregoing hours...
    Cir 2.302 21 ...the new races [are] fed out of the decomposition of the foregoing.
    ET19 5.309 11 In looking over recently a newspaper-report of my remarks [at the Manchester Atheneaum Banquet], I incline to reprint it, as fitly expressing the feeling with which I entered England, and which agrees well enough with the more deliberate results of better acquaintance recorded in the foregoing pages.
    Farm 7.151 3 There has been a nightmare bred in England of indigestion and spleen among landlords and loom-lords, namely, the dogma that...the plight of every new generation is worse than of the foregoing...
    Milt1 12.252 12 ...[Milton] kindles a love and emulation in us which he did not in foregoing generations.
    PPr 12.386 16 One can hardly credit, whilst under the spell of this magician [Carlyle], that the world always had the same bankrupt look, to foregoing ages as to us...

foregone, adj. (2)

    SR 2.59 18 All the foregone days of virtue work their health into this.
    PI 8.16 12 The atomic theory is only...the effect of a foregone metaphysical theory.

foregone, v. (1)

    Nat 1.37 22 Debt...is a preceptor whose lessons cannot be foregone...

foreground, n. (3)

    PPh 4.75 11 ...the figure of Socrates by a necessity placed itself in the foreground of the scene, as the fittest dispenser of the intellectual treasures [Plato] had to communicate.
    SwM 4.143 8 It is the best sign of a great nature that it opens a foreground...
    Pow 6.64 8 The same elements are always present, only sometimes these conspicuous, and sometimes those; what was yesterday foreground, being to-day background;...

forehead, n. (5)

    AmS 1.90 18 ...the eyes of man are set in his forehead, not in his hindhead...
    LT 1.284 24 I have seen the authentic sign of anxiety and perplexity on the greatest forehead of the State.
    SL 2.159 14 [A man's] vice...writes O fool! fool! on the forehead of a king.
    Elo2 8.109 2 He, when the rising storm of party roared,/ Brought his great forehead to the council board,/ There, while hot heads perplexed with fears the state,/ Calm as the morn the manly patriot sate;/...
    MAng1 12.244 12 The forehead of the bust [of Michelangelo]...is furrowed with eight deep wrinkles one above another.

foreheads, n. (1)

    AsSu 11.251 17 ...this noble head [Charles Sumner]...must be the target for a pair of bullies to beat with clubs. The murderer's brand shall stamp their foreheads wherever they may wander in the earth.

foreign, adj. (90)

    Nat 1.10 12 The name of the nearest friend sounds then foreign and accidental...
    Nat 1.63 12 ...this [ideal] theory makes nature foreign to me...
    Nat 1.68 1 The American who has been confined...to the sight of buildings designed after foreign models, is surprised on entering York Minster or St. Peter's at Rome, by the feeling that these structures are...faint copies of an invisible archetype.
    AmS 1.82 3 The millions that around us are rushing into life, cannot always be fed on the sere remains of foreign harvests.
    AmS 1.86 1 ...what is classification but the perceiving that these objects... are not foreign...
    AmS 1.111 1 That which had been negligently trodden under foot...is suddenly found to be richer than all foreign parts.
    DSA 1.140 8 Would [the poor preacher] ask contributions for the missions, foreign or domestic?
    LE 1.162 27 [The youth] is curious concerning that man's day. What filled it?...the foreign despatches...
    MN 1.207 17 ...the union of foreign constitutions in him enables [a man] to do gladly and gracefully what the assembled human race could not have sufficed to do.
    Tran 1.334 15 ...the deity of man is...to need...no foreign force.
    Tran 1.348 3 ...[Transcendentalists] do not willingly share...in the enterprises...of missions foreign and domestic...
    YA 1.377 10 ...as quickly as men go to foreign parts in ships or caravans, a new order of things springs up;...
    YA 1.392 10 We are full of vanity, of which the most signal proof is our sensitiveness to foreign and especially English censure.
    Hist 2.23 14 The home-keeping wit...has its own perils of monotony and deterioration, if not stimulated by foreign infusions.
    Hist 2.35 15 ...Ravenswood Castle [is] a fine name for proud poverty...and the foreign mission of state only a Bunyan disguise for honest industry.
    SR 2.77 12 Prayer...asks for some foreign addition to come through some foreign virtue...
    SR 2.77 13 Prayer...asks for some foreign addition to come through some foreign virtue...
    SR 2.81 5 ...when [the wise man's]...duties...call him...into foreign lands, he is at home still...
    SR 2.82 14 Our houses are built with foreign taste;...
    SR 2.82 15 ...our shelves are garnished with foreign ornaments;...
    SR 2.88 17 Our dependence on these foreign goods leads us to our slavish respect for numbers.
    SR 2.89 3 It is only as a man puts off all foreign support...that I see him to be strong...
    Fdsp 2.204 10 A friend...is a sort of paradox in nature. I...who see nothing in nature whose existence I can affirm with equal evidence to my own, behold now the semblance of my being...reiterated in a foreign form;...
    Fdsp 2.215 20 ...next week I shall have languid moods, when I can well afford to occupy myself with foreign objects;...
    Hsm1 2.257 19 ...the ear loves names of foreign and classic topography.
    OS 2.289 26 ...[the energy of the soul] comes to whomsoever will put off what is foreign and proud;...
    Art1 2.361 1 ...in my younger days...I fancied the great pictures would be... a foreign wonder, barbaric pearl and gold...
    Chr1 3.104 5 ...it was droll in the good Riemer, who has written memoirs of Goethe, to make out a list of his donations and good deeds, as...two professors recommended to foreign universities; etc., etc.
    Mrs1 3.137 6 We should meet each morning as from foreign countries...
    Mrs1 3.137 8 We should meet each morning as from foreign countries, and, spending the day together, should depart at night, as into foreign countries.
    Pol1 3.211 14 ...one foreign observer thinks he has found the safeguard in the sanctity of Marriage among us;...
    UGM 4.3 22 We travel into foreign parts to find [the great man's] works...
    UGM 4.26 21 A foreign greatness is the antidote for cabalism.
    SwM 4.135 16 The excess of [Hebraic] influence shows itself [in Swedenborg] in the incongruous importation of a foreign rhetoric.
    GoW 4.279 9 ...at last the hero [of Sand's Consuelo]...no longer answers to his own titled name; it sounds foreign and remote in his ear.
    ET2 5.32 18 It has been said that the King of England would consult his dignity by giving audience to foreign ambassadors in the cabin of a man-of-war.
    ET4 5.45 6 The British Empire is reckoned to contain (in 1848)...perhaps a fifth of the population of the globe... Perhaps forty of these millions are of British stock. Add the United States of America...in which the foreign element, however considerable, is rapidly assimilated, and you have a population of English descent and language of 60,000,000...
    ET4 5.46 4 [The English] have assimilating force, since they are imitated by their foreign subjects;...
    ET5 5.96 24 [The Board of Trade of England] caused to be translated from foreign languages and illustrated by elaborate drawings, the most approved works of Munich, Berlin and Paris.
    ET5 5.97 14 Foreign power [in England] is kept by armed colonies;...
    ET7 5.119 27 Madame de Stael says that the English irritated Napoleon, mainly because they have found out how to unite success with honesty. She was not aware how wide an application her foreign readers would give to the remark.
    ET7 5.124 5 This [English] dulness makes...their adherence in all foreign countries to home habits.
    ET9 5.146 20 The same insular limitation pinches [the Englishman's] foreign politics.
    ET10 5.163 19 The taste and science of thirty peaceful generations;...the taste of foreign and domestic artists, Shenstone, Pope, Brown, Loudon, Paxton,--are in the vast auction [in England]...
    ET11 5.176 27 [The Duke of Bedford's] ancestor...became the companion of a foreign prince wrecked on the Dorsetshire coast, where Mr. [John] Russell lived.
    ET15 5.266 22 [The London Times] has mercantile and political correspondents in every foreign city...
    ET18 5.301 5 The foreign policy of England...has not often been generous or just.
    F 6.49 9 In astronomy is vast space but no foreign system;...
    Ctr 6.147 6 A foreign country is a point of comparison wherefrom to judge [a man's] own.
    Ctr 6.147 20 ...there is in every constitution a certain solstice...when there is required some foreign force...to prevent stagnation.
    Ctr 6.148 5 Akin to the benefit of foreign travel, the aesthetic value of railroads is to unite the advantages of town and country life...
    Ctr 6.148 20 In town [a man] can find...foreign travelers, the libraries and his club.
    Wsp 6.225 1 Here is a low political economy plotting to cut the throat of foreign competition and establish our own;...
    Wsp 6.225 7 The way to conquer the foreign artisan is, not to kill him, but to beat his work.
    Wsp 6.225 12 The American workman who strikes ten blows with his hammer whilst the foreign workman only strikes one, is as really vanquishing that foreigner as if the blows were aimed at and told on his person.
    WD 7.181 3 I remember well the foreign scholar who made a week of my youth happy by his visit.
    Cour 7.277 13 ...if...you have no confidence in any foreign mind, then be brave...
    PI 8.71 5 Facts are not foreign, as they seem, but related.
    QO 8.188 11 People go out to look at sunrises and sunsets who...know that it is foreign to them.
    QO 8.193 9 ...it is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others, as it is to invent. Always...some sudden alteration...of point of view, betrays the foreign interpolation.
    PC 8.210 17 Consider...what masters, each in his several province...the novel and powerful philanthropies, as well as...the foreign trade and the home trade...have evoked!...
    PC 8.210 19 Consider...what masters, each in his several province...the novel and powerful philanthropies, as well as...the foreign trade and the home trade (whose circuits in this country are as spacious as the foreign)... have evoked!...
    Grts 8.305 19 ...there is the boy who is born with a taste for the sea, and must go thither if he has to run away from his father's house to the forecastle; another longs for travel in foreign lands;...
    Dem1 10.22 12 A Highland chief, an Indian sachem or a feudal baron may fancy...that...when he dies, banshees will announce his fate to kinsmen in foreign parts.
    Schr 10.274 12 Let [men of thought] decline henceforward foreign methods and foreign courages.
    Plu 10.301 25 A poet might rhyme all day with hints drawn from Plutarch, page on page. No doubt, this superior suggestion for the modern reader owes much to the foreign air...
    Carl 10.492 22 [Carlyle says] St. John was insulted by the Dutch; he came home, got the law passed that foreign vessels should pay high fees, and it cut the throat of the Dutch, and made the English trade.
    LS 11.19 2 ...the use of the elements [of the Lord's Supper]...is foreign and unsuited to affect us.
    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...
    HDC 11.85 6 ...in every part of this country, and in many foreign parts, [Concord's sons] plough the earth...
    War 11.162 3 ...if a foreign nation should wantonly insult or plunder our commerce, or, worse yet, should land on our shores to rob and kill, you would not have us sit, and be robbed and killed?
    War 11.163 10 The reference to any foreign register will inform us of the number of thousand or million men that are now under arms in the vast colonial system of the British Empire...
    EPro 11.318 5 ...when we see how the great stake which foreign nations hold in our affairs has recently brought every European power as a client into this court...one can hardly say the deliberation [on Emancipation] was too long.
    EPro 11.324 10 These necessities which have dictated the conduct of the federal government are overlooked especially by our foreign critics.
    ChiE 11.474 15 ...Sir Frederic Bruce attributed to Mr. Burlingame the merit of the happy reform in the relations of foreign governments to China.
    FRO2 11.490 5 I find something stingy in the unwilling and disparaging admission of these foreign opinions...by our churchmen...
    FRep 11.525 9 ...any disturbances in politics, in civil or foreign wars, sober [the American people]...
    FRep 11.533 20 See the secondariness and aping of foreign and English life, that runs through this country...
    PLT 12.5 9 In astronomy, vast distance, but we never go into a foreign system.
    PLT 12.21 4 [A thought] comes single like a foreign traveller,-but find out its name, and it is related to a powerful and numerous family.
    PLT 12.39 4 A man is intellectual...so long as he has no engagement in any thought or feeling which can hinder him from looking at it as somewhat foreign.
    Mem 12.100 24 In reading a foreign language, every new word mastered is a lamp lighting up related words...
    CL 12.165 19 If we believed that Nature was foreign and unrelated...we should think all exploration of it frivolous waste of time.
    CW 12.172 16 ...our people are vain, when abroad, of having the freedom of foreign cities presented to them in a gold box.
    Bost 12.184 11 [Howell] compares [Indian society] to the geologic phenomenon which the black soil of the Dhakkan offers,-the property, namely, of assimilating to itself every foreign substance introduced into its bosom.
    MAng1 12.244 17 The traveller from a distant continent, who gazes on that marble brow [bust of Michelangelo], feels that he is not a stranger in the foreign church;...
    Milt1 12.253 24 As a poet, Shakspeare undoubtedly transcends, and far surpasses [Milton] in his popularity with foreign nations;...
    Milt1 12.258 23 In a letter to one of his foreign correspondents...[Milton] writes: Many have been celebrated for their compositions, whose common conversation and intercourse have betrayed no marks of sublimity or genius.
    Milt1 12.259 23 Among the advantages of his foreign travel, Milton certainly did not count it the least that it contributed to forge and polish that great weapon of which he acquired such extraordinary mastery,-his power of language.
    Milt1 12.260 1 [Milton's] lore of foreign tongues added daily to his consummate skill in the use of his own.

