God, Almighty to Goitre

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

God, Almighty, n. [God] (10)

    Chr1 3.91 14 [The people] cannot come at their ends by sending to Congress a learned, acute and fluent speaker, if he be not one who, before he was appointed by the people to represent them, was appointed by Almighty God to stand for a fact...
    ET13 5.221 8 A great duke said on the occasion of a victory, in the House of Lords, that he thought the Almighty God had not been well used by them...
    Wsp 6.212 17 Only those can help in counsel or conduct...who were appointed by God Almighty...to stand for this which they uphold.
    Res 8.147 7 ...it is the principal thing you are to beg at the hands of Almighty God, to preserve your understanding entire;...
    Schr 10.270 18 I, said the great-hearted Kepler, may well wait a hundred years for a reader, since God Almighty has waited six thousand years for an observer like myself.
    Carl 10.497 5 Czar Nicholas was [Carlyle's] hero; for in the ignominy of Europe...one man remained who believed he was put there by God Almighty to govern his empire...
    LS 11.22 21 ...the Almighty God was pleased to qualify and send forth a man to teach men that they must serve him with the heart;...
    War 11.158 12 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 11.159 2 ...the good [Thomas] Cavendish piously begins this statement,-It hath pleased Almighty God.
    MAng1 12.236 13 The combined desire to fulfil, in everlasting stone, the conceptions of his mind, and to complete his worthy offering to Almighty God, sustained [Michelangelo] through numberless vexations with unbroken spirit.

God, City of, n. (1)

    MN 1.205 26 ...O rich and various Man!...carrying...in thy brain, the geometry of the City of God;...

God, Kingdom of, n. (1)

    LS 11.3 1 The Kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost.-Romans xiv. 17.

God, Lord, n. (1)

    Mrs1 3.135 16 ...if perchance a searching realist comes to our gate...then again we run to our curtain, and hide ourselves as Adam at the voice of the Lord God in the garden.

god, n. (53)

    Nat 1.47 19 ...what difference does it make, whether Orion is up there in heaven, or some god paints the image in the firmament of the soul?
    Nat 1.71 4 A man is a god in ruins.
    MN 1.206 5 [Every child]...is a demon or god thrown into a particular chaos...
    MN 1.216 6 Your end should be one inapprehensible to the senses; then will it be a god always approached, never touched;...
    SR 2.62 3 ...the man in the street, finding no worth in himself which corresponds to the force which built a tower or sculptured a marble god, feels poor when he looks on these.
    SR 2.78 5 Caratach...when admonished to inquire the mind of the god Audate, replies,--His hidden meaning lies in our endeavours;/...
    Comp 2.92 6 Fear not, then, thou child infirm,/ There 's no god dare wrong a worm./
    Comp 2.106 14 ...the Greeks called Jupiter, Supreme Mind; but having traditionally ascribed to him many base actions, they involuntarily made amends to reason by tying up the hands of so bad a god.
    Lov1 2.180 5 The god or hero of the sculptor is always represented in a transition from that which is representable to the senses, to that which is not.
    Fdsp 2.205 12 ...we cannot find the god under this disguise of a sutler...
    Fdsp 2.213 17 Our impatience betrays us into rash and foolish alliances which no god attends.
    Fdsp 2.217 5 [Friendship] treats its object as a god, that it may deify both.
    Prd1 2.224 9 The spurious prudence, making the senses final, is the god of sots and cowards...
    OS 2.292 24 When we have broken our god of tradition...then may God fire the heart with his presence.
    OS 2.292 25 When we have...ceased from our god of rhetoric, then may God fire the heart with his presence.
    Cir 2.311 8 We all stand waiting, empty...surrounded by mighty symbols which are not symbols to us, but prose and trivial toys. Then cometh the god and converts the statues into fiery men...
    Cir 2.315 2 ...it behooves each to see, when he sacrifices prudence, to what god he devotes it;...
    Int 2.327 7 We behold [a truth separated by the intellect] as a god upraised above care and fear.
    Exp 3.82 15 In Flaxman's drawing of the Eumenides of Aeschylus, Orestes supplicates Apollo, whilst the Furies sleep on the threshold. The face of the god expresses a shade of regret and compassion, but is calm with the conviction of the irreconcilableness of the two spheres.
    Exp 3.82 23 The man at [Apollo's] feet asks for his interest in turmoils of the earth, into which his nature cannot enter. And the Eumenides there lying express pictorially this disparity. The god is surcharged with his divine destiny.
    Chr1 3.90 17 O Iole! how did you know that Hercules was a god?
    Chr1 3.112 11 It was a tradition of the ancient world that no metamorphosis could hide a god from a god;...
    Gts 3.164 27 I fear to breathe any treason against the majesty of love, which is the genius and god of gifts...
    Nat2 3.170 4 Here [in the forest] we find Nature to be the circumstance which...judges like a god all men that come to her.
    PPh 4.47 21 He shall be as a god to me, who can rightly divide and define.
    PPh 4.50 17 ...the nature of the Great Spirit is single, though its forms be manifold, arising from the consequences of acts [said Krishna]. When the difference of the investing form, as of god or the rest, is destroyed, there is no distinction.
    PNR 4.85 10 This eldest Goethe [Plato]...appears like the god of wealth among the cabins of vagabonds...
    PNR 4.87 18 [Plato] describes his own ideal, when he paints, in Timaeus, a god leading things from disorder into order.
    SwM 4.128 26 ...God is the bride or bridegroom of the soul.
    GoW 4.263 8 ...as our German poet said, Some god gave me the power to paint what I suffer.
    ET9 5.147 14 ...it must be admitted, the island [England] offers a daily worship to the old Norse god Brage...
    ET16 5.282 9 ...Hercules was the god of the Phoenicians.
    F 6.6 14 Savages cling to a local god of one tribe or town.
    F 6.20 15 ...[Maya] became at last woman and goddess, and [Vishnu] a man and a god.
    F 6.22 26 ...here they are, side by side, god and devil...
    F 6.48 3 When a god wishes to ride, any chip...will...serve him for a horse.
    Wth 6.83 5 Who shall tell what did befall,/ Far away in time, when once,/ Over the lifeless ball,/ Hung idle stars and suns?/ What god the element obeyed?/
    Wsp 6.205 4 The god of the cannibals will be a cannibal...
    Ill 6.325 9 Every god is there sitting in his sphere.
    Civ 7.30 17 Let us not lie and steal. No god will help.
    Civ 7.30 20 Let us not lie and steal. No god will help. We shall find all their teams going the other way...every god will leave us.
    DL 7.102 5 I detected many a god/ Forth already on the road,/ Ancestors of beauty come/ In thy breast to make a home./
    DL 7.111 9 Take off all the roofs...and we shall seldom find the temple of any higher god than Prudence.
    WD 7.170 18 [The days] are majestically dressed, as if every god brought a thread to the skyey web.
    Clbs 7.237 21 Wafthrudnir asks [Odin] the name of the god of the sun...
    Clbs 7.237 22 Wafthrudnir asks [Odin] the name...of the god who brings the night;...
    PI 8.10 21 The poet gives us the eminent experiences only,--a god stepping from peak to peak...
    QO 8.202 17 A phrase or a single word is adduced, with honoring emphasis, from Pindar, Hesiod or Euripides, as precluding all argument, because thus had they said: importing that the bard spoke not his own, but the words of some god.
    PPo 8.256 29 The loving nightingale mourns;-cause enow for mourning;-/ Why envies the bird the streaming verses of Hafiz?/ Know that a god bestowed on him eloquent speech./
    MMEm 10.422 13 ...the gray-headed god [Time] throws his shadows all around...
    PLT 12.35 11 ...[Instinct] plays the god in animal nature as in human or as in the angelic...
    PLT 12.35 24 ...what else [than Instinct] was it they represented in Pan, god of the shepherds, who was not yet completely finished in godlike form...
    II 12.69 3 [Instinct]...is melodious, and at all points a god.

God, n. (434)

