Fortuitous to Found

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

fortuitous, adj. (1)

    F 6.19 8 These [laws of repression]...show a kind of mechanical exactness... in what we call...fortuitous events.

fortunate, adj. (21)

    Nat 1.34 4 When in fortunate hours we ponder this miracle, the wise man doubts if at all other times he is not blind and deaf;...
    Con 1.324 12 ...[the hero] will say, All the meanness of my progenitors shall not bereave me of the power to make this hour and company fair and fortunate.
    YA 1.365 23 ...it now appears that we must estimate the native values of this broad region to...appreciate the advantages opened to the human race in this country which is our fortunate home.
    Chr1 3.92 10 ...the reason why this or that man is fortunate is not to be told.
    UGM 4.16 2 ...these unchoked channels and floodgates of expression [in Shakspeare] are only health or fortunate constitution.
    SwM 4.130 11 Success, or a fortunate genius, seems to depend on a happy adjustment of heart and brain;...
    ET3 5.41 11 It is not down in the books...that fortunate day when a wave of the German Ocean burst the old isthmus which joined Kent and Cornwall to France...
    ET4 5.46 10 ...[the Englishmen's] success is not sudden or fortunate...
    ET17 5.292 9 My visit [to England] fell in the fortunate days when Mr. [George] Bancroft was the American Minister in London...
    Wsp 6.226 6 Men talk as if victory were something fortunate.
    Dem1 10.16 24 This faith...in the particular of lucky days and fortunate persons, as frequent in America to-day as the faith in incantations and philters was in old Rome...runs athwart the recognized agencies...which science and religion explore.
    Dem1 10.19 25 ...[belief in the demonological] extends the popular idea of success to the very gods;...that fortunate men, fortunate youths exist, whose good is not virtue or the public good, but a private good...
    Dem1 10.19 26 ...[belief in the demonological] extends the popular idea of success to the very gods;...that fortunate men, fortunate youths exist, whose good is not virtue or the public good, but a private good...
    Dem1 10.23 3 ...the so-called fortunate man is one...who...relies on his instincts...
    MMEm 10.398 12 ...[Lucy Percy's] nature values fortunate persons.
    HDC 11.85 16 Fortunate and favored this town [Concord] has been...
    FSLC 11.197 6 New York advertised in Southern markets that it would go for slavery, and posted the names of merchants who would not. Boston, alarmed, entered into the same design. Philadelphia, more fortunate, had no conscience at all...
    SMC 11.369 17 Another incident [reported by George Prescott]: A friend of Lieutenant Barrow complains that we did not treat his body with respect, inasmuch as we did not send it home. I think we were very fortunate to save it at all...
    II 12.83 14 Him we account the fortunate man whose determination to his aim is sufficiently strong to leave him no doubt.
    PPr 12.391 4 [Carlyle's style] is the first experiment, and something of rudeness and haste must be pardoned to so great an achievement. It will be done again and again, sharper, simpler; but fortunate is he who did it first...
    Let 12.404 26 Many of the best must die of consumption...and many be stupid and insane, before the one great and fortunate life which they each predicted can shoot up into a thrifty and beneficent existence.

fortunate, n. (1)

    Comp 2.98 25 There is always some levelling circumstance that puts down...the fortunate, substantially on the same ground with all others.

fortunately, adv. (1)

    SHC 11.432 10 This tract [Sleepy Hollow Cemetery] fortunately lies adjoining to the Agricultural Society's ground...

fortune, n. (119)

    Nat 1.9 20 Crossing a bare common...without having in my thoughts any occurrence of special good fortune, I have enjoyed a perfect exhilaration.
    Nat 1.34 19 There sits the Sphinx at the road-side, and...as each prophet comes by, he tries his fortune at reading her riddle.
    Nat 1.38 5 The whole character and fortune of the individual are affected by the least inequalities in the culture of the understanding;...
    Nat 1.60 22 [The soul] is not hot and passionate at the appearance of what it calls its own good or bad fortune...
    Nat 1.75 13 ...poverty, labor, sleep, fear, fortune, are known to you.
    DSA 1.149 2 The silence that accepts merit as the most natural thing in the world, is the highest applause. Such souls...are...the dictators of fortune.
    LE 1.179 24 The vulgar call good fortune that which really is produced by the calculations of genius.
    LE 1.180 19 ...always remained [Napoleon's] total trust in the prodigious revolutions of fortune which his reserved Imperial Guard were capable of working...
    MN 1.216 18 Be you only whole and sufficient, and I shall feel you in every part of my life and fortune...
    MR 1.252 22 We do not greet [the laborers'] talents, nor rejoice in their good fortune...
    SR 2.71 13 Let...our docility to our own law demonstrate the poverty of nature and fortune beside our native riches.
    SR 2.75 12 We are...afraid of fortune...
    SR 2.78 18 The secret of fortune is joy in our hands.
    SL 2.143 22 The goods of fortune may come and go like summer leaves;...
    Fdsp 2.202 7 The gifts of fortune may be present or absent...
    Fdsp 2.204 23 When a man becomes dear to me I have touched the goal of fortune.
    Prd1 2.223 27 Cultivated men always feel and speak...as if a great fortune, the achievement of a civil or social measure...had their value as proofs of the energy of the spirit.
    Hsm1 2.247 12 Mar. This admirable duke, Valerius,/ With his disdain of fortune and of death,/ Captived himself, has captivated me,/ And though my arm hath ta'en his body here,/ His soul hath subjugated Martius' soul./
    Int 2.326 26 All that mass of mental and moral phenomena which we do not make objects of voluntary thought, come within the power of fortune;...
    Pt1 3.10 8 ...[the poet] will tell us how it was with him, and all men will be the richer in his fortune.
    Exp 3.50 19 Of what use is fortune or talent to a cold and defective nature?
    Chr1 3.92 14 See [the man fortunate in trade] and you will know as easily why he succeeds, as, if you see Napoleon, you would comprehend his fortune.
    Chr1 3.104 13 The true charity of Goethe is to be inferred from the account he gave Dr. Eckermann of the way in which he had spent his fortune.
    Chr1 3.104 15 The true charity of Goethe is to be inferred from the account he gave Dr. Eckermann of the way in which he had spent his fortune. Each bonmot of mine has cost a purse of gold. Half a million of my own money, the fortune I inherited...have been expended to instruct me in what I now know.
    Chr1 3.108 11 When we see a great man we fancy a resemblance to some historical person, and predict the sequel of his character and fortune;...
    Chr1 3.114 7 The ages have exulted in the manners of a youth who owed nothing to fortune...
    Mrs1 3.123 5 The popular notion [of a gentleman] certainly adds a condition of ease and fortune;...
    Mrs1 3.125 15 A plentiful fortune is reckoned necessary...to the completion of this man of the world;...
    Mrs1 3.126 6 Fortune will not supply to every generation one of these well-appointed knights...
    Mrs1 3.146 10 ...there is still...some youth ashamed of the favors of fortune and impatiently casting them on other shoulders.
    NER 3.274 17 The heroes of ancient and modern fame...have treated life and fortune as a game to be well and skilfully played...
    NER 3.277 16 ...surely the greatest good fortune that could befall me is precisely to be so moved by you that I should say, Take me and all mine...
    UGM 4.3 24 We travel into foreign parts...if possible, to get a glimpse of [the great man]. But we are put off with fortune instead.
    PPh 4.64 1 ...the fairest fortune that can befall man is to be guided by his daemon to that which is truly his own.
    PPh 4.75 13 It was a rare fortune that this Aesop of the mob [Socrates] and this robed scholar [Plato] should meet...
    PNR 4.81 13 ...Plato has the fortune in the history of mankind to mark an epoch.
    MoS 4.167 17 [I seem to hear Montaigne say] Our condition as men is risky and ticklish enough. One cannot be sure of himself and his fortune an hour...
    ShP 4.208 24 ...with Shakspeare for biographer...we have really the information [about Shakespeare] which is material; that which describes character and fortune...
    NMW 4.231 11 [Bonaparte] respected the power of nature and fortune...
    NMW 4.238 14 Before he fought a battle, Bonaparte thought...a great deal about what he should do in case of a reverse of fortune.
    NMW 4.239 12 To these gifts of nature, Napoleon added the advantage of having been born to a private and humble fortune.
    ET4 5.46 17 Every body likes to know that his advantages cannot be attributed...to laws and traditions, nor to fortune;...
    ET5 5.74 15 The island [England] was a prize for the best race. Each of the dominant races tried its fortune in turn.
    ET5 5.74 18 The Roman came [to England], but in the very day when his fortune culminated.
    ET8 5.136 18 There is an English hero superior to the French, the German, the Italian, or the Greek. When he is brought to the strife with fate, he sacrifices a richer material possession, and on more purely metaphysical grounds. He is there with his own consent, face to face with fortune...
    ET10 5.153 21 An Englishman who has lost his fortune is said to have died of a broken heart.
    ET10 5.153 23 Nelson said, The want of fortune is a crime which I can never get over.
    ET11 5.198 5 A multitude of English...bred into their society with manners, ability and the gifts of fortune, are every day confronting the peers on a footing of equality...
    ET14 5.237 19 The unique fact in literary history, the unsurprised reception of Shakspeare;--the reception proved by his making his fortune;...seems to demonstrate an elevation in the mind of the people.
    ET15 5.271 3 ...the aspirants see that The [London] Times is one of the goods of fortune...
    ET17 5.292 7 An equal good fortune attended many later accidents of my journey [in England]...
    F 6.7 1 ...fortune, gravity, lightning, respect no persons.
    Pow 6.75 23 It requires a great deal of boldness and a great deal of caution to make a great fortune [said Rothschild]...
    Wth 6.100 9 [The right merchant] is thoroughly persuaded of the truths of arithmetic. There is always a reason, in the man, for his good or bad fortune...
    Ctr 6.136 21 ...our talents are as mischievous as if each had been seized upon by some bird of prey which had whisked him away from fortune, from truth...
    Ctr 6.163 8 Open your Marcus Antoninus. In the opinion of the ancients he was the great man...who contested the frowns of fortune.
    Bhr 6.172 4 When we reflect on...how manners make the fortune of the ambitious youth;...we see what range the subject has...
    Bhr 6.183 7 It was said of the late Lord Holland that he always came down to breakfast with the air of a man who had just met with some signal good fortune.
    Wsp 6.235 25 [Benedict said] I could not stoop to be a circumstance, as they did who put their life into their fortune and their company.
    Wsp 6.242 5 Honor and fortune exist to him who always recognizes the neighborhood of the great,--always feels himself in the presence of high causes.
    CbW 6.246 25 We have a debt...to those who have put life and fortune on the cast of an act of justice;...
    CbW 6.259 25 The youth is charmed with the fine air and accomplishments of the children of fortune.
    CbW 6.267 6 ...the crowning fortune of a man, is to be born with a bias to some pursuit which finds him in employment and happiness...
    Ill 6.315 21 Bare and grim to tears is the lot of the children in the hovel I saw yesterday; yet not the less they hung it round with frippery romance, like the children of the happiest fortune...
    Ill 6.322 6 ...we are parties to our various fortune.
    Ill 6.323 12 At the top or at the bottom of all illusions, I set the cheat which still leads us to work and live for appearances; in spite of our conviction, in all sane hours, that it is what we really are that avails with friends, with strangers, and with fate or fortune.
    Ill 6.325 2 In a crowded life of many parts and performers...the same elements offer the same choices to each new comer, and, according to his election, he fixes his fortune in absolute Nature.
    Elo1 7.69 22 The virtue of books is to be readable, and of orators to be interesting; and this is a gift of Nature; as Demosthenes...signified his sense of this necessity when he wrote, Good Fortune, as his motto on his shield.
    Elo1 7.76 16 ...eloquence is attractive as an example of the magic of personal ascendency,--a total and resultant power, and rare, because it requires a rich coincidence of powers, intellect, will, sympathy, organs and...good fortune in the cause.
    DL 7.132 17 Will [man] not see...that his economy, his labor, his good and bad fortune, his health and manners are all a curious and exact demonstration in miniature of the Genius of the Eternal Providence?
    Farm 7.141 11 He who...so much as puts a stone seat by the wayside... makes a fortune which he cannot carry away with him...
    Boks 7.216 15 ...the novelist plucks this event here and that fortune there, and ties them rashly to his figures...
    Clbs 7.228 23 We remember the time when the best gift we could ask of fortune was to fall in with a valuable companion in a ship's cabin...
    Suc 7.295 24 How often it seems the chief good to be born...well adjusted to the tone of the human race. Such a man feels himself...conscious by his receptivity of an infinite strength. Like Alfred, good fortune accompanies him like a gift of God.
    SA 8.84 11 In Borrow's Lavengro, the gypsy instantly detects, by his companion's face and behavior, that some good fortune has befallen him...
    SA 8.102 27 ...I have seen examples of new grace and power in address that honor the country. It was my fortune not long ago, with my eyes directed on this subject, to fall in with an American to be proud of.
    PC 8.231 25 The great are not tender at being...insulted. Such only feel themselves in adverse fortune.
    PPo 8.254 11 To the vizier returning from Mecca [Hafiz] says,-Boast not rashly, prince of pilgrims, of thy fortune. Thou hast indeed seen the temple; but I, the Lord of the temple.
    Insp 8.279 16 We might say of these memorable moments of life that we were in them, not they in us. We found ourselves by happy fortune in an illuminated portion or meteorous zone...
    Dem1 10.10 20 We doubt not a man's fortune may be read in the lines of his hand...
    Dem1 10.15 14 The belief that particular individuals are attended by a good fortune which makes them desirable associates in any enterprise of uncertain success, exists not only among those who take part in political and military projects...
    Dem1 10.23 2 Lord Bacon uncovers the magic when he says, Manifest virtues procure reputation; occult ones, fortune.
    Dem1 10.23 11 ...the so-called fortunate man is one...who...waits his time, and without effort acts when the need is. If to this you add a fitness to the society around him, you have the elements of fortune;...
    Aris 10.43 20 Temperament is fortune...
    Aris 10.44 1 ...when the well-mixed man is born...he brings with him fortune, followers, love, power.
    Aris 10.45 27 Dull people think it Fortune that makes one rich and another poor. Is it? Yes, but the fortune was earlier than they think...
    PerF 10.85 15 I find the survey of these cosmical powers a doctrine of consolation in the dark hours of private or public fortune.
    Edc1 10.137 19 A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune;...
    Edc1 10.157 7 The will, the male power...makes that military eye which controls boys as it controls men;...a fortune to him who has it...
    SovE 10.191 24 [Man] imputes the stroke to fortune, which in reality himself strikes.
    Prch 10.237 21 ...when we...come into the house of thought and worship, we come with the purpose...to see that life has no caprice or fortune...
    Plu 10.314 20 [Plutarch's] grand perceptions of duty lead him...to a fight with fortune;...
    EzRy 10.386 6 ...[Ezra Ripley] gave me anecdotes of the nine church members who had made a division in the church in the time of his predecessor, and showed me how every one of the nine had come to bad fortune or to a bad end.
    MMEm 10.405 18 ...[Mary Moody Emerson] would easily rouse [the minister's] curiosity, as a person who could read his secret and tell him his fortune.
    Thor 10.452 1 After completing his experiments [on lead-pencils], [Thoreau] exhibited his work to chemists and artists in Boston, and having obtained their certificates to its excellence...he returned home contented. His friends congratulated him that he had now opened his way to fortune.
    EWI 11.137 9 ...every liberal mind...had had the fortune to appear somewhere for this cause [emancipation in the West Indies].
    FSLN 11.239 11 [The Greeks] said of the happiness of the unjust, that at its close...instead of good fortune, there sprouts forth for posterity every-ravening calamity...
    ALin 11.331 15 A plain man of the people, an extraordinary fortune attended [Lincoln].
    ALin 11.336 17 Only Washington can compare with [Lincoln] in fortune.
    Wom 11.407 13 ...[women] give entirely to their affections, set their whole fortune on the die...
    Scot 11.467 4 With such a fortune and such a genius, we should look to see what heavy toll the Fates took of [Scott]...
    Scot 11.467 9 [Scott] was...equal to whatever event or fortune should try him.
    CPL 11.503 20 Many times the reading of a book has made the fortune of the man...
    CPL 11.507 2 You say, [reading] is a languid pleasure. Yes, but its tractableness...contrasts with the slowness of fortune and the inaccessibleness of persons.
    FRep 11.512 6 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. It was a renaissance of the breakfast-table and china-closet. The brave manufacturers made their fortune.
    FRep 11.530 19 Never country had such a fortune...as this...
    FRep 11.530 20 Never country had such a fortune, as men call fortune, as this...
    Mem 12.102 27 The poet, the philosopher, lamed, old, blind, sick, yet disputing the ground inch by inch against fortune, finds a strength against the wrecks and decays sometimes more invulnerable than the heyday of youth and talent.
    CInt 12.125 1 ...unless, by rare good fortune, the professor has a generous sympathy with genius...that will happen which has happened so often, that the best scholar, he for whom colleges exist, finds himself a stranger and an orphan therein.
    CL 12.153 24 On the seashore the play of the Atlantic with the coast! What wealth is here! Every wave is a fortune;...
    Bost 12.187 15 In...the farthest colonies...a middle-aged gentleman is just embarking with all his property to fulfil the dream of his life and spend his old age in Paris; so that a fortune falls into the massive wealth of that city every day in the year.
    Bost 12.201 10 The future historian will regard the detachment of the Puritans without aristocracy the supreme fortune of the colony;...
    MLit 12.309 8 When we flout all particular books as initial merely, we truly express the privilege of spiritual nature, but, alas, not the fact and fortune of this low Massachusetts and Boston...
    MLit 12.329 17 [We can fancy Goethe saying to himself] I have let mischance befall [in Wilhelm Meister] instead of good fortune. [Men] do so daily.
    WSL 12.344 22 [Landor]...serenely enjoys the victory of Nature over fortune.
    EurB 12.372 8 Fortune will still have her part in every victory...
    EurB 12.375 6 ...[the hero of a novel of costume or of circumstance] is greatly in want of a fortune or of a wife, and usually of both...
    Trag 12.413 14 A man should try Time, and his face should wear the expression of a just judge...who puts Nature and fortune on their merits...
    Trag 12.416 22 The intellect is a consoler, which delights in detaching or putting an interval between a man and his fortune...

