Gladiators to Go-Carts

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

gladiators, n. (4)

    Tran 1.344 23 [Transcendentalists] prolong their privilege of childhood in this wise; of doing nothing, but making immense demands on all the gladiators in the lists of action and fame.
    Pol1 3.217 12 The gladiators in the lists of power feel...the presence of worth.
    ET14 5.249 25 [Carlyle] saw little difference in the gladiators, or the causes for which they combated;...
    Clbs 7.232 27 ...there are the gladiators, to whom [conversation] is always a battle;...

gladly, adv. (66)

    Nat 1.69 2 Herbs gladly cure our flesh.../
    LE 1.166 19 ...[the speaker] only adjusts himself to the free spirit which gladly utters itself through him;...
    LE 1.174 10 ...set your habits to a life of solitude;...you will have results, which, when you meet your fellow-men, you can communicate, and they will gladly receive.
    LE 1.181 22 ...the lower faculties of man are subdued to docility; through which as an unobstructed channel the soul now easily and gladly flows?
    MN 1.200 23 ...thou must behold [nature] in a spirit as grand as that by which it exists, ere thou canst know the law. Known it will not be, but gladly beloved and enjoyed.
    MN 1.207 18 ...the union of foreign constitutions in him enables [a man] to do gladly and gracefully what the assembled human race could not have sufficed to do.
    MN 1.211 9 We too could have gladly prophesied standing in [the poet's] place.
    MR 1.229 11 ...let life be fair and poetic, and the scholars will gladly be lovers...
    MR 1.256 10 ...the merchant gladly takes money from his income to add to his capital...
    LT 1.274 7 [The wealthy man] entertains [the divine]...lodges him; his religion comes home at night, prays, is...sumptuously laid to sleep; rises...is better breakfasted than he whose morning appetite would have gladly fed on green figs between Bethany and Jerusalem...
    Con 1.316 18 What you say of your...world is true enough, and I gladly avail myself of its convenience;...
    YA 1.384 27 How gladly would each citizen pay a commission for the support and continuation of good guidance.
    YA 1.387 5 If society were transparent, the noble would everywhere be gladly received...
    SR 2.68 11 When we have new perception, we shall gladly disburden the memory of its hoarded treasures as old rubbish.
    Prd1 2.219 1 [Prudence] Theme no poet gladly sung,/ Fair to old and foul to young;/...
    OS 2.296 11 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.
    Cir 2.313 23 ...the instinct of man...gladly arms itself against the dogmatism of bigots...
    Int 2.325 11 Gladly would I unfold in calm degrees a natural history of the intellect...
    Pt1 3.10 19 I remember when I was young how much I was moved one morning by tidings that genius had appeared in a youth who sat near me at table. He...had written hundreds of lines, but...could tell nothing but that all was changed,--man, beast, heaven, earth and sea. How gladly we listened!...
    Exp 3.55 5 Gladly we would anchor, but the anchorage is quicksand.
    Exp 3.69 12 I would gladly be moral and keep due metes and bounds...
    Nat2 3.183 9 ...let us be men instead of woodchucks and the oak and the elm shall gladly serve us...
    NER 3.271 16 ...[every man] he puts himself on the side of his enemies, listening gladly to what they say of him...
    ET1 5.22 14 [Wordsworth] said, If you are interested in my verses perhaps you will like to hear these lines. I gladly assented...
    ET1 5.23 7 ...recollecting myself, that I had come thus far to see a poet and he was chanting poems to me, I saw that [Wordsworth] was right and I was wrong, and gladly gave myself up to hear.
    ET4 5.46 13 Men hear gladly of the power of blood or race.
    ET4 5.47 19 ...no genius can long or often utter any thing which is not invited and gladly entertained by men around him.
    ET7 5.119 5 [The English] read gladly in old Fuller that a lady in the reign of Elizabeth, would have as patiently digested a lie, as the wearing of false stones...
    F 6.11 22 If, later, [these drones] give birth to some superior individual...all the ancestors are gladly forgotten.
    F 6.30 14 ...we gladly forget numbers, money, climate, gravitation...
    Bhr 6.185 6 Look on this woman. There is not beauty...nor distinguished power to serve you; but all see her gladly;...
    Bhr 6.193 23 ...such was the eloquence and good humor of the monk [Basle], that wherever he went he was received gladly and civilly treated...
    Wsp 6.239 26 ...[men] suffer from politics...or from sickness, and they would gladly know that they were to be dismissed from the duties of life.
    CbW 6.262 3 ...we go gladly to Faneuil Hall to be played upon by the stormy winds and strong fingers of enraged patriotism...
    DL 7.117 19 ...the pine and the oak shall gladly descend from the mountains to uphold the roof of men as faithful and necessary as themselves;...
    DL 7.132 1 Obviously, it would be easy for every town to discharge this truly municipal duty [of a library and museum]. Every one of us would gladly contribute his share;...
    DL 7.132 2 Obviously, it would be easy for every town to discharge this truly municipal duty [of a library and museum]. Every one of us would gladly contribute his share; and the more gladly, the more considerable the institution had become.
    Farm 7.135 22 ...The cordial quality of pear or plum/ Ascends as gladly in a single tree/ As in broad orchards resonant with bees;/...
    Clbs 7.232 15 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.
    PI 8.1 15 ...[The people of the sky] Teach him gladly to postpone/ Pleasures to another stage/ Beyond the scope of human age,/ Freely as task at eve undone/ Waits unblamed to-morrow's sun.
    Elo2 8.113 3 By leading [people's] thought [the eloquent man] leads their will, and can make them do gladly what an hour ago they would not believe that they could be led to do at all...
    Elo2 8.114 25 ...how every listener gladly consents to be nothing in [the orator's] presence...
    Res 8.146 23 ...they can conquer who believe they can. Every one hears gladly that cheerful voice.
    Aris 10.31 12 ...the word gentleman is gladly heard in all companies;...
    Aris 10.39 26 ...the basis of all aristocracy must be truth,-the doing what elsewhere is pretended to be done. One would gladly see all our institutions rightly aristocratic in this wise.
    Edc1 10.141 7 ...[the boy] gladly enters a school which forbids conceit, affectation, emphasis and dulness...
    SovE 10.195 11 We perish, and perish gladly, if the law remains.
    SovE 10.195 13 ...a man may go to ruin gladly, if he see that thereby no shade falls on that he loves and adores.
    Prch 10.220 25 ...the sober eye finds something ghastly in this [religious] empiricism. At first, delighted with the triumph of the intellect...we are like...soldiers who rush to battle; but...when the enemy lies cold in his blood at our feet;...we would gladly recall the life that so offended us;...
    Schr 10.259 4 For thought, and not praise,/ Thought is the wages/ For which I sell days,/ Will gladly sell ages/...
    Schr 10.261 11 Literary men gladly acknowledge these ties which find for the homeless and the stranger a welcome where least looked for.
    Schr 10.282 12 [Truth]...diminishes and annihilates everybody, and the prophet so gladly feels his personality lost in this victorious life.
    HDC 11.62 17 I turn gladly to the progress of our civil history.
    EWI 11.133 27 ...whilst our very amiable and very innocent representatives...at Washington are...very eloquent at dinners and at caucuses, there is a disastrous want of men from New England. I would gladly make exceptions...
    EWI 11.135 10 ...I turn gladly to the rightful theme, to the bright aspects of the occasion.
    EWI 11.142 17 [West Indian negroes] receive hints and advances from the whites that they will be gladly received as subscribers to the Exchange...
    SMC 11.351 22 'T is certain that a plain stone like this [the Concord Monument]...mixes with surrounding nature,-by day with the changing seasons, by night the stars roll over it gladly...
    SHC 11.432 20 ...I have heard it said here that we would gladly spend for a park for the living, but not for a cemetery;...
    Scot 11.463 8 ...to the rare tribute of a centennial anniversary of his birthday, which we gladly join with Scotland...to keep, [Scott] is not less entitled...
    Scot 11.463 12 ...to the rare tribute of a centennial anniversary of his birthday...[Scott] is not less entitled...by the exceptional debt which all English-speaking men have gladly owed to his character and genius.
    CL 12.161 20 By what compass the geese steer, and the herring migrate, we would so gladly know.
    CL 12.162 24 ...sometimes [my naturalist] brought [the farmers] ostentatiously gifts of flowers, fruit or rare shrubs they would gladly have paid a price for...
    CW 12.170 3 ...The cordial quality of pear or plum/ Ascends as gladly in the single tree/ As in broad orchards resonant with bees;/...
    MAng1 12.217 18 The nature of the beautiful-we gladly borrow the language of Moritz, a German critic-consists herein, that because the understanding in the presence of the beautiful, cannot ask, Why is it beautiful? for that reason it is so.
    Let 12.396 4 We shall hardly trust ourselves to reply to arguments by which we would gladly be persuaded.
    Let 12.401 21 Where a people honors genius in its artists, there breathes like an atmosphere a universal soul...all hearts become pious and great, and it adds fire to heroes. The home of all men is with such a people, and there will the stranger gladly abide.

gladness, n. (3)

    UGM 4.22 18 Nobody is glad in the gladness of another...
    PI 8.37 21 The gladness [the poet] imparts he shares.
    MLit 12.315 27 Do gladness and hope and fortitude flow from [the writer' s] page into thy heart?

Gladstone, William, n. (1)

    Wsp 6.209 22 In Italy, Mr. Gladstone said of the late King of Naples, It has been a proverb that he has erected the negation of God into a system of government.

glance, n. (30)

    AmS 1.111 17 The meal in the firkin;...the glance of the eye;...show me the ultimate reason of these matters;...
    MN 1.197 27 Every earnest glance we give to the realities around us... proceeds from a holy impulse...
    Lov1 2.172 14 Perhaps we never saw [the lovers] before and never shall meet them again. But we see them exchange a glance...and we are no longer strangers.
    Fdsp 2.210 9 A message, a thought, a sincerity, a glance from [my friend] I want...
    Fdsp 2.212 12 You shall not come nearer a man by getting into his house. If unlike...you shall never catch a true glance of his eye.
    Cir 2.313 12 ...steeped in the sea of beautiful forms which the field offers us, we may chance to cast a right glance back upon biography.
    Int 2.328 16 You cannot with your best deliberation and heed come so close to any question as your spontaneous glance shall bring you...
    Mrs1 3.133 11 There will always be in society certain persons...whose glance will at any time determine for the curious their standing in the world.
    Nat2 3.181 19 If we look at [nature's] work, we seem to catch a glance of a system in transition.
    ET12 5.209 8 ...so eminent are the members that a glance at the calendars will show that in all the world one cannot be in better company than on the books of one of the larger Oxford or Cambridge colleges.
    F 6.30 11 The glance of [the hero's] eye has the force of sunbeams.
    Wth 6.124 24 ...we must not leave the topic [economy] without casting one glance into the interior recesses.
    Ctr 6.161 9 Archimedes will look through your Connecticut machine at a glance, and judge of its fitness.
    Bhr 6.179 8 The glance is natural magic.
    Bhr 6.179 12 The communication by the glance is in the greatest part not subject to the control of the will.
    Bhr 6.188 18 ...the sad realist knows these fellows [of position] at a glance...
    DL 7.127 6 The first glance we meet may satisfy us that matter is the vehicle of higher powers than its own...
    WD 7.178 22 Moments...of fine personal relation, a smile, a glance,--what ample borrowers of eternity they are!
    PPo 8.244 15 Hafiz...adds to some of the attributes of Pindar, Anacreon, Horace and Burns, the insight of a mystic, that sometimes affords a deeper glance at Nature than belongs to either of these bards.
    PPo 8.250 13 ...if you mistake [Hafiz] for a low rioter, he turns short on you...to ejaculate with equal fire the most unpalatable affirmations of heroic sentiment and contempt for the world. Sometimes it is a glance from the height of thought...
    PPo 8.257 11 With unrelated glance/ I looked the rose in the eye:/ The rose in the hour of gloaming/ Flamed like a lamp hard-by./
    Dem1 10.6 19 You may catch the glance of a dog sometimes which lays a kind of claim to sympathy and brotherhood.
    Dem1 10.6 27 It was in this glance [at an animal] that Ovid got the hint of his metamorphoses;...
    Dem1 10.7 14 In a mixed assembly we have chanced to see not only a glance of Abdiel, so grand and keen...
    Dem1 10.11 11 A man reveals himself in every glance and step and movement and rest...
    Thor 10.464 25 At first glance [Thoreau] measured his companion...
    Thor 10.465 4 [Thoreau] understood the matter in hand at a glance...
    Milt1 12.249 4 Milton seldom deigns a glance at the obstacles that are to be overcome before that which he proposes can be done.
    PPr 12.389 16 ...[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...
    Trag 12.409 13 The whisper overheard, the detected glance...darken the brow and chill the heart of men.

glance, v. (1)

    Exp 3.50 1 ...all our blows glance...

glanced, v. (1)

    F 6.19 17 [The drowning men] glanced intelligently at each other...

glances, n. (11)

    Hist 2.24 17 In [the Grecian state] existed those human forms which supplied the sculptor with his models of Hercules, Phoebus, and Jove;... wherein the face is...composed of...symmetrical features, whose eye-sockets are so formed that it would be impossible for such eyes to squint and take furtive glances on this side and on that...
    SL 2.159 6 There is confession in the glances of our eyes...
    Lov1 2.184 18 From exchanging glances, [lovers] advance to acts of courtesy...
    Mrs1 3.135 18 Cardinal Caprara...defended himself from the glances of Napoleon by an immense pair of green spectacles.
    Nat2 3.171 27 ...we receive glances from the heavenly bodies, which call us to solitude...
    Nat2 3.173 13 ...I go with my friend to the shore of our little river, and with one stroke of the paddle I...pass into a delicate realm of sunset and moonlight... A holiday...establishes itself on the instant. These sunset clouds, these delicately emerging stars, with their private and ineffable glances, signify it and proffer it.
    Nat2 3.174 15 In [the stars'] soft glances I see what men strove to realize in some Versailles...
    Farm 7.138 7 All men keep the farm in reserve as an asylum...or a solitude, if they do not succeed in society. And who knows how many glances of remorse are turned this way from the bankrupts of trade...
    PPo 8.248 23 [Hafiz] tells his mistress that...her glances can impart to him the fire and virtue needful for such self-denial [of the ascetic and the saint].
    Insp 8.271 21 Every real step is by what a poet called lyrical glances...
    ACri 12.299 5 ...[in Carlyle's History of Frederick II] we see the eyes of the writer looking into ours, whilst he is humming and chuckling, with... shrugs, and long commanding glances...

glances, v. (1)

    Lov1 2.179 5 Who can analyze the nameless charm which glances from one and another face and form?

glancing, adj. (1)

    Nat2 3.192 23 This or this [in nature] is but outskirt and a far-off reflection and echo of the triumph that has passed by, and is now at its glancing splendor and heyday, perchance in the neighboring fields...

glancing, v. (3)

    Lov1 2.184 12 Little think the youth and maiden who are glancing at each other...of the precious fruit long hereafter to proceed from this new, quite external stimulus.
    ET1 5.14 5 Going out, [Coleridge] showed me...a picture of Allston's, and told me that Montague, a picture-dealer, once came to see him, and glancing towards this, said, Well, you have got a picture! thinking it the work of an old master;...
    ET13 5.231 1 Electricity cannot be made fast...it is passing, glancing, gesticular;...

gland, n. (1)

    SwM 4.113 14 This book [The Animal Kingdom] announces [Swedenborg' s] favorite dogmas. The ancient doctrine of Hippocrates, that the brain is a gland;...

glands, n. (1)

    CL 12.140 17 So exquisite is the structure of the cortical glands, said the old physiologist Malpighi, that when the atmosphere is ever so slightly vitiated or altered, the brain is the first part to sympathize...

glare, n. (3)

    GoW 4.265 15 The ambitious and mercenary bring their last new mumbo-jumbo... and...easily succed in making it seen in a glare;...
    ET15 5.261 11 A relentless inquisition [the newspaper]...turns the glare of this solar microscope on every malfaisance...
    Trag 12.409 13 ...the glare of malignity, ungrounded fears...darken the brow and chill the heart of men.

glare, v. (1)

    ShP 4.217 19 [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...

glares, v. (1)

    ET11 5.172 2 The feudal character of the English state...glares a little, in contrast with the democratic tendencies.

glaring, adj. (3)

    SwM 4.135 25 The excess of [Hebraic] influence shows itself [in Swedenborg] in the incongruous importation of a foreign rhetoric. What have I to do, asks the impatient reader, with...beryl and chalcedony;...what with...behemoth and unicorn? ... The more learning you bring to explain them, the more glaring the impertinence.
    NMW 4.246 22 Perhaps it is a little puerile, the pleasure [Napoleon] took in making these contrasts glaring;...
    PPr 12.387 2 ...the splendor of wit cannot outdazzle the calm daylight, which always shows every individual man in balance with his age, and able to work out his own salvation from all the follies of that, and no such glaring contrasts or severalties in that or this.

