Fucused to Futurity

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

fucused, v. (1)

    Plu 10.304 16 ...[Plutarch] says...the Sibyl, with her frantic grimaces, uttering sentences altogether thoughtful and serious, neither fucused nor perfumed, continues her voice a thousand years...

fudges, n. (1)

    FRep 11.537 27 [Our civilization] is a wild democracy; the riot of mediocrities and dishonesties and fudges.

fuel, n. (10)

    SL 2.153 26 ...when the empty book has gathered all its praise...it still needs fuel to make fire.
    ET11 5.176 5 A creative economy is the fuel of magnificence.
    Farm 7.145 20 Nations burn with internal fire of thought and affection, which wastes while it works. We shall find finer combustion and finer fuel.
    WD 7.161 20 The aeronaut is provided with gun-cotton, the very fuel he wants for his balloon.
    Cour 7.273 15 The meal and water that are the commissariat of the forlorn hope that stake their lives to defend the pass are sacred as the Holy Grail, or as if one had eyes to see in chemistry the fuel that is rushing to feed the sun.
    Suc 7.293 20 It is the dulness of the multitude that they cannot see the house in the ground-plan; the working, in the model of the projector. Whilst it is a thought, though it were a new fuel...it is a chimera;...
    SA 8.96 14 A just feeling will fast enough supply fuel for discourse...
    Insp 8.276 9 We must prize our own youth. Later, we want heat to execute our plans...the whole armory of means are all present, but a certain heat that once used not to fail, refuses its office, and all is vain until this capricious fuel is supplied.
    EPro 11.323 13 If we had consented to a peaceable secession of the rebels... the slaves on the border...were an incessant fuel to rekindle the fire.
    Bost 12.197 1 ...the necessity, which always presses the Northerner, of providing fuel and many clothes and tight houses and much food against the long winter, makes him anxiously frugal...

fugaciousness, n. (1)

    PI 8.21 15 I think the use or value of poetry to be the suggestion it affords of the flux or fugaciousness of the poet.

fugacity, n. (2)

    Pt1 3.20 18 [The poet] perceives...the stability of the thought, the accidency and fugacity of the symbol.
    FRep 11.520 21 Parties...exhibit a surprising fugacity in creeping out of one snake-skin into another of equal ignominy and lubricity...

fugitive, adj. (16)

    SL 2.156 2 The most fugitive deed and word...expresses character.
    OS 2.274 1 ...we say...that a day of certain political, moral, social reforms is at hand, and the like, when we mean that in the nature of things one of the facts we contemplate is external and fugitive, and the other is permanent and connate with the soul.
    OS 2.274 7 ...Boston, London, are facts as fugitive as any institution past...
    Cir 2.314 7 ...these metals and animals...are words of God, and as fugitive as other words.
    Mrs1 3.130 2 We sometimes...feel that the moral sentiment rules man and nature. We think all other distinctions and ties will be slight and fugitive...
    CbW 6.277 14 The individuals are fugitive...
    Ill 6.307 18 Know, the stars yonder,/ The stars everlasting,/ Are fugitive also,/ And emulate, vaulted,/ The lambent heat-lightning,/ And fire-fly's flight./
    Boks 7.195 14 There has already been a scrutiny and choice from many hundreds of young pens before the pamphlet or political chapter which you read in a fugitive journal comes to your eye.
    PI 8.21 11 ...[the poet's] personality [is] as fugitive as the trope he employs.
    Insp 8.273 4 The separation of our days by sleep almost destroys identity. Could we but turn these fugitive sparkles into an astronomy of Copernican worlds!
    Insp 8.292 12 ...[conversation is] the college where you learn what thoughts are, what powers lurk in those fugitive gleams...
    FSLC 11.180 21 In Boston, we have said with such lofty confidence, no fugitive slave can be arrested...
    FSLC 11.180 23 ...we must transfer our vaunt to the country, and say, with a little less confidence, no fugitive man can be arrested here;...
    FSLN 11.228 22 There was an old fugitive law, but it had become, or was fast becoming, a dead letter...
    PLT 12.53 3 'T is with us a flash of light, then a long darkness, then a flash again. Ah, could we turn these fugitive sparkles into an astronomy of Copernican worlds.
    ACri 12.300 3 Idealism regards the world as symbolic, and all these symbols or forms as fugitive and convertible expressions.

Fugitive Slave Bill, n. (3)

    FSLC 11.184 19 Who could have believed it, if foretold that a hundred guns would be fired in Boston on the passage of the Fugitive Slave Bill?
    FSLN 11.224 15 Four years ago to-night...Mr. Webster...caused by his personal and official authority the passage of the Fugitive Slave Bill.
    TPar 11.290 13 [Theodore Parker's] ministry fell...on the years when Southern slavery...wrung from the weakness or treachery of Northern people fatal concessions in the Fugitive Slave Bill...

Fugitive Slave Law, n. (2)

    FSLN 11.219 6 ...I never felt the check on my free speech and action, until, the other day, when Mr. Webster, by his personal influence, brought the Fugitive Slave Law on the country.
    FSLN 11.244 15 ...the Fugitive Law did much to unglue the eyes of men...

fugitives, n. (1)

    JBB 11.270 11 ...we are here to think of relief for the family of John Brown. To my eyes, that family looks very large and very needy of relief. It comprises...the fugitives still hunted in the mountains of Virginia and Pennsylvania;...

fulcrum, n. (2)

    MR 1.254 17 Love...will accomplish that by imperceptible methods,- being its own lever, fulcrum, and power,-which force could never achieve.
    PLT 12.59 11 A fact is only a fulcrum of the spirit.

fulfil, v. (11)

    SR 2.74 12 You may fulfil your round of duties by clearing yourself in the direct, or in the reflex way.
    Lov1 2.181 24 If...from too much conversing with material objects, the soul was gross, and misplaced its satisfaction in the body, it reaped nothing but sorrow; body being unable to fulfil the promise which beauty holds out;...
    ET7 5.118 1 The Northman Guttorm said to King Olaf, It is royal work to fulfil royal words.
    Wsp 6.240 24 The religion which is to guide and fulfil the present and coming ages...must be intellectual.
    CbW 6.243 14 ...thou, Cyndyllan's son! beware/ Ponderous gold and stuffs to bear,/ To falter ere thou thy task fulfil/...
    Chr2 10.99 4 When the Master of the Universe has ends to fulfil, he impresses his will on the structure of minds.
    HDC 11.43 10 ...when, presently, the design of the [Massachusetts Bay] colony began to fulfil itself, by the settlement of new plantations in the vicinity of Boston...the Governor and freemen in Boston found it neither desirable nor possible to control the trade and practices of these farmers.
    FRep 11.532 2 That repose which is the ornament and ripeness of man is not American. That repose which indicates a faith in the laws of the universe,-a faith that they will fulfil themselves...
    PLT 12.30 25 When, moved by love, a man...rushes at immense personal sacrifice on some public, self-immolating act, it is not done for others, but to fulfil a high necessity of his proper character.
    Bost 12.187 13 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;...
    MAng1 12.236 11 The combined desire to fulfil, in everlasting stone, the conceptions of his mind, and to complete his worthy offering to Almighty God, sustained [Michelangelo] through numberless vexations with unbroken spirit.

fulfilled, v. (14)

    LE 1.156 19 This country has not fulfilled what seemed the reasonable expectation of mankind.
    ET10 5.158 5 Finally, [Roger Bacon announced] it would not be impossible to make machines which by means of a suit of wings, should fly in the air in the manner of birds. But the secret slept with Bacon. The six hundred years have not yet fulfilled his words.
    Wth 6.84 14 ...New slaves fulfilled the poet's dream,/ Galvanic wire, strong-shouldered steam./
    SA 8.79 10 [The charm of fine manners] is perpetual promise of more than can be fulfilled.
    Edc1 10.148 4 ...this function of opening and feeding the human mind is not to be fulfilled by any mechanical or military method;...
    HDC 11.65 14 ...in 1712, the selectmen agreed with Captain James Minott, for his son Timothy to keep the school at the school-house for the town of Concord, for half a year beginning 2d June; and if any scholar shall come, within the said time, for larning exceeding his son's ability, the said Captain doth agree to instruct them himself in the tongues, till the above said time be fulfilled;...
    EWI 11.119 18 Lord Brougham and Mr. Buxton declared that the [Jamaican] planter had not fulfilled his part in the [emancipation] contract...
    EWI 11.119 19 Lord Brougham and Mr. Buxton declared that the [Jamaican] planter had not fulfilled his part in the [emancipation] contract, whilst the apprentices had fulfilled theirs;...
    FSLC 11.201 4 [John Randolph's] words...come down now like the cry of Fate, in the moment when they are fulfilled.
    JBS 11.280 27 All gentlemen, of course, are on [John Brown's] side. I do not mean by gentlemen, people of scented hair and perfumed handkerchiefs, but men of gentle blood and generosity, fulfilled with all nobleness...
    EPro 11.314 21 My will fulfilled shall be,/ For in daylight or in dark,/ My thunderbolt has eyes to see/ His way home to the mark./
    Wom 11.426 13 ...when [man] is [woman's] guardian, fulfilled with all nobleness, knows and accepts his duties as her brother, all goes well for both.
    Shak1 11.448 25 [Shakespeare] fulfilled the famous prophecy of Socrates, that the poet most excellent in tragedy would be most excellent in comedy...
    Shak1 11.449 1 [Shakespeare] fulfilled the famous prophecy of Socrates, that the poet most excellent in tragedy would be most excellent in comedy, and more than fulfilled it by making tragedy also a victorious melody which healed its own wounds.

fulfilling, v. (2)

    ET11 5.187 11 [English nobility] is a romance adorning English life with a larger horizon; a midway heaven, fulfilling to their sense their fairy tales and poetry.
    MAng1 12.231 15 ...is there not something affecting in the spectacle of an old man [Michelangelo], on the verge of ninety years...only hindered by the limits of life from fulfilling his designs?

fulfilment, n. (8)

    MR 1.230 8 ...the scholar says...behold every solitary dream of mine is rushing to fulfilment.
    Comp 2.119 5 The nature and soul of things takes on itself the guaranty of the fulfilment of every contract...
    Chr1 3.113 14 A divine person is the prophecy of the mind; a friend is the hope of the heart. Our beatitude waits for the fulfilment of these two in one.
    PI 8.42 2 Events or things are only the fulfilment of the prediction of the faculties.
    PI 8.48 25 Omen and coincidence show the rhythmical structure of man; hence the taste for signs, sortilege, prophecy and fulfilment, anniversaries...
    PC 8.229 6 No hope so bright but is the beginning of its own fulfilment.
    Grts 8.301 11 [Greatness] is the fulfilment of a natural tendency in each man.
    FSLC 11.201 6 By white slaves, by a white slave, are we beaten. Who looked for such ghastly fulfilment, or to see what we see?

fulfilments, n. (1)

    Lov1 2.169 2 Every promise of the soul has innumerable fulfilments;...

fulfils, v. (2)

    AmS 1.103 22 ...[the orator] finds...that [his hearers] drink his words because he fulfils for them their own nature;...
    QO 8.179 27 In a hundred years, millions of men, and...not an art of education that fulfils the conditions.

fulgid, adj. (1)

    Boks 7.203 8 ...[in the Platonists] the grand and pleasing figures of gods and daemons and daemoniacal men...daemons with fulgid eyes...sail before [the scholar's] eyes.

full, adj. (202)