Fortune, n. (10)

    SR 2.89 18 So use all that is called Fortune.
    SL 2.134 14 ...[men of an extraordinary success] have built altars to Fortune, or to Destiny, or to St. Julian.
    Exp 3.72 21 Fortune, Minerva, Muse, Holy Ghost,--these are quaint names, too narrow to cover this unbounded substance.
    Exp 3.83 25 I worship with wonder the great Fortune.
    MoS 4.177 8 We paint...Love and Fortune, blind;...
    Grts 8.303 19 ...he who rests on what he is...can make mouths at Fortune.
    Aris 10.45 26 Dull people think it Fortune that makes one rich and another poor.
    Plu 10.315 1 ...[Plutarch] makes a fight against Fortune whenever she is named.
    Plu 10.315 7 ...this Stoic [Plutarch] in his fight with Fortune...is gentle as a woman when other strings are touched.
    FSLN 11.231 19 There are two forces in Nature, by whose antagonism we exist; the power of Fate, Fortune...the material necessities, on the one hand,-and Will or Duty or Freedom on the other.

Fortune of Alexander, On th (2)

    Plu 10.318 16 The chapters On the Fortune of Alexander, in [Plutarch's] Morals, are an important appendix to the portrait in the Lives.
    War 11.153 12 Plutarch, in his essay On the Fortune of Alexander, considers the invasion and conquest of the East by Alexander as one of the most bright and pleasing pages in history;...

Fortune, On [Plutarch], n. (1)

    Plu 10.305 14 [Plutarch's] chapter On Fortune should be read by poets, and other wise men;...

fortunes, n. (59)

    MR 1.240 8 ...the whole interest of history lies in the fortunes of the poor.
    Con 1.318 7 These considerations, urged by those whose characters and whose fortunes are yet to be formed, must needs command the sympathy of all reasonable persons.
    Tran 1.335 11 Am I vicious and insane? my fortunes will seem to you obscure and descending.
    Tran 1.353 18 So little skill enters into these works, so little do they mix with the divine life, that it really signifies little...whether we turn a grindstone...or make fortunes...
    SL 2.159 4 What [a man] is engraves itself...on his fortunes...
    Fdsp 2.209 9 He only is fit for this society [of friendship]...who is not swift to intermeddle with his fortunes.
    OS 2.283 2 The popular notion of a revelation is that it is a telling of fortunes.
    OS 2.283 23 Jesus, living in these moral sentiments [truth, justice, love], heedless of sensual fortunes...never made the separation of the idea of duration from the essence of these attributes...
    Exp 3.53 8 ...[physicians] esteem each man the victim of another, who...by such cheap signboards as the color of his beard or the slope of his occiput, reads the inventory of his fortunes and character.
    NER 3.277 23 ...surely the greatest good fortune that could befall me is precisely to be so moved by you that I should say, Take me and all mine, and use me and mine freely to your ends! for I could not say it otherwise than because a great enlargement had come to my heart and mind, which made me superior to my fortunes.
    PPh 4.43 21 ...a philosopher converts the value of all his fortunes into his intellectual performances.
    SwM 4.139 26 The rumors of ghosts and hobgoblins gossip and tell fortunes.
    MoS 4.149 18 [A man] builds his fortunes...but he asks himself, Why? and whereto?
    MoS 4.179 6 ...fortunes...are nothing to the purpose;...
    ShP 4.209 6 We have [Shakespeare's] recorded convictions on those questions which knock for answer at every heart...on the characters of men, and the influences, occult and open, which affect their fortunes;...
    NMW 4.223 21 In our society there is a standing antagonism...between those who have made their fortunes, and the young and the poor who have fortunes to make;...
    NMW 4.223 22 In our society there is a standing antagonism...between those who have made their fortunes, and the young and the poor who have fortunes to make;...
    NMW 4.225 11 Napoleon...at the highest point of his fortunes, has the very spirit of the newspapers.
    NMW 4.244 12 If he felt himself their patron and the founder of their fortunes, as when he said I made my generals out of mud,--[Napoleon] could not hide his satisfaction in receiving from them a seconding and support commensurate with the grandeur of his enterprise.
    ET8 5.134 3 ...it is in the deep traits of race that the fortunes of nations are written...
    ET8 5.134 19 ...here [in England] exists the best stock in the world...a race to which their fortunes flow, as if they alone had the elastic organization at once fine and robust enough for dominion;...
    ET10 5.156 14 If [the English] cannot pay, they do not buy; for they have no presumption of better fortunes next year...
    ET10 5.158 17 The Life of Sir Robert Peel...very properly has, for a frontispiece, a drawing of the spinning-jenny, which wove the web of his fortunes.
    ET10 5.163 3 Some English private fortunes reach, and some exceed a million of dollars a year.
    F 6.34 25 Who likes to have a dapper phrenologist pronouncing on his fortunes?
    F 6.40 26 Nature magically suits the man to his fortunes...
    F 6.41 24 A man's fortunes are the fruit of his character.
    Wth 6.101 19 Money...follows the nature and fortunes of the owner.
    Bhr 6.170 23 Give a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes.
    Bhr 6.188 10 People masquerade before us in their fortunes...
    Bhr 6.191 27 The novels used to lead us on to a foolish interest in the fortunes of the boy and girl they described.
    Wsp 6.220 23 ...[a man] does not see...that fortunes are not exceptions but fruit;...
    Wsp 6.221 3 ...we are the builders of our fortunes;...
    CbW 6.260 17 ...what we ask daily, is to be conventional. Supply, most kind gods! this defect...in my fortunes, which puts me a little out of the ring...
    Ill 6.322 10 ...it is the undisciplined will that is whipped with bad thoughts and bad fortunes.
    Elo1 7.67 4 There is a tablet [in the audience] for every line [the orator] can inscribe, though he should mount to the highest levels. Humble persons are conscious of new illumination;...delicate spirits...masked and muffled in coarsest fortunes, who now hear their own native language for the first time...
    DL 7.107 23 Do you think any rhetoric or any romance would get your ear from the wise gypsy who could tell straight on the real fortunes of the man;...
    DL 7.108 25 The history of your fortunes is written first in your life.
    Boks 7.216 13 Nature has a magic by which she fits the man to his fortunes...
    Clbs 7.235 1 Our fortunes in the world are as our mental equipment for this competition [in right company] is.
    Cour 7.270 19 ...the right men will give a permanent direction to the fortunes of a state.
    PI 8.11 22 ...the aptness with which a river, a flower, a bird, fire, day or night, can express [man's] fortunes, is as if the world were only a disguised man...
    Dem1 10.28 1 [Man] is sure that intimate relations subsist between his character and his fortunes...
    Aris 10.45 5 ...the man's associations, fortunes, love, hatred, residence, rank, the books he will buy, the roads he will traverse are predetermined in his organism.
    Aris 10.58 23 ...I know no such unquestionable badge and ensign of a sovereign mind, as that tenacity of purpose which, through all change of companions, of parties, of fortunes,-changes never...
    Aris 10.59 4 ...[a grand interest] reckons fortunes mere paint;...
    Chr2 10.113 5 Morals is the incorruptible essence, very heedless in its richness of any past teacher or witness, heedless of their lives and fortunes.
    Prch 10.223 4 The next age will behold God in the ethical laws...and will regard natural history, private fortunes and politics, not for themselves, as we have done, but as illustrations of those laws...
    MoL 10.250 15 You [scholars] are to imperil your lives and fortunes for a principle.
    LLNE 10.355 17 In our free institutions, where...all possible modes of working and gaining are open to [a man], fortunes are easily made...
    GSt 10.501 23 ...[George Stearns's] extreme interest in the national politics...engaged him to scan the fortunes of freedom with keener attention.
    HDC 11.69 23 ...in conjunction with our brethren in America, we will risk our fortunes, and even our lives, in defence of his majesty, King George the Third, his person, crown and dignity;...
    JBS 11.279 20 ...as happens usually to men of romantic character, [John Brown's] fortunes were romantic.
    ALin 11.337 12 The ancients believed in a serene and beautiful Genius... which, with a slow but stern justice, carried forward the fortunes of certain chosen houses...
    EdAd 11.382 2 The old men studied magic in the flowers,/ And human fortunes in astronomy,/ And an omnipotence in chemistry,/ Preferring things to names, for these were men/...
    RBur 11.440 13 ...[Robert Burns's] birth, breeding and fortunes were low.
    CPL 11.505 12 A man, that strives to make himself a different thing from other men by much reading gains this chiefest good, that in all fortunes he hath something to entertain and comfort himself withal.
    CPL 11.506 25 With [books] many of us spend the most of our life...these tractable prophets, historians, and singers...who now cast their moonlight illumination over solitude, weariness and fallen fortunes.
    Pray 12.350 15 ...we seldom have the prayer otherwise than it can be inferred from the man and his fortunes...

fortune's, n. (1)

    F 6.40 12 Alas! till now I had not known,/ My guide and fortune's guide are one./

Fortune's, n. (1)

    PPo 8.245 23 Alas! till now I had not known/ My guide and Fortune's guide are one./

forty, adj. (35)

    LT 1.269 20 How can such a question as the Slave-trade be agitated for forty years...without throwing great light on ethics into the general mind?
    Tran 1.350 7 Once possessed of the principle, it is equally easy to make four or forty thousand applications of it.
    Lov1 2.187 25 Looking at these aims with which two persons, a man and a woman, so variously and correlatively gifted, are shut up in one house to spend in the nuptial society forty or fifty years, I do not wonder at the emphasis with which the heart prophesies this crisis from early infancy...
    NER 3.259 11 ...the persons who, at forty years, still read Greek, can all be counted on your hand.
    NMW 4.246 12 ...[Napoleon's] inexhaustible resource:--what events! what romantic pictures! what strange situations!...drawing up his army for battle in sight of the Pyramids, and saying to his troops, From the tops of those pyramids, forty centuries look down on you;...
    NMW 4.246 20 [Napoleon's] army, on the night of the battle of Austerlitz... presented him with a bouquet of forty standards taken in the fight.
    ET1 5.19 12 ...[Wordsworth] had broken a tooth by a fall, when walking with two lawyers, and had said that he was glad it did not happen forty years ago;...
    ET4 5.45 2 The British Empire is reckoned to contain (in 1848)...perhaps a fifth of the population of the globe... Perhaps forty of these millions are of British stock.
    ET10 5.154 26 When Sir S. Romilly proposed his bill forbidding parish officers to bind children apprentices at a greater distance than forty miles from their home, Peel opposed...
    ET10 5.160 12 Forty thousand ships are entered in Lloyd's lists.
    ET11 5.182 17 The Duke of Richmond has 40,000 acres at Goodwood and 300,000 at Gordon Castle.
    ET12 5.205 27 The number of fellowships at Oxford is 540...
    Wth 6.102 22 Forty years ago, a dollar would not buy much in Boston.
    Wth 6.123 2 The stone-mason who should build the well thinks he shall have to dig forty feet;...
    Ctr 6.137 15 ...Thor's house had five hundred and forty floors;...
    Ctr 6.137 16 ...man's house has five hundred and forty floors.
    Ctr 6.141 9 ...I think it the part of good sense to provide every fine soul with such culture that it shall not, at thirty or forty years, have to say, This which I might do is made hopeless through my want of weapons.
    Bhr 6.194 24 I am sorry, replies Napoleon [to his brother Joseph], you think you shall find your brother again only in the Elysian Fields. It is natural that at forty he should not feel toward you as he did at twelve.
    Elo1 7.80 3 A barrister in England is reputed to have made thirty or forty thousand pounds per annum in representing the claims of railroad companies before committees of the House of Commons.
    OA 7.325 21 When I chanced to meet the poet Wordsworth, then sixty-three years old, he told me that he had just had a fall and lost a tooth, and when his companions were much concerned for the mischance, he had replied that he was glad it had not happened forty years before.
    OA 7.325 23 ...Nature takes care that we shall not lose our organs forty years too soon.
    PC 8.212 16 Geology, a science of forty or fifty summers, has had the effect to throw an air of novelty and mushroom speed over entire history.
    MoL 10.254 27 Men over forty are no judges of a book written in a new spirit.
    Plu 10.321 3 ...I yet confess my enjoyment of this old version [of Plutarch's Morals], for its vigorous English style. The work of some forty or fifty University men...it is a monument of the English language...
    HDC 11.57 15 In 1654, the four united New England Colonies agreed to raise 270 foot and 40 horse, to reduce Ninigret, Sachem of the Niantics...
    HDC 11.82 16 The public expenses [of Concord], for the last year, amounted to 4290 dollars; for the present year, 5040 dollars.
    ACiv 11.301 4 You wish to satisfy people that slavery is bad economy. Why, The Edinburgh Review...made its case, forty years ago.
    SMC 11.355 26 The invasion of Northern...tradesmen, lawyers and students did more than forty years of peace had done to educate the South.
    SMC 11.371 24 The [Thirty-second] regiment has been in the front and centre since the battle begun...and is now building breastworks on the Fredericksburg road. This has been the hardest fight the world ever knew. I think the loss of our army will be forty thousand.
    Shak1 11.447 16 ...it is to us [The Saturday Club] a painful disappointment...that a well-known and honored compatriot...whose American devotion through forty or fifty years to the affairs of a bank, has not been able to bury the fires of his genius,-Mr. Charles Sprague,- pleads the infirmities of age as an absolute bar to his presence with us.
    CPL 11.500 6 ...events so important have occurred in the forty years since that book [Shattuck, History of Concord] was published, that it now needs a second volume.
    Bost 12.189 7 On the 3d of November, 1620, King James incorporated forty of his subjects...the council...for the planting, ruling, ordering and governing of New England in America.
    Bost 12.199 9 John Smith says, Thirty, forty, or fifty sail went yearly in America only to trade and fish...
    MAng1 12.235 9 On the death of San Gallo...Paul III. first entreated, then commanded the aged artist [Michelangelo] to assume the charge of this great work, which, though commenced forty years before, was only commenced by Bramante, and ill continued by San Gallo.
    MAng1 12.238 4 Vasari observed that [Michelangelo] did not use wax candles, but a better sort made of the tallow of goats. He therefore sent him four bundles of them, containing forty pounds.