Glasgow, Scotland, n. (1)

    ET1 5.14 23 From Edinburgh I went to the Highlands. On my return I came from Glasgow to Dumfries...

glass, adj. (10)

    Hist 2.20 20 In the woods in a winter afternoon one will see as readily the origin of the stained glass window...in the colors of the western sky seen through the bare and crossing branches of the forest.
    Fdsp 2.201 12 When [friendships] are real, they are not glass threads or frostwork...
    CbW 6.267 15 In childhood we fancied ourselves walled in by the horizon, as by a glass bell...
    CbW 6.267 19 On experiment the horizon...leaves us on an endless common, sheltered by no glass bell.
    SS 7.6 18 Each must stand on his glass tripod if he would keep his electricity.
    WD 7.170 24 'T is pitiful the things by which we are rich or poor...the fashion of a cloak or hat; like the luck of naked Indians, of whom one is proud in the possession of a glass bead or a red feather...
    WD 7.171 10 ...the treasures which Nature spent itself to amass...these, not like a glass bead, or the coins or carpets, are given immeasurably to all.
    PLT 12.11 2 The wonder of the science of Intellect is that the substance with which we deal is of that subtle and active quality that it intoxicates all who approach it. Gloves on the hands, glass guards over the eyes...are no defence against this virus...
    PPr 12.383 23 [The poet] must stand on his glass tripod, if he would keep his electricity.
    Trag 12.411 17 ...the frailest glass bell will support a weight of a thousand pounds of water at the bottom of a river or sea, if filled with the same.

glass, n. (23)

    Nat 1.33 1 The laws of moral nature answer to those of matter as face to face in a glass.
    Comp 2.116 4 Commit a crime, and the earth is made of glass.
    Pt1 3.20 20 ...the poet turns the world to glass...
    Exp 3.52 1 Temperament...shuts us in a prison of glass which we cannot see.
    Chr1 3.91 27 The constituency at home hearkens to [men of characters'] words, watches the color of their cheek, and therein, as in a glass, dresses its own.
    Mrs1 3.120 10 ...the salt, the dates, the ivory, and the gold, for which these horrible regions are visited, find their way into...countries where man serves himself with metals, wood, stone, glass, gum, cotton, silk and wool;...
    UGM 4.8 25 The inventors of fire...glass...severally make an easy way for all, through unknown and impossible confusions.
    ET5 5.84 2 [The English] apply themselves...to fishery, to manufacture of indispensable staples,--salt, plumbago, leather, wool, glass, pottery and brick...
    F 6.14 15 ...if, after five hundred years you get a better observer or a better glass, he finds, within the last [egg] observed, another [vesicle].
    F 6.25 3 A tube made of a film of glass can resist the shock of the ocean if filled with the same water.
    Pow 6.56 24 [A strong pulse] is like the climate, which easily rears a crop which no glass, or irrigation, or tillage, or manures can elsewhere rival.
    Bhr 6.177 2 If [the human body] were made of glass...it could not publish more truly its meaning than now.
    Ill 6.321 4 We fancy we have fallen into bad company and squalid condition...broken glass to pay for...
    QO 8.179 4 ...the mariner's compass, the boat, the pendulum, glass...etc., have been many times found and lost...
    PC 8.214 21 ...[The Middle Ages']...mariner's compass, gunpowder, glass, paper and clocks;...are the delight and tuition of ours.
    PPo 8.240 15 Solomon had three talismans...second, the glass in which he saw the secrets of his enemies and the causes of all things, figured;...
    PPo 8.241 11 ...when the Queen of Sheba came to visit Solomon, he had built...a palace, of which the floor or pavement was of glass...
    PPo 8.249 23 Hafiz...tears off his turban and throws it at the head of the meddling dervish, and throws his glass after the turban.
    Aris 10.40 7 If the finders of glass, gunpowder, printing, electricity...should keep their secrets...must not the whole race of mankind serve them as gods?
    SovE 10.213 9 Now science and philosophy recognize...how each [Spirit and Matter] reflects the other as face answers to face in a glass...
    Thor 10.449 8 ...[Nature] to her son will treasures more,/ And more to purpose, freely pour/ In one wood walk, than learned men/ Will find with glass in ten times ten./
    EWI 11.141 4 Mr. Clarkson, early in his career, made a collection of African productions and manufactures, as specimens of the arts and culture of the negro; comprising cloths and loom...leather, glass, dyes...
    FRO1 11.479 18 ...as soon as every man...is apprised that the perfect law of duty corresponds with the laws of chemistry, of vegetation, of astronomy, as face to face in a glass;...then we have a religion that exalts...

glasses, n. (4)

    WD 7.163 5 We have new shoes, gloves, glasses and gimlets;...
    Clbs 7.250 7 ...glasses rubbed acquire electric power for a while.
    PLT 12.22 17 If we go through...any cabinet where is some representation of all the kingdoms of Nature...we feel as if looking at our bone and flesh through coloring and distorting glasses.
    PLT 12.27 19 There is no permanent wise man, but men capable of wisdom, who, being put into certain company or other favorable conditions, become wise, as glasses rubbed acquire power for a time.

glasses, v. (1)

    SL 2.159 10 [A man's] vice glasses his eye...

glass-grinder, n. (1)

    CL 12.166 4 Astronomy...depends a little too much on the glass-grinder, too little on the mind.

glassy, adj. (1)

    Nat2 3.172 16 The fall of snowflakes in a still air...the reflections of trees and flowers in glassy lakes;...these are the music and pictures of the most ancient religion.

Glauco [Plato, Republic], n (1)

    PPh 4.64 24 The whole of life, O Socrates, said Glauco, is, with the wise, the measure of hearing such discourses as these.

Glauco [Plato, The Republi (1)

    WD 7.179 5 I am of the opinion of Glauco, who said, The measure of life, O Socrates, is, with the wise, the speaking and hearing such discourses as yours.

glazed, adj. (3)

    AmS 1.100 22 Flamsteed and Herschel, in their glazed observatories, may catalogue the stars with the praise of all men...
    WD 7.180 8 ...this curious, peering, itinerant, imitative America...will take off its glazed traveller's-cap...
    EWI 11.122 13 [Our] well-being consists in having...a well glazed parlor, with marbles, mirrors and centre-table;...

glazed, v. (1)

    Bty 6.295 13 Let an artist scrawl a few lines or figures on the back of a letter, and that scrap of paper...is framed and glazed...

glazes, v. (1)

    ET13 5.228 8 England accepts this ornamented national church, and it glazes the eyes, bloats the flesh, gives the voice a stertorous clang...

gleam, n. (5)

    SR 2.45 19 A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within...
    Lov1 2.179 9 Who can analyze the nameless charm which glances from one and another face and form? We are touched with emotions of tenderness and complacency, but we cannot find whereat this dainty emotion, this wandering gleam, points.
    SS 7.1 6 ...[Seyd] Loved harebells nodding on a rock,/ A cabin hung with curling smoke,/ Ring of axe or hum of wheel/ Or gleam which use can paint on steel/...
    Cour 7.280 3 But sure that rifle's aim,/ Swift choice of generous part,/ Showed in its passing gleam/ The depths of a brave heart./
    PerF 10.78 7 It would be easy to awake wonder by sketching the performance of each of these mental forces; as...of the Fancy, which sends its gay balloon aloft into the sky to catch every tint and gleam of romance;...

gleam, v. (2)

    Nat2 3.170 16 The stems of pines, hemlocks and oaks almost gleam like iron on the excited eye.
    PLT 12.43 18 There are times when the cawing of a crow...is more suggestive to the mind than the Yosemite gorge or the Vatican would be in another hour. In like mood an old verse, or certain words, gleam with rare significance.

gleaming, adj. (1)

    Art1 2.349 4 ...Bring the moonlight into noon/ Hid in gleaming piles of stone;/...

gleaming, v. (3)

    Hist 2.32 7 Tantalus means the impossibility of drinking the waters of thought which are always gleaming and waving within sight of the soul.
    Bty 6.279 4 Was never form and never face/ So sweet to Seyd as only grace/ Which did not slumber like a stone/ But hovered gleaming and was gone./
    PI 8.10 1 Every correspondence we observe in mind and matter suggests a substance older and deeper than either of these old nobilities. We see the law gleaming through...

gleams, n. (5)

    Nat 1.72 25 ...in the thick darkness, there are not wanting gleams of a better light...
    DSA 1.132 10 [The divine bards] admonish me that the gleams which flash across my mind are not mine...
    Lov1 2.180 19 ...personal beauty is then first charming and itself...when it suggests gleams and visions and not earthly satisfactions;...
    Cir 2.309 21 ...we see in the heyday of youth and poetry that...[idealism] is true in gleams and fragments.
    Insp 8.292 12 ...[conversation is] the college where you learn what thoughts are, what powers lurk in those fugitive gleams...

gleaned, v. (3)

    ShP 4.205 2 ...[the Shakspeare Society] have gleaned a few facts touching the property, and dealings in regard to property, of the poet [Shakespeare].
    Thor 10.459 19 [Thoreau] listened impatiently to news or bonmots gleaned from London circles;...
    FSLC 11.205 5 The scraps of morality to be gleaned from [Webster's] speeches are reflections of the mind of others;...

gleans, v. (1)

    MLit 12.331 9 [Goethe]...gleans what straggling joys may yet remain out of [Fate's] ban.

glebe, n. (1)

    ET11 5.180 4 ...[the English lords] rightly wear the token of the glebe that gave them birth...

glee, n. (3)

    DL 7.107 5 [The little pilgrim] grows up the ornament and joy of the house, which rings to his glee...
    DL 7.120 27 ...who can see unmoved...the unrestrained glee with which [the eager, blushing boys] disburden themselves of their early mental treasures when the holidays bring them again together?
    PPr 12.389 19 ...[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, and then with new glee return to his game.

Glee, n. (1)

    Edc1 10.128 24 Here [in the household] is Economy, and Glee, and Hospitality, and Ceremony, and Frankness, and Calamity, and Death, and Hope.

glees, n. (1)

    LE 1.173 22 [The scholar] must have his glees and his glooms alone.

Glenkindie [Jamieson, Scott (1)

    Elo1 7.71 8 ...every literature contains these high compliments to the art of the orator and the bard, from the Hebrew and the Greek down to the Scottish Glenkindie...

glib, adj. (3)

    Elo1 7.74 8 There is the glib tongue and cool self-possession of the salesman in a large shop...
    MoL 10.246 19 A shrewd broker out of State Street visited a quiet countryman possessed of all the virtues, and in his glib talk said, With your character now I could raise all this money at once, and make an excellent thing of it.
    FSLC 11.196 14 The first execution of the [Fugitive Slave] law, as was inevitable, was a little hesitating; the second was easier; and the glib officials became, in a few weeks, quite practised and handy at stealing men.

glibly, adv. (1)

    MoS 4.156 27 [The skeptic says] Of what use to take the chair and glibly rattle off theories of society, religion and nature, when I know that practical objections lie in the way, insurmountable by me and by my mates?

glib-tongued, adj. (1)

    Ctr 6.153 11 [The countryman in the city] has come among a supple, glib-tongued tribe...

glide, v. (2)

    Pt1 3.26 2 Why should not the symmetry and truth that modulate these [aspects of nature], glide into our spirits...
    Exp 3.45 16 Ghostlike we glide through nature...

glided, v. (2)

    ET13 5.220 19 The spirit that dwelt in this [English] church has glided away to animate other activities...
    CL 12.162 27 ...the very time at which [my naturalist] used [the farmers'] land and water (for his boat glided like a trout everywhere unseen) was in hours when they were sound asleep.

glides, v. (2)

    MN 1.220 25 And what is to replace for us the piety of that race [the Puritans]? We cannot have theirs; it glides away from us day by day;...
    Trag 12.416 17 Napoleon said to one of his friends at St. Helena, Nature... has given me a temperament like a block of marble. Thunder cannot move it; the shaft merely glides along.

gliding, adj. (2)

    Pt1 3.19 8 Nature adopts [the factory-village and the railway] very fast into her vital circles, and the gliding train of cars she loves like her own.
    Exp 3.63 22 ...the exclusion...reaches the climbing, flying, gliding, feathered and four-footed man.

gliding, v. (2)

    NER 3.273 26 We are weary of gliding ghostlike through the world...
    ET2 5.26 24 The good ship darts through the water...gliding through liquid leagues...

glimmer, n. (2)

    Art1 2.349 2 Give to barrows, trays, and pans/ Grace and glimmer of romance/...
    FRep 11.536 16 ...every man must have glimmer enough to keep him from knocking his head against the walls.

glimmer, v. (1)

    AmS 1.110 15 I read with some joy of the auspicious signs of the coming days, as they glimmer already through poetry and art...

glimmering, adj. (1)

    Tran 1.332 5 The sturdy capitalist...must set [his banking-house], at last... on a mass of unknown materials and solidity...which...goes spinning away... a bit of bullet, now glimmering, now darkling through a small cubic space...

glimmering, v. (1)

    Ill 6.310 15 ...on looking upwards [in the Mammoth Cave], I saw or seemed to see the night heaven thick with stars glimmering more or less brightly over our heads...

glimmers, v. (2)

    MLit 12.326 8 ...[Wieland says] what most remarkably in [Goethe's journal], as in all his other works, distinguishes him from Homer and Shakspeare is that the Me, the Ille ego, everywhere glimmers through...
    EurB 12.366 2 The Pindar, the Shakspeare, the Dante...have...the eye to see the dimmest star that glimmers in the Milky Way...

glimpse, n. (10)

    Nat 1.65 15 Is not the landscape, every glimpse of which hath a grandeur, a face of [God]?
    MN 1.209 19 That well-known voice...governs all men, and none ever caught a glimpse of its form.
    Chr1 3.95 6 Is there never a glimpse of right in a poor slave-captain's mind;...
    UGM 4.3 23 We travel into foreign parts...if possible, to get a glimpse of [the great man].
    Insp 8.273 16 A glimpse, a point of view that by its brightness excludes the purview is granted, but no panorama.
    Insp 8.285 23 At last it has become summer,/ And at the first glimpse of morning/ The busy early fly stings me/ Out of my sweet slumber./
    Dem1 10.6 24 We fear lest the poor brute [the dog] should gain one dreadful glimpse of his condition...
    MMEm 10.413 26 ...[Mary Moody Emerson] writes...When I get a glimpse of the revolutions of nations...I remember with great satisfaction that from all the ills suffered, in childhood...I felt that it was rather the order of things...
    CPL 11.506 2 ...[Kepler] writes, It is now eighteen months since I got the first glimpse of light...
    PLT 12.34 17 [Instinct] is that glimpse of inextinguishable light by which men are guided;...

glimpses, n. (11)

    Nat 1.70 4 ...we learn to prefer...sentences which contain glimpses of truth, to digested systems which have no one valuable suggestion.
    LE 1.168 1 Further inquiry will discover...that [these chanting poets]... listlessly looked at sunsets, and repeated idly these few glimpses in their song.
    Chr1 3.108 16 Character...must not...be judged from glimpses got in the press of affairs or on few occasions.
    PPh 4.61 7 ...men see in [Plato] their own dreams and glimpses are made available and made to pass for what they are.
    ShP 4.207 5 ...I went once to see the Hamlet of a famed performer...and all I then heard and all I now remember of the tragedian was that in which the tragedian had no part; simply Hamlet's question to the ghost: What may this mean,/ That thou, dead corse, again in complete steel/ Revisit'st thus the glimpses of the moon?/
    ShP 4.207 9 That imagination which dilates the closet [Shakespeare] writes in to the world's dimension...as quickly reduces the big reality to be the glimpses of the moon.
    GoW 4.278 7 I suppose no book of this century can compare with [Goethe' s Wilhelm Meister] in its delicious sweetness...so provoking to the mind, gratifying it with...so many unexpected glimpses into a higher sphere...
    ET11 5.190 2 A sketch of the Earl of Shrewsbury, from the pen of Queen Elizabeth's archbishop Parker;...some glimpses at the interiors of noble houses, which we owe to Pepys and Evelyn;...are favorable pictures of a romantic style of manners.
    CbW 6.272 12 In excited conversation we have glimpses of the universe...
    PI 8.38 5 A poet comes who...gives [mortal men] glimpses of the laws of the universe;...
    PI 8.73 22 Time will be...when what are now glimpses and aspirations shall be the routine of the day.

glimpses, v. (1)

    Bost 12.199 20 What should hinder that this America...glimpses being afforded which spoke to the imagination, yet the firm shore hid until science and art should be ripe to propose it as a fixed aim...should have its happy ports...

glitter, n. (5)

    Nat2 3.186 13 This glitter...plays round the top of every toy to [the child's] eye to insure his fidelity...
    UGM 4.10 7 ...a sober grace adheres to the mineral and botanic kingdoms, which, in the highest moments, comes up as the charm of nature,--the glitter of the spar...
    Aris 10.40 26 ...the conclusion which Roman Senators...and great Americans inculcate,-that which they preach out of their material wealth and glitter...is, that the radical and essential distinctions of every aristocracy are moral.
    LLNE 10.335 10 In every public discourse there was nothing left for the indulgence of [Everett's] hearer...but the goddess of grace had breathed on the work a last fragrancy and glitter.
    War 11.165 23 He who loves the bristle of bayonets only sees in their glitter what beforehand he feels in his heart.

glitter, v. (6)

    Exp 3.45 14 All things swim and glitter.
    ET12 5.200 6 The halls [at Oxford] are rich with oaken wainscoting and ceiling. The pictures of the founders hang from the walls; the tables glitter with plate.
    ET13 5.227 2 ...a bishop [in England] is only a surpliced merchant. Through his lawn I can see the bright buttons of the shopman's coat glitter.
    Elo1 7.99 15 If [eloquence]...aspires to be somewhat of itself, and to glitter for show, it is false and weak.
    WD 7.173 24 ...as soon as the irrecoverable years have woven their blue glory between to-day and us these passing hours shall glitter and draw us as the wildest romance and the homes of beauty and poetry?
    PLT 12.56 25 We are continually tempted to sacrifice genius to talent...and we buy this freedom to glitter by the loss of general health.

glittered, v. (2)

    Nat 1.11 10 ...the same scene which yesterday breathed perfume and glittered as for the frolic of the nymphs is overspread with melancholy to-day.
    NMW 4.242 17 ...brilliant prizes glittered in the eyes of [French] youth and talent.

glittering, adj. (9)

    LE 1.168 24 ...[when I see the daybreak] I am cheered by the moist, warm, glittering, budding, melodious hour...
    SR 2.53 8 I much prefer that [my life] should be of a lower strain...than that it should be glittering and unsteady.
    Ctr 6.151 3 How the imagination is piqued by anecdotes...of Napoleon affecting a plain suit at his glittering levee;...
    CbW 6.265 10 I know how easy it is to men of the world to look grave and sneer at your sanguine youth and its glittering dreams.
    Ill 6.314 7 Amid the joyous troop who give in to the charivari, comes now and then a sad-eyed boy...who is afflicted with a tendency to trace home the glittering miscellany of fruits and flowers to one root.
    WD 7.169 4 Cannot memory still descry the old school-house and its porch...and do you not recall that life...threw itself into nervous knots of glittering hours...
    Schr 10.287 13 [The scholar] is still to decline how many glittering opportunities...
    SHC 11.434 18 ...when I think of the mystery of life...the speed of the changes of that glittering dream we call existence,-I think sometimes that the vault of the sky arching there upward...is only a Sleepy Hollow, with path of Suns, insea of foot-paths;...
    SHC 11.434 25 The ground [Sleepy Hollow] has the peaceful character that belongs to this town [Concord];-no lofty crags, no glittering cataracts;...

glittering, v. (3)

    MN 1.223 5 Who shall dare think he has...missed anything excellent in the past, who seeth...the yet untouched continent of hope glittering...in the vast West?
    Elo2 8.114 13 ...you may find [the orator] in some lowly Bethel, by the seaside, where a hard-featured, scarred and wrinkled Methodist becomes the poet of the sailor and the fisherman, whilst he pours out the abundant streams of his thought through a language all glittering and fiery with imagination;...
    Imtl 8.326 22 The Earth goes on the Earth glittering with gold;/ The Earth goes to the Earth sooner than it wold;/ The Earth builds on the Earth castles and towers;/ The Earth says to the Earth, All this is ours./

glitters, v. (5)

