Genoa to Gigs

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

Genoa, Italy, n. (1)

    ET18 5.301 12 ...[the foreign policy of England] betrayed Genoa, Sicily, Parma, Greece, Turkey, Rome and Hungary.

Genoese, adj. (3)

    Grts 8.308 11 Montluc...says of the Genoese admiral, Andrew Doria, It seemed as if the sea stood in awe of this man.
    Bost 12.181 1 We are citizens of two fair cities, said the Genoese gentleman to a Florentine artist, and if I were not a Genoese, I should wish to be Florentine.
    Bost 12.181 5 ...I, replied the artist, if I were not Florentine- You would wish to be Genoese, said the other. No, replied the artist, I should wish to be Florentine.

Genoese, n. (1)

    Bost 12.181 2 We are citizens of two fair cities, said the Genoese gentleman to a Florentine artist, and if I were not a Genoese, I should wish to be Florentine.

gens, n. (1)

    F 6.29 22 As Voltaire said...un des plus grand malheurs des honnetes gens c'est qu'ils sont des laches.

gent, adj. (1)

    Wsp 6.206 8 Hengist had verament/ A daughter both fair and gent,/ But she was heathen Sarazine,/ And Vortigern for love fine/ Her took to fere and to wife,/ And was cursed in all his life;/...

genteel, adj. (2)

    ET13 5.229 26 George Borrow...reads to [the Gypsies] the Apostles' Creed in Romany. When I had concluded, he says, I looked around me. The features of the assembly were twisted...not an individual present but squinted; the genteel Pepa, the good-humored Chicharona...
    MMEm 10.413 13 Ah! were virtue, and that of dear heavenly meekness attached by any necessity to a lower rank of genteel people, who would sympathize with the exalted with satisfaction?

genterie, n. (2)

    Aris 10.29 16 Here may ye see wel, how that genterie/ Is not annexed to possession,/ Sith folk ne don their operation/ Alway, as doth the fire, lo, in his kind,/ For God it wot, men may full often find/ A lorde's son do shame and vilanie./
    Aris 10.29 22 ...he that wol have prize of his genterie,/ For he was boren of a gentil house,/ And had his elders noble and virtuous,/ And n' ill hinselven do no gentil dedes,/ Ne folwe his gentil auncestrie, that dead is,/ He n' is not gentil, be he duke or erl;/...

gentian, n. (2)

    Thor 10.481 15 [Thoreau] honored certain plants with special regard, and, over all, the pond-lily,-then, the gentian...
    CL 12.160 16 ...the zones of plants, the savin, the pine, vernal gentian...are all thermometers which cannot be deceived...

gentil, adj. (5)

    Aris 10.29 7 Look who that is most virtuous alway,/ Prive and apert, and most entendeth aye/ To do the gentil dedes that he can,/ And take him for the greatest gentilman./
    Aris 10.29 23 ...he that wol have prize of his genterie,/ For he was boren of a gentil house,/ And had his elders noble and virtuous,/ And n' ill hinselven do no gentil dedes,/ Ne folwe his gentil auncestrie, that dead is,/ He n' is not gentil, be he duke or erl;/...
    Aris 10.30 1 ...he that wol have prize of his genterie,/ For he was boren of a gentil house,/ And had his elders noble and virtuous,/ And n' ill hinselven do no gentil dedes,/ Ne folwe his gentil auncestrie, that dead is,/ He n' is not gentil, be he duke or erl;/...
    Aris 10.30 2 ...he that wol have prize of his genterie,/ For he was boren of a gentil house,/ And had his elders noble and virtuous,/ And n' ill hinselven do no gentil dedes,/ Ne folwe his gentil auncestrie, that dead is,/ He n' is not gentil, be he duke or erl;/...
    Aris 10.30 3 ...he that wol have prize of his genterie,/ For he was boren of a gentil house,/ And had his elders noble and virtuous,/ And n' ill hinselven do no gentil dedes,/ Ne folwe his gentil auncestrie, that dead is,/ He n' is not gentil, be he duke or erl;/...

gentilesse, n. (2)

    Mrs1 3.122 10 The word gentleman has not any correlative abstract to express the quality. Gentility is mean, and gentilesse is obsolete.
    SS 7.1 12 ...nor loved [Seyd] less/ Stately lords in palaces/ Princely women hard to please,/ Fenced by form and ceremony,/ Decked by courtly rites and dress/ And etiquette of gentilesse./

Gentilesse, n. (1)

    Pt1 3.31 13 ...Chaucer, in his praise of Gentilesse, compares good blood in mean condition to fire...

Gentilis, Albericus, n. (1)

    ET12 5.201 4 Albericus Gentilis, in 1580, was relieved and maintained by the university [Oxford].

gentility, n. (2)

    Hsm1 2.245 3 In the elder English dramatists...there is a constant recognition of gentility...
    Mrs1 3.122 9 The word gentleman has not any correlative abstract to express the quality. Gentility is mean, and gentilesse is obsolete.

gentillesse, n. (2)

    Aris 10.29 1 But for ye speken of such gentillesse/ As is descended out of old richesse,/ That therfore shullen ye be gentilmen,-/ Such arrogance n' is not worth a hen./
    Aris 10.30 5 Than cometh our very gentillesse of grace,/ It was no thing bequethed us with our place./ Chaucer, The Knighte's Tale.

gentilman, n. (1)

    Aris 10.29 8 Look who that is most virtuous alway,/ Prive and apert, and most entendeth aye/ To do the gentil dedes that he can,/ And take him for the greatest gentilman./

gentilmen, n. (1)

    Aris 10.29 3 But for ye speken of such gentillesse/ As is descended out of old richesse,/ That therfore shullen ye be gentilmen,-/ Such arrogance n' is not worth a hen./

Gentilus, Albericus, n. (1)

    ShP 4.203 16 ...I find among [Wotton's] correspondents and acquaintances...Vieta, Albericus Gentilis...

gentle, adj. (42)

    Nat 1.59 10 I do not wish to...soil my gentle nest.
    MR 1.254 23 Have you not seen in the woods...a poor fungus or mushroom...by its...inconceivably gentle pushing, manage to break its way up through the frosty ground...
    Con 1.315 10 ...[Friar Bernard]...talked with gentle mothers with their babes at their breasts...
    Hist 2.35 3 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;...
    Lov1 2.177 22 ...[love] makes the clown gentle and gives the coward heart.
    Fdsp 2.192 3 ...it is necessary to write a letter to a friend,--and forthwith troops of gentle thoughts invest themselves...with chosen words.
    Prd1 2.221 6 My prudence consists...not in gentle repairing.
    Exp 3.48 5 Ate Dea is gentle...
    Mrs1 3.154 9 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;... What is gentle, but to allow [their claim], and give their heart and yours a holiday from the national caution?
    UGM 4.22 1 ...if there should appear in the company some gentle soul who...certifies me of the equity which checkmates every false player...that man liberates me;...
    PPh 4.45 24 As soon as [children] can speak and tell their want and the reason of it, they become gentle.
    SwM 4.133 25 Only when Cicero comes by, our gentle seer [Swedenborg] sticks a little at saying he talked with Cicero...
    ET1 5.7 13 ...[Landor] was the most patient and gentle of hosts.
    ET4 5.68 12 Clarendon says the Duke of Buckingham was so modest and gentle, that some courtiers attempted to put affronts on him...
    ET11 5.187 8 Politeness is...a gentle blessing to the age in which it grew.
    ET15 5.265 19 I went one day with a good friend to The [London] Times office, which was entered through a pretty garden-yard in Printing-House Square. We walked with some circumspection, as if we were entering a powder-mill; but...we were at last conducted into the parlor of Mr. Morris, a very gentle person...
    ET16 5.279 15 My philosopher [Carlyle] was subdued and gentle [at Stonehenge].
    Wth 6.114 15 ...the vain are gentle and giving.
    Ctr 6.129 5 Can rules or tutors educate/ The semigod whom we await?/ He must be musical,/ Tremulous, impressional,/ Alive to gentle influence/...
    Bhr 6.171 10 Every day bears witness to [manners'] gentle rule.
    Wsp 6.238 24 The race of mankind have always offered at least this implied thanks for the gift of existence,--namely...the terror of its being taken away... The whole revelation that is vouchsafed us is the gentle trust, which, in our experience, we find will cover also with flowers the slopes of this chasm.
    PI 8.64 6 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?
    SA 8.82 8 The attitudes of children are gentle, persuasive, royal...
    Res 8.153 3 ...[the willows'] gentle persistency lives when the oak is shattered by storm...
    Insp 8.275 21 ...ecstasy will be found...only an example on a higher plane of the same gentle gravitation by which stones fall and rivers run.
    Dem1 10.26 15 I say to the table-rappers:-I well believe/ Thou wilt not utter what thou dost not know,/ And so far will I trust thee, gentle Kate./
    PerF 10.81 5 One day I found [the stupid farmer's] little boy of four years dragging about after him the prettiest little wooden cart...and learned that Papa had made it; that hidden deep in that thick skull was this gentle art and taste which the little fingers and caresses of his son had the power to draw out into day;...
    Edc1 10.153 11 ...the gentle teacher, who wished to be a Providence to youth, is grown a martinet...
    Plu 10.315 8 ...this Stoic [Plutarch] in his fight...with vices, effeminacy and indolence, is gentle as a woman when other strings are touched.
    Plu 10.316 4 This courteous, gentle and benign disposition and behavior is not so acceptable, so obliging or delightful to any of those with whom we converse, as it is to those who have it.
    LLNE 10.346 14 These [19th Century] reformers were a new class. Instead of the fiery souls of the Puritans...these were gentle souls...
    LLNE 10.363 17 There [at Brook Farm] too was Hawthorne, with his cold yet gentle genius...
    EWI 11.102 14 These men [negro slaves]...gentle and joyous themselves...I am heart-sick when I read how they came there, and how they are kept there.
    JBS 11.279 18 [In John Brown's boyhood] was formed a romantic character...quiet and gentle as a child in the house.
    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...
    JBS 11.281 5 ...what is the oath of gentle blood and knighthood?
    HCom 11.342 19 ...it is the gentle soul that makes the firm hero after all.
    Wom 11.419 4 The answer that lies, silent or spoken, in the minds of well-meaning persons, to the new claims [for women's rights], is this:...that, if the laws and customs were modified in the manner proposed, it would embarrass and pain gentle and lovely persons with duties which they would find irksome and distasteful.
    CL 12.147 8 According to the common estimate of farmers, the wood-lot yields its gentle rent of six per cent....
    CW 12.170 6 The gentle deities/ Showed me the love of color and of sounds,/...
    Milt1 12.264 7 His mind gave him, [Milton] said, that every free and gentle spirit, without that oath of chastity, ought to be born a knight;...
    Milt1 12.269 8 Milton, gentle, learned...was set down in England in the stern, almost fanatic society of the Puritans.

gentleman, n. (87)

    YA 1.394 14 ...[the English] need all and more than all the resources of the past to indemnify a heroic gentleman in that country for the mortifications prepared for him by the system of society...
    Hsm1 2.245 8 When any Rodrigo, Pedro or Valerio enters [in the plays of the elder English dramatists]...the duke or governor exclaims, This is a gentleman...
    OS 2.288 22 ...the fine gentleman, does not take place of the man.
    Exp 3.53 18 I saw a gracious gentleman who adapts his conversation to the form of the head of the man he talks with!
    Mrs1 3.120 23 What fact more conspicuous in modern history than the creation of the gentleman?
    Mrs1 3.120 27 The word gentleman...is a homage to personal and incommunicable properties.
    Mrs1 3.122 8 The word gentleman has not any correlative abstract to express the quality.
    Mrs1 3.122 14 ...we must keep alive in the vernacular the distinction between fashion...and the heroic character which the gentleman imports.
    Mrs1 3.122 24 The gentleman is a man of truth...
    Mrs1 3.124 24 ...the gentleman is the bold fellow whose forms are not to be broken through;...
    Mrs1 3.125 1 My gentleman gives the law where he is;...
    Mrs1 3.125 26 ...if the man of the people cannot speak on equal terms with the gentleman, so that the gentleman shall perceive that he is already really of his own order, he is not to be feared.
    Mrs1 3.130 25 A natural gentleman finds his way in [to fashionable society], and will keep the oldest patrician out who has lost his intrinsic rank.
    Mrs1 3.134 5 A gentleman never dodges;...
    Mrs1 3.134 19 It was...a very natural point of old feudal etiquette that a gentleman who received a visit...should not leave his roof...
    Mrs1 3.136 13 [Montaigne's] arrival in each place, the arrival of a gentleman of France, is an event of some consequence.
    Mrs1 3.136 15 Wherever [Montaigne] goes he pays a visit to whatever prince or gentleman of note resides upon his road...
    Mrs1 3.137 19 A gentleman makes no noise;...
    Mrs1 3.144 2 This gentleman is this afternoon arrived from Denmark;...
    Mrs1 3.145 9 What if the false gentleman almost bows the true out of the world?
    Mrs1 3.145 10 What if the false gentleman contrives so to address his companion as civilly to exclude all others from his discourse, and also to make them feel excluded?
    Mrs1 3.145 17 ...nor is it to be concealed that living blood and a passion of kindness does at last distinguish God's gentleman from Fashion's.
    Mrs1 3.147 28 If the individuals who compose the purest circles of aristocracy in Europe...should pass in review...we might find no gentleman and no lady;...
    NR 3.225 17 ...a society of men will cursorily represent well enough a certain quality and culture, for example, chivalry or beauty of manners; but separate them and there is no gentleman and no lady in the group.
    NR 3.232 25 I am very much struck in literature by the appearance that one person wrote all the books;...but there is such equality and identity both of judgment and point of view in the narrative that it is plainly the work of one all-seeing, all-hearing gentleman.
    SwM 4.141 24 [Swedenborg's spiritual world] is...very like...to the phenomena of dreaming, which nightly turns many an honest gentleman... into a wretch...
    MoS 4.154 9 Ah, said my languid gentleman at Oxford, there's nothing new or true,--and no matter.
    ShP 4.209 17 One can discern, in [Shakespeare's] ample pictures of the gentleman and the king, what forms and humanities pleased him;...
    ShP 4.210 7 What gentleman has [Shakespeare] not instructed in the rudeness of his behavior?
    NMW 4.256 6 ...when you have penetrated through all the circles of power and splendor [of Napoleon], you were not dealing with a gentleman, at last;...
    GoW 4.276 19 ...[Goethe] flies at the throat of this imp [the Devil]. He shall be real;...he shall dress like a gentleman...
    ET3 5.39 27 A gentleman in Liverpool told me that he found he could do without a fire in his parlor about one day in the year.
    ET4 5.59 10 Never was a poor gentleman so surfeited with life...as the Northman.
    ET4 5.62 9 Konghelle, the town where the kings of Norway, Sweden and Denmark were wont to meet, is now rented to a private English gentleman for a hunting ground.
    ET5 5.84 7 You dine with a gentleman [in England] on venison, pheasant, quail, pigeons, poultry, mushrooms and pine-apples, all the growth of his estate.
    ET6 5.102 5 On the day of my arrival at Liverpool, a gentleman, in describing to me the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, happened to say, Lord Clarendon has pluck like a cock and will fight till he dies;...
    ET7 5.118 15 Even Lord Chesterfield...when he came to define a gentleman, declared that truth made his distinction;...
    ET9 5.150 16 In a tract on Corn, a most amiable...gentleman [William Spence] writes thus:--Though Britain, according to Bishop Berkeley's idea, were surrounded by a wall of brass ten thousand cubits in height, still she would as far excel the rest of the globe in riches, as she now does both in this secondary quality...
    ET10 5.153 10 A coarse logic rules throughout all English souls;--if you have merit, can you not show it by your good clothes and coach and horses? How can a man be a gentleman without a pipe of wine?
    ET10 5.166 3 I much prefer the condition of an English gentleman of the better class to that of any potentate in Europe...
    ET12 5.208 18 ...at the universities, it is urged that all goes to form what England values as the flower of its national life,--a well-educated gentleman.
    ET12 5.208 20 The German Huber, in describing to his countrymen the attributes of an English gentleman, frankly admits that in Germany, we have nothing of the kind.
    ET12 5.208 22 A gentleman [in England] must possess a political character...
    ET12 5.211 25 Charles I. said that he understood English law as well as a gentleman ought to understand it.
    ET13 5.221 2 When you see on the continent the well-dressed Englishman come into his ambassador's chapel and put his face for silent prayer into his smooth-brushed hat, you cannot help feeling how much national pride prays with him, and the religion of a gentleman.
    ET13 5.222 26 The action of the university...is directed more on producing an English gentleman, than a saint or a psychologist.
    ET13 5.230 5 If a bishop [in England] meets an intelligent gentleman and reads fatal interrogations in his eyes, he has no resource but to take wine with him.
    ET15 5.262 4 ...said Lord Mansfield to the Duke of Northumberland; mark my words; you and I shall not live to see it, but this young gentleman (Lord Eldon) may...but...these newspapers will most assuredly write the dukes of Northumberland out of their titles...
    ET16 5.287 24 ...I insisted that the manifest absurdity of the view to English feasibility could make no difference to a gentleman;...
    ET17 5.291 20 At the landing in Liverpool, I found my Manchester correspondent awaiting me, a gentleman whose kind reception was followed by a train of friendly and effective attentions...
    ET17 5.296 23 A gentleman in the neighborhood told the story of Walter Scott's staying once for a week with Wordsworth...
    ET17 5.297 8 A gentleman in London showed me a watch that once belonged to Milton...
    Pow 6.71 14 ...whilst the habits of the camp were still visible in the port and complexion of the gentleman, his intellectual power culminated...
    Ctr 6.159 20 Repose and cheerfulness are the badge of the gentleman...
    Bhr 6.173 24 In the hotels on the banks of the Mississippi they print...that No gentleman can be permitted to come to the public table without his coat;...
    Wsp 6.233 5 It is related of William of Orange, that whilst he was besieging a town on the continent, a gentleman sent to him on public business came to his camp...
    Wsp 6.233 14 [A gentleman] found [William of Orange] directing the operation of his gunners, and...the king said, Do you not know, sir, that every moment you spend here is at the risk of your life? I run no more risk, replied the gentleman, than your Majesty.
    Wsp 6.233 18 [A gentleman] found [William of Orange] directing the operation of his gunners... In a few minutes a cannon-ball fell on the spot, and the gentleman was killed.
    CbW 6.257 6 ...the friends of a gentleman brought to his notice the follies of his sons...
    CbW 6.260 24 ...by gulfs of disparity, learn a wider truth and humanity than that of a fine gentleman.
    Bty 6.298 24 Martial ridicules a gentleman of his day whose countenance resembled the face of a swimmer seen under water.
    Clbs 7.230 14 ...a natural fact has only half its value until a fact in moral nature, its counterpart, is stated. Then they confirm and adorn each other; a story is matched by another story. And that may be the reason why, when a gentleman has told a good thing, he immediately tells it again.
    Suc 7.305 8 ...if [Sylvina] says [Odoacer] was defeated, why he had better a great deal have been defeated than give her a moment's annoy. Odoacer, if there was a particle of the gentleman in him, would have said, Let me be defeated a thousand times.
    SA 8.91 7 That every well-dressed lady or gentleman should be at liberty to exceed ten minutes in his or her call on serious people, shows a civilization still rude.
    Elo2 8.117 22 A worthy gentleman...went to [Dr. Hugh Blair] and offered him one thousand pounds sterling if he would teach him to speak with propriety in public.
    Aris 10.31 12 ...the word gentleman is gladly heard in all companies;...
    Aris 10.31 22 [The best young men] do not yet covet political power...nor do they wish to be saints; for fear of partialism; but the middle term...they find in the idea of gentleman.
    Aris 10.32 3 A reference to society is part of the idea of culture; science of a gentleman; art of a gentleman; poetry in a gentleman...
    Aris 10.32 4 A reference to society is part of the idea of culture; science of a gentleman; art of a gentleman; poetry in a gentleman...
    Aris 10.52 7 ...if the dressed and perfumed gentleman, who serves the people in no wise...go about to set ill examples and corrupt them, who shall blame them if they burn his barns...
    Aris 10.62 11 ...to every gentleman grave and dangerous duties are proposed.
    Edc1 10.145 21 In London...I became acquainted with a gentleman, Sir Charles Fellowes...
    SovE 10.186 27 'T is a long scale from the gorilla to the gentleman...
    MoL 10.245 26 In my youth, said a Scotch mountaineer, a Highland gentleman measured his importance, by the number of men his domain could support.
    EzRy 10.390 15 [Ezra Ripley] was a natural gentleman...
    EzRy 10.392 8 We remember the remark of a gentleman...that a man who could tell a story so well [as Ezra Ripley] was company for kings and John Quincy Adams.
    SlHr 10.447 13 [Samuel Hoar] was a model of those formal but reverend manners which make what is called a gentleman of the old school...
    Thor 10.465 27 Admiring friends offered to carry [Thoreau] at their own cost...to South America. But though nothing could be more grave or considered than his refusals, they remind one...of that fop Brummel's reply to the gentleman who offered him his carriage in a shower, But where will you ride, then?...
    FSLC 11.198 5 You have a law [The Fugitive Slave Law] which no man can obey, or abet the obeying, without...forfeiture of the name of gentleman.
    FSLN 11.230 10 That is the distinction of the gentleman, to defend the weak and redress the injured...
    Scot 11.462 2 As far as Sir Walter Scott aspired to be known for a fine gentleman, so far our sympathies leave him.
    FRep 11.519 6 The partisan on moral...questions, will choose a proven rogue who can answer the tests, over an honest, affectionate, noble gentleman;...
    FRep 11.537 16 The flowering of civilization is the finished man, the man of sense, of grace, of accomplishment, of social power,-the gentleman.
    PLT 12.8 6 Go into the scientific club and harken. Each savant proves in his admirable discourse that he, and he only, knows now or ever did know anything on the subject: Does the gentleman speak of anatomy? Who peeped into a box at the Custom House and then published a drawing of my rat?
    Bost 12.181 1 We are citizens of two fair cities, said the Genoese gentleman to a Florentine artist, and if I were not a Genoese, I should wish to be Florentine.
    Bost 12.187 12 In...the farthest colonies...a middle-aged gentleman is just embarking with all his property to fulfil the dream of his life and spend his old age in Paris;...
    EurB 12.365 20 [Wordsworth's] are such verses as in a just state of culture should be vers de societe, such as every gentleman could write but none would think of printing...