Foreign Secretary, n. (1)

    PerF 10.85 10 ...Canning or Thurlow has a genius of debate, and says, I will know how with this weapon to defend the cause that will...make me Chancellor or Foreign Secretary.

foreigner, n. (15)

    SwM 4.136 6 Of all absurdities, this of some foreigner proposing to take away my rhetoric and substitute his own...seems the most needless.
    ET6 5.111 4 ...the cockneys stifle the curiosity of the foreigner on the reason of any practice with Lord, sir, it was always so.
    ET8 5.130 1 In every [English] inn is the Commercial-Room, in which travellers, or bagmen who carry patterns and solicit orders for the manufacturers, are wont to be entertained. It easily happens that this class should characterize England to the foreigner...
    ET9 5.145 16 A much older traveller...says... ... ...whenever [the English] see a handsome foreigner, they say he looks like an Englishman...
    ET9 5.145 19 A much older traveller...says... ... ...whenever [the English] partake of any delicacy with a foreigner, they ask him whether such a thing is made in his country.
    ET15 5.261 14 A relentless inquisition [the newspaper]...turns the glare of this solar microscope on every malfaisance, so as to make the public a more terrible spy than any foreigner;...
    ET15 5.269 15 There is an air of freedom even in [the London Times's] advertising columns, which speaks well for England to a foreigner.
    ET19 5.313 26 I see [England] in her old age...still daring to believe in her power of endurance and expansion. Seeing this, I say, All hail! mother of nations...hospitable to the foreigner...
    Pow 6.63 20 Men expect from good whigs put into office by the respectability of the country, much less skill to deal with Mexico...than from some strong transgressor, like Jefferson or Jackson, who first conquers his own government and then uses the same genius to conquer the foreigner.
    Ctr 6.152 3 A shrewd foreigner said of the Americans that whatever they say has a little the air of a speech.
    Wsp 6.225 14 The American workman who strikes ten blows with his hammer whilst the foreign workman only strikes one, is as really vanquishing that foreigner as if the blows were aimed at and told on his person.
    Civ 7.20 24 ...there is a Cadmus, a Pytheas, a Manco Capac at the beginning of each improvement,--some superior foreigner importing new and wonderful arts, and teaching them.
    Clbs 7.249 22 A principal purpose also is the hospitality of the club, as a means of receiving a worthy foreigner with mutual advantage.
    MMEm 10.413 9 [I, Mary Moody Emerson] Met a lady in the morning walk, a foreigner...
    FRep 11.540 12 We...shall proceed like William Penn, or whatever other Christian or humane person who treats with the Indian or the foreigner, on principles of honest trade and mutual advantage.

foreigners, n. (13)

    Chr1 3.107 11 I remember the thought which occurred to me when some ingenious and spiritual foreigners came to America, was, Have you been victimized in being brought hither?...
    ET7 5.123 18 [The English] are very liable in their politics to extraordinary delusions; thus to believe...that the movement of 10 April, 1848, was urged or assisted by foreigners...
    ET9 5.145 1 [The Englishman] dislikes foreigners.
    ET9 5.145 6 Swedenborg...notes...[the English] regard foreigners as one looking through a telescope from the top of a palace regards those who dwell or wander about out of the city.
    ET9 5.149 17 An English lady on the Rhine hearing a German speaking of her party as foreigners, exclaimed, No, we are not foreigners; we are English; it is you that are foreigners.
    ET9 5.149 18 An English lady on the Rhine hearing a German speaking of her party as foreigners, exclaimed, No, we are not foreigners; we are English; it is you that are foreigners.
    ET9 5.149 19 An English lady on the Rhine hearing a German speaking of her party as foreigners, exclaimed, No, we are not foreigners; we are English; it is you that are foreigners.
    ET9 5.150 1 [The English] have no curiosity about foreigners...
    ET11 5.195 25 Fuller records the observation of foreigners, that Englishmen, by making their children gentlemen before they are men, cause they are so seldom wise men.
    Wth 6.110 18 ...it turns out that the largest proportion of crimes are committed by foreigners.
    QO 8.188 14 ...[people] live as foreigners in the world of truth...
    ALin 11.330 12 [Lincoln] was thoroughly American...no aping of foreigners...
    Milt1 12.258 21 ...foreigners came to England, we are told, to see the Lord Protector and Mr. Milton.

foreknowledge, n. (2)

    ET1 5.21 11 Lucretius [Wordsworth] esteems a far higher poet than Virgil; not in his system, which is nothing, but in his power of illustration. Faith is necessary...to reconcile the foreknowledge of God with human evil.
    F 6.47 7 ...one solution to the old knots of fate, freedom, and foreknowledge, exists;...

forelock, n. (1)

    Milt1 12.274 13 [Milton] beholds [man] as he walked in Eden:-His fair large front and eye sublime declared/ Absolute rule; and hyacinthine locks/ Round from his parted forelock manly hung/ Clustering, but not beneath his shoulders broad./

forelooking, adj. (2)

    Lov1 2.169 4 Nature...forelooking...anticipates already a benevolence which shall lose all particular regards in its general light.
    Farm 7.143 21 Nature...has a forelooking tenderness and equal regard to the next and the next, and the fourth and the fortieth age.

forelooking, v. (1)

    Nat2 3.192 16 I have seen the softness and beauty of the summer clouds floating feathery overhead...whilst yet they appeared not so much the drapery of this place and hour, as forelooking to some pavilions and gardens of festivity beyond.

foreman, n. (2)

    Pow 6.66 8 The pious and charitable proprietor has a foreman not quite so pious and charitable.
    LLNE 10.367 25 In every family is the father; in every factory, a foreman;...

foremost, adj. (16)

