Gilbert, Humphrey to Gladdest

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

Gilbert, Humphrey, n. (1)

    SwM 4.104 11 ...Gilbert had shown that the earth was a magnet;...

Gilbert, William, n. (1)

    UGM 4.10 1 A magnet must be made man in some Gilbert...

Gilbert's, Humphrey, n. (1)

    SwM 4.104 12 ...Descartes, taught by Gilbert's magnet, with its vortex, spiral and polarity, had filled Europe with the leading thought of vortical motion, as the secret of nature.

gild, v. (2)

    SR 2.74 9 ...the bold sensualist will use the name of philosophy to gild his crimes.
    DL 7.106 1 What art can paint or gild any object in afterlife with the glow which Nature gives to the first baubles of childhood!

gilding, adj. (1)

    SL 2.147 13 The world...is indebted to this gilding, exalting soul for all its pride.

gilding, v. (1)

    MLit 12.331 20 Poetry is with Goethe thus external, the gilding of the chain...

Gillies, John, n. (1)

    Boks 7.201 16 Of course a certain outline should be obtained of Greek history...but the shortest is the best, and if one lacks stomach for Mr. Grote' s voluminous annals, the old slight and popular summary of Goldsmith or of Gillies will serve.

Gillot, Firmin, adj. (1)

    FRep 11.539 27 ...if we have taught...the bolt of heaven to write our letters like a Gillot pen, let these wonders work for honest humanity...

gills, n. (1)

    Pt1 3.23 1 ...[nature] shakes down from the gills of one agaric countless spores...

gilt, adj. (3)

    SL 2.154 10 Gilt edges...will not preserve a book in circulation beyond its intrinsic date.
    ET6 5.109 19 Mr. Cobbett attributes the huge popularity of Perceval...to the fact that he was wont to go to church every Sunday, with a large quarto gilt prayer-book under one arm, his wife hanging on the other...
    Milt1 12.264 9 His mind gave him, [Milton] said, that every free and gentle spirit, without that oath of chastity, ought to be born a knight; nor needed to expect the gilt spur...to stir him up, by his counsel and his arm, to secure and protect attempted innocence.

gimlet, n. (2)

    MN 1.196 6 ...as soon as [the grand inquisitor] probes the crust, behold gimlet, plumb-line, and philosopher take a lateral direction...
    Prd1 2.227 19 In the rainy day [the good husband]...gets his tool-box... stored with nails, gimlet, pincers, screwdriver and chisel.

gimlets, n. (1)

    WD 7.163 5 We have new shoes, gloves, glasses and gimlets;...

gin, n. (1)

    ET10 5.164 5 [The English] have...drowsy habitude, daily dress-dinners, wine and ale and beer and gin and sleep.

gin-drinking, adj. (1)

    CbW 6.249 16 I do not wish any mass at all...no shovel-handed, narrow-brained, gin-drinking million stockingers or lazzaroni at all.

gingerbread, n. (1)

    NR 3.227 21 ...if an angel should come to chant the chorus of the moral law, he would eat too much gingerbread...

gingerbread-dog, n. (1)

    Nat2 3.186 2 The child...abandoned to a whistle or a painted chip, to a lead dragoon or a gingerbread-dog...lies down at night overpowered by the fatigue which this day of continual pretty madness has incurred.

gingerly, adv. (1)

    Comc 8.163 11 [Wit] is like ice, on which no beauty of form, no majesty of carriage can plead any immunity,--they must walk gingerly...

gingham, n. (2)

    Pow 6.81 9 Success has no more eccentricity than the gingham and muslin we weave in our mills.
    PI 8.41 20 The weaver sees gingham;...

gingham-mill, n. (1)

    Pow 6.81 24 In the gingham-mill, a broken thread or a shred spoils the web through a piece of a hundred yards...

gining, v. (1)

    Bost 12.208 12 ...there is yet in every city a certain permanent tone;...giving or parsimony;...

ginseng, n. (1)

    ET5 5.96 17 [The English] make ponchos for the Mexican...ginseng for the Chinese...

Giotto, n. (2)

    Suc 7.284 1 Giotto could draw a perfect circle...
    Suc 7.310 3 The painter Giotto, Vasari tells us, renewed art because he put more goodness into his heads.

gipsies, n. (1)

    MoS 4.166 8 ...[Montaigne] will talk with sailors and gipsies...

gipsy, n. (1)

    Con 1.311 11 Would you have been born like a gipsy in a hedge...

gird, v. (1)

    Bost 12.211 20 ...in distant ages [Boston's] motto shall be the prayer of millions on all the hills that gird the town, As with our Fathers, so God be with us!

girded, v. (1)

    Chr1 3.109 5 We require that a man should be so large and columnar in the landscape, that it should deserve to be recorded that he arose, and girded up his loins, and departed to such a place.

girdle, n. (2)

    Hist 2.29 14 [Each considerate person] learns again what moral vigor is needed to supply the girdle of a superstition.
    PPo 8.242 16 ...when [Afrasiyab] came to fight against the generals of Kaus, he was but an insect in the grasp of Rustem, who seized him by the girdle and dragged him from his horse.

girdled, v. (1)

    Pow 6.67 13 [Boniface] girdled the trees and cut off the horses' tails of the temperance people, in the night.

girds, v. (1)

    F 6.5 25 Wise men feel that there is...a strap or belt which girds the world...

girl, n. (27)

    LT 1.264 12 ...in the love-glance of a girl;...is to be found that which shall constitute the times to come...
    LT 1.265 6 Let us paint the agitator...the contemplative girl...
    SR 2.79 26 The pupil takes the same delight in subordinating every thing to the new terminology as a girl who has just learned botany in seeing a new earth and new seasons thereby.
    SL 2.151 8 The scholar...follows some giddy girl...
    Hsm1 2.259 22 The fair girl who repels interference by a decided and proud choice of influences...inspires every beholder with somewhat of her own nobleness.
    Gts 3.161 16 The only gift is a portion of thyself. ... Therefore the poet brings his poem;...the girl, a handkerchief of her own sewing.
    NR 3.246 21 We keep a running fire of sarcasm at ignorance and the life of the senses; then goes by, perchance, a fair girl...
    ET16 5.280 18 At the inn [at Amesbury], there was only milk for one cup of tea. When we called for more, the girl brought us three drops.
    ET19 5.310 7 ...the political, the social, the parietal wit of Punch go duly every fortnight to every boy and girl in Boston and New York.
    Pow 6.81 27 In the gingham-mill, a broken thread or a shred...is traced back to the girl that wove it, and lessens her wages.
    Bhr 6.192 1 The novels used to lead us on to a foolish interest in the fortunes of the boy and girl they described.
    SS 7.3 23 There was some paralysis on [my new friend's] will, such that when he met men on common terms he spoke...from the point, like a flighty girl.
    WD 7.173 9 Hume's doctrine was that...the girl equipped for her first ball, and the orator returning triumphant from the debate, had different means, but the same quantity of pleasant excitement.
    Clbs 7.246 7 The girl deserts the parlor for the kitchen;...
    Suc 7.310 10 There is not a joyful boy or an innocent girl buoyant with fine purposes of duty...but a cynic can chill and dishearten with a single word.
    Edc1 10.158 5 ...if a boy [in the school] runs from his bench, or a girl, because the fire falls...take away the medal from the head of the class and give it on the instant to the brave rescuer.
    MoL 10.256 18 [Senators and lawyers] read that they might know, did they not? Well, these men [who passed infamous laws] did not know. They blundered; they were utterly ignorant of that which every boy and girl of fifteen knows perfectly,-the rights of men and women.
    LLNE 10.363 7 [Charles Newcomb was] A fine, subtle, inward genius, puny in body and habit as a girl...
    MMEm 10.399 19 I report some of the thoughts and soliloquies of a country girl [Mary Moody Emerson], poor, solitary...
    MMEm 10.400 23 Later, another aunt [of Mary Moody Emerson], who had become insane, was brought hither [to Malden] to end her days. More and sadder work for this young girl.
    Thor 10.457 8 ...a young girl, understanding that [Thoreau] was to lecture at the Lyceum, sharply asked him, Whether his lecture would be a nice, interesting story...
    HDC 11.60 4 Two young farmers, Abraham and Isaac Shepherd, had set their sister Mary, a girl of fifteen years, to watch whilst they threshed grain in the barn.
    EWI 11.104 20 ...a good man or woman, a country boy or girl...once in a while saw these injuries [to West Indian slaves] and had the indiscretion to tell of them.
    AKan 11.260 3 Manifest Destiny, Democracy, Freedom, fine names for an ugly thing. ... They call it Chivalry and freedom; I call it the stealing all the earnings of a poor man and the earnings of his little girl and boy...
    PLT 12.32 15 White huckleberries are so rare that in miles of pasture you shall not find a dozen. But a girl who understands it will find you a pint in a quarter of an hour.
    Trag 12.415 12 A tender American girl doubts of Divine Providence whilst she reads the horrors of the middle passage;...
    Trag 12.415 21 ...[the crucifixions of the middle passage] come to the obtuse and barbarous, to whom they are...only a little worse than the old sufferings. They exchange a cannibal war for the stench of the hold. They have gratifications which would be none to the civilized girl.

girls, n. (19)

    Lov1 2.172 21 The rude village boy teases the girls about the school-house door;...
    Lov1 2.173 1 Among the throng of girls [the village boy] runs rudely enough...
    Lov1 2.173 13 The girls may have little beauty, yet plainly do they establish between them and the good boy the most agreeable, confiding relations;...
    Fdsp 2.209 24 Leave it to girls and boys to regard a friend as property...
    Mrs1 3.124 11 The courage which girls exhibit is like a battle of Lundy's Lane...
    F 6.3 23 ...the boys and girls are not docile;...
    Ctr 6.145 15 An eminent teacher of girls said, the idea of a girl's education is, whatever qualifies her for going to Europe.
    Ctr 6.149 13 Boys and girls who have been brought up with well-informed and superior people show in their manners an inestimable grace.
    Bhr 6.170 25 We send girls of a timid, retreating disposition to the boarding-school...or wheresoever they can come into acquaintance and nearness of leading persons of their own sex;...
    Cour 7.258 15 ...I remember when a pair of Irish girls who had been run away with in a wagon by a skittish horse, said that when he began to rear, they were so frightened that they could not see the horse.
    OA 7.320 23 Universal convictions are not to be shaken...by the sentimental fears of girls...
    PI 8.52 20 ...we have not done with music, no, nor with rhyme, nor must console ourselves with prose poets so long as boys whistle and girls sing.
    SA 8.83 24 There is the same difference between heavy and genial manners as between the perceptions of octogenarians and those of young girls who see everything in the twinkling of an eye.
    PPo 8.239 22 Such [amatory] verses, chanted...by the girls of their encampment, will drive [Persian] warriors to the combat...
    PPo 8.256 17 ...Seek not for faith or for truth in a world of light-minded girls;/ A thousand suitors reckons this dangerous bride./
    HDC 11.45 25 The disputes between that forbearing man [John Winthrop] and the deputies are like the quarrels of girls...
    EWI 11.119 6 Sir Lionel Smith defended the poor negro girls, prey to the licentiousness of the [Jamaican] planters;...
    ACiv 11.298 19 ...the girls must go without new bonnets;...
    ACiv 11.298 20 ...boys and girls find their education, this year, less liberal and complete.

girl's, n. (3)

    Ctr 6.145 15 An eminent teacher of girls said, the idea of a girl's education is, whatever qualifies her for going to Europe.
    Bhr 6.197 16 What finest hands would not be clumsy to sketch the genial precepts of the young girl's demeanor?
    RBur 11.443 10 The memory of Burns,-every man's, every boy's and girl' s head carries snatches of his songs...

girt, adj. (1)

    GSt 10.504 27 A man of the people, in strictly private life, girt with family ties;...[George Stearns] became, in the most natural manner, an indispensable power in the state.

girt, v. (5)

    LE 1.185 8 ...I thought that standing...girt and ready to go and assume tasks...in your country, you would not be sorry to be admonished of those primary duties of the intellect...
    MR 1.246 3 ...parched corn and a house with one apartment...that I may be...girt and road-ready for the lowest mission of knowledge or goodwill, is frugality for gods and heroes.
    UGM 4.12 22 Life is girt all round with a zodiac of sciences...
    SwM 4.122 23 Instead of a religion which visited [Swedenborg] diplomatically three or four times...here was a teaching which accompanied him...into society, and showed by what affinities he was girt to his equals and his counterparts;...
    HDC 11.60 12 ...at night, whilst [Mary Shepherd's] captors were asleep, she...took a horse...and having girt the saddle on, she...rode through the forest to her home.

girth, n. (1)

    LLNE 10.327 21 College classes, military corps, or trades-unions may fancy themselves indissoluble for a moment, over their wine; but it is a painted hoop, and has no girth.

Give, n. (1)

    Comp 2.115 7 The absolute balance of Give and Take...is not less sublime in the columns of a leger than in the budgets of states...

give, v. (509)

