Gazers to Genially

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

gazer, n. (1)

    Thor 10.470 16 The redstart was flying about, and presently the fine grosbeaks, whose brilliant scarlet makes the rash gazer wipe his eye...

gazers, n. (1)

    Nat2 3.178 12 It is when...the house is filled with grooms and gazers, that we turn from the people to find relief in the majestic men that are suggested by the pictures and the architecture.

gazes, v. (5)

    LT 1.287 24 The main interest which any aspects of the Times can have for us, is the great spirit which gazes through them...
    SwM 4.134 18 Though the agency of the Lord is in every line referred to by name [by Swedenborg], it never becomes alive. There is no lustre in that eye which gazes from the centre and which should vivify the immense dependency of beings.
    Art2 7.52 2 The galleries of ancient sculpture in Naples and Rome strike no deeper conviction into the mind than the contrast of the purity, the severity expressed in these fine old heads, with the frivolity and grossness of the mob that exhibits and the mob that gazes at them.
    EWI 11.147 19 The Intellect, with blazing eye, looking through history from the beginning onward, gazes on this blot [slavery] and it disappears.
    MAng1 12.244 15 The traveller from a distant continent, who gazes on that marble brow [bust of Michelangelo], feels that he is not a stranger in the foreign church;...

Gazette, Banker's, n. (1)

    ACri 12.294 6 ...[Shakespeare's] very sonnets are as solid and close to facts as the Banker's Gazette;...

gazette, n. (1)

    Prch 10.231 20 I do not love sensation preaching...the review of our appearances and what others say of us! That you may read in the gazette.

Gazette, n. (1)

    Pow 6.76 5 Stick to your brewery ([Rothschild] said this to young Buxton), and you will be the great brewer of London. Be brewer, and banker, and merchant, and manufacturer, and you will soon be in the Gazette.

gazette, v. (1)

    ACri 12.291 25 ...I sometimes wish that the Board of Education might carry out the project of a college for graduates of our universities, to which editors and members of Congress and writers of books might repair, and learn...to gazette those Americanisms which offend us in all journals.

gazetted, v. (3)

    SR 2.60 11 Let the words [conformity, consistency] be gazetted and ridiculous henceforward.
    Supl 10.164 27 'T is very wearisome, this straining talk, these experiences all exquisite, intense and tremendous,-The best I ever saw; I never in my life! One wishes these terms gazetted and forbidden.
    ACri 12.292 18 Vulgarisms to be gazetted, moiety used for a small part;...

gazetteer, n. (2)

    Nat2 3.177 11 ...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;...
    Ctr 6.138 14 We can spare...your gazetteer...

Gazettes, Literary, n. (1)

    EurB 12.369 12 ...the Court Journals and Literary Gazettes were not well pleased, and voted the poet [Wordsworth] a bore.

gazettes, v. (1)

    ACri 12.293 8 Every age gazettes a quantity of words which it has used up.

gazing, v. (3)

    Exp 3.66 17 You love the boy...gazing at a drawing or a cast;...
    Bhr 6.178 14 When a thought strikes us, the eyes fix and remain gazing at a distance;...
    Res 8.138 27 I like the sentiment of the poor woman who, coming...for the first time to the seashore, gazing at the ocean, said she was glad for once in her life to see something which there was enough of.

gear, n. (4)

    GoW 4.276 24 ...[Goethe] stripped [the Devil] of mythologic gear...
    Farm 7.142 20 [The farmer's] machine is of colossal proportions;...and it takes him long to understand its parts and its working. This pump never sucks;...this machine is never out of gear;...
    Res 8.139 11 Our Copernican globe is a great factory or shop of power, with its rotating constellations, times and tides. The machine is of colossal size;...and it takes long to understand its parts and its workings. This pump never sucks;...this machine is never out of gear.
    SMC 11.353 2 The aim of the hour was to reconstruct the South; but first the North had to be reconstructed. Its own theory and practice of liberty had got sadly out of gear...

geese, n. (4)

    LE 1.168 4 The honking of the wild geese flying by night; the thin note of the companionable titmouse in the winter day;...all, are alike unattempted [by poets].
    Supl 10.174 26 Nor is there in Nature itself any swell, any brag, any strain or shock, but a firm common sense...through all her ducks and geese;...
    CL 12.151 6 The next day the Hylas were piping in every pool, and a new activity among the hardy birds...and the first northward flight of the geese...
    CL 12.161 19 By what compass the geese steer, and the herring migrate, we would so gladly know.

gehenna, n. (1)

    Ctr 6.166 17 ...at last culture shall absorb the chaos and gehenna.

gem, n. (8)

    LT 1.278 26 ...a consent to solitude and inaction which proceeds out of an unwillingness to violate character, is the century which makes the gem.
    Lov1 2.167 1 i was as a gem concealed;/ Me my burning ray revealed./ Koran.
    Pt1 3.35 1 The morning-redness happens to be the favorite meteor to the eyes of Jacob Behmen, and comes to stand to him for truth and faith; and, he believes, should stand for the same realities to every reader. But the first reader prefers as naturally the symbol of...a jeweller polishing a gem.
    Gts 3.161 14 The only gift is a portion of thyself. ... Therefore the poet brings his poem;...the miner, a gem;...
    Pow 6.57 16 On the neck of the young man, said Hafiz, sparkles no gem so gracious as enterprise.
    Bty 6.306 13 ...there is a climbing scale of culture, from the first agreeable sensation which a sparkling gem or a scarlet stain affords the eye...
    Boks 7.196 16 Now and then, by rarest luck, is some foolish Grub Street is the gem we want.
    MLit 12.332 17 Life for [Goethe]...has a gem or two more on its robe; but its old eternal burden is not relieved;...

gems, n. (8)

    ET7 5.119 5 [The English] are not fond of ornaments, and if they wear them, they must be gems.
    ET11 5.195 13 Already...the English noble and squire were preparing for the career of the country-gentleman and his peaceable expense. They went from city to city...gathering seeds, gems, coins and divers curiosities, preparing for a private life thereafter...
    Bty 6.304 27 The poets are quite right in decking their mistresses with the spoils of the landscape, flower-gardens, gems...
    PPo 8.242 25 These legends [of Persian kings], with...pearl-diving, and the virtues of gems;...make the staple imagery of Persian odes.
    PPo 8.260 16 They strew in the path of kings and czars/ Jewels and gems of price:/ But for thy head I will pluck down stars,/ And pave thy way with eyes./
    Edc1 10.132 21 ...presently the aroused intellect finds gold and gems in one of these scorned facts...
    CL 12.153 16 ...on the shore...[the sea] is changed into a beauty as of gems and clouds.
    Pray 12.350 2 Not with fond shekels of the tested gold,/ Nor gems whose rates are either rich or poor/ As fancy values them; but with true prayers,/...

genealogy, n. (1)

    NMW 4.252 23 ...Rome and Austria, centres of tradition and genealogy, opposed [Napoleon].

Genelas [The Boy and the M (2)

    Hist 2.35 4 In the story of the Boy and the Mantle even a mature reader may be surprised with a glow of virtuous pleasure at the triumph of the gentle Genelas;...
    DL 7.123 13 The innocent Venelas alone could wear [the magic mantle].

genera, n. (1)

    Hist 2.13 17 Genius detects...through all genera the steadfast type;...

general, adj. (146)