    DSA 1.147 11 Can we not leave...the virtue that glitters for the commendation of society...
    Prd1 2.231 18 We call partial half-lights, by courtesy, genius;...talent which glitters to-day that it may dine and sleep well to-morrow;...
    Exp 3.70 7 The ancients...exalted Chance into a divinity; but that is to stay too long at the spark, which glitters truly at one point, but the universe is warm with the latency of the same fire.
    ET5 5.83 16 More than the diamond Koh-i-noor, which glitters among their crown jewels, [the English] prize that dull pebble...whose poles turn themselves to the poles of the world...
    OA 7.328 21 Youth has an excess of sensibility, before which every object glitters and attracts.

gloaming, n. (1)

    PPo 8.257 13 With unrelated glance/ I looked the rose in the eye:/ The rose in the hour of gloaming/ Flamed like a lamp hard-by./

Globe, Boston, n. (1)

    NER 3.255 18 ...the motto of the Globe newspaper is so attractive to me that I can seldom find much appetite to read what is below it in its columns...

globe, n. (75)

    Nat 1.15 14 ...perspective is produced, which integrates every mass of objects...into a well colored and shaded globe...
    Nat 1.40 21 ...every globe in the remotest heaven...shall hint or thunder to man the laws of right and wrong...
    AmS 1.97 12 I will not shut myself out of this globe of action...
    DSA 1.119 11 Man under [the stars] seems a young child, and his huge globe a toy.
    MN 1.195 26 The crystal sphere of thought is as concentrical as the geological structure of the globe.
    MN 1.201 16 Nature knows neither palm nor oak, but only vegetable life, which...festoons the globe with a garland of grasses and vines.
    MN 1.203 13 The embryo does not more strive to be man, than yonder burr of light we call a nebula tends to be a ring, a comet, a globe, and parent of new stars.
    MN 1.216 20 Be you only whole and sufficient...and I can as easily dodge the gravitation of the globe as escape your influence.
    SR 2.81 12 I have no churlish objection to the circumnavigation of the globe for the purposes of art...
    SL 2.137 18 ...the globe, earth, moon, comet, sun, star, fall for ever and ever.
    Fdsp 2.194 16 ...as many thoughts in succession substantiate themselves, we shall by and by stand...no longer strangers and pilgrims in a traditionary globe.
    Prd1 2.225 8 Here is a planted globe...
    Prd1 2.235 27 When [a man] sees a folded and sealed scrap of paper float round the globe in a pine ship and come safe to the eye for which it was written...let him likewise feel the admonition to integrate his being across all these distracting forces...
    OS 2.294 13 ...the water of the globe is all one sea...
    Cir 2.302 3 Our globe seen by God is a transparent law...
    Pt1 3.9 14 [A recent writer of lyrics] does not stand out of our low limitations, like a Chimborazo under the line, running up from a torrid base through all the climates of the globe...
    Exp 3.63 26 ...hawk and snipe and bittern...have no more root in the deep world than man, and are just such superficial tenants of the globe.
    Exp 3.74 8 ...in accepting the leading of the sentiments, it is...the universal impulse to believe, that is...the principal fact in the history of the globe.
    Nat2 3.182 25 The smoothest curled courtier in the boudoirs of a palace...is directly related...to Himmaleh mountain-chains and the axis of the globe.
    NER 3.284 5 ...the good globe is faithful...
    UGM 4.24 10 Our globe discovers its hidden virtues, not only in heroes and archangels, but in gossips and nurses.
    PNR 4.84 24 [Plato] saw that the globe of earth was not more lawful and precise than was the supersensible;...
    ShP 4.213 16 This [power of expression] is that which throws [Shakespeare] into natural history, as a main production of the globe...
    NMW 4.250 5 ...[Napoleon] proposed to consider the probability of the destruction of the globe...
    ET3 5.40 11 Sir John Herschel said, London is the centre of the terrene globe.
    ET4 5.44 22 The British Empire is reckoned to contain (in 1848)...perhaps a fifth of the population of the globe;...
    ET4 5.64 21 As soon as this land [England]...got a hardy people into it, they could not help becoming the sailors and factors of the globe.
    ET9 5.150 20 In a tract on Corn, a most amiable...gentleman [William Spence] writes thus:--Though Britain, according to Bishop Berkeley's idea, were surrounded by a wall of brass ten thousand cubits in height, still she would as far excel the rest of the globe in riches, as she now does both in this secondary quality...
    ET10 5.162 27 The wealth of London determines prices all over the globe.
    ET16 5.281 26 [Stukeley] finds that the cursus on Salisbury Plain stretches across the downs like a line of latitude upon the globe...
    ET18 5.304 1 ...who would see...the explosion of their well-husbanded forces, must follow the swarms...pouring out now for two hundred years from the British islands...to the conquest of the globe.
    ET19 5.311 6 That which lures a solitary American in the woods with the wish to see England, is the moral peculiarity of the Saxon race,--its commanding sense of right and wrong, the love and devotion to that,--this is the imperial trait, which arms them with the sceptre of the globe.
    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./
    Wsp 6.221 24 ...the globe is a battery, because every atom is a magnet;...
    Bty 6.306 20 Wherever we begin, thither our steps tend: an ascent from the joy of a horse in his trappings, up to the perception of Newton that the globe on which we ride is only a larger apple falling from a larger tree...the first stair on the scale to the temple of the Mind.
    Bty 6.306 23 Wherever we begin, thither our steps tend: an ascent from the joy of a horse in his trappings...up to the perception of Plato that globe and universe are rude and early expressions of an all-dissolving Unity,--the first stair on the scale to the temple of the Mind.
    Farm 7.142 9 In English factories, the boy that watches the loom...is called a minder. And in this great factory of our Copernican globe...the farmer is the minder.
    Farm 7.144 20 The atmosphere, a sharp solvent, drinks the essence and spirit of every solid on the globe...
    Suc 7.300 4 ...the sand floor is...bent to be a part of the round globe...
    SA 8.100 3 In every million of Europeans or of Americans there shall be thousands who would be valuable on any spot on the globe.
    Res 8.137 2 We are magnets in an iron globe.
    Res 8.139 3 Our Copernican globe is a great factory or shop of power...
    PC 8.212 2 That cosmical west wind which...constitutes, by the revolution of the globe, the upper current, is alone broad enough to carry to every city and suburb...the inspirations of this new hope of mankind.
    PC 8.223 12 I shall never believe that centrifugence and centripetence balance, unless mind heats and meliorates, as well as the surface and soil of the globe.
    PerF 10.70 11 One half the avoirdupois of the rocks which compose the solid crust of the globe consists of oxygen.
    PerF 10.80 21 ...[the prisoner] took his flute out of his pocket and began to play...and the prisoner was by general consent of court and officers allowed to go his way without any money. And I suppose, if he could have played loud enough...the whole population of the globe would beat time...
    Edc1 10.131 10 ...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...the very highest property in every district and particle of the globe.
    Edc1 10.131 27 ...truly the population of the globe has its origin in the aims which their existence is to serve;...
    MoL 10.242 22 ...the wealth of the globe was here...
    MoL 10.244 6 ...[the Hebrew nation's] poems and histories cling to the soil of this globe like the primitive rocks.
    LLNE 10.350 5 Attractive Industry...would equalize temperature, give health to the globe...
    LLNE 10.351 7 ...know you one and all, that Constantinople is the natural capital of the globe.
    EWI 11.102 17 These men [negro slaves]...producers of comfort and luxury for the civilized world,-there seated in the finest climates of the globe, children of the sun,-I am heart-sick when I read how they came there, and how they are kept there.
    War 11.154 23 The microscope reveals miniature butchery in atomies and infinitely small biters that swim and fight in an illuminated drop of water; and the little globe is but a too faithful miniature of the large.
    War 11.158 13 The celebrated Cavendish...wrote thus...on his return from a voyage round the world: Sept. 1588. It hath pleased Almighty God to suffer me to circumpass the whole globe of the world...
    War 11.160 17 The sublime question has startled one and another happy soul in different quarters of the globe,-Cannot love be, as well as hate?
    War 11.163 15 ...one is scared to find at what a cost the peace of the globe is kept.
    War 11.165 11 ...when a truth appears...it will plant a colony, a state, nations and half a globe full of men.
    FSLC 11.202 25 We delighted...in [Webster's] daylight statement, simple force; the facts lay...like the layers of the crust of the globe.
    SMC 11.350 22 ...as we have learned that the upheaved mountain, from which these discs or flakes were broken, was once a glowing mass at white heat, slowly crystallized, then uplifted by the central fires of the globe: so the roots of events [the Concord Monument] appropriately marks are in the heart of the universe.
    EdAd 11.387 11 ...every acre on the globe, every family of men, every point of climate, has its distinguishing virtues.
    FRO2 11.484 3 ...Thou seek'st in globe and galaxy,/ He hides in pure transparency;/...
    FRep 11.525 21 ...the history of Nature from first to last is incessant advance...from rude to finer organization, the globe of matter thus conspiring with the principle of undying hope in man.
    FRep 11.529 6 As the globe keeps its identity by perpetual change, so our civil system, by perpetual appeal to the people...
    FRep 11.542 25 ...man seems to play...a certain part that even tells on the general face of the planet...as if dressing the globe for happier races.
    NHI 12.1 2 Bacon's perfect law of inquiry after truth was that nothing should be in the globe of matter which was not also in the globe of crystal;...
    NHI 12.1 3 Bacon's perfect law of inquiry after truth was that nothing should be in the globe of matter which was not also in the globe of crystal;...
    PLT 12.10 6 ...there is a certain beatitude...to which all men are entitled... and to which their entrance must be in every way forwarded. Practical men, though they could lift the globe, cannot arrive at this.
    CL 12.141 14 The air that we breathe is an exhalation of all the solid material of the globe.
    CL 12.154 10 The sea is the chemist that...pulverizes old continents, and builds new;-forever redistributing the solid matter of the globe;...
    CL 12.160 13 On the seashore, [Nature] reveals to the eye, by the sea-line, the true curve of the globe.
    Bost 12.183 10 The air that we breathe is an exhalation of all the solid material globe.
    Bost 12.185 6 Who lives one year in Boston ranges through all the climates of the globe.
    Bost 12.188 10 Linnaeus, like a naturalist, esteeming the globe a big egg, called London the punctum saliens in the yolk of the world.
    Trag 12.405 4 As the salt sea covers more than two thirds of the surface of the globe, so sorrow encroaches in man on felicity.

globed, v. (1)

    DSA 1.121 26 The moral traits which are all globed into every virtuous act and thought, - in speech we must...describe or suggest by painful enumeration of many particulars.

globes, n. (8)

    Exp 3.77 22 Two human beings are like globes, which can touch only in a point...
    SwM 4.98 27 ...it is easier to see the reflection of the great sphere in large globes...than in drops of water...
    SwM 4.110 5 Astronomy is excellent; but it must come up into life to have its full value, and not remain there in globes and spaces.
    SwM 4.141 3 [The scenery and circumstance of the newly parted soul] must not be inferior in tone to the already known works of the artist who sculptures the globes of the firmament and writes the moral law.
    PI 8.4 23 It was whispered that the globes of the universe were precipitates of something more subtle;...
    PI 8.42 7 There was as much creative force then as now, but it made globes and astronomic heavens, instead of broadcloth and wine-glasses.
    Imtl 8.344 26 Do you think that the eternal chain of cause and effect... which threads the globes as beads on a string...leaves out this desire of God and men [for immortality] as a waif and a caprice...
    PLT 12.5 5 It is not then...animals, or globes that any longer commands us, but only man;...

globes, v. (1)

    Comp 2.101 19 The world globes itself in a drop of dew.

globule, n. (3)

    AmS 1.114 3 ...you know not yet how a globule of sap ascends;...
    SwM 4.110 5 The globule of blood gyrates around its own axis in the human veins...
    SwM 4.141 12 Melodious poets shall be hoarse as street ballads when once the penetrating key-note of nature and spirit is sounded,--the earth-beat... which makes the tune to which the sun rolls, and the globule of blood...

gloom, n. (18)

    Nat 1.18 18 The heavens...reflect their glory or gloom on the plains beneath.
    DSA 1.119 7 Night brings no gloom to the heart with its welcome shade.
    LT 1.284 20 I have seen the same gloom on the brow even of those adventurers from the intellectual class who had dived deepest and with most success into active life.
    Hsm1 2.263 18 In the gloom of our ignorance of what shall be...who does not envy those who have seen safely to an end their manful endeavor?
    Art1 2.351 19 [The painter] will give the gloom of gloom and the sunshine of sunshine.
    Chr1 3.115 15 Whilst [the holy sentiment] blooms, I will keep sabbath or holy time, and suspend my gloom and my folly and jokes.
    ET8 5.127 11 This trait of gloom has been fixed on [the English] by French travellers...
    ET19 5.312 2 ...I think it just, in this time of gloom and commercial disaster...that...you should not fail to keep your literary anniversary.
    Elo1 7.83 22 I have heard it reported of an eloquent preacher...that, on occasions of death or tragic disaster which overspread the congregation with gloom, he ascended the pulpit with more than his usual alacrity...
    SA 8.94 22 Sainte-Beuve tells us of the privileged circle at Coppet, that after making an excursion one day, the party returned in two coaches from Chambery to Aix, on the way to Coppet. The first coach had many rueful accidents to relate...danger and gloom to the whole company.
    Elo2 8.114 5 In the folds of his brow, in the majesty of his mien, Nature has marked her son; and in that artificial and perhaps unworthy place and company [the Senate] shall remind you of the lessons taught him in earlier days by the torrent in the gloom of the pine-woods...
    Res 8.149 20 When now and then the vaulted roof [of the Mammoth Cave] rises high overhead...'t is but gloom on gloom.
    Imtl 8.328 14 [Sixty years ago] We were all taught that we were born to die; and over that, all the terrors that theology could gather from savage nations were added to increase the gloom.
    ALin 11.329 1 We meet under the gloom of a calamity [death of Lincoln] which darkens down over the minds of good men in all civil society...
    SMC 11.375 24 A gloom gathers on this assembly...
    SHC 11.428 1 No abbey's gloom, nor dark cathedral stoops,/ No winding torches paint the midnight air;/...
    Shak1 11.449 4 ...Shakspeare is the one resource of our life on which no gloom gathers;...
    PPr 12.388 3 ...we at this distance are not so far removed from any of the specific evils [of the English State], and are deeply participant in too many, not to share the gloom and thank the love and courage of the counsellor [Carlyle].

gloomily, adv. (1)

    FSLC 11.181 26 ...a man looks gloomily at his children, and thinks, What have I done that you should begin life in dishonor?

glooms, n. (5)

    LE 1.173 22 [The scholar] must have his glees and his glooms alone.
    ET8 5.134 15 ...here [in England] exists the best stock in the world...men of...strong instincts, yet apt for culture;...abysmal temperament, hiding wells of wrath, and glooms on which no sunshine settles, alternated with a common sense and humanity which hold them fast to every piece of cheerful duty;...
    Suc 7.309 10 ...do not daub with sables and glooms in your conversation.
    Wom 11.418 9 [Women] have tears, and gayeties, and faintings, and glooms and devotion to trifles.
    PPr 12.389 7 That morbid temperament has given [Carlyle's] rhetoric a somewhat bloated character; a luxury to many imaginative and learned persons, like a showery south wind with its sunbursts and rapid chasing of lights and glooms over the landscape...

gloomy, adj. (12)

    Mrs1 3.139 26 [Society]...hates quarrelsome, egotistical, solitary and gloomy people;...
    SwM 4.131 11 A vampyre sits in the seat of the prophet [in Swedenborg's universe] and turns with gloomy appetite to the images of pain.
    Civ 7.20 16 The Indian is gloomy and distressed when urged to depart from his habits and traditions.
    PI 8.55 21 Welcome, folded arms and fixed eyes,/...A midnight bell, a passing groan,/ These are the sounds we feed upon,/ Then stretch our bones in a still, gloomy valley./
    Comc 8.162 3 The perception of the Comic is...a protection from those perverse tendencies and gloomy insanities in which fine intellects sometimes lose themselves.
    SovE 10.191 4 These threads [of Necessity] are Nature's pernicious elements...the orphan's tears, the vices of men, lust, cruelty and pitiless avarice. These make the gloomy warp of ages.
    Prch 10.222 6 To [the soul which is without God] heaven and earth have lost their beauty. How gloomy is the day...
    Schr 10.262 22 I think the peculiar office of scholars in a careful and gloomy generation is to be...Professors of the Joyous Science...
    MMEm 10.425 16 Not to complain of the poor old earth's chaotic state, brought so near in its long and gloomy transmutings by the geologist.
    LVB 11.94 19 ...there exists in a great part of the Northern people a gloomy diffidence in the moral character of the government.
    AKan 11.259 5 I do not know any story so gloomy as the politics of this country for the last twenty years...
    CPL 11.503 2 ...when you sprain your mind, by gloomy reflection on your failures and vexations, you come to have a bad opinion of life.

gloried, v. (1)

    SovE 10.195 7 The new saint gloried in infirmities.

glories, n. (8)

    Nat 1.62 27 ...the world is a divine dream, from which we may presently awake to the glories and certainties of day.
    AmS 1.110 9 If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not... when the historic glories of the old can be compensated by the rich possibilities of the new era?
    Ill 6.311 5 The cloud-rack, the sunrise and sunset glories...are not quite so spheral as our childhood thought them...
    DL 7.106 6 St. Peter's cannot have the magical power over us that the red and gold covers of our first picture-book possessed. How the imagination cleaves to the warm glories of that tinsel even now!
    PI 8.51 19 Time...is now dominant and...looketh unto Memphis and old Thebes, while his sister Oblivion reclineth semi-somnous on a pyramid... turning old glories into dreams.
    Imtl 8.337 22 I have seen what glories of climate...
    Supl 10.169 21 The poor countryman, having no circumstance of carpets... wine and dancing in his head to confuse him, is able to look straight at you, without refraction or prismatic glories...
    Wom 11.407 23 Mrs. Lucy Hutchinson...who wrote the life of her husband...says, If he esteemed her at a higher rate than she in herself could have deserved...she only reflected his own glories upon him.

glorified, adj. (2)

    Prd1 2.233 18 [The scholar] resembles the pitiful drivellers whom travellers describe as frequenting the bazaars of Constantinople, who skulk about all day...and at evening...slink to the opium-shop, swallow their morsel and become tranquil and glorified seers.
    LS 11.20 2 I will love [Jesus] as a glorified friend...