    Nat 1.7 9 One might think the atmosphere was made transparent with this design, to give man...the perpetual presence of the sublime.
    Nat 1.8 22 [The landscape] is the best part of these men's farms, yet to this their warranty-deeds give no title.
    Nat 1.15 7 ...the primary forms...give us delight in and for themselves;...
    Nat 1.17 12 Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous.
    Nat 1.25 10 The use of natural history is to give us aid in supernatural history;...
    Nat 1.25 12 ...the use of outer creation [is] to give us language for the beings and changes of the inward creation.
    Nat 1.32 23 Have mountains, and waves, and skies, no significance but what we consciously give them...
    Nat 1.36 6 Space, time...give us sincerest lessons...whose meaning is unlimited.
    AmS 1.81 12 ...our holiday has been simply a friendly sign of the survival of the love of letters amongst a people too busy to give to letters any more.
    AmS 1.105 15 They are the kings of the world who give the color of their present thought to all nature and all art...
    AmS 1.111 12 Give me insight into to-day, and you may have the antique and future worlds.
    DSA 1.133 1 It is a low benefit to give me something;...
    DSA 1.135 4 ...only he can give, who has;...
    DSA 1.140 6 Alas for the unhappy man that is called to stand in the pulpit, and not give bread of life.
    LE 1.160 19 The whole value...of biography, is to increase my self-trust, by demonstrating what man can be and do. This is the moral of...the Tennemanns, who give us the story of men or of opinions.
    LE 1.167 13 I give you the universe a virgin to-day.
    LE 1.170 18 Since Carlyle wrote French History, we see that no history that we have is safe, but a new classifier shall give it new and more philosophical arrangement.
    LE 1.186 24 Make yourself necessary to the world, and mankind will give you bread...
    MN 1.193 11 ...the multitude of men...give currency to desponding doctrines...
    MN 1.196 14 The new book says, I will give you the key to nature...
    MN 1.197 27 Every earnest glance we give to the realities around us... proceeds from a holy impulse...
    MN 1.204 11 ...[man] pretends to give account of himself to himself...
    MN 1.204 15 What account can [man] give of his essence more than so it was to be?
    MR 1.235 9 ...will you give up the immense advantages reaped from the division of labor...
    MR 1.236 11 ...quite apart from the emphasis which the times give to the doctrine that the manual labor of society ought to be shared among all the members, there are reasons proper to every individual why he should not be deprived of it.
    MR 1.238 22 ...when [a man] comes to give all the goods he has year after year collected, in one estate to his son...the son finds his hands full...
    MR 1.238 26 ...when [a man] comes to give all the goods he has year after year collected, in one estate to his son...and cannot give him the skill and experience which made or collected these...the son finds his hands full...
    MR 1.244 12 Give [any man's] mind a new image, and he flees into a solitary garden...to enjoy it...
    MR 1.247 3 Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants and to serve them one's self, so as to have somewhat left to give...
    LT 1.260 16 ...to whom I will, will I give; and whom I will, I will exclude and starve: so says Conservatism;...
    LT 1.273 15 What does [the wealthy man]...but resolve to give over toiling...
    LT 1.280 22 Give the slave the least elevation of religious sentiment, and he is no slave;...
    Con 1.299 27 Nature does not give the crown of its approbation, namely, beauty, to any action or emblem or actor but to one which combines both these elements [Conservatism and Reform];...
    Con 1.301 26 Our experience, our perception is conditioned by the need to acquire in parts and in succession, that is, with every truth a certain falsehood. As this is the invariable method of our training, we must give it allowance...
    Con 1.306 24 Touch any wood, or field, or house-lot, on your peril, cry all the gentlemen of this world; but you may come and work in ours, for us, and we will give you a piece of bread.
    Con 1.315 26 ...our husbands and brothers discoursed sadly on what we could save and give in the hard times.
    Con 1.316 14 ...[riches] take somewhat for everything they give.
    Con 1.321 9 If you do not value the Sabbath, or other religious institutions, give yourself no concern about maintaining them.
    Con 1.325 22 ...if they could give their verdict, [mankind] would say that [the intemperate and covetous person's] self-indulgence and his oppression deserved punishment from society...
    Tran 1.329 19 ...The senses give us representations of things, but what are the things themselves, they cannot tell.
    Tran 1.332 11 One thing at least, [the materialist] says, is certain, and does not give me the headache, that figures do not lie;...
    Tran 1.340 18 ...the tendency to respect the intuitions and to give them, at least in our creed, all authority over our experience, has deeply colored the conversation and poetry of the present day;...
    Tran 1.347 19 A picture...can give [Transcendentalists] often forms so vivid that these for the time shall seem real, and society the illusion.
    YA 1.368 17 ...the culture of years will never make the most painstaking apprentice [the man of genius's] equal: no more will gardening give the advantage of a happy site to a house in a hole...
    YA 1.379 23 ...Trade is also but for a time, and must give way to somewhat broader and better...
    YA 1.390 12 More than our good-will we may not be able to give.
    YA 1.390 14 We cannot give our life to the cause of the debtor...as another is doing;...
    Hist 2.3 23 ...the limits of nature give power to but one [law] at a time.
    SR 2.47 8 A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.
    SR 2.52 9 ...I grudge...the cent I give to such men as do not belong to me...
    SR 2.52 19 ...I confess with shame I sometimes succumb and give the dollar...
    SR 2.72 11 The power men possess to annoy me I give them by a weak curiosity.
    SR 2.73 27 ...so may you give these friends pain.
    Comp 2.109 16 Give, and it shall be given you.
    SL 2.132 21 It is quite another thing that [a man] should be able to give account of his faith...
    SL 2.134 25 Could Shakspeare give a theory of Shakspeare?
    SL 2.136 9 Why should all give dollars?
    SL 2.136 13 We [country folk] have not dollars, merchants have; let them give them. Farmers will give corn;...
    SL 2.144 21 ...I will go to the man who knocks at my door, whilst a thousand persons as worthy go by it, to whom I give no regard.
    SL 2.153 2 ...the thing uttered in words is not therefore affirmed. It must affirm itself, or no forms of logic or of oath can give it evidence.
    Lov1 2.174 21 ...it may seem to many men...that they have no fairer page in their life's book than the delicious memory of some passages wherein affection contrived to give a witchcraft...to a parcel of accidental and trivial circumstances.
    Lov1 2.175 19 ...no man ever forgot the visitations of that power to his heart and brain...when no place is too solitary...for him who has richer company and sweeter conversation in his new thoughts than any old friends, though the best and purest, can give him;...
    Lov1 2.182 22 In the particular society of his mate [the lover] attains a clearer sight of any spot, any taint which her beauty has contracted from this world, and is able to point it out, and this with mutual joy that they are now able, without offence, to...give to each all help and comfort in curing [blemishes and hindrances].
    Lov1 2.185 14 ...adding up costly advantages...[lovers] exult in discovering that willingly, joyfully, they would give all as a ransom for the beautiful, the beloved head...
    Fdsp 2.207 27 Unrelated men give little joy to each other...
    Fdsp 2.209 18 Of course [your friend] has merits...that you cannot honor if you must needs hold him close to your person. Stand aside; give those merits room;...
    Fdsp 2.211 5 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, worthy of him to give and of me to receive.
    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. Let us drop this idolatry. Let us give over this mendicancy.
    Fdsp 2.215 13 It would...give me a certain household joy to quit this lofty seeking...
    Fdsp 2.216 2 [My friends] shall give me that which properly they cannot give, but which emanates from them.
    Fdsp 2.216 3 [My friends] shall give me that which properly they cannot give, but which emanates from them.
    Prd1 2.225 4 There revolve, to give bound and period to [man's] being on all sides, the sun and moon...
    Prd1 2.226 3 ...we often resolve to give up the care of the weather, but still we regard the clouds and the rain.
    Prd1 2.230 12 Let [the figures in this picture of life]...give us facts...
    Prd1 2.234 2 Health, bread, climate, social position, have their importance, and [a man] will give them their due.
    Hsm1 2.250 7 To this military attitude of the soul we give the name of Heroism.
    Hsm1 2.254 1 ...they who give time, or money, or shelter, to the stranger... do, as it were, put God under obligation to them...
    OS 2.267 11 We give up the past to the objector, and yet we hope.
    OS 2.273 6 ...in languor, give us a strain of poetry...and we are refreshed;...
    OS 2.274 25 The growths of genius are of a certain total character, that does not advance the elect individual first over John, then Adam, then Richard, and give to each the pain of discovered inferiority...
    OS 2.280 23 ...the soul's communication of truth is the highest event in nature, since it then does not give somewhat from itself, but it gives itself...
    OS 2.292 3 [Simple souls] must always be a godsend to princes, for they confront them...and give a high nature the refreshment and satisfaction of resistance...
    Int 2.333 11 I knew...a person...who, seeing my whim for writing, fancied that my experiences had somewhat superior; whilst I saw that his experiences were as good as mine. Give them to me and I would make the same use of them.
    Int 2.343 27 Take thankfully and heartily all [new doctrines] can give.
    Art1 2.349 1 Give to barrows, trays, and pans/ Grace and glimmer of romance/...
    Art1 2.351 9 In landscapes the painter should give the suggestion of a fairer creation than we know.
    Art1 2.351 11 The details, the prose of nature [the painter] should omit and give us only the spirit and splendor.
    Art1 2.351 19 [The painter] will give the gloom of gloom and the sunshine of sunshine.
    Art1 2.353 15 ...that which is inevitable in the work [of art] has a higher charm than individual talent can ever give...
    Art1 2.354 22 It is the habit of certain minds to give an all-excluding fulness to the object...they alight upon...
    Exp 3.53 17 What notions do [physicians] attach to love! what to religion! One would not willingly pronounce these words in their hearing, and give them the occasion to profane them.
    Exp 3.57 18 Of course it needs the whole society to give the symmetry we seek.
    Exp 3.62 7 I find my account in sots and bores also. They give a reality to the circumjacent picture...
    Exp 3.73 16 In our more correct writing we give to this generalization the name of Being...
    Exp 3.81 23 A sympathetic person is placed in the dilemma of a swimmer among drowning men, who all catch at him, and if he give so much as a leg or a finger they will drown him.
    Exp 3.83 2 Illusion, Temperament, Succession, Surface, Surprise, Reality, Subjectiveness...these are the lords of life. I dare not assume to give their order...
    Chr1 3.99 17 A man should give us a sense of mass.
    Chr1 3.99 22 ...if I go to see an ingenious man I shall think myself poorly entertained if he give me nimble pieces of benevolence and etiquette;...
    Chr1 3.105 2 How death-cold is literary genius before this fire of life [character]! These are the touches that...give [my soul] eyes to pierce the dark of nature.
    Mrs1 3.127 21 The strong men usually give some allowance even to the petulances of fashion...
    Mrs1 3.131 17 There is almost no kind of self-reliance...which fashion does not occasionally adopt and give it the freedom of its saloons.
    Mrs1 3.150 10 A certain awkward consciousness of inferiority in the men may give rise to the new chivalry in behalf of Woman's Rights.
    Mrs1 3.154 10 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?
    Gts 3.159 13 If at any time it comes into my head that a present is due from me to somebody, I am puzzled what to give...
    Gts 3.160 5 Men use to tell us that we love flattery...because it shows that we are of importance enough to be courted. Something like that pleasure, the flowers give us...
    Gts 3.160 25 In our condition of universal dependence it seems heroic to let the petitioner be the judge of his necessity, and to give all that is asked, though at great inconvenience.
    Gts 3.162 4 It is not the office of a man to receive gifts. How dare you give them?
    Gts 3.162 16 We arraign society if it do not give us...opportunity, love, reverence and objects of veneration.
    Gts 3.163 7 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 25 It is a very onerous business, this of being served, and the debtor naturally wishes to give you a slap.
    Gts 3.164 5 You cannot give anything to a magnanimous person.
    Gts 3.165 2 I fear to breathe any treason against the majesty of love, which is the genius and god of gifts, and to whom we must not affect to prescribe. Let him give kingdoms of flower-leaves indifferently.
    Nat2 3.171 14 Cities give not the human senses room enough.
    Nat2 3.184 5 The astronomers said, Give us matter and a little motion and we will construct the universe.
    Nat2 3.191 2 ...trade to all the world, country-house and cottage by the waterside, all for a little conversation, high, clear and spiritual! Could it not be had as well by beggars on the highway? No, all these things came from successive efforts of these beggars to remove friction from the wheels of life, and give opportunity.
    Nat2 3.192 27 The present object [in nature] shall give you this sense of stillness that follows a pageant which has just gone by.
    Pol1 3.208 20 We might as wisely reprove the east wind or the frost, as a political party, whose members, for the most part, could give no account of their position...
    Pol1 3.210 9 [Party representatives] have not at heart the ends which give to the name of democracy what hope and virtue are in it.
    Pol1 3.213 17 The wise man [the community] cannot find in nature, and it makes awkward but earnest efforts to secure his government by contrivance; as by causing the entire people to give their voices on every measure;...
    Pol1 3.218 5 [What we do] may throw dust in [our companions'] eyes, but does not...give us the tranquillity of the strong when we walk abroad.
    NR 3.233 1 The modernness of all good books seems to give me an existence as wide as man.
    NER 3.262 7 Do you complain of the laws of Property? It is a pedantry to give such importance to them.
    NER 3.262 14 No one gives the impression of superiority to the institution, which he must give who will reform it.
    NER 3.264 4 [The new communities] aim to give every member a share in the manual labor...
    NER 3.264 5 [The new communities] aim...to give an equal reward to labor and to talent...
    NER 3.268 24 We do not believe that...any influence of genius, will ever give depth of insight to a superficial mind.
    NER 3.269 13 ...some doubt is felt by good and wise men whether really the happiness and probity of men is increased by the culture of the mind in those disciplines to which we give the name of education.
    NER 3.275 3 All that a man has will he give for right relations with his mates.
    NER 3.275 4 All that [a man] has will he give for an erect demeanor in every company and on each occasion.
    UGM 4.13 22 If you affect to give me bread and fire, I perceive that I pay for it the full price...
    UGM 4.20 18 We will know the meaning of our economies and politics. Give us the cipher...
    PPh 4.60 2 No orator can measure in effect with him who can give good nicknames.
    PPh 4.63 19 I give you joy, O sons of men! that truth is altogether wholesome;...
    PNR 4.84 21 ...the fine which the good, refusing to govern, ought to pay [affirms Plato], is, to be governed by a worse man; that his guards shall not handle gold and silver, but shall be instructed that there is gold and silver in their souls, which will make men willing to give them every thing which they need.
    SwM 4.119 20 [Swedenborg] attempts to give some account of the modus of the new state...
    SwM 4.122 5 No wonder that [Swedenborg's] depth of ethical wisdom should give him influence as a teacher.
    SwM 4.142 7 These angels that Swedenborg paints give us no very high idea of their discipline and culture...
    MoS 4.153 13 [The men of the senses] believe that...a man will be eloquent, if you give him good wine.
    MoS 4.160 3 [The skeptic] is the considerer...believing...that we cannot give ourselves too many advantages in this unequal conflict, with powers so vast and unweariable ranged on one side, and this little, conceited vulnerable popinjay that a man is, bobbing up and down into every danger, on the other.
    MoS 4.180 24 [Some minds] may well give themselves leave to speculate, for they are secure of a return.
    ShP 4.208 9 [Shakespeare] cannot...give us anecdotes of his inspirations.
    ShP 4.212 17 Give a man of talents a story to tell, and his partiality will presently appear.
    NMW 4.229 4 [Napoleon] has not lost his native sense and sympathy with things. Men give way before such a man, as before natural events.
    NMW 4.234 8 [Napoleon] saw only the object: and the obstacle must give way.
    NMW 4.244 20 ...[Napoleon] said, I have two hundred millions in my coffers, and I would give them all for Ney.
    NMW 4.249 6 Read [Napoleon's] account, too, of the way in which battles are gained. In all battles a moment occurs when the bravest troops...feel inclined to run. That terror proceeds from a want of confidence in their own courage, and it only requires a slight opportunity, a pretence, to restore confidence to them. The art is, to give rise to the opportunity and to invent the pretence.
    NMW 4.254 14 If I were to give the liberty of the press [said Napoleon], my power could not last three days.