forty-eighth, adj. (1)

    Bost 12.189 15 The [Massachusetts Bay] territory...extended from the 40th to the 48th degree of north latitude...

forty-five, adj. (5)

    ET2 5.28 22 The sea-fire shines in [the ship's] wake and far around wherever a wave breaks. I read the hour, 9h. 45', on my watch by this light.
    ET3 5.40 14 The old Venetians pleased themselves with the flattery that Venice was in 45 degrees, midway between the poles and the line;...
    ET4 5.45 10 The British Empire is reckoned to contain (in 1848)...perhaps a fifth of the population of the globe... Perhaps forty of these millions are of British stock. Add the United States of America...and you have a population of English descent and language of 60,000,000, and governing a population of 245,000,000 souls.
    HDC 11.79 3 In March, 1776, 145 men were raised by this town [Concord] to serve at Dorchester Heights.
    CL 12.144 5 In Massachusetts, our land...is permeable like a park, and not like some towns in the more broken country of New Hampshire, built on three or four hills having each one side at forty-five degrees...

forty-four, adj. (1)

    HDC 11.79 20 The taxes [in Concord], which, before the [Revolutionary] war, had not much exceeded 200 pounds per annum, amounted, in the year 1782, to 9544 dollars, in silver.

Forty-fourth Massachusetts (1)

    HCom 11.344 7 A single company in the Forty-fourth Massachusetts Regiment contained thirty-five sons of Harvard.

forty-seven, adj. (1)

    JBS 11.278 24 ...[John Brown's] enterprise to go into Virginia and run off five hundred or a thousand slaves was...the keeping of an oath made to heaven and earth forty-seven years before. Forty-seven years at least...

Forty-seventh Regiment, n. (1)

    SMC 11.365 27 This [old artillery] company, chiefly recruited here [in Concord], was later embodied in the Forty-Seventh Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteers...

forty-two, adj. (1)

    Boks 7.209 19 In May, 1812, the library of the Duke of Roxburgh was sold. The sale lasted forty-two days...

forum, n. (2)

    MoL 10.256 25 ...this big-mouthed talker, among his dictionaries and Leipzig editions of Lysias, had lost his knowledge. But the President of the Bank...relates that at Virginia Springs this idol of the forum exhausted a trunkful of classic authors.
    PLT 12.57 3 If a man show...bold front in the forum or senate, people clap their hands without asking more.

Forum, Rome, Italy, n. (1)

    Hist 2.36 5 In old Rome the public roads beginning at the Forum proceeded north, south, east, west...

forward, adj. (8)

    YA 1.374 3 ...that which expresses itself in our will is stronger than our will. We are very forward to help it, but it will not be accelerated.
    F 6.13 16 In England there is always some man of wealth and large connection...who, as soon as he begins to die, checks his forward play...
    Wsp 6.211 18 ...the same gentlemen who agree to discountenance the private rogue will be forward to show civilities and marks of respect to the public one;...
    Cour 7.262 14 Lieutenant Ball...whispered, Courage, my dear boy! you will recover in a minute or so; I was just the same when I first went out in this way. It was as if an angel spoke to me. From that moment I was as fearless and as forward as the oldest of the boat's crew.
    Elo2 8.115 20 The orator must ever stand with forward foot...
    Prch 10.233 21 Inspiration will have...the forward foot...
    FRep 11.537 20 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...
    II 12.78 2 ...this reminds me to add one more trait of the inspired state, namely, incessant advance,-the forward foot.

forward, adv. (56)

    AmS 1.86 26 ...[the scholar] shall look forward to an ever expanding knowledge as to a becoming creator.
    AmS 1.90 16 [Institutions] look backward and not forward.
    AmS 1.90 17 ...genius looks forward...
    AmS 1.96 4 A strange process too, this by which experience is converted into thought, as a mulberry leaf is converted into satin. The manufacture goes forward at all hours.
    DSA 1.119 17 ...the never-broken silence with which the old bounty goes forward has not yielded yet one word of explanation.
    MN 1.200 11 ...in balanced beauty, the dance of the hours goes forward still.
    LT 1.266 26 As the solar system moves forward in the heavens, certain stars open before us...
    Con 1.299 6 Conservatism never puts the foot forward;...
    YA 1.364 4 ...when...the locomotive and the steamboat...shoot every day across the thousand various threads of national descent and employment... an hourly assimilation goes forward...
    Hist 2.35 23 ...along with the civil and metaphysical history of man, another history goes daily forward,--that of the external world...
    SR 2.58 11 A character is like an acrostic or Alexandrian stanza;-read it forward, backward, or across, it still spells the same thing.
    SL 2.137 15 The walking of man and all animals is a falling forward.
    Int 2.326 9 In the fog of good and evil affections it is hard for man to walk forward in a straight line.
    Pt1 3.1 8 A moody child and wildly wise/ Pursued the game with joyful eyes,/ .../ Through man, and woman, and sea, and star/ Saw the dance of nature forward far;/...
    Exp 3.64 20 Whilst the debate goes forward on the equity of commerce... New and Old England may keep shop.
    Mrs1 3.134 6 ...[a gentleman's] eyes look straight forward...
    NR 3.247 13 ...the most sincere and revolutionary doctrine, put as if the ark of God were carried forward some furlongs, and planted there for the succor of the world, shall in a few weeks be coldly set aside...
    NER 3.260 21 I conceive...that [the recent philosophy]...is reaching forward at this very hour to the happiest conclusions.
    MoS 4.185 15 ...by knaves as by martyrs the just cause is carried forward.
    ShP 4.218 20 ...that this man of men [Shakespeare], he who...planted the standard of humanity some furlongs forward into Chaos,--that he should not be wise for himself;--it must even go into the world's history that the best poet led an obscure and profane life, using his genius for the public amusement.
    NMW 4.234 13 Sire, every regiment that approaches the heavy artillery is sacrificed: Sire, what orders?--Forward, forward!
    ET1 5.9 25 An original sentence, a step forward, is worth more [to Landor] than all the censures.
    ET4 5.70 15 [The English] walk and ride as fast as they can, their head bent forward...
    ET10 5.165 3 An Englishman hears that the Queen Dowager wishes to establish some claim to put her park paling a rod forward into his grounds...
    ET12 5.200 7 A youth [at Oxford] came forward to the upper table and pronounced the ancient form of grace before meals...
    Civ 7.33 7 ...in Judaea, the advent of Jesus, and, in modern Christendom, of the realists Huss, Savonarola and Luther,--are casual facts which carry forward races to new convictions...
    Elo1 7.72 20 ...when the wise Ulysses arose and stood...and neither moved his sceptre backward nor forward...you would say it was some angry or foolish man;...
    Suc 7.311 11 There is an external life, which is...taught to grasp all the boy can get, urging him to put himself forward...
    OA 7.327 11 All the functions of human duty irritate and lash [man] forward...
    Res 8.144 6 The commander called for men in the ranks who could rebuild the road. Many men stepped forward...
    Insp 8.277 26 ...[Behmen said] though I could have written in a more accurate, fair and plain manner, the burning fire often forced forward with speed, and the hand and pen must hasten directly after it...
    Imtl 8.338 22 On the borders of the grave, the wise man looks forward with equal elasticity of mind, or hope;...
    Schr 10.282 11 [Truth] shines backward and forward, diminishes and annihilates everybody...
    Thor 10.463 27 One day, walking with a stranger, who inquired where Indian arrow-heads could be found, [Thoreau] replied, Everywhere, and, stooping forward, picked one on the instant from the ground.
    HDC 11.86 9 The merit of those who fill a space in the world's history, who are borne forward, as it were, by the weight of thousands whom they lead, sheds a perfume less sweet than do the sacrifices of private virtue.
    EWI 11.100 4 ...by doing and by omitting to do, [emancipation] goes forward.
    EWI 11.137 17 By a certain fatality, none but the vilest arguments were brought forward [against emancipation in the West Indies]...
    AsSu 11.248 1 Many years ago, when Mr. Webster was challenged in Washington to a duel by one of these [Southern] madcaps, his friends came forward with prompt good sense and said such a thing was not to be thought of;...
    JBS 11.278 11 ...in Pennsylvania...[John Brown] fell in with a boy...whom he looked upon as his superior. This boy was a slave;...he saw that this boy had nothing better to look forward to in life...
    EPro 11.315 8 These [poetic acts] are the jets of thought into affairs, when...the political leaders of the day...take a step forward in the direction of catholic and universal interests.
    EPro 11.316 25 [Movement toward liberty]...is as when an orator... announces with vibrating voice the grand human principles involved;...a new audience is found in the heart of the assembly,-an audience...now at last so searched and kindled that they come forward...
    ALin 11.329 20 ...perhaps, at this hour, when the coffin which contains the dust of the President [Lincoln] sets forward on its long march through mourning states...we might well be silent...
    ALin 11.337 11 The ancients believed in a serene and beautiful Genius... which, with a slow but stern justice, carried forward the fortunes of certain chosen houses...
    SHC 11.435 8 ...we must look forward also, and make ourselves a thousand years old;...
    FRep 11.537 7 We want...men...who can live in the moment and take a step forward.
    PLT 12.18 22 [The perceptions of the soul] are detached from their parent, they pass into other minds; ripened and unfolded by many they hasten to incarnate themselves in action, to take body, only to carry forward the will which sent them out.
    PLT 12.19 22 So works the poor little blockhead manikin. He must arrange and dignify his shop or farm the best he can. At last he must be able to tell you it, or write it, translate it all clumsily enough into the new sky-language he calls thought. He cannot help it, the irresistible meliorations bear him forward.
    PLT 12.26 11 ...our mental processes go forward even when they seem suspended.
    II 12.84 22 Men generally attempt, early in life, to make their brothers, afterwards their wives, acquainted with what is going forward in their private theatre;...
    II 12.84 26 Men generally attempt, early in life, to make their brothers, afterwards their wives, acquainted with what is going forward in their private theatre; but they soon desist from the attempt, in finding that they also have some farce, or, perhaps, some ear-and heart-rending tragedy forward on their secret boards, on which they are intent;...
    Mem 12.90 23 It is essential to a locomotive that it can...run backward and forward with equal celerity.
    Mem 12.110 15 When we live...by obedience to the law of the mind instead of by passion...the light of to-day will shine backward and forward.
    Bost 12.206 16 ...youth and health like a stirring town, above a torpid place where nothing is doing. In Boston they were sure to see something going forward before the year was out.
    Bost 12.209 10 [Boston] is very willing to be outnumbered and outgrown, so long as [other cities] carry forward its life of civil and religious freedom...
    Milt1 12.261 20 ...Milton was conscious of possessing this intellectual voice...propelling its melodious undulations forward through the coming world...
    ACri 12.298 6 ...the revolution wrought by Carlyle is precisely parallel to that going forward in picture, by the stereoscope.

forward, v. (4)

    Elo1 7.75 25 In a Senate or other business committee, the solid result depends on a few men with working talent. They...value men only as they can forward the work.
    Insp 8.268 8 ...if with bended head I grope/ Listening behind me for my wit,/ With faith superior to hope,/ More anxious to keep back than forward it,/ Making my soul accomplice there/ Unto the flame my heart has lit,/ Then will the verse forever wear,/ Time cannot bend a line which God hath writ./ Inspiration, H. Thoreau.
    SlHr 10.448 18 ...I find an elegance in...[Samuel Hoar's] self-dedication... to such political activities as a strong sense of duty and the love of order and of freedom urged him to forward.
    War 11.152 16 The student of history acquiesces the more readily in this copious bloodshed of the early annals, bloodshed in God's name, too, when he learns that it...does actively forward the culture of man.

forwarded, v. (2)

    AsSu 11.251 21 ...I wish, sir, that the high respects of this meeting shall be expressed to Mr. Sumner; that a copy of the resolutions that have been read may be forwarded to him.
    PLT 12.10 5 ...there is a certain beatitude...to which all men are entitled... and to which their entrance must be in every way forwarded.

forwardness, n. (1)

    FRep 11.528 5 All this [American] forwardness and self-reliance, cover self-government;...

forwards, adv. (1)

    OS 2.274 10 The soul looketh steadily forwards...

fossil, adj. (11)

    Nat 1.43 18 ...we detect the type of the human hand in the flipper of the fossil saurus...
    Pt1 3.22 5 Language is fossil poetry.
    ET4 5.60 10 ...the old fossil world shows that the first steps of reducing the chaos were confided to saurians and other huge and horrible animals...
    Ctr 6.165 10 The fossil strata show us that Nature began with rudimental forms and rose to the more complex as fast as the earth was fit for their dwelling-place;...
    Elo1 7.95 16 ...wherever the fresh moral sentiment, the instinct of freedom and duty, come in direct opposition to fossil conservatism and the thirst of gain, the spark will pass.
    WD 7.176 12 The order of changes in the egg determines the age of fossil strata.
    PI 8.8 17 In geology, what a useful hint was given to the early inquirers on seeing in the possession of Professor Playfair a bough of a fossil tree which was perfect wood at one end and perfect mineral coal at the other.
    Res 8.152 23 Among fossil remains, the willow and the pine appear with the ferns.
    Humb 11.458 19 ...Cuvier tells us of fossil elephants;
    CL 12.165 1 Agassiz studies year after year fishes and fossil anatomy of saurian, and lizard, and pterodactyl. But whatever he says, we know very well what he means.
    CW 12.177 4 This is my ideal of the power of wealth. Find out...when Dr. Wyman wishes to find new anatomic structures or fossil remains;...