    Pt1 3.11 19 Mankind in good earnest have availed so far in understanding themselves and their work, that the foremost watchman on the peak announces his news.
    UGM 4.17 8 Foremost among these activities [of the intellect] are the summersaults, spells and resurrections wrought by the imagination.
    ShP 4.202 17 There is somewhat touching in the madness with which the passing age...registers every trifle touching Queen Elizabeth...and lets pass without a single valuable note...the man...on whose thoughts the foremost people of the world are now for some ages to be nourished...
    F 6.32 13 The cold will...make you foremost men of time.
    Dem1 10.5 5 A dislocation seems to be the foremost trait of dreams.
    Aris 10.38 17 ...we wish to see those to whom existence is most adorned and attractive, foremost to peril it for their object...
    HDC 11.71 27 This body [the Provincial Congress] was composed of the foremost patriots...
    EWI 11.128 8 For months and years the bill [on emanicipation in the West Indies] was debated...by the first citizens of England, the foremost men of the earth;...
    FSLN 11.226 18 ...a ghastly result of all those years of experience in affairs, this, that there was nothing better for the foremost American man [Webster] to tell his countrymen than that Slavery was now at that strength that they must beat down their conscience and become kidnappers for it.
    Koss 11.399 27 ...you [Kossuth], the foremost soldier of freedom in this age, it is for us [the people of Concord] to crave your judgment;...
    Humb 11.458 13 [Humboldt] belonged to that wonderful German nation, the foremost scholars in all history...
    Bost 12.186 8 What Vasari said...of the republican city of Florence might be said of Boston;...all labor by every means to be foremost.
    Milt1 12.253 14 It is the prerogative of this great man [Milton] to stand at this hour foremost of all men in literary history...
    Milt1 12.262 25 ...the foremost impression [Milton's] character makes is that of elegance.
    Milt1 12.270 6 [Milton] told the Parliament that the imprimaturs of Lambeth House had been writ in Latin; for that our English, the language of men ever famous and foremost in the achievements of liberty, will not easily find servile letters enow to spell such a dictatory presumption.
    WSL 12.341 1 Mr. Landor is one of the foremost of that small class who make good in the nineteenth century the claims of pure literature.

forenoon, n. (1)

    SMC 11.362 13 One day [George Prescott] writes, I expect to have a time this forenoon with the officer from West Point who drills us.

forensic, adj. (1)

    GoW 4.270 25 [Goethe] appears at a time...when, in the absence of heroic characters, a social comfort and cooperation have come in. There is...no Chatham, but any number of clever parliamentary and forensic debaters;...

foreordained, adj. (2)

    F 6.5 14 The Turk, the Arab, the Persian, accepts the foreordained fate...
    Civ 7.29 24 ...[the heavenly powers] swerve never from their foreordained paths...

foreordained, v. (1)

    Edc1 10.143 17 It is not for you to choose what [the pupil] shall know, what he shall do. It is chosen and foreordained...

fore-ordination, n. (1)

    MoS 4.153 20 [The men of the senses] hold that Luther had milk in him... when he advised a young scholar, perplexed with fore-ordination and free-will, to get well drunk.

fore-plane, n. (1)

    UGM 4.12 20 Every carpenter who shaves with a fore-plane borrows the genius of a forgotten inventor.

forerunners, n. (4)

    Tran 1.338 8 We have had many harbingers and forerunners;...
    PNR 4.86 20 ...[Plato's] forerunners had mapped out each a farm or a district or an island, in intellectual geography...
    Bty 6.296 4 The felicities of design in art or in works of nature are shadows or forerunners of that beauty which reaches its perfection in the human form.
    PI 8.73 24 ...even partial ascents to poetry and ideas are forerunners, and announce the dawn.

Forerunners, The [George H (1)

    Insp 8.282 25 [Herbert's] poem called The Forerunners also has supreme interest.

foresaw, v. (1)

    ET17 5.297 24 [Wordsworth] lived long enough to witness the revolution he had wrought, and to see what he foresaw.

foresee, v. (8)

    Nat 1.61 22 We can foresee God in the coarse, as it were, distant phenomena of matter;...
    SR 2.67 17 ...man...stands on tiptoe to foresee the future.
    ShP 4.190 7 A great man does not wake up on some fine morning and say, I am full of life...I foresee a new mechanic power...
    ET4 5.56 9 As [the Northmen] put out to sea again, the emperor [Charlemagne] gazed long after them, his eyes bathed in tears. I am tormented with sorrow, he said, when I foresee the evils they will bring on my posterity.
    Art2 7.47 12 We fear that Allston and Greenough did not foresee and design all the effect they produce on us.
    Cour 7.276 17 ...we must have a scope as large as Nature's to...foresee in the secular melioration of the planet how these [beast-like men] will become unnecessary and will die out.
    PI 8.32 26 Later, the thought, the happy image which expressed it and which was a true experience of the poet, recurs to mind, and sends me back in search of the book. And I wish that the poet should foresee this habit of readers, and omit all but the important passages.
    Prch 10.221 19 Unlovely, nay, frightful, is the solitude of the soul which is without God in the world. To...behold the horse, cow and bird, and to foresee an equal and speedy end to him and them;...

foreseen, adj. (1)

    ET14 5.254 10 No hope, no sublime augury cheers the [English] student, no secure striding from experiment onward to a foreseen law...

foreseen, v. (5)

    Lov1 2.187 20 ...the purification of the intellect and the heart from year to year is the real marriage, foreseen and prepared from the first...
    ET1 5.14 17 As I might have foreseen, the visit [with Coleridge] was rather a spectacle than a conversation...
    PPo 8.246 12 Harems and wine-shops only give [Hafiz] a new ground of observation, whence to draw sometimes a deeper moral than regulated sober life affords, and this is foreseen:-I will be drunk and down with wine;/ Treasures we find in a ruined house./
    LS 11.8 4 [Jesus] may have foreseen that his disciples would meet to remember him...
    FRO1 11.478 25 ...the statistics of the American, the English and the German cities, showing that the mass of the population is leaving off going to church, indicate the necessity, which should have been foreseen, that the Church should always be new and extemporized...

foresees, v. (1)

    Aris 10.44 20 If I bring another [man into an estate], he sees what he should do with it. He appreciates the...land fit for...pasturage, wood-lot, cranberry-meadow; but just as easily he foresees all the means...

foreshow, v. (6)

    Hist 2.36 16 ...the fins of the fish foreshow that water exists...
    Lov1 2.179 16 Who can analyze the nameless charm which glances from one and another face and form? ... It is destroyed for the imagination by any attempt to refer it to organization. Nor does it point to any relations of friendship or love known and described in society, but...to what roses and violets hint and foreshow.
    OS 2.295 24 Before that heaven which our presentiments foreshow us, we cannot easily praise any form of life we have seen or read of.
    NER 3.283 4 ...the man...whose advent men and events prepare and foreshow, is one who shall enjoy his connection with a higher life...
    Art2 7.55 24 This strict dependence of Art upon material and ideal Nature... has made all its past and may foreshow its future history.
    Dem1 10.22 11 A Highland chief, an Indian sachem or a feudal baron may fancy...that...what is to befall him, omens and coincidences foreshow;...

foreshowed, v. (1)

    Res 8.135 4 ...Where [the wise man's] clear spirit leads him, there 's his road/ By God's own light illumined and foreshowed./

foresight, n. (16)

    Nat 1.38 3 ...[property] is hiving, in the foresight of the spirit, experience in profounder laws.
    AmS 1.92 12 ...we should suppose...some foresight of souls that were to be...
    Fdsp 2.199 22 After interviews have been compassed with long foresight we must be tormented presently by baffled blows...in the heydey of friendship and thought.
    Chr1 3.99 8 That exultation [in events] is only to be checked by the foresight of an order of things so excellent as to throw all our prosperities into the deepest shade.
    PPh 4.53 1 European civility is...delight...in comprehensible results. Pericles, Athens, Greece, had been working in this element with the joy of genius not yet chilled by any foresight of the detriment of an excess.
    F 6.1 13 ...the foresight that awaits/ Is the same Genius that creates./
    DL 7.120 23 ...who can see unmoved...the affectionate delight with which [the eager, blushing boys] greet the return of each one after the early separations which school or business require; the foresight with which, during such absences, they hive the honey which opportunity offers, for the ear and imagination of others;...
    Cour 7.254 12 Men admire...the power of better combination and foresight...
    Insp 8.286 14 ...it is a primal rule to defend your morning...and with fine foresight to relieve it from any jangle of affairs...
    Dem1 10.14 5 Swans, horses, dogs and dragons, says Plutarch, we distinguish as...vehicles of the divine foresight...
    Dem1 10.15 26 I have a lucky hand, sir, said Napoleon...those on whom I lay it are fit for anything. This faith is familiar in one form,-that often a certain abdication of prudence and foresight is an element of success;...
    Edc1 10.152 2 Every mind should be allowed to make its own statement in action, and its balance will appear. In these judgments one needs that foresight which was attributed to an eminent reformer...
    EzRy 10.391 25 [Ezra Ripley] had a foresight, when he opened his mouth, of all that he would say...
    War 11.152 25 [Society] presently finds the value of good sense and of foresight...
    ALin 11.333 26 ...the weight and penetration of many passages in [Lincoln' s] letters, messages and speeches...are destined hereafter to wide fame. What pregnant definitions;...what foresight;...
    Mem 12.110 19 Now we are halves, we see the past but not the future, but in that day [when the Great Mind enters into us] will the hemisphere complete itself and foresight be as perfect as aftersight.

forest, adj. (8)