    GoW 4.288 3 When [Goethe] sits down to write a drama or a tale, he collects and sorts his observations from a hundred sides, and combines them into the body as fitly as he can. A great deal refuses to incorporate: this he adds loosely as letters of the parties, leaves from their journals, and the like. A great deal still is left that will not find any place. This the bookbinder alone can give any cohesion to;...
    ET1 5.4 18 The young scholar fancies it happiness enough to live with people who can give an inside to the world;...
    ET1 5.5 5 I have...found writers superior to their books, and I cling to my first belief that a strong head will...give one the satisfaction of reality...
    ET1 5.9 10 One room was full of pictures, which [Landor] likes to show, especially one piece, standing before which he said he would give fifty guineas to the man that would swear it was a Domenichino.
    ET1 5.17 23 [Carlyle] still returned to English pauperism...the selfish abdication by public men of all that public persons should perform. Government should direct poor men what to do. Poor Irish folk come wandering over these moors. My dame makes it a rule to give to every son of Adam bread to eat...
    ET1 5.17 25 [Carlyle] still returned to English pauperism...the selfish abdication by public men of all that public persons should perform. Government should direct poor men what to do. Poor Irish folk come wandering over these moors. ... But here are thousands of acres which might give them all meat...
    ET1 5.20 10 ...I [Wordsworth] fear [the Americans] lack a class of men of leisure...to give a tone of honor to the community.
    ET3 5.39 19 In the manufacturing towns [of England], the fine soot or blacks...give white sheep the color of black sheep...
    ET3 5.43 9 The sea shall disjoin the people from others, and knit them to a fierce nationality. It shall give them markets on every side.
    ET4 5.45 16 [The English] give the bias to the current age;...
    ET4 5.47 1 In race, it is not the broad shoulders, or litheness, or stature that give advantage, but a symmetry that reaches as far as to the wit.
    ET6 5.103 12 ...rule of court and shop-rule have operated [in England] to give a mechanical regularity to all the habit and action of men.
    ET6 5.104 3 Nothing but the most serious business could give one any counterweight to these Baresarks [the English]...
    ET6 5.105 22 [The Englishman] does not give his hand.
    ET6 5.106 4 If [an Englishman] give you his private address on a card, it is like an avowal of friendship;...
    ET6 5.113 17 ...[the English] would sooner give five or six ducats to provide an entertainment for a person, than a groat to assist him in any distress.
    ET7 5.118 7 ...to give the lie is the extreme insult [in England].
    ET7 5.120 1 Madame de Stael says that the English irritated Napoleon, mainly because they have found out how to unite success with honesty. She was not aware how wide an application her foreign readers would give to the remark.
    ET9 5.149 4 Their culture generally enables the travelled English to avoid any ridiculous extremes of this self-pleasing, and to give it an agreeable air.
    ET10 5.164 10 The laws [of England] are framed to give property the securest possible basis...
    ET10 5.164 19 Whatever surly sweetness possession can give, is tasted in England to the dregs.
    ET11 5.178 16 Wraxall says that in 1781, Lord Surrey, afterwards Duke of Norfolk, told him that when the year 1783 should arrive, he meant to give a grand festival to all the descendants of the body of Jockey of Norfolk...
    ET11 5.184 22 In the army, the [English] nobility fill a large part of the high commissions, and give to these a tone of expense and splendor...
    ET11 5.185 7 In general, all that is required of [English nobility] is...to give the example of that decorum so dear to the British heart.
    ET12 5.200 14 ...the porter at each hall [at Oxford] is required to give the name of any belated student who is admitted after that hour [nine o'clock].
    ET12 5.203 4 ...the committee charged with the affair [the purchase of Thomas Lawrence's art collection] had collected three thousand pounds, when, among other friends, They called on Lord Eldon. ... ...he said, your men have probably already contributed all they can spare; I can as well give the rest...
    ET12 5.212 1 ...the rich libraries collected at every one of many thousands of houses [in England], give an advantage not to be attained by a youth in this country...
    ET12 5.213 13 ...when you have settled it that the universities are moribund, out comes a poetic influence from the heart of Oxford...to give veracity to art and charm mankind...
    ET13 5.226 15 ...when wealth accrues to a chaplaincy, a bishopric, or rectorship, it requires moneyed men for its stewards, who will give it another direction than to the mystics of their day.
    ET14 5.250 26 ...a master should inspire a confidence that he will adhere to his convictions and give his present studies always the same high place.
    ET14 5.256 7 How many volumes of well-bred metre we must jingle through, before we can be filled, taught, renewed! We want the miraculous; the beauty which we can manufacture at no mill,--can give no account of;...
    ET15 5.270 12 ...[the editors of the London Times] give a voice to the class who at the moment take the lead;...
    ET15 5.272 26 ...[if the London Times would cleave to the right] the least of its victories would be to give to England a new millennium of beneficent power.
    ET16 5.274 2 I thought it natural that [travelling Americans] should give some time to works of art collected here [in London] which they cannot find at home...
    ET17 5.292 21 Every day in London gave me new opportunities of meeting men and women who give splendor to society.
    ET18 5.302 6 ...this [English] shop-rule had one magnificent effect. It extends its cold unalterable courtesy to political exiles of every opinion, and is a fact which might give additional light to that portion of the planet seen from the farthest star.
    F 6.11 19 If, later, [these drones] give birth to some superior individual...all the ancestors are gladly forgotten.
    F 6.21 1 ...if we give it the high sense in which the poets use it, even thought itself is not above Fate;...
    F 6.24 13 ...no bribe shall make [man] give up his point.
    F 6.32 10 ...learn to skate, and the ice will give you a graceful, sweet, and poetic motion.
    Pow 6.75 20 ...I hope, said a good man to Rothschild, your children are not too fond of money and business; I am sure you would not wish that.--I am sure I should wish that; I wish them to give mind, soul, heart and body to business,--that is the way to be happy.
    Pow 6.79 12 Six hours every day at the piano, only to give facility of touch;...
    Pow 6.79 13 ...six hours a day at painting, only to give command of the odious materials...
    Wth 6.93 12 Power is what [men of sense] want...power to give legs and feet...to their thought;...
    Wth 6.97 18 ...how to give all access to the masterpieces of art and nature, is the problem of civilization.
    Wth 6.105 24 Give no bounties, make equal laws, secure life and property, and you need not give alms.
    Wth 6.105 26 Give no bounties, make equal laws, secure life and property, and you need not give alms.
    Wth 6.106 25 The interest of petty economy is this symbolization of the great economy; the way in which a house and a private man's methods tally with the solar system and the laws of give and take, throughout nature;...
    Wth 6.111 20 ...we can only give [means] any beauty by a reflection of the glory of the end.
    Wth 6.117 17 In England...I was assured...that great lords and ladies had no more guineas to give away than other people;...
    Ctr 6.135 6 ...if a man seeks a companion who can look at objects for their own sake and without affection or self-reference, he will find the fewest who will give him that satisfaction;...
    Ctr 6.140 2 Robert Owen said, Give me a tiger, and I will educate him.
    Ctr 6.141 4 Our arts and tools give to him who can handle them much the same advantage over the novice as if you extended his life...
    Ctr 6.143 18 ...the being master of [minor skills] enables the youth to judge intelligently of much on which otherwise he would give a pedantic squint.
    Ctr 6.149 10 Cities give us collision.
    Ctr 6.158 12 I must have children...I must have a social state and history, or my thinking and speaking want body or basis. But to give these accessories any value, I must know them as contingent...possessions...
    Ctr 6.158 21 ...[Bonaparte] could criticise...a character, on universal grounds, and give a just opinion.
    Ctr 6.160 3 When our higher faculties are in activity...awkwardness and discomfort give place to natural and agreeable movements.
    Ctr 6.164 16 ...I observe that [scholars] lost on ruder companions those years of boyhood which alone could give imaginative literature a religious and infinite quality in their esteem.
    Bhr 6.170 1 If [manners] are superficial, so are the dew-drops which give such a depth to the morning meadows.
    Bhr 6.170 21 Give a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes.
    Bhr 6.170 22 Give a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes.
    Bhr 6.178 5 The out-door life and hunting and labor give equal vigor to the human eye.
    Bhr 6.180 21 There are eyes...that give no more admission into the man than blueberries.
    Bhr 6.188 22 ...the sad realist knows these fellows [of position] at a glance, and they know him; as when in Paris the chief of the police enters a ball-room, so many diamonded pretenders...give him a supplicating look as they pass.
    Bhr 6.195 21 I have seen manners that make a similar impression with personal beauty; that give the like exhilaration...
    Bhr 6.196 7 It is good to give a stranger a meal...
    Bhr 6.196 9 It is good to give a stranger...a night's lodging. It is better to be hospitable to his good meaning and thought, and give courage to a companion.
    Bhr 6.196 11 We must be as courteous to a man as we are to a picture, which we are willing to give the advantage of a good light.
    Wsp 6.202 1 I see not why we should give ourselves such sanctified airs.
    Wsp 6.202 20 We may well give skepticism as much line as we can.
    Wsp 6.204 10 The decline of the influence...of Wesley, or Channing, need give us no uneasiness.
    Wsp 6.224 15 The fame...of Thomas a Kempis or of Bonaparte, characterizes those who give it.
    Wsp 6.228 18 Philip [Neri] ran out of doors, mounted his mule and returned instantly to the Pope; Give yourself no uneasiness, Holy Father, any longer...
    Wsp 6.229 7 Even children are not deceived by the false reasons which their parents give in answer to their questions...
    Wsp 6.230 18 Why should I give up my thought, because I cannot answer an objection to it?
    Wsp 6.236 1 If the thought come, I would give it entertainment [said Benedict].
    Wsp 6.237 6 [Benedict said] Is it a question whether to put [the sick woman] into the street? Just as much whether to thrust the little Jenny on your arm into the street. The milk and meal you give the beggar will fatten Jenny.
    CbW 6.259 2 A man of sense and energy...said to me, I want none of your good boys,--give me the bad ones.
    CbW 6.261 17 ...perhaps [the rich man] can give wise counsel in a court of law.
    CbW 6.266 21 Culture will give gravity and domestic rest to those who now travel only as not knowing how else to spend money.
    CbW 6.268 17 The youth aches for solitude. When he comes to the house he passes through the house. That does not make the deep recess he sought. Ah! now I perceive, he says, it must be deep with persons; friends only can give depth.
    Bty 6.286 24 ...we can give a shrewd guess from the house to the inhabitant.
    Bty 6.287 24 The ancients believed that a genius or demon took possession at birth of each mortal, to guide him;... ... We recognize obscurely the same fact, though we give it our own names.
    Bty 6.304 22 ...there is a joy in perceiving the representative or symbolic character of a fact, which no bare fact or event can ever give.
    Ill 6.311 17 Our first mistake is the belief that the circumstance gives the joy which we give to the circumstance.
    Ill 6.311 26 ...the barrister with the jury, the belle at the ball...ascribe a certain pleasure to their employment, which they themselves give it.
    Ill 6.314 3 Amid the joyous troop who give in to the charivari, comes now and then a sad-eyed boy whose eyes lack the requisite refractions to clothe the show in due glory...
    Civ 7.31 14 Tobacco and opium...will cheerfully carry the load of armies, if you choose to make them pay high for such joy as they give and such harm as they do.
    Art2 7.45 5 A very coarse imitation of the human form on canvas, or in wax-work;...these things give to unpractised eyes...almost as much pleasure as a statue of Canova or a picture of Titian.
    Art2 7.45 9 A very coarse imitation of the human form on canvas, or in wax-work;...these things give...to the uncultured...almost as much pleasure as a statue of Canova or a picture of Titian. And in the statue of Canova or the picture of Titian, these give the great part of the pleasure;...
    Elo1 7.76 23 We believe that there may be a man who is a match for events...one of inexhaustible personal resources, who can give you any odds and beat you.
    Elo1 7.81 5 Does [any one] think that not possibly a man may come to him who shall persuade him out of his most settled determination?--for example...if he is a prudent, industrious person, to...give days and weeks to a new interest?
    Elo1 7.91 4 If you...give [a man] a grasp of facts, learning, quick fancy, sarcasm, splendid allusion, interminable illustration,--all these talents...have an equal power to ensnare and mislead the audience and the orator.
    Elo1 7.92 11 For the triumphs of the art [of eloquence] somewhat more must still be required, namely a reinforcing of man from events, so as to give the double force of reason and destiny.
    Elo1 7.97 14 Men are averse and hostile, to give value to their suffrages.
    DL 7.110 2 Let [a man]...never give unwillingly.
    DL 7.113 21 Give me the means, says the wife, and your house shall not annoy your taste...
    DL 7.114 14 Give us wealth, and the home shall exist.
    DL 7.114 17 Give us wealth, and the home shall exist. But that is a very imperfect and inglorious solution of the problem, and therefore no solution. Give us wealth. You ask too much.
    DL 7.115 2 To give money to a sufferer is only a come-off.
    DL 7.116 11 ...this voice of communities and ages, Give us wealth and the good household shall exist, is vicious...
    DL 7.116 14 ...this voice of communities and ages, Give us wealth and the good household shall exist, is vicious, and leaves the whole difficulty untouched. It is better, certainly, in this form, Give us your labor, and the household begins.
    DL 7.117 9 ...if we begin by reforming particulars of our present system [of housekeeping], correcting a few evils and letting the rest stand, we shall soon give up in despair.
    DL 7.125 15 The men we see in each other do not give us the image and likeness of man.
    DL 7.130 26 I do not undervalue the fine instruction which statues and pictures give.
    Farm 7.137 16 If [a man] have not...some product for which the farmer will give him corn, he must himself return into his due place among the planters.
    WD 7.163 8 ...we have the newspaper, which does its best to make every square acre of land and sea give an account of itself at your breakfast-table;...
    WD 7.177 11 The use of history is to give value to the present hour and its duty.
    WD 7.178 25 ...Homer said, The gods ever give to mortals their apportioned share of reason only on one day.
    Boks 7.191 14 ...in geometry, if you have read Euclid and Laplace,--your opinion has some value; if you do not know these, you are not entitled to give any opinion on the subject.
    Boks 7.192 3 In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends...and though they...are eager to give us a sign and unbosom themselves, it is the law of their limbo that they must not speak until spoken to;...
    Boks 7.204 27 The poet Horace is the eye of the Augustan age;...and Martial will give [the student] Roman manners...
    Boks 7.219 12 Friendship should give and take...[the communications of the sacred books].
    Boks 7.221 3 ...how attractive is the whole literature of the Roman de la Rose, the Fabliaux, and the gaie science of the French Troubadours! Yet who in Boston has time for that? But one of our company...shall study and master it...shall give us the sincere result as it lies in his mind...
    Boks 7.221 12 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. Each shall give us his grains of gold...
    Clbs 7.227 11 The clergyman walks from house to house all day all the year to give people the comfort of good talk.
    Clbs 7.229 15 [The student] seeks intelligent persons...who will give him provocation...
    Clbs 7.232 16 Some men love only to talk where they are masters. They like to go...into the shops where the sauntering people gladly lend an ear to any one. On these terms they give information...
    Cour 7.256 1 I need not show how much [courage] is esteemed, for the people give it the first rank.
    Cour 7.256 12 ...any man who puts his life in peril in a cause which is esteemed becomes the darling of all men. The very nursery-books...the thunderous emphasis which orators give to every martial defiance and passage of arms, and which the people greet, may testify.
    Cour 7.258 5 In war even generals are seldom found eager to give battle.
    Cour 7.260 9 One heard much cant of peace-parties long ago in Kansas and elsewhere, that their strength lay in the greatness of their wrongs... But were their wrongs greater than the negro's? And what kind of strength did they ever give him?
    Cour 7.266 4 ...there is no separate essence called courage...no vessel in the heart containing drops or atoms that make or give this virtue;...
    Cour 7.270 19 ...the right men will give a permanent direction to the fortunes of a state.
    Suc 7.285 18 [Columbus told the King and Queen] I assert that [the pilots] can give no other account than that they went to lands where there was abundance of gold...
    Suc 7.305 7 ...if [Sylvina] says [Odoacer] was defeated, why he had better a great deal have been defeated than give her a moment's annoy.