    Nat 1.3 4 The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face to face;...
    Nat 1.7 15 If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men...preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God which had been shown!
    Nat 1.9 26 Within these plantations of God, a decorum and sanctity reign...
    Nat 1.10 11 ...I am part or parcel of God.
    Nat 1.19 26 Beauty is the mark God sets upon virtue.
    Nat 1.22 19 The intellect searches out the absolute order of things, as they stand in the mind of God...
    Nat 1.24 19 God is the all-fair.
    Nat 1.30 25 ...picturesque language is at once a commanding certificate that he who employs it is a man in alliance with truth and God.
    Nat 1.34 2 This relation between the mind and matter...stands in the will of God...
    Nat 1.34 24 ...acid and alkali, preexist in necessary Ideas in the mind of God...
    Nat 1.41 14 In God, every end is converted into a new means.
    Nat 1.46 15 When much intercourse with a friend...has increased our respect for the resources of God...it is a sign to us that his office is closing...
    Nat 1.47 10 It is a sufficient account of that Appearance we call the World, that God will teach a human mind...
    Nat 1.48 14 God never jests with us...
    Nat 1.50 9 The best moments of life are...the reverential withdrawing of nature before its God.
    Nat 1.58 4 Ethics and religion differ herein; that the one is the system of human duties commencing from man; the other, from God.
    Nat 1.58 5 Religion includes the personality of God;...
    Nat 1.58 25 ...[external beauty] is the frail and weary weed, in which God dresses the soul which he has called into time.
    Nat 1.60 4 Idealism sees the world in God.
    Nat 1.60 8 [Idealism] beholds the whole circle of persons and things...as one vast picture which God paints on the instant eternity...
    Nat 1.60 19 ...[the soul] accepts from God the phenomenon [Christianity], as it finds it...
    Nat 1.62 1 We can foresee God in the coarse, as it were, distant phenomena of matter;...
    Nat 1.62 9 ...the noblest ministry of nature is to stand as the apparition of God.
    Nat 1.63 5 ...if it only deny the existence of matter, [Idealism] does not satisfy the demands of the spirit. It leaves God out of me.
    Nat 1.64 10 As a plant upon the earth, so a man rests upon the bosom of God;...
    Nat 1.64 27 [The world] is a remoter and inferior incarnation of God...
    Nat 1.64 27 [The world] is...a projection of God in the unconscious.
    Nat 1.65 10 We are as much strangers in nature as we are aliens from God.
    Nat 1.73 19 ...the knowledge of man is an evening knowledge...but that of God is a morning knowledge...
    Nat 1.74 10 There are innocent men who worship God after the tradition of their fathers...
    Nat 1.74 22 ...when a faithful thinker...shall...kindle science with the fire of the holiest affections, then will God go forth anew...
    Nat 1.77 10 The kingdom of man over nature...a dominion such as now is beyond his dream of God, - he shall enter without more wonder than the blind man feels who is gradually restored to perfect sight.
    AmS 1.85 7 There is never a beginning, there is never an end, to the inexplicable continuity of this web of God...
    AmS 1.91 13 When [the scholar] can read God directly, the hour is too precious to be wasted in other men's transcripts of their readings.
    AmS 1.105 7 ...the world was plastic and fluid in the hands of God...
    AmS 1.109 24 Do we fear lest we should outsee nature and God...
    AmS 1.114 21 Young men...shined upon by all the stars of God...turn drudges...
    AmS 1.115 18 Is it not the chief disgrace in the world...to be reckoned in the gross...of the section, to which we belong; and our opinion predicted geographically, as the north, or the south? Not so...please God, ours shall not be so.
    DSA 1.121 11 When...[man] attains to say...Virtue, I am thine;...thee will I serve...that I may be not virtuous, but virtue; - then...God is well pleased.
    DSA 1.121 20 ...in the game of human life, love, fear, justice, appetite, man, and God, interact.
    DSA 1.122 17 If a man is at heart just, then in so far is he God;...
    DSA 1.122 17 ...the safety of God, the immortality of God, the majesty of God, do enter into that man with justice.
    DSA 1.122 18 ...the safety of God, the immortality of God, the majesty of God, do enter into that man with justice.
    DSA 1.128 25 [Jesus Christ] saw that God incarnates himself in man...
    DSA 1.129 2 [Jesus] said...Through me, God acts;...
    DSA 1.129 3 [Jesus] said...Would you see God, see me;
    DSA 1.130 6 ...[Jesus] declared [the inner law] was God.
    DSA 1.132 2 That which shows God in me, fortifies me.
    DSA 1.132 3 That which shows God out of me, makes me a wart and a wen.
    DSA 1.132 26 ...only by coming again to themselves, or to God in themselves, can [the simple] grow forevermore.
    DSA 1.133 4 ...the gift of God to the soul is not a vaunting, overpowering, excluding sanctity...
    DSA 1.133 22 ...with yet more entire consent of my human being, sounds in my ear the severe music of the bards that have sung of the true God in all ages.
    DSA 1.134 5 ...the Moral Nature, that Law of laws whose revelations introduce greatness - yea, God himself - into the open soul, is not explored...
    DSA 1.134 9 Men have come to speak of the revelation as somewhat long ago given and done, as if God were dead.
    DSA 1.136 18 In how many churches...is man made sensible...that he is drinking forever the soul of God?
    DSA 1.144 18 It is the office of a true teacher to show us that God is, not was;...
    DSA 1.144 24 All men go in flocks...avoiding the God who seeth in secret.
    DSA 1.145 10 Once leave your own knowledge of God...and you get wide from God with every year this secondary form lasts...
    DSA 1.145 13 Once...take secondary knowledge...and you get wide from God with every year this secondary form lasts...
    DSA 1.145 21 ...dare to love God without mediator or veil.
    DSA 1.145 24 Thank God for these good men...
    DSA 1.147 18 ...the instant effect of conversing with God will be to put [society's easy merits] away.
    DSA 1.149 21 Let us thank God that such things [virtuous acts] exist.
    LE 1.160 13 ...God gave me this crown...
    LE 1.178 11 Believing, as in God, in the presence and favor of the grandest influences, let [the scholar] deserve that favor...
    LE 1.178 20 Bonaparte represents truly a great recent revolution, which we in this country, please God, shall carry to its farthest consummation.
    LE 1.182 13 The man of genius should occupy the whole space between God or pure mind and the multitude of uneducated men.
    LE 1.185 18 If...God have called any of you to explore truth and beauty, be bold, be firm, be true.
    MN 1.194 24 ...the wit of man...his art, is the grace and presence of God.
    MN 1.195 3 It is God in us which checks the language of petition by a grander thought.
    MN 1.198 7 What difference can it make whether [our glance at the realities around us] take the shape...of passionate exclamation, of scientific statement? These are forms merely. Through them we express...the fact that God has done thus or thus.
    MN 1.198 26 Empedocles undoubtedly spoke a truth of thought, when he said, I am God;...
    MN 1.204 16 The royal reason, the Grace of God, seems the only description of our multiform but ever identical fact.
    MN 1.204 20 There is the incoming or the receding of God: that is all we can affirm;...
    MN 1.208 13 God is rich...
    MN 1.210 16 Are there not moments in the history of heaven when the human race was not counted by individuals, but...was God in distribution...
    MN 1.210 17 Are there not moments in the history of heaven when the human race was not counted by individuals, but...was...God rushing into multiform benefit?
    MN 1.222 1 If you say, The acceptance of the vision is also the act of God:-I shall not seek to penetrate the mystery...
    MR 1.240 2 ...we have now a puny, protected person, guarded by walls and curtains...who...is forced to spend so much time in guarding them, that he has quite lost sight of their original use, namely, to help him...to the worship of his God...
    LT 1.266 12 Now and then comes...a more surrendered soul, more informed and led by God...
    Con 1.297 21 That which is was made by God, saith Conservatism.
    Con 1.304 1 ...nothing but God will expel God.
    Con 1.316 5 ...the Friar Bernard went home swiftly...saying...these Romans, whom I prayed God to destroy, are lovers, they are lovers;...
    Con 1.316 24 ...the thoughts of some beggarly Homer who strolled, God knows when, in the infancy and barbarism of the old world;...sufficed to build what you call society on the spot and in the instant when the sound mind in a sound body appeared.
    Tran 1.352 16 ...[the Transcendentalist says, my faith] is a certain brief experience, which surprised me...in some place, at some time,-whether in the body or out of the body, God knoweth...
    YA 1.373 3 The population of the world is a conditional population; these are not the best, but...the best that could yet live; there shall be a better, please God.
    Hist 2.27 21 ...men of God have from time to time walked among men...
    Hist 2.28 14 More than once some individual has appeared to me with... such commanding contemplation, a haughty beneficiary begging in the name of God, as made good to the nineteenth century Simeon the Stylite...
    Hist 2.31 4 ...where [the story of Prometheus]...exhibits him as the defier of Jove, it represents a state of mind which...seems the self-defence of man against this untruth, namely a discontent with the believed fact that a God exists...
    SR 2.47 4 ...God will not have his work made manifest by cowards.
    SR 2.48 12 So God has armed youth and puberty and manhood no less with its own piquancy and charm...
    SR 2.57 14 ...when the devout motions of the soul come, yield to them heart and life, though they should clothe God with shape and color.
    SR 2.58 13 In this pleasing contrite wood-life which God allows me, let me record day by day my honest thought without prospect or retrospect...
    SR 2.65 26 It must be that when God speaketh he should communicate, not one thing, but all things;...
    SR 2.66 13 If...a man claims to know and speak of God...believe him not.
    SR 2.67 7 These roses under my window...exist with God to-day.
    SR 2.67 22 ...see what strong intellects dare not yet hear God himself...
    SR 2.68 13 When a man lives with God, his voice shall be as sweet as the murmur of the brook...
    SR 2.71 10 ...God is here within.
    SR 2.77 20 [Prayer] is the spirit of God pronouncing his works good.
    SR 2.77 24 As soon as the man is at one with God, he will not beg.
    SR 2.79 5 [Men] say...Let not God speak to us, lest we die.
    SR 2.79 8 Everywhere I am hindered of meeting God in my brother...
    SR 2.79 11 Everywhere I am hindered of meeting God in my brother, because he...recites fables merely of his brother's, or his brother's brother's God.
    SR 2.88 27 Not so, O friends! will the God deign to enter and inhabit you...
    SR 2.89 22 ...do thou...deal with Cause and Effect, the chancellors of God.
    Comp 2.101 26 ...God reappears with all his parts in every moss and cobweb.
    Comp 2.102 13 ...The dice of God are always loaded.
    Comp 2.105 24 ...when the disease began in the will, of rebellion and separation, the intellect is at once infected, so that the man ceases to see God whole in each object...
    Comp 2.106 4 How secret art thou who dwellest in the highest heavens in silence, O thou only great God...
    Comp 2.107 8 There is a crack in every thing God has made.
    Comp 2.109 18 What will you have? quoth God; pay for it and take it.
    Comp 2.119 8 Put God in your debt.
    Comp 2.121 2 Essence, or God, is not a relation or a part, but the whole.
    Comp 2.122 22 There is no tax on the good of virtue, for that is the incoming of God himself, or absolute existence...
    Comp 2.123 25 Look at those who have less faculty, and one...knows not well what to make of it. He almost shuns their eye; he fears they will upbraid God.
    SL 2.133 20 ...the question is everywhere vexed when a noble nature is commended, whether the man is not better who strives with temptation. But there is no merit in the matter. Either God is there or he is not there.
    SL 2.134 1 When we see a soul whose acts are all regal, graceful and pleasant as roses, we must thank God that such things can be and are...
    SL 2.139 2 O my brothers, God exists.
    SL 2.147 5 God screens us evermore from premature ideas.
    SL 2.154 22 ...to every generation [Plato's works] come duly down...as if God brought them in his hand.
    SL 2.160 10 ...with sublime propriety God is described as saying, I AM.
    SL 2.165 26 Let a man believe in God...
    Lov1 2.188 21 ...the warm loves and fears, that swept over us as clouds, must lose their finite character and blend with God, to attain their own perfection.
    Fdsp 2.194 3 Shall I not call God the Beautiful, who daily showeth himself so to me in his gifts?
    Fdsp 2.194 17 My friends have come to me unsought. The great God gave them to me.
    Fdsp 2.199 8 We snatch at the slowest fruit in the whole garden of God...
    Fdsp 2.200 23 Love, which is the essence of God, is not for levity...
    Prd1 2.222 3 [Prudence] is God taking thought for oxen.
    Prd1 2.223 8 Once in a long time, a man...sees and enjoys the symbol solidly...and lastly, whilst he pitches his tent on this sacred volcanic isle of nature, does not offer to build houses and barns thereon,--reverencing the splendor of the God which he sees bursting through each chink and cranny.
    Hsm1 2.253 13 ...the soul of a better quality...says, I will obey the God, and the sacrifice and the fire he will provide.
    Hsm1 2.254 3 ...they who give time, or money, or shelter, to the stranger... do, as it were, put God under obligation to them...
    Hsm1 2.260 1 Come into port greatly, or sail with God the seas.
    OS 2.271 23 A wise old proverb says, God comes to see us without bell;...
    OS 2.272 1 ...as there is no screen or ceiling between our heads and the infinite heavens, so is there no bar or wall in the soul, where man, the effect, ceases, and God, the cause, begins.
    OS 2.272 3 We lie open on one side...to the attributes of God.
    OS 2.276 14 In ascending to this primary and aboriginal sentiment we have come from our remote station on the circumference instantaneously to the centre of the world, where, as in the closet of God, we see causes, and anticipate the universe...
    OS 2.277 11 In all conversation between two persons tacit reference is made, as to a third party, to a common nature. That third party or common nature...is God.
    OS 2.280 11 If we...see how the thing stands in God, we know the particular thing, and every thing, and every man.
    OS 2.283 4 In past oracles of the soul the understanding...undertakes to tell from God how long men shall exist...
    OS 2.284 14 These questions which we lust to ask about the future are a confession of sin. God has no answer for them.
    OS 2.284 17 It is not in an arbitrary decree of God...that a veil shuts down on the facts of to-morrow;...
    OS 2.286 23 If [a man] have not found his home in God, his manners...will involuntarily confess it...
    OS 2.290 20 ...the soul that ascends to worship the great God is plain and true;...
    OS 2.292 15 Ineffable is the union of man and God in every act of the soul.
    OS 2.292 17 The simplest person who in his integrity worships God, becomes God;...
    OS 2.292 21 How dear, how soothing to man, arises the idea of God...
    OS 2.292 25 When we have...ceased from our god of rhetoric, then may God fire the heart with his presence.
    OS 2.294 20 ...if [man] would know what the great God speaketh, he must go into his closet and shut the door...
    OS 2.294 22 God will not make himself manifest to cowards.
    OS 2.295 4 He that finds God a sweet enveloping thought to him never counts his company.
    OS 2.297 14 [Man] will calmly front the morrow in the negligency of that trust which carries God with it...
    Cir 2.301 6 St. Augustine described the nature of God as a circle whose centre was everywhere and its circumference nowhere.
    Cir 2.302 3 Our globe seen by God is a transparent law...
    Cir 2.307 3 I am God in nature;...
    Cir 2.308 19 Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.
    Cir 2.309 24 We learn that God IS;...
    Cir 2.313 19 Then shall also the Son be subject unto Him who put all things under him, that God may be all in all.
    Cir 2.314 7 ...these metals and animals...are words of God...
    Cir 2.317 10 ...when these waves of God flow into me I no longer reckon lost time.
    Cir 2.317 25 ...O circular philosopher, I hear some reader exclaim, you... would fain teach us that if we are true...our crimes may be lively stones out of which we shall construct the temple of the true God!
    Cir 2.320 12 ...the masterpieces of God...he hideth;...
    Int 2.327 20 God enters by a private door into every individual.
    Int 2.331 16 I seem to know what he meant who said, No man can see God face to face and live.
    Int 2.341 24 God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose.
    Pt1 3.7 10 ...God has not made some beautiful things...
    Pt1 3.16 23 Some stars...or other figure which came into credit God knows how, on an old rag of bunting...shall make the blood tingle...
    Pt1 3.18 23 ...it is dislocation and detachment from the life of God that makes things ugly...
    Pt1 3.39 12 ...[the artist] says, with the old painter, By God it is in me and must go forth of me.
    Pt1 3.41 17 God wills also that thou [O poet] abdicate a manifold and duplex life...
    Exp 3.67 25 God delights to isolate us every day...
    Exp 3.69 9 The ardors of piety agree at last with the coldest scepticism,-- that nothing is of us or our works,--that all is of God.
    Exp 3.69 11 All writing comes by the grace of God...
    Exp 3.76 7 ...now, the rapaciousness of this new power, which threatens to absorb all things, engages us. Nature, art, persons, letters, religions, objects, successively tumble in, and God is but one of its ideas.
    Exp 3.81 6 ...yet is the God the native of these bleak rocks.
    Chr1 3.105 24 Two persons lately, very young children of the most high God, have given me occasion for thought.
    Mrs1 3.123 22 God knows that all sorts of gentlemen knock at the door;...
    Nat2 3.178 3 [Nature] is loved as the city of God...
    Nat2 3.187 26 The strong, self-complacent Luther declares with an emphasis not to be mistaken, that God himself cannot do without wise men.
    NR 3.247 12 ...the most sincere and revolutionary doctrine, put as if the ark of God were carried forward some furlongs, and planted there for the succor of the world, shall in a few weeks be coldly set aside...
    NER 3.252 14 It was in vain urged by the housewife that God made yeast...
    PPh 4.65 9 In the Timaeus [Plato] indicates the highest employment of the eyes. By us it is asserted that God invented and bestowed sight on us for this purpose,--that on surveying the circles of intelligence in the heavens, we might properly employ those of our own minds...
    PPh 4.67 6 Such, O Theages, is the association with me [said Socrates]; for, if it pleases the God, you will make great and rapid proficiency...
    PPh 4.70 12 Body cannot teach wisdom;--God only.
    PNR 4.83 18 Whatever [Plato] looks upon discloses a second sense, and ulterior senses. His...clear vision of the laws of return, or reaction... instanced everywhere, but specially in the doctrine, what comes from God to us, returns from us to God...
    PNR 4.83 19 Whatever [Plato] looks upon discloses a second sense, and ulterior senses. His...clear vision of the laws of return, or reaction... instanced everywhere, but specially in the doctrine, what comes from God to us, returns from us to God...
    SwM 4.94 24 In the language of the Koran, God said, The heaven and the earth and all that is between them, think ye that we created them in jest, and that ye shall not return to us?
    SwM 4.98 4 ...the men of God purchased their science by folly or pain.
    SwM 4.115 3 God is the grand man.
    SwM 4.128 17 The Eden of God is bare and grand...
    SwM 4.136 3 My learning is such as God gave me in my birth and habit...
    SwM 4.136 12 Locke said, God, when he makes the prophet, does not unmake the man.
    SwM 4.138 1 He who loves goodness...lives with God.
    SwM 4.140 4 What God is, [Socrates] said, I know not; what he is not, I know.
    SwM 4.142 26 ...when [Behmen] asserts that, in some sort, love is greater than God, his heart beats so high that the thumping against his leathern coat is audible across the centuries.
    SwM 4.145 18 I think of [Swedenborg] as of some transmigrating votary of Indian legend, who says Though I be dog, or jackal, or pismire, in the last rudiments of nature, under what integument or ferocity, I cleave to right, as the sure ladder that leads up to man and to God.
    MoS 4.176 14 Is [a man's] belief in God and Duty no deeper than a stomach evidence?
    MoS 4.178 13 ...we may come to accept it as the fixed rule and theory of our state of education, that God is a substance, and his method is illusion.
    NMW 4.224 27 God has granted, says the Koran, to every people a prophet in its own tongue.
    NMW 4.243 16 Good God! [Napoleon] said, how rare men are!
    ET1 5.12 6 [Coleridge] went on defining, or rather refining: The Trinitarian doctrine was realism; the idea of God was not essential, but super-essential;...
    ET1 5.13 2 I told [Coleridge] how excellent I thought [the Independent's pamphlet in The Friend] and how much I wished to see the entire work. Yes, he said, the man was a chaos of truths, but lacked the knowledge that God was a God of order.
    ET1 5.13 11 ...[Coleridge] recited with strong emphasis, standing, ten or twelve lines beginning,--Born unto God in Christ--/
    ET1 5.20 13 I [Wordsworth] am told that things are boasted of in the second class of society there [in America], which, in England,--God knows, are done in England every day, but would never be spoken of.
    ET1 5.21 12 Lucretius [Wordsworth] esteems a far higher poet than Virgil; not in his system, which is nothing, but in his power of illustration. Faith is necessary...to reconcile the foreknowledge of God with human evil.
    ET5 5.101 13 ...the [English] sailor times his oars to God save the King!
    ET7 5.121 4 On the king's birthday, when each bishop was expected to offer the king a purse of gold, Latimer gave Henry VIII. a copy of the Vulgate, with a mark at the passage, Whoremongers and adulterers God will judge;...
    ET7 5.125 7 It is told of a good Sir John that he heard a case stated by counsel, and made up his mind; then the counsel for the other side taking their turn to speak, he found himself so unsettled and perplexed that he exclaimed, So help me God! I will never listen to evidence again.
    ET9 5.146 5 Mr. Coleridge is said to have given public thanks to God...that he had defended him from being able to utter a single sentence in the French language.
    ET9 5.146 22 ...so help him God! [the Englishman] will force his island by-laws down the throat of great countries, like India, China, Canada, Australia...
    ET10 5.159 9 Iron and steel are very obedient. Whether it were not possible to make a spinner that would not rebel...nor emigrate? At the solicitation of the masters...Mr. Roberts of Manchester undertook to create this peaceful fellow, instead of the quarrelsome fellow God had made.
    ET13 5.221 6 So far is [the English gentleman] from attaching any meaning to the words, that he believes himself to have done almost the generous thing, and that it is very condescending in him to pray to God.
    ET13 5.224 21 Abroad with my wife, writes Pepys piously, the first time that ever I rode in my own coach; which do make my heart rejoice and praise God...
    ET13 5.227 9 Brougham...said...the reverend bishops...solemnly declare in the presence of God that when they are called upon to accept a living, perhaps of 4000 pounds a year, at that very instant they are moved by the Holy Ghost to accept the office and administration thereof, for no other reason whatever?
    ET13 5.229 6 What is so odious as the polite bows to God, in our books and newspapers?
    ET14 5.246 27 Thackeray finds that God has made no allowance for the poor thing in his universe...
    ET16 5.280 3 The Acta Sanctorum show plainly that the men of those times believed in God...
    ET16 5.287 18 ...'t is certain as God liveth, the gun that does not need another gun, the law of love and justice alone, can effect a clean revolution.
    F 6.6 1 The Destinee.../ That executeth in the world over al,/ The purveiance that God hath seen beforne,/ So strong it is/...Yet sometime it shall fallen on a day/ That falleth not oft in a thousand yeer;/...
    F 6.21 13 God himself cannot procure good for the wicked, said the Welsh triad.
    F 6.21 15 God may consent, but only for a time, said the bard of Spain.
    F 6.33 23 ...the Marquis of Worcester, Watt, and Fulton bethought themselves that where was power was not devil, but was God;...
    Ctr 6.134 22 He only is a well-made man who has a good determination. And the end of culture is not to destroy this, God forbid!...
    Ctr 6.162 6 ...the wiser God says, Take the shame, the poverty and the penal solitude that belong to truth-speaking.
    Wsp 6.204 17 God builds his temple in the heart on the ruins of churches and religions.
    Wsp 6.206 18 King Richard taunts God with forsaking him.
    Wsp 6.206 26 King Richard taunts God with forsaking him. ...in sooth not through any cowardice of my warfare art thou thyself, my king and my God, conquered this day...
    Wsp 6.207 7 [Dido] was so fair,/ So young, so lusty, with her eyen glad,/ That if that God that heaven and earthe made/ Would have a love for beauty and goodness,/ And womanhede, truth, and seemliness,/ Whom should he loven but this lady sweet?/ There n' is no woman to him half so meet./
    Wsp 6.209 24 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.
    Wsp 6.215 10 Men talk of mere morality,--which is much as if one should say, Poor God, with nobody to help him.
    Wsp 6.217 5 ...such persons [of higher moral sentiment] are nearer to the secret of God than others;...
    Wsp 6.223 1 God has delegated himself to a million deputies.
    Wsp 6.231 20 Fear God...
    Wsp 6.232 18 The conviction that his work is dear to God and cannot be spared, defends [a man].
    Wsp 6.240 7 The only path of escape known in all the worlds of God is performance.
    CbW 6.257 2 ...God hangs the greatest weights on the smallest wires.
    Bty 6.296 10 To Eve, say the Mahometans, God gave two thirds of all beauty.
    Ill 6.313 4 Great is paint; nay, God is the painter;...
    Ill 6.314 27 [I knew a humorist who] shocked the company by maintaining that the attributes of God were two,--power and risibility...
    Ill 6.324 2 We see God face to face every hour...
    SS 7.5 15 God may forgive sins, [my friend] said, but awkwardness has no forgiveness...
    SS 7.12 20 [Animal spirits] seem a power incredible, as if God should raise the dead.
    DL 7.101 8 Five rosy boys with morning light/ Had leaped from one fair mother's arms,/ Fronted the sun with hope as bright,/ And greeted God with childhood's psalms./
    Farm 7.137 19 ...the profession [of farming] has in all eyes its ancient charm, as standing nearest to God, the first cause.
    WD 7.167 1 The new study of the Sanskrit has shown us the origin of the old names of God...
    WD 7.178 16 ...an old French sentence says, God works in moments...
    Cour 7.251 2 So nigh is grandeur to our dust,/ So near is God to man,/ When Duty whispers low, Thou must,/ The youth replies, I can./
    Suc 7.287 16 The [Norse] mother says to her son:--Success shall be in thy courser tall,/ Success in thyself, which is best of all,/ Success in thy hand, success in thy foot,/ In struggle with man, in battle with brute:--/ The holy God and Saint Drothin dear/ Shall never shut eyes on thy career;/...
    Suc 7.293 24 It is the dulness of the multitude that they cannot see the house in the ground-plan; the working, in the model of the projector. Whilst it is a thought...it is cried down, it is a chimera; but when it is a fact, and comes in the shape of...a hundred per cent., they cry, It is the voice of God.
    Suc 7.295 25 How often it seems the chief good to be born...well adjusted to the tone of the human race. Such a man feels himself...conscious by his receptivity of an infinite strength. Like Alfred, good fortune accompanies him like a gift of God.
    Suc 7.306 20 The old trouveur, Pons Capdueil, wrote,--Oft have I heard, and deem the witness true,/ Whom man delights in, God delights in too./