    LE 1.174 7 ...set your habits to a life of solitude; then will the faculties rise fair and full within, like forest trees and field flowers;...
    MN 1.222 23 Do what you know, and perception is converted into character...as these forest leaves absorb light, electricity, and volatile gases...
    Hist 2.20 10 The Gothic church plainly originated in a rude adaptation of the forest trees...
    Pol1 3.218 21 Like one class of forest animals, [senators and presidents] have nothing but a prehensile tail; climb they must, or crawl.
    CbW 6.253 17 ...savage forest laws and crushing despotism made possible the inspirations of Magna Charta under John.
    Civ 7.17 4 We praise the guide, we praise the forest life/...
    Thor 10.462 13 When I was planting forest trees, and had procured half a peck of acorns, [Thoreau] said that only a small portion of them would be sound...
    HDC 11.38 14 The Puritans, to keep the remembrance...of their peaceful compact with the Indians, named their forest settlement CONCORD.

forest, n. (68)

    Nat 1.40 25 ...every change of vegetation from the first principle of growth...to the tropical forest...shall hint or thunder to man the laws of right and wrong...
    LE 1.168 2 But go into the forest, you shall find all new and undescribed.
    LE 1.169 3 The noonday darkness of the American forest...this beauty...has never been recorded by art...
    LE 1.174 22 ...it is only as...the forest, and the rock, are a sort of mechanical aids to [independence of spirit], that they are of value.
    Hist 2.16 3 I have seen the head of an old sachem of the forest which at once reminded the eye of a bald mountain summit...
    Hist 2.18 11 A lady with whom I was riding in the forest said to me that the woods always seemed to her to wait...
    Hist 2.20 23 In the woods in a winter afternoon one will see as readily the origin of the stained glass window...in the colors of the western sky seen through the bare and crossing branches of the forest.
    Hist 2.20 25 Nor can any lover of nature enter the old piles of Oxford and the English cathedrals, without feeling that the forest overpowered the mind of the builder...
    Hist 2.22 27 At sea, or in the forest, or in the snow, [a man of rude health and flowing spirits] sleeps as warm...as beside his own chimneys.
    Hist 2.32 11 Every animal of the barn-yard, the field and the forest...has contrived...to leave the print of its features and form in some one or other of these upright, heaven-facing speakers.
    Comp 2.127 3 ...the man or woman who would have remained a sunny garden-flower...by the falling of the walls and the neglect of the gardener is made the banian of the forest...
    Lov1 2.176 21 The trees of the forest, the waving grass and the peeping flowers have grown intelligent;...
    Mrs1 3.153 6 ...the advantages which fashion values are plants which thrive in very confined localities, in a few streets namely. Out of this precinct they...are of no use...in the forest...
    Nat2 3.169 20 At the gates of the forest, the surprised man of the world is forced to leave his city estimates of great and small...
    PPh 4.46 8 If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest.
    ShP 4.207 16 The forest of Arden, the nimble air of Scone Castle...where is the third cousin, or grand-nephew...that has kept one word of those transcendent secrets?
    ET3 5.42 12 In the variety of surface, Britain is a miniature of Europe, having plain, forest, marsh, river...
    ET4 5.48 11 ...I found abundant points of resemblance between the Germans of the Hercynian forest, and our Hoosiers, Suckers, and Badgers of the American woods.
    F 6.7 16 Rivers dry up by opening of the forest.
    F 6.22 23 On one side elemental order...peat-bog, forest, sea and shore; and on the other part thought...
    F 6.41 2 Ducks take to the water...hunters to the forest...
    Wth 6.94 13 ...one tree keeps down another in the forest, that it may not absorb all the sap in the ground.
    Ctr 6.152 16 Can it be that the American forest has refreshed some weeds of old Pictish barbarism just ready to die out...
    Wsp 6.206 3 Christianity, in the romantic ages, signified European culture,--the grafted or meliorated tree in a crab forest.
    Bty 6.285 2 An Indian prince, Tisso, one day riding in the forest, saw a herd of elk sporting.
    Elo1 7.59 11 For whom the Muses smile upon,/ .../ In his every syllable/ Lurketh nature veritable;/ .../ The forest waves, the morning breaks,/ The pastures sleep, ripple the lakes,/ Leaves twinkle, flowers like persons be/ And life pulsates in rock or tree./
    Cour 7.264 2 The forest on fire looks discouraging enough to a citizen...
    PI 8.22 19 In the ocean, in fire, in the sky, in the forest, [man] finds facts adequate and as large as he.
    PI 8.57 15 ...we listen to [the early bard] as we do to the Indian, or the hunter, or miner, each of whom represents his facts as accurately as the cry of the wolf or the eagle tells of the forest or the air they inhabit.
    PI 8.60 19 [Sir Gawaine] came into the forest of Broceliande...
    SA 8.101 20 In America, the necessity of clearing the forest...exhausted such means as the Pilgrims brought...
    Elo2 8.113 22 [Man] finds himself perhaps in the Senate, when the forest has cast out some wild, black-browed bantling to show the same energy in the crowd of officials which he had learned in driving cattle to the hills...
    Elo2 8.113 26 [Man] finds himself perhaps in the Senate, when the forest has cast out some wild, black-browed bantling to show the same energy in the crowd of officials which he had learned...in scrambling through thickets in a winter forest...
    Res 8.152 15 If I go into the woods in winter, and am shown the thirteen or fourteen species of willow that grow in Massachusetts, I learn that...though insignificant enough in the general bareness of the forest, yet a great change takes place in them between fall and spring;...
    QO 8.200 3 The old forest is decomposed for the composition of the new forest.
    QO 8.200 4 The old forest is decomposed for the composition of the new forest.
    Edc1 10.155 8 Do you know how the naturalist learns all the secrets of the forest...
    Supl 10.175 4 In all the years that I have sat in town and forest, I never saw a winged dragon...
    SovE 10.195 20 Cripples and invalids, we doubt not there are bounding fawns in the forest...
    MoL 10.250 5 [Nature says to the American] I give you...the forest and the mine, the elemental forces, nervous energy.
    MMEm 10.410 14 When her cherished favorite, Elizabeth Hoar, was at the Vale, and had gone out to walk in the forest with Hannah, her niece, Aunt Mary [Moody Emerson] feared they were lost...
    SlHr 10.441 8 ...if one had met [Samuel Hoar] in a cabin or in a forest he must still seem a public man...
    Thor 10.482 2 The axe was always destroying [Thoreau's] forest.
    HDC 11.35 21 A march of a number of families with their stuff, through twenty miles of unknown forest...must be laborious to all...
    HDC 11.38 23 ...[the settlers of Concord] beheld, with curiosity, all the pleasing features of the American forest.
    HDC 11.39 3 The maple, which is already making the forest gay with its orange hues, reddened over those houseless men [the settlers of Concord].
    HDC 11.43 22 What could the body of freemen, meeting four times a year, at Boston, do for the daily wants of the planters at Musketaquid? The wolf was to be killed;...the forest to be felled;...
    HDC 11.50 26 Master of all sorts of wood-craft, [the Indian] seemed a part of the forest and the lake...
    HDC 11.58 9 From Narragansett to the Connecticut River, the scene of war was shifted as fast as these red hunters could traverse the forest.
    HDC 11.60 14 ...at night, whilst [Mary Shepherd's] captors were asleep, she...took a horse...and having girt the saddle on, she mounted, swam across the Nashua River, and rode through the forest to her home.
    HDC 11.61 7 The elder Bulkeley [Peter] was gone. In 1659, his bones were laid at rest in the forest.
    War 11.175 27 Not in an obscure corner...is this seed of benevolence [Congress of Nations] laid in the furrow, with tears of hope; but in this broad America of God and man, where the forest is only now falling, or yet to fall...
    PLT 12.22 27 How lately the hunter was the poor creature's organic enemy; a presumption inflamed, as the lawyers say, by observing how many faces in the street still remind us of visages in the forest...
    CL 12.142 19 ...a vain talker profanes the river and the forest...
    CL 12.145 3 The privilege of the countryman is...the laying out of grounds and gardens, the orchard and the forest.
    CL 12.147 23 ...the forest awakes in [the man growing old against his will] the same feeling it did when he was a boy...
    CL 12.149 14 What uses that we know belong to the forest, and what countless uses that we know not!
    CL 12.150 17 In January the new snow has changed the woods so that [a man] does not know them; has built sudden cathedrals in a night. In the familiar forest he finds Norway and Russia in the masses of overloading snow which break all that they cannot bend.
    CL 12.151 16 Man...pumps the sap of all this forest through his arteries;...
    CL 12.152 6 The forest in its coat of many colors reflects its varied splendor through the softest haze.
    CL 12.156 8 ...we are glad to see the world, and what amplitudes it has, of meadow, stream, upland, forest and sea...
    CW 12.172 7 Still less did I know [when I bought my farm] what good and true neighbors I was buying...some of them now known the country through...and...other men not known widely but known at home, farmers... when witch-grass and nettles grew, causing a forest of apple-trees or miles of corn and rye to thrive.
    Bost 12.192 3 In the journey of Rev. Peter Bulkeley and his company through the forest from Boston to Concord they fainted from the powerful odor of the stweefern in the sun;...
    Bost 12.202 8 [The Massachusetts colonists could say to themselves] Here in the clam-banks and the beech and chestnut forest, I shall take leave to breathe and think freely.
    Bost 12.204 13 In Massachusetts [Nature] did not want epic poems and dramas yet, but first...fellers of the forest...
    Milt1 12.258 1 In the midst of London, [Milton] seems, like the creatures of the field and the forest, to have been tuned in concord with the order of the world;...

forestall, v. (1)

    LE 1.172 18 ...any particular portraiture does not in any manner exclude or forestall a new attempt...

forestalling, n. (1)

    YA 1.374 9 We legislate against forestalling and monopoly;...

forest-dwellers, n. (1)

    Hist 2.12 1 We remember the forest-dwellers...