    Nat 1.5 5 In inquiries so general as our present one, the inaccuracy [of terminology] is not material;...
    Nat 1.12 7 Under the general name of commodity, I rank all those advantages which our senses owe to nature.
    Nat 1.14 15 ...I shall leave [examples of the useful arts] to the reader's reflection, with the general remark, that this mercenary benefit is one which has respect to a farther good.
    Nat 1.16 2 ...besides this general grace diffused over nature, almost all the individual forms are agreeable to the eye...
    Nat 1.59 5 ...there is something ungrateful in expanding too curiously the particulars of the general proposition, that all culture tends to imbue us with idealism.
    DSA 1.128 4 These general views...find abundant illustration in the history of religion...
    DSA 1.128 5 These general views, which, while they are general, none will contest, find abundant illustration in the history of religion...
    LE 1.156 1 ...the scholar by every thought he thinks extends his dominion into the general mind of men...
    LE 1.165 9 ...what hinders [men] in the particular is the momentary predominance of the finite and individual over the general truth.
    MN 1.215 3 To every reform...early disgusts are incident, so that the disciple is surprised at the very hour of his first triumphs with chagrins, and sickness, and a general distrust;...
    MN 1.216 12 The doctrine in vegetable physiology of the presence or the general influence of any substance over and above its chemical influence... is more predicable of man.
    MR 1.227 2 I wish to offer to your consideration some thoughts on the particular and general relations of man as a reformer.
    MR 1.230 14 It cannot be wondered at that this general inquest into abuses should arise in the bosom of society...
    MR 1.230 25 ...The ways of commerce...are now in their general course so vitiated by derelictions and abuses at which all connive, that it requires more vigor and resources than can be expected of every young man, to right himself in them;...
    MR 1.232 13 ...the general system of our trade...is a system of selfishness;...
    LT 1.265 12 Could we...indicate those who most accurately represent every good and evil tendency of the general mind...we should have a series of sketches which would report to the next ages the color and quality of ours.
    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;...
    LT 1.269 22 How can such a question as the Slave-trade be agitated for forty years by...without throwing great light on ethics into the general mind?
    LT 1.271 5 There is a perfect chain...of reforms...each cherishing some part of the general idea...
    Con 1.299 14 ...[conservatism] thinks there is a general law without a particular application...
    Con 1.299 21 ...whilst we do not go beyond general statements, it may be safely affirmed of these two metaphysical antagonists [Conservatism and Reform], that each is a good half, but an impossible whole.
    Con 1.305 24 On these and the like grounds of general statement, conservatism plants itself without danger of being displaced.
    Con 1.319 25 If any man resist and set up a foolish hope he has entertained as good against the general despair, Society frowns on him...
    Tran 1.342 13 ...[Transcendentalists] shun general society;...
    Tran 1.349 16 As to the general course of living, and the daily employments of men, [Transcendentalists] cannot see much virtue in these...
    YA 1.373 22 ...we cannot shed a hair or a paring of a nail but instantly [Nature] snatches at the shred and appropriates it to the general stock.
    YA 1.386 6 If any man has a talent...for combining a hundred private enterprises to a general benefit, let him in the county-town...put up his sign-board, Mr. Smith, Governor...
    YA 1.387 22 In every age of the world there has been a leading nation... whose eminent citizens were willing to stand for the interests of general justice and humanity...
    Hist 2.38 10 I will not now go behind the general statement to explore the reason of this correspondency.
    SR 2.55 19 There is a mortifying experience in particular, which does not fail to wreak itself also in the general history;...
    SL 2.141 5 This talent and this call depend on...the mode in which the general soul incarnates itself in [a man].
    Lov1 2.169 6 Nature...anticipates already a benevolence which shall lose all particular regards in its general light.
    Cir 2.304 21 Every general law [is] only a particular fact of some more general law...
    Cir 2.304 22 Every general law [is] only a particular fact of some more general law...
    Pt1 3.4 27 ...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;...and to the general aspect of the art in the present time.
    Mrs1 3.140 3 ...besides the general infusion of wit to heighten civility, the direct splendor of intellectual power is ever welcome in fine society as the costliest addition to its rule and its credit.
    Mrs1 3.154 4 Are you...rich enough to make...even the poor insane or besotted wreck of man or woman, feel the noble exception of your presence and your house from the general bleakness and stoniness;...
    Gts 3.159 5 I do not think this general insolvency [of the world]...to be the reason of the difficulty experienced at Christmas and New Year and other times, in bestowing gifts;...
    Pol1 3.201 4 Meantime the education of the general mind never stops.
    NR 3.226 21 When I meet a pure intellectual force or a generosity of affection, I believe here then is man; and am presently mortified by the discovery that this individual is no more available to his own or to the general ends than his companions;...
    NR 3.229 18 We adjust our instrument for general observation, and sweep the heavens as easily as we pick out a single figure in the terrestrial landscape.
    NR 3.231 6 General ideas are essences.
    NR 3.237 7 We like to come to a height of land and see the landscape, just as we value a general remark in conversation.
    NR 3.237 9 ...it is not the intention of Nature that we should live by general views.
    NR 3.241 6 To embroil the confusion and make it impossible to arrive at any general statement,--when we have insisted on the imperfection of individuals, our affections and our experience urge that every individual is entitled to honor...
    NER 3.279 7 ...in spite of selfishness and frivolity, the general purpose in the great number of persons is fidelity.
    NER 3.279 16 If it were worth while to run into details this general doctrine of the latent but ever soliciting Spirit, it would be easy to adduce illustration in particulars of a man's equality to the Church...
    UGM 4.10 2 A magnet must be made man in some...Oersted, before the general mind can come to entertain its powers.
    UGM 4.21 12 How to illustrate...the service rendered by those who introduce moral truths into the general mind?...
    MoS 4.176 24 Does the general voice of ages affirm any principle...
    MoS 4.185 21 ...although...the march of civilization is a train of felonies,-- yet, general ends are somehow answered.
    NMW 4.249 19 This deputy of the nineteenth century [Napoleon] added to his gifts a capacity for speculation on general topics.
    GoW 4.270 16 [Goethe] appears at a time when a general culture has spread itself...
    ET1 5.24 23 To judge from a single conversation, [Wordsworth] made the impression...of one who paid for his rare elevation by general tameness and conformity.
    ET3 5.40 5 It is...pretended that the enormous consumption of coal in the island [England] is also felt in modifying the general climate.
    ET5 5.101 1 The boys [in England] know all that Hutton knew of strata...or Harvey of blood-vessels; and these studies, once dangerous, are in fashion. So what is invented or known in agriculture...or in literature and antiquities. A great ability...poured into the general mind...
    ET10 5.167 2 ...the machine unmans the user. What he gains in making cloth, he loses in general power.
    ET11 5.176 23 I have met somewhere with a historiette, which...carries a general truth.
    ET11 5.187 15 On general grounds, whatever tends to form manners or to finish men, has a great value.
    ET12 5.211 3 In seeing these youths [at Oxford] I believed I saw already an advantage in vigor and color and general habit, over their contemporaries in the American colleges.
    ET13 5.223 19 [The Anglican Church] has a general good name for amenity and mildness.
    ET14 5.243 25 The later English want the faculty of Plato and Aristotle, of grouping men in natural classes by an insight of general laws...
    ET14 5.251 5 ...if, going out of the region of dogma, we pass into that of general culture, there is no end to the graces and amenities, wit, sensibility and erudition of the learned class [in England].
    ET14 5.257 20 Through all his refinements...[Tennyson] has reached the public,--a certificate of good sense and general power...
    ET14 5.258 5 The best office of the best poets has been to show how low and uninspired was their general style...
    ET15 5.262 27 Hundreds of clever Praeds and Freres and Froudes and Hoods and Hooks and Maginns and Mills and Macaulays, make poems, or short essays for a journal...as they shoot and ride. It is a quite accidental and arbitrary direction of their general ability.
    ET18 5.299 17 [Englishmen's] political conduct is not decided by general views...
    ET18 5.304 14 [The English] do not occupy themselves on matters of general and lasting import...
    ET18 5.308 3 By this general activity and by this sacredness of individuals, [the English] have in seven hundred years evolved the principles of freedom.
    F 6.5 26 The Destinee, ministre general,/ That executeth in the world over al,/ The purveiance that God hath seen beforne,/ So strong it is/...Yet sometime it shall fallen on a day/ That falleth not oft in a thousand yeer;/...
    Pow 6.69 21 The excess of virility has the same importance in general history as in private and industrial life.
    Wth 6.118 5 It is a general rule in that country [England] that bigger incomes do not help anybody.
    Wsp 6.209 9 By the irresistible maturing of the general mind, the Christian traditions have lost their hold.
    Wsp 6.212 21 It has been charged that a want of sincerity in the leading men is a vice general throughout American society.
    CbW 6.255 20 I do not think very respectfully of the designs or the doings of the people who went to California in 1849. It was...in the western country, a general jail delivery of all the rowdies of the rivers.
    Bty 6.287 11 ...there are many beauties; as, of general nature, of the human face and form...
    Bty 6.298 23 ...short legs which constrain us to short, mincing steps are a kind of personal insult and contumely to the owner; and long stilts...force him to stoop to the general level of mankind.
    Elo1 7.86 15 That is what we go to the court-house for,--the statement of the fact, and of a general fact...
    DL 7.116 1 Aristides was made general receiver of Greece...
    Boks 7.190 23 We owe to books those general benefits which come from high intellectual action.
    Boks 7.211 21 ...[the Germans] take any general topic...and write and quote without method or end.
    Cour 7.253 11 Self-love is, in almost all men, such an over-weight, that they are incredulous of a man's habitual preference of the general good to his own;...
    Cour 7.258 2 ...the high price of courage indicates the general timidity.
    OA 7.323 7 Under the general assertion of the well-being of age, we can easily count particular benefits of that condition.
    PI 8.31 27 ...[men of the world] admit the general truth, but they and their affair always constitute a case in bar of the statute.
    SA 8.100 19 There is in America a general conviction in the minds of all mature men, that every young man of good faculty and good habits can by perseverance attain to an adequate estate;...
    Res 8.152 15 If I go into the woods in winter, and am shown the thirteen or fourteen species of willow that grow in Massachusetts, I learn that...though insignificant enough in the general bareness of the forest, yet a great change takes place in them between fall and spring;...
    Imtl 8.328 1 These truths, passing out of [Swedenborg's] system into general circulation, are now met with every day...
    Aris 10.39 11 I wish...men...who see general effects...
    PerF 10.80 17 ...[the prisoner] took his flute out of his pocket and began to play...and the prisoner was by general consent of court and officers allowed to go his way without any money.
    Chr2 10.94 20 He who doth a just action seeth therein nothing of his own, but an inconceivable nobleness attaches to it, because it is a dictate of the general mind.
    Chr2 10.116 20 ...a few clergymen, with a more theological cast of mind, retain the traditions, but they carry them quietly. In general discourse, they are never obtruded.
    SovE 10.200 12 Certainly it is human to value a general consent...
    Schr 10.261 16 Literary men gladly acknowledge these ties which find for the homeless and the stranger a welcome where least looked for. But in proportion as we are conversant with the laws of life, we have seen the like. We are used to these surprises. This is but one operation of a more general law.
    Schr 10.278 8 We have general intelligence, but no Cyclop arms.
    Schr 10.284 23 Happy for more than yourself, a benefactor of men, if you can answer [life's questions] in works of wisdom, art or poetry; bestowing on the general mind of men organic creations...
    Plu 10.295 5 In France...Amyot's translation [of Plutarch] awakened general attention.
    Plu 10.303 26 ...in reading [Plutarch], I embrace the particulars, and carry a faint memory of the argument or general design of the chapter;...
    LLNE 10.337 4 ...whether by a reaction of the general mind against the too formal science, religion and social life of the earlier period,-there was, in the first quarter of our nineteenth century, a certain sharpness of criticism...
    LLNE 10.338 22 The result [of Modern Science] in literature and the general mind was a return to law;...
    LLNE 10.342 13 I think there prevailed at that time a general belief in Boston that there was some concert of doctrinaires to establish certain opinions...
    EzRy 10.388 20 When Put Merriam...had the effrontery to call on the Doctor [Ezra Ripley] as an old acquaintance, in the midst of general conversation Mr. Frost came in...
    LS 11.16 1 One general remark before quitting this branch of this subject [the Lord's Supper].
    LS 11.20 13 The general object and effect of the ordinance [the Lord's Supper] is unexceptionable.
    HDC 11.49 11 It is the consequence of this institution [the town-meeting] that not a school-house...a mill-dam, hath been...altered, or bought, or sold, without the whole population of this town [Concord] having a voice in the affair. A general contentment is the result.
    HDC 11.54 10 Such was...the success of the general enterprise [conversion of the Indians], that, in 1676, there were five hundred and sixty-seven praying Indians...
    HDC 11.63 14 In 1689, Concord partook of the general indignation of the province against Andros.
    HDC 11.72 13 On 13th March [1775], at a general review of all the military companies [of Concord], [William Emerson] preached to a very full assembly...
    HDC 11.81 4 In 1786, when the general sufferings drove the people in parts of Worcester and Hampshire counties to insurrection, a large party of armed insurgents arrived in this town [Concord]...
    LVB 11.94 21 On the broaching of this question [of the moral character of government], a general expression of despondency, of disbelief that any good will accrue from a remonstrance on an act of fraud and robbery, appeared in those men to whom we naturally turn for aid and counsel.
    EWI 11.115 4 Some American captains left the shore and put to sea [at the announcement of emancipation in the West Indies], anticipating insurrection and general murder.
    EWI 11.117 27 I may here express a general remark, which the history of slavery seems to justify...
    War 11.151 5 It has been a favorite study of modern philosophy...to watch the rising of a thought in one man's mind...its expansion and general reception...
    War 11.151 9 Looked at in this general and historical way, many things wear a very different face from that they show near by, and one at a time...
    War 11.160 22 Cannot peace be, as well as war? This thought is...the rising of the general tide in the human soul...
    War 11.162 22 ...we never make much account of objections which merely respect the actual state of the world at this moment, but which admit the general expediency and permanent excellence of the project.
    FSLC 11.200 1 When a moral quality comes into politics...general principles are laid bare...
    FSLN 11.220 12 I saw that a great man [Webster], deservedly admired for his powers and their general right direction, was able...when he failed...to carry parties with him.
    FSLN 11.224 2 ...with a general ability which impresses all the world, there is not a single general remark...that can pass into literature from [Webster' s] writings.
    FSLN 11.224 3 ...there is not a single general remark...that can pass into literature from [Webster's] writings.
    FSLN 11.229 19 ...I suppose that liberty is an accurate index, in men and nations, of general progress.
    FSLN 11.231 10 [Reasonable men] side with Carolina, or with Arkansas, only to make a show of Whig strength, wherewith to resist a little longer this general ruin.
    FSLN 11.237 12 ...a man cannot steal without incurring the penalties of the thief...though there be a general conspiracy among scholars and official persons to hold him up...
    ACiv 11.301 9 A democratic statesman said to me...that, if he owned the state of Kentucky, he would manumit all the slaves, and be a gainer by the transaction. Is this new? No, everybody knows it. As a general economy it is admitted.
    ACiv 11.301 24 ...the eager interest of the few overpowers the apathetic general conviction of the many.
    ACiv 11.304 22 We are advanced some ages on the war-state,-to trade, art and general cultivation.
    SMC 11.365 10 ...the regimental officers believed, what is now the general conviction of the country, that the misfortunes of the day [battle of Bull Run] were not so much owing to the fault of the troops as to the insufficiency of the combinations by the general officers.
    SMC 11.365 14 ...the regimental officers believed...that the misfortunes of the day [battle of Bull Run] were not so much owing to the fault of the troops as to the insufficiency of the combinations by the general officers.
    Wom 11.406 24 ...the general voice of mankind has agreed that [women] have their own strength;...
    Wom 11.418 6 ...for the general charge [that women are temperamental]: no doubt it is well founded.
    FRep 11.529 20 The men, the women, all over this land shrill their exclamations of impatience and indignation at what is short-coming or is unbecoming in the government...ever on broad grounds of general justice...
    FRep 11.542 21 ...man seems to play...a certain part that even tells on the general face of the planet...
    PLT 12.40 21 The game of Intellect is the perception that whatever befalls or can be stated is a universal proposition; and contrariwise, that every general statement is poetical again by being particularized or impersonated.
    PLT 12.52 17 ...to arrange general reflections in their natural order...this continuity is for the great.
    PLT 12.56 26 We are continually tempted to sacrifice genius to talent...and we buy this freedom to glitter by the loss of general health.
    CL 12.157 19 Our schools and colleges strangely neglect the general education of the eye.
    CW 12.179 12 ...there is a general sense which the best knowledge of the particular alphabet [of Nature] leaves unexplained.
    Bost 12.195 27 The universality of an elementary education in New England is her praise and her power in the whole world. To the schools succeeds the village lyceum,-now very general throughout all the country towns of New England...
    MAng1 12.225 8 The news of [Michelangelo's] departure occasioned a general concern in Florence...
    Milt1 12.250 3 Only its general aim, and a few elevated passages, can save [Milton's Defence of the English People].
    Milt1 12.252 20 We think we have seen and heard criticism upon [Milton' s] poems, which the bard himself would have more valued than the recorded praise of Dryden, Addison and Johnson, because it...was...more welcome to the poet than the general and vague acknowledgment of his genius by those able but unsympathizing critics.
    Milt1 12.269 1 [Milton's] birth fell upon the agitated years when the discontents of the English Puritans were fast drawing to a head against the tyranny of the Stuarts. No period has surpassed that in the general activity of mind.
    ACri 12.293 1 Vulgarisms to be gazetted...as a general thing;...
    MLit 12.313 19 We say, in accordance with the general view I have stated, that the single soul feels its right to be no longer confounded with numbers...
    PPr 12.385 22 ...we may easily fail in expressing the general objection [to Carlyle's Past and Present] which we feel.
    Let 12.395 22 It were fit to forbid concert and calculation in this particular... if we were up to the mark of self-denial and faith in our general activity.