    Suc 7.306 22 All beauty...is a sign of health, prosperity and the favor of God.
    PI 8.1 2 But over all his crowning grace,/ Wherefor thanks God his daily praise,/ Is the purging of his eye/ To see the people of the sky/...
    PI 8.12 6 God himself does not speak prose...
    PI 8.14 6 The return of the soul to God was described as a flask of water broken in the sea.
    PI 8.15 13 ...the thoughts of God pause but for a moment in any form.
    PI 8.30 6 When [the poet] sings, the world listens with the assurance that now a secret of God is to be spoken.
    PI 8.37 24 As one of the old Minnesingers sung,--Oft have I heard, and now believe it true,/ Whom man delights in, God delights in too./
    PI 8.51 1 St. Augustine complains to God of his friends offering him the books of the philosophers...
    PI 8.58 1 God himself cannot procure good for the wicked. Welsh Triad.
    PI 8.58 10 ...[The wind] has no fear, nor the rude wants of created things./ Great God! how the sea whitens when it comes?/
    PI 8.58 20 [The wind] makes no perturbation in the place where God wills it,/ On the sea, on the land./
    PI 8.62 25 Now then go in the name of God [said Merlin]...
    PI 8.70 9 In the dance of God there is not one of the chorus but can and will begin to spin...whenever the music and figure reach his place and duty.
    PI 8.71 23 ...for obvious municipal or parietal uses God has given us a bias or a rest on to-day's forms.
    Elo2 8.121 23 ...Saadi tells us that a person with a disagreeable voice was reading the Koran aloud, when a holy man, passing by, asked what was his monthly stipend. He answered, Nothing at all. But why then do you take so much trouble? He replied, I read for the sake of God.
    Res 8.147 11 ...when fear has once possessed you, God ye good even!
    PC 8.225 14 ...time and space,-what are they? Our first problems...of whose dizzy vastitudes all the worlds of God are a mere dot on the margin;...
    PPo 8.236 1 God only knew how Saadi dined;/ Roses he ate, and drank the wind./
    PPo 8.240 15 Solomon had three talismans: first, the signet-ring by which he commanded the spirits, on the stone of which was engraven the name of God;...
    Insp 8.268 12 ...Time cannot bend a line which God hath writ./ Inspiration, H. Thoreau.
    Grts 8.299 2 No fate, save by the victim's fault, is low,/ For God hath writ all dooms magnificent,/ So guilt not traverses his tender will./
    Grts 8.313 13 No aristocrat...can begin to compare with the self-respect of the saint. Why is he so lowly, but that he knows that he can well afford it, resting on the largeness of God in him?
    Imtl 8.321 8 ...What is excellent,/ As God lives, is permanent;/...
    Imtl 8.330 12 Hear the opinion of Montesquieu: ... I delight in believing myself as immortal as God himself.
    Imtl 8.342 16 He that doeth the will of God abideth forever.
    Imtl 8.343 18 [The moral sentiment] risks or ruins property, health, life itself, without hesitation, for its thought, and all men justify the man by their praise for this act. And Mahomet in the same mind declared, Not dead, but living, ye are to account all those who are slain in the way of God.
    Imtl 8.344 27 Do you think that the eternal chain of cause and effect... leaves out this desire of God and men [for immortality] as a waif and a caprice...
    Imtl 8.348 26 ...the man puts off the ignorance and tumultuous passions of youth; proceeding thence puts off the egotism of manhood, and becomes at last a public and universal soul. He is...rising to realities; the outer relations and circumstances dying out, he entering deeper into God, God into him...
    Imtl 8.349 1 ...the man puts off the ignorance and tumultuous passions of youth; proceeding thence puts off the egotism of manhood, and becomes at last a public and universal soul. He is...rising to realities; the outer relations and circumstances dying out, he entering deeper into God, God into him, until the last garment of egotism falls, and he is with God...
    Dem1 10.3 13 There lies a sleeping city, God of dreams!/ What an unreal and fantastic world/ Is going on below!/
    Dem1 10.14 10 The poor ship-master discovered a sound theology, when in the storm at sea he made his prayer to Neptune, O God, thou mayst save me if thou wilt, and if thou wilt thou mayst destroy me; but, however, I will hold my rudder true.
    Dem1 10.18 28 ...[demonic individuals] are not to be conquered save by the universe itself, against which they have taken up arms. Out of such experiences doubtless arose the strange, monstrous proverb, Nobody against God but God.
    Dem1 10.28 7 Man is the Image of God.
    Aris 10.29 20 Here may ye see wel, how that genterie/ Is not annexed to possession,/ Sith folk ne don their operation/ Alway, as doth the fire, lo, in his kind,/ For God it wot, men may full often find/ A lorde's son do shame and vilanie./
    Aris 10.66 1 To many the word [Gentleman] expresses...only graceful manners, and independence in trifles; but the fountains of that thought are in the deeps of man...a self-trust which is a trust in God himself.
    PerF 10.84 10 ...this child of the dust throws himself by obedience into the circuit of the heavenly wisdom, and shares the secret of God.
    PerF 10.87 11 I admire the sentiment of Thoreau, who said, Nothing is so much to be feared as fear; God himself likes atheism better.
    PerF 10.88 14 The soul of God is poured into the world through the thoughts of men.
    Chr2 10.97 22 It would instantly indispose us to any person claiming to speak for the Author of Nature, the setting forth any fact or law which we did not find in our consciousness. We should say with Heraclitus: Come into this smoky cabin; God is here also: approve yourself to him.
    Chr2 10.99 1 God sends his message, if not by one, then quite as well by another.
    Chr2 10.104 4 The populace drag down the gods to their own level, and give them their egotism; whilst in Nature is none at all, God keeping out of sight...
    Chr2 10.104 7 Chateaubriand said...If God made man in his image, man has paid him well back.
    Chr2 10.111 2 These men [Voltaire, Frederic the Great, D'Alembert] preached the true God...
    Edc1 10.132 24 ...presently the aroused intellect finds gold and gems in one of these scorned facts,-then finds...that a fact is an Epiphany of God.
    Edc1 10.133 14 When I see the doors by which God enters into the mind;... I can expect any revolution in character.
    Edc1 10.144 25 This is the perpetual romance of new life, the invasion of God into the old dead world...
    Edc1 10.154 15 ...the adoption of simple discipline and the following of nature, involves at once immense claims on the time, the thoughts, on the life of the teacher. It requires time, use, insight, event, all the great lessons and assistances of God;...
    SovE 10.183 21 ...this self-help and self-creation [in plants and animals] proceed from the same original power which works remotely in grandest and meanest structures by the same design,-works in a lobster or a mite-worm as a wise man would if imprisoned in that poor form. 'T is the effort of God...in the extremest frontier of his universe.
    SovE 10.191 14 An Eastern poet...said that God had made justice so dear to the heart of Nature that, if any injustice lurked anywhere under the sky, the blue vault would shrivel to a snake-skin and cast it out by spasms.
    SovE 10.193 27 ...[good men] have accepted the notion of a mechanical supervision of human life, by which that certain wonderful being whom they call God does take up their affairs where their intelligence leaves them...
    SovE 10.199 21 God is one and omnipresent; here or nowhere is the whole fact.
    SovE 10.199 23 The one miracle which God works evermore is in Nature...
    Prch 10.218 23 ...I see not how the great God prepares to satisfy the heart in the new order of things.
    Prch 10.221 16 Unlovely, nay, frightful, is the solitude of the soul which is without God in the world.
    Prch 10.222 25 The next age will behold God in the ethical laws...
    Prch 10.232 16 Man proposes, but God disposes.
    MoL 10.255 15 God and Nature are altogether sincere...
    Schr 10.275 4 ...Algernon Sidney wrote to his father...I have ever had in my mind that when God should cast me into such a condition as that I cannot save my life but by doing an indecent thing he shows me the time has come when I should resign it.
    Schr 10.279 18 Hope is taken from youth unless there be, by the grace of God, sufficient vigor in their instinct to say, All is wrong and human invention.
    Plu 10.295 9 King Henry IV. wrote to his wife...As God liveth, you could not have sent me anything which could be more agreeable than the news of the pleasure you have taken in this reading [of Plutarch].
    Plu 10.312 17 ...what noble words we owe to [Seneca]: God divided man into men, that they might help each other;...
    Plu 10.312 19 ...what noble words we owe to [Seneca]:...The good man differs from God in nothing but duration.
    Plu 10.313 1 Plutarch thought truth...the goodliest blessing that God can give.
    LLNE 10.357 7 [Thoreau said] God could not be unkind to me if he should try.
    EzRy 10.379 2 We love the venerable house/ Our fathers built to God/...
    MMEm 10.397 5 The yesterday doth never smile,/ To-day goes drudging through the while,/ Yet in the name of Godhead, I/ The morrow front and can defy;/ Though I am weak, yet God, when prayed,/ Cannot withhold his conquering aid./
    MMEm 10.397 15 On this altar God hath built/ I lay my vanity and guilt;/...
    MMEm 10.404 13 [Mary Moody Emerson] writes to her nephew Charles Emerson, in 1833... I never expected connections and matrimony. My taste was formed in romance, and I knew I was not destined to please. I love God and his creation as I never else could.
    MMEm 10.404 17 [Mary Moody Emerson] writes to her nephew Charles Emerson, in 1833... I scarcely feel the sympathies of this life enough to agitate the pool. This in general, one case or so excepted, and even this is a relation to God through you.
    MMEm 10.405 4 ...the love of superior virtue is mine own gift from God.
    MMEm 10.408 12 [Mary Moody Emerson] is...a Bible...wherein are sentences of condemnation, promises and covenants of love that make foolish the wisdom of the world with the power of God.
    MMEm 10.410 21 [Mary Moody Emerson] exclaimed, God has given you a voice that you might use it in the service of your fellow creatures.
    MMEm 10.413 1 ...I [Mary Moody Emerson] shall delight to return to God.
    MMEm 10.415 21 ...I [Nature]...fed thee with my mallows, on the first young day of bread failing. More, I...from the solitary heart taught thee to say, at first womanhood, Alive with God is enough,-'t is rapture.
    MMEm 10.416 11 Later [Mary Moody Emerson writes]: Could I have those hours in which in fresh youth I said, To obey God is joy, though there were no hereafter, I should rejoice, though returning to dust.
    MMEm 10.416 16 Folly follows me [Mary Moody Emerson] as the shadow does the form. Yet my whole life devoted to find some new truth which will link me closer to God.
    MMEm 10.421 5 There was great truth in what a pious enthusiast said, that, if God should cast him into hell, he would yet clasp his hands around Him.
    MMEm 10.421 9 High, solemn, entrancing noon, prophetic of the approach of the Presiding Spirit of Autumn. God preserve my [Mary Moody Emerson's] reason!
    MMEm 10.421 26 ...a few lamps held out in the firmament enable us...to date the revelations of God to man.
    MMEm 10.422 12 Dissolve the body...and we measure duration...by...the approach to God.
    MMEm 10.424 26 'T is not in the nature of existence, while there is a God, to be without the pale of excitement.
    MMEm 10.426 15 Usefulness, if it requires action, seems less like existence than the desire of being absorbed in God, retaining consciousness.
    MMEm 10.428 7 The sickness of the last week was fine medicine; pain disintegrated the spirit, or became spiritual. I [Mary Moody Emerson] rose,-I felt that I had given to God more perhaps than an angel could...
    MMEm 10.429 13 [Mary Moody Emerson wrote] Tedious indisposition:- hoped, as it took a new form, it would open the cool, sweet grave. Now existence itself in any form is sweet. Away with knowledge;-God alone.
    MMEm 10.431 10 [Mary Moody Emerson] checks herself amid her passionate prayers for immediate communion with God;...
    MMEm 10.431 16 While I [Mary Moody Emerson] am sympathizing in the government of God over the world, perhaps I lose nearer views.
    Thor 10.482 2 The axe was always destroying [Thoreau's] forest. Thank God, he said, they cannot cut down the clouds!
    Thor 10.483 23 Atheism may comparatively be popular with God himself.
    Carl 10.494 24 [Carlyle] preaches, as by cannonade, the doctrine that every noble nature was made by God...
    Carl 10.496 9 ...[Carlyle] thinks Oxford and Cambridge education indurates the young men...so that when they come forth of them, they say... we have gone through all the degrees, and are case-hardened against the veracities of the Universe; nor man nor God can penetrate us.
    Carl 10.497 6 Czar Nicholas was [Carlyle's] hero; for in the ignominy of Europe...one man remained who believed he was put there by God Almighty to govern his empire, and, by the help of God, had resolved to stand there.
    LS 11.4 12 In the Church of England, Archbishops Laud and Wake maintained that the elements [of the Lord's Supper] were an Eucharist, or sacrifice of Thanksgiving to God;...
    LS 11.7 8 When hereafter, [Jesus] says to [his disciples], you shall keep the Passover, it will have an altered aspect to your eyes. It is now a historical covenant of God with the Jewish nation.
    LS 11.9 13 It was the custom for the master of the feast [Passover] to break the bread and to bless it, using this formula...Blessed be Thou, O Lord, our God, who givest us the fruit of the vine...
    LS 11.9 18 It was the custom for the master of the feast [Passover] to break the bread and to bless it...and then to give the cup to all. Among the modern Jews...a hymn is also sung after this ceremony, specifying the twelve great works done by God for the deliverance of their fathers out of Egypt.
    LS 11.14 19 ...it is contrary to all reason to suppose that God should work a miracle to convey information that could so easily be got by natural means.
    LS 11.17 7 It has seemed to me that the use of this ordinance [the Lord's Supper] tends to produce confusion in our views of the relation of the soul to God.
    LS 11.17 10 It is the old objection to the doctrine of the Trinity,-that the true worship was transferred from God to Christ...
    LS 11.17 17 I appeal now to the convictions of communicants [in the Lord' s Supper], and ask such persons whether they have not been occasionally conscious of a painful confusion of thought between the worship due to God and the commemoration due to Christ.
    LS 11.17 23 [The Lord's Supper] is an expression of gratitude to Christ, enjoined by Christ. There is an endeavor to keep Jesus in mind, whilst yet the prayers are addressed to God.
    LS 11.18 4 ...I believe the human mind can admit but one God...
    LS 11.18 8 I appeal, brethren, to your individual experience. In the moment when you make the least petition to God...do you not, in the very act, necessarily exclude all other beings from your thought?
    LS 11.18 13 I appeal, brethren, to your individual experience. In the moment when you make the least petition to God...do you not, in the very act, necessarily exclude all other beings from your thought? In that act, the soul stands alone with God...
    LS 11.18 19 [Jesus] is the mediator in that only sense in which possibly any being can mediate between God and man, that is, an instructor of man.
    LS 11.18 20 [Jesus] teaches us how to become like God.
    LS 11.20 19 ...the Apostle well assures us that the kingdom of God is not meat and drink, but righteousness, and peace and joy in the Holy Ghost.
    LS 11.21 18 What I revere and obey in [Christianity] is its reality...the perfect accord it makes with my reason through all its representation of God and His Providence;...
    LS 11.23 5 ...now...Christians must contend that it is...really a duty, to commemorate [Jesus] by a certain form [the Lord's Supper], whether that form be agreeable to their understandings or not. Is not this to make vain the gift of God?
    LS 11.23 10 ...in the eye of God there is no other measure of the value of any one form than the measure of its use?
    HDC 11.34 12 ...in these poor wigwams [the pilgrims] sing psalms, pray and praise their God...
    HDC 11.39 24 The light struggled in through windows of oiled paper, but [the settlers of Concord] read the word of God by it.
    HDC 11.40 10 [The Concord settler's pastor said] If we look to number, we are the fewest;...if to wealth and riches, we are the poorest of all the people of God through the whole world.
    HDC 11.50 12 About ten years after the planting of Concord, efforts began to be made to civilize the Indians, and to win them to the knowledge of the true God.
    HDC 11.51 17 In 1644, Squaw Sachem, the widow of Nanepashemet...with two sachems of Wachusett...intimated their desire...to learn to read God's word and know God aright;...
    HDC 11.53 8 ...[Tahattawan] was asked, why he desired a town so near, when there was more room for them up in the country? The sachem replied that he knew if the Indians dwelt far from the English, they would not so much care to pray, nor could they be so ready to hear the word of God...
    HDC 11.53 25 Their forefathers, the Indians told [John] Eliot, did know God, but after this, they fell into a deep sleep...
    HDC 11.66 25 The ninth allegation [against Daniel Bliss] is That in praying for himself...he said, he was a poor vile worm of the dust, that was allowed as Mediator between God and his people.
    HDC 11.67 1 ...Mr. [Daniel] Bliss replied, In the prayer you speak of, Jesus Christ was acknowledged as the only Mediator between God and man;...
    HDC 11.67 6 ...Mr. [Daniel] Bliss replied...I was filled with wonder, that such a sinful and worthless worm as I am, was allowed to represent Christ... even so far as to be bringing the petitions and thank-offerings of the people unto God...
    HDC 11.70 25 On the 27th June [1774], near three hundred persons... inhabitants of Concord, entered into a covenant, solemnly engaging with each other, in the presence of God, to suspend all commercial intercourse with Great Britain...
    HDC 11.72 16 On 13th March [1775]...[William Emerson] preached to a very full assembly, taking for his text, 2 Chronicles xiii.12, And, behold, God himself is with us for our captain...
    HDC 11.76 1 ...as [the minute-men] had no fear of man, they yet did have a fear of God.
    HDC 11.76 5 Captain Charles Miles, who was wounded in the pursuit of the enemy [at Concord bridge] told my venerable friend who sits by me, that he went to the services of that day, with the same seriousness and acknowledgment of God, which he carried to church.
    HDC 11.76 17 ...you, my fathers [veterans of battle of Concord], whom God and the history of your country have ennobled, may well bear a chief part in keeping this peaceful birthday of our town.
    HDC 11.86 18 ...I believe this town [Concord] to have been the dwelling-place... of pious and excellent persons...who served God...
    LVB 11.91 26 ...the American President and the Cabinet, the Senate and the House of Representatives...are contracting...to drag [the Cherokees]...to a wilderness at a vast distance beyond the Mississippi. And a paper purporting to be an army order fixes a month from this day as the hour for this doleful removal. In the name of God, sir [Van Buren], we ask you if this be so?
    LVB 11.96 3 ...God is in the [moral] sentiment, and it cannot be withstood.
    EWI 11.116 11 At Grace Hill, [the day after emancipation in the West Indies] there were at least a thousand persons around the Moravian Chapel who could not get in. For once the house of God suffered violence...
    EWI 11.120 22 Though joy beamed on every countenance, [emancipation day in Jamaica] was throughout tempered with solemn thankfulness to God...
    EWI 11.131 3 ...I thought the deck of a Massachusetts ship was as much the territory of Massachusetts as the floor on which we stand. It should be as sacred as the temple of God.
    War 11.169 27 A wise man will never...decide beforehand what he shall do in a given extreme event. Nature and God will instruct him in that hour.
    War 11.171 9 ...[peace] is to hear the voice of God...
    War 11.175 26 Not in an obscure corner...is this seed of benevolence [Congress of Nations] laid in the furrow, with tears of hope; but in this broad America of God and man...
    FSLC 11.191 27 All authors who have any conscience or modesty agree that a person ought not to obey such commands as are evidently contrary to the laws of God.
    FSLC 11.210 16 ...granting...that these evils [of slavery] are to be relieved only by the wisdom of God working in ages...still the question recurs, What must we do?
    FSLC 11.210 20 ...granting...that these evils [of slavery] are to be relieved only by the wisdom of God working in ages,-and by what instrument... none can tell, or by what sources God has guarded his law; still the question recurs, What must we do?
    FSLN 11.236 14 ...our education is...to know...that self-reliance, the height and perfection of man, is reliance on God.
    FSLN 11.239 1 Slowly, slowly the Avenger comes, but comes surely. The proverbs of the nations affirm these delays, but affirm the arrival. They say, God may consent, but not forever.
    TPar 11.284 3 There 's a background of God to each hard-working feature,/ Every word that [Parker] speaks has been fierily furnaced/ In the blast of a life that has struggled in earnest/...
    ACiv 11.297 6 ...God is God because he is the servant of all.
    ALin 11.328 9 ...For [Lincoln] [Nature's] Old-World moulds aside she threw,/ And, choosing sweet clay from the breast/ Of the unexhausted West,/ With stuff untainted shaped a hero new,/ Wise, steadfast in the strength of God, and true./
    HCom 11.339 4 Old classmate, say/ Do you remember our Commencement Day?/ Were we such boys as these at twenty? Nay,/ God called them to a nobler task than ours/...
    HCom 11.343 6 ...the infusion of culture and tender humanity from these scholars and idealists who went to the war in their own despite-God knows they had no fury for killing their old friends and countrymen-had its signal and lasting effect.
    SMC 11.348 17 Yea, many a tie, through iteration sweet,/ Strove to detain their fatal feet;/ And yet the enduring half they chose,/ Whose choice decides a man life's slave or king,/ The invisible things of God before the seen and known:/ Therefore their memory inspiration blows/ With echoes gathering on from zone to zone;/...
    EdAd 11.392 22 A God starts up behind cotton bales also.
    Koss 11.396 1 God said, I am tired of kings,/ I suffer them no more;/ Up to my ear the morning brings/ The outrage of the poor./
    Koss 11.399 6 ...you [Kossuth] are elected by God and your genius to the task.
    SHC 11.436 6 We shall bring hither [to Sleepy Hollow] the body of the dead, but how shall we catch the escaped soul? Here will burn for us, as the oath of God, the sublime belief.
    Shak1 11.452 11 [Shakespeare's] birth marked a great wine year when wonderful grapes ripened in the vintage of God...
    Shak1 11.453 12 I could name in this very company...very good types [of men who live well in and lead any society], but in order to be parliamentary, Franklin, Burns and Walter Scott are examples of the rule; and king of men, by this grace of God also, is Shakspeare.
    FRO2 11.488 23 George Fox, the Quaker, said that, though he read of Christ and God, he knew them only from the like spirit in his own soul.
    CPL 11.498 11 [Peter Bulkeley said] If we look to number, we are the fewest;...if to wealth and riches, we are the poorest of all the people of God through the whole world.
    CPL 11.500 2 ...in reference to her favorite authors, [Mary Moody Emerson] adds, The delight in others' superiority is my best gift from God.
    CPL 11.506 9 [Kepler writes] I will triumph over mankind by the honest confession that I have stolen the golden vases of the Egyptians to build up a tabernacle for my God far away from the confines of Egypt.
    CPL 11.506 15 [Kepler writes] [The book] may well wait a century for a reader, since God has waited six thousand years for an observer like myself.
    FRep 11.525 13 In each new threat of faction the ballot has been, beyond expectation, right and decisive. It is ever an inspiration, God only knows whence; a sudden, undated perception of eternal right coming into and correcting things that were wrong;...
    FRep 11.534 7 A man is coming, here as [in England], to value himself on what he can buy. Worst of all, his expense is not his own, but a far-off copy of Osborne House or the Elysee. The tendency of this is...to extinguish individualism and choke up all the channels of inspiration from God in man.
    FRep 11.540 4 Let us realize that this country...is the great charity of God to the human race.
    PLT 12.6 20 My belief in the use of a course of philosophy is...that [the student] shall see in [the mind] the source of all traditions, and shall see each one of them as better or worse statement of its revelations; shall come to trust it entirely, as the only true; to cleave to God against the name of God.
    PLT 12.6 21 My belief in the use of a course of philosophy is...that [the student] shall see in [the mind] the source of all traditions, and shall see each one of them as better or worse statement of its revelations; shall come to trust it entirely, as the only true; to cleave to God against the name of God.
    PLT 12.40 15 Insight assimilates the thing seen. Is it only another way of affirming and illustrating this to say that it sees nothing alone, but sees each particular object in just connections,-sees all in God?
    PLT 12.46 20 Will is always miraculous, being the presence of God to men.
    PLT 12.61 2 ...each [mind and heart] is easily exalted in our thoughts till it serves to fill the universe and become the synonym of God...
    II 12.69 6 ...could we break the silence of this oldest angel [Instinct], who was with God when the worlds were made!
    II 12.78 15 ...all writing is by the grace of God;...
    II 12.87 8 I will speak the truth in my heart, or think the truth against what is called God.
    CInt 12.129 6 Is...an insurance office, bank or bakery...further from God than a sheep-pasture or a clam-bank?
    CL 12.147 13 Evelyn quotes Lord Caernarvon's saying, Wood is an excrescence of the earth provided by God for the payment of debts.
    CW 12.172 26 Linnaeus...took the occasion of a public ceremony to say, I thank God, who has ordered my fate, that I live in this time...
    Bost 12.182 19 A blessing through the ages thus/ Shield all thy roofs and towers!/ GOD WITH THE FATHERS, SO WITH US,/ Thou darling town of ours [Boston]1/
    Bost 12.192 27 ...in that time [of the settlement of Massachusetts]...a certain degree of terror still clouded the idea of God in the mind of the purest.
    Bost 12.205 1 [The people of Massachusetts] knew, as God knew, that command of Nature comes by obedience to Nature;...
    Bost 12.211 21 ...in distant ages [Boston's] motto shall be the prayer of millions on all the hills that gird the town, As with our Fathers, so God be with us!
    MAng1 12.232 7 Raphael said, I bless God I live in the times of Michael Angelo.
    MAng1 12.233 20 [Michelangelo] called external grace the frail and weary weed, in which God dresses the soul which he has called into Time.
    Milt1 12.268 12 The memorable covenant, which in his youth...[Milton] makes with God and his reader, expressed the faith of his old age.
    Milt1 12.270 2 My mother bore me, [Milton] said, a speaker of what God made mine own, and not a translator.
    ACri 12.286 8 Luther said, I preach coarsely; that giveth content to all. Hebrew, Greek and Latin I spare, until we learned ones come together, and then we make it so curled and finical that God himself wondereth at us.
    Pray 12.351 7 Among the remains of Euripides we have this prayer: Thou God of all! infuse light into the souls of men...
    Pray 12.354 6 Great God, I ask thee for no meaner pelf/ Than that I may not disappoint myself,/ That in my action I may soar as high,/ As I can now discern with this clear eye./
    Pray 12.356 26 O eternal Verity! and true Charity! and dear Eternity! thou art my God...
    EurB 12.375 18 Had...one sentiment from the heart of God been spoken by [the novel of costume or of circumstance] the reader had been made a participator of their triumph;...
    Let 12.403 1 The old Duty is the old God.

