Forgot to Forts

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

forgot, v. (15)

    Comp 2.106 26 Aurora forgot to ask youth for her lover, and though Tithonus is immortal, he is old.
    Lov1 2.175 2 ...no man ever forgot the visitations of that power to his heart and brain, which created all things anew;...
    Fdsp 2.200 12 The valiant warrior famoused for fight,/ After a hundred victories, once foiled,/ Is from the book of honor razed quite/ And all the rest forgot for which he toiled./
    Mrs1 3.145 24 The epitaph of Sir Jenkin Grout is not wholly unintelligible to the present age: Here lies Sir Jenkin Grout...he never forgot his children;...
    NMW 4.239 20 [Napoleon] said that in their exile [the Bourbons] had learned nothing, and forgot nothing.
    Ctr 6.154 14 To a man at work...the rain, the wind, he forgot them when he came in.
    WD 7.155 8 I, in my pleached garden, watched the pomp,/ Forgot my morning wishes, hastily/ Took a few herbs and apples, and the Day/ Turned and departed silent./
    WD 7.162 24 Malthus...forgot to say that the human mind was also a factor in political economy...
    Insp 8.269 14 Our money is only a second best. We would jump to buy power with it, that is, intellectual perception moving the will. That is first best. But we don't know where the shop is. If Watt knew, he forgot to tell us the number of the street.
    Insp 8.279 3 [Bonaparte said] I am like a woman with child, and when my resolution is taken, all is forgot except whatever can make it succeed.
    Aris 10.50 20 ...[the public] forgot to ask the fourth question...
    PerF 10.80 16 ...[the prisoner] took his flute out of his pocket and began to play, to the surprise, and, as it proved, to the delight of all the company; the jurors waked up, the sheriff forgot his duty, the judge himself beat time...
    HDC 11.53 27 Their forefathers, the Indians told [John] Eliot, did know God, but after this, they fell into a deep sleep, and when they did awake, they quite forgot him.
    CPL 11.496 26 If you consider what has befallen you when reading...a tragedy, or a novel, even, that deeply interested you,-how you forgot the time of day...you will easily admit the wonderful property of books to make all towns equal...
    II 12.88 25 ...there is a religion which...is worshipped and pronounced with emphasis again and again by some holy person;-and men...have run mad for the pronouncer, and forgot the religion.

forgotten, adj. (10)

    MR 1.255 2 The virtue of this principle [Love] in human society in application to great interests is obsolete and forgotten.
    SR 2.69 2 All persons that ever existed are [the soul's] forgotten ministers.
    NER 3.283 7 ...the man...whose advent men and events prepare and foreshow, is one who...shall use his native but forgotten methods...
    UGM 4.12 21 Every carpenter who shaves with a fore-plane borrows the genius of a forgotten inventor.
    SwM 4.111 12 ...[Swedenborg] has at last found a pupil in Mr. Wilkinson... who has restored his master's buried books to the day, and tranferred them... from their forgotten Latin into English...
    PI 8.69 27 It is not style or rhymes, or a new image more or less that imports, but...that the old forgotten splendors of the universe should glow again for us;...
    Dem1 10.4 6 ...the astonishment remains that one should dream; that we should...become the theatre of delirious shows...antic comedy alternating with horrid pictures. Sometimes the forgotten companions of childhood reappear...
    Plu 10.303 15 ...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...
    ChiE 11.472 15 ...[China] has...historic records of forgotten time...
    FRep 11.539 6 Here is the post where the patriot should plant himself; here the altar...where genius should...bring forgotten truth to the eyes of men.

forgotten, v. (45)

    DSA 1.127 13 The doctrine of the divine nature being forgotten, a sickness infects and dwarfs the constitution.
    Cir 2.319 27 In nature...the past is always swallowed and forgotten;...
    Art1 2.356 25 When [dancing] has educated the frame...to grace, the steps of the dancing-master are better forgotten;...
    Art1 2.367 25 ...the distinction between the fine and the useful arts [must] be forgotten.
    Pt1 3.20 14 The poet...gives [things] a power which makes their old use forgotten...
    Pt1 3.21 27 ...the origin of most of our words is forgotten...
    Exp 3.85 23 We dress our garden, eat our dinners...and these things...are forgotten next week;...
    Nat2 3.191 27 [The rich] are like one who has interrupted the conversation of a company to make his speech, and now has forgotten what he went to say.
    NER 3.260 5 ...in a few months the most conservative circles of Boston and New York had quite forgotten who of their gownsmen was college-bred, and who was not.
    GoW 4.276 9 ...what [Goethe] says of religion...or whatever else, refuses to be forgotten.
    ET1 5.10 3 The criticism [of Landor] may be right or wrong, and is quickly forgotten;...
    ET1 5.24 4 [Wordsworth]...quoted, with evident pleasure, the verses addressed To the Skylark. In this connection he said of the Newtonian theory that it might yet be superseded and forgotten;...
    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...
    ET16 5.283 20 I chanced to see, a year ago, men at work...in Boston, swinging a block of granite of the size of the largest of the Stonehenge columns, with an ordinary derrick. The men were common masons...nor did they think they were doing anything remarkable. I suppose there were as good men a thousand years ago. And we wonder how Stonehenge was built and forgotten.
    F 6.11 22 If, later, [these drones] give birth to some superior individual...all the ancestors are gladly forgotten.
    Pow 6.80 8 I have not forgotten that there are sublime considerations which limit the value of talent and superficial success.
    Wth 6.92 24 The case of the young lawyer was pitiful to disgust,--a paltry matter of buttons or tweezer-cases; but the determined youth...made the insignificance of the thing forgotten...
    Bhr 6.180 10 Vain and forgotten are all the fine offers and offices of hospitality, if there is no holiday in the eye.
    Wsp 6.230 2 How a man's truth comes to mind, long after we have forgotten all his words!
    CbW 6.274 7 It makes no difference, in looking back five years...whether you...have been carried in a neat equipage or in a ridiculous truck: these things are forgotten so quickly...
    CbW 6.277 13 ...when you tax [men] with treachery, and remind them of their high resolutions, they have forgotten that they made a vow.
    Elo1 7.73 26 [Pleasing speech] is heard like a band of music passing through the streets, which...is forgotten as soon as it has turned the next corner;...
    Elo1 7.83 20 I have heard it reported of an eloquent preacher, whose voice is not yet forgotten in this city, that, on occasions of death or tragic disaster which overspread the congregation with gloom, he ascended the pulpit with more than his usual alacrity...
    PI 8.16 3 ...the book, the landscape or the personality which...penetrated to the inward sense, agitates us, and is not forgotten.
    PI 8.32 22 We are dazzled at first by new words and brilliancy of color, which occupy the fancy and deceive the judgment. But all this is easily forgotten.
    SA 8.94 26 ...[the party in the second coach] had forgotten earth...
    QO 8.201 17 The profound apprehension of the Present is Genius, which makes the Past forgotten.
    Insp 8.273 9 ...[most men] have forgotten the thoughts of yesterday;...
    Edc1 10.148 1 By many steps...the hesitating collegian, in the school debate...in mock court, comes at last to full, secure, triumphant unfolding of his thought in the popular assembly, with a fulness of power that makes all the steps forgotten.
    SovE 10.211 8 'T is very shallow to say that cotton, or iron, or silver and gold are kings of the world; there are rulers that will at any moment make these forgotten.
    LLNE 10.337 11 [The eagerness for reform] appeared in the popularity of Lavater's Physiognomy, now almost forgotten.
    MMEm 10.398 1 Many a day shall dawn and die,/ Many an angel wander by,/ And passing, light my sunken turf,/ Moist perhaps by ocean surf,/ Forgotten amid splendid tombs,/ Yet wreathed and hid by summer blooms./
    FSLC 11.211 21 The immense power of rectitude is apt to be forgotten in politics.
    FSLC 11.211 23 The immense power of rectitude is apt to be forgotten in politics. But they who have brought the great wrong [the Fugitive Slave Law] on the country have not forgotten it.
    FSLN 11.242 11 [American universities] have forgotten their allegiance to the Muse...
    TPar 11.292 18 ...the polished and pleasant traitors to human rights...rot and are forgotten...
    SMC 11.358 8 None of us can have forgotten how sharp a test to try our peaceful people with, was the first call for troops [in the Civil War].
    CPL 11.508 3 Instantly, when the mind itself wakes, all books, all past acts are forgotten...
    II 12.68 13 ...long after we have quitted the place [the art gallery], the objects begin to take a new order; the inferior recede or are forgotten...
    Mem 12.95 3 Am I asked whether the thoughts clothe themselves in words? I answer, Yes, always; but they are apt to be instantly forgotten.
    Mem 12.108 5 I have several times forgotten the name of Flamsteed, never that of Newton;...
    Mem 12.108 9 We forget rapidly what should be forgotten.
    PPr 12.380 14 [Carlyle's Past and Present] is such an appeal to the conscience and honor of England as cannot be forgotten...
    PPr 12.380 15 [Carlyle's Past and Present] is such an appeal to the conscience and honor of England as cannot be forgotten, or be feigned to be forgotten.
    PPr 12.389 11 ...it must not be forgotten that in all his fun of castanets... [Carlyle] does yet, ever and anon, as if catching the glance of one wise man in the crowd...lance at him in clear level tone the very word...

fork, n. (4)

    Comp 2.105 7 Drive out Nature with a fork, she comes running back.
    SwM 4.110 2 What we call gravitation, and fancy ultimate, is one fork of a mightier stream for which we have yet no name.
    PerF 10.73 27 It is curious to see how a creature so feeble and vulnerable as a man, who, unarmed, is no match for the wild beasts...none for a fog, or a damp air, or the feeble fork of a poor worm...is yet able to subdue to his will these terrific [natural] forces...
    Trag 12.407 20 ...universally, in uneducated and unreflecting persons...we discover traits of the same superstition [belief in Fate]:...if you spill the salt; if your fork sticks upright in the floor;...

Forks, Five, Virginia, n. (1)

    SMC 11.374 9 On the first of April, the [Thirty-second] regiment connected with Sheridan's cavalry, near the Five Forks...

forks, n. (1)

    MoS 4.167 6 As I look at [Montaigne's] effigy opposite the title-page, I seem to hear him say...I will rather mumble and prose about what I certainly know...my knives and forks;...

forlorn, adj. (11)

    YA 1.386 15 Where is he who seeing a thousand men...making the whole region forlorn by their inaction...does not hear his call to go and be their king?
    SwM 4.144 9 In [Swedenborg's] profuse and accurate imagery is no pleasure, for there is no beauty. We wander forlorn in a lack-lustre landscape.
    Ctr 6.143 10 [The boy] is infatuated for weeks with whist and chess; but presently will find out...that when he rises from the game too long played, he is vacant and forlorn and despises himself.
    Wsp 6.206 20 King Richard taunts God with forsaking him. O fie! O how unwilling should I be to forsake thee, in so forlorn and dreadful a position, were I thy lord and advocate, as thou art mine.
    CbW 6.271 11 The success which will content [men] is a bargain...a legacy and the like. With these objects, their conversation deals with surfaces... exaggerated bad news and the rain. This is forlorn, and they feel sore and sensitive.
    Farm 7.148 2 The traveller who saw [the Sequoias] remembered his orchard at home, where every year...his forlorn trees pined like suffering virtue.
    Cour 7.273 12 The meal and water that are the commissariat of the forlorn hope that stake their lives to defend the pass are sacred as the Holy Grail...
    Aris 10.56 13 I know nothing which induces so base and forlorn a feeling as when we are treated for our utilities...
    Chr2 10.119 7 At first [the infant soul] is forlorn, homeless;...
    Schr 10.279 17 ...the young...finding that nothing outside corresponds to the noble order in the soul...become skeptical and forlorn.
    ACri 12.286 14 Look at this forlorn caravan of travellers who wander over Europe dumb...

forlornness, n. (1)

    PPr 12.386 24 It was perhaps inseparable from the attempt to write a book of wit and imagination on English politics that a certain local emphasis and love of effect...should appear,-producing on the reader a feeling of forlornness by the excess of value attributed to circumstances.

form, n. (372)