    Nat 1.27 12 ...the sky...full of everlasting orbs, is the type of Reason.
    Nat 1.28 4 ...marry [natural history] to human history, and it is full of life.
    Nat 1.33 20 ...'T is hard to carry a full cup even;...
    Nat 1.68 20 Man is all symmetry,/ Full of proportions.../
    AmS 1.106 21 All the rest behold in the hero or the poet their own green and crude being, - ripened; yes, and are content to be less, so that may attain to its full stature.
    AmS 1.106 22 What a testimony, full of grandeur, full of pity, is borne to the demands of his own nature, by the poor clansman...who rejoices in the glory of his chief.
    DSA 1.119 4 The air is full of birds...
    DSA 1.120 16 Behold these out-running laws, which our imperfect apprehension can see tend this way and that, but not come full circle.
    DSA 1.130 19 [The soul] invites every man to expand to the full circle of the universe...
    DSA 1.151 17 I look for the new Teacher that shall follow so far those shining laws that he shall see them come full circle;...
    LE 1.162 9 To feel the full value of these lives...you must come to know that each admirable genius is but a successful diver in that sea whose floor of pearls is all your own.
    LE 1.174 7 ...set your habits to a life of solitude; then will the faculties rise fair and full within...
    MR 1.239 2 ...when [a man] comes to give all the goods he has year after year collected, in one estate to his son...and cannot give him...the method and place they have in his own life, the son finds his hands full...
    MR 1.246 7 Society is full of infirm people...
    MR 1.256 3 It is better that joy should be spread over all the day in the form of strength, than that it should be concentrated into ecstasies, full of danger and followed by reactions.
    LT 1.268 13 No Burke, no Metternich has yet done full justice to the side of conservatism.
    LT 1.278 13 To the youth...full of compunction at his unprofitable existence, the temptation is always great to lend himself to public movements...
    LT 1.287 8 Our time too is full of activity and performance.
    Con 1.317 12 Rich and fine is your dress, O conservatism!...your pantry is full of meats and your cellar of wines...
    YA 1.368 27 In Europe...the land is full of men of the best stock...
    YA 1.380 4 The time is full of good signs.
    YA 1.392 9 We are full of vanity...
    Hist 2.15 26 Nature is full of a sublime family likeness throughout her works...
    SR 2.46 15 ...though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to [man] but through his toil...
    SL 2.135 26 We are full of mechanical actions.
    SL 2.142 10 Until he can manage to communicate himself to others in his full stature and proportion, [a man] does not yet find his vocation.
    SL 2.157 24 The world is full of judgment-days...
    SL 2.161 5 We are full of these superstitions of sense, the worship of magnitude.
    Lov1 2.184 13 Little think the youth and maiden who are glancing at each other...with eyes so full of mutual intelligence, of the precious fruit long hereafter to proceed from this new, quite external stimulus.
    Lov1 2.185 3 Night, day, studies, talents, kingdoms, religion, are all contained in [the lover's] form full of soul, in this soul which is all form.
    OS 2.285 24 In full court...men offer themselves to be judged.
    Cir 2.306 19 To-day I am full of thoughts...
    Cir 2.311 6 We all stand waiting, empty,--knowing, possibly, that we can be full...
    Cir 2.312 25 ...some Petrarch or Ariosto...writes me an ode or a brisk romance, full of daring thought and action.
    Int 2.337 25 ...the mystic pencil wherewith we...draw [in unconscious states]...can design well and group well; its composition is full of art...
    Art1 2.360 11 ...through his necessity of imparting himself the adamant will be wax in [the artist's] hands, and will allow an adequate communication of himself, in his full stature and proportion.
    Art1 2.364 12 ...under a sky full of eternal eyes, I stand in a thoroughfare;...
    Pt1 3.41 24 The world is full of renunciations and apprenticeships...
    Exp 3.62 4 ...I begin at the other extreme, expecting nothing, and am always full of thanks for moderate goods.
    Exp 3.76 10 The street is full of humiliations to the proud.
    Mrs1 3.124 9 The society of the energetic class...is full of courage...
    Mrs1 3.135 5 Does it not seem as if man...dreaded nothing so much as a full rencontre front to front with his fellow?
    Nat2 3.190 11 ...bread and wine, mix and cook them how you will, leave us hungry and thirsty, after the stomach is full.
    Pol1 3.205 15 Cover up a pound of earth never so cunningly...it will always attract and resist other matter by the full virtue of one pound weight...
    Pol1 3.221 12 I do not call to mind a single human being who has steadily denied the authority of the laws, on the simple ground of his own moral nature. Such designs, full of genius and full of faith as they are, are not entertained except avowedly as air-pictures.
    NR 3.232 12 The world is full of masonic ties...
    NR 3.237 22 ...[Nature] is full of work...
    NR 3.243 10 ...the world is full.
    NER 3.255 10 The country is full of rebellion;...
    NER 3.255 11 ...the country is full of kings.
    UGM 4.13 23 If you affect to give me bread and fire, I perceive that I pay for it the full price...
    UGM 4.15 19 This pleasure of full expression to that which, [in the people' s] private experience, is usually cramped and obstructed, runs...much higher...
    PPh 4.45 27 In adult life, while the perceptions are obtuse, men and women...blunder and quarrel: their manners are full of desperation;...
    PPh 4.46 1 In adult life, while the perceptions are obtuse, men and women... blunder and quarrel...their speech if full of oaths.
    PPh 4.64 16 ...full of the genius of Europe, [Plato] said, Culture.
    SwM 4.101 13 [Swedenborg] wore a sword when in full velvet dress...
    SwM 4.110 4 Astronomy is excellent; but it must come up into life to have its full value...
    SwM 4.130 18 It is hard to carry a full cup;...
    MoS 4.166 20 [Montaigne] makes no hesitation to entertain you with the records of his disease, and his journey to Italy is quite full of that matter.
    ShP 4.190 3 A great man does not wake up on some fine morning and say, I am full of life, I will go to sea and find an Antarctic continent...
    ShP 4.193 2 Here [in the Elizabethan drama] is...a shelf full of English history...which men hear eagerly;...
    ShP 4.194 8 [Popular tradition]...in furnishing so much work done to his hand, leaves [the poet] at leisure and in full strength for the audacities of his imagination.
    ShP 4.210 14 [Shakespeare] was a full man, who liked to talk;...
    NMW 4.232 23 History is full...of the imbecility of kings and governors.
    NMW 4.234 20 ...the Emperor Napoleon came riding at full speed toward the artillery.
    NMW 4.237 20 In one of his conversations with Las Casas, [Napoleon] remarked, As to moral courage, I have rarely met with the two-o'clock-in-the- morning kind: I mean...that which...in spite of the most unforeseen events, leaves full freedom of judgment and decision...
    GoW 4.261 21 The air is full of sounds; the sky, of tokens;...
    GoW 4.271 17 Goethe was the philosopher of this [modern] multiplicity;... a manly mind...easily able by his subtlety...to draw his strength from nature, with which he lived in full communion.
    ET1 5.9 8 One room was full of pictures, which [Landor] likes to show...
    ET1 5.15 14 [Carlyle] was...full of lively anecdote...
    ET1 5.21 18 [Wordsworth] proceeded to abuse Goethe's Wilhelm Meister heartily. It was full of all manner of fornication.
    ET3 5.38 7 ...[England] is stuffed full, in all corners and crevices, with towns, towers, churches, villas, palaces, hospitals and charity-houses.
    ET3 5.38 27 The constant rain...keeps [England's] multitude of rivers full...
    ET5 5.95 2 The native [English] cattle are extinct, but the island is full of artificial breeds.
    ET8 5.130 15 [The English] are full of coarse strength, rude exercise, butcher's meat and sound sleep;...
    ET11 5.176 13 At [Richard Neville's] house in London, six oxen were daily eaten at a breakfast, and every tavern was full of his meat...
    ET11 5.184 24 In the army, the [English] nobility fill a large part of the high commissions, and give to these a tone...of exclusiveness. They have borne their full share of duty and danger in this service...
    ET12 5.203 15 ...one day, being in Venice [Dr. Bandinel] bought a room full of books and manuscripts...
    ET13 5.215 16 England felt the full heat of the Christianity which fermented Europe...
    ET13 5.220 11 Heats and genial periods arrive in history...as in the eleventh, twelfth, thirteenth, and again in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries [in England], when the nation was full of genius and piety.
    ET14 5.237 15 A man must think that age well taught and thoughtful, by which masques and poems, like those of Ben Jonson, full of heroic sentiment in a manly style, were received with favor.
    ET14 5.251 27 The voice of [Englishmen's] modern muse has a slight hint of the steam-whistle, and the poem is created...by no means as the bird of a new morning which forgets the past world in the full enjoyment of that which is forming.
    ET15 5.262 13 England is full of manly, clever, well-bred men who possess the talent of writing off-hand pungent paragraphs...
    ET16 5.284 21 Although these apartments and the long library [at Wilton Hall] were full of good family portraits...yet the eye was still drawn to the windows...
    ET16 5.284 24 ...though there were some good pictures [at Wilton Hall], and a quadrangle cloister full of antique and modern statuary...yet the eye was still drawn to the windows...
    ET17 5.294 18 We [Emerson and Martineau] found Mr. Wordsworth asleep on the sofa. He...soon became full of talk on the French news.
    F 6.17 25 The air is full of men.
    Pow 6.57 21 Import into any stationary district...a colony of hardy Yankees, with...heads full of steam-hammer, pulley, crank and toothed wheel,--and everything begins to shine with values.
    Pow 6.69 8 The young English are fine animals, full of blood...
    Wth 6.91 21 The world is full of fops who never did anything...
    Wth 6.96 13 It is the interest of all men that there should be Vaticans and Louvres full of noble works of art;...
    Ctr 6.132 5 The air, said Fouche, is full of poniards.
    Ctr 6.144 11 We are full of superstitions.
    Ctr 6.146 16 ...let us...allow to travel its full effect.
    Bhr 6.181 5 There are...prowling eyes; and eyes full of fate...
    Bhr 6.195 11 ...[Marcus Scaurus], full of firmness and gravity, defended himself in this manner...
    Wsp 6.201 16 A just thinker will allow full swing to his skepticism.
    CbW 6.250 14 Nature...shakes down a tree full of gnarled, wormy, unripe crabs, before you can find a dozen dessert apples;...
    CbW 6.277 10 ...your theories and plans of life are fair and commendable:-- but will you stick? Not one, I fear, in that Common full of people...
    Ill 6.312 14 Even the prose of the streets is full of refractions.
    Civ 7.25 22 In man [the organs] are all unbound and full of joyful action.
    Civ 7.28 3 ...we found out that the air and earth were full of Electricity...
    Civ 7.29 3 Our astronomy is full of examples of calling in the aid of these magnificent helpers.
    Elo1 7.76 6 ...this precious person makes a speech which is printed and read all over the Union, and he...takes the lead in the public mind over all these executive men, who, of course, are full of indignation...
    DL 7.105 23 ...the garden full of flowers is Eden over again to the small Adam;...
    WD 7.167 17 [Hesiod's Works and Days] is full of economies for Grecian life...
    WD 7.167 20 The poem [Hesiod's Works and Days] is full of piety as well as prudence...
    Boks 7.211 10 Neither is a dictionary a bad book to read. There is no cant in it...and it is full of suggestion...
    Clbs 7.236 12 Dr. Johnson was a man of no profound mind,--full of English limitations...
    Clbs 7.248 23 ...it was when things went prosperously, and the company was full of honor, at the banquet of the Cid, that the guests all were joyful...
    Suc 7.285 9 ...leaving the coast [of Panama], the ship full of one hundred and fifty skilful seamen...the wise admiral [Columbus] kept his private record of his homeward path.
    Suc 7.310 11 There is not a joyful boy or an innocent girl buoyant with fine purposes of duty, in all the street full of eager and rosy faces, but a cynic can chill and dishearten with a single word.
    OA 7.315 16 [Josiah Quincy's] was a discourse full of dignity...
    OA 7.316 24 Nature is full of freaks...
    OA 7.326 26 Michel Angelo's head is full of masculine and gigantic figures as gods walking...
    OA 7.331 25 America is...too full of work hitherto for leisure and tranquillity;...
    PI 8.9 24 The privates of man's heart/ They speken and sound in his ear/ As tho' they loud winds were;/ for the universe is full of their echoes.
    SA 8.90 10 The life of these persons was conducted in the same calm and affirmative manner as their discourse. Life with them was an experiment... full of results...
    SA 8.90 11 The life of these persons was conducted in the same calm and affirmative manner as their discourse. Life with them was an experiment... full of grandeur...
    SA 8.94 1 Madame de Stael...was the most extraordinary converser that was known in her time, and it was a time full of eminent men and women;...
    Res 8.138 23 ...if you tell me...that man only rightly knows himself as far as he has experimented on things...we are full of good will and gratitude to the Cause of Causes.
    Res 8.145 9 The boat is full of water...
    Res 8.151 13 [Taste] should be extended to gardens and grounds, and mainly one thing should be illustrated: that life in the country...wants...an old horse that will stand tied in a pasture half a day without risk, so allowing the picnic-party the full freedom of the woods.
    Comc 8.161 10 Prince Hal stands by, as the acute understanding, who sees the Right, and sympathizes with it, and in the heyday of youth feels also the full attractions of pleasure...
    PC 8.213 14 ...each nation and period has done its full part to make up the result of existing civility.
    PPo 8.244 10 Here is a poem on a melon, by Adsched of Meru:-Color, taste and smell, smaragdus, sugar and musk,/ Amber for the tongue, for the eye a picture rare,/ If you cut the fruit in slices, every slice a crescent fair,/ If you leave it whole, the full harvest moon is there./
    Insp 8.278 16 Herrick said: 'T is not every day that I/ Fitted am to prophesy;/ No, but when the spirit fills/ The fantastic panicles,/ Full of fire, then I write/ As the Godhead doth indite./
    Insp 8.281 1 ...another Arabian proverb has its coarse truth: When the belly is full, it says to the head, Sing, fellow!
    Grts 8.306 20 ...diamagnetism is a law of the mind, to the full extent of Faraday's idea;...
    Imtl 8.334 15 ...never to know the Cause, the Giver, and infer his character and will! Of what import this vacant sky...these insignificant lives full of selfish loves and quarrels and ennui?
    Aris 10.43 11 When Nature goes to create a national man, she puts a symmetry between the physical and intellectual powers. She moulds a large brain, and joins to it a great trunk to supply it; as if a fine alembic were fed with liquor for its distillations from broad full vats in the vaults of the laboratory.
    Aris 10.53 22 ...I have seen a man of teeming brain come among these men [in a village], so full of his facts, so unable to suppress them, that he has poured out a river of knowledge to all comers...
    Aris 10.60 25 The Golden Table never lacks members; all its seats are kept full;...
    Aris 10.63 12 ...the revolution comes, and does [the man of honor] join the standard of Chartist and outlaw? No, for these...are full of murder...
    PerF 10.71 10 Take up a spadeful or a buck-load of loam, who can guess what it holds? But a gardener knows that it is full of peaches, full of oranges...
    PerF 10.71 14 ...a gardener knows that [the loam] is full of peaches, full of oranges, and he drops in a few seeds by way of keys to unlock and combine its virtues;...and by and by it has lifted into the air its full weight in golden fruit.
    Edc1 10.132 16 Day creeps after day, each full of facts...that we cannot enough despise...
    Edc1 10.147 26 By many steps...the hesitating collegian, in the school debate...in mock court, comes at last to full, secure, triumphant unfolding of his thought in the popular assembly...
    SovE 10.188 10 Nature is a tropical swamp in sunshine, on whose purlieus we hear the song of summer birds, and see prismatic dewdrops-but her interiors are terrific, full of hydras and crocodiles.
    SovE 10.206 24 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;...
    MoL 10.242 20 The country was full of activity...
    MoL 10.244 12 See the activity of the imagination in the Crusades: the front of morn was full of fiery shapes;...
    MoL 10.257 24 I learn with joy and with deep respect that this college has sent its full quota to the field.
    Schr 10.276 10 [There is] Plenty of water also, sea full, sky full; who cares for it?
    Plu 10.299 7 Plutarch's memory is full, and his horizon wide.
    LLNE 10.334 20 When Massachusetts was full of [Everett's] fame it was not contended that he had thrown any truths into circulation.
    LLNE 10.346 17 It was a time when the air was full of reform.
    LLNE 10.354 16 [The Fourier marriage] was...full of absurd French superstitions about women;...
    LLNE 10.356 3 ...the men of science, art, intellect, are pretty sure to degenerate into selfish housekeepers, dependent on wine, coffee, furnace-heat, gas-light and fine furniture. Then instantly things swing the other way, and we suddenly find...that nothing is so vulgar as a great warehouse of rooms full of fine furniture and trumpery;...
    EzRy 10.388 3 [Ezra Ripley said] Now your father is to be carried to his grave, full of labors and virtues.
    EzRy 10.394 2 Was a man a sot...or was there any cloud or suspicious circumstances in his behavior, the good pastor [Ezra Ripley] knew his way straight to that point, believing himself entitled to a full explanation...
    MMEm 10.406 1 None but was attracted or piqued by [Mary Moody Emerson's] interest and wit and wide acquaintance with books and with eminent names. She said she gave herself full swing in these sudden intimacies...
    SlHr 10.437 8 [Samuel Hoar] was born under a Christian and humane star, full of mansuetude and nobleness...
    SlHr 10.443 23 [Samuel Hoar] retained to the last the erectness of his tall but slender form, and not less the full strength of his mind.
    Thor 10.456 4 [Thoreau]...required a little sense of victory...to call his powers into full exercise.
    LS 11.12 10 These views of the original account of the Lord's Supper lead me to esteem it an occasion full of solemn and prophetic interest...
    LS 11.22 18 The whole world was full of idols and ordinances.
    HDC 11.72 14 On 13th March [1775]...[William Emerson] preached to a very full assembly...
    HDC 11.80 3 [Concord's] instructions to their representatives are full of loud complaints of the disgraceful state of public credit...
    HDC 11.81 1 ...whilst the town [Concord] had its own full share of the public distress, it was very far from desiring relief at the cost of order and law.
    EWI 11.103 19 The buckra box was full up with pen, paper and whip, and the negro box with hoe and bill;...
    EWI 11.122 3 There are many styles of civilization, and not one only. Ours is full of barbarities.
    EWI 11.125 17 [The planters] were full of vices;...
    War 11.165 12 ...when a truth appears...it will plant a colony, a state, nations and half a globe full of men.
    FSLN 11.239 6 There has come, too, one to whom lurking warfare is dear, Retribution, with a soul full of wiles;...
    AKan 11.263 7 ...in these times full of the fate of the Republic, I think the towns should hold town meetings, and resolve themselves into Committees of Safety...
    JBB 11.272 16 ...a Wisconsin judge, who knows that laws are for the protection of citizens against kidnappers, is worth a court-house full of lawyers so idolatrous of forms as to let go the substance.
    ACiv 11.300 15 If the war brought any surprise to the North, it was not the fault of sentinels on the watch-tower, who had furnished full details of the designs, the muster and the means of the enemy.
    ACiv 11.307 5 ...the North will for a time have its full share and more, in place and counsel.
    SMC 11.361 11 Always devoted...sometimes full of joy at the deportment of his comrades, [George Prescott's letters] contain the sincere praise of men whom I now see in this assembly.
    Wom 11.423 2 If the wants, the passions, the vices, are allowed a full vote... I think it but fair that the virtues, the aspirations should be allowed a full vote...
    Wom 11.423 5 If the wants, the passions, the vices, are allowed a full vote... I think it but fair that the virtues, the aspirations should be allowed a full vote...
    SHC 11.433 5 On the other side of the ridge [in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery], towards the town, a portion of the land is in full view of the cheer of the village...
    SHC 11.434 14 What is the Earth itself but...according to the Eastern fable, a bridge full of holes, into one or other of which all passengers sink to silence?
    SHC 11.435 12 ...when these acorns, that are falling at our feet, are oaks overshadowing our children in a remote century, this mute green bank [Sleepy Hollow] will be full of history...
    Scot 11.466 14 In his own household and neighbors [Scott] found characters and pets of humble class...came with these into real ties of mutual help and good will. From these originals he drew so genially his... Meg Merrilies, and Jenny Rintherouts, full of life and reality;...
    FRep 11.520 1 Our politics are full of adventurers...
    PLT 12.13 15 I think metaphysics a grammar to which, once read, we seldom return. 'T is a Manila full of pepper, and I want only a teaspoonful in a year.
    PLT 12.29 26 If [a man] could attain full size he would take up, first or last, atom by atom, all the world into a new form.
    PLT 12.32 18 Though the world is full of food we can take only the crumbs fit for us.
    II 12.66 26 I know, of course, all the grounds on which any man affirms the immortality of the Soul. Fed from one spring, the water-tank is equally full in all the gardens...
    II 12.88 15 Our books are full of generous biographies of Saints, who knew not that they were such;...
    Mem 12.93 2 [Memory] is a scripture written day by day from the birth of the man; all its records full of meanings which open as he lives on...
    Mem 12.106 19 [The bright school-girl's] is a bushel-basket memory of all unchosen knowledge...so that an old scholar, who knows what to do with a memory, is full of wonder and pity that this magical force should be squandered on such frippery.
    CInt 12.121 22 Here are still perverse millions full of passion, crime and blood.
    CL 12.145 16 [The farmer's] trees are full of brandy.
    Bost 12.209 8 Greater cities there are that sprung from [Boston], full of its blood and name and traditions.
    MAng1 12.238 20 Michael Angelo was of that class of men who are too superior to the multitude around them to command a full and perfect sympathy.
    MLit 12.319 20 ...[Shelley] is a character full of noble and prophetic traits;...
    WSL 12.345 1 ...in the character of Pericles [Landor] has found full play for beauty and greatness of behavior...
    WSL 12.346 21 [Landor] is a man full of thoughts...
    Pray 12.352 12 ...thou, O my Father, knowest I always delight to commune with thee in my lone and silent heart; I am never full of thee; I am never weary of thee;...
    Pray 12.353 27 I know that sorrow comes not at once only. We cannot meet it and say, now it is overcome, but again, and yet again, its flood pours over us, and as full as at first.
    EurB 12.376 23 ...a probity, a justice was to be [the society in Wilhelm Meister's] element, symbolized by the insisting that each property...should pay its full tax to the state.
    PPr 12.379 9 [Carlyle's Past and Present] grapples honestly with the facts lying before all men...and, with a heart full of manly tenderness, offers his best counsel to his brothers.
    PPr 12.384 25 Here is a book [Carlyle's Past and Present] as full of treason as an egg is full of meat...
    PPr 12.384 26 Here is a book [Carlyle's Past and Present] as full of treason as an egg is full of meat...
    PPr 12.388 4 This book [Carlyle's Past and Present] is full of humanity...
    PPr 12.391 17 ...[Carlyle] is full of rhythm...
    Let 12.400 22 Full of love, talent and hope spring up the darlings of the muse among the Germans;...
    Let 12.401 11 On earth all is imperfect! is an old proverb of the German. Aye, but if one should say to these God-forsaken...that with them, truly, life is shallow and anxious and full of discord because they despise genius...
    Trag 12.411 10 [Tragedy] is full of illusion.