God of Nature, n. (1)

    FSLC 11.193 22 The very defence which the God of Nature has provided for the innocent against cruelty is the sentiment of indignation and pity in the bosom of the beholder.

God Save the King [Georg (1)

    ET13 5.218 27 Another part of the same service [at York Minster] on this occasion was not insignificant. Handel's coronation anthem, God save the King, was played by Dr. Camidge on the organ, with sublime effect.

God, Scourges of, n. (1)

    UGM 4.23 1 ...I like...Scourges of God, and Darlings of the human race.

God, Spirit of, n. (1)

    SovE 10.200 18 It seems as if, when the Spirit of God speaks so plainly to each soul, it were an impiety to be listening to one or another saint.

God the Father, n. (2)

    FRO1 11.479 7 ...in Europe, for twelve or fourteen centuries, God the Father had no temple and no altar.
    Milt1 12.252 8 ...if we skip the pages of Paradise Lost where God the Father argues like a school divine, so did the next age to [Milton's] own.

God-denial, n. (1)

    Schr 10.265 16 ...at a single strain of a bugle out of a grove...the poet replaces all this cowardly Self-denial and God-denial of the literary class with the conviction that to one poetic success the world will surrender on its knees.

goddess, n. (7)

    DSA 1.150 5 All attempts to contrive a system are as cold as the new worship introduced by the French to the goddess of Reason...
    Hist 2.38 27 [A man] shall walk, as the poets have described that goddess, in a robe painted all over with wonderful events and experiences;...
    MoS 4.178 15 The Eastern sages owned the goddess Yoganidra, the great illusory energy of Vishnu, by whom, as utter ignorance, the whole world is beguiled.
    F 6.20 14 ...[Maya] became at last woman and goddess, and [Vishnu] a man and a god.
    Ill 6.313 14 Yoganidra, the goddess of illusion...is stronger than the Titans...
    LLNE 10.335 8 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.
    Wom 11.406 5 Among our Norse ancestors, Frigga was worshipped as the goddess of women.

goddess-born, n. (1)

    ShP 4.206 7 We tell the chronicle of parentage...celebrity, death; and when we have come to an end of this gossip, no ray of relation appears between it and the goddess-born;...

God-fearing, adj. (2)

    SlHr 10.442 16 ...what Middlesex jury, containing any God-fearing men in it, would hazard an opinion in flat contradiction to what Squire Hoar believed to be just?
    SMC 11.356 7 Our farmers went to Kansas as peaceable, God-fearing men as the members of our school committee here.

Godforsaken, adj. (1)

    ET11 5.173 3 ...we take sides as we read for the loyal England, and King Charles's return to his right with his Cavaliers,--knowing what a heartless trifler he is, and what a crew of Godforsaken robbers they are.

God-forsaken, n. (1)

    Let 12.401 3 On earth all is imperfect! is an old proverb of the German. Aye, but if one should say to these God-forsaken, that with them all is imperfect only because they leave nothing pure, which they do not pollute...

Godfrey, n. (1)

    Bhr 6.186 21 ...Godfrey acts ever as if he suffered from some mortifying circumstance.

godhead, n. (3)

    NR 3.238 9 Great dangers undoubtedly accrue from this incarnation and distribution of the godhead...
    F 6.27 16 [Our thought] apprises us of its sovereignty and godhead...
    FSLC 11.189 10 I thought that every time a man goes back to his own thoughts, these angels receive him, talk with him...and that this owning of a law, be it called morals, religion, or godhead, or what you will, constituted the explanation of life...

Godhead, n. (5)

    Exp 3.77 10 The subject is the receiver of Godhead...
    Insp 8.278 17 Herrick said: 'T is not every day that I/ Fitted am to prophesy;/ No, but when the spirit fills/ The fantastic panicles,/ Full of fire, then I write/ As the Godhead doth indite./
    Schr 10.276 27 ...I delight to see the Godhead in distribution;...
    MMEm 10.397 3 The yesterday doth never smile,/ To-day goes drudging through the while,/ Yet in the name of Godhead, I/ The morrow front and can defy;/ Though I am weak, yet God, when prayed,/ Cannot withhold his conquering aid./
    MLit 12.331 26 Poetry is with Goethe thus external...but the Muse never assays those thunder-tones...which...abolish the old heavens and the old earth before the free will or Godhead of man.

Godiva [Alfred, Lord Tenny (2)

    EurB 12.372 4 Godiva is a noble poem...
    EurB 12.372 11 ...it is strange that one of the best poems [Abou ben Adhem] should be written by a man [Leigh Hunt] who has hardly written any other. And Godiva is a parable which belongs to the same gospel.

godless, adj. (2)

    Tran 1.336 25 I, [Jacobi] says, am...that godless person who, in opposition to an imaginary doctrine of calculation, would lie as the dying Desdemona lied;...
    Wsp 6.208 7 In our large cities the population is godless...

godlier, adj. (1)

    Fdsp 2.211 8 To my friend I write a letter and from him I receive a letter. That seems to you a little. It suffices me. It is a spiritual gift... ... In these warm lines the heart will...pour out the prophecy of a godlier existence than all the annals of heroism have yet made good.

godlike, adj. [god-like,] (11)

    SR 2.56 21 ...when the unintelligent brute force that lies at the bottom of society is made to growl and mow, it needs the habit of magnanimity and religion to treat it godlike as a trifle of no concernment.
    SR 2.74 26 ...it demands something godlike in him who has cast off the common motives of humanity...
    Fdsp 2.206 23 I please my imagination more with a circle of godlike men and women variously related to each other...
    Mrs1 3.150 18 The wonderful generosity of her sentiments raises [woman] at times into heroical and godlike regions...
    SwM 4.96 22 ...inquiry and learning is reminiscence all. How much more, if he that inquires be a holy and godlike soul!
    WD 7.158 11 ...we pity our fathers for dying before...photograph and spectroscope arrived, as cheated out of half their human estate. These arts open great gates of a future, promising...to lift human life out of its beggary to a godlike ease and power.
    PI 8.73 20 [Poets] are, in our experience, men of every degree of skill,-- some of them only once or twice receivers of an inspiration, and presently falling back on a low life. The drop of ichor that tingles in their veins... cannot lift the whole man to the digestion and function of ichor,--that is, to godlike nature.
    Dem1 10.17 14 I believed that I discovered in nature...somewhat which manifested itself only in contradiction, and therefore could not be grasped by a conception, much less by a word. It was not god-like, since it seemed unreasonable;...
    Edc1 10.135 17 A man is a little thing whilst he works by and for himself, but, when he gives voice to the rules of love and justice, is godlike...
    PLT 12.35 26 ...what else [than Instinct] was it they represented in Pan... who was not yet completely finished in godlike form...
    Let 12.401 8 On earth all is imperfect! is an old proverb of the German. Aye, but if one should say to these God-forsaken...that with them nothing prospers because the godlike nature which is the root of all prosperity they do not revere;...

Godlike, adj. (1)

    MMEm 10.405 1 ...The chief witness which I have had of a Godlike principle of action and feeling is in the disinterested joy felt in others' superiority.

godliness, n. (1)

    Milt1 12.267 18 ...Milton deserved the apostrophe of Wordsworth;-Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free,/ So didst thou travel on life's common way/ In cheerful godliness;.../

godly, adj. (5)

    DSA 1.140 14 Would [the poor preacher] urge people to a godly way of living;...
    Con 1.315 21 These are stories of godly children...
    HDC 11.31 7 In consequence of [Laud's] famous proclamation setting up certain novelties in the rites of public worship, fifty godly ministers were suspended for contumacy...
    FSLN 11.235 6 Cromwell said, We can only resist the superior training of the King's soldiers, by enlisting godly men.
    JBB 11.266 3 John Brown in Kansas settled, like a steadfast Yankee farmer,/ Brave and godly, with four sons-all stalwart men of might./

godmother, n. (1)

    ET6 5.108 4 ...the poorest [Englishmen] have some spoon or saucepan, gift of a godmother, saved out of better times.