fossil, n. (2)

    YA 1.379 18 Government has been a fossil; it should be a plant.
    SwM 4.118 16 ...there is no comet...fossil...that, for itself, does not interest more scholars and classifiers than the meaning and upshot of the frame of things.

fossils, n. (2)

    AmS 1.105 25 Linnaeus makes botany the most alluring of studies...and Cuvier, fossils.
    PI 8.11 10 Seas, forests, metals, diamonds and fossils interest the eye, but 't is only with some preparatory or predicting charm.

foster, v. (8)

    MR 1.252 22 We do not greet [the laborers'] talents...nor foster their hopes...
    Con 1.310 16 ...[existing institutions] foster genius.
    Pol1 3.210 21 ...[the conservative party] does not...foster religion...
    Dem1 10.19 24 ...[belief in the demonological] extends the popular idea of success to the very gods; that they foster a success to you which is not a success at all;...
    Edc1 10.134 3 Whatever elements are in [man] [education] should foster and demonstrate.
    Edc1 10.153 8 ...[the teacher] cannot delight in personal relations with young friends, when...twenty classes are to be dealt with before the day is done. Besides, how can he please himself with genius, and foster modest virtue?
    FSLC 11.189 26 All arts, customs, societies, books, and laws, are good as they foster and concur with this spiritual element...
    Let 12.400 17 It is heartrending to see your [German] poet, your artist, and all who still revere genius, who love and foster the Beautiful. The Good!

fostered, v. (4)

    YA 1.377 10 The luxury and necessity of the noble fostered [Trade].
    ET9 5.149 6 ...the natural disposition is fostered by the respect which [the English] find entertained in the world for English ability.
    DL 7.112 14 If the children...are...schooled and at home fostered by the parents,--then does the hospitality of the house suffer;...
    SovE 10.206 23 We in America are charged...that our institutions, our politics and our trade have fostered a self-reliance which is small, liliputian, full of fuss and bustle;...

fostering, adj. (1)

    PLT 12.26 21 ...no friendly attention and fostering kindness...avail at all to resist the palsy of mis-association.

fostering, v. (1)

    Ill 6.316 18 Teague and his jade get some just relations of...kindly observation, and fostering of each other;...

foster-mother, n. (1)

    Con 1.313 14 Thank the rude foster-mother [Necessity]...

foster-mothers, n. (1)

    DL 7.105 16 [The boy] walks daily among wonders...the domestics, who like rude foster-mothers befriend and feed him...

fosters, v. (2)

    SR 2.82 10 ...our system of education fosters restlessness.
    SS 7.6 9 ...there are metals...which, to be kept pure, must be kept under naphtha. Such are the talents determined on some specialty, which a culminating civilization fosters in the heart of great cities...

Fouche, Joseph, n. (2)

    Ctr 6.132 3 If [nature] creates a policeman like Fouche, he is made up of suspicions and of plots to circumvent them.
    Ctr 6.132 5 The air, said Fouche, is full of poniards.

Fouche's, Joseph, n. (1)

    ET15 5.266 18 [The London Times's] private information...recalls the stories of Fouche's police...

fought, v. (19)

    MR 1.251 11 The [Arab] women fought like men...
    NMW 4.231 23 Nothing has been more simple than my elevation [said Bonaparte]...it was owing to the peculiarity of the times and to my reputation of having fought well against the enemies of my country.
    NMW 4.236 22 [Napoleon] fought sixty battles.
    NMW 4.238 11 Before he fought a battle, Bonaparte thought little about what he should do in case of success...
    ET6 5.109 11 Wellington governed India and Spain and his own troops, and fought battles...
    ET10 5.161 8 Already [steam] is ruddering the balloon, and the next war will be fought in the air.
    F 6.33 3 ...every other pest...may be fought off.
    Wth 6.88 12 ...[nature]...takes away warmth, laughter, sleep, friends and daylight, until [a man] has fought his way to his own loaf.
    Wsp 6.235 9 ...[Benedict said] in all the encounters that have yet chanced, I have not been weaponed for that particular occasion, and have been historically beaten; and yet I know all the time that I...have never yet fought...
    WD 7.163 15 ...the next war will be fought in the air.
    HDC 11.58 14 ...[Simon Willard] fought with disadvantage against an enemy who must be hunted before every battle.
    HDC 11.76 22 You [veterans of the battle of Concord] have fought a good fight.
    War 11.156 4 In some parts of this country...the absorbing topic of all conversation is whipping; who fought, and which whipped?
    JBB 11.266 13 Then [John Brown] grasped his trusty rifle, and boldly fought for Freedom;/ Smote from border unto border the fierce invading band/...
    HCom 11.340 7 Many in sad faith sought for [Truth],/ Many with crossed hands sighed for her;/ But these, our brothers, fought for her,/ At life's dear peril wrought for her,/ So loved her that they died for her,/ Tasting the raptured fleetness/ Of her divine completeness/...
    PLT 12.38 18 The thought, the doctrine, the right hitherto not affirmed is published...in conversation...of men of the world, and at last in the very choruses of songs. The young hear it, and as they have never fought it...they accept it...
    CInt 12.121 15 The whole battle is fought in a few heads.
    Milt1 12.251 25 ...deeply as that peculiar state of society, in which and for which Milton wrote, has engraved itself in the remembrance of the world, it shares the destiny which overtakes everything local and personal in Nature; and the accidental facts on which a battle of principles was fought have already passed, or are fast passing, into oblivion.
    Pray 12.353 28 If but this tedious battle could be fought,/ Like Sparta's heroes at one rocky pass,/ One day be spent in dying, men had sought/ The spot, and been cut down like mower's grass./

foul, adj. (9)

    Nat 1.15 19 There is no object so foul that intense light will not make beautiful.
    Nat 1.54 21 ...the approaching tide/ Will shortly fill the reasonable shores/ That now lie foul and muddy./
    AmS 1.113 8 ...[Swedenborg] showed the mysterious bond that allies moral evil to the foul material forms...
    Con 1.313 18 You are yourself the result of this manner of living, this foul compromise...
    Prd1 2.219 2 [Prudence] Theme no poet gladly sung,/ Fair to old and foul to young;/...
    ET3 5.39 26 The London fog...sometimes justifies the epigram on the climate by an English wit, in a fine day, looking up a chimney; in a foul day, looking down one.
    ET11 5.191 3 War is a foul game, yet war is not the worst part of aristocratic history.
    FSLC 11.197 24 ...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].
    JBS 11.276 6 A thousand transformations rose/ From fair to foul, from foul to fair:/ The golden crown he did not spare,/ Nor scorn the beggar's clothes./

foully, adv. (2)

    HDC 11.33 11 ...[the pilgrims] meet a scorching plain, yet not so plain but that the ragged bushes scratch their legs foully...
    FSLC 11.213 12 ...the sting of the late disgraces [the Fugitive Slave Law] is that this royal position of Massachusetts was foully lost...

found, v. (530)