Gentleman, n. (2)

    Aris 10.36 16 ...all the deference of modern society to this idea of the Gentleman...is a secret homage to reality and love...
    Aris 10.65 17 I do not know whether that word Gentleman...is a sufficiently broad generalization to convey the deep and grave fact of self-reliance.

gentleman's, n. (2)

    MoS 4.164 10 ...[Montaigne] loved the compass, staidness and independence of the country gentleman's life.
    EzRy 10.389 23 ...[Ezra Ripley] repeated to me at table some of the particulars of that gentleman's [Jack Downing's] intimacy with General Jackson, in a manner which betrayed to me at once that he took the whole for fact.

gentlemen, n. (92)

    LE 1.175 26 You will pardon me, Gentlemen, if I say I think that we have need of a more rigorous scholastic rule;...
    LE 1.185 5 Gentlemen, I have ventured to offer you these considerations upon the scholar's place and hope...
    Con 1.306 17 ...[the youth] says, If I am born in the earth...have the goodness, gentlemen of this world, to show me my wood-lot, where I may fell my wood...
    Con 1.306 22 ...[the youth] says, If I am born in the earth...have the goodness, gentlemen of this world, to show me...my pleasant ground where to build my cabin. Touch any wood, or field, or house-lot, on your peril, cry all the gentlemen of this world;...
    Con 1.307 1 Touch any wood, or field, or house-lot, on your peril, cry all the gentlemen of this world;... And what is that peril? Knives and muskets, if we meet you in the act; imprisonment, if we find you afterward. And by what authority, kind gentlemen? By our law.
    Con 1.317 14 Rich and fine is your dress, O conservatism!...and a very good state and condition are you for gentlemen and ladies to live under;...
    YA 1.371 20 Gentlemen, there is a sublime and friendly Destiny by which the human race is guided...
    YA 1.376 11 ...the Emperor Nicholas is reported to have said to his council...rely on me, gentlemen, I shall oppose an iron will to the progress of liberal opinions.
    YA 1.391 16 Gentlemen, the development of our American internal resources, the extension to the utmost of the commercial system...are giving an aspect of greatness to the Future...
    SR 2.63 8 When private men shall act with original views, the lustre will be transferred from the actions of kings to those of gentlemen.
    SL 2.149 14 Introduce a base person among gentlemen, it is all to no purpose;...
    SL 2.152 16 ...we know that these gentlemen will not communicate their own character and experience to the company.
    Pt1 3.41 20 Others shall be thy gentlemen and shall represent all courtesy and worldly life for thee [O poet];...
    Exp 3.76 14 ...the chagrins which the bad heart gives off as bubbles, at once take form as ladies and gentlemen in the street...
    Mrs1 3.123 23 God knows that all sorts of gentlemen knock at the door;...
    Mrs1 3.125 8 The famous gentlemen of Asia and Europe have been of this strong type;...
    Mrs1 3.126 2 Diogenes, Socrates, and Epaminondas, are gentlemen of the best blood...
    Mrs1 3.136 20 When [Montaigne] leaves any house in which he has lodged for a few weeks, he causes his arms to be painted and hung up as a perpetual sign to the house, as was the custom of gentlemen.
    Mrs1 3.141 21 England, which is rich in gentlemen, furnished, in the beginning of the present century, a good model of that genius which the world loves, in Mr. Fox...
    Gts 3.163 26 It is a very onerous business, this of being served, and the debtor naturally wishes to give you a slap. A golden text for these gentlemen is that which I so admire in the Buddhist, who never thanks, and who says, Do not flatter your benefactors.
    NR 3.232 15 The world is full...of secret and public legions of honor; that of scholars, for example; and that of gentlemen...
    MoS 4.166 11 ...[Montaigne] has seen too much of gentlemen of the long robe, until he wishes for cannibals;...
    NMW 4.243 4 ...Napoleon said...Gentlemen...my only nobility is the rabble of the Faubourgs.
    NMW 4.250 21 ...Bonaparte pointed to the stars, and said, You may talk as long as you please, gentlemen, but who made all that?
    GoW 4.268 10 The robust gentlemen who stand at the head of the practical class, share the ideas of the time...
    ET1 5.20 10 ...I [Wordsworth] fear [the Americans] lack a class of men of leisure,--in short, of gentlemen...
    ET4 5.73 15 The [English] gentlemen are always on horseback...
    ET4 5.73 19 A score or two of mounted gentlemen may frequently be seen [in England] running like centaurs down a hill nearly as steep as the roof of a house.
    ET6 5.114 3 The company [at an English dinner] sit one or two hours before the ladies leave the table. The gentlemen remain over their wine an hour longer...
    ET8 5.129 3 ...a kind of pride in bad public speaking is noted in the House of Commons, as if they...thought they spoke well enough if they had the tone of gentlemen.
    ET8 5.139 15 No nation was ever so rich in able men [as England]; Gentlemen, as Charles I. said of Strafford, whose abilities might make a prince rather afraid than ashamed in the greatest affairs of state;...
    ET10 5.156 16 Gentlemen do not hesitate to ride in the second-class cars [in England]...
    ET11 5.195 26 Fuller records the observation of foreigners, that Englishmen, by making their children gentlemen before they are men, cause they are so seldom wise men.
    ET12 5.208 15 It is contended by those who have been bred at Eton, Harrow, Rugby and Westminster...that an unwritten code of honor deals to the spoiled child of rank and to the child of upstart wealth, an evenhanded justice...and does all that can be done to make them gentlemen.
    ET12 5.209 2 The race of English gentlemen presents an appearance of manly vigor and form not elsewhere to be found among an equal number of persons.
    ET13 5.221 14 ...gentlemen lately testified in the House of Commons that in their lives they never saw a poor man in a ragged coat inside a church.
    ET13 5.227 17 The [English] Bishop is elected by the Dean and Prebends of the cathedral. The Queen sends these gentlemen a conge d'elire, or leave to elect;...
    ET14 5.237 1 The country gentlemen [in England] had a posset or drink they called October;...
    ET15 5.265 5 ...when [John Walter] demanded a small share in the proprietary [of the London Times] and was refused, he said, As you please, gentlemen; and you may take away The Times from this office when you will;...
    ET19 5.310 24 I am...here...to speak of that which I am sure interests these gentlemen more than their own praises;...
    ET19 5.311 25 You will think me very pedantic, gentlemen, but holiday though it be, I have not the smallest interest in any holiday except as it celebrates real and not pretended joys;...
    ET19 5.313 3 Is it not true, sir, that the wise ancients did not praise the ship parting with flying colors from the port, but only that brave sailor which came back...stript of her banners, but having ridden out the storm? And so, gentlemen, I feel in regard to this aged England...
    F 6.45 24 Such an one [a strong, astringent, billious nature] has curculios, borers, knife-worms; a swindler ate him first...then smooth, plausible gentlemen...
    Pow 6.66 9 The most amiable of country gentlemen has a certain pleasure in the teeth of the bull-dog which guards his orchard.
    Wsp 6.203 26 'T is a whole population of gentlemen and ladies out in search of religions.
    Wsp 6.211 10 If a pickpocket intrude into the society of gentlemen, they exert what moral force they have...
    Wsp 6.211 17 ...if an adventurer...procure himself to be elected to a post of trust...by the same arts as we detest in the house-thief,--the same gentlemen who agree to discountenance the private rogue will be forward to show civilities and marks of respect to the public one;...
    Bty 6.300 2 ...petulant old gentlemen...affirm that the secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.
    Ill 6.315 2 ...I have known gentlemen of great stake in the community, but whose sympathies were cold...
    SA 8.85 23 ...the wily old Talleyrand would still say, Surtout, messieurs, pas de zele,--Above all, gentlemen, no heat.
    SA 8.102 18 Our gentlemen of the old school...were bred after English types...
    Aris 10.31 16 ...the cogent motive with the best young men who are revolving plans and forming resolutions for the future, is...the wish to be gentlemen.
    Aris 10.58 7 Prosperity and pound-cake are for very young gentlemen, whom such things content;...
    Aris 10.62 22 The English House of Commons is the proudest assembly of gentlemen in the world...
    Chr2 10.112 12 In England, the gentlemen, the journals, and now, at last, the churchmen and bishops, have fallen away from the Anglican Church.
    MoL 10.241 1 Gentlemen of the Literary Societies: Some of your are to-day saying your farewells to each other...
    MoL 10.252 10 Gentlemen, I am here to commend to you your art and profession as thinkers.
    Schr 10.261 1 Gentlemen: The Athenians took an oath, on a certain crisis in their affairs, to esteem wheat, the vine and the olive the bounds of Attica.
    Schr 10.264 5 This, gentlemen, is the topic on which I shall speak,-the natural and permanent function of the Scholar...
    Schr 10.267 24 Gentlemen, I do not wish to check your impulses to action...
    Schr 10.276 23 Ah, gentlemen, I own I love talents and accomplishments;...
    Schr 10.288 7 ...gentlemen, there is plainly no end to these expansions [on the scholar].
    LLNE 10.340 22 Dr. Channing repaired to Dr. Warren's house on the appointed evening, with large thoughts which he wished to open. He found a well-chosen assembly of gentlemen variously distinguished;...
    LLNE 10.341 7 Some time afterwards Dr. Channing opened his mind to Mr. and Mrs. Ripley, and with some care they invited a limited party of ladies and gentlemen.
    SlHr 10.438 14 ...when...a deputation of gentlemen waited upon him in the hall to say they had come with the unanimous voice of the State to remove him by force...[Samuel Hoar] considered his duty discharged to the last point of possibility.
    SlHr 10.438 22 ...when the mob of Charleston was assembled in the streets before his hotel...[Samuel Hoar] considered his duty discharged to the last point of possibility. The force was apparent and irresistible;...and he said, Well, gentlemen, since it is your pleasure to use force, I must go.
    HDC 11.64 23 After the death of Rev. Mr. Estabrook, in 1711, it was propounded at the [Concord] town-meeting, whether one of the three gentlemen lately improved here in preaching...shall be now chosen in the work of the ministry?
    EWI 11.124 19 ...unhappily, most unhappily, gentlemen, man is born with intellect...
    EWI 11.128 3 ...when, in 1789, the first privy council report of evidence on the [slave] trade...was presented to the House of Commons, a late day being named for the discussion...Mr. Wilberforce, Mr. Pitt, the Prime Minister, and other gentlemen, took advantage of the postponement to retire into the country to read the report.
    EWI 11.130 26 Gentlemen, I thought the deck of a Massachusetts ship was as much the territory of Massachusetts as the floor on which we stand.
    EWI 11.133 4 Gentlemen, I am loath to say harsh things...
    EWI 11.133 15 To what purpose have we clothed each of those representatives with the power of seventy thousand persons...if they are to sit dumb at their desks and see their constituents captured and sold;- perhaps to gentlemen sitting by them in the hall?
    EWI 11.133 19 There is a scandalous rumor...that members [of Congress] are bullied into silence by Southern gentlemen.
    War 11.172 24 We are affected...by the appearance of a few rich and wilful gentlemen who take their honor into their own keeping...
    FSLC 11.197 20 ...here are gentlemen whose believed probity was the confidence and fortification of multitudes, who...have been drawn into the support of this foul business [the Fugitive Slave Law].
    FSLN 11.242 26 You, gentlemen of these literary and scientific schools, and the important class you represent, have the power to make your verdict clear and prevailing.
    FSLN 11.244 5 ...Liberty is...the Epic Poetry, the new religion, the chivalry of all gentlemen.
    JBB 11.267 2 Gentlemen who have preceded me have well said that no wall of separation could here exist.
    JBB 11.267 12 ...I do not wonder that gentlemen find traits of relation readily between [John Brown] and themselves.
    JBB 11.269 22 ...if [John Brown] must suffer, he must drag official gentlemen into an immortality most undesirable...
    JBS 11.280 14 I am not a little surprised at the easy effrontery with which political gentlemen, in and out of Congress, take it upon them to say that there are not a thousand men in the North who sympathize with John Brown.
    JBS 11.280 24 All gentlemen, of course, are on [John Brown's] side.
    JBS 11.280 25 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...
    TPar 11.288 19 ...[the next generation] will care little for fine gentlemen who behaved shabbily;...
    Wom 11.421 20 ...if any man will take the trouble to see how our people vote,-how many gentlemen are willing to take on themselves the trouble of thinking and determining for you...I cannot but think he will agree that most women might vote as wisely.
    ChiE 11.473 15 I am sure that gentlemen around me bear in mind the bill which the Hon. Mr. Jenckes of Rhode Island has twice attempted to carry through Congress, requiring that candidates for public offices shall first pass examinations on their literary qualifications for the same.
    FRep 11.524 3 ...the people] must take wine at the hotel, first, for the look of it, and second, for the purpose of sending the bottle to two or three gentlemen at the table;...
    Mem 12.99 7 ...there is a sound sleep of children and of savages...which never visits the eyes of civil gentlemen...
    CInt 12.119 7 Gentlemen, I too am an American, and value practical talent.
    CInt 12.120 21 You, gentlemen, are selected out of the great multitude of your mates...
    CInt 12.127 18 Ah, gentlemen, it's only a dream of mine, and perhaps never will be true,-but I thought a college was a place not to train talents... but to adorn Genius...
    WSL 12.339 2 ...[Landor] delights to throw a clod of dirt on the table, and cry, Gentlemen, there is a better man than all of you.

Gentlemen, n. (5)

    AmS 1.114 6 Mr. President and Gentlemen, this confidence in the unsearched might of man belongs...to the American Scholar.
    ET19 5.309 20 On being introduced to the meeting [Manchester Athenaeum Banquet] I said:--Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen: It is pleasant to me to meet this great and brilliant company...
    FSLN 11.232 14 Now, Gentlemen, I think we have in this hour instruction again in the simplest lesson.
    HCom 11.341 1 Mr. Chairman, and Gentlemen: With whatever opinion we come here, I think it is not in man to see, without a feeling of pride and pleasure, a tried soldier...
    RBur 11.439 1 Mr. President and Gentlemen: I do not know by what untoward accident it has chanced...that...it should fall to me, the worst Scotsman of all, to receive your commands...to respond to the sentiment just offered, and which indeed makes the occasion [the Burns Festival].

gentlemen-shepherds, n. (1)

    LLNE 10.366 24 The ladies [at Brook Farm] took cold on washing-day; so it was ordained that the gentlemen-shepherds should wring and hang out clothes;...

gentleness, n. (6)

    Mrs1 3.123 3 ...the word [gentleman] denotes good-nature or benevolence; manhood first, and then gentleness.
    SwM 4.101 3 [Swedenborg] had great modesty and gentleness of bearing.
    Ill 6.317 22 ...the best soldiers, sea-captains and railway men have a gentleness when off duty...
    Farm 7.153 10 Put [the farmer] on a new planet and he would know where to begin; yet there is no arrogance in his bearing, but a perfect gentleness.
    SlHr 10.448 24 ...[Samuel Hoar's] heart was all gentleness, gratitude and bounty.
    CInt 12.118 10 Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense and of simple justice, as at a wonderful discovery. Thus...at the introduction of gentleness into insane asylums...

gentler, adj. (1)

    Bhr 6.195 4 How much we forgive to those who yield us the rare spectacle of heroic manners! We will pardon them the want...even of the gentler virtues.

gentler, adv. (1)

    Hsm1 2.246 9 Let not soft nature so transformed be,/ And lose her gentler sexed humanity,/ to make me see my lord bleed. So, 't is well;/...

gentlest, adj. (4)

    SR 2.55 17 We...acquire by degrees the gentlest asinine expression.
    SwM 4.142 23 ...[Behmen]...listens awe-struck, with the gentlest humanity, to the Teacher whose lessons he conveys;...
    ET4 5.68 23 ...Robin Hood comes described to us as mitissimus praedonum; the gentlest thief.
    TPar 11.286 4 Theodore Parker was...upright, of a haughty independence, yet the gentlest of companions;...

gently, adv. (5)

    Nat 1.71 6 When men are innocent, life...shall pass into the immortal as gently as we awake from dreams.
    LE 1.184 25 ...in the counting-room the merchant cares little whether...the transaction [be] a letter of credit or a transfer of stocks; be it what it may, his commission comes gently out of it;...
    NER 3.285 21 May [the heart] not quit other leadings, and listen to the Soul that has guided it so gently...
    LLNE 10.340 25 [Channing] found [at Warren's house] a well-chosen assembly of gentlemen variously distinguished;...they were...drawing gently towards their great expectation...
    LLNE 10.366 6 It was very gently said [at Brook Farm] that people on whom beforehand all persons would put the utmost reliance were not responsible.

Gentoo, adj. (1)

    SL 2.163 21 The poor mind does not seem to itself to be any thing unless it have an outside badge,--some Gentoo diet, or Quaker coat...

Gentoo, n. (1)

    Cour 7.277 1 ...there is no creed of an honest man, be he Christian, Turk or Gentoo, which does not equally preach it.