forester, n. (1)

    Res 8.145 1 The old forester is never far from shelter;...

foresters, n. (1)

    Pow 6.62 13 The rough-and-ready style which belongs to a people of sailors, foresters, farmers and mechanics, has its advantages.

forests, n. (24)

    DSA 1.119 24 ...in its forests of all woods;...[the world] is well worth the pith and heart of great men to subdue and enjoy it.
    MN 1.201 16 Nature knows neither palm nor oak, but only vegetable life, which sprouts into forests...
    MR 1.250 17 ...we cannot make a planet, with atmosphere, rivers, and forests, by means of the best carpenters'...tools...
    Hist 2.4 1 The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn...
    Nat2 3.175 23 The muse herself betrays her son [the poor young poet], and enhances the gifts of wealth and well-born beauty by a radiation out of the air, and clouds, and forests that skirt the road...
    PPh 4.42 11 ...every house is a quotation out of all forests and mines and stone quarries;...
    ET10 5.161 6 In Egypt, [steam] can plant forests, and bring rain after three thousand years.
    ET11 5.189 8 The Dukes of Athol, Sutherland, Buccleugh and the Marquis of Breadalbane have introduced...the plantation of forests...
    ET16 5.288 12 On the way to Winchester...my friends asked many questions respecting American landscape, forests, houses...
    ET16 5.288 18 There, I thought, in America, lies nature sleeping...too much by half for man in the picture, and so giving a certain tristesse, like the rank vegetation of swamps and forests seen at night...
    Wth 6.89 22 ...forests of all woods;...are [man's] natural playmates...
    Ctr 6.164 7 What forests of laurel we bring...to those who stood firm against the opinion of their contemporaries!
    Farm 7.137 24 ...the tranquillity and innocence of the countryman, his independence and his pleasing arts,--the care of bees...the care...of orchards and forests...all men acknowledge.
    Farm 7.143 2 Long before [the farmer] was born, the sun of ages... mellowed his land...covered it with vegetable film, then with forests...
    WD 7.160 23 Egypt...now, it is said, thanks Mehemet Ali's irrigations and planted forests for late-returning showers.
    PI 8.11 9 Seas, forests, metals, diamonds and fossils interest the eye, but 't is only with some preparatory or predicting charm.
    Res 8.146 11 [Tissenet] assured [the Indians] that if they should provoke him he would burn up their rivers and their forests;...
    QO 8.176 2 ...every house is a quotation out of all forests and mines and stone-quarries;...
    Edc1 10.127 1 For a thousand years the islands and forests of a great part of the world have been filled with savages...
    MMEm 10.401 20 Not far from [Mary Moody Emerson's] house was a brook running over a granite floor like the Franconia Flume, and noble forests around.
    Thor 10.479 12 [Thoreau] praised wild mountains and winter forests for their domestic air...
    CPL 11.500 12 Henry Thoreau we all remember as a man...known to our farmers as...better acquainted with their forests and meadows and trees than themselves...
    FRep 11.542 23 ...man seems to play...a certain part that even tells on the general face of the planet...perforates forests and stony mountain chains with roads...
    CL 12.133 7 What boots it here of Thebes or Rome,/ Or lands of Eastern day?/ In forests I am still at home/ And there I cannot stray./

forest-trees, n. (2)

    CL 12.146 17 I know a whole district...where the apple-trees strive with and hold their ground against the native forest-trees...
    CL 12.147 3 ...there was a contest between the old orchard and the invading forest-trees...

foretell, v. (1)

    Nat2 3.172 2 ...we receive glances from the heavenly bodies, which... foretell the remotest future.

foretells, v. (1)

    OA 7.317 18 ...in our old British legends of Arthur and the Round Table, his friend and counsellor, Merlin the Wise...though an infant of only a few days...presently foretells the fate of the by-standers.

forethought, n. (2)

    YA 1.387 13 I think I see place and duties for a nobleman in every society; but it is...to guide and adorn life for the multitude by forethought...
    SA 8.79 18 ...how impossible to...acquire good manners, unless by living with the well-bred from the start; and this makes the value of wise forethought to give ourselves and our children as much as possible the habit of cultivated society.

foretold, v. (6)

    Tran 1.345 23 In looking at the class of counsel...and at the matronage of the land...one asks, Where are they who represented genius, virtue, the invisible and heavenly world, to these? Are they...taken in early ripeness to the gods,-as ancient wisdom foretold their fate?
    Pt1 3.8 22 The sign and credentials of the poet are that he announces that which no man foretold.
    Pow 6.61 22 A timid man...might easily believe that he and his country have seen their best days, and he hardens himself the best he can against the coming ruin. But after this has been foretold with equal confidence fifty times...he discovers that the enormous elements of strength which are here in play make our politics unimportant.
    FSLC 11.184 18 Who could have believed it, if foretold that a hundred guns would be fired in Boston on the passage of the Fugitive Slave Bill?
    FSLN 11.244 11 I respect the Anti-Slavery Society. It is the Cassandra that has foretold all that has befallen...
    FSLN 11.244 12 I respect the Anti-Slavery Society. It is the Cassandra that has foretold all that has befallen...years ago; foretold all, and no man laid it to heart.

forever, adv. (83)