full, adv. (3)

    Int 2.332 20 Each truth that a writer acquires is a lantern which he turns full on what facts and thoughts lay already in his mind...
    Aris 10.29 20 Here may ye see wel, how that genterie/ Is not annexed to possession,/ Sith folk ne don their operation/ Alway, as doth the fire, lo, in his kind,/ For God it wot, men may full often find/ A lorde's son do shame and vilanie./
    Thor 10.471 2 [Thoreau] said, What you seek in vain for, half your life, one day you come full upon, all the family at dinner.

full, n. (1)

    ET10 5.163 24 The present possessors [in England] are to the full as absolute as any of their fathers in choosing and procuring what they like.

full-blown, adj. (2)

    SR 2.67 11 Before a leaf-bud has burst, [the rose's] whole life acts; in the full-blown flower there is no more;...
    PC 8.209 13 A great many full-blown conceits have burst [in America].

fuller, adj. (3)

    LT 1.261 14 The reason and influence of wealth...the fuller development and the freer play of Character as a social and political agent;-these and other related topics will in turn come to be considered.
    Tran 1.359 24 ...the thoughts which these few hermits strove to proclaim... shall abide in beauty and strength, to reorganize themselves in nature...in fuller union with the surrounding system.
    Insp 8.273 19 A fuller inspiration should cause the point to flow and become a line...

Fuller, Andrew ("), n. (1)

    ET10 5.154 22 In 1809, the majority in Parliament expressed itself by the language of Mr. Fuller in the House of Commons, If you do not like the country, damn you, you can leave it.

Fuller, Margaret, n. (6)

    LLNE 10.341 13 Margaret Fuller, George Ripley, Dr. Convers Francis, Theodore Parker, Dr. Hedge, Mr. Brownson, James Freeman Clarke, William H. Channing and many others, gradually drew together...
    LLNE 10.343 24 ...The Dial...under the editorship of Margaret Fuller... enjoyed its obscurity for four years.
    LLNE 10.344 4 ...[The Dial] contained some noble papers by Margaret Fuller...
    LLNE 10.362 6 Margaret Fuller...was often a guest [at Brook Farm]...
    LLNE 10.364 3 No friend who knew Margaret Fuller could recognize her rich and brilliant genius under the dismal mask which the public fancied was meant for her in that disagreeable story [Blithedale Romance].
    Mem 12.108 13 How in the right are children, said Margaret Fuller, to forget name and date and place.

Fuller, Melvin Weston, n. (1)

    Suc 7.289 3 Fuller says 't is a maxim of lawyers that a crown once worn cleareth all defects of the wearer thereof.

Fuller, Thomas, n. (7)

    ET4 5.64 26 In the case of the ship-money, the judges delivered it for law, that England being an island, the very midland shires therein are all to be accounted maritime; and Fuller adds, the genius even of landlocked counties driving the natives with a maritime dexterity.
    ET7 5.119 5 [The English] read gladly in old Fuller that a lady in the reign of Elizabeth, would have as patiently digested a lie, as the wearing of false stones...
    ET11 5.190 1 A sketch of the Earl of Shrewsbury, from the pen of Queen Elizabeth's archbishop Parker;...the anecdotes preserved by the antiquaries Fuller and Collins;...are favorable pictures of a romantic style of manners.
    ET11 5.195 24 Fuller records the observation of foreigners, that Englishmen, by making their children gentlemen before they are men, cause they are so seldom wise men.
    Ctr 6.149 15 Fuller says that William, Earl of Nassau, won a subject from the King of Spain, every time he put off his hat.
    Thor 10.472 3 [Thoreau's] intimacy with animals suggested what Thomas Fuller records of Butler the apiologist, that either he had told the bees things or the bees had told him.
    Mem 12.107 10 ...'t is an old rule of scholars, that which Fuller records, 'T is best knocking in the nail overnight and clinching it next morning.

Fullers, Thomas, n. (1)

    Chr2 10.111 12 Even the Jeremy Taylors, Fullers, George Herberts, steeped all of them, in Church traditions, are only using their fine fancy to emblazon their memory.

fullest, adj. (3)

    Insp 8.282 10 ...it sometimes if rarely happens that after a season of decay or eclipse...the faculties revive to their fullest force.
    MMEm 10.413 1 ...I [Mary Moody Emerson] shall delight to return to God. His name my fullest confidence.
    HDC 11.79 8 The numbers [of of men for the Continental army], say [the General Assembly of Massachusetts], are large, but this Court has the fullest assurance that their brethren...will not confer with flesh and blood...

full-grown, adj. (1)

    Elo2 8.128 21 This unmanliness [lack of eloquence] is so common a result of our half-education...that I wish [a boy's] guardians to consider that they are thus preparing him to play a contemptible part when he is full-grown.

fully, adv. (31)

    SR 2.61 8 Every true man...requires infinite spaces and numbers and time fully to accomplish his design;...
    SL 2.146 8 If a teacher have any opinion which he wishes to conceal, his pupils will become as fully indoctrinated into that as into any which he publishes.
    Cir 2.306 11 Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood;...
    Int 2.329 1 We are the prisoners of ideas. They...so fully engage us that we take no thought for the morrow...
    Exp 3.51 27 Temperament also enters fully into the system of illusions...
    Exp 3.73 6 I fully understand language, [Mencius] said, and nourish well my vast-flowing vigor.
    PPh 4.62 3 No man ever more fully acknowledged the Ineffable [than Plato].
    NMW 4.256 7 ...[Napoleon] fully deserves the epithet of Jupiter Scapin, or a sort of Scamp Jupiter.
    ET16 5.285 23 Salisbury [Cathedral] is now esteemed the culmination of the Gothic art in England, as the buttresses are fully unmasked and honestly detailed from the sides of the pile.
    F 6.36 9 ...where [man's] endeavors do not yet fully avail, they tell as tendency.
    Bhr 6.191 13 Jacobi said that when a man has fully expressed his thought, he has somewhat less possession of it.
    Suc 7.304 19 ...the man of sensibility counts it a delight only to hear a child' s voice fully addressed to him...
    OA 7.327 26 In old persons, when thus fully expressed, we often observe a fair, plump, perennial, waxen complexion...
    PI 8.22 16 Man runs about restless and in pain when his condition or the objects about him do not fully match his thought.
    PI 8.34 5 No matter what [your subject] is...if it has a natural prominence to you, work away until you come to the heart of it: then it will...as fully represent the central law...as if it were the book of Genesis or the book of Doom.
    PI 8.63 7 We are sometimes apprised that...the high poets, that Homer, Milton, Shakspeare, do not fully content us.
    SA 8.78 1 I have heard my master say that a man cannot fully exhaust the abilities of his nature.--Confucius.
    Elo2 8.110 2 ...whose mind soever is fully possessed with a fervent desire to know good things...when such a man would speak, his words...trip about him at command...
    Schr 10.281 21 Matter, says Plutarch, is a privation. Let the man of ideas at this hour be as direct, and as fully committed.
    MMEm 10.411 20 What a rich day, so fully occupied in pursuing truth that I [Mary Moody Emerson] scorned to touch a novel which for so many years I have wanted.
    MMEm 10.421 10 Alone, feeling strongly, fully, that I [Mary Moody Emerson] have deserved nothing;...
    Thor 10.458 15 [Thoreau] coldly and fully stated his opinion without affecting to believe that it was the opinion of the company.
    LS 11.4 22 ...so far from the [Lord's] Supper being a tradition in which men are fully agreed, there has always been the widest room for difference of opinion upon this particular.
    HDC 11.46 14 ...Concord and the other plantations found themselves separate and independent of Boston, with certain rights of their own, which, what they were, time alone could fully determine;...
    FSLN 11.218 2 ...every man speaks mainly to a class whom he works with and more or less fully represents.
    SHC 11.430 19 We will not jealously guard a few atoms under immense marbles, selfishly and impossibly sequestering it from the vast circulations of Nature, but, at the same time, fully admitting the divine hope and love which belong to our nature, wishing to make one spot tender to our children...
    PLT 12.13 25 The adepts value only the pure geometry, the aerial bridge ascending from earth to heaven with arches and abutments of pure reason. I am fully contented if you tell me where are the two termini.
    CL 12.152 13 The leaf in our dry climate gets fully ripe...
    CL 12.152 14 The leaf in our dry climate gets fully ripe, and, like the fruit when fully ripe, acquires fine color...
    CW 12.171 7 Neither did I fully consider [when I bought my farm] what an indescribable luxury is our Indian river, the Musketaquid...
    Milt1 12.262 5 ...[Milton] said...whose mind soever is fully possessed with a fervent desire to know good things, and with the dearest charity to infuse the knowledge of them into others, when such a man would speak, his words...trip about him at command...

fulness, n. (19)