Gentoos, n. (1)

    Exp 3.64 6 ...the ascetics, Gentoos and corn-eaters, [nature] does not distinguish by any favor.

gentry, n. (5)

    Con 1.323 6 In the civil wars of France, Montaigne alone, among all the French gentry, kept his castle gates unbarred...
    MoS 4.164 20 The neighboring lords and gentry brought jewels and papers to [Montaigne] for safe-keeping.
    ET8 5.130 3 ...the [English] gentry avoid the taverns...
    ET11 5.197 6 ...the analysis of the [English] peerage and gentry shows the rapid decay and extinction of old families...
    ET13 5.221 13 [The English Church] is the church of the gentry, but it is not the church of the poor.

genuine, adj. (23)

    DSA 1.141 8 What life the public worship retains, it owes to the scattered company of pious men...who...have...accepted...from their own heart, the genuine impulses of virtue...
    LE 1.162 7 No more will I dismiss, with haste, the visions which flash and sparkle across my sky; but...draw out of the past, genuine life for the present hour.
    SR 2.49 7 ...[the boy] gives an independent, genuine verdict.
    SR 2.53 7 I much prefer that [my life] should be of a lower strain, so it be genuine and equal...
    SR 2.59 8 Your genuine action will explain itself...
    SR 2.59 10 Your genuine action...will explain your other genuine actions.
    Fdsp 2.213 27 It is foolish to be afraid of making our ties too spiritual, as if so we could lose any genuine love.
    Prd1 2.232 15 It does not seem to me so genuine grief when some tyrannous Richard the Third oppresses and slays a score of innocent persons, as when Antonio and Tasso, both apparently right, wrong each other.
    Int 2.335 12 [The thought] is...a piece of genuine and immeasurable greatness.
    Art1 2.355 23 ...it is the right and property...of all genuine talents...to be for their moment the top of the world.
    NR 3.246 25 We keep a running fire of sarcasm at ignorance and the life of the senses; then goes by, perchance, a fair girl...and...we admire and love her...and say, Lo! a genuine creature of the fair earth...
    PPh 4.41 10 This range of Plato instructs us what to think of the vexed question concerning his reputed works,--what are genuine, what are spurious.
    Art2 7.53 13 ...every genuine work of art has as much reason for being as the earth and the sun.
    Art2 7.56 11 ...all [the arts] sprang out of some genuine enthusiasm...
    Art2 7.56 24 The genuine offspring of our ruling passions we behold.
    PI 8.70 25 Every man may be...lifted to a platform whence he looks beyond sense to moral and spiritual truth, and in that mood...strings worlds like beads upon his thought. The success with which this is done can alone determine how genuine is the inspiration.
    Elo2 8.109 13 Self-centred; when [the patriot] launched the genuine word/ It shook or captivated all who heard/...
    PC 8.218 19 Some...Erasmus, Beranger, Bettine von Arnim, or whatever wit of the old inimitable class, is always allowed.
    Imtl 8.324 15 ...I know well that where this belief [in immortality] once existed it would necessarily take a base form for the savage and a pure form for the wise;-so that I only look on the counterfeit as a proof that the genuine faith had been there.
    Plu 10.317 19 I know that the chapter of Apothegms of Noble Commanders is rejected by some critics as not a genuine work of Plutarch;...
    Thor 10.459 16 [Thoreau's] preference of his country and condition was genuine...
    MLit 12.320 5 ...whilst every line of the true poet will be genuine, he is in a boundless power and freedom to say a million things.
    PPr 12.385 15 Worst of all for the party attacked, [Carlyle's Past and Present] bereaves them beforehand of all sympathy, by...impressing the reader with the conviction that the satirist himself has...a genuine respect for the basis of truth in those whom he exposes.

genuineness, n. (1)

    Carl 10.493 10 It is not so much that Carlyle cares for this or that dogma, as that he likes genuineness...

genus, n. (2)

    Hist 2.13 17 Genius detects...through many species the genus;...
    Thor 10.484 8 There is a flower known to botanists, one of the same genus with our summer plant called Life-Everlasting...which grows on the most inaccessible cliffs of the Tyrolese mountains...

Geoffrey, n. (1)

    Cir 2.315 6 Geoffrey draws on his boots to go through the woods...

Geoffrey of Monmouth, n. (2)

    ET7 5.117 24 Geoffrey of Monmouth says of King Aurelius, uncle of Arthur, that above all things he hated a lie.
    ET16 5.281 13 Was [Stonehenge] the Giants' Dance, which Merlin brought from Killaraus, in Ireland, to be Uther Pendragon's monument to the British nobles whom Hengist slaughtered here, as Geoffrey of Monmouth relates?...

Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, Et (1)

    PI 8.7 17 The electric word pronounced by John Hunter a hundred years ago, arrested and progressive development...gave the poetic key to Natural Science, of which the theories of Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, of Oken...are the fruits...

Geoffroy St.-Hilaire, Etie (1)

    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.

geographer, n. (2)

    Hsm1 2.253 14 Ibn Haukal, the Arabian geographer, describes a heroic extreme in the hospitality of Sogd, in Bukharia.
    UGM 4.16 15 Genius is the naturalist or geographer of the supersensible regions...

geographic, adj. (3)

    ET3 5.43 19 It is a singular coincidence to this geographic centrality [of England], the spiritual centrality which Emanuel Swedenborg ascribes to the people.
    Wth 6.96 21 It is the interest of all that there should be...Rosses, Franklins, Richardsons and Kanes, to find the magnetic and the geographic poles.
    FSLC 11.213 7 ...it is confounding distinctions to speak of the geographic sections of this country as of equal civilization.

geographical, adj. (4)

    LT 1.280 14 I am afraid our virtue is a little geographical.
    ET5 5.91 14 The [English] Admiralty sent out the Arctic expeditions year after year, in search of Sir John Franklin, until at last they have threaded their way through polar pack and Behring's Straits and solved the geographical problem.
    Elo1 7.82 19 The audience [if there be personality in the orator]...follows like a child its preceptor, and hears what he has to say. It is as if, amidst the king's council at Madrid...Columbus, being introduced, was interrogated whether his geographical knowledge could aid the cabinet;...
    SovE 10.203 2 Our religion is geographical...

geographically, adv. (2)

    AmS 1.115 16 Is it not the chief disgrace in the world...to be reckoned in the gross...of the section, to which we belong; and our opinion predicted geographically...
    ET4 5.64 18 As soon as this land [England], thus geographically posted, got a hardy people into it, they could not help becoming the sailors and factors of the globe.

geography, n. (22)

    Nat 1.22 6 Homer, Pindar, Socrates, Phocion, associate themselves fitly in our memory with the geography and climate of Greece.
    Hist 2.8 21 [Each man] must...know that he is greater than all the geography and all the government of the world;...
    Hist 2.21 22 The geography of Asia and of Africa necessitated a nomadic life.
    Lov1 2.183 27 The rays of the soul alight first on things nearest...on politics and geography and history.
    Hsm1 2.257 16 Where the heart is...there the gods sojourn, and not in any geography of fame.
    Pt1 3.38 5 ...[America's] ample geography dazzles the imagination...
    PNR 4.86 22 ...[Plato's] forerunners had mapped out each a farm or a district or an island, in intellectual geography...
    ET5 5.94 2 The climate and geography [of England], I said, were factitious...
    ET16 5.275 19 I told Carlyle that...I like the [English] people;...but meantime, I surely know that as soon as I return to Massachusetts I shall lapse at once into the feeling, which the geography of America inevitably inspires, that we play the game with immense advantage;...
    CbW 6.256 7 In America the geography is sublime, but the men are not...
    Boks 7.220 1 Is there any geography in these things [sacred thoughts]?
    Res 8.141 18 We have seen the railroad and telegraph subdue our enormous geography;...
    Res 8.142 22 ...geography and geology are yielding to man's convenience...
    PPo 8.238 19 The very geography of old Persia showed these contrasts.
    Insp 8.295 26 Books of natural science...geography, botany, agriculture... all the better if written without literary aim or ambition.
    Imtl 8.349 8 The human mind takes no account of geography...
    PerF 10.80 4 Bonaparte...reads the geography of Europe as if his eyes were telescopes;...
    MMEm 10.422 23 To her nephew Charles [Mary Moody Emerson writes]: War; what do I think of it? Why in your ear I think it so much better than oppression that if it were ravaging the whole geography of despotism it would be an omen of high and glorious import.
    EdAd 11.385 9 One would say there is nothing colossal in the country but its geography and its material activities;...
    FRep 11.530 20 Never country had such a fortune...as this, in its geography, its history, and in its majestic possibilities.
    Mem 12.108 12 The universal sense of fables and anecdotes is marked by our tendency to forget name and date and geography.
    WSL 12.337 12 When Mr. Bull rides in an American coach...he is very ready to confess his ignorance of everything about him,-persons, manners, customs, politics, geography.

geologic, adj. (12)

    Tran 1.359 14 Soon these improvements and mechanical inventions will be superseded;...these cities...ruined...by new inventions, by new seats of trade, or the geologic changes...
    PNR 4.80 20 It seems as if nature, in regarding the geologic night behind her, when, in five or six millenniums, she had turned out five or six men, as Homer, Phidias, Menu and Columbus, was no wise discontented with the result.
    ET3 5.41 10 It is not down in the books,--it is written only in the geologic strata,--that fortunate day when a wave of the German Ocean burst the old isthmus which joined Kent and Cornwall to France...
    ET4 5.49 25 Any the least and solitariest fact in our natural history, such as the melioration of fruits and animal stocks, has the worth of a power in the opportunity of geologic periods.
    Bhr 6.176 6 ...underneath all [the old Massachusetts statesman's] irritability was...a memory in which lay in order and method like geologic strata every fact of his history...
    WD 7.159 13 Why need I speak of steam...which...vies with the forces which upheaved and doubled over the geologic strata?
    Cour 7.256 25 Men are so charmed with valor that they have pleased themselves with being called lions, leopards, eagles and dragons, from the animals contemporary with us in the geologic formations.
    PI 8.50 24 Richard Owen...said:--All hitherto observed causes of extirpation point either to continuous slowly operating geologic changes, or to no greater sudden cause than the, so to speak, spectral appearance of mankind on a limited tract of land not before inhabited.
    PC 8.212 26 The old six thousand years of chronology become a kitchen clock...since the duration of geologic periods has come into view.
    Imtl 8.334 26 The mind delights in immense time; delights...in mountain chains, and in the evidence of vast geologic periods which these give;...
    SovE 10.187 5 The geologic world is chronicled by the growing ripeness of the strata from lower to higher...
    Bost 12.184 9 [Howell] compares [Indian society] to the geologic phenomenon which the black soil of the Dhakkan offers,-the property, namely, of assimilating to itself every foreign substance introduced into its bosom.

Geologic Society [England], (1)

    ET17 5.292 18 ...I found much advantage in the circles of the Geologic, the Antiquarian and the Royal Societies.

geological, adj. (3)

    MN 1.195 25 The crystal sphere of thought is as concentrical as the geological structure of the globe.
    Hist 2.16 27 I knew a draughtsman employed in a public survey who found that he could not sketch the rocks until their geological structure was first explained to him.
    Grts 8.305 6 There are to each function and department of Nature supplementary men: to geology...men, with a taste for mountains and rocks, a quick eye for differences and for chemical changes. Give such, first a course in chemistry, and then a geological survey.

geologies, n. (1)

    Bty 6.284 8 These geologies, chemistries, astronomies, seem to make wise...

geologist, n. (9)

    Exp 3.80 4 Instead of feeling a poverty when we encounter a great man, let us treat the new-comer like a travelling geologist who passes through our estate and shows us good slate...in our brush pasture.
    ET2 5.29 18 To the geologist the sea is the only firmament;...
    Pow 6.58 14 ...the geologist reports the surveys of his subalterns;...
    Bty 6.281 9 The geologist lays bare the strata...
    PI 8.16 17 Mountains and oceans we think we understand;--yes, so long as they are contented to be such, and are safe with the geologist...
    MMEm 10.425 17 Not to complain of the poor old earth's chaotic state, brought so near in its long and gloomy transmutings by the geologist.
    Bost 12.187 18 Astronomers come [to Paris] because there they can find apparatus and companions. Chemist, geologist, artist, musician, dancer, because there only are grandees and their patronage, appreciators and patrons.
    Bost 12.192 16 Any geologist or engineer is accustomed to face more serious dangers than any enumerated [by the Massachusetts colonists], excepting the hostile Indians.
    MLit 12.322 21 Geologist, mechanic, merchant...all worked for [Goethe]...

geologists, n. (1)

    PLT 12.16 20 ...I have a suspicion that, as geologists say every river makes its own valley, so does this mystic stream.

geology, n. (26)

    LE 1.169 26 Undoubtedly the changes of geology have a relation to the prosperous sprouting of the corn and peas in my kitchen garden;...
    Nat2 3.179 25 Geology has initiated us into the secularity of nature...
    GoW 4.272 8 [Goethe's] Helena...is...the work of one who found himself the master of histories, mythologies, philosophies, sciences and national literatures, in the encyclopaedical manner in which modern erudition... researches into...geology, chemistry, astronomy;...
    ET13 5.222 19 ...the same [English] men who have brought free trade or geology to their present standing, look grave and lofty and shut down their valve as soon as the conversation approaches the English Church.
    ET14 5.251 16 ...literary reputations have been achieved [in England] by forcible men...who were driven by tastes and modes they found in vogue into their several careers. So, at this moment, every ambitious young man studies geology...
    F 6.49 10 ...in geology, vast time but the same laws as to-day.
    Pow 6.54 3 ...the education of the will is the flowering and result of all this geology and astronomy.
    Ctr 6.148 24 In the country [a man] can find...hills for geology...
    CbW 6.262 11 We learn geology the morning after the earthquake...
    Cour 7.254 20 Men admire...the power of better combination and foresight...whether it only plays a game of chess...or whether...Franklin draws off the lightning in his hand; suggesting that one day a wiser geology shall make the earthquake harmless...
    PI 8.8 15 In geology, what a useful hint was given to the early inquirers on seeing in the possession of Professor Playfair a bough of a fossil tree which was perfect wood at one end and perfect mineral coal at the other.
    PI 8.16 9 Chemistry, geology, hydraulics, are secondary science.
    Res 8.142 23 ...geography and geology are yielding to man's convenience...
    PC 8.211 13 Geology, astronomy, chemistry, optics, have yielded grand results.
    PC 8.212 15 Our towns are still rude...and the whole architecture tent-like when compared with the monumental solidity of medieval and primeval remains in Europe and Asia. But geology has effaced these distinctions.
    PC 8.212 16 Geology...has had the effect to throw an air of novelty and mushroom speed over entire history.
    PC 8.212 27 Geology itself is only chemistry with the element of time added;...
    Insp 8.270 4 The aboriginal man, in geology...is not an engaging figure.
    Grts 8.305 2 There are to each function and department of Nature supplementary men: to geology, sinewy, out-of-doors men...
    Grts 8.312 11 ...the stratification of crusts in geology is not more precise than the degrees of rank in minds.
    SlHr 10.445 29 ...of the modern sciences [Samuel Hoar] liked to read popular books on geology.
    Wom 11.408 21 ...there is an art...better than botany, geology, or any science; namely, Conversation.
    PLT 12.5 9 In geology, vast duration, but we are never strangers.
    CInt 12.126 10 Everything will be permitted there [at Harvard College] which goes to adorn Boston Whiggism,-is it geology, astronomy, poetry...
    CL 12.165 24 The geology, the astronomy, the anatomy, are all good, but 't is all a half...
    CW 12.176 15 ...it is much better to learn the elements of geology, of botany...by word of mouth from a companion than dully from a book.

Geology, n. (3)

    Nat 1.39 18 ...weigh the problems suggested concerning...Geology, and judge whether the interest of natural science is likely to be soon exhausted.
    Farm 7.142 23 Who are the farmer's servants? Not the Irish...but Geology and Chemistry...
    LLNE 10.336 20 Astronomy...compelled a certain extension and uplifting of our views of the Deity and his Providence. This correction of our superstitions was confirmed by the new science of Geology...

geometer, n. (11)

    Nat 1.56 4 The astronomer, the geometer, rely on their irrefragable analysis...
    UGM 4.8 27 ...the makers of tools;...the geometer;...severally make an easy way for all, through unknown and impossible confusions.
    PPh 4.57 15 In [Plato] the freest abandonment is united with the precision of a geometer.
    PNR 4.81 19 [Plato] is more than...a geometer...
    PNR 4.87 12 [Plato's] thoughts, in sparkles of light, had appeared often to pious and to poetic souls; but this well-bred, all-knowing Greek geometer comes with command, gathers them all up into rank and gradation...
    Cour 7.270 8 Every creature has a courage of his constitution fit for his duties:--Archimedes, the courage of a geometer to stick to his diagram...
    PI 8.56 15 ...I honor the geometer...
    QO 8.199 17 ...does it not look...as if we stood...in a circle of intelligences that reached...back to the first geometer, bard, mason, carpenter, planter, shepherd...
    Aris 10.50 1 ...the powers of a geometer [are determined] by solving his problem;...
    PerF 10.74 23 [Man] is...a geometer, an astronomer, a persuader of men... and each of these by dint of a wonderful method or series that resides in him and enables him to work on the material elements.
    PerF 10.80 1 The geometer shows us the true order in figures;...

geometers, n. (2)

    Wth 6.122 1 Of the two eminent engineers in the recent construction of railways in England, Mr. Brunel went straight...and so arriving at his end, at great pleasure to geometers, but with cost to his company.
    PI 8.16 11 The atomic theory is only an interior process produced, as geometers say...

geometric, adj. (3)

    ET16 5.281 20 The heroic antiquary [William Stukeley], charmed with the geometric perfections of his ruin, connects [Stonehenge] with the oldest monuments and religion of the world...
    WD 7.179 14 ...if a man is at once acquainted with the geometric foundations of things and with their festal splendor, his poetry is exact and his arithmetic musical.
    SA 8.107 4 Any other affection between men than this geometric one of relation to the same thing, is a mere mush of materialism.

geometrical, adj. (4)

    Pt1 3.19 7 ...the poet sees [the factory-village and the railway] fall within the great Order not less than the beehive or the spider's geometrical web.
    F 6.18 11 No one can read the history of astronomy without perceiving that Copernicus, Newton...are not...a new kind of men, but that Thales... Oenipodes...each had the same tense geometrical brain...
    Farm 7.150 25 There has been a nightmare bred in England of indigestion and spleen among landlords and loom-lords, namely, the dogma...that men multiply in a geometrical ratio, whilst corn multiplies only in an arithmetical;...
    EPro 11.319 1 The acts of good governors work a geometrical ratio...

geometrically, adv. (2)

    WD 7.162 23 Malthus, when he stated that the mouths went on multiplying geometrically and the food only arithmetically, forgot to say that the human mind was also a factor in political economy...
    Supl 10.166 20 I...am content that [my eyes] should see the real world, always geometrically finished without blur or halo.

geometrize, v. (1)

    Bty 6.292 9 The pleasure a palace or a temple gives the eye is, that an order and method has been communicated to stones, so that they speak and geometrize...

geometry, n. (29)

    AmS 1.86 3 The astronomer discovers that geometry...is the measure of planetary motion.
    MN 1.205 26 ...O rich and various Man!...carrying...in thy brain, the geometry of the City of God;...
    Hist 2.15 1 ...we have [the Greek national mind expressed] once more in their architecture, a beauty...limited to the straight line and the square,--a builded geometry.
    Int 2.346 16 With a geometry of sunbeams the soul lays the foundations of nature.
    Exp 3.62 18 We may climb into the thin and cold realm of pure geometry and lifeless science...
    Nat2 3.183 24 ...moon, plant, gas, crystal, are concrete geometry and numbers.
    NR 3.231 15 ...morning and night, solstice and equinox, geometry, astronomy and all the lovely accidents of nature play through [the day-laborer's] mind.
    PPh 4.47 12 Before Pericles came the Seven Wise Masters, and we have the beginnings of geometry, metaphysics and ethics...
    PPh 4.65 4 What value [Plato] gives to the art of gymnastic in education; what to geometry;...
    PNR 4.84 24 Whatever [Plato] looks upon discloses a second sense, and ulterior senses. ... This second sight explains the stress laid on geometry.
    PNR 4.84 26 [Plato] saw...that a celestial geometry was in place [in the supersensible], as a logic of lines and angles here below;...
    F 6.3 13 Our geometry cannot span the huge orbits of the prevailing ideas...
    F 6.4 9 ...our geometry cannot span these extreme points and reconcile them.
    Wth 6.93 18 Columbus thinks that the sphere is a problem for practical navigation as well as for closet geometry...
    Ctr 6.143 4 [The boy] learns chess, whist, dancing and theatricals. The father observes that another boy has learned algebra and geometry in the same time.
    Wsp 6.219 25 Those [natural] laws...push the same geometry and chemistry up into the invisible plane of social and rational life...
    Bty 6.302 12 ...if a man...can take such advantages of nature that all her powers serve him; making use of geometry, instead of expense;...this is still the legitimate dominion of beauty.
    Boks 7.191 11 ...in geometry, if you have read Euclid and Laplace,--your opinion has some value;...
    PC 8.217 22 If a man know the laws of Nature better than other men, his nation cannot spare him; nor if he know...the secret of geometry...
    Dem1 10.26 25 [The demonologic] is a lawless world. We have left the geometry, the compensation, and the conscience of the daily world...
    PerF 10.84 27 A man has a rare mathematical talent, inviting him to the beautiful secrets of geometry, and wishes to clap a patent on it;...
    Edc1 10.128 3 The necessities imposed by this most irritable and all-related texture have taught Man...geometry, astronomy.
    FSLC 11.210 15 ...granting that these contingencies [of abolition] are too many to be spanned by any human geometry...still the question recurs, What must we do?
    EdAd 11.392 17 ...this hour when the jangle of contending churches is hushing or hushed, will seem only the more propitious to those who believe that man need not fear the want of religion, because they know...that he must rest on the moral and religious sentiments, as the motion of bodies rests on geometry.
    PLT 12.4 2 Could we have...the exhaustive accuracy of distribution which chemists use in their nomenclature...applied...to those laws...which are common to chemistry, anatomy, astronomy, geometry...laws of the world?
    PLT 12.13 23 The adepts value only the pure geometry...
    CInt 12.114 6 ...[Archimedes] was willing to show [the king] that he was quite able in rude matters, if he could condescend to them, and he conducted the defence of Syracuse against the Romans. Then he returned to his geometry;...
    CInt 12.127 24 ...I thought...a college was to teach you geometry, or the lovely laws of space and figure;...
    CW 12.172 21 It requires some geometry in the head to lay [a good garden] out rightly...