    AmS 1.86 12 The ambitious soul...goes on forever to animate the last fibre of organization...
    DSA 1.120 18 ...I would admire forever.
    DSA 1.132 7 ...I shall decease forever.
    DSA 1.136 18 In how many churches...is man made sensible...that he is drinking forever the soul of God?
    DSA 1.145 5 ...one good soul shall make the name...of Zoroaster, reverend forever.
    MN 1.218 17 Here about us coils forever the ancient enigma...
    MN 1.220 27 ...we also can bask in the great morning which rises forever out of the eastern sea...
    MR 1.247 7 It is more elegant to answer one's own needs than to be richly served; inelegant perhaps it may look to-day, and to a few, but it is an elegance forever and to all.
    Tran 1.359 16 Soon these improvements and mechanical inventions will be superseded;...these cities rotted...all gone, like the shells which sprinkle the sea-beach with a white colony to-day, forever renewed to be forever destroyed.
    Hist 2.8 27 ...[each man] must transfer the point of view from which history is commonly read...to himself, and not deny his conviction that he is the court, and if England or Egypt have anything to say to him he will try the case; if not, let them forever be silent.
    SR 2.69 20 This one fact the world hates; that the soul becomes; for that forever degrades the past...
    Cir 2.318 24 Forever [the central life] labors to create a life and thought as large and excellent as itself...
    Exp 3.67 2 How easily, if fate would suffer it, we might keep forever these beautiful limits...
    Exp 3.77 15 The subject is the receiver of Godhead, and at every comparison must feel his being enhanced by that cryptic might. Though not in energy, yet by presence, this magazine of substance cannot be otherwise than felt; nor can any force of intellect attribute to the object the proper deity which sleeps or wakes forever in every subject.
    Chr1 3.95 23 We can drive a stone upward for a moment into the air, but it is yet true that all stones will forever fall;...
    Nat2 3.181 14 The direction is forever onward...
    Nat2 3.193 6 ...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? Off they fall from the round world forever and ever.
    Nat2 3.195 10 These [universal laws]...stand around us in nature forever embodied...
    Nat2 3.196 12 The world is mind precipitated, and the volatile essence is forever escaping again into the state of free thought.
    Pol1 3.199 21 ...society is fluid;...any particle may suddenly become the centre of the movement and compel the system to gyrate round it; as...every man of truth, like Plato or Paul, does forever.
    NER 3.282 27 Every time we converse we seek to translate [Providence] into speech, but whether we hit or whether we miss, we have the fact. Every discourse is an approximate answer: but it is of small consequence that we do not get it into verbs and nouns, whilst it abides for contemplation forever.
    UGM 4.30 3 Be another:...not a poet, but a Shaksperian. In vain, the wheels of tendency will not stop, nor will all the forces of inertia, fear, or of love itself hold thee there. On, and forever onward!
    PPh 4.47 26 Two cardinal facts lie forever at the base [of philosophy];...
    PNR 4.85 27 [Plato's] definition of ideas...forever discriminating them from the notions of the understanding, marks an era in the world.
    ET1 5.23 24 [Wordsworth] preferred such of his poems as touched the affections, to any others; for...whatever combined a truth with an affection was ktema es aei, good to-day and good forever.
    ET14 5.260 15 ...the two complexions, or two styles of mind [in England]... are ever in counterpoise, interacting mutually...these two nations, of genius and of animal force...forever by their discord and their accord yield the power of the English State.
    F 6.23 7 Forever wells up the impulse of choosing and acting in the soul.
    Ctr 6.157 2 We four, wrote Neander to his sacred friends, will enjoy at Halle the inward blessedness of a civitas Dei, whose foundations are forever friendship.
    Bhr 6.189 5 Nature forever puts a premium on reality.
    Wsp 6.219 21 Religion or worship is the attitude of those...who see that against all appearances the nature of things works for truth and right forever.
    Bty 6.288 22 Goethe said, The beautiful is a manifestation of secret laws of nature which, but for this appearance, had been forever concealed from us.
    Bty 6.294 25 Veracity first of all, and forever.
    Art2 7.52 26 [Beauty] depends forever on the necessary and the useful.
    Art2 7.57 14 ...that Eternal Spirit whose triple face [beauty, truth and goodness] are, moulds from them forever, for his mortal child, images to remind him of the Infinite and Fair.
    Farm 7.154 7 What possesses interest for us is...[each man's] constitutional excellence. This is forever a surprise...
    Suc 7.281 1 One thing is forever good;/ That one thing is Success,--/ Dear to the Eumenides,/ And to all the heavenly brood./
    SA 8.80 3 ...a few natures are central and forever unfold...
    PPo 8.256 6 I declare myself the slave of that masculine soul/ Which ties and alliance on earth once forever renounces./
    PPo 8.265 22 You as three birds are amazed,/ Impatient, heartless, confused:/ Far over you am I raised,/ Since I am in act Simorg./ Ye blot out my highest being,/ That ye may find yourselves on my throne;/ Forever ye blot out yourselves,/ As shadows in the sun./ Farewell!/
    Insp 8.268 11 ...if with bended head I grope/ Listening behind me for my wit,/ With faith superior to hope,/ More anxious to keep back than forward it,/ Making my soul accomplice there/ Unto the flame my heart has lit,/ Then will the verse forever wear,/ Time cannot bend a line which God hath writ./ Inspiration, H. Thoreau.
    Imtl 8.334 11 After science begins, belief of permanence must follow in a healthy mind. Things so attractive, designs so wise...and the contriver of it all forever hidden!
    Imtl 8.338 26 ...it is the nature of intelligent beings to be forever new to life.
    Imtl 8.342 16 He that doeth the will of God abideth forever.
    Dem1 10.22 15 A Highland chief, an Indian sachem or a feudal baron may fancy...that...when he dies, banshees will announce his fate to kinsmen in foreign parts. What more facile than to project this exuberant selfhood into the region where individuality is forever bounded by generic and cosmical laws?
    Aris 10.36 13 Forever and ever it takes a pound to lift a pound.
    PerF 10.77 5 Our stock in life, our real estate, is that amount of thought which we have had,-and which we have applied and so domesticated. The ground we have thus created is forever a fund for new thoughts.
    Edc1 10.148 17 The natural method [of education] forever confutes our experiments...
    SovE 10.208 8 We are thrown back on rectitude forever and ever, only rectitude,-to mend one;...
    Prch 10.222 12 I cannot keep the sun in heaven, if you take away the purpose that animates him. The ball...is there, but his power...to illuminate the heart as well as the atmosphere, is gone forever.
    Prch 10.222 18 [Religion] does not grow thin or robust with the health of the votary. The object of adoration remains forever unhurt and identical.
    Schr 10.267 8 Action is legitimate and good; forever be it honored!...
    Schr 10.287 9 The practical aim is forever higher than the literary aim.
    LLNE 10.337 2 ...every lesson of humility, or justice, or charity, which the old ignorant saints had taught [man], was still forever true.
    EzRy 10.394 21 Many and many a felicity [Ezra Ripley] had in his prayer, now forever lost...
    MMEm 10.413 27 ...[Mary Moody Emerson] writes...When I get a glimpse of the revolutions of nations,-that retribution which seems forever going on in this part of creasion,-I remember with great satisfaction that from all the ills suffered, in childhood...I felt that it was rather the order of things...
    MMEm 10.430 9 I [Mary Moody Emerson] pray to die, though happier myriads and mine own companions press nearer to the throne. His coldest beam will purify and render me forever holy.
    LS 11.11 15 I ask any person who believes the [Lord's] Supper to have been designed by Jesus to be commemorated forever, to go and read the account of it in the other Gospels...
    LS 11.16 6 If it could be satisfactorily shown that [the primitive Church] esteemed [the Lord's Supper] authorized and to be transmitted forever, that does not settle the question for us.
    HDC 11.77 2 You [veterans of the battle of Concord] are set apart-and forever...
    EWI 11.113 2 ...Be it enacted, that all and every person who, on the first August, 1834, shall be holden in slavery within any such British colony as aforesaid...shall be absolutely and forever manumitted;...
    EWI 11.113 7 ...be it enacted...that from and after the first August, 1834, slavery shall be and is hereby utterly and forever abolished and declared unlawful throughout the British colonies...
    EWI 11.141 12 On sight of these [African artifacts], says Clarkson, many sublime thoughts seemed to rush at once into [William Pitt's] mind, some of which he expressed; and hence appeared to arise a project which was always dear to him, of the civilization of Africa,-a dream which forever elevates his fame.
    EWI 11.143 13 Eaters and food are in the harmony of Nature; and there too is the germ forever protected...
    EWI 11.147 2 I assure myself that this coldness and blindness [towards the negro] will pass away. A single noble wind of sentiment will scatter them forever.
    War 11.159 21 This valuable person [Assacombuit]...took to killing his own neighbors and kindred, with such appetite that his tribe...would have killed him had he not fled his country forever.
    FSLC 11.209 13 Every man in the land will give a week's work to dig away this accursed mountain of sorrow [slavery] once and forever out of the world.
    FSLC 11.214 8 ...one, two, three occasions have just now occurred, and past, in either of which, if one man had...read the law with the eye of freedom, the dishonor of Massachusetts had been prevented, and a limit set to these encroachments [of slavery] forever.
    FSLN 11.239 1 Slowly, slowly the Avenger comes, but comes surely. The proverbs of the nations affirm these delays, but affirm the arrival. They say, God may consent, but not forever.
    AKan 11.260 5 Manifest Destiny, Democracy, Freedom, fine names for an ugly thing. ... They call it Chivalry and freedom; I call it the stealing all the earnings of a poor man...and the earnings of all that shall come from him, his children's children forever.
    ACiv 11.303 17 ...there have been days in American history, when, if the free states had done their duty, slavery had been blocked...and our recent calamities forever precluded.
    ACiv 11.309 25 ...the government of the world is moral, and does forever destroy what is not.
    EdAd 11.390 9 ...the insight which commands the laws and conditions of the true polity precludes forever all interest in the squabbles of parties.
    Wom 11.425 5 ...forever it is individual force that interests.
    PLT 12.20 16 Without identity at base, chaos must be forever.
    PLT 12.44 16 If you cut or break in two a block or stone and press the two parts closely together, you can indeed bring the particles very near, but never again so near that they shall attract each other so that you can take up the block as one. That indescribably small interval...has forever severed the practical unity.
    II 12.76 1 ...the moral sense reappears forever with the same angelic newness that has been from of old the fountain of poetry and beauty and strength.
    II 12.76 4 Nature is forever over education;...
    II 12.77 20 The old law of science, Imperat parendo, we command by obeying, is forever true;...
    CL 12.154 9 The sea is the chemist that...pulverizes old continents, and builds new;-forever redistributing the solid matter of the globe;...
    CL 12.163 22 This [principle of levity] is forever a surprise...
    CW 12.179 1 What alone possesses interest for us is the naturel of each, that which is constitutional to him only. This is forever a surprise...
    Bost 12.211 11 ...here let [Boston] stand forever, on the man-bearing granite of the North!
    MLit 12.330 8 An interchangeable Truth, Beauty and Goodness, each wholly interfused in the other, must make the humors of that eye which would see causes reaching to their last effect and reproducing the world forever.

forevermore, adv. (8)

    Nat 1.42 24 Who can guess...how much tranquillity has been reflected to man from the azure sky, over whose unspotted deeps the winds forevermore drive flocks of stormy clouds...
    DSA 1.132 27 ...only by coming again to themselves, or to God in themselves, can [the simple] grow forevermore.
    DSA 1.150 21 Let [the Sabbath] stand forevermore...
    ET13 5.230 27 Electricity cannot be made fast...so that you shall...keep it fixed, as the English do with their things, forevermore;...
    Bhr 6.192 22 The highest compact we can make with our fellow, is,--Let there be truth between us two forevermore.
    Suc 7.307 15 Truth and goodness subsist forevermore.
    Schr 10.279 22 I declare anew from Heaven that truth exists new and beautiful and profitable forevermore.
    Schr 10.285 17 ...[Genius]...flings itself on real elemental things...which first subsist, and then resist unweariably forevermore all that opposes.

forewarned, v. (3)

    LE 1.186 11 Forewarned that the vice of the times and the country is an excessive pretension, let us seek the shade, and find wisdom in neglect.
    MR 1.243 10 [The man with a strong bias to the contemplative life] must... postpone his self-indulgence, forewarned and forearmed against...the taste for luxury.
    ET15 5.261 16 A relentless inquisition [the newspaper] drags every secret to the day...and no weakness can be taken advantage of by an enemy, since the whole people are already forewarned.

Fore-World, n. [Foreworld,] (3)

    Hist 2.23 21 The primeval world,--the Fore-World, as the Germans say,--I can dive to it in myself...
    Hist 2.39 4 I shall find in [a man] the Foreworld;...
    SR 2.84 7 ...thou shalt reproduce the Foreworld again.

forfeit, v. (3)

    Fdsp 2.213 18 By persisting in your path, though you forfeit the little you gain the great.
    ET14 5.252 4 ...[the English] are the most conditioned men, as if, having the best conditions, they could not bring themselves to forfeit them.
    PPr 12.384 6 ...[Carlyle] has added to his love whatever honor his opinions may forfeit.

forfeited, v. (3)

    ET13 5.216 16 The [English] clergy obtained respite from labor for the boor on the Sabbath and on church festivals. The lord who compelled his boor to labor between sunset on Saturday and sunset on Sunday, forfeited him altogether.
    Wth 6.92 7 The brave workman...must replace the grace or elegance forfeited, by the merit of the work done.
    Aris 10.63 23 Let [the man of honor]...say...the music and the dance of liberty will come up to bright and holy ground and will take me in also. Then I shall not have forfeited my right to speak and act for mankind.

forfeiting, v. (1)

    LE 1.176 20 How mean to go blazing...in fashionable or political salons... forfeiting the real prerogative of the russet coat...

forfeits, v. (4)