    MN 1.200 10 ...in equal fulness...the dance of the hours goes forward still.
    MN 1.210 8 [A man's] health and greatness consist...in the fulness in which an ecstatical state takes place in him.
    MN 1.210 24 ...as far as we can trace the natural history of the soul, its health consists in the fulness of its reception?...
    LT 1.266 14 Now and then comes...a...soul, more informed and led by God...which...predicts what shall soon be the general fulness;...
    SR 2.66 17 Is the acorn better than the oak which is its fulness and completion?
    Art1 2.354 22 It is the habit of certain minds to give an all-excluding fulness to the object...they alight upon...
    Mrs1 3.152 6 ...the bias of [Lilla's] nature was not to thought, but to sympathy, yet was she so perfect in her own nature as to meet intellectual persons by the fulness of her heart...
    ET12 5.207 12 [The Englishman]...is indisposed from writing or speaking, by the fulness of his mind...
    Pow 6.56 6 ...health or fulness answers its own ends and has to spare...
    CbW 6.256 6 ...out of Sabine rapes, and out of robbers' forays, real Romes and their heroisms come in fulness of time.
    Suc 7.295 27 'T is the fulness of man that runs over into objects...
    PI 8.43 26 The gushing fulness of speech belongs to the poet...
    QO 8.184 10 When [the Earl of Strafford] met with a well-penned oration or tract upon any subject, he framed a speech upon the same argument, inventing and disposing what seemed fit to be said upon that subject, before he read the book; then, reading, compared his own with the author's, and noted his own defects and the author's art and fulness;...
    Insp 8.281 16 When we have ceased for a long time to have any fulness of thoughts that once made a diary a joy as well as a necessity...in writing a letter to a friend we may find that we rise to thought...that costs no effort...
    Chr2 10.100 8 Men appear from time to time who receive with more purity and fulness these high communications.
    Edc1 10.148 1 By many steps...the hesitating collegian, in the school debate...in mock court, comes at last to full, secure, triumphant unfolding of his thought in the popular assembly, with a fulness of power that makes all the steps forgotten.
    Plu 10.297 12 Whatever is eminent in fact or in fiction...came to [Plutarch' s] pen with more or less fulness of record.
    MMEm 10.412 5 I [Mary Moody Emerson] am so small in my expectations, that a week of industry delights. Rose before light every morn;...washed, carded, cleaned house, and baked. To-day cannot recall an error, nor scarcely a sacrifice, but more fulness of content in the labors of a day never was felt.
    PPr 12.390 3 Plato is the purple ancient, and Bacon and Milton the moderns of the richest strains. Burke sometimes reaches to that exuberant fulness, though deficient in depth.

fulsomely, adv. (1)

    Wth 6.87 12 When the farmer's peaches are taken from under the tree and carried into town, they have a new look and a hundredfold value over the fruit which grew on the same bough and lies fulsomely on the ground.

Fulton, Robert, n. (5)

    Hist 2.37 18 Do not the constructive fingers of Watt, Fulton, Whittemore, Arkwright, predict the fusible, hard, and temperable texture of metals, the properties of stone, water, and wood"
    F 6.17 23 'T is...harder still to find the Tubal Cain...or Fulton;...
    F 6.33 21 ...the Marquis of Worcester, Watt, and Fulton bethought themselves that where was power was not devil...
    Suc 7.293 26 ...Fulton knocked at the door of Napoleon with steam, and was rejected;...
    Dem1 10.12 4 For Pancrates write Watt or Fulton, and for magical words write steam; and do they not make an iron bar and half a dozen wheels do the work, not of one, but of a thousand skilful mechanics?

Fultons, n. (1)

    F 6.34 15 The Fultons and Watts of politics, believing in unity, saw that it was a power...

Fulton's, Robert, n. (1)

    Suc 7.293 25 Horatio Greenough...said to me of Robert Fulton's visit to Paris: Fulton knocked at the door of Napoleon with steam, and was rejected;...

fumbling, adj. (2)

    Schr 10.273 5 The labor of ambition and avarice will appear fumbling beside [the scholar's].
    Let 12.401 7 On earth all is imperfect! is an old proverb of the German. Aye, but if one should say to these God-forsaken, that with them all is imperfect only because they leave...nothing holy which they do not defile with their fumbling hands;...

fumbling, v. (1)

    ET8 5.130 19 [The English] are full of coarse strength, rude exercise, butcher's meat and sound sleep; and suspect any poetic insinuation or any hint for the conduct of life which reflects on this animal existence, as if somebody were fumbling at the umbilical cord and might stop their supplies.

fume, v. (1)

    SL 2.135 18 Nature will not have us fret and fume.

fumes, n. (3)

    Nat 1.54 16 ...so their rising senses/ Begin to chase the ignorant fumes that mantle/ Their clearer reason./
    Pt1 3.27 21 ...if in any manner we can stimulate this instinct...the mind flows into and through things hardest and highest, and the metamorphosis is possible. This is the reason why bards love...the fumes of sandalwood...
    Nat2 3.195 4 After every foolish day we sleep off the fumes and furies of its hours;...

fun, n. (15)

    Lov1 2.173 16 The girls may have little beauty, yet plainly do they establish between them and the good boy the most agreeable, confiding relations; what with their fun and their earnest, about Edgar and Jonas and Almira...
    ET16 5.287 10 ...I opened the dogma of no-government and non-resistance, and anticipated the objections and the fun...
    CbW 6.269 21 ...folly in the sense of fun...can easily be borne;...
    Elo1 7.66 20 If the speaker utter a noble sentiment, the attention [of the audience] deepens, a new and highest audience now listens, and the audiences of the fun and of facts and of the understanding are all silenced and awed.
    Comc 8.157 1 A taste for fun is all but universal in our species...
    Comc 8.161 4 ...Falstaff...is a character of the broadest comedy...cooly ignoring the Reason, whilst he invokes its name...only to make the fun perfect by enjoying the confusion betwixt Reason and the negation of Reason...
    Comc 8.170 10 The same astonishment of the intellect at the disappearance of the man out of Nature...is the secret of all the fun that circulates concerning eminent fops and fashionists...
    PPo 8.250 23 A saint might lend an ear to the riotous fun of Falstaff;...
    PPo 8.252 18 [Self-naming in poetry] gives [Hafiz] the opportunity of the most playful self-assertion...sometimes almost in the fun of Falstaff...
    Edc1 10.139 5 ...[boys] know everything that befalls in the fire-company... so too the merits of every locomotive on the rails, and will coax the engineer to let them ride with him and pull the handles when it goes to the engine-house. They are there only for fun...
    Edc1 10.139 24 Everybody delights in the energy with which boys deal and talk with each other; the mixture of fun and earnest...with which the game is played;...
    Edc1 10.140 6 In their fun and extreme freak [boys] hit on the topmost sense of Horace.
    Carl 10.493 22 The literary, the fashionable, the political man...comes eagerly to see this man [Carlyle], whose fun they have heartily enjoyed... and are struck with despair at the first onset.
    ACri 12.294 11 [Shakespeare's] fun is as wise as his earnest...
    PPr 12.389 12 ...in all his fun of castanets...[Carlyle] does yet, ever and anon, as if catching the glance of one wise man in the crowd...lance at him in clear level tone the very word...

function, n. (41)

    Nat 1.40 26 ...every animal function from the sponge up to Hercules, shall hint or thunder to man the laws of right and wrong...
    Nat 1.41 11 ...[discipline] is [nature's] public and universal function...
    AmS 1.99 7 Thinking is the function. Living is the functionary.
    AmS 1.104 6 ...fear is a thing which a scholar by his very function puts behind him.
    MN 1.211 24 There is no office or function of man but is rightly discharged by this divine method...
    MR 1.243 24 I ought to be armed by every part and function of my household...
    MR 1.243 25 I ought to be armed...by all my social function...
    YA 1.377 25 [Trade] is a new agent in the world, and one of great function;...
    OS 2.270 18 All goes to show that the soul in man...is not a function...of calculation...
    Art1 2.357 21 ...painting and sculpture are gymnastics of the eye, its training to the niceties and curiosities of its function.
    Mrs1 3.138 4 Every natural function can be dignified by deliberation and privacy.
    UGM 4.9 13 ...every organ, function, acid, crystal, grain of dust, has its relation to the brain.
    SwM 4.123 17 [Swedenborg] saw things...in likeness of function, not of structure.
    ShP 4.210 1 What office, or function, or district of man's work, has [Shakespeare] not remembered?
    ET1 5.6 22 Here is my [Greenough's] theory of structure...an emphasis of features proportioned to their gradated importance in function; color and ornament to be decided and arranged and varied by strictly organic laws...
    ET10 5.166 26 Man...is ever...adapting some secret of his own anatomy in iron, wood and leather to some required function in the work of the world.
    ET11 5.188 25 These [English] lords are the treasurers and librarians of mankind, engaged by their pride and wealth to this function.
    ET15 5.272 19 ...[if the London Times would cleave to the right] its proud function, that of being the voice of Europe...would be more effectually discharged;...
    CbW 6.269 6 ...[conversation] is a main function of life.
    Cour 7.276 17 ...we must have a scope as large as Nature's to...detect what scullion function is assigned [beast-like men]...
    PI 8.73 19 [Poets] are, in our experience, men of every degree of skill,-- some of them only once or twice receivers of an inspiration, and presently falling back on a low life. The drop of ichor that tingles in their veins... cannot lift the whole man to the digestion and function of ichor...
    Comc 8.158 7 An oak or a chestnut undertakes no function it cannot execute;...
    Comc 8.158 10 ...if there be phenomena in botany which we call abortions, the abortion is also a function of Nature...
    Comc 8.158 12 ...if there be phenomena in botany which we call abortions, the abortion...assumes to the intellect the like completeness with the further function to which in different circumstances it had attained.
    QO 8.177 7 If we go into a library or newsroom, we see the same function [of suction] of a higher plane...
    PC 8.220 1 The names of the masters at the head of each department of science, art or function are often little known to the world...
    Grts 8.305 1 There are to each function and department of Nature supplementary men...
    Aris 10.33 8 Room is found for all the departments of the state in the moods and faculties of each human spirit, with separate function and difference of dignity.
    Chr2 10.94 16 He that speaks the truth executes no private function of an individual will...
    Edc1 10.148 3 ...this function of opening and feeding the human mind is not to be fulfilled by any mechanical or military method;...
    MoL 10.242 1 ...[the scholar's] function is prophetic.
    Schr 10.264 6 This, gentlemen, is the topic on which I shall speak,-the natural and permanent function of the Scholar...
    Schr 10.273 17 Other men are...heaving and carrying, each that he may peacefully execute the fine function by which they all are helped.
    Schr 10.280 11 When a man begins to dedicate himself to a particular function...the advance of his character and genius pauses;...
    LLNE 10.367 21 The children from six to eight [said Fourier]...shall do this last function of civilization [the dirty work].
    FSLC 11.208 26 It is really the great task fit for this country to accomplish, to buy that property of the planters, as the British nation bought the West Indian slaves. I say buy...because it is the only practicable course, and is innocent. Here is a right social or public function...which all men must do.
    PLT 12.21 24 ...there is development from less to more, from lower to superior function...
    PLT 12.24 19 What happens here in mankind is matched by what happens out there in the history of grass and wheat. This curious resemblance repeats, in the mental function...all the accidents of the plant.
    PLT 12.35 11 Indifferent to the dignity of its function, [Instinct] plays the god in animal nature as in human or as in the angelic...
    PLT 12.36 25 In its lower function, when it deals with the apparent world, [Instinct] is common sense.
    Let 12.392 4 ...we are very liable...to fall behind-hand in our correspondence; and a little more liable because in consequence of our editorial function we receive more epistles than our individual share...

functionaries, n. (3)

    ET15 5.266 24 One hears anecdotes of the rise of [the London Times's] servants, as of the functionaries of the India House.
    Supl 10.170 12 I once attended a dinner given to a great state functionary by functionaries...
    FSLC 11.198 15 [Under the Fugitive Slave Law, the bench] is the extension of the planter's whipping-post; and its incumbents must rank with a class from which the turnkey, the hangman and the informer are taken, necessary functionaries...but to whom the dislike and the ban of society universally attaches.

functionary, n. (3)

    AmS 1.99 8 Thinking is the function. Living is the functionary.
    Supl 10.170 12 I once attended a dinner given to a great state functionary by functionaries...
    FSLC 11.198 5 What shall we say of the functionary by whom the recent rendition [of the Fugitive Slave Law] was made?

functions, n. (30)

    Nat 1.4 12 We have theories of races and of functions...
    Nat 1.16 16 The influence of the forms and actions in nature is so needful to man, that, in its lowest functions, it seems to lie on the confines of commodity and beauty.
    Nat 1.66 8 Empirical science is apt...by the very knowledge of functions and processes to bereave the student of the manly contemplation of the whole.
    AmS 1.83 4 In the divided or social state these functions [of priest, scholar, statesman, producer, and soldier] are parcelled out to individuals...
    AmS 1.84 4 In this distribution of functions the scholar is the delegated intellect.
    AmS 1.101 22 [The scholar] is to find consolation in exercising the highest functions of human nature.
    AmS 1.102 12 These being his functions, it becomes [the scholar] to feel all confidence in himself...
    MN 1.203 25 ...my [Nature's] aim is...by no means the pampering of a monstrous pericarp at the expense of all the other functions.
    MR 1.227 8 ...some of those offices and functions for which we were mainly created are grown so rare in society that the memory of them is only kept alive in old books...
    Tran 1.339 6 Man owns the dignity of the life which throbs around him, in chemistry, and tree, and animal, and in the involuntary functions of his own body;...
    YA 1.385 19 There really seems a progress towards such a state of things in which this work shall be done by these natural workmen; and this...by...the increasing disposition of private adventurers to assume [government's] fallen functions.
    Art1 2.367 23 Would it not be better...to serve the ideal...in the functions of life?
    Pt1 3.4 25 ...this hidden truth, that the fountains whence all this river of Time and its creatures floweth are intrinsically ideal and beautiful, draws us to the consideration of the nature and functions of the Poet, or the man of Beauty;...
    UGM 4.17 23 The high functions of the intellect are so allied that some imaginative power usually appears in all eminent minds...
    SwM 4.108 19 The mind is a finer body, and resumes its functions of feeding, digesting, absorbing, excluding and generating, in a new and ethereal element.
    ET1 5.6 20 Here is my [Greenough's] theory of structure: A scientific arrangement of spaces and forms to functions and to site;...
    F 6.12 10 The new talent draws off so rapidly the vital force that not enough remains for the animal functions...
    F 6.19 2 ...not less work...the penalties of violated functions.
    Pow 6.67 11 [Boniface]...united in his person the functions of bully, incendiary, swindler, barkeeper, and burglar.
    Ctr 6.139 1 A soldier, a locksmith, a bank-clerk and a dancer could not exchange functions.
    CbW 6.251 2 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,--to whom he is to be...for nursery and hospital and many functions beside...
    DL 7.122 22 I honor that man whose ambition it is...to administer the offices...of husband, father and friend. But it requires as much breadth of power for this as for those other functions...
    Suc 7.308 25 Nature lays the ground-plan of each creature accurately, sternly fit for all his functions;...
    OA 7.327 10 All the functions of human duty irritate and lash [man] forward...
    Edc1 10.127 23 This apparatus of wants and faculties, this craving body, whose organs ask all the elements and all the functions of Nature for their satisfaction, educate the wondrous creature which they satisfy with light, with heat...
    Supl 10.163 10 I wish to point at some of [the doctrine of temperance's] higher functions as it enters into mind and character.
    SovE 10.204 11 A sleep creeps over the great functions of man.
    LS 11.25 7 ...I am consoled by the hope that no time and no change can deprive me of the satisfaction of pursuing and exercising [the pastoral office's] highest functions.
    EWI 11.132 11 Let the senators and representatives of the State [of Massachusetts]...go in a body before the Congress and say that they have a demand to make on them, so imperative that all functions of government must stop until it is satisfied.
    PLT 12.49 25 The same functions which are perfect in our quadrupeds are seen slower performed in palaeontology.