George II, of England, n. (1)

    SwM 4.133 23 All [Swedenborg's] interlocutors Swedenborgize. Be they who they may, to this complexion must they come at last. This Charon ferries them all over in his boat;...Sir Isaac Newton, Sir Hans Sloane, King George II....

George III, of England, n (3)

    ET11 5.192 5 The Selwyn correspondence, in the reign of George III., discloses a rottenness in the aristocracy which threatened to decompose the state.
    Insp 8.269 1 It was Watt who told King George III. that he dealt in an article of which kings were said to be fond,-Power.
    HDC 11.69 24 ...in conjunction with our brethren in America, we will risk our fortunes, and even our lives, in defence of his majesty, King George the Third, his person, crown and dignity;...

George Inn, Amesbury, Engl (1)

    ET16 5.276 9 We [Emerson and Carlyle]...took a carriage to Amesbury... and...stopped at the George Inn.

George IV, of England, n. (2)

    ET11 5.192 16 In the reign of the Fourth George, things do not seem to have mended [in England]...
    Bty 6.291 16 How beautiful are ships on the sea! but ships in the theatre,-- or ships kept for picturesque effect on Virginia Water by George IV., and men hired to stand in fitting costumes at a penny an hour!

George, n. (1)

    EzRy 10.387 4 ...I well remember [Ezra Ripley's] his pleading, almost reproachful looks at the sky, when the thunder-gust was coming up to spoil his hay. He...looked at the cloud, and said, We are in the Lord's hand; mind your rake, George! We are in the Lord's hand;...

George of Cappadocia, n. (3)

    ET9 5.152 1 George of Cappadocia...was a low parasite...
    ET9 5.152 8 When Julian came, A. D. 361, George [of Cappadocia] was dragged to prison;...
    ET9 5.152 10 When Julian came, A. D. 361, George [of Cappadocia] was dragged to prison; the prison was burst open by the mob and George was lynched...

George, St., n. (2)

    ET9 5.152 12 ...this precious knave [George of Cappadocia] became, in good time, Saint George of England...
    MAng1 12.243 13 ...there [in Florence], the tradition of [Michelangelo's] opinions meets the traveller in every spot. Do you see that statue of Saint George? Michael Angelo asked it why it did not speak.

Georges, n. (1)

    PC 8.233 24 ...in France, at one time, there was almost a repudiation of the moral sentiment in what is called, by distinction, society,-not a believer within the Church, and almost not a theist out of it. In England the like spiritual disease affected the upper class in the time of Charles II., and down into the reign of the Georges.

George's, St., n. (1)

    ET7 5.120 15 At a St. George's festival, in Montreal...I observed that the chairman complimented his compatriots, by saying, they confided that wherever they met an Englishman, they found a man who would speak the truth.

Georgia, n. (5)

    LT 1.280 10 [This denouncing philanthropist] is the state of Georgia... walking here on our north-eastern shores.
    ET3 5.37 15 As soon as you enter England, which, with Wales, is no larger than the State of Georgia, this little land stretches by an illusion to the dimensions of an empire.
    LVB 11.92 27 ...the justice, the mercy that is in the heart's heart of all men, from Maine to Georgia, does abhor this business [the relocation of the Cherokees].
    EWI 11.130 7 ...I see...poor black men of obscure employment...in ships, yet citizens of this our Commonwealth of Massachusetts,-freeborn as we,-whom the slave-laws of the States of South Carolina and Georgia and Louisiana have arrested in the vessels in which they visited those ports...
    FSLC 11.187 22 [Resistance to the Fugitive Slave Law] is not going crusading into Virginia and Georgia after slaves...

Gerald, Earl of Kildare, n. (1)

    Grts 8.316 26 When Gerald, Earl of Kildare, who was in rebellion against [Henry VII] was brought to London, and examined before the Privy Council, one said, All Ireland cannot govern this Earl. Then let this Earl govern all Ireland, replied the King.

Gerando, Joseph Marie de, n (1)

    ET1 5.8 7 [Landor] thought Degerando indebted to Lucas on Happiness...

germ, n. (7)

    AmS 1.99 22 Herein [the great soul] unfolds the sacred germ of his instinct...
    OS 2.275 23 Within the same sentiment is the germ of intellectual growth...
    PPh 4.45 3 I am struck...with the extreme modernness of [Plato's] style and spirit. Here is the germ of that Europe we know so well...
    PNR 4.81 23 [Plato] represents...the power...of carrying up every fact to successive platforms and so disclosing in every fact a germ of expansion.
    Boks 7.197 13 Of the old Greek books, I think there are five which we cannot spare: 1. Homer, who...is the true and adequate germ of Greece...
    HDC 11.42 25 Each of the parts of that perfect structure grew out of the necessities of an instant occasion. The germ was formed in England.
    EWI 11.143 13 Eaters and food are in the harmony of Nature; and there too is the germ forever protected...

Germain, St., Faubourg, Pa (1)

    Mrs1 3.127 25 Napoleon...never ceased to court the Faubourg St. Germain;...

german, adj. (1)

    ET14 5.244 4 The Germans generalize: the English cannot interpret the German mind. German science comprehends the English.

German, adj. (45)

    NR 3.230 16 We conceive distinctly enough the French, the Spanish, the German genius...
    NER 3.271 23 The Iliad...the German anthem, when they are ended, the master casts behind him.
    ShP 4.204 6 ...[Shakespeare] is the father of German literature...
    ShP 4.204 9 ...it was with the introduction of Shakspeare into German, by Lessing...that the rapid burst of German literature was most intimately connected.
    GoW 4.263 8 ...as our German poet said, Some god gave me the power to paint what I suffer.
    GoW 4.281 4 The German intellect wants the French sprightliness...
    GoW 4.281 9 A German public asks for a controlling sincerity.
    GoW 4.282 25 ...the German nation have the most ridiculous good faith on these [philosophical] subjects...
    GoW 4.283 14 ...Goethe, the head and body of the German nation, does not speak from talent, but the truth shines through...
    GoW 4.285 24 [Goethe's] autobiography...is the expression of the idea,-- now familiar to the world through the German mind...that a man exists for culture;...
    ET5 5.75 3 ...the Saxon seriously settled in the land [England]...with German truth and adhesiveness.
    ET5 5.85 18 In war, the Englishman looks to his means. He is of the opinion of Civilis, his German ancestor, whom Tacitus reports as holding that the gods are on the side of the strongest;...
    ET5 5.100 6 In Germany there is one speech for the learned, and another for the masses, to that extent that, it is said, no sentiment or phrase from the works of any great German writer is ever heard among the lower classes.
    ET7 5.116 3 The German name has a proverbial significance of sincerity and honest meaning.
    ET8 5.136 14 There is an English hero superior to the French, the German, the Italian, or the Greek.
    ET12 5.208 19 The German Huber, in describing to his countrymen the attributes of an English gentleman, frankly admits that in Germany, we have nothing of the kind.
    ET13 5.228 12 The English Church, undermined by German criticism, had nothing left but tradition;...
    ET14 5.244 4 The Germans generalize: the English cannot interpret the German mind.
    ET14 5.253 23 ...in England, one hermit finds this fact, and another finds that, and lives and dies ignorant of its value. There are great exceptions...of Richard Owen, who has imported into Britain the German homologies...
    F 6.16 23 The German and Irish millions...have a great deal of guano in their destiny.
    Pow 6.63 10 ...the necessity of balancing and keeping at bay the snarling majorities of German, Irish and of native millions, will bestow promptness, address and reason, at last, on our buffalo-hunter...
    WD 7.172 4 Kinde was the old English term, which...filled only half the range of our fine Latin word, with its delicate future tense,--natura, about to be born, or what German philosophy denotes as a becoming.
    Boks 7.197 20 English history is best known through Shakspeare;...the German, through the Nibelungenlied;...
    Boks 7.204 10 I rarely read any Latin, Greek, German, Italian...book, in the original, which I can procure in a good version.
    Clbs 7.237 6 One of the best records of the great German master who towered over all his contemporaries in the first thirty years of this century, is his conversations as recorded by Eckermann;...
    Clbs 7.243 17 ...a history of clubs from early antiquity...through the Greek and Roman to the Middle Age, and thence down through French, English and German memoirs...would be an important chapter in history.
    SA 8.93 23 ...Luther commends that accomplishment of pure German speech of his wife.
    QO 8.181 15 Renard the Fox, a German poem of the thirteenth century, was long supposed to be the original work...
    QO 8.187 11 It is only within this century that England and America discovered that their nursery-tales were old German and Scandinavian stories;...
    Prch 10.226 23 ...we can keep our religion, despite of the violent railroads of generalization, whether French or German, that block and intersect our old parish highways.
    MoL 10.253 21 All that is left of [Napoleon's Egyptian campaign] is the researches of those savans on the antiquities of Egypt, including the great work of Denon, which led the way to all the subsequent studies of the English and German scholars on that foundation.
    LLNE 10.335 21 In the pulpit Dr. Frothingham, an excellent classical and German scholar, had already made us acquainted...with the genius of Eichhorn's theologic criticism.
    LLNE 10.338 8 The German poet Goethe revolted against the science of the day...
    ACiv 11.307 18 Now, [the Southern people's] interest is in keeping out white labor; then [after Emancipation], when they must pay wages, their interest will be...to get the best labor, and, if they fear their blacks, to invite Irish, German and American laborers.
    Humb 11.458 12 [Humboldt] belonged to that wonderful German nation, the foremost scholars in all history...
    FRO1 11.478 22 ...the statistics of the American, the English and the German cities, showing that the mass of the population is leaving off going to church, indicate the necessity...that the Church should always be new and extemporized...
    FRep 11.515 4 No interest not attaches...to the wars of German, French and Spanish emperors...
    FRep 11.529 22 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...not on the class-feeling which narrows the perception of English, French, German people at home.
    MAng1 12.217 19 The nature of the beautiful-we gladly borrow the language of Moritz, a German critic-consists herein, that because the understanding in the presence of the beautiful, cannot ask, Why is it beautiful? for that reason it is so.
    ACri 12.284 24 ...many of [Goethe's] poems are so idiomatic, so strongly rooted in the German soil, that they are the terror of translators...
    ACri 12.298 23 ...[Carlyle's History of Frederick II is] a book...with new heroes, things unvoiced before-the German Plutarch...
    MLit 12.312 7 [The influence of Shakespeare] almost alone has called out the genius of the German nation into an activity which...has made theirs now at last the paramount intellectual influence of the world...
    MLit 12.322 12 ...of all men he who has united in himself...the tendencies of the era, is the German poet, naturalist and philosopher, Goethe.
    MLit 12.323 6 ...[Goethe] has a perfect propriety and taste,-a quality by no means common to the German writers.
    Let 12.393 3 When a railroad train shoots through Europe every day...it cannot stop every twenty or thirty miles at a German custom-house...

German, n. (17)

    PPh 4.41 1 An Englishman reads [Plato] and says, how English! a German,--how Teutonic!...
    PPh 4.78 3 The acutest German...could never tell what Platonism was;...
    ShP 4.204 7 ...it was with the introduction of Shakspeare into German...that the rapid burst of German literature was most intimately connected.
    ShP 4.218 27 ...other men...Israelite, German and Swede, beheld the same objects [as Shakespeare]...
    ET1 5.17 8 ...it was now ten years since [Carlyle] had learned German...
    ET9 5.149 17 An English lady on the Rhine hearing a German speaking of her party as foreigners, exclaimed, No, we are not foreigners; we are English; it is you that are foreigners.
    Pow 6.78 10 The way to learn German is to read the same dozen pages over and over a hundred times...
    WD 7.162 12 ...German, Chinese, Turk, Russ and Kanaka were putting out to sea, and intermarrying race with race;...
    Boks 7.202 6 The secret of the recent histories in German and in English is the discovery...that the sincere Greek history of that period [Age of Pericles] must be drawn from Demosthenes...and from the comic poets.
    QO 8.199 16 ...does it not look...as if we stood...in a circle of intelligences that reached through all thinkers, poets, inventors and wits, men and women, English, German, Celts, Aryan, Ninevite, Copt...
    PPo 8.237 4 [Hammer-Purgstall] has translated into German...specimens of two hundred [Persian] poets...
    MMEm 10.427 2 Never do the feelings of the Infinite and the consciousness of finite frailty and ignorance harmonize so well as at this mystic season in the deserts of life. Contradictions, the modern German says, of the Infinite and finite.
    Carl 10.491 9 It needs something more than a clean shirt and reading German to visit [Carlyle].
    Humb 11.458 15 A German reads a literature whilst we are reading a book.
    ACri 12.284 22 Goethe valued himself not on his learning or eccentric flights, but that he knew how to write German.
    ACri 12.285 3 ...Goethe said, Poetry here, poetry there, I have learned to speak German.
    Let 12.401 2 On earth all is imperfect! is an old proverb of the German.

German Ocean, n. (1)

    ET3 5.41 11 It is not down in the books...that fortunate day when a wave of the German Ocean burst the old isthmus which joined Kent and Cornwall to France...

German...Architecture [Geor (1)

    F 6.45 4 Moller, in his Essay on Architecture, taught that the building which was fitted accurately to answer its end would turn out to be beautiful...

Germans, n. (19)

    Hist 2.23 22 The primeval world,--the Fore-World, as the Germans say,--I can dive to it in myself...
    UGM 4.4 1 You say...the Germans are hospitable;...
    ET4 5.48 10 ...I found abundant points of resemblance between the Germans of the Hercynian forest, and our Hoosiers, Suckers, and Badgers of the American woods.
    ET4 5.55 20 The English come mainly from the Germans...
    ET4 5.69 17 ...Tacitus found the English beer already in use among the Germans...
    ET5 5.85 14 The spirit of system, attention to details, and the subordination of details, or the not driving things too finely (which is charged on the Germans), constitute that dispatch of business which makes the mercantile power of England.
    ET5 5.88 20 Tacitus says of the Germans, Powerful only in sudden efforts, they are impatient of toil and labor.
    ET7 5.122 15 ...[Englishmen] hate the Germans, as professors.
    ET14 5.244 3 The Germans generalize...
    ET14 5.254 5 [Natural science in England] stands in strong contrast with the genius of the Germans...
    F 6.16 8 We see the English, French, and Germans planting themselves on every shore and market of America and Australia...
    Boks 7.211 18 ...Cornelius Agrippa On the Vanity of Arts and Sciences is a specimen of that scribatiousness which grew to be the habit of the gluttonous readers of his time. Like the modern Germans, they read a literature while other mortals read a few books.
    PI 8.43 8 I have heard that the Germans think the creator of Trim and Uncle Toby...a greater poet than Cowper...
    FSLC 11.210 19 ...granting...that these evils [of slavery] are to be relieved only by the wisdom of God working in ages,-and by what instrument, whether Liberia, whether flax-cotton, whether the working out this race by Irish and Germans, none can tell...still the question recurs, What must we do?
    ACri 12.295 9 ...the English and Germans, who read Shakspeare and the Bible, have a great onward march.
    ACri 12.296 21 The Germans praise in Goethe the comfortable stoutness.
    Let 12.399 25 Then came I to the Germans.
    Let 12.399 26 I cannot conceive of a people more disjoined than the Germans.
    Let 12.400 24 Full of love, talent and hope spring up the darlings of the muse among the Germans;...

Germans, On the Manners of (1)

    ET4 5.48 8 I chanced to read Tacitus On the Manners of the Germans, not long since...

Germany, n. (32)

    Nat 1.17 18 ...the night shall be my Germany of mystic philosophy and dreams.
    LE 1.162 25 ...[the youth's] fancy has brought home to the surrounding woods the faint roar of...marches in Germany.
    YA 1.380 12 ...the swelling cry of voices for the education of the people indicates that Government has other offices than those of banker and executioner. Witness...the Communism of France, Germany, and Switzerland;...
    SwM 4.99 16 ...[Swedenborg]...visited the universities of England, Holland, France and Germany.
    GoW 4.271 19 ...[Goethe] lived...in a time when Germany played no such leading part in the world's affairs as to swell the bosom of her sons with any metropolitan pride...
    GoW 4.283 7 ...almost all the valuable distinctions which are current in higher conversation have been derived to us from Germany.
    ET1 5.4 11 If Goethe had been still living I might have wandered into Germany also.
    ET5 5.100 3 In Germany there is one speech for the learned, and another for the masses...
    ET12 5.208 21 The German Huber, in describing to his countrymen the attributes of an English gentleman, frankly admits that in Germany, we have nothing of the kind.
    ET14 5.249 14 But for Coleridge...one would say that in Germany and in America is the best mind in England rightly respected.
    Wth 6.110 4 Britain, France and Germany...send out, attracted by the fame of our advantages, first their thousands, then their millions of poor people, to share the crop.
    Bhr 6.178 16 ...in enumerating the names of persons or of countries, as France, Germany, Spain, Turkey, the eyes wink at each new name.
    CbW 6.254 8 Schiller says the Thirty Years' War made Germany a nation.
    WD 7.180 7 ...this curious, peering, itinerant, imitative America, studious... of England and Germany, will take off its dusty shoes...
    PI 8.36 5 The writer in the parlor has more presence of mind, more wit and fancy, more play of thought, on the incidents that occur at table or about the house, than in the politics of Germany or Rome.
    SA 8.94 3 ...[Madame de Stael] knew all distinguished persons in letters or society in England, Germany and Italy...
    Elo2 8.131 23 ...in Germany we have seen a metaphysical zymosis...
    Res 8.150 14 In England men of letters drink wine;...in Germany, beer.
    PC 8.214 1 ...each European nation...had its romantic era, and the productions of that era in each rose to about the same height. Take for an example in literature the Romance of Arthur, in Britain...the Niebelungen Lied, in Germany;...
    Chr2 10.112 11 The Lutheran Church does not represent in Germany the opinions of the universities.
    Edc1 10.149 25 Happy the natural college thus self-instituted around every natural teacher; the young men...of Germany around Fichte, or Niebuhr, or Goethe;...
    MoL 10.242 24 Britain, France, Germany, Scandinavia sent millions of laborers;...
    Plu 10.295 3 ...the first printed edition of the Greek Works [of Plutarch] did not appear until 1572. Hardly current in his own Greek, these found learned interpreters in the scholars of Germany, Spain and Italy.
    LLNE 10.330 14 Germany had created criticism in vain for us until 1820...
    FSLC 11.186 10 There is always something in the very advantages of a condition which hurts it. Africa has its malformation;...Germany its hatred of classes;...
    Humb 11.458 20 ...Cuvier tells us of fossil elephants; that Germany has furnished the greatest number;...
    Humb 11.458 22 ...Cuvier tells us of fossil elephants; that Germany has furnished the greatest number;-not because there are more elephants in Germany...
    CPL 11.504 19 The Duchess d'Abrantes...tells us that Bonaparte, in hastening out of France to join his army in Germany, tossed his journals and books out of his travelling carriage as fast as he had read them...
    Milt1 12.254 24 Many philosophers in England, France and Germany have formally dedicated their study to this problem [human nature];...
    Milt1 12.255 24 In Germany, the greatest writers are still too recent to institute a comparison [with Milton];...
    MLit 12.318 23 This new love of the vast, always native in Germany... finds a most genial climate in the American mind.
    Let 12.399 22 ...in Theodore Mundt's account of Frederic Holderlin's Hyperion, we were not a little struck with the following Jeremiad of the despair of Germany...

germinate, v. (1)

    Cir 2.319 2 ...all things renew, germinate and spring.

germination, n. (5)

    Fdsp 2.197 24 Is it not that the soul puts forth friends as the tree puts forth leaves, and presently, by the germination of new buds, extrudes the old leaf?
    Pt1 3.3 23 We were put into our bodies...but there is no accurate adjustment between the spirit and the organ, much less is the latter the germination of the former.
    Art2 7.38 1 ...every plant, in the moment of germination, struggles up to light.
    War 11.160 12 The eternal germination of the better has unfolded new powers...
    PLT 12.24 20 What happens here in mankind is matched by what happens out there in the history of grass and wheat. This curious resemblance repeats, in the mental function, the germination, growth...in short, all the accidents of the plant.

germinative, adj. (1)

    SwM 4.107 11 In the plant, the eye or germinative point opens to a leaf...

germs, n. (2)

    UGM 4.35 11 It is for man...on every side, whilst he lives, to scatter the seeds of science and of song, that...the germs of love and benefit may be multiplied.
    CbW 6.265 3 ...a depression of spirits develops the germs of a plague in individuals and nations.

gerousia, n. (1)

    OA 7.321 10 ...patricians or patres, senate or senes, seigneurs or seniors, gerousia...and the like, all signify simply old men.