General Assembly, n. (2)

    Elo2 8.117 24 A worthy gentleman...listening to the debates of the General Assembly of the Scottish Kirk in Edinburgh...went to [Dr. Hugh Blair] and offered him one thousand pounds sterling if he would teach him to speak with propriety in public.
    HDC 11.79 4 In June [1776], the General Assembly of Massachusetts resolved to raise 5000 militia for six months...

General Court, n. (21)

    HDC 11.32 5 [The pilgrims] petitioned the General Court for a grant of a township...
    HDC 11.32 14 The grant of the General Court was but a preliminary step.
    HDC 11.41 17 Mr. Bulkeley, by his generosity, spent his estate, and, doubtless in consideration of his charges, the General Court, in 1639, granted him 300 acres towards Cambridge;...
    HDC 11.44 4 [The colonists'] wants, their poverty, their manifest convenience made them bold to ask of the Governor and of the General Court, immunities...
    HDC 11.44 17 As early as 1633, the office of townsman or selectman appears [in New England], who seems first to have been appointed by the General Court...
    HDC 11.44 18 In 1635, the [General] Court say, whereas particular towns have many things which concern only themselves, it is Ordered, that the freemen of every town shall have power to dispose of their own lands and woods, and choose their own particular officers.
    HDC 11.46 6 ...[John Winthrop] advised, seeing the freemen were grown so numerous, to send deputies from every town once in a year to revise the laws and to assess all monies. And the General Court, thus constituted, only needed to go into separate session from the Council, as they did in 1644, to become essentially the same assembly they are to this day.
    HDC 11.51 17 In 1644, Squaw Sachem, the widow of Nanepashemet...with two sachems of Wachusett...intimated their desire...to learn to read God's word and know God aright; and the General Court acted on their request.
    HDC 11.54 2 At the instance of [John] Eliot, in 1651, [the Indians'] desire was granted by the General Court, and Nashobah, lying near Nagog Pond... became an Indian town...
    HDC 11.56 1 In 1643, one seventh or one eighth part of the inhabitants [of Concord] went to Connecticut with Reverend Mr. Jones, and settled Fairfield. Weakened by this loss, the people begged to be released from a part of their rates, to which the General Court consented.
    HDC 11.56 24 The General Court, in 1647...Ordered, that every township after the Lord had increased them to the number of fifty house-holders, shall appoint one to teach all children to write and read;...
    HDC 11.62 19 Before 1666, 15,000 acres had been added by grants of the General Court to the original territory of the town [Concord]...
    HDC 11.65 4 The charges of education and of legislation, at this period, seem to have afflicted the town [Concord]; for they vote to petition the General Court to be eased of the law relating to providing a school-master;...
    HDC 11.65 6 The charges of education and of legislation, at this period, seem to have afflicted the town [Concord]; for they vote to petition the General Court to be eased of the law relating to providing a school-master; happily, the Court refused;...
    HDC 11.65 22 It is an article in the selectmen's warrant for the town-meeting, to see if the town [Concord] will lay in for a representative not exceeding four pounds. Captain Minott was chosen, and after the General Court was adjourned received of the town for his services, an allowance of three shillings per day.
    HDC 11.67 26 From the appearance of the article in the Selectmen's warrant, in 1765, to see if the town will give the Representative any instructions about any important affair to be transacted by the General Court, concerning the Stamp Act, to the peace of 1783, the [Concord] Town Records breathe a resolute and warlike spirit...
    HDC 11.80 15 [The country towns] were jealous lest the General Court should pay itself too liberally...
    HDC 11.80 20 ...our fathers must be forgiven by their charitable posterity, if, in 1782...it was Voted that the person who should be chosen representative to the General Court should receive 6s. per day...
    HDC 11.80 23 ......it was Voted [by Concord] that the person who should be chosen representative to the General Court should receive 6s. per day, whilst in actual service, an account of which time he should bring to the town, and if it should be that the General Court should resolve, that, their pay should be more than 6s., then the representative shall be hereby directed to pay the overplus into the town treasury.
    HDC 11.81 23 It was put to the town of Concord, in October, 1776, by the Legislature, whether the existing house of representatives should enact a constitution for the State? The town answered No. The General Court, notwithstanding, draughted a constitution, sent it here...
    EWI 11.131 20 The Governor of Massachusetts is a trifler;...the General Court is a dishonored body, if they make laws which they cannot execute.

General Court of Massachuse (1)

    Bost 12.195 12 The General Court of Massachusetts, in 1647, To the end that learning may not be buried in the graves of the forefathers, ordered, that every township, after the Lord has increased them to the number of fifty householders, shall appoint one to teach all children to write and read;...

general, n. (45)

    Nat 1.37 1 Our dealing with sensible objects is a constant exercise in the necessary lessons...of ascent from particular to general;...
    LE 1.157 11 It suffices me to say, in general, that the diffidence of mankind in the soul has crept over the American mind...
    LE 1.165 1 Able men, in general, have good dispositions...
    MR 1.240 21 In general one may say that the husbandman's is the oldest and most universal profession...
    Con 1.316 20 ...what holds in particular, holds in general...
    YA 1.373 17 It is because Nature thus saves and uses, laboring for the general, that we poor particulars...find it so hard to live.
    Hist 2.11 15 When [Belzoni] has satisfied himself, in general and in detail, that [Thebes] was made by such a person as he...the problem is solved;...
    Comp 2.118 16 In general, every evil to which we do not succumb is a benefactor.
    Mrs1 3.144 19 The artist, the scholar, and, in general, the clerisy, win their way up into these places [of fashion] and get represented here, somewhat on this footing of conquest.
    UGM 4.19 22 [The great man's] class is extinguished with him. In some other and quite different field the next man will appear; not Jefferson, not Franklin, but now a great salesman...then a buffalo-hunting explorer, or a semi-savage Western general.
    SwM 4.120 15 A man is in general and in particular an organized justice or injustice...
    ShP 4.190 1 The Genius of our life...will not have any individual great, except through the general.
    NMW 4.238 25 It was a whimsical economy of the same kind which dictated [Bonaparte's] practice, when general in Italy, in regard to his burdensome correspondence.
    NMW 4.245 5 Seventeen men in [Napoleon's] time were raised from common soldiers to the rank of king, marshal, duke, or general;...
    ET6 5.109 12 Wellington...though a general of an army in Spain, could not stir abroad for fear of public creditors.
    ET11 5.185 4 In general, all that is required of [English nobility] is to sit securely...
    ET12 5.210 19 ...in general, here [at Oxford] was proof of a more searching study in the appointed directions...
    ET13 5.225 2 The bill for the naturalization of the Jews [in England] (in 1753) was resisted...by petition from the city of London, reprobating this bill, as...extremely injurious to the interests and commerce of the kingdom in general...
    ET14 5.244 7 ...a bad general wants myriads of men and miles of redoubts to compensate the inspirations of courage and conduct.
    F 6.38 11 As the general says to his soldiers, If you want a fort, build a fort.
    Ctr 6.158 26 A man known to us only as a celebrity in politics or in trade gains largely in our esteem if we discover that he has some intellectual taste or skill; as when we learn of Lord Fairfax, the Long Parliament's general, his passion for antiquarian studies;...
    Bty 6.294 23 ...in general, it is proof of high culture to say the greatest matters in the simplest way.
    SS 7.13 1 ...[animal spirits'] feats are like the structure of a pyramid. Their result is a lord, a general, or a boon companion.
    WD 7.176 25 A general, said Bonaparte, always has troops enough, if he only knows how to employ those he has, and bivouacs with them.
    Boks 7.210 9 Earl Spencer bethought him like a prudent general of useless bloodshed and waste of powder...
    Cour 7.264 20 The general must stimulate the mind of his soldiers to the perception that they are men, and the enemy is no more.
    OA 7.327 25 He is serene...whose condition, in particular and in general, allows the utterance of his mind.
    SA 8.87 26 ...quite another class of our own youth I should remind, of dress in general, that some people need it and others need it not.
    SA 8.88 1 ...a king or a general does not need a fine coat...
    QO 8.188 22 The mischief [of quotation] is quickly punished in general and in particular.
    PPo 8.251 6 In general what is more tedious than dedications or panegyrics addressed to grandees?
    Aris 10.49 24 The verdict of battles will best prove the general;...
    Aris 10.53 10 Like a great general...[the eloquent man] may wear his coat out at elbows...if he will.
    Aris 10.57 14 It was objected to Gustavus that he did not better distinguish between the duties of a carabine and a general...
    Chr2 10.102 25 Such [self-reliant] souls...oftenest appear solitary, like a general without his command...
    Supl 10.178 3 ...the European nations, and, in general, all nations in proportion to their civilization, understand the manufacture of iron.
    MoL 10.253 4 Does any one doubt that a good general is better than a park of artillery?
    LLNE 10.363 7 [Charles Newcomb was] A fine, subtle, inward genius...yet with an aplomb like a general...
    MMEm 10.404 16 [Mary Moody Emerson] writes to her nephew Charles Emerson, in 1833... I scarcely feel the sympathies of this life enough to agitate the pool. This in general, one case or so excepted, and even this is a relation to God through you.
    FSLN 11.237 26 I suppose in general this is allowed, that if you have a nice question of right and wrong, you would not go with it to Louis Napoleon...
    SMC 11.373 13 On his death-bed, [George Prescott] received the needless assurances of his general that he had done more than all his duty...
    Wom 11.408 7 ...in general, no mastery in either of the fine arts...has yet been obtained by [women], equal to the mastery of men in the same.
    MAng1 12.224 10 On the 24th of October, 1529, the Prince of Orange, general of Charles V., encamped on the hills surrounding the city [Florence]...
    MAng1 12.225 16 By the treachery...of the general of the Republic, Malatesta Baglioni, all [Michelangelo's] skill was rendered unavailing...
    Milt1 12.277 25 Of [Milton's] prose in general, not the style alone but the argument also is poetic;...