    Suc 7.306 14 ...the oracles are never silent; but the receiver must by a happy temperance be brought to...that frolic health, that he can easily take and give these fine communications.
    Suc 7.310 19 Despondency comes readily enough to the most sanguine. The cynic has only to follow their hint with his bitter confirmation, and they...go home with heavier step and premature age. They will themselves quickly enough give the hint he wants to the cold wretch.
    OA 7.313 22 The world has overmuch of pain,--/ If Nature give me joy again,/ Of such deceit I'll not complain./
    PI 8.17 2 ...the poet listens to conversation and beholds all objects in Nature, to give back, not them, but a new and transcendent whole.
    PI 8.25 17 Give [people] Robin Hood's ballads or Griselda...and they like these well enough.
    PI 8.35 16 The use of occasional poems is to give leave to originality.
    PI 8.37 2 [The poet] does not give his hand, but in sign of giving his heart;...
    PI 8.44 25 In dreams we are true poets; we create the persons of the drama; we give them appropriate figures, faces, costume;...
    PI 8.45 25 In society you have this figure [of rhyme] in a bridal company, where a choir of white-robed maidens give the charm of living statues;...
    PI 8.47 7 ...in higher degrees, we know the instant power of music upon our temperaments to change our mood, and give us its own;...
    PI 8.67 22 We are a little civil, it must be owned...to Dante and Shakspeare, and give them the benefit of the largest interpretation.
    PI 8.68 6 The praise we now give to our heroes we shall unsay when we make larger demands.
    PI 8.72 2 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;...
    PI 8.72 14 The problem of the poet is...to give the pleasure of color, and be not less the most powerful of sculptors.
    SA 8.79 18 ...how impossible to...acquire good manners, unless by living with the well-bred from the start; and this makes the value of wise forethought to give ourselves and our children as much as possible the habit of cultivated society.
    SA 8.82 13 Give me a thought, and my hands and legs and voice and face will all go right.
    SA 8.83 11 What happiness [accurate mates] give...
    SA 8.89 19 I suppose I give the experience of many when I give my own.
    SA 8.89 20 I suppose I give the experience of many when I give my own.
    SA 8.98 1 As soon as the company give in to this enjoyment [of jokes], we shall have no Olympus.
    SA 8.98 19 ...even if you could trust yourself on that perilous topic [sickness], beware of unmuzzling a valetudinarian, who will soon give you your fill of it.
    SA 8.100 11 It is the sense of every human being that man...should arm himself with tools and force the elements to drudge for him and give him power.
    SA 8.106 25 ...those people, and no others, interest us...who are absorbed, if you please to say so, in their own dream. They only can give the key and leading to better society...
    Elo2 8.119 25 ...Jenny Lind, when in this country, complained of concert-rooms and town-halls, that they did not give her room enough to unroll her voice...
    Elo2 8.120 5 ...give [an eloquent man] a commanding occasion...and he surprises by new and unlooked-for powers.
    Elo2 8.128 13 This unmanliness [lack of eloquence] is so common a result of our half-education...neglecting to give [a youth] the rough training of a boy...that I wish his guardians to consider that they are thus preparing him to play a contemptible part when he is full-grown.
    Res 8.138 13 ...if...you give me affirmatives;...I am invigorated...
    Res 8.140 4 See...how...every impatient boss who sharply shortens the phrase or the word to give his order quicker...improves the national tongue.
    QO 8.191 2 If an author give us just distinctions...it is not so important to us whose they are.
    QO 8.196 7 It is a familiar expedient of brilliant writers...the device of ascribing their own sentence to an imaginary person, in order to give it weight...
    PC 8.219 19 Tennyson would give his fame for a verdict in his favor from Wordsworth.
    PC 8.226 4 At any time, it only needs the contemporaneous appearance of a few superior and attractive men to give a new and noble turn to the public mind.
    PC 8.231 19 The great heart will no more complain of the obstructions that make success hard, than of the iron walls of the gun which hinder the shot from scattering. It was walled round with iron tube with that purpose, to give it irresistible force in one direction.
    PPo 8.246 9 Harems and wine-shops only give [Hafiz] a new ground of observation...
    PPo 8.250 1 Hafiz praises...birds, mornings and music, to give vent to his immense hilarity and sympathy with every form of beauty and joy;...
    PPo 8.251 19 Take my heart in thy hand, O beautiful boy of Shiraz!/ I would give for the mole on thy cheek Samarcand and Buchara!/
    PPo 8.253 15 ...we must try to give some of [Hafiz's] poetic flourishes the metrical form which they seem to require...
    PPo 8.254 22 Give me what you will; I eat thistles as roses,/ And according to my food I grow and I give./
    PPo 8.254 23 Give me what you will; I eat thistles as roses,/ And according to my food I grow and I give./
    Insp 8.269 7 ...every reasonable man would give any price of house and land and future provision, for condensation, concentration and the recalling at will of high mental energy.
    Insp 8.272 9 Rarey can tame a wild horse; but if he could give speed to a dull horse, were not that better?
    Insp 8.273 8 [Most men's] house and trade and families serve them as ropes to give a coarse continuity.
    Insp 8.275 3 Like bees, [the artists] must put their lives into the sting they give.
    Insp 8.283 24 To the persevering mortal the blessed immortals are swift. Yes, for they know how to give you in one moment the solution of the riddle you have pondered for months.
    Grts 8.305 5 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.
    Grts 8.311 3 Let the student...sedulously wait every morning for the news concerning the structure of the world which the spirit will give him.
    Imtl 8.323 23 ...we are as ignorant of the state which preceded our present existence as of that which will follow it. Things being so, I feel that if this new faith can give us more certainty, it deserves to be received.
    Imtl 8.325 10 The chief end of man being to be buried well, the arts most in request [in Egypt] were masonry and embalming, to give imperishability to the corpse.
    Imtl 8.330 13 Hear the opinion of Montesquieu: ... Independently of revealed ideas, metaphysical ideas give me a vigorous hope of my eternal well-being, which I would never renounce.
    Imtl 8.334 27 The mind delights in immense time; delights...in mountain chains, and in the evidence of vast geologic periods which these give;...
    Imtl 8.342 8 [Said Goethe] If I work incessantly till my death, Nature is bound to give me another form of existence...
    Imtl 8.346 3 I mean that I am a better believer, and all serious souls are better believers in the immortality, than we can give grounds for.
    Imtl 8.350 22 [Yama said to Nachiketas] All those desires that are difficult to gain in the world of mortals, all those ask thou at thy pleasure;-those fair nymphs of heaven...for the like of them are not to be gained by men. I will give them to thee...
    Dem1 10.4 25 When newly awaked from lively dreams...give us one syllable...and we should repossess the whole;...
    Dem1 10.13 9 For Spiritism, it shows that no man, almost, is fit to give evidence.
    Dem1 10.15 4 ...[Masollam] replied...Why are you so foolish as to take care of this unfortunate bird? How could this fowl give us any wise directions respecting our journey...
    Aris 10.38 6 How sturdy seem to us in the history, those...Burgundies and Guesclins of the old warlike ages! We can hardly believe...that an ague or fever...ended them. We give soldiers the same advantage to-day.
    Aris 10.49 18 I think that the community...will be the best measure and the justest judge of the citizen, or will in the long run give the fairest verdict and reward;...
    Aris 10.50 26 It is not sufficient that your work...is organic, to give you the magnetic power over men.
    Aris 10.61 11 Give up, once for all, the hope of approbation from the people in the street, if you are pursuing great ends.
    PerF 10.74 19 Look at [man]; you can give no guess at what power is in him
    PerF 10.79 17 [The manufacturer's] friends dissuaded him, advised him to give up the work...
    PerF 10.81 23 If we hear music we give up all to that;...
    PerF 10.85 6 ...a military genius, instead of using that to defend his country, he says, I will fight the battle so as to give me place and political consideration;...
    Chr2 10.91 20 ...the reason we must give for the existence of the world is, that it is for the benefit of all being.
    Chr2 10.99 8 The aid which others give us is like that of the mother to the child...
    Chr2 10.100 23 Men are forced by their own self-respect to give [some souls] a certain attention.
    Chr2 10.101 25 ...to every serious mind Providence sends from time to time five or six or seven teachers who are of first importance to him in the lessons they have to impart. The highest of these not so much give particular knowledge...
    Chr2 10.104 3 The populace drag down the gods to their own level, and give them their egotism;...
    Chr2 10.121 23 ...Henry James affirms, that to give the feminine element in life its hard-earned but eternal supremacy over the masculine has been the secret inspiration of all past history.
    Edc1 10.123 4 With the key of the secret he marches faster/ From strength to strength, and for night brings day,/ While classes or tribes too weak to master/ The flowing conditions of life, give way./
    Edc1 10.134 25 We do not give [boys] a training as if we believed in their noble nature.
    Edc1 10.147 5 Give a boy accurate perceptions.
    Edc1 10.147 8 Pardon in [a boy] no blunder. Then he will give you solid satisfaction as long as he lives.
    Edc1 10.151 22 Is it not manifest...that...children should be treated as the high-born candidates of truth and virtue? So to regard the young child, the young man, requires...a patience that nothing but faith in the remedial forces of the soul can give.
    Edc1 10.156 7 Can you not keep for [the child's] mind and ways, for his secret, the same curiosity you give to the squirrel, snake, rabbit...
    Edc1 10.156 11 ...he is,-every child, a new style of man; give him time and opportunity.
    Edc1 10.158 9 ...if a boy [in the school] runs from his bench, or a girl...to check some injury that a little dastard is inflicting behind his desk on some helpless sufferer, take away the medal from the head of the class and give it on the instant to the brave rescuer.
    SovE 10.201 16 We all give way to superstitions.
    SovE 10.201 24 The creeds into which we were initiated in childhood and youth no longer hold their old place in the minds of thoughtful men, but... we hate to have them treated with contempt. There is so much that we do not know, that we give these suggestions the benefit of the doubt.
    SovE 10.209 15 ...the inspirations we catch of this [moral] law are... recorded for their beauty, for the delight they give...
    Prch 10.218 19 ...that religious submission and abandonment which give man a new element and being...it is not in churches, it is not in houses.
    Prch 10.225 2 ...when [a man] shall act from one motive, and all his faculties play true...this...will give new senses, new wisdom of its own kind;...
    Prch 10.230 20 The existence of the Sunday, and the pulpit waiting for a weekly sermon, give [the young preacher] the very conditions, the pou sto he wants.
    Prch 10.231 5 There are always plenty of young, ignorant people...wanting peremptorily instruction; but in the usual averages of parishes, only one person that is qualified to give it.
    Prch 10.236 12 We shall find...a certain originality and a certain haughty liberty proceeding out of our retirement and self-communion, which streets can never give...
    MoL 10.250 5 [Nature says to the American] I give you the land and sea... the elemental forces, nervous energy.
    MoL 10.253 27 [Pytheas] came to the poet Pindar and wished him to write an ode in his praise, and inquired what was the price of a poem. Pindar replied that he should give him one talent...
    Schr 10.263 11 A celebrated musician was wont to say, that men knew not how much more he delighted himself with his playing than he did others; for if they knew, his hearers would rather demand of him than give him a reward.
    Schr 10.265 24 Like [the pearl-diver and the diamond-merchant] [the poet] will joyfully lose days and months...in the profound hope that one restoring, all rewarding, immense success will arrive at last, which will give him at one bound a universal dominion.
    Schr 10.266 25 ...practical people in America give themselves wonderful airs.
    Schr 10.268 4 ...I rather wish you to...give play to your energies...
    Schr 10.269 18 ...what alone in the history of this world interests all men in proportion as they are men? What but truth...and brave obedience to it in right action? Every man or woman who can voluntarily or involuntarily give them any insight or suggestion on these secrets they will hearken after.
    Schr 10.273 13 We who should be the channel of that unweariable Power which never sleeps, must give our diligence no holidays.
    Schr 10.287 22 Give me bareness and poverty so that I know them as the sure heralds of the Muse.
    Schr 10.288 15 ...[the scholar's] ends give value to every means...
    Plu 10.296 5 Montesquieu...in his Pensees, declares, I am always charmed with Plutarch; in his writings are circumstances attached to persons, which give great pleasure;...
    Plu 10.299 10 ...[Plutarch] is...enough a man of the world to give even the Devil his due...
    Plu 10.302 9 We sail on [Plutarch's] memory into the ports of every nation, enter into every private property, and do not stop to discriminate owners, but give him the praise of all.
    Plu 10.308 8 The mathematics give [Plutarch] unspeakable pleasure...
    Plu 10.313 1 Plutarch thought truth...the goodliest blessing that God can give.
    Plu 10.315 18 There is no treasure, [Plutarch] says, parents can give to their children, like a brother;...
    Plu 10.315 27 A brother, embroiled with his brother, going to seek in the street a stranger who can take his place, resembles him who will cut off his foot to give himself one of wood.
    Plu 10.319 26 ...[Plutarch]...concludes:...when I make an invitation...I give my guests leave to bring shadows;...
    LLNE 10.333 21 [Everett] delighted in quoting Milton, and with such sweet modulation that he seemed to give as much beauty as he borrowed;...
    LLNE 10.345 14 There was a pilgrim in those days walking in the country who stopped at every door where he hoped to find hearing for his doctrine, which was, Never to give or receive money.
    LLNE 10.345 22 [The pilgrim] thought every one should labor at some necessary product, and as soon as he had made more than enough for himself...he should give of the commodity to any applicant...
    LLNE 10.346 5 ...[the pilgrim]...had learned to sleep, on cold nights, when the farmer at whose door he knocked declined to give him a bed, on a wagon covered with the buffalo-robe under the shed...
    LLNE 10.350 5 Attractive Industry...would equalize temperature, give health to the globe...
    LLNE 10.365 16 It was a curious experience of the patrons and leaders of this noted community [Brook Farm], in which the agreement with many parties was that they should give so many hours of instruction...that in every instance the newcomers showed themselves keenly alive to the advantages of the society...
    MMEm 10.401 5 Her aunt became strongly attached to Mary [Moody Emerson], and persuaded the family to give the child up to her as a daughter...
    MMEm 10.401 11 [Mary Moody Emerson's aunt] would leave the farm to her by will. This promise was kept; she came into possession of the property many years after, and her dealings with it...give much piquancy to her letters in after years.
    MMEm 10.409 20 [Mary Moody Emerson writes] To live to give pain rather than pleasure (the latter so delicious) seems the spider-like necessity of my being on earth...
    MMEm 10.423 19 For the widows and orphans--Oh, I [Mary Moody Emerson] could give facts of the long-drawn years of imprisoned minds and hearts, which uneducated orphans endure!
    MMEm 10.423 26 O Time! thou loiterer. Thou...restest on thy hoary throne... When will thy routines give way to higher and lasting institutions?
    MMEm 10.425 22 ...the bare bones of this poor embryo earth may give the idea of the Infinite far, far better than when dignified with arts and industry...
    Thor 10.452 23 [Thoreau] declined to give up his large ambition of knowledge and action for any narrow craft or profession...
    Thor 10.462 22 [Thoreau]...could give judicious counsel in the gravest private or public affairs.
    Thor 10.483 20 We are strictly confined to our men to whom we give liberty.
    Carl 10.492 11 Here, [Carlyle] says, the Parliament gathers up six millions of pounds every year to give the poor, and yet the people starve.
    Carl 10.492 13 [Carlyle says] I think if [Parliament] would give [the money] to me, to provide the poor with labor, and with authority to make them work or shoot them,-and I to be hanged if I did not do it,-I could find them in plenty of Indian meal.
    GSt 10.502 21 [George Stearns] never asked any one to give so much as he himself gave...
    GSt 10.503 3 ...[George Stearns] did not give money to excuse his entire preoccupation in his own pursuits...
    LS 11.7 13 In years to come [says Jesus to his disciples], as long as your people shall come up to Jerusalem to keep this feast [the Passover], the connection which has subsisted between us will give a new meaning in your eyes to the national festival, as the anniversary of my death.
    LS 11.9 14 It was the custom for the master of the feast [Passover] to break the bread and to bless it...and then to give the cup to all.
    LS 11.14 17 ...St. Paul was living in the lifetime of all the apostles who could give him an account of the transaction [the Last Supper];...
    HDC 11.30 7 Man's life, said the Witan to the Saxon king, is the sparrow that enters at a window...and flies out at another, and none knoweth whence he came, or whither he goes. The more reason that we should give to our being what permanence we can;...