    Nat 1.19 24 The high and divine beauty...is that which is found in combination with the human will.
    Nat 1.25 15 Every word which is used to express a moral or intellectual fact...is found to be borrowed from some material appearance.
    Nat 1.29 10 The same symbols are found to make the original elements of all languages.
    Nat 1.30 14 Hundreds of writers may be found...who...believe...that they see and utter truths...
    Nat 1.45 16 [The spirit] says...in such as this [human form] have I found and beheld myself;...
    Nat 1.56 8 The sublime remark of Euler on his law of arches, This will be found contrary to all experience, yet is true; had already transferred nature into the mind...
    AmS 1.88 16 Each age, it is found, must write its own books;...
    AmS 1.103 15 The poet...is found to have recorded that which men...find true for them also.
    AmS 1.110 27 That which had been negligently trodden under foot...is suddenly found to be richer than all foreign parts.
    DSA 1.126 19 What these holy bards said, all sane men found agreeable and true.
    DSA 1.141 11 ...the exceptions are not so much to be found in a few eminent preachers...
    DSA 1.142 18 The Puritans in England and America found in the Christ of the Catholic Church...scope for their austere piety...
    MN 1.194 7 ...come...hither, thou tender, doubting heart, which hast not yet found any place in the world's market fit for thee;...
    MN 1.194 26 When all is said and done, the rapt saint is found the only logician.
    MN 1.215 12 Is it that [the disciple] attached the value of virtue to some particular practices...and afterward found himself still as wicked...in that abstinence as he had been in the abuse?
    MR 1.251 10 The naked Derar, horsed on an idea, was found an overmatch for a troop of Roman cavalry.
    LT 1.264 14 ...in the hair-splitting conscientiousness of some eccentric person who has found some new scruple to embarrass himself and his neighbors withal is to be found that which shall constitute the times to come...
    LT 1.264 16 In the brain of a fanatic; in the wild hope of a mountain boy... is to be found that which shall constitute the times to come...
    LT 1.288 10 ...to what port are we bound? Who knows! There is no one to tell us but such poor weather-tossed mariners as ourselves...who have... floated to us some letter in a bottle from far. But what know they more than we? They also found themselves on this wondrous sea.
    Con 1.300 9 ...the superior beauty is with...the river which ever flowing yet is found in the same bed from age to age;...
    Con 1.306 2 ...before this personal appeal, the innovator...must confess that no man is to be found good enough to be entitled to stand champion for the principle.
    Con 1.320 27 The contractors who were building a road out of Baltimore... found the Irish laborers quarrelsome...
    Tran 1.332 13 One thing at least, [the materialist] says, is certain...the multiplication table has been hitherto found unimpeachable truth;...
    Tran 1.338 13 ...we have yet no man...who, trusting to his sentiments, found life made of miracles;...
    Tran 1.338 14 ...we have yet no man...who, working for universal aims, found himself fed, he knew not how;...
    Tran 1.349 22 ...[Transcendentalists] have...found that from the liberal professions to the coarsest manual labor...there is a spirit of cowardly compromise...
    YA 1.372 17 The census of the population is found to keep an invariable equality in the sexes...
    YA 1.375 9 ...we found colleges and hospitals, for remote generations.
    YA 1.382 9 The science is confident, and surely the poverty is real. If any means could be found to bring these two together!
    Hist 2.6 27 We sympathize in the great moments of history...because there law was enacted, the sea was searched, the land was found...for us...
    Hist 2.16 10 ...there are compositions of the same strain to be found in the books of all ages.
    Hist 2.16 26 I knew a draughtsman employed in a public survey who found that he could not sketch the rocks until their geological structure was first explained to him.
    SR 2.47 14 Accept the place the divine providence has found for you...
    SR 2.58 16 ...let me record day by day my honest thought...and, I cannot doubt, it will be found symmetrical...
    SR 2.86 21 Columbus found the New World in an undecked boat.
    SL 2.134 16 [Men of extraordinary success's] success lay in their parallelism to the course of thought, which found in them an unobstructed channel;...
    SL 2.137 8 [Our society] is a graduated, titled, richly appointed empire, quite superfluous when town-meetings are found to answer just as well.
    Lov1 2.179 24 What else did Jean Paul Richter signify, when he said to music, Away! away! thou speakest to me of things which in all my endless life I have not found and shall not find.
    Prd1 2.231 27 We have found out fine names to cover our sensuality withal...
    Prd1 2.241 1 I do not know if all matter will be found to be made of one element...
    Hsm1 2.247 8 Soph. Martius, O Martius,/ Thou now hast found a way to conquer me./
    Hsm1 2.259 3 [Many extraordinary young men] found no example and no companion...
    OS 2.286 18 The infallible index of true progress is found in the tone the man takes.
    OS 2.286 22 If [a man] have not found his home in God, his manners...will involuntarily confess it...
    OS 2.286 27 If [a man] have found his centre, the Deity will shine through him...
    Cir 2.308 8 Infinitely alluring and attractive was [a man] to you yesterday... a sea to swim in; now, you have found his shores, found it a pond...
    Art1 2.361 6 When I came at last to Rome and saw with eyes the pictures, I found that genius left to novices the gay and fantastic and ostentatious...
    Art1 2.364 25 I do not wonder that Newton...should have wondered what the Earl of Pembroke found to admire in stone dolls.
    Art1 2.365 21 A true announcement of the law of creation, if a man were found worthy to declare it, would carry art up into the kingdom of nature...
    Pt1 3.17 27 Bare lists of words are found suggestive to an imaginative and excited mind;...
    Pt1 3.30 12 Men have really...found within their world another world...
    Pt1 3.35 27 The noise which at a distance appeared like gnashing and thumping, on coming nearer was found to be the voice of disputants.
    Pt1 3.36 25 ...if any poet has witnessed the transformation he doubtless found it in harmony with various experiences.
    Pt1 3.38 7 If I have not found that excellent combination of gifts in my countrymen which I seek, neither could I aid myself to fix the idea of the poet by reading now and then in Chalmers's collection of five centuries of English poets.
    Pt1 3.39 2 [Artists] found or put themselves in certain conditions...and each presently feels the new desire.
    Pt1 3.39 7 [Artists] found or put themselves in certain conditions, as...the orator into the assembly of the people; and the others in such scenes as each has found exciting to his intellect; and each presently feels the new desire.
    Exp 3.48 19 Was it Boscovich who found out that bodies never come in contact?
    Exp 3.49 4 If to-morrow I should be informed of the bankruptcy of my principal debtors, the loss of my property would be a great inconvenience to me, perhaps, for many years; but it would leave me as it found me...
    Exp 3.51 15 I knew a witty physician who found the creed in the biliary duct...
    Exp 3.62 2 ...I found that I begin at the other extreme, expecting nothing, and am always full of thanks for moderate goods.
    Exp 3.72 6 I am ready...be born again into this new yet unapproachable America I have found in the West...
    Exp 3.72 9 Since neither now nor yesterday began/ These thoughts, which have been ever, nor yet can/ A man be found who their first entrance knew./
    Exp 3.78 26 Especially the crimes that spring from love seem right and fair from the actor's point of view, but when acted are found destructive of society.
    Exp 3.83 24 ...when I have fancied I had gotten anything, I found I did not.
    Exp 3.85 1 ...I have not found that much was gained by manipular attempts to realize the world of thought.
    Chr1 3.104 2 ...it was droll in the good Riemer, who has written memoirs of Goethe, to make out a list of his donations and good deeds, as...a lucrative place found for Professor Voss...
    Mrs1 3.121 15 An element which unites all the most forcible persons of every country...must be an average result of the character and faculties universally found in men.
    Mrs1 3.122 15 The usual words...must be respected; they will be found to contain the root of the matter.
    Mrs1 3.123 25 ...whenever used in strictness and with any emphasis, the name [gentleman] will be found to point at original energy.
    Mrs1 3.135 27 ...Napoleon...was wont, when he found himself observed, to discharge his face of all expression.
    Mrs1 3.142 7 A tradesman who had long dunned [Charles James Fox] for a note of three hundred guineas, found him one day counting gold, and demanded payment.
    Mrs1 3.143 20 ...a comic disparity would be felt, if we should enter the acknowledged first circles [of fashion] and apply these terrific standards of justice, beauty and benefit to the individuals actually found there.
    Mrs1 3.146 22 The persons who constitute the natural aristocracy are not found in the actual aristocracy...
    Mrs1 3.146 24 ...the chemical energy of the spectrum is found to be greatest just outside of the spectrum.
    Mrs1 3.152 16 The constitution of our society makes it a giant's castle to the ambitious youth who have not found their names enrolled in its Golden Book...
    Nat2 3.176 1 The moral sensibility which makes Edens and Tempes so easily, may not be always found, but the material landscape is never far off.
    Pol1 3.203 15 It was not...found easy to embody the readily admitted principle that property should make law for property...
    Pol1 3.211 5 ...the children of the convicts of Botany Bay are found to have as healthy a moral sentiment as other children.
    Pol1 3.211 15 ...one foreign observer thinks he has found the safeguard in the sanctity of Marriage among us;...
    Pol1 3.211 17 ...one foreign observer thinks he has found the safeguard in the sanctity of Marriage among us; and another thinks he has found it in our Calvinism.
    Pol1 3.218 23 If a man found himself so rich-natured that he could enter into strict relations with the best persons...could he...covet relations so hollow and pompous as those of a politician?
    NR 3.229 27 There is a genius of a nation, which is not to be found in the numerical citizens...
    NR 3.231 22 The property will be found where the labor, the wisdom and the virtue have been in nations...
    NR 3.233 18 It is a greater joy to see the author's author, than himself. A higher pleasure of the same kind I found lately at a concert, where I went to hear Handel's Messiah.
    NR 3.234 1 This preference of the genius to the parts is the secret of that deification of art, which is found in all superior minds.
    NR 3.240 12 A new poet has appeared; a new character approached us; why should we refuse to eat bread until we have found his regiment and section in our old army-files?
    NR 3.242 8 After taxing Goethe as a courtier...I took up this book of Helena, and found him an Indian of the wilderness...
    NR 3.245 25 ...each man's genius being nearly and affectionately explored, he is justified in his individuality, as his nature is found to be immense;...
    NER 3.269 21 It was found that the intellect could be independently developed...
    UGM 4.3 8 In the legends of the Gautama, the first men ate the earth and found it deliciously sweet.
    UGM 4.3 12 They who lived with [good men] found life glad and nutritious.
    UGM 4.5 1 The student of history is like a man going into a warehouse to buy cloths or carpets. He fancies he has a new article. If he go to the factory, he shall find that his new stuff still repeats the scrolls and rosettes which are found on the interior walls of the pyramids of Thebes.
    UGM 4.13 24 If you affect to give me bread and fire...at last it leaves me as it found me...
    PPh 4.55 24 ...the experience of poetic creativeness, which is not found in staying at home, nor yet in travelling, but in transitions from one to the other...this command of two elements must explain the power and the charm of Plato.
    SwM 4.109 26 If one man in twenty thousand, or in thirty thousand, eats shoes or marries his grandmother, then in every twenty thousand or thirty thousand is found one man who eats shoes or marries his grandmother.
    SwM 4.111 6 ...[Swedenborg] has at last found a pupil in Mr. Wilkinson...
    SwM 4.117 2 Lord Bacon had found that truth and nature differed only as seal and print;...
    MoS 4.150 3 Each man is born with a predisposition to one or the other of these sides of nature [Sensation or Morals]; and it will easily happen that men will be found devoted to one or the other.
    MoS 4.163 6 ...in prosecuting my correspondence [with John Sterling], I found that, from a love of Montaigne, he had made a pilgrimage to his chateau...
    MoS 4.174 12 My astonishing San Carlo thought the lawgivers and saints infected. They found the ark empty;...
    MoS 4.178 4 We have been sopped and drugged...with sciences, with events, which leave us exactly where they found us.
    MoS 4.178 25 Reason...is apprehended, now and then, for a serene and profound moment...is then lost for months or years, and again found for an interval, to be lost again.
    MoS 4.179 23 ...[the young spirit] went with [his thought] to the chosen and intelligent, and found no entertainment for it...
    MoS 4.185 1 In every house...this chasm is found,--between the largest promise of ideal power, and the shabby experience.
    ShP 4.190 22 Every master has found his materials collected...
    ShP 4.192 5 Probably king, prelate and puritan, all found their own account in [the Elizabethan theatre].
    ShP 4.194 27 This balance-wheel, which the sculptor found in architecture, the perilous irritability of poetic talent found in the accumulated dramatic materials to which the people were already wonted...
    ShP 4.195 1 This balance-wheel, which the sculptor found in architecture, the perilous irritability of poetic talent found in the accumulated dramatic materials to which the people were already wonted...
    ShP 4.195 8 ...it appears that Shakspeare...was able to use whatever he found;...
    ShP 4.210 4 What maiden has not found [Shakespeare] finer than her delicacy?
    ShP 4.210 16 [Shakespeare] was...a brain exhaling thoughts and images, which, seeking vent, found the drama next at hand.
    NMW 4.223 13 Following [Swedenborg's] analogy, if any man is found to carry with him the power and affections of vast numbers, if Napoleon is France...it is because the people whom he sways are little Napoleons.
    NMW 4.237 8 A thunderbolt in the attack, [Napoleon] was found invulnerable in his intrenchments.
    NMW 4.239 26 Those who had to deal with him found that [Bonaparte] was not to be imposed upon...
    NMW 4.240 14 ...[Napoleon] exists as captain and king only as far as the Revolution, or the interest of the industrious masses, found an organ and a leader in him.
    NMW 4.243 15 In Italy, [Napoleon] sought for men and found none.
    NMW 4.243 18 Good God! [Napoleon] said, how rare men are! There are eighteen millions in Italy, and I have with difficulty found two...
    NMW 4.244 2 [Napoleon's] impatience at levity was...an oblique tribute of respect to those able persons who commanded his regard not only when he found them friends and coadjutors but also when they resisted his will.
    NMW 4.257 7 Never was such a leader so endowed and so weaponed [as Napoleon]; never leader found such aids and followers.
    NMW 4.257 14 [Napoleon] left France smaller, poorer, feebler, than he found it;...
    NMW 4.257 25 Men found that [Napoleon's] absorbing egotism was deadly to all other men.
    GoW 4.272 2 [Goethe's] Helena...is...the work of one who found himself the master of histories, mythologies, philosophies, sciences and national literatures...
    GoW 4.277 2 ...[Goethe]...looked for [the Devil]...in every shade of coldness, selfishness and unbelief that...darkens over the human thought,-- and found that the portrait gained reality and terror by every thing he added...
    GoW 4.277 5 [Goethe] found that the essence of this hobgoblin [the Devil]...was pure intellect, applied...to the service of the senses...
    ET1 5.5 2 I have...found writers superior to their books...
    ET1 5.5 16 At Florence, chief among artists I found Horatio Greenough...
    ET1 5.7 3 I found [Landor] noble and courteous...
    ET1 5.15 3 I found the house [Craigenputtock] amid desolate heathery hills...
    ET1 5.16 9 When too much praise of any genius annoyed [Carlyle] he professed hugely to admire the talent shown by his pig. He had spent much time and contrivance in confining the poor beast to one enclosure in his pen, but pig, by great strokes of judgment, had found out how to let a board down, and had foiled him.
    ET1 5.16 23 [Carlyle] had read in Stewart's book that when he inquired in a New York hotel for the Boots, he had been shown across the street and had found Mungo in his own house dining on roast turkey.
    ET1 5.18 1 [Carlyle] still returned to English pauperism...the selfish abdication by public men of all that public persons should perform. Government should direct poor men what to do. Poor Irish folk come wandering over these moors. ... They burned the stacks and so found a way to force the rich people to attend to them.
    ET2 5.25 24 I am not a good traveller, nor have I found that long journeys yield a fair share of reasonable hours.
    ET2 5.31 21 The worst impediment I have found at sea is the want of light in the cabin.
    ET2 5.31 23 We found on board [the Washington Irving] the usual cabin library;...
    ET3 5.34 16 The long habitation of a powerful and ingenious race has turned every rood of land [in England] to its best use, has found all the capabilities...
    ET3 5.40 1 A gentleman in Liverpool told me that he found he could do without a fire in his parlor about one day in the year.
    ET4 5.44 5 ...this writer [Robert Knox] did not found his assumed races on any necessary law...
    ET4 5.46 22 We anticipate in the doctrine of race something like that law of physiology that whatever bone, muscle, or essential organ is found in one healthy individual, the same part or organ may be found in or near the same place in its congener;...
    ET4 5.46 24 We anticipate in the doctrine of race something like that law of physiology that whatever bone, muscle, or essential organ is found in one healthy individual, the same part or organ may be found in or near the same place in its congener;...
    ET4 5.47 17 The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue...
    ET4 5.48 9 ...I found abundant points of resemblance between the Germans of the Hercynian forest, and our Hoosiers, Suckers and Badgers of the American woods.
    ET4 5.51 21 In the impossibility of arriving at satisfaction on the historical question of race, and...the indisputable Englishman before me, himself very well marked and nowhere else to be found,--I fancied I could leave quite aside the choice of a tribe as his lineal progenitors...