glorified, v. (2)

    AmS 1.107 5 [The poor and the low] are content to be brushed like flies from the path of a great person, so that justice shall be done by him to that common nature which it is the dearest desire of all to see enlarged and glorified.
    ET1 5.8 14 [Landor] glorified Lord Chesterfield more than was necessary...

glorifiers, n. (1)

    Supl 10.166 8 Among these glorifiers, the coldest stickler for names and dates and measures cannot lament his criticism and coldness of fancy.

glorifies, v. (1)

    Hist 2.33 12 ...if the man...remains fast by the soul and sees the principle; then the facts...know their master, and the meanest of them glorifies him.

glorify, v. (2)

    MR 1.241 22 ...where there is a fine organization, apt for poetry and philosophy, that individual finds himself compelled...to waste several days that he may enhance and glorify one;...
    SHC 11.435 6 The morning, the moonlight, the spring day...can glorify a meadow or a rock.

glorious, adj. (10)

    Nat 1.21 13 When Sir Harry Vane was dragged up the Tower-hill, sitting on a sled...one of the multitude cried out to him, You never sate on so glorious a seat!
    Nat 1.40 20 Therefore is nature glorious with form, color, and motion; that every globe in the remotest heaven...shall hint or thunder to man the laws of right and wrong...
    LE 1.161 24 ...in spite of the...jail, have been these glorious manifestations of the mind;...
    MN 1.213 1 These beautiful basilisks [the stars] set their brute glorious eyes on the eye of every child...
    Con 1.316 22 ...the plant Man does not require for his most glorious flowering this pomp of preparation and convenience...
    PNR 4.80 17 [The human being's] arts and sciences...look glorious when prospectively beheld from the distant brain of ox...
    SwM 4.146 9 ...if [Swedenborg] staggered under the trance of delight, the more excellent is the spectacle he saw, the realities of being which beam and blaze through him...and he renders a second passive service to men... and, in the retributions of spiritual nature, not less glorious or less beautiful to himself.
    Elo2 8.121 1 ...[a singer] will make any words glorious.
    QO 8.191 26 ...Poesy, drawing within its circle all that is glorious and inspiring, gave itself but little concern as to where its flowers originally grew.
    MMEm 10.422 24 To her nephew Charles [Mary Moody Emerson writes]: War; what do I think of it? Why in your ear I think it so much better than oppression that if it were ravaging the whole geography of despotism it would be an omen of high and glorious import.

gloriously, adv. (2)

    PI 8.51 17 Time...is now dominant and...looketh unto Memphis and old Thebes, while his sister Oblivion reclineth semi-somnous on a pyramid, gloriously triumphing...
    LS 11.22 12 That for which Paul lived and died so gloriously;...was to redeem us from a formal religion...

glory, n. (52)

    Nat 1.18 18 The heavens...reflect their glory or gloom on the plains beneath.
    AmS 1.106 24 What a testimony, full of grandeur, full of pity, is borne to the demands of his own nature, by...the poor partisan, who rejoices in the glory of his chief.
    Con 1.320 13 [Conservatism's] social and political action has no better aim;...not to sink the memory of the past in the glory of a new and more excellent creation;...
    Lov1 2.181 12 ...the Deity sends the glory of youth before the soul...
    Mrs1 3.147 11 ...as we show beyond that Heaven and Earth/ In form and shape compact and beautiful;/ .../ So on our heels a fresh perfection treads,/ A power more strong in beauty, born of us/ And fated to excel us, as we pass/ In glory that old Darkness.../
    Nat2 3.172 20 The fall of snowflakes in a still air...the crackling and spurting of hemlock in the flames, or of pine logs, which yield glory to the walls and faces in the sitting-room;--these are the music and pictures of the most ancient religion.
    PPh 4.40 9 Plato is philosophy, and philosophy, Plato,--at once the glory and the shame of mankind...
    SwM 4.145 27 If the glory was too bright for [Swedenborg's] eyes to bear... the more excellent is the spectacle he saw...
    NMW 4.254 11 [Napoleon's] star, his love of glory, his doctrine of the immortality of the soul, are all French.
    ET8 5.131 27 [The English] are good at storming redoubts...but not, I think, at...any passive obedience, like jumping off a castle-roof at the word of a czar. Being both vascular and highly organized, so as to be very sensible of pain; and intellectual, so as to see reason and glory in a matter.
    ET8 5.141 24 Glory, a career, and ambition, the words familiar to the longitude of Paris, are seldom heard in English speech.
    ET14 5.235 18 When the Gothic nations came into Europe they found it lighted with the sun and moon of Hebrew and of Greek genius. The tablets of their brain...were finely sensible to the double glory.
    ET14 5.247 8 The brilliant Macaulay...explicitly teaches...that the glory of modern philosophy is its direction on fruit;...
    ET14 5.250 10 ...where impatience of the tricks of men...builds altars to the negative Deity, the inevitable recoil is...the gallantry of the private heart, which decks its immolation with glory...
    F 6.27 6 ...now we are as men in a balloon, and do not think so much...of the point we would make, as of the liberty and glory of the way.
    F 6.48 10 I do not wonder at...the glory of the stars;...
    Pow 6.69 3 The roisters who are destined for infamy at home, if sent to Mexico will cover you with glory...
    Wth 6.111 21 ...we can only give [means] any beauty by a reflection of the glory of the end.
    Wsp 6.231 23 ...I look on those sentiments which make the glory of the human being...as being also the intimacy of Divinity in the atoms;...
    CbW 6.252 22 ...this beast-force, whilst it makes...the glory of martyrs, has provoked in every age the satire of wits...
    CbW 6.255 4 ...the glory of character is in affronting the horrors of depravity to draw thence new nobilities of power;...
    Ill 6.314 6 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...
    SS 7.9 10 ...the stuff of tragedy and of romances is in a moral union of two superior persons whose confidence in each other for long years...is at last justified by victorious proof of probity...causing joyful emotions, tears and glory...
    Farm 7.137 1 The glory of the farmer is that...it is his part to create.
    WD 7.171 15 The sky is the varnish or glory with which the Artist has washed the whole work...
    WD 7.173 23 ...as soon as the irrecoverable years have woven their blue glory between to-day and us these passing hours shall glitter and draw us as the wildest romance and the homes of beauty and poetry?
    Suc 7.291 27 ...whilst this self-truth is essential to the exhibition of the world and to the growth and glory of each mind, it is rare to find a man who believes his own thought...
    Suc 7.298 12 [The city boy in the October woods] is suddenly initiated into a pomp and glory that brings to pass for him the dreams of romance.
    Suc 7.299 4 Wordsworth writes of the delights of the boy in Nature:--For never will come back the hour/ Of splendor in the grass, of glory in the flower./
    Suc 7.300 12 How that element [color] washes the universe with its enchanting waves! The sculptor had ended his work, and behold a new world of dream-like glory.
    Comc 8.155 1 The glory, jest and riddle of the world. Pope.
    Imtl 8.325 22 [The Greek] looked at death only as the distributor of imperishable glory.
    Imtl 8.335 24 ...the nebular theory threatens [the sun's and the star's] duration also, bereaves them of this glory [of stability]...
    Aris 10.32 10 A reference to society is part of the idea of culture; science of a gentleman; art of a gentleman; poetry in a gentleman: intellectually held, that is, for their own sake...not for economy...but not over-intellectually, that is, not to ecstasy, entrancing the man, but redounding to his beauty and glory.
    Supl 10.167 11 An eminent French journalist paid a high compliment to the Duke of Wellington, when his documents were published: Here are twelve volumes of military dispatches, and the word glory is not found in them.
    Prch 10.223 7 Nature is too thin a screen; the glory of the One breaks in everywhere.
    Prch 10.234 3 ...new shop, or old cathedral, it is all one to [the deep observer]. He will find...as dazzling a glory on the invincible law.
    EzRy 10.388 7 [Ezra Ripley said] Now your father is to be carried to his grave, full of labors and virtues. There is none of that large family left but you, and it rests with you to bear up the good name and usefulness of your ancestors. If you fail,-Ichabod, the glory is departed. Let us pray.
    MMEm 10.423 7 [War] was the glory of the Chosen People, nay, it is said there was war in Heaven.
    Thor 10.471 20 Every fact lay in glory in [Thoreau's] mind...
    HDC 11.68 13 ...in answer to letters received from the united committees of correspondence...the town [of Concord] say: We cannot possibly view with indifference the...endeavors of the enemies of this...country, to rob us of those rights, that are the distinguishing glory and felicity of this land;...
    HDC 11.75 22 These men [the minute-men] did not babble of glory.
    AKan 11.262 27 I think the American Revolution bought its glory cheap.
    TPar 11.293 1 ...[Theodore Parker] has gone down in early glory to his grave...
    ACiv 11.296 8 To the mizzen, the main, and the fore/ Up with it once more!-/ The old tri-color,/ The ribbon of power,/ The white, blue and red which the nations adore!/ It was down at half-mast/ For a grief-that is past!/ To the emblem of glory no sorrow can last!/
    ALin 11.336 1 ...who does not see, even in this tragedy [death of Lincoln] so recent, how fast the terror and ruin of the massacre are already burning into glory around the victim?
    SMC 11.373 19 One of [George Prescott's] townsmen and comrades...uses these words: He was one of the few men who fight for principle. He did not fight for glory, honor, nor money...
    Wom 11.407 14 ...[women]...lose themselves eagerly in the glory of their husbands and children.
    CInt 12.129 19 Only bring a deep observer, and he will make light of the new shop or old cathedral...or new circumstances that afflict you. He will find the circumstances not altered;...as dazzling a glory on the invincible law.
    Bost 12.185 26 What Vasari said...of the republican city of Florence might be said of Boston; that the desire for glory and honor is powerfully generated by the air of that place...
    MLit 12.327 22 We think, when we contemplate the stupendous glory of the world, that it were life enough for one man merely to lift his hands and cry with Saint Augustine, Wrangle who pleases, I will wonder.
    EurB 12.370 15 ...amidst velvet and glory, we long for rain and frost.

Gloucester, Massachusetts, n (1)

    EzRy 10.381 19 ...[Ezra Ripley's] father agreed with the late Rev. Dr. Forbes of Gloucester...to fit Ezra for college...

Gloucester, Robert of, n. (1)

    Boks 7.221 9 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 third on the Saxon Chronicles, Robert of Gloucester and William of Malmsbury;......

glove, n. (2)

    Lov1 2.175 14 ...no man ever forgot the visitations of that power to his heart and brain...when the youth becomes...studious of a glove, a veil, a ribbon, or the wheels of a carriage;...
    PI 8.14 19 ...our proverb of the courteous soldier reads: An iron hand in a velvet glove.

gloves, n. (4)

    CbW 6.247 11 [Fine society] is...an affair...of gloves, cards and elegance in trifles.
    WD 7.163 5 We have new shoes, gloves, glasses and gimlets;...
    FRep 11.533 16 We import trifles...modes, gloves and cologne...
    PLT 12.11 1 The wonder of the science of Intellect is that the substance with which we deal is of that subtle and active quality that it intoxicates all who approach it. Gloves on the hands...are no defence against this virus...

glow, n. (10)

    Hist 2.35 2 In the story of the Boy and the Mantle even a mature reader may be surprised with a glow of virtuous pleasure at the triumph of the gentle Genelas;...
    Hsm1 2.256 14 Sport is the bloom and glow of a perfect health.
    OS 2.281 24 ...a certain enthusiasm attends the individual's consciousness of that divine presence [the soul]. The character and duration of this enthusiasm vary with the state of the individual, from an ecstasy...to the faintest glow of virtuous emotion...
    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!
    Boks 7.219 11 [The sacred books'] communications are not to be given or taken with the lips and the end of the tongue, but out of the glow of the cheek, and with the throbbing heart.
    Suc 7.300 17 [Color] clothes the skeleton world with space, variety and glow.
    OA 7.313 13 I care not if the pomps [clouds] show/ Be what they soothfast appear,/ Or if yon realms in sunset glow/ Be bubbles of the atmosphere./
    MMEm 10.408 20 ...the whim and petulance in which by diseased habit [Mary Moody Emerson] had grown to indulge without suspecting it, was burned up in the glow of her pure and poetic spirit, which dearly loved the Infinite.
    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.
    PLT 12.50 3 The same functions which are perfect in our quadrupeds are seen slower performed in palaeontology. Many races it cost them to achieve the completion that is now in the life of one. Life had not yet so fierce a glow.

glow, v. (6)

    Con 1.324 21 ...the stars in heaven shall glow with a kindlier beam, that I have lived.
    Lov1 2.172 7 How we glow over these novels of passion...
    PI 8.70 1 It is not style or rhymes, or a new image more or less that imports, but...that the old forgotten splendors of the universe should glow again for us;...
    Edc1 10.128 19 ...here [in the household] labor drudges, here affections glow...
    MMEm 10.412 17 ...in dead of night, nearer morning, when the eastern stars glow...then, however awed, who can fear?
    MMEm 10.412 18 ...in dead of night, nearer morning, when the eastern stars glow or appear to glow with more indescribable lustre...then, however awed, who can fear?

glowed, v. (3)

    Fdsp 2.189 7 ...The world uncertain comes and goes,/ The lover rooted stays./ I fancied he was fled,/ And, after many a year,/ Glowed unexhausted kindliness/ Like daily sunrise there./
    Suc 7.297 26 We remember when in early youth the earth spoke and the heavens glowed;...
    Chr2 10.101 14 When Omar prayed and loved,/ Where Syrian waters roll,/ Aloft the ninth heaven glowed and moved/ To the tread of the jubilant soul./

glowing, adj. (5)

    Wsp 6.205 22 King Olaf's mode of converting Eyvind to Christianity was to put a pan of glowing coals on his belly...
    Elo1 7.90 5 Condense some daily experience into a glowing symbol, and an audience is electrified.
    MMEm 10.419 7 It was the choice of the Eternal that gave the glowing seraph his joys, and to me [Mary Moody Emerson] my vile imprisonment.
    SMC 11.350 21 ...as we have learned that the upheaved mountain, from which these discs or flakes were broken, was once a glowing mass at white heat, slowly crystallized, then uplifted by the central fires of the globe: so the roots of events [the Concord Monument] appropriately marks are in the heart of the universe.
    CL 12.145 8 The American sun paints itself in these glowing balls [apples]...

glowing, v. (2)

    ET14 5.256 14 ...if I should count the poets who have contributed to the Bible of existing England sentences of guidance and consolation which are still glowing and effective,--how few!
    CSC 10.375 3 The still-living merit of the oldest New England families, glowing yet after several generations, encountered [at the Chardon Street Convention] the founders of families, fresh merit...

glows, v. (10)

    Comp 2.91 6 In changing moon, in tidal wave,/ Glows the feud of Want and Have./
    Comp 2.100 17 If the government is a terrific democracy, the pressure is resisted by an over-charge of energy in the citizen, and life glows with a fiercer flame.
    Lov1 2.170 16 ...[love] is a fire that kindling its first embers in the narrow nook of a private bosom...glows and enlarges...
    Cir 2.310 21 ...let us enjoy the cloven flame [of conversation] whilst it glows on our walls.
    Nat2 3.167 9 Self-kindled every atom glows,/ And hints the future which it owes./
    ET13 5.220 4 These [English] minsters were neither built nor filled by atheists. No church has had more learned, industrious or devoted men; plenty of clerks and bishops, who, out of their gowns, would turn their backs on no man. Their architecture still glows with faith in immortality.
    Imtl 8.343 23 ...as soon as virtue glows, this belief [in immortality] confirms itself.
    Schr 10.259 9 For thought, and not praise,/ Thought is the wages/ For which I sell days,/ Will gladly sell ages,/ And willing grow old,/ Deaf and dumb, blind and cold,/ Melting matter into dreams,/ Panoramas which I saw,/ And whatever glows or seems/ Into substance, into Law./

gloze, v. (2)

    Chr2 10.114 5 The Church...clings to the miraculous...which has even an immoral tendency, as one sees in Greek, Indian and Catholic legends, which are used to gloze every crime.
    TPar 11.289 25 ...[Theodore Parker] insisted...that the essence of Christianity is its practical morals;...and if you combine it...with ordinary city ambitions to gloze over municipal corruptions...it is a hypocrisy...

glue, n. (2)

    ET10 5.168 2 England is aghast at the disclosure of her fraud in the adulteration of food, of drugs...finding that milk will not nourish...nor glue stick.
    Pow 6.72 21 ...[Michel Angelo] went down into the Pope's gardens behind the Vatican, and with a shovel dug out ochres, red and yellow, mixed them with glue and water with his own hands...

glued, v. (1)

    SL 2.139 9 [The soul] has so infused its strong enchantment into nature that...when we struggle to wound its creatures our hands are glued to our sides...

glut, n. (2)

    GoW 4.273 15 [Goethe] was the soul of his century. If that...had become... one great Exploring Expedition, accumulating a glut of facts and fruits too fast for any hitherto-existing savans to classify,--this man's mind had ample chambers for the distribution of all.
    EdAd 11.386 22 ...who can see the continent with...its confluence of races so favorable to the highest energy, and the infinite glut of their production, without putting new queries to Destiny as to the purpose for which this muster of nations...is made?

glut, v. (2)

    MN 1.202 15 ...one can hardly help asking if this planet is a fair specimen of the so generous astronomy...and whether it be quite worth while to make more, and glut the innocent space with so poor an article.
    ET3 5.43 14 [Nature made] An island,--but not so large, the people [of England] not so many as to glut the great markets...

gluten, n. (1)

    Civ 7.22 26 ...the power of a wafer or a drop of wax or gluten to guard a letter, as it flies over sea over land and comes to its address as if a battalion of artillery brought it, I look upon as a fine meter of civilization.

gluts, n. (1)

    Wth 6.106 10 ...artifice or legislation punishes itself by reactions, gluts and bankruptcies.

glutted, adj. (1)

    ET14 5.255 13 The island [England] is a roaring volcano of fate, of material values, of tariffs and laws of repression, glutted markets and low prices.

gluttonies, n. (1)

    PLT 12.7 17 Bring the best wits together, and they are so impatient of each other, so vulgar, there is so much more than their wit,-such follies, gluttonies, partialities, age, care, and sleep, that you shall have no academy.

gluttonous, adj. (1)

    Boks 7.211 16 ...Cornelius Agrippa On the Vanity of Arts and Sciences is a specimen of that scribatiousness which grew to be the habit of the gluttonous readers of his time.

gluttony, n. (1)

    PLT 12.33 7 As soon as our accumulation [of knowledge] overruns our invention or power to use, the evils of intellectual gluttony begin...