Gods, Father of the, n. (1)

    PLT 12.41 17 My percipiency affirms the presence and perfection of law, as much as all the martyrs. A perception, it is of necessity older than...the Father of the Gods.

gods, n. (132)

    Nat 1.56 20 Whilst we wait in this Olympus of gods, we think of nature as an appendix to the soul.
    AmS 1.82 19 It is one of those fables which out of an unknown antiquity convey an unlooked-for wisdom, that the gods...divided Man into men...
    LE 1.184 7 ...out of this superior frankness and charity you shall learn higher secrets of your nature, which gods will bend and aid you to communicate.
    MR 1.246 5 ...parched corn and a house with one apartment...that I may be...girt and road-ready for the lowest mission of knowledge or goodwill, is frugality for gods and heroes.
    LT 1.280 4 ...if I treat all men as gods, how to me can there be any such thing as a slave?
    Con 1.304 16 The ancients tell us that the gods loved the Ethiopians for their stable customs;...
    Con 1.324 23 I am primarily engaged to myself to be a public servant of all the gods...
    Tran 1.345 22 In looking at the class of counsel...and at the matronage of the land...one asks, Where are they who represented genius, virtue, the invisible and heavenly world, to these? Are they...taken in early ripeness to the gods...
    Hist 2.15 6 ...we have [the Greek national mind expressed] once again in sculpture...a multitude of forms...like votaries performing some religious dance before the gods...
    Hist 2.31 12 When the gods come among men, they are not known.
    SR 2.78 7 Caratach...when admonished to inquire the mind of the god Audate, replies,--His hidden meaning lies in our endeavours;/ Our valors are our best gods./
    SR 2.78 19 Welcome evermore to gods and men is the self-helping man.
    SR 2.78 27 The gods love [the self-helping man] because men hated him.
    Comp 2.106 19 [Jove] cannot get his own thunders; Minerva keeps the key of them:--Of all the gods, I only know the keys/ That ope the solid doors within whose vaults/ His thunders sleep./
    Fdsp 2.211 25 Let us be silent,--so we may hear the whisper of the gods.
    Fdsp 2.215 18 ...I know well I shall mourn always the vanishing of my mighty gods.
    Fdsp 2.216 19 ...thou art enlarged by thy own shining, and...dost soar and burn with the gods of the empyrean.
    Hsm1 2.246 21 ...[To die] is to leave/ Deceitful knaves for the society/ Of gods and goodness..../
    Hsm1 2.246 28 ...Now I'll kneel,/ But with my back toward thee: 't is the last duty/ This trunk can do the gods./
    Hsm1 2.257 16 Where the heart is...there the gods sojourn...
    OS 2.291 13 Souls such as these treat you as gods would...
    OS 2.291 14 Souls such as these...walk as gods in the earth...
    OS 2.291 19 Souls such as these treat you as gods would...accepting without any admiration...your virtue even,--say rather your act of duty, for your virtue they own as their proper blood, royal as themselves...and the father of the gods.
    Int 2.343 9 The ancient sentence said, Let us be silent, for so are the gods.
    Int 2.345 19 The gods shall settle their own quarrels.
    Pt1 3.21 15 [The poet] knows...why the great deep is adorned with animals, with men, and gods;...
    Pt1 3.29 3 Milton says that...the epic poet, he who shall sing of the gods and their descent unto men, must drink water out of a wooden bowl.
    Pt1 3.30 11 We are like persons who come out of a cave or cellar into the open air. This is the effect on us of tropes, fables, oracles and all poetic forms. Poets are thus liberating gods.
    Pt1 3.32 1 The poets are thus liberating gods.
    Pt1 3.37 18 We have yet had no genius in America...which...saw, in the barbarism and materialism of the times, another carnival of the same gods whose picture he so much admires in Homer;...
    Chr1 3.109 21 Plato said it was impossible not to believe in the children of the gods...
    Chr1 3.110 7 The virtuous prince confronts the gods, without any misgivings.
    Chr1 3.110 10 He who confronts the gods, without any misgiving, knows heaven;...
    Chr1 3.112 20 The gods must seat themselves without seneschal in our Olympus...
    Chr1 3.114 4 The history of those gods and saints which the world has written and then worshipped, are documents of character.
    Mrs1 3.133 13 There will always be in society certain persons...whose glance will at any time determine for the curious their standing in the world. These are the chamberlains of the lesser gods.
    Mrs1 3.137 10 Let us sit apart as the gods...
    Mrs1 3.147 3 [The theory of society] says with the elder gods,-As Heaven and Earth are fairer far/ Than Chaos and blank Darkness, though once chiefs;/ .../ So on our heels a fresh perfection treads/...
    Nat2 3.177 21 Frivolity is a most unfit tribute to Pan, who ought to be represented in the mythology as the most continent of gods.
    NR 3.229 13 Who can tell if Washington be a great man or no? Who can tell if Franklin be? Yes, or any but the twelve, or six, or three great gods of fame?
    NR 3.231 7 [General ideas] are our gods...
    UGM 4.4 19 The gods of fable are the shining moments of great men.
    PPh 4.49 24 You are fit (says the supreme Krishna to a sage) to apprehend that you are not distinct from me. That which I am, thou art, and that also is this world, with its gods and heroes and mankind.
    PPh 4.52 5 Each student adheres, by temperament and by habit, to the first or to the second of these gods of the mind [unity or diversity].
    PPh 4.58 14 ...[Plato] believes...that the gods never philosophize...
    PPh 4.65 2 [Plato] called the several faculties, gods...
    PNR 4.84 1 The eye attested that justice was best, as long as it was profitable; Plato affirms that...profit is intrinsic, though the just conceal his justice from gods and men;...
    PNR 4.85 21 Ethical science was new and vacant when Plato could write thus:...as respects either of them in itself...concealed both from gods and men, no one has yet sufficiently investigated...how, namely, that injustice is the greatest of all the evils that the soul has within it, and justice the greatest good.
    PNR 4.87 3 All the gods of the Pantheon are, by their names, [to Plato] significant of a profound sense.
    PNR 4.87 4 All the gods of the Pantheon are, by their names, [to Plato] significant of a profound sense. The gods are the ideas.
    SwM 4.120 8 [Swedenborg] had borrowed from Plato the fine fable of a most ancient people, men better than we and dwelling nigher to the gods;...
    SwM 4.138 16 Euripides rightly said, Goodness and being in the gods are one;/ He who imputes ill to them makes them none./
    ET1 5.8 25 A great man, [Landor] said, should...kill his hundred oxen without knowing whether they would be consumed by gods and heroes...
    ET5 5.85 20 In war, the Englishman looks to his means. He is of the opinion of Civilis...whom Tacitus reports as holding that the gods are on the side of the strongest;...
    ET11 5.179 25 ...the English are those barbarians of Jamblichus, who... firmly continue to employ the same words, which are also dear to the gods.
    ET11 5.187 2 [The English]...walk by their faith in their painted May-Fair as if among the forms of gods.
    ET13 5.228 3 ...you, who are an honest man in other particulars [than conformity], know that there is alive somewhere a man whose honesty reaches to this point also that he shall not kneel to false gods...
    ET14 5.259 25 While the constructive talent [in England] seems dwarfed and superficial, the criticism is often in the noblest tone and suggests the presence of the invisible gods.
    F 6.20 18 ...the gods in the Norse heaven were unable to bind the Fenris Wolf...
    F 6.31 3 The bulk of mankind believe in two gods.
    Wth 6.109 13 The ancient poet said, The gods sell all things at a fair price.
    Ctr 6.153 14 You say the gods ought to respect a life whose objects are their own;...
    Ctr 6.153 24 'T is heavy odds/ Against the gods,/ When they will match with myrmidons./
    Ctr 6.163 5 Steep and craggy, said Porphyry, is the path of the gods.
    Wsp 6.205 14 ...some of the Pacific islanders flog their gods when things take an unfavorable turn.
    Wsp 6.230 22 If we meet no gods, it is because we harbor none.
    Wsp 6.239 21 Such as you are, the gods themselves could not help you.
    Wsp 6.240 12 ...as far as [immortality] is a question of fact respecting the government of the universe, Marcus Antoninus summed the whole in a word, It is pleasant to die if there be gods, and sad to live if there be none.
    CbW 6.260 16 ...what we ask daily, is to be conventional. Supply, most kind gods! this defect in my address...which puts me a little out of the ring...
    CbW 6.260 20 ...what we ask daily, is to be conventional. ... But the wise gods say, No, we have better things for thee.
    Bty 6.299 15 A beautiful person among the Greeks was thought to betray by this sign some secret favor of the immortal gods;...
    Ill 6.313 17 Few have overheard the gods or surprised their secret.
    Ill 6.321 6 We fancy we have fallen into bad company and squalid condition...pots to buy, butcher's meat, sugar, milk and coal. Set me some great task, ye gods! and I will show my spirit.
    Ill 6.325 26 Every moment new changes and new showers of deceptions to baffle and distract [the young mortal]. And when...for an instant...the cloud lifts a little, there are the gods still sitting around him on their thrones,--they alone with him alone.
    SS 7.9 9 ...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 to gods and men...
    Civ 7.20 27 ...there is a Cadmus, a Pytheas, a Manco Capac at the beginning of each improvement,--some superior foreigner importing new and wonderful arts, and teaching them. Of course he must...have the sympathy, language and gods of those he would inform.
    Civ 7.28 25 ...that is the wisdom of a man, in every instance of his labor, to hitch his wagon to a star, and see his chore done by the gods themselves.
    Art2 7.56 4 Who carved marble? The believing man, who wished to symbolize their gods to the waiting Greeks.
    DL 7.130 22 The man, the woman, needs not the embellishment of canvas and marble, whose every act is a subject for the sculptor, and to whose eye the gods and nymphs never appear ancient...
    WD 7.170 11 There are days which are the carnival of the year. The angels assume flesh, and repeatedly become visible. The imagination of the gods is excited and rushes on every side into forms.
    WD 7.175 22 'T is the old secret of the gods that they come in low disguises.
    WD 7.178 24 ...Homer said, The gods ever give to mortals their apportioned share of reason only on one day.
    WD 7.181 19 Fill my hour, ye gods, so that I shall not say, whilst I have done this, Behold, also, an hour of my life is gone,--but rather, I have lived an hour.
    WD 7.184 23 Phoebus challenged the gods...
    Boks 7.200 17 [Plutarch's] memory is like the Isthmian Games...and you are stimulated and recruited...by the worship of the gods...
    Boks 7.203 6 ...[in the Platonists] the grand and pleasing figures of gods and daemons and daemoniacal men...sail before [the scholar's] eyes.
    Boks 7.203 7 ...[in the Platonists] the grand and pleasing figures of gods and daemons and daemoniacal men, of the azonic and the aquatic gods...sail before [the scholar's] eyes.
    Boks 7.203 13 These guides [the Platonists] speak of the gods with such depth and with such pictorial details...
    Clbs 7.237 12 In the Norse legends, The gods of Valhalla when they meet the Jotuns, converse on the perilous terms that he who cannot answer the other's questions forfeits his own life.
    Clbs 7.237 24 Wafthrudnir asks [Odin]...what river separates the dwellings of the sons of the giants from those of the gods;...
    Clbs 7.237 25 Wafthrudnir asks [Odin]...what plain lies between the gods and Surtur, their adversary...
    Clbs 7.238 5 ...[Odin] puts a question which none but himself could answer: What did Odin whisper in the ear of his son Balder, when Balder mounted the funeral pile? The startled giant [Wafthrudnir] replies: None of the gods knows what in the old time Thou saidst in the ear of thy son...
    Clbs 7.238 11 The startled giant [Wafthrudnir] replies...with Odin contended I in wise words. Thou must ever the wisest be. And still the gods and giants are so known...
    Suc 7.299 10 We live among gods of our own creation.
    OA 7.326 27 Michel Angelo's head is full of masculine and gigantic figures as gods walking...
    PC 8.206 4 From high to higher forces/ The scale of power uprears,/ The heroes on their horses,/ The gods upon their spheres./
    PC 8.216 1 The founders of nations, the wise men and inventors who shine afterwards as their gods, were probably martyrs in their own time.
    PC 8.225 12 ...time and space,-what are they? Our first problems...whose outrunning immensity, the old Greeks believed, astonished the gods themselves;...
    Imtl 8.329 15 The saying of Marcus Antoninus it were hard to mend: It is well to die if there be gods, and sad to live if there be none.
    Imtl 8.350 1 Yama said, For this question [of immortality], it was inquired of old, even by the gods;...
    Imtl 8.350 5 Nachiketas said, Even by the gods was it inquired [concerning immortality].
    Dem1 10.19 24 ...[belief in the demonological] extends the popular idea of success to the very gods;...
    Aris 10.40 15 If the finders of glass, gunpowder, printing, electricity... should keep their secrets, or only communicate them to each other, must not the whole race of mankind serve them as gods?
    Chr2 10.100 21 It happens now and then, in the ages, that a soul is born which offers no impediment to the Divine Spirit...and all its thoughts are perceptions of things as they are, without any infirmity of earth. Such souls are as the apparition of gods among men...
    Chr2 10.104 3 The populace drag down the gods to their own level...
    Edc1 10.137 7 A new Adam in the garden, [the new man] is to name all the beasts in the field, all the gods in the sky.
    Supl 10.169 5 Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use a short and positive speech.
    Supl 10.173 14 The expressors are the gods of the world...
    Schr 10.262 18 Stung by this intellectual conscience, we go to measure our tasks as scholars...and our sadness is suddenly overshone by a sympathy of blessing. Beauty...the leader of gods and men...comes in and puts a new face on the world.
    Schr 10.272 9 Gold and silver, says one of the Platonists, grow in the earth from the celestial gods...
    Plu 10.313 4 When you are persuaded in your mind that you cannot either offer or perform anything more agreeable to the gods than the entertaining a right notion of them, you will then avoid superstition as a no less evil than atheism.
    Plu 10.313 7 [Plutarch] cites Euripides to affirm, If gods do aught dishonest, they are no gods...
    Plu 10.313 8 [Plutarch] cites Euripides to affirm, If gods do aught dishonest, they are no gods...
    Plu 10.313 25 [Plutarch] thinks it impossible either that a man beloved of the gods should not be happy, or that a wise and just man should not be beloved of the gods.
    Plu 10.313 26 [Plutarch] thinks it impossible either that a man beloved of the gods should not be happy, or that a wise and just man should not be beloved of the gods.
    SlHr 10.437 13 The Homeric heroes, when they saw the gods mingling in the fray, sheathed their swords.
    SlHr 10.437 17 ...when [Samuel Hoar] saw the day and the gods went against him, he withdrew...
    Thor 10.475 14 ...[Thoreau] said that Aeschylus and the Greeks, in describing Apollo and Orpheus, had given no song, or no good one. They ought...to have chanted to the gods such a hymn as would have sung all their old ideas out of their heads, and new ones in.
    Carl 10.497 11 ...now [the bad time] is coming, and the only good [Carlyle] sees in it is the visible appearance of the gods.
    FSLC 11.178 13 ...Fate's grass grows rank in valley clods,/ And rankly on the castled steep,-/ Speak it firmly, these [Eternal Rights] are gods,/ Are all ghosts beside./
    FSLN 11.242 20 The low bows to all the crockery gods of the day were duly made...
    Wom 11.408 25 Wise, cultivated, genial conversation is...the best result which life has to offer us,-a cup for gods, which has no repentance.
    FRep 11.515 17 When the cannon is aimed by ideas...when men die for what they live for...then gods join in the combat;...and the better code of laws at last records the victory.
    PLT 12.43 6 I owe to genius always the same debt, of...showing me that gods are sitting disguised in every company.
    PLT 12.44 6 ...the gods have guarded this privilege [of sensibility] with costly penalty.
    II 12.88 6 The Buddhist who finds gods masked in all his friends and enemies...is calm.
    CL 12.134 5 Keen ears can catch a syllable,/ As if one spoke to another,/ In the hemlocks tall, untamable,/ And what the whispering grasses smother./ Wonderful verse of the gods,/ Of one import, of varied tone;/...
    Bost 12.194 20 ...how much more attractive and true that this [Christian] piety should be the central trait and the stern virtues follow than that Stoicism should face the gods and put Jove on his defence.
    Milt1 12.274 19 The tone of [Adam's] thought and passion is as healthful, as even and as vigorous as befits the new and perfect model of a race of gods.
    Pray 12.350 11 Pythagoras said that the time when men were honestest is when they present themselves before the gods.
    Pray 12.351 14 In the Phaedrus of Plato, we find this petition in the mouth of Socrates: O gracious Pan! and ye other gods who preside over this place! grant that I may be beautiful within;...
    Let 12.402 2 ...where the divine nature and the artist is crushed...every other planet is better than the earth. Men deteriorate...with the wantonness of the tongue and with the anxiety for a livelihood the blessing of every year becomes a curse, and all the gods depart.

Gods, n. (3)

    Chr1 3.112 13 ...there is a Greek verse which runs, The Gods are to each other not unknown./
    Farm 7.136 3 [The farmer] planted where the deluge ploughed,/ His hired hands were wind and cloud;/ His eyes detect the Gods concealed/ In the hummock of the field./
    MMEm 10.432 24 Cassandra uttered, to a frivolous, skeptical time, the arcana of the Gods...

god's, n. (1)

    Pt1 3.29 5 ...poetry is not Devil's wine, but God's wine.