    ET4 5.53 11 ...as you enter Scotland, the world's Englishman is no longer found.
    ET4 5.54 14 I found plenty of well-marked English types...
    ET4 5.55 21 The English come mainly from the Germans, whom the Romans found hard to conquer in two hundred and ten years...
    ET4 5.62 24 ...the rudiment of a structure matured in the tiger is said to be still found unabsorbed in the Caucasian man.
    ET4 5.66 16 The anecdote of the handsome captives which Saint Gregory found at Rome, A. D. 600, is matched by the testimony of the Norman chroniclers, five centuries later...
    ET4 5.68 13 Clarendon says the Duke of Buckingham was so modest and gentle, that some courtiers attempted to put affronts on him, until they found that this modesty and effeminacy was only a mask for the most terrible determination.
    ET4 5.68 17 ...Sir Edward Parry said of Sir John Franklin, that if he found Wellington Sound open, he explored it;...
    ET4 5.69 9 A clear skin, a peach-bloom complexion and good teeth are found all over the island [England].
    ET4 5.69 16 ...Tacitus found the English beer already in use among the Germans...
    ET5 5.77 10 Each vagabond that arrived [in England] bent his neck to the yoke of gain, or found the air too tense for him.
    ET5 5.100 20 Men [in England] quickly embodied what Newton found out, in Greenwich observatories...
    ET6 5.107 9 A certain order and complete propriety is found in [the Englishman's] dress and in his belongings.
    ET6 5.108 2 Incredible amounts of plate are found in good houses [in England]...
    ET6 5.108 7 An English family consists of a few persons, who, from youth to age, are found revolving within a few feet of each other...
    ET7 5.117 13 'T is said that the wolf, who makes a cache of his prey and brings his fellows with him to the spot, if, on digging, it is not found, is instantly and unresistingly torn in pieces.
    ET7 5.119 25 Madame de Stael says that the English irritated Napoleon, mainly because they have found out how to unite success with honesty.
    ET7 5.120 19 ...the chairman [of a St. George's festival in Montreal] complimented his compatriots, by saying, they confided that wherever they met an Englishman, they found a man who would speak the truth.
    ET7 5.120 23 ...one cannot think this festival [of St. George in Montreal] fruitless, if, all over the world, on the 23d of April, wherever two or three English are found, they meet to encourage each other in the nationality of veracity.
    ET7 5.125 6 It is told of a good Sir John that he heard a case stated by counsel, and made up his mind; then the counsel for the other side taking their turn to speak, he found himself so unsettled and perplexed that he exclaimed, So help me God! I will never listen to evidence again.
    ET8 5.138 6 If anatomy is reformed according to national tendencies, I suppose the spleen will hereafter be found in the Englishman...
    ET8 5.138 6 If anatomy is reformed according to national tendencies, I suppose the spleen will hereafter be found in the Englishman, not found in the American...
    ET8 5.138 9 If anatomy is reformed according to national tendencies, I suppose the spleen will hereafter be found in the Englishman, not found in the American, and differencing the one from the other. I anticipate another anatomical discovery, that this organ will be found to be cortical and caducous;...
    ET8 5.139 11 Even the scale of expense on which people live...proves the tension of [English] muscle, when vast numbers are found who can each lift this enormous load.
    ET9 5.146 8 I have found that Englishmen have such a good opinion of England, that the ordinary phrases in all good society, of postponing or disparaging one's own things in talking with a stranger, are seriously mistaken by them for an insuppressible homage to the merits of their nation;...
    ET10 5.154 14 ...I found the two disgraces in [Wood's Athenae Oxonienses], as in most English books, are, first, disloyalty to Church and State, and, second, to be born poor, or come to poverty.
    ET10 5.166 27 ...it is found that the machine unmans the user.
    ET10 5.169 5 ...in the influx of tons of gold and silver; amid the chuckle of chancellors and financiers, it was found [in England] that bread rose to famine prices...
    ET11 5.187 22 The jealousy of every class to guard itself is a testimony to the reality they have found in life.
    ET11 5.190 19 In the roll of [English] nobles are found poets, philosophers, chemists, astronomers...
    ET11 5.191 6 ...when the baron, educated only for war...found himself idle at home, he grew fat and wanton and a sorry brute.
    ET12 5.200 26 Chaucer found [Oxford] as firm as if it had always stood;...
    ET12 5.203 20 On proceeding afterwards to examine his purchase, [Dr. Bandinel] found the twenty deficient pages of his Mentz Bible, in perfect order;...
    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.
    ET12 5.210 3 ...I found here [at Oxford]...proof of the national fidelity and thoroughness.
    ET13 5.216 11 Bishop Wilfrid manumitted two hundred and fifty serfs, whom he found attached to the soil.
    ET14 5.235 15 When the Gothic nations came into Europe they found it lighted with the sun and moon of Hebrew and of Greek genius.
    ET14 5.244 22 Milton...used this privilege [of generalization] sometimes in poetry, more rarely in prose. For a long interval afterwards, it is not found.
    ET14 5.251 14 ...literary reputations have been achieved [in England] by forcible men...who were driven by tastes and modes they found in vogue into their several careers.
    ET15 5.262 18 England is full of manly, clever, well-bred men who possess the talent of writing off-hand pungent paragraphs, expressing with clearness and courage their opinion on any person or performance. Valuable or not, it is a skill that is rarely found, out of the English journals.
    ET15 5.265 10 The proprietors [of the London Times], who had already complained that [John Walter's] charges for printing were excessive, found that they were in his power...
    ET16 5.273 18 On Friday, 7th July, we [Emerson and Carlyle] took the South Western Railway through Hampshire to Salisbury, where we found a carriage to convey us to Amesbury.
    ET16 5.274 11 Art and high art is a favorite target for [Carlyle's] wit. Yes, Kunst is a great delusion, and Goethe and Schiller wasted a great deal of good time on it:--and he thinks he discovers that old Goethe found this out...
    ET16 5.277 2 We [Emerson and Carlyle] walked round the stones [at Stonehenge] and clambered over them...and found a nook sheltered from the wind among them, where Carlyle lighted his cigar.
    ET16 5.278 5 How came the stones [of Stonehenge] here? for these sarsens, or Druidical sandstones, are not found in this neighborhood.
    ET16 5.278 10 On almost every stone [at Stonehenge] we [Emerson and Carlyle] found the marks of the mineralogist's hammer and chisel.
    ET16 5.285 11 We [Emerson and Carlyle] crossed a bridge [at Wilton Hall] built by Inigo Jones...and so again to the house, where we found a table laid for us with bread, meats, peaches, grapes and wine.
    ET16 5.286 19 At Bishopstoke we [Emerson and Carlyle] stopped, and found Mr. H[elps]....
    ET17 5.291 14 ...what is nowhere better found than in England, a cultivated person fitly surrounded by a happy home, with Honor, love, obedience, troops of friends,/ is of all institutions the best.
    ET17 5.291 19 At the landing in Liverpool, I found my Manchester correspondent awaiting me...
    ET17 5.292 17 ...I found much advantage in the circles of the Geologic, the Antiquarian and the Royal Societies.
    ET17 5.293 8 It is not in distinguished circles that wisdom and elevated characters are usually found...
    ET17 5.293 9 It is not in distinguished circles that wisdom and elevated characters are usually found, or, if found, they are not confined thereto;...
    ET17 5.293 26 The like frank hospitality...I found among the great and the humble, wherever I went [in England];...
    ET17 5.294 14 We [Emerson and Martineau] found Mr. Wordsworth asleep on the sofa.
    ET17 5.295 19 I told [Wordsworth] it was not creditable that no one in all the country knew anything of Thomas Taylor, the Platonist, whilst in every American library his translations are found.
    ET18 5.301 2 During the Russian war, few of those that offered as recruits [in England] were found up to the medical standard...
    ET19 5.310 8 ...when I came to sea, I found the History of Europe, by Sir A. Alison, on the ship's cabin table...
    ET19 5.310 15 ...as for Dombey...there is no land where paper exists to print on, where it is not found;...
    F 6.37 5 ...it was found that whilst some animals became torpid in winter, others were torpid in summer...
    F 6.37 13 Eyes are found in light;...
    F 6.42 12 As once [man] found himself among toys, so now he plays a part in colossal systems...
    F 6.44 12 The men who come on the stage at one period are all found to be related to each other.
    Pow 6.53 18 A man should prize events and possessions as the ore in which this fine mineral [power] is found;...
    Pow 6.60 25 ...we have a certain instinct that where is great amount of life... it...will be found at last in harmony with moral laws.
    Pow 6.62 19 A Western lawyer of eminence said to me he wished it were a penal offence to bring an English law-book into a court in this country, so pernicious had he found in his experience our deference to English precedent.
    Pow 6.66 24 It is an esoteric doctrine of society...that public spirit and the ready hand are as well found among the malignants.
    Pow 6.71 24 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 cannot be spared...
    Wth 6.105 21 The basis of political economy is noninterference. The only safe rule is found in the self-adjusting meter of demand and supply.
    Wth 6.109 11 [The New Hampshire youth in the city] will perhaps find by and by that he left the Muses at the door of the hotel, and found the Furies inside.
    Wth 6.113 13 ...the man who has found what he can do, can spend on that and leave all other spending.
    Wth 6.113 19 Let a man who belongs to the class of nobles, namely who have found out that they can do something, relieve himself of all vague squandering on objects not his.
    Wth 6.117 11 ...in ordinary, as means increase, spending increases faster, so that large incomes...are found not to help matters;...
    Ctr 6.149 5 ...though [Thomas Hobbes] conceived he could order his thinking as well as another, yet he found a great defect.
    Ctr 6.153 6 ...we want cities as the centres where the best things are found...
    Ctr 6.164 25 ...in an old community a well-born proprietor is usually found, after the first heats of youth, to be a careful husband...
    Bhr 6.167 12 ...The green grass is a looking-glass/ Whereon [men's] traits are found./
    Bhr 6.177 23 In Siberia a late traveller found men who could see the satellites of Jupiter with their unarmed eye.
    Bhr 6.186 9 Society...if you do not belong to it, resists and sneers at you, or quietly drops you. The first weapon enrages the party attacked; the second... is not to be resisted, as the date of the transaction is not easily found.
    Bhr 6.194 6 ...such was the contented spirit of the monk [Basle] that he found something to praise in every place and company...
    Bhr 6.194 10 At last the escorting angel returned with his prisoner [the monk Basle] to them that sent him, saying that no phlegethon could be found that would burn him;...
    Wsp 6.224 16 ...gas-light is found to be the best nocturnal police...
    Wsp 6.233 9 [A gentleman] found [William of Orange] directing the operation of his gunners...
    CbW 6.243 5 ...The forefathers this land who found/ Failed to plant the vantage-ground;/...
    CbW 6.250 24 I once counted in a little neighborhood and found that every able-bodied man had say from twelve to fifteen persons dependent on him for material aid...
    CbW 6.262 20 Nature...works up every shred and ort and end into new creations; like a good chemist whom I found the other day in his laboratory, converting his old shirts into pure white sugar.
    CbW 6.268 19 ...there is a great dearth, this year, of friends; hard to find, and hard to have when found...
    Bty 6.284 10 These geologies, chemistries, astronomies...leave us where they found us.
    Ill 6.318 7 ...[Columbus] found the illusion of arriving from the east at the Indies more composing to his lofty spirit than any tobacco.
    Ill 6.320 25 That story of Thor, who was set to drain the drinking-horn in Asgard and to wrestle with the old woman and to run with the runner Lok, and presently found that he had been drinking up the sea, and wrestling with Time, and racing with Thought,--describes us...
    SS 7.5 27 Few substances are found pure in nature.
    SS 7.12 8 ...if we recall the rare hours when we encountered the best persons, we then found ourselves...
    Civ 7.19 2 A certain degree of progress from the rudest state in which man is found...is called Civilization.
    Civ 7.21 24 'T is wonderful how soon a piano gets into a log hut on the frontier. You would think they found it under a pine stump.
    Civ 7.22 19 There was once a giantess who had a daughter, and the child saw a husbandman ploughing in the field. Then she ran...and carried them to her mother, and said, Mother, what sort of a beetle is this that I found wriggling in the sand?
    Civ 7.28 2 ...we found out that the air and earth were full of Electricity...
    Civ 7.31 8 Was it Bonaparte who said that he found vices very good patriots?...
    Art2 7.50 8 [Good poets] found the verse, not made it.
    Elo1 7.76 20 We believe that there may be a man who is a match for events, one who never found his match...
    Elo1 7.77 12 Face to face with a highwayman...can you bring yourself off safe by your wit exercised through speech?--a problem easy enough to Caesar or Napoleon. Whenever a man of that stamp arrives, the highwayman has found a master.
    Elo1 7.79 23 ...there are men of the most peaceful way of life...who are felt wherever they go...and these examples may be found on very humble platforms as well as on high ones.
    Elo1 7.99 4 One thought the philosophers of Demosthenes's own time found running through all his orations,--this namely, that virtue secures its own success.
    DL 7.110 23 I am afraid that, so considered, our houses will not be found to have unity...
    DL 7.118 12 The rich, as we reckon them...in a true scale would be found very indigent...
    DL 7.122 3 ...[the most polite and accurate men of Oxford University] found such an immenseness of wit and such a solidity of judgment in [Lord Falkland]...that they frequently resorted and dwelt with him...
    Farm 7.147 18 [The tree] did not grow on a ridge, but in a basin, where it found deep soil...
    Farm 7.150 5 By drainage we went down to a subsoil we did not know, and have found there is a Concord under old Concord...
    WD 7.161 19 No sooner is the electric telegraph devised than gutta-percha, the very material it requires, is found.
    Boks 7.189 2 It is easy to accuse books, and bad ones are easily found;...
    Boks 7.193 2 ...private readers, reading purely for love of the book, would serve us by leaving each the shortest note of what he found.
    Boks 7.197 27 ...in these days, when it is found that what is most memorable of history is a few anecdotes...[Herodotus's history] is regaining credit.
    Boks 7.198 10 You find in [Plato] that which you have already found in Homer, now ripened to thought...
    Boks 7.214 18 ...the day, as we know it, has not yet found a tongue.
    Clbs 7.231 1 Conversation in society is found to be on a platform so low as to exclude science, the saint and the poet.
    Clbs 7.231 16 Among the men of wit and learning, [the lover of letters] could not withhold his homage from the gayety... But when he came home, his brave sequins were dry leaves. He found either that the fact they had thus dizened and adorned was of no value, or that he already knew all and more than all they had told him.
    Clbs 7.234 27 All that man can do for man is to be found in that market [of right company].
    Clbs 7.243 24 We know well the Mermaid Club...of Shakspeare... Beaumont and Fletcher;...many allusions to their suppers are found in Jonson, Herrick and in Aubrey.
    Clbs 7.244 27 The man of thought...the man of manners and culture, whom you so much wish to find,--each of these is wishing to be found.
    Clbs 7.247 2 [Manufacturers, merchants and shipmasters] have found virtue in the strangest homes;...
    Clbs 7.247 11 I remember a social experiment...wherein it appeared that each of the members fancied he was in need of society, but himself unpresentable. On trial they all found that they could be tolerated by, and could tolerate, each other.
    Clbs 7.249 18 If...[l'homme de lettres] dare not speak of fairy gold, he will yet tell what new books he has found...
    Cour 7.258 5 In war even generals are seldom found eager to give battle.
    Suc 7.285 2 [Linnaeus] studied the insects that infested the timber, and found that they laid their eggs in the logs within certain days in April...
    Suc 7.285 6 [Linnaeus] studied the insects that infested the timber, and found that they laid their eggs in the logs within certain days in April, and he directed that during ten days at that season the logs should be immersed under water in the docks; which being done, the timber was found to be uninjured.
    Suc 7.285 8 Columbus at Veragua found plenty of gold;...
    Suc 7.297 12 ...has [the scholar or writer] never found that there is a better poetry hinted in a boy's whistle of a tune...than in all his literary results?
    Suc 7.310 22 Which of [the most sanguine] has not...found themselves awkward or tedious or incapable of study...
    OA 7.317 14 ...in our old British legends of Arthur and the Round Table, his friend and counsellor, Merlin the Wise, is a babe found exposed in a basket by the river-side...
    OA 7.317 25 Saadi found in a mosque at Damascus an old Persian of a hundred and fifty years...
    OA 7.326 20 A third felicity of age is that it has found expression.
    OA 7.329 6 Linnaeus...lays out his twenty-four classes of plants, before yet he has found in Nature a single plant to justify certain of his classes.
    OA 7.330 10 The day comes when the hidden author of our story is found;...
    OA 7.332 1 I have lately found in an old note-book a record of a visit to ex-President John Adams, in 1825...
    PI 8.8 23 Natural objects...are really parts of a symmetrical universe, like words of a sentence; and if their true order is found, the poet can read their divine significance orderly as in a Bible.
    PI 8.13 8 When some familiar truth or fact appears in a new dress...we cannot enough testify our surprise and pleasure. It is like the new virtue shown in some unprized old property, as...when the old horse-block in the yard is found to be a Torso Hercules of the Phidian age.
    PI 8.22 12 Charles James Fox thought...that men first found out they had minds, by making and tasting poetry.
    PI 8.24 5 Slowly...there dawned on some mind a theory of the sun,--and we found the astronomical fact.