General, n. (1)

    HCom 11.342 4 Every nation punishes the General who is not victorious.

General Office, n. (1)

    LLNE 10.353 10 Could not the conceiver of [Fourier's] design have also believed...that the method of each associate might be trusted, as well as that of his particular Committee and General Office...

generality, n. (1)

    PPh 4.66 14 Of the five orders of things [said Plato], only four can be taught to the generality of men.

generalization, n. (23)

    Cir 2.305 10 ...the principle that seemed to explain nature will itself be included as one example of a bolder generalization.
    Cir 2.306 4 Fear not the new generalization.
    Cir 2.309 3 ...the manners and morals of mankind are all at the mercy of a new generalization.
    Cir 2.309 4 Generalization is always a new influx of the divinity into the mind.
    Exp 3.73 5 The Chinese Mencius has not been the least successful in his generalization.
    Exp 3.73 16 In our more correct writing we give to this generalization the name of Being...
    PNR 4.80 9 Modern science, by the extent of its generalization, has learned to indemnify the student of man for the defects of individuals by tracing growth and ascent in races;...
    NMW 4.229 13 ...Bonaparte superadded to this mineral and animal force, insight and generalization...
    ET14 5.244 11 The English shrink from a generalization.
    Ill 6.320 16 ...what avails it that...our pretension of property and even of self-hood are fading with the rest, if, at last, even our thoughts are not finalities, but the incessant flowing and ascension reach these also, and each thought which yesterday was a finality, to-day is yielding to a larger generalization?
    Elo1 7.90 23 ...rapid generalization, humor, pathos, are keys which the orator holds;...
    Farm 7.145 15 The earth burns, the mountains burn and decompose, slower, but incessantly. It is almost inevitable to push the generalization up into higher parts of Nature...
    PC 8.229 7 Every generalization shows the way to a larger.
    Insp 8.296 18 ...poppy-leaves are strewn when a generalization is made;...
    Aris 10.65 19 I do not know whether that word Gentleman...is a sufficiently broad generalization to convey the deep and grave fact of self-reliance.
    SovE 10.183 5 Since the discovery of Oersted that galvanism and electricity and magnetism are only forms of one and the same force...we have continually suggested to us a larger generalization...
    Prch 10.226 22 ...we can keep our religion, despite of the violent railroads of generalization...
    SlHr 10.441 23 [Samuel Hoar] had little or no power of generalization.
    FSLN 11.223 27 ...[Webster] wanted that deep source of inspiration. Hence...the want of generalization in his speeches...
    PLT 12.40 3 A perception is always a generalization.
    Mem 12.99 23 The mind has a better secret in generalization than merely adding units to its list of facts.
    Mem 12.110 5 With every broader generalization which the mind makes... its retrospect is also wider.
    Bost 12.204 3 ...I do not find in our [New England] people, with all their education, a fair share of originality of thought;...not any broad generalization...

generalizations, n. (9)

    PPh 4.51 24 ...if we dare carry these generalizations a step higher, and name the last tendency of both [unity and diversity], we might say, that the end of the one is escape from organization...and the end of the other is the highest instrumentality...
    MoS 4.185 5 Man helps himself by larger generalizations.
    ET14 5.241 14 A few generalizations always circulate in the world...
    ET14 5.242 21 I cite these generalizations...merely to indicate a class.
    F 6.21 20 ...we must not run into generalizations too large...
    CbW 6.272 9 Our conversation once and again has apprised us...that a mental power invites us whose generalizations are more worth for joy and for effect than anything that is now called philosophy or literature.
    PC 8.211 17 The correlation of forces and the polarization of light have carried us to sublime generalizations...
    SovE 10.187 10 The civil history of men might be traced by the successive meliorations as marked in higher moral generalizations;...
    EdAd 11.391 14 Here is the standing problem of Natural Science, and the merits of her great interpreters to be determined; the encyclopaedical Humboldt, and the intrepid generalizations collected by the author of the Vestiges of Creation [Robert Chambers].

generalize, v. (2)

    MoS 4.185 6 The lesson of life is practically to generalize;...
    ET14 5.244 3 The Germans generalize...

generalized, v. (1)

    Hist 2.21 10 ...all public facts are to be individualized, all private facts are to be generalized.

generalizer, n. (2)

    PPh 4.40 3 Even the men of grander proportion suffer some deduction from the misfortune (shall I say?) of coming after this exhausting generalizer [Plato].
    PPh 4.40 6 ...it is fair to credit the broadest generalizer [Plato] with all the particulars deducible from his thesis.

generalizes, v. (1)

    PI 8.24 12 [The intellect] compares, distributes, generalizes and uplifts [surface facts] into its own sphere.

generalizing, v. (4)

    Nat2 3.186 3 The child...individualizing everything, generalizing nothing... lies down at night overpowered by the fatigue which this day of continual pretty madness has incurred.
    NR 3.236 8 [Nature]...resents generalizing...
    ET14 5.244 23 Burke was addicted to generalizing...
    PI 8.72 5 Power of generalizing differences men.

generally, adv. (24)

    MR 1.241 12 Neither would I shut my ears to the plea of...men of study generally;...
    Hsm1 2.262 3 Times of heroism are generally times of terror...
    Nat2 3.191 19 ...Boston, London, Vienna, and now the governments generally of the world, are cities and governments of the rich;...
    PPh 4.43 1 [Plato] says, in the Republic, Such a genius as philosophers must of necessity have, is wont but seldom in all its parts to meet in one man, but its different parts generally spring up in different persons.
    NMW 4.229 8 To be sure there are men enough who are immersed in things, as...mechanics generally;...
    ET6 5.113 20 [the dinner] is reserved to the end of the day, the family-hour being generally six, in London...
    ET7 5.126 4 Defoe, who knew his countrymen well, says of them,--In close intrigue, their faculty's but weak,/ For generally whate'er they know, they speak,/...
    ET9 5.149 2 Their culture generally enables the travelled English to avoid any ridiculous extremes of this self-pleasing...
    ET13 5.228 16 The English Church, undermined by German criticism...was led logically back to Romanism. But that was an element which only hot heads could breathe: in view of the educated class, generally, it was not a fact to front the sun;...
    ET14 5.236 4 The ardor and endurance of [English] study...and, generally, the easy exertion of power,--astonish...
    ET17 5.296 7 ...perhaps it is a high compliment to the cultivation of the English generally, when we find such a man [as Wordsworth] not distinguished.
    DL 7.114 20 ...in getting wealth the man is generally sacrificed...
    DL 7.124 6 ...it is pitiful to date and measure all the facts and sequel of an unfolding life from such a youthful and generally inconsiderate period as the age of courtship and marriage.
    Imtl 8.340 16 Lord Bacon said: Some of the philosophers who were least divine denied generally the immortality of the soul...
    SovE 10.186 1 ...we exaggerate when we represent these two elements [belief and skepticism] as disunited; every man shares them both; but it is true that men generally are marked by a decided predominance of one or of the other element.
    Plu 10.306 5 The plain speaking of Plutarch, as of the ancient writers generally...has a great gain for brevity...
    LLNE 10.330 10 The popular religion of our fathers had received many severe shocks from the new times;...from the slow but extraordinary influence of Swedenborg; a man of prodigious mind, though as I think tainted with a certain suspicion of insanity, and therefore generally disowned...
    MMEm 10.409 2 it is so universal with all classes to avoid contact with me [writes Mary Moody Emerson] that I blame none. The fact has generally increased piety and self-love.
    LS 11.16 17 But it is said: Admit that the rite [the Lord's Supper] was not designed to be perpetual. What harm doth it? Here it stands, generally accepted...
    HDC 11.61 3 Concord suffered little from the [King Philip's] war. This is to be attributed no doubt, in part, to the fact that troops were generally quartered here...
    HDC 11.62 3 It is the misfortune of Concord to have permitted a disgraceful outrage upon the friendly Indians settled within its limits, in February, 1676, which ended in their forcible expulsion from the town. This painful incident is but too just an example of the measure which the Indians have generally received from the whites.
    FSLN 11.238 13 The masters of slaves seem generally anxious to prove that they are not of a race superior in any noble quality to the meanest of their bondsmen.
    II 12.84 20 Men generally attempt, early in life, to make their brothers, afterwards their wives, acquainted with what is going forward in their private theatre;...
    CL 12.137 2 ...the Professor [Linnaeus] was generally attended by two hundred students...

generals, n. (20)

    Hist 2.25 11 ...[Xenophon's army] wrangle with the generals on each new order...
    SwM 4.140 17 ...Swedenborg's revelation is a confounding of planes,--a capital offence in so learned a categorist. This is...to carry individualism and its fopperies into the realm of essences and generals...
    NMW 4.233 15 [Napoleon] is firm, sure...sacrificing every thing,--money, troops, generals, and his own safety also, to his aim;...
    NMW 4.235 18 [Napoleon] risked every thing and spared nothing, neither ammunition, nor money, nor troops, nor generals, nor himself.
    NMW 4.241 13 The best document of [Napoleon's] relation to his troops is the order of the day on the morning of the battle of Austerlitz, in which Napoleon promises the troops that he will keep his person out of reach of fire. This declaration, which is the reverse of that ordinarily made by generals and sovereigns on the eve of a battle, sufficiently explains the devotion of the army to their leader.
    NMW 4.244 13 If he felt himself their patron and the founder of their fortunes, as when he said I made my generals out of mud,--[Napoleon] could not hide his satisfaction in receiving from them a seconding and support commensurate with the grandeur of his enterprise.
    NMW 4.245 1 I know, [Napoleon] said, the depth and draught of water of every one of my general.
    NMW 4.253 22 [Napoleon] is unjust to his generals;...
    Pow 6.69 4 The roisters who are destined for infamy at home, if sent to Mexico will...come back heroes and generals.
    Wth 6.125 24 The merchant's economy is a coarse symbol of the soul's economy. ... It is to invest income; that is to say, to take up particulars into generals;...
    CbW 6.258 23 Shakspeare wrote,--'T is said, best men are moulded of their faults;/ and great educators and lawgivers, and especially generals and leaders of colonies, mainly rely on this stuff...
    Elo1 7.79 10 Whoso can speak well, said Luther, is a man. It was men of this stamp that the Grecian States used to ask of Sparta for generals.
    Cour 7.254 9 Men admire...the man...who, sitting in his closet, can lay out the plans of a campaign...such that the best generals and admirals, when all is done, see that they must thank him for success;...
    Cour 7.258 4 In war even generals are seldom found eager to give battle.
    Elo2 8.130 27 ...great generals do not fight many battles, but conquer by tactics...
    PPo 8.242 14 ...when [Afrasiyab] came to fight against the generals of Kaus, he was but an insect in the grasp of Rustem...
    Imtl 8.323 8 ...one of [King Edwin's] nobles said to him: The present life of man, O king, compared with that space of time beyond...reminds me of one of your winter feasts, where you sit with your generals and ministers.
    Aris 10.46 20 I only point in passing to the order of the universe, which makes a rotation,-not like the coarse policy of the Greeks, ten generals, each commanding one day and then giving place to the next...
    HCom 11.341 21 It is not the Government, but the War, that has appointed the good generals...
    CInt 12.117 1 ...[the scholars]...played the sycophant to presidents and generals and members of Congress...