Gertrude, n. (2)

    SL 2.149 22 Gertrude is enamored of Guy;...
    SL 2.149 27 ...Gertrude has Guy;...

Gertrude's, n. (1)

    Bhr 6.185 20 Nothing can be more excellent in kind than the Corinthian grace of Gertrude's manners...

Gesang, n. (1)

    MoS 4.153 17 [The men of the senses] hold that Luther had milk in him when he said, Wer nicht liebt Wein, Weiber, Gesang,/ Der bleibt ein Narr sein Leben lang;/...

Gesta Romanorum, n. (1)

    Boks 7.221 11 Another member [of the literary club] meantime shall as honestly search, sift and as truly report on British mythology...the histories of Brut, Merlin and Welsh poetry;...a fourth, on Mysteries, Early Drama, Gesta Romanorum, Collier, and Dyce, and the Camden Society.

gestation, n. (1)

    Pt1 3.21 3 All the facts of...gestation...are symbols of the passage of the world into the soul of man...

gestative, adj. (1)

    Chr2 10.99 9 The aid which others give us is like that of the mother to the child,-temporary, gestative...

gesticular, adj. (1)

    ET13 5.231 1 Electricity cannot be made fast...it is passing, glancing, gesticular;...

gesticulates, v. (1)

    ET6 5.104 25 Each man [in England] walks, eats, drinks, shaves, dresses, gesticulates...in his own fashion...

gesticulation, n. (1)

    Elo1 7.62 8 Each patient [taking nitrous-oxide gas] in turn exhibits similar symptoms...violent gesticulation...

gesture, n. (11)

    SL 2.148 9 On the Alps the traveller sometimes beholds his own shadow magnified to a giant, so that every gesture of his hand is terrific.
    Mrs1 3.149 2 Once or twice in a lifetime we are permitted to enjoy the charm of noble manners, in the presence of a man or woman...whose character emanates freely in their word and gesture.
    ET13 5.230 22 Where dwells the religion [of England]? Tell me first where dwells electricity, or motion, or thought, or gesture.
    Bhr 6.169 3 The soul which animates nature is not less significantly published in the figure, movement and gesture of animated bodies, than in its last vehicle of articulate speech.
    Bhr 6.169 10 Nature tells every secret once. Yes, but in man she tells it all the time, by form...gesture...
    Bhr 6.196 2 [Beautiful manners] must always show self-control;...every gesture and action shall indicate power at rest.
    Bty 6.305 11 ...when the second-sight of the mind is opened, now one color or form or gesture, and now another, has a pungency...
    Bty 6.305 16 ...[we do not know] why one feature or gesture enchants...
    WD 7.184 18 What [the hero] is will appear in every gesture and syllable.
    Suc 7.303 26 ...[the lover] reads omens on the flower, and cloud, and face, and form, and gesture...
    Bost 12.198 18 ...thoughts are expressed in every look or gesture...

gestures, n. (2)

    SL 2.148 26 [A man] cleaves to one person and avoids another, according to their likeness or unlikeness to himself truly seeking himself...in his trade and habits and gestures and meats and drinks...
    MLit 12.317 23 There are facts...which drive young men into gardens and solitary places, and cause extravagant gestures, starts, distortions of the countenance and passionate exclamations;...

get, n. (1)

    Comc 8.173 26 ...explore the whole of Nature, the farce and buffoonery in the yard below, as well as the lessons of poets and philosophers upstairs in the hall, and get the rest and refreshment of the shaking of the sides.

get, v. (174)

    Nat 1.50 22 A man who seldom rides, needs only to get into a coach and traverse his own town, to turn the street into a puppet-show.
    AmS 1.87 16 ...perhaps we shall get at the truth...by considering [books'] value alone.
    AmS 1.98 11 Life lies behind us as the quarry from whence we get tiles and copestones for the masonry of to-day.
    DSA 1.145 13 Once...take secondary knowledge...and you get wide from God with every year this secondary form lasts...
    LE 1.174 13 The public can get public experience...
    LE 1.184 26 ...you shall get your lesson out of the hour...
    LE 1.185 15 You will hear that the first duty is to get land and money, place and name.
    MR 1.233 9 [The individual] did not create the abuse; he cannot alter it. What is he? an obscure private person who must get his bread.
    MR 1.234 9 Suppose a man is so unhappy as to be born a saint...and he is to get his living in the world;...
    MR 1.234 12 Suppose a man is so unhappy as to be born a saint...and he is to get his living in the world;...he has no farm, and he cannot get one;...
    MR 1.237 6 Is it possible that I, who get indefinite quantities of sugar...by simply signing my name...to a cheque...get the fair share of exercise to my faculties by that act which nature intended me...
    MR 1.237 11 Is it possible that I, who get indefinite quantities of sugar...by simply signing my name...to a cheque...get the fair share of exercise to my faculties by that act which nature intended me...
    LT 1.275 15 A great deal of the profoundest thinking of antiquity...in twenty years will get all printed anew.
    LT 1.278 19 I must get with truth, though I should never come to act, as you call it, with effect.
    Con 1.310 4 ...precisely the defence which was set up for the British Constitution, namely that...the wisdom and the worth did get into parliament...the same defence is set up for the existing institutions.
    Con 1.310 6 ...precisely the defence which was set up for the British Constitution, namely that...every interest did by right, or might, or sleight get represented;-the same defence is set up for the existing institutions.
    Hist 2.32 13 Every animal...has contrived to get a footing and to leave the print of its features and form in some one or other of these upright, heaven-facing speakers.
    SR 2.81 16 He who travels...to get somewhat which he does not carry, travels away from himself...
    Comp 2.104 2 The ingenuity of man has always been dedicated to the solution of one problem,--how to detach the sensual sweet, the sensual strong, the sensual bright, etc., from the moral sweet, the moral deep, the moral fair; that is...to get a one end, without an other end.
    Comp 2.105 3 We can no more...get the sensual good, by itself, than we can get an inside that shall have no outside...
    Comp 2.105 4 We can no more...get the sensual good, by itself, than we can get an inside that shall have no outside...
    Comp 2.106 17 [Jove] cannot get his own thunders; Minerva keeps the key of them...
    Comp 2.106 25 ...it would seem impossible for any fable to be invented and get any currency which was not moral.
    Comp 2.111 4 The vulgar proverb, I will get it from his purse or get it from his skin, is sound philosophy.
    Comp 2.115 11 ...the doctrine...that it is impossible to get anything without its price,--is not less sublime in the columns of a leger than in the budgets of states...
    SL 2.135 13 ...whenever we get this vantage-ground of the past...we are able to discern that we are begirt with laws which execute themselves.
    SL 2.166 7 Let the great soul incarnated in some woman's form...sweep chambers and scour floors, and...all people will get mops and brooms;...
    Fdsp 2.192 14 ...[the good hearts that would welcome a stranger] must get up a dinner if they can.
    Fdsp 2.193 10 Now, when [the stranger] comes, he may get the order, the dress and the dinner...
    Fdsp 2.210 10 I can get politics and chat and neighborly conveniences from cheaper companions [than my friend].
    Prd1 2.239 17 ...in the flow of wit and love roll out your paradoxes, in solid column, with not the infirmity of a doubt. So at least shall you get an adequate deliverance.
    Int 2.332 27 Men say, Where did [the writer] get this?...
    Int 2.333 3 ...[men] have myriads of facts just as good [as the writer's], would they only get a lamp to ransack their attics withal.
    Int 2.340 6 ...year after year our tables get no completeness...
    Pt1 3.39 27 ...as an admirable creative power exists in these intellections [of the poet], it is of the last importance that these things get spoken.
    Exp 3.48 26 In the death of my son...I seem to have lost a beautiful estate,-- no more. I cannot get it nearer to me.
    Exp 3.83 23 All I know is reception; I am and I have: but I do not get...
    Mrs1 3.127 5 Manners aim...to get rid of impediments...
    Mrs1 3.144 20 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.
    Gts 3.163 21 It is a great happiness to get off without injury and heart-burning from one who has had the ill-luck to be served by you.
    Pol1 3.200 6 Republics abound in young civilians who believe...that any measure, though it were absurd, may be imposed on a people if only you can get sufficient voices to make it a law.
    Pol1 3.213 18 The wise man [the community] cannot find in nature, and it makes awkward but earnest efforts to secure his government by contrivance; as...by a double choice to get the representation of the whole;...
    Pol1 3.215 19 Everywhere [men] think they get their money's worth, except for [taxes].
    NR 3.237 11 We...get our clothes and shoes made and mended...
    NR 3.237 18 [Nature] would never get anything done, if she suffered Admirable Crichtons and universal geniuses.
    NER 3.262 27 ...the street is as false as the church, and when I get to my house, or to my manners, or to my speech, I have not got away from the lie.
    NER 3.282 26 Every time we converse we seek to translate [Providence] into speech, but whether we hit or whether we miss, we have the fact. Every discourse is an approximate answer: but it is of small consequence that we do not get it into verbs and nouns...
    UGM 4.3 23 We travel into foreign parts...if possible, to get a glimpse of [the great man].
    UGM 4.24 8 The worthless and offensive members of society...never get over their astonishment at the ingratitude and selfishness of their contemporaries.
    UGM 4.29 12 If we huff and chide [children] they soon come not to mind it and get a self-reliance;...
    MoS 4.153 20 [The men of the senses] hold that Luther had milk in him... when he advised a young scholar, perplexed with fore-ordination and free-will, to get well drunk.
    MoS 4.154 5 Life's well enough, but we shall be glad to get out of it...
    MoS 4.157 19 Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged...that such as are in the institution wish to get out, and such as are out wish to get in?
    MoS 4.157 20 Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged...that such as are in the institution wish to get out, and such as are out wish to get in?
    MoS 4.159 8 ...let us learn and get and have and climb.
    MoS 4.166 16 [Montaigne] likes his saddle. You may read theology, and grammar, and metaphysics elsewhere. Whatever you get here shall smack of the earth and of real life...
    MoS 4.179 10 ...when a man comes into the room it does not appear whether he has been fed on yams or buffalo,--he has contrived to get so much bone and fibre as he wants, out of rice or out of snow.
    NMW 4.227 24 There is a certain satisfaction in coming down to the lowest ground of politics, for we get rid of cant and hypocrisy.
    NMW 4.256 21 ...both parties [democrat and conservative] stand on the one ground of the supreme value of property, which one endeavors to get, and the other to keep.
    GoW 4.279 22 ...the book [Goethe's Wilhelm Meister] remains ever so new and unexhausted, that we must...be willing to get what good from it we can...
    ET2 5.29 8 Nobody likes to be treated ignominiously, upset...suffocated with bilge, mephitis and stewing oil. We get used to these annoyances at last [at sea]...
    ET4 5.59 12 If [the Northman] cannot pick any other quarrel, he will get himself comfortably gored by a bull's horns...
    ET5 5.88 11 Nothing is more in the line of English thought than our unvarnished Connecticut question, Pray, sir, how do you get your living when you are at home?
    ET10 5.153 24 Nelson said, The want of fortune is a crime which I can never get over.
    ET10 5.165 4 An Englishman hears that the Queen Dowager wishes to establish some claim to put her park paling a rod forward into his grounds, so as to get a coachway and save her a mile to the avenue.
    F 6.14 14 ...if, after five hundred years you get a better observer or a better glass, he finds, within the last [egg] observed, another [vesicle].
    F 6.20 27 Neither brandy...nor genius, can get rid of this limp band [of Fate].
    F 6.34 14 ...sometimes the religious principle would get in and burst the hoops...
    F 6.38 13 ...nature makes every creature...get its living...
    F 6.39 2 When there is something to be done, the world knows how to get it done.
    Pow 6.76 26 The good lawyer is not the man who has an eye to every side and angle of contingency...but who throws himself on your part so heartily that he can get you out of a scrape.
    Wth 6.85 4 As soon as a stranger is introduced into any company, one of the first questions which all wish to have answered, is, How does that man get his living?
    Wth 6.85 7 Society is barbarous until every industrious man can get his living without dishonest customs.
    Wth 6.94 1 ...how did our factories get built?...except by the importunity of these orators who dragged all the prudent men in?
    Wth 6.94 2 ...how did North America get netted with iron rails, except by the importunity of these orators who dragged all the prudent men in?
    Wth 6.110 27 We cannot get rid of these [immigrant] people...
    Wth 6.111 1 We cannot get rid of these [immigrant] people, and we cannot get rid of their will to be supported.
    Wth 6.111 4 We cannot get rid of these [immigrant] people, and we cannot get rid of their will to be supported. That has become an inevitable element of our politics; for their votes, each of the dominant parties courts and assists them to get it executed.
    Wth 6.115 6 ...the pale scholar leaves his desk to...get a juster statement of his thought, in the garden-walk.
    Wth 6.119 6 In autumn a farmer could sell an ox or a hog and get a little money to pay taxes withal.
    Wth 6.120 8 Perhaps [Mr. Cockayne] bought also a yoke of oxen to do his work; but they get blown and lame.
    Ctr 6.131 7 ...a skill to get money makes [a man] a miser, that is, a beggar.
    Ctr 6.131 13 For performance, nature has no mercy, and sacrifices the performer to get it done;...
    Ctr 6.137 27 In the Norse legend, All-fadir did not get a drink of Mimir's spring (the fountain of wisdom) until he left his eye in pledge.
    Ctr 6.161 26 Ben Jonson specifies in his address to the Muse:--Get him the time's long grudge, the court's ill-will,/ And, reconciled, keep him suspected still./ Make him lose all his friends, and what is worse,/ Almost all ways to any better course;/ With me thou leav'st a better Muse than thee,/ And which thou brought'st me, blessed Poverty./
    Ctr 6.165 19 Half engaged in the soil, pawing to get free, man needs all the music that can be brought to disengage him.
    Bhr 6.172 17 We prize [manners] for their rough-plastic, abstergent force; to get people out of the quadruped state;...
    Bhr 6.172 18 We prize [manners] for their rough-plastic, abstergent force;... to get [people] washed, clothed, and set up on end;...
    Bhr 6.190 10 How do [men] get this rapid knowledge...of each other's power and disposition?
    Wsp 6.211 12 If a pickpocket intrude into the society of gentlemen, they exert what moral force they have, and he finds himself uncomfortable and glad to get away.
    Wsp 6.227 6 As men get on in life, they acquire a love for sincerity...
    CbW 6.253 20 Edward I. wanted money, armies, castles, and as much as he could get.
    CbW 6.262 23 ...when you pay for your ticket and get into the car, you have no guess what good company you shall find there.
    CbW 6.263 6 ...I will not here repeat the first rule of economy...but I will say, get health.
    Bty 6.297 12 ...even the noble crowd in the drawing-room clambered on chairs and tables to look at [the Duchess of Hamilton]. There are mobs at their doors to see them get into their chairs...
    Bty 6.297 13 Walpole says...people go early to get places at the theatres, when it is known [the Gunning sisters] will be there.
    Bty 6.297 18 Such crowds, [Walpole] adds elsewhere, flock to see the Duchess of Hamilton, that seven hundred people sat up all night...to see her get into her post-chaise next morning.
    Ill 6.316 17 Teague and his jade get some just relations of mutual respect...
    SS 7.4 6 For himself [my new friend] declared that he could not get enough alone to write a letter to a friend.
    SS 7.5 13 [My friend]...walked miles and miles to get the twitchings out of his face...
    Civ 7.28 2 We had letters to send: couriers...could not get the horses out of a walk.
    Elo1 7.63 11 [The orator's audience] come to get justice done to that ear and intuition which no Chatham and no Demosthenes has begun to satisfy.
    Elo1 7.87 12 ...all this flood not serving the cuttle-fish to get away in, the horrible shark of the district attorney being still there...the poor court pleaded its inferiority.
    Elo1 7.91 27 There is for every man a statement possible of that truth which he is most unwilling to receive,--a statement possible, so broad and so pungent that he cannot get away from it...
    DL 7.107 20 Fact is better than fiction, if only we could get pure fact.
    DL 7.107 21 Do you think any rhetoric or any romance would get your ear from the wise gypsy who could tell straight on the real fortunes of the man;...
    DL 7.111 16 The houses of the rich are confectioners' shops, where we get sweetmeats and wine;...
    DL 7.118 24 I pray you, O excellent wife, not to cumber yourself and me to get a rich dinner for this man or this woman who has alighted at our gate...
    DL 7.118 27 I pray you, O excellent wife, not to cumber yourself and me to get a rich dinner for this man or this woman who has alighted at our gate, nor a bed-chamber made ready at too great a cost. These things...they can get for a dollar at any village.
    Boks 7.195 7 ...all books that get fairly into the vital air of the world were written by the successful class...
    Clbs 7.225 2 We...require nice treatment to get from us the maximum of power and pleasure.
    Clbs 7.226 12 Some talkers excel in the precision with which they formulate their thoughts, so that you get from them somewhat to remember;...
    Clbs 7.228 6 Every time we say a thing in conversation, we get a mechanical advantage in detaching it well and deliverly.
    Cour 7.259 24 When we get an advantage...it is because our adversary has committed a fault...
    Cour 7.270 26 [John Brown] said, As soon as I hear one of my men say, Ah, let me only get my eye on such a man, I'll bring him down, I don't expect much aid in the fight from that talker.
    Suc 7.289 3 Lord Brougham's single duty of counsel is, to get the prisoner clear.
    Suc 7.290 10 I hate this shallow Americanism which hopes to get rich by credit...
    Suc 7.290 10 I hate this shallow Americanism which hopes...to get knowledge by raps on midnight tables...
    Suc 7.311 10 There is an external life, which is...taught to grasp all the boy can get...
    OA 7.320 18 Life is well enough, but we shall all be glad to get out of it...
    OA 7.324 23 To perfect the commissariat, [Nature] implants in each a certain rapacity to get the supply, and a little oversupply, of his wants.
    OA 7.334 7 [John Adams] talked of Whitefield, and remembered when he was a Freshman in College to have come into town to the Old South church (I think) to hear him, but could not get into the house;...
    PI 8.72 3 One would say of the force in the works of Nature, all depends on the battery. If it give one shock, we shall get to the fish form, and stop;...
    SA 8.100 17 ...If the search for riches were sure to be successful, though I should become a groom with whip in hand to get them, I will do so.
    Elo2 8.125 7 ...[the man in the street]...can always get the ear of an audience to the exclusion of everybody else.
    Res 8.147 10 ...what danger soever there may be, there is still one way or other to get off...
    QO 8.189 23 Certainly it only needs two well placed and well tempered for cooperation, to get somewhat far transcending any private enterprise!
    Insp 8.269 21 In spring...the maple-trees flow with sugar, and you cannot get tubs fast enough;...
    Insp 8.272 1 Inspiration is like yeast. 'T is no matter in which of half a dozen ways you procure the infection; you can apply one or the other equally well to your purpose, and get your loaf of bread.
    Grts 8.311 13 He can toil terribly, said Cecil of Sir Walter Raleigh. These few words sting and bite and lash us when we are frivolous. Let us get out of the way of their blows by making them true of ourselves.
    Dem1 10.5 1 ...we cannot get our hand on the first link or fibre [of a dream]...
    Dem1 10.25 20 ...in the Universe no man was ever known to get a cent's worth without paying in some form or other the cent...
    PerF 10.70 4 Go out of doors and get the air.
    Edc1 10.136 13 One fact...inspires all my trust, viz., this perpetual youth, which, as long as there is any good in us, we cannot get rid of.
    Edc1 10.136 16 The old man thinks the young man has no distinct purpose, for he could never get anything intelligible and earnest out of him.
    Edc1 10.142 11 Why cannot [the solitary man] get the good of his doom...
    Edc1 10.154 22 It is so easy to bestow on a bad boy a blow...and get obedience without words...
    Schr 10.276 6 There is plenty of air, but it is worth nothing until by gathering it into sails we can get it into shape and service to carry us and our cargo across the sea.
    Schr 10.276 11 [There is] Plenty of water also, sea full, sky full; who cares for it? But when we can get it where we want it...we will buy it with millions.
    Schr 10.276 17 There is plenty of wild wrath, but it steads not until we can get it racked off...and bottled into persons;...
    EzRy 10.385 3 [Joseph Emerson wrote] Have I done well to get me a shay?
    MMEm 10.409 14 ...from the highway hedges where I [Mary Moody Emerson] get lodging...I get a pleasing vision which is an earnest of the interminable skies where the mansions are prepared for the poor.
    MMEm 10.409 17 ...from the highway hedges where I [Mary Moody Emerson] get lodging...I get a pleasing vision which is an earnest of the interminable skies where the mansions are prepared for the poor.
    MMEm 10.413 26 ...[Mary Moody Emerson] writes...When I get a glimpse of the revolutions of nations...I remember with great satisfaction that from all the ills suffered, in childhood...I felt that it was rather the order of things...
    MMEm 10.429 7 I [Mary Moody Emerson] have given up, the last year or two, the hope of dying. In the lowest ebb of health nothing is ominous; diet and exercise restore. So it seems best to get that very humbling business of insurance.
    Thor 10.455 18 In his travels, [Thoreau] used the railroad only to get over so much country as was unimportant to the present purpose...
    Thor 10.477 4 I hearing get, who had but ears,/ And sight, who had but eyes before;/ I moments live, who lived but years,/ And truth discern, who knew but learning's lore./
    Thor 10.483 14 How did these beautiful rainbow-tints get into the shell of the fresh-water clam...
    EWI 11.105 21 Granville Sharpe found [the West Indian slave] at his brother's and procured a place for him in an apothecary's shop. The master accidentally met his recovered slave, and instantly endeavored to get possession of him again.
    EWI 11.116 10 At Grace Hill, [the day after emancipation in the West Indies] there were at least a thousand persons around the Moravian Chapel who could not get in.
    EWI 11.118 20 It is vain to get rid of [spoiled children] by not minding them...
    EWI 11.123 26 ...by the aid of a little whipping, we could get [the negroes'] work for nothing but their board and the cost of whips.
    EWI 11.124 24 ...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 11.125 9 The moral sense is always supported by the permanent interest of the parties. Else, I know not how, in our world, any good would ever get done.
    EWI 11.126 18 ...[British merchants] saw further that the slave-trade, by keeping in barbarism the whole coast of eastern Africa, deprives them of countries and nations of customers, if once freedom and civility and European manners could get a foothold there.
    FSLC 11.188 2 ...[resistance to the Fugitive Slave Law] is befriending...on our own farms, a man who has taken the risk of being shot...to get away from his driver...
    FSLN 11.232 19 Events roll...the result is the enforcing of some of those first commandments which we heard in the nursery. We never get beyond our first lesson...
    FSLN 11.233 22 You relied on State sovereignty in the Free States to protect their citizens. They are driven with contempt out of the courts and out of the territory of the Slave States,-if they are so happy as to get out with their lives...
    AsSu 11.247 7 I think we must get rid of slavery, or we must get rid of freedom.
    AsSu 11.247 8 I think we must get rid of slavery, or we must get rid of freedom.
    ACiv 11.305 8 ...if we conquer the enemy [the South],-what then? We shall still have to keep him under, and it will cost as much to hold him down as it did to get him down.
    ACiv 11.305 12 ...next winter we must begin at the beginning, and conquer [the South] over again. What use then to...get possession of an inlet...
    ACiv 11.307 17 Now, [the Southern people's] interest is in keeping out white labor; then [after Emancipation], when they must pay wages, their interest will be...to get the best labor...
    SMC 11.365 3 [George Prescott writes] The major had tried to discourage me;-said, perhaps, if I carried [tent-poles] over, some other company would get them;...
    Humb 11.458 9 When [Humboldt] was stopped in Spain and could not get away, he turned round and interpreted their mountain system...
    FRep 11.511 9 The sailors sail by chronometers that do not lose two or three seconds in a year, ever since Newton explained to Parliament that the way to improve navigation was to get good watches...
    PLT 12.11 18 I confine my ambition to true reporting of [intellect's] play in natural action, though I should get only one new fact in a year.
    PLT 12.32 24 The sun may shine, or a galaxy of suns; you will get no more light than your eye will hold.
    II 12.67 17 ...we can only judge safely of a discipline, of a book, of a man, or other influence, by the frame of mind it induces, as whether that be large and serene, or dispiriting and degrading. Then we get a certain habit of the mind as the measure;...
    CInt 12.121 21 With this divine oracle [thought], we somehow do not get instructed.
    Bost 12.186 27 I do not know that Charles River or Merrimac water is more clarifying to the brain than the Savannah or Alabama rivers, yet the men that drink it get up earlier...
    MAng1 12.236 26 ...[Michelangelo] replies [to the Duke of Tuscany]...that he hoped he should shortly see the execution of his plans [for St. Peter's] brought to such a point that they could no longer be interfered with...if, he adds, I do not commit a great crime by disappointing the cormorants who are daily hoping to get rid of me.
    MLit 12.331 14 [Goethe] is like a banker or a weaver with a passion for the country; he steals out of the hot streets...to get a draft of sweet air and a gaze at the magnificence of summer, but dares not break from his slavery...
    AgMs 12.362 12 ...Mr. D. [Elias Phinney]...would starve in two years on any one of fifty poor farms in this neighborhood on each of which now a farmer manages to get a good living.