    Nat 1.1 6 And, striving to be man, the worm/ Mounts through all the spires of form./
    Nat 1.21 6 Does not the New World clothe [Columbus's] form with her palm-groves and savannahs as fit drapery?
    Nat 1.35 19 ...every form [shall be] significant of [the world's] hidden life and final cause.
    Nat 1.40 20 Therefore is nature glorious with form, color, and motion; that every globe in the remotest heaven...shall hint or thunder to man the laws of right and wrong...
    Nat 1.45 11 [Words and actions] introduce us to the human form...
    Nat 1.60 20 ...[the soul] accepts from God the phenomenon [Christianity]... as the pure and awful form of religion in the world.
    Nat 1.67 11 It is not so pertinent to man to know all the individuals of the animal kingdom, as it is to know whence and whereto is this tyrannizing unity in his constitution, which evermore separates and classifies things, endeavoring to reduce the most diverse to one form.
    AmS 1.84 1 The priest becomes a form;...
    AmS 1.87 13 The next great influence into the spirit of the scholar is the mind of the Past, - in whatever form...that mind is inscribed.
    AmS 1.97 1 So is there...no event, in our private history, which shall not... lose its adhesive, inert form, and astonish us by soaring from our body into the empyrean.
    AmS 1.105 12 ...in proportion as a man has any thing in him divine, the firmament...takes his signet and form.
    AmS 1.111 17 The meal in the firkin;...the form and the gait of the body; - show me the ultimate reason of these matters;...
    AmS 1.112 1 ...the world lies no longer a dull miscellany and lumber-room, but has form and order;...
    DSA 1.140 25 The village blasphemer sees fear in the face, form, and gait of the minister.
    DSA 1.145 14 Once...take secondary knowledge...and you get wide from God with every year this secondary form lasts...
    DSA 1.148 17 ...let us study the grand strokes of rectitude:...what is the highest form in which we know this beautiful element, a certain solidity of merit...
    MN 1.205 13 So must we admire in man the form of the formless...
    MN 1.209 20 That well-known voice...governs all men, and none ever caught a glimpse of its form.
    MR 1.256 2 It is better that joy should be spread over all the day in the form of strength...
    LT 1.262 13 ...persons are the world to persons,-a cunning mystery by which the Great Desert of thoughts and of planets takes this engaging form, to bring...its meanings nearer to the mind.
    LT 1.265 15 Could we indicate the indicators...so that all witnesses should recognize a spiritual law as each well-known form flitted for a moment across the wall, we should have a series of sketches which would report to the next ages the color and quality of ours.
    LT 1.277 10 [The Reforms] are quickly organized in some low, inadequate form...
    LT 1.279 14 The great majority of men...are not aware of the evil that is around them until they see it in some gross form...
    LT 1.282 9 Our Religion assumes the negative form of rejection.
    LT 1.285 24 The revolutions that impend over society are not now...from impatience of one or another form of government...
    Con 1.313 25 The form [of this manner of living] is bad...
    Con 1.313 27 ...see you not how every personal character reacts on the form, and makes it new?
    Tran 1.329 8 The light...falls on a great variety of objects, and by so falling is first revealed to us, not in its own form...but in theirs;...
    YA 1.372 11 The sphere is flattened at the poles and swelled at the equator; a form flowing necessarily from the fluid state...
    YA 1.372 12 The sphere is flattened at the poles and swelled at the equator;...the form...required to prevent the protuberances of the continent... from continually deranging the axis of the earth.
    YA 1.375 14 The patriarchal form of government readily becomes despotic...
    Hist 2.13 26 ...a subtle spirit bends all things to its own will. The adamant streams into soft but precise form before it...
    Hist 2.14 1 Nothing is so fleeting as form;...
    Hist 2.14 25 We have the same national mind expressed for us again in [Greek] literature, in epic and lyric poems, drama, and philosophy; a very complete form.
    Hist 2.16 20 A painter told me that nobody could...draw a child by studying the outlines of its form merely...
    Hist 2.18 24 ...my companion pointed out to me a broad cloud...quite accurately in the form of a cherub as painted over churches...
    Hist 2.19 26 The custom of making houses and tombs in the living rock, says Heeren...determined very naturally the principal character of the Nubian Egyptian architecture to the colossal form which it assumed.
    Hist 2.31 2 ...where [the story of Prometheus]...exhibits him as the defier of Jove, it represents a state of mind which readily appears wherever the doctrine of Theism is taught in a crude, objective form...
    Hist 2.31 24 The philosophical perception of identity through endless mutations of form makes [man] know the Proteus.
    Hist 2.32 14 Every animal...has contrived to get a footing and to leave the print of its features and form in some one or other of these upright, heaven-facing speakers.
    Hist 2.39 2 [A man] shall walk...in a robe painted all over with wonderful events and experiences;--his own form and features by their exalted intelligence shall be that variegated vest.
    SR 2.83 2 ...if the American artist will study...the precise thing to be done by him, considering...the...form of the government, he will create a house in which [beauty, convenience, grandeur of thought] will find themselves fitted...
    Comp 2.101 9 Each new form repeats not only the main character of the type...
    Comp 2.105 15 If [the unwise man] has escaped [the conditions of life] in form and in the appearance, it is because he has resisted his life...
    Comp 2.125 5 ...in some happier mind [these revolutions] are incessant, and all worldly relations hang very loosely about him, becoming as it were a transparent fluid membrane through which the living form is seen...
    SL 2.159 3 What [a man] is engraves itself...on his form...
    SL 2.162 10 Why should we make it a point with our false modesty to disparage...that form of being assigned to us?
    SL 2.166 1 Let the great soul incarnated in some woman's form...go out to service...
    SL 2.166 9 ...lo! suddenly the great soul has enshrined itself in some other form...
    Lov1 2.175 10 ...no man ever forgot the visitations of that power to his heart and brain...when...the most trivial circumstance associated with one form is put in the amber of memory;...
    Lov1 2.179 6 Who can analyze the nameless charm which glances from one and another face and form?
    Lov1 2.181 17 ...the man beholding such a [beautiful] person in the female sex runs to her and finds the highest joy in contemplating the form, movement and intelligence of this person...
    Lov1 2.185 3 Night, day, studies, talents, kingdoms, religion, are all contained in [the lover's] form full of soul, in this soul which is all form.
    Lov1 2.185 4 Night, day, studies, talents, kingdoms, religion, are all contained in [the lover's] form full of soul, in this soul which is all form.
    Fdsp 2.189 13 ...O friend, my bosom said,/ .../ All things through thee take nobler form/ And look beyond the earth,/...
    Fdsp 2.195 27 Every thing that is [our friend's],--his name, his form, his dress, books and instruments,--fancy enhances.
    Fdsp 2.196 12 We doubt that we bestow on our hero the virtues in which he shines, and afterwards worship the form to which we have ascribed this divine inhabitation.
    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;...
    Prd1 2.230 4 ...beside all the resistless beauty of form, [the Raphael in the Dresden gallery] possesses in the highest degree the property of the perpendicularity of all the figures.
    Hsm1 2.250 8 [Heroism's] rudest form is the contempt for safety and ease...
    OS 2.276 18 One mode of the divine teaching is the incarnation of the spirit in a form...
    OS 2.281 24 ...a certain enthusiasm attends the individual's consciousness of that divine presence [the soul]. The character and duration of this enthusiasm vary with the state of the individual, from an ecstasy...to the faintest glow of virtuous emotion, in which form it warms...all the families and associations of men...
    OS 2.295 25 Before that heaven which our presentiments foreshow us, we cannot easily praise any form of life we have seen or read of.
    Int 2.326 19 Nature shows all things formed and bound. The intellect pierces the form...
    Int 2.331 23 We say I will walk abroad, and the truth will take form and clearness to me.
    Int 2.335 10 [The thought] is...a form of thought now for the first time bursting into the universe...
    Int 2.337 5 Without instruction we know very well the ideal of the human form.
    Int 2.337 11 A good form strikes all eyes pleasantly...
    Art1 2.354 21 Love and all the passions concentrate all existence around a single form.
    Art1 2.356 26 ...painting teaches me...the expression of form...
    Art1 2.357 14 As picture teaches the coloring, so sculpture the anatomy of form.
    Art1 2.360 27 ...in my younger days...I fancied the great pictures would be...some surprising combination of color and form;...
    Art1 2.364 7 [Sculpture] was originally a useful art...and among a people possessed of a wonderful perception of form this childish carving was refined to the utmost splendor of effect.
    Art1 2.364 27 Sculpture may serve to teach the pupil how deep is the secret of form...
    Art1 2.365 6 Picture and sculpture are the celebrations and festivities of form.
    Art1 2.366 8 The old tragic Necessity, which...furnishes the sole apology for the intrusion of such anomalous figures [as Venuses and Cupids] into nature,--namely...that the artist was drunk with a passion for form which he could not resist...no longer dignifies the chisel or the pencil.
    Pt1 3.3 13 [The umpires of tastes'] knowledge of the fine arts is...some limited judgment of color or form...
    Pt1 3.3 17 ...men seem to have lost the perception of the instant dependence of form upon soul.
    Pt1 3.10 3 The thought and the form are equal in the order of time...
    Pt1 3.10 5 ...in the order of genesis the thought is prior to the form.
    Pt1 3.13 22 All form is an effect of character;...
    Pt1 3.14 8 ...of the soul, the body form doth take,/ For soul is form, and doth the body make./
    Pt1 3.14 9 ...of the soul, the body form doth take,/ For soul is form, and doth the body make./
    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;...
    Pt1 3.20 26 ...[the poet]...perceives...that within the form of every creature is a force impelling it to ascend into a higher form;...
    Pt1 3.21 8 [The poet] uses forms according to the life, and not according to the form.
    Pt1 3.24 19 [The sculptor] rose one day...before dawn, and saw the morning break...and for many days after, he strove to express this tranquillity, and lo! his chisel had fashioned out of marble the form of a beautiful youth...
    Pt1 3.25 8 ...as the form of the thing is reflected by the eye, so the soul of the thing is reflected by a melody.
    Pt1 3.33 20 ...we love the poet, the inventor, who in any form...has yielded us a new thought.
    Pt1 3.34 9 The poet did not stop at the color or the form, but read their meaning;...
    Exp 3.53 19 I saw a gracious gentleman who adapts his conversation to the form of the head of the man he talks with!
    Exp 3.57 14 I cannot recall any form of man who is not superfluous sometimes.
    Exp 3.60 4 Life itself is a mixture of power and form...
    Exp 3.65 24 Human life is made up of the two elements, power and form...
    Exp 3.76 14 ...the chagrins which the bad heart gives off as bubbles, at once take form as ladies and gentlemen in the street...
    Exp 3.83 8 I can very confidently announce one or another law, which throws itself into relief and form...
    Chr1 3.91 6 ...in our political elections, where this element [character], if it appears at all, can only occur in its coarsest form, we sufficiently understand its incomparable rate.
    Chr1 3.98 14 Our proper vice takes form in one or another shape, according to the sex, age, or temperament of the person...
    Chr1 3.105 12 Character is nature in the highest form.
    Chr1 3.109 18 The Yunani sage, on seeing that chief [Zertusht], said, This form and this gait cannot lie, and nothing but truth can proceed from them.
    Chr1 3.113 21 ...we have never seen a man: that divine form we do not yet know...
    Mrs1 3.147 7 ...as we show beyond that Heaven and Earth/ In form and shape compact and beautiful;/ .../ So on our heels a fresh perfection treads/...
    Mrs1 3.149 3 A beautiful form is better than a beautiful face;...
    Mrs1 3.149 4 ...a beautiful behavior is better than a beautiful form...
    Nat2 3.167 7 Spirit that lurks each form within/ Beckons to spirit of its kin;/...
    Nat2 3.167 ed, a The rounded world is fair to see/...
    Nat2 3.167 7 Spirit that lurks each form within/ Beckons to spirit of its kin;/...
    Nat2 3.172 11 The fall of snowflakes in a still air, preserving to each crystal its perfect form; the blowing of sleet over a wide sheet of water... these are the music and pictures of the most ancient religion.
    Nat2 3.194 22 ...if, instead of identifying ourselves with the work, we feel that the soul of the Workman streams through us, we shall find...the fathomless powers of gravity and chemistry, and, over them, of life, preexisting within us in their highest form.
    Nat2 3.196 23 ...wisdom is infused into every form.
    Pol1 3.200 13 ...the form of government which prevails is the expression of what cultivation exists in the population which permits it.
    Pol1 3.207 6 The same necessity which secures the rights of person and property against the malignity or folly of the magistrate, determines the form and methods of governing, which are proper to each nation...
    Pol1 3.207 18 We may be wise in asserting the advantage in modern times of the democratic form...
    NR 3.242 19 The universality being hindered in its primary form, comes in the secondary form of all sides;...
    PPh 4.49 20 ...the ploughman, the plough and the furrow are of one stuff; and the stuff is such and so much that the variations of form are unimportant.
    PPh 4.50 17 ...the nature of the Great Spirit is single, though its forms be manifold, arising from the consequences of acts [said Krishna]. When the difference of the investing form...is destroyed, there is no distinction.
    PPh 4.51 2 As if [Krishna] had said, All is for the soul, and the soul is Vishnu;...and form is imprisonment;...
    PPh 4.51 4 That which the soul seeks is resolution into being above form...
    PPh 4.62 10 ...the Asia in [Plato's] mind was first heartily honored,--the ocean of love and power, before form, before will, before knowledge...
    PPh 4.63 13 The soul which has never perceived the truth, cannot pass into the human form [said Plato].
    PNR 4.83 3 Whatever [Plato] looks upon discloses a second sense, and ulterior senses. His...beautiful definitions of ideas, of time, of form, of figure, of the line...
    SwM 4.104 7 The robust Aristotelian method...skilful to discriminate power from form...had trained a race of athletic philosophers.
    SwM 4.107 17 The whole art of the plant is still to repeat leaf on leaf without end, the more or less of heat, light, moisture and food determining the form it shall assume.
    SwM 4.107 21 In the animal, nature makes a vertebra, or a spine of vertebrae, and helps herself still by a new spine, with a limited power of modifying its form...
    SwM 4.110 21 ...[Swedenborg] must be reckoned a leader in that revolution, which, by giving to science an idea, has given to an aimless accumulation of experiments, guidance and form and a beating heart.
    SwM 4.115 7 The lowest form is angular, or the terrestrial and corporeal.
    SwM 4.115 9 The second and next higher form is the circular...
    SwM 4.115 11 The form above [the circular] is the spiral, parent and measure of circular forms...
    SwM 4.115 16 The form above [the perpetual-circular] is the vortical...
    SwM 4.119 7 ...whatever [Swedenborg] saw, through some excessive determination to form in his constitution, he saw not abstractly, but in pictures...
    SwM 4.120 14 The very organic form resembles the end inscribed on it.
    SwM 4.123 23 What earnestness and weightiness [in Swedenborg]... without one swell of vanity, or one look to self in any common form of literary pride!...
    SwM 4.126 12 [Swedenborg] delivers golden sayings which express with singular beauty the ethical laws;...Man, in his perfect form, is heaven...
    SwM 4.126 17 [Swedenborg] delivers golden sayings which express with singular beauty the ethical laws;...Ends always ascend as nature descends. And the truly poetic account of the writing in the inmost heaven, which, as it consists of inflexions according to the form of heaven, can be read without instruction.
    SwM 4.128 2 ...Swedenborg, after his mode, pinned his theory [of marriage] to a temporary form.
    SwM 4.129 23 Whether from a self-inquisitorial habit that he grew into from jealousy of the sins to which men of thought are liable, [Swedenborg] has acquired, in disentangling and demonstrating that particular form of moral disease, an acumen which no conscience can resist.
    MoS 4.158 20 ...it is alleged that labor impairs the form and breaks the spirit of man...
    MoS 4.160 24 An angular, dogmatic house would be rent to chips and splinters in this storm of many elements. No, it must be tight, and fit to the form of man, to live at all;...
    MoS 4.161 10 Every thing that is excellent in mankind,--a form of grace... [the wise skeptic] will see and judge.
    ShP 4.210 26 ...the occasion which gave the saint's meaning the form of a conversation...is immaterial compared with the universality of its application.
    ShP 4.211 20 ...all the sweets and all the terrors of human lot lay in [Shakespeare's] mind as truly but as softly as the landscape lies on the eye. And the importance of this wisdom of life sinks the form, as of Drama or Epic, out of notice.
    ShP 4.212 10 [Shakespeare] clothed the creatures of his legend with form and sentiments as if they were people who had lived under his roof;...
    GoW 4.262 6 ...nature strives upward; and, in man, the report is something more than print of the seal. It is a new and finer form of the original.
    GoW 4.267 9 The fiery reformer embodies his aspiration in some rite or covenant, and he and his friends cleave to the form and lose the aspiration.
    GoW 4.282 9 In the learned journal, in the influential newspaper, I discern no form;...
    GoW 4.285 4 The lurking daemons sat to [Goethe], and the saint who saw the daemons; and the metaphysical elements took form.
    ET3 5.36 15 Every book we read, every biography, play, romance, in whatever form, is still English history and manners.
    ET4 5.48 23 Trades and professions carve their own lines on face and form.
    ET4 5.50 6 It need not puzzle us that...Saxon and Tartar should mix, when we see the rudiments of tiger and baboon in our human form...
    ET4 5.54 20 I found plenty of well-marked English types...a Norman type, with the complacency that belongs to that constitution. Others who might be Americans, for any thing that appeared in their complexion or form;...
    ET6 5.107 3 [The English] are positive, methodical, cleanly and formal... loving truth and religion...but inexorable on points of form.
    ET8 5.135 15 Here [in England] was lately a cross-grained miser [Joseph Turner]...yet as true a worshipper of beauty in form and color as ever existed...
    ET9 5.147 23 ...[the Englishman] hides no defect of his form, features, dress, connection, or birthplace...
    ET11 5.185 15 ...a race yields a nobility in some form...as surely as it yields women.
    ET12 5.200 8 A youth [at Oxford] came forward to the upper table and pronounced the ancient form of grace before meals...
    ET12 5.209 3 The race of English gentlemen presents an appearance of manly vigor and form not elsewhere to be found among an equal number of persons.
    ET13 5.228 27 The English...cling to the last rag of form, and are dreadfully given to cant.
    ET14 5.242 3 In England these [generalizations]...do all have a kind of filial retrospect to Plato and the Greeks. Of this kind is...Spenser's creed that soul is form, and doth the body make;...
    ET14 5.257 18 Color, like the dawn, flows over the horizon from [Tennyson's] pencil, in waves so rich that we do not miss the central form.
    ET16 5.282 15 This cup or little boat, in which the magnet was made to float on water and so show the north, was probably [the compass's] first form...
    ET18 5.300 25 In Irish districts [of England], men deteriorated in size and shape...with diminished brain and brutal form.
    F 6.11 5 So [a man] has but one future, and that is already...described in that little fatty face...and squat form.
    F 6.20 9 If we rise to spiritual culture, the antagonism takes a spiritual form.
    F 6.20 12 ...whatever form [Maya] took, [Vishnu] took the male form of that kind...
    F 6.20 13 ...whatever form [Maya] took, [Vishnu] took the male form of that kind...
    F 6.34 22 The Fultons and Watts of politics...through a different disposition of society...have contrived to make of this terror the most harmless and energetic form of a State.
    F 6.40 6 The event is the print of your form.
    F 6.48 2 ...whatever lames or paralyzes you draws in with it the divinity, in some form, to repay.
    Pow 6.72 1 We say...that [success] is of main efficacy in carrying on the world, and though rarely found in the right state for an article of commerce, but oftener in the super-saturate or excess which makes it dangerous and destructive,--yet it...must be had in that form...
    Wth 6.93 13 Power is what [men of sense] want...power to give...form and actuality to their thought;...
    Wth 6.110 16 [Immigrants] go into the poor-rates, and though we refuse wages, we must now pay the same amount in the form of taxes.
    Bhr 6.169 10 Nature tells every secret once. Yes, but in man she tells it all the time, by form, attitude...
    Bhr 6.179 15 We look into the eyes to know if this other form is another self...
    Bhr 6.179 24 'T is remarkable too that the spirit that appears at the windows of the house [the eyes] does at once invest himself in a new form of his own to the mind of the beholder.
    Bhr 6.191 10 ...when a man does not write his poetry it...clings to his form and manners...
    Bhr 6.196 5 There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us.
    CbW 6.260 17 ...what we ask daily, is to be conventional. Supply, most kind gods! this defect...in my form...which puts me a little out of the ring...
    Bty 6.279 1 Was never form and never face/ So sweet to Seyd as only grace/ Which did not slumber like a stone/ But hovered gleaming and was gone./
    Bty 6.286 14 ...the power of form and our sensibility to personal influence never go out of fashion.
    Bty 6.287 8 Beauty is the form under which the intellect prefers to study the world.
    Bty 6.287 11 ...there are many beauties; as, of general nature, of the human face and form...
    Bty 6.290 5 Elegance of form...marks some excellence of structure...
    Bty 6.292 11 Beauty is the moment of transition, as if the form were just ready to flow into other forms.
    Bty 6.292 16 Beautiful as is the symmetry of any form, if the form can move we seek a more excellent symmetry.
    Bty 6.294 17 There is a compelling reason in the uses of the plant for every novelty of color or form;...
    Bty 6.295 8 In a house that I know, I have noticed a block of spermaceti lying about closets and mantelpieces, for twenty years together, simply because the tallow-man gave it the form of a rabbit;...
    Bty 6.295 19 ...see how surely a beautiful form strikes the fancy of men...
    Bty 6.296 6 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.
    Bty 6.296 25 French memoires of the sixteenth century celebrate the name of Pauline de Viguier, a...maiden who so fired the enthusiasm of her contemporaries by her enchanting form, that the citizens of her native city of Toulouse obtained the aid of the civil authorities to compel her to appear publicly on the balcony at least twice a week...
    Bty 6.297 26 ...the enamoured youth mixes [women's] form with moon and stars...
    Bty 6.301 24 When the delicious beauty of lineaments loses its power, it is because a more delicious beauty has appeared; that an interior and durable form has been disclosed.
    Bty 6.302 17 The radiance of the human form, though sometimes astonishing, is only a burst of beauty for a few years or a few months at the perfection of youth...
    Bty 6.303 5 [Beauty] is properly not in the form, but in the mind.
    Bty 6.303 26 ...in chosen men and women I find somewhat in form, speech and manners, which is...of a humane, catholic and spiritual character...