    AmS 1.84 20 In life, too often, the scholar...forfeits his privilege.
    Mrs1 3.132 22 ...any deference to some eminent man or woman of the world, forfeits all privilege of nobility.
    MoS 4.183 5 The final solution in which skepticism is lost, is in the moral sentiment, which never forfeits its supremacy.
    Clbs 7.237 15 In the Norse legends, The gods of Valhalla when they meet the Jotuns, converse on the perilous terms that he who cannot answer the other's questions forfeits his own life.

forfeiture, n. (2)

    FSLC 11.198 4 You have a law [The Fugitive Slave Law] which no man can obey, or abet the obeying, without...forfeiture of the name of gentleman.
    ACiv 11.305 2 ...as long as we fight without...any word intimating forfeiture in the rebel states of their old privileges, under the law, [the Southerners] and we fight on the same side, for slavery.

forgave, v. (1)

    Grts 8.315 9 ...the English judge in old times...forgave a culprit who could read and write.

forge, n. (4)

    MR 1.250 19 ...we cannot make a planet...by means of the best...engineers' tools, with chemist's laboratory and smith's forge to boot...
    Bty 6.291 11 ...the smith at his forge...is becoming to the wise eye.
    Suc 7.284 20 There is nothing in war, said Napoleon, which I cannot do by my own hands. ... If it is necessary to make cannons at the forge, I can make them.
    Plu 10.298 27 ...[Plutarch] has a taste for common life, and knows...the forge, farm, kitchen and cellar...

forge, v. (4)

    WD 7.163 4 ...we have a pretty artillery of tools now in our social arrangements: we...travel, grind, weave, forge, plant, till and excavate better [than our fathers did].
    Suc 7.291 19 'T is clownish to insist on doing all with one's own hands, as if every man should...forge his hammer...
    Schr 10.278 24 [The scholar] is to forge out of coarsest ores the sharpest weapons.
    Milt1 12.259 25 Among the advantages of his foreign travel, Milton certainly did not count it the least that it contributed to forge and polish that great weapon of which he acquired such extraordinary mastery,-his power of language.

forged, v. (6)

    OS 2.285 1 ...all unawares the advancing soul has built and forged for itself a new condition...
    ET5 5.92 22 [The English] have tilled, builded, forged, spun and woven.
    ET10 5.162 18 Scandinavian Thor, who once forged his bolts in icy Hecla... in England has advanced with the times...
    ET10 5.168 3 In true England all is false and forged.
    Elo2 8.130 14 ...such practical chemistry as the conversion of a truth written in God's language into a truth in Dunderhead's language, is one of the most beautiful and cogent weapons that are forged in the shop of the Divine Artificer.
    AKan 11.260 10 ...our poor people, led by the nose by these fine words [Union and Democracy]...ring bells and fire cannon, with every new link of the chain which is forged for their limbs by the plotters in the Capitol.

forges, n. (4)

    SwM 4.101 23 The genius [of Swedenborg] which was...to...attempt to establish a new religion in the world,--began its lessons in quarries and forges...
    ET6 5.103 9 Mines, forges, mills, breweries...have operated [in England] to give a mechanical regularity to all the habit and action of men.
    ET11 5.183 8 All over England, scattered at short intervals among ship-yards, mills, mines and forges, are the paradises of the nobles...
    Bost 12.204 14 In Massachusetts [Nature] did not want epic poems and dramas yet, but first...builders of mills and forges...

forges, v. (3)

    Nat 1.40 9 [Man] forges the subtile and delicate air into wise and melodious words...
    ET5 5.95 27 [Steam] weaves, forges, saws, pounds, fans...
    QO 8.196 20 ...many men can write better under a mask than for themselves; as...I doubt not, many a young barrister in chambers in London, who forges good thunder for the Times...

forget, v. (69)

    Nat 1.31 17 [Nature's] light flows into the mind evermore, and we forget its presence.
    AmS 1.94 2 Gowns and pecuniary foundations...can never countervail the least sentence or syllable of wit. Forget this, and our American colleges will recede in their public importance, whilst they grow richer every year.
    LE 1.175 4 Pindar, Raphael...dwell in crowds it may be, but the instant thought comes...they forget the bystanders;...
    MR 1.231 8 ...if [the young man] would thrive in [the employments of commerce]...he must forget the prayers of his childhood...
    MR 1.241 26 I would not quite forget the venerable counsel of the Egyptian mysteries...
    LT 1.278 8 You have set your heart and face against society when you thought it wrong, and returned it frown for frown. Excellent: now can you afford to forget it...
    SR 2.64 18 We first share the life by which things exist and afterwards... forget that we have shared their cause.
    Cir 2.321 22 The one thing which we seek with insatiable desire is to forget ourselves...
    Int 2.329 26 In every man's mind, some...facts remain...which others forget...
    Exp 3.76 18 People forget that it is the eye which makes the horizon...
    NER 3.274 13 ...Rousseau...Byron,--and I could easily add names nearer home, of raging riders, who drive their steeds so hard, in the violence of living to forget its illusion: they would know the worst...
    UGM 4.11 26 Man, made of the dust of the world, does not forget his origin;...
    UGM 4.20 1 I must not forget that we have a special debt to a single class.
    UGM 4.22 9 ...if there should appear in the company some gentle soul who...apprises me of my independence on any conditions of country, or time, or human body,--that man liberates me; I forget the clock.
    PPh 4.42 4 ...society is glad to forget the innumerable laborers who ministered to this architect...
    ET8 5.133 23 The common Englishman is prone to forget a cardinal article in the bill of social rights, that every man has a right to his own ears.
    ET8 5.137 27 [The English] are...churlish as men sometimes please to be who do not forget a debt...
    ET17 5.294 14 ...as I have recorded a visit to Wordsworth, many years before, I must not forget this second interview.
    F 6.26 23 ...in [the intellectual man's] presence our own mind is roused to activity, and we forget very fast what he says...
    F 6.30 14 ...we gladly forget numbers, money, climate, gravitation...
    Wth 6.84 18 ...though light-headed man forget,/ Remembering Matter pays her debt/...
    Wth 6.96 26 We are all richer for the measurement of a degree of latitude on the earth's surface. Our navigation is safer for the chart. How intimately our knowledge of the system of the Universe rests on that!--and a true economy in a state or an individual will forget its frugality in behalf of claims like these.
    Wsp 6.214 23 Forget your books and traditions, and obey your moral perceptions at this hour.
    Wsp 6.230 9 The other party will forget the words that you spoke...
    SS 7.5 10 Do you think, [my friend] said, I am in such great terror of being shot, I, who am only waiting...to slip away into the back stars...there to... forget memory itself, if it be possible?
    Clbs 7.250 10 ...I do not forget that Nature is always very much in earnest...
    Cour 7.265 2 ...we do not exhaust the subject [Courage] in the slight analysis; we must not forget the variety of temperaments...
    Suc 7.310 2 ...I seek one who shall make me forget or overcome the frigidities and imbecilities into which I fall.
    PI 8.25 11 ...[people] relish Aesop,--cannot forget him, or not use him;...
    Comc 8.172 15 Timur saw himself in the mirror and found his face quite too ugly. Therefore he began to weep; Chodscha also set himself to weep; and so they wept for two hours. On this, some courtiers...entertained [Timur] with strange stories in order to make him forget all about it.
    PPo 8.256 19 Cumber thee not for the world, and this my precept forget not,/ 'Tis but a toy that a vagabond sweetheart has left us./
    Insp 8.288 22 In the hotel...I command an astronomic leisure. I forget rain, wind, cold and heat.
    Imtl 8.349 16 Nachiketas...said, O Death! let Gautama...forget his anger against me...
    PerF 10.81 26 ...if we go to the regatta, we forget the bowler for the stroke oar;...
    Edc1 10.143 5 Do not spare to put novels into the hands of young people as an occasional holiday and experiment; but, above all, good poetry in all kinds, epic, tragedy, lyric. If we can touch the imagination...they will never forget it.
    Prch 10.234 11 A vivid thought brings the power to paint it; and in proportion to the depth of its source is the force of its projection. We are happy and enriched; we go away invigorated...and shall not forget to come again for new impulses.
    MoL 10.244 2 The Greek was so perfect in action and in imagination, his poems...so charming in form and so true to the human mind, that we cannot forget or outgrow their mythology.
    Schr 10.286 2 Genius delights only in statements which are themselves true...which society cannot dispose of or forget...
    Plu 10.304 9 ...I cannot forbear to cite one or two sentences [from Plutarch] which none who reads them will forget.
    Plu 10.311 18 ...when we have shut [Seneca's] book, we forget to open it again.
    LLNE 10.333 10 [Everett] abounded...in splendid allusion, in quotation impossible to forget...
    LLNE 10.347 7 [Robert Owen's] love of men made us forget his Three Errors.
    LLNE 10.355 13 There is...to every theory a tendency...to forget the limitations.
    MMEm 10.407 10 ...in the country, we converse so much more with ourselves, that we are almost led to forget everybody else.
    MMEm 10.432 16 ...[Mary Moody Emerson's] friends feared they might, at her funeral, not dare to look at each other, lest they should forget the serious proprieties of the hour.
    Thor 10.483 24 Of what significance the things you can forget?
    LS 11.23 7 ...now...Christians must contend that it is...really a duty, to commemorate [Jesus] by a certain form [the Lord's Supper], whether that form be agreeable to their understandings or not. ... Is not this to make men,-to make ourselves,-forget that not forms, but duties...are enjoined;...
    EWI 11.134 2 ...you will not suffer me to forget one eloquent old man [John Quincy Adams], in whose veins the blood of Massachusetts rolls...
    War 11.162 8 You forget that the quiet which now sleeps in cities and in farms...rests on the perfect understanding of all men that the musket, the halter and the jail stand behind there...
    FSLN 11.242 18 ...if audiences forget themselves, statesmen do not.
    JBB 11.273 8 I hope...that, in administering relief to John Brown's family, we shall...not forget to aid him in the best way, by securing freedom and independence in Massachusetts.
    TPar 11.284 10 ...[Theodore Parker's] periods fall on you, stroke after stroke,/ Like the blows of a lumberer felling an oak,/ You forget the man wholly, you 're thankful to meet/ With a preacher who smacks of the field and the street/...
    EPro 11.317 20 [Lincoln] is well entitled to the most indulgent construction. Forget all that we thought shortcomings...
    SHC 11.428 23 ...Forget man's littleness, deserve the best,/ God's mercy in thy thought and life confest./ William Ellery Channing.
    FRO2 11.485 16 I am glad...that we are likely one day to forget our obstinate polemics in the ambition to excel each other in good works.
    CPL 11.507 25 In saying these things for books, I do not for a moment forget that they are secondary...
    II 12.88 10 The old Greek was respectable and we are not yet able to forget his dramas,-who found the genius of tragedy in the conflict between Destiny and the strong should...
    Mem 12.99 10 ...there is a wild memory in children and youth which makes what is early learned impossible to forget;...
    Mem 12.105 9 The Persians say, A real singer will never forget the song he has once learned.
    Mem 12.107 16 We forget also according to beautiful laws.
    Mem 12.107 18 Thoreau said, Of what significance are the things you can forget.
    Mem 12.108 9 We forget rapidly what should be forgotten.
    Mem 12.108 11 The universal sense of fables and anecdotes is marked by our tendency to forget name and date and geography.
    Mem 12.108 13 How in the right are children, said Margaret Fuller, to forget name and date and place.
    CW 12.175 2 ...do not forget the 14th of November, when the meteors come...
    MLit 12.309 12 Let us not forget the genial miraculous force we have known to proceed from a book.
    Pray 12.353 2 ...I will not forget that joy has been, and may still be.
    PPr 12.380 23 The scholar shall read and write, the farmer and mechanic shall toil, with new resolution, nor forget the book [Carlyle's Past and Present] when they resume their labor.
    Trag 12.414 24 How fast we forget the blow that threatened to cripple us.