God's, n. (30)

    AmS 1.113 20 ...no man in God's wide earth is either willing or able to help any other man.
    DSA 1.132 11 [The divine bards] admonish me that the gleams which flash across my mind are...God's;...
    MR 1.241 6 ...every man ought to stand in primary relations with the work of the world;...for this reason, that labor is God's education;...
    Con 1.309 12 It is God's world and mine;...
    Exp 3.65 11 Life itself is...a sleep within a sleep. Grant it, and as much more as they will,--but thou, God's darling! heed thy private dream;...
    Mrs1 3.145 17 ...nor is it to be concealed that living blood and a passion of kindness does at last distinguish God's gentleman from Fashion's.
    GoW 4.282 4 Though [the writer] were dumb [his message] would speak. If not,--if there be no such God's word in the man,--what care we how adroit, how fluent, how brilliant he is?
    Ctr 6.133 23 Beware of the man who says, I am on the eve of a revelation. It is speedily punished, inasmuch as this habit invites men to humor it, and by treating the patient tenderly, to...exclude him from the great world of God's cheerful fallible men and women.
    Wsp 6.221 27 ...the police and sincerity of the universe are secured by God' s delegating his divinity to every particle;...
    Cour 7.274 22 The poor Puritan, Antony Parsons, at the stake, tied straw on his head when the fire approached him, and said, This is God's hat.
    Elo2 8.121 24 ...Saadi tells us that a person with a disagreeable voice was reading the Koran aloud, when a holy man, passing by, asked what was his monthly stipend. He answered, Nothing at all. But why then do you take so much trouble? He replied, I read for the sake of God. The other rejoined, For God's sake, do not read; for if you read the Koran in this manner you will destroy the splendor of Islamism.
    Elo2 8.130 11 ...such practical chemistry as the conversion of a truth written in God's language into a truth in Dunderhead's language, is one of the most beautiful and cogent weapons that are forged in the shop of the Divine Artificer.
    Res 8.135 4 ...Where [the wise man's] clear spirit leads him, there 's his road/ By God's own light illumined and foreshowed./
    QO 8.190 3 Each man of thought is surrounded by wiser men than he, if they cannot write as well. Cannot he and they combine? Cannot they sink their jealousies in God's love...
    Imtl 8.330 24 ...I have in mind the expression of an older believer, who once said to me, The thought that this frail being is never to end is so overwhelming that my only shelter is God's presence.
    Aris 10.64 4 ...shame to the fop of learning and philosophy...who abandons his right position of being priest and poet of these impious and unpoetic doers of God's work.
    Prch 10.222 2 To see men pursuing in faith their varied action...what are they to...the man who hears only the sound of his own footsteps in God's resplendent creation?
    MMEm 10.421 15 Alone, feeling strongly, fully, that I [Mary Moody Emerson] have deserved nothing;...yet joying in existence, perhaps striving to beautify one individual of God's creation.
    MMEm 10.422 2 ...a few lamps held out in the firmament enable us...to date the revelations of God to man. But these lamps are held...to divide the history of God's operations in the birth and death of nations...
    MMEm 10.430 24 ...one secret sentiment of virtue...will tell, in the world of spirits, of God's immediate presence...
    Carl 10.496 24 ...the new French revolution of 1848 was the best thing [Carlyle] had seen, and the teaching this great swindler, Louis Philippe, that there is a God's justice in the Universe, after all, was a great satisfaction.
    HDC 11.51 16 In 1644, Squaw Sachem, the widow of Nanepashemet...with two sachems of Wachusett...intimated their desire...to learn to read God's word and know God aright;...
    HDC 11.67 6 ...Mr. [Daniel] Bliss replied...I was filled with wonder, that such a sinful and worthless worm as I am, was allowed to represent Christ... even so far as to be bringing the petitions and thank-offerings of the people unto God, and God's will and truths to the people;...
    EWI 11.106 13 ...when [Granville Sharpe] brought the case of George Somerset, another slave, before Lord Mansfield, the slavish decisions were set aside, and equity affirmed. There is a sparkle of God's righteousness in Lord Mansfield's judgment, which does the heart good.
    EWI 11.136 17 Out it would come, the God's truth, out it came [in emancipation in the West Indies], like a bolt from a cloud...
    War 11.152 14 The student of history acquiesces the more readily in this copious bloodshed of the early annals, bloodshed in God's name, too, when he learns that it is a temporary and preparatory state...
    SHC 11.428 24 ...Forget man's littleness, deserve the best,/ God's mercy in thy thought and life confest./ William Ellery Channing.
    SHC 11.435 18 ...hither [to Sleepy Hollow] shall repair, to this modest spot of God's earth, every sweet and friendly influence;...
    FRO1 11.476 2 In many forms we try/ To utter God's infinity,/ But the Boundless has no form,/ And the Universal Friend/ Doth as far transcend/ An angel as a worm./
    CInt 12.112 9 I know the mighty bards,/ I listen when they sing,/ And now I know/ The secret store/ Which these explore/ When they with torch of genius pierce/ The tenfold clouds that cover/ The riches of the universe/ From God's adoring lover./

godsend, n. [god-send,] (5)

    OS 2.292 1 [Simple souls] must always be a godsend to princes...
    Exp 3.65 8 Right to hold land, right of property, is disputed...and before the vote is taken, dig away in your garden, and spend your earnings as a waif or godsend to all serene and beautiful purposes.
    CbW 6.258 5 The right partisan is a heady, narrow man, who...if he falls... on...some trade or politics of the hour, he...seems inspired and a godsend to those who wish to magnify the matter and carry a point.
    Elo2 8.117 6 [The orator] knew very well behorehand that [the people] were looking behind and that he was looking ahead, and therefore it was wise to speak. Then the observer says, What a godsend is this manner of man to a town!...
    PLT 12.56 2 The right partisan is a heady man, who...sees some one thing with heat and exaggeration; and if he falls among other narrow men, or objects which have a brief importance...seems inspired and a god-send to those who wish to magnify the matter and carry a point.

God-speed, n. (1)

    NR 3.248 21 Could [my good men] but once understand that I...heartily wished them God-speed, yet...had no word or welcome for them when they came to see me...it would be a great satisfaction.

goes, v. (200)

    Nat 1.1 3 The eye reads omens where it goes,/ And speaks all languages the rose;/...
    Nat 1.14 4 [The private poor man] goes to the post-office, and the human race run on his errands;...
    AmS 1.85 21 ...tyrannized over by its own unifying instinct, [the young mind] goes on tying things together...
    AmS 1.86 12 The ambitious soul...goes on forever to animate the last fibre of organization...
    AmS 1.94 6 There goes in the world a notion that the scholar should be a recluse...
    AmS 1.96 4 A strange process too, this by which experience is converted into thought, as a mulberry leaf is converted into satin. The manufacture goes forward at all hours.
    DSA 1.119 17 ...the never-broken silence with which the old bounty goes forward has not yielded yet one word of explanation.
    DSA 1.122 20 If a man dissemble...he...goes out of acquaintance with his own being.
    DSA 1.128 26 [Jesus Christ] saw that God...evermore goes forth anew to take possession of his World.
    LE 1.181 27 The good scholar will not refuse...to make his own hands acquainted with...the sweat that goes before comfort and luxury.
    MN 1.200 11 ...in balanced beauty, the dance of the hours goes forward still.
    MN 1.218 5 ...Talent goes from without inward.
    MN 1.218 7 Talent...goes to the soul only for power to work.
    MN 1.224 8 Pusillanimity and fear [the soul] refuses with a beautiful scorn; they are not for her who...goes out through universal love to universal power.
    LT 1.273 27 ...a [wealthy] man may say his religion...is become a dividual moveable, and goes and comes near him, according as that good man frequents the house.
    LT 1.275 5 ...[the spirit of Reform] goes up and down, paving the earth with eyes...
    Con 1.298 16 ...[conservatism] goes to make an adroit member of the social frame...
    Con 1.298 24 ...conservatism goes for comfort, reform for truth.
    Con 1.304 5 The system of property and law goes back for its origin to barbarous and sacred times;...
    Con 1.318 20 ...[the conservative party] goes for availableness in its candidate, not for worth;...
    Tran 1.332 2 The sturdy capitalist...must set [his banking-house], at last... on a mass of unknown materials and solidity...which...goes spinning away, dragging bank and banker with it...
    Tran 1.342 18 ...[Society] saith, Whoso goes to walk alone, accuses the whole world;...
    YA 1.364 4 ...when...the locomotive and the steamboat...shoot every day across the thousand various threads of national descent and employment... an hourly assimilation goes forward...
    YA 1.367 24 ...the whole force of all the arts goes to facilitate the decoration of lands and dwellings.
    YA 1.368 22 ...the flower of the youth, of both sexes, goes into the towns...
    YA 1.378 5 Trade goes to make the governments insignificant...
    YA 1.388 18 ...the college, the church, the hospital, the theatre, the hotel, the road, the ship of the capitalist,-whatever goes to secure, adorn, enlarge these is good;...
    Hist 2.3 16 ...the human spirit goes forth from the beginning to embody every faculty...which belongs to it, in appropriate events.
    Hist 2.35 23 ...along with the civil and metaphysical history of man, another history goes daily forward,--that of the external world...
    SR 2.71 17 ...[man's genius] goes abroad to beg a cup of water of the urns of other men.
    SR 2.76 10 A sturdy lad...who...goes to Congress...is worth a hundred of these city dolls.
    SR 2.78 23 Our love goes out to [the self-helping man] and embraces him...
    SR 2.81 7 ...when [the wise man's]...duties...call him...into foreign lands, he...shall make men sensible by the expression of his countenance that he goes, the missionary of wisdom and virtue...
    SR 2.82 5 My giant goes with me wherever I go.
    Comp 2.117 26 Whilst [a great man] sits on the cushion of advantages, he goes to sleep.
    SL 2.139 10 The whole course of things goes to teach us faith.
    SL 2.144 5 A man is...a selecting principle, gathering his like to him wherever he goes.
    Fdsp 2.189 3 ...The world uncertain comes and goes,/ The lover rooted stays./
    Fdsp 2.198 3 ...[the soul] goes alone for a season that it may exalt its conversation or society.
    Hsm1 2.247 22 I do not readily remember any poem, play, sermon, novel or oration that our press vents in the last few years, which goes to the same [heroic] tune.
    OS 2.270 16 All goes to show that the soul in man is not an organ...
    Cir 2.306 7 Does the fact look crass and material, threatening to degrade thy theory of spirit? Resist it not; it goes to refine and raise thy theory of matter just as much.
    Int 2.326 12 The intellect goes out of the individual...
    Int 2.335 15 [The thought]...goes to fashion every institution.
    Art1 2.362 11 A calm benignant beauty shines over all this picture [Raphael, Transfiguration], and goes directly to the heart.
    Pt1 3.14 26 ...science always goes abreast with the just elevation of the man...
    Pt1 3.16 17 In the political processions, Lowell goes in a loom...
    Pt1 3.19 17 A shrewd country-boy goes to the city for the first time, and the complacent citizen is not satisfied with his little wonder.
    Pt1 3.25 13 The sea...and every flower-bed, pre-exist or super-exist, in pre-cantations, which sail like odors in the air, and when any man goes by with an ear sufficiently fine, he overhears them and endeavors to write down the notes without diluting or depraving them.
    Exp 3.64 20 Whilst the debate goes forward on the equity of commerce... New and Old England may keep shop.
    Exp 3.68 11 ...the mind goes antagonizing on...
    Chr1 3.107 19 ...however pertly our sermons and disciplines would...teach that the laws fashion the citizen, [Nature] goes her own gait and puts the wisest in the wrong.
    Chr1 3.113 4 Life goes headlong.
    Mrs1 3.123 13 ...personal force never goes out of fashion.
    Mrs1 3.136 14 Wherever [Montaigne] goes he pays a visit to whatever prince or gentleman of note resides upon his road...
    Nat2 3.177 3 A susceptible person does not like to indulge his tastes in this kind [in passive nature] without the apology of some trivial necessity: he goes to see a wood-lot...
    Nat2 3.181 15 ...the artist still goes back for materials...
    Nat2 3.181 17 ...the artist still goes back for materials and begins again with the first elements on the most advanced stage; otherwise all goes to ruin.
    Nat2 3.185 23 ...the wary Nature sends a new troop of fairer forms, of lordlier youths...and on goes the game again with a new whirl...
    NR 3.238 27 ...[the recluse] goes into a mob, into a banking house...and in each new place he is no better than an idiot;...
    NR 3.246 6 ...every pumpkin in the field goes through every point of pumpkin history.
    NR 3.246 20 We keep a running fire of sarcasm at ignorance and the life of the senses; then goes by, perchance, a fair girl...
    NER 3.259 5 ...the Good Spirit never cared for the colleges, and though all men and boys were now drilled in Latin, Greek and Mathematics, it...was now creating and feeding other matters at other ends of the world. But in a hundred high schools and colleges this warfare against common-sense still goes on.
    UGM 4.4 12 The race goes with us on [great men's] credit.
    UGM 4.13 26 [Mental and moral force] goes out from you, whether you will or not...
    UGM 4.24 2 Nature never spares the opium or nepenthe, but wherever she mars her creature with some deformity or defect, lays her poppies plentifully on the bruise, and the sufferer goes joyfully through life...
    UGM 4.24 27 ...in the midst of this chuckle of self-gratulation, some figure goes by which Thersites too can love and admire.
    UGM 4.25 26 The like assimilation goes on between men of one town...
    PPh 4.71 14 The young men...invite [Socrates] to their feasts, whither he goes for conversation.
    PPh 4.71 17 [Socrates] can drink, too;...and after leaving the whole party under the table, goes away as if nothing had happened...
    SwM 4.99 7 Such a boy [as Swedenborg]...goes grubbing into mines and mountains...
    SwM 4.109 10 Creative force, like a musical composer, goes on unweariedly repeating a simple air or theme...
    SwM 4.142 15 [Swedenborg] goes up and down the world of men, a modern Rhadamanthus in gold-headed cane and peruke...
    MoS 4.170 16 A book or statement which goes to show that there is no line...dispirits us.
    ShP 4.208 2 ...in [Shakespeare's] drama, as in all great works of art...the Genius draws up the ladder after him, when the creative age goes up to heaven...
    GoW 4.261 10 The planet, the pebble, goes attended by its shadow.
    GoW 4.275 13 The plant goes from knot to knot, closing at last with the flower and the seed [wrote Goethe].
    GoW 4.275 15 ...the tape-worm, the caterpillar, goes from knot to knot and closes with the head [wrote Goethe].
    ET4 5.68 3 Nelson, dying at Trafalgar...like an innocent schoolboy that goes to bed, says Kiss me, Hardy, and turns to sleep.
    ET5 5.87 11 ...[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. This is the old fashion, which never goes out of fashion...
    ET6 5.103 19 ...he who goes among [the English] must have some weight of metal.
    ET7 5.116 21 Private men [in England] keep their promises, never so trivial. Down goes the flying word on the tablets...
    ET7 5.119 3 [The English]...take the world as it goes.
    ET8 5.127 9 [The English], too, believe...that your merry heart goes all the way, your sad one tires in a mile.
    ET8 5.127 19 When [the Englishman] wishes for amusement, he goes to work.
    ET9 5.146 27 Lord Chatham goes for liberty and no taxation without representation;...
    ET9 5.148 24 ...an ex-governor of Illinois, said to me, If the man knew anything, he would sit in a corner and be modest; but he is such an ignorant peacock that he goes bustling up and down and hits on extraordinary discoveries.
    ET10 5.165 21 [The Englishman] goes with the most powerful protection...
    ET11 5.198 16 ...the rich Englishman goes over the world at the present day, drawing more than all the advantages which the strongest of his kings could command.
    ET12 5.208 17 ...at the universities, it is urged that all goes to form what England values as the flower of its national life,--a well-educated gentleman.
    ET13 5.227 25 ...you must pay for conformity. All goes well as long as you run with conformists.
    ET14 5.239 1 Where [idealism] goes, is poetry, health and progress.
    ET14 5.259 11 [Warren Hasting] goes to bespeak indulgence to ornaments of fancy unsuited to our taste...
    ET19 5.314 2 ...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 6.14 2 Probably the election goes by avoirdupois weight...
    Pow 6.53 8 ...if there be such a tie that wherever the mind of man goes, nature will accompany him, perhaps there are men whose magnetisms are of that force to draw material and elemental powers...
    Pow 6.53 16 ...[power] is an element with which the world is so saturated... that no honest seeking goes unrewarded.
    Pow 6.73 11 Success goes...invariably with a certain plus or positive power...
    Wth 6.86 12 One man has stronger arms or longer legs; another sees by the course of streams and the growth of markets where land will be wanted, makes a clearing to the river, goes to sleep and wakes up rich.
    Wth 6.100 12 [The right merchant] knows that all goes on the old road, pound for pound...
    Wth 6.103 12 ...a dollar goes on increasing in value with all the genius and all the virtue of the world.
    Wth 6.107 25 You dismiss your laborer, saying, Patrick, I shall send for you as soon as I cannot do without you. Patrick goes off contented, for he knows that the weeds will grow with the potatoes...
    Wth 6.116 26 Nature goes by rule...
    Ctr 6.145 21 He that does not fill a place at home, cannot abroad. He only goes there to hide his insignificance in a larger crowd.
    Ctr 6.155 13 There is a great deal of self-denial and manliness in poor and middle-class houses in town and country...that goes rusty and educates the boy;...
    Ctr 6.155 17 There is a great deal of self-denial and manliness in poor and middle-class houses in town and country...that...pays off the mortgage on the paternal farm, and then goes back cheerfully to work again.
    Bhr 6.170 23 Give a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes.
    Wsp 6.215 23 ...a day comes when [a man] begins to care that he do not cheat his neighbor. Then all goes well.
    CbW 6.272 17 Here [in conversation] are oracles sometimes profusely given, to which the memory goes back in barren hours.
    CbW 6.273 17 With the first class of men our friendship or good understanding goes quite behind all accidents of estrangement...
    CbW 6.275 4 ...life would be twice or ten times life if spent with wise and fruitful companions. The obvious inference is, a little useful deliberation and preconcert when one goes to buy house and land.
    Bty 6.296 7 Wherever [the human form] goes it creates joy and hilarity...
    SS 7.4 4 [My new friend] coveted Mirabeau's don terrible de la familiarite, believing that he whose sympathy goes lowest is the man from whom kings have the most to fear.
    Elo1 7.71 26 The old man [Priam] asked: Tell me, dear child, who is that man, shorter by a head than Agamemnon, yet he looks broader in his shoulders and breast. ... He seems to me like a stately ram, who goes as a master of the flock.
    Elo1 7.89 25 By applying the habits of a higher style of thought to the common affairs of this world, [the orator] introduces beauty and magnificence wherever he goes.
    WD 7.181 1 Everything in the universe goes by indirection.
    Boks 7.196 26 ...Never read any [books] but what you like;, or, in Shakspeare's phrase, No profit goes where is no pleasure te'en:/ In brief, sir, study what you most affect./
    Boks 7.220 1 [The communications of the sacred books]...are living characters translatable into every tongue and form of life. ... These are Scriptures which the missionary might well carry...to Siberia, Japan, Timbuctoo. Yet he will find that the spirit which is in them...was there already long before him. The missionary must be carried by it, and find it there, or he goes in vain.
    Cour 7.268 19 The beautiful voice at church goes sounding on, and covers up in its volume...all the defects of the choir.
    Suc 7.298 11 Remember what befalls a city boy who goes for the first time into the October woods.
    PI 8.7 4 ...as soon as once thought begins, it refuses to remember whose brain it belongs to;...and goes whirling off...in a direction self-chosen...
    PI 8.36 10 ...there is entertainment and room for talent in the artist's selection of ancient or remote subjects; as when the poet goes to India, or to Rome, or to Persia, for his fable.
    PI 8.66 26 A good poem...goes about the world offering itself to reasonable men...
    Elo2 8.113 18 The orator is he whom every man is seeking when he goes into the courts...
    Res 8.148 26 See the dexterity of the good aunt in keeping the young people all the weary holiday busy and diverted without knowing it...the pop-corn, and Christmas hemlock spurting in the fire. The children never suspect how much design goes to it...
    Comc 8.160 2 There is no joke so true and deep in actual life as when some pure idealist goes up and down among the institutions of society, attended by a man who knows the world...
    Comc 8.163 5 [Wit]...unless it encounter a mystic or a dumpish soul, goes everywhere heralded and harbingered by smiles and greetings.
    Comc 8.164 27 ...the inertia of men inclines them, when the [religious] sentiment sleeps, to imitate that thing it did; it goes through the ceremony omitting only the will...
    Comc 8.168 3 I think there is malice in a very trifling story which goes about...
    QO 8.189 5 In literature, quotation is good only when the writer whom I follow goes my way...
    PC 8.207 16 Was ever such coincidence of advantages in time and place as in America to-day?...the hungry cry for men which goes up from the wide continent;...
    PC 8.209 14 A great many full-blown conceits have burst [in America]. The coxcomb goes to the wall.
    PC 8.211 7 Here...the freedom of action goes to the brink, if not over the brink, of license.
    PC 8.217 25 If [a man] can converse better than any other, he rules the minds of men wherever he goes;...
    PC 8.227 3 Great men,-the age goes on their credit;...
    PPo 8.245 20 Good is what goes on the road of Nature.
    PPo 8.258 8 O'er the garden water goes the wind alone/ To rasp and to polish the cheek of the wave;/ The fire is quenched on the dear hearthstone,/ But it burns again on the tulips brave./
    Insp 8.278 1 ...[Behmen said] though I could have written in a more accurate, fair and plain manner, the burning fire often forced forward with speed, and the hand and pen must hasten directly after it, for it comes and goes as a sudden shower.
    Insp 8.292 13 A wise man goes to this game [of conversation] to play upon others and to be played upon...
    Grts 8.320 2 ...any man filled with an idea or a purpose will find examples and illustrations and coadjutors wherever he goes.
    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./
    Imtl 8.326 23 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./
    Imtl 8.351 26 ...subtler than what is subtle, greater than what is great, sitting [the soul] goes far, sleeping it goes everywhere.
    Dem1 10.10 6 Every man goes through the world attended with innumerable facts prefiguring...his fate...
    Dem1 10.18 17 ...a monstrous force goes out from [demonic individuals]...
    Dem1 10.19 5 It would be easy in the political history of every time to furnish examples of this irregular success, men having a force which without virtue...yet makes them prevailing. ... A power goes out from them which draws all men and events to favor them.
    Aris 10.31 2 There is an attractive topic, which never goes out of vogue...
    Aris 10.43 7 When Nature goes to create a national man, she puts a symmetry between the physical and intellectual powers.
    PerF 10.75 26 The thoughts, no man ever saw, but disorder becomes order where he goes;...
    PerF 10.86 23 Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.
    PerF 10.87 24 ...the college goes against [the moral sentiment]...
    Chr2 10.121 11 ...the electricity goes round the world without a spark or a sound, until there is a break in the wire or the water chain.
    Edc1 10.139 4 ...[boys] know everything that befalls in the fire-company... so too the merits of every locomotive on the rails, and will coax the engineer to let them ride with him and pull the handles when it goes to the engine-house.
    Edc1 10.155 10 When [the naturalist] goes into the woods the birds fly before him...
    Edc1 10.155 11 ...when [the naturalist] goes to the river-bank, the fish and the reptile swim away...
    Edc1 10.159 10 Consent yourself to be an organ of your highest thought, and lo! suddenly you...are the fountain of an energy that goes pulsing on with waves of benefit to the borders of society...
    Supl 10.165 11 ...one would not...make a codicil to his will whenever he goes out to ride;...
    Supl 10.175 14 [Nature] never expatiates, never goes into the reasons.
    SovE 10.184 24 The poor grub, in the hole of a tree, by yielding itself to Nature, goes blameless through its low part...
    SovE 10.204 12 A sleep creeps over the great functions of man. Enthusiasm goes out.
    Plu 10.306 20 The central fact is the superhuman intelligence, pouring into us from its unknown fountain, to be...defended from any mixture of our will. But this high Muse comes and goes;...
    LLNE 10.327 27 Prerogative, government, goes to pieces day by day.
    LLNE 10.348 15 [Fourier's] ciphering goes where ciphering never went before...
    MMEm 10.397 2 The yesterday doth never smile,/ To-day goes drudging through the while,/ Yet in the name of Godhead, I/ The morrow front and can defy;/ Though I am weak, yet God, when prayed,/ Cannot withhold his conquering aid./
    Thor 10.483 6 If I wish for a horse-hair for my compass-sight I must go to the stable; but the hair-bird, with her sharp eyes, goes to the road.
    Carl 10.491 20 [Carlyle] treats [young men] with contempt;...they praise moral suasion, he goes for murder, money, capital punishment and other pretty abominations of English law.
    Carl 10.493 12 If a scholar goes into a camp of lumbermen or a gang of riggers, those men will quickly detect any fault of character.
    LS 11.14 8 To make [his friends'] enormity plainer, [St. Paul] goes back to the origin of this religious feast [the Lord's Supper] to show what sort of feast that was...
    LS 11.18 5 ...I believe...that every effort to pay religious homage to more than one being goes to take away all right ideas.
    HDC 11.30 6 Man's life, said the Witan to the Saxon king, is the sparrow that enters at a window...and flies out at another, and none knoweth whence he came, or whither he goes.
    EWI 11.100 4 ...by doing and by omitting to do, [emancipation] goes forward.
    EWI 11.126 3 ...[slavery] does not increase the white population; it does not improve the soil; everything goes to decay.
    FSLC 11.189 3 I thought that every time a man goes back to his own thoughts, these angels receive him, talk with him...
    FSLC 11.194 2 The gravid old Universe goes spawning on;...
    FSLN 11.231 26 In vulgar politics the Whig goes for what has been...
    FSLN 11.232 1 In vulgar politics the Whig goes...for the old necessities,- the Musts. The reformer goes for the Better, for the ideal good...
    FSLN 11.237 23 The habit of oppression cuts out the moral eyes, though the intellect goes on simulating the moral as before, its sanity is gradually destroyed.
    EPro 11.325 25 [The Emancipation Proclamation] will be an insurance to the ship as it goes plunging through the sea with glad tidings to all people.
    Wom 11.421 26 ...if any man will take the trouble to see how our people vote,-how many gentlemen...standing at the door of the polls, give every innocent citizen his ticket as he comes in...and how the innocent citizen, without further demur, goes and drops it in the ballot-box,-I cannot but think he will agree that most women might vote as wisely.
    Wom 11.426 14 ...when [man] is [woman's] guardian, fulfilled with all nobleness, knows and accepts his duties as her brother, all goes well for both.
    Humb 11.457 19 The wonderful Humboldt...marches an army, gathering all things as he goes.
    Scot 11.465 13 The tone of strength in Waverley...was more than justified by the superior genius of the following romances, up to the Bride of Lammermoor, which almost goes back to Aeschylus for a counterpart as a painting of Fate...
    FRep 11.527 19 The legislature, to which every good farmer goes once on trial, is a superior academy.
    PLT 12.42 14 Each soul...walking in its own path walks firmly; and to the astonishment of all other souls, who see not its path, it goes as softly and playfully on its way as if...it were a wide prairie.
    PLT 12.51 11 The horse goes better with blinders...
    II 12.70 6 The star climbs for a time the heaven, but never reaches its zenith; it culminates low, and goes backward whence it came.
    Mem 12.97 12 Is [Memory] some old aunt who goes in and out of the house...
    CInt 12.126 9 Everything will be permitted there [at Harvard College] which goes to adorn Boston Whiggism...
    CL 12.149 21 [The Indian] goes to a white birch-tree, and can fit his leg with a seamless boot, or a hat for his head.
    CL 12.156 27 I think 't is the best of humanity that goes out to walk.
    CW 12.179 4 What alone possesses interest for us is the naturel of each... and this is that which the conversation with Nature goes to cherish and to guard.
    Bost 12.193 4 The divine will descends into the barbarous mind in some strange disguise; its pure truth not to be guessed from the rude vizard under which it goes masquerading.
    Bost 12.193 8 ...[the savage] goes muttering his rude ritual or mythology, which yet conceals some grand commandment;...
    Bost 12.197 5 ...the necessity, which always presses the Northerner, of providing fuel and many clothes and tight houses and much food against the long winter...generates in him that spirit of detail which...goes rather to pinch the features and degrade the character.
    MAng1 12.215 22 A purity severe and even terrible goes out from the lofty productions of [Michelangelo's] pencil and his chisel...
    Milt1 12.253 3 ...every masterpiece of art goes on for some ages reconciling the world into itself...
    Milt1 12.253 16 Virtue goes out of [Milton] into others.
    ACri 12.302 25 ...this is the game that goes on every day in all companies;...by sovereignty of thought to make facts and men obey our present humor or belief.
    MLit 12.332 22 Humanity must...confess as this man [Goethe] goes out that they have served it better, who assured it out of the innocent hope in their hearts that a Physician will come, than this majestic Artist...
    PPr 12.382 13 ...let [a man] see whether he so holds his property that a benefit goes from it to all.