general's, n. (2)

    NER 3.275 12 ...a naval and military honor, a general's commission...have this lustre for each candidate that they enable him to walk erect and unashamed in the presence of some persons before whom he felt himself inferior.
    Elo2 8.115 25 [The orator's speech] is action, as the general's word of command or chart of battle is action.

generate, v. (9)

    SL 2.134 19 Did the wires generate the galvanism?
    Nat2 3.184 9 It is not enough that we should have matter, we must also have a single impulse, one shove to launch the mass and generate the harmony of the centrifugal and centripetal forces.
    SwM 4.106 12 In the atom of magnetic iron [Swedenborg] saw the quality which would generate the spiral motion of sun and planet.
    SwM 4.133 3 Swedenborg's system of the world...lacks power to generate life.
    F 6.29 24 There must be a fusion of [insight and affection] to generate the energy of will.
    Cour 7.259 3 ...the protection which a house...even the first accumulation of savings gives, go in all times to generate this taint of the respectable classes.
    Chr2 10.113 1 Ideas always generate enthusiasm.
    EWI 11.100 11 It has been in all men's experience a marked effect of the enterprise in behalf of the African, to generate an overbearing and defying spirit.
    SMC 11.355 6 ...armies, which are only wandering cities, generate a vast heat...

generated, v. (7)

    Pt1 3.31 2 ...Socrates...tells us that the soul is cured of its maladies by certain incantations, and that these incantations are beautiful reasons, from which temperance is generated in souls;...
    NER 3.269 25 A canine appetite for knowledge was generated...
    Wsp 6.232 3 ...a beautiful atmosphere is generated from the planet by the averaged emanations from all its rocks and soils.
    Suc 7.306 6 Morals are generated as the atmosphere is.
    PI 8.64 5 Is not poetry the little chamber in the brain where is generated the explosive force which, by gentle shocks, sets in action the intellectual world?
    EdAd 11.385 1 The aspect this country presents is...an immense apparatus of cunning machinery which turns out, at last, some Nuremberg toys. Has it generated, as some great interests do, any intellectual power?
    Bost 12.186 1 What Vasari said...of the republican city of Florence might be said of Boston; that the desire for glory and honor is powerfully generated by the air of that place...

generates, v. (9)

    Nat 1.22 22 The intellectual and the active powers seem to succeed each other, and the exclusive activity of the one generates the exclusive activity of the other.
    YA 1.369 18 Any relation to the land...generates the feeling of patriotism.
    PNR 4.80 14 Modern science...generates a feeling of complacency and hope.
    ET6 5.114 6 The [English] dress-dinner generates a talent of table-talk which reaches great perfection...
    PI 8.16 24 The bee flies among the flowers, and gets mint and marjoram, and generates a new product...
    PI 8.27 1 ...against all the appearance [the true poet] sees and reports the truth, namely that the soul generates matter.
    Aris 10.43 5 ...a sound body must be at the root of any excellence in manners and actions; a strong and supple frame which...generates the habit of relying on a supply of power for all extraordinary exertions.
    Aris 10.64 18 The habit of directing large affairs generates a nobility of thought in every mind of average ability.
    Bost 12.197 3 ...the necessity, which always presses the Northerner, of providing fuel and many clothes and tight houses and much food against the long winter...generates in him that spirit of detail which is not grand and enlarging...

generating, v. (1)

    SwM 4.108 20 The mind is a finer body, and resumes its functions of feeding, digesting, absorbing, excluding and generating, in a new and ethereal element.

generation, n. (73)

    Nat 1.3 15 ...why should we...put the living generation into masquerade out of [the past's] faded wardrobe?
    AmS 1.88 17 Each age...must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.
    LE 1.173 3 Thus is justice done to each generation and individual...
    MR 1.234 27 If the accumulated wealth of the past generation is thus tainted...we must begin to consider if it were not the nobler part to renounce it...
    MR 1.250 8 ...I see at once how paltry is all this generation of unbelievers...
    LT 1.268 9 Here is the innumerable multitude of those who accept the state and the church from the last generation...
    LT 1.269 3 The actors constitute that great army of martyrs who...compose the visible church of the existing generation.
    LT 1.289 3 This ever renewing generation of appearances rests on a reality, and a reality that is alive.
    Con 1.319 17 Now that a vicious system of trade has existed so long, it has stereotyped itself in the human generation, and misers are born.
    Tran 1.345 14 ...we...inquire...where are they who represented to the last generation that extravagant hope which a few happy aspirants suggest to ours?
    Tran 1.346 1 Will it be better with the new generation?
    YA 1.374 20 ...the existing generation are conspiring with a beneficence which in its working for coming generations, sacrifices the passing one;...
    SL 2.154 21 ...to every generation [Plato's works] come duly down...
    Cir 2.304 5 The extent to which this generation of circles...will go, depends on the force or truth of the individual soul.
    Cir 2.314 21 Not through subtle subterranean channels need friend and fact be drawn to their counterpart, but...these things proceed from the eternal generation of the soul.
    Cir 2.318 21 Whilst the eternal generation of circles proceeds, the eternal generator abides.
    Int 2.335 2 [The constructive intellect] is the generation of the mind...
    Mrs1 3.126 7 Fortune will not supply to every generation one of these well-appointed knights...
    Mrs1 3.146 7 ...there is still...some fanatic who plants shade-trees for the second and third generation...
    Nat2 3.185 24 ...the wary Nature sends a new troop of fairer forms, of lordlier youths...and on goes the game again with a new whirl, for a generation or two more.
    NER 3.267 22 ...the speculations of one generation are the history of the next following.
    PPh 4.39 18 ...every brisk young man who says in succession fine things to each reluctant generation...is some reader of Plato...
    PNR 4.82 20 Whatever [Plato] looks upon discloses a second sense, and ulterior senses. His perception of the generation of contraries, of death out of life and life out of death...
    SwM 4.102 7 It seems that [Swedenborg] anticipated much science of the nineteenth century;...anticipated the views of modern astronomy in regard to the generation of earths by the sun;...
    SwM 4.108 25 Here again [in the brain] is the mystery of generation repeated.
    SwM 4.110 10 ...the circles of intellect relate to those of the heavens. Each law of nature has the like universality; eating...generation...
    SwM 4.127 24 ...in the real or spiritual world the nuptial union is not momentary [to Swedenborg], but incessant and total; and chastity not a local, but a universal virtue; unchastity being discovered as much in the trading, or planting, or speaking, or philosophizing, as in generation;...
    ET10 5.168 21 ...Pitt, Peel and Robinson and their Parliaments and their whole generation...went to their graves in the belief that they were enriching the country which they were impoverishing.
    ET11 5.193 1 Dismal anecdotes abound, verifying the gossip of the last generation, of [English] dukes served by bailiffs...
    F 6.4 2 We must begin our reform earlier still,-at generation...
    F 6.5 20 Our Calvinists in the last generation had something of the same dignity.
    F 6.8 6 Without...groping after...the obscurities of alternate generation,- the forms of the shark...are hints of ferocity in the interiors of nature.
    F 6.12 11 ...in the second generation, if the like genius appear, the health is visibly deteriorated...
    Art2 7.54 11 The first form in which [savages] built a house would be the first form of their public and religious edifice also. This form becomes immediately sacred in the eyes of their children, and...is imitated with more splendor in each succeeding generation.
    Farm 7.143 20 Nature, like a cautious testator, ties up her estate so as not to bestow it all on one generation...
    Farm 7.151 2 There has been a nightmare bred in England of indigestion and spleen among landlords and loom-lords, namely, the dogma that...the plight of every new generation is worse than of the foregoing...
    Boks 7.201 17 The valuable part [of Greek history] is the age of Pericles and the next generation.
    Clbs 7.238 8 ...[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? The startled giant [Wafthrudnir] replies...with death on my mouth have I spoken the fate-words of the generation of the Aesir;...
    SA 8.102 22 Our gentlemen of the old school...were bred after English types, and that style of breeding furnished fine examples in the last generation;...
    SA 8.107 17 ...I believe...that intelligence, manly enterprise, good education, virtuous life and elegant manners have been and are found here, and, we hope, in the next generation will still more abound.
    QO 8.183 16 ...[young men] are none the worse for being already told, in the last generation of Sheridan;...
    QO 8.187 27 ...shall we say that...the existing generation is invalided and degenerate?
    Imtl 8.331 15 Both [men] were men of distinction and took an active part in the politics of their day and generation.
    Aris 10.48 17 Ennobling of one family is good for one generation; not sure beyond.
    Chr2 10.103 1 Such [self-reliant] souls...oftenest appear solitary...because those who can understand and uphold such appear rarely, not many, perhaps not one, in a generation.
    Chr2 10.106 13 Our horizon is not far, say one generation, or thirty years...
    Edc1 10.132 6 ...in history an idea always overhangs, like the moon, and rules the tide which rises simultaneously in all the souls of a generation.
    Edc1 10.151 11 Is it not manifest...that [our academic institutions] should not be timid and keep the ruts of the last generation...
    SovE 10.203 24 ...our later generation appears ungirt, frivolous, compared with the religions of the last or Calvinist age.
    SovE 10.208 17 How is the new generation to be edified?
    MoL 10.258 10 Slavery is broken, and, if we use our advantage, irretrievably. For such a gain...one generation might well be sacrificed;...
    MoL 10.258 16 Who would not, if it could be made certain that the new morning of universal liberty should rise on our race by the perishing of one generation, who would not consent to die?
    Schr 10.262 22 I think the peculiar office of scholars in a careful and gloomy generation is to be...Professors of the Joyous Science...
    Schr 10.274 24 It is the corruption of our generation that men value a long life...
    Plu 10.297 24 [Plutarch] is...not a leader of the mind of a generation, like Plato or Goethe.
    LLNE 10.347 24 Mr. Owen preached his doctrine of labor and reward...to the slow ears of his generation.
    LS 11.7 22 ...I cannot bring myself to believe that in the use of such an expression [This do in remembrance of me] [Jesus] looked beyond the living generation...
    HDC 11.76 11 The benignant Providence which has prolonged their [veterans of battle of Concord's] lives to this hour gratifies the strong curiosity of the new generation.
    HDC 11.77 13 William Emerson, the pastor [of Concord], had a hereditary claim to the affection of the people, being descended in the fourth generation from Edward Bulkeley, son of Peter.
    War 11.151 8 It has been a favorite study of modern philosophy...to watch the rising of a thought in one man's mind...its expansion and general reception, until it publishes itself to the world by destroying the existing laws and institutions, and the generation of new.
    War 11.175 6 ...if the rising generation can be provoked to think it unworthy to nestle into every abomination of the past...then war has a short day...
    JBB 11.268 22 [John Brown] believes in two articles,-two instruments, shall I say?-the Golden Rule and the Declaration of Independence; and he used this expression in conversation here concerning them, Better that a whole generation of men, women and children should pass away by a violent death than that one word of either should be violated in this country.
    TPar 11.287 3 A little more feeling of the poetic significance of his facts would have disqualified [Theodore Parker] for some of his severer offices to his generation.
    TPar 11.287 21 ...it is vain to charge [Theodore Parker] with perverting the opinions of the new generation.
    TPar 11.288 17 The next generation will care little for the chances of elections that govern governors now...
    ALin 11.337 18 There is a serene Providence which rules the fate of nations, which makes little account of time, little of one generation or race...
    HCom 11.345 6 We see...a new era...worth to the world the lives of all this generation of American men, if they had been demanded.
    Milt1 12.248 4 The aspect of Milton, to this generation, will be part of the history of the nineteenth century.
    Milt1 12.252 6 It is the aspect which [Milton] presents to this generation, that alone concerns us.
    EurB 12.367 16 ...[Wordsworth] has done more for the sanity of this generation than any other writer.
    EurB 12.372 19 Ulysses [Tennyson] belongs to a high class of poetry, destined...to be more cultivated in the next generation.
    PPr 12.383 18 The most elaborate history of to-day will have the oddest dislocated look in the next generation.
    PPr 12.388 13 If the good heaven have any good word to impart to this unworthy generation, here is one scribe [Carlyle] qualified and clothed for its occasion.