fund, n. (4)

    LE 1.165 5 ...[the able man's] fund of justice is not only vast, but infinite.
    OA 7.325 14 Little by little [age] has amassed such a fund of merit that it can very well afford to go on its credit when it will.
    PerF 10.77 5 Our stock in life, our real estate, is that amount of thought which we have had,-and which we have applied and so domesticated. The ground we have thus created is forever a fund for new thoughts.
    Trag 12.406 3 The riches of body or of mind which we do not need to-day are the reserved fund against the calamity that may arrive to-morrow.

fundamental, adj. (11)

    Nat 1.35 13 Every scripture is to be interpreted by the same spirit which gave it forth, - is the fundamental law of criticism.
    Tran 1.349 1 What you call your fundamental institutions...seem to [Transcendentalists] great abuses...
    PPh 4.49 7 In all nations there are minds which incline to dwell in the conception of the fundamental Unity.
    ET14 5.240 19 If any man thinketh philosophy and universality to be idle studies, he doth not consider that all professions are from thence served and supplied; and this I [Bacon] take to be a great cause that has hindered the progression of learning, because these fundamental knowledges have been studied but in passage.
    F 6.21 5 ...all that is wilful and fantastic in [Fate] is in opposition to its fundamental essence.
    Suc 7.300 21 The fundamental fact in our metaphysic constitution is the correspondence of man to the world...
    PI 8.26 25 [The true poet] is the healthy, the wise, the fundamental, the manly man...
    PI 8.71 9 The solid men complain that the idealist leaves out the fundamental facts;...
    Elo2 8.126 19 Men differ so much in control of their faculties! You can find in many, and indeed in all, a certain fundamental equality.
    HDC 11.43 4 [The Charter of the Company of Massachusetts Bay]... ordered that all fundamental laws should be enacted by the freemen of the colony.
    Mem 12.90 1 Memory is a primary and fundamental faculty...

fundamentally, adv. (3)

    Mrs1 3.155 22 Minerva said...there was no one person or action among [men] which would not puzzle her owl, much more all Olympus, to know whether it was fundamentally bad or good.
    ET5 5.87 6 ...[the English] fundamentally believe that the best strategem in naval war is to lay your ship close alongside of the enemy's ship and bring all your guns to bear on him...
    Elo2 8.126 19 Fundamentally all [men] feel alike and think alike...

funded, adj. (1)

    Mrs1 3.128 19 ...fashion is funded talent;...

funds, n. (3)

    ET13 5.219 22 ...the stability of the English nation is passionately enlisted to [the Church's] support, from its inextricable connection with the cause of public order, with politics and with the funds.
    PI 8.40 15 ...[the writer] must be at the top of his condition. In that prosperity he is sometimes caught up into a perception...of fairy machineries and funds of power hitherto utterly unknown to him...
    CInt 12.115 4 ...either science and literature is a hypocrisy, or it is not. If it be, then...turn your college into barracks and warehouses, and divert the funds of your founders into the stock of a rope-walk or a candle-factory...

funeral, adj. (7)

    Con 1.320 7 [Conservatism's] religion is just as bad;...pardons for sin, funeral honors...
    Clbs 7.238 4 ...[Odin] puts a question which none but himself could answer: What did Odin whisper in the ear of his son Balder, when Balder mounted the funeral pile?
    PI 8.45 26 In society you have this figure [of rhyme]...in a funeral procession, where all wear black...
    Res 8.149 16 In the Mammoth Cave in Kentucky, the torches which each traveller carries make a dismal funeral procession...
    EzRy 10.391 13 The late Dr. Gardiner, in a funeral sermon on some parishioner whose virtues did not readily come to mind, honestly said, He was good at fires.
    AKan 11.258 6 ...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], or else should resign their seats to those who can. But first let them...order funeral service to be said for the citizens whom they were unable to defend.
    SMC 11.376 5 A duty so severe has been discharged [in the Civil War], and with such immense results of good...that, though the cannon volleys have a sound of funeral echoes, [men] can yet hear through them the benedictions of their country and mankind.

funeral, n. (12)

    LE 1.160 3 ...now will we...live for ourselves,-and not as the pall-bearers of a funeral...
    Fdsp 2.205 10 We chide the citizen because he makes love a commodity. It...holds the pall at the funeral;...
    Mrs1 3.141 19 The favorites of society...are able men...who exactly fill the hour and the company; contented and contenting, at a marriage or a funeral...
    ET1 5.4 16 Besides those [writers] I have named...there was not in Britain the man living whom I cared to behold, unless it were the Duke of Wellington, whom I afterwards saw at Westminster Abbey at the funeral of Wilberforce.
    OA 7.333 19 We inquired when [John Adams] expected to see Mr. [John Quincy] Adams.--He said: Never: Mr. Adams will not come to Quincy but to my funeral.
    Chr2 10.106 26 Calvinism was one and the same thing in Geneva, in Scotland, in Old and New England. If there was a wedding, they had a sermon; if a funeral, then a sermon;...
    SovE 10.203 7 [Our religion] visits us only on some exceptional and ceremonial occasion...on a sick-bed, or at a funeral...
    EzRy 10.387 17 I once rode with [Ezra Ripley] to a house at Nine Acre Corner to attend the funeral of the father of a family.
    MMEm 10.397 20 ...Nor me can Hope or Passion urge,/ Hearing as now the lofty dirge/ Which blasts of Northern mountains hymn,/ Nature's funeral high and dim,-/ Sable pageantry of clouds,/ Mourning summer laid in shrouds./
    MMEm 10.424 11 Hail requiem of departed Time! Never was incumbent's funeral followed by expectant heir with more satisfaction.
    MMEm 10.432 15 ...[Mary Moody Emerson's] friends feared they might, at her funeral, not dare to look at each other, lest they should forget the serious proprieties of the hour.
    HCom 11.344 23 ...in how many cases it chanced, when the hero had fallen, they who came by night to his funeral, on the morrow returned to the war-path...

funeral-bell, n. (1)

    SHC 11.428 7 ...shalt thou pause to hear some funeral-bell/ Slow stealing o' er the heart in this calm place/...

funerals, n. (1)

    NR 3.244 7 ...men feign themselves dead, and endure mock funerals and mournful obituaries...

funereal, adj. (2)

    Pt1 3.41 14 ...the time of towns is tolled from the world by funereal chimes...
    Thor 10.460 1 In every part of Great Britain, [Thoreau] wrote in his diary, are discovered traces of the Romans, their funereal urns...

fungus, n. (4)

    MR 1.254 20 Have you not seen in the woods...a poor fungus or mushroom...by its...gentle pushing, manage to break its way up through the frosty ground...
    Hist 2.39 22 ...see...the fungus under foot...
    Pt1 3.22 26 Nobody cares for planting the poor fungus;...
    SwM 4.118 17 ...there is no comet...or fungus, that, for itself, does not interest more scholars and classifiers than the meaning and upshot of the frame of things.

Furia infernalis, n. (1)

    CL 12.138 21 [Linnaeus] found out that a terrible distemper which sometimes proves fatal in the north of Europe, was occasioned by an animalcule, which he called Furia infernalis...

Furies [Aeschylus, Eumenide (1)

    Exp 3.82 14 In Flaxman's drawing of the Eumenides of Aeschylus, Orestes supplicates Apollo, whilst the Furies sleep on the threshold.

furies, n. (2)

    Nat2 3.195 5 After every foolish day we sleep off the fumes and furies of its hours;...
    EWI 11.141 23 ...the white has, for ages, done what he could to keep the negro in that hoggish state. His laws have been furies.

Furies, n. (7)

    MR 1.244 24 Let the house rather be a temple of the Furies of Lacedaemon...
    Comp 2.107 18 The Furies, [the ancients] said, are attendants on justice...
    Gts 3.161 3 I can think of many parts I should prefer playing to that of the Furies.
    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.
    Ctr 6.166 18 [Man] will convert the Furies into Muses...
    CbW 6.258 15 ...the Furies are the bonds of men;...
    WSL 12.340 23 ...when we remember [Landor's] rich and ample page, wherein we are always sure to find...a scourge like that of Furies for every oppressor...we wish to thank a benefactor of the reading world.

furious, adj. (8)

    MoS 4.166 5 [Montaigne] has been in courts so long as to have conceived a furious disgust at appearances;...
    ET4 5.59 11 Never was a poor gentleman so surfeited with life, so furious to be rid of it, as the Northman.
    Elo1 7.65 11 Him we call an artist...who, seeing the people furious, shall soften and compose them...
    Cour 7.267 13 It was told of the Prince of Conde that there not being a more furious man in the world, danger in fight never disturbs him more than just to make him civil...
    OA 7.327 1 Michel Angelo's head is full of masculine and gigantic figures as gods walking, which make him savage until his furious chisel can render them into marble;...
    Aris 10.63 11 ...the revolution comes, and does [the man of honor] join the standard of Chartist and outlaw? No, for these have been dragged in their ignorance by furious chiefs to the Red Revolution;...
    Supl 10.165 15 Thousands of people live and die who were never...furious or terrified.
    ACiv 11.308 24 What is so foolish as the terror lest the blacks should be made furious by freedom and wages?

furiously, adv. (3)

    ET7 5.124 10 The old Italian author of the Relation of England (in 1500), says, I have it on the best information, that when the war is actually raging most furiously, [the English] will seek for good eating and all their other comforts, without thinking what harm might befall them.
    Ill 6.325 19 The mad crowd drives hither and thither, now furiously commanding this thing to be done, now that.
    EWI 11.111 24 ...these missionaries [to the West Indies] were persecuted by the planters...and the negroes furiously forbidden to go near them.

Furlong, n. (2)

    Wth 6.124 16 Hotspur lives for the moment...and despises Furlong, that he does not.
    Wth 6.124 17 Hotspur of course is poor, and Furlong a good provider.

furlongs, n. (2)

    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...
    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.

Furlong's, n. (1)

    Wth 6.124 21 ...Hotspur thinks it a superiority in himself, this improvidence, which ought to be rewarded with Furlong's lands.

furnace, n. (2)

    Wth 6.83 18 What smiths, and in what furnace, rolled/ .../ Copper and iron, lead, and gold?/
    Bost 12.183 21 There are countries, said Howell, where the heaven is a fiery furnace or a blowing bellows, or a dropping sponge, most parts of the year.

furnaced, v. (1)

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

furnace-heat, n. (1)

    LLNE 10.355 22 ...the men of science, art, intellect, are pretty sure to degenerate into selfish housekeepers, dependent on wine, coffee, furnace-heat, gas-light and fine furniture.

furnaces, n. (1)

    ET6 5.103 7 Machinery has been applied to all work [in England], and carried to such perfection that little is left for the men but to mind the engines, and feed the furnaces.

furnish, v. (39)

    Nat 1.32 12 Did it need...this host of orbs in heaven, to furnish man with the dictionary and grammar of his municipal speech?
    DSA 1.140 11 ...[the poor preacher's] face is suffused with shame, to propose to his parish that they should send money...to furnish such poor fare as they have at home...
    Fdsp 2.192 1 The scholar sits down to write, and all his years of meditation do not furnish him with one good thought...
    Mrs1 3.138 14 To the leaders of men, the brain as well as the flesh and the heart must furnish a proportion.
    Nat2 3.177 12 ...I suppose that such a gazetteer as wood-cutters and Indians should furnish facts for, would take place in the most sumptuous drawing-rooms of all the Wreaths and Flora's chaplets of the bookshops;...
    ET7 5.123 6 When Castlereagh dissuaded Lord Wellington from going to the king's levee until the unpopular Cintra business had been explained, he replied, You furnish me a reason for going.
    F 6.18 26 ...the journals contrive to furnish one good piece of news every day.
    Wth 6.107 8 Your paper is not fine or coarse enough,--is too heavy, or too thin. The manufacturer says he will furnish you with just that thickness or thinness you want;...
    Ctr 6.146 13 ...if...nature has aimed to make a legged and winged creature, framed for locomotion, we must...furnish him with that breeding which gives currency...
    Bhr 6.184 8 ...[of every two persons who meet on any affair],--one instantly perceives...that his will comprehends the other's will...and he has only to use courtesy and furnish good-natured reasons to his victim to cover up the chain,lest he be shamed into resistance.
    Bty 6.286 25 ...not less does nature furnish us with every sign of grace and goodness.
    Elo1 7.92 8 The listener cannot hide from himself that something has been shown him and the whole world which he did not wish to see; and as he cannot dispose of it, it disposes of him. The history of public men and affairs in America will readily furnish tragic examples of this fatal force.
    DL 7.116 3 Aristides was made general receiver of Greece, to collect the tribute which each state was to furnish against the barbarian.
    WD 7.164 19 A man builds a fine house; and now he has...a task for life: he is to furnish, watch, show it...the rest of his days.
    Boks 7.191 23 ...the colleges, whilst they provide us with libraries, furnish no professor of books;...
    Boks 7.202 2 An excellent popular book is J. A. St. John's Ancient Greece; the Life and Letters of Niebuhr, even more than his Lectures, furnish leading views;...
    Boks 7.206 6 For the Church and the Feudal Institution, Mr. Hallam's Middle Ages will furnish, if superficial, yet readable and conceivable outlines.
    PI 8.14 21 This belief that the higher use of the material world is to furnish us types or pictures to express the thoughts of the mind, is carried to its logical extreme by the Hindoos...
    PI 8.17 17 The poet squanders on the hour an amount of life that would more than furnish the seventy years of the man that stands next him.
    PI 8.49 12 [The elemental forces] furnish the poet with grander pairs and alternations...
    Comc 8.173 4 Politics also furnish the same mark for satire.
    QO 8.200 6 The old animals have given their bodies to the earth to furnish through chemistry the forming race...
    Insp 8.281 6 ...wine, no doubt, and all fine food, as of delicate fruits, furnish some elemental wisdom.
    Imtl 8.324 4 The Egyptian people furnish us the earliest details of an established civilization...
    Imtl 8.336 13 Nature does not, like the Empress Anne of Russia, call together all the architectural genius of the Empire to build and finish and furnish a palace of snow...
    Dem1 10.19 1 It would be easy in the political history of every time to furnish examples of this irregular success, men having a force which without virtue...yet makes them prevailing.
    PerF 10.72 20 ...in the impenetrable mystery which hides...the mental nature, I await the insight which our advancing knowledge of material laws shall furnish.
    Edc1 10.140 2 How we envy in later life the happy youths to whom their boisterous games and rough exercise furnish the precise element which frames and sets off their school and college tasks...
    Schr 10.278 24 The universe was rifled to furnish [the scholar].
    SlHr 10.447 26 ...Mr. Hoar remarked that Judge Marshall could afford to lose brains enough to furnish three or four common men, before common men would find it out.
    GSt 10.502 26 [George Stearns] did not hesitate to become the banker of his clients, and to furnish them money and arms in advance of the subscriptions which he obtained.
    FSLC 11.207 17 ...will any expert statesman furnish us a plan for the summary or gradual winding up of slavery, so far as the Republic is its patron?
    FSLC 11.211 10 ...these two, Greece and Judaea, furnish the mind and the heart by which the rest of the world is sustained;...
    SMC 11.361 16 If Marshal Montluc's Memoirs are the Bible of soldiers, as Henry IV. of France said, Colonel Prescott might furnish the Book of Epistles.
    FRep 11.537 19 The new times need a new man...whom plainly this country must furnish.
    PLT 12.5 19 ...in the impenetrable mystery which hides...the mental nature, I await the insight which our advancing knowledge of material laws shall furnish.
    Bost 12.209 26 As long as [Boston] cleaves to her liberty, her education and to her spiritual faith as the foundation of [material accumulations], she will teach the teachers and rule the rulers of America. Her mechanics, her farmers will toil better;...she will furnish what is wanted in the hour of need;...
    MAng1 12.215 2 Few lives of eminent men are harmonious; few that furnish, in all the facts, an image corresponding with their fame.
    MAng1 12.227 11 [Michelangelo] gave this model [of a movable platform] to a carpenter, who made it so profitable as to furnish a dowry for his two daughters.