    Bty 6.305 6 Into every beautiful object there enters somewhat immeasurable and divine, and just as much into form bounded by outlines... as into tones of music or depths of space.
    Bty 6.305 11 ...when the second-sight of the mind is opened, now one color or form or gesture, and now another, has a pungency...
    Bty 6.306 15 ...there is a climbing scale of culture...up through...features of the human face and form...
    Ill 6.309 17 [In the Mammoth Cave] I...saw every form of stalagmite and stalactite in the sculptured and fretted chambers;...
    SS 7.1 10 ...nor loved [Seyd] less/ Stately lords in palaces/ Princely women hard to please,/ Fenced by form and ceremony/...
    Civ 7.28 13 ...we managed...to fold up the letter in such invisible compact form as [Electricity] could carry in those invisible pockets of his...
    Art2 7.38 3 Thought is the seed of action; but action is as much its second form as thought is its first.
    Art2 7.41 5 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 3 It is the law of fluids that prescribes the shape of the boat...and, in the finer fluid above, the form and tackle of the sails.
    Art2 7.43 10 Music, Eloquence, Poetry, Painting, Sculpture, Architecture. This is a rough enumeration of the Fine Arts. I omit Rhetoric, which only respects the form of eloquence and poetry.
    Art2 7.45 2 A very coarse imitation of the human form on canvas, or in wax-work;...these things give to unpractised eyes...almost as much pleasure as a statue of Canova or a picture of Titian.
    Art2 7.45 20 ...how much is there that is not original...in...whatever is national or usual; as the usage of building all Roman churches in the form of a cross...
    Art2 7.50 22 ...in the moment or in the successive moments when that form [of a work of art] was seen, the iron lids of Reason were unclosed...
    Art2 7.53 5 The most perfect form to answer an end is so far beautiful.
    Art2 7.53 26 ...each work of art...took its form from the broad hint of Nature.
    Art2 7.54 5 The first form in which [savages] built a house would be the first form of their public and religious edifice also.
    Art2 7.54 6 The first form in which [savages] built a house would be the first form of their public and religious edifice also.
    Art2 7.54 8 The first form in which [savages] built a house would be the first form of their public and religious edifice also. This form becomes immediately sacred in the eyes of their children...
    DL 7.108 12 ...we are always hovering round this better divination. In one form or another we are always returning to it.
    DL 7.108 17 We are sure that the sacred form of man is not seen in these whimsical, pitiful and sinister masks...
    DL 7.109 7 Do you see the man,--his form, genius and aspiration,--in his economy?
    DL 7.116 14 ...this voice of communities and ages, Give us wealth and the good household shall exist, is vicious, and leaves the whole difficulty untouched. It is better, certainly, in this form, Give us your labor, and the household begins.
    DL 7.126 15 There is no face, no form, which one cannot in fancy associate with great power of intellect or with generosity of soul.
    DL 7.126 27 Our friends are not their own highest form.
    DL 7.127 4 The secret power of form over the imagination and affections transcends all our philosophy.
    DL 7.127 9 The first glance we meet may satisfy us...that no laws of line or surface can ever account for the inexhaustible expressiveness of form.
    Farm 7.144 26 The invisible and creeping air takes form and solid mass.
    WD 7.157 5 Man is the meter of all things, said Aristotle; the hand is the instrument of instruments, and the mind is the form of forms.
    WD 7.176 16 In the Christian graces, humility stands highest of all, in the form of the Madonna;...
    Boks 7.214 9 ...books that...distribute things...with as daring a freedom as we use in dreams...enable us to form an original judgment of our duties...
    Boks 7.219 16 [The communications of the sacred books]...are living characters translatable into every tongue and form of life.
    Suc 7.300 15 If thought is form, sentiment is color.
    Suc 7.302 13 This sensibility appears...in the power which form and color exert upon the soul;...
    Suc 7.303 25 ...[the lover] reads omens on the flower, and cloud, and face, and form, and gesture...
    PI 8.5 14 I believe this conviction makes the charm of chemistry,--that we have the same avoirdupois matter in an alembic, without a vestige of the old form;...
    PI 8.5 17 I believe this conviction makes the charm of chemistry,--that we have the same avoirdupois matter in an alembic, without a vestige of the old form; and in animal transformation not less, as...in embryo and man; everything undressing and stealing away from its old into new form...
    PI 8.8 25 Each animal or vegetable form remembers the next inferior and predicts the next higher.
    PI 8.10 14 The metaphysician, the poet, only sees each animal form as an inevitable step in the path of the creating mind.
    PI 8.11 23 ...the aptness with which a river, a flower, a bird, fire, day or night, can express [man's] fortunes, is as if the world...with a change of form, rendered to him all his experience.
    PI 8.15 14 ...the thoughts of God pause but for a moment in any form.
    PI 8.19 3 In the presence and conversation of a true poet, teeming with images to express his enlarging thought, his person, his form, grows larger to our fascinated eyes.
    PI 8.23 11 The world is thoroughly anthropomorphized, as if it had passed through the body and mind of man, and taken his mould and form.
    PI 8.24 11 The senses collect the surface facts of matter. The intellect acts on these brute reports, and obtains from them results which are the essence or intellectual form of the experiences.
    PI 8.29 12 Fancy is related to color; imagination, to form.
    PI 8.47 16 Another form of rhyme is iterations of phrase...
    PI 8.49 10 ...there is nothing on earth which is not in the heavens in a heavenly form...
    PI 8.49 12 ...there is...nothing in the heavens which is not on the earth in an earthly form.
    PI 8.52 23 Let Poetry then pass, if it will, into music and rhyme. That is the form which itself puts on.
    PI 8.53 1 Substance [in poetry] is much, but so are mode and form much.
    PI 8.54 13 Ask the fact for the form.
    PI 8.58 18 [The wind] was not born, it sees not,/ And is not seen; it does not come when desired;/ It has no form, it bears no burden,/ For it is void of sin./
    PI 8.71 21 The free spirit sympathizes not only with the actual form, but with the power or possible forms;...
    PI 8.72 3 One would say of the force in the works of Nature, all depends on the battery. If it give one shock, we shall get to the fish form, and stop;...
    Comc 8.159 9 ...the human form is a pledge of wholeness...
    Comc 8.159 13 We have a primary association between perfectness and this [human] form.
    Comc 8.163 10 [Wit] is like ice, on which no beauty of form, no majesty of carriage can plead any immunity...
    Comc 8.165 4 ...the more overgrown the particular form is, the more ridiculous to the intellect.
    Comc 8.171 9 ...among the women in the street, you shall see one...wearing withal an expression of meek submission to her bonnet and dress; and another whose dress obeys and heightens the expression of her form.
    Comc 8.171 11 More food for the Comic is afforded whenever the personal appearance, the face, form and manners, are subjects of thought with the man himself.
    QO 8.175 4 The snowflake that is now falling is marked by both [old and new]. The present moment gives the motion and the color of the flake, Antiquity its form and properties.
    QO 8.182 3 ...what we daily observe in regard to the bon-mots that circulate in society...the same growth befalls mythology: the legend is tossed from believer to poet, from poet to believer, everybody adding a grace or dropping a fault or rounding the form...
    PC 8.205 5 ...as through dreams in watches of the night,/ So through all creatures in their form and ways/ Some mystic hint accosts the vigilant/...
    PPo 8.248 3 What is pent and smouldered in the dumb actor, is not pent in the poet, but passes over into new form...
    PPo 8.250 2 Hafiz praises...birds, mornings and music, to give vent to his immense hilarity and sympathy with every form of beauty and joy;...
    PPo 8.253 16 ...we must try to give some of [Hafiz's] poetic flourishes the metrical form which they seem to require...
    Insp 8.296 10 ...now one, now another landscape, form, color, or companion...strikes the electric chain with which we are darkly bound...
    Grts 8.303 3 Self-respect is the early form in which greatness appears.
    Imtl 8.324 13 ...where this belief [in immortality] once existed it would necessarily take a base form for the savage and a pure form for the wise;...
    Imtl 8.327 9 ...Swedenborg...explained his opinion of the history and destiny of souls in a narrative form...
    Imtl 8.342 8 [Said Goethe] If I work incessantly till my death, Nature is bound to give me another form of existence...
    Imtl 8.346 9 We cannot prove our faith [in immortality] by syllogisms. The argument refuses to form in the mind.
    Dem1 10.15 11 It is not the tendency of our times to ascribe importance...to omens. But the faith in peculiar and alien power takes another form in the modern mind...
    Dem1 10.15 25 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;...
    Dem1 10.25 21 ...in the Universe no man was ever known to get a cent's worth without paying in some form or other the cent...
    Aris 10.55 1 ...noble sentiment is the highest form of Beauty.
    Aris 10.60 16 There is...no sentiment or thought that will not sometime embody itself in the form of a friend.
    Aris 10.62 8 ...[the true man] is to know...that there is a master grace and dignity communicated by exalted sentiments to a human form...
    PerF 10.72 21 ...the laws of force apply to every form of it.
    PerF 10.75 9 Labor hides itself in every mode and form.
    PerF 10.75 13 [Labor] surprises in the perfect form and condition of trees clean of caterpillars and borers...
    PerF 10.87 25 ...the courts snatch...at any vicious form of law to rule [the moral sentiment] out;...
    Chr2 10.107 16 ...it by no means follows, because those [earlier religious] offices are much disused, that the men and women are irreligious;...but only...that they see that they can omit the form without loss of real ground;...
    Chr2 10.107 19 ...it by no means follows, because those [earlier religious] offices are much disused, that the men and women are irreligious;...but only...perhaps that they find some violence, some cramping of their freedom of thought, in the constant recurrence of the form.
    Edc1 10.148 7 You must not neglect the form [in education], but you must secure the essentials.
    Supl 10.171 3 Men of the world value truth...not by its sacredness, but for its convenience. Of such, especially of diplomatists, one has a right to expect wit and ingenuity to avoid the lie if they must comply with the form.
    Supl 10.172 24 Our travelling is a sort of search for the superlatives or summits of art,-much more the real wonders of power in the human form.
    Supl 10.176 20 ...[Nature] appoints us to keep within the sharp boundaries of form as the condition of our strength...
    SovE 10.183 20 That convertibility we so admire in plants and animal structures, whereby the repairs and ulterior uses are subserved, when one part is wounded or deficient, by another; this self-help and self-creation proceed from the same original power which works remotely in grandest and meanest structures by the same design,-works in a lobster or a mite-worm as a wise man would if imprisoned in that poor form.
    SovE 10.184 26 The poor grub, in the hole of a tree, by yielding itself to Nature, goes blameless through its low part...expands into a beautiful form with rainbow wings...
    Prch 10.220 4 Art will embody this vanishing Spirit in temples, pictures, sculptures and hymns. The senses instantly transfer the reverence from the vanishing Spirit to this steadfast form.
    Prch 10.229 5 ...anything but losing hold of the moral intuitions, as betrayed in the clinging to a form of devotion or a theological dogma;...
    MoL 10.244 1 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.
    LLNE 10.331 10 If any of my readers were at that period [1820] in Boston or Cambridge, they will easily remember [Everett's] radiant beauty of person...his heavy large eye, marble lids, which gave the impression of mass which the slightness of his form needed;...
    LLNE 10.334 10 ...he [Everett] who was heard with such throbbing hearts and sparkling eyes in the lighted and crowded churches, did not let go his hearers when the church was dismissed, but the bright image of that eloquent form followed the boy home to his bed-chamber;...
    LLNE 10.334 23 ...[Everett's] power lay in the magic of form;...
    LLNE 10.335 5 ...works of genius in their first and slightest form are still wholes.
    LLNE 10.335 24 In the pulpit Dr. Frothingham...had already made us acquainted...with the genius of Eichhorn's theologic criticism. And Professor Norton a little later gave form and method to the like studies in the then infant Divinity School.
    LLNE 10.341 19 Margaret Fuller, George Ripley, Dr. Convers Francis, Theodore Parker, Dr. Hedge, Mr. Brownson, James Freeman Clarke, William H. Channing and many others...from time to time spent an afternoon at each other's houses in a serious conversation. With them was always one well-known form...
    LLNE 10.343 14 From that time meetings were held for conversation, with very little form...
    EzRy 10.383 20 I am sure all who remember both will associate [Ezra Ripley's] form with whatever was grave and droll in the old, cold, unpainted, uncarpeted, square-pewed meeting-house...
    EzRy 10.395 5 ...[Ezra Ripley] adopted heartily, though in its mildest form, the creed and catechism of the fathers...
    MMEm 10.416 15 Folly follows me [Mary Moody Emerson] as the shadow does the form.
    MMEm 10.428 15 For years [Mary Moody Emerson] had her bed made in the form of a coffin;...
    MMEm 10.429 11 [Mary Moody Emerson wrote] Tedious indisposition:- hoped, as it took a new form, it would open the cool, sweet grave.
    MMEm 10.429 13 [Mary Moody Emerson wrote] Tedious indisposition:- hoped, as it took a new form, it would open the cool, sweet grave. Now existence itself in any form is sweet.
    SlHr 10.443 23 [Samuel Hoar] retained to the last the erectness of his tall but slender form...
    Thor 10.472 1 [Thoreau] confessed that he...if born among Indians, would have been a fell hunter. But, restrained by his Massachusetts culture, he played out the game in this mild form of botany and ichthyology.
    GSt 10.505 16 When one remembers...the celerity with which his purpose took form;...I think this single will [George Stearns] was worth to the cause ten thousand ordinary partisans...
    LS 11.8 8 ...men more easily transmit a form than a virtue...
    LS 11.13 17 It was only too probable that among the half-converted Pagans and Jews, any rite, any form, would find favor...
    LS 11.16 18 But it is said: Admit that the rite [the Lord's Supper] was not designed to be perpetual. What harm doth it? Here it stands, generally accepted, under some form, by the Christian world...
    LS 11.16 23 I proceed to state a few objections that in my judgment lie against [the Lord's Supper's] use in its present form.
    LS 11.20 17 ...an importance is given by Christians to [the Lord's Supper] which never can belong to any form.
    LS 11.20 23 ...to adhere to one form a moment after it is outgrown, is unreasonable...
    LS 11.21 24 That form out of which the life and suitableness have departed should be as worthless in [Christianity's] eyes as the dead leaves that are falling around us.
    LS 11.22 10 In the midst of considerations as to what Paul thought, and why he so thought, I cannot help feeling that it is time misspent to argue to or from his convictions, or those of Luke and John, respecting any form.
    LS 11.23 3 ...the Almighty God was pleased to qualify and send forth a man to teach men...that sacrifice was smoke, and forms were shadows. This man lived and died true to this purpose; and now...Christians must contend that it is...really a duty, to commemorate him by a certain form [the Lord's Supper], whether that form be agreeable to their understandings or not.
    LS 11.23 11 ...in the eye of God there is no other measure of the value of any one form than the measure of its use?
    LS 11.24 2 My brethren...have recommended, unanimously, an adherence to the present form [of the Lord's Supper].
    HDC 11.50 23 The man of the woods might well draw on himself the compassion of the planters. His erect and perfect form...was found joined to a dwindled soul.
    LVB 11.92 14 The piety, the principle that is left in the United States, if only in its coarsest form...forbid us to entertain [the relocation of the Cherokees] as a fact.
    EWI 11.145 16 ...now let [the black race] emerge, clothed and in their own form.
    War 11.155 19 The instinct of self-help is very early unfolded in the coarse and merely brute form of war...
    War 11.155 21 The instinct of self-help is very early unfolded in the coarse and merely brute form of way, only in the childhood and imbecility of the other instincts, and remains in that form only until their development.
    War 11.160 4 For ages...the human race has gone on under the tyranny...of this first brutish form of their effort to be men;...
    War 11.160 9 [The human race] have nearly exhausted all the good and all the evil of this [first brutish] form...
    FSLC 11.202 20 We delighted in [Webster's] form and face...
    FSLN 11.234 6 I fear there is no reliance to be put on any kind or form of covenant...
    FSLN 11.237 9 The end for which man was made is not crime in any form...
    JBB 11.273 2 ...your habeas corpus is, in any way in which it has been, or, I fear, is likely to be used, a nuisance, and not a protection; for it takes away [a man's] right reliance on himself...by offering him a form which is a piece of paper.
    EdAd 11.393 7 ...a few friends of good letters have thought fit to associate themselves for the conduct of a new journal. We have obeyed the custom and convenience of the time in adopting this form of a Review...
    EdAd 11.393 9 ...a few friends of good letters have thought fit to associate themselves for the conduct of a new journal. We have obeyed the custom and convenience of the time in adopting this form of a Review, as a mould into which all metal most easily runs. But the form shall not be suffered to be an impediment.
    Wom 11.403 7 ...there in the parlor sits/ Some figure in noble guise,-/ Our Angel in a stranger's form;/ Or Woman's pleading eyes./
    Wom 11.409 1 Conversation is our account of ourselves. All we have, all we can, all we know, is brought into play, and as the reproduction, in finer form, of all our havings.
    Wom 11.409 17 Form and ceremony are [women's] realm.
    FRO1 11.476 3 In many forms we try/ To utter God's infinity,/ But the Boundless has no form,/ And the Universal Friend/ Doth as far transcend/ An angel as a worm./
    FRO2 11.488 9 The point of difference that still remains between churches...is in the addition to the moral code...of somewhat positive and historical. I think that to be, as Mr. Abbot has stated it in his form, the one difference remaining.
    CPL 11.496 22 ...it is not easy to exaggerate the utility of the beneficence which takes this form [building of a library].
    PLT 12.11 20 I cannot myself use that systematic form which is reckoned essential in treating the science of the mind.
    PLT 12.14 14 There is something surgical in metaphysics as we treat it. Were not an ode a better form?
    PLT 12.21 21 ...the lowest only means incipient form...
    PLT 12.27 6 A man has been in Spain. The facts and thoughts which the traveller has found in that country gradually settle themselves into a determinate heap of one size and form and not another.
    PLT 12.30 1 If [a man] could attain full size he would take up, first or last, atom by atom, all the world into a new form.
    PLT 12.35 26 ...what else [than Instinct] was it they represented in Pan... who was not yet completely finished in godlike form...
    PLT 12.36 17 [Pan]...was not represented by any outward image; a terror sometimes, at others a placid omnipotence. Such homage did the Greek- delighting in accurate form...pay to the unscrutable force we call Instinct...
    PLT 12.39 5 A man of talent has only to name any form or fact with which we are most familiar, and the strong light which he throws on it enhances it to all eyes.
    PLT 12.42 20 Genius is a delicate sensibility to the laws of the world, adding the power to express them again in some new form.
    II 12.71 9 The divine energy...casts its old garb, and reappears, another creature; the old energy in a new form...
    II 12.85 14 Each must have all, but by no means need he have it in your form.
    Mem 12.91 24 Once [the active mind] joined its facts by color and form and sensuous relations.
    CInt 12.128 1 ...I thought...a college was to teach you...chemistry, botany, zoology, the streaming of thought into form, and the precipitation of atoms which Nature is.
    CInt 12.128 11 Now if there be genius in the scholar, a delicate sensibility to the laws of the world, and the power to express them again in some new form, he is made to find his own way.
    CL 12.145 20 [The Farmer] saves every drop of sap, as if it were wine. A few years ago those trees were whipsticks. Now, every one of them is worth a hundred dollars. Observe their form; not a branch nor a twig is to spare.
    CL 12.149 12 The Hindoos called fire Agni...of graceful form and whose countenance is turned on all sides.
    CL 12.154 22 Dr. Johnson said of the Scotch mountains, The appearance is that of matter incapable of form or usefulness...
    CL 12.166 21 ...[a parlor in which fine persons are found] again is Nature, and there we have again the charm which landscape gives us, in a finer form;...
    Bost 12.200 7 America is growing like a cloud...and wealth...is piled in every form invented for comfort or pride.
    MAng1 12.213 2 Never did sculptor's dream unfold/ A form which marble doth not hold/ In its white block;.../
    MAng1 12.220 2 The human form, says Goethe, cannot be comprehended through seeing its surface.
    MAng1 12.220 18 Granacci, a painter's apprentice, having lent [Michelangelo], when a boy, a print of Saint Antony beaten by devils, together with some colors and pencils, he went to the fish-market to observe the form and color of fins and of the eyes of fish.
    MAng1 12.221 23 ...reflection discloses evermore a closer analogy between the finite [human] form and the infinite inhabitant.
    MAng1 12.222 4 There needs no better proof of our instinctive feeling of the immense expression of which the human figure is capable than the uniform tendency which the religion of every country has betrayed towards Anthropomorphism, or attributing to the Deity the human form.
    MAng1 12.233 19 Through [superficial beauty] [Michelangelo] beheld the eternal spiritual beauty which ever clothes itself with grand and graceful outlines, as its appropriate form.
    MAng1 12.234 2 ...as...[Michelangelo] sought to approach the Beautiful by the study of the True, so he failed not...to seek Beauty in its highest form, that of Goodness.
    Milt1 12.258 14 The form and the voice of Leonora Baroni seemed to have captivated [Milton] in Rome...
    Milt1 12.265 14 [Milton's native honor] breathed itself over his decent form.
    Milt1 12.274 16 [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./ And the soul of this divine creature is excellent as his form.
    MLit 12.314 5 Every form under the whole heaven [the narrow-minded] behold in this most partial light or darkness of intense selfishness...
    MLit 12.324 9 With the sharpest eye for form, color, botany...[Goethe] never stopped at surface...
    WSL 12.340 14 ...[Landor's Imaginary Conversations] seems to us as original in its form as in its matter.
    Pray 12.351 2 The prayer of Jesus is (as it deserves) become a form for the human race.
    Pray 12.354 3 The next [prayer] is in a metrical form.
    EurB 12.373 25 The story of Zanoni was one of those world-fables which is so agreeable to the human imagination that it is found in some form in the language of every country...
    PPr 12.384 27 Here is a book [Carlyle's Past and Present] as full of treason as an egg is full of meat, and every lordship and worship and high form and ceremony of English conservatism tossed like a football into the air...
    PPr 12.387 12 ...[each age's] limitation assumes the poetic form of a beautiful superstition, as the dimness of our sight clothes the objects in the horizon with mist and color.
    Trag 12.412 12 To this architectural stability of the human form, the Greek genius added an ideal beauty...