    PI 8.26 19 ...when we describe man as poet...we speak of the potential or ideal man,--not found now in any one person.
    PI 8.32 11 Of course, we know what you say, that legends are found in all tribes,--but this legend is different.
    SA 8.96 6 The great gain is...to find a companion who knows what you do not; to tilt with him and be overthrown...with utter destruction of all your logic and learning. ... You will ride to battle horsed on the very logic which you found irresistible.
    SA 8.101 25 In America, the necessity of...building every house and barn and fence, then church and town-house...made the whole population poor; and the like necessity is still found in each new settlement in the Territories.
    SA 8.102 12 ...in every town or city is always to be found a certain number of public-spirited men who perform, unpaid, a great amount of hard work in the interest of the churches, of schools...
    SA 8.107 16 ...I believe...that intelligence, manly enterprise, good education, virtuous life and elegant manners have been and are found here...
    Elo2 8.119 27 ...Jenny Lind, when in this country, complained of concert-rooms and town-halls, that they did not give her room enough to unroll her voice, and exulted in the opportunity given her in the great halls she found sometimes built over a railroad depot.
    Res 8.141 24 When our population, swarming west, reached the boundary of arable land...on the face of the sterile waste beyond, the land was suddenly in parts found covered with gold and silver...
    Res 8.142 6 ...we have found the Taurida in Pennsylvania and Ohio.
    Res 8.144 3 At Annapolis a regiment, hastening to join the army, found the locomotives broken, the railroad destroyed, and no rails.
    Res 8.144 7 The commander called for men in the ranks who could rebuild the road. Many men stepped forward, searched in the water, found the hidden rails, laid the track...
    Res 8.151 25 ...how hungry I found myself, the other day, at Agassiz's Museum, for [shells'] names!
    Comc 8.161 25 Wherever the intellect is constructive, [a perception of the Comic] will be found.
    Comc 8.172 9 Timur saw himself in the mirror and found his face quite too ugly.
    QO 8.179 6 ...movable types, the kaleidoscope, the railway, the power-loom, etc., have been many times found and lost...
    QO 8.181 17 Renard the Fox, a German poem of the thirteenth century, was long supposed to be the original work, until Grimm found fragments of another original a century older.
    QO 8.186 17 There are many fables which, as they are found in every language...are said to be agreeable to the human mind.
    QO 8.187 2 The popular incident of Baron Munchausen, who hung his bugle up by the kitchen fire and the frozen tune thawed out, is found in Greece in Plato's time.
    QO 8.200 16 Our country, customs, laws, our ambitions, and our notions of fit and fair,-all these we never made, we found them ready-made;...
    PC 8.209 15 ...[the coxcomb] has found that this country and this age belong to the most liberal persuasion;...
    PC 8.221 10 [The scholar] has accosted this immeasurable Nature, and got clear answers. He understood what he read. He found agreement with himself.
    PC 8.222 3 When the correlation of the sciences was announced by Oersted and his colleagues, it was no surprise; we were found already prepared for it.
    PC 8.222 8 ...if we should analyze Newton's discovery, we should say that if it had not been anticipated by him, it would not have been found.
    PC 8.225 11 ...time and space,-what are they? Our first problems, which we ponder all our lives through, and leave where we found them;...
    PPo 8.241 21 Asaph, the vizier, at a certain time, lost the seal of Solomon, which one of the Dews or evil spirits found...
    PPo 8.257 8 By breath of beds of roses drawn,/ I found the grove in the morning pure,/ In the concert of the nightingales/ My drunken brain to cure./
    PPo 8.260 13 ...what a nest has [Hafiz] found for his bonny bird to take up her abode in!
    PPo 8.262 22 In thee, friend, that Tyrian chamber is found;/ Thine the star-pointing- roof, and the base on the ground:/ Is one half depicted with colors less bright?/ Beware that the counterpart blazes with light!/
    Insp 8.269 17 [The intellect's] supplies are found without much thought as to studies.
    Insp 8.275 19 I hold that ecstasy will be found normal...
    Insp 8.279 16 We might say of these memorable moments of life that we were in them, not they in us. We found ourselves by happy fortune in an illuminated portion or meteorous zone...
    Insp 8.285 20 ...the love-filled singers [nightingales]/ Poured by night before my window/ Their sweet melodies,-/ Kept awake my dear soul,/ Roused tender new longings/ In my lately touched bosom/ And so the night passed,/ And Aurora found me sleeping;/ Yea, hardly did the sun wake me./
    Insp 8.288 10 I have found my advantage in going in summer to a country inn...with a task which would not prosper at home.
    Insp 8.289 12 ...the mixture of lie in truth, and the experience of poetic creativeness which is not found in staying at home nor yet in travelling, but in transitions from one to the other...these are the types or conditions of this power [of novelty].
    Insp 8.290 4 ...I remember that Thoreau, with his robust will, yet found certain trifles disturbing the delicacy of that health which composition exacted...
    Insp 8.291 22 Allston...had two or three rooms in different parts of Boston, where he could not be found.
    Insp 8.294 9 We esteem nations important, until we discover...later, that it is...at last...the lowliness, the outpouring, the large equality to truth of a single mind,-as if in the narrow walls of a human heart...the tribunal by which the universe is judged, found room to exist.
    Grts 8.303 15 ...what a bitter-sweet sensation when we have gone to pour out our acknowledgment of a man's nobleness, and found him quite indifferent to our good opinion!
    Grts 8.306 15 ...further experiments led [Faraday] to the theory that every chemical substance would be found to have its own, and a different, polarity.
    Grts 8.309 19 If you have ever known a good mind among the Quakers, you will have found [self-respect] is the element of their faith.
    Grts 8.310 10 You are rightly fond of certain books or men that you have found to excite your reverence and emulation.
    Grts 8.311 4 No way has been found for making heroism easy...
    Grts 8.320 26 The man...who carries fate in his eye;-he it is whom we seek, encouraged in every good hour that here or hereafter he shall be found.
    Imtl 8.335 21 A candle a mile long or a hundred miles long does not help the imagination; only a self-feeding fire, an inextinguishable lamp, like the sun and the star, that we have not yet found date and origin for.
    Imtl 8.337 17 All the comfort I have found teaches me to confide that I shall not have less in times and places that I do not yet know.
    Imtl 8.339 23 After we have found our depth [on a new planet], and assimilated what we could of the new experience, transfer us to a new scene.
    Imtl 8.350 7 Nachiketas said, Even by the gods was it inquired [concerning immortality]. And as to what thou sayest, O Death, that it is not easy to understand it, there is no other speaker to be found like thee.
    Dem1 10.17 7 ...[the belief in luck] is not the power...which we...found college professorships to expound.
    Aris 10.31 6 There is an attractive topic, which...is impertinent in no community,-the permanent traits of the Aristocracy. It is...to be found in every country and in every company of men.
    Aris 10.32 14 It will not pain me if I am found now and then to rove from the accepted and historic, to a theoretic peerage;...
    Aris 10.33 5 Room is found for all the departments of the state in the moods and faculties of each human spirit...
    Aris 10.54 2 ...I have seen a man of teeming brain come among these men [in a village]...and drawing all these men round him...interested the whole village...in his facts;...the coldest had found themselves drawn to their neighbors by interest in the same things.
    Aris 10.62 3 ...[the true man] is to know...that...wherever found, the old renown attaches to the virtues of simple faith and stanch endurance and clear perception and plain speech...
    Aris 10.64 26 Virtue and genius are always on the direct way to the control of the society in which they are found.
    PerF 10.79 11 I knew a manufacturer who found his property invested in chemical works which were depreciating in value.
    PerF 10.80 27 One day I found [the stupid farmer's] little boy of four years dragging about after him the prettiest little wooden cart...
    PerF 10.86 18 ...it begins to be doubtful whether our corruption in this country has not gone a little over the mark of safety, so that when canvassed we shall be found to be made up of a majority of reckless self-seekers.
    Chr2 10.105 10 ...we read with surprise the horror of Athens when, one morning, the statues of Mercury in the temples were found broken...
    Chr2 10.107 5 ...in many a house in country places the poor children found seven sabbaths in a week.
    Edc1 10.129 23 Is it not true that every landscape I behold...every pain I suffer, leaves me a different being from that they found me?
    Edc1 10.146 24 ...[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...the enthusiast had found the master, the masters, whom he sought.
    Supl 10.167 11 An eminent French journalist paid a high compliment to the Duke of Wellington, when his documents were published: Here are twelve volumes of military dispatches, and the word glory is not found in them.
    Supl 10.176 27 ...[Nature]...in the East...inculcates the tenet of a beatitude to be found in escape from all organization and all personality...
    Supl 10.178 11 The political economist defies us to show...a shore where pearls are found on which good schools are erected.
    SovE 10.186 18 All forces are found in Nature united with that which they move...
    SovE 10.190 10 ...it is found at last that some establishment of property...is best for all.
    SovE 10.199 18 When I talked with an ardent missionary, and pointed out to him that his creed found no support in my experience, he replied, It is not so in your experience, but is so in the other world.
    Prch 10.221 9 The understanding...because it has found absurdities to which the sentiment of veneration is attached, sneers at veneration;...
    MoL 10.255 11 ...in the narrow walls of a human heart...the tribunal by which the universe is judged, found room to exist.
    Schr 10.283 17 Nobody has found the limit of [mother-wit's] knowledge.
    Plu 10.294 3 ...though [Plutarch] found or made friends at Rome...he did not know or learn the Latin language there;...
    Plu 10.295 2 ...the first printed edition of the Greek Works [of Plutarch] did not appear until 1572. Hardly current in his own Greek, these found learned interpreters in the scholars of Germany, Spain and Italy.
    Plu 10.299 23 [Plutarch] perpetually suggests Montaigne, who was the best reader he has ever found...
    Plu 10.304 23 Early this morning, asking Epaminondas about the manner of Lysis's burial, I found that Lysis had taught him as far as the incommunicable mysteries of our sect...
    Plu 10.313 13 [Plutarch] cites...the memorable words of Antigone, in Sophocles, concerning the moral sentiment:-For neither now nor yesterday began/ These thoughts, which have been ever, nor yet can/ A man be found who their first entrance knew./
    Plu 10.317 21 I know that the chapter of Apothegms of Noble Commanders is rejected by some critics as not a genuine work of Plutarch; but the matter...is so agreeable to his taste and genius, that if he had found it, he would have adopted it.
    Plu 10.320 17 ...in recent reading of the old text [of Plutarch's Morals], on coming on anything absurd or unintelligible, I referred to the new text and found a clear and accurate statement in its place.
    LLNE 10.330 24 The novelty of the learning lost nothing in the skill and genius of [Everett's] relation, and the rudest undergraduate found a new morning opened to him in the lecture-room of Harvard Hall.
    LLNE 10.332 21 ...even the coarsest [auditors] were contented to go punctually to listen, for [Everett's] manner, when they had found out that the subject-matter was not for them.
    LLNE 10.340 21 Dr. Channing repaired to Dr. Warren's house on the appointed evening, with large thoughts which he wished to open. He found a well-chosen assembly of gentlemen variously distinguished;...
    LLNE 10.346 20 ...Robert Owen...read lectures or held conversations wherever he found listeners;...
    LLNE 10.360 4 There were many employments more or less lucrative found for, or brought hither by these members [of Brook Farm]...
    LLNE 10.362 24 ...[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;...
    LLNE 10.364 10 All comers...found [Brook Farm] the pleasantest of residences.
    LLNE 10.365 2 In the American social communities, the gossip found such vent and sway as to become despotic.
    LLNE 10.365 27 In practice it is always found that virtue is occasional, spotty, and not linear or cubic.
    LLNE 10.366 18 ...every visitor [to Brook Farm] found that there was a comic side to this Paradise of shepherds and shepherdesses.
    CSC 10.376 8 ...[these men and women at the Chardon Street Convention] found what they sought, or the pledge of it, in the attitude taken by the individuals of their number of resistance to the insane routine of parliamentary usage;...
    EzRy 10.379 7 We love the venerable house/ Our fathers built to God:/ In Heaven are kept their grateful vows,/ Their dust endears the sod./ From humble tenements around/ Came up the pensive train,/ And in the church a blessing found/ That filled their homes again./
    MMEm 10.399 15 I have found that I could only bring you this portrait [of Mary Moody Emerson] by selections from the diary of my heroine...
    MMEm 10.405 14 ...the minister found quickly that [Mary Moody Emerson] knew all his books and many more...
    MMEm 10.410 15 When her cherished favorite, Elizabeth Hoar, was at the Vale, and had gone out to walk in the forest with Hannah, her niece, Aunt Mary [Moody Emerson] feared they were lost, and found a man in the next house and begged him to go and look for them.
    MMEm 10.410 26 [Mary Moody Emerson] exclaimed, God has given you a voice that you might use it in the service of your fellow creatures. Go instantly and call Elizabeth till you find [Elizabeth Hoar and her niece]. The man...having found them apologized for calling thus...
    MMEm 10.411 2 When some ladies of my acquaintance by an unusual chance found themselves in her neighborhood and visited her, I told them that [Mary Moody Emerson] was no whistle that every mouth could play on...
    MMEm 10.411 12 In her solitude of twenty years, with fewest books and those only sermons, and a copy of Paradise Lost, without covers or title-page, so that later, when she heard much of Milton and sought his work, she found it was her very book which she knew so well,-[Mary Moody Emerson] was driven to find Nature her companion and solace.
    MMEm 10.420 16 Do I [Mary Moody Emerson] yearn to be in Boston? 'T would fatigue, disappoint; I, who have so long despised means, who have always found it a sort of rebellion to seek them?
    SlHr 10.442 12 Many good stories are still told of the perplexity of jurors who found the law and the evidence on one side, and yet Squire Hoar had said that he believed, on his conscience, his client entitled to a verdict.
    SlHr 10.443 6 I used to feel that [Samuel Hoar's] conscience was a kind of meter of the degree of honesty in the country, by which on each occasion it was tried, and sometimes found wanting.
    SlHr 10.446 5 ...so entirely was [Samuel Hoar's] respect to the ground-plan and substructure of society a natural ability...that it was...like one of those opaque crystals...which are found in Acworth, New Hampshire, not less perfect in their angles and structure, and only less beautiful, than the transparent topazes and diamonds.
    Thor 10.453 25 [Thoreau's] accuracy and skill in this work [surveying] were readily appreciated, and he found all the employment he wanted.
    Thor 10.456 5 It cost [Thoreau] nothing to say No; indeed he found it much easier than to say Yes.
    Thor 10.459 9 ...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.
    Thor 10.460 9 ...idealist as he was...[Thoreau] found himself not only unrepresented in actual politics, but almost equally opposed to every class of reformers.
    Thor 10.463 26 One day, walking with a stranger, who inquired where Indian arrow-heads could be found, [Thoreau] replied, Everywhere...
    Thor 10.468 6 [Thoreau] found red snow in one of his walks...
    Thor 10.474 11 The depth of [Thoreau's] perception found likeness of law throughout Nature...
    Thor 10.474 16 [Thoreau's] eye was open to beauty, and his ear to music. He found these, not in rare conditions, but wheresoever he went.
    Thor 10.474 19 ...[Thoreau] found poetic suggestion in the humming of the telegraph-wire.
    Thor 10.480 1 ...[Thoreau] seemed haunted by a certain chronic assumption that the science of the day pretended completeness, and he had just found out that the savans had neglected to discriminate a particular botanical variety...
    Thor 10.484 16 There is a flower known to botanists...which grows on the most inaccessible cliffs of the Tyrolese mountains...and which the hunter... climbs the cliffs to gather, and is sometimes found dead at the foot, with the flower in his hand.
    Carl 10.489 11 If you would know precisely how [Carlyle] talks, just suppose Hugh Whelan (the gardener) had found leisure enough in addition to all his daily work to read Plato and Shakspeare...
    Carl 10.496 27 Czar Nicholas was [Carlyle's] hero; for in the ignominy of Europe, when...no man was found with conscience enough to fire a gun for his crown...one man remained who believed he was put there by God Almighty to govern his empire...
    LS 11.6 8 This material fact, that the occasion [the Last Supper] was to be remembered, is found in Luke alone, who was not present.
    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 11.11 21 [Christ's washing the disiciples' feet] only differs in this, that we have found the [Lord's] Supper used in New England and the washing of the feet not.
    LS 11.11 23 ...if we had found [washing of the feet] an established rite in our churches, on grounds of mere authority, it would have been impossible to have argued against it.
    HDC 11.33 18 [The pilgrims] slept on the rocks, wherever night found them.
    HDC 11.34 2 After [the pilgrims] have found a place of abode, they burrow themselves in the earth for their first shelter...
    HDC 11.36 18 [The Indians'] physical powers, as our fathers found them... astonished the white men.
    HDC 11.39 12 ...if...[the settlers of Concord] found the air of America very cold, they might say with Higginson...that...all Europe is not able to afford to make so great fires as New England.
    HDC 11.43 8 ...the Company [of Massachusetts Bay] removed to New England; more than one hundred freemen were admitted the first year, and it was found inconvenient to assemble them all.