furnished, v. (24)

    MR 1.231 20 How many articles of daily consumption are furnished us from the West Indies;...
    Mrs1 3.141 21 England...furnished, in the beginning of the present century, a good model of that genius which the world loves, in Mr. Fox...
    NER 3.266 7 ...the force which moves the world is a new quality, and can never be furnished by adding whatever quantities of a different kind.
    PPh 4.60 6 [Plato] has good-naturedly furnished the courtier and citizen with all that can be said against the schools.
    GoW 4.270 1 ...how can [the writer] be honored...when he must...write conventional criticism, or profligate novels, or at any rate write...without recurrence...to the sources of inspiration? Some reply to these questions may be furnished by looking over the list of men of literary genius in our age.
    Elo1 7.95 4 We are slenderly furnished with anecdotes of these men [Chatham, Pericles, Luther]...
    DL 7.113 4 The difficulties to be overcome [in housekeeping] must be freely admitted; they are many and great. Nor are they to be disposed of by any criticism or amendment of particulars taken one at a time, but only by the arrangement of the household to a higher end than those to which our dwellings are usually built and furnished.
    SA 8.102 21 Our gentlemen of the old school...were bred after English types, and that style of breeding furnished fine examples in the last generation;...
    QO 8.186 12 Hafiz furnished Burns with the song of John Barleycorn...
    QO 8.186 13 Hafiz...furnished Moore with the original of the piece,- When in death I shall calm recline,/ Oh, bear my heart to my mistress dear,/ etc.
    QO 8.200 20 Every one of my writings [said Goethe] has been furnished to me by a thousand different persons...
    Chr2 10.114 24 I am far from accepting the opinion that the revelations of the moral sentiment are insufficient, as if it furnished a rule only...
    Schr 10.270 23 Genius is a poor man and has no house, but see, this proud landlord who has built the palace and furnished it so delicately, opens it to him...
    HDC 11.79 14 The numbers [of of men for the Continental army], say [the General Assembly of Massachusetts], are large, but this Court has the fullest assurance that their brethren...will...fill up the numbers proportioned to the several towns. On that occasion, Concord furnished 67 men...
    HDC 11.83 8 I have been greatly indebted, in preparing this sketch [of Concord], to the printed but unpublished History of this town, furnished me by the unhesitating kindness of its author [Lemuel Shattuck]...
    ACiv 11.300 14 If the war brought any surprise to the North, it was not the fault of sentinels on the watch-tower, who had furnished full details of the designs, the muster and the means of the enemy.
    Humb 11.458 20 ...Cuvier tells us of fossil elephants; that Germany has furnished the greatest number;...
    PLT 12.22 6 A fish in like manner is man furnished to live in the sea;...
    PLT 12.29 21 ...every man is furnished, if he will heed it, with wisdom necessary to steer his own boat...
    Mem 12.93 7 As every creature is furnished with teeth to seize and eat, and with stomach to digest its food, so the memory is furnished with a perfect apparatus.
    Mem 12.93 9 As every creature is furnished with teeth to seize and eat, and with stomach to digest its food, so the memory is furnished with a perfect apparatus.
    Bost 12.202 26 The theology and the instinct of freedom that grew here [in Massachusetts] in the dark in serious men furnished a certain rancor which consumed all opposition...
    Milt1 12.257 1 Perfections of body and of mind are attributed to [Milton] by his biographers, that if the anecdotes...had not been in part furnished or corroborated by political enemies, would lead us to suspect the portraits were ideal...
    WSL 12.340 4 [Landor] has capital enough to have furnished the brain of fifty stock authors...

furnishes, v. (10)

    Nat 1.31 5 A man conversing in earnest...will find that a material image... arises in his mind...which furnishes the vestment of the thought.
    Art1 2.366 4 The old tragic Necessity, which...furnishes the sole apology for the intrusion of such anomalous figures [as Venuses and Cupids] into nature...no longer dignifies the chisel or the pencil.
    Mrs1 3.126 8 ...every collection of men furnishes some example of the class [of gentlemen];...
    PPh 4.59 13 [Plato] has that opulence which furnishes, at every turn, the precise weapon he needs.
    SwM 4.114 17 This fruitful idea [that nature exists entire in leasts] furnishes a key to every secret.
    ET5 5.94 10 This foggy and rainy country [England] furnishes the world with astronomical observations.
    Bty 6.286 21 The crowd in the street oftener furnishes degradations than angels or redeemers...
    Insp 8.296 24 I value literary biography for the hints it furnishes from so many scholars...of what hygiene, what ascetic...their experience suggested and approved.
    TPar 11.285 5 ...every man's biography is at his own expense. He furnishes not only the facts but the report.
    Shak1 11.450 3 ...Shakspeare, by his transcendant reach of thought, so unites the extremes, that, whilst he...like a street-bible, furnishes sayings to the market, courts of law, the senate, and common discourse,-he is yet to all wise men the companion of the closet.

furnishing, v. (3)

    ShP 4.194 6 [Popular tradition]...in furnishing so much work done to his hand, leaves [the poet] at leisure and in full strength for the audacities of his imagination.
    Elo1 7.71 16 ...what is the Odyssey but a history of the orator...carried through a series of adventures furnishing brilliant opportunities to his talent?
    Prch 10.234 19 ...the strength of old sects or timorous literalists...is not worth considering [by the young clergyman] except as furnishing a needed stimulus.

furniture, n. (14)

    Cir 2.311 11 We all stand waiting, empty...surrounded by mighty symbols which are not symbols to us, but prose and trivial toys. Then cometh the god...and by a flash of his eye burns up the veil which shrouded all things, and the meaning of the very furniture...is manifest.
    Chr1 3.111 6 The sufficient reply to the skeptic who doubts the power and the furniture of man, is in that possibility of joyful intercourse with persons, which makes the faith and practice of all reasonable men.
    Nat2 3.172 7 The blue zenith is the point in which romance and reality meet. I think if we should be rapt away into all that and dream of heaven... the upper sky would be all that would remain of our furniture.
    NR 3.243 20 ...the divine Providence which keeps the universe open in every direction to the soul, conceals all the furniture and all the persons that do not concern a particular soul, from the senses of that individual.
    ET6 5.107 19 ...within, [the Englishman's house] is...filled with good furniture.
    ET14 5.235 25 For two centuries England was philosophic, religious, poetic. The mental furniture seemed of larger scale...
    Wth 6.113 3 Allston the painter was wont to say that he built a plain house, and filled it with plain furniture, because he would hold out no bribe to any to visit him who had not similar tastes to his own.
    DL 7.105 15 [The boy] walks daily among wonders...the furniture of the house, the red tin horse...
    DL 7.112 19 If the children...are...schooled and at home fostered by the parents,--then does the hospitality of the house suffer;... ... If the linens and hangings are clean and fine and the furniture good, the yard, the garden, the fences are neglected.
    SA 8.81 1 ...he who has not this fine garment of behavior is studious of dress, and then not less of house and furniture and pictures and gardens...
    Res 8.139 27 [Nature] shows us only surfaces, but she is million fathoms deep. What spaces! what durations!...in humanity...millions of lives to add only sentiments and guesses, which at last, gathered in by an ear of sensibility, make the furniture of the poet.
    LLNE 10.355 23 ...the men of science, art, intellect, are pretty sure to degenerate into selfish housekeepers, dependent on wine, coffee, furnace-heat, gas-light and fine furniture.
    LLNE 10.356 3 ...the men of science, art, intellect, are pretty sure to degenerate into selfish housekeepers, dependent on wine, coffee, furnace-heat, gas-light and fine furniture. Then instantly things swing the other way, and we suddenly find...that nothing is so vulgar as a great warehouse of rooms full of fine furniture and trumpery;...
    FRep 11.534 12 [A man's life] is manufactured for him. The tailor makes your dress;...the upholsterer, from an imported book of patterns, your furniture;...

furrow, n. (9)

    Nat 1.42 7 ...[a farm] is a sacred emblem from the first furrow of spring to the last stack which the snow of winter overtakes in the fields.
    Hsm1 2.259 3 ...the tough world had its revenge the moment [many extraordinary young men] put their horses of the sun to plough in its furrow.
    Pol1 3.197 22 When the Muses nine/ With the Virtues meet,/ Find to their design/ An Atlantic seat,/ By green orchard boughs/ Fended from the heat,/ Where the statesman ploughs/ Furrow for the wheat;/ .../ Then the perfect State is come,/ The republican at home./
    PPh 4.49 19 ...the ploughman, the plough and the furrow are of one stuff;...
    ET4 5.67 1 ...[the blonde race's] accession to empire marks a new and finer epoch, wherein the old mineral force shall be subjugated at last by humanity, and shall plough in its furrow henceforward.
    Suc 7.292 23 ...because we cannot shake off from our shoes this dust of Europe and Asia...life is theatrical and literature a quotation; and hence... that furrow of care, said to mark every American brow.
    EWI 11.103 9 ...when [the negro] sank in the furrow, no wind of good fame blew over him...
    War 11.175 25 ...not in an antiquated appanage where no onward step can be taken without rebellion, is this seed of benevolence [Congress of Nations] laid in the furrow, with tears of hope;...
    AgMs 12.360 1 I walked up and down the field, as [Edmund Hosmer] ploughed his furrow...

furrowed, v. (1)

    MAng1 12.244 13 The forehead of the bust [of Michelangelo]...is furrowed with eight deep wrinkles one above another.

furrows, n. (3)

    Hist 2.16 4 I have seen the head of an old sachem of the forest which at once reminded the eye of a bald mountain summit, and the furrows of the brow suggested the strata of the rock.
    Farm 7.141 3 The men in cities who are the centres of energy...and the women of beauty and genius, are the children or grandchildren of farmers, and are spending the energies which their fathers' hardy, silent life accumulated in frosty furrows...
    HDC 11.27 7 Where are these men? asleep beneath their grounds:/ And strangers, fond as they, their furrows plough./

furs, n. (1)

    Res 8.144 13 The invalid sits shivering in lamb's-wool and furs; the woodsman knows how to make garments out of cold and wet themselves.

further, adj. (10)

    LE 1.167 22 Further inquiry will discover that nobody...knew anything sincere of these handsome natures they so commended;...
    LT 1.267 18 What further relations we sustain...is now unknown.
    Exp 3.71 13 When I converse with a profound mind...I am at first apprised of my vicinity to a new and excellent region of life. By persisting to read or to think, this region gives further sign of itself...
    Clbs 7.235 17 He that can define, he that can answer a question so as to admit of no further answer, is the best man.
    Comc 8.158 11 ...if there be phenomena in botany which we call abortions, the abortion...assumes to the intellect the like completeness with the further function to which in different circumstances it had attained.
    Grts 8.306 14 ...further experiments led [Faraday] to the theory that every chemical substance would be found to have its own, and a different, polarity.
    Edc1 10.125 21 ...the poor man...is allowed to put his hand into the pocket of the rich, and say, You shall educate me...not alone in the elements, but, by further provision, in the languages...
    Wom 11.421 26 ...if any man will take the trouble to see how our people vote,-how many gentlemen...standing at the door of the polls, give every innocent citizen his ticket as he comes in...and how the innocent citizen, without further demur, goes and drops it in the ballot-box,-I cannot but think he will agree that most women might vote as wisely.
    PLT 12.8 13 ...is it pretended discoveries of new strata that are before the meeting [of the scientific club]? This professor...is ready to prove that he knew so much [twenty years ago] that all further investigation was quite superfluous;...
    Milt1 12.277 7 The creations of Shakspeare are cast into the world of thought to no further end than to delight.

further, adv. (20)