Form, n. (2)

    Art1 2.354 10 We carve and paint...as students of the mystery of Form.
    PI 8.45 9 Melody, Rhyme, Form.--Music and rhyme are among the earliest pleasures of the child...

form, v. (31)

    Nat 1.37 7 What tedious training...to form the common sense;...
    Nat 1.37 11 ...what disputing of prices, what reckonings of interest, - and all to form the Hand of the mind;...
    MN 1.206 2 An individual man is a fruit which it cost all the foregoing ages to form and ripen.
    MN 1.223 25 ...[these qualities]...form an essence...
    SL 2.133 7 We form no guess, at the time of receiving a thought, of its comparative value.
    Chr1 3.108 19 [Character] may not, probably does not, form relations rapidly;...
    Pol1 3.216 3 That which...which freedom, cultivation, intercourse, revolutions, go to form and deliver, is character;...
    ET11 5.187 15 On general grounds, whatever tends to form manners or to finish men, has a great value.
    ET12 5.208 17 ...at the universities, it is urged that all goes to form what England values as the flower of its national life,--a well-educated gentleman.
    ET13 5.219 10 The [English] universities also are parcel of the ecclesiastical system, and their first design is to form the clergy.
    Bhr 6.169 22 [Manners] form at last a rich varnish with which the routine of life is washed and its details adorned.
    Bhr 6.175 1 Broad lands and great interests...form manners of power.
    Wsp 6.217 13 Given the equality of two intellects,--which will form the most reliable judgments, the good, or the bad hearted?
    DL 7.127 25 Whilst thus Nature and the hints we draw from man suggest... a household equal to the beauty and grandeur of this world, especially we learn the same lesson from those best relations to individual men which the heart is always prompting us to form.
    WD 7.171 1 ...the treasures which Nature spent itself to amass,--the secular, refined, composite anatomy of man, which all strata go to form...are given immeasurably to all.
    SA 8.83 12 What happiness [accurate mates] give,--what ties they form!
    Elo2 8.112 17 ...the political questions...find or form a class of men by nature and habit fit to discuss and deal with these measures...
    Res 8.145 16 ...the Corsicans at the battle of Golo...made use of the bodies of their dead to form an intrenchment.
    QO 8.201 11 ...however received, these elements pass into the substance of [the individual's] constitution...and tend always to form, not a partisan, but a possessor of truth.
    PC 8.210 5 When classes are exasperated against each other, the peace of the world is always kept by striking a new note. Instantly the units part, and form a new order...
    PC 8.220 7 All [the true student's] own work and culture form the eye to see the master.
    Grts 8.309 23 As [the Quakers] express [self-respect], it might be thus...if at any time I form some plan...I perhaps find a silent obstacle in my mind that I cannot account for.
    Chr2 10.119 22 If there is any tendency in national expansion to form character, religion will not be a loser.
    Edc1 10.150 25 [In colleges] You have to work for large classes instead of individuals;...you grow departmental, routinary, military almost with your discipline and college police. But what doth such a school to form a great and heroic character?
    SovE 10.186 23 ...[the moral powers] are thirsts for action, and the more you accumulate, the more they mould and form.
    LS 11.16 12 On every other subject [than the Lord's Supper] succeeding times have learned to form a judgment more in accordance with the spirit of Christianity than was the practice of the early ages.
    SMC 11.354 4 As long as we debate in council, both sides may form their private guess what the event may be, or which is the strongest.
    PLT 12.20 5 This methodizing mind meets no resistance in its attempts. The scattered blocks, with which it strives to form a symmetrical structure, fit.
    PLT 12.32 2 ...each tree can secrete from the soil the elements that form a peach, a lemon, or a cocoa-nut, according to its kind...
    II 12.67 9 ...we must form the habit of preferring in all cases this guidance [of instinct], which is given as it is used.
    CInt 12.127 4 ...here [in the college] Imagination should be greeted with the problems in which it delights;...here...enthusiasm for liberty and wisdom should breed enthusiasm and form heroes for the state.

formae, n. (1)

    Bty 6.305 24 ...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, vis superba formae, which the poets praise...

formal, adj. (21)

    DSA 1.131 5 ...the language that describes Christ...is appropriated and formal...
    LT 1.262 19 [Persons] are the pungent instructors who...make all other teaching formal and cold.
    Con 1.312 13 Is it not exaggerating a trifle to insist on a formal acknowledgment of your claims...
    SL 2.158 4 In every troop of boys...a new-comer is as well and accurately weighed in the course of a few days and stamped with his right number, as if he had undergone a formal trial of his strength, speed and temper.
    Pol1 3.215 22 The antidote to this abuse of formal government is the influence of private character...
    NER 3.254 11 ...it was directly in the spirit and genius of the age, what happened in one instance when a church censured and threatened to excommunicate one of its members...the threatened individual immediately excommunicated the church, in a public and formal process.
    ET6 5.107 1 [The English] are positive, methodical, cleanly and formal...
    Bhr 6.184 12 The theatre in which this science of manners has a formal importance is not with us a court, but dress-circles...
    Wsp 6.203 5 Men as naturally make a state, or a church, as caterpillars a web. If they were more refined, it would be less formal...
    Prch 10.217 3 In the history of opinion, the pinch of falsehood shows itself first, not in argument and formal protest, but in insincerity, indifference and abandonment of the Church...
    LLNE 10.337 5 ...whether by a reaction of the general mind against the too formal science, religion and social life of the earlier period,-there was, in the first quarter of our nineteenth century, a certain sharpness of criticism...
    LLNE 10.343 18 From that time meetings were held for conversation...of people...watchful of all the intellectual light from whatever quarter it flowed. Nothing could be less formal...
    LLNE 10.361 11 ...impulse was the rule in the society [at Brook Farm], without centripetal balance; perhaps it would not be severe to say...an impatience of the formal, routinary character of our educational, religious, social and economical life in Massachusetts.
    CSC 10.373 21 This [Chardon Street] Convention never...pretended to arrive at any result by the expression of its sense in formal resolutions;...
    SlHr 10.447 12 [Samuel Hoar] was a model of those formal but reverend manners which make what is called a gentleman of the old school...
    LS 11.8 20 ...many persons are apt to imagine that the very striking and personal manner in which the eating and drinking [at the Last Supper] is described, indicates a striking and formal purpose to found a festival.
    LS 11.22 16 ...that for which Jesus gave himself to be crucified;...was to redeem us from a formal religion...
    HDC 11.51 13 In 1644, Squaw Sachem, the widow of Nanepashemet...with two sachems of Wachusett, made a formal submission to the English government, and intimated their desire...to learn to read God's word and know God aright;...
    JBB 11.271 17 ...the government, the judges...give...such protection as they gave to their own Commodore Paulding, when he was simple enough to mistake the formal instructions of his government for their real meaning.
    SMC 11.374 16 The brigade of which the Thirty-second Regiment formed part was detailed to receive the formal surrender of the rebel arms.
    EdAd 11.389 25 ...the laws and governors cannot possess a commanding interest for any but vacant or fanatical people; for the reason that this is simply a formal and superficial interest;...

formalism, n. (3)

    MoS 4.171 25 Every superior mind...will know how to avail himself of the checks and balances in nature, as a natural weapon against the exaggeration and formalism of bigots and blockheads.
    EzRy 10.383 16 ...[Ezra Ripley] and his coevals seemed the rear guard of the great camp and army of the Puritans, which, however in its last days declining into formalism, in the heyday of its strength had planted and liberated America.
    JBB 11.272 3 ...the use of a judge is to secure good government, and where the citizen's weal is imperilled by abuse of the federal power, to use that arm which can secure it, viz., the local government. Had that been done on certain calamitous occasions, we should not have seen the honor of Massachusetts trailed in the dust...by the ill-timed formalism of a venerable bench.

formalist, n. (2)

    DSA 1.137 13 Whenever the pulpit is usurped by a formalist, then is the worshipper defrauded...
    Hist 2.28 20 The cramping influence of a hard formalist on a young child... is a familiar fact...

formalists, n. (2)

    Prd1 2.225 6 There revolve...the sun and moon, the great formalists in the sky...
    Pow 6.66 19 It is an esoteric doctrine of society that a little wickedness is good to make muscle;...as if poor decayed formalists of law and order cannot run like wild goats, wolves, and conies;...

formality, n. (2)

    DSA 1.140 20 If no heart warm this rite [the Lord's Supper], the hollow, dry, creaking formality is too plain...
    SL 2.142 20 Foolish, whenever you take the meanness and formality of that thing you do...

formally, adv. (3)

    ET5 5.75 6 Last of all the Norman or French-Dane arrived [in England], and formally conquered, harried and ruled the kingdom.
    War 11.170 9 How is [this new aspiration of the human mind towards peace] to pass out of thoughts into things? Not, certainly...in the way of routine and mere forms...not by...going through a course of resolutions and public manifestoes, and being thus formally accredited to the public and to the civility of the newspapers.
    Milt1 12.254 24 Many philosophers in England, France and Germany have formally dedicated their study to this problem [human nature];...

formation, n. (9)

    Con 1.318 15 ...we are bound to see that the society of which we compose a part, does not permit the formation or continuance of views and practices injurious to the honor and welfare of mankind.
    Comp 2.126 21 The death of a dear friend...somewhat later assumes the aspect of a guide or genius; for it commonly...breaks up a wonted occupation, or a household, or style of living, and allows the formation of new ones more friendly to the growth of character.
    Comp 2.126 23 [The death of a friend] permits or constrains the formation of new acquaintances...
    Nat2 3.180 24 A little water made to rotate in a cup explains the formation of the simpler shells;...
    GoW 4.264 17 Nature has dearly at heart the formation of the speculative man, or scholar.
    ET6 5.111 19 The Englishman is finished like a cowry or a murex. After the spire and the spines are formed, or with the formation, a juice exudes and a hard enamel varnishes every part.
    PerF 10.71 5 The coal on your grate gives out in decomposing to-day exactly the same amount of light and heat which was taken from the sunshine in its formation in the leaves and boughs of the antediluvian tree.
    LS 11.22 17 ...that for which Jesus gave himself to be crucified;...was to... teach us to seek our well-being in the formation of the soul.
    HDC 11.43 27 The nature of man and his condition in the world, for the first time within the period of certain history, controlled the formation of the State [in Massachusetts].

formations, n. (2)

    LT 1.289 22 The granite is curiously concealed under a thousand formations and surfaces...
    Cour 7.256 25 Men are so charmed with valor that they have pleased themselves with being called lions, leopards, eagles and dragons, from the animals contemporary with us in the geologic formations.

formed, v. (65)

    Nat 1.37 4 Proportioned to the importance of the organ to be formed, is the extreme care with which its tuition is provided...
    Nat 1.45 18 [The spirit] says...in such as this [human form] have I found and beheld myself; I will speak to it;...it can yield me thought already formed and alive.
    Con 1.318 8 These considerations, urged by those whose characters and whose fortunes are yet to be formed, must needs command the sympathy of all reasonable persons.
    Hist 2.24 15 In [the Grecian state] existed those human forms which supplied the sculptor with his models of Hercules, Phoebus, and Jove;... wherein the face is...composed of...symmetrical features, whose eye-sockets are so formed that it would be impossible for such eyes to squint and take furtive glances on this side and on that...
    SL 2.137 24 He who...thoroughly knows how knowledge is acquired and character formed, is a pedant.
    SL 2.151 14 Nothing is more deeply punished than the neglect of the affinities by which alone society should be formed...
    Cir 2.304 8 ...it is the inert effort of each thought, having formed itself into a circular wave of circumstance...to heap itself on that ridge...
    Int 2.326 18 Nature shows all things formed and bound.
    Art1 2.352 18 ...the new in art is always formed out of the old.
    Art1 2.367 1 As soon as beauty is sought...for pleasure, it degrades the seeker. ...an effeminate, prudent, sickly beauty, which is not beauty, is all that can be formed;...
    Exp 3.75 13 ...out of unbeliefs a creed shall be formed.
    Nat2 3.180 5 Now we learn what patient periods must round themselves before the rock is formed;...
    NR 3.242 22 ...the points come in succession to the meridian, and by the speed of rotation a new whole is formed.
    NER 3.264 2 Following or advancing beyond the ideas of St. Simon, of Fourier, and of Owen, three communities have already been formed in Massachusetts on kindred plans...
    SwM 4.131 17 [Swedenborg] was let down through a column that seemed of brass, but it was formed of angelic spirits...
    MoS 4.163 2 ...when in Paris, in 1833...in the cemetery of Pere Lachaise, I came to a tomb of Auguste Collignon...who, said the monument, lived to do right, and had formed himself to virtue on the Essays of Montaigne.
    ET1 5.5 19 [Greenough's] face was so handsome and his person so well formed that he might be pardoned, if, as was alleged, the face of his Medora and the figure of a colossal Achilles in clay, were idealizations of his own.
    ET4 5.65 14 [The English] are round, ruddy and handsome; at least the whole bust is well formed...
    ET5 5.77 14 A hard temperament had been formed by Saxon and Saxon-Dane...
    ET6 5.111 18 The Englishman is finished like a cowry or a murex. After the spire and the spines are formed...a juice exudes and a hard enamel varnishes every part.
    ET13 5.214 17 In the barbarous days of a nation, some cultus is formed or imported;...
    Wth 6.101 3 Napoleon was fond of telling the story of the Marseilles banker who said to his visitor...Young man, you are too young to understand how masses are formed;...
    Ctr 6.133 1 The [egotistical] man runs round a ring formed by his own talent...
    Ctr 6.139 21 We know that an army which can be confided in may be formed by discipline;...
    Ctr 6.155 24 ...the habits should be formed to retirement.
    Art2 7.41 6 Dollond formed his achromatic telescope on the model of the human eye.
    Art2 7.51 6 ...the delight which a work of art affords, seems to arise from our recognizing in it the mind that formed Nature...
    DL 7.127 27 Happy will that house be in which the relations are formed from character;...
    PI 8.74 6 Poetry is inestimable as...a lonely protest in the uproar of atheism. But so many men are ill-born or ill-bred,--the brains are...so imperfectly formed...that the doctrine is imperfectly received.
    Res 8.143 13 See how nations of customers are formed.
    QO 8.200 3 You are fed and formed by [the past].
    Grts 8.310 23 ...if the first rule is...to accept the work for which you were inwardly formed,-the second rule is concentration...
    Chr2 10.94 1 The antagonist nature is the individual, formed into a finite body of exact dimensions...
    Edc1 10.146 23 ...[Fellowes] was able to reconstruct, in the British Museum...the perfect model of the Ionic trophy-monument...which had been destroyed by earthquakes, then by iconoclast Christians, then by savage Turks. But mark that in the task he...had formed a college for himself;...
    MoL 10.250 22 ...what does the scholar represent? The organ of ideas... imparting pulses of light and shocks of electricity, guidance and courage. So let his habits be formed...
    Schr 10.278 6 These iron personalities, such as in Greece and Italy...were formed to strike fear into kings...rarely appear [in America].
    LLNE 10.358 20 Why could not the like partnership be formed between the inventor and the man of executive talent everywhere?
    LLNE 10.359 15 The West Roxbury Association was formed in 1841...
    MMEm 10.404 12 [Mary Moody Emerson] writes to her nephew Charles Emerson, in 1833... I never expected connections and matrimony. My taste was formed in romance, and I knew I was not destined to please.
    MMEm 10.424 17 ...He who formed thy [Time's] web, who stretched thy warp from long ages, has graciously given man to throw his shuttle, or feel he does, and irradiate the filling woof with many a flowery rainbow,- labors, rather...
    SlHr 10.447 9 It seemed as if the New England church had formed [Samuel Hoar] to be its friend and defender;...
    Thor 10.460 14 One man [John Brown], whose personal acquaintance he had formed, [Thoreau] honored with exceptional regard.
    GSt 10.502 4 As early as 1855 the Emigrant Aid Society was formed;...
    HDC 11.29 22 The river...every winter, for ages, has spread its crust of ice over the great meadows which, in ages, it had formed.
    HDC 11.42 25 Each of the parts of that perfect structure grew out of the necessities of an instant occasion. The germ was formed in England.
    EWI 11.116 13 At Grace Bay, [the day following emancipation in the West Indies] the people, all dressed in white, formed a procession...
    War 11.160 27 Cannot peace be, as well as war? This thought is...the rising of the general tide in the human soul,-and rising highest, and first made visible, in the most simple and pure souls, who have therefore announced it to us beforehand; but presently we all see it. It has now become so distinct as to be a social thought: societies can be formed on it.
    FSLC 11.194 5 ...the womb conceives and the breasts give suck to thousands and millions of hairy babes formed not in the image of your statute, but in the image of the Universe;...
    JBS 11.279 12 [In John Brown's boyhood] was formed a romantic character absolutely without any vulgar trait;...
    SMC 11.358 21 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, cost him what struggles it might. Yet it is from this temperament of sensibility that great heroes have been formed.
    SMC 11.362 4 [George Prescott] never remits his care of the men, aiming to hold them to their good habits and to keep them cheerful. For the first point, he...encourages a temperance society which is formed in the camp.
    SMC 11.363 21 When, afterwards, five of [George Prescott's] men were prisoners in the Parish Prison in New Orleans, they...formed a debating-club...
    SMC 11.366 10 The regiment [Fifty-ninth Massachusetts] being formed of veterans, and in fields requiring great activity and exposure, suffered extraordinary losses;...
    SMC 11.367 3 After the return of the three months' company to Concord, in 1861, Captain Prescott raised a new company of volunteers, and Captain Bowers another. Each of these companies included recruits from this town [Concord], and they formed part of the Thirty-second Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteers.
    SMC 11.368 16 At the battle of Gettysburg, in July, 1863, the brigade of which the Thirty-second Regiment formed a part, was in line of battle seventy-two hours...
    SMC 11.373 2 Early in the morning of the eighteenth [the Thirty-second Regiment] went to the front, formed line of battle...
    SMC 11.374 15 The brigade of which the Thirty-second Regiment formed part was detailed to receive the formal surrender of the rebel arms.
    Wom 11.404 7 Lo, when the Lord made North and South,/ And sun and moon ordained he,/ Forth bringing each by word of mouth/ In order of its dignity,/ Did man from the crude clay express/ By sequence, and, all else decreed,/ He formed the woman; nor might less/ Than Sabbath such a work succeed./ Coventry Patmore.
    Wom 11.409 13 ...a refined and accomplished woman was a being almost new to [Burns], and of which he had formed a very inadequate idea.
    FRep 11.512 3 Flaxman, with his Greek taste, selected and combined the loveliest forms, which were executed in English clay [by Wedgewood]; sent boxes of these as gifts to every court of Europe, and formed the taste of the world.
    FRep 11.527 12 The facility with which clubs are formed by young men for discussion of social, political and intellectual topics secures the notoriety of the questions.
    PLT 12.20 20 ...mind, our mind, or mind like ours, reappears to us in our study of Nature, Nature being everywhere formed after a method which we can well understand...
    Milt1 12.272 17 [Milton's] opinions on all subjects are formed for man as he ought to be...
    MLit 12.318 27 Scott and Crabbe, who formed themselves on the past, had none of this [subjective] tendency;...
    Let 12.394 21 By the slightest possible concert, persevered in through four or five years, [the correspondents] think that a neighborhood might be formed of friends who would provoke each other to the best activity.