Gnaphalium leontopodium, n. (1)

    Thor 10.484 17 There is a flower known to botanists...which grows on the most inaccessible cliffs of the Tyrolese mountains... It is called by botanists the Gnaphalium leontopodium, but by the Swiss Edelweisse...

Gnaphalium, n. (1)

    Thor 10.484 9 There is a flower known to botanists, one of the same genus with our summer plant called Life-Everlasting, a Gnaphalium like that, which grows on the most inaccessible cliffs of the Tyrolese mountains...

gnarled, adj. (2)

    MN 1.222 24 Do what you know, and perception is converted into character...as...the gnarled oak to live a thousand years is the arrest and fixation of the most volatile and ethereal currents.
    CbW 6.250 14 Nature...shakes down a tree full of gnarled, wormy, unripe crabs, before you can find a dozen dessert apples;...

gnashing, v. (2)

    SL 2.135 10 ...there is no need...of the wringing of the hands and the gnashing of the teeth;...
    Pt1 3.35 26 The noise which at a distance appeared like gnashing and thumping, on coming nearer was found to be the voice of disputants.

gnat, n. (4)

    Res 8.140 22 By his machines man...can see atoms like a gnat;...
    PPo 8.265 8 Ants see not the Pleiades./ Can the gnat grasp with his teeth/ The body of the elephant?/
    LLNE 10.350 8 The hyaena, the jackal, the gnat, the bug, the flea, were all beneficent parts of the system;...
    PLT 12.12 11 I confess to a little distrust of that completeness of system which metaphysicians are apt to affect. 'T is the gnat grasping the world.

gnats, n. (1)

    QO 8.177 2 Whoever looks...at flies, aphides, gnats and innumerable parasites...must have remarked the extreme content they take in suction...

gnaw, v. (2)

    Pow 6.69 6 There are Oregons, Californias and Exploring Expeditions enough appertaining to America to find [men of this surcharge of arterial blood] in files to gnaw and in crocodiles to eat.
    PPo 8.262 10 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!/

gnawed, v. (1)

    Con 1.315 1 ...[Friar Bernard] gnawed his roots and berries...

gnawing, v. (1)

    MMEm 10.429 21 O dear worms,-how they will at some sure time take down this tedious tabernacle...instructors in the science of mind, by gnawing away the meshes which have chained it.

gnomes, n. (1)

    Lov1 2.187 1 The angels that inhabit this temple of the body appear at the windows, and the gnomes and vices also.

gnomic, adj. (2)

    PPo 8.243 7 Gnomic verses...were always current in the East;...
    PPo 8.243 20 Take, as specimens of these [Persian] gnomic verses, the following...

Gnomic, adj. (1)

    PI 8.65 19 In the world of letters how few commanding oracles! Homer did what he could; Pindar, Aeschylus, and the Greek Gnomic poets...

Gnostics, n. (1)

    Tran 1.341 23 ...in ecclesiastical history we take so much pains to know what the Gnostics...believed...

Go, Lovely Rose [Edmund W (1)

    PI 8.55 27 Keats disclosed by certain lines in his Hyperion this inward skill; and Coleridge showed at least his love and appetency for it. It appears in...Waller's Go, Lovely Rose!...

go, v. (557)