gets, v. (38)

    MR 1.238 19 What [a man] gets only as fast as he wants for his own ends, does not embarrass him...
    Con 1.295 16 ...now [Conservatism], now [Innovation] gets the day...
    Con 1.319 14 Sickness gets organized as well as health...
    YA 1.376 15 ...this patriarchal or family management gets to be rather troublesome to all but the papa;...
    Hist 2.25 14 ...Xenophon is as sharp-tongued as any and sharper-tongued than most, and so gives as good as he gets.
    Comp 2.97 10 The entire system of things gets represented in every particle.
    SL 2.149 10 If any ingenious reader would have a monopoly of the wisdom or delight he gets, he is as secure now the book is Englished, as if it were imprisoned in the Pelews' tongue.
    Prd1 2.227 17 In the rainy day [the good husband]...gets his tool-box set in the corner of the barn-chamber...
    Cir 2.305 26 The new statement...to those dwelling in the old, comes like an abyss of scepticism. But the eye soon gets wonted to it...
    Int 2.342 3 [He in whom the love of repose predominates] gets rest, commodity and reputation;...
    Exp 3.68 17 The most attractive class of people are those who are powerful obliquely...one gets the cheer of their light without paying too great a tax.
    Nat2 3.187 23 The poet, the prophet, has a higher value for what he utters than any hearer, and therefore it gets spoken.
    UGM 4.33 13 ...the union of all minds appears intimate; what gets admission to one, cannot be kept out of any other;...
    PPh 4.74 11 This hard-headed humorist [Socrates], whose strange conceits, drollery and bonhommie diverted the young patricians, whilst the rumor of his sayings and quibbles gets abroad every day,--turns out...to have a probity as invincible as his logic...
    PPh 4.77 23 [Plato] has clapped copyright on the world. This is the ambition of individualism. But the mouthful proves too large. Boa constrictor has good will to eat it, but he is foiled. He falls abroad in the attempt; and biting, gets strangled...
    MoS 4.153 25 My neighbor, a jolly farmer, in the tavern bar-room, thinks that the use of money is sure and speedy spending. For his part, he says, he puts his down his neck and gets the good of it.
    ShP 4.200 21 The translation of Plutarch gets its excellence by being translation on translation.
    ET6 5.112 4 In this Gibraltar of propriety [England], mediocrity gets intrenched...
    Pow 6.78 22 A humorous friend of mine thinks that the reason why Nature... gets up such inconceivably fine sunsets, is that she has learned how, at last, by dint of doing the same thing so very often.
    Wth 6.107 19 You will rent a house, but must have it cheap. The owner can reduce the rent...and the tenant gets not the house he would have, but a worse one;...
    Ctr 6.142 11 ...books are good only as far as a boy is ready for them. He sometimes gets ready very slowly.
    Bhr 6.190 20 Another opposes [a man who is already strong] with sound argument, but the argument is scouted until by and by it gets into the mind of some weighty person; then it begins to tell on the community.
    CbW 6.255 26 California gets peopled and subdued, civilized in this immoral way...
    Ill 6.319 11 There is the illusion of love, which attributes to the beloved person all which that person shares with his or her family, sex, age or condition, nay, with the human mind itself. 'T is these which the lover loves, and Anna Matilda gets the credit of them.
    Civ 7.21 22 'T is wonderful how soon a piano gets into a log hut on the frontier.
    Civ 7.22 4 When the Indian trail gets widened, graded and bridged to a good road, there is a benefactor...
    Elo1 7.68 17 Set a New Englander to describe any accident which happened in his presence. What hesitation and reserve in his narrative! He... gets as fast as he can to the result...
    Boks 7.213 12 Whilst the prudential and economical tone of society starves the imagination, affronted Nature gets such indemnity as she may.
    PI 8.16 23 The bee flies among the flowers, and gets mint and marjoram, and generates a new product...
    QO 8.182 4 ...what we daily observe in regard to the bon-mots that circulate in society...the same growth befalls mythology: the legend is tossed from believer to poet, from poet to believer...until it gets an ideal truth.
    Aris 10.58 10 ...a hero's, a man's success is made up of failures, because he experiments and ventures every day, and the more falls he gets, moves faster on;...
    SovE 10.188 12 In the pre-adamite [Nature] bred valor only; by and by she gets on to man, and adds tenderness...
    Thor 10.482 14 The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon...and, at length the middle-aged man concludes to build a wood-shed with them.
    SMC 11.361 18 [George Prescott] writes, You don't know how one gets attached to a company by living with them...
    II 12.82 13 [A man] is strong by his genius, gets all his knowledge only through that aperture.
    CInt 12.126 17 ...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 12.136 7 ...the necessity of exercise and the nomadic instinct are always stirring the wish to travel, and in the spring and summer, it commonly gets the victory.
    CL 12.152 13 The leaf in our dry climate gets fully ripe...

getting, adj. (1)

    MMEm 10.420 20 The difficulty of getting places of low board for a lady, is obvious.

getting, v. (28)

    AmS 1.97 17 ...those Savoyards...getting their livelihood by carving shepherds...went out one day...and discovered that they had whittled up the last of their pine trees.
    Comp 2.99 4 Is a man...a morose ruffian...Nature sends him a troop of pretty sons and daughters, who are getting along in the dame's classes at the village school...
    Fdsp 2.212 10 You shall not come nearer a man by getting into his house.
    Mrs1 3.119 3 Our Exploring Expedition saw the Feejee islanders getting their dinner off human bones;...
    Mrs1 3.127 8 [Manners] aid our dealing and conversation as a railway aids travelling, by getting rid of all avoidable obstructions of the road...
    Nat2 3.191 12 ...it was known that men of thought and virtue...could lose good time whilst the room was getting warm in winter days.
    SwM 4.97 3 ...by being assimilated to the original soul...the soul of man does then easily flow into all things, and all things flow into it: they mix; and he is present and sympathetic with their structure and law. This path is difficult, secret and beset with terror. The ancients called it ecstasy or absence,--a getting out of their bodies to think.
    ET4 5.59 9 King Ingiald finds it vastly amusing to burn up half a dozen kings in a hall, after getting them drunk.
    ET10 5.161 18 Nations are getting obsolete...
    ET11 5.172 2 The feudal character of the English state, now that it is getting obsolete, glares a little, in contrast with the democratic tendencies.
    ET11 5.197 24 Whilst the privileges of nobility are passing to the middle class [in England]...the titles of lordship are getting musty and cumbersome.
    Pow 6.67 19 [Boniface] was active in getting the roads repaired and planted with shade-trees;...
    Wth 6.86 6 ...the art of getting rich consists not in industry...but in a better order...
    Wth 6.106 13 Whoever knows what happens in the getting and spending of a loaf of bread and a pint of beer...knows all of political economy that the budgets of empires can teach him.
    Art2 7.41 10 Duhamel built a bridge by letting in a piece of stronger timber for the middle of the under-surface, getting his hint from the structure of the shin-bone.
    Art2 7.49 16 The poet aims at getting observations without aim;...
    DL 7.114 19 ...in getting wealth the man is generally sacrificed...
    Farm 7.150 6 By drainage we went down to a subsoil we did not know, and have found there is a Concord under old Concord, which we are now getting the best crops from;...
    WD 7.163 26 [Tantalus] is now in great spirits;...thinks he shall bottle the wave. It is however getting a little doubtful.
    Insp 8.274 2 In June the morning is noisy with birds; in August they are already getting old and silent.
    Chr2 10.109 2 When once Selden had said that the priests seemed to him to be baptizing their own fingers, the rite of baptism was getting late in the world.
    EzRy 10.386 23 Some of those around me will remember one occasion of severe drought in this vicinity, when the late Rev. Mr. Goodwin offered to relieve the Doctor [Ezra Ripley] of the duty of leading in prayer; but the Doctor...ejected his offer with some humor, as with an air that said to all the congregation, This is no time for you young Cambridge men; the affair, sir, is getting serious. I will pray myself.
    EzRy 10.392 15 Sage and savage strove harder in [Ezra Ripley] than in any of my acquaintances, each getting the mastery by turns...
    MMEm 10.400 13 [Mary Moody Emerson's] aunt and her husband...were getting old...
    MMEm 10.416 23 I [Mary Moody Emerson] end days of fine health and cheerfulness without getting upward now.
    Thor 10.459 10 ...the President [of Harvard University] found...the rules [of the Harvard Library] getting to look so ridiculous, that he ended by giving [Thoreau] a privilege which in his hands proved unlimited thereafter.
    Thor 10.464 3 At Mount Washington...Thoreau had a bad fall, and sprained his foot. As he was in the act of getting up from his fall, he saw for the first time the leaves of the Arnica mollis.
    AgMs 12.362 24 The way in which men who have farms grow rich is either by other resources...or by getting their labor for nothing...

Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, n. (5)

    Elo2 8.125 21 ...when [the orator] rises to any height of thought or of passion he comes down to a language level with the ear of all his audience. It is the merit of John Brown and of Abraham Lincoln--one at Charlestown, one at Gettysburg...
    ALin 11.334 2 ...[Lincoln's] brief speech at Gettysburg will not easily be surpassed by words on any recorded occasion.
    SMC 11.368 14 At the battle of Gettysburg, in July, 1863, the brigade of which the Thirty-second Regiment formed a part, was in line of battle seventy-two hours...
    SMC 11.369 27 After Gettysburg, Colonel Prescott remarks that our [Thirty-second] regiment is highly complimented.
    SMC 11.371 1 After Gettysburg, the Thirty-second Regiment saw hard service at Rappahannock Station;...

Geyer, Mr., n. (1)

    AKan 11.255 23 When pressed to look at the cause of the mischief in the Kansas laws, the President falters and declines the discussion; but his supporters in the Senate, Mr. Cass, Mr. Geyer, Mr. Hunter, speak out, and declare the intolerable atrocity of the code.

ghaselle, n. (1)

    PPo 8.252 3 The [Persian] law of the ghaselle, or shorter ode, requires that the poet insert his name in the last stanza.

ghastly, adj. (9)

    MoS 4.174 9 ...San Carlo, my subtle and admirable friend...finds that all direct ascension...leads to this ghastly insight...
    ShP 4.219 6 ...other men...beheld the same objects [as Shakespeare]: they also saw through them that which was contained. And to what purpose? The beauty straightway vanished;...and life became ghastly, joyless...
    CbW 6.262 12 We learn geology the morning after the earthquake, on ghastly diagrams of cloven mountains, upheaved plains...
    Suc 7.309 7 Who and what are you that would lay the ghastly anatomy bare?
    Dem1 10.4 16 ...[in dreams] we seem...cheated by spectral jokes and waking suddenly with ghastly laughter...
    Prch 10.220 18 ...the sober eye finds something ghastly in this [religious] empiricism.
    FSLC 11.201 6 By white slaves, by a white slave, are we beaten. Who looked for such ghastly fulfilment, or to see what we see?
    FSLN 11.226 16 ...a ghastly result of all those years of experience in affairs, this, that there was nothing better for the foremost American man [Webster] to tell his countrymen than that Slavery was now at that strength that they must beat down their conscience and become kidnappers for it.
    ALin 11.329 17 In this country, on Saturday, every one was struck dumb... as he meditated on the ghastly blow [Lincoln's death].

Ghats [Ghauts] Mountains, (2)

    ET11 5.183 20 I was surprised to observe the very small attendance usually in the House of Lords. Out of five hundred and seventy-three peers, on ordinary days only twenty or thirty. Where are they? I asked. At home on their estates...or...on the Ghauts.
    Boks 7.213 21 [Men's] education is neglected; but the circulating library and the theatre, as well as...the tour...to the White Hills and the Ghauts, make such amends as they can.

Ghauts [Ghats] Mountains, (2)

    ET11 5.183 20 I was surprised to observe the very small attendance usually in the House of Lords. Out of five hundred and seventy-three peers, on ordinary days only twenty or thirty. Where are they? I asked. At home on their estates...or...on the Ghauts.
    Boks 7.213 21 [Men's] education is neglected; but the circulating library and the theatre, as well as...the tour...to the White Hills and the Ghauts, make such amends as they can.

ghazon, n. (1)

    PPo 8.239 26 Such [amatory] verses...will drive [Persian] warriors to the combat...or prove an ample reward on their return from the dangers of the ghazon, or the fight.

Gherardesca, Villa, Fiesole (1)

    ET1 5.7 5 I found [Landor]...living in a cloud of pictures at his Villa Gherardesca...

Ghiberti, Lorenzo, n. (2)

    MAng1 12.239 13 [Michelangelo] loved to express admiration...of Ghiberti...
    MAng1 12.243 19 ...there [in Florence], the tradition of [Michelangelo's] opinions meets the traveller in every spot. ... Look at these bronze gates of the Baptistery...cast by Ghiberti five hundred years ago. Michael Angelo said, they were fit to be the gates of Paradise.