former, adj. (32)

    MR 1.248 6 ...we are to see that the world not only fitted the former men, but fits us...
    LT 1.285 20 No man can compare the ideas and aspirations of the innovators of the present day with those of former periods, without feeling how great and high this criticism is.
    Con 1.326 6 The boldness of the hope men entertain transcends all former experience.
    YA 1.378 2 [Trade] calls out all force of a certain kind that slumbered in the former dynasties.
    Hist 2.10 7 What the former age has epitomized into a formula or rule for manipular convenience, [the mind] will lose all the good of verifying for itself, by means of the wall of that rule.
    SR 2.67 6 These roses under my window make no reference to former roses or to better ones;...
    SR 2.69 12 This which I think and feel underlay every former state of life and circumstances...
    Pt1 3.3 23 We were put into our bodies...but there is no accurate adjustment between the spirit and the organ, much less is the latter the germination of the former.
    Pol1 3.203 26 That principle [of calling that which is just, equal; not that which is equal just] no longer looks so self-evident as it appeared in former times...
    MoS 4.162 23 It seemed to me as if I had myself written the book [Montaigne's Essays], in some former life...
    ShP 4.208 17 Read the antique documents extricated, analyzed and compared by the assiduous Dyce and Collier, and now read one of [Shakespeare's] skyey sentences...and tell me...if the former account in any manner for the latter;...
    GoW 4.266 22 If I were to compare action of a much higher strain with a life of contemplation, I should not venture to pronounce with much confidence in favor of the former.
    GoW 4.290 14 ...the former great men call to us affectionately.
    ET3 5.34 2 Alfieri thought Italy and England the only countries worth living in; the former because there Nature vindicates her rights...
    ET11 5.196 27 The fiction with which the noble and the bystander equally please themselves [in England] is that the former is of unbroken descent from the Norman...
    F 6.26 12 [The mind] dates from itself; not from former men...
    Ctr 6.158 1 ...the poor little poet hearkens only to [praise], and rejects the censure as proving incapacity in the critic. But the poet cultivated becomes a stockholder in both companies,--say Mr. Curfew in the Curfew stock, and in the humanity stock,--and, in the last, exults as much in the demonstration of the unsoundness of Curfew, as his interest in the former gives him pleasure in the currency of Curfew.
    Ill 6.318 24 The former men believed in magic, by which temples, cities and men were swallowed up...
    Farm 7.152 13 ...when...there is more skill, and tools and roads, the new generations are strong enough to open the lowlands, where the wash of mountains has accumulated the best soil, which yield a hundred-fold the former crops.
    Cour 7.271 20 If opportunity allowed, [Governor Wise and John Brown] would...desert their former companions.
    PI 8.54 10 The difference between poetry and stock poetry is this, that in the latter the rhythm is given and the sense adapted to it; while in the former the sense dictates the rhythm.
    Dem1 10.6 7 This feature of dreams deserves the more attention from its singular resemblance to that obscure yet startling experience which almost every person confesses in daylight...a suspicion that they have been with precisely these persons in precisely this room, and heard precisely this dialogue, at some former hour...
    SovE 10.205 20 I do not think the summit of this age truly reached or expressed unless it attain the height which religion and philosophy reached in any former age.
    Schr 10.266 13 ...for the moment it appears as if in former times learning and intellectual accomplishments had secured to the possessor greater rank and authority.
    LLNE 10.326 6 The former generations acted under the belief that a shining social prosperity was the beatitude of man...
    Thor 10.460 5 In every part of Great Britain, [Thoreau] wrote in his diary, are discovered traces of the Romans...their dwellings. But New England, at least, is not based on any Roman ruins. We have not to lay the foundations of our houses on the ashes of a former civilization.
    EWI 11.106 6 [Granville] Sharpe instantly...gave himself to the study of English law...until he had proved that the opinions relied on, of Talbot and Yorke, were incompatible with the former English decisions...
    EWI 11.121 17 It may be asserted...that the former slaves of Jamaica are now as secure in all social rights, as freeborn Britons.
    Wom 11.409 9 It was Burns's remark when he first came to Edinburgh that between the men of rustic life and the polite world he observed little difference; that in the former, though unpolished by fashion...he had found much observation and much intelligence;...
    Mem 12.104 2 At this hour the stream is still flowing, though you hear it not; the plants are still drinking their accustomed life and repaying it with their beautiful forms. But you need not wander thither. It flows for you, and they grow for you, in the returning images of former summers.
    Milt1 12.277 23 The lover of Milton reads one sense in his prose and in his metrical compositions, and sometimes the muse soars highest in the former, because the thought is more sincere.
    PPr 12.385 25 In this work [Past and Present], as in his former labors, Mr. Carlyle reminds us of a sick giant.

former, n. (1)

    Dem1 10.18 5 ...[the demonaical property]...forms in the moral world...a transverse element, so that the former may be called the warp, the latter the woof.

formerly, adv. (8)

    SwM 4.96 11 The soul having been often born...having beheld the things which are here, those which are in heaven and those which are beneath, there is nothing of which she has not gained the knowledge: no wonder that she is able to recollect, in regard to any one thing, what formerly she knew.
    Pow 6.66 12 Of the Shaker society it was formerly a sort of proverb in the country that they always sent the devil to market.
    Ctr 6.146 22 Poor country boys of Vermont and Connecticut formerly owed what knowledge they had to their peddling trips to the Southern States.
    WD 7.169 23 I used formerly to choose my time with some nicety for each favorite book.
    SovE 10.186 11 'T is a sort of proverbial dying speech of scholars...that...of Nathaniel Carpenter, an Oxford Fellow. It did repent him, he said, that he had formerly so much courted the maid instead of the mistress (meaning philosophy and mathematics to the neglect of divinity).
    Plu 10.313 18 [Plutarch] reminds his friends that the Delphic oracles have given several answers the same in substance as that formerly given to Corax the Naxian: It sounds profane impiety/ To teach that human souls e'er die./
    LLNE 10.361 27 Mr. Ichabod Morton of Plymouth, a plain man formerly engaged through many years in the fisheries with success...came and built a house on [Brook] farm...
    HDC 11.37 22 It is said that the covenant made with the Indians...was made under a great oak, formerly standing near the site of the Middlesex Hotel [Concord].

formidable, adj. (44)

    AmS 1.107 25 The private life of one man shall be...more formidable to its enemy...than any kingdom in history.
    LE 1.180 26 ...when all tactics had come to an end then [Napoleon]... availed himself of the mighty saltations of the most formidable soldiers in nature.
    MR 1.244 24 Let the house rather be a temple of the Furies of Lacedaemon, formidable and holy to all...
    LT 1.265 4 Let us paint the agitator...the formidable editor...
    Con 1.317 2 ...the erect, formidable valor of some Dorian townsmen in the town of Sparta;...sufficed to build what you call society on the spot and in the instant when the sound mind in a sound body appeared.
    YA 1.391 8 Every great and memorable community has consisted of formidable individuals...
    SR 2.49 19 Who can thus avoid all pledges...must always be formidable.
    SR 2.56 10 Yet is the discontent of the multitude more formidable than that of the senate and the college.
    Lov1 2.170 6 ...I know I incur the imputation of unnecessary hardness and stoicism from those who compose the Court and Parliament of Love. But from these formidable censors I shall appeal to my seniors.
    Fdsp 2.209 2 Let [friendship] be an alliance of two large, formidable natures...
    Prd1 2.237 9 ...in regard to disagreeable and formidable things, prudence does not consist in evasion or in flight, but in courage.
    Prd1 2.238 6 To himself, [a man] seems weak; to others, formidable.
    Exp 3.48 2 [Disaster] shows formidable as we approach it...
    Mrs1 3.126 23 Fine manners show themselves formidable to the uncultivated man.
    Mrs1 3.133 17 There will always be in society certain persons...whose glance will at any time determine for the curious their standing in the world. ... They are clear in their office, nor could they be thus formidable without their own merits.
    Pol1 3.217 25 ...each of us...can do somewhat useful, or graceful, or formidable, or amusing, or lucrative.
    MoS 4.173 17 [Doubts and negations] will never be so formidable when once they have been identified and registered.
    NMW 4.228 20 ...the river which was a formidable barrier, winter transforms into the smoothest of roads.
    GoW 4.283 19 [Goethe] has the formidable independence which converse with truth gives...
    GoW 4.287 13 ...the charm of this portion of the book [Goethe's Thory of Colors] consists in the simplest statement of the relation betwixt these grandees of European scientific history and himself; the mere drawing of the lines from Goethe to Kepler, from Goethe to Bacon, from Goethe to Newton. The drawing of the line is, for the time and person, a solution of the formidable problem...
    ET4 5.49 15 These limitations of the formidable doctrine of race suggest others which threaten to undermine it...
    ET4 5.72 5 Add a certain degree of refinement to the vivacity of these [English] riders, and you obtain the precise quality which makes the men and women of polite society formidable.
    ET6 5.111 24 'T is in bad taste, is the most formidable word an Englishman can pronounce.
    ET15 5.272 16 If only [the London Times] dared to cleave to the right...it might now and then bear the brunt of formidable combinations, but no journal is ruined by wise courage.
    F 6.30 4 The one serious and formidable thing in nature is a will.
    Ctr 6.166 10 [Man] is to convert...all enemies into power. The formidable mischief will only make the more useful slave.
    Bhr 6.190 2 Under the humblest roof, the commonest person in plain clothes sits there massive, cheerful, yet formidable...
    CbW 6.278 7 The man,--it is his attitude...in repose alike as in energy, still formidable and not to be disposed of.
    Cour 7.265 9 ...the threat is sometimes more formidable than the stroke...
    SA 8.87 13 I know that there go two to this game [of laughter], and, in the presence of certain formidable wits, savage nature must sometimes rush out in some disorder.
    Elo2 8.118 23 We have all attended meetings called for some object in which no one had beforehand any warm interest. Every speaker rose unwillingly, and even his speech was a bad excuse; but it is only the first plunge which is formidable;...
    Comc 8.171 17 [Personal appearance] is the butt of those jokes of the Paris drawing-rooms, which Napoleon reckoned so formidable...
    QO 8.198 24 Swedenborg threw a formidable theory into the world...
    MoL 10.249 14 ...let us have masculine and divine men, formidable lawgivers...
    MoL 10.250 24 ...what does the scholar represent? The organ of ideas... imparting pulses of light and shocks of electricity, guidance and courage. So let his habits be formed, and all his economies heroic;...a stoic, formidable, athletic...
    Schr 10.286 4 Genius delights only in statements which are themselves true...which society cannot dispose of or forget, but which...stand frowning and formidable...
    Thor 10.459 10 ...the President [of Harvard University] found the petitioner [Thoreau] so formidable, and the rules [of the Harvard Library] getting to look so ridiculous, that he ended by giving him a privilege which in his hands proved unlimited thereafter.
    HDC 11.35 25 A march of a number of families with their stuff, through twenty miles of unknown forest...must be...for those who were new to the country...a formidable adventure.
    HDC 11.58 17 John Monoco, a formidable savage, boasted that he had burned Medfield and Lancaster...
    HDC 11.58 24 A still more formidable enemy [of Concord] was removed... by the capture of Canonchet, the faithful ally of Philip...
    EPro 11.323 22 The [Civil] war was formidable, but could not be avoided.
    CL 12.153 14 [The sea] is great and formidable, when you lie down in it, among the rocks.
    Milt1 12.248 18 ...[Milton]...obtained great respect from his contemporaries as an accomplished scholar and a formidable pamphleteer.
    Milt1 12.268 2 [Milton] returned into his revolutionized country, and assumed an honest and useful task, by which he might serve the state daily... whilst he launched from time to time his formidable bolts against the enemies of liberty.

formidine, n. (1)

    PC 8.225 23 ...Hunc solem, et stellas, et decedentia certis/ Tempora momentis, sunt qui formidine nulla/ Imbuti spectant./

forming, adj. (2)

    Hsm1 2.258 25 ...[many extraordinary young men] enter an active profession and the forming Colossus shrinks to the common size of man.
    QO 8.200 6 The old animals have given their bodies to the earth to furnish through chemistry the forming race...

forming, v. (7)

    MR 1.234 21 ...we all involve ourselves in [the evil of property] the deeper by forming connections...
    Hist 2.7 13 Books, monuments, pictures, conversations, are portraits in which [the wise man] finds the lineaments he is forming.
    ET14 5.252 1 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 in the full enjoyment of that which is forming.
    PPo 8.241 7 ...the east wind, at [Solomon's] command, took up the carpet and transported with all that were upon it, whither he pleased,-the army of birds at the same time flying overhead and forming a canopy to shade them from the sun.
    Aris 10.31 15 ...the cogent motive with the best young men who are revolving plans and forming resolutions for the future, is the spirit of honor...
    LLNE 10.362 27 ...[Charles Newcomb was] a student and philosopher, who found his daily enjoyment not with the elders or his exact contemporaries so much as with the fine boys who were skating and playing ball or bird-hunting; forming the closest friendships with such...
    HDC 11.63 16 In 1689, Concord partook of the general indignation of the province against Andros. A company marched to the capital...forming a part of that body concerning which we are informed, the country people came armed into Boston, on the afternoon (of Thursday, 18th April)...

formless, adj. (1)

    Tran 1.329 9 The light...falls on a great variety of objects, and by so falling is first revealed to us, not in its own form, for it is formless, but in theirs;...

formless, n. (1)

    MN 1.205 14 So must we admire in man the form of the formless...

forms, n. (254)