goest, v. (1)

    MN 1.208 17 Why then goest thou as some Boswell or listening worshipper to this saint or to that?

goeth, v. (2)

    DSA 1.144 22 ...no man goeth alone.
    MN 1.222 17 If knowledge, said Ali the Caliph, calleth unto practice, well; if not, it goeth away.

Goethe, Conversations with [ (1)

    Boks 7.208 20 Another class of books closely allied to these [Autobiographies]...are those which may be called Table-Talks: of which the best are Saadi's Gulistan;...Eckermann's Conversations with Goethe;...

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von (93)

    Nat 1.43 21 Thus architecture is called frozen music, by De Stael and Goethe.
    AmS 1.112 6 This idea [of Unity] has inspired the genius...in a newer time, of Goethe, Wordsworth, and Carlyle.
    AmS 1.112 16 Goethe...has shown us...the genius of the ancients.
    Exp 3.55 20 Once I took such delight in Montaigne that I thought I should not need any other book; before that, in Shakspeare;...afterwards in Goethe;...
    Chr1 3.103 26 ...it was droll in the good Riemer, who has written the memoirs of Goethe, to make out a list of his donations and good deeds...
    Chr1 3.104 11 The true charity of Goethe is to be inferred from the account he gave Dr. Eckermann of the way in which he had spent his fortune.
    NR 3.242 6 After taxing Goethe as a courtier...I took up this book of Helena, and found him an Indian of the wilderness...
    UGM 4.18 3 The eyes of Plato, Shakspeare, Swedenborg, Goethe, never shut on either of these laws [of identity and of reaction].
    PPh 4.40 4 St. Augustine...Goethe, are likewise [Plato's] debtors...
    PNR 4.85 6 This eldest Goethe [Plato]...delighted in revealing the real at the base of the accidental;...
    MoS 4.150 20 The correspondence of Pope and Swift describes mankind around them as monsters; and that of Goethe and Schiller...is scarcely more kind.
    MoS 4.174 27 [The levity of intellect] is hobgoblin the first; and though it has been the subject of much elegy in our nineteenth century, from Byron, Goethe and other poets of less fame...I confess it is not very affecting to my imagination;...
    ShP 4.204 18 Coleridge and Goethe are the only critics who have expressed our convictions [about Shakespeare] with any adequate fidelity...
    GoW 4.270 4 Among these [men of literary genius of our age] no more instructive name occurs than that of Goethe...
    GoW 4.270 10 I described Bonaparte as a representative of the popular external life and aims of the nineteenth century. Its other half, its poet, is Goethe...
    GoW 4.271 8 Goethe was the philosopher of this [modern] multiplicity;...
    GoW 4.273 3 The Greeks said that Alexander went as far as Chaos; Goethe went, only the other day, as far;...
    GoW 4.275 3 ...Goethe suggested the leading idea of modern botany, that a leaf or the eye of a leaf is the unit of botany...
    GoW 4.276 13 Goethe would have no word that does not cover a thing.
    GoW 4.280 18 What distinguishes Goethe for French and English readers is a property which he shares with his nation...
    GoW 4.283 13 ...Goethe, the head and body of the German nation, does not speak from talent, but the truth shines through...
    GoW 4.284 1 I dare not say that Goethe ascended to the highest grounds from which genius has spoken.
    GoW 4.284 8 Goethe can never be dear to men.
    GoW 4.285 8 ...his penetration of every secret of the fine arts will make Goethe still more statuesque.
    GoW 4.287 10 ...the charm of this portion of the book [Goethe's Thory of Colors] consists in the simplest statement of the relation betwixt these grandees of European scientific history and himself; the mere drawing of the lines from Goethe to Kepler, from Goethe to Bacon, from Goethe to Newton.
    GoW 4.287 11 ...the charm of this portion of the book [Goethe's Thory of Colors] consists in the simplest statement of the relation betwixt these grandees of European scientific history and himself; the mere drawing of the lines from Goethe to Kepler, from Goethe to Bacon, from Goethe to Newton.
    GoW 4.289 10 Goethe, coming into an over-civilized time and country... taught men how to dispose of this mountainous miscellany and make it subservient.
    GoW 4.290 8 Goethe teaches courage...
    ET1 5.4 10 If Goethe had been still living I might have wandered into Germany also.
    ET16 5.274 9 Art and high art is a favorite target for [Carlyle's] wit. Yes, Kunst is a great delusion, and Goethe and Schiller wasted a great deal of good time on it...
    ET16 5.274 11 Art and high art is a favorite target for [Carlyle's] wit. Yes, Kunst is a great delusion, and Goethe and Schiller wasted a great deal of good time on it:--and he thinks he discovers that old Goethe found this out...
    F 6.39 22 The times, the age, what is that but a few profound persons and a few active persons who epitomize the times?-Goethe...and the rest.
    F 6.46 26 ...as Goethe said, what we wish for in youth, comes in heaps on us in old age...
    Wth 6.97 5 Goethe said well, Nobody should be rich but those who understand it.
    Ctr 6.141 23 The best heads that ever existed...Goethe, Milton, were well-read, universally educated men...
    Ctr 6.151 4 How the imagination is piqued by anecdotes...of Beethoven or Wellington or Goethe...passing for nobody;...
    Ctr 6.151 7 How the imagination is piqued by anecdotes...of Goethe, who preferred trifling subjects and common expressions in intercourse with strangers...
    Wsp 6.232 24 Napoleon, says Goethe, visited those sick of the plague...
    Bty 6.288 20 Goethe said, The beautiful is a manifestation of secret laws of nature which, but for this appearance, had been forever concealed from us.
    Art2 7.47 8 Even Shakspeare...we think indebted to Goethe and to Coleridge for the wisdom they detect in his Hamlet and Antony.
    Art2 7.54 13 ...it has been remarked by Goethe that the granite breaks into parallelopipeds...
    Boks 7.218 6 ...in our time the Ode of Wordsworth, and the poems and the prose of Goethe, have this enlargement [the imaginative element]...
    Clbs 7.238 21 The same thing took place when Leibnitz came to visit Newton; when Schiller came to Goethe;...
    Clbs 7.238 22 The same thing took place when Leibnitz came to visit Newton;...when France, in the person of Madame de Stael, visited Goethe and Schiller;...
    OA 7.323 4 We still feel the force...of Goethe, the all-knowing poet;...
    OA 7.331 3 Goethe himself carried this completion of studies to the highest point.
    PI 8.7 18 The electric word pronounced by John Hunter a hundred years ago, arrested and progressive development...gave the poetic key to Natural Science, of which the theories...of Goethe, of Agassiz...
    PI 8.10 25 Goethe did not believe that a great naturalist could exist without this faculty [of imagination].
    PI 8.66 3 In poetry, said Goethe, only the really great and pure advances us...
    PI 8.69 20 ...our English nature and genius has made us the worst critics of Goethe...
    QO 8.200 17 Goethe frankly said, What would remain to me if this art of appropriation were derogatory to genius?
    QO 8.200 26 My work [said Goethe] is an aggregation of beings taken from the whole of Nature; it bears the name of Goethe.
    Insp 8.283 16 Goethe said to Eckermann, I work more easily when the barometer is high than when it is low.
    Insp 8.284 17 Goethe acknowledges [the fine influences of the morning] in the poem in which he dislodges the nightingale from her place as Leader of the Muses...
    Insp 8.295 3 ...I find a mitigation or solace by providing always a good book for my journeys, as Horace or Martial or Goethe...
    Grts 8.317 24 Goethe, in his correspondence with his Grand Duke of Weimar, does not shine.
    Imtl 8.342 5 To me, said Goethe, the eternal existence of my soul is proved from my idea of activity.
    Imtl 8.344 2 Goethe said: It is to a thinking being quite impossible to think himself non-existent...
    Dem1 10.9 20 Goethe said: These whimsical pictures [dreams]...may well have an analogy with our whole life and fate.
    Dem1 10.17 7 ...[the belief in luck] is not the power...which we...found college professorships to expound. Goethe has said in his Autobiography what is much to the purpose...
    Dem1 10.19 14 ...I find...some play at blindman's-buff, when men as wise as Goethe talk mysteriously of the demonological.
    Chr2 10.121 16 Goethe, in discussing the characters in Wilhelm Meister, maintained his belief that pure loveliness and right good will are the highest manly prerogatives...
    Edc1 10.149 26 Happy the natural college thus self-instituted around every natural teacher; the young men...of Germany around Fichte, or Niebuhr, or Goethe;...
    Plu 10.297 25 [Plutarch] is...not a leader of the mind of a generation, like Plato or Goethe.
    Plu 10.307 8 Whilst we expect this awe and reverence of the spiritual power from the philosopher in his closet, we praise it in...the man who lives on quiet terms with existing institutions, yet indicates his perception of these high oracles; as do Plutarch, Montaigne, Hume and Goethe.
    LLNE 10.338 8 The German poet Goethe revolted against the science of the day...
    LLNE 10.342 23 ...there was no concert, and only here and there two or three men or women who read and wrote, each alone, with unusual vivacity. Perhaps they only agreed in having fallen upon Coleridge and Wordsworth and Goethe...with pleasure and sympathy.
    EdAd 11.391 19 Here is the balance to be adjusted between the exact French school of Cuvier, and the genial catholic theorists, Geoffroy St.-Hilaire, Goethe, Davy and Agassiz.
    RBur 11.441 23 What a love of Nature [in Burns], and, shall I say it? of middle-class Nature. Not like Goethe, in the stars...
    PLT 12.45 5 Goethe...apprehends the spiritual but is not spiritual.
    II 12.70 12 ...Goethe, Fourier, Schelling, Coleridge, they all begin...
    II 12.74 8 When a young man asked old Goethe about Faust, he replied, What can I know of this?
    CL 12.157 24 The facts disclosed by Winkelmann, Goethe, Bell...are joyful possessions...
    CL 12.161 4 ...Goethe...said no man should be admitted to his Republic, who was not versed in Natural History.
    MAng1 12.220 2 The human form, says Goethe, cannot be comprehended through seeing its surface.
    MAng1 12.222 23 Goethe says that he is but half himself who has never seen the Juno in the Rondanini Palace at Rome.
    ACri 12.284 20 Goethe valued himself not on his learning or eccentric flights, but that he knew how to write German.
    ACri 12.285 2 ...Goethe said, Poetry here, poetry there, I have learned to speak German.
    ACri 12.289 2 We were educated in horror of Satan, but Goethe remarked that all men like to hear him named.
    ACri 12.289 21 Goethe, who had collected all the diabolical hints in men and nature for traits for his Walpurgis Nacht, continued the humor of collecting such horrors after this first occasion had passed...
    ACri 12.296 21 The Germans praise in Goethe the comfortable stoutness.
    MLit 12.322 13 ...of all men he who has united in himself...the tendencies of the era, is the German poet, naturalist and philosopher, Goethe.
    MLit 12.325 21 There is a good letter from Wieland to Merck, in which Wieland relates that Goethe read to a select party his journal of a tour in Switzerland with the Grand Duke...
    MLit 12.326 11 This subtle element of egotism in Goethe certainly does not seem to deform his compositions...
    MLit 12.326 18 No man was permitted to call Goethe brother.
    MLit 12.326 21 If we try Goethe by the ordinary canons of criticism, we should say that his thinking is of great altitude, and all level;...
    MLit 12.327 15 In these days and in this country...it seems as if no book could so safely be put in the hands of young men as the letters of Goethe, which attest the incessant activity of this man...
    MLit 12.329 5 [All great men] knew that the intelligent reader...would thank them. So did Dante, so did Macchiavel. Goethe has done this in Meister.
    MLit 12.329 27 [We can fancy Goethe saying to himself] To a profound soul is not austere truth the sweetest flattery? Yes, O Goethe! but the ideal is truer than the actual.
    MLit 12.331 4 Goethe...must be set down as the poet of the Actual, not of the Ideal;...
    MLit 12.331 20 Poetry is with Goethe thus external...
    MLit 12.331 27 That Goethe had not a moral perception proportionate to his other powers is not...merely a circumstance...
    MLit 12.333 2 The criticism, which is not so much spoken as felt in reference to Goethe, instructs us directly in the hope of literature.