    Nat 1.7 1 To go into solitude, a man needs to retire as much from his chamber as from society.
    Nat 1.14 10 [The private poor man] sets his house upon the road, and the human race go forth every morning, and shovel out the snow, and cut a path for him.
    Nat 1.19 14 Go out of the house to see the moon, and 't is mere tinsel;...
    Nat 1.19 18 The beauty that shimmers in the yellow afternoons of October, who ever could clutch it? Go forth to find it, and it is gone;...
    Nat 1.29 6 As we go back in history, language becomes more picturesque...
    Nat 1.74 22 ...when a faithful thinker...shall...kindle science with the fire of the holiest affections, then will God go forth anew...
    AmS 1.88 1 [Nature] can stand, and it can go.
    AmS 1.89 26 What is the one end [of books] which all means go to effect?
    DSA 1.125 25 ...[man] can never go behind this sentiment [of virtue].
    DSA 1.132 14 Noble provocations go out from [the divine bards]...
    DSA 1.137 20 I once heard a preacher who sorely tempted me to say I would go to church no more.
    DSA 1.137 21 Men go, thought I, where they are wont to go...
    DSA 1.140 12 ...[the poor preacher's] face is suffused with shame, to propose to his parish that they should send money...to furnish such poor fare as they...would do well to go the hundred or thousand miles to escape.
    DSA 1.142 23 ...no man can go with his thoughts about him into one of our churches, without feeling that what hold the public worship had on men is gone...
    DSA 1.143 7 I have heard a devout person...say...On Sundays, it seems wicked to go to church.
    DSA 1.143 20 ...what greater calamity can fall upon a nation than the loss of worship? Then all things go to decay.
    DSA 1.144 23 All men go in flocks to this saint or that poet...
    DSA 1.145 18 Let me admonish you, first of all, to go alone;...
    DSA 1.145 25 Imitation cannot go above its model.
    DSA 1.149 13 ...[Massena] was not himself until the battle began to go against him;...
    LE 1.165 27 Out of [the spontaneous sentiment] must all that is alive and genial in thought go.
    LE 1.168 2 But go into the forest, you shall find all new and undescribed.
    LE 1.172 9 Go and talk with a man of genius...
    LE 1.174 4 ...go cherish your soul;...
    LE 1.174 11 Do not go into solitude only that you may presently come into public.
    LE 1.176 8 Come now, let us go and be dumb.
    LE 1.176 17 How mean to go blazing...in fashionable or political salons.
    LE 1.185 9 ...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...
    LE 1.185 23 When you shall say...I must eat the good of the land and let learning and romantic expectations go...then dies the man in you;...
    MN 1.196 15 The new book says, I will give you the key to nature, and we expect to go like a thunderbolt to the centre.
    MN 1.204 10 With this conception of the genius or method of nature, let us go back to man.
    MN 1.216 15 ...I need not go where you are, that you should exert magnetism on me.
    MR 1.228 11 ...I will not dissemble my hope that each person whom I address has felt his own call...to be in his place...a brave and upright man, who must...not only go honorably himself, but make it easier for all who follow him to go in honor and with benefit.
    MR 1.228 13 ...I will not dissemble my hope that each person whom I address has felt his own call...to be in his place...a brave and upright man, who must...make it easier for all who follow him to go in honor and with benefit.
    MR 1.229 23 That secret which you would fain keep,-as soon as you go abroad, lo' there is one standing on the doorstep to tell you the same.
    MR 1.236 27 When I go into my garden with a spade, and dig a bed, I feel such an exhilaration...that I discover that I have been defrauding myself all this time in letting others do for me what I should have done with my own hands.
    MR 1.238 17 A man...who builds a raft or boat to go a-fishing, finds it easy to caulk it...
    MR 1.245 16 How can the man who has learned but one art, procure all the conveniences of life honestly? Shall we say all we think?-Perhaps with his own hands. Suppose he collects or makes them ill;-yet he has learned their lesson. If he cannot do that?-Then perhaps he can go without.
    MR 1.245 18 It is better to go without [the conveniences of life], than to have them at too great a cost.
    MR 1.249 16 ...if...a woman or a child discovers...a juster way of thinking than mine, I ought to confess it by my respect and obedience, though it go to alter my whole way of life.
    MR 1.251 23 ...when [Caliph Omar] left Medina to go to the conquest of Jerusalem, he rode on a red camel...
    MR 1.254 16 Love will creep where it cannot go...
    LT 1.261 24 In our idea of progress, we do not go out of this personal picture.
    LT 1.276 5 ...[these reforms] only name the relation which subsists between us and the vicious institutions which they go to rectify.
    LT 1.279 19 ...magnifying the importance of that wrong, [men] fancy that if that abuse were redressed all would go well...
    LT 1.280 2 If, [the man of ideas] says, I am selfish, then is there slavery, or the effort to establish it, wherever I go.
    Con 1.299 21 ...whilst we do not go beyond general statements, it may be safely affirmed of these two metaphysical antagonists [Conservatism and Reform], that each is a good half, but an impossible whole.
    Con 1.301 4 As we take our stand on Necessity, or on Ethics, shall we go for the conservative, or for the reformer.
    Con 1.306 15 ...[the youth] is met by warnings on every hand that this thing and that thing have owners, and he must go elsewhere.
    Con 1.315 2 ...[Friar Bernard]...set forth to go to Rome to reform the corruption of mankind.
    Tran 1.330 19 Every materialist will be an idealist; but an idealist can never go backward to be a materialist.
    Tran 1.331 8 Even the materialist Condillac...was constrained to say...we never go out of ourselves;...
    Tran 1.334 26 ...let the soul be erect, and all things will go well.
    Tran 1.346 11 [A man] ought to be...a great influence, which should never let his brother go...
    Tran 1.346 22 ...when deed, word, or letter comes not, [our friends] let us go.
    YA 1.369 8 Whatever events in progress shall go to disgust men with cities...will render a service to the whole face of this continent...
    YA 1.377 10 ...as quickly as men go to foreign parts in ships or caravans, a new order of things springs up;...
    YA 1.379 10 Every line of history inspires a confidence that we shall not go far wrong;...
    YA 1.385 20 ...the national Post Office is likely to go into disuse before the private telegraph and the express companies.
    YA 1.386 17 Where is he who seeing a thousand men...making the whole region forlorn by their inaction, and conscious himself of possessing the faculty they want, does not hear his call to go and be their king?
    YA 1.389 3 I shall not need to go into an enumeration of our national defects and vices which require this Order of Censors in the State.
    Hist 2.9 15 Who cares what the fact was, when we have made a constellation of it to hang in heaven an immortal sign? London and Paris and New York must go the same way.
    Hist 2.10 4 Every mind must know the whole lesson for itself,--must go over the whole ground.
    Hist 2.36 9 ...out of the human heart go as it were highways to the heart of every object in nature...
    Hist 2.38 10 I will not now go behind the general statement to explore the reason of this correspondency.
    SR 2.51 7 I ought to go upright and vital...
    SR 2.51 13 ...why should I not say to [the angry Abolitionist], Go love thy infant;...
    SR 2.52 12 There is a class of persons to whom by all spiritual affinity I am bought and sold; for them I will go to prison if need be;...
    SR 2.56 6 If this aversion had its origin in contempt and resistance like [the nonconformist's] own he might well go home with a sad countenance;...
    SR 2.64 10 In that deep force, the last fact behind which analysis cannot go, all things find their common origin.
    SR 2.68 7 ...when [children] come into the point of view which those had who uttered these sayings, they...are willing to let the words go;...
    SR 2.69 8 The soul raised over passion...calms itself with knowing that all things go well.
    SR 2.71 19 We must go alone.
    SR 2.81 14 I have no churlish objection to the circumnavigation of the globe...so that the man...does not go abroad with the hope of finding somewhat greater than he knows.
    SR 2.82 6 My giant goes with me wherever I go.
    Comp 2.107 18 ...in nature nothing can be given, all things are sold. This is that ancient doctrine of Nemesis, who...lets no offence go unchastised.
    Comp 2.110 16 ...[every opinion] is a harpoon hurled at the whale, unwinding, as it flies, a coil of cord in the boat, and, if the harpoon is not good, or not well thrown, it will go nigh to cut the steersman in twain or sink the boat.
    Comp 2.112 15 Experienced men of the world know very well that it is best to pay scot and lot as they go along...
    Comp 2.125 18 We cannot let our angels go.
    Comp 2.125 19 We do not see that [our angels] only go out that archangels may come in.
    SL 2.131 4 Behind us, as we go, all things assume pleasing forms...
    SL 2.132 15 Our young people are diseased with the theological problems of original sin, origin of evil, predestination and the like. These...never darkened across any man's road who did not go out of his way to seek them.
    SL 2.135 4 Could ever a man of prodigious mathematical genius convey to others any insight into his methods? If he could communicate that secret it would instantly lose its exaggerated value, blending with the daylight and the vital energy the power to stand and to go.
    SL 2.140 1 If we would not be mar-plots with our miserable interferences, the work...of men would go on far better than now...
    SL 2.143 22 The goods of fortune may come and go like summer leaves;...
    SL 2.144 19 ...I will go to the man who knocks at my door...
    SL 2.144 20 ...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 2.152 15 We see it advertised that Mr. Grand will deliver an oration on the Fourth of July...and we do not go thither...
    SL 2.152 19 ...we know that these gentlemen will not communicate their own character and experience to the company. If we had reason to expect such a confidence we should go through all inconvenience and opposition.
    SL 2.153 12 The way to speak and write what shall not go out of fashion is to speak and write sincerely.
    SL 2.154 13 [A book] must go with all Walpole's Noble and Royal Authors to its fate.
    SL 2.160 1 ...the hero fears not that if he withhold the avowal of a just and brave act it will go unwitnessed and unloved.
    SL 2.164 6 Why need I go gadding into the scenes and philosophy of Greek and Italian history before I have justified myself to my benefactors?
    SL 2.166 2 Let the great soul incarnated in some woman's form...go out to service...
    Lov1 2.171 12 Let any man go back to those delicious relations which make the beauty of his life...he will shrink and moan.
    Lov1 2.173 6 ...who can avert his eyes from the engaging...ways of school-girls who go into the country shops...
    Lov1 2.180 3 The statue is then beautiful...when it...demands an active imagination to go with it and say what it is in the act of doing.
    Fdsp 2.200 21 Respect the naturlangsamkeit which...works in duration in which Alps and Andes come and go as rainbows.
    Fdsp 2.202 11 There are two elements that go to the composition of friendship...
    Fdsp 2.203 24 We can seldom go erect.
    Fdsp 2.210 4 Why go to [your friend's] house...
    Fdsp 2.214 6 We are sure that we have all in us. We go to Europe, or we pursue persons...in the instinctive faith that these will call it out...
    Fdsp 2.215 6 In the great days, presentiments hover before me in the firmament. I ought then to dedicate myself to them. I go in that I may seize them, I go out that I may seize them.
    Fdsp 2.215 7 In the great days, presentiments hover before me in the firmament. I ought then to dedicate myself to them. I go in that I may seize them, I go out that I may seize them.
    Prd1 2.224 25 Prudence does not go behind nature and ask whence it is.
    Prd1 2.225 27 ...if we go a-fishing we must expect a wet coat.
    Prd1 2.235 9 Iron cannot rust...nor calicoes go out of fashion...in the few swift moments in which the Yankee suffers any one of them to remain in his possession.
    Prd1 2.235 16 ...every thing in nature, even motes and feathers, go by law and not by luck...
    Hsm1 2.249 23 Let [a man] hear in season...that the commonwealth and his own well-being require that he should not go dancing in the weeds of peace...
    Hsm1 2.250 24 There is somewhat in great actions which does not allow us to go behind them.
    Hsm1 2.262 21 ...let [a man] go home much...
    OS 2.265 2 Space is ample, east and west,/ But two cannot go abreast,/ Cannot travel in it two/...
    OS 2.286 14 ...thoughts go out of our minds through avenues which we never voluntarily opened.
    OS 2.291 23 I do not wonder that these [simple] men go to see Cromwell and Christina and Charles the Second and James the First and the Grand Turk.
    OS 2.293 22 You are preparing with eagerness to go and render a service...
    OS 2.293 26 Has it not occurred to you that you have no right to go, unless you are equally willing to be prevented from going?
    OS 2.294 21 ...if [man] would know what the great God speaketh, he must go into his closet and shut the door...
    Cir 2.304 5 The extent to which this generation of circles, wheel without wheel, will go, depends on the force or truth of the individual soul.
    Cir 2.308 17 ...we can never go so far back as to preclude a still higher vision.
    Cir 2.315 6 Geoffrey draws on his boots to go through the woods...
    Int 2.323 1 Go, speed the stars of Thought/ On to their shining goals;/...
    Int 2.331 24 We say I will walk abroad, and the truth will take form and clearness to me. We go forth, but cannot find it.
    Int 2.335 4 To genius must always go two gifts, the thought and the publication.
    Int 2.337 17 ...as soon as we let our will go and let the unconscious states ensue, see what cunning draughtsmen we are!
    Int 2.344 1 ...let [new doctrines] not go until their blessing be won...
    Art1 2.367 7 Now men do not see nature to be beautiful, and they go to make a statue which shall be.
    Pt1 3.14 12 Here we find ourselves suddenly not in a critical speculation but in a holy place, and should go very warily and reverently.
    Pt1 3.26 11 The path of things is silent. Will they suffer a speaker to go with them?
    Pt1 3.39 13 ...[the artist] says, with the old painter, By God it is in me and must go forth of me.
    Exp 3.45 6 ...there are stairs above us, many a one, which go upward and out of sight.
    Exp 3.50 25 Who cares what sensibility or discrimination a man has at some time shown...if he...cannot go by food?...
    Exp 3.59 16 Do not craze yourself with thinking, but go about your business anywhere.
    Exp 3.69 21 The persons who compose our company...come and go...and somewhat comes of it all, but an unlooked-for result.
    Exp 3.71 10 ...if at any time being alone I have good thoughts, I do not at once arrive at satisfactions, as when, being thirsty, I drink water; or go to the fire, being cold;...
    Exp 3.73 18 In our more correct writing we give to this generalization the name of Being, and thereby confess that we have arrived as far as we can go.
    Chr1 3.99 20 ...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 3.104 20 ...it is but poor chat and gossip to go to enumerate traits of this simple and rapid power [of character]...
    Chr1 3.110 18 The coldest precisian cannot go abroad without encountering inexplicable influences.
    Mrs1 3.124 21 I am far from believing the timid maxim of Lord Falkland (that for ceremony there must go two to it; since a bold fellow will go through the cunningest forms)...
    Mrs1 3.124 22 I am far from believing the timid maxim of Lord Falkland (that for ceremony there must go two to it; since a bold fellow will go through the cunningest forms)...
    Mrs1 3.130 8 ...come from year to year and see how permanent [the distinction of caste or fashion] is, in this Boston or New York life of man... ... Here are associations whose ties go over and under and through it...
    Mrs1 3.132 7 ...good sense and character make their own forms every moment, and...stay or go...in a new and aboriginal way;...
    Mrs1 3.132 25 A man should not go where he cannot carry his whole sphere or society with him...
    Mrs1 3.134 11 I may easily go into a great household where there is much substance...and yet not encounter there any Amphitryon who shall subordinate these appendages.
    Mrs1 3.134 15 I may go into a cottage, and find a farmer who feels that he is the man I have come to see...
    Mrs1 3.138 11 The flower of courtesy does not very well bide handling, but if we dare to open another leaf and explore what parts go to its conformation, we shall find also an intellectual quality.
    Mrs1 3.153 5 ...the advantages which fashion values are plants which thrive in very confined localities, in a few streets namely. Out of this precinct they go for nothing;...
    Gts 3.159 3 It is said...that the world owes the world more than the world can pay, and ought to go into chancery and be sold.
    Gts 3.161 21 ...it is a cold lifeless business when you go to the shops to buy me something which does not represent your life and talent, but a goldsmith's.
    Nat2 3.171 15 We go out daily and nightly to feed the eyes on the horizon...
    Nat2 3.172 25 ...I go with my friend to the shore of our little river...
    Nat2 3.173 20 ...I go with my friend to the shore of our little river, and with one stroke of the paddle I...pass into a delicate realm of sunset and moonlight... ... I am over-instructed for my return. Henceforth I shall be hard to please. I cannot go back to toys.
    Nat2 3.175 15 That [the rich] have some high-fenced grove which they call a park; that they...go in coaches...to watering-places and to distant cities,-- these make the groundwork from which [the poor young poet] has delineated estates of romance...
    Nat2 3.193 3 ...what recesses of ineffable pomp and loveliness in the sunset! But who can go where they are...
    Pol1 3.205 2 ...there are limitations beyond which the folly and ambition of governors cannot go.
    Pol1 3.211 21 Fisher Ames expressed the popular security more wisely... saying that a monarchy is a merchantman, which sails well, but will sometimes strike on a rock and go to the bottom;...
    Pol1 3.215 14 A man who cannot be acquainted with me...looking from afar at me ordains that a part of my labor shall go to this or that whimsical end...
    Pol1 3.216 3 That which...which freedom, cultivation, intercourse, revolutions, go to form and deliver, is character;...
    Pol1 3.218 6 We do penance as we go.
    NR 3.228 27 Let us go for universals;...
    NR 3.229 8 ...[a personal influence] borrows all its size from the momentary estimation of the speakers: the Will-of-the-wisp vanishes if you go too near...
    NR 3.229 9 ...[a personal influence] borrows all its size from the momentary estimation of the speakers: the Will-of-the-wisp...vanishes if you go too far...
    NR 3.230 3 England, strong, punctual, practical, well-spoken England I should not find if I should go to the island to seek it.
    NR 3.232 2 How wise the world appears, when...the completeness of the municipal system is considered! Nothing is left out. If you go into the markets and the custom-houses...it will appear as if one man had made it all.
    NR 3.232 7 Wherever you go, a wit like your own has been before you, and has realized its thought.
    NR 3.238 12 ...[Nature] does not go unprovided;...
    NR 3.244 14 Jesus is not dead; he is very well alive: nor John, nor Paul, nor Mahomet, nor Aristotle; at times we believe we have seen them all, and could easily tell the names under which they go.
    NR 3.247 27 How sincere and confidential we can be, saying all that lies in the mind, and yet go away feeling that all is yet unsaid...
    NR 3.248 5 My companion assumes to know my mood and habit of thought, and we go on from explanation to explanation until all is said which words can...
    NER 3.252 8 One apostle thought all men should go to farming...
    NER 3.259 25 ...I will omit this conjugating [of Greek and Latin], and go straight to affairs.
    NER 3.262 24 If I should go out of church whenever I hear a false sentiment I could never stay there five minutes.
    NER 3.267 12 ...leave [a man] alone, to recognize in every hour and place the secret soul; he will go up and down doing the works of a true member [of a union]...
    NER 3.268 13 A man of good sense but of little faith...said to me that he liked to have concerts, and fairs, and churches, and other public amusements go on.
    NER 3.270 11 We must go up to a higher platform...
    NER 3.271 7 The soul lets no man go without some visitations and holydays of a diviner presence.
    NER 3.284 25 We wish to escape from subjection and a sense of inferiority, and we make self-denying ordinances...we go to jail;...
    UGM 4.4 26 The student of history is like a man going into a warehouse to buy cloths or carpets. He fancies he has a new article. If he go to the factory, he shall find that his new stuff still repeats the scrolls and rosettes which are found on the interior walls of the pyramids of Thebes.
    UGM 4.8 11 Right ethics...go from the soul outward.
    UGM 4.16 21 We go to the gymnasium and the swimming-school to see the power and beauty of the body;...
    UGM 4.19 12 We touch and go, and sip the foam of many lives.
    UGM 4.21 19 I go to Boston or New York and run up and down on my affairs...
    UGM 4.21 25 I go to a convention of philanthropists. Do what I can, I cannot keep my eyes off the clock.
    PPh 4.72 6 ...[Socrates] showed one who was afraid to go on foot to Olympia, that it was no more than his daily walk within doors, if continuously extended, would easily reach.
    PPh 4.74 24 Crito bribed the jailer; but Socrates would not go out by treachery.
    SwM 4.95 13 ...the Persian poet exclaims to a soul of this kind [of goodness],--Go boldly forth, and feast on being's banquet;/ Thou art the called,--the rest admitted with thee./
    SwM 4.105 6 What was left for a genius of the largest calibre but to go over [his predecessors'] ground and verify and unite?
    SwM 4.111 13 ...[Swedenborg] has at last found a pupil in Mr. Wilkinson... who has restored his master's buried books to the day...to go round the world in our commercial and conquering tongue.
    MoS 4.155 5 [The skeptic] will not go beyond his card.
    MoS 4.159 7 Let us go abroad;...
    MoS 4.171 14 ...though the town and state and way of living, which our counsellor contemplated, might be a very modest or musty prosperity, yet men rightly go for him...
    MoS 4.175 25 We go forth austere, dedicated...
    ShP 4.190 4 A great man does not wake up on some fine morning and say, I am full of life, I will go to sea and find an Antarctic continent...
    ShP 4.190 13 [A great man] stands where all the eyes of men look one way, and their hands all point in the direction in which he should go.
    ShP 4.199 9 ...there were fountains around Homer, Menu, Saadi, or Milton, from which they drew;...which, if seen, would go to reduce the wonder.
    ShP 4.218 22 ...it must even go into the world's history that the best poet [Shakespeare] led an obscure and profane life, using his genius for the public amusement.
    GoW 4.265 15 The ambitious and mercenary bring their last new mumbo-jumbo... and...easily succed in making it seen in a glare; and a multitude go mad about it...
    GoW 4.279 21 ...the book [Goethe's Wilhelm Meister] remains ever so new and unexhausted, that we must even let it go its way...
    GoW 4.282 18 ...through every clause and part of speech of a right book I meet the eyes of the most determined of men;...the commas and dashes are alive; so that the writing is athletic and nimble,--can go far and live long.
    ET1 5.8 11 [Landor] invited me to breakfast on Friday. On Friday I did not fail to go...
    ET1 5.10 4 ...year after year the scholar must still go back to Landor for a multitude of elegant sentences;...
    ET1 5.13 6 When I rose to go, [Coleridge] said, I do not know whether you care about poetry...
    ET1 5.17 26 [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, and nobody to bid these poor Irish go to the moor and till it.
    ET2 5.25 23 I did not go [to England] very willingly.
    ET2 5.27 9 The shortest sea-line from Boston to Liverpool is 2850 miles. This a steamer keeps, and saves 150 miles. A sailing ship can never go in a shorter line than 3000...
    ET2 5.30 16 ...here on the second day of our voyage, stepped out a little boy in his shirt-sleeves, who had hid himself whilst the ship was in port... having no money and wishing to go to England.
    ET2 5.31 3 If sailors were contented, if they had not resolved again and again not to go to sea any more, I should respect them.
    ET4 5.52 27 ...what we think of when we talk of English traits really narrows itself to a small district. It...reduces itself at last to London, that is, to those who come and go thither.
    ET4 5.53 7 As you go north into the manufacturing and agricultural districts...the world's Englishman is no longer found.
    ET4 5.53 9 ...as you go into Yorkshire...the world's Englishman is no longer found.
    ET4 5.71 25 The horse has more uses than Buffon noted. If you go into the streets, every driver in 'bus or dray is a bully...
    ET5 5.87 10 ...[the English] fundamentally believe that the best strategem in naval war is to lay your ship close alongside of the enemy's ship and bring all your guns to bear on him, until you or he go to the bottom.
    ET6 5.109 18 Mr. Cobbett attributes the huge popularity of Perceval...to the fact that he was wont to go to church every Sunday...
    ET6 5.113 1 [The English] avoid pretension and go right to the heart of the thing.
    ET7 5.123 7 When Castlereagh dissuaded Lord Wellington from going to the king's levee until the unpopular Cintra business had been explained, he replied, You furnish me a reason for going. I will go to this, or I will never go to a king's levee.
    ET10 5.161 19 Nations are getting obsolete, we go and live where we will.
    ET11 5.177 22 [The English aristocracy] have often no residence in London, and only go thither a short time, during the season, to see the opera;...
    ET11 5.180 27 The English go to their estates for grandeur.
    ET13 5.225 7 ...[the English] have not been able to congeal humanity by act of Parliament. The heavens journey still and sojourn not, and arts, wars, discoveries and opinion go onward at their own pace.
    ET13 5.227 20 [The Dean and Prebends] go into the cathedral, chant and pray and beseech the Holy Ghost to assist them in their choice [of a Bishop];...
    ET14 5.244 15 ...[the English] draw only a bucketful at the fountain of the First Philosophy for their occasion, and do not go to the spring-head.
    ET16 5.274 15 [Carlyle] wishes to go through the British Museum in silence...
    ET16 5.275 6 Still speaking of the Americans, Carlyle complained that they dislike the coldness and exclusiveness of the English, and run away to France and go with their countrymen and are amused...
    ET16 5.279 17 In this quiet house of destiny [Stonehenge] [Carlyle] happened to say, I plant cypresses wherever I go, and if I am in search of pain, I cannot go wrong.
    ET16 5.279 18 In this quiet house of destiny [Stonehenge] [Carlyle] happened to say, I plant cypresses wherever I go, and if I am in search of pain, I cannot go wrong.
    ET16 5.280 23 I engaged the local antiquary, Mr. Brown, to go with us [Emerson and Carlyle] to Stonehenge...
    ET16 5.288 3 As I had thus taken in the conversation the saint's part, when dinner was announced, Carlyle refused to go out before me,--he was altogether too wicked.
    ET17 5.293 10 ...my recollections of the best hours go back to private conversations in different parts of the kingdom [England]...
    ET18 5.301 23 In Magna Charta it was ordained that all merchants shall have safe and secure conduct to go out and come into England...
    ET18 5.302 13 We cannot go deep enough into the biography of the spirit who never throws himself entire into one hero...
    ET19 5.310 6 ...the political, the social, the parietal wit of Punch go duly every fortnight to every boy and girl in Boston and New York.
    ET19 5.314 3 ...if the courage of England goes with the chances of a commercial crisis, I will go back to the capes of Massachusetts and my own Indian stream, and say to my countrymen, the old race are all gone...
    F 6.24 18 Go face the fire at sea...knowing you are guarded by the cherubim of Destiny.
    F 6.30 7 One way is right to go;...
    F 6.41 20 In youth we...go as brave as the zodiac.
    F 6.41 26 We go to Herodotus and Plutarch for examples of Fate;...
    Pow 6.53 20 ...[a man] can well afford to let events and possessions and the breath of the body go, if their value has been added to him in the shape of power.
    Pow 6.61 3 When [children] are hurt by us...or go to the bottom of the class...they have a serious check.
    Pow 6.68 16 [Men of this surcharge of arterial blood] pine for adventure, and must go to Pike's Peak;...
    Pow 6.77 27 John Kemble said that the worst provincial company of actors would go through a play better than the best amateur company.
    Pow 6.81 12 I know no more affecting lesson to our busy, plotting New England brains, than to go into one of the factories with which we have lined all the watercourses in the States.
    Pow 6.81 18 ...in these [machines man] is forced to leave out his follies and hindrances, so that when we go to the mill, the machine is more moral than we.
    Pow 6.81 20 Let a man dare go to a loom and see if he be equal to it.
    Wth 6.88 6 If happily [a man's] fathers have left him no inheritance, he must go to work...
    Wth 6.95 12 The world is his who has money to go over it.
    Wth 6.99 1 I think sometimes, could I only have music on my own terms; could I live in a great city and know where I could go whenever I wished the ablution and inundation of musical waves,--that were a bath and a medicine.
    Wth 6.110 14 [Immigrants] go into the poor-rates...
    Wth 6.114 6 Pride can go without domestics...
    Wth 6.114 24 We had in this region, twenty years ago...a passionate desire to go upon the land...
    Wth 6.116 1 Every tree and graft [on a man's land]...stand in his way like duns, when he would go out of his gate.
    Wth 6.124 3 ...'t is very well that the poor husband reads in a book of a new way of living, and resolves to adopt it at home; let him go home and try it, if he dare.
    Wth 6.126 4 The merchant has but one rule, absorb and invest;...earnings must not go to increase expense...
    Ctr 6.137 22 We must leave our pets at home when we go into the street...
    Ctr 6.145 12 All educated Americans...go to Europe;...
    Ctr 6.146 2 ...let [the traveler] go where he will, he can only find so much beauty or worth as he carries.
    Ctr 6.147 9 One use of travel is to recommend the books and works of home,--we go to Europe to be Americanized;...
    Ctr 6.151 19 An old poet says,--Go far and go sparing/...
    Ctr 6.154 10 Suffer [people who scream and bewail] once to begin the enumeration of their infirmities and the sun will go down on the unfinished tale.
    Ctr 6.162 15 Be willing to go to Coventry sometimes...
    Ctr 6.166 4 The age of the quadruped is to go out...
    Bhr 6.167 7 ...Graceful women, chosen men/ Dazzle every mortal:/ Their sweet and lofty countenance/ His enchanting food;/ He need not go to them, their forms/ Beset his solitude./
    Bhr 6.171 20 In hours of business we go to him who knows...that which we want...
    Bhr 6.171 25 In hours of business we go to him who knows...that which we want, and we do not let our taste or feeling stand in the way. But this activity over, we...wish for...those who will go where we go...
    Bhr 6.179 4 ...[eyes]...go through and through you in a moment of time.
    Bhr 6.189 20 ...no rod and chain will measure the dimensions of any house or house-lot; go into the house;...
    Bhr 6.194 14 The legend says [the monk Basle's] sentence was remitted, and he was allowed to go into heaven...
    Wsp 6.203 9 ...as [the Shakers] go with perfect sympathy to their tasks in the field or shop, so are they inclined for a ride or a journey at the same instant...
    Wsp 6.211 13 ...if an adventurer go through all the forms, procure himself to be elected to a post of trust...by the same arts as we detest in the house-thief,-- the same gentlemen who agree to discountenance the private rogue will be forward to show civilities and marks of respect to the public one;...
    Wsp 6.212 11 ...[even well-disposed, good sort of people] go on choosing the dead men of routine.
    Wsp 6.220 17 ...all things go by number, rule and weight.
    Wsp 6.231 20 Fear God, and where you go, men shall think they walk in hallowed cathedrals.
    Wsp 6.233 8 It is related of William of Orange, that whilst he was besieging a town on the continent, a gentleman...learning that the king was before the walls...ventured to go where he was.
    Wsp 6.235 17 Wherever a squirrel or a bee can go with security, I can go [said Benedict].
    Wsp 6.235 18 Wherever a squirrel or a bee can go with security, I can go [said Benedict].
    Wsp 6.236 2 If the thought come, I would give it entertainment [said Benedict]. It should, as it ought, go into my hands and feet;...
    Wsp 6.236 14 ...if [Benedict] called at the door of his friend and he was not at home, he did not go again;...
    CbW 6.262 3 ...we go gladly to Faneuil Hall to be played upon by the stormy winds and strong fingers of enraged patriotism...
    CbW 6.264 1 ...if people were sick and dying to any purpose, we would leave all and go to them...
    CbW 6.267 27 The young people do not like the town, do not like the sea-shore, they will go inland;...
    Bty 6.281 15 We should go to the ornithologist with a new feeling if he could teach us what the social birds say when they sit in the autumn council...
    Bty 6.286 15 ...the power of form and our sensibility to personal influence never go out of fashion.
    Bty 6.296 14 A beautiful woman is a practical poet...planting tenderness, hope and eloquence in all whom she approaches. Some favors of condition must go with it, since a certain serenity is essential...
    Bty 6.297 12 Walpole says...people go early to get places at the theatres, when it is known [the Gunning sisters] will be there.
    SS 7.7 12 ...there is no remedy that can reach the heart of the disease but either habits of self-reliance that should go in practice to making the man independent of the human race, or else a religion of love.
    SS 7.8 3 If I stay, said Dante, when there was question of going to Rome, who will go? and if I go, who will stay?
    SS 7.8 4 If I stay, said Dante, when there was question of going to Rome, who will go? and if I go, who will stay?
    SS 7.14 6 I cannot go to the houses of my nearest relatives, because I do not wish to be alone.
    Civ 7.24 24 The ship, in its latest complete equipment, is an abridgment and compend of a nation's arts: the ship...driven by steam; and in wildest sea-mountains, at vast distances from home,--The pulses of her iron heart/ Go beating through the storm./
    Civ 7.27 25 We had letters to send: couriers could not go fast enough nor far enough;...
    Civ 7.29 21 It is a peremptory rule with [the heavenly powers] that they never go out of their road.
    Elo1 7.79 19 ...there are men of the most peaceful way of life and peaceful principle, who are felt wherever they go...
    Elo1 7.86 13 That is what we go to the court-house for,--the statement of the fact...
    Elo1 7.88 23 [Lord Mansfield's sentences] come from and they go to the sound human understanding;...
    Elo1 7.89 8 A crowd of men go up to Faneuil Hall;...
    Elo1 7.91 15 ...we go to Washington...to see...a man who, in prosecuting great designs, has an absolute command of the means of representing his ideas...
    Elo1 7.91 16 ...we...might well go round the world, to see...a man who, in prosecuting great designs, has an absolute command of the means of representing his ideas...
    Elo1 7.94 23 If you would correct my false view of facts,--hold up to me the same facts in the true order of thought, and I cannot go back from the new conviction.
    DL 7.107 14 If a man wishes to acquaint himself...with the spirit of the age, he must not go first to the state-house or the court-room.
    DL 7.108 27 Let us go to the sitting-room...
    DL 7.113 7 ...is there any calamity...that more invokes the best good will to remove it, than this?--to go from chamber to chamber and see no beauty;...
    DL 7.116 19 ...many things betoken a revolution of opinion and practice in regard to manual labor that may go far to aid our practical inquiry.
    DL 7.131 2 I go to Rome and see on the walls of the Vatican the Transfiguration, painted by Raphael...
    DL 7.133 3 ...the pulses of thought that go to the borders of the universe, let them proceed from the bosom of the Household.
    Farm 7.138 13 Poisoned by town life and town vices, the sufferer resolves: Well, my children, whom I have injured, shall go back to the land...
    Farm 7.149 1 ...the vines and stalks and stems may go sprawling about in the fields outside...