    HDC 11.39 19 A poor servant [in Concord], that is to possess but fifty acres, may afford to give more wood for fire as good as the world yields, than many noblemen in England.
    HDC 11.47 1 In a town-meeting, the great secret of political science was uncovered, and the problem solved, how to give every individual his fair weight in the government...
    HDC 11.52 20 ...said [Tahattawan], all the time you have lived after the Indian fashion, under the power of the higher sachems, what did they care for you? They took away your skins, your kettles and your wampum...and this was all they regarded. But you may see the English...instead of taking away, are ready to give to you.
    HDC 11.59 12 ...[the red man] may fire a farm-house, or a village; but the association of the white men and their arts of war give them an overwhelming advantage...
    HDC 11.67 24 From the appearance of the article in the Selectmen's warrant, in 1765, to see if the town will give the Representative any instructions about any important affair to be transacted by the General Court, concerning the Stamp Act, to the peace of 1783, the [Concord] Town Records breathe a resolute and warlike spirit...
    HDC 11.78 14 ...say the plaintive records, General Washington, at Cambridge, is not able to give but 24s. per cord for wood, for the army;...
    LVB 11.89 17 ...the circumstance that my name will be utterly unknown to you [Van Buren] will only give the fairer chance to your equitable construction of what I have to say.
    EWI 11.109 25 In 1791, three hundred thousand persons in Britain pledged themselves to abstain from all articles of [West Indian] island produce. The planters were obliged to give way;...
    EWI 11.113 15 The Ministers...proposed to give the [West Indian] planters, as a compensation for so much of the slaves' time as the act [of emancipation] took from them, 20,000,000 pounds sterling...
    EWI 11.118 5 We sometimes say...give [the planter] money, give him a machine that will yield him as much money as the slaves, and he will thankfully let them go.
    EWI 11.118 6 We sometimes say...give [the planter] a machine that will yield him as much money as the slaves, and he will thankfully let them go.
    EWI 11.128 1 ...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, in order to give members time,-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 11.129 6 ...an honest tenderness for the poor negro...combined with the national pride, which refused to give the support of English soil or the protection of the English flag to these disgusting violations of nature [slavery in the West Indies].
    EWI 11.139 19 The tendency of things runs steadily to this point, namely... to give [every man] so much power as he naturally exerts...
    War 11.167 25 ...chiefly it is said,-Either accept this principle [of peace]... and meet its absurd consequences; or else...give up the principle...
    War 11.168 2 ...if you go for no war, then be consistent, and give up self-defence...
    FSLC 11.182 23 ...[the crisis over the Fugitive Slave Law] showed...how competent we are to give counsel and help in a day of trial.
    FSLC 11.187 16 Pains seem to have been taken to give us in this statute [the Fugitive Slave Law] a wrong pure from any mixture of right.
    FSLC 11.189 8 I thought that every time a man goes back to his own thoughts, these angels receive him, talk with him, and that, in the best hours, he is uplifted in virtue of this essence, into a peace and into a power which the material world cannot give...
    FSLC 11.194 4 ...the womb conceives and the breasts give suck to thousands and millions of hairy babes formed not in the image of your statute, but in the image of the Universe;...
    FSLC 11.209 4 'T is said [buying the slaves] will cost two thousand millions of dollars. Was there ever any contribution that was so enthusiastically paid as this will be? ... We will give up our coaches, and wine, and watches.
    FSLC 11.209 10 'T is said [buying the slaves] will cost two thousand millions of dollars. Was there ever any contribution that was so enthusiastically paid as this will be? ... The mechanics will give, the needle-women will give;...
    FSLC 11.209 12 Every man in the land will give a week's work to dig away this accursed mountain of sorrow [slavery] once and forever out of the world.
    FSLN 11.222 10 ...[Webster] knew perfectly well how to make such exordiums, episodes and perorations as might give perspective to his harangues without in the least embarrassing his march or confounding his transitions.
    FSLN 11.224 11 Four years ago to-night, on one of those high critical moments in history...when the powers of right and wrong are mustered for conflict, and it lies with one man to give a casting vote,-Mr. Webster, most unexpectedly, threw his whole weight on the side of Slavery...
    FSLN 11.227 4 ...Vattel, Burke, Jefferson, do all affirm [that an immoral law cannot be valid], and I cite them, not that they can give evidence to what is indisputable...
    FSLN 11.233 16 You relied on the Supreme Court. The law was right, excellent law for the lambs. But what if unhappily the judges were chosen from the wolves, and give to all the law a wolfish interpretation?
    FSLN 11.238 8 No excess of good nature or of tenderness in individuals has been able to give a new character to the system [of slavery]...
    FSLN 11.241 7 ...when one sees how fast the rot [of slavery] spreads...I think we demand of superior men that they be superior in this,-that the mind and the virtue shall give their verdict in their day...
    FSLN 11.243 10 I [Robert Winthrop] give you my word, not without regret, that I was first for you;...
    AKan 11.257 4 I think we are to give largely, lavishly, to these [Kansas] men.
    AKan 11.260 27 In the free states, we give a snivelling support to slavery.
    AKan 11.261 1 In the free states, we give a snivelling support to slavery. The judges give cowardly interpretations to the law...
    JBB 11.271 13 ...the government, the judges...give such protection as they give in Utah to honest citizens...
    JBB 11.271 14 ...the government, the judges...give such protection as they give in Utah to honest citizens...
    JBS 11.281 1 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...who, like the Cid, give the outcast leper a share of their bed;...
    ACiv 11.299 16 Is...this evolution of man to the highest powers, only to give him sensibility...
    ACiv 11.306 20 ...what kind of peace shall at that moment be easiest attained, [the people] will make concessions for it,-will give up the slaves, and the whole torment of the past half-century will come back to be endured anew.
    EPro 11.314 9 O North! give [the slave] beauty for rags,/ And honor, O South! for his shame;/ Nevada! coin thy golden crags/ With freedom's image and name./
    EPro 11.323 14 Give the Confederacy New Orleans, Charleston, and Richmond, and they would have demanded St. Louis and Baltimore.
    EPro 11.323 16 Give the Confederacy New Orleans, Charleston, and Richmond, and they would have demanded St. Louis and Baltimore. Give them these, and they would have insisted on Washington.
    EPro 11.323 17 Give [the Confederacy] Washington, and they would have assumed the army and navy...
    EPro 11.324 27 ...in the Southern States, the tenure of land and the local laws, with slavery, give the social system not a democratic but an aristocratic complexion;...
    EPro 11.326 18 ...that ill-fated, much-injured race which the [Emancipation] Proclamation respects will lose somewhat of the dejection... uttered in the wailing of their plaintive music,-a race...whose very miseries sprang from their great talent for usefulness, which, in a more moral age, will not only defend their independence, but will give them a rank among nations.
    EdAd 11.387 27 ...we should certainly be glad to give good advice in politics.
    EdAd 11.388 17 The young intriguers who drive in bar-rooms and town-meetings the trade of politics...have put the country into the position of an overgrown bully, and Massachusetts finds no heart or head to give weight and efficacy to her contrary judgment.
    EdAd 11.389 20 ...we...should be sincerely pleased if we could give a direction to the Federal politics...
    Wom 11.407 12 ...[women] give entirely to their affections...
    Wom 11.408 18 ...[women's] fine organization, their taste and love of details, makes the knowledge they give better in their hands.
    Wom 11.412 12 ...[women] could not be such excellent artists in this element of fancy if they did not lend and give themselves to it.
    Wom 11.414 5 There is much that tends to give [women] a religious height which men do not attain.
    Wom 11.420 16 On the questions that are important...[women] would give, I suppose, as intelligent a vote as the voters of Boston or New York.
    Wom 11.421 23 ...if any man will take the trouble to see how our people vote,-how many gentlemen...standing at the door of the polls, give every innocent citizen his ticket as he comes in, informing him that this is the vote of his party;...I cannot but think he will agree that most women might vote as wisely.
    Wom 11.424 7 ...let [women] have and hold and give their property as men do theirs;...
    SHC 11.430 15 We give our earth to earth.
    Shak1 11.453 5 ...there are some men so born to live well that, in whatever company they fall,-high or low,-they fit well, and lead it!...I suppose because they have more humanity than talent, whilst they have quite as much of the last as any of the company. It would strike you as comic, if I should give my own customary examples of this elasticity...
    Humb 11.457 11 ...a man's natural powers are often a sort of committee that slowly, one at a time, give their attention and action;...
    FRO2 11.486 2 ...I am ready to give...the first simple foundation of my belief...
    CPL 11.496 19 Our founder [of the Concord Library] has found the many admirable examples...of benefactors who have not waited to bequeath colleges and hospitals, but have themselves built them, reminding us of Sir Isaac Newton's saying, that they who give nothing before their death, never in fact give at all.
    CPL 11.496 20 Our founder [of the Concord Library] has found the many admirable examples...of benefactors who have not waited to bequeath colleges and hospitals, but have themselves built them, reminding us of Sir Isaac Newton's saying, that they who give nothing before their death, never in fact give at all.
    CPL 11.507 16 ...it is a disadvantage not to have read the book your mates have read...so that...you shall understand their allusions to it, and not give it more or less emphasis than they do.
    FRep 11.509 3 There is a mystery in the soul of state/ Which hath an operation more divine/ Than breath or pen can give expression to./
    FRep 11.513 6 ...it is not...the whole magazine of material nature that can give the sum of power...
    FRep 11.516 24 The humblest [in America] is daily challenged to give his opinion on practical questions...
    FRep 11.518 9 Hitherto government has been that of the single person or of the aristocracy. In this country the attempt to resist these elements, it is asserted, must throw us into the government...of an inferior class of professional politicians, who...win the posts of power and give their direction to affairs.
    FRep 11.523 21 ...it is useless to rely on [the people] to go to a meeting, or to give a vote, if any check from this must-have-the-money side arises.
    FRep 11.527 5 ...here that same great body [of the people] has arrived at a sloven plenty...the man...disposed to give his children a better education than he received.
    PLT 12.13 22 I want...the man who can humanize this [metaphysical] logic, these syllogisms, and give me the results.
    PLT 12.26 17 A subject of thought to which we return...from year to year, has always some ripeness of which we can give no account.
    PLT 12.44 4 ...the true scholar is one who has the power...to hold off his thoughts at arm's length, and give them perspective.
    PLT 12.50 23 The excess of individualism, when it is not...subordinated to the Supreme Reason, makes that vice which we stigmatize as monotones, men of one idea...which give such a comic tinge to all society.
    PLT 12.54 25 [A man]...does not give to any manner of life the strength of his constitution.
    II 12.73 2 Certain young men or maidens are thus to be screened from the evil influences of trade by force of money. Perhaps that is a benefit, but those who give the money must be just so much more shrewd, and worldly, and hostile, in order to save so much money.
    II 12.75 15 ...Nature is stronger than your will, and were you never so vigilant, you may rely on it, your nature and genius will certainly give your vigilance the slip though it had delirium tremens, and will educate the children by the inevitable infusions of its quality.
    Mem 12.101 10 The damages of forgetting are more than compensated by the large values which new thoughts and knowledge give to what we already know.
    Mem 12.106 22 He is a skilful doctor who can give me a recipe for the cure of a bad memory.
    Mem 12.107 13 ...'t is an old rule of scholars...'T is best knocking in the nail overnight and clinching it next morning. Only I should give extension to this rule and say, Yes, drive the nail this week and clinch it the next...
    CInt 12.115 10 ...if the intellectual interest be, as I hold, no hypocrisy, but the only reality,-then it behooves us to...give it possession of us and ours;...
    CInt 12.115 11 ...if the intellectual interest be, as I hold, no hypocrisy, but the only reality,-then it behooves us...to give, among other possessions, the college into its hand...
    CInt 12.116 3 ...[the college]...cannot give to those who come to it and refuse to those outside.
    CInt 12.120 19 [Demosthenes said] If it please you to note it...[my counsels to you] be of that nature as is sometimes not good for me to give, but are always good for you to follow.
    CInt 12.122 27 The Understanding is the name we give to the low, limitary power working to short ends...
    CInt 12.124 22 The necessity of a mechanical system [of education] is not to be denied. Young men must be classed and employed...by some available plan that will give weekly and annual results;...
    CInt 12.130 10 If I had young men to reach, I should say to them, Keep the intellect sacred. Revere it. Give all to it.
    CW 12.174 15 In the arboretum you should have things...which people who read of them are hungry to see. Thus plant the Sequoia Gigantea, give it room...
    Bost 12.185 20 Give me a climate where people think well and construct well,-I will spend six months there, and you may have all the rest of my years.
    Bost 12.202 4 [The Massachusetts colonists] could say to themselves, Well, at least this yoke of man, of bishops, of courtiers, of dukes, is off my neck. We are a little too close to wolf and famine than that anybody should give himself airs here in the swamp.
    MAng1 12.229 6 It does not fall within our design to give an account of [Michelangelo's] works...
    Milt1 12.247 20 [The fame of a great man] needs time to give it due perspective.
    Milt1 12.248 9 ...a man's fame, of course, characterizes those who give it...
    Milt1 12.266 15 The indifferency of a wise mind to what is called high and low, and the fact that true greatness is a perfect humility, are revelations of Christianity which Milton well understood. They give an inexhaustible truth to all his compositions.
    Milt1 12.277 3 It was plainly needful that [Milton's] poetry should be a version of his own life, in order to give weight and solemnity to his thoughts;...
    ACri 12.292 12 'T is the worst praise you can give a speech that it is as if written.
    ACri 12.293 19 ...these cardinal rules of rhetoric find best examples in the great masters, and are main sources of the delight they give.
    ACri 12.294 27 We cannot...give any account of [Shakespeare's] existence, but only the fact that there was a wonderful symbolizer and expressor...
    ACri 12.300 9 The power of the poet is...in measuring his strength by the facility with which he makes the mood of mind give its color to things.
    MLit 12.310 8 I have just been reading poems which now in memory shine with a certain steady, warm, autumnal light. That is not in their grammatical construction which they give me.
    MLit 12.311 2 ...[the library of the Present Age] vents...books which take the rose out of the cheek of him that wrote them, and give him to the midnight...
    MLit 12.323 18 [Goethe's] love of Nature has seemed to give a new meaning to that word.
    Pray 12.355 13 Wilt thou give me strength to persevere in this great work of redemption.
    EurB 12.365 11 We have ceased to expect that which [Wordsworth] cannot give.
    EurB 12.375 27 Except in the stories of Edgeworth and Scott, whose talent knew how to give to the book a thousand adventitious graces, the novels of costume are all one...
    PPr 12.379 21 ...the topic of English politics becomes the best vehicle for the expression of [Carlyle's] recent thinking, recommended to him by the desire to give some timely counsels...
    PPr 12.381 24 As we recall the topics [in Carlyle's Past and Present], we are struck with the force given to the plain truths;...the picture of Abbot Samson, the true governor, who is not there to expect reason and nobleness of others, he is there to give them of his own reason and nobleness;...
    Let 12.394 25 By the slightest possible concert, persevered in through four or five years, [the correspondents] think that a neighborhood might be formed of friends who would provoke each other to the best activity. They believe that this society...would give their genius that inspiration which it seems to wait in vain.
    Let 12.399 1 ...companies of the best-educated young men in the Atlantic states every week take their departure for Europe;...simply because they shall so be...agreeably entertained for one or two years, with some lurking hope...that something may turn up to give them a decided direction.
    Trag 12.413 6 When two strangers meet in the highway, what each demands of the other is that the aspect should show a firm mind...prepared alike to give death or to give life, as the emergency of the next moment may require.
    Trag 12.413 7 When two strangers meet in the highway, what each demands of the other is that the aspect should show a firm mind...prepared alike to give death or to give life, as the emergency of the next moment may require.