forgetful, adj. (3)

    AmS 1.89 13 Meek young men grow up in libraries...forgetful that Cicero, Locke, and Bacon were only young men in libraries when they wrote these books.
    Wsp 6.212 9 Forgetful that a little measure is a great error...[ even well-disposed, good sort of people] go on choosing the dead men of routine.
    Wsp 6.212 10 ...forgetful that a wise mechanic uses a sharp tool, [even well-disposed, good sort of people] go on choosing the dead men of routine.

forgetfulness, n. (1)

    PI 8.61 11 [The voice said to Sir Gawaine] Whilst I served King Arthur, I was well known by you, and by other barons, but because I have left the court, I am...put in forgetfulness...

forgets, v. (11)

    SL 2.151 5 The scholar forgets himself and apes the customs and costumes of the man of the world to deserve the smile of beauty...
    Art1 2.359 20 [The traveller who visits the Vatican galleries] studies the technical rules [of art] on these wonderful remains, but forgets that these works were not always thus constellated;...
    Pt1 3.32 12 If a man is inflamed and carried away by his thought, to that degree that he forgets the authors and the public...let me read his paper, and you may have all the arguments and histories and criticism.
    Exp 3.68 6 All good conversation, manners and action come from a spontaneity which forgets usages...
    PPh 4.77 26 ...the bitten world holds the biter fast by his own teeth. There he perishes: unconquered nature lives on and forgets him.
    ET9 5.151 4 America is the paradise of the [English] economists;...but when he speaks directly of the Americans the islander forgets his philosophy and remembers his disparaging anecdotes.
    ET14 5.251 26 The voice of [Englishmen's] modern muse has a slight hint of the steam-whistle, and the poem is created...by no means as the bird of a new morning which forgets the past world...
    F 6.25 12 We have successive experiences so important that the new forgets the old...
    DL 7.111 1 [The citizen's] house ought to show us his honest opinion of what makes his well-being when he...forgets all affectation, compliance, and even exertion of will.
    PPo 8.261 4 In the midnight of thy locks,/ I renounce the day;/ In the ring of thy rose-lips,/ My heart forgets to pray./
    Edc1 10.149 19 ...in literature,the young man who has taste...for noble thoughts...forgets all the world for the more learned friend...

forgetting, v. (6)

    LE 1.182 2 Let [the scholar]...serve the world as a true and noble man; never forgetting to worship the immortal divinities who whisper to the poet...
    Art1 2.359 15 The traveller who visits the Vatican and passes from chamber to chamber...through all forms of beauty cut in the richest materials, is in danger of forgetting the simplicity of the principles out of which they all sprung...
    ET11 5.180 9 ...[the English lords] rightly wear the token of the glebe that gave them birth, suggesting that...here in London,--the crags of Argyle...the clays of Stafford, are neither forgetting nor forgotten...
    Aris 10.39 23 ...we are in danger of forgetting so simple a fact as that the basis of all aristocracy must be truth...
    II 12.77 13 ...all beauty of discourse or of manners lies in launching on the thought, and forgetting ourselves;...
    Mem 12.101 8 The damages of forgetting are more than compensated by the large values which new thoughts and knowledge give to what we already know.

forging, v. (1)

    SL 2.129 11 The living Heaven thy prayers respect,/ House at once and architect,/ .../ And, by the famous might that lurks/ In reaction and recoil,/ Makes flame to freeze and ice to boil;/ Forging, through swart arms of Offence,/ The silver seat of Innocence./

forgive, v. (28)

    YA 1.375 26 Difference of opinion is the one crime which kings never forgive.
    Fdsp 2.205 14 ...we cannot forgive the poet if he spins his thread too fine...
    Cir 2.307 7 We thirst for approbation, yet cannot forgive the approver.
    Cir 2.317 5 Forgive his crimes, forgive his virtues too,/ Those smaller faults, half converts to the right./
    Chr1 3.107 8 ...forgive the counsels; they are very natural.
    Chr1 3.114 25 I do not forgive in my friends the failure to know a fine character...
    Mrs1 3.137 15 If [lovers] forgive too much, all slides into confusion and meanness.
    Gts 3.162 5 We do not quite forgive a giver.
    NR 3.237 4 [Nature]...will only forgive an induction which is rare and casual.
    PPh 4.55 11 [Plato] cannot forgive in himself a partiality...
    MoS 4.158 23 ...I cannot forgive you the want of accomplishments;...
    Bhr 6.195 1 How much we forgive to those who yield us the rare spectacle of heroic manners!
    SS 7.5 15 God may forgive sins, [my friend] said, but awkwardness has no forgiveness...
    Clbs 7.234 7 In fact the only sin which we never forgive in each other is difference of opinion.
    Cour 7.256 2 [The people] forgive everything to [courage].
    PI 8.33 23 We want design, and do not forgive the bards if they have only the art of enamelling.
    SA 8.107 1 They only can give the key and leading to better society: those who...forgive nothing to each other;...
    Elo2 8.124 18 ...in your struggles with the world...seek refuge...in the precepts and example of Him...who taught us to remember injuries only to forgive them.
    Aris 10.51 10 We do not expect [public representatives] to be saints, and it is very pleasing to see the instinct of mankind on this matter,-how much they will forgive to such as pay substantial service and work energetically after their kind;...
    Prch 10.230 8 [The man of practice or worldly force] does not forgive an application in the preacher to the merchant's things.
    MoL 10.247 1 I cannot forgive a scholar his homeless despondency.
    EWI 11.129 9 Forgive me, fellow citizens, if I own to you, that in the last few days that my attention has been occupied with this history [of emancipation in the West Indies], I have not been able to read a page of it without the most painful comparisons.
    FSLN 11.241 17 We should not forgive the clergy for taking on every issue the immoral side;...
    TPar 11.291 9 I can readily forgive [silence], only not the other, the false tongue which makes the worse appear the better cause.
    HCom 11.342 26 [Our young men] said, It is not in me to resist. I go [to war] because I must. It is a duty which I shall never forgive myself if I decline.
    CPL 11.506 10 [Kepler writes] ...I have stolen the golden vases of the Egyptians to build up a tabernacle for my God far away from the confines of Egypt. If you forgive me, I rejoice;...
    PLT 12.57 1 It is the levity of this country to forgive everything to talent.
    MLit 12.333 8 ...every fine genius teaches us how to blame himself. Being so much, we cannot forgive him for not being more.

forgiven, v. (5)

    HDC 11.80 16 ...our fathers must be forgiven by their charitable posterity, if, in 1782, before choosing a representative, it was Voted that the person who should be chosen representative to the General Court should receive 6s. per day...
    EWI 11.147 9 There have been moments, I said, when men might be forgiven who doubted [emancipation].
    FSLN 11.217 8 The one thing not to be forgiven to intellectual persons is, not to know their own task...
    PLT 12.31 1 The one thing not to be forgiven to intellectual persons is that they believe in the ideas of others.
    PLT 12.57 10 Every kind of meanness and mischief is forgiven to intellect.

forgiveness, n. (1)

    SS 7.5 16 God may forgive sins, [my friend] said, but awkwardness has no forgiveness...

forgives, v. (1)

    PLT 12.30 5 ...nobody ever forgives any admiration in you of them...

forgiving, adj. (2)

    PC 8.232 8 It was what we call plantation manners which drove peaceable forgiving New England to emancipation without phrase.
    PC 8.232 21 We are a complaisant, forgiving people...

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