Ghizeh [Giza], Egypt, n. (1)

    Dem1 10.11 2 Belzoni describes the three marks which led him to dig for a door to the pyramid of Ghizeh.

Ghost, Holy, n. (13)

    DSA 1.146 5 Yourself a newborn bard of the Holy Ghost, cast behind you all conformity...
    Cir 2.319 21 Let [the man and woman of seventy] then become organs of the Holy Ghost;...and their eyes are uplifted;...
    Exp 3.72 21 Fortune, Minerva, Muse, Holy Ghost,--these are quaint names, too narrow to cover this unbounded substance.
    SwM 4.139 18 If a man say that the Holy Ghost has informed him that the Last Judgment...took place in 1757;...I reply that the Spirit which is holy is reserved, taciturn, and deals in laws.
    GoW 4.263 2 ...[the writer] would report the Holy Ghost, or attempt it.
    ET13 5.227 12 Brougham...said...the reverend bishops...solemnly declare in the presence of God that when they are called upon to accept a living, perhaps of 4000 pounds a year, at that very instant they are moved by the Holy Ghost to accept the office and administration thereof, for no other reason whatever?
    ET13 5.227 21 [The Dean and Prebends] go into the cathedral, chant and pray and beseech the Holy Ghost to assist them in their choice [of a Bishop];...
    ET13 5.227 23 [The Dean and Prebends] go into the cathedral, chant and pray and beseech the Holy Ghost to assist them in their choice [of a Bishop]; and...invariably find that the dictates of the Holy Ghost agree with the recommendations of the Queen.
    ET14 5.235 21 To the images from this twin source (of Christianity and art), the mind became fruitful as by the incubation of the Holy Ghost.
    Chr2 10.97 2 Devout men...have used different images to suggest this latent [moral] force; as...the Spirit, the Holy Ghost...
    LS 11.3 2 The Kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost.-Romans xiv. 17.
    LS 11.20 21 ...the Apostle well assures us that the kingdom of God is not meat and drink, but righteousness, and peace and joy in the Holy Ghost.
    FRO1 11.479 8 ...in Europe, for twelve or fourteen centuries, God the Father had no temple and no altar. The Holy Ghost and the Son of Mary were worshipped...

ghost, n. (6)

    MN 1.198 14 I do not wish in attempting to paint a man, to describe an... impossible ghost.
    Int 2.341 15 ...every man is a receiver of this descending holy ghost...
    ShP 4.207 2 ...I went once to see the Hamlet of a famed performer...and all I then heard and all I now remember of the tragedian was that in which the tragedian had no part; simply Hamlet's question to the ghost...
    Bhr 6.187 20 Here comes to me Roland, with a delicacy of sentiment leading and enwrapping him like a divine cloud or holy ghost.
    Dem1 10.28 7 Man is the Image of God. Why run after a ghost or a dream?
    LLNE 10.327 25 Astrology, magic, palmistry, are long gone. The very last ghost is laid.

ghostlike, adj. (1)

    Exp 3.45 16 Ghostlike we glide through nature...

ghostlike, adv. (1)

    NER 3.273 26 We are weary of gliding ghostlike through the world...

ghostly, adj. (1)

    LE 1.177 9 ...the world revenges itself by exposing, at every turn, the folly of these...ghostly creatures.

ghosts, n. (15)

    Fdsp 2.214 12 We go to Europe, or we pursue persons, or we read books, in the instinctive faith that these will...reveal us to ourselves. Beggars all. The persons are such as we; the Europe, an old faded garment of dead persons; the books, their ghosts.
    NER 3.273 25 What is it we heartily wish of each other? Is it to be pleased and flattered? No, but...to be...made men of, instead of ghosts and phantoms.
    SwM 4.125 18 [To Swedenborg] The ghosts are tormented with the fear of death...
    SwM 4.139 25 The rumors of ghosts and hobgoblins gossip and tell fortunes.
    MoS 4.159 18 Let us have to do with real men and women, and not with skipping ghosts.
    ET14 5.254 21 ...[the English] fear the hostility of ideas, of poetry, or religion,--ghosts which they cannot lay;...
    Dem1 10.16 17 In the popular belief, ghosts are a selecting tribe...
    Schr 10.281 27 As we read the newspapers...patriotism and religion seem to shriek like ghosts.
    Plu 10.301 1 [Plutarch] believes...in demons and ghosts...
    MMEm 10.424 7 [Time] Hasten to finish thy motley work, on which frightful Gorgons are at play, spite of holy ghosts.
    HDC 11.84 3 I find [in Concord annals]...no hanging of witches, no ghosts...
    FSLC 11.178 14 ...Fate's grass grows rank in valley clods,/ And rankly on the castled steep,-/ Speak it firmly, these [Eternal Rights] are gods,/ Are all ghosts beside./
    Let 12.400 25 Full of love, talent and hope spring up the darlings of the muse among the Germans; some seven years later, and they flit about like ghosts...
    Trag 12.408 1 ...[this terror of contravening an unascertained and unascertainable will] disappears with civilization, and can no more be reproduced than the fear of ghosts after childhood.
    Trag 12.411 3 A panic such as frequently in ancient or savage nations put a troop or an army to flight without an enemy; a fear of ghosts...are no tragedy...

giant, adj. (4)

    AmS 1.107 10 [The poor and the low]...will perish to add one drop of blood to make...those giant sinews combat and conquer.
    Art1 2.357 10 ...then is my eye opened to the eternal picture which nature paints in the street, with moving men and children...wrinkled, giant, dwarf...
    SwM 4.98 22 ...[Swedenborg] seemed...to be a composition of several persons,--like the giant fruits which are matured in gardens by the union of four or five single blossoms.
    Milt1 12.277 11 Milton...tasked his giant imagination...for an end beyond, namely, to teach.

giant, n. (16)

    AmS 1.99 26 Not out of those on whom systems of education have exhausted their culture, comes the helpful giant...to build the new...
    Hist 2.31 17 Man is the broken giant...
    SR 2.82 5 My giant goes with me wherever I go.
    SL 2.148 8 On the Alps the traveller sometimes beholds his own shadow magnified to a giant...
    Prd1 2.233 22 ...who has not seen the tragedy of imprudent genius struggling for years with paltry pecuniary difficulties, at last sinking, chilled, exhausted and fruitless, like a giant slaughtered by pins?
    Hsm1 2.258 23 ...[many extraordinary young men's] is the tone of a youthful giant who is sent to work revolutions.
    NMW 4.253 5 ...the vain attempts of statists to amuse and deceive him... and the instinct of the young, ardent and active men every where, which pointed him out as the giant of the middle class, make [Napoleon's] history bright and commanding.
    GoW 4.289 25 This cheerful laborer [Goethe]...tasked himself with stints for a giant...
    Wth 6.117 20 Want is a growing giant whom the coat of Have was never large enough to cover.
    Civ 7.17 26 Mind wakes a new-born giant from her sleep.
    Clbs 7.238 5 ...[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: None of the gods knows what in the old time Thou saidst in the ear of thy son...
    Edc1 10.140 8 The young giant, brown from his hunting-tramp, tells his story well...
    Supl 10.166 17 I hear without sympathy the complaint of young and ardent persons that they find life no region of romance, with no enchanter, no giant, no fairies, nor even muses.
    PLT 12.35 3 Instinct is a shapeless giant in the cave...
    II 12.69 4 Could we prick the sides of this slumberous giant [Instinct];...
    PPr 12.385 26 In this work [Past and Present], as in his former labors, Mr. Carlyle reminds us of a sick giant.

giantess, n. (1)

    Civ 7.22 12 There was once a giantess who had a daughter...

giant-like, adj. (1)

    PPr 12.391 5 [Carlyle's style] is the first experiment, and something of rudeness and haste must be pardoned to so great an achievement. It will be done again and again, sharper, simpler; but fortunate is he who did it first, though never so giant-like and fabulous.

Giants' Dance, n. (1)

    ET16 5.281 10 Was [Stonehenge] the Giants' Dance, which Merlin brought from Killaraus, in Ireland...

giants, n. (9)

    Art1 2.357 18 When I have seen fine statues and afterwards enter a public assembly, I understand well what he meant who said, When I have been reading Homer, all men look like giants.
    ET5 5.100 27 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, not amassed on a few giants, but poured into the general mind...
    F 6.13 22 ...strong natures...New Hampshire giants...are inevitable patriots...
    Farm 7.147 15 ...Nature drops a pine-cone in Mariposa, and it...grows in a grove of giants...
    Clbs 7.237 23 Wafthrudnir asks [Odin]...what river separates the dwellings of the sons of the giants from those of the gods;...
    Clbs 7.238 11 The startled giant [Wafthrudnir] replies...with Odin contended I in wise words. Thou must ever the wisest be. And still the gods and giants are so known...
    Grts 8.311 21 Let the scholar measure his valor by his power to cope with intellectual giants.
    PerF 10.69 5 The hero in the fairy-tales has a servant who can eat granite rocks...and a third who can run a hundred leagues in half an hour; so man in Nature is surrounded by a gang of friendly giants who can accept harder stints than these...
    Wom 11.423 20 ...when I read the list of...giants in law, or eminent scholars...and see what they have voted for and suffered to be voted for, I think no community was ever so politely and elegantly betrayed.

giant's, n. (2)

    Mrs1 3.152 15 The constitution of our society makes it a giant's castle to the ambitious youth who have not found their names enrolled in its Golden Book...
    LLNE 10.349 11 [Brisbane's plan]...strode about nature with a giant's step...

gibber, v. (2)

    LE 1.161 21 In spite of all the rueful abortions that squeak and gibber in the street...have been these glorious manifestations of the mind;...
    TPar 11.291 8 There are men of good powers who have so much sympathy that they must be silent when they are not in sympathy. If you don't agree with them, they know they only injure the truth by speaking. Their faculties will not play them true, and they do not wish to squeak and gibber, and so they shut their mouths.

gibbered, v. (1)

    Comp 2.112 2 Fear for ages has boded and mowed and gibbered over government and property.

gibbering, adj. (1)

    Dem1 10.4 18 ...[in dreams] we seem...cheated by spectral jokes and waking suddenly with ghastly laughter...to rake with confusion in memory among the gibbering nonsense to find the motive of this contemptible cachinnation.

gibbet, n. (4)

    Hsm1 2.249 27 ...let [a man]...with perfect urbanity dare the gibbet and the mob by the absolute truth of his speech...
    Hsm1 2.263 4 Coarse slander, fire, tar and feathers and the gibbet, the youth may freely bring home to his mind...
    War 11.165 17 The standing army, the arsenal, the camp and the gibbet do not appertain to man.
    FSLC 11.195 19 ...the crime which the second law [the Fugitive Slave Law] ordains is greater than the crime which the first law forbids under penalty of the gibbet.

gibbeted, v. (1)

    MMEm 10.429 27 If one could choose, and without crime be gibbeted,- were it not altogether better than the long drooping away by age without mentality or devotion?

gibbets, n. (1)

    SwM 4.138 23 ...man, though in brothels, or jails, or on gibbets, is on his way to all that is good and true.

Gibbon, Edward, n. (11)

    Nat 1.20 13 The winds and waves, said Gibbon, are always on the side of the ablest navigators.
    AmS 1.112 9 In contrast with their [Goethe's, Wordsworth's, Carlyle's] writing, the style of Pope, of Johnson, of Gibbon, looks cold and pedantic.
    MoS 4.164 21 Gibbon reckons, in these bigoted times, but two men of liberality in France,--Henry IV. and Montaigne.
    ET1 5.16 27 Gibbon [Carlyle] called the splendid bridge from the old world to the new.
    ET5 5.77 1 Certain Trolls or working brains, under the names of...Gibbon, Brindley, Watt, Wedgwood, dwell in the troll-mounts of Britain...
    ET17 5.294 27 Incidentally [Wordsworth] added, Gibbon cannot write English.
    Boks 7.205 4 [Horace, Tacitus, Martial] will bring [the student] to Gibbon...
    Boks 7.205 9 [The student] cannot spare Gibbon...
    Clbs 7.244 2 ...we owe to Boswell our knowledge of the club of Dr. Johnson...Gibbon...
    Grts 8.311 9 The world was created as an audience for [the scholar]; the atoms of which it is made are opportunities. Read the performance of Bentley, Gibbon...
    Grts 8.317 6 It is noted of some scholars, like Swift and Gibbon and Donne, that they pretended to vices which they had not, so much did they hate hypocrisy.

Gibbon's, Edward, n. (1)

    Boks 7.208 11 Among the best books are certain Autobiographies; as... Gibbon's, Hume's, Franklin's, Burns's, Alfieri's, Goethe's and Haydon's Autobiographies.

Gibbons, Grinling, n. (1)

    ET10 5.163 18 The taste and science of thirty peaceful generations;...the wood that Gibbons carved;...are in the vast auction [in England]...

Gibbons, n. (1)

    ET8 5.139 1 To understand the power of performance that is in their finest wits...in the Dugdales, Gibbons, Hallams, Eldons and Peels, one should see how English day-laborers hold out.

gibe, n. (3)

    Wsp 6.209 27 In this country...the phrase higher law became a political gibe.
    Comc 8.164 22 ...the oldest gibe of literature is the ridicule of false religion.
    QO 8.184 26 So the sarcasm attributed to Baron Alderson upon Brougham, What a wonderful versatile mind has Brougham!...if he only knew a little of law, he would know a little of everything. You may find the original of this gibe in Grimm...

Gibeon, Palestine, n. (1)

    Hist 2.9 11 The Garden of Eden, the sun standing still in Gibeon, is poetry thenceforward to all nations.

Gibeonite, n. (1)

    MoS 4.155 7 ...[the skeptic] will not be a Gibeonite;...

Gibraltar, n. (2)

    ET6 5.112 3 In this Gibraltar of propriety [England], mediocrity gets intrenched...
    Civ 7.30 10 Gibraltar may be strong, but ideas are impregnable...

Gibraltar, Strait of, n. (1)

    PerF 10.74 12 If a straw be held still in the direction of the ocean-current, the sea will pour through it as through Gibraltar.

Gibson, John, n. (1)

    Edc1 10.146 6 ...[Fellowes] read history and studied ancient art to explain his stones; he interested Gibson the sculptor;...

giddiness, n. (3)

    CbW 6.276 26 Wherever there is failure, there is some giddiness...
    Aris 10.57 22 ...amid the levity and giddiness of people one looks round... on some self-dependent mind...
    PLT 12.54 20 ...a man is broken and dissipated by the giddiness of his will;...

giddy, adj. (9)

    SL 2.151 8 The scholar...follows some giddy girl...
    Mrs1 3.131 22 A sainted soul is always elegant, and, if it will, passes unchallenged into the most guarded ring. But so will Jock the teamster pass...and find favor, as long as his head is not giddy with the new circumstance...
    GoW 4.269 21 ...how can [the writer] be honored...when he is no longer the lawgiver, but the sycophant, ducking to the giddy opinion of a reckless public;...
    Pow 6.74 9 Friends, books, pictures, lower duties, talents, flatteries, hopes,-- all are distractions which cause oscillations in our giddy balloon...
    PC 8.211 19 We have been taught to tread familiarly on giddy heights of thought...
    Edc1 10.130 15 Why does [man] track in the midnight heaven a pure spark, a luminous patch...but because he acquires thereby a majestic sense of power;...and finding and carrying their law in his mind, can, as it were, see his simple idea realized up yonder in giddy distances...
    CInt 12.116 18 These are giddy times...
    CInt 12.116 20 ...those were the giddy times which went before these...
    Milt1 12.261 13 We may even apply to [Milton's] performance on the instrument of language, his own description of music:-Notes, with many a winding bout/ Of linked sweetness long drawn out,/ With wanton heed and giddy cunning,/ The melting voice through mazes running,/...

gift, n. (82)