    WD 7.161 14 Art and power will go on as they have done...
    WD 7.168 12 [The days] come and go like muffled and veiled figures...
    WD 7.171 1 ...the treasures which Nature spent itself to amass,--the secular, refined, composite anatomy of man, which all strata go to form...are given immeasurably to all.
    WD 7.171 17 The sky is...the verge or confines of matter and spirit. Nature could no farther go.
    WD 7.175 10 ...that flexile clay of which these old brothers moulded their admirable symbols...was that clay which thou heldest but now in thy foolish hands, and threwest away to go and seek in vain in sepulchres, mummy-pits and old book-shops of Asia Minor, Egypt and England.
    WD 7.181 11 I dare not go out of doors and see the moon and stars, but they seem to measure my tasks...
    Boks 7.190 27 Go with mean people and you think life is mean.
    Boks 7.191 20 Whenever any skeptic or bigot claims to be heard on the questions of intellect and morals, we ask if he is familiar with the books of Plato, where all his pert objections have once for all been disposed of. If not, he has no right to our time. Let him go and find himself answered there.
    Boks 7.193 22 ...I can seldom go there [to the Cambridge Library] without renewing the conviction that the best of it all is already within the four walls of my study at home.
    Boks 7.204 17 I should as soon think of swimming across Charles River when I wish to go to Boston, as of reading all my books in originals when I have them rendered for me in my mother tongue.
    Boks 7.209 12 The annals of bibliography afford many examples of the delirious extent to which book-fancying can go...
    Boks 7.212 27 The very dunces wish to go to the theatre.
    Clbs 7.226 26 Neither do we by any means always go to people for conversation.
    Clbs 7.227 1 Neither do we by any means always go to people for conversation. How often to say nothing,--and yet must go;...
    Clbs 7.229 12 ...the days come when we are alarmed, and say there are no thoughts. What a barren-witted pate is mine! the student says; I will go and learn whether I have lost my reason.
    Clbs 7.230 7 ...thoughts commonly go in pairs;...
    Clbs 7.230 25 ...I seldom meet with a reading and thoughtful person but he tells me...that he has no companion. Suppose such a one to go out exploring different circles in search of this wise and genial counterpart,--he might inquire far and wide.
    Clbs 7.232 13 Some men love only to talk where they are masters. They like to go to school-girls...
    Clbs 7.232 20 Some men love only to talk where they are masters. ... They go rarely to thei their equals...
    Clbs 7.237 19 Odin comes to the threshold of the Jotun Wafthrudnir in disguise...is invited into the hall, and told that he cannot go out thence unless he can answer every question Wafthrudnir shall put.
    Clbs 7.245 12 There are those who go only to talk, and those who go only to hear: both are bad.
    Cour 7.257 2 Touch the snapping-turtle with a stick, and he seizes it with his teeth. Cut off his head, and the teeth will not let go the stick.
    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 7.261 9 Tender, amiable boys...were suddenly drawn up to face a bayonet charge or capture a battery. Of course they must each go into that action with a certain despair.
    Cour 7.261 25 ...[the young soldier] had accustomed himself always to go into whatever place of danger, and do whatever he was afraid to do...
    Suc 7.282 7 ...If thou go in thine own likeness,/ Be it health or be it sickness;/ If thou go as thy father's son,/ If thou wear no mask or lie,/ Dealing purely and nakedly;--/...
    Suc 7.282 9 ...If thou go in thine own likeness,/ Be it health or be it sickness;/ If thou go as thy father's son,/ If thou wear no mask or lie,/ Dealing purely and nakedly;--/...
    Suc 7.285 21 [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, but they...would be obliged to go on a voyage of discovery as much as if they had never been there before.
    Suc 7.288 1 These [boasted arts] are local conveniences, but how easy to go now to parts of the world where not only all these arts are wanting, but where they are despised.
    Suc 7.288 24 We are not scrupulous. What we ask is victory, without regard to the cause;...the way of the Talleyrands, prudent people, whose watches go faster than their neighbors'...
    Suc 7.300 13 ...beyond color [Nature] cannot go.
    Suc 7.310 17 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.
    OA 7.317 7 If we look into the eyes of the youngest person we sometimes discover that here is one who knows already what you would go about with much pains to teach him;...
    OA 7.325 15 Little by little [age] has amassed such a fund of merit that it can very well afford to go on its credit when it will.
    OA 7.326 9 ...[the old lawyer] may go below his mark with impunity...
    PI 8.4 8 ...whilst we deal with this [existence of matter] as finality, early hints are given that we are not to stay here; that we must be making ready to go;...
    PI 8.25 25 [People] like to go to the theatre and be made to weep;...
    PI 8.26 20 You must go through a city or a nation...to build the true poet withal.
    PI 8.31 3 Every writer is a skater, and must go partly where he would, and partly where the skates carry him;...
    PI 8.53 9 Lord Bacon, we are told, loved not to see poesy go on other feet than poetical dactyls and spondees;...
    PI 8.61 23 Ah, sir, said Merlin [to Sir Gawaine]...never other person will be able to discover this place...neither shall I ever go out from hence...
    PI 8.61 28 Ah, sir, said Merlin [to Sir Gawaine]...there is no such strong tower as this wherein I am confined;...neither can I go out, nor can any one come in, save she who hath enclosed me here...
    PI 8.62 25 Now then go in the name of God [said Merlin]...
    PI 8.67 25 We must...ask whether, if we...do not go to Hamlet, Hamlet will come to us?...
    SA 8.80 24 I think Hans Andersen's story of the cobweb cloth woven so fine that it was invisible--woven for the king's garment--must mean manners, which do really clothe a princely nature. Such a one can well go in a blanket, if he would.
    SA 8.82 15 Give me a thought, and my hands and legs and voice and face will all go right.
    SA 8.85 3 ...Do not go to ask your debtor the payment of a debt on the day when you have no other resource.
    SA 8.85 8 Wait till your affairs go better...
    SA 8.87 12 I know that there go two to this game [of laughter], and, in the presence of certain formidable wits, savage nature must sometimes rush out in some disorder.
    SA 8.88 10 If the intellect were always awake...the man might go in huckaback or mats, and his dress would be admired...
    SA 8.88 16 If...a man has not firm nerves...it is perhaps a wise economy to go to a good shop and dress himself irreproachably.
    SA 8.88 21 If...a man has not firm nerves...it is perhaps a wise economy to go to a good shop and dress himself irreproachably. He...may easily find that performance...a fortification that...allows him to go gayly into conversations where else he had been dry and embarrassed.
    SA 8.94 14 ...[Madame de Stael] said...I would go five hundred leagues to talk with a man of genius whom I had not seen.
    SA 8.97 27 ...beware of jokes; too much temperance cannot be used: inestimable for sauce, but corrupting for food, we go away hollow and ashamed.
    Elo2 8.116 3 You go to a town-meeting where the people are called to some disagreeable duty...
    Elo2 8.116 11 [The people] have sent their best men;...and it is not easy to see who else can be spared or can be induced to go.
    Elo2 8.118 26 Go into an assembly well excited...
    Elo2 8.121 16 ...some orators go to the assembly as to a closet where to find their best thoughts.
    Res 8.135 1 Go where he will, the wise man is at home,/ His hearth the earth,--his hall the azure dome;/...
    Res 8.152 6 When [the scholar's] task requires the wiping out from memory all trivial fond records/ That youth and observation copied there,/ he must...go to wooded uplands...
    Res 8.152 10 If I go into the woods in winter, and am shown the thirteen or fourteen species of willow that grow in Massachusetts, I learn that they quietly expand in the warmer days...
    Comc 8.163 13 [Wit] is like ice, on which no beauty of form, no majesty of carriage can plead any immunity,--they must walk gingerly...or down they must go...
    Comc 8.174 11 The physician endeavored to cheer [his melancholy patient' s] spirits, and advised him to go to the theatre and see Carlini. He replied, I am Carlini.
    QO 8.177 6 If we go into a library or newsroom, we see the same function [of suction] of a higher plane...
    QO 8.188 8 People go out to look at sunrises and sunsets who do not recognize their own...
    QO 8.188 20 If Lord Bacon appears already in the preface, I go and read the Instauration instead of the new book.
    QO 8.189 8 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; but if I like the gay equipage so well as to go out of my road, I had better have gone afoot.
    QO 8.189 11 ...there are certain considerations which go far to qualify a reproach too grave [to quotation].
    PC 8.215 21 It is always hard to go beyond your public.
    PC 8.227 17 In our daily intercourse, we go with the crowd...
    PC 8.232 27 We have suffered our young men of ambition to play the game of politics and take the immoral side without loss of caste,-to come and go without rebuke.
    PC 8.233 2 [A man] cannot go from the good to the evil at pleasure, and then back again to the good.
    PPo 8.235 1 Go transmute crime to wisdom, learn to stem/ The vice of Japhet by the thought of Shem./
    PPo 8.237 14 Many qualities go to make a good telescope...
    PPo 8.244 2 On earth's wide thoroughfares below/ Two only men contented go:/ Who knows what 's right and what 's forbid,/ And he from whom is knowledge hid./
    PPo 8.246 7 There resides in the grieving/ A poison to kill;/ Beware to go near them/ 'T is pestilent still./
    Insp 8.291 7 ...[Allston] made it a rule not to go to the city on two consecutive days.
    Insp 8.291 20 What prudence again does every artist, every scholar need in the security of his easel or his desk! These must be remote from the work of the house, and from all knowledge of the feet that come and go therein.
    Insp 8.292 25 Some perceptions...are granted to the single soul; they come from the depth and go to the depth...
    Grts 8.303 10 You say of some new person, That man will go far...
    Grts 8.304 22 Young men think that the manly character requires that they should go to California...
    Grts 8.305 17 ...there is the boy who is born with a taste for the sea, and must go thither if he has to run away from his father's house to the forecastle;...
    Imtl 8.344 7 Goethe said: It is to a thinking being quite impossible to think himself non-existent, ceasing to think and live; so far does every one carry in himself the proof of immortality, and quite spontaneously. But so soon as the man will be objective and go out of himself...he is lost in contradiction.
    Imtl 8.347 1 You shall not say, O my bishop, O my pastor, is there any resurrection? What do you think? Did Dr. Channing believe that we should know each other? Did Wesley? did Butler? did Fenelon? What questions are these! Go read Milton, Shakspeare or any truly ideal poet.
    Dem1 10.2 3 In the chamber, on the stairs,/ Lurking dumb,/ Go and come/ Lemurs and Lars./
    Dem1 10.6 11 Animals have been called the dreams of Nature. Perhaps for a conception of their consciousness we may go to our own dreams.
    Dem1 10.6 22 You may catch the glance of a dog sometimes which lays a kind of claim to sympathy and brotherhood. What! somewhat of me down there? Does he know it? Can he too, as I, go out of himself...
    Aris 10.29 11 Take fire and beare it into the derkest hous/ Betwixt this and the mount of Caucasus/ And let men shut the dores, and go thenne,/ Yet wol the fire as faire lie and brenne/ As twenty thousand men might it behold;/...
    Aris 10.41 6 An aristocracy is composed of simple and sincere men...who say what they mean and go straight to their objects.
    Aris 10.46 7 ...I am not going to argue the merits of gradation in the universe; the existing order of more or less. Neither do I wish to go into a vindication of the justice that disposes the variety of lot.
    Aris 10.50 18 It is curious how negligent the public is of the essential qualifications of its representatives. They ask if a man is a Republican, a Democrat? Yes. Is he a man of talent? Yes. Is he honest and not looking for an office or any manner of bribe? He is honest. Well then choose him by acclamation. And they go home and tell their wives with great satisfaction what a good thing they have done.
    Aris 10.51 1 More than taste and talent must go to the Will.
    Aris 10.51 26 To a right aristocracy...to the men, that is, who are incomparably superior to the populace in ways agreeable to the populace, showing them the way they should go...everything will be permitted and pardoned...
    Aris 10.52 9 ...if the dressed and perfumed gentleman, who serves the people in no wise...go about to set ill examples and corrupt them, who shall blame them if they burn his barns...
    Aris 10.55 24 I am acquainted with persons who go attended with this ambient cloud.
    Aris 10.57 24 ...amid the levity and giddiness of people one looks round... on some self-dependent mind, who does not go abroad for an estimate...
    PerF 10.70 4 Go out of doors and get the air.
    PerF 10.74 18 ...if [man] should fight the sea and the whirlwind with his ship, he would snap his spars, tear his sails, and swamp his bark; but by cunningly dividing the force, tapping the tempest for a little side-wind, he uses the monsters, and they carry him where he would go.
    PerF 10.80 18 ...[the prisoner] took his flute out of his pocket and began to play...and the prisoner was by general consent of court and officers allowed to go his way without any money.
    PerF 10.80 22 ...[the prisoner] took his flute out of his pocket and began to play...and the prisoner was by general consent of court and officers allowed to go his way without any money. And I suppose, if he could have played loud enough...the whole population of the globe would beat time, and consent that he should go without his fine.
    PerF 10.81 26 ...if we go to the regatta, we forget the bowler for the stroke oar;...
    PerF 10.87 23 Cities go against [the moral sentiment];...
    Chr2 10.103 12 ...the acts which [the moral sentiment] suggests-as when it impels a man to go forth and impart it to other men...are the homage we render to this sentiment...
    Chr2 10.111 10 Duty grows everywhere...and we need not go to Europe or to Asia to learn it.
    Chr2 10.111 20 ...with every repeater something of creative force is lost, as we feel when we go back to each original moralist.
    Edc1 10.128 15 Here [in the household] is the sincere thing, the wondrous composition for which day and night go round.
    Edc1 10.128 23 ...here [in the household] the secrets of character are told... the compensations which, like angels of justice, pay every debt: the opium of custom, whereof all drink and many go mad.
    Supl 10.163 15 [Those who share the superlative temerpament] go tearing, convulsed through life...
    Supl 10.174 11 I knew a grave man who, being urged to go to a church where a clergyman was newly ordained, said he liked him very well, but he would go when the interesting Sundays were over.
    Supl 10.174 13 I knew a grave man who, being urged to go to a church where a clergyman was newly ordained, said he liked him very well, but he would go when the interesting Sundays were over.
    Supl 10.179 3 The Northern genius finds itself singularly refreshed and stimulated by the breadth and luxuriance of Eastern imagery and modes of thinking, which go to check the pedantry of our inventions...
    SovE 10.189 27 Nations come and go...
    SovE 10.195 13 ...a man may go to ruin gladly, if he see that thereby no shade falls on that he loves and adores.
    SovE 10.198 7 We go to famous books for our examples of character...
    SovE 10.204 20 I will not now go into the metaphysics of that reaction by which in history a period of belief is followed by an age of criticism...
    SovE 10.207 7 Revolutions never go backward...
    Prch 10.234 9 A vivid thought brings the power to paint it; and in proportion to the depth of its source is the force of its projection. We are happy and enriched; we go away invigorated...
    Prch 10.237 17 ...when we go alone, or come into the house of thought and worship, we come with the purpose to be disabused of appearances...
    MoL 10.241 4 You go to be teachers, to become physicians, lawyers, divines;...
    Schr 10.261 21 ...in the worldly habits which harden us, we find with some surprise that learning and truth and beauty have not let us go;...
    Schr 10.262 14 Stung by this intellectual conscience, we go to measure our tasks as scholars...
    Schr 10.270 4 The engineer in the locomotive is waiting for [the poet]; the steamboat is hissing at the wharf, and the wheels whirling to go.
    Schr 10.273 23 If [the scholar] is not kindling his torch or collecting oil, he will fear to go by a workshop;...
    Schr 10.282 23 ...it is the end of eloquence...to persuade a multitude of persons to...change the course of life. They go forth not the men they came in...
    Schr 10.283 3 ...[men's] religion should go with their thought and hallow it.
    Schr 10.285 5 [Men of talent] go out into some camp of their own...
    Schr 10.285 10 [Men of talent] go out into some camp of their own, and noisily persuade society that this thing which they do is the needful cause of all men. ... But the world is wide, nobody will go there after to-morrow.
    Schr 10.286 1 Genius delights only in statements which are themselves true...which...do daily declare fresh war against all falsehood and custom, and will not let an offender go;...
    Plu 10.307 11 These men [who revere the spiritual power]...are not the parasites of wealth. Perhaps they sometimes compromise, go out to dine... but they keep open the source of wisdom and health.
    Plu 10.320 2 ...[Plutarch]...concludes:...when I myself am invited as a shadow, I assure you I refuse to go.
    LLNE 10.331 3 [Everett] had an inspiration which did not go beyond his head...
    LLNE 10.332 20 ...even the coarsest [auditors] were contented to go punctually to listen, for [Everett's] manner, when they had found out that the subject-matter was not for them.
    LLNE 10.334 8 ...he [Everett] who was heard with such throbbing hearts and sparkling eyes in the lighted and crowded churches, did not let go his hearers when the church was dismissed...
    LLNE 10.345 23 [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, and in turn go to his neighbor for any article which he had to spare.
    LLNE 10.349 4 As we listened to [Albert Brisbane's] exposition it appeared to us the sublime of mechanical philosophy; for the system was the perfection of arrangement and contrivance. The force of arrangement could no farther go.
    EzRy 10.387 14 ...the minister of Sudbury...being at the Thursday lecture in Boston, heard the officiating clergyman praying for rain. As soon as the service was over, he went to the petitioner, and said, You Boston ministers, as soon as a tulip wilts under your windows, go to church and pray for rain, until all Concord and Sudbury are under water.
    EzRy 10.390 20 We remember the remark made by the old farmer who used to travel hither from Maine, that no horse from the Eastern country would go by the Doctor's [Ezra Ripley's] gate.
    EzRy 10.392 11 We remember the remark of a gentleman who listened with much delight to [Ezra Ripley's] conversation at the time when the Doctor was perparing to go to Baltimore and Washington, that a man who could tell a story so well was company for kings and John Quincy Adams.
    MMEm 10.410 16 When her cherished favorite, Elizabeth Hoar, was at the Vale, and had gone out to walk in the forest with Hannah, her niece, Aunt Mary [Moody Emerson] feared they were lost, and found a man in the next house and begged him to go and look for them.
    MMEm 10.410 18 When...Elizabeth Hoar, was at the Vale, and had gone out to walk in the forest with Hannah, her niece, Aunt Mary [Moody Emerson]...found a man in the next house and begged him to go and look for them. The man went and returned saying that he could not find them. Go and cry, Elizabeth.
    MMEm 10.410 23 [Mary Moody Emerson] exclaimed, God has given you a voice that you might use it in the service of your fellow creatures. Go instantly and call Elizabeth till you find [Elizabeth Hoar and her niece].
    MMEm 10.415 3 Oh, if there be a power superior to me...when will He let my lights go out...
    MMEm 10.426 23 The idea of being no mate for those intellectualists I've [Mary Moody Emerson] loved to admire, is no pain. Hereafter the same solitary joy will go with me, were I not to live, as I expect, in the vision of the Infinite.
    SlHr 10.438 23 ...when the mob of Charleston was assembled in the streets before his hotel...[Samuel Hoar] considered his duty discharged to the last point of possibility. The force was apparent and irresistible;...and he said, Well, gentlemen, since it is your pleasure to use force, I must go.
    SlHr 10.440 20 ...[Samuel Hoar] said it was his practice to pay whatever was demanded; for, though he might think the taxation large and very unequally proportioned, yet he thought the money might as well go in this way as in any other.
    Thor 10.457 17 ...a young girl...sharply asked [Thoreau], Whether his lecture...was one of those old philosophical things that she did not care about. Henry turned to her...and, I saw, was trying to believe that he had matter that might fit her and her brother, who were to sit up and go to the lecture, if was a good one for them.
    Thor 10.459 25 ...[Thoreau] wished to go to Oregon, not to London.
    Thor 10.483 5 If I wish for a horse-hair for my compass-sight I must go to the stable;...
    Carl 10.492 5 [Young men] go for free institutions...[Carlyle] for stringent government...
    LS 11.11 16 I ask any person who believes the [Lord's] Supper to have been designed by Jesus to be commemorated forever, to go and read the account of it in the other Gospels...
    HDC 11.32 21 ...[the pilgrims] could go up the [Charles] river as far as Watertown.
    HDC 11.39 8 Many [of the settlers of Concord] were forced to go barefoot and bareleg...
    HDC 11.46 7 ...[John Winthrop] advised, seeing the freemen were grown so numerous, to send deputies from every town once in a year to revise the laws and to assess all monies. And the General Court, thus constituted, only needed to go into separate session from the Council, as they did in 1644, to become essentially the same assembly they are to this day.
    HDC 11.84 22 That the head of the house may go brave, the members must be plainly clad...
    HDC 11.86 18 ...I believe this town [Concord] to have been the dwelling-place... of pious and excellent persons...who served God, and loved man, and never let go the hope of immortality.
    EWI 11.100 17 ...[the opponent of slavery] feels that none but a stupid or a malignant person can hesitate on a view of the facts. Under such an impulse, I was about to say, If any cannot speak, or cannot hear the words of freedom, let him go hence...
    EWI 11.100 20 ...[the opponent of slavery] feels that none but a stupid or a malignant person can hesitate on a view of the facts. Under such an impulse...I had almost said, Creep into your grave, the universe has no need of you! But I have thought better: let him not go.
    EWI 11.105 14 Granville Sharpe was accidentally made acquainted with the sufferings of a slave, whom a West Indian planter had brought with him to London, and had beaten with a pistol on his head, so badly that his whole body became diseased, and the man useless to his master, who left him to go whither he pleased.
    EWI 11.111 25 ...these missionaries [to the West Indies] were persecuted by the planters...and the negroes furiously forbidden to go near them.
    EWI 11.118 8 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 11.123 14 ...we...have acquired the vices and virtues that belong to trade. We peddle...we go in canals,-to market, and for the sale of goods.
    EWI 11.124 4 What if [slavery] cost a few unpleasant scenes on the coast of Africa? That was a great way off; and the scenes could be endured by some sturdy, unscrupulous fellows, who could go, for high wages, and bring us the men...
    EWI 11.132 8 Let the senators and representatives of the State [of Massachusetts]...go in a body before the Congress and say that they have a demand to make on them, so imperative that all functions of government must stop until it is satisfied.
    EWI 11.143 24 If [men] are rude and foolish, down they must go.
    War 11.161 10 Revolutions go not backward.
    War 11.162 10 You forget that the quiet...which lets the wagon go unguarded and the farmhouse unbolted, rests on the perfect understanding of all men that the musket, the halter and the jail stand behind there...
    War 11.168 2 ...if you go for no war, then be consistent, and give up self-defence...
    War 11.173 10 [Shakespeare's lords] make what is in their minds the greatest sacrifice. They will, for an injurious word, peril all their state and wealth, and go to the field.
    FSLC 11.185 1 I thought none, that was not ready to go on all fours, would back this [Fugitive Slave] law.
    FSLC 11.197 3 New York advertised in Southern markets that it would go for slavery...
    FSLC 11.201 21 [Webster] must learn...that the obscure and private who have no voice and care for none, so long as things go well...disown him...
    FSLN 11.238 2 ...if you have a nice question of right and wrong, you would not go with it to Louis Napoleon...
    FSLN 11.241 11 Possession is sure to throw its stupid strength for existing power, and appetite and ambition will go for that.
    FSLN 11.243 8 I [Robert Winthrop] go then for such parties and opinions as have provided me with a working apparatus.
    AsSu 11.249 5 ...in the long time when [Charles Sumner's] election was pending, he refused to take a single step to secure it. He would not so much as go up to the state house to shake hands with this or that person whose good will was reckoned important by his friends.
    AKan 11.261 5 ...of Kansas, the President says; Let the complainants go to the courts;...
    AKan 11.263 10 ...I think the towns should hold town meetings, and resolve themselves into Committees of Safety, go into permanent sessions...
    JBB 11.272 17 ...a Wisconsin judge, who knows that laws are for the protection of citizens against kidnappers, is worth a court-house full of lawyers so idolatrous of forms as to let go the substance.
    JBS 11.277 4 ...the best orators who have added their praise to his fame,- and I need not go out of this house to find the purest eloquence in the country,-have one rival who comes off a little better, and that is JOHN BROWN.
    JBS 11.278 19 ...[John Brown's] enterprise to go into Virginia and run off five hundred or a thousand slaves was not a piece of spite or revenge...
    JBS 11.281 16 ...our blind statesmen go up and down...hunting for the origin of this new heresy [abolition].
    ACiv 11.298 19 ...the girls must go without new bonnets;...
    ACiv 11.306 4 We fancy that the endless debate...has brought the free states to some conviction that it can never go well with us whilst this mischief of slavery remains in our politics...
    ACiv 11.306 17 There does exist, perhaps, a popular will...that our trade, and therefore our laws, must have the whole breadth of the continent, and from Canada to the Gulf. But since this is the rooted belief and will of the people, so much the more are they in danger, when impatient of defeats, or impatient of taxes, to go with a rush for some peace;...
    EPro 11.322 10 If [taxes] go to fill up this yawning Dismal Swamp, which engulfed armies and populations...then this taxation...is the best investment in which property-holder ever lodged his earnings.
    HCom 11.342 25 [Our young men] said, It is not in me to resist. I go [to war] because I must.
    SMC 11.351 16 ...whatever good grows to the country out of war, the largest results, the future power and genius of the land, will go on clothing this shaft [the Concord Monument] with daily beauty and spiritual life.
    SMC 11.356 2 This [Civil War] will be a slow business, writes our Concord captain [George Prescott] home, for we have to stop and civilize people as we go along.
    SMC 11.357 21 One of our later volunteers...said, I go because I shall always be sorry if I did not go when the country called me.
    SMC 11.357 22 One of our later volunteers...said, I go because I shall always be sorry if I did not go when the country called me.
    SMC 11.357 23 One of our later volunteers...said, I go because I shall always be sorry if I did not go when the country called me. I can go as well as another.
    SMC 11.358 19 Before [the youth's] departure [to the Civil War] he confided to his sister...that he had long trained himself by forcing himself, on the suspicion of any near danger, to go directly up to it...
    SMC 11.368 6 How would Concord people, [George Prescott] asks, like to pass the night on the battle-field, and hear the dying cry for help, and not be able to go to them.
    SMC 11.369 7 [George Prescott writes] Our colors had several holes made, and were badly torn. One bullet hit the staff which the bearer had in his hand. The color-bearer is brave as a lion; he will go anywhere you say...
    Koss 11.397 14 ...as Concord is one of the monuments of freedom; we knew beforehand that you [Kossuth] could not go by us;...
    Koss 11.399 11 We [people of Concord] only see in you [Kossuth] the angel of freedom...dividing populations where you go...
    SHC 11.428 11 ...shalt thou pause to hear some funeral-bell/ Slow stealing o'er the heart in this calm place,/ Not with a throb of pain, a feverish knell,/ But in its kind and supplicating grace,/ It says, Go, pilgrim, on thy march, be more/ Friend to the friendless than thou wast before;/...
    SHC 11.430 9 Men go up and down;...
    FRO2 11.487 22 I think wise men wish their religion to be all of this kind, teaching the agent to go alone...
    FRO2 11.489 7 It is the praise of our New Testament that its teachings go to the honor and benefit of humanity...
    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 11.540 7 America should affirm and establish that in no instance shall the guns go in advance of the present right.
    PLT 12.5 9 In astronomy, vast distance, but we never go into a foreign system.
    PLT 12.8 3 Go into the scientific club and harken. Each savant proves in his admirable discourse that he, and he only, knows now or ever did know anything on the subject...
    PLT 12.16 19 In my thought I seem to stand on the bank of a river and watch the endless flow of the stream, floating objects of all shapes, colors and natures; nor can I much detain them as they pass except by running beside them a little way along the bank. But whence they come or whither they go is not told me.
    PLT 12.18 9 There are...minds that produce their thoughts complete men, like armed soldiers, ready and swift to go out to resist and conquer all the armies of error...
    PLT 12.22 12 If we go through the British Museum...or any cabinet where is some representation of all the kingdoms of Nature, we are surprised with occult sympathies;...
    PLT 12.26 11 ...our mental processes go forward even when they seem suspended.
    PLT 12.32 10 Many eyes go through the meadow, but few see the flowers.
    PLT 12.34 27 Ever at intervals leaps a word or fact to light which is no man's invention, but the common instinct, making the revolutions that never go back.
    PLT 12.39 18 An intellectual man has the power to go out of himself and see himself as an object;...
    PLT 12.47 8 The new sect stands for certain thoughts. We go to individual members for an exposition of them.
    PLT 12.59 19 Routine, the rut, is the path of indolence...of sluggish animal life; as near gravitation as it can go.
    II 12.68 6 ...if you go to a gallery of pictures, or other works of fine art, the eye is dazzled and embarrassed by many excellences.
    II 12.84 13 Men go through the world each musing on a great fable dramatically pictured and rehearsed before him.
    Mem 12.98 12 The more [the orator] is heated, the wider he sees; he seems to remember all he ever knew; thus certifying us...that what his mind grasps it does not let go.
    CInt 12.119 22 I wish to see that Mirabeau who knows how to seize the heart-strings of the people, and drive their hands and feet in the way he wishes them to go...
    CInt 12.130 16 Go sit with the Hermit in you, who knows more than you do.
    CL 12.135 23 The Indians go in summer to the coast, for fishing;...
    CL 12.136 24 ...[Linnaeus] summoned his class to go with him on excursions on foot into the country...
    CL 12.140 22 We are very sensible of this [power of the air], when, in midsummer, we go to the seashore, or mountains...
    CL 12.140 24 We are very sensible of this [power of the air]...when, after much confinement to the house, we go abroad into the landscape...
    CL 12.144 6 In Massachusetts, our land...is...not like some towns in the more broken country of New Hampshire, built on three or four hills...so that if you go a mile, you have only the choice whether you will climb the hill on your way out or on your way back.
    CL 12.150 14 I think sometimes how many days could Methuselah go out and find something new!
    CL 12.152 11 The dry leaves rustle so loud, as we go rummaging through them, that we can hear nothing else.
    CL 12.162 13 The true naturalist can go wherever woods or waters go;...
    CL 12.162 14 The true naturalist can go wherever woods or waters go;...
    CL 12.162 15 The true naturalist can go wherever woods or waters go; almost where a squirrel or a bee can go, he can;...
    CW 12.172 19 When I go into a good garden, I think, if it were mine, I should never go out of it.
    CW 12.172 20 When I go into a good garden, I think, if it were mine, I should never go out of it.
    CW 12.175 5 ...'t is worth remarking, what a man may go through life without knowing, that a common spy-glass...will show the satellites of Jupiter...
    CW 12.176 1 There are two companions, with one or other of whom 't is desirable to go out on a tramp.
    Bost 12.196 7 ...the young farmers and mechanics...in the winter often go into a neighboring town to teach the district school arithmetic and grammar.
    Bost 12.208 22 ...the genius of Boston is seen in her real independence, productive power and northern acuteness of mind,-which is in nature hostile to oppression. It is a good city as cities go;...
    MAng1 12.220 23 Cardinal Farnese one day found [Michelangelo], when an old man, walking alone in the Coliseum, and expressed his surprise at finding him solitary amidst the ruins; to which he replied, I go yet to school, that I may continue to learn.
    MAng1 12.228 12 ...[Michelangelo] told Vasari that he often slept in his clothes [while painting the Sistine Chapel ceiling], both because he was too weary to undress, and because he would rise in the night and go immediately to work.
    MAng1 12.239 15 ...it is said that when [Michelangelo] left Florence to go to Rome...he turned his horse's head on the last hill from which the noble dome of the cathedral (built by Brunelleschi) was visible, and said, Like you, I will not build; better than you I cannot.
    Milt1 12.258 10 [Milton says] In those vernal seasons of the year, when the air is calm and pleasant, it were an injury and sullenness against Nature not to go out and see her riches...
    Milt1 12.277 16 If out of the heart [Milton's strain] came, to the heart it must go.
    ACri 12.283 14 On the writer the choicest influences are concentrated,- nothing that does not go to his costly equipment...
    ACri 12.290 14 The French have a neat phrase, that the secret of boring you is that of telling all,-Le secret d'ennuyer est celui de tout dire; which we translate short, Touch and go.
    ACri 12.292 24 Vulgarisms to be gazetted...might have to go;...
    MLit 12.309 14 We go musing into the vault of day and night;...
    Pray 12.352 16 When I go to visit my friends, I must put on my best garments...
    Pray 12.353 18 Let the purpose for which I live be always before me; let every thought and word go to confirm and illuminate that end;...
    AgMs 12.361 25 ...necessity finds out when to go to Brighton, and when to feed in the stall, better than Mr. [Henry] Colman can tell us.
    AgMs 12.363 3 [The Agricultural Surveyor] is the victim of the Reports, which are sent him, of particular farms. He cannot go behind the estimates to know how the contracts were made...
    EurB 12.377 20 [The Vivian Greys] never sleep, go nowhere, stay nowhere, eat nothing, and know nobody...
    PPr 12.387 10 ...after a short time, down go [the age's] follies and weakness and the memory of them;...
    Let 12.402 23 It may easily happen that we are grown very idle, and must go to work...
    Let 12.403 17 From Massachusetts to Illinois...the proofs of thrifty cultivation abound;-a result...owing...to the hard times, which, driving men out of cities and trade, forced them to take off their coats and go to work on the land;...
    Trag 12.406 1 We cannot afford to let go any advantages.