given, adj. (10)

    YA 1.368 13 ...the selection of a fit house-lot has the same advantage over an indifferent one, as the selection to a given employment of a man who has a genius for that work.
    Hist 2.17 7 By a deeper apprehension...the artist attains the power of awakening other souls to a given activity.
    Comp 2.108 21 We are to see that which man was tending to do in a given period...
    Exp 3.52 4 In truth [men] are all creatures of given temperament...
    Exp 3.52 5 In truth [men] are all creatures of given temperament, which will appear in a given character...
    Chr1 3.97 21 A given order of events has no power to secure to [the hero] the satisfaction which the imagination attaches to it;...
    ShP 4.196 2 The first play [Shakespeare's Henry VIII] was written by a superior, thoughtful man, with a vicious ear. I can mark his lines, and know well their cadence. See Wolsey's soliloquy, and the following scene with Cromwell, where...the lines are constructed on a given tune...
    Art2 7.46 1 One consideration more exhausts I believe all the deductions from the genius of the artist in any given work.
    HDC 11.63 2 Randolph at this period [1666] writes to the English government, concerning the country towns; The farmers...are given to hospitality;...
    War 11.169 26 A wise man will never...decide beforehand what he shall do in a given extreme event.

given, v. (178)

    Nat 1.24 16 No reason can be asked or given why the soul seeks beauty.
    AmS 1.89 13 Meek young men grow up in libraries, believing it their duty to accept the views which Cicero, which Locke, which Bacon, have given;...
    AmS 1.113 8 ...[Swedenborg]...has given in epical parables a theory of insanity...
    AmS 1.113 13 Another sign of our times...is the new importance given to the single person.
    DSA 1.134 9 Men have come to speak of the revelation as somewhat long ago given and done...
    DSA 1.150 16 Two inestimable advantages Christianity has given us;...
    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 1.262 2 What is the reason to be given for this extreme attraction which persons have for us...
    LT 1.275 2 Grimly the same spirit [of Reform]...accuses men of driving a trade in the great boundless providence which had given the air, the water, and the land to men...
    LT 1.286 26 We have come to that which is the spring of all power...and who shall tell us according to what law its inspirations and its informations are given or witholden?
    Con 1.309 4 ...as I am born to the Earth, so the Earth is given to me...
    Con 1.310 22 It is trivial and merely superstitious to say that nothing is given you...
    Tran 1.340 11 The extraordinary profoundness and precision of that man's [Kant's] thinking have given vogue to his nomenclature...
    YA 1.364 10 An unlooked-for consequence of the railroad is the increased acquaintance it has given the American people with the boundless resources of their own soil.
    YA 1.364 15 ...in this country [the railroad] has given a new celerity to time...
    YA 1.366 10 The habit of living in the presence of these invitations of natural wealth...combined with the moral sentiment...has naturally given a strong direction to the wishes and aims of active young men, to...cultivate the soil.
    Hist 2.12 4 ...the value which is given to wood by carving led to the carving over the whole mountain of stone of a cathedral.
    Hist 2.14 20 We have the civil history of [the Greek] people, as Herodotus, Thucydides, Xenophon, and Plutarch have given it;...
    SR 2.46 18 ...no kernel of nourishing corn can come to [man] but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till.
    SR 2.84 17 For every thing that is given something is taken.
    Comp 2.97 21 A surplusage given to one part is paid out of a reduction from another part of the same creature.
    Comp 2.107 15 ...in nature nothing can be given, all things are sold.
    Comp 2.109 16 Give, and it shall be given you.
    SL 2.156 7 You think because you...have given no opinion on the times... that your verdict is still expected with curiosity as a reserved wisdom.
    Lov1 2.171 13 Let any man go back to those delicious relations...which have given him sincerest instruction and nourishment, he will shrink and moan.
    Fdsp 2.195 16 I have often had fine fancies about persons which have given me delicious hours;...
    Prd1 2.237 22 Examples are cited by soldiers of men who have seen the cannon pointed and the fire given to it, and who have stepped aside from the path of the ball.
    Hsm1 2.247 28 ...Scott will sometimes draw a [heroic] stroke like the portrait of Lord Evandale given by Balfour of Burley.
    Hsm1 2.248 5 Earlier, Robert Burns has given us a [heroic] song or two.
    Hsm1 2.248 23 ...a Stoicism not of the schools but of the blood, shines in every anecdote [of Plutarch], and has given that book its immense fame.
    Hsm1 2.260 21 It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person...
    OS 2.295 15 The position men have given to Jesus...is a position of authority.
    Int 2.328 21 Our truth of thought is...vitiated as much by too violent direction given by our will, as by too great negligence.
    Int 2.341 14 ...it is given to few men to be poets...
    Art1 2.362 25 Our best praise is given to what [the arts] aimed and promised...
    Exp 3.54 17 I see not, if one be once caught in this trap of so-called sciences, any escape for the man from the links of the chain of physical necessity. Given such an embryo, such a history must follow.
    Exp 3.73 25 ...information is given us not to sell ourselves cheap;...
    Chr1 3.104 1 ...it was droll in the good Riemer, who has written memoirs of Goethe, to make out a list of his donations and good deeds, as, so many hundred thalers given to Stilling, to Hegel, to Tischbein;...
    Chr1 3.105 24 Two persons lately...have given me occasion for thought.
    Nat2 3.172 9 It seems as if the day was not wholly profane in which we have given heed to some natural object.
    Nat2 3.185 3 Given the planet, it is still necessary to add the impulse;...
    Pol1 3.204 2 ...doubts have arisen whether too much weight had not been allowed in the laws to property, and such a structure given to our usages as allowed the rich to encroach on the poor...
    NR 3.238 12 ...Nature has her maligners, as if she were Circe; and Alphonso of Castile fancied he could have given useful advice.
    NER 3.257 11 It was complained that an education to things was not given.
    NER 3.279 13 The reason why any one refuses his assent to your opinion... is in you: he refuses to accept you as a bringer of truth, because though you think you have it, he feels that you have it not. You have not given him the authentic sign.
    UGM 4.14 13 Cecil's saying of Sir Walter Raleigh, I know that he can toil terribly, is an electric touch. So are Clarendon's portraits,--of Hampden...of Falkland, who was so severe an adorer of truth, that he could as easily have given himself leave to steal, as to dissemble.
    PNR 4.83 4 Whatever [Plato] looks upon discloses a second sense, and ulterior senses. His...beautiful definitions of ideas, of time, of form, of figure, of the line, sometimes hypothetically given, as his defining of virtue, courage, justice, temperance;...
    SwM 4.103 22 ...Swedenborg is systematic and respective of the world in every sentence; all the means are orderly given;...
    SwM 4.104 20 Malpighi...had given emphasis to the dogma that nature works in leasts...
    SwM 4.110 20 ...[Swedenborg] must be reckoned a leader in that revolution, which, by giving to science an idea, has given to an aimless accumulation of experiments, guidance and form and a beating heart.
    SwM 4.134 1 Only when Cicero comes by, our gentle seer [Swedenborg] sticks a little at saying he talked with Cicero, and with a touch of human relenting remarks, one whom it was given me to believe was Cicero;...
    MoS 4.149 4 The game of thought is, on the appearance of one of these two sides [sensation and morals], to find the other: given the upper, to find the under side.
    MoS 4.170 5 Shall we say that Montaigne has...given the right and permanent expression of the human mind, on the conduct of life?
    ShP 4.212 26 ...Shakspeare has no peculiarity, no importunate topic; but all is duly given;...
    ShP 4.214 9 No recipe can be given for the making of a Shakspeare;...
    ShP 4.217 17 [Shakespeare] was master of the revels to mankind. Is it not as if one should have...the comets given into his hand...and should draw them from their orbits to glare with the municipal fireworks on a holiday night...
    NMW 4.245 6 ...the crosses of [Napoleon's] Legion of Honor were given to personal valor, and not to family connexion.
    ET1 5.20 6 ...I fear [the Americans] are too much given to the making of money [said Wordsworth];...
    ET1 5.24 8 ...[Wordsworth] led me into the enclosure of his clerk, a young man to whom he had given this slip of ground...
    ET5 5.82 25 Their self-respect...and their realistic logic...have given [the English] the leadership of the modern world.
    ET7 5.123 10 [The English] have given the parliamentary nickname of Trimmers to the timeservers...
    ET7 5.123 27 A slow temperament...has given occasion to the observation that English wit comes afterwards...
    ET9 5.146 5 Mr. Coleridge is said to have given public thanks to God...that he had defended him from being able to utter a single sentence in the French language.
    ET11 5.184 18 This monopoly of political power has given [the English peers] their intellectual and social eminence in Europe.
    ET11 5.195 17 All advantages given to absolve the young patrician from intellectual labor are of course mistaken.
    ET12 5.210 14 I looked over the Examination Papers of the year 1848, for the various scholarships and fellowships [at Oxford]...(copies of which were kindly given me by a Greek professor)...
    ET13 5.228 27 The English...are dreadfully given to cant.
    ET16 5.276 20 It looked as if the wide margin given in this crowded isle to this primeval temple [Stonehenge] were accorded by the veneration of the British race to the old egg out of which all their ecclesiastical structures and history had proceeded.
    ET16 5.289 9 Just before entering Winchester we stopped at the Church of Saint Cross, and...we demanded a piece of bread and a draught of beer, which the founder, Henry de Blois, in 1136, commanded should be given to every one who should ask it at the gate.
    ET17 5.291 6 In these comments on an old journey [English Traits]...I have abstained from reference to persons, except...in one or two cases where the fame of the parties seemed to have given the public a property in all that concerned them.
    ET18 5.307 24 The English have given importance to individuals...
    ET19 5.312 9 ...I was given to understand in my childhood that the British island from which my forefathers came was no lotus-garden...
    Pow 6.73 25 Enlarge not thy destiny, said the oracle, endeavor not to do more than is given thee in charge.
    Ctr 6.140 12 There are people who can never understand...any second or expanded sense given to your words...
    Bhr 6.170 5 Consuelo, in the romance, boasts of the lessons she had given the nobles in manners, on the stage;...
    Bhr 6.182 11 ...[Balzac] says, The look, the voice, the respiration, and the attitude or walk, are identical. But, as it has not been given to man the power to stand guard at once over these four different simultaneous expressions of his thought, watch that one which speaks out the truth, and you will know the whole man.
    Wsp 6.202 15 The solar system has no anxiety about its reputation, and the credit of truth and honesty is as safe; nor have I any fear that a skeptical bias can be given by leaning hard on the sides of fate, of practical power...
    Wsp 6.217 12 Given the equality of two intellects,--which will form the most reliable judgments, the good, or the bad hearted?
    CbW 6.246 2 The judge...hopes he has done justice and given satisfaction to the community;...
    CbW 6.272 16 Here [in conversation] are oracles sometimes profusely given...
    SS 7.5 2 [My friend] would have given his soul for the ring of Gyges.
    Elo1 7.75 18 ...one cannot wonder at the uneasiness sometimes manifested by trained statesmen...then they observe the disproportionate advantage suddenly given to oratory over the most solid and accumulated public service.
    DL 7.132 7 The language of a ruder age has given to common law the maxim that every man's house is his castle...
    WD 7.171 11 ...the treasures which Nature spent itself to amass...are given immeasurably to all.
    Boks 7.198 5 Of the old Greek books, I think there are five which we cannot spare... ... 3. Aeschylus...who has given us under a thin veil the first plantation of Europe.
    Boks 7.209 17 For an autograph of Shakspeare one hundred and fifty-five guineas were given.
    Boks 7.219 9 [The sacred books'] communications are not to be given or taken with the lips and the end of the tongue...
    Clbs 7.248 11 Plutarch, Xenophon and Plato, who have celebrated each a banquet of their set, have given us next to no data of the viands;...
    Cour 7.259 26 When we get an advantage...it is because our adversary has committed a fault, not that we have taken the initiative and given the law.
    PI 8.4 7 ...whilst we deal with this [existence of matter] as finality, early hints are given that we are not to stay here;...
    PI 8.4 11 First innuendoes, then broad hints, then smart taps are given, suggesting that nothing stands still in Nature but death;...
    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 8.35 26 On the stage, the farce is commonly far better given than the tragedy...
    PI 8.50 19 ...every good reader will easily recall expressions or passages in works of pure science which have given him the same pleasure which he seeks in professed poets.
    PI 8.54 9 The difference between poetry and stock poetry is this, that in the latter the rhythm is given and the sense adapted to it; while in the former the sense dictates the rhythm.
    PI 8.71 23 ...for obvious municipal or parietal uses God has given us a bias or a rest on to-day's forms.
    SA 8.100 6 [The consideration the rich possess] is the approval given by the human understanding to the act of creating value by knowledge and labor.
    Elo2 8.119 26 ...Jenny Lind, when in this country, complained of concert-rooms and town-halls, that they did not give her room enough to unroll her voice, and exulted in the opportunity given her in the great halls she found sometimes built over a railroad depot.
    Elo2 8.131 5 It is the attitude taken, the unmistakable sign, never so casually given...that a greater spirit speaks from you than is spoken to in him.
    Comc 8.171 19 A lady of high rank, but of lean figure, had given the Countess Dulauloy the nickname of Le Grenadier tricolore, in allusion to her tall figure...
    QO 8.197 14 ...Mr. Hallam is reported as mentioning at dinner one of his friends who had said, I don't know how it is, a thing that falls flat from me seems quite an excellent joke when given at second hand by Sheridan.
    QO 8.200 5 The old animals have given their bodies to the earth to furnish through chemistry the forming race...
    PC 8.208 12 I will not say that American institutions have given a new enlargement to our idea of a finished man...
    PC 8.208 18 The new claim of woman to a political status is itself an honorable testimony to the civilization which has given her a civil status new in history.
    PPo 8.239 14 Layard has given some details of the effect which the improvvisatori produced on the children of the desert.
    Grts 8.302 23 Who can doubt the potency of an individual mind, who sees the shock given to torpid races...by Mahomet;...
    Imtl 8.328 10 The emphasis of all the good books given to young people [sixty years ago] was on death.
    Chr2 10.105 6 We use in our idlest poetry and discourse the words Jove, Neptune, Mercury, as mere colors, and can hardly believe that they had to the lively Greek the anxious meaning which, in our towns, is given and received in churches when our religious names are used...
    Edc1 10.133 12 [If I have renounced the search of truth] I am as a bankrupt to whom brilliant opportunities offer in vain. He has just...locked himself up and given the key to another to keep.
    Edc1 10.139 12 [Boys] detect weakness in your eye and behavior a week before you open your mouth, and have given you the benefit of their opinion quick as a wink.
    Edc1 10.140 25 [The boy's] hunting and campings-out have given him an indispensable base...
    Supl 10.170 11 I once attended a dinner given to a great state functionary by functionaries...
    Supl 10.172 2 'T is very different, this weak and wearisome lie, from the stimulus to the fancy which is given by a romancing talker who does not mean to be exactly taken...
    Prch 10.234 3 Given the insight, [the deep observer] will find as many beauties and heroes and strokes of genius close by him as Dante or Shakspeare beheld.
    MoL 10.246 24 There is an oracle current in the world, that nations die by suicide. The sign of it is the decay of thought. Niebuhr has given striking examples of that fatal portent;...
    Plu 10.296 23 M. Leveque has given an exposition of [Plutarch's] moral philosophy...
    Plu 10.313 17 [Plutarch] reminds his friends that the Delphic oracles have given several answers the same in substance as that formerly given to Corax the Naxian: It sounds profane impiety/ To teach that human souls e'er die./
    Plu 10.313 18 [Plutarch] reminds his friends that the Delphic oracles have given several answers the same in substance as that formerly given to Corax the Naxian: It sounds profane impiety/ To teach that human souls e'er die./
    Plu 10.315 19 There is no treasure, [Plutarch] says, parents can give to their children, like a brother; 't is a friend given by nature...
    Plu 10.316 25 ...[Plutarch] praises the Romans, who, when the feast was over, dealt well with the lamps, and did not take away the nourishment they had given...
    LLNE 10.339 13 I attribute much importance to two papers of Dr. Channing, one on Milton and one on Napoleon, which were the first specimens in this country of that large criticism which in England had given power and fame to the Edinburgh Review.
    LLNE 10.343 3 I suppose all of [the supposed conspirators] were surprised at this rumor of a school or sect, and certainly at the name of Transcendentalism, given nobody knows by whom...
    MMEm 10.410 21 [Mary Moody Emerson] exclaimed, God has given you a voice that you might use it in the service of your fellow creatures.
    MMEm 10.424 18 ...He who formed thy [Time's] web, who stretched thy warp from long ages, has graciously given man to throw his shuttle, or feel he does, and irradiate the filling woof with many a flowery rainbow,- labors, rather...
    MMEm 10.428 6 The sickness of the last week was fine medicine; pain disintegrated the spirit, or became spiritual. I [Mary Moody Emerson] rose,-I felt that I had given to God more perhaps than an angel could...
    MMEm 10.429 4 I [Mary Moody Emerson] have given up, the last year or two, the hope of dying.
    Thor 10.475 12 ...[Thoreau] said that Aeschylus and the Greeks, in describing Apollo and Orpheus, had given no song, or no good one.
    GSt 10.506 26 ...when I consider that [George Stearns] lived long enough to see with his own eyes the salvation of his country, to which he had given all his heart;...I count him happy among men.
    LS 11.4 24 Having recently given particular attention to this subject [the Lord's Supper], I was led to the conclusion that Jesus did not intend to establish an institution for perpetual observance when he ate the Passover with his disciples;...
    LS 11.5 7 An account of the Last Supper of Christ with his disciples is given by the four Evangelists...
    LS 11.11 12 Jesus washed the feet of his disciples, and told them that, as he had washed their feet, they ought to wash one another's feet; for he had given them an example...
    LS 11.17 12 It is the old objection to the doctrine of the Trinity...that such confusion was introduced into the soul that an undivided worship was given nowhere.
    LS 11.20 16 ...an importance is given by Christians to [the Lord's Supper] which never can belong to any form.
    HDC 11.32 9 ...on the 2d of September, 1635...leave to begin a plantation at Musketaquid was given to Peter Bulkeley, Simon Willard, and about twelve families more.
    HDC 11.52 26 [The Indians] requested to have a town given them within the bounds of Concord...
    HDC 11.66 1 ...bounties of twenty shillings are given as late as 1735, to Indians and whites, for the heads of these animals [wolves and wildcats]...
    HDC 11.67 9 ...Mr. [Daniel] Bliss replied...I was filled with wonder, that such a sinful and worthless worm as I am, was allowed to represent Christ... and used the word Mediator in some differing light from that you have given it;...
    HDC 11.78 5 In the whole course of the [Revolutionary] war the town [Concord] did not depart from this pledge it had given.
    HDC 11.81 14 In 1787, the admirable instructions given by the town [Concord] to its representative are a proud monument to the good sense and good feeling that prevailed.
    EWI 11.108 9 Thomas Clarkson was a youth at Cambridge, England, when the subject given out for a Latin prize dissertation was, Is it right to make slaves of others against their will?
    EWI 11.115 13 I will not repeat to you the well-known paragraph, in which Messrs, Thome and Kimball...describe the occurrences of that night [of emancipation] in the island of Antigua. It has been quoted in every newspaper, and Dr. Channing has given it additional fame.
    EWI 11.142 2 The emancipation [in the West Indies] is observed, in the islands, to have wrought for the negro a benefit as sudden as when a thermometer is brought out of the shade into the sun. It has given him eyes and ears.
    FSLC 11.183 2 [The crisis over the Fugitive Slave Law]...showed...that the resolutions of public bodies, or the pledges never so often given and put on record of public men, will not bind them.
    FSLN 11.223 14 The history of this country has given a disastrous importance to the defects of this great man's [Webster's] mind.
    AsSu 11.247 13 In [the slave state]...man is an animal, given to pleasure...
    ALin 11.338 1 [Providence] has given every race its own talent...
    SMC 11.351 8 The art of the architect and the sense of the town have made these dumb stones [of the Concord Monument] speak;...have given them a meaning for the imagination and the heart.
    SMC 11.353 12 War, says the poet,...is the arduous strife,/ To which the triumph of all good is given./
    SMC 11.376 14 ...I do not like to omit the testimony to the character of the Commander of the Thirty-second Massachusetts Regiment [George Prescott], given in the following letter by one of his soldiers...
    EdAd 11.388 20 In hours when it seemed only to need one just word from a man of honor...to have given a true direction to the first steps of a nation, we have seen the best understandings of New England...say, We are too old to stand for what is called a New England sentiment any longer.
    Wom 11.416 15 ...[antagonism to Slavery] has, among its other effects, given Woman a feeling of public duty...
    SHC 11.432 24 Certainly the living need [a garden] more than the dead; indeed...it is given to the dead for the reaction of benefit on the living.
    RBur 11.441 14 [Burns] has given voice to all the experiences of common life;...
    Shak1 11.452 4 There are periods fruitful of great men; others, barren;, or, as the world is always equal to itself, periods when the heat is latent,- others when it is given out.
    ChiE 11.471 11 All share the surprise and pleasure when the venerable Oriental dynasty...suddenly steps into the fellowship of nations. This auspicious event...is an irresistible result of the science which has given us the power of steam and the electric telegraph.
    FRep 11.537 25 ...[our civilization] has not ended nor given sign of ending in a hero.
    FRep 11.543 22 Our helm is given up to a better guidance than our own;...
    II 12.67 10 ...we must form the habit of preferring in all cases this guidance [of instinct], which is given as it is used.
    II 12.72 4 The poetic state given, a little more or a good deal more or less performance seems indifferent.
    CInt 12.112 10 ...if to me it is not given/ To fetch one ingot hence/ Of the unfading gold of Heaven/ [God's] merchants may dispense,/ Yet well I know the royal mine/ And know the sparkle of its ore,/ Know Heaven's truths from lies that shine-/ Explored, they teach us to explore./
    CL 12.136 4 As the increasing population finds new values in the ground, the nomad life is given up for settled homes.
    Bost 12.210 24 ...in Boston, Nature...has given good sons to good sires...
    MAng1 12.221 18 Those who have never given attention to the arts of design are surprised that the artist should find so much to study in a fabric of such limited parts and dimensions as the human body.
    MAng1 12.223 21 ...even at Venice, on defective evidence, [Michelangelo] is said to have given the plan of the bridge of the Rialto.
    MAng1 12.229 10 Sculpture, [Michelangelo] called his art, and to it he regretted he had not singly given himself.
    Milt1 12.261 27 ...[Milton] said...I cannot say that I am utterly untrained in those rules which best rhetoricians have given...
    MLit 12.329 15 [We can fancy Goethe saying to himself] I have given my characters [in Wilhelm Meister] a bias to error. Men have the same.
    AgMs 12.359 11 [Edmund Hosmer]...has bred up a large family, given them a good education...
    AgMs 12.360 19 [Farmers] could not afford to follow such advice as is given here [in the Agricultural Survey];...
    AgMs 12.363 20 ...the premium obviously ought to be given for the good management of a poor farm.
    EurB 12.373 4 We have heard it alleged with some evidence that the prominence given to intellectual power in Bulwer's romances has proved a main stimulus to mental culture in thousands of young men in England and America.
    EurB 12.374 23 ...Mr. Bulwer's recent stories have given us who do not read novels occasion to think of this department of literature...
    EurB 12.377 3 [The society in Wilhelm Meister] watched each candidate vigilantly...and when he had given proof that he was a faithful man, all doors, all houses, all relations were open to him;...
    PPr 12.381 6 As we recall the topics [in Carlyle's Past and Present], we are struck with the force given to the plain truths;...
    PPr 12.389 4 That morbid temperament has given [Carlyle's] rhetoric a somewhat bloated character;...
    Let 12.392 14 ...in regard to the writer who has given us his speculations on Railroads and Air-roads, our correspondent shall have his own way.
    Let 12.402 12 ...the smallest new activity given to the perceptive power, is a victory won to the living universe from Chaos and old Night...
    Trag 12.416 15 Napoleon said to one of his friends at St. Helena, Nature... has given me a temperament like a block of marble.