    Nat 1.4 6 ...nature is already, in its forms and tendencies, describing its own design.
    Nat 1.15 6 ...the primary forms...give us delight in and for themselves;...
    Nat 1.16 3 ...almost all the individual forms [in nature] are agreeable to the eye...
    Nat 1.16 7 ...almost all the individual forms [in nature] are agreeable to the eye, as is proved by our endless imitations of some of them, as...the wings and forms of most birds...
    Nat 1.16 9 ...almost all the individual forms [in nature] are agreeable to the eye, as is proved by our endless imitations of some of them, as...forms of many trees...
    Nat 1.16 14 ...the simple perception of natural forms is a delight.
    Nat 1.16 14 The influence of the forms and actions in nature is so needful to man, that, in its lowest functions, it seems to lie on the confines of commodity and beauty.
    Nat 1.23 13 Others have the same love [of nature] in such excess, that... they seek to embody it in new forms.
    Nat 1.23 22 Nature is a sea of forms radically alike...
    Nat 1.23 27 The standard of beauty is the entire circuit of natural forms...
    Nat 1.32 4 ...with these forms, the spells of persuasion...are put into [the poet's] hands.
    Nat 1.32 11 Did it need...this profusion of forms...to furnish man with the dictionary and grammar of his municipal speech?
    Nat 1.34 21 There seems to be a necessity in spirit to manifest itself in material forms;...
    Nat 1.43 10 [Xenophanes] was weary of seeing the same entity in the tedious variety of forms.
    Nat 1.45 20 ...the eye...is always accompanied by these forms, male and female;...
    Nat 1.54 25 The perception of real affinities between events...enables the poet thus to make free with the most imposing forms and phenomena of the world...
    Nat 1.67 20 I cannot greatly honor minuteness in details, so long as there is...no ray...to show the relation of the forms of flowers, shells, animals, architecture, to the mind...
    Nat 1.67 25 ...we become sensible of a certain occult recognition and sympathy in regard to the most unwieldy and eccentric forms of beast, fish, and insect.
    AmS 1.113 8 ...[Swedenborg] showed the mysterious bond that allies moral evil to the foul material forms...
    DSA 1.126 2 This [religious] sentiment...successively creates all forms of worship.
    DSA 1.131 21 ...you shall not dare and live...in company with the infinite Beauty which heaven and earth reflect to you in all lovely forms;...
    DSA 1.144 8 When a man comes...all religions are forms.
    DSA 1.150 1 ...all attempts to project and establish a Cultus with new rites and forms, seem to me vain.
    DSA 1.150 3 ...faith makes its own forms.
    DSA 1.150 9 ...let the breath of new life be breathed by you through the forms already existing.
    DSA 1.150 13 A whole popedom of forms one pulsation of virtue can uplift and vivify.
    DSA 1.150 26 ...[Christianity has given us] secondly, the institution of preaching...essentially the most flexible of all organs, of all forms.
    MN 1.198 5 What difference can it make whether [our glance at the realities around us] take the shape...of passionate exclamation, of scientific statement? These are forms merely.
    MN 1.200 3 In all animal and vegetable forms, the physiologist concedes that no chemistry...can account for the facts...
    Tran 1.340 5 ...Immanuel Kant...replied to the skeptical philosophy of Locke...by showing that there was a very important class of ideas or imperative forms, which did not come by experience, but through which experience was acquired;...
    Tran 1.340 9 ...Immanuel Kant...replied to the skeptical philosophy of Locke...by showing that there was a very important class of ideas or imperative forms, which did not come by experience, but through which experience was acquired; that these were intuitions of the mind itself; and he denominated them Transcendental forms.
    Tran 1.347 20 A picture...can give [Transcendentalists] often forms so vivid that these for the time shall seem real, and society the illusion.
    Hist 2.13 3 ...why should we be such hard pedants, and magnify a few forms?
    Hist 2.13 21 [Nature] casts the same thought into troops of forms...
    Hist 2.15 3 ...we have [the Greek national mind expressed] once again in sculpture...a multitude of forms in the utmost freedom of action and never transgressing the ideal serenity;...
    Hist 2.15 15 Every one must have observed faces and forms which, without any resembling feature, make a like impression on the beholder.
    Hist 2.24 9 In [the Grecian state] existed those human forms which supplied the sculptor with his models of Hercules, Phoebus, and Jove;...
    Hist 2.24 11 In [the Grecian state] existed those human forms which supplied the sculptor with his models of Hercules, Phoebus, and Jove; not like the forms abounding in the streets of modern cities...
    Hist 2.29 1 ...the oppressor of [the child's] youth is himself a child tyrannized over by those names and words and forms of whose influence he was merely the organ to the youth.
    Hist 2.32 17 Ah! brother, stop the ebb of thy soul,--ebbing downward into the forms into whose habits thou hast now for many years slid.
    SR 2.70 17 Self-existence...constitutes the measure of good by the degree in which it enters into all lower forms.
    SR 2.85 22 ...it may be a question...whether we have not lost...by a Christianity, entrenched in establishments and forms, some vigor of wild virtue.
    Comp 2.115 3 Human labor, through all its forms...is one immense illustration of the perfect compensation of the universe.
    SL 2.131 5 Behind us, as we go, all things assume pleasing forms...
    SL 2.153 1 ...the thing uttered in words is not therefore affirmed. It must affirm itself, or no forms of logic or of oath can give it evidence.
    SL 2.162 1 The object of the man...is...to suffer the law to traverse his whole being without obstruction, so that on what point soever of his doing your eye falls it shall report truly of his character, whether it be his diet...his religious forms...
    Fdsp 2.193 18 How beautiful, on their approach to this beating heart, the steps and forms of the gifted and the true!
    Fdsp 2.193 23 The moment we indulge our affections...nothing fills the proceeding eternity but the forms all radiant of beloved persons.
    Prd1 2.236 19 Prudence concerns the present time, persons, property and existing forms.
    Hsm1 2.261 27 ...it behooves the wise man...to familiarize himself with disgusting forms of disease...
    OS 2.276 18 One mode of the divine teaching is the incarnation of the spirit in a form,--in forms, like my own.
    OS 2.282 17 The rapture of the Moravian and Quietist;...the experiences of the Methodists, are varying forms of that shudder of awe and delight with which the individual soul always mingles with the universal soul.
    OS 2.286 23 If [a man] have not found his home in God...his forms of speech...will involuntarily confess it...
    Cir 2.301 9 We are all our lifetime reading the copious sense of this first of forms [the circle].
    Cir 2.313 11 ...steeped in the sea of beautiful forms which the field offers us, we may chance to cast a right glance back upon biography.
    Cir 2.319 8 ...fever, intemperance, insanity, stupidity and crime; they are all forms of old age;...
    Int 2.336 27 Not by any conscious imitation of particular forms are the grand strokes of the painter executed...
    Int 2.337 2 Not by any conscious imitation of particular forms are the grand strokes of the painter executed, but by repairing to the fountain-head of all forms in his mind.
    Int 2.337 20 ...as soon as we let our will go and let the unconscious states ensue, see what cunning draughtsmen we are! We entertain ourselves with wonderful forms of men...
    Art1 2.357 3 ...as I see many pictures and higher genius in the art [of painting], I see...the indifferency in which the artist stands free to choose out of the possible forms.
    Art1 2.359 14 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...
    Art1 2.361 11 When I came at last to Rome and saw with eyes the pictures, I found that genius...was the old, eternal fact I had met already in so many forms...
    Pt1 3.3 18 There is no doctrine of forms in our philosophy.
    Pt1 3.3 24 We were put into our bodies...but there is no accurate adjustment between the spirit and the organ, much less is the latter the germination of the former. So in regard to other forms, the intellectual men do not believe in any essential dependence of the material world on thought and volition.
    Pt1 3.20 27 ...[the poet]...following with his eyes the life, uses the forms which express that life...
    Pt1 3.21 7 [The poet] uses forms according to the life, and not according to the form.
    Pt1 3.24 9 ...nature has a higher end, in the production of new individuals, than security, namely...the passage of the soul into higher forms.
    Pt1 3.25 6 Like the metamorphosis of things into higher organic forms is [the poet's thoughts'] change into melodies.
    Pt1 3.26 8 This insight, which expresses itself by what is called Imagination, is a very high sort of seeing, which does not come by study, but...by sharing the path or circuit of things through forms...
    Pt1 3.26 16 The condition of true naming, on the poet's part, is his resigning himself to the divine aura which breathes through forms, and accompanying that.
    Pt1 3.30 10 We are like persons who come out of a cave or cellar into the open air. This is the effect on us of tropes, fables, oracles and all poetic forms.
    Pt1 3.42 20 ...wherever are forms with transparent boundaries...there is Beauty...shed for thee [O poet]...
    Exp 3.70 20 That which proceeds in succession might be remembered, but that which is coexistent, or ejaculated from a deeper cause, as yet far from being conscious, knows not its own tendency. So is it with us, now sceptical or without unity, because immersed in forms and effects all seeming to be of equal yet hostile value, and now religious, whilst in the reception of spiritual law.
    Mrs1 3.124 23 I am far from believing the timid maxim of Lord Falkland (that for ceremony there must go two to it; since a bold fellow will go through the cunningest forms)...
    Mrs1 3.124 24 ...the gentleman is the bold fellow whose forms are not to be broken through;...
    Mrs1 3.126 19 The manners of this class [of doers] are observed and caught with devotion by men of taste. The association of these masters with each other and with men intelligent of their merits, is mutually agreeable and stimulating. The good forms, the happiest expressions of each, are repeated and adopted.
    Mrs1 3.127 10 These forms [manners] very soon become fixed...
    Mrs1 3.132 5 ...good sense and character make their own forms every moment...
    Mrs1 3.133 25 As the first thing man requires of man is reality, so that appears in all the forms of society.
    Mrs1 3.136 6 ...the first point of courtesy must always be truth, as really all the forms of good-breeding point that way.
    Mrs1 3.145 5 The forms of politeness universally express benevolence in superlative degrees.
    Mrs1 3.150 13 Certainly let [woman] be as much better placed in the laws and in social forms as the most zealous reformer can ask...
    Nat2 3.173 7 ...I go with my friend to the shore of our little river, and with one stroke of the paddle I...pass into a delicate realm of sunset and moonlight... We penetrate bodily this incredible beauty;...our eyes are bathed in these lights and forms.
    Nat2 3.179 11 ...let us not longer omit our homage to the Efficient Nature... the quick cause before which all forms flee as the driven snows;...
    Nat2 3.180 26 ...the addition of matter from year to year arrives at last at the most complex forms;...
    Nat2 3.185 19 ...the wary Nature sends a new troop of fairer forms...with a little more excess of direction to hold them fast to their several aim;...
    Pol1 3.205 8 Under any forms, persons and property must and will have their just sway.
    Pol1 3.208 2 ...our institutions...have not any exemption from the practical defects which have discredited other forms.
    Pol1 3.211 24 No forms can have any dangerous importance whilst we are befriended by the laws of things.
    Pol1 3.213 23 All forms of government symbolize an immortal government...
    NER 3.253 16 ...the fertile forms of antinomianism among the elder puritans seemed to have their match in the plenty of the new harvest of reform.
    UGM 4.9 7 Each man is by secret liking connected with some district of nature, whose agent and interpreter he is; as...Dalton, of atomic forms;...
    PPh 4.45 1 [Plato]...has almost impressed language and the primary forms of thought with his name and seal.
    PPh 4.50 15 ...the nature of the Great Spirit is single, though its forms be manifold [said Krishna]...
    PPh 4.52 24 European civility is...delight in forms, delight in manifestation...
    PPh 4.68 18 After [Plato] has illustrated the relation between the absolute good and true and the forms of the intelligible world, he says: Let there be a line cut in two unequal parts.
    SwM 4.110 17 These grand rhymes or returns in nature,--the dear, best-known face startling us at every turn...and carrying up the semblance into divine forms,--delighted the prophetic eye of Swedenborg;...
    SwM 4.114 7 It is a constant law of the organic body that large, compound, or visible forms exist and subsist from smaller, simpler and ultimately from invisible forms...
    SwM 4.114 8 It is a constant law of the organic body that large, compound, or visible forms exist and subsist from smaller, simpler and ultimately from invisible forms...
    SwM 4.115 5 The hardihood and thoroughness of [Swedenborg's] study of nature required a theory of forms also.
    SwM 4.115 6 Forms ascend in order from the lowest to the highest.
    SwM 4.115 13 The form above [the circular] is the spiral, parent and measure of circular forms...
    SwM 4.136 22 The Lutheran bishop's son, for whom the heavens are opened, so that he sees with eyes and in the richest symbolic forms the awful truth of things...with all these grandeurs resting upon him, remains the Lutheran bishop's son;...
    ShP 4.200 7 The Liturgy...is an anthology of the piety of ages and nations, a translation of the prayers and forms of the Catholic church...
    ShP 4.200 14 Grotius makes the like remark in respect to the Lord's Prayer, that the single clauses of which it is composed were already in use in the time of Christ, in the Rabbinical forms.
    ShP 4.200 16 The nervous language of the Common Law, the impressive forms of our courts...are the contribution of all the sharp-sighted, strong-minded men who have lived in the countries where these laws govern.
    ShP 4.209 18 One can discern, in [Shakespeare's] ample pictures of the gentleman and the king, what forms and humanities pleased him;...
    NMW 4.241 5 ...a sort of freedom and companionship grew up between [Napoleon] and [his troops], which the forms of his court never permitted between the officers and himself.
    GoW 4.272 15 [Goethe's Helena] are...elaborate forms to which the poet has confided the results of eighty years of observation.
    ET1 5.6 20 Here is my [Greenough's] theory of structure: A scientific arrangement of spaces and forms to functions and to site;...
    ET3 5.37 6 ...to resist the tyranny and prepossession of the British element, a serious man must aid himself by comparing with it the civilizations of the farthest east and west, the old Greek, the Oriental, much more, the ideal standard; if only by means of the very impatience which English forms are sure to awaken in independent minds.
    ET4 5.65 25 It is the fault of their forms that [the English] grow stocky...
    ET5 5.96 27 [The English] have ransacked Italy to find new forms, to add a grace to the products of their looms, their potteries and their foundries.
    ET11 5.187 2 [The English]...walk by their faith in their painted May-Fair as if among the forms of gods.
    ET12 5.213 16 ...the best poetry of England of this age, in the old forms, comes from two graduates at Cambridge.
    ET13 5.223 14 The Anglican Church is marked by the grace and good sense of its forms...
    ET14 5.236 19 There is a hygienic simpleness...in the common style of the [English] people, as one finds it...in proverbs and forms of speech.
    ET14 5.246 9 How can [English genius] discern and hail the new forms that are looming up on the horizon...
    ET14 5.258 12 It was no Oxonian, but Hafiz, who said, Let us...break up the tiresome old roof of heaven into new forms.
    F 6.8 6 ...the forms of the shark...are hints of ferocity in the interiors of nature.
    F 6.8 27 The menagerie, or forms and powers of the spine, is a book of fate;...
    F 6.15 19 One leaf [Nature] lays down, a floor of granite;...a thousand ages, and a layer of marl and mud; vegetable forms appear;...
    F 6.15 21 One leaf [Nature] lays down, a floor of granite;...a thousand ages, and a layer of marl and mud;...her first misshapen animals...rude forms...
    F 6.35 6 ...when mature [the Neopolitan] assumes the forms of the unmistakable scoundrel.
    F 6.43 19 To a subtle force [the wall] will stream into new forms...
    Wth 6.99 8 In Europe, where the feudal forms secure the permanence of wealth in certain families, those families buy and preserve these things [works of art] and lay them open to the public.
    Wth 6.123 17 The farmer affects to take his orders; but the citizen says, You may ask me as often as you will, and in what ingenious forms, for an opinion concerning the mode of building my wall...but the ball will rebound to you.
    Ctr 6.133 4 One of [egotism's] annoying forms is a craving for sympathy.
    Ctr 6.165 11 ...Nature began with rudimental forms and rose to the more complex as fast as the earth was fit for their dwelling-place;...
    Ctr 6.166 6 The time will come when the evil forms we have known can no more be organized.
    Bhr 6.167 7 ...Graceful women, chosen men/ Dazzle every mortal:/ Their sweet and lofty countenance/ His enchanting food;/ He need not go to them, their forms/ Beset his solitude./
    Bhr 6.173 2 Society is infested with rude...persons...whom a public opinion concentrated into good manners--forms accepted by the sense of all--can reach...
    Bhr 6.177 16 The eyes indicate...through how many forms [the soul] has already ascended.
    Bhr 6.181 26 The sculptor and Winckelmann and Lavater will tell you... how [the nose's] forms express strength or weakness of will...
    Wsp 6.211 13 ...if an adventurer go through all the forms, procure himself to be elected to a post of trust...by the same arts as we detest in the house-thief,-- the same gentlemen who agree to discountenance the private rogue will be forward to show civilities and marks of respect to the public one;...
    Wsp 6.213 9 The religion of the cultivated class now...consists in an avoidance of acts and engagements which it was once their religion to assume. But this avoidance will yield spontaneous forms in their due hour.
    Wsp 6.214 16 I have seen, said a traveller who had known the extremes of society, I have seen human nature in all its forms; it is everywhere the same...
    Wsp 6.214 18 We say the old forms of religion decay...
    Bty 6.287 6 ...the varied power in all that well-known company that escort us through life,--we know how these forms thrill, paralyze, provoke, inspire and enlarge us.
    Bty 6.289 27 ...the forms and colors of nature have a new charm for us in our perception that not one ornament was added for ornament...
    Bty 6.290 9 'T is a law of botany that in plants the same virtues follow the same forms.
    Bty 6.292 12 Beauty is the moment of transition, as if the form were just ready to flow into other forms.
    Bty 6.296 2 ...all masons and carpenters work to repeat and preserve the agreeable forms...
    Bty 6.299 5 Portrait painters say that most faces and forms are irregular and unsymmetrical;...
    Bty 6.300 11 We love any forms, however ugly, from which great qualities shine.
    Bty 6.303 4 Proclus says, [Beauty] swims on the light of forms.
    Ill 6.320 9 ...what avails it that science has come to treat space and time as simply forms of thought...
    Art2 7.53 10 We feel, in seeing a noble building, which rhymes well, as we do in hearing a perfect song, that it...was one of the possible forms in the Divine mind...
    Elo1 7.93 24 Eloquence must be grounded on the plainest narrative. Afterwards, it may warm itself until it...speaks only through the most poetic forms;...
    DL 7.117 10 ...our social forms are very far from truth and equity.
    DL 7.131 12 I wish to bring home to my children and my friends copies of these admirable forms [Michelangelo's sibyle and prophets]...
    WD 7.157 5 Man is the meter of all things, said Aristotle; the hand is the instrument of instruments, and the mind is the form of forms.
    WD 7.170 12 There are days which are the carnival of the year. The angels assume flesh, and repeatedly become visible. The imagination of the gods is excited and rushes on every side into forms.
    WD 7.182 7 Fancy defines herself:--Forms that men spy/ With the half-shut eye/ In the beams of the setting sun, am I./
    Boks 7.200 16 [Plutarch's] memory is like the Isthmian Games...and you are stimulated and recruited...by the forms and behavior of heroes...
    OA 7.316 23 ...the venerable forms that so awed our childhood were just such impostors.
    PI 8.5 24 ...we see...that the secret cords or laws show their well-known virtue through every variety...and the interest is gradually transferred from the forms to the lurking method.
    PI 8.8 1 Anatomy, osteology, exhibit arrested or progessive ascent in each kind; the lower pointing to the higher forms...
    PI 8.9 4 ...galvanism, electricity and magnetism are varied forms of the selfsame energy.
    PI 8.15 17 The endless passing of one element into new forms...explains the rank which the imagination holds in our catalogue of mental powers.
    PI 8.15 20 The endless passing of one element into new forms...explains the rank which the imagination holds in our catalogue of mental powers. The imagination is the reader of these forms.
    PI 8.18 6 The thoughts are few, the forms many;...
    PI 8.38 26 ...there is a third step which poetry takes...namely, creation, or ideas taking forms of their own...
    PI 8.40 26 Now at this rare elevation above his usual sphere, [the poet] has come into new circulations...the opulence of forms begins to pour into his intellect...
    PI 8.42 27 We cannot know things by words and writing, but only by taking a central position in the universe and living in its forms.
    PI 8.43 3 All the parts and forms of Nature are the expression or production of divine faculties...
    PI 8.56 17 ...we will leave to the masters their own forms.
    PI 8.71 22 The free spirit sympathizes not only with the actual form, but with the power or possible forms;...
    PI 8.71 24 ...for obvious municipal or parietal uses God has given us a bias or a rest on to-day's forms.
    Comc 8.169 18 The multiplication of artificial wants and expenses in civilized life, and the exaggeration of all trifling forms, present innumerable occasions for this discrepancy [between the man and his appearance] to expose itself.
    PC 8.207 24 [Men] come from crowded, antiquated kingdoms to the easy sharing of our simple forms.
    PPo 8.251 11 In general what is more tedious than dedications or panegyrics addressed to grandees? Yet in the Divan you would not skip them, since [Hafiz's] muse seldom supports him better:-What lovelier forms things wear,/ Now that the Shah comes back!/...
    Insp 8.289 6 Novelty, surprise, change of scene...break up the tiresome old roof of heaven into new forms, as Hafiz said.
    Imtl 8.324 18 ...the history of religion may be read in the forms of sepulture.
    Imtl 8.324 22 ...among rude men moral judgments were rudely figured under the forms of dogs and whips...
    Dem1 10.5 7 A painful imperfection almost always attends [dreams]. The fairest forms...are deformed by some pitiful and insane circumstance.
    Dem1 10.6 18 Our thoughts in a stable or in a menagerie...may well remind us of our dreams. What compassion do these imprisoning forms awaken!
    Dem1 10.27 17 ...I think the numberless forms in which this superstition [demonology] has reappeared in every time and every people indicates the inextinguishableness of wonder in man;...
    PerF 10.85 21 ...[a survey of cosmical powers] warns us...out of an idolatry of forms...
    Chr2 10.102 3 The world would run into endless routine, and forms incrust forms, till the life was gone.
    Chr2 10.104 21 The moral sentiment is the perpetual critic on these [religious] forms...
    Chr2 10.104 25 ...sometimes also [the moral sentiment] is the source, in natures less pure, of sneers and flippant jokes of common people, who feel that the forms and dogmas are not true for them...
    Chr2 10.112 18 Our religion has got on as far as Unitarianism. But all the forms grow pale.
    Chr2 10.113 2 The creed, the legend, forms of worship, swiftly decay.
    Chr2 10.115 25 ...in [the Church's] most liberal forms, when such [best and freest] minds enter it, they are coldly received...
    Chr2 10.117 12 There will always be a class of imaginative youths...and these will provide [the moral sentiment] with new historic forms and songs.
    Edc1 10.132 3 The truth takes flesh in forms that can express it;...
    Edc1 10.144 20 Somewhat [the child] sees in forms or hears in music or apprehends in mathematics...which no one else sees or hears or believes.
    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 24 I will not now go into the metaphysics of that reaction by which in history a period of belief is followed by an age of criticism, in which...an excessive respect for forms out of which the heart has departed becomes more obvious in the least religious minds.
    SovE 10.205 11 ...the mass of the community indolently follow the old forms with childish scrupulosity...
    SovE 10.209 22 It does not yet appear what forms the religious feeling will take.
    SovE 10.209 24 [The religious feeling] prepares to rise out of all forms to an absolute justice and healthy perception.
    SovE 10.212 8 We buttress [the moral sentiment] up...with legends, traditions and forms...
    Prch 10.217 6 In the history of opinion, the pinch of falsehood shows itself first...in insincerity, indifference and abandonment of...the scientific or political or economic institution for other better or worse forms.
    Prch 10.217 14 The old [religious] forms rattle...
    Prch 10.217 17 ...the mind, haughty with its sciences, disdains the religious forms as childish.
    Prch 10.236 25 The Sabbath changes its forms from age to age...
    Prch 10.237 1 The forms [of the creeds] are flexible, but the uses not less real.
    LLNE 10.329 19 The warm swart Earth-spirit which made the strength of past ages...all gone; another hour had struck and other forms arose.
    EzRy 10.383 11 [Ezra Ripley] was identified with the ideas and forms of the New England Church...
    EzRy 10.385 21 ...if [Ezra Ripley] made his forms a strait-jacket to others, he wore the same himself all his years.
    EzRy 10.395 2 ...[Ezra Ripley] was engaged to the old forms of the New England Church.
    MMEm 10.424 1 O Time! thou loiterer. Thou...restest on thy hoary throne... When will thy routines give way to higher and lasting institutions? When thy trophies and thy name and all its wizard forms be lost in the Genius of Eternity?
    MMEm 10.429 24 ...I [Mary Moody Emerson] irk under contact with forms of depravity...
    Thor 10.477 22 ...the same isolation which belonged to his original thinking and living detached [Thoreau] from the social religious forms.
    LS 11.20 22 I am not so foolish as to declaim against forms.
    LS 11.20 22 Forms are as essential as bodies;...
    LS 11.20 23 ...to exalt particular forms...is unreasonable...
    LS 11.21 10 I am not engaged to Christianity by decent forms...
    LS 11.22 20 The Jewish was a religion of forms;...
    LS 11.22 25 ...the Almighty God was pleased to qualify and send forth a man to teach men...that sacrifice was smoke, and forms were shadows.
    LS 11.23 8 ...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 11.132 5 If the State has no power to defend its own people in its own shipping, because it has delegated that power to the Federal Government, has it no representation in the Federal Government? Are those men dumb? I am no lawyer, and cannot indicate the forms applicable to the case, but here is something which transcends all forms.
    EWI 11.132 6 If the State has no power to defend its own people in its own shipping, because it has delegated that power to the Federal Government, has it no representation in the Federal Government? Are those men dumb? I am no lawyer, and cannot indicate the forms applicable to the case, but here is something which transcends all forms.
    War 11.161 20 ...a universal peace is as sure as is the prevalence...of liberal governments over feudal forms.
    War 11.170 6 How is [this new aspiration of the human mind towards peace] to pass out of thoughts into things? Not, certainly...in the way of routine and mere forms...
    FSLC 11.184 4 What is the use of admirable law-forms, and political forms, if a hurricane of party feeling and a combination of monied interests can beat them to the ground?
    FSLN 11.234 7 I fear there is no reliance to be put on any kind or form of covenant, no, not on sacred forms...
    FSLN 11.234 16 These things show that no forms...are of any use in themselves.
    AKan 11.258 11 I think there never was a people so choked and stultified by forms.
    AKan 11.258 11 We adore the forms of law...
    JBB 11.270 26 [John Brown] saw how deceptive the forms are.
    JBB 11.271 3 Great wealth, great population, men of talent in the executive, on the bench,-all the forms right...
    JBB 11.271 5 Great wealth, great population, men of talent in the executive, on the bench,-all the forms right,-and yet, life and freedom are not safe. Why? Because the judges rely on the forms...
    JBB 11.271 7 Great wealth, great population, men of talent in the executive, on the bench,-all the forms right,-and yet, life and freedom are not safe. Why? Because the judges...do not, like John Brown, use their eyes to see the fact behind the forms.
    JBB 11.272 16 ...a Wisconsin judge, who knows that laws are for the protection of citizens against kidnappers, is worth a court-house full of lawyers so idolatrous of forms as to let go the substance.
    TPar 11.287 13 [Theodore Parker] came at a time when, to the irresistible march of opinion, the forms still retained by the most advanced sects showed loose and lifeless...
    EPro 11.315 1 In so many arid forms which states encrust themselves with, once in a century...a poetic act and record occur.
    Wom 11.409 23 [Women's] genius delights...in forms...
    Wom 11.410 23 ...man invents and adorns all he does with delays and degrees, paints it all over with forms...
    Wom 11.411 19 Society...colors, forms, are [women's] homes and attendants.
    FRO1 11.476 1 In many forms we try/ To utter God's infinity,/ But the Boundless has no form,/ And the Universal Friend/ Doth as far transcend/ An angel as a worm./
    FRep 11.511 19 Wedgwood, the eminent potter, bravely took the sculptor Flaxman to counsel, who said, Send to Italy, search the museums for the forms of old Etruscan vases...
    FRep 11.512 1 Flaxman, with his Greek taste, selected and combined the loveliest forms, which were executed in English clay [by Wedgewood];...
    FRep 11.517 6 The lodging the power in the people, as in republican forms, has the effect of holding things closer to common sense;...
    FRep 11.519 24 Our great men succumb so far to the forms of the day as to peril their integrity for the sake of adding to the weight of their personal character the authority of office...
    FRep 11.526 1 Nature...spends individuals and races prodigally to prepare new individuals and races. The lower kinds are one after one extinguished; the higher forms come in.
    II 12.68 14 ...long after we have quitted the place [the art gallery], the objects begin to take a new order;...the truly noble forms reappear to the imagination.
    Mem 12.103 27 At this hour the stream is still flowing, though you hear it not; the plants are still drinking their accustomed life and repaying it with their beautiful forms.
    CL 12.154 1 ...what strength and fecundity [in the sea], from the sea-monsters, hugest of animals, to the primary forms of which it is the immense cradle...
    CW 12.179 8 ...when [the man] sees this annual reappearance of beautiful forms, the lovely carpet, the lovely tapestry of June, he may well ask himself the special meaning of the hieroglyphic...
    Bost 12.189 14 The [Massachusetts Bay] territory-conferred on the patentees...with...the sole power of legislation, the appointment of all officers and all forms of government-extended from the 40th to the 48th degree of north latitude...
    MAng1 12.218 27 ...certain minds...possess the power of abstracting Beauty from things, and reproducing it in new forms...
    MAng1 12.222 21 There are now in Italy, both on canvas and in marble, forms and faces which the imagination is enriched by contemplating.
    MAng1 12.233 5 Grace in living forms, except in very rare instances, did not satisfy [Michelangelo].
    Milt1 12.260 25 [Milton's] mastery of his native tongue was more than to use it as well as any other; he cast it into new forms.
    Milt1 12.263 25 [Milton says] Nor did Ceres, according to the fable, ever seek her daughter Proserpine with such unceasing solicitude as I have sought this tou kalou idean, this perfect model of the beautiful in all forms and appearances of things.
    Milt1 12.268 16 ...the invocations of the Eternal Spirit in the commencement of [Milton's] books are not poetic forms, but are thoughts...
    ACri 12.284 14 ...the learned depart from established forms of speech, in hope of finding or making better;...
    ACri 12.291 13 Resolute blotting rids you of all those phrases that sound like something and mean nothing, with which scriptural forms play a large part.
    ACri 12.300 3 Idealism regards the world as symbolic, and all these symbols or forms as fugitive and convertible expressions.
    MLit 12.333 12 When one of these grand monads is incarnated whom Nature seems to design for eternal men and draw to her bosom, we think that...the trivial forms of daily life will now end...
    Let 12.404 5 Apathies and total want of work...never will obtain any sympathy if there is...an unweeded patch in the garden; not to mention the graver absurdity of a youth of noble aims who can find no field for his energies, whilst...the religious, civil and judicial forms of the country are confessedly effete and offensive.