goad, n. (1)

    Chr1 3.100 3 It is much that [the ingenious man] does not accept the conventional opinions and practices. That non-conformity will remain a goad and remembrancer...

goads, v. (1)

    OA 7.327 8 Every faculty new to each man thus goads him...

goal, n. (3)

    Tran 1.338 7 ...all who by strong bias of nature have leaned to the spiritual side in doctrine, have stopped short of their goal.
    Fdsp 2.204 22 When a man becomes dear to me I have touched the goal of fortune.
    Grts 8.301 17 ...we ought not to be and shall not be contented with any goal we have reached.

goals, n. (5)

    Cir 2.321 3 The difference between talents and character is adroitness to keep the old and trodden round, and power and courage to make a new road to new and better goals.
    Int 2.323 2 Go, speed the stars of Thought/ On to their shining goals;/...
    OA 7.324 16 ...be it as it may with the sick-headache,--'t is certain that graver headaches and heart-aches are lulled once for all as we come up with certain goals of time.
    Imtl 8.351 9 These two, ignorance (whose object is what is pleasant) and knowledge (whose object is what is good) are known...to lead to different goals.
    PLT 12.60 17 ...not in his goals but in his transitions man is great.

goat, n. (2)

    ET4 5.61 8 ...decent and dignified men now existing boast their descent from these filthy thieves [the Normans], who showed a far juster conviction of their own merits, by assuming for their types the swine, goat, jackal...
    LLNE 10.350 15 All these [the hyaena, the jackal, the gnat, the bug, the flea] shall be redressed by human culture, and the useful goat and dog and innocent poetical moth, or the wood-tick to consume decomposing wood, shall take their place.

goats, n. (3)

    Hist 2.5 18 ...crabs, goats, scorpions, the balance and the waterpot lose their meanness when hung as signs in the zodiac...
    Pow 6.66 20 It is an esoteric doctrine of society that a little wickedness is good to make muscle;...as if poor decayed formalists of law and order cannot run like wild goats, wolves, and conies;...
    MAng1 12.238 2 Vasari observed that [Michelangelo] did not use wax candles, but a better sort made of the tallow of goats.

goblin, adj. (1)

    ET5 5.76 20 The Scandinavian fancied himself surrounded by Trolls,--a kind of goblin men with vast power of work and skilful production...

goblin, n. (1)

    ET10 5.160 6 ...when, to this labor and trade and these native resources [of England] was added this goblin of steam...the amassing of property has run out of all figures.

goblins, n. (2)

    SwM 4.141 16 ...there is [in Swedenborg] no beauty, no heaven: for angels, goblins.
    Chr2 10.104 10 Every nation is degraded by the goblins it worships instead of this Deity.

go-cart, n. (2)

    PI 8.3 3 [The perception of matter] was the cradle, this the go-cart, of the human child.
    MAng1 12.220 27 ...one of the last drawings in [Michelangelo's] portfolio is a sublime hint of his own feeling; for it is a sketch of an old man with a long beard, in a go-cart, with an hour-glass before him; and the motto, Ancora imparo, I still learn.

go-carts, n. (1)

    NMW 4.248 2 I think all men...know that the institutions we so volubly commend are go-carts and baubles;...

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