generations, n. (24)

    Nat 1.3 4 The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face to face;...
    Nat 1.7 14 If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men...preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God which had been shown!
    YA 1.374 22 ...the existing generation are conspiring with a beneficence which in its working for coming generations, sacrifices the passing one;...
    YA 1.375 9 ...we found colleges and hospitals, for remote generations.
    Nat2 3.182 5 Flowers so strictly belong to youth that we adult men soon come to feel that their beautiful generations concern not us...
    ET4 5.62 10 It took many generations to trim and comb and perfume the first boat-load of Norse pirates into royal highnesses...
    ET6 5.105 14 An Englishman...wears a wig, or a shawl, or a saddle, or stands on his head, and no remark is made. And as he has been doing this for several generations, it is now in the blood.
    ET6 5.107 23 ...with the national tendency to sit fast in the same spot for many generations, [the Englishman's house] comes to be, in the course of time, a museum of heirlooms...
    ET10 5.163 15 The taste and science of thirty peaceful generations;...are in the vast auction [in England]...
    ET11 5.177 25 ...[the English aristocracy] concentrate the love and labor of many generations on the building, planting and decoration of their homesteads.
    Wth 6.119 26 Nor is any investment so permanent that it can be allowed to remain without incessant watching, as the history of each attempt to lock up an inheritance through two generations for an unborn inheritor may show.
    Farm 7.139 23 In the town where I live, farms remain in the same families for seven and eight generations;...
    Farm 7.152 9 ...when...there is more skill, and tools and roads, the new generations are strong enough to open the lowlands...
    SA 8.86 27 It seems to require several generations of education to train a squeaking or a shouting habit out of a man.
    Imtl 8.334 5 After science begins, belief of permanence must follow in a healthy mind. Things so attractive...the secret workman so transcendently skilful that it tasks successive generations of observers only to find out...the delicate contrivance and adjustment of a weed...and the contriver of it all forever hidden!
    Aris 10.54 12 The more familiar examples of this power [of eloquence] certainly are those...who think, and paint, and laugh, and weep, in their eloquent closets, and then convert the world into a huge whispering-gallery, to...win smiles and tears from many generations.
    Chr2 10.106 14 The older see two generations, or sixty years.
    Plu 10.322 22 ...[Plutarch's] books will be reprinted and read anew by coming generations.
    LLNE 10.326 7 The former generations acted under the belief that a shining social prosperity was the beatitude of man...
    CSC 10.375 4 The still-living merit of the oldest New England families, glowing yet after several generations, encountered [at the Chardon Street Convention] the founders of families, fresh merit...
    EzRy 10.381 12 The father [Noah Ripley] was born at Hingham [Connecticut], on the farm purchased by his ancestor, William Ripley, of England, at the first settlement of the town; which farm has been occupied by seven or eight generations.
    EWI 11.143 3 Our planet, before the age of written history, had its races of savages, like the generations of sour paste...
    TPar 11.288 12 It will not be in the acts of city councils, nor of obsequious mayors;...that coming generations will study what really befell [in Boston];...
    Milt1 12.252 12 ...[Milton] kindles a love and emulation in us which he did not in foregoing generations.

generative, adj. (3)

    UGM 4.7 12 What is good is effective, generative;...
    F 6.12 13 ...in the second generation, if the like genius appear, the health is visibly deteriorated and the generative force impaired.
    CW 12.170 9 The gentle deities/ Showed me the love of color and of sounds,/ The innumerable tenements of beauty,/ the miracle of generative force,/...

generator, n. (2)

    Cir 2.318 22 Whilst the eternal generation of circles proceeds, the eternal generator abides.
    PNR 4.86 4 [Plato] was born to behold the self-evolving power of spirit, endless, generator of new ends;...

generators, n. (1)

    CL 12.148 22 Our Aryan progenitors in Asia celebrated the winds as the conveying Maruts, traversers of places difficult of access. ... They are the generators of speech.

generic, adj. (4)

    ShP 4.201 10 ...the generic catholic genius who is not afraid or ashamed to owe his originality to the originality of all, stands with the next age as the recorder and embodiment of his own.
    Dem1 10.22 15 A Highland chief, an Indian sachem or a feudal baron may fancy...that...when he dies, banshees will announce his fate to kinsmen in foreign parts. What more facile than to project this exuberant selfhood into the region where individuality is forever bounded by generic and cosmical laws?
    WSL 12.346 27 Mr. Landor's definitions are only enumerations of particulars; the generic law is not seized.
    Let 12.404 18 A literature is...a secular and generic result...

generically, adv. (1)

    ET8 5.133 13 It was no bad description of the Briton generically, what was said two hundred years ago of one particular Oxford scholar: He was a very bold man, uttered any thing that came into his mind...

generosities, n. (5)

    Cir 2.322 12 ...[men] ask the aid of wild passions...to ape in some manner these flames and generosities of the heart.
    SwM 4.141 19 [Swedenborg's] spiritual world bears the same relation to the generosities and joys of truth of which human souls have already made us cognizant, as a man's bad dreams bear to his ideal life.
    MoS 4.182 5 The generosities of the day prove an intractable element for [the spiritualist].
    Boks 7.215 12 ...'t is pity [people] should not read novels a little more, to import the fine generosities and the clear, firm conduct, which are as becoming in the unions and separations which love effects under shingle roofs as in palaces and among illustrious personages.
    Aris 10.31 24 It is not to be a man of rank, but a man of honor, accomplished in all arts and generosities, which seems to [the best young men] the right mark and the true chief of our modern society.

generosity, n. (43)

    MR 1.234 1 Each [lucrative profession] requires of the practitioner...a sequestration from the sentiments of generosity and love...
    Hsm1 2.260 6 All men have...fits and starts of generosity.
    Hsm1 2.261 17 ...to live with some rigor of temperance, or some extremes of generosity, seems to be an asceticism which common good-nature would appoint to those who are at ease and in plenty...
    Mrs1 3.128 12 Fashion is made up...of those who through the value and virtue of somebody, have acquired...means of cultivation and generosity...
    Mrs1 3.141 1 ...society demands in its patrician class another element... which it significantly terms good-nature,--expressing all degrees of generosity...
    Mrs1 3.145 14 All generosity is not merely French and sentimental;...
    Mrs1 3.150 17 The wonderful generosity of her sentiments raises [woman] at times into heroical and godlike regions...
    Gts 3.165 8 The best of hospitality and of generosity is also not in the will, but in fate.
    Nat2 3.185 7 ...to every creature nature added a little violence of direction in its proper path, a shove to put it on its way; in every instance a slight generosity...
    NR 3.226 18 When I meet a pure intellectual force or a generosity of affection, I believe here then is man;...
    NR 3.241 16 The statesman looks at many, and compares the few habitually with others, and these look less. Yet are they not entitled to this generosity of reception?...
    NER 3.254 25 ...we are very easily disposed to resist the same generosity of speech when we miss originality and truth to character in it.
    MoS 4.170 3 This book of Montaigne the world has endorsed by translating it into all tongues and printing seventy-five editions of it in Europe; and that, too, a circulation somewhat chosen, namely among courtiers, soldiers, princes, men of the world and men of wit and generosity.
    ShP 4.215 17 In the poet's mind the fact has gone quite over into the new element of thought, and has lost all that is exuvial. This generosity abides with Shakspeare.
    NMW 4.228 16 It is an advantage, within certain limits, to have renounced the dominion of the sentiments of piety, gratitude and generosity;...
    NMW 4.254 10 Like all Frenchmen [Napoleon] has a passion for stage effect. Every action that breathes of generosity is poisoned by this calculation.
    NMW 4.255 12 [Napoleon] had no generosity...
    ET1 5.6 8 ...[Greenough] thought art would never prosper until we left our shy jealous ways and worked in society as [the Greeks]. All his thoughts breathed the same generosity.
    ET14 5.245 19 Hallam...writes with resolute generosity...
    ET14 5.246 18 Dickens...with patriotic and still enlarging generosity, writes London tracts.
    F 6.36 2 ...every generosity, every new perception...are certificates of advance out of fate into freedom.
    DL 7.114 26 Generosity does not consist in giving money or money's worth.
    DL 7.126 17 There is no face, no form, which one cannot in fancy associate with great power of intellect or with generosity of soul.
    SA 8.92 25 If you rise to frankness and generosity, [people] will respect it now or later.
    SA 8.102 8 I often hear the business of a little town...discussed with a clearness and thoroughness, and with a generosity too, that would have satisfied me had it been in one of the larger capitals.
    PC 8.230 10 ...superior advantages bind you to larger generosity.
    PPo 8.247 23 ...quick perception and corresponding expression...this generosity of ebb and flow satisfies...
    Imtl 8.342 23 [The mind's] goodness is the most generous extension of our private interests to the dignity and generosity of ideas.
    Aris 10.57 19 ...a soul on which elevated duties are laid will so realize its special and lofty duties as not to be in danger of assuming through a low generosity those which do not belong to it.
    Schr 10.267 22 All the best of this [busy] class, all who have any insight or generosity of spirit are frequently disgusted...
    LLNE 10.347 12 ...[Robert Owen] interpreted with great generosity the acts of the Holy Alliance...
    GSt 10.504 3 ...[George Stearns's] plain good sense, courage, adherence, and his romantic generosity disarmed...all gainsayers.
    HDC 11.41 15 Mr. Bulkeley, by his generosity, spent his estate...
    EWI 11.125 1 ...you could not get any poetry, any wisdom, and beauty in woman, any strong and commanding character in man, but these absurdities would still come flashing out,-these absurdities of a demand for justice, a generosity for the weak and oppressed.
    EWI 11.127 19 It was a stately spectacle, to see the cause of human rights argued with so much patience and generosity...before that powerful people [the English].
    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...
    EPro 11.320 20 The government has assured itself of the best constituency in the world...the generosity of the cities, the health of the country...all rally to its support.
    CInt 12.117 23 I presently know...whether [my companion's] sense of duty is more or less severe and his generosity larger than mine;...
    CInt 12.126 16 ...that which [Harvard College] exists for, to be...a Delphos uttering warning and ravishing oracles to lift and lead mankind,-that it shall not be permitted to do or to think of. On the contrary, every generosity of thought is suspect and gets a bad name.
    CL 12.135 16 The avarice of real estate native to us all covers instincts of great generosity...
    Bost 12.193 11 ...[the savage] goes muttering his rude ritual or mythology, which yet conceals some grand commandment; as...honesty, or chastity and generosity.
    MAng1 12.242 20 Amidst all these witnesses to [Michelangelo's] independence, his generosity, his purity and his devotion, are we not authorized to say that this man was penetrated with the love of the highest beauty, that is, goodness;...
    Milt1 12.265 18 [Milton's native honor] engaged his interest...in whatsoever savored of generosity and nobleness.