Forms, n. (1)

    SwM 4.105 18 [Swedenborg] named his favorite views the doctrine of Forms, the doctrine of Series and Degrees, the doctrine of Influx, the doctrine of Correspondence.

forms, v. (14)

    Nat 1.38 22 ...what good heed Nature forms in us!
    LE 1.169 11 ...the broad, cold lowland which forms its coat of vapor with the stillness of subterranean crystallization;...this beauty...has never been recorded by art...
    LT 1.275 22 Here is great variety and richness of mysticism, each part of which now only disgusts whilst it forms the sole thought of some poor Perfectionist or "Comer out"...
    LT 1.289 18 ...in all the details of our domestic or civil life is hidden the elemental reality, which ever and anon comes to the surface, and forms the grand men, who are the leaders...of the race.
    Comp 2.124 26 ...the shell-fish crawls out of its beautiful but stony case... and slowly forms a new house.
    Cir 2.301 2 The eye is the first circle; the horizon which it forms is the second;...
    SwM 4.108 8 At the top of the column [the spine] [Nature] puts out another spine, which doubles or loops itself over...into a ball, and forms the skull...
    SwM 4.114 11 It is a constant law of the organic body that large, compound, or visible forms exist and subsist from smaller, simpler and ultimately from invisible forms, which act similarly to the larger ones, but more perfectly and more universally; and the least forms so perfectly and universally as to involve an idea representative of their entire universe.
    ET8 5.143 2 ...the history of the [English] nation discloses, at every turn, this original predilection for private independence, and however this inclination may have been disturbed by the bribes with which their vast colonial power has warped men out of orbit, the inclination endures, and forms and reforms the laws, letters, manners and occupations.
    PPo 8.259 7 Of the amatory poetry of Hafiz we must be very sparing in our citations, though it forms the staple of the Divan.
    Dem1 10.18 3 ...[the demonaical property]...forms in the moral world, though not an antagonist, yet a transverse element...
    MoL 10.248 14 If churches are effete, it is because the new Heaven forms.
    Schr 10.262 10 I do not now refer to that intellectual conscience which forms itself in tender natures...
    PLT 12.51 22 Nature having for capital this rill [of thought]...she husbands and hives, she forms reservoirs...

formula, n. (9)

    Nat 1.56 2 In physics, when [discovery of natural law] is attained, the memory...carries centuries of observation in a single formula.
    Hist 2.10 7 What the former age has epitomized into a formula or rule for manipular convenience, [the mind] will lose all the good of verifying for itself, by means of the wall of that rule.
    ET18 5.305 17 There is [in England] a drag of inertia which resists reform in every shape;...the abolition of slavery, of impressment, penal code and entails. They praise this drag, under the formula that it is the excellence of the British constitution that no law can anticipate the public opinion.
    Clbs 7.239 4 ...an American chemist carried a letter of introduction to Dr. Dalton of Manchester, England...and was coolly enough received by the doctor in the laboratory where he was engaged. Only Dr. Dalton scratched a formula on a scrap of paper and pushed it towards the guest,--had he seen that?
    Clbs 7.239 7 ...Dr. Dalton scratched a formula on a scrap of paper and pushed it towards the guest,--Had he seen that? The visitor scratched on another paper a formula describing some results of his own with sulphuric acid, and pushed it across the table,--Had he seen that?
    Suc 7.293 12 The fame of each discovery rightly attaches to the mind that made the formula which contains all the details...
    Schr 10.277 9 These shrewd faculties belong to man. I love...to see them trained:...the craft of mathematical combination, which carries a working-plan of the heavens and of the earth in a formula.
    LS 11.9 11 It was the custom for the master of the feast [Passover] to break the bread and to bless it, using this formula...Blessed be Thou, O Lord, our God, who givest us the fruit of the vine...
    Bost 12.201 12 There is a little formula, couched in pure Saxon, which you may hear in the corners of streets...I 'm as good as you be...

formulas, n. (3)

    Bty 6.284 12 The formulas of science are like the papers in your pocket-book, of no value to any but the owner.
    Suc 7.296 26 ...the powers of this busy brain are miraculous and illimitable. Therein are the rules and formulas by which the whole empire of matter is worked.
    PPo 8.237 23 ...the essential value [in books] is the adding of knowledge to our stock by the record of new facts, and, better, by the record of intuitions which distribute facts, and are the formulas which supersede all histories.

formulate, v. (4)

    Clbs 7.226 12 Some talkers excel in the precision with which they formulate their thoughts...
    PLT 12.43 24 A master can formulate his thought.
    PLT 12.45 21 You must formulate your thought or 't is all sky and no stars.
    PLT 12.47 14 One meets contemplative men who dwell in a certain feeling and delight which are intellectual but wholly above their expression. They cannot formulate.

formulated, v. (1)

    SovE 10.209 5 ...Stoicism...has now...no commanding Zeno or Antoninus. It accuses us...that pure ethics is not now formulated and concreted into a cultus...

formulating, v. (1)

    PI 8.67 6 [A good poem] affects the characters of its readers by formulating their opinions and feelings...

formulized, v. (1)

    ET17 5.296 1 [Wordsworth's] opinions of French, English, Irish and Scotch, seemed rashly formulized from little anecdotes of what had befallen himself and members of his family...

fornication, n. (1)

    ET1 5.21 19 [Wordsworth] proceeded to abuse Goethe's Wilhelm Meister heartily. It was full of all manner of fornication.

forsake, v. (8)

    OS 2.278 24 In their habitual and mean service to the world, for which they forsake their native nobleness, [men] resemble those Arabian sheiks who dwell in mean houses and affect an external poverty...
    Cir 2.307 23 O blessed Spirit, whom I forsake for [persons called high and worthy], they are not thou!
    ShP 4.216 2 Epicurus relates that poetry hath such charms that a lover might forsake his mistress to partake of them.
    Wsp 6.206 20 King Richard taunts God with forsaking him. O fie! O how unwilling should I be to forsake thee, in so forlorn and dreadful a position, were I thy lord and advocate, as thou art mine.
    Elo1 7.81 5 Does [any one] think that not possibly a man may come to him who shall persuade him out of his most settled determination?--for example...if he is a prudent, industrious person, to forsake his work...
    Elo2 8.126 6 ...the learned forsake the vulgar, when the vulgar is right;...
    PPo 8.249 5 We would do nothing but good [says Hafiz], else would shame come to us on the day when the soul must hie hence; and should they then deny us Paradise, the Houris themselves would forsake that and come out to us.
    ACri 12.284 16 ...the learned depart from established forms of speech, in hope of finding or making better; those who wish for distinction forsake the vulgar, when the vulgar is right;...

forsaken, v. (2)

    Dem1 10.16 3 We do not think the young will be forsaken;...
    Let 12.396 27 To live solitary and unexpressed is...painful in proportion to one's consciousness of ripeness and equality to the offices of friendship. But herein we are never quite forsaken by the Divine Providence.

forsakes, v. (2)

    Lov1 2.170 9 ...this passion of which we speak [love], though it begin with the young, yet forsakes not the old...
    Bty 6.303 10 The sea is lovely, but when we bathe in it the beauty forsakes all the near water.

forsaking, v. (1)

    Wsp 6.206 19 King Richard taunts God with forsaking him.

forsook, v. (5)

    PPh 4.58 23 ...[Plato's] circumspection never forsook him.
    ET14 5.243 19 [Locke's] countrymen forsook the lofty sides of Parnassus...
    CInt 12.125 26 ...how often we have had repeated the trials of the young man who made no figure at college because his own methods were new and extraordinary, and who only prospered at last because he forsook theirs and took his own.
    Milt1 12.265 10 [Milton's] native honor never forsook him.
    EurB 12.368 12 [Wordsworth] once for all forsook the styles and standards and modes of thinking of London and Paris...

forsooth, adv. (1)

    Cir 2.317 23 ...O circular philosopher, I hear some reader exclaim, you... would fain teach us that if we are true, forsooth, our crimes may be lively stones out of which we shall construct the temple of the true God!

Forster, John, n. (1)

    ET17 5.292 25 Every day in London gave me new opportunities of meeting men and women who give splendor to society. I saw...Wilkinson, Bailey, Kenyon and Forster...

Forster, William E., n. (1)

    Carl 10.490 24 Forster of Rawdon described to me a dinner at the table d' hote of some provincial hotel where he carried Carlyle...

forsworn, v. (1)

    Nat 1.53 18 Take those lips away/ Which so sweetly were forsworn;/...

fort, n. (8)

    Pt1 3.16 25 Some stars...on an old rag of bunting, blowing on the wind on a fort at the ends of the earth, shall make the blood tingle...
    Pol1 3.216 10 [The wise man] needs no army, fort, or navy,--he loves men too well;...
    MoS 4.164 16 In the civil wars of the League, which converted every house into a fort, Montaigne kept his gates open and his house without defence.
    F 6.38 12 ...If you want a fort, build a fort.
    HDC 11.60 27 ...[King Philip] was at last shot down by an Indian deserter, as he fled alone in the dark of the morning, not far from his own fort.
    HDC 11.63 26 ...to satisfy [the country people] [Governor Andros] was guarded by them to the fort.
    EWI 11.143 20 [Nature] appoints...no fort or city for the bird but his wings;...
    ACiv 11.305 12 ...next winter we must begin at the beginning, and conquer [the South] over again. What use then to take a fort...

Fort Sumter, South Carolin (2)

    EPro 11.323 3 The war existed long before the cannonade of Sumter...
    HCom 11.343 18 Here...in this little nest of New England republics [enthusiasm] flamed out when the guilty gun was aimed at Sumter.