    MN 1.203 18 ...Nature seems further to reply, I have ventured so great a stake as my success, in no single creature.
    MR 1.228 1 And further, I will not dissemble my hope that each person whom I address has felt his own call to cast aside all evil customs...
    MR 1.238 4 Consider further the difference between the first and second owner of property.
    Hist 2.7 21 [The true aspirant] hears the commendation...of that character he seeks, in every word that is said concerning character,--yea further in every fact and circumstance...
    OS 2.290 16 The more cultivated, in their account of their own experience, cull out the pleasing, poetic circumstance...the brilliant friend they know; still further on perhaps the gorgeous landscape...they enjoyed yesterday...
    NR 3.245 22 ...I...now further assert, that, each man's genius being nearly and affectionately explored, he is justified in his individuality...
    PNR 4.81 3 It seems as if nature, in regarding the geologic night behind her, when, in five or six millenniums, she had turned out five or six men, as Homer, Phidias, Menu and Columbus, was no wise discontented with the result. ... These were...a good basis for further proceeding.
    ET10 5.158 23 Hargreaves invented the spinning-jenny, and died in a workhouse. Arkwright improved the invention, and...one spinner could do as much work as one hundred had done before. The loom was improved further.
    ET17 5.291 8 In these comments on an old journey [English Traits]...I have abstained from reference to persons, except...in one or two cases where the fame of the parties seemed to have given the public a property in all that concerned them. I must further allow myself a few notices, if only as an acknowledgment of debts that cannot be paid.
    Pow 6.55 24 If Eric is in robust health...at his departure from Greenland he will steer west, and his ships will reach Newfoundland. But take out Eric and put in a stronger and bolder man...and the ships will...sail...fifteen hundred miles further...
    Suc 7.301 14 We bring a welcome to the highest lessons of religion and of poetry out of all proportion beyond our skill to teach. And, further, the great hearing and sympathy of men is more true and wise than their speaking is wont to be.
    Supl 10.177 20 Shall I say, further, that the Orientals excel in costly arts...
    LS 11.5 1 ...I was led to the conclusion that Jesus did not intend to establish an institution for perpetual observance when he ate the Passover with his disciples; and further, to the opinion, that it is not expedient to celebrate it as we do.
    EWI 11.121 19 [Charles Metcalfe] further describes the erection of numerous churches, chapels and schools which the new population [of Jamaica] required...
    EWI 11.126 14 ...[British merchants] saw further that the slave-trade, by keeping in barbarism the whole coast of eastern Africa, deprives them of countries and nations of customers...
    EWI 11.138 5 I will say further that we are indebted mainly to this movement [for emancipation in the West Indies] and to the continuers of it, for the popular discussion of every point of practical ethics...
    War 11.163 5 ...further, it is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to put trust in ideas...
    Wom 11.413 21 Far have I clambered in my mind,/ But nought so great as Love I find./ What is thy tent, where dost thou dwell?/ My mansion is humility,/ Heaven's vastest capability./ The further it doth downward tend,/ The higher up it doth ascend./
    CInt 12.129 6 Is...an insurance office, bank or bakery...further from God than a sheep-pasture or a clam-bank?
    Milt1 12.270 13 ...a history of England was one of the three main tasks which [Milton] proposed to himself. He proceeded in it no further than to the Conquest.

further, v. (3)

    Con 1.324 27 ...how can your law further or hinder me in what I shall do to men?
    YA 1.369 11 Whatever events in progress shall go to disgust men with cities...will further the most poetic of all the occupations of real life...
    Elo1 7.99 22 [Eloquence's] great masters, whilst they...thought no pains too great which contributed in any manner to further it,--resembling the Arabian warrior of fame, who wore seventeen weapons in his belt, and in personal combat used them all occasionally.--yet subordinated all means;...

furtherance, n. (6)

    DSA 1.123 13 ...speak the truth, and all nature and all spirits help you with unexpected furtherance.
    Lov1 2.187 12 [Lovers]...exchange the passion which once could not lose sight of its object, for a cheerful disengaged furtherance, whether present or absent, of each other's designs.
    Fdsp 2.208 22 I hate, where I looked for a manly furtherance...to find a mush of concession.
    ET6 5.103 25 ...[England] is no country for fainthearted people;...take your own course, and you shall find respect and furtherance.
    Boks 7.216 22 We are [in the novel] cheated into laughter or wonder by feats which only oddly combine acts that we do every day. There is no new element, no power, no furtherance.
    Aris 10.45 22 [The blood royal] obtains service, gifts, supplies, furtherance of all kinds from the love and joy of those who feel themselves honored by the service they render.

furtherances, n. (1)

    Comp 2.101 11 Each new form repeats not only the main character of the type, but part for part...all the...furtherances...

furthermore, adv. (2)

    LS 11.12 26 ...[the disciples] were bound together by the memory of Christ, and nothing could be more natural than...that they, Jews like Jesus, should adopt his expressions and his types, and furthermore, that what was done with peculiar propriety by them, his personal friends, with less propriety should come to be extended to their companions also.
    MAng1 12.235 18 [Michelangelo] required that he should be permitted to accept this work [building St. Peter's] without any fee or reward, because he undertook it as a religious act; and, furthermore, that he should be absolute master of the whole design...

furtive, adj. (2)

    Hist 2.24 16 In [the Grecian state] existed those human forms which supplied the sculptor with his models of Hercules, Phoebus, and Jove;... wherein the face is...composed of...symmetrical features, whose eye-sockets are so formed that it would be impossible for such eyes to squint and take furtive glances on this side and on that...
    Bhr 6.180 12 How many furtive inclinations avowed by the eye, though dissembled by the lips!

fury, n. (30)

    DSA 1.127 20 ...the divine nature is attributed to one or two persons, and denied to all the rest, and denied with fury.
    LT 1.269 22 The fury with which the slave-trader defends every inch of his bloody deck...is a trumpet to alarm the ear of mankind...
    Con 1.321 15 ...if priest and church-member should fail...the very innholders and landlords of the county, would muster with fury to [religious institutions'] support.
    Con 1.323 4 The man of principle is known as such [in a state of war or anarchy], and even in the fury of faction is respected.
    Pt1 3.28 27 That is not an inspiration, which we owe to narcotics, but some counterfeit excitement and fury.
    Nat2 3.191 24 ...this is the ridicule of the [wealthy] class, that they arrive with pains and sweat and fury nowhere;...
    Pol1 3.209 21 The vice of our leading parties in this country...is that they... lash themselves to fury in the carrying of some local and momentary measure...
    NR 3.236 20 ...when each person, inflamed to a fury of personality, would conquer all things to his poor crochet, [Nature] raises up against him another person...
    PPh 4.45 22 Children cry, scream and stamp with fury, unable to express their desires.
    NMW 4.236 12 In the fury of assault, [Napoleon] no more spared himself.
    ET4 5.70 26 The more vigorous [Englishmen] run out of the island...to Africa and Australia, to hunt with fury...all the game that is in nature.
    ET6 5.103 21 ...he who goes among [the English] must have some weight of metal. At last, you take your hint from the fury of life you find, and say, one thing is plain, this is no country for fainthearted people;...
    Pow 6.55 6 During passion, anger, fury...a large amount of blood is collected in the arteries...
    Pow 6.61 15 A timid man...observing...sectional interests urged with a fury which shuts its eyes to consequences...might easily believe that he and his country have seen their best days...
    Wth 6.93 24 [Columbus's] successors inherited his map, and inherited his fury to complete it.
    Bhr 6.174 1 ...in the same country [on the banks of the Mississippi], in the pews of the churches little placards plead with the worshipper against the fury of expectoration.
    Wsp 6.214 1 Even the fury of material activity has some results friendly to moral health.
    SS 7.11 15 Concert fires people to a certain fury of performance they can rarely reach alone.
    Farm 7.145 27 Whilst all thus burns...it needs a perpetual tempering...to check the fury of the conflagration;...
    Clbs 7.229 5 In youth, in the fury of curiosity and acquisition, the day is too short for books...
    Cour 7.267 24 The fury of onset is one, and of calm endurance another.
    OA 7.334 20 We asked if at Whitefield's return the same popularity continued.--Not the same fury, [John Adams] said...
    Elo2 8.130 17 It was said of Robespierre's audience, that though they understood not the words, they understood a fury in the words, and caught the contagion.
    Imtl 8.326 14 [The doctrine of the resurrection] was an affair of the body, and narrowed again by the fury of sect;...
    Edc1 10.149 9 Nature provided for the communication of thought, by planting with it in the receiving mind a fury to impart it.
    LLNE 10.366 12 No doubt there was in many [at Brook Farm] a certain strength drawn from the fury of dissent.
    HCom 11.343 7 ...the infusion of culture and tender humanity from these scholars and idealists who went to the war in their own despite-God knows they had no fury for killing their old friends and countrymen-had its signal and lasting effect.
    EdAd 11.388 9 We see that reckless and destructive fury which characterizes the lower classes of American society...
    SHC 11.432 8 ...how much more are [parks] needed by us...to stanch and appease that fury of temperament which our climate bestows!
    CPL 11.506 6 ...[Kepler] writes, It is now eighteen months since I got the first glimpse of light...very few days since the unveiled sun...burst upon me. Nothing holds me. I will indulge in my sacred fury.

fuse, v. (5)

    UGM 4.15 23 This pleasure of full expression to that which, [in the people' s] private experience, is usually cramped and obstructed...is the secret of the reader's joy in literary genius. Nothing is kept back. There is fire enough to fuse the mountain of ore.
    Ctr 6.129 10 Can rules or tutors educate/ The semigod whom we await?/ He must be musical,/ Tremulous, impressional,/ Alive to gentle influence/ Of landscape and of sky,/ And tender to the spirit-touch/ Of man's or maiden's eye:/ But, to his native centre fast,/ Shall into Future fuse the Past,/ And the world's flowing fates in his own mould recast./
    PI 8.30 21 ...colder moods...insinuate, or, as it were, muffle the fact to suit the poverty or caprice of their expression...being unable to fuse and mould their words and images to fluid obedience.
    PI 8.34 13 The...measure of poetic genius is the power to read the poetry of affairs,--to fuse the circumstance of to-day;...
    PLT 12.42 22 The highest measure of poetic power is such insight and faculty to fuse the circumstances of to-day as shall make transparent the whole web of circumstance and opinion in which the man finds himself...

Fuseli [Fussli], John Henr (2)

    ET5 5.91 22 Lord Elgin, at Athens, saw the imminent ruin of the Greek remains, set up his scaffoldings...and, after five years' labor to collect them, got his marbles on ship-board. The ship struck a rock and went to the bottom. He had them all fished up by divers, at a vast expense, and brought to London; not knowing that Haydon, Fuseli and Canova...were to be his applauders.
    Bhr 6.185 12 Look at Northcote, said Fuseli; he looks like a rat that has seen a cat.

fusible, adj. (1)

    Hist 2.37 19 Do not the constructive fingers of Watt, Fulton, Whittemore, Arkwright, predict the fusible, hard, and temperable texture of metals, the properties of stone, water, and wood?

fusion, n. (4)

    ET4 5.50 21 Everything English is a fusion of distant and antagonistic elements.
    F 6.29 23 There must be a fusion of [insight and affection] to generate the energy of will.
    PC 8.207 15 Was ever such coincidence of advantages in time and place as in America to-day?-the fusion of races and religions;...
    Milt1 12.253 1 We think we have heard the recitation of [Milton's] verses by genius which found in them that which itself would say; recitation which told...that now first was such perception and enjoyment possible; the perception and enjoyment of...his perfect fusion of the classic and the English styles.

fuss, n. (1)

    SovE 10.206 24 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;...

Fussli [Fuseli], John Henr (2)

    eT5 5.91 22 Lord Elgin, at Athens, saw the imminent ruin of the Greek remains; set up his scaffoldings...and, after five years' labor to collect them, got his marbles on ship-board. The ship struck a rock and went to the bottom. He had them all fished up by divers, at a vast expense, and brought to London; not knowing that Haydon, Fuseli and Canova...were to be his applauders.
    Bhr 6.185 12 Look at Northcote, said Fuseli; he looks like a rat that has seen a cat.

Fust, Johann, n. (1)

    F 6.17 22 'T is...harder still to find the Tubal Cain...or Fust...

futile, adj. (2)

    EWI 11.144 24 ...a compassion for that which is not and cannot be useful or lovely, is degrading and futile.
    FSLC 11.194 17 You can commit no crime, for [men] are created in their sentiments conscious of and hostile to it; and unless you can suppress the newspaper, pass a law against book-shops, gag the English tongue in America, all short of this is futile.

futility, n. (4)

    Exp 3.58 11 We, I think, in these times, have had lessons enough of the futility of criticism.
    LVB 11.95 26 A man [Van Buren] with your experience in affairs must have seen cause to appreciate the futility of opposition to the moral sentiment.
    ACiv 11.306 8 ...we have too much experience of the futility of an easy reliance on the momentary good dispositions of the public.
    SHC 11.430 14 ...the irresistible democracy-shall I call it?-of chemistry, of vegetation, which recomposes for new life every decomposing particle,- the race never dying, the individual never spared,-have impressed on the mind of the age the futility of these old arts of preserving.

future, adj. (34)