generosum, adj. (1)

    Dem1 10.24 4 Nil magnificum, nil generosum sapit.

generous, adj. (86)

    DSA 1.130 27 The manner in which [Jesus's] name is surrounded with expressions which...are now petrified into official titles, kills all generous sympathy and liking.
    DSA 1.148 21 ...let us study the grand strokes of rectitude:...a certain solidity of merit...which is so essentially and manifestly virtue, that it is taken for granted that the right, the brave, the generous step will be taken by it...
    LE 1.187 13 [Thought] will impledge you to truth by the love and expectation of generous minds.
    MN 1.202 13 ...one can hardly help asking if this planet is a fair specimen of the so generous astronomy...
    MN 1.214 25 The reforms whose fame now fills the land...fair and generous as each appears, are poor bitter things when prosecuted for themselves as an end.
    Con 1.314 18 ...he who sets his face like a flint against every novelty...in the presence of friendly and generous persons, has also his gracious and relenting moments...
    Con 1.322 17 How will every strong and generous mind choose its ground...
    YA 1.384 10 ...one may say that aims so generous and so forced on [the Communities] by the times, will not be relinquished, even if these attempts fail...
    YA 1.387 20 In every age of the world there has been a leading nation, one of a more generous sentiment...
    Comp 2.112 10 The terror of cloudless noon...the instinct which leads every generous soul to impose on itself tasks of a noble asceticism and vicarious virtue, are the tremblings of the balance of justice through the heart and mind of man.
    SL 2.158 24 The high, the generous, the self-devoted sect will always instruct and command mankind.
    Lov1 2.170 20 ...[love] is a fire that kindling its first embers in the narrow nook of a private bosom...glows and enlarges until it warms and beams... and so lights up the whole world and all nature with its generous flames.
    Lov1 2.176 9 In the noon and the afternoon of life we still throb at the recollection of days...when the head boiled all night on the pillow with the generous deed it resolved on;...
    Hsm1. 2.252 3 ...[heroism] is just, generous, hospitable, temperate...
    Hsm1 2.255 1 John Eliot...said of wine,--It is a noble, generous liquor and we should be humbly thankful for it...
    Hsm1 2.261 7 Let us be generous of our dignity as well as of our money.
    Cir 2.313 24 ...the instinct of man...gladly arms itself against the dogmatism of bigots with this generous word out of the book itself.
    Gts 3.159 9 ...it is always so pleasant to be generous, though very vexatious to pay debts.
    Pol1 3.210 20 ...[the conservative party] proposes no generous policy;...
    NR 3.241 10 ...our affections and our experience urge that every individual is entitled to honor, and a very generous treatment is sure to be repaid.
    UGM 4.29 16 We need not fear excessive influence. A more generous trust is permitted.
    UGM 4.30 18 Generous and handsome, [the thoughtful youth] says, is your hero; but look at yonder poor Paddy...
    PPh 4.60 12 [Plato] could well afford to be generous...
    SwM 4.139 4 ...we feel the more generous spirit of the Indian Vishnu,--I am the same to all mankind.
    MoS 4.158 15 The generous minds embrace the proposition of labor shared by all;...
    ShP 4.203 3 [Jonson] no doubt thought the praise he has conceded to [Shakespeare] generous...
    NMW 4.253 18 Bonaparte was singularly destitute of generous sentiments.
    GoW 4.279 4 ...[the hero and heroine of Sand's Consuelo] become the servants...of the most generous social ends;...
    GoW 4.280 4 No generous youth can escape this charm of reality in the book [Goethe's Wilhelm Meister]...
    ET4 5.62 20 Many a mean, dastardly boy is, at the age of puberty, transformed into a serious and generous youth.
    ET12 5.208 9 It is contended by those who have been bred at Eton, Harrow, Rugby and Westminster...that, in their playgrounds...manly feelings and generous conduct are encouraged;...
    ET13 5.221 5 So far is [the English gentleman] from attaching any meaning to the words, that he believes himself to have done almost the generous thing, and that it is very condescending in him to pray to God.
    ET17 5.297 7 Landor, always generous, says that [Wordsworth] never praised anybody.
    ET18 5.301 7 The foreign policy of England...has not often been generous or just.
    F 6.31 11 What good, honest, generous men at home, will be wolves and foxes on 'Change!
    Bhr 6.172 22 We prize [manners] for their rough-plastic, abstergent force;... to slough [people's] animal husks and habits;...teach them to stifle the base and choose the generous expression...
    Bhr 6.172 24 We prize [manners] for their rough-plastic, abstergent force;... to slough [people's] animal husks and habits;...teach them to stifle the base and choose the generous expression, and make them know how much happier the generous behaviors are.
    Bhr 6.181 16 Whoever looked on [a complete man] would consent to his will, being certified that his aims were generous and universal.
    Bhr 6.189 16 Not only is [your companion] larger, when at ease and his thoughts generous, but everything around him becomes variable with expression.
    Wsp 6.232 15 Life is hardly respectable...if it has no generous, guaranteeing task...
    DL 7.128 25 A verse of the old Greek Menander remains, which runs in translation:--Not on the store of sprightly wine,/ Nor plenty of delicious meats,/ Though generous Nature did design/ To court us with perpetual treats,--/ 'T is not on these we for content depend,/ So much as on the shadow of a Friend./
    DL 7.130 11 ...every generous thought illustrates the walls of your chamber.
    Boks 7.218 7 ...in our time the Ode of Wordsworth, and the poems and the prose of Goethe...inspire hope and generous attempts.
    Clbs 7.236 6 Jesus spent his life in discoursing with humble people...and at least silencing those who were not generous enough to accept his thoughts.
    Cour 7.253 6 ...there are three qualities which conspicuously attract the wonder and reverence of mankind: 1. Disinterestedness, as shown in indifference to the ordinary bribes and influences of conduct,--a purpose so sincere and generous that it cannot be tempted aside by any prospects of wealth or other private advantage.
    Cour 7.280 2 But sure that rifle's aim,/ Swift choice of generous part,/ Showed in its passing gleam/ The depths of a brave heart./
    PI 8.67 3 A good poem...goes about the world offering itself to reasonable men, who...carry it to their reasonable neighbors. Thus it draws to it the wise and generous souls...
    Elo2 8.133 1 Is it not worth the ambition of every generous youth to train and arm his mind with all the resources of knowledge, of method, of grace and of character, to serve such a constituency [as the United States]"
    Grts 8.314 8 It is easy to draw traits [of greatness] from Napoleon, who was not generous nor just...
    Grts 8.315 14 ...I please myself with [greatness's] diffusion; to find a spark of true fire amid much corruption. It is some guaranty, I hope, for the health of the soul which has this generous blood.
    Imtl 8.338 5 Whatever it be which the great Providence prepares for us, it must be something large and generous...
    Imtl 8.342 22 [The mind's] goodness is the most generous extension of our private interests to the dignity and generosity of ideas.
    Aris 10.61 17 The generous soul, on arriving in a new port, makes instant preparation for a new voyage.
    Aris 10.65 2 ...for the day that now is, a man of generous spirit will not need to administer public offices...
    SovE 10.191 9 Humanity sits at the dread loom and throws the shuttle and fills it with joyful rainbows, until the sable ground is flowered all over with a woof of human industry and wisdom, virtuous examples, symbols of useful and generous arts...
    MoL 10.257 13 The war uplifted us into generous sentiments.
    Plu 10.298 8 ...[Plutarch] is a chief example of the illumination of the intellect by the force of morals. Though the most amiable of boon companions, this generous religion gives him apercus like Goethe's.
    Plu 10.316 8 It would be generous to lend our eyes and ears, nay, if possible, our reason and fortitude to others, whilst we are idle or asleep.
    LLNE 10.347 18 ...truly I honor the generous ideas of the Socialists...
    LLNE 10.348 2 Fourier...has put men under the obligation which a generous mind always confers...
    LLNE 10.353 25 ...in a day of small, sour and fierce schemes, one is admonished and cheered by a project of such friendly aims and of such bold and generous proportion [as Fourier's];...
    LLNE 10.360 15 [Brook Farm] was a noble and generous movement in the projectors...
    EzRy 10.391 2 [Ezra Ripley] was open-handed and just and generous.
    EWI 11.109 4 Mr. Pitt and Mr. Fox were drawn into the generous enterprise [emancipation of West Indian slaves].
    EWI 11.109 17 These debates [on West Indian slavery] are instructive, as they show on what grounds the trade was assailed and defended. Everything generous, wise and sprightly is sure to come to the attack.
    EWI 11.147 4 I am sure that the good and wise elders, the ardent and generous youth, will not permit what is incidental and exceptional to withdraw their devotion from the essential and permanent characters of the question [of emancipation].
    War 11.175 9 ...if the rising generation...shall feel the generous darings of austerity and virtue, then war has a short day...
    FSLC 11.185 4 I thought none, that was not ready to go on all fours, would back this [Fugitive Slave] law. And yet here are upright men...open, generous, brave, who can see nothing in this claim for bare humanity...but canting fanaticism...
    FSLC 11.201 19 [Webster] must learn...that those who have no points to carry that are not identical with public morals and generous civilization... disown him...
    FSLN 11.243 25 ...I put it to every noble and generous spirit...that not so is our learning...to be declared.
    TPar 11.291 24 ...every sound heart loves a responsible person, one who does not in generous company say generous things, and in mean company base things...
    TPar 11.291 25 ...every sound heart loves a responsible person, one who does not in generous company say generous things, and in mean company base things...
    ACiv 11.307 25 Emancipation at one stroke elevates the poor-white of the South, and identifies his interest with that of the Northern laborer. Now, in the name of all that is simple and generous, why should not this great right be done?
    EPro 11.325 21 The malignant cry of the Secession press within the free states, and the recent action of the Confederate Congress, are decisive as to [the Emancipation Proclamation's] efficiency and correctness of aim. Not less so is the silent joy which has greeted it in all generous hearts...
    SMC 11.355 16 ...we have all heard passages of generous and exceptional behavior exhibited by individuals there [in the South] to our officers and men...
    Koss 11.400 15 ...I speak the sense not only of every generous American, but the law of mind, when I say that it is not those who live idly in the city called after his name, but those who...think and act like him, who can claim to explain the sentiment of Washington.
    Scot 11.461 1 Scott, the delight of generous boys.
    FRep 11.539 21 Power can be generous.
    II 12.88 15 Our books are full of generous biographies of Saints, who knew not that they were such;...
    CInt 12.125 2 ...unless...the professor has a generous sympathy with genius...that will happen which has happened so often, that the best scholar, he for whom colleges exist, finds himself a stranger and an orphan therein.
    CL 12.153 7 The freedom [of the sea] makes the observer feel as a slave. Our expression is so thin and cramped! Can we not learn here a generous eloquence?
    Bost 12.198 24 That colonizing [of New England] was a great and generous scheme...
    Milt1 12.257 23 [Milton] insists that music shall make a part of a generous education.
    Milt1 12.265 3 In like spirit, [Milton] replies to the suspicious calumny respecting his morning haunts. Those morning haunts are where they should be, at home;...up and stirring...with useful and generous labors preserving the body's health and hardiness, to render lightsome, clear and not lumpish obedience to the mind...
    WSL 12.340 22 ...when we remember [Landor's] rich and ample page, wherein we are always sure to find...honor for every just and generous sentiment...we wish to thank a benefactor of the reading world.
    PPr 12.382 11 Let no man think himself absolved because he does a generous action...