    HDC 11.43 15 ...when, presently...parties, with grants of land, straggled into the country to truck with the Indians and to clear the land for their own benefit, the Governor and freemen in Boston found it neither desirable nor possible to control the trade and practices of these farmers.
    HDC 11.46 11 ...Concord and the other plantations found themselves separate and independent of Boston...
    HDC 11.50 24 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.
    HDC 11.51 4 Those [Indians] who dwelled by ponds and rivers had some tincture of civility, but the hunters of the tribe were found intractable at catechism.
    HDC 11.55 13 The fish, which had been the abundant manure of the settlers, was found to injure the land.
    HDC 11.56 19 The people on the [Massachusetts] bay built ships, and found the way to the West Indies...
    HDC 11.59 21 A nameless Wampanoag who was put to death by the Mohicans, after cruel tortures, was asked by his butchers, during the torture, how he liked the war?-he said, he found it as sweet as sugar was to Englishmen.
    HDC 11.61 19 When the Dutch, or the French, or the English royalist disagreed with the [Massachusetts Bay] Colony, there was always found a Dutch, or French, or tory party,-an earnest minority,-to keep things from extremity.
    HDC 11.73 17 When [British troops] entered Concord, they found the militia and minute-men assembled...
    HDC 11.74 6 ...Major Buttrick found himself superior in number to the enemy's party at the bridge [at Concord].
    HDC 11.77 20 I have found within a few days, among some family papers, [William Emerson's] almanac of 1775...
    HDC 11.81 9 In 1786...a large party of armed insurgents arrived in this town [Concord]...to hinder the sitting of the Court of Common Pleas. But they found no countenance here.
    EWI 11.105 18 Granville Sharpe found [the West Indian slave] at his brother's...
    EWI 11.108 27 The facts [of the slave trade] confirmed [Thomas Clarkson' s] sentiment...that it was found peculiarly fatal to those employed in it.
    EWI 11.109 19 These debates [on West Indian slavery] are instructive, as they show on what grounds the trade was assailed and defended. Everything generous, wise and sprightly is sure to come to the attack. On the other part are found cold prudence, bare-faced selfishness and silent votes.
    EWI 11.123 22 It was, or it seemed the dictate of trade, to keep the negro down. We had found a race who were less warlike, and less energetic shopkeepers than we;...
    EWI 11.123 24 We found it very convenient to keep [the negroes] at work...
    EWI 11.125 5 ...that which the head and the heart demand is found to be, in the long run, for what the grossest calculator calls his advantage.
    EWI 11.129 19 Whilst I have meditated in my solitary walks on the magnanimity of the English Bench and Senate, reaching out the benefit of the law to the most helpless citizen in her world-wide realm [the West Indian slave], I have found myself oppressed by other thoughts.
    EWI 11.130 17 ...a citizen of Nantucket, walking in New Orleans, found a freeborn [negro] citizen of Nantucket...working chained in the streets of that city...
    EWI 11.134 18 ...if, most unhappily, the ambitious class of young men and political men have found out that these neglected victims are poor and without weight;...then let the citizens in their primary capacity take up [the negroes'] cause on this very ground...
    EWI 11.138 18 [Virtuous men] have found out the deleterious effect of political association.
    EWI 11.139 2 What happened notoriously to an American ambassador in England, that he found himself compelled to palter and to disguise the fact that he was a slave-breeder, happens to men of state.
    War 11.174 27 ...if the desire of a large class of young men for a faith and hope, intellectual and religious, such as they have not yet found, be an omen to be trusted;...then war has a short day...
    FSLC 11.183 16 The popular assumption that all men loved freedom, and believed in the Christian religion, was found hollow American brag;...
    FSLC 11.183 18 ...only persons who were known and tried benefactors are found standing for freedom...
    FSLC 11.184 25 Here are humane people who have tears for misery, an open purse for want; who should have been the defenders of the poor man, are found his embittered enemies...merely from party ties.
    FSLC 11.188 11 ...all men that are born are, in proportion to their power of thought and their moral sensibility, found to be the natural enemies of this [Fugitive Slave] law.
    FSLC 11.190 13 I found...that the great jurists, Cicero, Grotius...do all affirm [the principle in law that immoral laws are void].
    FSLC 11.192 9 Sire, said the brave Orte, governor of Bayonne, in his letter, I have communicated your majesty's command to your faithful inhabitants and warriors in the garrison, and I have found there only good citizens, and brave soldiers; not one hangman...
    FSLC 11.193 26 Mr. Webster tells the President that he has been in the North, and he has found no man, whose opinion is of any weight, who is opposed to the [Fugitive Slave] law.
    FSLC 11.196 6 To serve [the Fugitive Slave Law], low and mean people are found by the groping of the government.
    FSLC 11.196 8 No government ever found it hard to pick up tools for base actions.
    FSLC 11.209 26 The genius of this people, it is found, can do anything which can be done by men.
    FSLN 11.228 17 ...if the reporters say true, [Webster's] wretched atheism found some laughter in the company.
    FSLN 11.228 27 There was an old fugitive law, but it had become, or was fast becoming...by the genius and laws of Massachusetts, inoperative. The new [Fugitive Slave] Bill...required me to hunt slaves, and it found citizens in Massachusetts willing to act as judges and captors.
    FSLN 11.233 26 ...now you relied on these dismal guaranties infamously made in 1850; and, before the body of Webster is yet crumbled, it is found that they have crumbled.
    FSLN 11.239 21 In 1825 Greece found America deaf...
    FSLN 11.239 22 In 1825 Greece found America deaf, Poland found America deaf...
    FSLN 11.239 23 In 1825 Greece found America deaf...Italy and Hungary found her deaf.
    FSLN 11.240 13 ...all the statesmen...are sure to be found befriending liberty with their words, and crushing it with their votes.
    FSLN 11.243 3 You, gentlemen of these literary and scientific schools, and the important class you represent, have the power to make your verdict clear and prevailing. Had you done so, you would have found me [Robert Winthrop] its glad organ and champion.
    AKan 11.258 2 ...the governor and legislature should neither slumber nor sleep till they have found out how to send effectual aid and comfort to these poor farmers [in Kansas]...
    TPar 11.287 7 ...I found some harshness in [Theodore Parker's] treatment both of Greek and of Hebrew antiquity...
    TPar 11.287 23 ...those came to [Theodore Parker] who found themselves expressed by him.
    EPro 11.316 22 [Movement toward liberty]...is as when an orator... announces with vibrating voice the grand human principles involved;...a new audience is found in the heart of the assembly...
    ALin 11.335 10 In four years...[Lincoln's] endurance, his fertility of resources, his magnanimity, were sorely tried and never found wanting.
    HCom 11.340 15 ...They followed [Truth] and found her/ Where all may hope to find/ Not in the ashes of the burnt-out mind,/ But beautiful, with danger's sweetness round her./
    HCom 11.343 9 ...the infusion of culture and tender humanity from these scholars and idealists who went to the war in their own despite...had its signal and lasting effect. It was found that enthusiasm was a more potent ally than science and munitions of war without it.
    SMC 11.354 26 ...it was found, contrary to all popular belief, that the country was at heart abolitionist...
    SMC 11.356 21 All sorts of men went to the [Civil] war,-the roughs, men who...found sphere at last for their superabundant energy;...
    SMC 11.359 13 ...[George Prescott] knew that his men had found out, first that he was captain, then that he was colonel...
    SMC 11.367 16 I have found many notes of [the Thirty-second Regiment' s] rough experience in the march and in the field.
    SMC 11.370 8 When Colonel Gurney, of the Ninth [Regiment], came to him the next day to tell him that folks are just beginning to appreciate the Thirty-second Regiment...Colonel Prescott notes in his journal,-Pity they have not found it out before it was all gone.
    EdAd 11.393 12 The name [Massachusetts Quarterly Review] might convey the impression...that nothing is to be found here which was not written expressly for the Review;...
    Wom 11.409 10 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...unenlightened by science, he had found much observation and much intelligence;...
    Wom 11.411 20 [Women] should be found in fit surroundings...
    SHC 11.430 26 Our people accepting this lesson from science, yet touched by the tenderness which Christianity breathes, have found a mean in the consecration of gardens.
    Shak1 11.447 12 ...it is to us [The Saturday Club] a painful disappointment that Bryant and Whittier as guests, and our own Hawthorne,-with the best will to come,-should have found it impossible at last;...
    Humb 11.458 7 ...at any point on land or sea [Humboldt] found the objects of his researches.
    Humb 11.459 2 I know that we have been accustomed to think...that in a crisis no plan-maker was to be found in the [German] empire;...
    Scot 11.464 1 Critics have found [Scott's books] to be only rhymed prose.
    Scot 11.466 4 In his own household and neighbors [Scott] found characters and pets of humble class...
    Scot 11.467 16 ...wherever he lived, [Scott] found superior men...
    Scot 11.467 18 ...[Scott]...passed all his life in the best company, and still found himself the best of the best!
    Scot 11.467 21 [Scott] found himself in his youth and manhood and age in the society of Mackintosh, Horner, Jeffrey...
    ChiE 11.470 5 Nature...in the East...inculcates a beatitude to be found in escape from all organization and all personality...
    FRO1 11.477 11 I have listened with great pleasure to the lessons which we have heard. To many...I have found so much in accord with my own thought that I have little left to say.
    CPL 11.496 14 Our founder [of the Concord Library] has found the many admirable examples which have lately honored the country...
    CPL 11.501 4 [Thoreau writes] I think the best parts of Shakspeare would only be enhanced by the most thrilling and affecting events. I have found it so...
    CPL 11.505 14 I have found several humble men and women who gave as affectionate, if not as judicious testimony to their readings.
    FRep 11.511 5 It is a rule that holds in economy as well as in hydraulics that you must have a source higher than your tap. The mills, the shops...the college and the church, have all found out this secret.
    FRep 11.535 5 ...if we found [Westerners] clinging to English traditions... we should feel this...absurdly out of place.
    FRep 11.540 4 Let us realize that this country, the last found, is the great charity of God to the human race.
    PLT 12.8 19 Was it better when we came to the philosophers, who found everybody wrong;...
    PLT 12.16 24 Who has found the boundaries of human intelligence?
    PLT 12.27 4 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 12.31 22 There is no property or relation in that immense arsenal of forces which the earth is, but some man is at last found who affects this...
    PLT 12.49 6 I once found Page the painter modelling his figures in clay... before he painted them on canvas.
    II 12.67 18 ...Haydon found Voltaire's tales left him melancholy.
    II 12.68 24 We attributed power and science and good will to the Instinct, but we found it dumb and inexorable.
    II 12.81 4 All conquests that history tells of will be found to resolve themselves into the superior mental powers of the conquerors...
    II 12.83 9 The dream which lately floated before the eyes of the French nation-that every man shall do that which of all things he prefers, and shall have three francs a day for doing that-is the real law of the world; and all good labor...will be found to be of that kind.
    II 12.88 11 The old Greek was respectable...who found the genius of tragedy in the conflict between Destiny and the strong should...
    Mem 12.91 2 The builder of the mind found it not less needful that it should have retroaction...
    Mem 12.95 20 ...[the power of memory] is found in all good wits.
    Mem 12.103 11 Have you not found memory an apotheosis or deification?
    Mem 12.106 25 It is found that we remember best when the head is clear...
    CInt 12.129 26 ...it was in a mean country inn that Burns found his fancy so sprightly.
    CL 12.137 8 Let me remind you what this walker [Linnaeus] found in his walks.
    CL 12.137 9 [Linnaeus] went into Oland, and found that the farms on the shore were perpetually encroached on by the sea...
    CL 12.137 15 In Tornea, [Linnaeus] found the people suffering every spring from the loss of their cattle...
    CL 12.137 21 In Tornea, [Linnaeus] found the people suffering every spring from the loss of their cattle, which died by some frightful distemper, to the number of fifty or a hundred in a year. Linnaeus walked out to examine the meadow into which they were first turned out to grass, and found it a bog, where the water-hemlock grew in abundance...
    CL 12.137 24 [Linneaus] found the plant [water-hemlock] also dried in [the people of Tornea's] cut hay.
    CL 12.138 3 [Linnaeus] studied the insects that infested the timber, and found that they laid their eggs in the logs within certain days in April...
    CL 12.138 8 ...[Linnaeus] directed that during ten days...the logs should be immersed under the water, which beind done, the timber was found to be uninjured.
    CL 12.138 9 [Linnaeus] found that the gout...was cured by wood-strawberries.
    CL 12.138 15 ...the curiosity to see [Kalm's] plants, restored [Linnaeus] instantly, and he found an old friend as good as the treatment by wood-strawberries.
    CL 12.138 18 [Linnaeus] found out that a terrible distemper which sometimes proves fatal in the north of Europe, was occasioned by an animalcule...
    CL 12.146 23 Here [on Estabrook Farm] are varieties of apple not found in Downing or Loudon.
    CL 12.159 19 In [the Persians'] belief, wild beasts, especially gazelles, collect around an insane person, and live with him on a friendly footing. The patient found something curative in that intercourse...
    CL 12.166 16 ...the imagination...does not impart its secret to inquisitive persons. Sometimes a parlor in which fine persons are found...answers our purpose still better.
    CW 12.177 2 This is my ideal of the power of wealth. Find out...what district Dr. Gray has not found the plants of,-carry him;...
    Bost 12.184 19 Even at this day men are to be found superstitious enough to believe that to certain spots on the surface of the planet special powers attach...
    Bost 12.185 19 ...wisdom is not found with those who dwell at their ease.
    Bost 12.195 10 I trace to this deep religious sentiment and to its culture great and salutary results to the people of New England; first, namely, the culture of the intellect, which has always been found in the Calvinistic Church.
    Bost 12.197 26 In the midst of [New England's] laborious and economical and rude and awkward population...you shall not unfrequently meet that refinement...which...gave a hospitality in this country to the spirit of Coleridge and Wordsworth...before yet their genius had found a hearty welcome in Great Britain.
    Bost 12.199 24 What should hinder that this America...the firm shore hid until...a man should be found who should sail steadily west fixty-eight days from the port of Palos to find it...should have its happy ports...
    Bost 12.208 7 No doubt all manner of vices can be found in [Boston], as in every city;...
    MAng1 12.220 20 Cardinal Farnese one day found [Michelangelo], when an old man, walking alone in the Coliseum...
    MAng1 12.223 19 [Michelangelo's] Titanic handwriting in marble and travertine is to be found in every part of Rome and Florence;...
    MAng1 12.226 25 When the Sistine Chapel was prepared for him, that he might paint the ceiling, [Michelangelo] found the platform on which he was to work suspended by ropes which passed through the ceiling.
    MAng1 12.228 12 I have found, says [Michelangelo's] friend, some of his designs in Florence, where, whilst may be seen the greatness of his genius, it may also be known that when he wished to take Minerva from the head of Jove, there needed the hammer of Vulcan.
    MAng1 12.237 16 ...[Michelangelo] says he is only half in Rome, since, truly, peace is only to be found in the woods.
    MAng1 12.241 7 An eloquent vindication of [Michelangelo's poems'] philosophy may be found in a paper by Signor Radici in the London Retrospective Review...
    Milt1 12.252 23 We think we have heard the recitation of [Milton's] verses by genius which found in them that which itself would say;...
    ACri 12.288 25 What traveller has not listened to the vigor of...the deep stomach of an English drayman's execration. I remember an occasion when a proficient in this style came from North Street to Cambridge and drew a crowd of young critics in the college yard, who found his wrath so aesthetic and fertilizing that they took notes...
    ACri 12.296 11 [Herrick] found his subject where he stood...
    MLit 12.311 4 ...[the library of the Present Age] vents...books...which leave no man where they found him...
    MLit 12.314 12 Nor is the distinction between these two habits [of subjectiveness] to be found in the circumstance of using the first person singular...
    MLit 12.333 5 We feel that a man gifted like [Goethe] should not leave the world as he found it.
    WSL 12.340 12 ...for twenty years we have still found the Imaginary Conversations a sure resource in solitude...
    WSL 12.345 1 ...in the character of Pericles [Landor] has found full play for beauty and greatness of behavior...
    WSL 12.348 9 There is no inadequacy or disagreeable contraction in [the dense writer's] sentence, any more than in a human face, where in a square space of a few inches is found room for every possible variety of expression.
    Pray 12.357 4 ...thou [God] didst beat back my weak sight upon myself... and I found myself to be far off...
    AgMs 12.358 3 In an afternoon in April...I...found the Farmer in his cornfield.
    AgMs 12.358 14 I still remember with some shame that in some dealing we had together a long time ago, I found that [Edmund Hosmer] had been looking to my interest in the affair, and I had been looking to my interest, and nobody had looked to his part.
    AgMs 12.360 5 [Edmund Hosmer] had been reading the report of the Agricultural Survey of the Commonwealth, and had found good things in it;...
    EurB 12.369 23 In this country [Wordsworth's influence] very early found a stronghold...
    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...
    EurB 12.376 14 [Wilhelm Meister] gave the hint of a cultivated society which we found nowhere else.

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