giver, n. (3)

    Gts 3.162 5 We do not quite forgive a giver.
    Gts 3.163 3 The gift, to be true, must be the flowing of the giver unto me...
    SA 8.91 13 A universal etiquette should fix an iron limit after which a moment should not be allowed without explicit leave granted on request of either the giver or receiver of the visit.

Giver, n. (3)

    Wsp 6.230 16 I am well assured that the Questioner who brings me so many problems will bring the answers also in due time. Very rich, very potent, very cheerful Giver that he is, he shall have it all his own way, for me.
    Imtl 8.334 12 To breathe, to sleep, is wonderful. But never to know the Cause, the Giver, and infer his character and will!
    Bost 12.204 17 In Massachusetts [Nature] did not want epic poems and dramas yet, but first...farmers to till and harvest corn for the world. Corn, yes, but honest corn; corn with thanks to the Giver of corn;...

gives, v. (214)

    Nat 1.29 19 It is this [dependence of language upon nature] which gives that piquancy to the conversation of a strong-natured farmer...
    Nat 1.40 11 [Man] forges the...air...into...words, and gives them wing...
    Nat 1.50 20 The least change in our point of view gives the whole world a pictorial air.
    AmS 1.83 26 The tradesman scarcely ever gives an ideal worth to his work...
    DSA 1.119 21 ...what invitation from every property [the world] gives to every faculty of man!
    DSA 1.125 7 ...the dawn of the sentiment of virtue on the heart, gives and is the assurance that Law is sovereign over all natures;...
    DSA 1.129 23 ...the word Miracle, as pronounced by Christian churches, gives a false impression;...
    DSA 1.131 25 That is always best which gives me to myself.
    DSA 1.140 1 In a large portion of the community, the religious service gives rise to quite other thoughts and emotions.
    LE 1.175 20 ...accept the hint...of spiritual emptiness and waste which true nature gives you...
    MR 1.244 1 I ought to be armed by every part and function of my household...by my traffic. Yet I am almost no party to any of these things. Custom does it for me, gives me no power therefrom...
    LT 1.274 2 [The wealthy man] entertains [the divine], gives him gifts...
    LT 1.283 20 The thinker gives me results...
    YA 1.363 8 America is beginning to assert herself to the senses and to the imagination of her children, and Europe is receding in the same degree. This their reaction on education gives a new importance to the internal improvements and to the politics of the country.
    YA 1.382 18 It was a noble thought of Fourier, which gives a favorable idea of his system, to distinguish in his Phalanx a class as the Sacred Band...
    Hist 2.5 24 It is the universal nature which gives worth to particular men and things.
    Hist 2.25 2 ...[in the Grecian period] the habit of [each man's] supplying his own needs educates the body to wonderful performances. Such are the Agamemnon and Diomed of Homer, and not far different is the picture Xenophon gives of himself and his compatriots...
    Hist 2.25 14 ...Xenophon is as sharp-tongued as any and sharper-tongued than most, and so gives as good as he gets.
    Hist 2.30 18 ...[the story of Prometheus] gives the history of religion...
    Hist 2.33 21 Much revolving [his figures Goethe]...gives them body to his own imagination.
    SR 2.49 7 ...[the boy] gives an independent, genuine verdict.
    Comp 2.95 25 [Men's] daily life gives [their theology] the lie.
    Comp 2.99 24 Has [the man of genius] light? he must...always outrun that sympathy which gives him such keen satisfaction...
    SL 2.152 4 He teaches who gives...
    Lov1 2.169 17 The introduction to this felicity [of Nature] is in a private and tender relation of one to one, which...seizes on man at one period...and... gives permanence to human society.
    Lov1 2.177 22 ...[love] makes the clown gentle and gives the coward heart.
    Lov1 2.177 26 In giving [the lover] to another [love] still more gives him to himself.
    Lov1 2.184 11 ...even love...must become more impersonal every day. Of this at first it gives no hint.
    Fdsp 2.194 10 Nor is Nature so poor but she gives me this joy [of friendship] several times...
    Fdsp 2.204 4 My friend gives me entertainment without requiring any stipulation on my part.
    Prd1 2.223 16 The world is filled with the proverbs and acts and winkings of a base prudence...a prudence...which never subscribes, which never gives, which seldom lends...
    Prd1 2.229 14 The last Grand Duke of Weimar...said,--I have sometimes remarked in the presence of great works of art...how much a certain property contributes to the effect which gives life to the figures, and to the life an irresistible truth.
    Hsm1 2.254 13 [The great soul] gives what it hath, and all it hath...
    OS 2.280 24 ...the soul's communication of truth is the highest event in nature, since it then does not give somewhat from itself, but it gives itself...
    OS 2.296 9 The soul gives itself, alone, original and pure, to the Lonely, Original and Pure...
    Int 2.343 10 Silence is a solvent that destroys personality, and gives us leave to be great and universal.
    Int 2.343 14 Every man's progress is through a succession of teachers, each of whom seems at the time to have a superlative influence, but it at last gives place to a new.
    Int 2.344 7 ...whilst he [in whom the love of truth predominates] gives himself up unreservedly to that which draws him...he is to refuse himself to that which draws him not...
    Art1 2.352 20 The Genius of the Hour sets his ineffaceable seal on the work [of art] and gives it an inexpressible charm for the imagination.
    Art1 2.353 19 ...the artist's pen or chisel seems to have been held and guided by a gigantic hand to inscribe a line in the history of the human race. This circumstance gives a value to the Egyptian hieroglyphics...
    Pt1 3.20 13 The poet...gives [things] a power which makes their old use forgotten...
    Exp 3.45 9 ...the Genius which...gives us the lethe to drink, that we may tell no tales, mixed the cup too strongly...
    Exp 3.56 8 A deduction must be made from the opinion which even the wise express on a new book or occurrence. Their opinion gives me tidings of their mood...
    Exp 3.71 13 When I converse with a profound mind...I am at first apprised of my vicinity to a new and excellent region of life. By persisting to read or to think, this region gives further sign of itself...
    Exp 3.76 13 ...the chagrins which the bad heart gives off as bubbles, at once take form as ladies and gentlemen in the street...
    Mrs1 3.125 1 My gentleman gives the law where he is;...
    Mrs1 3.149 5 ...[a beautiful behavior] gives a higher pleasure than statues or pictures;...
    Mrs1 3.153 19 [Love] gives new meanings to every fact.
    Nat2 3.169 10 There are days which occur in this climate...when everything that has life gives sign of satisfaction...
    Nat2 3.181 13 ...by clothing the sides of a bird with a few feathers [nature] gives him a petty omnipresence.
    Nat2 3.188 8 Each prophet comes presently...to esteem his hat and shoes sacred. However this may discredit such persons with the judicious, it helps them with the people, as it gives heat, pungency and publicity to their words.
    Pol1 3.201 13 What the tender poetic youth dreams, and prays, and paints to-day...shall be triumphant law and establishment for a hundred years, until it gives place in turn to new prayers and pictures.
    NER 3.256 12 This whole business of Trade gives me to pause and think...
    NER 3.262 12 No one gives the impression of superiority to the institution, which he must give who will reform it.
    NER 3.275 1 The same magnanimity shows itself...in the preference... which each man gives to the society of superiors over that of his equals.
    NER 3.275 6 [A man]...gives his days and nights, his talents and his heart, to strike a good stroke...
    NER 3.276 6 [A man] is sure that the soul which gives the lie to all things will tell none.
    UGM 4.23 19 ...I find [a master] greater when he can abolish himself and all heroes, by letting in this element of reason...into our thoughts, destroying individualism; the power so great that the potentate is nothing. Then he is a monarch who gives a constitution to his people;...
    PPh 4.47 24 Philosophy is the account which the human mind gives to itself of the constitution of the world.
    PPh 4.57 16 [Plato's] daring imagination gives him the more solid grasp of facts;...
    PPh 4.65 3 What value [Plato] gives to the art of gymnastic in education;...
    PNR 4.80 4 The publication, in Mr. Bohn's Serial Library, of the excellent translations of Plato...gives us an occasion to take hastily a few more notes of the elevation and bearings of this fixed star;...
    SwM 4.97 17 All religious history contains traces of the trance of saints... The trances of Socrates...Swedenborg, will readily come to mind. But what as readily comes to mind is the accompaniment of disease. This beatitude comes...with shocks to the mind of the receiver. It...gives a certain violent bias which taints his judgment.
    SwM 4.113 10 The pursuing the inquiry under the light of an end or final cause gives wonderful animation, a sort of personality to the whole writing [of Swedenborg].
    MoS 4.168 16 One has the same pleasure in [Montaigne's language] that he feels in listening to the necessary speech of men about their work, when any unusual circumstance gives momentary importance to the dialogue.
    MoS 4.176 6 Presently a new experience gives a new turn to our thoughts...
    ShP 4.208 2 ...in [Shakespeare's] drama, as in all great works of art...the Genius draws up the ladder after him, when the creative age...gives way to a new age...
    ShP 4.208 18 Read the antique documents extricated, analyzed and compared by the assiduous Dyce and Collier, and now read one of [Shakespeare's] skyey sentences...and tell me...which gives the most historical insight into the man.
    NMW 4.234 14 Seruzier, a colonel of artillery, gives...the following sketch of a scene after the battle of Austerlitz.
    GoW 4.283 20 [Goethe] has the formidable independence which converse with truth gives...
    GoW 4.287 13 ...the charm of this portion of the book [Goethe's Thory of Colors] consists in the simplest statement of the relation betwixt these grandees of European scientific history and himself; the mere drawing of the lines from Goethe to Kepler, from Goethe to Bacon, from Goethe to Newton. The drawing of the line...gives pleasure when Iphigenia and Faust do not...
    ET1 5.9 14 ...Mr. H[are], one of the guests, told me that Mr. Landor gives away his books...
    ET4 5.57 12 In Norway...the actors are bonders or landholders, every one of whom is named and personally and patronymically described, as the king's friend and companion. A sparce population gives this high worth to every man.
    ET4 5.70 8 [The English] think...that manly exercises are the foundation of that elevation of mind which gives one nature ascendant over another;...
    ET6 5.105 8 I know not where any personal eccentricity is so freely allowed [as in England], and no man gives himself any concern with it.
    ET8 5.136 5 Great men, said Aristotle, are always of a nature originally melancholy. 'T is the habit of a mind which attaches to abstractions with a passion which gives vast results.
    ET10 5.162 1 The introduction of these elements [steam and money] gives new resources to existing [English] proprietors.
    ET10 5.162 5 ...the engineer [in England] sees that every stroke of the steam-piston gives value to the duke's land...
    ET10 5.164 21 ...absolute possession gives the smallest freeholder [in England] identity of interest with the duke.
    ET10 5.165 27 ...[the Englishman's] English name and accidents are like a flourish of trumpets announcing him. This, with his quiet style of manners, gives him the power of a sovereign without the inconveniences which belong to that rank.
    ET11 5.184 14 ...the existence of the House of Peers as a branch of the government entitles them to fill half the Cabinet; and their weight of property and station gives them a virtual nomination of the other half;...
    ET11 5.186 3 ...beneficent power...gives a majesty which cannot be concealed or resisted.
    ET12 5.212 18 The university must be retrospective. The gale that gives direction to the vanes on all its towers blows out of antiquity.
    ET13 5.228 9 England accepts this ornamented national church, and it glazes the eyes, bloats the flesh, gives the voice a stertorous clang...
    ET15 5.270 8 [The London Times] gives the argument, not of the majority, but of the commanding class.
    ET18 5.300 13 A bitter class-legislation gives power [in England] to those who are rich enough to buy a law.
    ET19 5.311 11 It is this [sense of right and wrong] which...in trade and in the mechanic's shop, gives that honesty in performance...which is a national [English] characteristic.
    F 6.32 17 ...after cooping [the Saxon race] up for a thousand years in yonder England, [nature] gives a hundred Englands...
    Pow 6.54 25 This gives force to the strong,--that the multitude have no habit of self-reliance or original action.
    Pow 6.72 14 This aboriginal might gives a surprising pleasure when it appears under conditions of supreme refinement...
    Wth 6.88 9 ...by making his wants less or his gains more, [a man] must draw himself out of that state of pain and insult in which [nature] forces the beggar to lie. She gives him no rest until this is done;...
    Wth 6.101 27 [The farmer] knows that, in the dollar, he gives you so much discretion and patience...
    Wth 6.104 25 Every man who removes into this city with any purchasable talent or skill in him, gives to every man's labor in the city a new worth.
    Wth 6.116 18 Sir David Brewster gives exact instructions for microscopic observation...
    Wth 6.120 3 ...[Mr. Cockayne] thinks a cow is a creature that is fed on hay and gives a pail of milk twice a day.
    Wth 6.120 5 ...the cow that [Mr. Cockayne] buys gives milk for three months; then her bag dries up.
    Ctr 6.146 14 ...if...nature has aimed to make a legged and winged creature, framed for locomotion, we must...furnish him with that breeding which gives currency...
    Ctr 6.146 15 ...if...nature has aimed to make a legged and winged creature, framed for locomotion, we must...furnish him with that breeding which gives currency, as sedulously as with that which gives worth.
    Ctr 6.154 1 We spawning, spawning myrmidons,/ Our turn to-day! we take command,/ Jove gives the globe into the hand/ Of myrmidons, of myrmidons./
    Ctr 6.158 1 ...the poor little poet hearkens only to [praise], and rejects the censure as proving incapacity in the critic. But the poet cultivated becomes a stockholder in both companies,--say Mr. Curfew in the Curfew stock, and in the humanity stock,--and, in the last, exults as much in the demonstration of the unsoundness of Curfew, as his interest in the former gives him pleasure in the currency of Curfew.
    Bhr 6.173 12 I have seen...the persevering talker, who gives you his society in large saturating doses;...
    CbW 6.259 15 ...[an absorbing passion] is the heat which...gives us a good start and speed...
    Bty 6.290 23 'T is the adjustment of the size and of the joining of the sockets of the skeleton that gives grace of outline and the finer grace of movement.
    Bty 6.292 6 The pleasure a palace or a temple gives the eye is, that an order and method has been communicated to stones...
    Bty 6.294 10 The cell of the bee is built at that angle which gives the most strength with the least wax;...
    Bty 6.294 12 ...the bone or the quill of the bird gives the most alar strength with the least weight.
    Bty 6.306 6 ...character gives splendor to youth...
    Ill 6.311 17 Our first mistake is the belief that the circumstance gives the joy which we give to the circumstance.
    Civ 7.17 10 Witness the mute all hail/ The joyful traveller gives, when on the verge/ Of craggy Indian wilderness he hears/ From a log cabin stream Beethoven's notes/ On the piano, played with master's hand./
    Civ 7.24 3 ...a severe morality gives that essential charm to woman which educates all that is delicate, poetic and self-sacrificing;...
    Civ 7.27 3 Hear the definition which Kant gives of moral conduct: Act always so that the immediate motive of thy will may become a universal rule for all intelligent beings.
    Art2 7.43 24 The pulsation of a stretched string or wire gives the ear the pleasure of sweet sound...
    Art2 7.44 27 A jumble of musical sounds...gives pleasure to the unskilful ear.
    Art2 7.46 2 ...the pleasure that a noble temple gives us is only in part owing to the temple.
    Art2 7.46 19 The adventitious beauty of poetry may be felt in the greater delight which a verse gives in happy quotation than in the poem.
    Elo1 7.63 3 [An audience's] sympathy gives them a certain social organism...
    Elo1 7.81 16 ...it is not powers of speech that we primarily consider under this word eloquence, but the power that being present, gives them their perfection...
    DL 7.106 2 What art can paint or gild any object in afterlife with the glow which Nature gives to the first baubles of childhood!
    Farm 7.148 16 The high wall reflecting the heat back on the soil gives that acre a quadruple share of sunshine...
    Boks 7.207 11 [The scholar] will not repent the time he gives to Bacon...
    Boks 7.214 26 ...doubtless [novel-reading] gives some ideal dignity to the day.
    Clbs 7.238 17 Best is he who gives an answer that cannot be answered again.
    Cour 7.259 3 ...the protection which a house...even the first accumulation of savings gives, go in all times to generate this taint of the respectable classes.
    Cour 7.268 25 [Courage] gives the cutting edge to every profession.
    Suc 7.289 10 Our success takes from all what it gives to one.
    Suc 7.289 13 Egotism is a kind of buckram that gives momentary strength and concentration to men...
    Suc 7.295 13 ...it is only as a door into this [central intelligence], that any talent or the knowledge it gives is of value.
    Suc 7.296 4 'T is the fulness of man that...makes his Bibles and Shakspeares and Homers so great. The joyful reader borrows of his own ideas to fill their faulty outline, and knows not that he borrows and gives.
    Suc 7.305 12 ...our tenderness for youth and beauty gives a new and just importance to their fresh and manifold claims...
    Suc 7.305 13 As our tenderness for youth and beauty gives a new and just importance to their fresh and manifold claims, so the like sensibility gives welcome to all excellence...
    OA 7.330 17 The day comes...when the lonely thought, which seemed so wise, yet half-wise, half-thought...is suddenly matched in our mind...by its sequence...which gives it instantly radiating power...
    PI 8.9 14 Nature gives [the student]...a copy of every humor and shade in his character and mind.
    PI 8.10 20 The poet knows the missing link by the joy it gives.
    PI 8.10 21 The poet gives us the eminent experiences only...
    PI 8.15 25 The poet accounts all productions and changes of Nature as the nouns of language, uses them representatively, too well pleased with their ulterior to value much their primary meaning. Every new object so seen gives a shock of agreeable surprise.
    PI 8.17 14 [Poetry] is a presence of mind that gives a miraculous command of all means of uttering the thought and feeling of the moment.
    PI 8.25 2 This metonymy, or seeing the same sense in things so diverse, gives a pure pleasure.
    PI 8.38 5 A poet comes who...gives [mortal men] glimpses of the laws of the universe;...
    PI 8.45 20 Architecture gives the like pleasure [of rhyme] by the repetition of equal parts in a colonnade...
    SA 8.88 25 ...I have heard with admiring submission the experience of the lady who declared that the sense of being perfectly well dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquillity which religion is powerless to bestow.
    SA 8.93 18 Shenstone gave no bad account of this influence [of women] in his description of the French woman:... She strikes with such address the chords of self-love, that she gives unexpected vigor and agility to fancy...
    Elo2 8.113 12 ...recall the delight that sudden eloquence gives...
    Res 8.144 10 The world belongs to the energetic man. His will gives him new eyes.
    Res 8.144 24 Nature herself gives the hint and the example, if we have wit to take it.
    Comc 8.164 14 ...as the religious sentiment is the most vital and sublime of all our sentiments...so is it abhorrent to our whole nature, when, in the absence of the sentiment, the act or word or officer volunteers to stand in its stead. To the sympathies this...occasions grief. But to the intellect the lack of the sentiment gives no pain;...
    QO 8.175 3 The snowflake that is now falling is marked by both [old and new]. The present moment gives the motion and the color of the flake, Antiquity its form and properties.
    QO 8.188 18 In opening a new book we often discover, from the unguarded devotion with which the writer gives his motto or text, all we have to expect from him.
    QO 8.189 6 In literature, quotation is good only when the writer whom I follow goes my way, being better mounted than I, gives me a cast, as we say;...
    PC 8.217 9 Culture implies all which gives the mind possession of its own powers;...
    PPo 8.252 16 [Self-naming in poetry] gives [Hafiz] the opportunity of the most playful self-assertion...
    PPo 8.262 8 The falcon answered [the nightingale], Be all ear:/ I, experienced in affairs,/ See fifty things, say never one;/ But thee the people prizes not,/ Who, doing nothing, say'st a thousand./ To me, appointed to the chase,/ The king's hand gives the grouse's breast;/ Whilst a chatterer like thee/ Must gnaw worms in the thorn. Farewell!/
    Insp 8.272 5 When I wish to write on any topic, 't is of no consequence what kind of book or man gives me a hint or a motion...
    Insp 8.286 26 If a new view of life or mind gives us joy, so does new arrangement.
    Grts 8.309 8 ...the rule of the orator begins...when the thought which he stands for gives its own authority to him...
    Grts 8.309 9 ...the rule of the orator begins...when the thought which he stands for...gives him valor, breadth and new intellectual power...
    Imtl 8.347 11 He has [immortality], and he alone, who gives life to all names, persons, things, where he comes.
    Aris 10.53 2 ...Genius...gives [men] a sense of delicious liberty and power.
    Aris 10.58 2 ...All that depends on another gives pain; all that depends on himself gives pleasure;...
    Aris 10.58 3 ...All that depends on another gives pain; all that depends on himself gives pleasure;...
    PerF 10.68 4 No ray is dimmed, no atom worn,/ My oldest force is good as new,/ And the fresh rose on yonder thorn/ Gives back the bending heavens in dew./
    PerF 10.71 3 The coal on your grate gives out in decomposing to-day exactly the same amount of light and heat which was taken from the sunshine in its formation in the leaves and boughs of the antediluvian tree.
    PerF 10.79 7 [The persistent man] is his own apprentice, and more time gives a great addition of power...
    PerF 10.84 4 Obedience alone gives the right to command.
    Chr2 10.95 26 ...no talent gives the impression of sanity, if wanting this [moral sentiment];...
    Edc1 10.135 16 A man is a little thing whilst he works by and for himself, but, when he gives voice to the rules of love and justice, is godlike...
    Supl 10.169 2 'T is a good rule of rhetoric which Schlegel gives,-In good prose, every word is underscored;...
    SovE 10.189 17 Savage war gives place to that of Turenne and Wellington, which has limitations and a code.
    SovE 10.189 19 Savage war gives place to that of Turenne and Wellington, which has limitations and a code. This war again gives place to the finer quarrel of property, where the victory is wealth and the defeat poverty.
    SovE 10.201 2 You have perceived in the first fact of your conscious life here a miracle so astounding,-a miracle comprehending all the universe of miracles to which your intelligent life gives you access,-as to exhaust wonder...
    SovE 10.206 19 ...[the Orientals] will not turn on their heel to avoid famine, plague or the sword of the enemy. That is great, and gives a great air to the people.
    Prch 10.224 15 The human race are afflicted with a St. Vitus's dance;... their senses, their talents, are superfluously active, while the torpid heart gives no oracle.
    MoL 10.241 13 ...let me use the occasion which your kind request gives me, to offer you some counsels...
    MoL 10.247 22 ...no decay has crept over the spiritual force which gives bias and period to boundless Nature.
    Schr 10.262 10 I do not now refer to that intellectual conscience which... gives us many twinges for our sloth and unfaithfulness...
    Plu 10.298 8 ...[Plutarch] is a chief example of the illumination of the intellect by the force of morals. Though the most amiable of boon companions, this generous religion gives him apercus like Goethe's.
    Plu 10.304 20 Another [sentence] gives an insight into [Plutarch's] mystic tendencies...
    MMEm 10.419 9 It was His will that gives my [Mary Moody Emerson's] superiors to shine in wisdom, friendship, and ardent pursuits...
    Thor 10.481 12 ...[Thoreau] remarked that by night every dwelling-house gives out bad air...
    LS 11.18 22 ...a true disciple of Jesus will receive the light he gives most thankfully;...
    LS 11.21 15 What I revere and obey in [Christianity] is its reality...the rest it gives to the mind...
    HDC 11.59 24 The only compensation which war offers for its manifold mischiefs, is in the great personal qualities to which it gives scope and occasions.
    HDC 11.68 20 ...it gives life and strength to every attempt to oppose [unconstitutional taxes], that not only the people of this, but the neighboring provinces are remarkably united in the important and interesting opposition...
    EWI 11.136 2 The lives of the advocates [of emancipation in the West Indies] are pages of greatness, and the connection of the eminent senators with this question constitutes the immortalizing moments of those men's lives. The bare enunciation of the theses at which the lawyers and legislators arrived, gives a glow to the heart of the reader.
    War 11.153 16 Plutarch...considers the invasion and conquest of the East by Alexander as one of the most bright and pleasing pages in history; and it must be owned he gives sound reason for his opinion.
    War 11.157 5 ...trade...gives the parties the knowledge that these enemies over sea or over the mountain are such men as we;...
    FSLC 11.207 11 [Slavery] is very industrious, gives herself no holidays.
    FSLC 11.207 15 [Slavery] got Texas and now will have Cuba, and means to keep her majority. The experience of the past gives us no encouragement to lie by.
    SMC 11.348 12 These things are dear to every man that lives,/ And life prized more for what it lends than gives./
    SMC 11.358 2 One [volunteer] wrote to his father these words: You may think it strange that I, who have always naturally rather shrunk from danger, should wish to enter the army; but there is a higher Power that... enables [men] to see their duty, and gives them courage to face the dangers with which those duties are attended.
    Wom 11.414 2 There is much in [women's] nature, much in their social position which gives them a certain power of divination.
    CPL 11.501 25 Everything that gives [a man] a new perception of beauty multiplies his pure enjoyments.
    CPL 11.505 2 Montesquieu...writes: The love of study is in us almost the only eternal passion. All the others quit us in proportion as this miserable machine which gives them to us approaches its ruin.
    FRep 11.520 24 ...the grasshopper on the turret of Faneuil Hall gives a proper hint of the men below.
    FRep 11.522 19 [The American] is easily fed with wheat and game, with Ohio wine, but his brain is also pampered by finer draughts, by political power and by the power in the railroad board, in the mills, or the banks. This...gives, of course, an easy self-reliance...
    FRep 11.528 25 ...a pew in a particular church gives an easier entrance to the subscription ball.
    PLT 12.57 17 The men we know, poets, wits, writers, deal with their thoughts as jewellers with jewels, which they sell but must not wear. Like the carpenter, who gives up the key of the fine house he has built, and never enters it again.
    Mem 12.90 10 ...memory gives stability to knowledge;...
    Mem 12.91 9 Memory...gives continuity and dignity to human life.
    CL 12.159 11 Nature...gives sanity;...
    CL 12.164 7 Every new perception of the method and beauty of Nature gives a new shock of surprise and pleasure;...
    CL 12.165 17 ...it is only our ineradicable belief that the world answers to man, and part to part, that gives any interest in the subject.
    CL 12.166 21 ...[a parlor in which fine persons are found] again is Nature, and there we have again the charm which landscape gives us, in a finer form;...
    CW 12.171 13 ...every house on that long street [in Concord] has a back door, which leads down through the garden to the river-bank, when a skiff, or a dory, gives you, all summer, access to enchantments, new every day...
    Bost 12.185 11 ...if the character of the people [of Boston] has a larger range and greater versatility...perhaps they may thank their climate of extremes, which at one season gives them the splendor of the equator and a touch of Syria, and then runs down to a cold which approaches the temperature of the celestial spaces.
    Bost 12.204 8 Nature...never gives without measure.
    Milt1 12.277 13 [Milton's] own conviction it is which gives such authority to his strain.
    ACri 12.289 20 Natural science gives us the inks, the shades;...
    MLit 12.310 4 ...we ought to credit literature with much more than the bare word it gives us.
    MLit 12.311 18 How can the age be a bad one which gives me Plato and Paul and Plutarch...beside its own riches?
    WSL 12.347 17 ...the minuteness of [Landor's] verbal criticism gives a confidence in his fidelity when he speaks the language of meditation or of passion.
    WSL 12.348 14 ...[Landor] has not the high, overpowering method by which the master gives unity and integrity to a work of many parts.
    PPr 12.389 23 [Carlyle]...gives sincerity where it is due.