    AmS 1.92 13 ...we should suppose...some foresight of souls that were to be, and some preparation of stores for their future wants...
    AmS 1.111 13 Give me insight into to-day, and you may have the antique and future worlds.
    MR 1.234 16 ...to [the saint] the present hour is as sacred and inviolable as any future hour.
    Con 1.317 22 Yonder peasant...carries a whole revolution of man and nature in his head, which shall be a sacred history to some future ages.
    Art1 2.352 24 As far as the spiritual character of the period overpowers the artist and finds expression in his work, so far it...will represent to future beholders the Unknown...
    PPh 4.74 17 When accused before the judges of subverting the popular creed, [Socrates] affirms the immortality of the soul, the future reward and punishment;...
    SwM 4.122 26 Instead of a religion which visited [Swedenborg] diplomatically three or four times...here was a teaching which accompanied him...into natural objects...and opened the future world by indicating the continuity of the same laws.
    ET2 5.32 14 ...the captain [of the Washington Irving] drew the line of his course in red ink on his chart, for the encouragement or envy of future navigators.
    F 6.15 22 One leaf [Nature] lays down, a floor of granite;...a thousand ages, and a layer of marl and mud;...her first misshapen animals...rude forms, in which she has only blocked her future statue...
    Wsp 6.238 15 If there ever was a good man, be certain there was another and will be more. And so in relation to that future hour...
    Art2 7.55 24 This strict dependence of Art upon material and ideal Nature... has made all its past and may foreshow its future history.
    WD 7.170 17 The days are made on a loom whereof the warp and woof are past and future time.
    WD 7.172 3 Kinde was the old English term, which...filled only half the range of our fine Latin word, with its delicate future tense,--natura, about to be born...
    Suc 7.304 15 ...it has happened that the artist has often drawn in his pictures the face of the future wife whom he had not yet seen.
    Elo2 8.116 25 [the orator]...surprises [the people]...with...his steady gaze at the new and future event...
    Res 8.141 2 By his machines man...can...divine the future possibility of the planet and its inhabitants by his perception of laws of Nature.
    Insp 8.269 7 ...every reasonable man would give any price of house and land and future provision, for condensation, concentration and the recalling at will of high mental energy.
    Imtl 8.324 20 There never was a time when the doctrine of a future life was not held.
    Imtl 8.327 16 We shall pass to the future existence as we enter into an agreeable dream.
    Imtl 8.332 25 Where there is depravity there is a slaughter-house style of thinking. One argument of future life is the recoil of the mind in such company...
    Imtl 8.347 15 Future state is an illusion for the ever-present state.
    Dem1 10.22 5 A Highland chief, an Indian sachem or a feudal baron may fancy...that the one question for history is the pedigree of his house, and future ages will be busy with his renown;...
    Edc1 10.153 1 Whatever becomes of our method [of teaching], the conditions stand fast,-six hours, and thirty, fifty, or a hundred and fifty pupils. Something must be done, and done speedily, and in this distress the wisest are tempted...to proclaim...main strength and ignorance, in lieu of that wise genial providential influence they had hoped, and yet hope at some future day to adopt.
    SovE 10.202 13 In the Christianity of this country there is wide difference of opinion in regard to...the future state of the soul;...
    Plu 10.310 4 [Some of Plutarch's works] are...very crude opinions; many of them so puerile that one would believe that Plutarch in his haste adopted the notes of his younger auditors, some of them jocosely misreporting the dogma of the professor, who laid them aside as memoranda for future revision...
    MMEm 10.401 7 Her aunt became strongly attached to Mary [Moody Emerson], and persuaded the family to give the child up to her as a daughter, on some terms embracing a care of her future interests.
    EWI 11.111 21 ...when...some Quakers, or Moravians, and Wesleyan and Baptist missionaries...had been moved to come [the the West Indies] and cheer the poor victim with the hope of some reparation, in a future world, of the wrongs he suffered in this, these missionaries were persecuted by the planters...
    EWI 11.126 13 It was very easy for manufacturers...to see that...if the slaves [in the West Indies] had wages, the slaves would be clothed...and negro women love fine clothes as well as white women. In every naked negro of those thousands, they saw a future customer.
    War 11.152 7 ...in the infancy of society...the necessities of the strong will certainly be satisfied at the cost of the weak, at whatever peril of future revenge.
    War 11.169 25 A wise man will never impawn his future being and action...
    JBS 11.276 21 But though they slew him with the sword,/ And in the fire his touchstone burned,/ Its doings could not be o'erturned,/ Its undoings restored./ And when, to stop all future harm,/ They strewed its ashes to the breeze,/ They little guessed each grain of these/ Conveyed the perfect charm./ William Allingham.
    ACiv 11.297 23 ...a man coins himself into his labor;...to secure that to him, to secure his past self to his future self, is the object of all government.
    SMC 11.351 15 ...whatever good grows to the country out of war, the largest results, the future power and genius of the land, will go on clothing this shaft [the Concord Monument] with daily beauty and spiritual life.
    Bost 12.201 8 The future historian will regard the detachment of the Puritans without aristocracy the supreme fortune of the colony;...

future, n. (78)

    AmS 1.84 13 ...[the scholar] the future invites.
    AmS 1.113 25 The scholar is that man who must take up into himself...all the hopes of the future.
    MR 1.256 7 There is a sublime prudence which is the very highest that we know of man, which, believing in a vast future...postpones always the present hour to the whole life;...
    Tran 1.346 2 We easily predict a fair future to each new candidate who enters the lists...
    YA 1.393 1 Instead of the open future expanding here before the eye of every boy to vastness, would they like the closing in of the future to a narrow slit of sky...
    YA 1.393 3 Instead of the open future expanding here before the eye of every boy to vastness, would they like the closing in of the future to a narrow slit of sky...
    YA 1.393 4 Instead of the open future expanding here before the eye of every boy to vastness, would they like the closing in of the future to a narrow slit of sky, and that fast contracting to be no future?
    SR 2.59 13 Greatness appeals to the future.
    SR 2.66 8 Whenever a mind is simple and receives a divine wisdom...it... absorbs past and future into the present hour.
    SR 2.67 18 ...man...stands on tiptoe to foresee the future.
    Fdsp 2.214 20 A friend...looks to the past and the future.
    OS 2.284 12 ...the man in whom [the soul] is shed abroad cannot wander from the present, which is infinite, to a future which would be finite.
    OS 2.284 14 These questions which we lust to ask about the future are a confession of sin.
    OS 2.297 15 [Man] will calmly front the morrow in the negligency of that trust which carries God with it and so hath already the whole future in the bottom of the heart.
    Exp 3.54 2 Shall I preclude my future by taking a high seat...
    Exp 3.67 26 God delights to...hide from us the past and the future.
    Exp 3.72 2 I clap my hands in infantine joy and amazement before the first opening to me of this august magnificence...the sunbright Mecca of the desert. And what a future it opens!
    Chr1 3.102 17 [Men] must...make us feel that they have a controlling happy future opening before them...
    Chr1 3.103 23 Those who live to the future must always appear selfish to those who live to the present.
    Nat2 3.167 10 Self-kindled every atom glows,/ And hints the future which it owes./
    Nat2 3.172 2 ...we receive glances from the heavenly bodies, which... foretell the remotest future.
    NR 3.227 11 All our poets, heroes and saints...leave us without any hope of realization but in our own future.
    NER 3.285 22 May [the heart] not quit other leadings, and listen to the Soul...secure that the future will be worthy of the past?
    ET1 5.18 14 ...[Carlyle]...saw how every event affects all the future.
    ET4 5.55 7 ...the Celts or Sidonides are an old family, of whose beginning there is no memory, and their end is likely to be still more remote in the future;...
    ET4 5.67 3 [The blonde race] is not a final race...but a race with a future.
    ET10 5.156 22 [In England] An economist, or a man who can...bring the year round with expenditure which expresses his character without embarrassing one day of his future, is already a master of life, and a freeman.
    ET11 5.195 5 Elizabeth extended her thought to the future;...
    ET16 5.286 25 My friends asked, whether there were any Americans?--any with an American idea,--any theory of the right future of that country?
    F 6.11 2 So [a man] has but one future...
    Ctr 6.166 12 ...if one shall read the future of the race hinted in the organic effort of nature to mount and meliorate, and the corresponding impulse to the Better in the human being, we shall dare affirm that there is nothing he will not overcome and convert...
    Wsp 6.206 23 King Richard taunts God with forsaking him. ... In sooth, my standards will in future be despised, not through my fault, but through thine...
    Wsp 6.234 18 [Benedict] had no designs on the future...
    Wsp 6.239 14 ...he who would be a great soul in future must be a great soul now.
    Wsp 6.239 19 [Immortality] must be proved, if at all, from our own activity and designs, which imply an interminable future for their play.
    SS 7.12 25 'T is said the present and the future are always rivals.
    WD 7.158 10 ...we pity our fathers for dying before...photograph and spectroscope arrived, as cheated out of half their human estate. These arts open great gates of a future...
    WD 7.180 11 ...this curious, peering, itinerant, imitative America...will...sit at home with repose and deep joy on its face. The world has no such landscape...the future no equal second opportunity.
    Boks 7.198 18 [Plato] contains the future, as he came out of the past.
    Boks 7.207 4 ...in the Elizabethan era [the scholar] is at the richest period of the English mind...and with a pregnant future before him.
    OA 7.331 19 Much wider is spread the pleasure which old men take in completing their secular affairs...the agriculturist his experiments, and all old men in...leaving all in the best posture for the future.
    PI 8.74 16 I doubt never...the gifts of the future...
    Elo2 8.132 22 Here [in the United States] is room for every degree of [eloquence], on every one of its ascending stages,--that of useful speech... that of political advice and persuasion...reaching...into a vast future...
    Res 8.154 6 ...the resources of America and its future will be immense only to wise and virtuous men.
    PC 8.227 10 There is not a person here present to whom omens that should astonish have not predicted his future...
    Imtl 8.338 6 The future must be up to the style of our faculties...
    Imtl 8.342 4 ...courage or confidence in the mind comes to those who know by use its wonderful forces and inspirations and returns. Belief in its future is a reward kept only for those who use it.
    Aris 10.31 15 ...the cogent motive with the best young men who are revolving plans and forming resolutions for the future, is the spirit of honor...
    Aris 10.55 16 ...the thought has...large leisures and an inviting future.
    PerF 10.87 2 ...a sensitive politician suffers his ideas of the part New York or Pennsylvania or Ohio is to play in the future of the Union, to be fashioned by the election of rogues in some counties.
    SovE 10.212 4 The mind as it opens transfers very fast its choice...from all that talent executes to the sentiment that fills the heart and dictates the future of nations.
    Prch 10.233 5 ...if the events in which we have taken our part shall not see their solution until a distant future, there is yet a deeper fact;...
    MMEm 10.418 26 Should I [Mary Moody Emerson] take so much care to save a few dollars? Never was I so much ashamed. Did I say with what rapture I might dispose of them to the poor? Pho! self-preservation, dignity, confidence in the future, contempt of trifles! Alas, I am disgraced.
    GSt 10.507 22 ...there is to my mind somewhat so absolute in the action of a good man that we do not, in thinking of him, so much as make any question of the future.
    HDC 11.68 27 ...it gives life and strength to every attempt to oppose [unconstitutional taxes], that not only the people of this, but the neighboring provinces are remarkably united in the important and interesting opposition, which, as it succeeded before, in some measure, by the blessing of heaven, so, we cannot but hope it will be attended with still greater success, in future.
    HDC 11.69 19 ...all such persons as shall purchase, sell, or use any such tea, shall, for the future, be deemed unfriendly to the happy constitution of this country.
    EWI 11.139 14 There are now other energies than force, other than political, which no man in future can allow himself to disregard.
    EWI 11.143 1 [The blacks] won the pity and respect which they have received [in the West Indies], by their powers and native endowments. I think this a circumstance of the highest import. Their whole future is in it.
    AsSu 11.247 19 In [the slave state]...man is an animal...spending his days in hunting and practising with deadly weapons to defend himself against his slaves and against his companions brought up in the same idle and dangerous way. Such people...have properly no future...
    JBS 11.278 17 ...the colored boy had no friend, and no future.
    ACiv 11.309 23 This is the consolation on which we rest in the darkness of the future and the afflictions of to-day, that the government of the world is moral...
    EPro 11.316 6 Such moments of expansion [of liberty] in modern history were the Confession of Augsburg...and now, eminently, President Lincoln's [Emancipation] Proclamation on the twenty-second of September. These are acts...working on a long future and on permanent interests...
    SMC 11.351 8 The art of the architect and the sense of the town have made these dumb stones [of the Concord Monument] speak;...have made them look to the past and the future;...
    Koss 11.398 13 We [people of Concord] please ourselves that in you [Kossuth] we meet...a man so truly in love with the greatest future, that he cannot be diverted to any less.
    FRep 11.515 26 At every moment some one country more than any other represents the sentiment and the future of mankind.
    FRep 11.544 9 ...in seeing this felicity without example that has rested on the Union thus far, I find new confidence for the future.
    PLT 12.59 7 ...we behold [the universe] shooting the gulf from the past to the future.
    PLT 12.60 10 So long as you are capable of advance, so long you have not abdicated the hope and future of a divine soul.
    Mem 12.94 24 Memory was called by the schoolmen vespertina cognitio, evening knowledge, in distinction from the command of the future which we have by the knowledge of causes, and which they called matutina cognitio, or morning knowledge.
    Mem 12.98 17 We gathered up what a rolling snow-ball as we came along,-much of it professedly for the future...
    Mem 12.110 17 Memory is a presumption of a possession of the future.
    Mem 12.110 18 Now we are halves, we see the past but not the future...
    CL 12.141 7 Plutarch thought [the air] contained the knowledge of the future.
    Milt1 12.276 23 ...the genius and office of Milton were...to ascend by the aids of his learning and his religion-by an equal perception, that is, of the past and the future-to a higher insight and more lively delineation of the heroic life of man.
    WSL 12.339 18 Montaigne assigns as a reason for his license of speech that he is tired of seeing his Essays on the work-tables of ladies, and he is determined they shall for the future put them out of sight.
    PPr 12.391 12 [Carlyle's] jokes shake down Parliament House and Windsor Castle...and the future shall echo the dangerous peals.

Future, n. (15)

    LT 1.259 15 The Times are...the quarry out of which the genius of to-day is building up the Future.
    LT 1.262 5 ...[persons] are the heralds of the Future.
    LT 1.268 6 The two omnipresent parties of History, the party of the Past and the party of the Future, divide society today as of old.
    LT 1.285 12 [Speculators] have some piety which looks with faith to a fair Future...
    Con 1.295 22 Such an irreconcilable antagonism [as that between Conservatism and Innovation]...must have a correspondent depth of seat in the human constitution. It is the opposition of Past and Future...
    Con 1.301 12 If we see [the world] from the side of Will, or the Moral Sentiment, we shall accuse the Past and the Present, and require the impossible of the Future.
    Con 1.303 23 The contest between the Future and the Past is one between Divinity entering and Divinity departing.
    YA 1.371 15 [America] is the country of the Future.
    YA 1.375 5 /Man's heart the Almighty to the Future set/ By secret and inviolable springs./
    YA 1.391 21 ...the development of our American internal resources...and the appearance of new moral causes which are to modify the State, are giving an aspect of greatness to the Future...
    Ctr 6.129 10 Can rules or tutors educate/ The semigod whom we await?/ He must be musical,/ Tremulous, impressional,/ Alive to gentle influence/ Of landscape and of sky,/ And tender to the spirit-touch/ Of man's or maiden's eye:/ But, to his native centre fast,/ Shall into Future fuse the Past,/ And the world's flowing fates in his own mould recast./
    Imtl 8.344 15 Man's heart the Almighty to the Future set/ By secret but inviolable springs./
    LLNE 10.325 12 There are always two parties, the party of the Past and the party of the Future;...
    HDC 11.30 9 Man's life, said the Witan to the Saxon king, is the sparrow that enters at a window...and flies out at another, and none knoweth whence he came, or whither he goes. The more reason...that we should recall the Past, and expect the Future.
    EPro 11.315 11 Every step in the history of political liberty is a sally of the human mind into the untried Future...

futurities, n. (2)

    SwM 4.134 11 The thousand-fold relation of men is not there [in Swedenborg's system of the world]. The interest that attaches in nature to each man...because he defies all dogmatizing and classification, so many allowances and contingences and futurities are to be taken into account;...
    PI 8.71 15 ...you must have the vivacity of the poet to perceive in the thought its futurities.

futurity, n. (1)

    Dem1 10.15 6 ...[Masollam] replied...Why are you so foolish as to take care of this unfortunate bird? How could this fowl give us any wise directions respecting our journey, when he could not save his own life? Had he known anything of futurity, he would not have come here to be killed by the arrow of Masollam the Jew.

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