Fortescue, John, n. (1)

    ET4 5.69 20 Lord Chief Justice Fortescue, in Henry VI.'s time, says, The inhabitants of England drink no water...

forth, adv. (85)

    Nat 1.14 10 [The private poor man] sets his house upon the road, and the human race go forth every morning, and shovel out the snow, and cut a path for him.
    Nat 1.19 18 The beauty that shimmers in the yellow afternoons of October, who ever could clutch it? Go forth to find it, and it is gone;...
    Nat 1.35 12 Every scripture is to be interpreted by the same spirit which gave it forth...
    Nat 1.64 6 ...spirit, that is, the Supreme Being, does not build up nature around us, but puts it forth through us...
    Nat 1.64 7 ...the life of the tree puts forth new branches and leaves through the pores of the old.
    Nat 1.74 22 ...when a faithful thinker...shall...kindle science with the fire of the holiest affections, then will God go forth anew...
    AmS 1.97 10 ...he who has put forth his total strength in fit actions has the richest return of wisdom.
    DSA 1.128 10 The truth contained in [the Christian church], you, my young friends, are now setting forth to teach.
    DSA 1.128 27 [Jesus Christ] saw that God...evermore goes forth anew to take possession of his World.
    MN 1.194 4 ...come forth, thou curious child!...
    MN 1.208 22 ...darest thou think meanly of thyself whom the stalwart Fate brought forth to unite his ragged sides...
    MR 1.233 17 ...all such ingenuous souls...who by the law of their nature must act simply, find these ways of trade unfit for them, and they come forth from it.
    Con 1.296 18 ...if I put forth my hands, I shall not do, but undo.
    Con 1.315 2 ...[Friar Bernard]...set forth to go to Rome to reform the corruption of mankind.
    YA 1.383 5 The Community is only the continuation of the same movement which made the joint-stock companies for manufactures, mining, insurance, banking, and so forth.
    Hist 2.3 16 ...the human spirit goes forth from the beginning to embody every faculty...which belongs to it, in appropriate events.
    SR 2.66 2 It must be that when God speaketh he...should scatter forth light, nature, time, souls, from the centre of the present thought;...
    SR 2.76 10 A sturdy lad...who teams it, farms it...and so forth...is worth a hundred of these city dolls.
    Comp 2.121 10 Nothing, Falsehood, may indeed stand as the great Night or shade on which as a background the living universe paints itself forth...
    SL 2.137 17 All our manual labor and works of strength, as prying, splitting, digging, rowing and so forth, are done by dint of continual falling...
    SL 2.156 16 Doth not Wisdom cry and Understanding put forth her voice?
    Fdsp 2.197 23 Is it not that the soul puts forth friends as the tree puts forth leaves...
    Fdsp 2.197 24 Is it not that the soul puts forth friends as the tree puts forth leaves...
    OS 2.283 17 Men ask concerning...the state of the sinner, and so forth.
    Int 2.325 19 How can we speak of the action of the mind under any divisions, as...of its works, and so forth...
    Int 2.331 24 We say I will walk abroad, and the truth will take form and clearness to me. We go forth, but cannot find it.
    Pt1 3.28 23 ...the great calm presence of the Creator, comes not forth to the sorceries of opium or of wine.
    Pt1 3.29 18 That spirit which suffices quiet hearts, which seems to come forth to such from every dry knoll of sere grass...comes forth to the poor and hungry...
    Pt1 3.29 21 That spirit which suffices quiet hearts...comes forth to the poor and hungry...
    Pt1 3.39 13 ...[the artist] says, with the old painter, By God it is in me and must go forth of me.
    Pt1 3.40 23 All the creatures by pairs and by tribes pour into [the poet's] mind as into a Noah's ark, to come forth again to people a new world.
    Chr1 3.90 12 What others effect by talent or by eloquence, this man [of character] accomplishes by some magnetism. Half his strength he put not forth.
    NER 3.263 13 ...wherever...a just and heroic soul finds itself...by the new quality of character it shall put forth it shall abrogate that old condition, law, or school in which it stands...
    UGM 4.9 25 It would seem as if each [creature and quality] waited...for a destined human deliverer. Each must be disenchanted and walk forth to the day in human shape.
    SwM 4.95 13 ...the Persian poet exclaims to a soul of this kind [of goodness],--Go boldly forth, and feast on being's banquet;/ Thou art the called,--the rest admitted with thee./
    SwM 4.124 16 ...what is real and universal cannot be confined to the circle of those who sympathize strictly with [Swedenborg's] genius, but will pass forth into the common stock of wise and just thinking.
    SwM 4.128 25 Perhaps the true subject of the Conjugal Love [by Swedenborg] is Conversation, whose laws are profoundly set forth.
    MoS 4.175 25 We go forth austere, dedicated...
    GoW 4.281 16 There must be a man behind the book; a personality which by birth and quality is pledged to the doctrines there set forth...
    ET1 5.22 16 ...[Wordsworth] recollected himself for a few moments and then stood forth and repeated...the three entire sonnets with great animation.
    ET8 5.140 22 Half [the Englishmen's] strength they put not forth.
    ET14 5.255 4 The fact is, say [the English] over their wine, all that about liberty, and so forth, is gone by; it won't do any longer.
    ET16 5.283 21 After spending half an hour on the spot [Stonehenge], we [Emerson and Carlyle] set forth in our dog-cart over the downs for Wilton...
    F 6.10 26 When each comes forth from his mother's womb, the gate of gifts closes behind him.
    F 6.41 15 Each creature puts forth from itself its own condition and sphere...
    Wsp 6.219 24 It is a short sight to limit our faith in laws to those...of botany, and so forth.
    CbW 6.268 2 [The young people] set forth on their travels in search of a home...
    Elo1 7.72 23 ...when he sent his great voice forth out of his breast...not then would any mortal contend with Ulysses;...
    Elo1 7.88 21 [Lord Mansfield's] sentences are involved, but a solid proposition is set forth...
    DL 7.102 6 I detected many a god/ Forth already on the road,/ Ancestors of beauty come/ In thy breast to make a home./
    DL 7.125 10 In each the circumstance signalized differs, but in each it is made the coals of an ever-burning egotism. In one, it was his going to sea;... in a sixth, his coming forth from the abolition organizations;...
    Cour 7.260 23 ...the only title I can have to your help is when I have manfully put forth all the means I possess to keep me...
    PI 8.1 6 ...From blue mount and headland dim/ Friendly hands stretch forth to him/...
    PI 8.48 5 Was I deceived, or did a sable cloud/ Turn forth its silver lining on the night?/ I did not err, there does a sable cloud/ Turn forth its silver lining on the night./ Comus.
    PI 8.48 7 Was I deceived, or did a sable cloud/ Turn forth its silver lining on the night?/ I did not err, there does a sable cloud/ Turn forth its silver lining on the night./ Comus.
    PI 8.59 16 Another bard in like tone says ... I know a song which I need only to sing when men have loaded me with bonds, when I sing it, my chains fall in pieces, and I walk forth at liberty.
    Comc 8.166 12 ...The mighty Tottipottymoy/ Sent to our elders an envoy,/ Complaining loudly of the breach/ Of league held forth by Brother Patch/...
    PPo 8.237 17 Many qualities go to make a good telescope,-as the... achromatic purity of lenses, and so forth;...
    PPo 8.246 22 The Builder of heaven/ Hath sundered the earth,/ So that no footway/ Leads out of it forth./
    PPo 8.246 24 On turnpikes of wonder/ Wine leads the mind forth,/ Straight, sidewise and upward,/ West, southward and north./
    Chr2 10.97 19 It would instantly indispose us to any person claiming to speak for the Author of Nature, the setting forth any fact or law which we did not find in our consciousness.
    Chr2 10.103 12 ...the acts which [the moral sentiment] suggests-as when it impels a man to go forth and impart it to other men...are the homage we render to this sentiment...
    Schr 10.264 1 ...[intellect] sees no bound to the eternal proceeding of law forth into nature.
    Schr 10.267 11 Action is legitimate and good; forever be it honored! right, original, private, necessary action...going forth to beneficent and as yet incalculable ends.
    Schr 10.282 23 ...it is the end of eloquence...to persuade a multitude of persons to...change the course of life. They go forth not the men they came in...
    Schr 10.283 21 [Mother-wit] does not put forth organs, it rests in presence...
    LLNE 10.361 18 The young people [at Brook Farm] lived a great deal in a short time, and came forth some of them perhaps with shattered constitutions.
    LLNE 10.365 18 It was a curious experience of the patrons and leaders of this noted community [Brook Farm], in which the agreement with many parties was that they should give so many hours of instruction, in mathematics, in music, in moral and intellectual philosophy, and so forth,- that in every instance the newcomers showed themselves keenly alive to the advantages of the society...
    MMEm 10.409 15 ...from the rays which burst forth when the crowd are entering these noble saloons, whilst I [Mary Moody Emerson] stand in the doors, I get a pleasing vision which is an earnest of the interminable skies where the mansions are prepared for the poor.
    Carl 10.496 6 ...[Carlyle] thinks Oxford and Cambridge education indurates the young men...so that when they come forth of them, they say, Now we are proof; we have gone through all the degrees, and are case-hardened against the veracities of the Universe;...
    LS 11.22 22 ...the Almighty God was pleased to qualify and send forth a man to teach men that they must serve him with the heart;...
    HDC 11.34 15 ...in these poor wigwams [the pilgrims] sing psalms, pray and praise their God, till they can provide them houses, which they could not ordinarily, till the earth...brought forth bread to feed them.
    EWI 11.107 5 We cannot say the cause set forth by this return is allowed or approved of by the laws of this kingdom [England];...
    War 11.171 11 ...[peace] is to hear the voice of God, which bids the devils that have rended and torn [the man] come out of him and let him now be clothed and walk forth in his right mind.
    FSLN 11.234 26 The teachings of the Spirit can be apprehended only by the same spirit that gave them forth.
    FSLN 11.239 11 [The Greeks] said of the happiness of the unjust, that at its close...there sprouts forth for posterity every-ravening calamity...
    EPro 11.314 19 Come, East and West and North,/ By races, as snow-flakes,/ And carry my purpose forth,/ Which neither halts nor shakes./
    Wom 11.404 3 Lo, when the Lord made North and South,/ And sun and moon ordained he,/ Forth bringing each by word of mouth/ In order of its dignity,/ Did man from the crude clay express/ By sequence, and, all else decreed,/ He formed the woman; nor might less/ Than Sabbath such a work succeed./ Coventry Patmore.
    FRep 11.538 16 ...if the spirit which...put forth such gigantic energy in the charity of the Sanitary Commission, could be waked to the conserving and creating duty of making the laws just and humane, it were to enroll a great constituency of religious...obeyers of duty...
    II 12.65 10 We have a certain blind wisdom...a seminal brain, which has not yet put forth organs...
    II 12.68 4 One often sees in the embittered acuteness of critics snuffing heresy from afar, their own unbelief, that they pour forth on the innocent promulgator of new doctrine their anger at that which they vainly resist in their own bosom.
    CInt 12.128 6 This, then, is the theory of Education, the happy meeting of the young soul...with the living teacher who has already made the passage from the centre forth...
    CL 12.150 24 [The man] went forth again after the rain; in the cold swamp, the buds are swollen...
    Milt1 12.267 8 [Wrote Milton] Albeit I must confess to be half in doubt whether I should bring it forth or no, it being so contrary to the eye of the world, that I shall endanger either not to be regarded, or not to be understood. For who is there, almost, that measures wisdom by simplicity...
    Pray 12.353 9 These duties are not the life, but the means which enable us to show forth the life.

forthcoming, adj. (1)

    OS 2.267 8 ...the argument which is always forthcoming to silence those who conceive extraordinary hopes of man, namely the appeal to experience, is for ever invalid and vain.

forthright, adj. (1)

    FRep 11.537 21 The new times need a new man...whom plainly this country must furnish. Freer swing his arms;...more forward and forthright his whole build and rig than the Englishman's...

forthright, adv. (1)

    Exp 3.82 7 A man should not be able to look other than directly and forthright.

forthwith, adv. (3)

    Fdsp 2.192 3 ...it is necessary to write a letter to a friend,--and forthwith troops of gentle thoughts invest themselves...with chosen words.
    Cir 2.305 4 Lo! on the other side rises also a man and draws a circle around the circle we had just pronounced the outline of the sphere. Then already is our first speaker not man, but only a first speaker. His only redress is forthwith to draw a circle outside of his antagonist.
    EWI 11.132 17 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...

forties, n. (1)

    OA 7.328 16 The Indian Red Jacket, when the young braves were boasting their deeds, said, But the sixties have all the twenties and forties in them.

fortieth, adj. (2)

    Farm 7.143 23 Nature...has a forelooking tenderness and equal regard to the next and the next, and the fourth and the fortieth age.
    Bost 12.189 15 The [Massachusetts Bay] territory...extended from the 40th to the 48th degree of north latitude...

Fortieth Regiment, n. (1)

    SMC 11.366 21 In August, 1862...twelve men...were enlisted for three years, and, being soon after enrolled in the Fortieth Massachusetts, went to the war;...

fortification, n. (6)

    LE 1.161 4 Still more do we owe to biography the fortification of our hope.
    SA 8.88 19 If...a man has not firm nerves...it is perhaps a wise economy to go to a good shop and dress himself irreproachably. He...may easily find that performance...a fortification that turns the scale in social encounters...
    EWI 11.99 7 We are met to exchange congratulations on the anniversary of an event singular in the history of civilization;...a day which gave the immense fortification of a fact, of gross history, to ethical abstractions.
    FSLC 11.197 21 ...here are gentlemen whose believed probity was the confidence and fortification of multitudes, who...have been drawn into the support of this foul business [the Fugitive Slave Law].
    FRep 11.513 13 Our sleepy civilization, ever since Roger Bacon and Monk Schwartz invented gunpowder, has built its whole art of war, all fortification by land and sea...on that one compound...
    MAng1 12.224 7 [Michelangelo] visited Bologna to inspect its celebrated fortifications, and, on his return, constructed a fortification on the heights of San Miniato...

fortifications, n. (3)

    Cir 2.302 23 See the investment of capital in aqueducts, made useless by hydraulics; fortifications, by gun-powder;...
    MAng1 12.224 6 [Michelangelo] visited Bologna to inspect its celebrated fortifications...
    MAng1 12.225 24 In Rome, Michael Angelo was consulted by Pope Paul III. in building the fortifications of San Borgo.

fortified, adj. (1)

    HDC 11.58 14 [Simon Willard] marched from Concord to Brookfield, in season to save the people...who had taken shelter in a fortified house.

fortified, v. (7)

    PPh 4.55 5 ...[Plato] fortified himself by drawing all his illustrations from sources disdained by orators and polite conversers;...
    Bhr 6.192 14 We are fortified by every heroic anecdote.
    Cour 7.269 9 Morphy played a daring game in chess: the daring was only an illusion of the spectator, for the player sees his move to be well fortified and safe.
    Edc1 10.151 6 What tranquil mind will [the college] have fortified to walk with meekness in private and obscure duties...
    LLNE 10.356 17 [Thoreau]...fortified you at all times with an affirmative experience which refused to be set aside.
    TPar 11.288 21 ...[the next generation] will read very intelligently in [Theodore Parker's] rough story, fortified with exact anecdotes...what part was taken by each actor [in Boston];...
    Milt1 12.279 4 ...are not all men fortified by the remembrance of the bravery...of this man [Milton]...

fortifies, v. (4)

    DSA 1.132 2 That which shows God in me, fortifies me.
    LE 1.160 20 Any history of philosophy fortifies my faith...
    Cir 2.321 5 Character makes...a cheerful, determined hour, which fortifies all the company by making them see that much is possible and excellent that was not thought of.
    II 12.89 5 The joy of knowledge, the late discovery that the veil which hid all things from him is really transparent, transparent everywhere to...the heart of trust which every perception fortifies,-renew life for [a man].

fortify, v. (5)

    Fdsp 2.210 21 ...that scornful beauty of [your friend's] mien and action, do not pique yourself on reducing, but rather fortify and enhance.
    Mrs1 3.125 5 [My gentleman] is good company for pirates and good with academicians; so that it is useless to fortify yourself against him;...
    ET11 5.173 15 Every man who becomes rich [in England]...does what he can to fortify the nobility...
    PPo 8.247 9 That hardihood and self-equality of every sound nature...are in Hafiz, and abundantly fortify and ennoble his tone.
    Thor 10.478 1 Thoreau...might fortify the convictions of prophets in the ethical laws by his holy living.

fortitude, n. (9)

    SL 2.162 22 Heaven...affords space for all modes of love and fortitude.
    Hsm1 2.246 23 ...Thou thyself must part/ At last from all thy garlands, pleasures, triumphs,/ And prove thy fortitude what then 't will do./
    Hsm1. 2.252 7 ...[heroism] is...of a fortitude not to be wearied out.
    MoS 4.159 2 ...true fortitude of understanding consists in not letting what we know be embarrassed by what we do not know...
    ET8 5.132 4 Of that constitutional force which yields the supplies of the day, [the English] have more than enough; the excess which creates courage on fortitude...
    Plu 10.316 10 It would be generous to lend our eyes and ears, nay, if possible, our reason and fortitude to others, whilst we are idle or asleep.
    MMEm 10.414 11 [Mary Moody Emerson writes] Could [my aunt's] own temper in childhood or age have been subdued, how happy for herself, who had a warm heart; but for me would have prevented those early lessons of fortitude, which her caprices taught me to practise.
    Carl 10.495 13 In proportion to the peals of laughter amid which [Carlyle] strips the plumes of a pretender...does he worship whatever enthusiasm, fortitude, love or other sign of a good nature is in a man.
    MLit 12.315 27 Do gladness and hope and fortitude flow from [the writer' s] page into thy heart?

fortnight, n. (5)

    SL 2.145 26 M. de Narbonne in less than a fortnight penetrated all the secrets of the imperial cabinet.
    NR 3.237 13 ...once in a fortnight we arrive perhaps at a rational moment.
    ET4 5.58 9 A [Norse] king was maintained, much as in some of our country districts a winter-schoolmaster is quartered, a week here, a week there, and a fortnight on the next farm...
    ET19 5.310 7 ...the political, the social, the parietal wit of Punch go duly every fortnight to every boy and girl in Boston and New York.
    OA 7.324 13 At fifty years, 't is said, afflicted citizens lose their sick-headaches. I hope this hegira is not as movable a feast as that one I annually look for, when the horticulturists assure me that the rose-bugs in our gardens disappear on the tenth of July; they stay a fortnight later in mine.

fortress, n. (1)

    NMW 4.251 4 Believe me, [Bonaparte] said...we had better leave off all these remedies: life is a fortress which neither you nor I know any thing about.

forts, n. (4)

    ET4 5.62 2 It was a tardy recoil of these invasions [of Northmen], when, in 1801, the British government sent Nelson to bombard the Danish forts in the Sound...
    ET5 5.86 12 Before the bombardment of the Danish forts in the Baltic, Nelson spent day after day, himself, in the boats, on the exhausting service of sounding the channel.
    War 11.163 8 We have all grown up in the sight...of armed forts and islands...
    FSLC 11.213 2 Every Englishman...in whatever barbarous country their forts and factories have been set up,-represents London...

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