givest, v. (1)

    LS 11.9 13 It was the custom for the master of the feast [Passover] to break the bread and to bless it, using this formula...Blessed be Thou, O Lord, our God, who givest us the fruit of the vine...

giveth, v. (2)

    SR 2.64 21 Here are the lungs of that inspiration which giveth man wisdom...
    ACri 12.286 5 Luther said, I preach coarsely; that giveth content to all.

giving, n. (3)

    UGM 4.7 25 Direct giving is agreeable to the early belief of men;...
    UGM 4.7 27 Direct giving is agreeable to the early belief of men; direct giving of material or metaphysical aid...
    ShP 4.209 20 One can discern, in [Shakespeare's] ample pictures of the gentleman and the king...his delight...in cheerful giving.

giving, v. (63)

    LE 1.165 24 The vision of genius comes by...giving leave and amplest privilege to the spontaneous sentiment.
    MN 1.194 19 Not thanks, not prayer seem quite the highest or truest name for our communication with the infinite,-but glad and conspiring reception,-reception that becomes giving in its turn...
    MN 1.216 7 Your end should be one inapprehensible to the senses; then will it be a god...always giving health.
    MR 1.232 21 ...the general system of our trade...is a system...not of giving but of taking advantage.
    YA 1.391 20 ...the development of our American internal resources...and the appearance of new moral causes which are to modify the State, are giving an aspect of greatness to the Future...
    Comp 2.94 23 What did the preacher mean by saying that the good are miserable in the present life? Was it...that a compensation is to be made to these last [the good] hereafter, by giving them the like gratifications another day,--bank-stock and doubloons, venison and champagne?
    Lov1 2.177 26 In giving [the lover] to another [love] still more gives him to himself.
    Pt1 3.21 21 ...the poet is the Namer or Language-maker...giving to every [thing] its own name and not another's...
    Mrs1 3.124 5 In a good lord there must first be a good animal, at least to the extent of yielding the incomparable advantage of animal spirits. The ruling class must have more, but they must have these, giving in every company the sense of power...
    Gts 3.163 12 This giving is flat usurpation...
    NR 3.245 10 ...the only way in which we can be just, is by giving ourselves the lie;...
    NER 3.254 23 It is right and beautiful in any man to say, I will take this coat, or this book, or this measure of corn of yours,--in whom we see the act...to flow from the whole spirit and faith of him; for then that taking will have a giving as free and divine;...
    PNR 4.88 2 ...a very well-marked class of souls, namely those who delight in giving a spiritual, that is, an ethico-intellectual expression to every truth... are said to Platonize.
    SwM 4.110 19 ...[Swedenborg] must be reckoned a leader in that revolution, which, by giving to science an idea, has given to an aimless accumulation of experiments, guidance and form and a beating heart.
    NMW 4.254 7 ...[Napoleon] sat...in his lonely island, coldly falsifying facts and dates and characters, and giving to history a theatrical eclat.
    ET2 5.32 17 It has been said that the King of England would consult his dignity by giving audience to foreign ambassadors in the cabin of a man-of-war.
    ET3 5.42 1 ...to make these [commercial] advantages avail, the river Thames must dig its spacious outlet to the sea from the heart of the kingdom, giving road and landing to innumerable ships...
    ET13 5.218 1 From this slow-grown [English] church important reactions proceed; much for culture, much for giving a direction to the nation's affection and will to-day.
    ET14 5.240 20 [Bacon] explained himself by giving various quaint examples of the summary or common laws of which each science has its own illustration.
    ET16 5.288 17 There, I thought, in America, lies nature sleeping...too much by half for man in the picture, and so giving a certain tristesse...
    Wth 6.87 24 Wealth begins...in giving on all sides by tools and auxiliaries the greatest possible extension to our powers;...
    Wth 6.114 15 ...the vain are gentle and giving.
    Ctr 6.132 18 ...nature has secured individualism by giving the private person a high conceit of his weight in the system.
    Wsp 6.211 21 ...the same gentlemen who agree to discountenance the private rogue will be forward to show civilities and marks of respect to the public one; and no amount of evidence of his crimes will prevent them giving him ovations...
    Wsp 6.225 4 Here is a low political economy...by cunning tariffs giving preference to worse wares of ours.
    CbW 6.263 20 In dealing with the drunken, we do not affect to be drunk. We must treat the sick with the same firmness, giving them of course every aid,--but withholding ourselves.
    DL 7.114 27 Generosity does not consist in giving money or money's worth.
    Farm 7.138 1 ...[the countryman's] independence and his pleasing arts,-- the care of bees...the care...of orchards and forests, and the reaction of these on the workman, in giving him a strength and an plain dignity like the face and manners of Nature,--all men acknowledge.
    Boks 7.216 1 A person of less courage...will answer [the question of a vicious marriage] as the heroine [of Jane Eyre] does,--giving way to fate...
    Boks 7.216 7 We admire...the homage of drawing-rooms and parliaments. They make us skeptical, by giving prominence to wealth and social position.
    Clbs 7.227 13 The physician helps [people] mainly...by healthy talk giving a right tone to the patient's mind.
    Clbs 7.233 15 There must be large reception as well as giving.
    Clbs 7.236 4 Jesus spent his life in discoursing with humble people...in giving wise answers...
    Clbs 7.249 12 We know that l'homme de lettres is...not fond of giving away his seed-corn;...
    Cour 7.253 23 [Self-Sacrifice] makes the renown...of Washington, giving his service to the public without salary or reward.
    Cour 7.265 13 Bodily pain is superficial, seated usually in the skin and the extremities, for the sake of giving us warning to put us on our guard;...
    PI 8.23 13 Good poetry...heightens every species of force in Nature, by giving it a human volition.
    PI 8.37 2 [The poet] does not give his hand, but in sign of giving his heart;...
    Elo2 8.113 20 The orator is he whom every man is seeking when he goes... into any popular assembly,--though often disappointed, yet never giving over the hope.
    Comc 8.157 21 The essence...of all comedy, seems to be...a non-performance of what is pretended to be performed, at the same time that one is giving loud pledges of performance.
    Comc 8.160 27 ...Falstaff...is a character of the broadest comedy, giving himself unreservedly to his senses...
    QO 8.194 3 ...people quote so differently: one finding only what is gaudy and popular; another, the heart of the author, the report of his select and happiest hour; and the reader sometimes giving more to the citation than he owes to it.
    Aris 10.32 13 In the sketches which I have to offer [on Aristocracy] I shall not be surprised if my readers should fancy that I am giving them...a chapter on Education.
    Aris 10.46 21 I only point in passing to the order of the universe, which makes a rotation,-not like the coarse policy of the Greeks, ten generals, each commanding one day and then giving place to the next...
    PerF 10.76 25 ...the health of man is an equality of inlet and outlet, gathering and giving.
    Edc1 10.131 8 ...always the mind contains in its transparent chambers the means of classifying the most refractory phenomena, of...subordinating them to a bright reason of its own, and so giving to man a sort of property... in every district and particle of the globe.
    SovE 10.204 6 The religion of seventy years ago was an iron belt to the mind, giving it concentration and force.
    Plu 10.300 5 ...though Plutarch is as plain-spoken [as Montaigne], his moral sentiment is always pure. What better praise has any writer received than he whom Montaigne finds frank in giving things, not words...
    LLNE 10.325 1 The ancient manners were giving way.
    LLNE 10.333 13 [Everett] abounded...even in a sort of defying experiment of his own wit and skill in giving an oracular weight to Hebrew or Rabbinical words;...
    Thor 10.459 11 ...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.
    Carl 10.492 7 [Young men] go for free institutions...and only giving opportunity and motive to every man; [Carlyle] for stringent government...
    LS 11.5 10 In St. Matthew's Gospel...are recorded the words of Jesus in giving bread and wine on that occasion [the Last Supper] to his disciples...
    EPro 11.321 10 In times like these...what man can, without shame, receive good news from day to day without giving good news of himself?
    Mem 12.93 16 There is no book like the memory, none with such a good index, and that of every kind...arranged...by all sorts of mysterious hooks and eyes to catch and hold, and contrivances for giving a hint.
    Mem 12.109 17 If we occupy ourselves long on this wonderful faculty [memory], and see...the way in which new knowledge calls upon old knowledge-new giving undreamed-of value to old;...we cannot fail to draw thence a sublime hint that thus there must be an endless increase in the power of memory only through its use;...
    CL 12.151 1 The mallows the Greeks held sacred as giving the first sign of the sympathy of the earth with the celestial influences.
    MAng1 12.231 22 Long after [St. Peter's dome] was completed, and often since, to this day, rumors are occasionally spread that it is giving way...
    ACri 12.295 22 Montaigne must have the credit of giving to literature that which we listen for in bar-rooms, the low speech...
    WSL 12.345 18 What is the quality of the persons who...have a certain salutary omnipresence in all our life's history, almost giving their own quality to the atmosphere and the landscape?
    Pray 12.353 23 I will know the joy of giving to my friend the dearest treasure I have.
    Let 12.395 4 One of the [letter] writers relentingly says, What shall my uncles and aunts do without me? and desires distinctly to be understood not to propose the Indian mode of giving decrepit relatives as much of the mud of holy Ganges as they can swallow, and more...
    Trag 12.411 22 [A man...should keep as much as possible the reins in his own hands, rarely giving way to extreme emotion of joy or grief.

Giza [Ghizeh], 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.

glaciers, n. (1)

    FRep 11.520 26 The very glaciers are viscous...

glad, adj. (65)

    Nat 1.9 9 Nature says, - [man] is my creature, and maugre all his impertinent griefs, he shall be glad with me.
    Nat 1.9 21 I am glad to the brink of fear.
    DSA 1.133 12 The preachers do not see that they make [Jesus's] gospel not glad...
    DSA 1.137 9 ...now the priest's Sabbath has lost the splendor of nature;... we are glad when it is done;...
    LE 1.155 9 ...I am not less glad or sanguine at the meeting of scholars, than when, a boy, I first saw the graduates of my own College assembled at their anniversary.
    MN 1.194 17 Not thanks, not prayer seem quite the highest or truest name for our communication with the infinite,-but glad and conspiring reception...
    MN 1.220 1 ...let [a man] be filled with awe and dread before the Vast and the Divine, which uses him glad to be used, and our eye is riveted to the chain of events.
    LT 1.290 1 I read [the Moral Sentiment] in glad and in weeping eyes;...
    Tran 1.357 8 ...[the strong spirits] surrender themselves with glad heart to the heavenly guide...
    OS 2.296 12 The soul gives itself, alone, original and pure, to the Lonely, Original and Pure, who, on that condition, gladly inhabits, leads and speaks through it. Then is it glad, young and nimble.
    Art1 2.357 27 No mannerist made these varied groups and diverse original single figures. Here is the artist himself improvising, grim and glad, at his block.
    Chr1 3.115 2 When at last that which we have always longed for [a fine character] is arrived and shines on us with glad rays out of that far celestial land, then to be coarse...argues a vulgarity that seems to shut the doors of heaven.
    Gts 3.160 15 For common gifts, necessity makes pertinences and beauty every day, and one is glad when an imperative leaves him no option;...
    Gts 3.162 20 We are either glad or sorry at a gift...
    NR 3.248 16 ...I endeavored to show my good men...that I revered saints, but woke up glad that the old pagan world stood its ground and died hard;...
    NR 3.248 17 ...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 4.3 12 They who lived with [good men] found life glad and nutritious.
    UGM 4.22 18 Nobody is glad in the gladness of another...
    PPh 4.42 4 ...society is glad to forget the innumerable laborers who ministered to this architect...
    SwM 4.101 26 One is glad to learn that [Swedenborg's] books on mines and metals are held in the highest esteem by those who understand these matters.
    MoS 4.154 5 Life's well enough, but we shall be glad to get out of it...
    MoS 4.154 6 Life's well enough, but we shall be glad to get out of it, and they will all be glad to have us.
    ShP 4.216 6 ...Chaucer is glad and erect;...
    ET1 5.19 12 ...[Wordsworth] had broken a tooth by a fall, when walking with two lawyers, and had said that he was glad it did not happen forty years ago;...
    ET16 5.273 11 I was glad to sum up a little my experiences, and to exchange a few reasonable words on the aspects of England with a man on whose genius I set a very high value [Carlyle]...
    Wsp 6.199 18 [Fate] is the oldest, and best known,/ More near than aught thou call'st thy own,/ Yet greeted in another's eyes,/ Disconcerts with glad surprise./
    Wsp 6.207 6 [Dido] was so fair,/ So young, so lusty, with her eyen glad,/ That if that God that heaven and earthe made/ Would have a love for beauty and goodness,/ And womanhede, truth, and seemliness,/ Whom should he loven but this lady sweet?/ There n' is no woman to him half so meet./
    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.
    CbW 6.245 9 The priest is glad if his prayers or his sermon meet the condition of any soul;...
    CbW 6.245 18 The physician prescribes hesitatingly out of his few resources the same tonic or sedative to this new and peculiar constitution which he has applied with various success to a hundred men before. If the patient mends he is glad and surprised.
    Civ 7.31 10 Was it Bonaparte who said that he found vices very good patriots?--he got five millions from the love of brandy, and he should be glad to know which of the virtues would pay him as much.
    Clbs 7.229 24 ...I prize the good invention whereby everybody is provided with somebody who is glad to see him.
    Cour 7.255 3 ...here is one who, seeing the wishes of men, knows how to come at their end;...and leads them in glad surprise to the very point where they would be...
    OA 7.320 18 Life is well enough, but we shall all be glad to get out of it...
    OA 7.320 19 Life is well enough, but we shall all be glad to get out of it, and they will all be glad to have us.
    OA 7.325 21 When I chanced to meet the poet Wordsworth, then sixty-three years old, he told me that he had just had a fall and lost a tooth, and when his companions were much concerned for the mischance, he had replied that he was glad it had not happened forty years before.
    PI 8.36 26 [The poet's] wreath and robe is...emancipation from other men's questions and glad study of his own;...
    Elo2 8.113 5 ...[the eloquent man] makes [the people] glad or angry or penitent at his pleasure;...
    Res 8.139 1 I like the sentiment of the poor woman who, coming...for the first time to the seashore...said she was glad for once in her life to see something which there was enough of.
    Insp 8.270 6 We are very glad that [the aboriginal man] ate his fishes and snails and marrow-bones out of our sight and hearing...
    Insp 8.284 13 ...I am glad that the atmosphere should be an excitant...
    Insp 8.284 14 ...I am...glad to find the dull rock itself to be deluged with Deity...
    Chr2 10.98 16 In the ever-returning hour of reflection, [a man] says: I stand here glad at heart of all the sympathies I can awaken and share...
    Plu 10.298 21 The range of mind makes the glad writer.
    MMEm 10.408 1 [Mary Moody Emerson's] nephew [C. C. Emerson] wrote of her: I am glad the friendship with Aunt Mary is ripening.
    Carl 10.487 2 Hold with the Maker, not the Made,/ Sit with the Cause, or grim or glad./
    EWI 11.103 11 ...when [the negro] sank in the furrow...no priest of salvation visited him with glad tidings...
    FSLC 11.182 10 Just now a friend came into my house and said, If this [Fugitive Slave] law shall be repealed I shall be glad that I have lived; if not I shall be sorry that I was born.
    FSLN 11.242 16 I listened, lately, on one of those occasions when the university chooses one of its distinguished sons returning from the political arena, believing that senators and statesmen would be glad to throw off the harness and to dip again in the Castalian pools.
    FSLN 11.243 3 You, gentlemen of these literary and scientific schools, and the important class you represent, have the power to make your verdict clear and prevailing. Had you done so, you would have found me [Robert Winthrop] its glad organ and champion.
    AKan 11.261 26 I am glad to see that the terror at disunion and anarchy is disappearing.
    JBB 11.267 7 ...I am very glad to see that this sudden interest in the hero of Harper's Ferry has provoked an extreme curiosity in all parts of the Republic, in regard to the details of his history.
    EPro 11.325 26 [The Emancipation Proclamation] will be an insurance to the ship as it goes plunging through the sea with glad tidings to all people.
    SMC 11.349 13 We are glad and proud that we have no monopoly of merit.
    EdAd 11.387 27 ...we should certainly be glad to give good advice in politics.
    Koss 11.397 20 ...now, Sir [Kossuth], we are heartily glad to see you, at last, in these fields [of Concord].
    FRO2 11.485 14 I am glad that a more realistic church is coming to be the tendency of society...
    FRO2 11.490 19 I am glad to hear each sect complain that they do not now hold the opinions they are charged with.
    FRO2 11.490 22 I am glad to believe society contains a class of humble souls who enjoy the luxury of a religion that does not degrade;...
    PLT 12.34 4 Each man has a feeling that what is done anywhere is done by the same wit as his. All men are his representatives, and he is glad to see that his wit can work at this or that problem as it ought to be done, and better than he could do it.
    CInt 12.122 18 [A man] looks at all men as his representatives, and is glad to see that his wit can work at that problem as it ought to be done...
    CL 12.156 7 ...we are glad to see the world, and what amplitudes it has...
    CW 12.178 12 ...I am always glad to remember that in proportion to the foliation is the addition of wood.
    ACri 12.285 7 ...when I read of various extraordinary polyglots...who can understand fifty languages, I answer that I shall be glad and surprised to find that they know one.
    PPr 12.389 14 ...in all this glad and needful venting of his redundant spirits, [Carlyle] does yet, ever and anon, as if catching the glance of one wise man in the crowd...lance at him in clear level tone the very word...

gladden, v. (1)

    PPo 8.242 11 Firdusi...has written in the Shah Nameh the annals...of Afrasiyab...whose heart was bounteous as the ocean and his hands like the clouds when rain falls to gladden the earth.

gladdened, v. (1)

    Cir 2.317 27 I own I am gladdened by seeing the predominance of the saccharine principle throughout vegetable nature...

gladdens, v. (1)

    MLit 12.333 25 ...all the hints of omnipresence and energy which we have caught, this man [the poet] should unfold, and constitute facts. And this is the insatiable craving which alternately saddens and gladdens men at this day.

gladdest, adj. (1)

    Mrs1 3.121 24 [Good society] is a spontaneous fruit of talents and feelings of precisely that class...who take the lead in the world at this hour, and though...far from constituting the gladdest and highest tone of human feeling, it is as good as the whole society permits it to be.

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