    DSA 1.133 4 ...the gift of God to the soul is not a vaunting, overpowering, excluding sanctity...
    DSA 1.135 9 Courage, piety, love, wisdom, can teach; and every man can open his door to these angels, and they shall bring him the gift of tongues.
    MN 1.222 10 The one condition coupled with the gift of truth is its use.
    Con 1.300 26 ...the solid columnar stem, which lifts that bank of foliage into the air...is the gift and legacy of dead and buried years.
    Con 1.312 23 ...as soon as you put your gift to use, you shall have acre or acre's worth according to your exhibition of desert...
    Tran 1.334 15 ...the deity of man is...to need no gift...
    Tran 1.343 9 ...[Transcendentalists] will own that love seems to them the last and highest gift of nature;...
    Hist 2.34 21 The preternatural prowess of the hero, the gift of perpetual youth, and the like, are alike the endeavor of the human spirit to bend the shows of things to the desires of the mind.
    SR 2.83 7 Your own gift you can present every moment...
    SR 2.88 5 Especially [the cultivated man] hates what he has if he see that it...came to him by...gift...
    Comp 2.97 20 ...in the animal kingdom the physiologist has observed that... a certain compensation balances every gift and every defect.
    SL 2.144 27 ...a few incidents, have an emphasis in your memory out of all proportion to their apparent significance if you measure them by the ordinary standards. They relate to your gift.
    SL 2.160 26 ...why need you torment yourself and friend by secret self-reproaches that you have not...complimented him with gifts and salutations heretofore? Be a gift and a benediction.
    Fdsp 2.211 4 To my friend I write a letter and from him I receive a letter. That seems to you a little. It suffices me. It is a spiritual gift...
    Prd1 2.231 22 ...society is officered by men of parts, as they are properly called, and not by divine men. These use their gift to refine luxury, not to abolish it.
    Pt1 3.29 15 [The poet's] cheerfulness should be the gift of the sunlight;...
    Exp 3.84 3 When I receive a new gift, I do not macerate my body to make the account square...
    Mrs1 3.131 10 We contemn in turn every other gift of men of the world;...
    Mrs1 3.139 5 [The spirit of the energetic class] entertains every natural gift.
    Gts 3.161 4 ...the rule for a gift, which one of my friends prescribed, is that we might convey to some person that which properly belonged to his character...
    Gts 3.161 11 The only gift is a portion of thyself.
    Gts 3.161 19 ...it restores society in so far to the primary basis, when a man' s biography is conveyed in his gift...
    Gts 3.162 19 He is a good man who can receive a gift well.
    Gts 3.162 20 We are either glad or sorry at a gift...
    Gts 3.162 23 Some violence I think is done, some degradation borne, when I rejoice or grieve at a gift.
    Gts 3.162 24 I am sorry...when a gift comes from such as do not know my spirit...
    Gts 3.162 26 ...if the gift pleases me overmuch, then I should be ashamed that the donor should read my heart, and see that I love his commodity, and not him.
    Gts 3.163 3 The gift, to be true, must be the flowing of the giver unto me...
    Gts 3.163 10 I say to [the donor], How can you give me this pot of oil or this flagon of wine when all your oil and wine is mine, which belief of mine this gift seems to deny?
    Gts 3.163 15 ...when the beneficiary is ungrateful, as all beneficiaries hate all Timons, not at all considering the value of the gift but looking back to the greater store it was taken from,--I rather sympathize with the beneficiary than with the anger of my lord Timon.
    Gts 3.164 5 ...there is no commensurability between a man and any gift.
    Pol1 3.203 8 Gift...makes [property] as really the new owner's as labor made it the first owner's...
    NR 3.239 6 The rotation which whirls every leaf and pebble to the meridian, reaches to every gift of man...
    NR 3.248 18 ...I endeavored to show my good men...that I was glad of men of every gift and nobility, but would not live in their arms.
    UGM 4.8 12 Gift is contrary to the law of the universe.
    PPh 4.43 8 Plato...(though I doubt he wanted the decisive gift of lyric expression), mainly is not a poet because he chose to use the poetic gift to an ulterior purpose.
    PPh 4.43 10 Plato...mainly is not a poet because he chose to use the poetic gift to an ulterior purpose.
    PPh 4.70 16 ...[Plato] constantly affirms...that the greatest goods...are assigned to us by a divine gift.
    ShP 4.209 8 We have [Shakespeare's] recorded convictions on those questions which knock for answer at every heart...on those mysterious and demoniacal powers...which yet interweave their malice and their gift in our brightest hours.
    GoW 4.265 7 If [the writer] have his incitements, there is, on the other side...need enough of his gift.
    ET6 5.108 4 ...the poorest [Englishmen] have some spoon or saucepan, gift of a godmother, saved out of better times.
    F 6.49 4 If in the least particular one could derange the order of nature,- who would accept the gift of life?
    Wth 6.118 4 The eldest son must inherit the [English] manor; what to do with this supernumerary? [The father] was advised to breed him for the Church and to settle him in the rectorship which was in the gift of the family;...
    Bhr 6.188 24 I had received, said a sibyl, I had received at birth the fatal gift of penetration;...
    Wsp 6.238 20 The race of mankind have always offered at least this implied thanks for the gift of existence,--namely, the terror of its being taken away;...
    Elo1 7.69 19 The virtue of books is to be readable, and of orators to be interesting; and this is a gift of Nature;...
    Elo1 7.88 8 The statement of the fact...sinks before the statement of the law, which...is a rarest gift...
    DL 7.123 2 In the old fables we used to read of a cloak brought from fairy-land as a gift for the fairest and purest in Prince Arthur's court.
    Clbs 7.228 23 We remember the time when the best gift we could ask of fortune was to fall in with a valuable companion in a ship's cabin...
    Clbs 7.240 25 Every variety of gift...has its vent and exchange in conversation.
    Clbs 7.241 2 Conversation is the Olympic games whither every superior gift resorts to assert and approve itself...
    Suc 7.295 25 How often it seems the chief good to be born...well adjusted to the tone of the human race. Such a man feels himself...conscious by his receptivity of an infinite strength. Like Alfred, good fortune accompanies him like a gift of God.
    Suc 7.309 20 ...every gift of noble origin/ Is breathed upon by Hope's perpetual breath./
    PI 8.2 1 For Fancy's gift/ Can mountains lift;/...
    PI 8.13 10 Vivacity of expression may indicate this high gift...
    PI 8.13 26 There is no more welcome gift to men than a new symbol.
    PI 8.63 26 The poetic gift we want...
    PI 8.64 16 Bring us...poetry which...is the gift to men of new images and symbols...
    Elo2 8.122 5 ...there are persons of natural fascination, with...winning manners, almost endearments in their style;...like Louis XI. of France, whom Comines praises for the gift of managing all minds by his accent...
    Res 8.153 22 ...as is the receiver, so is the gift;...
    QO 8.175 5 All things wear a lustre which is the gift of the present, and a tarnish of time.
    QO 8.177 20 Of a large and powerful class we might ask with confidence, What is the event they most desire? what gift?
    QO 8.204 17 The divine gift is ever the instant life...
    PPo 8.241 19 On the occasion of Solomon's marriage, all the beasts, laden with presents, appeared before his throne. Behind them all came the ant, with a blade of grass: Solomon did not despise the gift of the ant.
    PPo 8.254 1 High heart, O Hafiz! though not thine/ Fine gold and silver ore;/ More worth to thee the gift of song,/ And the clear insight more./
    Grts 8.306 27 ...[every man] shares with all mankind the gift of reason and the moral sentiment...
    Aris 10.43 27 ...when the well-mixed man is born...then no gift need be bestowed on him...
    Aris 10.51 1 More than taste and talent must go to the Will. That must also be a gift of Nature.
    Aris 10.53 5 The first example [of Genius] that occurs is an extraordinary gift of eloquence.
    MoL 10.241 9 You go to be teachers...I hope, some of you, to be the men of letters, critics, philosophers; perhaps the rare gift of poetry already sparkles...
    Schr 10.287 27 He that would sacrifice at [the Muse's] altar must not leave...some symbolic gift.
    Plu 10.315 20 There is no treasure, [Plutarch] says, parents can give to their children, like a brother; 't is...a gift nothing can supply;...
    MMEm 10.405 4 ...the love of superior virtue is mine own gift from God.
    LS 11.23 5 ...now...Christians must contend that it is...really a duty, to commemorate [Jesus] by a certain form [the Lord's Supper], whether that form be agreeable to their understandings or not. Is not this to make vain the gift of God?
    ALin 11.332 26 ...[Lincoln's] broad good humor...was a rich gift to this wise man.
    Wom 11.412 7 There is no gift of Nature without some drawback.
    CPL 11.500 1 ...in reference to her favorite authors, [Mary Moody Emerson] adds, The delight in others' superiority is my best gift from God.
    CPL 11.502 8 It was the symbolical custom of the ancient Mexican priests... to procure in the temple fire from the sun, and thence distribute it as a sacred gift to every hearth in the nation.
    PLT 12.53 15 Every sincere man is right, or, to make him right, only needs a little larger dose of his own personality. Excellent in his own way by means of not apprehending the gift of another.
    PLT 12.57 8 ...society seems to be in conspiracy to utilize every gift prematurely...
    Mem 12.108 18 The divine gift is not the old but the new.
    ACri 12.286 10 He who would be powerful must have the terrible gift of familiarity...

gifted, adj. (11)

    Tran 1.358 25 ...it may not be without its advantage that we should now and then encounter rare and gifted men...
    Lov1 2.187 24 Looking at these aims with which two persons, a man and a woman, so variously and correlatively gifted, are shut up in one house to spend in the nuptial society forty or fifty years, I do not wonder at the emphasis with which the heart prophesies this crisis from early infancy...
    Civ 7.32 18 ...when I see how much each virtuous and gifted person...lives affectionately with scores of excellent people...I see what cubic values America has...
    QO 8.185 5 A pleasantry which ran through all the newspapers a few years since, taxing the eccentricities of a gifted family connection in New England, was only a theft of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's mot of a hundred years ago...
    QO 8.203 2 He is gifted with genius who knoweth much by natural talent.
    PC 8.210 21 Consider...what masters, each in his several province...the novel and powerful philanthropies, as well as...manufactures, the very inventions...have evoked!-all implying the appearance of gifted men...
    Dem1 10.23 4 ...the so-called fortunate man is one who, though not gifted to speak when the people listen...relies on his instincts...
    Prch 10.225 11 [The moral sentiment] is that, which being...strongest in the best and most gifted men, we know to be implanted by the Creator of Men.
    FRep 11.536 20 ...I dread to hear of well-born, gifted and amiable men, that they have this indifference, disposing them to this despair.
    Bost 12.208 27 What public souls have lived here [in Boston]...what gifted conversers...
    MLit 12.333 4 We feel that a man gifted like [Goethe] should not leave the world as he found it.

gifted, n. (2)

    Fdsp 2.193 18 How beautiful, on their approach to this beating heart, the steps and forms of the gifted and the true!
    Fdsp 2.199 21 What a perpetual disappointment is actual society, even of the virtuous and gifted!

gifts, n. (84)

    LE 1.181 1 Let the scholar appreciate this combination of gifts...
    MN 1.222 4 If you ask, How can any rules be given for the attainment of gifts so sublime? I shall only remark that the solicitations of this spirit...are never forborne.
    LT 1.274 2 [The wealthy man] entertains [the divine], gives him gifts...
    Con 1.316 1 Then came in the men, and they said, What cheer, brother? Does thy convent want gifts?
    Tran 1.348 26 On the part of these children it is replied that life and their faculty seem to them gifts too rich to be squandered on such trifles as you propose to them.
    YA 1.376 26 Each chief attaches as many followers as he can, by kindness, maintenance, and gifts;...
    Hist 2.35 6 ...all the postulates of elfin annals,--that the fairies do not like to be named; that their gifts are capricious and not to be trusted;...I find true in Concord...
    SR 2.53 16 Few and mean as my gifts may be, I actually am...
    SL 2.132 24 It is quite another thing that [a man] should be able to... expound to another the theory of his self-union and freedom. This requires rare gifts.
    SL 2.150 13 Persons approach us...worthy of all wonder for their charms and gifts;...with very imperfect result.
    SL 2.160 25 ...why need you torment yourself and friend by secret self-reproaches that you have not...complimented him with gifts and salutations heretofore?
    SL 2.161 1 Shine with real light and not with the borrowed reflection of gifts.
    Lov1 2.188 3 ...nature and intellect and art emulate each other in the gifts and the melody they bring to the epithalamium.
    Fdsp 2.194 4 Shall I not call God the Beautiful, who daily showeth himself so to me in his gifts?
    Fdsp 2.202 7 The gifts of fortune may be present or absent...
    Fdsp 2.205 8 We chide the citizen because he makes love a commodity. It is an exchange of gifts...
    Fdsp 2.206 2 [Friendship] is fit for...graceful gifts...
    Prd1 2.232 1 ...no gifts can raise intemperance.
    OS 2.288 13 In these instances [the scholar and author] the intellectual gifts do not make the impression of virtue...
    Int 2.335 4 To genius must always go two gifts, the thought and the publication.
    Int 2.338 17 One would think...that good thought would be as familiar as air and water, and the gifts of each new hour would exclude the last.
    Pt1 3.37 10 Time and nature yield us many gifts...
    Pt1 3.38 7 If I have not found that excellent combination of gifts in my countrymen which I seek, neither could I aid myself to fix the idea of the poet by reading now and then in Chalmers's collection of five centuries of English poets.
    Exp 3.62 15 The great gifts are not got by analysis.
    Mrs1 3.139 17 Society will pardon much to genius and special gifts...
    Gts 3.157 1 Gifts of one who loved me,--/ 'T was high time they came;/ When he ceased to love me,/ Time they stopped for shame./
    Gts 3.159 8 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;...
    Gts 3.160 6 Fruits are acceptable gifts...
    Gts 3.160 14 For common gifts, necessity makes pertinences and beauty every day...
    Gts 3.161 10 Rings and other jewels are not gifts...
    Gts 3.161 11 Rings and other jewels are...apologies for gifts.
    Gts 3.162 3 It is not the office of a man to receive gifts.
    Gts 3.163 11 I say to [the donor], How can you give me this pot of oil or this flagon of wine when all your oil and wine is mine, which belief of mine this gift seems to deny? Hence the fitness of beautiful, not useful things, for gifts.
    Gts 3.165 1 I fear to breathe any treason against the majesty of love, which is the genius and god of gifts...
    Nat2 3.175 21 The muse herself betrays her son [the poor young poet], and enhances the gifts of wealth and well-born beauty by a radiation out of the air, and clouds, and forests that skirt the road...
    NR 3.226 16 Great men or men of great gifts you shall easily find...
    NER 3.269 19 [The scholar]...became a showman, turning his gifts to a marketable use...
    SwM 4.100 23 [Swedenborg's] rare science and practical skill, and the added fame...of extraordinary religious knowledge and gifts, drew to him queens, nobles, clergy...
    SwM 4.143 5 Swedenborg...with all his accumulated gifts, paralyzes and repels.
    NMW 4.239 10 To these gifts of nature, Napoleon added the advantage of having been born to a private and humble fortune.
    NMW 4.249 19 This deputy of the nineteenth century [Napoleon] added to his gifts a capacity for speculation on general topics.
    ET5 5.76 24 The Scandinavian fancied himself surrounded by Trolls... divine stevedores, carpenters, reapers, smiths and masons, swift to reward every kindness done them, with gifts of gold and silver.
    ET6 5.107 24 ...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, gifts and trophies...
    ET11 5.198 5 A multitude of English...bred into their society with manners, ability and the gifts of fortune, are every day confronting the peers on a footing of equality...
    ET12 5.202 13 ...gifts of all values...are continually accruing [at Oxford]...
    F 6.10 27 When each comes forth from his mother's womb, the gate of gifts closes behind him.
    Wsp 6.210 9 What proof of skepticism like the base rate at which the highest mental and moral gifts are held?
    Wsp 6.227 25 Among the nuns in a convent not far from Rome, one had appeared who laid claim to certain rare gifts of inspiration and prophecy...
    CbW 6.271 14 ...if one comes who can...show [men]...what gifts they have...he wakes in them the feeling of worth...
    Ill 6.325 12 The young mortal enters the hall of the firmament; there is he alone with [the gods] alone, they pouring on him benedictions and gifts...
    Elo1 7.90 25 ...rapid generalization, humor, pathos, are keys which the orator holds; and yet these fine gifts are not eloquence...
    Elo1 7.94 1 The orator is thereby an orator, that he keeps his feet ever on a fact. Thus only is he invincible. No gifts...will make any amends for want of this.
    WD 7.155 5 To each [the days] offer gifts after his will,/ Bread, kingdoms, stars and sky that holds them all./
    WD 7.168 15 ...if we do not use the gifts [the days] bring, they carry them as silently away.
    Clbs 7.245 3 The man of thought...the man of manners and culture, whom you so much wish to find,--each of these is wishing to be found. Each wishes...to exchange his gifts for yours;...
    Clbs 7.250 12 ...[Nature's] great gifts have something serious and stern.
    PI 8.74 16 I doubt never...the gifts of the future...
    SA 8.97 18 Here is...strong understanding, and the higher gifts...
    Elo2 8.114 23 For the time, [the orator's] exceeding life throws all other gifts into shade...
    PPo 8.244 12 Hafiz...in his extraordinary gifts adds to some of the attributes of Pindar, Anacreon, Horace and Burns, the insight of a mystic...
    Imtl 8.337 11 If there is the desire to live, and in larger sphere, with more knowledge and power, it is because life and knowledge and power are good for us, and we are the natural depositaries of these gifts.
    Aris 10.45 22 [The blood royal] obtains service, gifts, supplies, furtherance of all kinds from the love and joy of those who feel themselves honored by the service they render.
    Aris 10.54 21 Elevation of sentiment, refining and inspiring the manners, must really take the place of every distinction whether of material power or of intellectual gifts.
    PerF 10.84 14 ...this child of the dust throws himself by obedience into the circuit of the heavenly wisdom, and shares the secret of God. Thus is the world delivered into your hand, but on two conditions,-not for property, but for use, use according to the noble nature of the gifts; and...not for self-indulgence.
    Schr 10.275 22 Nature could not leave herself without a seer and expounder. But he could not see or teach without organs. The same necessity then that would create him reappears in his splendid gifts.
    Schr 10.279 23 These gifts, these senses, these facilities are excellent as long as subordinated;...
    Plu 10.297 18 [Plutarch] is, among prose writers, what Chaucer is among English poets...a compend of all accepted traditions. And all this without any supreme intellectual gifts.
    Plu 10.297 26 ...if [Plutarch] had not the highest powers, he was yet a man of rare gifts.
    MMEm 10.431 5 That greatest of all gifts, however small my [Mary Moody Emerson's] power of receiving,-the capacity, the element to love the All-perfect, without regard to personal happiness:-happiness?-'t is itself.
    Thor 10.484 1 Only he can be trusted with gifts who can present a face of bronze to expectations.
    HDC 11.31 20 Among the silenced [English] clergymen was a distinguished minister...Rev. Peter Bulkeley...honored for...his learning and gifts as a preacher...
    FSLC 11.201 26 [Webster] must learn...that those to whom his name was once dear and honored, as the manly statesman to whom the choicest gifts of Nature had been accorded, disown him...
    ACiv 11.298 19 The boys have no new clothes, no gifts, no journeys;...
    CPL 11.495 17 Happier, if [the town] contain citizens who...make costly gifts to education, civility and culture...
    FRep 11.512 2 Flaxman, with his Greek taste, selected and combined the loveliest forms, which were executed in English clay [by Wedgewood]; sent boxes of these as gifts to every court of Europe...
    PLT 12.56 24 We are continually tempted to sacrifice...the hope and promise of insight to the lust of a freer demonstration of those gifts we have;...
    II 12.79 21 I am sorry that we do not receive the higher gifts justly and greatly.
    CL 12.158 22 [Taking a walk] is a fine art, requiring rare gifts and much experience.
    CL 12.162 23 ...sometimes [my naturalist] brought [the farmers] ostentatiously gifts of flowers, fruit or rare shrubs they would gladly have paid a price for...
    Milt1 12.262 20 [Milton's] gifts are subordinated to his moral sentiments;...
    MLit 12.330 14 The least inequality of mixture [of Truth, Beauty and Goodness], the excess of one element over the other, in that degree...makes the world opaque to the observer, and destroys so far the value of his experience. No particular gifts can countervail this defect.
    WSL 12.338 2 Here [in America] is very good earth and water and plenty of them; that [John Bull] is free to allow; to all other gifts of Nature or man his eyes are sealed by the inexorable demand for the precise conveniences to which he is accustomed in England.
    EurB 12.366 6 The poet demands all gifts...
    PPr 12.383 21 The poet cannot descend into the turbid present without injury to his rarest gifts.

Gigantea, Sequoia, n. (1)

    CW 12.174 14 In the arboretum you should have things...which people who read of them are hungry to see. Thus plant the Sequoia Gigantea...

gigantic, adj. (22)

    AmS 1.86 25 ...when he has learned...to see that the natural philosophy that now is, is only the first gropings of [the soul's] gigantic hand, [the scholar] shall look forward to an ever expanding knowledge as to a becoming creator.
    LE 1.159 8 Every presentiment of the mind is executed somewhere in a gigantic fact.
    MN 1.205 16 See the play of thoughts! what nimble gigantic creatures are these!...
    Hist 2.20 6 What would...neat porches and wings have been, associated with those gigantic halls before which only Colossi could sit as watchmen...
    Art1 2.353 17 ...the artist's pen or chisel seems to have been held and guided by a gigantic hand...
    SwM 4.133 4 The universe [in Swedenborg's system of the world] is a gigantic crystal...
    NMW 4.246 15 On the shore of Ptolemais, gigantic projects agitated [Napoleon].
    ET5 5.79 6 [Kenelm Digby's] person was handsome and gigantic...
    ET7 5.120 12 ...[Wellington] drudged for years on his military works at Lisbon, and from this base at last extended his gigantic lines to Waterloo...
    ET14 5.246 10 How can [English genius] discern and hail...new and gigantic thoughts which cannot dress themselves out of any old wardrobe of the past?
    F 6.15 14 [Nature] turns the gigantic pages...
    Wth 6.100 22 The problem [in commerce] is to combine many and remote operations with the accuracy and adherence to the facts...so as to arrive at gigantic results, without any compromise of safety.
    OA 7.326 27 Michel Angelo's head is full of masculine and gigantic figures as gods walking...
    PI 8.15 6 I think Hindoo books the best gymnastics for the mind, as showing treatment. All European libraries might almost be read without the swing of this gigantic arm being suspected.
    Aris 10.42 18 The ancients were fond of ascribing to their nobles gigantic proportions and strength.
    Prch 10.232 21 ...the gigantic evils which seem to us so mischievous and so incurable will at last end themselves...
    EWI 11.143 14 Eaters and food are in the harmony of Nature; and there too is the germ forever protected, unfolding gigantic leaf after leaf...
    AKan 11.263 3 ...now, vast property, gigantic interests...cover the land with a network that immensely multiplies the dangers of war.
    EPro 11.318 8 ...it became every day more apparent what gigantic and what remote interests were to be affected by the decision of the President [Lincoln]...
    FRep 11.538 17 ...if the spirit which...put forth such gigantic energy in the charity of the Sanitary Commission, could be waked to the conserving and creating duty of making the laws just and humane, it were to enroll a great constituency of religious...obeyers of duty...
    MAng1 12.228 1 [Michelangelo] finished the gigantic painting of the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in twenty months...
    PPr 12.391 24 Whatever thought or motto has once appeared to [Carlyle] fraught with meaning...is sure to return...now as threat, now as confirmation, in gigantic reverberation...

giggle, v. (1)

    Exp 3.50 23 Who cares what sensibility or discrimination a man has at some time shown...if he laugh and giggle?...

gigni, v. (1)

    SwM 4.113 20 Ossa videlicet e pauxillis atque minutis/ Ossibus sic et de pauxillis atque minutis/ Visceribus viscus gigni, sanguenque creari/ Sanguinis inter se multis coeuntibus guttis;/...

gigs, n. (2)

    WD 7.159 19 ...[steam] must drive our gigs;...
    Dem1 10.5 21 In sleep one shall travel certain roads in stage-coaches or gigs, which he recognizes as familiar...

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