Goethe, Life of, n. (1)

    GoW 4.286 16 Of course the book [Goethe's Dichtung und Wahrheit] affords slender materials for what would be reckoned with us a Life of Goethe;...

Goethe's, Johann Wolfgang v (13)

    Hist 2.33 14 See in Goethe's Helena the same desire that every word should be a thing.
    Prd1 2.232 13 Goethe's Tasso is very likely to be a pretty fair historic portrait, and that is true tragedy.
    GoW 4.278 22 We had an English romance here...in which the only reward of virtue is a seat in Parliament and a peerage. Goethe's romance [Wilhelm Meister] has a conclusion as lame and immoral.
    GoW 4.279 12 Goethe's hero [in Wilhelm Meister]...has so many weaknesses and impurities...that the sober English public...were disgusted.
    ET1 5.21 18 [Wordsworth] proceeded to abuse Goethe's Wilhelm Meister heartily.
    Ctr 6.163 17 Bettine replies to Goethe's mother, who chides her disregard of dress,--If I cannot do as I have a mind in our poor Frankfort, I shall not carry things far.
    Boks 7.208 12 Among the best books are certain Autobiographies; as... Gibbon's, Hume's, Franklin's, Burns's, Alfieri's, Goethe's and Haydon's Autobiographies.
    OA 7.330 26 In Goethe's Romance, Makaria, the central figure for wisdom and influence, pleases herself with withdrawing into solitude to astronomy and epistolary correspondence.
    Res 8.150 23 It was a pleasing trait in Goethe's romance, that Makaria retires from society to astronomy and her correspondence.
    QO 8.185 15 Goethe's favorite phrase, the open secret, translates Aristotle' s answer to Alexander, These books are published and not published.
    QO 8.185 20 Madame de Stael's Architecture is frozen music is borrowed from Goethe's dumb music...
    QO 8.191 9 We may like well to know what is Plato's and what is Montesquieu's or Goethe's part, and what thought was always dear to the writer himself;...
    Plu 10.298 9 ...[Plutarch] is a chief example of the illumination of the intellect by the force of morals. Though the most amiable of boon companions, this generous religion gives him apercus like Goethe's.

goggles, n. (1)

    ET1 5.19 7 [Wordsworth's] daughters called in their father, a plain, elderly, white-haired man...disfigured by green goggles.

going, v. (78)

    AmS 1.103 7 [The scholar]...learns that in going down into the secrets of his own mind he has descended into the secrets of all minds.
    DSA 1.142 26 ...what hold the public worship had on men is gone, or going.
    DSA 1.143 15 What was once a mere circumstance, that...the young and old, should meet one day as fellows in one house...has come to be a paramount motive for going thither.
    MN 1.218 10 Genius...draws its means and the style of its architecture from within, going abroad only for audience and spectator...
    LT 1.273 11 A wealthy man...finds religion to be a traffic...of so many piddling accounts, that of all mysteries he cannot skill to keep a stock going upon that trade.
    Prd1 2.221 4 My prudence consists in avoiding and going without...
    OS 2.293 27 Has it not occurred to you that you have no right to go, unless you are equally willing to be prevented from going?
    Cir 2.308 14 By going one step farther back in thought, discordant opinions are reconciled...
    Cir 2.322 6 A man, said Oliver Cromwell, never rises so high as when he knows not whither he is going.
    Exp 3.46 8 If any of us knew what we were doing, or where we are going, then when we think we best know!
    Pol1 3.214 21 I can see well enough a great difference between my setting myself down to a self-control, and my going to make somebody else act after my views;...
    UGM 4.4 24 The student of history is like a man going into a warehouse to buy cloths or carpets.
    UGM 4.25 2 ...in the midst of this chuckle of self-gratulation, some figure goes by which Thersites too can love and admire. This is he that should marshal us the way we were going.
    PPh 4.50 22 The whole world is but a manifestation of Vishnu [said Krishna], who...is to be regarded by the wise as not differing from, but as the same as themselves. I neither am going nor coming;...
    PPh 4.67 21 ...I educate, not by lessons, but by going about my business.
    MoS 4.154 18 There is so much trouble in coming into the world, said Lord Bolingbroke, and so much more, as well as meanness, in going out of it, that 't is hardly worth while to be here at all.
    NMW 4.230 27 Such a man [as Bonaparte] was wanted, and such a man was born; a man...capable...of going many days together without rest or food except by snatches...
    ET1 5.14 2 Going out, [Coleridge] showed me in the next apartment, a picture of Allston's...
    ET4 5.58 11 A [Norse] king was maintained, much as in some of our country districts a winter-schoolmaster is quartered...on all the farms in rotation. This the king calls going into guest-quarters;...
    ET6 5.113 7 [The English] value themselves...on conciseness and going to the point, in private affairs.
    ET7 5.123 4 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.
    ET7 5.123 6 When Castlereagh dissuaded Lord Wellington from going to the king's levee until the unpopular Cintra business had been explained, he replied, You furnish me a reason for going.
    ET11 5.198 11 It is computed that, with titles and without, there are seventy thousand of these people coming and going in London, who make up what is called high society.
    ET14 5.249 27 [Carlyle] saw little difference in the gladiators, or the causes for which they combated; the one comfort was, that they were all going speedily into the abyss together.
    ET14 5.251 4 ...if, going out of the region of dogma, we pass into that of general culture, there is no end to the graces and amenities, wit, sensibility and erudition of the learned class [in England].
    ET15 5.268 24 ...[the English] do not know, when they take [the London Times] up, what their paper is going to say...
    F 6.12 5 Now and then one has a new cell or camarilla opened in his brain... which skill...serves to pass the time; the life of sensation going on as before.
    Pow 6.76 11 There are twenty ways of going to a point, and one is the shortest;...
    Wth 6.116 24 Sir David Brewster gives exact instructions for microscopic observation: Lie down on your back, and hold the single lens and object over your eye, etc., etc. How much more the seeker of abstract truth, who needs periods of isolation and rapt concentration and almost a going out of the body to think!
    Ctr 6.145 16 An eminent teacher of girls said, the idea of a girl's education is, whatever qualifies her for going to Europe.
    Bhr 6.180 9 There is a look by which a man shows he is going to say a good thing...
    Wsp 6.222 4 The countryman leaving his native village for the first time and going abroad, finds all his habits broken up.
    CbW 6.250 4 What a vicious practice is this of our politicians at Washington pairing off! as if one man who votes wrong going away, could excuse you, who mean to vote right, for going away;...
    CbW 6.250 5 What a vicious practice is this of our politicians at Washington pairing off! as if one man who votes wrong going away, could excuse you, who mean to vote right, for going away;...
    CbW 6.259 5 ...as soon as the children are good, the mothers...think they are going to die.
    CbW 6.259 7 ...There are none but men of strong passions capable of going to greatness;...
    CbW 6.268 19 ...there is a great dearth, this year, of friends;...they are just going away;...
    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?
    Civ 7.28 4 ...we found out that the air and earth were full of Electricity, and always going our way...
    Civ 7.30 18 Let us not lie and steal. No god will help. We shall find all their teams going the other way...
    DL 7.125 4 In each the circumstance signalized differs, but in each it is made the coals of an ever-burning egotism. In one, it was his going to sea;...
    DL 7.125 5 In each the circumstance signalized differs, but in each it is made the coals of an ever-burning egotism. In one, it was his going to sea; in a second, the difficulties he combated in going to college;...
    DL 7.125 11 In each the circumstance signalized differs, but in each it is made the coals of an ever-burning egotism. In one, it was his going to sea;... in a sixth, his coming forth from the abolition organizations; and in a seventh, his going into them.
    Cour 7.260 17 An old farmer...when I ask him if he is not going to town-meeting, says: No, 't is no use balloting, for it will not stay;...
    PI 8.72 10 The habit of saliency, or not pausing but going on, is a sort of importation or domestication of the Divine effort in a man.
    Elo2 8.127 11 ...when once going to preach the Thursday lecture in Boston...on going up the pulpit-stairs [Dr. Charles Chauncy] was informed that a little boy had fallen into Frog Pond on the Common and was drowned...
    Elo2 8.127 14 ...on going up the pulpit-stairs [Dr. Charles Chauncy] was informed that a little boy had fallen into Frog Pond on the Common and was drowned...
    Comc 8.169 21 ...the painter Astley...going out of Rome one day with a party for a ramble in the Campagna and the weather proving hot, refused to take off his coat...
    QO 8.184 27 ...[Grimm] says that Louis XVI., going out of chapel after hearing a sermon from the Abbe Maury, said, Si l'Abbe nous avait parle un peu de religion, il nous aurait parle de tout.
    QO 8.185 13 Rabelais's dying words, I am going to see the great Perhaps... only repeats the IF inscribed on the portal of the temple at Delphi.
    Insp 8.288 11 I have found my advantage in going in summer to a country inn...with a task which would not prosper at home.
    Dem1 10.3 15 There lies a sleeping city, God of dreams!/ What an unreal and fantastic world/ Is going on below!/
    Aris 10.46 5 ...I am not going to argue the merits of gradation in the universe;...
    Schr 10.267 11 Action is legitimate and good; forever be it honored! right, original, private, necessary action...going forth to beneficent and as yet incalculable ends.
    Plu 10.315 25 A brother, embroiled with his brother, going to seek in the street a stranger who can take his place, resembles him who will cut off his foot to give himself one of wood.
    LLNE 10.342 6 These fine conversations...were incomprehensible to some in the company, and they had their revenge in their little joke. One declared that It seemed to him like going to heaven in a swing;...
    EzRy 10.389 11 [Ezra Ripley]...was much addicted to kissing;...and, as a lady thus favored remarked to me, seemed as if he was going to make a meal of you.
    EzRy 10.390 1 To undeceive [Ezra Ripley], I hastened to recall some particulars to show the absurdity of the thing, as the Major [Jack Downing] and the President [Andrew Jackson] going out skating on the Potomac, etc.
    MMEm 10.414 1 ...[Mary Moody Emerson] writes...When I get a glimpse of the revolutions of nations,-that retribution which seems forever going on in this part of creasion,-I remember with great satisfaction that from all the ills suffered, in childhood...I felt that it was rather the order of things...
    MMEm 10.415 14 ...I [Nature] comforted thee when going on the daily errand...
    SlHr 10.445 9 [Samuel Hoar] had uniformly the air of knowing just what he wanted and of going to that in the shortest way.
    HDC 11.51 21 John Eliot, in October, 1646, preached his first sermon in the Indian language at Noonantum; Waban, Tahattawan, and their sannaps, going thither from Concord to hear him.
    EWI 11.139 7 The superstition respecting power and office is going to the ground.
    War 11.170 8 How is [this new aspiration of the human mind towards peace] to pass out of thoughts into things? Not, certainly...in the way of routine and mere forms...not by...going through a course of resolutions and public manifestoes...
    FSLC 11.187 22 [Resistance to the Fugitive Slave Law] is not going crusading into Virginia and Georgia after slaves...
    FSLN 11.230 23 [Reasonably men] answered...that they saw plainly that all was going to the utmost verge of licence;...
    Wom 11.406 20 'T is [women's] mood and tone that is important. Does their mind misgive them, or are they firm and cheerful? 'T is a true report that things are going ill or well.
    Shak1 11.453 8 I could name in this very company-or not going far out of it-very good types [of men who live well in and lead any society]...
    FRO1 11.478 24 ...the statistics of the American, the English and the German cities, showing that the mass of the population is leaving off going to church, indicate the necessity...that the Church should always be new and extemporized...
    CPL 11.506 27 You say, [reading] is a languid pleasure. Yes, but its tractableness, coming and going like a dog at our bidding, compensates the quietness...
    PLT 12.30 19 ...I educate not by lessons but by going about my business.
    II 12.84 22 Men generally attempt, early in life, to make their brothers, afterwards their wives, acquainted with what is going forward in their private theatre;...
    Mem 12.109 2 In dreams a rush...of spending hours and going through a great variety of actions and companies, and when we start up and look at the watch, instead of a long night we are surprised to find it was a short nap.
    CL 12.139 25 ...among our many prognostics of the weather, the only trustworthy one that I know is that, when it is warm, it is a sign that it is going to be cold.
    CL 12.160 5 I hold all these opinions on the power of the air to be substantially true. The poet affirms them; the religious man, going abroad, affirms them;...
    CW 12.173 19 ...without going into the proud niceties of an European garden, there is happiness all the year round to be had from the square fruit-gardens which we plant in the front or rear of every farmhouse.
    Bost 12.206 15 ...youth and health like a stirring town, above a torpid place where nothing is doing. In Boston they were sure to see something going forward before the year was out.
    ACri 12.298 6 ...the revolution wrought by Carlyle is precisely parallel to that going forward in picture, by the stereoscope.

goings, n. (2)

    Fdsp 2.198 17 ...Dear Friend, If I was...sure to match my mood with thine, I should never think again of trifles in relation to thy comings and goings.
    SwM 4.112 24 Few knew as much about nature and her subtle manners [as Swedenborg], or expressed more subtly her goings.

goitre, n. (2)

    Ctr 6.134 3 This goitre of egotism is so frequent among notable persons that we must infer some strong necessity in nature which it subserves;...
    Bost 12.201 7 European critics regret the detachment of the Puritans to this country without aristocracy; which a little reminds one of the pity of the Swiss mountaineers when shown a handsome Englishman: What a pity he has no goitre!

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