generous, n. (6)

    Mrs1 3.146 16 The beautiful and the generous are, in the theory, the doctors and apostles of this church [of Fashion]...
    ET19 5.313 27 I see [England] in her old age...still daring to believe in her power of endurance and expansion. Seeing this, I say, All hail! mother of nations...truly a home to the thoughtful and generous who are born in the soil.
    Aris 10.38 21 The existence of an upper class is not injurious, so long as it is dependent on merit. For so long it is provocation to the bold and generous.
    Aris 10.57 4 I will not protract this discourse by describing the duties of the brave and generous.
    EWI 11.138 27 The secret cannot be kept, that the seats of power are filled by underlings, ignorant, timid and selfish to a degree to destroy all claim, excepting that on compassion, to the society of the just and generous.
    CL 12.135 11 The capable and generous, let them spend their talent on the land.

generously, adv. (3)

    Pt1 3.29 2 Milton says that the lyric poet may drink wine and live generously...
    CbW 6.276 8 If you deal generously, the other...will...deal truly with you.
    HDC 11.84 11 ...for the most part, [our fathers] deal generously by their minister...

Genesee, adj. (1)

    Wsp 6.236 24 Mira came to ask what she should do with the poor Genesee woman who had hired herself to work for her...

genesis, n. (16)

    MN 1.206 3 The history of the genesis or the old mythology repeats itself in the experience of every child.
    SR 2.70 26 The genesis and maturation of a planet...are demonstrations of the...self-relying soul.
    Cir 2.299 6 Nature centres into balls,/ And her proud ephemerals,/ Fast to surface and outside,/ Scan the profile of the sphere;/ Knew they what that signified,/ A new genesis were here./
    Pt1 3.10 4 ...in the order of genesis the thought is prior to the form.
    Nat2 3.184 15 The astronomers said, Give us matter and a little motion and we will construct the universe. ... A very unreasonable postulate, said the metaphysicians, and a plain begging of the question. Could you not prevail to know the genesis of projection, as well as the continuation of it?
    SwM 4.127 8 [Swedenborg's Conjugal Love] came near to be the Hymn of Love, which Plato attempted in the Banquet; the love...which, as rightly celebrated, in its genesis, fruition and effect, might well entrance the souls...
    SwM 4.127 10 [Swedenborg's Conjugal Love] came near to be the Hymn of Love, which Plato attempted in the Banquet; the love...which, as rightly celebrated, in its genesis, fruition and effect, might well entrance the souls, as it would lay open the genesis of all institutions, customs and manners.
    ShP 4.207 16 Did Shakspeare confide to any...sacristan, or surrogate in Stratford, the genesis of that delicate creation [A Midsummer Night's Dream]?
    GoW 4.263 15 ...if we knew the genesis of fine strokes of eloquence, they might recall the complaisance of Sultan Amurath, who struck off some Persian heads, that his physician, Vesalius, might see the spasms in the muscles of the neck.
    ET14 5.239 2 The rules of [idealism's] genesis or its diffusion are not known.
    CbW 6.262 10 What had been, ever since our memory, solid continent, yawns apart and discloses its composition and genesis.
    Suc 7.306 7 Morals are generated as the atmosphere is. 'T is a secret, the genesis of either;...
    PI 8.8 6 Anatomy, osteology, exhibit arrested or progessive ascent in each kind; the lower pointing to the higher forms, the higher to the highest...as if the whole animal world were only a Hunterian museum to exhibit the genesis of mankind.
    PI 8.71 19 The poet is representative...in him the world projects a scribe's hand and writes the adequate genesis.
    Plu 10.311 1 ...though curious in the questions of the schools on the nature and genesis of things, [Plutarch's] extreme interest in every trait of character and his broad humanity, lead him constantly to Morals...
    EurB 12.377 23 [The Vivian Greys]...are up to anything, though it were the genesis of Nature, or the last cataclysm...

Genesis, n. (3)

    ET13 5.218 23 Here in England every day a chapter of Genesis, and a leader in the Times.
    PI 8.34 7 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.
    Res 8.142 12 Here [in America] is man in the Garden of Eden; here the Genesis and the Exodus.

genetical, adj. (1)

    WSL 12.348 27 Many of [Landor's sentences] will secure their own immortality in English literature; and this, rightly considered, is no mean merit. These are not plants and animals, but the genetical atoms of which both are composed.

genetically, adv. (1)

    ET4 5.52 4 ...[the English character] is not so much a history of one or of certain tribes of Saxons, Jutes, or Frisians, coming from one place and genetically identical...

Geneva, Switzerland, adj. (2)

    SR 2.85 8 [The civilized man] has a fine Geneva watch...
    Bhr 6.177 9 Men are like Geneva watches with crystal faces which expose the whole movement.

Geneva, Switzerland, n. (3)

    MoS 4.175 6 What flutters the Church...of Geneva...may yet be very far from touching any principle of faith.
    Chr2 10.106 24 Calvinism was one and the same thing in Geneva, in Scotland, in Old and New England.
    RBur 11.443 16 ...the music-boxes at Geneva are framed and toothed to play [Burns's songs];...

genial, adj. (34)

    Nat 1.18 12 I...believe that we are as much touched by [winter scenery] as by the genial influences of summer.
    LE 1.165 26 Out of [the spontaneous sentiment] must all that is alive and genial in thought go.
    MR 1.230 24 The employments of commerce are not intrinsically unfit for a man, or less genial to his faculties;...
    Hsm1 2.258 4 A great man makes his climate genial in the imagination of men...
    SwM 4.104 4 The robust Aristotelian method...shaming our sterile and linear logic by its genial radiation...had trained a race of athletic philosophers.
    ShP 4.191 10 Great genial power, one would almost say, consists in not being original at all;...
    ET13 5.220 5 Heats and genial periods arrive in history...
    Bhr 6.197 15 What finest hands would not be clumsy to sketch the genial precepts of the young girl's demeanor?
    CbW 6.267 4 Genial manners are good...
    SS 7.3 18 [My new friend] had...a genial temper...
    SS 7.13 4 ...this genial heat [of animal spirits] is latent in all constitutions...
    DL 7.113 15 ...is there any calamity...that more invokes the best good will to remove it, than this?...to find no invitation to what is good in us, and no receptacle for what is wise:--this is a great price to pay for...being defrauded...of genial culture and the inmost presence of beauty.
    Clbs 7.230 26 ...I seldom meet with a reading and thoughtful person but he tells me...that he has no companion. Suppose such a one to go out exploring different circles in search of this wise and genial counterpart,--he might inquire far and wide.
    Clbs 7.233 22 ...[Holmes (?)]...is of such genial temper that he disposes all others irresistibly to good humor and discourse.
    Clbs 7.244 13 It was a pathetic experience when a genial and accomplished person said to me, looking from his country home to the capital of New England, There is a town of two hundred thousand people, and not a chair for me.
    Cour 7.271 11 The true temper has genial influences.
    Suc 7.303 13 ...the genial man is interested in every slipper that comes into the assembly.
    SA 8.83 22 There is the same difference between heavy and genial manners as between the perceptions of octogenarians and those of young girls who see everything in the twinkling of an eye.
    Res 8.138 22 ...if you tell me...that man only rightly knows himself as far as he has experimented on things,--I am...put into a genial and working temper;...
    PC 8.219 8 ...in every wise and genial soul we have England, Greece, Italy, walking...
    Insp 8.276 11 [Inspiration] seems a semi-animal heat; as if...a genial companion, or a new thought suggested in book or conversation could fire the train...
    Edc1 10.142 18 ...the most genial and amiable of men must alternate society with solitude...
    Edc1 10.152 27 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...to adopt.
    Plu 10.295 6 [Amyot's] genial version of [Plutarch's] Lives in 1559, of the Morals in 1572, had signal success.
    Plu 10.299 9 ...[Plutarch] is tolerant even of vice, if he finds it genial;...
    Plu 10.301 9 [Plutarch's] surprising merit is the genial facility with which he deals with his manifold topics.
    Plu 10.311 13 Plutarch is genial...
    Plu 10.319 14 [Plutarch] was a genial host and guest...
    LLNE 10.337 25 [Mesmerism] was human, it was genial...
    LLNE 10.346 15 These [19th Century] reformers were a new class. Instead of the fiery souls of the Puritans...these were gentle souls, with peaceful and even with genial dispositions...
    EdAd 11.391 18 Here is the balance to be adjusted between the exact French school of Cuvier, and the genial catholic theorists, Geoffroy St.-Hilaire, Goethe, Davy and Agassiz.
    Wom 11.408 22 Wise, cultivated, genial conversation is the last flower of civilization...
    MLit 12.309 12 Let us not forget the genial miraculous force we have known to proceed from a book.
    MLit 12.318 26 This new love of the vast, always native in Germany... finds a most genial climate in the American mind.

geniality, n. (2)

    Ctr 6.137 24 No performance is worth loss of geniality.
    Grts 8.319 7 These may serve as local examples [of real heroes] to indicate a magnetism...which makes [the scholar] require geniality and humanity in his heroes.

genially, adv. (6)

    Nat 1.39 4 How calmly and genially the mind apprehends one after another the laws of physics!
    DSA 1.146 18 ...when you meet one of these men or women...let their trampled instincts be genially tempted out in your atmosphere;...
    PPh 4.64 18 [Plato] saw the institutions of Sparta and recognized, more genially one would say than any since, the hope of education.
    SwM 4.121 18 Every thing must be taken genially...
    WD 7.180 21 The world is enigmatical...and must not be taken literally, but genially.
    Scot 11.466 10 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 Jeanie Deans, his Dinmonts and Edie Ochiltrees...

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